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☆ Ajax appoint Van't Schip as new manager
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Oct 30 (Reuters) - Ajax Amsterdam have appointed John van't Schip as interim head coach, a week after they parted ways with Maurice Steijn, the Eredivisie club announced on Monday. "Ajax appoints John van't Schip as interim head coach. The former Ajax player signs a contract with the club running from 30 October 2023 until 30 June 2025," the club said. "Van't Schip and Ajax have agreed to him stepping into a function in technical management from 1 July 2024." "First as head coach of the first team, for the long term we see a different technical role for him."

Persons: John van't Schip, Maurice Steijn, Marco Van Basten, John, John van Halst, Michael Valkanis, Trevor Stynes, Pritha Sarkar Organizations: Ajax Amsterdam, Eredivisie, Ajax, Sunday, PSV Eindhoven, Greece, Thomson

☆ Liverpool thump Toulouse 5-1, Brighton earn first European win
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

The rest of the match belonged to Liverpool as Wataru Endo headed them back in front just past the half-hour mark. That goal took the Egyptian's tally to 43 for Liverpool in major European competitions, a record for any player at an English club. Liverpool top the group by five points over Union Saint Gilloise and Toulouse, who both have four points. BRIGHTON ROCKBrighton achieved a European milestone by beating Ajax and reigniting their chances of reaching the knockout stages. They are now level on four points with second-placed AEK Athens in Group B, a point behind Olympique de Marseille.

Persons: Diogo Jota, Wataru Endo, Darwin Nunez, Nunez, Ryan Gravenberch, Mohamed Salah, LASK, Cameron Puertas, Christian Burgess, Joao Pedro, Diant Ramaj, Ansu Fati, Maurice Steijn, Kostas Fortounis, Rodinei's, Angelo Ogbonna, Angelo Ogbonna . West Ham, Lucas Paqueta's, Edoardo Bove, Romelu Lukaku, Jose Mourinho's, Alejandro Grimaldo, Stade Rennais, Arnaud Kalimuendo, Tommy Lund, Ken Ferris Organizations: Liverpool, Brighton, Ajax, Olympiakos, West, Marseille, Leverkusen, Rennes, LIVERPOOL, Toulouse, Europa League, Brighton & Hove Albion, Ajax Amsterdam, Union Saint Gilloise, Union, BRIGHTON ROCK Brighton, AEK Athens, Olympique de Marseille, AEK, Seagulls, Olympiakos Piraeus, Europa Conference League, West Ham United, Freiburg, Backa Topla, AS Roma, Slavia Prague, Slavia, Bayer Leverkusen thumped Qarabag, Stade, Panathinaikos, Villarreal, Maccabi Haifa, Thomson Locations: Roma, England, Anfield, Brighton, Liverpool, Toulouse, Europe, Angelo Ogbonna . West, Gdansk

☆ Opinion | Solidarity Between American Activists and Palestinians — Including a Rebuke of Biden
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Charles M. Blow | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +6 min

There are two pivotal events that seem to have ignited the new era of solidarity between some young American activists and the people of Palestine. The first came in the form of Palestinian activists expressing support on social media for the 2014 protests in Ferguson, Mo., which activists describe as an uprising, not just a series of protests. Around that time, a small delegation of Palestinians even traveled to Ferguson and St. Louis to meet with American activists. It called back to a time when an American figure as notable as Malcolm X spoke out for the Palestinian cause. Even activists who didn’t make these journeys describe coming to this cause in part through personal connections with Palestinians and Palestinian Americans.

Persons: Cherrell Brown, Ferguson, St, Louis, Ahmad Abuznaid, Trayvon Martin, Marc Lamont Hill, Abuznaid, Hill, Malcolm X, Amanda Seales, “ we’re, Biden, Shaun King, King, Maurice Mitchell, ” Tiffany Loftin, Charles, ”, Donald Trump Organizations: American, Palestinian, United, Defamation League, The Daily News, Facebook, Twitter, Working Families Party, Democratic Party, Biden Locations: Palestine, Ferguson, Mo, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestinian American, United Nations, Gaza

NEW YORK (AP) — A new digital audio edition of Maurice Sendak's “Where the Wild Things Are” will have a very well known narrator: former first lady Michelle Obama. HarperCollins Publishers announced Tuesday that the audio download will go on sale Oct. 31, the 60th anniversary of the book's original release. Michelle Obama has read from “Where the Wild Things Are” before. In 2016, she and President Barack Obama acted out the classic picture book for an Easter event at the South Lawn of the White House. His other books included “In the Night Kitchen,” “Chicken Soup with Rice” and “Outside Over There.”Copyright 2023 The Associated Press.

Persons: Maurice Sendak's “, Michelle Obama, Barack Obama, “ Maurice Sendak, Obama’s, ” Lynn Caponera, Maurice Sendak, “, Rice ” Organizations: HarperCollins Publishers, White, Associated Press

☆ AI startup caused a 'battle of the billionaires' on 'Shark Tank'—and got a $300,000 offer from Mark Cuban and Michael Rubin
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Ashton Jackson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Billionaires Mark Cuban and Michael Rubin are up for the challenge. "This is a real issue," said Rubin, the CEO of sports retailer Fanatics and a guest judge on the episode. "We want to help change the perception of bots amongst consumers," Griffith said. Arming consumers with bots could help give regular people a fighting chance to buy items at fair prices, he surmised. Bachelor and Griffith, caught between their options, implored Cuban and Rubin to make a joint deal.

Persons: Maurice Bachelor, Mark Cuban, Michael Rubin, Joel Griffith, Rubin, Kevin O'Leary, Griffith, O'Leary Organizations: Cuban, Sharks, CNBC Locations: Angeles

☆ Michael Caine retirement: actor confirms 'The Great Escaper' will be his last film
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-14 | by ( Amarachi Orie | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Michael Caine, the British film star whose career has spanned eight decades and featured movies from “The Italian Job” to “The Dark Knight,” has confirmed his retirement from acting. The two-time Oscar winner, who is 90, made the announcement on BBC Radio 4’s “Best of Today” podcast on Saturday. What am I going to do to beat this?”"The Great Escaper," which was released in October, is the last film Caine will star in. “We had a great time on the movie and I thought, you know, why not leave now?” Caine added. Paramount/Getty ImagesOriginally called Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, Jr., he adopted the screen name Caine – taken from the 1954 film “The Caine Mutiny” – and later made it legal.

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That same year, Amazon unsuccessfully sought to get her recused from agency probes against the company, arguing she was too biased. The District of Columbia also tried to sue Amazon on antitrust grounds before, but its lawsuit was dismissed by a federal judge last year. Experts say the FTC faces a few hurdles in its own case, including convincing the court which slice of the market Amazon is allegedly monopolizing. In a blog post responding to the lawsuit, Amazon General Counsel David Zapolsky accused the FTC of attempting to “gerrymander alleged market” to portray Amazon as something it’s not. The FTC also alleges Amazon keeps sellers dependent on services that have allowed it to collect billions in revenue every year.

Persons: Lina Khan, hasn’t, Khan, Joe Biden, ” Khan, David Zapolsky, “ gerrymander, ”, Neil Saunders, Maurice Stucke, Stucke, Sean Sullivan, they’re Organizations: Federal Trade, Activision Blizzard, FTC, Microsoft, Yale Law, Amazon, of, Walmart, GlobalData, Google, Department of Justice, University of Tennessee, University of Iowa College of Law Locations: California, of Columbia, U.S, monopolization

☆ ‘Lupin’ Season 3 Review: Literary Lifting
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-04 | by ( John Anderson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Omar Sy Photo: NetflixThere is no one named Lupin in “Lupin,” though its namesake’s spirit hovers over the proceedings like a nimbus of French cigarette smoke: Arsène Lupin , “gentleman thief” and master of disguise, was created in 1905 by author Maurice Leblanc and has inspired stage productions, TV shows, comic books, ghost-written sequels and, in this series, the roguish Assane Diop , whose police-thwarting criminal capers are based on the cases of Leblanc’s be-monocled burglar.

Persons: Omar Sy, Lupin, “ Lupin, ”, Maurice Leblanc, Assane Diop, capers Organizations: Netflix

☆ Feyenoord add to Ajax woe by completing victory in suspended match
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Ajax were trailing 3-0 in the second half when the game was initially suspended in the 56th minute before being abandoned. It was only the second time Feyenoord had scored four goals away against traditional rivals Ajax and took them up to third in the standings. The defeat adds pressure on new coach Maurice Steijn whose future has been the subject of much speculation. Ajax, who have had a poor start to the season with just one win, sit 14th in the 18-team league. They finished third last season and failed to qualify for the Champions League for the first time in 13 seasons.

Persons: Feyenoord's Santiago Gimenez, Mats Wieffer, Johanna Geron, Santiago Gimenez, Johan Cruyff, Gimenez, Igor Paixao, Maurice Steijn, Sven Mislintat, Steijn, Pier Eringa, Mark Gleeson, Christian Radnedge Organizations: Soccer, Europa, Feyenoord, Shakhtar Donetsk, Feyenoord Stadium, Rights, Ajax Amsterdam, Wednesday, Ajax, Champions League, Thomson Locations: Rotterdam, Netherlands, Mexican, Amsterdam, Cape Town

☆ Geologist Marie Tharp mapped the ocean floor and helped solve one of science's biggest controversies
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-24 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Back then, no one knew what the ocean floor looked like — until one woman used her many talents to find out. When she reflected on her life, geologist Marie Tharp recollected being able to fill in the blanks of the ocean floor, which she saw as a fascinating jigsaw puzzle. Their final project together was the World Ocean Floor Map. The Heezen-Tharp “World Ocean Floor” map painted by Heinrich Berann. Marie Tharp Maps, LLCAfter Heezen's death, organizations that had hired him and Tharp to work on projects reassigned them.

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☆ Opinion | Nancy Pelosi, on the 1973 Coup in Chile
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To the Editor:Re “The Coup That Shattered Democracy in Chile 50 Years Ago” (news article, Sept. 15):Thank you for telling the story of the Sept. 11, 1973, coup in Chile. I write to note the role of the House of Representatives in shining a light on the United States’ activities surrounding the coup. documents regarding the death of President Salvador Allende during the coup; the ascension of Gen. Augusto Pinochet; and human rights violations by General Pinochet’s henchmen. In May 2016, I led a bipartisan congressional delegation to Chile, where we visited the Museum of Memory and Human Rights. It was emotional and gratifying to see on display some of the documents that we had declassified, which have helped bring the truth to light.

Persons: Maurice Hinchey, declassify, Salvador Allende, Augusto Pinochet, Pinochet’s, Hinchey’s, Clinton’s Organizations: United, House Intelligence, Museum Locations: Chile, United States, New York

It marked the longest a genetically modified pig kidney has ever functioned inside a human, albeit a deceased one. “Two months is a lot to have a pig kidney in this good a condition. Political Cartoons View All 1160 ImagesSo-called xenotransplantation attempts have failed for decades — the human immune system immediately destroyed foreign animal tissue. Montgomery gambled that maintaining Miller's body on a ventilator for two months to see how the pig kidney worked could answer some of those questions. She recently got a card from a stranger in California who's awaiting a kidney transplant, thanking her for helping to move forward desperately needed research.

Persons: gurney, Maurice “ Mo ” Miller, “, Dr, Robert Montgomery, Montgomery, ”, Mary Miller, Duffy, Miller, ” Miller, Sue Duffy, Montgomery’s, immunologist Massimo Mangiola, Jeffrey Stern, Karen Maschke, Mangiola Organizations: NYU Langone, Food and Drug Administration, Associated Press, University of Maryland, FDA, NYU, Hastings Center, Associated Press Health, Science Department, Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science, Educational Media Group, AP Locations: Newburgh , New York, California

☆ Ram and Salisbury win record third straight U.S. Open men's doubles title
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

"I've got to thank my partner," Ram said during the trophy ceremony, where they collected a winner's check for $700,000. We're going to compete hard, fight hard and do our best until the very end. Sixth-seeded Bopanna and Ebden dominated the first set, breaking serve in the opening game and capturing it with a love hold. The last pair to win three straight U.S. Open men's doubles titles were Tom Bundy and Maurice McLoughlin from 1912-1914. Reporting by Rory Carroll in San Francisco; Editing by Toby Davis and Ken FerrisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Joe Salisbury, Rajeev Ram, Australia's Matthew Ebden, India's Rohan Bopanna, Mike Segar, Britain's Joe Salisbury, Matthew Ebden, Ebden's, I've, Ram, Salisbury, We're, Bopanna, Arthur Ashe, Tom Bundy, Maurice McLoughlin, Rory Carroll, Toby Davis, Ken Ferris Organizations: Tennis, Thomson Locations: Flushing Meadows , New York, United States, Flushing Meadows, San Francisco

That sobering view of a post-pandemic global economy emerged from research organized by the Kansas City Federal Reserve and debated here this past weekend. "This puts us in a bleak setting, thinking about the parts of the world that are labor rich but capital poor," he said. "I do remember a time, maybe a more naive time...when more trade would create friends," said Ben Broadbent, deputy governor of the Bank of England. If there was a potential bright spot, it was around the discussion of advances in artificial intelligence as a possible driver of higher productivity. Reporting by Howard Schneider; Editing by Dan Burns and Andrea RicciOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: JACKSON, Pierre, Olivier Gourinchas, Gourinchas, Maurice Obstfeld, Barry Eichengreen, Eswar Prasad, Donald Trump, Biden, Jared Bernstein, Bernstein, Ben Broadbent, Ngozi Okonjo, Iweala, Trump, Nela Richardson, Howard Schneider, Dan Burns, Andrea Ricci Organizations: Kansas City Federal Reserve, U.S, Monetary Fund, Fed, Peterson Institute for International Economics, International Monetary Fund, University of California, Cornell University, U.S . White House Council, Economic, Biden, Bank of England, Trade Organization, Thomson Locations: , Wyoming, Ukraine, China, West, Washington . China, U.S, Berkeley, Japan, Nigeria, Russian, Europe

Oleg Panteleev, head of the AviaPort aviation think-tank in Moscow, said Russian airlines have "solved the problem" of operating under Western sanctions. When those firms stopped providing services – Lufthansa Technik said it suspended sales to Russia from Feb. 28, 2022 – Russian airlines turned to a pool of far smaller suppliers. Ivan Melnicov, chief executive of Air Rock and another aircraft parts distributor in Moldova called Aerostage Services, denied selling products to Russia. Most of the shipments listed in Russian customs records as having been made by Air Rock and Aerostage took circuitous routes, transiting through the UAE or Kyrgyzstan. He said Skyparts had procured one of the Northrop Grumman parts from a U.S. supplier but denied ever sending it to Russia.

Persons: Paul Hanna, Northrop, Oleg Panteleev, Kirill Skuratov, Northrop Grumman, Ivan Melnicov, Melnicov, Aerostage, Kafolati Komil, Mahmadbashir Yakubov, Kafolati, Skyparts FZCO, Lisa Barrington, Saeed Abdulloev, Skyparts, Karine Bukrey, Ramses Turizm, Bukrey's, Ramazan, Bukrey, Akpinar, Nordwind, Valery Pashaev, Pashaev, Maurice Tamman, David Clarke, Daniel Flynn Organizations: Ural Airlines Airbus, Palma de Mallorca, REUTERS, Rights, U.S ., Northrop Grumman, Central Asia, Airbus, Boeing, Ural Airlines, Northrop, United Arab Emirates, Western, Reuters, of Commerce, European Union, Russian, S7 Airlines, Reuters Graphics Reuters, Aeroflot, Lufthansa Technik, Engineering, Rock Solutions, Air Rock, Aerostage Services, Airlines, UAE, Istikloliyat, Skyparts, Nordwind Airlines, Thomson Locations: Palma de, Spain, Russian, Yekaterinburg, U.S, Moscow, Russia, Central, Ukraine, Tajikistan, UAE, Turkey, China, Kyrgyzstan, Swiss, Germany, Moldova, Air, Moldovan, Saudi Arabia, Komilchon, Ural, Dubai, United Arab, Turkish, Antalya, Nusret, Technic, New York

☆ Two research teams detail advancements in transplanting pig kidneys to humans, marking key steps on path to clinical trials
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Deidre Mcphillips | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —New advancements in transplanting pig kidneys to humans, detailed by two separate research teams on Wednesday, mark key steps forward in the evolving field of xenotransplantation, the use of non-human tissues or organs to treat medical conditions in humans. Both research teams used genetically modified pig kidneys that were transplanted into recipients experiencing brain death in what is considered pre-clinical human research. Other studies have demonstrated that this can occur when pig kidneys are transplanted in non-human primates. The team has been monitoring pig kidney transplants in a brain-dead decedent – a man named Maurice Miller, known as Mo, who died of a brain tumor – for nearly two months. “Over the last 20 years, we’ve gained a lot of information about how pig kidneys work to replace the functions in primates.

Persons: ”, Jayme Locke, Locke, ” Locke, NYU Langone, Maurice Miller, Mo, Robert Montgomery, Dr, Sanjay Gupta, “ We’re, Adam Griesemer, we’ve, ’ –, we’re Organizations: CNN, University of Alabama, Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine, New York University, Health, Comprehensive Transplant Institute, ”, UAB, NYU, NYU Langone Transplant Institute, CNN Health, Liver Transplant, FDA, US Department of Health, Human, Transplantation Network

☆ In Opera, Clocks Take the Spotlight
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( David Belcher | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“At times I get up in the middle of the night and stop all the clocks. All of them,” an aging princess sings in “Der Rosenkavalier,” Richard Strauss’s sprawling opera of love, devotion and loss. But this year several productions around the world have been using clocks in their set designs, either as a subtle background item or so central that the timepiece seems like a character itself. Perhaps the opera most connected with clocks is “L’heure espagnole” (“Spanish Time”), Maurice Ravel’s one-act farce about a neurotic clockmaker and his unfaithful wife. It is being staged Aug. 22-26 at the Grimeborn Opera Festival in East London — with a twist.

Persons: “ Der, ” Richard Strauss’s, ”, “ Boris Godunov, Maurice Ravel’s Organizations: East London — Locations: “, East London

☆ The Promise of Prison Music - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Maurice Chammah | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

For wardens running bigger and fuller prisons, letting in people and technology was one more avoidable security risk. The racial prejudice that underpinned the War on Drugs infected how a lot of prison music was perceived. Throughout the 1990s, a rising victims’ rights movement framed any creativity behind bars as a moral affront to crime survivors. Much of society lost interest in hearing the voices of people inside prisons, but they didn’t stop creating and often they used music as a form of resistance. There are hopeful signs that our prison system could return to seeing music as a way to maintain hope inside — and prepare society to accept the people they’re going to release.

Persons: Merle Haggard, ”, Darrell Wayne Caldwell, Earlonne Woods, Antwan, Banks ” Williams, Jim Crow, — Organizations: Black, San, Jim Crow Records Locations: Angeles County, San Quentin

☆ Harvard professor Francesca Gino was accused of faking data. Now her million-dollar empire is crumbling — and scholars are eyeing who's next.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Kate Taylor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +22 min

"We believe that many more Gino-authored papers contain fake data," the Data Colada professors wrote. Data Colada found that the raw data showed clear anomalies, such as a distribution infinitely more likely to be produced by a random-number generator than actual people. Soon after, Data Colada ran an article alleging that Gino tampered with data in at least one of her honesty-pledge experiments. A post on Data Colada or a tweet from Brown is like a bomb going off in the behavioral-science world. Others who attempted to build on Gino's studies are grappling with having wasted time, money, and energy.

Persons: It's, Francesca Gino, Gino, Michael Sanders, Greg Burd, —, Hugo Boss, Gino coauthoring, Swarthmore College's Bhanot, Maurice Schweitzer, Simine Vazire, Sanders, Goldman Sachs, Schweitzer, they'd, Uri Simonsohn, Joe Simmons, Leif Nelson —, Data Colada, Dan Ariely, Ariely, Chris Goodney, Harvard, Colada, Nick Brown, Brown, Jeff Lees, Lees, There's Ariely, Brian Wansink's, HBS's Amy Cuddy's, Cuddy, Amy Cuddy's, Marie Claire's, Allison Williams, Astrid Stawiarz, Marie Claire Simonsohn, Simmons, Nelson, they're, Gordon Pennycook, Pennycook, it's, Bhanot Organizations: TED, Twitter, LinkedIn, Harvard, Wharton, Swarthmore College, Harvard Business School, Alaska Airlines, King's College London, Tione, University of Trento, Sant'anna, Studies, Carnegie Mellon University, University of North, Wired, Forbes, Google, Swarthmore, University of Melbourne, Disney, Lavin Agency, Data, Duke University, who's, NBC, BuzzFeed News, Bloomberg, Getty, Privately, Higher Education, Hill, Duke, US Department of, Cornell University, New York Times Locations: Trento, Pisa, University of North Carolina, HBS, Guatemala, Boston, New York, British, Guatemalan

☆ Interns and college students are using virtual reality to learn office skills without ‘repercussions’—but not everyone is sold on the metaverse
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Apple's new Vision Pro virtual reality headset is displayed during Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) at the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, on June 5, 2023. College classes and internship programs are employing VR headsets to teach students and early talent the ropes of an office environment. Laura Bedalov, a customer success manager at Cappfinity, sets up the virtual reality workplace environment that colleges and internship programs are using to train young people. Within UCD's virtual reality world, which was developed in partnership with Cappfinity, students may take on the role of a human resources employee choosing a job candidate to hire. Maurice Knightly, education innovation lead at UCD's Innovation Academy who helped spearhead the VR class, says headset prices have gotten cheaper over time.

Persons: Laura Bedalov, Jeannie Liakaris, Rebecca Picciotto, Cappfinity, Ernst & Young, Alan O'Donnell, O'Donnell, Maurice Knightly Organizations: Apple's Worldwide, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, University College Dublin, UCD's Innovation Academy, UCD, VR, CNBC, Netflix, Pico Locations: Cupertino , California

☆ Paris Is Packed in the Summer. Here Are Six Ways to Dodge the Droves.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Seth Sherwood | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Northeast of Paris, Pantin is the base of the Hermès luxury brand and some cultural powerhouses as well, notably the Centre National de la Danse and an exhibition space from Thaddeus Ropac, one of Paris’s most well-known art gallerists. Staying in Pantin also offers quick access to top cultural venues in Paris’s 19th arrondissement. The Philharmonie de Paris complex includes a Jean Nouvel-designed concert hall and music museum, while the nearby Grande Halle de la Villette hosts exhibitions and performances. You get the same kitchen, cooks, dining room and savoir-faire, but the whole package is easier to reserve — and to pay for. Such a deal makes the restaurant “the perfect place to discover haute cuisine for a small price,” in the words of the French newsweekly Le Point.

Persons: Pantin, Thaddeus Ropac, Jean Nouvel, King Louis XIV, Claude Debussy, Maurice Denis, Nobuyuki Akishige Organizations: Philharmonie de, la Villette, Germain, Michelin Locations: Paris, Paris’s, Halle, St, Laye, Automne, Le

☆ How Hard Could It Be to Translate a Picture Book?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Daniel Hahn | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Over its 60 years, “Where the Wild Things Are” has been translated into several dozen languages. The inadequacy of the world’s “Where the Wild Things Are” translations is one of my pet peeves. Sendak’s book is marvelous across so many dimensions, and I feel the losses keenly — more keenly than is perhaps reasonable. But I believe my job as a translator is to preserve all the dimensions of a book, not just one of them. And some of the most complex books I’ve reconstructed have been children’s picture books.

Persons: Max, ”, Maurice Sendak, I’ve

☆ Resources available for learning genealogy, researching your ancestry
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Reuters Staff | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

That means you – and what you know about your parents and grandparents – are the starting points for researching your family’s ancestry. In conjunction with this Reuters series, Legacy Family Tree Webinars is making available at no charge a variety of online genealogy webinars from its extensive library to help novices and experts alike. The webinars range from introductions to genealogy for novices to courses that explore African American genealogy. Among the webinars available through July is Descendants of the Enslaved and Enslavers – Working Together to Discover Family. Legacy Family Tree Webinars has a library of about 2,000 genealogy-related webinars.

Persons: –, Tom Bergin, Makini Brice, Nicholas P, Brown, Donna Bryson, Lawrence Delevingne, Brad Heath, Andrea Januta, Gui Qing Koh, Tom Lasseter, Grant Smith, Maurice Tamman, Catherine Tai Design, John Emerson, Blake Morrison Organizations: Reuters, reuters

☆ Connor McDavid wins third Hart Trophy for NHL’s MVP after near unanimous vote
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Ben Morse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Connor McDavid won his third Hart Trophy – awarded to the NHL’s most valuable player – on Monday after a near unanimous vote. McDavid enjoyed a stellar season for the Oilers, leading the league in goals, assists and points. Although the 26-year-old has yet to taste Stanley Cup success, the importance of his personal accolades is hugely significant to Hart. “Certainly, it’s not lost on me what these trophies mean in the grand scheme of our game,” McDavid said. The accolade is presented “to the most outstanding player in the NHL,” as voted by fellow members of the NHL Players’ Association.

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They include eight chief executives of the 11 states that formed the Confederate States of America, which seceded and waged war to preserve slavery. Although white people enslaved Black people in Northern states in early America, by the eve of the Civil War, slavery was almost entirely a Southern enterprise. South Carolina, where the Civil War began, illustrates the familial ties between lawmakers and the nation’s history of slavery. Each of the seven white lawmakers who served in the 117th Congress is a direct descendant of a slaveholder, Reuters found. In researching America’s political elite, Reuters found names – almost always just a first name – of 712 people enslaved by the ancestors of the political elite.

Persons: Black, Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Tom Cotton, Elizabeth Warren, Tammy Duckworth, Jeanne Shaheen, Joe Biden, –, Donald Trump –, Jimmy Carter, George W, Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch –, Asa Hutchinson, Doug Burgum, Tim Scott, James Clyburn, Henry McMaster, ”, Henry Louis Gates Jr, Gates, ” “, ” Gates, enslavers, Tony Burroughs, Biden, Obama, McConnell, “ it’s, ” Burroughs, LINDSEY GRAHAM, Joseph Maddox, Maddox, Sela, Rubin, James, Sal, Sam ”, Graham, Graham didn’t, NANCY MACE, Nancy Mace, Drucilla Mace, John Mace, Hector Godbolt, John Mace’s, Godbolt, “, ” Nancy Mace, TAMMY DUCKWORTH, Duckworth, Henry Coe, Coe, Margaret, Isaac, Warner, George …, Isaac Franklin –, “ There’s, ” Duckworth, Tom Bergin, Makini Brice, Nicholas P, Brown, Donna Bryson, Lawrence Delevingne, Brad Heath, Andrea Januta, Gui Qing Koh, Tom Lasseter, Grant Smith, Maurice Tamman, Blake Morrison Organizations: U.S, Reuters, Republicans, Supreme, Republican, Harvard University, PBS, United States Congress, Geographic, Journalists, Black, Thomson Locations: America, U.S, Confederate States, Arkansas, North Dakota, Black, Northern, Southern, South Carolina, Congress, New Hampshire , Maine, Massachusetts, United States, Illinois, Virginia, Frederick County , Virginia

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