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☆ How Taylor Swift’s ‘Speak Now’ Became the ‘Scary’ Version
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-14 | by ( Remy Tumin | More About Remy Tumin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Rachel Hunter could not wait to play her new vinyl recording of Taylor Swift’s “Speak Now.”After waiting weeks for its arrival, Ms. Hunter placed the orchid-colored vinyl with Ms. Swift’s face on its center on her record player, lifted the needle and let it play. But instead of Ms. Swift’s catchy choruses, acoustic guitar and banjo strums, another woman’s voice came out. “I quit seeing people, quit looking at the flakes of flesh and dancing organisms,” an echoing voice said, without music in the background. Maybe there was something wrong with the speed, Ms. Hunter thought, or maybe it was one of Ms. Swift’s notorious Easter eggs. I was by myself,” Ms. Hunter recalled.

Persons: Rachel Hunter, Taylor Swift’s, Hunter, Swift’s, “, ” Ms, you’re, Taylor Swift, ”

Every month, Jimmy Ly usually orders nearly 150 bottles of sriracha from Huy Fong Foods for one of his Vietnamese restaurants in New York City. The sauce opens the richness of a pho broth or adds a blast of heat to a banh xeo, a Vietnamese crepe. Sriracha can “really hit the sweet spot in terms of spice, sweetness, acidity, just that tang.”But a few months ago, supply began to dry up. So he, like some other Huy Fong enthusiasts, bought two large bottles on eBay for $35 each, about five times the usual price, to use at home. For the second year in a row, Huy Fong, the maker of the most popular variety of sriracha, is facing production issues, the company said in a statement this month, because of “a shortage of raw material” with “no estimations of when supply will increase.”

Persons: Jimmy Ly, It’s, Mr, Ly, Sriracha, Madame Vo, Monsieur Vo, Huy Fong Organizations: Huy Fong Foods, of, eBay Locations: Huy, New York City, East, of Manhattan

Lawmakers and member countries will now negotiate the final text, aiming for a deal before EU Parliament elections in 2024. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol"Restoring nature brings numerous benefits to farmers," EU lawmaker Mohammed Chahim said. Lawmakers and scientists have rejected the EPP's claims, accusing the group of using misinformation to court votes ahead of EU Parliament elections next year. "This is a law on behalf of nature, not against any person whatsoever." EU lawmakers voted earlier this week to weaken another law to cut pollution from farms.

Persons: Cesar Luena, Manfred Weber, Remy, Pascal Rossignol, Mohammed Chahim, Luena, Greta Thunberg, Kate Abnett, Marine Strauss, Bart Meijer, Charlotte Van Campenhout, Mark Potter, Devika Syamnath, Ed Osmond Organizations: European, European People's Party, EPP, EU Parliament's, REUTERS, EU, Thomson Locations: BRUSSELS, Europe, Neuville, France, Brussels

☆ Goldman names under-the-radar global stocks to buy — and says one could soar 80%
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Lucy Handley | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Goldman Sachs has named several European stocks to buy that it expects to outperform the market — and that other investors could be missing. The list includes Norwegian hydrogen producer Nel , which Goldman says has potential upside of 80% to its 12-month price target. Analyst Michele Della Vigna likes the stock for its strong growth outlook and focus on the North American market. Goldman also picked wind power company Vestas , saying its stock could rise by 48% over the next year. It also chose chemicals company IMCD , with 57% potential upside, and drinks company Remy Cointreau , with 54% potential upside.

Persons: Goldman Sachs, John Sawtell, Goldman, Nel, Michele Della Vigna, Ajay Patel, Remy Cointreau, Elisa, — CNBC's Michael Bloom Organizations: ABN Amro, Veritas Locations: Norwegian, Finnish

☆ 4 Killed and 7 Wounded in Shooting at July 4 Party in Louisiana
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Derrick Bryson Taylor | Remy Tumin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Four people were killed and seven others were wounded in a shooting at an Independence Day celebration in Shreveport, La., on Tuesday night, the authorities said. Officers responded to a call of shots fired shortly before midnight at a gathering in the northwest section of the city, Sgt. At least one gunman opened fire at a gathering of about 100 people, she said. A motive for the shooting was not immediately clear and no arrests have been made. Sergeant Willhite said the police found “some rifle shell casings on the scene,” but it was unclear whether the casings were from the same gun.

Persons: Angie Willhite, Sergeant Willhite Locations: Shreveport, La

☆ 36 Hours on Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Remy Tumin | Remy Tumin Is A Breaking News Reporter For The New York Times. She Was Previously A Reporter For The Vineyard Gazette | Based On Martha S Vineyard | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

9 p.m. Dance in a dive barMusic has long been an integral part of the Vineyard (the island was a folk-music destination in the 1960s, drawing the likes of James Taylor and Carly Simon ); these days, there is live music every night of the week during the summer. The Ritz , a year-round dive bar with live music (entry $5), will have you dancing to local bands like Johnny Hoy and the Bluefish and Dukes of Circuit Avenue. Up the block, you can watch the summer crowds from the porch bar at Red Cat Kitchen , where punches (from $17) and nonalcoholic cocktails (about $11) go down easy. For a respite from the noise, you can get ice cream at Ben & Bill’s Chocolate Emporium : Adventurous eaters may reach for the lobster flavor (if you really think you’ll like the taste of frozen crustacean, go crazy), but classics like peach and black forest are the real winners.

Persons: James Taylor, Carly Simon, Johnny Hoy Locations: Dukes

☆ Debris and Presumed Human Remains From Lost Titan Are Recovered
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Remy Tumin | Rebecca Carballo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

The LatestDebris and presumed human remains from the Titan submersible have been recovered and returned to land, the U.S. Coast Guard announced Wednesday night, nearly a week after an international search-and-rescue operation ended and the vessel’s five passengers were presumed dead. At a Canadian Coast Guard pier in St. John’s, Newfoundland, on Wednesday, crews unloaded what appeared to be the Titan’s 22-foot hull, crinkled and twisted with exposed wires and cables. United States medical professionals “will conduct a formal analysis of presumed human remains that have been carefully recovered within the wreckage at the site of the incident,” the Coast Guard said in a statement. The U.S. Coast Guard is leading the investigation into why the submersible imploded and has convened a marine board of investigation, the highest level of investigation in the Coast Guard. The discovery suggested a “catastrophic implosion” with no survivors, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

Persons: “, Carl Hartsfield, Hartsfield, ”, Eduardo Medina Organizations: Titan, U.S . Coast Guard, Canadian Coast Guard, Canadian Press, Marine Board, Investigation, United, Coast Guard, Research Services, Oceanographic, World Records Locations: St, John’s, Newfoundland, U.S, United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, British

☆ Half a Year After the COP Agreement on Nature, Companies Are Increasingly Looking at Their Biodiversity Impact
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Joshua Kirby | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +8 min

While mandatory reporting on nature may still be a long way off, for some companies, measuring their impact on nature makes good business sense. “Not enough companies are actually measuring their corporate biodiversity impact,” said Steve Kennedy, associate professor in business sustainability at the Rotterdam School of Management. Biodiversity impact, on the other hand, remains a more nebulous concept, with widespread uncertainty about what to measure and how to measure it. While biodiversity impact remains difficult to assess, more complete data can help, said Zoe Balmforth, co-founder of biodiversity-data startup Pivotal. And companies will soon have a final framework on which to base their voluntary biodiversity reporting.

Persons: Jennifer Motles, Philip Morris, Motles, Katie Critchlow, Rémy Cointreau, Eric Vallat, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, ”, Steve Kennedy, Kennedy, “ It’s, “, ” Philip Morris International’s, Nicolo Filippo Rosso, Zoe Balmforth, Balmforth, Cameron Frayling, Frayling, U.N, JULIAN HABER, Kering, PMI’s Motles, Joshua Kirby Organizations: Philip Morris International, Data, Sustainable Business, Fund, Nature, PMI, Rotterdam School of Management . Companies, SAS, Bloomberg, World Bank, REUTERS Governments, United Nations ’, pharma, GSK, Gucci Locations: Montreal, American, of Mexico, Lake Erie, Colombia, Kunming, Canada, joshua.kirby

☆ Prestigious Rose Breeder Names Its New Bloom for a Black Gardener
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Remy Tumin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For more than 60 years, David Austin Roses has bred the world’s most prestigious blooms. They are the Air Jordans, the Birkin bags, the Steinway pianos of roses, and have become what we know, smell and delight in as the modern English rose. And every year for more than 60 years, David Austin Roses has named one or two new varieties after historical British figures, including Queen Elizabeth II, Emily Brontë, Roald Dahl and Charles Darwin. At the Chelsea Flower Show in London last month, David Austin Roses introduced the Dannahue, an apricot-colored English shrub rose named after Danny Clarke, a gardener known to his social media followers and to television viewers in Britain as the Black Gardener. The shrub is available only in Britain for now but will be sold to American gardeners next year.

Persons: David Austin, Birkin, Queen Elizabeth II, Emily Brontë, Roald Dahl, Charles Darwin, David Austin Roses, Danny Clarke, Clarke, ” Organizations: Chelsea Locations: London, Britain

☆ Starbucks Is Under Scrutiny Over Removal of Pride Decorations
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Remy Tumin | Amanda Holpuch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A union representing hundreds of Starbucks stores said this week that workers in 21 states were told by their managers not to decorate for Pride Month, the annual L.G.B.T.Q. celebration, a claim that the company said represented “outlier” decisions by local leaders that did not reflect corporate policy. In Manhattan, no Pride decorations could be seen at several Starbucks stores in Chelsea and Greenwich Village, including the one just a block from the Stonewall Inn, a landmark of gay culture and history. One partner, as Starbucks refers to employees, was told by a manager that hanging a rainbow flag might make customers uncomfortable. Others said they were told that if they hung a Pride flag the store could be asked to show equal representation for others, including the Proud Boys, the far-right hate group.

Organizations: Pride Month, Greenwich, Stonewall, Pride Locations: New York City, Manhattan, Chelsea, Wisconsin , Ohio, Virginia

☆ Kilauea Erupts in Hawaii With ‘Incandescent’ Glow
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Remy Tumin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Kilauea, the youngest and most active volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii, erupted early Wednesday morning, officials said, sending fountains of lava spewing skyward before pooling and spreading across its summit. The U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory detected a glow in the web camera of the Kilauea summit and said the volcano began erupting around 4:44 a.m. local time. Less than an hour later, the lava created a brilliant black-and-orange web across the crater’s floor. As dawn broke, a livestream showed lava still bubbling but its surface beginning to harden. “The spreading across the floor of the crater was just totally incandescent,” Ken Hon, the scientist in charge of the observatory, said in an interview.

Persons: Ken Hon, “ Organizations: Geological Locations: Hawaii, U.S

☆ 16 years ago, people spent days in lines around the block to buy iPhones. Apple is announcing a new gadget today and no one seems to care.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Nicholas Carlson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Today, Apple is launching itself into a whole new area of gadgets. No one seems to care, with Apple reportedly projecting low sales the first year. Just about 16 years ago — on June 29, 2007 — the Internet was introduced to a new micro-celebrity. The fact remains that behind him on that day 192 months ago, a line curled around the block. Did you even know, before you opened this post, that today, Apple is launching another massive new product?

Persons: Greg Packer, Dima Gavrysh, REMY, Steve Jobs's, Hasan Chowdhury, Dan Ives, Siri Organizations: Apple, Press, LA, Associated, Reuters, Developers, Bloomberg, Wedbush Securities Locations: New York, France, Cupertino

☆ Miyu Kato and Aldila Sutjiadi disqualified from French Open after ball hits ball girl
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( Aimee Lewis | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —A French Open doubles match ended controversially on Sunday as No.16 seeds Miyu Kato and Aldila Sutjiadi were disqualified from the tournament after a ball girl was hit by a ball. Eurosport coverage showed Kato innocuously hitting the ball to the back of the court after a point, and though it didn’t appear as if she intentionally meant to hit the ball girl, the ball hit her head. Standing at the back of the court, the tearful ball girl was visibly shaken. Ball not hit in anger whatsoever, just hit across to ball girl to keep the match flowing because it was the other team’s turn to serve. Ball girl had hands full, reacted late.”It isn’t the first time a player has been defaulted at a grand slam.

Persons: Miyu Kato, Aldila Sutjiadi, Spain’s Sara Sorribes Tormo, Marie Bouzkova, Japan’s Kato, Kato innocuously, Alexandre Juge, Wayne McKewen, Remy Azemar, Kato, Sutjiadi, Roland Garros, jeers, Ben Rothenberg, Ball, Novak, “ Organizations: CNN, Eurosport Locations: Czech Republic, Indonesia, ”

The moment was a culmination for Dev, who began competing in spelling bees in third grade and has studied 10 hours each day for the past year, according to his mother. When his parents rushed the stage to hug him, he felt overwhelmed, Dev said in an interview after the competition. A fan of Roger Federer and the movie “La La Land,” Dev had competed in previous national spelling bees, tying for 76th place in 2021 and 51st place in 2019. In 2021, organizers introduced a vocabulary round, in which spellers have to identify the correct meaning of the word. Harini Logan, an eighth grader from San Antonio, won by correctly spelling 21 words.

Persons: Dev, ”, Roger Federer, ” Dev, Harini Logan Locations: La, Largo, St . Petersburg, San Antonio

☆ A spell-off that wasn’t, and a gantlet of schwas: Takeaways from the spelling bee.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Maggie Astor | Remy Tumin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

After 14 rounds of words like “probouleutic” and “zwitterion” and “schistorrhachis,” Dev Shah, an eighth grader from Florida, reached the apotheosis of his craft, correctly spelling “psammophile” to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night. He denied the spelling community another thrilling spell-off, outlasted the dominant Texans and didn’t let the schwa make him schweat. If you weren’t able to watch the finals on Thursday night, here are a few takeaways. The schwa is a stone-cold killerThe schwa — the “uh”-like sound that can be represented by any vowel in the English alphabet, also known as the bane of competitive spellers’ existence — knocked out several finalists, as it routinely does.

Persons: “, ” Dev Shah, ”, didn’t, — Organizations: Scripps, Spelling, Texans Locations: Florida

For Felisha Robinson, it was the scene in the biopic “What’s Love Got to Do With It” in which Tina Turner runs across the highway, face bloodied from having been beaten by her then-husband and performing partner, Ike Turner, to escape her abusive marriage with nothing but 36 cents and a Mobil card in her pocket. As Robinson, 42, was getting out of her own abusive marriage in 2020, she found herself gravitating toward the 1993 film that made waves around the world for starkly depicting the violence Tina Turner had endured. She had watched it when she was younger, but felt she now understood all that it took for Turner get there. Looking back at the singer’s interviews, books and songs helped Robinson process her own experience. “The desperation that was in her, like, ‘I have got to get out of this situation.

Persons: Felisha Robinson, Tina Turner, Ike Turner, Robinson, “, ”, Turner Organizations: Mobil

☆ Remy Cointreau keeps outlook as annual profit beat forecasts
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

PARIS, June 1 (Reuters) - French spirits group Remy Cointreau (RCOP.PA) reported a higher-than-expected rise in operating profit for its 2022/23 fiscal year and stuck to its cautious prospects for this year. The maker of Remy Martin cognac and Cointreau liquor reiterated a prediction of flat organic sales in financial year 2023-2024, with steady profitability, to reflect weaker U.S. demand and high year-ago comparables. This beat expectations for a 14.4% rise in a company compiled consensus of 18 analysts. Already reported group sales were 1.55 billion euros, marking an organic rise of 10.1%. ($1 = 0.9084 euros)Reporting by Dominique Vidalon; Editing by Benoit Van OverstraetenOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Remy Cointreau, Remy Martin, Dominique Vidalon, Benoit Van Overstraeten Organizations: Thomson Locations: China, United States

A meeting of the word panel was held on Sunday at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md., to finalize the 2023 Scripps National Spelling Bee words. Here is a guide to the rules for the Scripps National Spelling Bee — and their small changes for this year’s competition, including a shorter allotted time to answer. A speller advances through them by correctly spelling a word and answering a multiple-choice question about its meaning. After the pronouncer says the spelling word, the clock starts. If one speller is correct, that person will be given a spelling word drawn from the Championship Word List.

Persons: spellers, Corrie Loeffler, “, ”, Jacques A . Bailly, Loeffler, Merriam, Johnny Diaz Organizations: Scripps, Spelling, Webster Locations: Oxon Hill, Md

☆ How to Watch the 95th Scripps National Spelling Bee
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Remy Tumin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For nearly 100 years, the Scripps National Spelling Bee has showcased the biggest words from the youngest lexicologists. The words have only gotten harder, the pressure greater and the national spotlight larger. The finals cap nearly a week of competition at the National Harbor, a resort and waterfront development in Maryland. Many Americans grew familiar with the bee from its national broadcast on ESPN, where it expanded in popularity, viewership and pop culture over the past few decades. But that changed last year when the bee moved to Ion, a Scripps subsidiary, in the hopes of finding viewers beyond paid TV subscribers.

Persons: Frank Neuhauser, ” Organizations: Scripps, Spelling, Smithsonian Museum, ESPN Locations: Louisville, Maryland

☆ Disney still has plans to spend billions in Florida despite its battle with DeSantis
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-26 | by ( Sarah Whitten | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Ron DeSantis, Disney remains committed to the state of Florida. Those figures have been repeated by CEO Bob Iger and parks chief Josh D'Amaro over the past few months, as tensions between Disney and Florida lawmakers have continued to ratchet up. Disney recently scrapped plans to open up a new employee campus in Lake Nona, Florida, citing "changing business conditions." "And this includes things like the transformation of Epcot," he explained. "It includes things like there's a new Star Tours attraction coming, we have a new Tiana attraction that's coming.

☆ An Auction of Prosthetics, Mermaids and Creepy Dolls to Benefit Sea Turtles
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-20 | by ( Remy Tumin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

When Jace Tunnell spotted what appeared to be a leg on the Gulf of Mexico shoreline in Texas, he thought that his greatest fear — a body washing up on the beach — was coming true. It’s happening,’” said Mr. Tunnell, who is director of the Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve in Port Aransas, Texas. The leg, after all, was wearing pants. But when Mr. Tunnell went to lift it up, the leg turned out to be a prosthetic, one of the many items of flotsam and jetsam that come ashore along the Texas coastline each year. The prosthetic leg will be up for auction on Saturday, along with other curious pieces salvaged from among the more than 500 tons of marine debris that, according to the reserve, wash up on the beaches of Texas every year.

☆ Desert Monoliths Reveal World’s Oldest Architectural Plans
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Priyanka Runwal | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Massive prehistoric stone structures found in desert landscapes from Saudi Arabia to Kazakhstan have baffled archaeologists for decades. Each can stretch for up to a few miles, and resembles a kite with tail strings in overall shape. Recent studies have built a consensus that the so-called desert kites were used to trap and kill wild animal herds. Engraved between 7,000 and 9,000 years ago, these representations are by far the oldest known to-scale architectural plans recorded in human history, the team reported on Wednesday in the journal PLOS ONE. They also highlight how carefully planned the desert kites may have been by the ancient peoples who relied on them.

☆ Staff Members Attacked With Bat at Congressman’s Virginia Office
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Remy Tumin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A person armed with a baseball bat attacked two congressional staff members at a district office in Northern Virginia on Monday after asking to speak with Rep. Gerry Connolly, the congressman said in a statement. Mr. Connolly, a Democrat, said the individual committed “an act of violence” at his Fairfax, Va., office against two members of his staff, who were taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The Fairfax City Police said on Twitter that an individual was in custody. My District Office staff make themselves available to constituents and members of the public every day,” Mr. Connolly said in a statement. “The thought that someone would take advantage of my staff’s accessibility to commit an act of violence is unconscionable and devastating.”Mr. Connolly represents a swath of the Northern Virginia suburbs west of Washington, D.C.

☆ How MTV Broke News for a Generation
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-11 | by ( Remy Tumin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A little over a year into his first term, President Bill Clinton made good on a promise to return to MTV if young voters sent him to the White House. The town hall-style program in 1994 was meant to focus on violence in America, but it was a question of personal preference that made headlines and helped put MTV News on the media map. Now, a generation after MTV News bridged the gap between news and pop culture, Paramount, the network’s parent company, announced this week that it was shuttering the news service. They brought viewers on the presidential campaign trail and face to face with world leaders like Yasir Arafat, and took them into college dorms in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. They also embraced the messy chaos of 1990s and early 2000s celebrity, as when Courtney Love interrupted an interview with Madonna.

☆ She Wrote of Grief After Her Husband Died. Now She’s Charged in His Murder.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Remy Tumin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Ms. Richins published “Are You With Me?” on March 7, just over a year after her husband’s death. A lawyer for Ms. Richins did not immediately respond to a request for comment. She made her husband a Moscow mule, a cocktail, in the kitchen around 9 p.m. and brought it to their bedroom, where Mr. Richins drank it in bed. Ms. Richins later told investigators that she went to bed and woke up around 3 a.m., because one of the boys was having a nightmare. When she returned to the couple’s bedroom, Ms. Richins told investigators, she “felt Eric and he was cold to the touch.” She called 911, according to court documents.

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