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☆ They’re Here to Save Indie Media
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Cara Schacter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Gutes Guterman sat on an antique French farm bench in Pig Bar, a craft beer shop overlooking the scene-y slice of Lower Manhattan known as Dimes Square. Reaching for a gherkin, her hand in a lacy fingerless glove, she paused to gesture toward the former site of the Drunken Canal newspaper box. “If you know, you know,” she said. It was a cool spring day, and Ms. Guterman, 26, was here to talk about her latest editorial venture: Byline, a website that went live on Thursday. Ms. Guterman and a friend, Claire Banse, started the paper mid-lockdown.

Persons: Gutes Guterman, lacy, ”, Guterman, Claire Banse Organizations: Drunken, “ New Locations: Manhattan, Dimes, Clandestino, Seward, vade

☆ Swine fever: World's first vaccine against deadly animal disease nears approval in Vietnam
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

African swine fever has for years disrupted the $250 billion global pork market. The next step will be nationwide authorization, the first ever for an African swine fever vaccine, and possible sales overseas. Use of unlicensed live-virus vaccines in China in past years raised concerns they caused the emergence of new strains of swine fever. Only limited data are available from China’s trials on a live-virus vaccine against swine fever. NAVETCO, AVAC and Vietnam’s agriculture ministry, which is responsible for approval of veterinary vaccines, did not respond to requests for comment.

Persons: Gregorio Torres, “, ” Torres, ”, Thomas Vilsack, ” Vilsack, WOAH Organizations: World Organization for Animal Health, Reuters, Rabobank, United States Department of Agriculture Locations: Vietnam, China, United States

☆ World's first vaccine against deadly swine fever nears approval in Vietnam
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Francesco Guarascio | Thomson Reuters | Francesco Leads A Team Of Reporters In Vietnam That Covers Top Financial | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

African swine fever has for years disrupted the $250 billion global pork market. The next step will be nationwide authorisation, the first ever for an African swine fever vaccine, and possible sales overseas. "There will be a specific interest obviously," Vilsack said in an interview with Reuters in April, speaking about possible purchases of the Vietnamese vaccines. Use of unlicensed live-virus vaccines in China in past years raised concerns they caused the emergence of new strains of swine fever. Only limited data are available from China's trials on a live-virus vaccine against swine fever.

Persons: Gregorio Torres, Torres, Thomas Vilsack, Vilsack, WOAH, Francesco Guarascio, Phuong Nguyen, Khanh, Dominique Patton, Sonali Paul Organizations: Organisation for Animal Health, Reuters, Rabobank, United States Department of Agriculture, Thomson Locations: Vietnam, Hanoi, world's, HANOI, China, U.S, United States, Khanh Vu, Beijing

☆ Fact Check-Inflatable pig at Roger Waters show 10 years ago featured Star of David
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

However, one Facebook user uploaded the image (here) alongside the caption: “So apparently, THIS is what was on hand at Roger Waters' Berlin concert last night. News outlets have also included the picture in reports about one of Waters’ 2023 Berlin shows (here, archived: here) (here, archived: here). The Pink Floyd co-founder did not mention the use of a Star of David in his statement about the Berlin concerts (here). A black inflatable pig with a Star of David featured at Roger Waters’ concerts at least 10 years ago. It did not appear at Waters’ 2023 Berlin shows.

Persons: Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, David, Rogers, Waters, Pink Floyd’s, George Orwell, Martin Halweg, Read Organizations: Waters, Reuters, Facebook, Twitter, Stone, Washington D.C, YouTube, Pink, Berlin Police, Star Locations: Berlin, Washington, Belgium, Nazi

☆ Iowa Republican Gathering Features Roast Pig, Motorcycles—And a Growing 2024 Field
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( John Mccormick | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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Persons: Dow Jones Locations: iowa

☆ A lost medieval city that legend says was swallowed by the sea as punishment for its carnal sins mapped for the first time
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The legend says that the city of Rungholt was destroyed as revenge for its inhabitants' sins. Researchers say such finds provide unparalleled insights into the lives of the North Frisian peopleTop editors give you the stories you want — delivered right to your inbox each weekday. Legend has it that the once thriving city, which now sits off the coast of northern Germany, was swallowed by the North Sea in a single night following a heavy storm as punishment for its inhabitants' sins. In medieval legends, the sound of its bell tower could be heard from the depths of the North Sea. The press release says that investigations into the tidal flats continued to "bring to light significant new finds" and provided unparalleled insights into the lives of the North Frisian people.

Persons: —, drunkards, Ralf Roletschek, Dennis Wilken, Hanna Hadler Organizations: Service, The Times, Christian, Albrecht University, Kiel University, Institute, Mainz University Locations: Rungholt, Germany, North, Wadden, Kiel

☆ Paul Newman: Hundreds of Hollywood star's items to go on sale in Sotheby's auction
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Several watches are being sold as part of the auction. “My parents shared a passion for antiques and vintage items, the quirkier the better,” their daughter Melissa Newman said in a Sotheby’s auction catalog. The couple’s personalities also emerge in some of the more unusual furniture showcased in the auction. “Dad loved to pull pranks on his friends,” his daughter Clea Newman said a Sotheby’s auction catalog. “One of his favorite bits was making everyone who arrived late sit on the pig bench for their meeting.

Persons: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Richard Nixon’s, Newman –, George H.W, George H.W . Bush, Bill Clinton, “, Melissa Newman, It’s, ” Newman, Sotheby's Newman, Luke, ”, Woodward, Eve ”, Joanne ”, Newman, –, “ Dad, Clea Newman Organizations: CNN, Rolex Locations: Hollywood, Washington, George H.W .

☆ Has New York Reached Peak Pork?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Ella Quittner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The presence of fancy ham in New York is not new. Local institutions like Estela, King, Ernesto’s, Carbone and those of the Momofuku group (where Pinsky used to cook) have long touted elevated cured pork to diners looking to pretend they’re vacationing in Europe. And there’s a $29 hot dog on the menu at Mischa, the chef Alex Stupak’s new restaurant in Midtown. Cured meat, there’s nothing more sophisticated.”“Consumers have gotten supersmart,” says Grant Reynolds, a co-founder of Pig Bar and Parcelle. “In fine dining, there’s talk about perception of value,” says Pinsky.

Persons: Ernesto’s, Carbone, Pinsky, revel, Mischa, Alex Stupak’s, Ignacio Mattos, ”, Grant Reynolds Organizations: Bar, Pig Locations: New York, Europe, East Siders, Midtown, Lodi, “

☆ Opinion | Forget Nouns. Verbs Are Where the Action Is.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( John Mcwhorter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

The verb “see” is “doe,” uttered with a high pitch. To put the verb into past tense, you say it with a low pitch. To say that rather than mere glimpsing, you looked at something deliberately, you start on that low pitch and go even lower. And if you want to say the opposite, that you just looked something over quickly, you start high and then swoop low. Wait, wait!” This was perfectly ordinary speech, and it entailed four verbs and zero nouns or adjectives.

Persons: ”, Walt Whitman’s, Puedo, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, “, Daffy Organizations: Iau, Berlitz Locations: Fennoscandia, Thailand, Papua Province, Spanish

☆ The Album Art Studio That Made Pink Floyd’s Pig Fly
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Mark Yarm | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The Dutch filmmaker Anton Corbijn, the director of “Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis),” a documentary on the design firm that opens in New York on June 7, had a slightly different take. “It’s just not normal to fly all the way to Hawaii to do that picture,” he said. Among the 415 album covers Hipgnosis made between 1968 and 1983 was Pink Floyd’s “Animals” (1977), for which a 40-foot inflatable pig was photographed floating between the chimneys of London’s Battersea Power Station. Unfortunately, the single cable affixed to the pig snapped, and up the balloon went — into the flight zone for Heathrow Airport. Noel Gallagher, a fan, provides some modern-day context and comic relief.

Persons: Anton Corbijn, ”, “ It’s, Hipgnosis, Pink Floyd, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, Corbijn, Powell, David Gilmour, Mason, Waters, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, Paul McCartney, Peter Gabriel, Gouldman, Noel Gallagher Organizations: Battersea Power, Heathrow Airport, Pink Locations: New York, Hawaii, London, Battersea

☆ US extends by another year temporary suspension of tariffs on Ukrainian steel
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Kanishka Singh | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Slideshow ( 2 images )WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will extend by another year the temporary suspension of tariffs on Ukrainian steel, the Commerce Department said on Wednesday, citing the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The United States initially suspended tariffs on Ukrainian steel for one year in May last year, months after the Russian invasion began. Then-President Donald Trump in 2018 imposed a tariff of 25% on steel imports from countries including Ukraine. U.S. lawmakers urged President Joe Biden to remove the tariffs after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Ukraine was the 13th largest steel producer and typically exported about 80% of its production before the invasion from Russia.

Persons: Donald Trump, Joe Biden Organizations: Commerce Department, United, U.S . Chamber, Commerce, European Union, White House Locations: WASHINGTON, United States, Ukraine, Russian, Russia, U.S

The logo of Russia’s state gas company Gazprom was emblazoned on the shirts of players at the soccer club Toennies chaired. In Germany, Toennies’ story is far from unique. At the centre of Gazprom’s influence campaign was Schalke 04, the soccer club Toennies chaired at the time and which Gazprom began sponsoring in 2006. Russian gas imports have dropped dramatically and Germany is supplying tanks and other weapons systems to Ukraine. In 2001 Toennies assumed another of his older brother’s roles – chairman of soccer club Schalke 04.

Persons: Clemens Toennies, Vladimir Putin, Toennies, Willy Brandt, ”, Putin, Sberbank, Angela Merkel, “, ” Merkel, Bernd, Clemens, Putin’s, Alexei Gromov, Gromov, Gerhard Schroeder, Schroeder Organizations: Gazprom, Toennies, Schalke, Gazprom’s, Reuters, Miele, Volkswagen, Deutsche Telekom, ” Schalke, Chelsea, Kremlin, Former Locations: WIEDENBRUECK, Germany, Russia, Russian, Moscow, Ukraine, Berlin, Russians, Crimea, Gazprom, Rheda, German, Europe, Nord Stream, Dresden

☆ Where to Find Family-Style Dining, and More Reader Questions
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Nikita Richardson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I’m looking forward to eating outdoors as much as humanly possible before it gets unbearably hot. That said, it’s reader question time and, as usual, my inbox was full of thoughtful and fun requests, including where to go for large-format dining, where to find carciofi alla giudia (Jewish-style artichokes) and where to have great nonalcoholic drinks. As always, please email your questions to wheretoeat@nytimes.com, and you may see them answered in a future newsletter. One of our favorite things to do with friends is to go out to eat where fixed-menu, family-style dining is offered. — Joy W.Francie, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, has a whole roast duck for $135 that’s presented with various flora before it’s carved up.

Persons: W, Francie, It’s, Pete Wells, Monsieur Vo Locations: Williamsburg , Brooklyn, NoLIta, East

☆ 18 Best Deals to Shop at the Container Store Memorial Day Sale
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-25 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: +8 min

By Leslie YazelIt’s the age-old consumer joke: You buy things and then you have to buy more things to store those things. And while the Container Store is known for storage, the retailer sells a wide range of products. For more Memorial Day sales, see our staff picks and best deals. I used to use a terracotta disk in my brown sugar container to make it last longer without getting solidified. It is compatible with several Pop container sizes released after August 2019.

☆ As back-to-school, holiday orders begin, this is what may be the new 'normal' in peak retail trade season
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-25 | by ( Lori Ann Larocco | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

As peak retail trade order season nears — July is the official start of the back-to-school and holiday order inventory build that runs through October — executives in the shipping industry are keeping a watchful eye on order activity. Holiday orders are traditionally imported starting in August, with the manufacturing orders for these items made by retailers as much as six months in advance. Still, category by category, demand levels vary. SEKO executives said they are seeing consumers trade down in the product, but as far as which categories will be the big winners this peak season, it's too soon to know. "The pig in the python has yet to go through when it relates to inventory" said Hans Hickler, president of Americas for SEKO Logistics.

Persons: James Gagne, Gagne, it's, Hans Hickler Organizations: Federal, SEKO Logistics Locations: U.S

☆ An Oil Refiner Leans on Manure to Provide a Greener Future
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Stanley Reed | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Every day dozens of tanker trucks, many laden with pig manure and other kinds of agricultural waste, rumble through the gateway of an imposing steel-and-concrete plant in northeast Netherlands. This pungent cargo will be mixed together into a slurry and pumped into massive tanks, where hungry bacteria will within weeks turn it into methane gas that will ultimately be sold to the energy grid to heat homes and generate electricity. The gas is a biofuel — similar to the natural gas pumped out of offshore wells in the North Sea but, because of its biological origins, considered carbon neutral. The recipe for success, said Fritz Ullrich, the plant manager, is keeping the microbes nourished with a steady stream of waste. “We have to coddle them,” he said on a recent morning.

☆ Philippines' military chief visits remote islands near disputed Spratlys
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Karen Lema | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

BALABAC, Philippines, May 18 (Reuters) - When the Philippine military chief addressed a small contingent of navy officers on a remote island in Palawan province near the disputed Spratly archipelago in the South China Sea, he reminded them their mission was to "ensure there is peace". "We make sure that we are deployed where we are needed. "This is surrounded by islands, and this is where foreign vessels from international waters will enter and pass through our SLOCs (sea lines of communications)," Centino said of the air base's location. China claims sovereignty over almost the entire South China Sea with a "nine-dash line" on maps that stretches more than 1,500 km off its mainland and cuts into the exclusive economic zones of Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia. "It is important we are able to monitor to detect who is coming in and out... if hostile or friendly forces," Centino said.

☆ How a deadly bat virus found new ways to infect people
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +16 min

Scientists found bats with Nipah virus roosting near Sabith’s home. A search of the neighborhood led to a colony, near their house, of flying foxes, a common fruit bat. NETTING NIPAH: Researchers in Bangladesh use nets to catch bats and collect samples to find the Nipah virus in the wild. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir HossainWhether Sabith ate contaminated fruit or somehow came into direct contact with a bat, the virus entered his cells. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir HossainA year later, Chua’s team found the same strain of Nipah virus in flying foxes.

These areas, which we've dubbed " jump zones ," span the globe, covering 6% of Earth's land mass. That's 57% more people living in jump zones than two decades earlier, increasing the odds that a deadly bat virus could spill over. The world's jump zones have lost 21% percent of their tree cover in almost two decades' time, double the worldwide rate. Almost one-third of that expansion would be in existing jump zones, where spillover risk is already high. Though those countries require mining companies to assess potential environmental harms that new concessions might cause, none require companies to evaluate spillover risk.

☆ Bat lands worldwide are besieged, seeding risk of a new pandemic
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +16 min

This collision – bats and humans competing for resources on territory long the domain of the bats – could trigger the next pandemic. As people destroy bat habitats worldwide, they are unwittingly helping bat-borne viruses mutate, multiply, and infect other species, including homo sapiens. For millennia, bat viruses lurked across the forests of West Africa and in other undisturbed parts of the world but posed little threat to humanity. They’re potent proliferators: Some roost tightly together and in close quarters with other bat species. Each of the bat viruses analyzed by Reuters has epidemic potential, according to the World Health Organization.

☆ How Reuters pinpointed bat-virus risk zones worldwide
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +12 min

Areas where conditions are similar are more prone to spillover, scientists say. The Reuters analysis, which assessed spillover risk through 2020, has proven to have some predictive power. Similar statistical models are used widely to analyze data in ecology, and researchers use them to understand spillover risk. More than one of every five people on the planet is living in areas where the risk is highest for spillover. Using epidemic modeling software called GLEAMviz, the news agency simulated a worldwide pandemic originating from the spillover of a theoretical novel virus.

☆ We may never know where the COVID pandemic originated
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

LONDONIt’s the enduring mystery of the COVID-19 pandemic: Where did the virus come from? They also mostly agree that many of the earliest known infections and deaths clustered around a wildlife market in Wuhan, China. Others suspect the pathogen somehow leaked from a Wuhan laboratory, 27 km from the market, where researchers study bat viruses. One concentration of jump zones includes a region of mountains and lakes about 175 km southeast of the Wuhan market. In late 2002, the SARS-CoV-1 virus emerged in Guangdong province, in southern China, and became the SARS pandemic of 2003.

☆ The Supreme Court’s Pork Chops
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Images: AP/Getty Images Composite: Mark KellyWho says the Supreme Court marches in ideological lockstep? On Thursday a mixed majority upheld a California regulation that imposes enormous burdens on out-of-state pig farmers and carves up interstate commerce. The result will not be more constitutional clarity. At issue in National Pork Producers Council v. Ross was California’s 2018 voter-approved initiative establishing minimum confinement standards for farm animals sold as meat in the state. Compliance costs would fall almost entirely on out-of-state pork producers since about 99.9% of the nation’s pigs are raised outside California.

☆ I tested 5 quick and easy ways to earn your first dollar online. This is my guide for how to do it.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Zulie Rane | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Rane says that the first dollar is the hardest to earn online, and then tried five ways to do it. So I decided to write an actual actionable guide on how to earn your first dollar online. So let's get into five ways to earn your first dollar online — that I have testedWhat do you need to earn your first dollar online? Let's look at five uncommon ways to earn your very first dollar online. I recommend:Hopefully, you'll be able to leave user testing and playing games for pennies behind as you move forward toward more profitable ways to earn money online.

☆ Elon Musk's Neuralink accused of 'obvious conflict of interest' by filling its animal-testing regulatory committee with staff who could profit, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk's Neuralink is testing its brain implant on animals ahead of plans for human trials. 19 of the 22 members of the animal-research oversight board are also Neuralink staff, per Reuters. Elon Musk's Neuralink has reportedly filled its committee overseeing animal testing with staff who stand to profit if the brain implant is approved by regulators, according to Reuters. Federal law requires certain animal research facilities to have a regulatory board called an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, or IACUC. That's because Neuralink staff typically receive equity in the company, five current and former workers told Reuters.

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