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☆ Your coffee’s getting pricier – and climate change could keep it that way
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Erika Tulfo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Roasters and coffee experts are also signaling that prices could remain higher for longer, as factors like climate change reduce the coffee global supply. Climate change drives prices up“Coffee is more sensitive to changes in temperature than many other crops,” said Michael Hoffmann, professor emeritus at Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. “Climate change is getting worse. According to Delany, coffee prices are typically between 100 to 140 cents, but have stayed consistently above that range for the past three years. “There’s a drum beat in the background that is climate change, and that is causing problems,” he said.

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☆ Ukraine is struggling hard on land, but thrashing Russia repeatedly at sea
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-14 | by ( Tom Porter | Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

AdvertisementIf confirmed, it would mark strike twenty-five in a remarkable kill streak that Ukraine told CNN represents the disabling of a full third of Russia's Black Sea Fleet. AdvertisementUkraine's most astonishing triumph came early, in April 2022, when it sank Russia's Black Sea flagship, the Moskva. "Ukraine has been extremely successful against the Black Sea Fleet, forcing Russia to relocate assets further away from Ukraine and the frontline," Germond told BI. AdvertisementDown, but not outIs Ukraine's Black Sea success a solution to Ukraine's stalled ground offensive? This means that any ships sunk result in a longer-term decrease in the Black Sea Fleet.

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☆ Eileen Agar: Her Jewel-Like Paintings Stretched Surrealism
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-05 | by ( Roberta Smith | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Titled “Eileen Agar: Flowering of a Wing: Works, 1936 -1989,” this knockout is at Andrew Kreps Gallery (through Saturday). Its title, taken from one of the canvases here, signals Agar’s lifelong devotion to nature and to ambiguous meanings. Agar may be best known for her collages and their fusion of Surrealist imagination and Cubist structure and geometry. But this show homes in on the paintings, which have a contemporary air and are plenty interesting enough. Most of the paintings here involve several shades of blue, as if haunted by Matisse’s “The Blue Window” (1913) in the Museum of Modern Art.

Persons: Hilma af, Rosie Lee Tompkins, Mary Delany, Eileen Agar, Andrew Kreps, Agar, —, Matisse, Matisse’s “ Organizations: Museum of Modern Art Locations: Hilma af Klint, Sweden, United States

☆ Churn is becoming a bigger issue, says Foxtel Group CEO
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailChurn is becoming a bigger issue, says Foxtel Group CEOPatrick Delany, CEO of the Australian pay television company, discusses the outlook for the streaming market.

Persons: Patrick Delany Organizations: Foxtel

☆ The objects we keep when loved ones die — and what they say about mourning
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Oscar Holland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

In the years since, she has gathered the stories behind dozens of objects that people have kept after their loved ones died. Jody Servon and Lorene Delany-Ullman/savedobjectsofthedead.com This metal colander is among the everyday items that Servon's interviewees selected for the project. Jody Servon and Lorene Delany-Ullman/savedobjectsofthedead.com This item tells the story of a woman, Elaine, who sewed and sold star-shaped gifts prior to her murder. Jody Servon and Lorene Delany-Ullman/savedobjectsofthedead.com "Saved: Objects of the Dead," published by Artsuite (Wilson, NC), is available now. Jody Servon and Lorene Delany-Ullman/savedobjectsofthedead.comPower of memoryServon and Delany-Ullman say the project has been therapeutic for the interviewees — and themselves.

Persons: Jody Servon’s, “, ” Servon, Jody Servon, Lorene Delany, Ullman, she's, Delaney, Elaine, Mary, Nancy Fowler, Conyers, Virgin Mary, Artsuite, ”, Servon, she’s, ” Delany, “ Grace, Alan’s, savedobjectsofthedead.com There’s, Grace, Delany, doesn’t Organizations: CNN, Appalachian State University Locations: Bavarian, Wilson , NC, North Carolina

☆ Opinion | What Frederick Douglass Knew That Trump and DeSantis Don’t
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Jamelle Bouie | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Here, it is worth taking a brief tour of the history of birthright citizenship in the United States. Although the idea of birthright citizenship was present in English common law at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, the Constitution as ratified said nothing about acquiring citizenship by either birth or naturalization. To the extent that citizenship came with rights, the scope of those rights was a question of state laws and state constitutions. But there were always proponents of a broader, more expansive and rights-bearing birthright citizenship. “Our common country is the United States,” Delany wrote.

Persons: ”, Martin Delany, ” Delany, Martha S, Jones Organizations: Colored People, Rights, Antebellum, Convention Locations: United States, Union, Antebellum America, America, Rochester , New York

☆ ChatGPT Secret Training Data: the Top 50 Books AI Bots Are Reading
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

To figure out what GPT-4 has read, they quizzed it on its knowledge of various books, as if it were a high-school English student. One way to answer the question is to look for information that could have come from only one place. Genre — sci-fi, mystery, romance, horror — is, broadly speaking, more interesting, partially because these books have plots where things actually happen. Bamman's GPT-4 list is a Borgesian library of episodic connections, cliffhangers, third-act complications, and characters taking arms against seas of troubles (and whales). See what a bot makes of Gene Wolfe's "The Book of the New Sun," maybe, or Sheri Tepper's "Grass."

☆ Actor Tom Sizemore, known for tough-guy roles and scandal, dead at 61
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-04 | by ( Steve Gorman | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

March 3 (Reuters) - Actor Tom Sizemore, known as much for his struggles with drug addiction and run-ins with the law as for his tough-guy roles in such films as "Saving Private Ryan" and "Black Hawk Down," died on Friday at age 61, said his manager, Charles Lago. Sizemore's first major leading role came in the 1997 horror thriller "The Relic," again playing a police detective. On television, Sizemore won plaudits for his starring role as a police detective in the short-lived CBS television drama "Robbery Homicide Division." He was arrested again on suspicion of domestic abuse in 2016 and the following year pleaded no contest, the legal equivalent of guilty in California, and was sentenced to three year's probation. Sizemore chronicled his turbulent life in the 2013 memoir, "By Some Miracle I Made It Out of There."

☆ Ex-Bon Appétit editor Marissa Ross says the wine world ruined her. Now she's back and ready to give it hell.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Anna Silman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +40 min

Her rise was tied to a period of reinvention for the wine world during which natural wine conquered millennial taste buds and became ubiquitous on menus across the US. Marissa Ross, Bon Appétit's wine editor from 2016 to 2020, often posted pictures of herself chugging straight from the bottle — a technique she called "The Ross test." "Natural wine," a nebulous term that generally refers to wine made with minimal intervention and without additives like sulfites, was tentatively entering the American wine world. Many in the wine world took the idea that you didn't have to be educated to know about wine as a personal insult. When she first told BA that she planned to cover only natural wines, Ross said, Rapoport called to try to change her mind.

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