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☆ 'Disenchanted' review: Amy Adams turns the page on a princess' storybook ending on Disney+
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Review Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —“Disenchanted” asks the existential question, “What comes after ‘Happily Ever After?,’” which is, naturally, a sequel … only (because it’s 15 years later) for streaming. Amy Adams nimbly steps back into the role of an animated princess trying to adapt to the live-action world, in an epilogue to “Enchanted” that has moments of magic without completely delivering on the premise. As recounted in storybook fashion, Adams’ Princess Giselle settled down with her unexpected prince, single dad Robert (Patrick Dempsey), and had a baby with him. If there appeared to be room to creatively advance the mythology, “Disenchanted” merely chooses to recycle it. “Disenchanted” premieres November 18 on Disney+.

☆ Homebuyers who fled to Florida to escape high taxes are now shocked at their massive tax bills
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Kelsey Neubauer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A Florida law caps property taxes at 3% a year for existing homebuyers. The tax bills have come as a shock for some, who may have to consider moving out of the state. Anyone who bought a Florida property in 2022 will be in the same situation next year. Corporate homebuyers are also getting hit with higher tax billsDeeply resourced, large-scale homebuyers are getting caught off guard, too. Some local governments in Texas have argued for increasing property taxes in order to finance things like hurricane relief, the Texas Tribune reported.

☆ Storm Nicole churns toward Bahamas en route to Florida and hurricane status
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( Brian Ellsworth | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

[1/2] Beachgoers are shown as tropical storm Nicole approaches the state in Miami Beach, Florida, U.S., November 8, 2022. A hurricane warning was posted for Grand Bahama Island, Bimini, the Berry Islands and the Abacos in the northwestern corner of the West Indies archipelago nation, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. A 240-mile expanse of Florida's Atlantic shoreline from Boca Raton north to around Flagler Beach was likewise placed under a hurricane warning. "It's going to take more than a Category 1 hurricane or so to really move stuff and have them flying around." Forecasters said Nicole would likely sweep across central and northern Florida into southern Georgia on Thursday.

☆ Pressure mounts for regulators to investigate TikTok over potential 'Big Brother-type surveillance' after reports of plans to track Americans' locations
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Forbes reported TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, planned to use the app to surveil Americans. The consumer rights group joins a growing chorus of bipartisan calls to investigate the Beijing-based company. In its Thursday letter, the nonprofit consumer rights group Public Citizen urged the FTC to investigate and "take immediate action against ByteDance and Tiktok" if the reports of surveillance are substantiated. The app's links to the Chinese government have long spurred concerns over propaganda, fake news, and data privacy — with the Trump administration in 2020 even proposing a total ban of TikTok. In 2021, the Biden administration promised a security review of foreign-owned apps, but has yet to publish its results.

☆ U.N. lawyer pushes back on Russian row over Iran drone inquiry
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Michelle Nichols | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Russia has argued that there is no mandate for Guterres to send U.N. experts to Ukraine to inspect the downed drones. Tehran denies supplying the drones to Moscow and Russia has denied its forces used Iranian drones to attack Ukraine. Guterres reports twice a year to the council - traditionally in June and December - on the implementation of a 2015 council resolution that enshrines the Iran nuclear deal. "Absent further guidance by the Security Council, the Secretary-General will continue to prepare these reports in the manner that they have been prepared to date," U.N. legal affairs chief Miguel de Serpa Soares told the Security Council. "The Secretariat serves solely as a contact point," told the Security Council.

☆ How Google's former CEO Eric Schmidt helped write AI laws in Washington without publicly disclosing investments in AI start-ups
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Eamon Javers | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +18 min

'Conflict of interest'Schmidt's investment was just the first of a handful of direct investments he would make in AI start-up companies during his tenure as chairman of the AI commission. Altogether, Schmidt and entities connected to him made more than 50 investments in AI companies while he was chairman of the federal commission on AI. To Poulson, Schmidt was simply given too much power over federal AI policy. The new entity would continue the work of the congressionally created federal commission, with many of the same goals and much of the same staff. More than a dozen staffers from the federal commission followed Schmidt to the new private sector project.

An advisory committee to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Thursday in favor of adding the Covid vaccine to the recommended immunization schedule for children and adults. The decision to officially add Covid vaccination to the schedule now goes to the CDC. The recommended immunization schedule is not a vaccine mandate. For example, the CDC added the HPV vaccine to the recommended schedule in 2006. The CDC's recommended vaccination schedule also provides guidance to insurance providers, which tend to cover vaccines on the list.

☆ 4 wounded in shooting outside Clark Atlanta University library
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-16 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: 1 min

ATLANTA — Four people were shot, including three students, during Clark Atlanta University’s homecoming outside a campus library early Sunday, authorities said. A large group of people were listening to a DJ near Atlanta University Center’s Robert W. Woodruff Library around 12:30 a.m. when officers on patrol in the area heard gunshots, Atlanta police said. A preliminary investigation found three students and another person were wounded when shots were fired from a vehicle, Clark Atlanta University said. One of the victims was grazed and refused medical attention, Atlanta police said. Clark Atlanta is part of Atlanta University Center’s consortium of historically Black colleges.

☆ Robert Walters posts higher profit on strong hiring trends
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Oct 11 (Reuters) - British recruitment firm Robert Walters (RWA.L) on Tuesday reported a 22% jump in its third-quarter gross profit, as hiring stayed robust amid intense competition to fill up vacancies. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterThe company's gross profit rose to 112 million pounds ($123.5 million) for the quarter ended Sept. 30, compared with 91.8 million pounds a year earlier. Its quarterly gross profit for UK, however, fell 6%, owing to more challenging market conditions across technology recruitment and resource solutions. Peers PageGroup (PAGE.L) and Hays (HAYS.L), which have also seen a combination of talent shortages and wage hike leading to sharp increase in their net fees, are expected to report their quarterly results this week. Robert Walters, which forecast its annual profit to be in line with current market expectations, also named Leslie Van de Walle as non-executive chair.

☆ Trump's high-profile deposition could be delayed because he's holed up at Mar-a-Lago as Hurricane Ian batters Florida
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The lawsuit accuses Trump of promoting a scam multi-level marketing scheme. Trump's legal team fired back a response to Quinn and his team on Wednesday, accusing them of making "disingenuous and misleading statements" and attempting to cancel the deposition. Trump's team also asked that the deposition be conducted remotely to meet the court's deadline for discovery. It's unclear if Trump's legal team will shift the deposition's location to Bedminster or if they will ask to hold it at a later date. Trump raked in $8.8 million from a multi-level marketing company, ACN, between 2005 and 2015.

☆ Eli Lilly sued for age discrimination by U.S. agency EEOC
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Jonathan Stempel | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterFILE PHOTO: An Eli Lilly and Company pharmaceutical manufacturing plant is pictured at 50 ImClone Drive in Branchburg, New Jersey, March 5, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File PhotoSept 26 (Reuters) - Eli Lilly and Co was sued on Monday by the U.S. According to the EEOC, Fry suggested that the lack of millennials was a problem, and the Indianapolis-based company would target 40% "Early Career" hiring. The lawsuit filed in Indianapolis federal court accused Lilly of violating the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act. The case is EEOC v Lilly USA LLC, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana, No.

☆ The GOP's American psychosis didn't start with Trump. It won't end with him, either.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-18 | by ( David Corn | David Corn Is A Veteran Washington Journalist | Political Commentator. He Is The Washington Bureau Chief For Mother Jones Magazine | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +15 min

This piece has been adapted from "American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy,” by David Corn. Some reporters feared Goldwater supporters were about to storm the stage and physically attack the governor. The Republican Party — those then in control of it — thought otherwise. They were guided by what Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway once called “alternative facts.” For many of the Capitol Hill assailants, Trump and his paranoia had become a theology. Excerpted from "American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy."

☆ UPDATED: 10 ways to get funding in 2022 if you're a underrepresented founder
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-11 | by ( Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Underrepresented business owners have been hit hard throughout the pandemic. Underrepresented business owners said they struggled the most to access credit during the pandemic, a Federal Reserve survey found. And although venture capital funding hit a record high last year, it's dwindling this year as experts predict the US economy is headed toward a recession. We've also included some funding opportunities that aren't specific to underrepresented founders, but may still be relevant to their businesses. If you know of a funding opportunity that fits this list, please email this reporter at jortakales@insider.com.

☆ Should You Get Another Covid Booster?
▼ + stars: | 2022-03-29 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +12 min

to authorize a second booster shot of its vaccine — that is, a fourth dose — for people aged 65 and older. Two days later, Moderna followed suit, but with a broader request to authorize a second booster for all adults over 18. The agency said on Tuesday that adults aged 50 and older could opt for a second booster shot of the vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna, to be given at least four months after the first booster of any authorized or approved Covid vaccine. A second booster would be the third shot for those who received one dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and a booster shot of an mRNA vaccine. In fact, other data from Israel suggests that a second booster has only marginal benefits in healthy young people.

☆ Science says parents of successful kids have these 26 things in common
▼ + stars: | 2022-02-07 | by ( Marguerite Ward | Rachel Gillett | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +24 min

Here's what parents of successful kids have in common, according to research. Children with parents who stepped in to provide instructions frequently displayed more difficulty regulating their emotions later, the researchers wrote. "Too much direct engagement can come at a cost to kids' abilities to control their own attention, behavior and emotions. When parents let kids take the lead in their interactions, children practice self-regulation skills and build independence," Obradović wrote in the study. The parents tend to take parental leave.

Johnson & Johnson has said it would provide a fair amount of money to the subsidiary to pay claims. Johnson & Johnson, valued at more than $450 billion, had about $31 billion in cash and marketable securities on hand at the end of the third quarter, securities filings show. One would absorb all the talc liability; the other would carry on the business free from the threat of billion-dollar judgments. Levesque replied that the “technical aspect” of the subsidiary bankruptcy wasn’t likely to cause concern about J&J’s creditworthiness. Is that what you're saying?” asked Jeffrey Jonas, a Brown Rudnick lawyer representing a creditors committee comprising talc plaintiffs.

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☆ Rusia anunță despre expulzarea a 10 diplomați americani: „Vom răspunde cu aceeași monedă”
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-17 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +2 min

Rusia a anunțat despre expulzarea a 10 diplomați americani. Un anunț în acest sens a fost făcut de Serghei Lavrov, ministrul Afacerilor Externe al Rusiei, informează BBC„La zece diplomați ruși li s-a cerut să plece. Vom propune ca zece diplomați americani să părăsească țara noastră”, a spus Lavrov. Lavrov a adăugat că Moscova lansează o procedură care va pune capăt practicii de angajare a cetățenilor ruși și din țări terțe pentru a lucra la misiunile diplomatice americane din Rusia. Menționăm că pe 15 aprilie, președintele american Joe Biden a anunțat noi sancțiuni împotriva Rusiei.

Persons: Serghei Lavrov, Merrick Garland, Alejandro Mayorkas, Christopher Wray, Susan Rice, Avril Haines, Michael Carvajal, John Bolton, Robert Woolsey, CIA . Lavrov, american Joe Biden Organizations: BBC, Rusia, FBI, ONU, CIA Locations: Rusia, SUA, Rusiei, Moscova, american

În Marea Britanie este legal să utilizezi țigările electronice în interiorul spațiilor publice închise, dacă utilizatorii obțin permisiunea administrației. Cercetările grupului Euromonitor estimează că numărul de adulți care vor utiliza țigările electronice va ajunge până în 2021 la cca 55 milioane. În 2014 a lansat în Japonia – IQOS, un dispozitiv de încălzire a tutunului și care oferă o alternativă a fumatului prin folosirea HEETS, rezerve de tutun încălzit. În SUA, recent, Administraţia pentru Alimente şi Medicamente (FDA) a permis comercializarea pe piață a dispozitivelor de încălzire a tutunului. Dispozitivele care funcționează în baza sistemului de încălzire a tutunului au intrat și pe piața din Moldova, în iulie trecut.

Persons: Lik, Hon Lik, Phillip Morris International, Robert West, Jennifer Hobbs Folkenroth, american Phillip Morris Organizations: Uniunii Europene, Uniunea Europeană, Parlamentul European, American, Universitatea College, West, Drug, American Lung, FDA, British American, Ploom, britanică Imperial Brands, Public, German, Australian Government Locations: Suedia, Norvegia, SUA, Suediei, Britanie, Irlanda, UE, Republica Moldova, chinez, Noua Zeelandă, Londra, Japonia, San Francisco, Ploom Tech, England, Anglia, Britanii, american, Australia, Moldova

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