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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The statewide battles over abortion rights since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a constitutional right to abortion have exposed another fault line: the commitment to democracy. "We spoke.”Gross told Jackson she wasn't ignoring voters but rather was reflecting opponents' concerns that Ohio voters were led astray. Anti-abortion lawmakers and advocates already have pushed back in a handful of states where voters sided generally with abortion rights. Republican state legislative leaders initially pledged that the fight to restrict abortion rights wasn't over after voters had spoken. Florida’s Republican attorney general is attempting to keep a proposed abortion rights amendment off the 2024 ballot.

Persons: We.Are.Not.Done, Jennifer Gross, Gross, Dobbs, Roe, Wade, Douglas Keith, Brennan, “, ” Keith, Emily Jackson, Jackson, ” Gross, ”, Rick Santorum, Brandon Prichard, Ohio, Sophia Jordán Wallace, Myrna Perez, Andrew Whitehead, God, ” Whitehead, Mike DeWine, Dave Yost, Jason Stephens, Matt Huffman, Stephens, Huffman, State Jay Ashcroft, Kara Gross Organizations: Supreme, Justice’s, AP VoteCast, Associated Press, NORC, for Public Affairs Research, Republican, Rep, University of Washington, Ohio University, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, Kentucky Republicans, “, Ohio, State, AP Locations: COLUMBUS , Ohio, U.S, ” Ohio, Ohio, Montana and Utah, Alaska and Kansas, Pennsylvania, North Dakota, Montana, ”, In Missouri, Michigan, Florida

Livent CEO Paul Graves will take the top job at the newly minted Arcadium Lithium, if Allkem shareholders vote for the deal on Dec. 19. Merging the two companies would create the world's third-largest lithium producer by volume with assets spanning Australia, Canada and Argentina. Graves has said that one of his first priorities would be expanding Arcadium's footprint in Western Australia's world-class lithium districts. Under the deal, Allkem shareholders will get one share in the combined entity for each of their shares and the company will ultimately own 56% of the new firm. Livent shareholders will get 2.406 shares in the new firm, which will be called Arcadium Lithium, for each existing share.

Persons: Arcadium, Paul Graves, Kroll, Chile's, Graves, Albemarle, Livent Corp, Livent, Allkem, Scott Murdoch, Melanie Burton, Robert Birsel Organizations: JV, SYDNEY, Albemarle Corp, Liontown Resources, Hancock, Livent, FMC Corp, Galaxy Resources, Thomson Locations: Australia, U.S, Canada, Argentina, Western Australia, Sydney, Melbourne

☆ How Apple's thinking about AI spending and deployment differs from Big Tech rivals
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Bob Woods | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

And, of course, we've been doing research across a wide range of AI technologies, including generative AI, for years," he said. The upgraded camera uses machine-learning AI to tell the difference between a person and an animal in the frame. Laura Martin, a tech analyst at Needham, is among those who say Apple is "far behind" its big tech rivals. The early edge in generative AI is paying off for rivals, as was evidenced by Microsoft's recent earnings report. "We believe they are on the cusp of what will be the introduction of an AI App Store over the next year," he said.

Persons: Brendan Burke, That's, Tim Cook, Cook, we've, Siri, Apple, it's, Laura Martin, Martin, I'm, Ives, that's, what's, OpenAI, Google's Bard, Burke, Claude Organizations: Apple, Microsoft, Google, Vision Pro, Amazon Web Services, Bloomberg, Meta, Financial Times Locations: Cupertino, California, Seattle, Paris, Beijing, Anthropic

☆ Morning Bid: Yield curve control morphs
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

It will keep buying bonds, but time will tell whether and how tenaciously it will impede yields rising beyond 1%. After touching an almost 10-year low in morning trade, Japanese government bond futures rallied following the announcement. For the meantime the sense that some sort of anchor remains also spread some cheer to Treasury trade, sparking a brief rally. Falls in Hong Kong and Shanghai led MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan 0.9% lower (.MIAPJ0000PUS). Meanwhile, outside of markets, Hamas said its militants fired anti-tank missiles at Israel's invading forces in Gaza early on Tuesday as the conflict intensified.

Persons: Tom Westbrook, DAOU, Christopher Cushing Organizations: REUTERS, Staff, Bank of Japan, Nikkei, Treasury, Bond, Federal Reserve, U.S . Treasury Department, Samsung Electronics, Brookfield consortium, Treasury Wine Estates, Anheuser, Busch Inbev, Bouygues, BASF, BP, Pfizer, Caterpillar, Thomson Locations: Frankfurt, Germany, U.S, Europe, Asia, Falls, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Pacific, Japan, Australia, Gaza

☆ Australia's Treasury Wine to buy US-based DAOU Vineyards for $900 mln
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Roushni Nair | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Bottles of Penfolds Grange, made by Australian wine maker Penfolds and owned by Australia's Treasury Wine Estates, sit on a shelf for sale at a wine shop in central Sydney, Australia, August 4, 2014. The wine producer has been resetting its strategy in an attempt to diversify outside of China, which used to contribute a third of its profits, after Beijing imposed tariffs on Australian wine in 2021 when Canberra called for an inquiry into the origins of COVID-19. The winemaker's combined premium and luxury portfolios delivered double-digit gross profit growth in fiscal 2023, according to its annual report. Including cost synergies of more than $20 million, the acquisition is expected to be mid to high-single-digit earnings per share (EPS) accretive in fiscal 2025, the first year of Treasury owning DAOU. Treasury said it would also issue A$157 million of new shares to the existing owners of DAOU.

Persons: David Gray, Penfolds Grange, Frank Family, Phillip Kimber, Roushni Nair, Shailesh Kuber, Krishna Chandra Eluri, Jamie Freed Organizations: Australia's Treasury Wine Estates, REUTERS, China Deal, Wine Estates, Treasury, P Capital, Thomson Locations: Australian, Sydney, Australia, China, Beijing, Canberra, Americas, Bengaluru

☆ Clean Energy’s Powerful Momentum
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Manuela Andreoni | More About Manuela Andreoni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For the past few months, we’ve been telling you all about the U.S. energy transition that’s arriving faster than you think. But the move toward solar is global: the study’s authors expect solar to be the cheapest source of electricity in almost all countries by 2027. “The transition to clean energy is happening worldwide and it’s unstoppable,” Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency, told Brad. Between 2010 and 2020, the study found, the cost of solar cells fell by 15 percent each year. “The pace of decline in price initially surprised many people,” my colleague Ivan Penn, who covers the energy sector, told me.

Persons: we’ve, Fatih Birol, Brad, Ivan Penn Organizations: International Energy Agency

☆ Australia's Treasury Wine surges on hopes of China revival
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Archishma Iyer | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

SummaryCompanies China agrees to expedited review of wine import tariffsTreasury Wine gets set to rebuild China businessTreasury shares jump 5%Oct 23 (Reuters) - Australia's Treasury Wine Estates (TWE.AX) said on Monday it is well placed to rebuild its business in China, sending its shares up more than 5%, should Beijing's tariffs on Australian wine be removed as signalled by the two countries on the weekend. "Should tariffs be removed, these measures will be implemented sustainably and with the aim of growing the business in China," Treasury Wine, the world's biggest standalone winemaker, said in a statement. Treasury Wine used to make one-third of its profit in China but lost most of that business when Beijing imposed tariffs on Australian wine in 2021, after Canberra called for an inquiry into the origins of COVID-19. "If the tariffs are removed, we see this as a significant positive for the Australian wine export industry and specifically Treasury Wine," Goldman Sachs analysts said in a research note. Measures for reviving its China business would include shifting a portion of Penfolds Luxury from other markets back to China and rebuilding distribution for the Penfolds Australian entry-level luxury portfolios, the company said.

Persons: Treasury Wine, Goldman Sachs, Archishma Iyer, Lisa Shumaker, Diane Craft, Sonali Paul Organizations: Treasury Wine, Treasury, Wine Estates, Sunday China, Thomson Locations: China, Beijing, Canberra, Bengaluru

☆ Australia's Treasury Wine looks to rebuild China business after tariff review
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Oct 23 (Reuters) - Australia's Treasury Wine Estates (TWE.AX) said on Monday it is well placed to rebuild its business in China, should tariffs by China of the country's wine be removed, as signalled by the Australian government on Sunday. The Australian government, which is currently rebuilding its economic ties with Asia's largest economy, had said that an expedited review of tariffs on Australian wine into China will commence and is expected to take up to five months. "Should tariffs be removed, these measures will be implemented sustainably and with the aim of growing the business in China," the company said in a statement. Some of the measures for Treasury Wine to build its China business include a re-allocation of a portion of Penfolds Luxury from other global markets back to China and to re-build its distribution for the Penfolds Australian entry-level luxury portfolios. The world's biggest standalone winemaker used to derive a third of its profits from China, before anti-dumping and subsidy tariffs of up to 212% were imposed on Australian wine in late 2020.

Persons: Archishma Iyer, Lisa Shumaker, Diane Craft Organizations: Wine Estates, Treasury Wine, Treasury, Thomson Locations: China, California, Australia, Bengaluru

☆ Posco-backed group invests in lithium technology startup EnergyX
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Ernest Scheyder | Thomson Reuters | Ernest Scheyder Is An Award-Winning Senior Correspondent Covering The Green Energy Transition | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Posco, which invests through those funds, will work with EnergyX to help its technology reach commercial production, the companies said. The companies declined to say how much of the EnergyX Series B that the consortium is funding. Reuters reported in April that the EnergyX Series B is being led by General Motors (GM.N). Allkem (AKE.AX), Livent (LTHM.N) and others produce lithium nearby. In addition to working with Posco, EnergyX is looking for Argentine brine deposits to purchase, Egan said, though he declined to be more specific.

Persons: Kim Hong, EnergyX, Jaeho Rhee, Posco's Sal, Teague Egan, Posco, Egan, China's CATL, Ernest Scheyder, Stephen Coates Organizations: REUTERS, South, Posco Holdings, EnergyX, Elohim Partners, IMM Investment, Reuters, General Motors, EnergyX's, GM, Thomson Locations: Seoul, South Korea, KS, Argentina, Oro, Argentina's Salta Province, Posco's, Posco, Chile, Bolivia, South

☆ A.I. Excels at Making Bad Art. Can an Artist Teach It to Create Something Good?
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Zachary Small | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +15 min

“Is It Good Enough to Fool My Gallerist?” David Salle, one of America’s most thoughtful painters, hoped an A.I. “We are sending the machine to art school,” Salle quipped, before expounding on the principles of light, shadow, depth and volume that good painting requires. Safe to say that nobody would mistake this image for a Salle painting. Salle’s style has changed over the years, which made capturing his essence a little more challenging for an algorithm. Put through the blender of a machine, Salle’s art becomes a remix: a pastiche of pastiches.

Persons: ” David Salle, David Salle, ” Salle, wisps, ”, —, Justin Kaneps, Danika Laszuk, Grant Davis, Ben Lerner, “, David Salle ”, Hillary Clinton doppelgänger, Edward Hopper … …, Giorgio de Chirico, Bernini, Salle, Salle’s, Sarah French, ” Davis, David, John Baldessari, Peter Arno, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Alex Katz, Katz, Jackson Pollock, Davis, … …, …, tutus, Barbara Gladstone, Arno, shrugged Organizations: The New York Times, New York Times, Whitney Museum of American Art, Betaworks, ” Salle, California Institute of, Arts, New Yorker, Salle Locations: ” Salle, ”, Seoul

☆ Opinion | No One Wants to Be a Teacher Anymore. Can You Blame Them?
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Jessica Grose | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Interest in the teaching profession among high school seniors and college freshman has fallen 50 percent since the 1990s and 38 percent since 2010, reaching the lowest level in the last 50 years. It’s important to note that teacher shortages are not uniformly spread across schools, districts or states. So what can be done to help get more teachers into the profession and keep them there? Cutting the costs of a teaching degree is one lever to pull, whether that’s through student loan forgiveness or college scholarships. reported that when adjusted for inflation, “the average salary of teachers has actually declined by an estimated 6.4 percent, or $3,644, over the past decade.”

Persons: Matthew Kraft of Brown, Melissa Arnold Lyon, Kraft, Dorinda Carter Andrews, “, ” Carter Andrews, M.S.U, ” Organizations: Annenberg Institute, School Reform, Brown University, University, Albany, Michigan State University, National Education Association Locations: Colorado, Washington State

☆ I've made $2.7 million in revenue in the last 6 months by selling AI courses and using AI tools to cut costs. Here's how.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-05 | by ( Ashley Couto | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

He discovered AI using Dall-E in 2021 and later became enthralled by ChatGPT and other AI tools. By selling AI products and using AI tools, Winfield made $2.7 million in the last 6 months. I no longer had to manage the agency and had more time on my hands to explore AI tools. AdvertisementAdvertisementWe earn revenue by teaching people how to use AI tools, but we also use AI tools to maximize our revenue. Otherwise, all the new AI tools can become just shiny objects.

Persons: Chris Winfield, ChatGPT, Winfield, I'd, Jasper, Copy.AI, Jen Gottlieb, Dall, Jen, you've, upermeme.AI, Supermeme, WooSender, we've, We've Organizations: Service, Super Connector Media, Media, Facebook, Super Locations: Wall, Silicon

☆ Opinion | Winners and Losers of the First Republican Debate
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +22 min

Welcome to Opinion’s commentary for the first Republican presidential primary candidate debate, held in Milwaukee on Wednesday night. Gail Collins: She seemed generally reasonable and wow, when the debate turned to education and she actually brought up reading. If there’s any life left in the old G.O.P., Haley gave it hope. Perhaps more important, in taking on the glib and callow Ramaswamy on Ukraine, she showed anger and dominance, essential qualities in a Republican debate. Any debate that doesn’t feature Chris Christie at the front of the highlight reel is a bad night for Christie.

Persons: Jamelle, Nikki Haley, Haley, Gail Collins, Matthew Continetti, G.O.P, Michelle Cottle, —, Trump —, Ramaswamy, suburbanites, Ross Douthat, David French, Reagan, Michelle Goldberg, callow Ramaswamy, Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, Katherine Mangu, Christie, “ Trump, “ Donald Trump, Daniel McCarthy, Vivek, Bret Stephens, Mike Pence’s, Mike Pence, Pence, Mike, Vivek ”, Vivek Ramaswamy, Trump, ”, he’ll, Jesus, Ramaswamy —, ChatGPT —, you’ve, Marco Rubio, Chris Christie, He’s, Joe Biden, Martha MacCallum, Ron DeSantis, Hunter Biden, DeSantis, Donald Trump, MAGA, pander, smartly, Sharp, Biden, refighting, Ron, Hutchinson, clearheaded, Still, Scott, Tim Scott, Meh, ” Daniel McCarthy, Pleasant, Donald Trump’s, wasn’t, I’d, Ramaswamy’s, callow, I’m, insufferable, Preening, Doug Burgum, Achilles, Burgum, he’s, Asa Hutchinson, Trump’s, Asa Hutchinson didn’t, didn’t Organizations: Republican, Republican Party, Trump, Ramaswamy, Pence, Pious, Trump Republicans, MSNBC, Fox, Department of Justice, United Nations, Energy, Department of Education, Republicans Locations: Milwaukee, Iowa, New Hampshire, Ukraine, America, Mexico, Florida, Covid, China, MAGA, Arkansas

☆ On Japan’s Radioactive Fukushima Water, it’s a Question of Trust - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

If Japan, a globally respected cultural and economic force, can get away with dumping radioactive water, what’s to stop other countries? Melted nuclear fuel debris inside the damaged reactors is being cooled by pumped-in water, which comes into contact with a toxic cocktail of radioactive substances known as radionuclides. But the amount of water is constantly growing, and Tepco has repeatedly warned that it is running out of storage space at Fukushima. I have researched or written about Fukushima and affected communities ever since the disaster and have closely followed the official response. After years of study and environmental approvals, a final permit was issued this year.

Organizations: Tepco, Tepco — Locations: Japan, Asia, China, India, Fukushima, South Korea, Belgian, Dessel, Finland, Sweden

☆ Europe's Stripe rival Adyen saw $20 billion wiped off its value in a single day. Here's what's going on
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Pavlo Gonchar | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesSpirits were high when Dutch payments firm Adyen floated on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange in 2018. The company was riding a wave of growth in Europe's technology sector and snapping up competition from its mega U.S. rival PayPal. Since then, the company has weathered a turbulent ride, including a global pandemic that knocked volumes from travel clients significantly. Company shares plummeted 39% on Thursday, erasing 18 billion euros ($39 billion) from Adyen's market capitalization, as investors dumped the stock after the firm reported its slowest revenue growth on record. Adyen has typically been viewed as a growth stock, after consistently reporting revenue growth of 26% each half-year period since its 2018 stock market debut.

Persons: Pavlo Gonchar, Adyen, Pieter van der, Arnout Schuijff, Ethan Tandowsky, CNBC's, Tandowsky, EBITDA, Simon Taylor, Taylor Organizations: Amsterdam Stock Exchange, PayPal, Company, CNBC, Netflix, Meta, Spotify, Enterprise, Financial Locations: North America

Bottles of Australian wine are seen at a store selling imported wine in Beijing, China November 27, 2020. REUTERS/Florence Lo/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsSYDNEY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Australia's wine industry faces severe oversupply problems that will need years to resolve, experts say, pointing to Chinese tariffs, high production and export bottlenecks during the COVID-19 pandemic. The recent removal of tariffs on Australian barley has fed hopes for an early easing of the five-year tariffs China imposed on Australian wine in 2021. Australian wine exports declined a tenth in value to A$1.87 billion and 1% in volume to 621 million litres in the year ended June, Wine Australia’s Export Report said in July. "All we can say is next time you go to buy a bottle of wine, make sure it's Australian," McLean said.

Persons: Florence, Pia Piggott, Lee McLean, McLean, Piggott, Praveen Menon, Clarence Fernandez Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Rabobank, China, Labor, Wine Estates, Thomson Locations: Beijing, China, Australia, Britain, Europe, United States, Asia

☆ Treasury Wine Estates profit falls on lower US sales
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Bottles of Penfolds Grange, a Treasury Wine Estates brand, on sale at a wine shop in Sydney, Australia, August 4, 2014. REUTERS/David Gray/File PhotoAug 15 (Reuters) - Australia's Treasury Wine Estates (TWE.AX) reported a 3.3% fall in annual profit on Tuesday, mainly hurt by a decline in wine sales in the United States. A decline in shipment of premium products and low availability of luxury wines pressured sales at the Treasury America segment, the largest contributor to the winemaker's revenue. The company reported a net profit after tax of A$254.5 million for the year ended June 30, compared with A$263.2 million a year earlier. Reporting by Nausheen Thusoo and John Biju in Bengaluru; Editing by Shinjini Ganguli and Shounak DasguptaOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: David Gray, John Mullen, Paul Rayner, Nausheen Thusoo, John Biju, Shinjini Ganguli, Shounak Organizations: Treasury Wine Estates, REUTERS, Wine Estates, Treasury America, Thomson Locations: Grange, Sydney, Australia, United States, Melbourne, Bengaluru

☆ Modern romance: falling in love with AI
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-13 | by ( Jennifer Korn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

AI is infiltrating the dating app space – sometimes in the form of fictional partners, sometimes as advisor, trainer, ghostwriter or matchmaker. You’re taking existing content, and you’re repurposing it to connect with somebody,” Dmitri Mirakyan, co-founder of AI dating conversation app YourMove.AI, told CNN. Founders and designers of these apps say people find starting and keeping conversations going the most challenging part of the process. Teaser.AI is a new stand-alone dating app from the makers of viral camera app Dispo, and it adds an unusual twist. These startups offer an array of AI potential matches, digital girlfriends and boyfriends that users can chat with.

Persons: New York CNN — Alexandra, “, he’s, Alexandra, Cyrano de Bergerac, Djordje Krstic, ” Dmitri Mirakyan, Kaspersky, ”, Mirakyan, ” Mirakyan, Delmaine, Teaser.AI, Daniel Liss, They’re, Aimm, Iris, Kevin Teman, ” Teman, COVID, Rita Popova, Mona Lisa, Nefertiti, Tanya Grypachevskaya, RomanticAI Organizations: New, New York CNN, CNN, AIs Locations: New York

That is by far the most ever spent on clean energy in a year. Solar and Wind Power Have Taken Off Electricity generation per year, in terawatt hours China 600 TWh 500 Solar Wind U.S. China 400 E.U. It would shred regulations designed to curb greenhouse gases, dismantle nearly every federal clean energy program and boost the production of fossil fuels. 1 2 3 4 5 Even Tulsa, with its strong links to oil and gas, is embracing clean energy. “But we also understand that energy is energy, whether it is generated by wind, steam or whatever it might be.”Around the country, clean energy is taking root in unlikely locales.

Persons: ”, Fatih Birol, Al Gore, Crews, Francis Energy, Dewey, Bartlett Jr, “, J.W, Peters, Mr, Lazard, Gregory Nemet, —, Biden, Tesla, Giovanni Bertolino, Jon Creyts, Steve Uerling’s, Uerling, Cathy Zoi, It’s, Mary Barra, ’, Barra Organizations: Buses, Port, International Energy Agency, India India, Energy, The New York Times, Heritage Foundation, Republican, Ford, University of Tulsa’s School of Petroleum Engineering, “ Oil, Drillers, Navistar, Public Service Company of Oklahoma, Francis, Solar Power, U.S . Steel, Gas, University of Wisconsin -, Panasonic, United, European Union, United States ’, General Motors, RMI, Ford Fusion, Tesla, Postal Service, Amazon, Peterbilt, Companies, Francis Energy, BMW Group, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Benz Group Locations: Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Port of Los Angeles, Houston, Europe, United States, America, China, Britain, terawatt, India, U.S, States, Beijing, London, Tokyo, Washington, Oslo, Dubai, Tulsa, Okla, Italian, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Texas, Galveston, In Arkansas, Republican, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Georgia, Korean, Nevada, tailpipes, California, New York, San Francisco, Canada, South Korea, Russia, Ukraine, Steve Uerling’s Tulsa, E.U, G.M

Many opponents of renewable energy, she added, “are worried about the impacts to their very way of life.”Roadside opposition to renewable energy projects near Baldwin City, Kan. “We see offshore wind as a critical technology,” said Dan Burgess, the director of the Maine Governor’s Energy Office. Across the country, clean energy projects of all types are tied up in lengthy permitting processes. By then, India had not completed any offshore wind projects. Since 2000, the United States has barely built any major transmission lines that connect different regions of the country.

Persons: Scott Dickerson, ”, Biden, Alison Bates, “, Columbia University’s, Dan Burgess, Habib Dagher, Janet Mills, Gregory Wetstone, Mack, James Gillway, SunZia, ” Hunter Armistead, Broussard, There’s, Vaughan Woodruff, Tucker Carlson, Teslas, ” Ali Zaidi, Dagher, Rolf Olsen, who’s Organizations: University of Maine, Sears, Officials, Federal, International Energy Agency, Colby College, White, Columbia, Climate, The University of, Maine Governor’s Energy, Environmental, University of Maine’s, Composites Center, Gov, American Clean Power Association, American Council, Renewable Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, Army Corps of Engineers, . Clean, Union United, China India European Union United States, China European Union United, China India United States European, China United States European Union, China United States European Union India, Energy, The New York Times, United, Pattern Energy, New York State Energy Research, Development Authority, Toyota Prius Locations: Penobscot Bay, Maine, , Maine, United States, Europe, China, Australia, India, Los Angeles, Ohio, Jersey Shore, Waterville , Maine, Baldwin City, Kan, Massachusetts, Ukraine, Gulf, Searsport , Maine, Searsport, Bangor, Mack, West, Union United States, U.S, China United States European Union India, Great, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Riesel , Texas, Energy, San Bernardino County, In Kansas, Atlantic City, N.J, New York, Manhattan, Sears

☆ Lea Salonga on the groundbreaking representation of Broadway’s ‘Here Lies Love’
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Ann Bindot | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

“Here Lies Love” arrives onto Broadway, though, at a moment of greatly increased visibility, representation and empowered Filipino identity. Sonia Moskowitz/Getty Images“Here Lies Love” is an immersive experience that invites show-goers to the dancefloor, literally, imbuing the proceedings with a fun, nightclub-meets-karaoke vibe. That’s what I remember.”When the Marcoses fled to Hawaii in 1986, having been granted asylum by the United States, Salonga was celebrating her 15th birthday in Manila. The cast of "Here Lies Love" performing onstage. Watching “Here Lies Love” over two decades later, the emotion returned, packing an even stronger punch.

Persons: —, Lea Salonga, Kim, Salonga, Tony, ”, Imelda Marcos, Ferdinand Marcos, Aurora Aquino, Benigno “ Ninoy ” Aquino, Corazon Aquino, Marcoses, Corazon’s, Benigno “ Noynoy, Corazon III, Imelda, Andy Hernandez, Conrad Ricamora, Ninoy Aquino, she’s, “, ’, ’ ”, I’ve, ” Salonga, …, “ I’m, Willa Kim, Will Rogers, ” Lea Salonga, Jonathan Pryce, Sonia Moskowitz, Marcos, “ Laban, John Nacion, Jose Llana, ‘ We’ve, I’m, Ferdinand “ Bongbong ” Romualdez Marcos Jr, Ferdinand, Moses Villarama, Apl.de.Ap, H.E.R, Jo Koy, Jose Antonio Vargas, David Byrne —, Fatboy Slim, Moammar Gadhafi, Fidel Castro, Ronald Reagan, Castro, Gadhafi, Billy Bustamante, Matthew Murphy, Evan Zimmerman Organizations: CNN, New York, Broadway, San Francisco Bay Area, Manila International, Getty Locations: United States, Miss, ”, New, London, American, San Francisco Bay, Philippines, Manila, Mindoro, New York, ‘ Miss, New York City, Hawaii, “, Virginia

☆ How Hip-Hop Conquered the World
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Wesley Morris | More About Wesley Morris | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“La di da di, we like to party” alongside “I never prayed to God, I prayed to Gotti.” Hip-hop arose from want. Hip-hop is Julia Roberts after being written off in “Pretty Woman” by that snooty sales lady: Big mistake. There’s almost nowhere hip-hop hasn’t been: the White House, the Pulitzers, the Oscars, the sitcom, the Louvre, syllabi, country radio, fashion week, Sesame Street. Even when its practitioners aren’t Black, maybe especially when they’re white, hip-hop incriminates the country that drove its people to dream it up in the first place. Hip-hop is what this country gets.

Persons: “, Gotti, ”, Julia Roberts, Gucci Mane, Bey, it’s, Eminem, Nicki Minaj, Kendrick Lamar, we’re Organizations: Black America, “, bohemians Locations: America

Logo of Bain Capital is screened at a news conference in Tokyo, Japan September 28, 2017. Shares of Estia Health were up 9.9% at A$3.12 as of 0045 GMT, their highest since Sept 2018. Bain Capital did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. In June, the company updated the market on its intentions to back Bain Capital's increased offer of $A3 per share to A$3.20. "If they acquire Estia Health they may be stuck with it in the days ahead."

Persons: Kim Kyung, Estia, Bain Capital's, Gary Weiss, Estia's, Brad Smoling, Smoling, Rishav Chatterjee, Scott Murdoch, Sherry Jacob, Phillips, Stephen Coates Organizations: Bain Capital, REUTERS, Global, Estia, Bain, Virgin Australia, Australia, Health, Thomson Locations: Tokyo, Japan, Sydney, Australia, Bengaluru

☆ As Climate Change Worsens, Big Oil’s Support for Clean Energy Is Lacking - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Jason Bordoff | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

If you’ve been listening to the world’s major energy companies over the past few years, you probably think the clean energy transition is well on its way. The company also raised its dividend, diverting money that could be used to develop clean energy. BP’s share prices surged earlier this year when the company walked back its plan to reduce oil and gas output. The industry can point to efforts to reduce emissions and pursue green energy technologies. But those efforts pale in comparison with what they are doing to maintain and enhance oil and gas production.

Persons: Shell Organizations: International Energy Agency

☆ As Heat Waves Intensify, Europe’s Cities Rely on Age-Old Ways to Stay Cool
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Jenny Gross | More About Jenny Gross | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

In Mediterranean countries like Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal, traditional houses tend to include qualities that allow for breezes to run through them. Narrow passageways in some city centers and tree-lined streets also provide shade for pedestrians. Europe is experiencing heat waves at a rate that is more frequent and more intense than in many other parts of the world, and numerous homes are not equipped with air-conditioning. Annual sales of air-conditioning units around the world have tripled since 1990, according to the International Energy Agency, an intergovernmental organization that provides policy recommendations on the global energy sector. In 2022, 89 percent of U.S. households had air-conditioning, compared with 19 percent in Europe, the I.E.A.

Persons: Catalina Spataru Organizations: University College London Energy Institute, Bank, International Energy Agency Locations: Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Europe, U.S

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