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☆ On the Hudson, Visions for a New Native American Art
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Holland Cotter | More About Holland Cotter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“Deer Woman’s New Certificate-of-Indian-Blood-Skin” by Natalie Ball, which suggests a kind of quilted explosion, certainly has presence. Larger than either are fiber weavings, modeled on Indigenous jewelry forms, by Eric-Paul Riege, the exhibition’s youngest participant. Riege uses them as props in performances — pushes them aside, moves them around — and visitors are permitted (encouraged, even) to touch them. Sound was a vital component of the 1969 vision for a new American Indian Theater, which I take to mean a new Indian Art. In the early 1960s, when a craze for folk and ethnic music was high, a company called Indian Records, Inc. released many LPs of Native music.

Persons: Natalie Ball, Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill’s, Eric, Paul Riege, —, Gibson, Rebecca Belmore, Maria Hupfield —, Ida Halpern, Sonny Assu’s Organizations: American Indian Theater, Indian Records, Inc Locations: British Columbia, Vienna

China's application, by far the biggest economy, is next in line if they are dealt with in the order they were received, although that is not a given. The free trade agreement has its roots in the U.S.-backed Trans-Pacific Partnership, developed in part to counter China's growing economic dominance. I think that is completely wrong," Tim Groser, a former New Zealand trade minister and chief trade negotiator said. For CPTPP members, China's application is not the only political dilemma. Taiwan is also seeking to join the pact, in a move opposed by China that member trade negotiators remain unsure about.

Persons: Chris Hipkins, Shigeyuki Goto, Damien O’Connor, Trade Kemi, Damien O'Connor, Donald Trump, Henry Gao, couldn't, Tim Groser, CPTPP, Graham Zebedee, Britain's, New Zealand Wang Xiaolong, Hopes, Wang Huiyao, Antony Blinken, Natalie Black, Lucy Craymer, Joe Cash, Jamie Freed Organizations: New Zealand, Economic, New, Trade, Export, State, Business, Malaysian, Beijing, Pacific, New Zealand's Trade, Pacific Partnership, Communist Party, Singapore Management University, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, World Trade Organization, Australia, Center for, Political, Comprehensive Economic, U.S, Asia Pacific, Thomson Locations: British, Trade Kemi Badenoch, Taiwan, AUCKLAND, BEIJING, China, Pacific, Britain, Auckland, Ukraine, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Ecuador, U.S, Japan, Australia, Canada, Beijing, New Zealand, SOEs, Mexico, Center for China, Wellington, Asia

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☆ Why missing one $2 expense could derail your whole national park trip
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Greg Iacurci | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

What this means: Travelers can't necessarily bank on showing up spontaneously to a national park and getting the experience they desire. Record park visitation spurred reservationsTourists crowd into the Midway Geyser Basin on July 14, 2021 at Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. One — Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas — saw record visitors last year. Overall visits to national parks jumped by 5% in 2022 versus the year prior, to 312 million recreation visits. These national parks require vehicle reservationsTraffic heading into Yosemite Village on Oct. 6, 2019, in Yosemite National Park, California.

☆ She Gave Her Van a 1970s Overhaul, Shag Carpet Included
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-15 | by ( A.J. Baime | Photographs Natalie Behring For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Soumaya Majout Bent , 35, who lives in Jackson Hole, Wyo., and Santa Barbara, Calif., and is a student planning on opening a restaurant in Santa Barbara, on her 1977 Dodge custom van, as told to A.J. It was the week of my wedding, and my fiancé and I were driving in Chicago. We saw this van parked on a lawn with a “for sale” sign. I was always mentioning how I wanted a van to go road tripping. I yelled, “Stop the car!” When we approached the van, I noticed two other people looking at it.

☆ UK joins CPTPP trade pact: This was a complex deal to negotiate, official says
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-31 | 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 EmailUK joins CPTPP trade pact: This was a complex deal to negotiate, official saysNatalie Black, U.K. trade commissioner for Asia-Pacific, says the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership is "genuinely is the best deal around."

☆ Britain to join Indo-Pacific trade bloc in biggest trade deal since Brexit
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( Sumathi Bala | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Justin Tallis | AFP | Getty ImagesBritain struck a historic trade deal to join a vast Indo-Pacific trade bloc after nearly two years of intense negotiations. The U.K. said this was the country's largest post-Brexit trade deal and makes it the first European nation to join the CPTPP, since it came into force in 2018. watch nowNatalie Black, the U.K.'s trade commissioner for Asia Pacific, called it a "progressive deal" for Britain. Deborah Elms, executive director of the Asian Trade Centre, said it's very hard to calculate these trade figures, especially based on existing trade flows. watch nowThe trade flows are always "under what you actually are likely to see in the reality as businesses recognize the benefits and start to use a trade agreement like the CPTPP," she added.

☆ Employees Need Positive Feedback From Bosses. Without It, People Quit.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-28 | by ( Molly Lipson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

A 2021 study by the global management-consulting firm McKinsey found that the top-two reasons people quit their jobs are because they don't feel valued by their company or their manager. And when employees feel happy and rewarded by their jobs, they are also more productive. How to really mean it when you give an employee praiseFor employees to really feel valued at work, it's important that they are recognized on a regular basis. While a simple acknowledgement of good work can be a powerful tool, Baumgartner told me that a simple "thank you" isn't sufficient to truly appreciate employees' work. Peer-to-peer recognition is also an important way employees can feel valued.

☆ 20 women who have founded creator-economy startups and broken through in an industry where funding often goes to men
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-20 | by ( Marta Biino | Shriya Bhattacharya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Insider is highlighting 17 female founders of popular startups, like Hashtag Pay Me and Roster. These trends have created a difficult climate for women founders in the creator economy, most notably first-time entrepreneurs who are actively fundraising. "The creator economy is largely influenced and run by women but creator-economy startups — especially startups that have received funding — are all run by men," she said. Insider is highlighting 20 women founders who have launched successful startups that are helping remedy problems in the creator economy. Here are 20 women founders within the creator economy, listed alphabetically by company:

☆ I'm an exec at ThredUp, and our 4-day week is helping employees have an actual work-life balance
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Marguerite Ward | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

ThredUP, an online clothing-consignment company, adopted a four-day workweek last year. He was intrigued by the four-day workweek and how it might help the company's 1,800 employees. In an employee survey last year of our corporate salaried employees, 93% of respondents agreed that the four-day workweek had improved their productivity. Prioritizing tasks and reducing meetings are keyThere were some growing pains in adopting the four-day workweek. The four-day workweek is helping us do that.

☆ 17 women founders innovating in the creator economy, with startups from Tezza to Fanhouse
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Marta Biino | Shriya Bhattacharya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Insider is highlighting 17 female founders of popular startups, like Hashtag Pay Me and Roster. These trends have created a difficult climate for women founders in the creator economy, most notably first-time entrepreneurs who are actively fundraising. "The creator economy is largely influenced and run by women but creator-economy startups — especially startups that have received funding — are all run by men," she said. Insider is highlighting 17 women founders who have launched successful startups that are helping remedy problems in the creator economy. Here are 17 women founders within the creator economy, listed alphabetically by company:

☆ Nike employees described 'sloppy drunk' men, witnessing oral sex, and requests to 'dress sexier' at work in newly unsealed surveys
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Matthew Kish | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

In early 2018, female Nike employees were fed up with the company's response to claims of sexual harassment and gender discrimination, so they anonymously surveyed each other about their experiences at the company. A third wrote that she caught a male executive receiving oral sex from a lower-ranking female in the campus gym. But four former Nike employees familiar with the collection of the surveys told Insider closer to 100 were collected. "Maybe if you dressed nicer I would be on time," one female Nike worker said she was told by a male Nike executive. "Kept it to myself because of who he is at the company," wrote the person who was told to "show some skin."

☆ From 'antiwork' to 'act your wage' — more disgruntled workers flocked to Reddit in 2022
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Goh Chiew Tong | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

The top trending keywords among work-related subreddits in 2022 include, "anitwork," "act your wage" and "quiet quitting," said Reddit. The top trending keywords among work-related subreddits or communities in 2022 include "antiwork," "act your wage" and "quiet quitting," Reddit told CNBC Make It. "Act your wage" — like quiet quitting, it's a call for workers not to go above and beyond for their jobs — saw a 95% year-on-year increase in the same period. Natalie Baumgartner Workplace psychologist"Redditors" submit posts about work attitudes and experiences on work-related communities, asking for or giving general life and career advice. Natalie Baumgartner Workplace psychologistBaumgartner agreed, saying that workers engaging in conversations on Reddit need to be aware that they're "not necessarily going to receive best practices."

☆ James Webb telescope: New data on WASP-39b is a 'game changer,' scientists say
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-24 | by ( Taylor Nicioli | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a detailed molecular and chemical portrait of a faraway planet’s skies, scoring another first for the exoplanet science community. This “hot Saturn” was one of the first exoplanets that the Webb telescope examined when it first began its regular science operations. Bocaprins’ close proximity to its host star makes it an ideal subject for studying such star-planet connections. The planet is eight times closer to its host star than Mercury is to our sun. … We are already getting very exciting results,” Nestor Espinoza, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute, told CNN.

☆ Family questions death of domestic violence victim whose case made it to Supreme Court following yearslong custody battle
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Julianne Mcshane | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +10 min

Narkis Golan outside the Supreme Court after the unanimous decision in her domestic violence case. But domestic violence victims, advocates and experts say that today, abusers and judges weaponize the clauses to punish women who flee domestic abusers to protect themselves and their children. Though there are no definitive statistics, research estimates that domestic violence could be a factor in up to 70% of Hague Convention child abduction cases. Both Fidler and Weiner criticized the ruling, alleging it did not take into account the realities of domestic violence. Golan also hoped, once her custody battle was over, to establish an organization to help protect kids and their mothers from domestic violence, Morin said.

☆ Cozi imense la prezidențialele din Uganda: Liderul țării timp de 40 de ani, Museveni, înfruntă o vedetă pop
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-14 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +4 min

Votul a fost întârziat în câteva locații din Kampala și a început cu aproape jumătate de oră după startul oficial de la ora 7.00 (ora locală). Museveni a condus Uganda fără pauză de la acapararea puterii în 1986, când a ajutat la încheierea anilor de tiranie de sub Idi Amin. Perioada de dinaintea zilei alegerilor a fost marcată de represiuni împotriva rivalilor lui Museveni și a criticilor anti-guvernamentali dar și de atacuri fără precedent asupra presei și a activiștilor pentru drepturile omului. Însă, Wine, al cărui nume real este Robert Kyagulanyi, a acuzat șeful statului că prezidează asupra corupției și a eșuat în a creea locuri de muncă. Populația are o vârstă medie de mai puțin de 16 ani, iar mulți cetățeni ai Ugandei nu au văzut alt lider în afara lui Museveni, scrie digi24.ro.

Persons: Museveni, Wine, Joseph Nsuduga, Miercuri, Natalie Brown, Robert Kyagulanyi Organizations: ONU, Uniunea, Naționale Locations: Est - Africană, Uganda, SUA, UE, Uniunea Africană, Ugandei

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