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Local public health officials say the potential loss of funding could severely impact several essential services, including vaccines, cancer screening and testing for sexually transmitted infections. A national public health expert said the situation is unique in the U.S. and a threat to the entire public health field — especially going into an election year when health officials and their department could again become political targets. “I’m hoping this isn’t the start of a new trend of retroactive punishment against public health departments.”More than than 300,000 people live in Ottawa County, making it Michigan's seventh largest county. “You should not be at war with your health providers.”The Network for Public Health Law and the National Association of County and City Health Officials filed amicus briefs in support of Hambley’s lawsuit last month. And Freeman said her organization is keeping a close eye on Ottawa County: “This isn't something we want on the books for other county commissioners to consider in the future."

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☆ Tiny Forests With Big Benefits
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Cara Buckley | More About Cara Buckley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The tiny forest lives atop an old landfill in the city of Cambridge, Mass. Its aspens are growing at twice the speed normally expected, with fragrant sumac and tulip trees racing to catch up. It has absorbed storm water without washing out, suppressed many weeds and stayed lush throughout last year’s drought. Tiny forests have been planted across Europe, in Africa, throughout Asia and in South America, Russia and the Middle East. Now tiny forests are slowly but steadily appearing in the United States.

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☆ The secret side of the Mediterranean – by boat in Turkey
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Rob Hodgetts | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Tropez of Turkey,” but there are plentiful nooks and crannies to discover away from the crowds. Jetties jut into the emerald water enticing boat crews to dine at the small tavernas, including Captain Ibrahim’s and Rosemary Restaurant. Across the gulf on its own peninsula is pretty waterfront town Bozburun, known for its thyme honey, sponge fishing and traditional boat builders. Bestas Limani is known as Cold Water Bay as it's fed by chilly mountain springs. To the south of Fethiye is Bestas Limani, more commonly known as Cold Water Bay because of the cold springs that flow from the mountains.

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☆ ‘Barbie’ Review: Out of the Box and On the Road
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Manohla Dargis | More About Manohla Dargis | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

That’s a question that swirls through Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie,” a live-action, you-go-girl fantasia about the world’s most famous doll. The movie opens with a prelude that parodies the “dawn of man” sequence in “2001: A Space Odyssey” (with girls, not ape-men), and then shifts to Barbie Land, a kaleidoscopic wonderland. There, Gerwig sets the scene and tone with Barbie (Margot Robbie) — who calls herself stereotypical Barbie — soon floating out of her Dreamhouse, as if she were being lifted by a giant invisible hand. Written by Gerwig and her partner, Noah Baumbach, the movie introduces Barbie on yet another perfect day in Barbie Land, in which dolls played by humans exist in what resembles a toyland gated community. There, framed by a painted mountain range, Barbie and a diverse group of other Barbies rule, living in homes with few exterior walls.

Persons: Greta Gerwig’s “ Barbie, ”, fantasia, Barbie, George Bernard Shaw’s, Lerner, Loewe, “ Barbie, Gerwig, Margot Robbie, —, Barbie —, Noah Baumbach, Eero Saarinen Organizations: Mattel Locations: Barbie

☆ A TikTok craze has people stealing dishes and glasses from restaurants, and it's revealing a long history of sticky-fingered diners
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( Yeji Jesse Lee | Nancy Luna | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Restaurant owners say the trend shows just how often things go missing at their establishments. Restaurant owners told Insider that customers who deploy the five-finger discount have been around for as long as they can remember but TikTok has given people an opportunity to share their exploits. "I actually have to stock them in my apartment," he told Insider. Some restaurant owners are trying to look at the bright side. Occasionally, he said, he's even seen people post videos of house parties where, in the background, he can see partiers drinking out of one of his bar's glasses.

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☆ How a WWII diary led to an unlikely friendship spanning decades and continents
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Maggie Hiufu Wong | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Hong Kong CNN —David Bellis first visited Hong Kong as a tourist in 1989. She spent more than three years in an internment camp in Stanley, now a tourist-friendly seaside area of Hong Kong. But little did she know, her wartime diary would lead to an unlikely friendship with another Hong Kong resident – Bellis. An avid history lover, Bellis collects old Hong Kong photos and shares his discoveries on his Gwulo website. But in her 90s, you know, she was still teaching us about old Hong Kong and she had (another) book published.

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☆ Ron Insana says an AI bubble may be forming, but we're not there yet
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Ron Insana | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

How to trade it Let's remember the elements of a bubble, as defined by many market historians who have written about such financial market phenomena (myself included). The public increasingly has been buying related tech stocks and associated ETFs, but we have yet to see the single-minded focus of the entire stock buying world come to bear on AI stocks. In 1999 alone, some 456 stocks went public at the height of the internet mania. If there is to be a bubble in AI, it's the early days. Also, "easy money" from the Federal Reserve, a key component of financial frenzies, is not fueling speculation in publicly traded AI shares, or any other asset class for that matter.

Persons: Jaap Arriens, Charles MacKay, John Kenneth Galbraith, Edward Chancellor, Charles Kindleberger, David Faber Organizations: Nurphoto, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, Adobe, Fund, Nasdaq, CNBC, Federal Reserve Locations: Sea, Mississippi, England, France

Macro and trend-following hedge funds dropped 3.2% this month through March 29, while algorithmic commodity trading advisor funds (CTAs) dove 6.8%. Hedge fund strategies based around macroeconomic ideas like those run by Rokos, DG Parters and EDL Capital fund posted negative performances in March, sources and bank data said. Trend-following hedge funds, which trade on systematically programmed ideas, also posted big losses. The bank decided not to change clients' borrowing limits, but it has increased diligence oversight on the hedge fund exposure, including new clients, the broker said. Trend-following funds tend to bail quickly on trades that stop working, said a pension fund director who invests in hedge funds.

☆ The Ukraine war has killed hundreds of thousands of people. His job is to collect the bodies.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( Katie Livingstone | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

This could translate to tens of thousands of bodies left behind — and many years of work for the body collectors. In 2014, when Russia invaded Crimea and the Donbas region of Ukraine, Yukov helped start the Black Tulip mission. The retrieval process is identical for Ukrainian and Russian bodies, Yukov said. Ukrainian bodies are returned as quickly as possible to their grieving families, while Russian bodies are transferred to Ukrainian government hands so that they can be exchanged for Ukrainians in the possession of Russian forces. Denys Sosnenko, a former Ukrainian national kickboxing champion also from Sloviansk, was killed driving over a buried anti-tank mine while on a Black Tulip mission.

☆ Self-proclaimed bitcoin inventor's $2.5 bln lawsuit can go to trial - London court
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Industry Insight | Upcoming Sec Climate Disclosure Rules Bring Urgency To Esg Data Strategy Planning | Zach Warren | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

LONDON, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Self-proclaimed bitcoin creator Craig Wright's lawsuit against bitcoin network developers to try to recover billions of dollars can continue to trial, a London court said on Friday. Wright’s Seychelles-based company Tulip Trading is taking legal action against the developers of three networks, arguing they are obliged to write software patches to help Tulip recover the bitcoin. Tulip’s case was thrown out last year, but the Court of Appeal ruled on Friday that developers arguably do owe duties to owners, which should be determined at a full trial. Judge Colin Birss said Tulip had a realistic argument that cryptocurrency is “entrusted” to network developers, who could therefore have a duty to, for example, “introduce code so that an owner’s bitcoin can be transferred to safety”. He added that the outcome of any trial will affect “all aspects of (decentralised finance), whether it involves value tokens or NFTs (non-fungible tokens) or the wider blockchain system”.

☆ No issue with crypto in India if laws are followed - minister
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

NEW DELHI, Jan 19 (Reuters) - India's junior IT minister on Thursday said there was no issue with cryptocurrencies in India if all laws are followed, in remarks that contradicted the central bank's view advising investors to stay away from crypto. India has been trying to come up with regulation for cryptocurrencies, with a central bank deputy governor even calling for them to be banned, but the government has not been able to formulate legislation yet. In Febraury, a deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), T. Rabi Sankar, said cryptocurrencies were akin to Ponzi schemes or worse and banning them was the most sensible option for India. RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das also said in February that cryptocurrencies lacked the underlying value of even a tulip. Reporting by Shivam Patel in New Delhi; editing by Jason Neely and Emelia Sithole-MatariseOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Ukrainian volunteers deliver bodies, and closure, to troops' families
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-03 | by ( Herbert Villarraga | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/6] Oleksii Lukov 37 examines a fallen Ukrainian soldier’s helmet as his team searches, exhumes and retrieves bodies of soldiers, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Yampil, Ukraine, January 2, 2023. "Black Tulip" exhumes bodies of both Ukrainian and Russian soldiers on the battlefield and trades the bodies of deceased Russian soldiers they find for the bodies of deceased Ukrainian soldiers to return to their families. REUTERS/Clodagh KilcoyneYAMPIL, Ukraine, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Combing the battlefields of eastern Ukraine, a group of volunteers have made it their mission to search for the bodies of fallen soldiers and return them to their families. Made up of around 100 volunteers, the group undertakes the at times dangerous task of locating and exhuming bodies of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers close to the front line. Bodies are often found with the remains of explosive weapons, and some are booby-trapped, the group said.

☆ You’re Layering Your Clothes Wrong. Here’s What to Do Instead.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-27 | by ( Todd Plummer | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

WHEN NEW YORK CITY comedian Jared Freid appeared on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” this fall, he recounted that, back in college, he and his friends would layer on several colorful polo shirts, collars popped—a fashion choice that left Mr. Freid resembling what he ruefully called “an aggressive tulip.”When it comes to layering clothing—that stylist-approved way to keep warm come winter and spruce up the separates in your wardrobe by combining them in fresh ways—it’s easy to mess up even if you’ve never been a noughties frat boy. Done thoughtlessly, it can leave you looking like Joey in the “Friends” episode when he dons every single article of clothing that Chandler owns. Here, five common problems that inept layerers run into—and what to do instead.

☆ For this company, decorating Park Avenue for Christmas is a family tradition
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-18 | by ( Molly Kaiser | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

The business has maintained the avenue's grassy medians – known as the Park Avenue Malls – for 50 years. Christmas tress installed by City-Scape Landscaping on Park Avenue in New York. "I don't think Park Avenue would have quite the same glamour if the median walls weren't in place," said Vincent Sofield's son, Dylan. "It's people's front yard, front gardens along Park Avenue," said the group's president, Barbara McLaughlin. Christmas tress installed by City-Scape Landscaping on Park Avenue in New York.

☆ As BlockFi files for bankruptcy, what to know about crypto investor protections
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Greg Iacurci | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

The ongoing FTX fallout — and bankruptcies earlier this year for lenders Celsius Network and Voyager Digital — is teaching crypto investors a hard lesson about their protections relative to more traditional asset classes. Howey Co., established the so-called Howey test to determine what constitutes a security, or "investment contract." More on how the Howey test works can be found below. Here's why this is important for crypto: It's unclear in many cases if digital assets are an "investment contract" under the 76-year-old Howey test. The Securities Investor Protection Corporation insures investors for up to $500,000 in the event a brokerage firm liquidates and their holdings are tied up in the insolvent firm.

☆ U.S. Soccer briefly scrubs emblem from Iran flag at World Cup
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-27 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

The U.S. Soccer Federation briefly displayed Iran's national flag on social media without the emblem of the Islamic Republic, saying the move supported protesters in Iran ahead of the two nations' World Cup match Tuesday. The Twitter account of the U.S. men's team displayed a banner with the squad's matches in the group stage, with the Iranian flag only bearing its green, white and red colors. The USSF displayed the official Iranian flag in a graphic showing Group B standings on its website. As comments raged online, Iranian state television described the U.S. federation as "removing the symbol of Allah" from the Iranian flag. In the capital Tehran, anti-riot police — the same ones cracking down on protests — waved the Iranian flag after the Wales win, angering demonstrators.

☆ A 32-year-old rock climber built a treehouse vacation-rental business in Kentucky with 10 retreats that go for up to $950 a night. Check out one of the properties he calls 'Cliff Dweller.'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-25 | by ( Robert Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The business rents treehouses in Kentucky's Red River Gorge, some for up to $950 a night. Kroner moved to the Red River Gorge area in 2009 because of the location's world-renowned rock climbing. It was after Kroner's friends began to visit his treehouse when he came up with the idea for The Canopy Crew. When he's scouting a new location for a treehouse, Kroner said, he looks for a place in the woods where he'd like to hang out. It also has a giant net that serves as a hammock and unbeatable views of the gorge, Kroner said.

☆ Why protections for crypto investors are linked to orange groves
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Greg Iacurci | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

watch nowHow orange groves impact crypto protectionsThe reason why largely hinges on a 1946 Supreme Court case about investors in Florida orange groves. Howey Co. — established the so-called Howey test to determine what constitutes a security, or "investment contract." (More on how the Howey test works can be found below.) Here's why this is important for crypto: It's unclear in many cases if digital assets are an "investment contract" under the 76-year-old Howey test. Why the 'security' distinction mattersThe Howey test has four parts to determine if something like bitcoin is an "investment contract."

☆ FTX flop evokes history’s great financial swindles
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Edward Chancellor | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

As Walter Bagehot wrote in “Lombard Street” in 1873, “The good times too of high price almost always engender much fraud. As cryptocurrencies declined in value, FTX provided a line of credit to BlockFi, a stricken crypto-lender. He talked about Three Arrows Capital, the failed crypto hedge fund, as engaged in “punting”. His firm launched a product based on a basket of crypto assets that it called Shitcoin Index Perpetual Futures, with the unsubtle ticker SHIT-PERP. He commissioned an advertisement, aired during the Super Bowl, in which the comedian Larry David casts doubt on the viability of FTX.

☆ 'Bulldog' lawyer Thomas Lauria Lauria predicted a crypto 'liquidation boom' well before Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX filed for bankruptcy
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Jack Newsham | Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

Thomas Lauria runs the bankruptcy team at White & Case where clients have included Hertz and Johnson & Johnson. But Lauria told Insider that the ability of crypto companies to reorganize will depend on whether they have any real assets. Notably, when Lauria represented Hertz in its Chapter 11 case during the coronavirus pandemic, even its unsecured creditors were repaid in full. So I'm not sure that what's happening in crypto right now is really going to be a reorganization boom, but really probably more of a liquidation boom. About $10 billion of Hertz debt, when they filed, was related to financing in connection with their US fleet.

☆ Insana: The manic speculation behind the fall of FTX is as old as the markets themselves
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Ron Insana | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Sam Bankman-Fried, co-founder and chief executive officer of FTX, in Hong Kong, China, on Tuesday, May 11, 2021. Lam Yik | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesWith a nod to Gertrude Stein, "there's no there there," in the world of cryptocurrencies. Whether it's manias in Sumerian grain markets, Dutch tulip bulbs, railroad bonds and everything from internet service providers to digital currencies, leveraged speculation is as old as markets themselves. Digital assets that don't exist in reality have been used as collateral to buy and sell other non-existent assets with a heavy dose of borrowed money. This creates a daisy chain of interlocked digital tokens that have no inherent value except what people are willing to ascribe.

☆ Dutch tulip park Keukenhof starts bulb planting season
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Flower bulbs are seen at Keukenhof Spring Park in Lisse, Netherlands October 6, 2022. REUTERS/Piroschka van de WouwTHE HAGUE, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Gardeners at one of the Netherlands top tourist attractions, the Keukenhof flower park, on Thursday started planting the first tulip and daffodil bulbs that will be part of its colourful display of blooms next spring. Over the coming months, the park's 40 gardeners will plant seven million bulbs by hand, the Keukenhof park said. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Piroschka van de Wou, writing by Stephanie van den Berg. Editing by Jane MerrimanOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Fotoreporterul Jurnal.md, Nadejda Roșcovanu - câștigătoarea Tulip Press Awards, ediția 2021
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-05 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +5 min

Sursa foto: Jurnal.mdFotoreporterul Jurnal.md, Nadejda Roșcovanu - câștigătoarea Tulip Press Awards, ediția 2021Centrul pentru Jurnalism Independent (CJI) și Oficiul Ambasadei Regatului Țărilor de Jos au anunțat rezultatele concursului Tulip Press Awards, care vine să aprecieze și să celebreze eforturile jurnaliștilor de a explora tematica drepturilor omului. Fotoreporterul Jurnal.md, Nadejda Roșcovanu, a prezentat la concurs următoarele fotografii:fotoFOTO: 16.12.2020, Chișinău, Republica Moldova. FOTOFOTO: 16.07.2020, Chișinău, R. Moldova. Veteranii au manifestat în fața Legislativului și Președinției R. Moldova nemulțumiți că autoritățile le ignoră revendicările înaintate la protestele anterioare. La intrarea în clădirea Executivului, presa nu a fost lăsată să intre.

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☆ CJI lansează la 4 mai Zilele Libertății Presei
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-04 | by ( ) www.ipn.md time to read: +2 min

CJI lansează la 4 mai Zilele Libertății PreseiAstăzi, 4 mai, Centrul pentru Jurnalism Independent (CJI) lansează Zilele Libertății Presei. În acest an, CJI pune accent pe necesitatea ca presa liberă și independentă să fie susținută de consumatorii de media. De asemenea, CJI va publica un articol prin care va scoate în evidență șapte motive pentru care presa liberă și independentă ar trebui susținută. Pe 5 mai CJI va anunța câștigătorii concursului „Tulip Press Awards” la cele două secțiuni - fotografie și presa online/presa scrisă. Pe 17 mai CJI va lansa „Topul celor mai închise instituții de stat din Republica Moldova în raport cu presa” și va realiza o caricatură în baza acestui top.

Persons: CJI Organizations: Libertății Presei, Jurnalism Independent, Presei Locations: CJI, Republica Moldova

☆ CJI lansează Zilele Libertăţii Presei 2021 cu îndemnul #SustinemPresa
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-03 | by ( Alte Articole | ) www.civic.md time to read: +2 min

Pe 4 mai, Centrul pentru Jurnalism Independent (CJI) lansează Zilele Libertăţii Presei. În acest an, CJI pune accentul pe necesitatea ca presa liberă și independentă să fie susținută de consumatorii de media. De asemenea, CJI va publica un articol prin care va scoate în evidență șapte motive pentru care presa liberă și independentă ar trebui susținută. Pe 5 mai, CJI va anunța câștigătorii concursului Tulip Press Awards la cele două secțiuni: Fotografie și Presa online/Presa scrisă. Agenda evenimentelor, realizate de CJI și alte instituții de media cu prilejul Zilelor Libertății Presei, poate fi consultată aici.

Persons: CJI Organizations: Jurnalism Independent, Presei, Tulip Press Locations: Republica Moldova

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