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☆ ‘Putin and the Presidents’ Review: A Ruse by a Russian Tyrant
  + stars: | 2023-01-27 | by ( John Anderson | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
A primer on Vladimir Putin and a chronicle of diplomatic miscalculation, “Putin and the Presidents” sets out to establish a couple of dispiriting truths, one of which could be seen as a takedown of American optimism: Mr. Putin has always been exactly who he seemed to be. The leaders of the free world have been hoping he wasn’t. An episode of “Frontline” marked by the series’ customary directness, “Putin and the Presidents” maps out the various missteps committed by the White House as regards the former KGB agent who became Russia’s supreme leader in 1999 and whose tenure has been marked ever since by deception, accusations of outright murder and unprovoked warfare. While not intended as prophetic, Bill Clinton is seen in a rather slippery 2000 moment telling the press about his initial encounter with Mr. Putin, whom he declares “capable” of “preserving freedom, pluralism and the rule of law,” without actually implying he would.
☆ Nick Clegg led Meta's decision to reinstate Trump to Facebook and Instagram. Here's how the former UK deputy prime minister charmed his way into Mark Zuckerberg's inner circle.
  + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( Philip Webster | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +18 min
Nick Clegg has risen quickly to become one of Mark Zuckerberg's closest confidants at Meta. Clegg, a former UK deputy prime minister, led the decision to reinstate Donald Trump to Facebook. It was updated on February 16, 2022 following the news that Nick Clegg had been promoted to the role of President for Global Affairs. In a challenging economic climate, the Lib Dems and their Conservative coalition partners voted to raise tuition fees. Nick Clegg (left) and Chris Huhne appearing on the BBC's "The Andrew Marr Show" in October 2007.
☆ I've tested 15 electric cars — these 6 blew me away with game-changing features
  + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Tim Levin | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Tesla's Model Y is incredibly easy to charge, while Pininfarina's Battista packs mind-bending acceleration. The Tesla Model Y's Supercharging abilityThe Tesla Model Y. Tim Levin/InsiderTeslas are known for a lot of things — their minimalist interiors, their sporty performance, and, for better or worse, their boisterous mastermind, Elon Musk. But the one part of testing a Tesla Model Y that stuck with me more than any of that was Supercharging. The Tesla Model Y. Tim Levin/InsiderOnce you have a payment method set, Supercharging is as simple as pulling up to an available stall and plugging in. The Polestar 2's screensThe 2022 Polestar 2.
☆ Federal government investigating possible human trafficking of children who cleaned slaughterhouses
  + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( Laura Strickler | Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Julia-Ainsley-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +12 min
There is no indication DHS is investigating the company that hired the children, Packers Sanitation Services Inc., or PSSI, for human trafficking. The Labor Department’s Child Labor Regulations designate many roles in slaughterhouse and meatpacking facilities as hazardous for minors. The Labor Department says its investigation, which began in August, is ongoing as it scours company records from 50 locations. I don’t anticipate unless there are severe ramifications for this that it will actually change policies.”The Labor Department has issued no penalties or fines to date. Labor DepartmentQuestions about child labor at PSSI in Grand Island and Worthington are not new.
☆ Bank of Japan has learnt danger of half-measures
  + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( Pete Sweeney | Thomson Reuters | Asia Economics Editor Pete Sweeney Joined Reuters Breakingviews In Hong Kong In September Previously He Served As Reuters' Chief Correspondent For China Economy | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) made no adjustments to its yield-curve control (YCC) policy that keeps interest rates ultra-low on Wednesday. However, that tweak’s failure to reduce the need of central bank intervention has left the BOJ with little appetite for more compromises. Instead Kuroda rolled out a new tool to hold interest rates down, signaling intervention will continue. CONTEXT NEWSThe Bank of Japan on Jan. 18 kept its ultra-low interest rates policy unchanged and maintained a bond yield cap band it has struggled to defend. Under the amended rules, the central bank can offer funds of up to 10 years against collateral to financial institutions for both fixed and variable-rate loans.
☆ Six N.F.L. Players Show Football’s Grind on Their Feet and Hands
  + stars: | 2023-01-11 | by ( Ken Belson | Joe Drape | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +19 min
Players Show Football’s Grind on Their Feet and HandsOver the course of the long and brutal N.F.L. season, players’ feet and hands take a beating on nearly every snap. But in practice a few days later, he was running drills and landed awkwardly, spraining an ankle and stretching the tendons in his right foot. The next week Jones caught six passes for 109 yards and three touchdowns as the Jaguars shocked the Dallas Cowboys, 40-34. “The therapist spends a lot of time on my hands and feet,” he said.
☆ Raducanu sweating on fitness ahead of Australian Open
  + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
Jan 9 (Reuters) - Emma Raducanu said she is trying not to "expect too much" as she bids to return to full fitness in time for next week's Australian Open after rolling her ankle in a tune-up event last week. Former U.S. Open champion Raducanu retired at 6-0 5-7 in her second-round match against Slovakian Viktoria Kuzmova at the WTA 250 Auckland Classic. The Australian Open begins on Jan. 16. But we're just taking it a day at a time and not trying to expect too much at this point. "It was really unfortunate, to be honest last week, because I was feeling great about my season and I was feeling really good with the preparation I did physically.
☆ Raducanu suffers injury scare ahead of Australian Open
  + stars: | 2023-01-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
"So to be stopped by a freak injury, rolling an ankle is pretty disappointing, in the first week as well. The Australian Open begins on Jan. 16. AZARENKA THROUGHAt the Adelaide International 1 WTA 500 event, twice Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka saw off Zheng Qinwen 6-2 7-5 to reach the quarter-finals alongside unseeded duo Irina-Camelia Begu and Linda Noskova. China's Zheng, who was named WTA Newcomer of the Year in 2022, sent down 10 aces and 34 winners but also made 35 unforced errors at the Australian Open warm-up event. Belarusian Azarenka next faces Czech teenager Noskova, who followed up her first-round upset of Daria Kasatkina with a 6-2 6-2 win over fellow qualifier Clair Liu.
☆ Prevent burnout by spotting these red and green flags before taking the job
  + stars: | 2022-12-28 | by ( Natalie Tham | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +7 min
Burnout is a "very common" workplace mental health issue caused by chronic and unmanaged stress, said Dr. Oliver Suendermann, clinical director of Intellect, a Singapore-based mental health support startup. With a slew of trickle-down effects that could harm your mental and physical health, burnout is a slippery slope that should be avoided. CNBC Make It spoke with experts and coaches who shared some red flags that should ring alarm bells, and green flags that can indicate a lower burnout risk. This can include providing managers with training on mental health, he added. Suendermann, who works for Intellect which offers a mental health support app, said some companies also help connect employees with professional coaches.
☆ You got the AirPods Pro for the holidays. Here are some of the coolest features you need to know about
  + stars: | 2022-12-26 | by ( Sofia Pitt | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +5 min
Sofia PittIf you were received Apple 's new second-generation AirPods Pro as a holiday gift, you made out well. Here are some AirPods Pro tips and tricks to get you started. How to find your AirPods Pro if you lose themThere's a built-in speaker in the new AirPods Pro that plays a sound so you can locate them. Tap the name of your AirPods (mine say Sofia's AirPods Pro). Ways to charge your new AirPodsThe new AirPods Pro come with a MagSafe charging case.
☆ A 24-year-old stock trader who made over $1.4 million in 2 years shares the key shift that he says allowed him to have a 60% win ratio
  + stars: | 2022-12-26 | by ( Laila Maidan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
Matthew Monaco learned that day trading is largely a mental process. It took him another few years of saving money and taking online trading courses before he was able to try again. A key shiftHe believes there was one key shift that helped him achieve a majority win, which was learning how to properly lose. The irony is that day trading tends to attract people that just want to get rich quickly, which is the type of mentality that will lead you to lose, he said. And with that, if they have a losing month, a losing week, a losing year, they're not deterred.
☆ Synthetic Meat Will Change the Ethics of Eating
  + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( Virginia Postrel | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Acentury ago, “a chicken in every pot” was an ambitious political slogan. Americans will consume nearly 100 pounds of chicken per capita this year, according to the National Chicken Council, up from around 67 pounds in 1992, when chicken first surpassed beef. Behind chicken abundance is the efficient production that critics call factory farming. Bred for maximum meat in minimum time, confined to crowded sheds, and subjected to assembly line slaughter and disassembly, chickens destined for mass consumption endure short, unhappy lives. Although automation is improving conditions, chicken processing may be the country’s worst job: smelly, noisy, bloody, cold and injury-prone from slippery floors and repetitive motions.
☆ Assessing the risk/reward bargain for the market into 2023, even if a recession awaits
  + stars: | 2022-12-10 | by ( Michael Santoli | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +6 min
Assessing the risk/reward bargain for the market heading into 2023 comes down to whether this stickiness seems more like resilience that demands respect or complacence which advises caution. And, by extension, it means making a judgment about whether the now-prevailing view that a recession awaits by mid-2023 is both correct and not yet priced into financial markets. Here is how the valuation of the Nasdaq 100, the S & P 500 and the equal-weighted version of the S & P 500 has shifted since then. Even now, the current setup fits no one's definition of a cheap equity market enjoying a fat margin of safety. Yet not many market handicappers are deploying this argument as a reason to herald brighter times in 2023.
☆ Brittney Griner's return reignites debate about prisoner swaps
  + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Humeyra Pamuk Patricia Zengerle | Humeyra Pamuk | Patricia Zengerle | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +6 min
WASHINGTON, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Thursday's release of U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner in exchange for a convicted Russian arms dealer has resurfaced an old question: Do prisoner swaps do more harm than good? The details of Griner's release highlight the painful trade-offs confronting the Biden administration. In one such case in 2016, North Korea detained American college student Otto Warmbier during a dispute with the international community over that country's missile launches. Many of the families argue that the U.S. should be willing negotiate and discount the argument that prisoner swaps lead more countries to grab Americans. Those hard choices meant Washington could either leave Whelan in Russian custody or else return empty-handed after months of negotiations.
☆ San Francisco has backtracked on a policy that would have allowed police robots to use deadly force, following backlash
  + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
San Francisco officials have halted a policy that would have let police robots use deadly force. A final vote on the policy is expected to take place next week, per the San Francisco Chronicle. The new amendment allows San Francisco police to use remote-controlled robots but explicitly bans the use of deadly force, per the San Francisco Chronicle. Per NPR, the first time a robot used deadly force was in 2016 when police in Dallas used one equipped with an explosive. Representatives for San Francisco's Board of Supervisors did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment made outside normal working hours.
☆ Gaylord Perry, Baseball Hall of Famer, two-time Cy Young winner and master of the spitball, dies at 84
  + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +3 min
GAFFNEY, S.C. — Baseball Hall of Famer and two-time Cy Young Award winner Gaylord Perry, a master of the spitball who wrote a book about using pitch, died Thursday. Gaylord Perry of the Atlanta Braves signing autographs prior to a season game at Fulton County Stadium in August 1981 in Atlanta. Baseball Hall of Famer Gaylord Perry greets fans at the All-Star FanFest in Washington on July 14, 2018. Perry was ejected from a game just once for doctoring a baseball — when he was with Seattle in August 1982. After his career, Perry founded the baseball program at Limestone College in Gaffney and was its coach for the first three years.
☆ Apple could sink Elon Musk's Twitter by yanking it from the App Store. But it would put Apple in jeopardy too.
  + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Paayal Zaveri | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
Elon Musk is claiming that Apple threatened to remove Twitter from its App Store. While Apple could find a reason to take Twitter off the App Store, it likely will not, experts said. Experts say Apple could find a reason to take Twitter off the App Store, and doing so would devastate the company. That could be a basis for Apple to remove Twitter from the App Store, Carolina Milanesi, an analyst with Creative Strategies said. Even then, Apple still likely won't remove Twitter from its App Store, because picking a fight with Elon would exacerbate antitrust criticism of Apple.
☆ Amazon CEO responds to antisemitic content promoted by Kyrie Irving being available to purchase on the platform: 'We have hundreds of millions of customers with lots of different viewpoints'
  + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Travis Clark | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving recently tweeted a link to an antisemitic film, which led to his suspension. The film is available on Amazon, but CEO Andy Jassy seemed to imply the company wouldn't pull it. "We have hundreds of millions of customers with lots of different viewpoints," he said. But it doesn't seem like Amazon will budge on removing the film and book from its platform. "We have hundreds of millions of customers with lots of different viewpoints.
☆ Tiny crack opens in China’s zero-Covid wall
  + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
HONG KONG, Nov 11 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Beijing announced minor relaxations of its pandemic policy on Friday, including shorter quarantine periods and more narrowly targeted lockdowns. Rumours of relaxations surfaced earlier this month, so the latest announcement lends credence to arguments that President Xi Jinping will return to economic pragmatism. Pressure to revive domestic consumption is becoming acute after the critical export sector suddenly contracted in October. If Beijing can convince sceptical retirees to get the jab, China might avoid a surge of nursing home deaths as observed in Hong Kong. To be sure, none of these marginal measures will do much to revive consumption, production or property investment.
☆ The electric Hummer will have a $4,000 e-bike counterpart that's just as outrageous
  + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Tim Levin | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Come December, you'll be able to buy an e-bike inspired by the GMC Hummer EV pickup truck. The GMC Hummer EV bike promises on-demand two-wheel drive and lots of power. The GMC Hummer EV All-Wheel-Drive Ebike goes on sale in December, according to Recon Power Bikes, which GMC has tapped to build the bike. Much like the Hummer EV, the e-bike will come with all-wheel-drive by way of two electric motors – one driving the front wheel and one driving the rear. The GMC Hummer EV Edition 1, the first electric Hummer on the market, costs $108,700.
☆ Why 10,000 pounds of rubber are stripped from runways
  + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Melissa Estrada | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
Rubber builds up on airport runways and runway lights every time a plane's wheels touch down. Narrator: Every time a plane lands, each tire leaves around 1½ pounds of rubber on the runway. That temperature makes the tread rubber melt and bond to the runway and lights that guide pilots. That's over 30 pounds of rubber lost per landing – equivalent to the amount of rubber in two of your car's tires. And runway lights, used to guide takeoff, landing, and taxiing, especially at night and in low-visibility conditions, are dimmed by the melted rubber bonding to them.
☆ Park Chan-wook on 'Decision To Leave': 'This story departs from all conventions'
  + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Thomas Page | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +8 min
Director Park is no stranger to the slippery nature of language barriers. In the film, Korean detective Hae-joon (Park Hae-il) is probing the death of a climber who fell from a mountaintop on the outskirts of Busan. Director Park Chan-wook says he had a longstanding desire to cast the Chinese star in one of his films. The first part is “full-on male gaze,” Hae-joon “steal(ing) the look.” He inserts himself into Seo-rae’s life, even fantasizing standing in her living room, observing private moments. Tang Wei as suspect Seo-rae and Park Hael-il as detective Hae-joon in "Decision To Leave."
☆ Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers and challenger Tim Michels draw stark contrast in sole debate
  + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | Adam Edelman | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +5 min
While Friday night’s debate was entirely civil, the two candidates displayed the clear differences between them on major issues. Michels claimed “illegal voting did happen in the last election” despite no evidence widespread fraud occurred. Throughout the Republican primary race, Michels repeatedly said there was fraud in the 2020 election, echoing Trump’s disproven claims. Evers and Michels are locked in a tight race. The latest Marquette Law School poll, released Wednesday, showed Evers slightly leading Michels among likely voters, 47% to 46% — within the margin of error.
☆ Sterling slippery, stocks stalling as BoE boost fades
  + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( Tom Westbrook | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
S&P 500 futures fell 0.2%. European futures rose 0.6% and FTSE futures lifted 0.3%. The U.S. dollar index had its worst session in 2-1/2 years on Wednesday, recoiling from record highs. The Australian dollar fell 0.8% to $0.6470. Brent crude futures fell 0.8% to $88.62 a barrel.
☆ Stocks bounce but sterling slippery after BoE buys bonds
  + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( Tom Westbrook | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
The Bank of England said it will buy as much as £5 billion ($5.4 billion) a day of long-dated government bonds until Oct. 14. For one, this re-stimulation will lift, not quell UK inflation, and that's bad for bonds and sterling." The mood gave pause to the U.S. dollar's march higher and the dollar index had its worst session in 2-1/2 years as the greenback recoiled from lofty heights. The dollar index was up 0.1% to 113.12, within striking distance of Wednesday's 20-year high of 114.78. ($1 = 0.9252 pounds)Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterEditing by Shri NavaratnamOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
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