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| Представьте себе Макау — это как удивительное место, где Восток встречается с Западом, и оно становится всё более связанным с Китаем через людей, поезда и здания. Когда-то Макау была португальской колонией, но 25 лет назад она вернулась в состав Китая и стала специальной административной зоной. Это значит, что Макау — часть Китая, но у неё есть своя особая свобода. Пекин пообещал не сильно вмешиваться в дела этого небольшого региона, который занимает всего 12 квадратных миль. Как и Гонконг, Макау стала частью Китая, но получила возможность самостоятельно управлять своими делами и развивать экономику. Благодаря этому она быстро стала самым прибыльным местом для азартных игр в мире, привлекая крупные американские казино, такие как Wynn и Sands, и в основном обслуживая китайских туристов. Сейчас Макау переживает новый этап своего развития. Лидер Китая Си Цзиньпин, который на этой неделе посетил Макау, чтобы отметить годовщину "возвращения к родине", хочет, чтобы Макау была более связанной с материковым Китаем. Он мечтает о том, чтобы Макау меньше зависела от игорного бизнеса и больше способствовала развитию внутреннего потребительского рынка Китая. Ключевым элементом этого нового подхода стал китайский остров Хэнцинь, который находится по другую сторону реки от Макау. | Английский для бизнеса с Ольгой Майоровой | 2024-12-20 06:05:28 | ||
| <b>Праздники 20 декабря 2024, пятница</b> <a href="https://my-calend.ru/holidays/den-solidarnosti-lyudey">– Международный день солидарности людей</a> <a href="https://my-calend.ru/holidays/abrosimov-den">– Абросимов день</a> – День аутсайдера – День уродливого рождественского свитера – Праздник Владимирской (Селигерской) иконы Божией Матери – День куриного рождества – День карманных вселенных – День баночной тусовки – День сангрии 👼 Именины отмечают: Антон, Василий, Григорий, Дементий, Иван, Игнат, Лев, Михаил, Нил, Павел, Петр, Сергей, Ян. | Календарь праздников на каждый день | 2024-12-20 06:02:56 | ||
| I take IB theatre and a classmate studied commedia dell'arte, Pantalone and Arlecchino are both commedia dell'arte,stock characters. With Pantalone being a stingy rich man who harrasses girls. You learn new stuff every day. | ProGenshin | 2024-12-20 05:43:36 | ||
| Raiden Shogun- Pity 48 (4.3) Xiao- Pity 71 (4.4) Wanderer- Pity 74 (4.6) Alhaitham- Pity 55 (4.7) Nilou- Pity 88 (4.8) Kazuah- Pity 52 (5.0) Nahida- Pity 84 (5.1) Lyney- Pity 32 (5.2) Neuvilette- Pity 24/ C1 at Pity 11 (5.2) I think this was a pretty good year for me! | ProGenshin | 2024-12-20 05:12:15 | ||
| William J. Hennessy Jr., a prominent courtroom artist whose sketches documented important chapters in history, including the impeachment trials of Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald J. Trump and the Supreme Court case that decided the 2000 presidential election, as well as thousands of scenes of quotidian courtroom drama, died in Key West, Fla., on Dec. 9, his 67th birthday. His son William J. Hennessy III said that his father died in a hospital after having a heart attack in a hotel room while on vacation with his wife, Arezou. Using colored pencils, pastels, charcoal and watercolors, Mr. Hennessy produced some 10,000 pictures from federal, state and local courtrooms, and from the chamber of the United States Senate. His analog artistry , usually commissioned by news organizations, filled a void in courts where cameras were not allowed or were restricted. Advertisement “Ideally my clients would have a camera in there, in their mind,” Mr. Hennessy said in an interview with “PBS NewsHour” in 2009. “I don’t necessarily agree, but I do understand what they want from me, and so I provide them with the visuals they need to tell the story, and not just the visuals that you expect, but I try to delve deeper.” Art Lien, a retired sketch artist and a friendly competitor of Mr. Hennessy’s at the Supreme Court, said, “Bill had a much better nose for news than I did and probably did twice as many sketches as I did.” He added, “He’d catch everything.” Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. | Английский для бизнеса с Ольгой Майоровой | 2024-12-20 05:05:17 | ||
| Macau, the world’s gambling capital, is becoming more intertwined with a Chinese neighbor — one person, train and building at a time. A former Portuguese colony, Macau was reclaimed 25 years ago by China and declared a special administrative zone, part of the mainland but with some independence. Beijing agreed to mostly keep its hands off the 12-square-mile territory. Like nearby Hong Kong, Macau would be part of China but free to govern itself and run its economy without interference from Beijing. It quickly rose to become the world’s most lucrative gambling destination, drawing big American casinos like Wynn and Sands and catering to mostly Chinese tourists. Now China’s political experiment in Macau is undergoing another transition. China’s leader, Xi Jinping, who visited Macau this week to mark the anniversary of the territory’s “return to the motherland,” wants Macau to operate less independently of mainland China. In Mr. Xi’s vision, Macau will wean itself off an economic reliance on gambling and play a role in boosting China’s own lagging consumer economy. Advertisement At the heart of this new push is Hengqin, a Chinese island separated from Macau by a river. By Pablo Robles Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. | Английский для бизнеса с Ольгой Майоровой | 2024-12-20 05:05:04 | ||
| **Оливковое масло и геополитика** Оливковое масло стало одним из основных ингредиентов на кухнях американцев, но его рынок подвержен влиянию геополитики. США потребляют больше оливкового масла, чем любая другая страна, кроме Италии, и почти 97% этого продукта импортируется, в основном из Испании и Италии. В связи с обещаниями Дональда Трампа ввести высокие тарифы на импортные товары, отрасль оливкового масла столкнулась с неопределенностью. **Тарифы и последствия** Трамп рассматривает тарифы как инструмент защиты американского бизнеса и наказания торговых партнеров. Ранее он уже вводил 25% тариф на испанское оливковое масло. Хотя при Байдене этот тариф был приостановлен, его могут восстановить. Производители предупреждают, что тарифы приведут к росту цен на фоне уже существующей инфляции. Средняя цена за литр оливкового масла в США почти удвоилась с 2021 года. **Проблемы и перспективы** С 2020 года мировая индустрия оливкового масла переживает кризис. Пандемия и экстремальные погодные условия в Средиземноморье, особенно в Испании, снизили спрос и повысили цены. Однако в 2024 году ожидается хороший урожай, что должно было бы снизить цены. Но переизбрание Трампа может изменить эти ожидания в 2025 году и далее. **Мнения производителей** Американские производители, такие как McEvoy Ranch, поддерживают политики, которые способствуют продовольственной безопасности, но сомневаются в немедленных выгодах от тарифов. Производство оливкового масла требует времени, так как деревья начинают плодоносить лишь через пять лет после посадки. **Альтернативные стратегии** Крупные производители, такие как Filippo Berio, адаптировались к предыдущим тарифам, диверсифицировав источники поставок за пределами ЕС. Австралийская Boundary Bend и другие компании утверждают, что субсидии ЕС создают несправедливые условия на рынке. **Влияние на малых производителей** Малые европейские производители, такие как Exau, могут пострадать от тарифов. Технологии для производства масла производятся в Европе, и их импорт станет дороже. **Борьба с мошенничеством** Североамериканская ассоциация оливкового масла призывает переосмыслить классификацию оливкового масла как сельскохозяйственного продукта, что освободит его от тарифов. Также они предлагают создать стандарты качества, чтобы предотвратить фальсификацию продуктов. **Заключение** Тарифы на оливковое масло могут повлиять как на международных, так и на американских производителей, а также на потребителей. Вопрос остается открытым: как новые торговые барьеры отразятся на глобальной и внутренней экономике оливкового масла? | Английский для бизнеса с Ольгой Майоровой | 2024-12-20 04:35:09 | ||
| Neil Cavuto, a business journalist who hosted a weekday afternoon program on the Fox News Channel since the network began in 1996, signed off for the final time on Thursday. Mr. Cavuto, 66, also hosted two programs on Fox Business, but is best known for “Your World with Neil Cavuto,” which was in the 4-5 p.m. slot for 28 years. He did not give a reason for leaving but said he was not retiring from journalism. “I got to do what I love here — report the news, not shout the news, not blast the news,” he said , before signing off. He said that Fox had given him a generous opportunity to stay, but he declined. Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. | Английский для бизнеса с Ольгой Майоровой | 2024-12-20 04:34:37 | ||
| Macau, the world’s gambling capital, is becoming more intertwined with a Chinese neighbor — one person, train and building at a time. A former Portuguese colony, Macau was reclaimed 25 years ago by China and declared a special administrative zone, part of the mainland but with some independence. Beijing agreed to mostly keep its hands off the 12-square-mile territory. Like nearby Hong Kong, Macau would be part of China but free to govern itself and run its economy without interference from Beijing. It quickly rose to become the world’s most lucrative gambling destination, drawing big American casinos like Wynn and Sands and catering to mostly Chinese tourists. Now China’s political experiment in Macau is undergoing another transition. China’s leader, Xi Jinping, who visited Macau this week to mark the anniversary of the territory’s “return to the motherland,” wants Macau to operate less independently of mainland China. In Mr. Xi’s vision, Macau will wean itself off an economic reliance on gambling and play a role in boosting China’s own lagging consumer economy. Advertisement At the heart of this new push is Hengqin, a Chinese island separated from Macau by a river. By Pablo Robles Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. | Английский для бизнеса с Ольгой Майоровой | 2024-12-20 04:34:23 | ||
| I’m f2p and wanted to get as many primos as possible to pull the 5.2/5.3 banners. Most of my map is still not 100%, around 65% in mondstat, 50% in inazuma/liyue, 20% in sumeru, and only about 10% in Fontaine (haven’t even started natlan) what’s the fastest/most effective way I can clear the maps and find things to grind primos? | ProGenshin | 2024-12-20 04:11:14 | ||
| Neil Cavuto, a business journalist who hosted a weekday afternoon program on the Fox News Channel since the network began in 1996, signed off for the final time on Thursday. Mr. Cavuto, 66, also hosted two programs on Fox Business, but is best known for “Your World with Neil Cavuto,” which was in the 4-5 p.m. slot for 28 years. He did not give a reason for leaving but said he was not retiring from journalism. “I got to do what I love here — report the news, not shout the news, not blast the news,” he said , before signing off. He said that Fox had given him a generous opportunity to stay, but he declined. Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. | Английский для бизнеса с Ольгой Майоровой | 2024-12-20 04:04:27 | ||
| Was reading Layla's birthday letter... | ProGenshin | 2024-12-20 03:41:43 | ||
| Дональд Трамп, который скоро станет президентом, неожиданно решил поучаствовать в обсуждении госдолга на этой неделе. Он предложил конгрессменам либо поднять лимит госдолга, либо вообще убрать его до того, как он официально займет свой пост в следующем месяце. Тема госдолга снова стала актуальной спустя 18 месяцев после того, как республиканцы и демократы избежали финансового кризиса и договорились приостановить ограничение на заимствования до окончания президентских выборов 2024 года. Это должно было упростить политическую обстановку во время предвыборной кампании. Теперь эта проблема предстоит решать Трампу. Он планирует снижать налоги и усиливать безопасность на границе, но переживает, что вопросы вокруг госдолга в следующем году могут помешать его планам. Его предложения, скорее всего, потребуют триллионных расходов, которые придется покрывать за счет новых займов. Долгие споры о госдолге могут вынудить Трампа и республиканцев пойти на уступки демократам и потратить много времени на обсуждения в конгрессе. "Это хитроумная ловушка, расставленная радикальными левыми демократами!" — написал Трамп в соцсетях в среду вечером. В четверг Трамп сумел убедить спикера-республиканца Майка Джонсона включить двухлетнюю приостановку лимита госдолга в соглашение, необходимое для предотвращения закрытия правительства. Однако палата представителей отклонила это предложение в четверг вечером: против увеличения лимита госдолга проголосовали как правые республиканцы, так и демократы. Законопроект не прошел, получив 174 голоса против 235, один человек воздержался. Республиканцы всегда с неохотой поднимают лимит госдолга, особенно когда президентом является демократ, считая, что это ведет к необоснованным расходам. Законодатели от Республиканской партии часто используют это как возможность добиться уступок, таких как сокращение расходов, от демократов, когда они у власти. | Английский для бизнеса с Ольгой Майоровой | 2024-12-20 03:34:45 | ||
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| Can't believe I managed to get 400 fates. And I didnt spent a single money on this game. Imagine having gambling addiction, couldn't be me | ProGenshin | 2024-12-20 03:11:55 | ||
| Neil Cavuto, a business journalist who hosted a weekday afternoon program on the Fox News Channel since the network began in 1996, signed off for the final time on Thursday. Mr. Cavuto, 66, also hosted two programs on Fox Business, but is best known for “Your World with Neil Cavuto,” which was in the 4-5 p.m. slot for 28 years. He did not give a reason for leaving but said he was not retiring from journalism. “I got to do what I love here — report the news, not shout the news, not blast the news,” he said , before signing off. He said that Fox had given him a generous opportunity to stay, but he declined. Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. | Английский для бизнеса с Ольгой Майоровой | 2024-12-20 03:04:47 | ||
| “A wild card” Even before becoming “first buddy” to President-elect Donald Trump, Elon Musk wielded significant influence in government, thanks to SpaceX. But The Times reports that the tech mogul is facing scrutiny over his activities at the rocket company — all of which may dissipate once Trump takes office. Federal agencies are reviewing Musk’s failure to comply with security clearance rules, The Times reports. Holders of top national security credentials must submit information about foreign travel and aspects of their personal lives, including drug use, to ensure they aren’t at risk of disclosing state secrets. But Musk and SpaceX haven’t fully complied with that requirement since at least 2021, The Times reports. Concerns about that failure — both within government and within SpaceX — have prompted multiple reviews, including by the Defense Department’s Office of Inspector General. (No federal agency has accused him of disclosing classified material.) Advertisement Why people are worried: Musk has a penchant for sharing a lot on his X social network, including about diplomatic meetings. He has held several meetings or discussions with representatives of foreign governments, reportedly including with Iranian officials and President Vladimir Putin of Russia . Musk has also spoken openly about his use of ketamine, which he says he has a prescription for; he hadn’t disclosed that to the government. Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. | Английский для бизнеса с Ольгой Майоровой | 2024-12-20 02:41:22 | ||
| Workers who deliver packages from seven Amazon facilities across the country went on strike Thursday morning, according to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the union that represents them. The Teamsters said thousands of workers had struck, but it was unclear how many people were participating in the action. Amazon said it expected the seven delivery hubs to operate normally. The drivers are employees of companies that Amazon uses to deliver packages to customers. Amazon has said it has no obligation to bargain with the drivers because they are not its employees. But the union and the workers said Amazon ultimately controlled their working conditions and was therefore obligated to bargain with them. The National Labor Relations Board has investigated some of the cases and issued at least one complaint finding the drivers to be Amazon employees and accusing the company of breaking the law by failing to bargain with them. Advertisement The Teamsters said in a statement that workers at other Amazon warehouses were prepared to join the strike. The largest group at Amazon represented by the union works at a Staten Island warehouse known as JFK8, which employs more than 5,000 people. Employees at the warehouse voted to unionize in 2022, but the company has yet to bargain with them and is challenging the election outcome. Workers involved in the strike say it could extend into early next week, perhaps into Christmas, but it’s unclear how big an impact the walkout will have on Amazon’s holiday deliveries. Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. | Английский для бизнеса с Ольгой Майоровой | 2024-12-20 02:41:08 | ||
| When the digital news start-up Semafor began in 2022, its founders talked about reaching a vast global audience of 200 million college-educated, English-speaking people . But their latest push is aimed at just a tiny — albeit moneyed — sliver of that: top executives. The company said Thursday that it would start an invitation-only newsletter for chief executives, The CEO Signal, in January. It will be free but available only to the leaders of companies with more than $500 million in annual revenue. Semafor’s newest project is the latest in a series of moves among media outlets like The Wall Street Journal, Axios and Fortune, which are battling for attention inside the C-suite. Despite a crowded marketplace, each sees an opportunity for its newsletters and events to cater to the highest echelon of corporate leaders and to tap into a lucrative world of sponsorships and subscriptions. New sources of revenue have become increasingly important for many publications in the face of a tough digital advertising market and faltering social media traffic. Advertisement “It truly is an example of the reversal of this 20-year trend in media of prioritizing scale,” said Justin Smith, the chief executive and a co-founder of Semafor. He added, “We’re really not talking about small business or midsize business but the C.E.O.s of the biggest companies in the world, which is a micromarket.” Mr. Smith said he had realized shortly after Semafor began that its journalists and articles were “tilting our whole model, at least in the initial phase of Semafor’s existence, toward a very, very clear audience segment, which I would call the global leadership class.” Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. | Английский для бизнеса с Ольгой Майоровой | 2024-12-20 02:11:57 | ||
| The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday updated the definitions of the term “healthy” for labeling on foods, a move that reflected changes in nutrition and that tightened limits on saturated fat, sugar and salt in food that could be sold under that claim. The effort, while seemingly an inconsequential update to a 30-year-old term, set off a veritable food fight of lobbying over which foods made the cut and whether the F.D.A. would violate First Amendment protections in trying to define “healthy.” The F.D.A. said Thursday that its policy, outlined in a final rule , was meant to “empower consumers” by helping them quickly spot nutritious food at the grocery store. “The F.D.A. recognizes that diet-related diseases, including heart disease, cancer and diabetes, are the leading cause of disability disease in the United States and contribute to America’s status of having the lowest life expectancy amongst large, high-income countries,” Jim Jones, the director of the agency’s food division, said during a news conference. He added, “We also know that food labeling can be a powerful tool for change.” Advertisement The 318-page rule sets forth highly specific guidelines around what food manufacturers can label “healthy” or other terms, like “healthful” or “healthiest.” To make that claim for instance, a 50-gram serving of a dairy product must contain no more than 5 percent of a person’s daily sugar level and 10 percent of a person’s daily salt and saturated fat limit. Similar standards would apply to fruits, grains, vegetables, meat and other foods. The new definition would include some processed and packaged food and several items previously excluded from the definition of “healthy,” like nuts, seeds, salmon, some oils and water. It would also strip the label from other foods, including yogurts, fruit cups and whole wheat bread products that are considered too high in sugar or sodium. Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. | Английский для бизнеса с Ольгой Майоровой | 2024-12-20 02:11:43 | ||
| Workers who deliver packages from seven Amazon facilities across the country went on strike Thursday morning, according to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the union that represents them. The Teamsters said thousands of workers had struck, but it was unclear how many people were participating in the action. Amazon said it expected the seven delivery hubs to operate normally. The drivers are employees of companies that Amazon uses to deliver packages to customers. Amazon has said it has no obligation to bargain with the drivers because they are not its employees. But the union and the workers said Amazon ultimately controlled their working conditions and was therefore obligated to bargain with them. The National Labor Relations Board has investigated some of the cases and issued at least one complaint finding the drivers to be Amazon employees and accusing the company of breaking the law by failing to bargain with them. Advertisement The Teamsters said in a statement that workers at other Amazon warehouses were prepared to join the strike. The largest group at Amazon represented by the union works at a Staten Island warehouse known as JFK8, which employs more than 5,000 people. Employees at the warehouse voted to unionize in 2022, but the company has yet to bargain with them and is challenging the election outcome. Workers involved in the strike say it could extend into early next week, perhaps into Christmas, but it’s unclear how big an impact the walkout will have on Amazon’s holiday deliveries. Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. | Английский для бизнеса с Ольгой Майоровой | 2024-12-20 02:11:27 | ||
| Federal health and safety regulators announced a corporatewide settlement with Amazon on Thursday, bringing an end to cases involving accusations of safety violations at 10 warehouses in several states. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration had cited Amazon for exposing workers to elevated risks of joint and soft-tissue injuries. The agency had said the injury risks were tied to the pace at which workers lifted items, the body movements required to lift the items and the weight of the items. Under the settlement, OSHA agreed to withdraw citations at nine of the 10 warehouses. At the 10th warehouse, which handles bulky products like televisions and furniture in Illinois, Amazon agreed to pay a fine of $145,000, up from the $15,625 the agency initially proposed. The agency said the settlement committed Amazon to regularly assessing the injury risk faced by employees nationwide, and to putting in place pilot programs to address these risks as needed. Advertisement “This settlement requires Amazon to take action at the corporate level to ensure corporatewide ergonomic requirements are effectively implemented at its warehouses,” said Seema Nanda, the Labor Department’s solicitor. Amazon said the settlement, in effect, directed the company to continue relying on its existing safety programs and to ensure that the programs were carried out across the entire company. Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. | Английский для бизнеса с Ольгой Майоровой | 2024-12-20 01:41:44 | ||
| American Airlines said on Thursday that it had settled a racial discrimination lawsuit filed by three Black men who said they and several others had been wrongly and temporarily removed from a flight in January by the airline’s flight attendants. In a federal lawsuit filed in May , the men said that they did not know one another and were not seated together, but that they were removed from their plane after a white flight attendant complained about an unidentified passenger’s body odor. They said they were allowed back on the plane after waiting an hour at an airport gate in Phoenix, before departing for New York. Neither American nor the nonprofit group that represented the men would divulge details of the settlement. But the airline has since fired the flight attendants involved in the incident. Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. | Английский для бизнеса с Ольгой Майоровой | 2024-12-20 01:41:30 | ||
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| William J. Hennessy Jr., a prominent courtroom artist whose sketches documented important chapters in history, including the impeachment trials of Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald J. Trump and the Supreme Court case that decided the 2000 presidential election, as well as thousands of scenes of quotidian courtroom drama, died in Key West, Fla., on Dec. 9, his 67th birthday. His son William J. Hennessy III said that his father died in a hospital after having a heart attack in a hotel room while on vacation with his wife, Arezou. Using colored pencils, pastels, charcoal and watercolors, Mr. Hennessy produced some 10,000 pictures from federal, state and local courtrooms, and from the chamber of the United States Senate. His analog artistry , usually commissioned by news organizations, filled a void in courts where cameras were not allowed or were restricted. “Ideally my clients would have a camera in there, in their mind,” Mr. Hennessy said in an interview with “PBS NewsHour” in 2009. “I don’t necessarily agree, but I do understand what they want from me, and so I provide them with the visuals they need to tell the story, and not just the visuals that you expect, but I try to delve deeper.” Advertisement Art Lien, a retired sketch artist and a friendly competitor of Mr. Hennessy’s at the Supreme Court, said, “Bill had a much better nose for news than I did and probably did twice as many sketches as I did.” He added, “He’d catch everything.” During Mr. Trump’s first impeachment trial in 2020, the only cameras allowed in the chamber were video cameras controlled by the Senate. Mr. Hennessy, sketching from the Senate gallery for CNN, drew Chief Justice John Roberts, who presided over the trial, with papers and a video monitor showing evidence on a desk before him; Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, speaking from a lectern; and a gleaming spittoon on the Senate floor. Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. | Английский для бизнеса с Ольгой Майоровой | 2024-12-20 01:12:05 | ||
| Современный искусственный интеллект обещает стать одной из самых значимых технологий в истории, и это действительно захватывающе! Правда, мнения о том, как именно он повлияет на нашу жизнь, всё ещё разделяются. Откроет ли он новую эпоху, когда мы сможем меньше работать и больше наслаждаться жизнью? Или, наоборот, появятся риски, которые нужно будет учитывать? На саммите DealBook, где модератором был Кевин Рус, технологический обозреватель Times и со-ведущий подкаста Times "Hard Fork", 10 экспертов обсуждали, какие возможности и риски нас ждут. Давайте посмотрим, что они рассказали. Возможности Семь экспертов считают, что есть 50-процентная вероятность того, что искусственный общий интеллект — момент, когда ИИ сможет делать всё, что может человеческий мозг — появится уже к 2030 году. Но многие из возможностей, которые они видят, могут реализоваться даже раньше. Например, Джош Вудворд из Google Labs отметил, что ИИ может помочь людям творить в разных областях. Питер Ли из Microsoft Research указал на множество возможных применений: «Мы могли бы ускорить открытие новых лекарств или найти решения для задач, которые сейчас кажутся неразрешимыми. Мы могли бы заранее предсказывать серьёзные погодные явления. Или даже улучшить вкус веганской еды и цвет кожи.» Сара Гуо, основательница венчурной компании Conviction, отметила, что ИИ может персонализировать образование для студентов и сделать специализированные медицинские и юридические услуги более доступными. Эта технология может изменить и повседневную жизнь, считает Гуо. «Я думаю, что у нас будет экономика, где люди будут видеть свою ценность через работу, которую они сами выбирают», — сказала она. И добавила, что благодаря ИИ у нас может быть более качественная жизнь, где работа будет радостью, и где останется больше времени для учёбы, развлечений и творчества. Подпишитесь на The Times, чтобы читать столько статей, сколько захотите! | Английский для бизнеса с Ольгой Майоровой | 2024-12-20 01:11:49 | ||
| Rupert Murdoch’s attempt to change his family trust to consolidate his son Lachlan’s leadership of his global media empire — and lock in its conservative editorial direction after his death — now depends on a long-shot move in the highly specialized Nevada probate court system. The first step for Mr. Murdoch is to try to persuade a district court judge in Reno to reject a local commissioner’s harsh ruling this month that he had acted in “bad faith” when he moved secretly to change the trust that left control of his empire divided equally among his four oldest children. Mr. Murdoch’s brief challenging that opinion is now due by Monday. If Mr. Murdoch fails, and the commissioner’s recommendation is ratified by the judge, his lawyers have said Mr. Murdoch will appeal the probate court’s decision. Under the Nevada system, that appeal would be filed directly to the State Supreme Court. To prevail, Mr. Murdoch, 93, will have to clear a high legal bar — proving that the Nevada probate commissioner’s finding of bad faith was “clearly erroneous,” according to the rules of the Reno-based court circuit. Advertisement “These types of decisions are not that easy to challenge because of this ‘clearly erroneous’ standard,” said Kevin P. Walsh, a Nevada estate planning and litigation lawyer who appears regularly in the Reno probate court. “It would have to be something that really slaps you in the face as being a mistake.” That might prove especially difficult, he said, because of the breadth and unequivocal language of the Dec. 7 recommendation that the probate commissioner, Edmund J. Gorman, filed under seal this month. Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. | Английский для бизнеса с Ольгой Майоровой | 2024-12-20 01:11:34 | ||
| Rupert Murdoch’s attempt to change his family trust to consolidate his son Lachlan’s leadership of his global media empire — and lock in its conservative editorial direction after his death — now depends on a long-shot move in the highly specialized Nevada probate court system. The first step for Mr. Murdoch is to try to convince a district court judge in Reno to reject a local commissioner’s harsh ruling this month that he had acted in “bad faith” when he moved secretly to change the trust that left control of his empire divided equally among his four oldest children. Mr. Murdoch’s brief challenging that opinion is now due December 23. If Mr. Murdoch fails, and the commissioner’s recommendation is ratified by the judge, his lawyers have said that Mr. Murdoch will appeal the probate court’s decision. Under the Nevada system, that appeal would be filed directly to the State Supreme Court. To prevail, Mr. Murdoch, 93, will have to clear a high legal bar — proving that the Nevada probate commissioner’s finding of bad faith was “clearly erroneous,” according to the rules of the Reno-based court circuit. Advertisement “These types of decisions are not that easy to challenge because of this ‘clearly erroneous’ standard,” said Kevin P. Walsh, a Nevada estate planning and litigation lawyer who appears regularly in the Reno probate court. “It would have to be something that really slaps you in the face as being a mistake.” That might prove especially difficult, he said, because of the breadth and unequivocal language of the Dec. 7 recommendation that the probate commissioner, Edmund J. Gorman, filed under seal this month. Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. | Английский для бизнеса с Ольгой Майоровой | 2024-12-20 00:41:42 | ||
| American Airlines said on Thursday that it had settled a racial discrimination lawsuit filed by three Black men who said they and several others had been wrongly and temporarily removed from a flight in January by the airline’s flight attendants. In a federal lawsuit filed in May , the men said they did not know one another and were not seated together, but they were removed from their plane after a white flight attendant complained about an unidentified passenger’s body odor. They said they were allowed back on the plane after waiting an hour at an airport gate in Phoenix, before departing for New York. Neither American nor the nonprofit group that represented the men would divulge details of the settlement. But the airline has since fired the flight attendants involved in the incident. Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. | Английский для бизнеса с Ольгой Майоровой | 2024-12-20 00:41:27 | ||
| Workers who deliver packages from seven Amazon facilities across the country went on strike Thursday morning, according to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the union that represents them. The Teamsters said thousands of workers had struck, but it was unclear how many people were participating in the action. Amazon said it expected the seven delivery hubs to operate normally. The drivers are employees of companies that Amazon uses to deliver packages to customers. Amazon has said it has no obligation to bargain with the drivers because they are not its employees. But the union and the workers said Amazon ultimately controlled their working conditions and was therefore obligated to bargain with them. The National Labor Relations Board has investigated some of the cases and issued at least one complaint finding the drivers to be Amazon employees and accusing the company of breaking the law by failing to bargain with them. Advertisement The Teamsters said in a statement that workers at other Amazon warehouses were prepared to join the strike. The largest group at Amazon represented by the union works at a Staten Island warehouse known as JFK8, which employs more than 5,000 people. Employees at the warehouse voted to unionize in 2022, but the company has yet to bargain with them and is challenging the election outcome. Workers involved in the strike say it could extend into early next week, perhaps into Christmas, but it’s unclear how big an impact the walkout will have on Amazon’s holiday deliveries. Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. | Английский для бизнеса с Ольгой Майоровой | 2024-12-20 00:11:17 | ||
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| Workers who deliver packages from seven Amazon facilities across the country went on strike Thursday morning, according to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the union that represents them. The Teamsters said thousands of workers had struck, but it was unclear how many people were participating in the action. Amazon said it expected the seven delivery hubs to operate normally. The drivers are employees of companies that Amazon uses to deliver packages to customers. Amazon has said it has no obligation to bargain with the drivers because they are not its employees. But the union and the workers said Amazon ultimately controlled their working conditions and was therefore obligated to bargain with them. The National Labor Relations Board has investigated some of the cases and issued at least one complaint finding the drivers to be Amazon employees and accusing the company of breaking the law by failing to bargain with them. Advertisement The Teamsters said in a statement that workers at other Amazon warehouses were prepared to join the strike. The largest group at Amazon represented by the union works at a Staten Island warehouse known as JFK8, which employs more than 5,000 people. Employees at the warehouse voted to unionize in 2022, but the company has yet to bargain with them and is challenging the election outcome. Workers involved in the strike say it could extend into early next week, perhaps into Christmas, but it’s unclear how big an impact the walkout will have on Amazon’s holiday deliveries. Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. | Английский для бизнеса с Ольгой Майоровой | 2024-12-19 23:14:32 | ||
| The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday updated the definitions of the term “healthy” for labeling on foods, a move that reflected changes in nutrition and that tightened limits on saturated fat, sugar and salt in food that could be sold under that claim. The effort, while seemingly an inconsequential update to a 30-year-old term, set off a veritable food fight of lobbying over which foods made the cut and whether the F.D.A. would violate First Amendment protections in trying to define “healthy.” The F.D.A. said Thursday that its policy, outlined in a final rule, was meant to “empower consumers” by helping them quickly spot nutritious food at the grocery store. The text of the rule said it was part of the agency’s work “to help reduce the burden of diet-related chronic diseases.” “It’s critical for the future of our country that food be a vehicle for wellness,” Dr. Robert Califf, the F.D.A. commissioner, said in a statement. “Improving access to nutrition information is an important public health effort the F.D.A. can undertake to help people build healthy eating patterns.” Advertisement The 318-page rule sets forth highly specific guidelines around what food manufacturers can label “healthy” or other terms, like “healthful” or “healthiest.” For instance, a 50-gram serving of a dairy product must contain no more than 5 percent of a person’s daily sugar level and 10 percent of a person’s daily salt and saturated fat limit. Similar standards would apply to fruits, grains, vegetables, meat and other foods. The new definition would include some processed and packaged food and several items previously excluded from the definition of “healthy,” like nuts, seeds, salmon, some oils and water. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is meeting with lawmakers this week to shore up support for his upcoming confirmation hearings to become secretary of the nation’s top health agency, campaigned for President-elect Donald J. Trump on a message of making the nation healthier through more nutritious food. He criticized the food industry, saying it was poisoning children with artificial additives and ultra-processed foods. Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. | Английский для бизнеса с Ольгой Майоровой | 2024-12-19 23:14:19 | ||
| William J. Hennessy Jr., a prominent courtroom artist whose sketches documented important chapters in history, including the impeachment trials of Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald J. Trump and the Supreme Court case that decided the 2000 presidential election, as well as thousands of scenes of quotidian courtroom drama, died in Key West, Fla., on Dec. 9, his 67th birthday. His son William J. Hennessy III said that his father died in a hospital after having a heart attack in a hotel room while on vacation with his wife, Arezou. Using colored pencils, pastels, charcoal and watercolors, Mr. Hennessy produced some 10,000 pictures from federal, state and local courtrooms, and from the chamber of the United States Senate. His analog artistry , usually commissioned by news organizations, filled a void in courts where cameras were not allowed or were restricted. “Ideally my clients would have a camera in there, in their mind,” Mr. Hennessy said in an interview with “PBS NewsHour” in 2009. “I don’t necessarily agree, but I do understand what they want from me, and so I provide them with the visuals they need to tell the story, and not just the visuals that you expect, but I try to delve deeper.” Advertisement Art Lien, a retired sketch artist and a friendly competitor of Mr. Hennessy’s at the Supreme Court, said, “Bill had a much better nose for news than I did and probably did twice as many sketches as I did.” He added, “He’d catch everything.” During Mr. Trump’s first impeachment trial in 2020, the only cameras allowed in the chamber were video cameras controlled by the Senate. Mr. Hennessy, sketching from the Senate gallery for CNN, drew Chief Justice John Roberts, who presided over the trial, with papers and a video monitor showing evidence on a desk before him; Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, speaking from a lectern; and a gleaming spittoon on the Senate floor. Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. | Английский для бизнеса с Ольгой Майоровой | 2024-12-19 23:14:03 | ||
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| Inside the halls of the Federal Reserve’s headquarters overlooking Constitution Avenue in Washington, casual mentions of the incoming Trump administration are cautious and infrequent. That’s by design. Donald J. Trump had a fraught relationship with the politically independent Fed during his first term. The president wanted central bankers to lower interest rates more aggressively and faster than they thought was economically appropriate. When officials refused to comply, he blasted them as “boneheads” and an “ enemy .” He flirted with trying to fire Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair. He tried ( and failed ) to appoint loyalists to central bank leadership roles. As the Fed enters a new Trump era with interest rates higher than they were at any point in his first term, tensions seem poised to escalate once again — and America’s central bank is on high alert. Fed analysts try to avoid casually discussing tariffs in email or Microsoft Teams meetings, wary that the information could become public and make the Fed look anti-Trump, according to one staff economist who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter. Hallway chatter has taken a negative tone but is often studiously generic and apolitical, according to people familiar with the mood inside the building who also requested anonymity. And while Fed officials and economists have had to begin to consider what Mr. Trump’s promised policies might do to growth and inflation, they have avoided publicly speculating. Advertisement Central bankers are, in effect, keeping their heads down to stay out of the limelight. But try as they might, they appear destined for another crash course with Mr. Trump. The president-elect promised “interest rates cuts the likes of which you have never seen before” while campaigning. Fed officials have been cutting rates since September and are on course to lower them further as inflation cools, but they are unlikely to reduce them as much as Mr. Trump is hoping. Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. | Английский для бизнеса с Ольгой Майоровой | 2024-12-19 22:57:37 | ||
| Twelve inches of fresh powder had just fallen at Eaglecrest Ski Area in Juneau , Alaska, when I arrived for my first day of skiing last February. Snow packed the slumping branches of towering pines and frosted the beards of draping moss. From the chairlift, skiers below me appeared from the thighs up, their lower halves plowing fresh tracks. Whoops of delight rang out from sources unseen. Dropping into an intermediate run, I fought the pull of the depths and managed to surf the soft mantle in a joyous ride — whooping all the way. Powder days, I always thought, were for locals and, occasionally, lucky visitors. After all, it’s hard to schedule a trip around an unpredictable snowstorm far enough in advance to get decent airfare. To boost my luck last winter, I relocated to Juneau, the capital of Alaska, for a month. Though better known as a cruise port welcoming 1.6 million ship passengers annually between May and October, it’s also a ski town in the low (and budget-friendly) season. Advertisement Climate-wise, Juneau is renowned for rain. Surrounded by the Tongass National Forest , the world’s largest contiguous temperate rainforest, the destination gets 230 days of rain a year, some of them in winter. But when the conditions are right, the rain turns to snow and freshwater to ice, creating a wonderland for winter fans, like me, who appreciate downhill and cross-country skiing as well as skating, hiking, cultural diversions off-piste and culinary intrigue after dark. Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. | Английский для бизнеса с Ольгой Майоровой | 2024-12-19 22:57:23 | ||
| For years, worker advocates and some government officials have argued that Amazon’s strict production quotas lead to high rates of injury for its warehouse employees. And for years, Amazon has rejected the criticism, arguing that it doesn’t use strict quotas, and that its injury rates are falling close to or below the industry average. On Sunday, the majority staff of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, which is led by Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, published an investigation that found that Amazon itself had documented the link between its quotas and elevated injury rates. Internal company documents collected by Mr. Sanders’s investigators show that Amazon health and safety personnel recommended relaxing enforcement of the production quotas to lower injury rates, but that senior executives rejected the recommendations apparently because they worried about the effect on the company’s performance. The report also affirmed the findings of investigations undertaken by a union-backed group showing that injury rates at Amazon were almost twice the average for the rest of the industry. Advertisement “The shockingly dangerous working conditions at Amazon’s warehouses revealed in this 160-page report are beyond unacceptable,” Mr. Sanders said in a statement. “Amazon’s executives repeatedly chose to put profits ahead of the health and safety of its workers by ignoring recommendations that would substantially reduce injuries.” Kelly Nantel, an Amazon spokeswoman, said the internal studies and recommendations that Mr. Sanders’s report cited were later found by the company to be invalid. “Senator Sanders’s report is wrong on the facts and weaves together out-of-date documents and unverifiable anecdotes to create a preconceived narrative,” she said. Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. | Английский для бизнеса с Ольгой Майоровой | 2024-12-19 22:57:08 | ||
| Unyielding on tariffs Investors appear largely unfazed by President-elect Donald Trump’s tough talk on tariffs, with the S&P 500 up more than 5 percent since Election Day. But world leaders and C.E.O.s are worried he could disrupt global trade and pummel profits — and feel they’re making little headway in warning him of the consequences. Companies have stepped up their lobbying to persuade Trump to go easy on tariffs, according to The Wall Street Journal . The president-elect warned last month that he would impose 25 percent levies on the country’s biggest trading partners, Canada and Mexico , if they didn’t tighten their borders and stem the flow of illegal migration to the U.S. In subsequent social media posts, he went after China and BRICS countries , too. Trump’s team is warning businesses to take him at his word on tariffs, The Journal reports. That suggests that Trump, who has called tariffs “ the most beautiful word in the dictionary ,” isn’t merely using tariff warnings as an opening salvo in trade negotiations. Advertisement It also calls into question how much say Jamieson Greer, Scott Bessent, Howard Lutnick and Marco Rubio — Trump’s picks for trade representative, and to run the Treasury, Commerce and State departments — will have in shaping Trump’s trade policy if his mind is already made up. Trump conceded that he “ can’t guarantee ” tariffs won’t hit consumers hard. That’s a concern among economists and big companies such as Walmart and Costco , who fear that levies could lead to price rises. This earnings season, analysts have been peppering corporate leaders about how tariffs might affect their businesses. Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. | Английский для бизнеса с Ольгой Майоровой | 2024-12-19 22:56:53 | ||
| E.B. Furgurson III, a reporter who, after five of his colleagues at the Maryland newspaper The Capital were massacred in their newsroom by a grudge-fueled gunman, helped produce the next day’s issue from his pickup truck, died on Nov. 25 in Annapolis, Md. He was 70. His wife, Rebecca (Bisgood) Furgurson, said his death, in a hospital, was caused by an “extended illness.” On June 28, 2018, Mr. Furgurson — who, like his father, also a journalist, was known as Pat — had gone for lunch at the food court at the Westfield Annapolis Mall, across the street from the newspaper, when he received a text about the shootings, which killed four of his fellow journalists, Rob Hiaasen, Wendi Winters, John McNamara and Gerald Fischman, and Rebecca Smith, a sales assistant. The gunman, Jarrod W. Ramos, had held a grudge against the paper for publishing an article in 2011 about his guilty plea in a harassment case. In 2021, he was sentenced to six consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole, one for each of the five people he killed and one for attempted murder. Advertisement Mr. Furgurson quickly left the food court and, in the mall’s garage, turned the back of his pickup truck into a makeshift work space that he shared with a photographer, Josh McKerrow, and a reporter, Chase Cook. While Mr. Furgurson made telephone calls and talked to the police, he became a calming influence to an anxious Mr. McKerrow. Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. | Английский для бизнеса с Ольгой Майоровой | 2024-12-19 22:56:37 | ||
| Jabil, a major manufacturer of electronics components for the tech industry, made a startling discovery in the spring of 2021: It had been relying on dozens of undocumented workers, contracted from a staffing agency, to power its manufacturing sites near Silicon Valley. Jabil insisted they be fired, setting off what it called a “mass exodus” from its work force that required expensive and “herculean efforts” to find replacements, including hosting job fairs and borrowing workers from a client. The upheaval caused the company to fall behind on both existing orders and bids for new business, costing it up to $50 million, according to interviews and allegations in an ongoing lawsuit against the staffing agency. How Jabil navigated the sudden loss of undocumented workers — years before Donald J. Trump won re-election on a pledge of mass deportations of illegal immigrants — foreshadows the possible road ahead for companies that rely on staffing agencies to fill jobs at factories, warehouses and distribution centers. Advertisement The New York Times reported in November that staffing firms were among the top employers of unauthorized workers at work sites inspected for immigration violations over the past decade. Now with Mr. Trump’s victory, some firms are fearing the worst. Toby Malara, vice president for government relations at the American Staffing Association, a trade group, said in an interview that the “business community at large” has been urging the incoming Trump administration “not to go forward with the mass deportations.” Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. | Английский для бизнеса с Ольгой Майоровой | 2024-12-19 22:56:23 | ||
| The Biden administration is preparing a trade investigation into China’s production of older-model semiconductors, in response to fears that the United States’ growing dependence on these products could pose a national security threat, according to people familiar with the matter and government and industry documents reviewed by The New York Times. The investigation could ultimately result in tariffs, import bans or other actions on certain Chinese chips and the products that contain them. But the decision about what course to take would fall to the incoming Trump administration. The Biden administration may initiate its investigation in the coming weeks, but it would most likely take at least six months to conclude. The U.S. government has already tried to clamp down on China’s access to the most advanced types of semiconductors due to national security concerns. But it has largely left untouched China’s production of older types of chips, which are still vital for powering a huge swath of products including smartphones, cars, dishwashers, refrigerators and weaponry, along with American telecommunications networks. But with Chinese companies and the government now investing heavily in new factories, or fabs, to make those “legacy” or “foundational” chips, U.S. officials are concerned that Chinese production could put chip factories in the United States or allied countries out of business. That could increase U.S. supply chain dependence on China and potentially pose cybersecurity threats as those chips are integrated into American infrastructure or weaponry. Advertisement “China is subsidizing those chips in these new fabs, dumping them into the global market and tanking the price,” Gina Raimondo, the commerce secretary, said at the Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, Calif., on Dec. 7. “That isn’t fair. And there may be a case for tariffs on that.” The Biden administration has been weighing whether to proceed with a trade investigation under two different laws. One is Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act, which focuses on threats to national security and falls to the Commerce Department. The other option is Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, which applies to acts that are “unjustifiable” or “unreasonable” and burden U.S. commerce, and is carried out by the Office of the United States Trade Representative. Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. | Английский для бизнеса с Ольгой Майоровой | 2024-12-19 22:56:08 | ||
| TikTok asked the Supreme Court on Monday to temporarily block a law that would effectively ban it in the United States in a matter of weeks. Saying that the law violates both its First Amendment rights and those of its 170 million American users, TikTok, which is controlled by a Chinese parent company, urged the justices to maintain the status quo while they decide whether to hear an appeal. “Congress’s unprecedented attempt to single out applicants and bar them from operating one of the most significant speech platforms in this nation presents grave constitutional problems that this court likely will not allow to stand,” lawyers for TikTok wrote in their emergency application. President Biden signed the law this spring after it was enacted with wide bipartisan support . Lawmakers said the app’s ownership represented a risk because the Chinese government’s oversight of private companies would allow it to retrieve sensitive information about Americans or to spread propaganda, though they have not publicly shared evidence that this has occurred. They have also noted that American platforms like Facebook and YouTube are banned in China, and that TikTok itself is not allowed in the country. Advertisement The fight will have far-reaching consequences. Since TikTok officially landed in the United States in 2018, it has become a cultural juggernaut that wields influence over nearly every facet of American life . Users, especially members of Gen Z and millennials, turn to it for news, entertainment and shopping, lured by its canny recommendation engine, which compiles short videos for users in a main feed. The app can quickly become addictive, as it gauges users’ interests, down to the number of seconds they spend on each video. The court has shown keen interest in recent terms in the application of free speech principles to giant technology platforms, though it has stopped short of issuing definitive rulings. It has also wrestled with the application of the First Amendment to foreign speakers, ruling that they are generally without constitutional protection, at least for speech delivered abroad. Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. | Английский для бизнеса с Ольгой Майоровой | 2024-12-19 22:55:53 | ||
| Carlos Watson, a co-founder of the now-defunct digital media company Ozy Media, was sentenced on Monday to almost 10 years in prison for trying to defraud investors and lenders by lying about the company’s finances. The sentence came five months after a federal jury convicted Mr. Watson and Ozy Media of conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud. The jury also convicted Mr. Watson of identity theft, following a two-month trial during which witnesses detailed an impersonated phone call, fabricated contracts and misleading claims about Ozy’s earnings from 2018 to 2021. Mr. Watson, who had pleaded not guilty and continued to assert his innocence up until his sentence of 116 months, faced a maximum of 37 years in prison. Government prosecutors had requested a 17-year sentence and $65.6 million in forfeiture to the government, though exactly how much Ozy will have to forfeit has yet to be determined. “The fact that we’re here in this circumstance is tragic,” said Judge Eric Komitee of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, who presided over the case and imposed the sentence. “But it’s a tragedy of Mr. Watson’s own making.” Advertisement Mr. Watson started Ozy in 2013, publishing news articles and newsletters before venturing into podcasts and television productions. The start-up secured commitments from prominent investors at a time when digital publishers, like BuzzFeed and Vice, attracted billions of dollars in investments that largely didn’t pan out. Throughout the legal proceedings, Mr. Watson denied the fraud allegations. In court, his lawyers argued that his representations to investors had been based on good-faith assessments of Ozy’s finances, and they shifted the blame for any fraudulent activity onto other former Ozy employees. When he took the stand at his trial, Mr. Watson said that he did not intentionally inflate revenue estimates, but rather presented the types of service-based income typical of a “scrappy young company” in its early years. Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. | Английский для бизнеса с Ольгой Майоровой | 2024-12-19 22:55:38 | ||
| Barry Blechman, 81, an international relations analyst with metastatic bladder cancer, traveled last winter from his home in Washington, D.C., to a clinic in Bend, Ore., where he drank a tea containing psilocybin, the psychoactive component of magic mushrooms. He then stretched out on the floor and closed his eyes. When he phoned his wife, Kitty, 10 hours later, she was startled by the levity in his voice. “He sounded 20 years younger, like a weight had been lifted off him,” she said. In the months since, the angst and depression triggered by his cancer diagnosis no longer hound him, Mr. Blechman said, and he has gained profound insights into aspects of his personality he believes negatively affected his relationships. “Psilocybin therapy has been a life-changing experience,” he said. Mr. Blechman is among the thousands of Americans with serious medical conditions who have turned to psychedelic medicine to address the anxiety and existential distress that often accompany a potentially terminal diagnosis. Those who can afford the $2,000 treatments have been flocking to psilocybin clinics in Oregon, the only state besides Colorado where they can legally operate. (Colorado’s psilocybin program begins in 2025.) Many more have been trying ketamine in their therapist’s office or at home. Although not a classic psychedelic like LSD and psilocybin, ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, is widely considered a psychedelic therapy because of its effects. It can be legally prescribed “off label” for psychiatric conditions, and it is far less expensive than psilocybin therapy. Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. | Английский для бизнеса с Ольгой Майоровой | 2024-12-19 22:55:22 | ||
| Amazon Studios spent $250 million to make “Red One,” a comedic holiday action film starring Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans. Then the company pushed the film into more than 4,000 theaters, spending tens of millions more to market it. So when the movie racked up only about $80 million in domestic box office receipts in recent weeks — half of which goes to the theater operators — it looked like a huge investment gone horribly bad. Not so fast, Amazon says. “We did this for a very specific reason,” Courtenay Valenti, the company’s head of film, said. And that reason: to make it a streaming hit. For much of the past decade, Hollywood executives striving to catch Netflix started believing that the only way to increase the subscriber numbers for their own streaming services was either by significantly narrowing the time between a film’s theatrical release and its appearance on streaming or by putting both out simultaneously. Disney did it with “Black Widow,” much to the dismay of Scarlett Johansson . Warner Bros. did it with “Dune.” This was the future. Advertisement On top of that, the thinking went, streaming would give movie studios a chance to spend far less on the expensive marketing required for a theatrical release. The algorithm would do all the work instead. But the industry has now largely come to a very different conclusion: The key to making a movie a streaming success and attracting new subscribers is to first release it in theaters. It turns out that all the things that make theatrical movies successful — expansive marketing and public relations campaigns, and valuable word of mouth — continue to help movies perform once they land in the home. Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. | Английский для бизнеса с Ольгой Майоровой | 2024-12-19 22:55:08 | ||
| The final cut (for now)? The Fed is set to wrap up its last policy meeting of the year on Wednesday, with markets essentially convinced that the central bank will lower interest rates for a third time since September. There may still be drama, however, as investors worry that stubbornly high inflation and volatility from a potential trade war orchestrated by President-elect Donald Trump could force the Fed to go easier on rate-cutting next year. The central bank is divided on what to do, with a growing number of officials taking a more cautious tone in recent weeks. That could signal an emerging belief among policymakers that borrowing costs should remain higher for longer, the kind of debate that created huge friction between Trump and the politically independent Fed in his first term. Jay Powell, the Fed chair, has sounded more hawkish lately, too. He told Andrew at the DealBook Summit this month that a “stronger” economy meant that “we can afford to be a little more cautious as we try to find neutral.” That refers to the Fed’s target of achieving an interest rate level that neither encourages nor impedes growth. Advertisement Inflation remains a concern. Recent economic data has shown that the Fed’s efforts to tame price rises have largely stalled. (The release on Friday of the Personal Consumption Expenditures index, the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge, should offer more clues.) That’s adding uncertainty as investors ponder the effects of Trump’s likely economic policies and whether his pledge to lower taxes, crack down on immigration and impose tariffs on trade partners will revive the inflation genie and further muddle the Fed’s rates policy next year. Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. | Английский для бизнеса с Ольгой Майоровой | 2024-12-19 22:54:54 |