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Green Deal

Distilling the spirit of sustainability

This week we expect to see one of the flagship initiatives of the Von der Leyen Commission: the Farm to Fork Strategy. This hotly anticipated piece of policy, coupled with the Green Deal, promises to make the entire food chain more sustainable. While most will welcome its introduction, there is…

bubmagMay 19, 2020

Skateboard

Supreme x The North Face Second Spring Drop and One World Charity Tee

1 of 7 2 of 7 3 of 7 4 of 7 5 of 7 6 of 7 7 of 7 Coming off their RTG collection drop back in March, Supreme and The North Face have linked up for another round of outerwear and accessories this Spring 2020. This time,…

bubmagMay 19, 2020

Holocaust

Column: I’ve gotten hate mail my whole career. But I’m shocked by the anti-Semitic rants from Trump supporters lately

A makeshift shrine near the Chabad of Poway synagogue in Poway, Calif., in April 2019. (David Maung / EPA-EFE/REX)Maybe I’m getting soft, but I found these two emails very disturbing.“Dumb ass liberal Jew...Hope you get Chinese virus and suffer for lying to people...Really do.......”And this one:“Keep your mouth shut kike.…

bubmagMay 19, 2020

Soundcloud

Podcast 235 | Politics

Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus discuss living a meaningful life with less. With more than 50 million downloads and 7,000 listener reviews, The Minimalists Podcast is often the #1 Health podcast on Apple Podcasts, and it occasionally charts in the Top 10 of all shows. Subscribe Apple Podcasts · Spotify ·…

bubmagMay 19, 2020

Obamacare

Covid-19 Leadership: Who Has Failed And Who Is Leading The Way?

“With all thy getting, get understanding." In this segment of What’s Ahead, the title of which is “Covid-19 Leadership: Who Has Failed And Who Is Leading the Way?,” I bluntly point out who is doing things right and who isn’t. Of course, our frontline responders courageously continue to do their…

bubmagMay 19, 2020

Giphy

How Facebook’s past acquisitions could haunt its purchase of Giphy

On Friday, Facebook made its fifth-largest known acquisition ever. The company bought Giphy, a database and search engine for the short looping videos known as GIFs, for $400 million. Today let’s talk about some of the reasons, stated and unstated, that Facebook bought Giphy, and then consider what might come…

bubmagMay 19, 2020

Hooliganism

Ghana: Help Players, Officials Understand Football Laws

In a bid to curb crowd violence and hooliganism in football, clubs have been advised to employ the services of active or retired referees to teach players and supporters about the laws of the game. This way, all will be abreast of the laws and its interpretation and it would…

bubmagMay 19, 2020

Giphy

Does Mathowie strike it big with Giphy?

Isn't this site pretty much entirely made up of short clips from copyrighted films and TV programmes? $400 million seems like a lot of money for a website full of other people's content.posted by winterhill at 2:34 AM on May 19 Wow... an entire page of just animated gifs... They…

bubmagMay 19, 2020

NASDAQ

Global stocks decline after Monday’s rally; oil extends gains

North American markets closed out Tuesday's trading session mixed, with the S&P/TSX Composite Index gaining 1.68 per cent in a catch-up session, the S&P 500 falling 1.05 per cent, the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 1.59 per cent and the Nasdaq Composite Index shedding 0.54 per cent of its value.…

bubmagMay 19, 2020

Sky-Diving

Developing a Writing Practice, Part 7: Engrained

Today’s post is by regular contributor Susan DeFreitas (@manzanitafire), an award-winning author, editor, and book coach. She offers a first 50-page review on works in progress for novelists seeking direction on their next step toward publishing.In part seven of this series based on Sean D. Young’s bestselling book Stick with It: A…

bubmagMay 19, 2020

Distilling the spirit of sustainability

Supreme x The North Face Second Spring Drop and One World Charity Tee

Column: I’ve gotten hate mail my whole career. But I’m shocked by the anti-Semitic rants from Trump supporters lately

Podcast 235 | Politics

Covid-19 Leadership: Who Has Failed And Who Is Leading The Way?

How Facebook’s past acquisitions could haunt its purchase of Giphy

Ghana: Help Players, Officials Understand Football Laws

Does Mathowie strike it big with Giphy?

Global stocks decline after Monday’s rally; oil extends gains

Developing a Writing Practice, Part 7: Engrained

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