Datasets:
Tasks:
Question Answering
Modalities:
Text
Formats:
parquet
Languages:
English
Size:
10K - 100K
License:
article_id
stringlengths 16
16
| title
stringlengths 12
211
| content
stringlengths 40
32.8k
| questions
dict | options
dict | answers
dict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
f8097c7d27a8aac6
|
There's a shortage of truckers, but TuSimple thinks it has a solution: no driver needed - CNN
|
(CNN)Right now, there's a shortage of truck drivers in the US and worldwide, exacerbated by the e-commerce boom brought on by the pandemic. One solution to the problem is autonomous trucks, and several companies are in a race to be the first to launch one. Among them is San Diego-based TuSimple.Founded in 2015, TuSimple has completed about 2 million miles of road tests with its 70 prototype trucks across the US, China and Europe. Although these are simply commercially available trucks retrofitted with its technology, TuSimple has deals in place with two of the world's largest truck manufacturers -- Navistar in the US and Traton, Volkswagen's trucking business, in Europe -- to design and build fully autonomous models, which it hopes to launch by 2024. Photos: The Yara Birkeland is what its builders call the world's first zero-emission, autonomous cargo ship. The ship is scheduled to make its first journey between two Norwegian towns before the end of the year. Click through to see more forms of transport set to transform the future.Hide Caption 1 of 13 Photos: Pictured here as a rendering, Oceanbird is a wind-powered transatlantic car carrier that cuts carbon emissions by 90%, compared to a standard car carrier.Hide Caption 2 of 13 Photos: It's not just maritime ships that are going green. Cities around the world are adopting electric ferries. Norwegian startup Zeabuz hopes its self-driving electric ferry (pictured here as a rendering) will help revive urban waterways.Hide Caption 3 of 13 Photos: In China, a new Maglev high-speed train rolls off the production line in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, on July 20. It has a top speed of 600 km per hour -- currently the fastest ground vehicle available globally. Hide Caption 4 of 13 Photos: Reaching speeds of up to 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) per hour, Hyperloop could be a sustainable replacement to short-haul flights. Dutch company Hardt (shown here as a rendering) started work on its Hyperloop test facility in Europe, anticipated to open in 2022.Hide Caption 5 of 13 Photos: Hyperloop is like a bullet train, without tracks and rails. Floating pods are propelled through a low-pressure steel tube using magnetic levitation. Virgin has been running tests with passengers on its XP-2 vehicle, pictured here.Hide Caption 6 of 13 Photos: Low carbon travel isn't just about switching to sustainable fuel sources -- it's also about redesigning the transport itself. A "Flying-V" plane designed by Delft's University of Technology in the Netherlands and Dutch airline KLM can cut fuel consumption by 20%. Ultimately, researchers hope to switch out the kerosene with a sustainable fuel source, like liquid hydrogen.Hide Caption 7 of 13 Photos: Hydrogen aviation could provide a sustainable solution for short and medium-haul flights. In September, Airbus unveiled plans for three hydrogen-powered, zero-emission aircraft which can carry 100 to 200 passengers. It hopes to launch the first ZEROe aircraft in 2035.Hide Caption 8 of 13 Photos: In December 2019, Canadian airline Harbour Air flew the world's first all-electric, zero-emission commercial aircraft. The six-seater seaplane was retrofitted with magniX's magni500 all-electric motor. Harbour Air -- which carries half a million passengers annually -- hopes to become the world's first all-electric airline. Hide Caption 9 of 13 Photos: In the case of electric bikes, the future is now: one retailer reported the sale of e-bikes and e-scooters had increased 230% this year. E-bikes give the user a boost to their pedaling, allowing them to go further with less effort. E-bikes are now even available on ride-share apps, like Uber.Hide Caption 10 of 13 Photos: While sleeper trains or buses might be the way most of us get some shut-eye on overnight travel, this rendering of a self-driving hotel suite from Toronto-based designer Steve Lee of Aprilli Design Studio might offer a plush alternative in the future.Hide Caption 11 of 13 Photos: In the UAE, these futuristic-looking pods are undergoing testing on a 400-meter line in Sharjah, which borders Dubai. Belarus-based uSky Transport says its pods can help cities solve traffic problems.Hide Caption 12 of 13 Photos: The Coradia iLint by French rail transport company Alstom is the world's first hydrogen-powered passenger train. It began testing in Germany in 2018, and in September 2020 entered regular service in Austria.Hide Caption 13 of 13No sleepTuSimple's latest road test involved hauling fresh produce 951 miles, from Nogales, Arizona to Oklahoma City. The pickup and the dropoff were handled by a human driver, but for the bulk of the route -- from Tucson to Dallas -- the truck drove itself. Read More"Today, because the system is not fully ready, we have a safety driver and a safety engineer on board at all times when we're testing, but we drove in full autonomy: the driver wasn't touching the wheel," said Cheng Lu, TuSimple's president and CEO. The journey was completed in 14 hours versus the usual 24 with a human driver, mostly because a truck doesn't need to sleep. "In the US, a driver can only work 11 hours a day. We simply had a handoff when our first pair of drivers had to stop because they reached their 11 hours of operation," said Lu. That, of course, negates the advantage of an autonomous system, so the idea is that once TuSimple's trucks hit the market, there will be no need to have anyone onboard. Picking up the watermelons still required the human touch.Unlike self-driving cars, which are a still a way from being commercially available, TuSimple trucks won't be required to operate in bustling city traffic, but only on stretches of highway that have been thoroughly mapped via the company's own software. "We collect data from the roads, and we create this very detailed, high definition map of each route. That adds another layer of safety for the vehicles," said Lu. As a result, TuSimple's trucks will only be able to self-drive along these pre-mapped trade corridors, which Lu calls "virtual railroads," and nowhere else. This swarm of robots gets smarter the more it worksAccording to the company, in the US 80% of goods travel through just 10% of the nation's trade corridors, so even selective mapping allows for capturing a large portion of the business. TuSimple is currently mapping routes between Arizona and Texas, and plans to have mapped routes across the nation by 2024. Its plans are dependent on state legislation, however, because currently some states do not allow for testing of autonomous trucks on public roads. Happier drivers?The technology will add about $50,000 to the cost of a truck, making the final price roughly $200,000. According to Lu, that's still cheaper than paying for a human driver. "If you take $50,000 and divide it by 1 million miles, the average lifespan of a truck, that means you're adding five cents per mile. But you're saving the cost of a human driver, which based on average US wages is about $80,000 to $120,000 per year -- or 80 cents to $1.20 per mile. Today, the direct labor cost is about 50% of the cost of operating a truck," he said. Read: A robotic 'Ironhand' could protect factory workers from injuriesThat doesn't mean driverless trucks will take away jobs, according to Lu. By focusing on the "middle mile," rather than on the pickup and delivery of the goods, TuSimple believes it can create new freight capacity without creating new demand for drivers, while at the same time protecting existing jobs. "A UPS driver is dropping off 200 packages a day -- that's not what autonomy is meant for. We believe that every driver will be able to retire as a driver, even if they enter the workforce today," said Lu. TuSimple's autonomous fleet.Instead, TuSimple aims to take over the routes between terminals and distribution centers, which involve long stretches of monotonous driving. "Take Phoenix to El Paso: that's a six-hour drive. A person cannot make the round trip, because it's more than 11 hours. But the truck can go back and forth all day, the most mundane job that drivers don't want to do. That means you free up that human driver to do the first and the last mile (pickup and delivery).They get to work a full day, which is a more efficient use of their time, and they get to go home at night to their family," said Lu.No distractions Although Lu says that the reliability of both the software and the hardware still needs to be increased, TuSimple is planning its first fully autonomous tests, without a human safety driver in the cabin at all, before the end of the year. The results of such tests will indicate whether the company can meet its goal to launch its own trucks by 2024. Lu says that 7,000 have been reserved in the US alone. Photos: The robots running our warehouses Photos: The robots running our warehousesRobots are an increasingly familiar presence in warehouses. At the south-east London warehouse run by British online supermarket Ocado, 3,000 robots fulfill shopping orders. When an order is sent to the warehouse, the bots spring to life and head towards the container they require. Scroll through to see more robots that are revolutionizing warehouses.Hide Caption 1 of 8 Photos: The robots running our warehousesIn response to the coronavirus pandemic, MIT collaborated with Ava Robotics and the Greater Boston Food Bank to design a robot that can use UV light to sanitize the floor of a 4,000-square foot warehouse in just 30 minutes. Hide Caption 2 of 8 Photos: The robots running our warehousesSeven-foot "Model-T" robots produced by Japanese startup Telexistence have been stacking shelves in two of Tokyo's largest convenience store franchises. Featuring cameras, microphones and sensors, the Model-T uses three "fingers" to stock items such as bottled drinks, cans and rice bowls. The robot is controlled by shop staff remotely.Hide Caption 3 of 8 Photos: The robots running our warehousesUS company Boston Dynamics has become known for its advanced work robots. "Handle" is made for the warehouse and equipped with an on-board vision system. It can lift boxes weighing over 30 pounds. Hide Caption 4 of 8 Photos: The robots running our warehousesStretch is the latest robot from Boston Dynamics and can work in warehouses and distribution centers. Designed to keep human workers out of harm's way, Stretch's tentacle-like grippers mean it can manipulate boxes. Hide Caption 5 of 8 Photos: The robots running our warehousesAlthough not specifically designed for warehouses, Boston Dynamics' dog-like robot "Spot" can lift objects, pick itself up after a fall, open and walk through doors, and even remind people to practice social distancing. Hide Caption 6 of 8 Photos: The robots running our warehousesThis robot is used to plant seeds and check plants at the "Nordic Harvest" vertical farm based in Taastrup, Denmark. The indoor farm is one of the biggest in Europe.Hide Caption 7 of 8 Photos: The robots running our warehousesRobots sort packages at a warehouse run by JD.com -- one of China's largest e-commerce firms, in Wuhan, China, ahead of the annual Singles Day online shopping bonanza, in 2019.Hide Caption 8 of 8 TuSimple has prominent competitors, such as Google spinoff Waymo and Uber-backed Aurora, but those are working on a wider range of self-driving vehicles, including passenger cars. TuSimple is working exclusively on driverless trucks, like US companies Plus and Embark. Grayson Brulte, an autonomy expert at consulting firm Brulte & Co., believes TuSimple is on the right track. "The biggest competitive advantage that TuSimple has over its competitors is that their technology was purpose-built for trucking. They're not trying to port an autonomy system built for passenger vehicles in dense urban environments to trucking or to build a virtual driver which can both drive passenger vehicles and class-8 trucks. These are different skills and different systems altogether," he said. Removing the human element on long trucking routes has other benefits. The company says its trucks react 15 times faster than human drivers, and can see farther down the road, even at night. "In the US every year there are about 5,000 fatalities involving trucks, and most are due to human error," said Lu. "The truck doesn't get tired, doesn't watch a movie or look at a phone. It doesn't get distracted."
|
{
"Q1": ""
}
|
{
"Q1": []
}
|
{
"Q1": 0
}
|
c9c8b01d91802400
|
Bioservo's robotic 'Ironhand' could protect factory workers from injuries - CNN
|
(CNN)Working in a factory or warehouse can mean doing the same task over and over, and that repetition can lead to chronic injury. Now, a battery-powered glove could help workers by taking some of the strain.The "Ironhand" glove strengthens the wearer's grip, meaning they don't have to use as much force to perform repetitive manual tasks. Its developer, Bioservo, says it can increase the wearer's hand strength by 20%. The Swedish company describes the system as a "soft exoskeleton." Exoskeletons are an external device that supports and protects the body, typically increasing strength and endurance. Most have a rigid structure, but the Ironhand is soft, like a regular glove. Photos: The robots running our warehousesRobots are an increasingly familiar presence in warehouses. At the south-east London warehouse run by British online supermarket Ocado, 3,000 robots fulfill shopping orders. When an order is sent to the warehouse, the bots spring to life and head towards the container they require. Scroll through to see more robots that are revolutionizing warehouses.Hide Caption 1 of 8 Photos: The robots running our warehousesIn response to the coronavirus pandemic, MIT collaborated with Ava Robotics and the Greater Boston Food Bank to design a robot that can use UV light to sanitize the floor of a 4,000-square foot warehouse in just 30 minutes. Hide Caption 2 of 8 Photos: The robots running our warehousesSeven-foot "Model-T" robots produced by Japanese startup Telexistence have been stacking shelves in two of Tokyo's largest convenience store franchises. Featuring cameras, microphones and sensors, the Model-T uses three "fingers" to stock items such as bottled drinks, cans and rice bowls. The robot is controlled by shop staff remotely.Hide Caption 3 of 8 Photos: The robots running our warehousesUS company Boston Dynamics has become known for its advanced work robots. "Handle" is made for the warehouse and equipped with an on-board vision system. It can lift boxes weighing over 30 pounds. Hide Caption 4 of 8 Photos: The robots running our warehousesStretch is the latest robot from Boston Dynamics and can work in warehouses and distribution centers. Designed to keep human workers out of harm's way, Stretch's tentacle-like grippers mean it can manipulate boxes. Hide Caption 5 of 8 Photos: The robots running our warehousesAlthough not specifically designed for warehouses, Boston Dynamics' dog-like robot "Spot" can lift objects, pick itself up after a fall, open and walk through doors, and even remind people to practice social distancing. Hide Caption 6 of 8 Photos: The robots running our warehousesThis robot is used to plant seeds and check plants at the "Nordic Harvest" vertical farm based in Taastrup, Denmark. The indoor farm is one of the biggest in Europe.Hide Caption 7 of 8 Photos: The robots running our warehousesRobots sort packages at a warehouse run by JD.com -- one of China's largest e-commerce firms, in Wuhan, China, ahead of the annual Singles Day online shopping bonanza, in 2019.Hide Caption 8 of 8Reducing fatigue"When you have the glove on, it provides strength and reduces the effort needed when lifting objects," says Mikael Wester, Bioservo's marketing director. "It's all in order to reduce fatigue and prevent strain injuries in the long run."The Ironhand system was developed with General Motors as a partner.Read MoreThe system consists of a backpack, which houses the power pack, and artificial tendons that connect to the glove. There are sensors on each fingertip which switch on the motor when a user grabs an object. A remote control or app can be used to adjust the strength and sensitivity of the grip.Wester says applications include assembly on the production line in the automotive industry, using tools in construction and lifting heavy objects in warehouses.Each Ironhand system costs around €6,000 ($7,275). The device also collects data that allows the company to assess the wearer's risk of developing strain injuries. According to the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, work-related neck and upper limb disorders are the most common occupational disease in Europe, costing national economies up to 2% of their gross national product.From NASA to General Motors The glove was originally intended for workers in a very different setting to the factory floor. NASA developed an early version of the technology, called "Robo-Glove," to help astronauts grasp objects and carry out work in space. The Ironhand system being used for assembling parts in the automobile industry. Bioservo licensed the design in 2016 and then partnered with auto manufacturer General Motors (GM) to develop the glove for its workers. Why online supermarket Ocado wants to take the human touch out of groceries"Ergonomics is really the field of trying to fit the jobs to the workers, instead of the workers having to conform and adapt to the job," says Stephen Krajcarski, a senior manager with GM's ergonomics team."By using tools such as the Ironhand we are really trying to mitigate any potential concerns or physical demands that may eventually cause a medical concern for that individual operator." Krajcarski says GM has helped Bioservo to test and improve the Ironhand by piloting it in a variety of jobs at its manufacturing plants. He says some workers have found it easy to use but adds that it's not suitable for all situations.The Ironhand is just one of the exoskeletons GM is looking into. According to market research firm ABI Research, the exoskeleton market will grow from $392 million in 2020 to $6.8 billion in 2030."If you look at exoskeletons, this is just one of the tools that are out there," says Krajcarski. "But this is an exciting technology."This story has been updated to correct the cost of the Ironhand system.
|
{
"Q1": ""
}
|
{
"Q1": []
}
|
{
"Q1": 0
}
|
9f402e296be38f87
|
White House 'appalled' at Axios over Ukraine article - CNN
|
New York (CNN Business)A version of this article first appeared in the "Reliable Sources" newsletter. You can sign up for free right here.The White House spent much of Friday frustrated by an Axios report that it believes was based on a fabricated letter purportedly written by Ukraine's top national security official. The Axios story, written by reporter Zachary Basu, said that Oleksiy Danilov had asked the US earlier this month "to go beyond traditional military aid and provide the country with the funding, training and weaponry to support a long-term resistance movement." But Ukrainian Ambassador Oksana Markarova later told Axios that she believed the letter was "falsified." And officials at the National Security Council also told Axios they have no record of receiving such a letter from Danilov.Here's what I have gathered after talking to a senior administration official familiar with the matter: White House and CIA officials told Axios off the record on Thursday that they had no record of receiving Danilov's supposed letter and that they could not confirm its authenticity. In other words, they tried to wave Basu away from it. When Basu published his report anyway, the White House connected the outlet with Markarova so that she could relay that she believed it to be inauthentic. Markarova did so on Friday. Meanwhile, the White House repeatedly asked Axios to retract its story — all to no avail. "We were appalled that Axios apparently did not have time to verify with Ukrainian officials whether or not this letter was a fake, but made sure to reach out to a former Trump official with no knowledge of the situation for a 'gotcha' quote," the senior admin official told me. "And then we were even more appalled it stayed up all day despite our repeated asks to take the story down when became obvious the letter was a fake — which Axios should have dug up before publishing in the first place."Read MoreShortly after I contacted Axios for comment Friday evening, the outlet updated its story. Axios changed the headline — which initially read "Scoop: Ukraine sought long-term resistance funding" — to "Ukraine's ambassador disputes letter asking U.S. for resistance support." The new story, which included Markarova saying the document appeared "falsified," cited a "former senior Ukrainian official close to Danilov" who told Axios "that they had received the letter from Danilov's office, and that it was also distributed to Ukrainian American groups and think tank experts in Washington." But crucially, the source also told Axios that he or she could not confirm the letter was officially transmitted to the US government — essentially the crux of the initial story.Notably, at that point, the article didn't include a correction or retraction, despite it seemingly having no real legs to stand on. Later in the evening, a proper correction was ultimately appended to the top of the story. It read, in part, "This corrects an original version of this story that stated the Ukrainian government 'asked' for additional assistance from the U.S. government, when Axios was unable to confirm the letter was actually sent." Still, given that Axios is now conceding it was "unable to confirm" the main point of its initial story, it is surprising that a more forceful correction or full retraction wasn't issued.NSC spokesperson Emily Horne went on the record about the whole episode. In a statement to me, she said, "We told Axios that we had not received this letter and were unable to verify its authenticity. There's a lot of disinformation and misinformation being pushed around about Ukraine right now. This is a moment where taking the extra time to verify reporting is even more essential than usual."
|
{
"Q1": ""
}
|
{
"Q1": []
}
|
{
"Q1": 0
}
|
d4a16354ca8785f5
|
How PepsiCo is rethinking the office: More remote work. No assigned desks - CNN
|
When it comes to the future of work, PepsiCo is re-imagining the role of the office and giving employees more flexibility to choose where they work. More from Success Hybrid working is going to be tricky. Here's how to do it rightCorporate America promised to get more diverse. But it's still mostly White women making gainsThese return-to-work programs could help moms reenter the workforceIt's all part of PepsiCo' (PEP)s new "Work that Works" plan. The office will no longer be the primary location for where work gets done, and corporate employees around the globe will decide with their managers which days they'll be in the office and when they'll be remote."There are no limitations. There is no number of days you need to be in the office or a number of days you can be remote," said Sergio Ezama, PepsiCo's chief talent officer and chief human resources officer, Global Functions and Groups, in an interview with CNN Business. Out of the company's roughly 290,000 employees, about 80,000 work in corporate offices, with the remaining working in non-corporate environments, including plants, warehouses and sales centers.Here's what Ezama had to say about the future of work and finding employees in this labor market. Read More(This interview has been edited for length and clarity) What was PepsiCo's remote work policy before the pandemic? Prior to the pandemic we had a policy by week -- people could ask to work remote up to two days upon manager approval. So if I were to work from home for two days next week, I would send an email to my boss asking for permission and my boss would say 'yes' or 'no.' Depending on the location I would say that part of the policy, the flex policy, was more used in big headquarter locations. The first key idea is there is no default workplace. This idea of the physical office as the default environment doesn't exist any more"Sergio Ezama, PepsiCo's Chief Talent Officer Pre-pandemic, normally we had a peak around 65% of the assigned headcount on any given day: people traveling, on vacation or working remote wasn't really quite a significant part of what we were seeing day in and day out. Still, the policy I would say was a very traditional policy with the day limitation and manager approval being required. We had people who asked for a more structured arrangement -- 'can I work this particular day always from home?' -- that also required human resources approval.Sergio Ezama, Chief Talent Officer PepsiCo and chief human resources officer, Global Functions and Groups at PepsiCo.What is the company's plan now for how its corporate employees will work? When we started to ask our employees about 'how are you thinking about coming back?'... contrary to much of the news you read, people were not asking us for remote. Our people were asking us for choice. They were like: 'Give me the opportunity to decide where and how I do my work.'Let me give you the key ideas of "Work that Works." The first key idea is there is no default workplace. This idea of the physical office as the default environment doesn't exist any more. The second one is it is up to managers and associates to decide where something is going to happen, where work is going to be done best. There are no limitations. There is no number of days that you need to be in the office or a number of days you can be remote. Hybrid working is going to be tricky. Here's how to do it rightThird key idea: While we will spend less time in the office, the time in the office we believe will be more important. And we think the office is going to play critical roles for PepsiCo. One is to create and collaborate...research proves that these things are better done in the same physical environment. Anything that is connected to innovation, cracking difficult problems, all that we believe will be nicely done via the office. The second one is the connection. PepsiCo is a very social place, the one thing that people were telling us is: 'What I really miss and want to find in the office is a social connection, being with the people I love working with.'The third one is...the idea to celebrate...we work very hard on our culture, the PepsiCo Way, so celebrating the culture that we have and the brands we carry we also believe will be nicely done through the office experience. We believe the office will become that destination where we fulfill those four roles: create, collaborate, celebrate and connect. How will the physical office spaces change? We believe the office as a physical location is going to evolve quite a lot. So if you think about having assigned seating, having closed offices, we believe that is a thing of the past. And we already, before the pandemic, started the journey to transform our offices to unassigned locations, opening up the space, collaboration space, we are going to see more of that we believe. If I think of our headquarters in Purchase [New York], we transformed two of our biggest floors...My floor is one of those where I won't have an office. I won't even have an assigned desk. Every day, I will pick a space and do my job and then maybe change to a different location within the same floor if I need to collaborate with some folks that might be close or work in collaboration spaces. So very, very different layout from the traditional setting. When I return to the office on July 6, I am going to take my phone [and] I am going to go into the app to book a space in the office. I can access the floor map for HR and then pick where I am going to sit. When I get to the office, I get an E-ZPass type of entrance into the property, I can order my coffee or my lunch menu also out of an app. Do you anticipate not needing such a large corporate office footprint?Here's what Salesforce has learned as it reopens officesNo, we don't. We did spend quite a bit of time trying to understand what it is going to be. We did a couple analyses in the US, Europe and in Asia. We found this beautiful convergence around people and leadership believing that the average time in the office per week will be around 2.5 days. We don't believe that, in opening up this policy, that people will never go back to the office, nor do we believe managers are going to be irrational, asking folks to spend too much time in the office if there is no need. What have you learned from the countries that have reopened and have employees coming back? In China, the country where we have the largest workforce that has been open for longer, when we implemented "Work that Works" the local intelligence was one of: 'Oh you are going to see... people still, by and large, are going to be willing to come back to the office.' 'It's a more traditional culture' and all that. I was looking at the data last month, they are already in a sweet spot of 50% in the office and 50% remote, so it seems our assumption is working well -- again, with the caveat that it is only one country. Let's talk about the labor market. Are you having a hard time finding workers right now?I think throughout the pandemic, people found comfort in companies with financial stability, good performance, well-known brands.In a period where security and safety are valued, people look at companies like PepsicCo -- big scale, financially robust brands I recognize -- as more attractive destinations. So we were able to attract people that probably a year before we couldn't find. In terms of our own people, our voluntary attrition [in the first quarter] was extremely low. The one thing that is giving me a bit of pause, to be very frank, is that people have had a lot of time to reflect and look at life and work with a bit more perspective or a very different perspective. And sometimes what we are seeing when people are leaving companies, it is because they are making very different choices. It's not incremental changes to their lives. These are radical changes like, 'I am going to move close to my parents because that has become super important to me' or people who have said, 'listen, you only live once. I am going to make a drastic change in my career.' We are seeing some of those things.So what we are trying to do with our management is just to make sure we understand where people are in those reflections, especially those we care the most about.
|
{
"Q1": ""
}
|
{
"Q1": []
}
|
{
"Q1": 0
}
|
6a72daf02aa7672a
|
Are you really cut out to be a manager? - CNN
|
Since you're so great at your job, your boss now wants to promote you to manager of a small team.It's certainly flattering -- and who isn't attracted to a higher paycheck?But don't accept the offer before considering how it would change your daily experience and whether you would truly enjoy the responsibilities and opportunities that come with the new role.Would I rather do work myself or be responsible for others' work?Don't think hard about this. Give the first response that comes to mind.Read More"This is the simple question that really sorts the world into two kinds of people," said Marcus Buckingham, head of people and performance research at the ADP Research Institute and coauthor of "Nine Lies About Work."If you really enjoy managing, you have an innate love of investing in others." Jim Harter, chief workplace scientist at GallupYou can always develop management skills. (And employers should provide practical training for new managers.) But if your innate preference is to do your own projects with all the expertise building and solo time that entails, you'll risk being unhappy in a management role.In evaluating managers based on their team's feedback and their own self-assessments, Leigh Steere, cofounder of research group Managing People Better LLC, has seen some people who should not be in the role because they're happier working on their own."Deep down [managing] is not where their passion is," Steere said. "They're ignoring their people ... to do their own projects."Do I get real satisfaction helping others succeed?Have you ever thought you'd make a good coach and talent agent?You'll wear several hats as a manager. But coaching and championing your team members will do more to boost their engagement and loyalty than anything else.That means helping them develop skills, giving them growth opportunities and having their backs when talking with your higher-ups.To climb the career ladder, you shouldn't have to be a manager "If you really enjoy managing, you have an innate love of investing in others," said Jim Harter, chief workplace scientist at Gallup. "You can build long-term relationships and a [professional] reputation off of that."And much like a team coach, the best managers figure out how to motivate each employee and keep them engaged with a compelling mission and vision, according to Gallup's research.Can I handle different personalities and work styles?If you have a seven-member team, that means you'll be managing seven distinct personalities, each with their own work styles and quirks. You'll need to figure out what they are and accommodate them if you want to get the best work from everyone."Everyone comes with their own stuff. Two people can come to the same answer by different paths. You have to respect that. If you're a good manager, you look forward to that. You get the whole person," Harter said.How do I respond to pressure and disappointment?Managers are under pressure to deliver excellence from their teams and to do so on deadline. The No. 1 task that managers shy away from is confronting poor performance." Leigh Steere, cofounder, Managing People Better LLCSo Steere suggests considering how you're most likely to respond when you're under the gun and someone on your team messes up.Will you lose your temper and shame that person? Or are you likely to keep your cool, realize it's not the end of the world and figure out a workaround? A good manager chooses the latter most often.Am I willing to be seen as the bad guy?All managers should be trained in how to offer feedback effectively. It's not an innate skill, Steere said.But you do need to bring courage to the table. "The No. 1 task that managers shy away from is confronting poor performance," she said. "They may be conflict avoidant. Some say 'I'm not comfortable judging others.' Or they want to be viewed as a nice manager. [But] it is not nice to withhold feedback from somebody that they need to learn and grow."Can I listen to my gut?You'll be faced with more decisions and more pressure to get things done as a manager. And it is helpful to be decisive.But you also need to be self-aware enough to realize when you're not ready to make a decision, said Janice Marturano, founder and executive director of the nonprofit Institute for Mindful Leadership and a former vice president at General Mills. And that means having to live with the ambiguity of not knowing what to do until you can make a call that feels right. Who has inspired me the most and why?Marturano always asks those in her workshops around the world to describe who in their own lives has been the most inspiring and influential. More from Success More CEOs under pressure to do better by the world. But it's complicated.These apps are changing the way we talk about moneyThe electric pickup wars are about to beginThe most frequent responses describe someone who is kind, compassionate, respectful and humble. They have a sense of humor. They know how to communicate well. They're present. And they're visionary. "Leadership is about influence," Marturano said, regardless of your title or position in an org chart.And the higher you go, the more potential influence you can have. That's the opportunity that comes with your promotion.Used well, your influence will get people to go the extra mile for you. And as a manager, that's invaluable.
|
{
"Q1": ""
}
|
{
"Q1": []
}
|
{
"Q1": 0
}
|
df76ef55fa3d65f6
|
Here's what Salesforce has learned as it reopens offices - CNN
|
As companies prepare to reopen and welcome employees back to the office, a big question remains: Are workers ready to come back?Salesforce, a global enterprise software company with more than 56,000 employees, is already getting a glimpse of what the future of work might look like. The company has reopened 22 offices around the world, including spaces in Sydney, Hong Kong, South Korea and Israel. This month, it plans to reopen its headquarters in San Francisco, along with two other California offices.The company is taking a gradual approach to reopening, and carefully monitoring how its employees want to work and how they're feeling about it. It's also giving workers a choice of where they work: fully remote, office-based, or "flex" -- where they'll be in the office one to three days a week for more team and customer-based work. "We've learned right away that our employees want a flexible environment," said Brent Hyder, president and chief people officer. The company increased the frequency of its employee surveys when the pandemic hit. At one point, there were daily well-being pulse surveys. Employees who have returned to the offices are surveyed weekly.Read More"Our employee behavior continues to change," said Hyder. "You gotta listen deeply." Here's what the company has learned so far: The speed of return Salesforce first started to reopen its offices in South Korea, Hong Kong, and China last year, but at first, employees were reluctant to return."They weren't ready. They would come in one day a week or not at all," said Hyder.But as more time has passed, workers are becoming more comfortable with being in the office.In Israel, where offices opened in April, employees are coming into the office at a much higher rate so far than any of the company's other reopened offices, according to Hyder, but it is still at less than 50% capacity."We do think that Israel might be the trend in highly vaccinated markets," Hyder said. Salesforce employees in Sydney work in a conference room with new safety protocols.Offices are opening in a phased approached, and so far, employees are coming into the office for collaborative work and doing their individual work when they are remote.In its Sydney office, which opened in August, around 24% of individual workspaces are booked on an average day, compared to more than 60% of the collaboration spaces, according to Hyder. And workers are coming into the office later in the week, with Thursday being the most popular day. Before the pandemic, Renata Bertram, vice president of marketing, went into the Sydney office five days a week via public transportation. "I started the process kicking and screaming working from home," she said. But when the announcement came about the office reopening, she realized she had grown accustomed to the lifestyle that remote working allowed. "I thought: ''That's great, but at the same time, are you kidding me? I am not going to be able to do my morning walks every day.'"Some workers can't wait to get back to the office She eased in by going back into the office one day a week. "I had to build back that muscle," she said. But she wasn't comfortable taking the bus to get there and instead drove. She's since settled into working in the office three days a week, and started commuting by bus again. She recalled the office feeling a bit flat when she first returned, but noticed a change in the past few months. "It's been really fantastic ... there is an energy and vibe. People are genuinely enjoying being in each others' company," she said. Meet the new office Salesforce's employees aren't walking back into the same spaces they left more than a year ago. Before going into the office, employees complete a wellness check and schedule time to come into the office through the company's online platform Work.com. The tool helps the company learn more about how employees are now using spaces."As we learn more and more about our offices and listen to our employees to see how they are using it we will continue to change our office design to accommodate that." Along with Covid-protocols in offices -- like cleaning stations, temperature checks, social distancing signage and touch-free sensors and handles -- there's also a lot more collaborative space. An employee gets a temperature screening in Seoul, South Korea.The company is now using "neighborhood seating," an unassigned seating approach, and has reduced the number of individual desks. "I no longer have a desk," said Hyder. "A majority of our space will be committed to collaboration areas, breakout areas, customer areas, and we're creating those open spaces so that teams can meet." The company has seen a big shift in sentiment among its workforce when it comes to returning to the office. In June, an internal survey showed just one-third of employees said they'd be willing to go back to the office, according to Hyder. Now, that number is more than 70%. 'I don't have to choose between lifestyle and career.' How remote work changed these people's livesWhen deciding to re-open the doors to an office, the company takes many local factors into account, including a Covid risk rating and government and medical guidance. "I've spent more time with our medical doctor advisers than I ever thought I would. I used to be a people guy and now I am the safety guy at the same time," said Hyder. "We try to focus on the science...but it changes and so we've had to change our model as the science changes."What the future looks like Managing a hybrid workforce can be challenging, especially when it comes to maintaining a common company culture. "We've always created a very physical manifestation of our culture," said Hyder. He added that it's important for workers to feel the culture while working at home as well.When employees first started working from home at the start of the pandemic, survey responses showed there were worries, but also a sense of resilience. But that resilience started to fade over the next few months. "Starting in May, things started to not feel so good," Hyder said. "June and July were not good months -- they were challenging months for our employees. And what we saw was that our stress levels were high, our resilience had gone down. It started with parents with small children who weren't in school, didn't have day care, two jobs..." In Sydney, Australia, there's more colloberative seating. Bertram, who has three teenagers, said she felt bombarded by competing demands when she first started working from home. "Some of it was self-imposed... I went out of my way to make sure that I was somehow communicating with my team and peers...we were so available with so many different channels that we were being communicated with whether it was by email, a Zoom or Google Hangouts, text, WhatsApp, phone calls. It was almost sensory overload...but at the same time, I had this immense feeling of loneliness."In response to employee feedback, the company's leadership expanded its benefits to help -- particularly among working parents. It extended its family care leave to allow for six weeks of paid leave and boosted its back-up child care reimbursement to up to $100 per day for five days a month through December 2021."We spent hours talking about what we are going to do and how we are going to give the relief. We saw them working more hours and really struggling," said Hyder. "By August, we started to see a dramatic improvement in resilience and stress levels."But the company's plans are still a work in progress."This is a mindset shift. Just as we flexed when we moved our offices to our homes, we now need to flex forward to a new, better way of working," Hyder said. "We have an opportunity to create the workplace of the future. One where we can find more balance between work and home."
|
{
"Q1": ""
}
|
{
"Q1": []
}
|
{
"Q1": 0
}
|
75f9a22e19465801
|
To prevent burnout, LinkedIn is giving its entire company the week off - CNN
|
LinkedIn employees worldwide are getting a paid week off starting April 5.The entire company is getting the time off as an opportunity to unplug, recharge and avoid burnout. "We wanted to make sure we could give them something really valuable, and what we think is most valuable right now is time for all of us to collectively walk away," said Teuila Hanson, LinkedIn's chief people officer, who joined the company in June. Since everyone is off at the same time, that means workers aren't inundated by emails, meeting notes and project requests piling up in their absence. "You want the goodness of your vacation to last a little bit when you come back," Hanson said.Read MoreThe week off extends to the majority of the company's 15,900 full-time employees. A core team of employees will continue to work for the week, but they will be able to schedule time off later. The company started to operate remotely more than a year ago as the pandemic unfolded and has been surveying its workers regularly. Last summer, the surveys revealed a shift in employee sentiment."I think the reality of the weight of the pandemic really took its toll during those months. That was a heavy time. That is when we were seeing: 'wow there is clear burnout.'" In response, the company created an initiative called LiftUp!, which includes burnout training for managers, no-meeting days and mental health resources.CNN Business recently spoke with Hanson about how LinkedIn is fighting burnout and what its workforce might look like in a post-pandemic world. Here's what she had to say. (This interview has been edited for clarity and length):Have you seen signs of burnout among LinkedIn workers?LinkedIn surveys employees quite often. We have a quarterly survey cadence and then we added additional surveys last year, just to make sure that we were really keeping a pulse on how employees were doing. They added a simple open-ended question of just: How are you? That is when we started to see the emerging of themes in and around burnout, lack of self care, struggle with family, people feeling lonely or isolated, so that was really good to just be able to read through the verbatim comments and to really get some of that texture around how people are feeling, how they are doing, what they are missing, what they may be grieving.Teuila Hanson joined LinkedIn in June as its chief people officer.We would see in the comments that people missed a commute because they had the opportunity to sort of ramp up, listen to a podcast, listen to the news. They missed at the end of the day the ability to ramp down. And now that we have a good understanding of how our employees are feeling, how do we start to package some programs, communication, starting with our leadership team, our managers, so that we can begin to address these things. Also, personally I put myself in that category. Starting a new job I was trying to fit everything I possibly could in my day, and then realized that I barely left the room that I was in. And I felt guilty because I have two sons... and I was missing out not being able to take the dog for a walk or be able to hang out with the kids. A lot of the comments that came through in our surveys, they definitely resonate with me as a parent [and] as somebody else who is missing the life that I had prior to the pandemic.When did you start to notice a shift in employees' responses?As we are measuring this quarter by quarter, definitely July, August, that was when the reality was setting in that this wasn't just a three-month thing. I think initially back in March folks just thought maybe by the summer this would pass, things might loosen up, and I think the reality of the weight of the pandemic really took its toll during those months. That was a heavy time. That is when we were seeing: 'wow there is clear burnout.' Free Pelotons and iPads: How Wall Street is fighting Covid burnoutThe recent survey that we had, things are better, we had a [company-wide] shutdown at the end of the year the last week of December so we saw better results and better comments that people felt refreshed, they felt energized, and I think now that we have a vaccine and, at least in the United States and some other geographies, it looks like there is a path out of this, we are definitely hearing more positive sentiments from our employees. But it's up and down.What did you do in response to the worsening survey data? We looked at our survey results... the executive team put our heads together to figure out how could we systematically address these themes we are seeing with our employees. We worked with our benefits and employee experience team and came up with this program called LiftUp! It's a specific program to the pandemic and it really addressed those things that we heard through employee surveys. It was really intended to figure out, what can we specifically do from a program perspective -- benefits, perks to address burnout, work family balance, people feeling alone and isolated -- how could we bring some surprise and delight, how can we bring some levity to our employees? We launched a series of workshops,"no-meeting days," specific programs for managers -- one program called compassionate accountability. Another course for managers: Keep calm and lead on. Another course around practical prioritization. ...what is really nice after a shutdown, you come back and you don't have a barrage of emails or meeting notes that you feel like you have catch up on..."Teuila Hanson, LinkedIn's chief people officerWe also offered workshops to our employees, one workshop is called the "necessity of no," so really empowering our employees in how to say no to their manager, how to make sure that their managers understand that they have a capacity and when their cups are filled or they're getting close to filled, how can employees have those types of conversations. The no-meeting days are huge, very beloved. People felt like "Wow, there is power to being able to just lock in and not run from Zoom meeting to Zoom meeting."Why give all employees a week off?We thought that it would be a good thing for our entire organization to have another global paid week off. We have a global annual shutdown every December, many of our competitors also have a global shutdown at the end of the year.We heard after our December shutdown that people felt energized, they felt like they were able to get outside, and felt able to do things like read books, watch webinars and watch movies. We thought, does it make sense for us to provide another paid week off, not only to address burnout and self care, but also show our gratitude to our employees? Because they are working hard, they are showing up and they are doing extraordinary work for us at LinkedIn. We wanted to make sure we could give them something really valuable, and what we think is most valuable right now is time for all of us to collectively walk away. And what is really nice after a shutdown, you come back and you don't have a barrage of emails or meeting notes that you feel like you have catch up on or you feel like you have to peek at your email.You want the goodness of your vacation to last a little bit when you come back.How will LinkedIn's workforce function in a post pandemic word? 'I don't have to choose between lifestyle and career.' How remote work changed these people's livesWe have definitely made decisions around "hybrid flexible." This has been a good learning experience of challenging long-held assumptions around how work can be done and where work can be done. So we've made a commitment that we are going to really lean into the concept of being a hybrid flexible work environment. And for us that means all employees have the ability to work flexibility up to 50% of the time. We're really looking at it from a role by role perspective -- what does it mean for an employee to do their best work? That is going to give us a general idea of what this is going to look like in the future.
|
{
"Q1": ""
}
|
{
"Q1": []
}
|
{
"Q1": 0
}
|
6002523257148fc7
|
Sanction shockwaves: Russian oligarchs and elites scramble to move, sell assets to get ahead of international penalties - CNNPolitics
|
Washington (CNN)Two hours after emailing a real estate newsletter of luxury homes to thousands of ultra-wealthy clients Friday morning, Shawn Elliott, president of the ultra luxury division at Nest Seekers International, said he received three inquiries. They were not from potential buyers, but sellers.The calls came from New York and Miami, two hot spots popular with wealthy Russians, a possible sign of what may become the rapid sale of luxury homes, beachfront properties and apartments in the cities' skylines as Russians scramble to get ahead of international sanctions."People like that have their handlers call," Elliott said of the Russian owners. They asked, "'If I was to sell, how fast could you sell this and how fast could you sell that?'""It's interesting how the feelers are going out," he noted. "Maybe that's the beginning of the scramble."The impact of coordinated sanctions from the US, United Kingdom and European Union has sent shockwaves through the Russian elite as oligarchs, some targeted and others taking steps in anticipation of what could come, look to move yachts, shed assets and adapt to a wave of sanctions that have come swifter than usual, and are more expansive than before. Read MoreRussian billionaire Roman Abramovich, who has not been sanctioned, announced Wednesday that he will sell the Chelsea Football Club as it is "in the best interest of the Club, the fans, the employees, as well as the Club's sponsors and partners." He said net proceeds from the sale would go to a foundation established to help "victims of the war in Ukraine."Roman Abramovich, Russian owner of Chelsea FC, to sell club after Ukraine invasionRussian billionaires Mikhail Fridman and Oleg Deripaska have broken ranks with the Kremlin and called for an end to Russia's war in Ukraine. The EU announced sanctions against Fridman this past week and Deripaska has been on the US sanction list since 2018."This is a very worrying moment if you're a Russian billionaire," said former State Department official Max Bergmann. "Lawyers are busy right now, trying to figure out how to expunge oligarchs from various company boards and how to divest assets in the United States." "We're getting a new inquiry every hour," said Erich Ferrari, a lawyer who represents foreign companies and individuals in navigating sanctions. "The phone has been ringing off the hook with people all around the world who have been sanctioned or their parent company has been sanctioned."Financial institutions in jurisdictions where there are no sanctions, such as United Arab Emirates, are following the lead of the US and European Union and freezing accounts held by Russians, Ferrari said. Some Caribbean countries -- where Russian-controlled entities have domiciled offshore businesses for secrecy -- will no longer serve as corporate secretaries for such entities, leaving many of them unable to operate, Ferrari added."I don't recall a program" of international sanctions, Ferrari said, that "has sent everybody scrambling."The scramble comes as the White House announced full blocking sanctions Thursday on eight Russian elites, plus their family members and associates. They will all be blocked off from the US financial system, meaning their assets in the United States will be frozen and their property will be blocked from use. "This caused a sudden panic," Bergmann noted, "because the old guard class, I think, interestingly enough, didn't know that this [invasion] was coming, and I think they were surprised that (Russian President) Vladimir Putin ultimately decided to invade."Bergmann explained that an oligarch can ultimately sue to try to stop the sanctions, but in the short term, these Russian billionaires are selling off and shipping out."What you're seeing already are oligarchs freaking out about this and moving their yachts to places where they can't be extradited," Bergmann said. "We've seen yachts start to sail for Montenegro, where there's no extradition treaty."The Amore Vero yacht at a shipyard in La Ciotat, in southern France, on March 3, 2022.On Wednesday, French officials seized a yacht that they said was linked to Igor Sechin, a sanctioned Russian oil executive and close associate of Putin, as it was preparing to flee a port. But the company that manages the ship denied Sechin was the owner.In New York, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine is calling for more sanctions on Russians and the seizure of their properties, tweeting Thursday, "We're still waiting for the U.S. gov't to place the broad circle of oligarchs connected to Putin on the sanctions list. This is the prerequisite to seizing the ultra luxury homes many hold in Manhattan. We need action on this NOW."The Biden administration isn't just levying sanctions. On Wednesday, the Justice Department unveiled a new task force: KleptoCapture. The task force will team up prosecutors with experts in sanctions, money laundering and national security to investigate possible criminal activity from the ultra-rich Russians who the U.S. government believes are propping up Putin."We will leave no stone unturned in our efforts to investigate, arrest and prosecute those whose criminal acts enable the Russian government to continue this unjust war," Attorney General Merrick Garland said when announcing the new task force.Experts watching the effort unfold across multiple government agencies -- the Treasury and Justice departments at the forefront -- believe the amount of coordination is unprecedented and signals a determination to go after these oligarchs and any illegal activities with renewed force.Inside the months of work that allowed the US and its allies to turn Russia into a financial pariah overnight"It can take quite a bit of prosecutorial and regulatory heft to enforce sanctions on extraordinarily wealthy individuals who have a lot of resources," said Edward Fishman, a former State Department Russia sanctions lead. "By putting together this high-level task force that clearly has oversight by some of the most senior officials in the Biden administration, I think it signals they are going to enforce these sanctions quite aggressively."Many oligarchs use shell companies that shield their ownership, leaving authorities to untangle a layer of companies before discovering the true owner. "Part of the reason why we haven't seen a lot of legal action is because these oligarchs are extremely rich and even though many are committing white-collar crime, they hire really high-priced lawyers to do things correctly," said Bergmann, the former State Department official. "What oligarchs have done is just make it not worth law enforcement's time to pursue them," Bergmann said. "And what Biden has said is no, no, no, we're going to make time and we're going to devote the assets, and we're going to devote the people to really start opening up the books, knocking on doors, and seeing what we find."This crackdown could ultimately cause upheaval within Russia, experts warn. "One problem for Putin is that he has a very angry class of people who are very rich and powerful that are all returning to Moscow and St. Petersburg, and they don't want to be there," Bergmann said. One possible area of vulnerability for Russians in the US is the millions of dollars Russian oligarchs have poured into property in New York, Miami, and elsewhere.Elliott, of Nest Seekers International, said wealthy Russians are savvy and he predicted, "There's going to be liquidation from these guys because they're smart. They'll put it at least 20% below market price because at the end of the day 80% of something is better than ... nothing."Time is of the essence for some Russians who are not currently sanctioned but may be worried that they're next. "As of today, there's nothing illegal about liquidating your assets," Elliott said.
|
{
"Q1": ""
}
|
{
"Q1": []
}
|
{
"Q1": 0
}
|
affe03009f78444b
|
Russia bombs residential area of Kharkiv and intensifies Kyiv assault as talks with Ukraine end - CNN
|
Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN)Russian forces bombarded a residential area in Ukraine's second-largest city with rockets on Monday, killing at least nine people, and several large detonations were heard in the center of the capital Kyiv, as talks between delegates on both sides in Belarus came to a close.The attack and explosions were launched as Russia becomes increasingly isolated from the rest of the world, particularly Western nations, which have been imposing a rash of sanctions on the country since it launched its invasion of Ukraine last week. The bombardment in the city of Kharkiv on Monday killed nine civilians, including three children, and wounded 37 others, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said. CNN is reaching out to Russian authorities for comment on the attack. According to social media videos geolocated by CNN, multiple rockets were seen exploding closely together in a residential part of the Saltivka neighborhood, near a supermarket in the northeast of the city, which the Russian military has frequently targeted.
Ukraine's Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova described the situation in Kharkiv as "hellish" and shared a video on Facebook of a missile that hit a kitchen window and tore off the leg of a woman, who she said later died in hospital. Read MoreAs talks between Russian and Ukrainian officials ended early Monday evening, CNN reporters in Kyiv heard several large detonations, followed by sirens going off across the city.Both sides discussed a potential "ceasefire and the end of combat actions on the territory of Ukraine," Ukrainian presidential adviser Mikhaylo Podolyak told reporters. Without going into detail, Podolyak said that both sides would return to their capitals for consultations over whether to implement a number of "decisions." "The parties discussed holding another round of negotiations where these decisions can develop," he said.Ukraine had earlier demanded an "immediate ceasefire and withdrawal of Russian troops," President Volodymyr Zelensky's office said earlier Monday.Zelensky earlier downplayed the significance of the talks, which he is not attending in person. "I do not really believe in the result of this meeting, but let them try, so that no citizen of Ukraine would have any doubt that I, as president, did not try to stop the war when there was even a small chance," he said Sunday. Russians face determined resistanceWhile Ukrainians have attached little hope in the talks yielding a pathway to peace, the opportunities to deescalate the conflict appear to be quickly shrinking.Live updates on Russia's invasion of UkraineFighting has intensified in Ukraine in the past day in a number of strategic cities. A senior US defense official told reporters on Monday that taking Kharkiv "remains an objective" for the Russians, and "they continue to try to advance on" the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol. But the Russians have not taken either city yet, the official said.The official explained that if Russia captures both cities "you can see that would allow them to section off the eastern part of Ukraine," the official said.On Monday, CNN reporters witnessed at least three "Uragan" multiple rocket launchers in the Russian side of the border south of Belgorod heading towards the Kharkiv front line. They saw three launchers and a loading vehicle with missiles on it. Russia's larger and far better-equipped military has, however, faced determined resistance across the country, as ordinary Ukrainians and reservists join efforts to defend their families and homes, frustrating Moscow's attempts to swiftly take control of key cities. Western allies have been increasing its assistance to Ukraine through funds and weapons to aid its defense.Delegates from Russia and Ukraine take part in talks on Monday. Ukraine said its air force shot down a cruise missile launched at the city from Belarus Sunday, and claimed a successful drone attack against a Russian BUK surface-to-air missile system near the capital. But Western military assessments caution that Ukrainian forces cannot holdout indefinitely. On Monday, it appeared the the bulk of Russian ground forces were more than 30 kilometers (about 19 miles) north of Kyiv, according to an intelligence update by the the UK's Ministry of Defense. The advance of those troops was slowed by stiff Ukrainian resistance at the nearby Hostomel airfield, "a key Russian objective for day one of the conflict," the ministry said.The Russian military announced what it described as an "open and safe" corridor for civilians to leave the capital on Monday, while repeating a baseless claim that the Ukrainian government was using residents as a "human shield."And while Ukrainian troops appear to be holding ground in the country's north, Russian forces have made some advances to the south. On Sunday Russian troops took control of Berdyansk -- a port city of 100,000 people on Ukraine's southern coast, and the site of a small naval base. Analysis: Is the Ukraine-Russia meeting a path forward or political sideshow?The ongoing Russian assault has inflicted widespread suffering and casualties on the Ukrainian population. More than half a million refugees have fled Ukraine to neigboring countries, according to the UN's refugee agency. The number of known civilians killed in Ukraine stands at 352, with 14 of those children, Ukraine's Ministry of Interior said Sunday.Ukraine's General Staff of the Armed Forces accused Russia of hitting civilian areas. "In violation of the norms of international humanitarian law, the occupiers have insidiously inflicted missile strikes on residential buildings in Zhytomir and Chernyhiv," a statement said on Monday.CNN is unable to independently verify these claims.Concerns over nuclear confrontationPressure is intensifying on the Kremlin as Western allies of Ukraine try to prop up the country with weapons and as Russia faces financial turmoil, with the ruble in free fall. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday raised the stakes by ordering his country's nuclear forces to be placed on high alert.Later on Sunday, Belarus renounced its non-nuclear status in a referendum, after the former Soviet nation became a launch pad for Russia's invasion in Ukraine last week. The vote in favor of a new constitution could theoretically allow Russia to place nuclear weapons back in Belarus for the first time since the fall of the Soviet Union, when Belarus gave up its stockpile and became a nuclear free zone. New satellite images show a more than three-mile-long Russian military convoy on a roadway that heads toward the capital city. Addressing journalists at a polling station in Minsk, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said he could ask Putin to "return the nuclear weapons" Belarus gave away if the West transferred any nuclear weapons to Poland or Lithuania. Ukrainian intelligence also indicated Belarus could be preparing to "participate directly" in the invasion of Ukraine, according to two sources close to the Ukrainian government. Lukashenko said last week that Belarusian troops could join the invasion "if it becomes necessary."Meanwhile, the UK said it will provide an additional $53 million in humanitarian aid to Ukraine and British leaders plan to introduce legislation in Parliament aimed at clamping down on Russian money laundering and fraud.And Australian travel bans and targeted financial sanctions against Putin and senior members of his government went into effect Monday, the country's Prime Minister Scott Morrison confirmed in a statement.South Korea and Singapore on Monday also announced new sanctions on Russia.CNN's Paul Murphy, Artemis Moshtaghian and Richard Roth reported from New York. CNN's Pete Muntean reported from Washington. CNN's Tim Lister and Ivana Kottasová reported from Kyiv. CNN's Katharina Krebs, Olya Voinovich reported from Lviv, Ukraine. CNN's Vasco Cotovio and Darya Tarasova reported from Moscow. CNN's Katie Polglase, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Josh Pennington, Niamh Kennedy, Hannah Ritchie reported from London. CNN's Tara John wrote from London, and CNN's Helen Regan wrote from Hong Kong.
|
{
"Q1": ""
}
|
{
"Q1": []
}
|
{
"Q1": 0
}
|
4c4f26b996075775
|
Coke unveils new cans and a new flavor for its coffee line - CNN
|
New York (CNN Business)Coca-Cola is fighting for your attention. The company is unveiling a new look for flavored Coke products this month, and it has a new Coke variety coming in a few weeks. It's part of the company's renewed focus on its Coke brand, as it dumps niche products and tries to drum up excitement for its core beverages.In the United States, new versions of Cherry Coke cans and bottles are magenta, with the white Coca-Cola logo emblazoned on the regular version and a black Coca-Cola logo on the Zero Sugar version. The new Vanilla Coke cans and bottles are cream-colored, and the Cherry Vanilla flavor's new packaging is a mix of the two (heavy on the magenta). Coke with zero caffeine as well as Coke with zero caffeine and no sugar also have new looks, keeping with these designs.The company decided in 2020 to cut its portfolio in half, dropping its underperforming brands and focusing on its most powerful ones, like Coke. Now, Coca-Cola (KO) is working on refreshing Coke's look and enticing new customers with new products. Read MoreThe new packages will start to hit shelves in late January. Coca-Cola is updating Coke's look and launching a new Coke with Coffee flavor. Standing out on the shelf Updates to the flavored Coke packages are designed to "modernize and simplify the look ... [and] help consumers find the flavor they're looking for on the shelf," said Natalia Suarez, senior brand manager of Coke Choice Portfolio, the company's North America operating unit. The updated cans are supposed to "quickly communicate flavors and clearly distinguish between full-sugar and zero-sugar/calorie-free options," she added.The company started overhauling its packaging last year, she noted, when it changed the packaging of Coke, Diet Coke and Coke Zero Sugar. The company also tweaked the recipe for Coke Zero Sugar in an effort to make the drink taste more like regular Coke. Grabbing customers' attention as they walk down the grocery aisle is essential to brands like Coke, which have to make the most out of their shelf space. He killed some of Coke's most beloved brands. And he'd do it all over again"It's a Darwinian struggle for space in the supermarket or in the convenience store," Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey told CNN Business last year. Coke with CoffeeAnother way to get people excited about Coke is to expand beyond traditional flavors. So the company is launching a new variety of Coke with Coffee.About a year ago, the company brought Coke with Coffee — Coke made with coffee powder — to the United States. "Coca-Cola with Coffee was met with a widespread, enthusiastic consumer response," when it first started selling in North America, said Brandan Strickland, brand director of Coca-Cola Trademark. The product already comes in Dark Blend, Vanilla and Caramel. And now a new Mocha flavor will reach US shelves on February 7.Mocha is the logical next flavor, said Strickland, noting the move was "a no-brainer."Coca-Cola also tried to expand beyond cola with its Coke Energy product, which hit North American shelves in early 2020 and was discontinued in the region in the spring. Coca-Cola pulled the product because it wasn't performing well.
|
{
"Q1": ""
}
|
{
"Q1": []
}
|
{
"Q1": 0
}
|
1fef1de51fbe394e
|
Pantone names colors of the year for 2016 - CNN
|
Story highlightsPantone's colors of the year reflect reassurance, security, says companyIt's the first time the company has chosen two colors (CNN)Serenity -- now.That's the message from Pantone, the color experts, which named "Serenity" -- a kind of baby blue -- one of its two colors of the year for 2016. The other is Rose Quartz, a dusty pink.The choice of color of the year is "a symbolic color selection; a color snapshot of what we see taking place in our culture that serves as an expression of a mood and an attitude," the company, a division of X-rite, said in a news release.Pantone determines its color of the year after surveying fashionistas and insiders in pop culture, including movies and music. This is the first time the company has chosen two colors. Previous winners include the reddish Marsala, the popping purplish Radiant Orchid, the exquisite Emerald and the boisterous Tangerine Tango.Read MoreBut anxious times call for calmer colors, said Pantone, and Serenity and Rose Quartz fit the bill."As consumers seek mindfulness and well-being as an antidote to modern day stresses, welcoming colors that psychologically fulfill our yearning for reassurance and security are becoming more prominent," Leatrice Eiseman, Pantone's executive director, said in the statement. The two also suggest the "gender blur" of modern fashion, which fits with our trans-aware times, it added.Some wags on Twitter weren't quite sold on the colors' fashion qualities. To them, the colors looked more like bubble gum and blueberry -- or something New Agey.Pantone's color of the year is a popsicle from the '90s. pic.twitter.com/VC3EJP6SL2— ✨Christmas Erickson✨ (@christerickson) December 3, 2015
Pantone's "gender-blurring" colors of the year are pink and blue—really?! https://t.co/YiGa4pKqQJ pic.twitter.com/7fQ7kW6luC— Fast Company (@FastCompany) December 3, 2015
Poly lesbian space-crystal mom has won #ColoroftheYear :D https://t.co/Z8yxIz0qiG— BirdMachine (@BirdMachine) December 3, 2015
(Nobody has brought up Pepto-Bismol. Well, until now.)"Joined together, Rose Quartz and Serenity demonstrate an inherent balance between a warmer embracing rose tone and the cooler tranquil blue, reflecting connection and wellness as well as a soothing sense of order and peace," the company said.We hope they're right. It IS an election year.
|
{
"Q1": ""
}
|
{
"Q1": []
}
|
{
"Q1": 0
}
|
89ad8dd5aec808fc
|
Uber and Hyundai team up to put flying taxis in the sky - CNN
|
Washington, DC (CNN)Uber and Hyundai unveiled a flying taxi that may eventually transform your ridesharing trips.At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Monday, the two companies revealed a model of a four-seat, electric flying vehicle that they said you'll be able to summon for a ride through Uber's app someday. The first actual prototype will be ready in 2023, according to a Hyundai spokesperson. A human pilot will fly the air taxi until the companies finalize software to autonomously control it, the company said.Self-driving cars: Hype-filled decade ends on sobering note Hyundai is the latest big company to announce that it's developing a flying taxi for trips around cities and suburbs. Boeing's flying car prototype made its first autonomous flight in 2019 at a small airport outside Washington D.C. Google co-founder Larry Page has invested in several smaller startups, including Kitty Hawk and Opener, which are developing flying car technologies.In October, Hyundai appointed Jaiwon Shin, a longtime NASA administrator, to lead its newly created air taxi division. Hyundai's partner in the venture, Uber (UBER), has said it expects to have an air taxi network in 2023. Uber already has partnerships with the helicopter manufacturer Bell and the Brazilian aerospace manufacturer Embraer. But experts say the estimate is aggressive.Uber and Hyundai unveiled the S-A1 flying taxi model at CES."It's going to be a while," said William Crossley, a Purdue University professor who researches aerospace design. "If things go well, it's certainly plausible in the next 10 years."Read MoreThere are plenty of tough hurdles ahead. Software to safely fly air taxis must be developed. The industry will have to determine the right vehicle design. Batteries powering air taxis will need to deliver better range than currently available. And companies will have to prove that air taxi rides can be a viable business. Sanjiv Singh, a Carnegie Mellon University professor and CEO of Near Earth Autonomy, a startup developing software for air taxis, doesn't expect they will be viable until they're flying autonomously. It's expensive to pay a human pilot, he said, and companies can become more profitable if they can cram another passenger into the air taxi instead.Feds blame distracted test driver in Uber self-driving car death On top of those challenges, the Federal Aviation Administration will need to certify the vehicles, a process that could take years.Hyundai and Uber have not yet completed a test flight of the new vehicle.In the meantime, Uber is offering human-piloted helicopter rides in Manhattan. Singh, who worked on self-driving cars before shifting to air taxis, says that autonomous flying vehicles are easier to develop in some respects. "When flying, just stay away from everything," Singh said. "You don't have to figure out if that's a tumbleweed or a suitcase in the street."
|
{
"Q1": ""
}
|
{
"Q1": []
}
|
{
"Q1": 0
}
|
484ba7edf07fedb3
|
Scientists in China breed mice from two females - CNN
|
(CNN)Researchers in China say they've bred healthy mice with two mothers using a new type of gene editing technology, a significant feat that may help researchers better understand mammalian reproduction but carries significant ethical and safety questions.A total of 29 bimaternal mice were produced using 210 embryos in the study. They all were "normal, lived to adulthood, and had babies of their own," though they showed "some defective features," according to researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.This image shows a healthy adult bimaternal mouse who was born to two mothers with offspring of her own.But not all the mice pups survived the experiment. Mice produced from two fathers only survived a couple of days after being born. "This research shows us what's possible," Wei Li, one of the study's co-authors, said in a news release. "We saw that the defects in bimaternal mice can be eliminated and that bipaternal reproduction barriers in mammals can also be crossed through imprinting modification," said Wei Li.Read More"We also revealed some of the most important imprinted regions that hinder the development of mice with same sex parents, which are also interesting for studying genomic imprinting and animal cloning."This image shows a bipaternal mouse pup born to two fathers.The scientists conducting the study, published in the journal Cell Stem Cell Thursday, said they were interested in answering why some reptiles, fish and amphibians can reproduce with one parent of the same sex, but others cannot. The genes were removed using CRISPR Cas9, a tool that experts say has the potential to save countless lives and billions of dollars but has raised serious ethical questions about the future of genetic research.The idea of "designer babies" -- in which parents can choose genetic traits -- is one example, but some have warned that editing individual human genes could affect the gene pool in future generations and carry unintended consequences.JUST WATCHEDWhat is CRISPR Cas9 gene editing?ReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHWhat is CRISPR Cas9 gene editing? 01:50Scientists say that despite the potential of the latest study, the technology just isn't ready for practical application."The tremendous amount of genetic modification needed in order to do what they (Chinese researchers) did, makes it implausible to use it in anything other than research," said Dr. Tim Hore, an expert in epigenetics and development at the University of Otago."To consider exploring similar technology for human application in the near future is implausible," said Dusko Ilic, Reader in Stem Cell Science at King's College London. "The risks of severe abnormalities is too high, and it would take years of research in various animal models to fully understand how this could be done safely."CNN's Serenitie Wang contributed to this report
|
{
"Q1": ""
}
|
{
"Q1": []
}
|
{
"Q1": 0
}
|
0da5d8fa8a6c008b
|
The world's first 3D-printed neighborhood is being built in Mexico for families living on $3 a day - CNN
|
(CNN)A giant 3D printer built two houses in an impoverished, rural part of Mexico last week, breaking ground on what will be the first 3D-printed neighborhood in the world. The houses aren't just a prototype. Developers hope to build 50 new houses by the end of 2020, replacing the structures that residents built themselves out of wood, metal and whatever materials they could afford.The families live in a seismic zone that's prone to flooding in the state of Tabasco, Mexico. Building something that will withstand an earthquake and keep them dry during heavy rains was a key consideration when it came to the design."These families are the most vulnerable, and in the lowest income ... and they're living on about an average of $3 a day," said Brett Hagler, CEO and co-founder of New Story, the nonprofit building the community. "They're living in literally a pieced-together shack that during the rainy season, it will rain and it will flood their shack. Some of the women even said that the water will go up to their knees when it rains, sometimes for months," Hagler told CNN on Wednesday.The families are living in makeshift homes, many of which they built themselves.Read MoreNew Story is a nonprofit that helps families in need of shelter. It has built more than 2,700 homes in South America and Mexico since it was founded in 2014. This is the first homebuilding project it's done with 3D printing.The nonprofit paired up with ICON, a construction technology company that developed the 3D-printing robotics being used on the project. ÉCHALE, a nonprofit in Mexico, is helping find local families to live in the homes.The homes were co-designed with input from the families that will live in them.The 33-foot printer pipes out a concrete mix that hardens when it dries, building the walls one layer at a time. It takes 24 hours over several days to build two houses at the same time -- that's about two times faster than it takes New Story to build a home with regular construction. The concrete mix is sturdier than traditional concrete, New Story says. The foundation is reinforced to withstand seismic activity.The flat-roofed homes are reminiscent of a southwestern design, but with curved walls. The 500-square-foot homes have two bedrooms, one bathroom, a living room and a kitchen. People haven't moved into the new houses yet, New Story says, because it would be dangerous for them to live in a construction zone.There's no price tag on the homes yet, but New Story says it's working with families to have them pay 20-to-30% of their income. They want people to have a sense of ownership in the community.Meet Vulcan II, the printerThe printer is named Vulcan II and it was made by ICON, an Austin-based construction technology company. It took three years of prototyping to get a printer capable of this project, the company said.While Vulcan II is building two 500-square-foot houses at the same time, it's capable of building a 2,000-square-foot house, according to ICON. The printer can build walls almost 9 feet high and 28 feet wide.The speed of homebuilding with the printer has gotten quicker. In March 2018, New Story and ICON revealed a three-bedroom home, which took 48 hours to build."It's 10 times better than we were a year ago. I am so proud," ICON CEO and co-founder Jason Ballard told CNN on Wednesday. "It is so rare that the-most-in-need of our sisters and brothers globally get first access to advanced technologies and breakthroughs in materials science."A small community of 3D-printed concrete houses is coming to the NetherlandsBecause 3D printing is cheaper and faster than traditional construction, there's great potential for how it will change the world, he said."We think part of what 3D printing allows us to do is to deliver a much higher-quality product to the housing market at a speed and price that's typically not available for people in" low-income housing, Ballard said. "It is a house that anyone would be proud to live in."Taking a printer out of the lab and putting it in the real world was an experiment in itself. Getting Vulcan II to the construction site and dealing with harsh weather conditions has been the biggest challenge so far, he said.The massive printer was transported in a standard shipping container. Border authorities had a lot of questions when they saw it, New Story said.It arrived at the peak of summer, right as the rainy season was beginning, Ballard said. The machinery and the staff faced floods, muddy roads and high humidity as they settled in. The logistical challenges made him realize how much we take for granted in America.The technnology holds promise for affordable housing"When you're doing anything for the first time ever ... and we're doing a challenging place, there's no blueprint or roadmap or set of instructions, so you're creating all of that as we go," Alexandria Lafci, New Story COO and co-founder, told CNN.The nonprofit staff believes in the promise of what the technology could mean for people who don't have safe shelter. Hagler said safe shelter is "one of the largest crises affecting humanity today."About 1.6 billion people in the world don't have adequate housing, according to a 2015 Habitat for Humanity study.A family sits inside one of the two newly constructed 3D-printed homes in Mexico."We seem to just accept that there will always be homelessness or there will always be people who don't have any access to education or water," Lafci said. "We have some of the brightest minds and we have the most promising technology in Silicon Valley working on elite problems. How can we rethink and reshape existing and budding technology toward these more pressing issues?" she said. The technology is there and the application to building homes for those in need brings a lot of hope for the future."3D printing is not science fiction. We have crossed that threshold from science fiction into reality," Ballard said. "In the future, our bet is that this will be humanity's best hope for a housing solution that that matches our highest values and ideals."
|
{
"Q1": ""
}
|
{
"Q1": []
}
|
{
"Q1": 0
}
|
59dcb09e4fb1bdb0
|
The first 3D-printed housing community in the US is being built in the California desert - CNN
|
(CNN)Developers in Southern California are building what they say will be the first 3D-printed zero net energy neighborhood in the United States.Palari Group said it plans to build 15 eco-friendly 3D-printed homes on a five-acre parcel of land in Rancho Mirage, an upscale community in the Coachella Valley, near Palm Springs.The 1,450 square foot, single-story homes will be made from a stone composite material that is strong, fire resistant, water resistant and termite proof, Palari Group founder and CEO Basil Starr told CNN.The homes will be made of modular panels that are printed out by their partner Mighty Buildings at a facility in Oakland and are assembled at the building site "kind of like Lego blocks," Starr said.The world's first 3D-printed neighborhood is being built in Mexico for families living on $3 a dayStarr said his company, which is focused on sustainable building techniques, turned to 3D printing because it is less wasteful.Read More"In wood frame construction there's a significant waste that is generated for the home that's being built, it's about two tons of waste that goes into landfills," Starr said. "And with 3D printing, it's a revolutionary way of building that completely eliminates that unnecessary waste."Bathrooms, cabinets and other interior materials that can't be 3D printed are sustainably sourced.The three-bedroom, two-bathroom homes will come with a deck and a swimming pool and will have a starting price of $595,000. Buyers will be able to add a smaller, two-bedroom, one-bath secondary residence on the property for another $255,000.All energy needs will be supplied by solar power, and owners will have the option to install other options like the Tesla Powerwall, fire pits, cabanas and outdoor showers.Scientists 3D print microscopic Star Trek spaceship that moves on its ownThe average owner-occupied home value in Rancho Mirage is $825,738, according to the city's website.Palari Group said it plans to break ground in September and complete the project by Spring 2021.Starr said that once construction begins, the company will be able to move more quickly than with traditional construction. Mighty Buildings, he said, can print the panels for the houses at the same time they build roads, foundations and install utilities at the site.Potential buyers have already put down $1,000 refundable deposits to get a spot on the reservations list, Starr said. Palari Group is looking at building additional developments in Rancho Mirage and possibly other parts of California.Rancho Mirage isn't the only 3D-printed home project making news.Last month, a company called SQ4D Inc. listed a 3D-printed house in Riverhead, New York, on Zillow with an asking price of $299,999.Developers in Austin are building four houses that use 3D printing and traditional construction techniques.Austin-based construction technology company ICON is working with Kansas City developer 3Strands to build four 3D printed homes in East Austin that are scheduled to be move-in ready by in June or July.
|
{
"Q1": ""
}
|
{
"Q1": []
}
|
{
"Q1": 0
}
|
fbe7cd4e6d2f395a
|
Why Native American designers are not OK with fashion headdresses - CNN
|
Story highlightsNo Doubt, Victoria's Secret accused of "playing Indian" for profitNative community wants larger role in representations of their culture in mediaNon-Native entrepreneur faces skepticism in building platform for indigenous artistsNatives often asked to endorse imagery to build other brands, blogger saysThis November, events nationwide celebrated the traditions, fashion and food of the nation's 566 recognized Indian tribes as part of Native American Heritage Month. But a few high profile missteps surrounding the use of indigenous cultural imagery made bigger national headlines than any heritage month event.First it was the release of No Doubt's Wild West-themed music video "Looking Hot," featuring teepees, fire dances and singer Gwen Stefani on horseback, a feather crowning her long blond braids. Then, supermodel Karlie Kloss walked the runway in a floor-length feather headdress, skimpy leopard-spotted bikini and turquoise jewelry at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. Both instances sparked allegations of "playing Indian" for profit, leading No Doubt and Victoria's Secret to publicly apologize. The gaffes also reignited debate over where to draw the line between cultural appropriation and appreciation and the extent to which non-Natives should represent Natives in mainstream media and pop culture.RELATED: Native American fashion goes "Beyond Buckskin" and headdressesThe conversation is important, because acts of cultural appropriation are not simply isolated incidents of "hipsters in Navajo panties and pop stars in headdresses," said Sasha Houston Brown, a member of the Santee Sioux Nation of Nebraska. They are byproducts of "systemic racism" that perpetuate the idea that there's no such thing as contemporary Native culture."Despite what dominant society and mainstream media say, Native culture is a vibrant and living culture. We are not a relic of the past, a theme or a trend, we are not a style or costume, we are not mascots, noble savages or romantic fictional entities," Brown said in an editorial for the blog Racialious, "Nothing Says Native American Heritage Month Like White Girls in Headdresses."It's a discussion that is especially vital as the holiday season of mass consumerism kicks off, she said. The goal is not to ban from the marketplace beaded jewelry or clothing incorporating tribal motifs, Brown said, but to involve Natives in their creation, marketing and profits. "Collaborations can work as long as the dynamics at hand are empowering Native artists and designers so they are actually able to participate in an equitable manner," said Brown, who advises American Indian students at the Minneapolis Community and Technical College. As the American-Indian and Alaska Native community, which numbers 5.1 million and makes up about 1.6% of the population of the United States, works toward getting a stronger voice in mainstream media, it needs allies, including non-Natives, she said. "What an ally does is support and help communicate the message of Native artists and entrepreneurs instead of speaking for them," Brown said. "There's a huge market for Native and non-Native partnerships, but there's also an inherent distrust of non-Natives coming into communities because of the examples that have been set in history. It just takes time."A good ally is hard to findThe ingredients of a mutually beneficial collaboration can be hard to nail down. Budding entrepreneur Mac Bishop knows how hard it is to toe that line as a non-Native. Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, the 23-year-old doesn't have any Native American ancestry. But, as a descendant of the Pendleton Wool family, which owns one of the country's longest-running wool mills, famous for its Native-inspired blankets, he grew up with a strong interest in the culture and close ties to the community.Opinion: Just say no to "playing Indian"He was a sophomore at Cornell University in 2009 when he decided to launch a "social business" that celebrated Native American culture through apparel and art. It was around the time Native-inspired clothing was showing up on runways and in the pages of fashion magazines. But Bishop insists he wasn't trying to ride a trend. He wanted NATIVE(X) to showcase products that told a story.He began with a pair of wool shorts made from Pendleton's "Chief Joseph" patterned fabric, named for the Nez Perce leader who resisted orders from the U.S. government to move his band onto a reservation. A few fashion blogs picked up on the "Chief Joe" shorts and Bishop ran Facebook ads targeted at users of Native American-related fan pages. Not everyone was happy about it. When Caleb Dunlap, an Ojibwe from Northern Minnesota's Lake Superior Band, realized Bishop was not Native, Dunlap began posting comments on Bishop's Facebook page accusing him of exploiting indigenous culture for financial gain."For me, it was like, 'Who is this guy who had the money to go to Cornell and start his own company? Why is he taking this Pendleton-looking stuff and making it into shorts? Be smarter, do your own thing,' " he said. "I wanted to convey to him that a Native person should be doing this." A spirited exchange followed the wall posts, with Dunlap questioning Bishop's motives and Bishop insisting he was exploring a sincere interest in Native culture with altruistic goals in mind. After that, the two didn't speak for nearly two years until Bishop contacted him after launching his website with a new perspective."I was naive in thinking I could build cultural awareness without that culture's involvement," Bishop said. "That conversation helped expose me to how controversial this could be and opened my eyes to the Native perspective on what's going on in the fashion industry."Why it matters to NativesCollaborations between natives and non-Natives can work, like when Nike teamed up with Pawnee artist Bunky Echo-Hawk on its N7 line. The collection, which was developed by a Nike employee of American Indian heritage, creates sportswear with a Native aesthetic to fund athletic programs in Indian country. Echo-Hawk said he had concerns about working for a large corporation. But after learning of its philanthropic goals, it was a no-brainer."The whole line is really steeped in the Native philosophy and tradition of giving back to the community so it was an opportunity I was really proud to be a part of," said Echo-Hawk, who is still a design consultant for N7. "The fact they felt like they needed to work with a Native artist won a lot of respect from me because most corporations don't do that. They grab some clip art or culturally protected images that are sacred to us and put them on panties."He knows that outsiders still may not see what the big deal is. Who wouldn't want a personal visit from a Victoria's Secret model in a headdress? It matters because what some see as a beautiful geometric print is sacred imagery with a deeper cultural and religious significance, he said, like the Christian cross or star of David.Plus, the community is still reeling from the effects of colonialism, he said. "This country is really young and what may seem to a lot of people like ancient history is really recent history to us. We're just a few generations removed from our freedom," he said."It's all we have left and it's like we're being picked apart by vultures. It's something we feel like we have to protect and celebrate. It's our identity." Thanks to the Internet, it's easier than ever to find hoodies and T-shirts with sleek variations on Northwest Coastal designs, hand-sewn moccasins or silver and turquoise jewelry -- all by real Native artists. Turtle Mountain Chippewa Jessica R. Metcalfe started the blog Beyond Buckskin to promote Native artists and designers. This summer, she expanded the platform to an e-commerce site featuring products made by Native Americans where you'll find "hipsters in headdresses" bowties, but no headdresses, said Metcalfe, who has a Ph.D. in American Indian Studies from the University of Arizona. In contrast, most Americans probably get their Native-inspired looks from the likes of Proezna Schouler, Forever 21 or, until recently, Urban Outfitters. Last October, Brown wrote an open letter asking the company's CEO to pull its "Navajo" collection, which included the infamous "Navajo hipster panty" and flask. A Change.org petition followed, along with a cease-and-desist order from the Navajo Nation, ultimately leading to the removal of all "Navajo" references in product descriptions, though a trademark lawsuit is still winding through the courts.Each step forward seems to be followed by another gaffe. In September, apparel maker Paul Frank Industries drew ire for throwing a "neon-Native American powwow" on Fashion's Night Out called "Dream Catching with Paul Frank." Images of the brand's iconic monkey in war paint and headdress plastered the walls as similarly dressed employees photographed guests with tomahawks and bow-and-arrow sets, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Guests had a choice of drinks with names like "Rain Dance Refresher," "Dream Catcher" and "Neon Teepee.""We have sophisticated tribal governments and communities, but how will we be able to be seen as modern, successful people if we are continually represented through plastic tomahawks and feathers?" Native Appropriations blogger Adrienne Keene said in an open letter to Paul Frank Industries and the agency that threw the party. The company removed photos of the party from its Facebook page and issued an apology. A few days later, the president of Paul Frank Industries contacted Keene to discuss ways of rectifying the situation, from design collaborations to a panel on the use of Native Imagery, in what the blogger deemed a rare gesture of collaboration.Building mutually beneficial relationshipsAfter some initial hiccups, NATIVE(X) founder Mac Bishop believes he has a solid foundation for a collaborative effort, but acknowledges there is still lots of work to be done. In its current form, NATIVE(X) is a platform for Native artists to sell their work and share their stories by collaborating with NATIVE(X)on its line of bags, wallets and iPad cases, he said. Nathaniel Wilkerson is the first artist to work with NATIVE(X). He created the design for its product label and allows Bishop to sell his prints and art cards on the NATIVE(X) website. It's a collaboration that he considers mutually beneficial because it exposes his work to a wider audience. Working with a non-Native was never an issue, said Wilkerson. Most of the galleries that show his work are not owned by Natives, and a lot of them have closed since the economic downturn, making the extra exposure all the more valuable, he said. Some feel NATIVE(X) has yet to prove itself. Metcalfe of Beyond Buckskin says it's too early to fairly evaluate the company's success, especially in light of its Pendleton connection."Pendleton has built their small empire off of being inspired by and learning about (and replicating) Native American aesthetic traditions," she said. "I think it's time that we stop looking at non-Native versions of Native American cultures as the thing to celebrate and the thing to uphold as the best example of 'Native American fashion.' "Bishop acknowledged the sensitivities associated with being a white person going into business with Native artists, but he is hopeful that "good intentions should be able to overcome that." In the meantime, NATIVE(X) has made strides toward its goal of social consciousness by sponsoring a wearable art workshop on the Umatilla Indian Reservation, which drew praise and attention from various people. Handbag designer Maya Stewart learned about NATIVE(X) from Metcalfe's Twitter feed and saw potential through the platform to reach a wider audience. She contacted him to discuss potential ventures, which are still in the works."I think it's important that we as designers educate people through our art and whoever creates that platform, whether it's a Native or non-Native, it's the same thing as long as we're getting the word out."After their somewhat acrimonious beginning, Dunlap says he now considers Bishop an "ally-in-training." "We need allies who may not be from our community, but know our community because someone educated him. That's what's going to help change how others see us." Follow CNN Living on Facebook and Emanuella Grinberg on Twitter
|
{
"Q1": ""
}
|
{
"Q1": []
}
|
{
"Q1": 0
}
|
b57d38f83ffabcd7
|
50 years later, who are the heirs of the Black Panthers? (Opinion) - CNN
|
Story highlightsPeniel Joseph: By 1968 the Black Panthers became a global phenomenonThe Panthers articulated a structural critique of racism, he saysPanthers were hobbled in part by illegal surveillance, internal battles drug abusePeniel Joseph is the Barbara Jordan Chair in Political Values and Ethics and the Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is also a professor of history. He is the author of several books, most recently "Stokely: A Life." The views expressed here are his. (CNN)Fifty years ago today, the Black Panther Party for Self Defense was founded in Oakland, California, by activists Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. The group quickly shortened its name to the Black Panther Party (BPP) and emerged as the most iconic revolutionary organization to come out of the Black Power era and the larger global political maelstrom of the 1960s -- and one whose causes still resonate today.The Panthers, inspired by Malcolm X's revolutionary black nationalism and the socialist revolutions in Cuba, Africa and across the Third World, issued a 10-point program, divided into sections titled "What We Want" and "What We Need," that called for ending police brutality, decent housing for black people and the radical reform of the criminal justice system. Peniel JosephThe group's demand for "land, peace, bread and justice" paved the way for the Black Lives Matter Movement that has galvanized a new generation of activists in the United States and around the world. Like surrealist painters, the Panthers imagined a world that did not exist but could be willed into being. They fashioned themselves as the revolutionary vanguard of a worldwide liberation movement that would be led by blacks but feature multiracial and multinational coalitions, including the white New Left, who they characterized as "mother country radicals." Their imageRead MoreSporting leather jackets, bandoliers, powder blue T-shirts and black turtle necks, the Panthers adopted the garb of modern-day warriors, an image amplified by an iconic portrait of Newton sitting in a chair surrounded by African shields, holding a rifle in his right hand and a spear in his left. Black children of the Great Migration who traced their roots back to Louisiana and Texas, the 24-year-old Newton and 30-year-old Seale belonged to a generation of young black men denied educational opportunities by Jim Crow, criminalized by law enforcement, and marginalized within the civil rights movement.JUST WATCHEDBlack Panthers, KKK hold dueling ralliesReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHBlack Panthers, KKK hold dueling rallies 00:59Ironically, the civil rights insurgency in Lowndes County, Alabama -- where the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (or SNCC, pronounced "snick") helped organize an independent political party -- was nicknamed the Black Panther Party and provided the BPP with its name and symbol. In an era before social media offered visual evidence of police brutality and the murder of black people, the Black Panthers organized armed patrols of Oakland police, leading to dramatic confrontations that nearly ended in violence. The group made national news on May 2, 1967, when an armed contingent strolled into California's state capitol to protest a bill aimed at ending their right to openly carry weapons. Photos: Evolution of Black Lives Matter Photos: Evolution of Black Lives MatterBlack Lives Matter started with a hashtag. Now it is a rallying cry, a cause and a movement in the wake of the deaths of black men at the hands of police. The latest police shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile have spurred a new round of protests across the country and worldwide. Hide Caption 1 of 18 Photos: Evolution of Black Lives MatterSome organizers say the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the death of Trayvon Martin in 2012 is where the movement began. Demonstrators wore hoodies and carried Skittles, the candy Martin had bought on the night he was killed.Hide Caption 2 of 18 Photos: Evolution of Black Lives MatterThe shooting death of unarmed teen Michael Brown in August 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri, by an officer lit an existing fuse and protests engulfed the town.Hide Caption 3 of 18 Photos: Evolution of Black Lives MatterBy the time Eric Garner died after being placed in a chokehold by a New York Police Department officer, support for Black Lives Matter had grown nationwide. Hide Caption 4 of 18 Photos: Evolution of Black Lives MatterProtests and clashes with police after the officer wasn't indicted in the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson led to another round of protests, with the rallying cry "No justice, no peace."Hide Caption 5 of 18 Photos: Evolution of Black Lives MatterDemands for change led to organized protests in major cities, including New York, Washington, Boston, San Francisco and Oakland, California, in December 2014.Hide Caption 6 of 18 Photos: Evolution of Black Lives MatterActivist Muhiyidin d'Baha took the call for action into a North Charleston, South Carolina, City Council after the killing of Walter Scott by a North Charleston police officer.Hide Caption 7 of 18 Photos: Evolution of Black Lives MatterThe death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore led to frustrations that splintered into violence; a CVS Pharmacy was looted and burned during protests after his funeral. Hide Caption 8 of 18 Photos: Evolution of Black Lives MatterA battle waged against the Confederate flag as a symbol of hatred after Dylann Roof was accused of killing nine people in a South Carolina church in an attempt to spark a race war. Activist Brittany "Bree" Newsome took the battle flag off the flagpole at the Statehouse in Columbia, South Carolina.Hide Caption 9 of 18 Photos: Evolution of Black Lives MatterThe political activism entered the 2016 campaign, with some parts of the movement deciding to interrupt presidential candidates to demand more be done.Hide Caption 10 of 18 Photos: Evolution of Black Lives MatterBlack Lives Matter demonstrators made a point of protesting Democratic events to bring attention to their issues. The group had a tense meeting with Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire and released video of the conversation. Hide Caption 11 of 18 Photos: Evolution of Black Lives MatterThe movement also worked its way into popular culture, sparking an episode of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," which took on a police officer killing an innocent unarmed black man. Hide Caption 12 of 18 Photos: Evolution of Black Lives MatterBlack Lives Matter protesters continued to disrupt political events in an attempt to be heard, including this Hillary Clinton event in Atlanta. Hide Caption 13 of 18 Photos: Evolution of Black Lives MatterRacial tensions led to a weekslong protest movement at the University of Missouri campus that ousted both the university president and the school's chancellor.Hide Caption 14 of 18 Photos: Evolution of Black Lives MatterThe movement was born out of frustration over the death of young black men. Jamar Clark's funeral in Minneapolis in November is an example of that continued unified response. Hide Caption 15 of 18 Photos: Evolution of Black Lives MatterBlack Lives Matter demonstrators march in Cleveland on December 29, 2015, after a grand jury declined to indict Cleveland Police officer Timothy Loehmann for the fatal shooting of Tamir Rice on November 22, 2014.Hide Caption 16 of 18 Photos: Evolution of Black Lives MatterSirica Bolling raises her fist as she walks down Jefferson Avenue during a Black Lives Matter protest in Newport News, Va., Sunday July 10, 2016, following the fatal shootings of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota. Hide Caption 17 of 18 Photos: Evolution of Black Lives MatterDemonstrations have popped up in cities around the world, including this one in London on July 10, 2016, following the most recent police shootings. Hide Caption 18 of 18The group's swaggering, at times reckless, bravado attracted scores of new recruits, including activists Kathleen Neal Clever and Eldridge Cleaver, a former prisoner who became the BPP's minister of information and a best-selling author. By 1968 the Black Panthers became a global phenomenon, fueled by a "Free Huey" campaign organized in the aftermath of the young BPP minister of defense's confrontation with two police officers that left one officer dead and the other seriously wounded. Newton also suffered a bullet wound to his stomach. He was sentenced to two to 15 years for a manslaughter conviction. The campaign helped to get Newton an appeal and he was released in 1970. JUST WATCHEDYoung girl: We shouldn't have to protest ReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHYoung girl: We shouldn't have to protest 00:58Through a nationally distributed newspaper, The Black Panther, the BPP organized demonstrations, political education rallies and alliances with white, Latino, Native American and Asian American allies. The BPP became, for a time, one of the leading revolutionary groups in the world. Although some media focused on the image of the Panthers as urban guerillas, the group's biggest impact occurred at the grassroots through community organizing.Comprising several thousand members and over three dozen chapters in cities that included Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Portland, Seattle, New Haven, Connecticut, and Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the Panthers established free breakfast programs, health clinics, busing to prison programs, legal clinics, sickle cell anemia testing and food drives that aided some of America's poorest black communities. Who is responsible for fixing race relations in America?Like today's movement for black lives, the Panthers articulated a structural critique of racism, which they linked to capitalism's political and economic exploitation of the poor on a global scale. The Black Panthers identified America's criminal justice system as a gateway to racial and class oppression. They recruited ex-convicts and organized inmates and became leaders in a prisoner rights movement that gained international notoriety with the Attica Prison uprising of 1971.Importantly the Panthers linked domestic and international anti-racist struggles, becoming a symbol of a political revolution that touched every corner of the world. After Newton was released from prison in 1970, the group drew tens of thousands of young supporters to Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., in efforts to re-imagine American democracy and end racial and economic injustice. Why their revolution failedOf course, the revolution the Panthers attempted to organize with such confidence and brio did not come off as planned. State-sanctioned violence, in the form of illegal FBI surveillance and local police authorities (including the first SWAT team in Los Angeles) pummeled, brutalized, and at times killed members of the group. Internal contradictions, including substance abuse, political authoritarianism, sexism and ideological disputes led to violence within the group and greatly contributed to the group's decline.Extraordinary moment on race in veep debateYet in a very real sense the Panthers were ahead of their time in organizing against institutional racism, war and violence by any means necessary. Inspired by Malcolm X, the Panthers adopted a dual strategy for black liberation that featured armed self-defense and engaged community organizing. Their 10-point program reads like a rough policy outline to create a new world. Thousands of young black women and men undertook this mission, against long odds, during the 1960s and 1970s. Like their modern day BLM counterparts, the Panthers raged against not only racial injustice but the ideology of white supremacy that normalized black oppression. Follow CNN OpinionJoin us on Twitter and FacebookBut at its core, the group pursued—like Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the BLM Movement—a radical human rights agenda, one that viewed black equality as the common denominator for a wide range of social justice causes. Fifty years after their founding, the spirit of the Panthers (if not their exact tactics, as the BLM have adhered to the philosophy of non-violence) lives on in the efforts of a movement for black lives that continues to believe that a new world free of racism and economic injustice, homo- and transphobia and sexism and misogyny is not only possible but can be reached within our lifetime.
|
{
"Q1": ""
}
|
{
"Q1": []
}
|
{
"Q1": 0
}
|
b45a6332f4ebca94
|
Woman reunited with family 40 years after dictatorship - CNN
|
Story highlightsShe is the 127th child to be reunited with his or her biological family since the end of Argentina's dictatorshipOne aunt said of her long lost niece: "We love her intensely" (CNN)A woman in Argentina has been reunited with her family 40 years after the country's military dictatorship kidnapped her parents during its infamous "Dirty War." In an emotional press conference Thursday, members of the woman's extended family and leaders from the Argentine human rights organization, the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, formally announced that they had a DNA match with the woman and her family members. "We are all waiting for her with open arms," the woman's aunt, Adriana Moyano, said during a press conference Thursday in the South American nation's capital, Buenos Aires. Another aunt, Elsa Poblete, added of her long lost niece: "We love her intensely."She is the 127th child to be reunited with his or her biological family since the end of Argentina's dictatorship, which lasted from 1976 to 1983. This year, the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo have identified six adults belonging to parents who went missing during the dictatorship. Read MoreRelated: Obama admits fault in U.S. response to Argentina's 'Dirty War'As the woman adjusts to a jarring new reality, organization officials did not reveal her identity or that of the family that raised her. Her parents, Maria del Carmen Moyano and Carlos Poblete, were kidnapped sometime in April or May of 1977, according to the Grandmothers' organization. Moyano was believed to be eight to nine months pregnant at the time. They were taken in the city of Cordoba, about 430 miles west of Buenos Aires. The couple was associated with a violent, revolutionary group against the dictatorship known as the Montoneros. Moyano was transferred to Argentina's naval base in Buenos Aires where thousands were tortured during the dictatorship. She gave birth to her daughter there, according to the organization. She, along with the woman's father, is presumed to be dead or missing.During Argentina's dictatorship, about 30,000 citizens disappeared, most believed to have been killed by the authoritarian regime. Some were critics of the government. According to the human rights organization, there are about 350 other children separated from family during the Dirty War who have yet to be identified and reunited with loved ones.The Grandmothers first began protesting decades ago in and around Plaza de Mayo, the main square in front of the presidential palace in Buenos Aires. Once dismissed by the dictatorship as ludicrous, the organization has received worldwide recognition over the last four decades for its work reuniting people with their biological families. Estela de Carlotto, the current leader of the organization who accompanied the family members Thursday, knows how they feel. In 2014, she was reunited with her own grandson, who was taken from the family when Carlotto's daughter, Laura, was kidnapped by authorities in 1978.
|
{
"Q1": ""
}
|
{
"Q1": []
}
|
{
"Q1": 0
}
|
fb108a5ed1181dc3
|
Harris bursts through another barrier, becoming the first female, first Black and first South Asian vice president-elect - CNNPolitics
|
(CNN)Kamala Harris, who on Saturday became America's first female, first Black and first South Asian vice president-elect, represents a new face of political power after an election all about who wields power and how they use it. The California senator's history-making win also represents the millions of women in the demographics -- often overlooked, historically underrepresented and systematically ignored -- who are now the recipients of that new power for the first time in the country's 200-plus-year history.Harris tweeted a video of herself on the phone with President-elect Joe Biden shortly after CNN projected their win. "We did it, we did it, Joe. You're going to be the next president of the United States," she said with a signature laugh.We did it, @JoeBiden. pic.twitter.com/oCgeylsjB4— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) November 7, 2020
Harris and Biden's victory, as projected by CNN, arrives days after a prolonged vote count reflecting a deeply divided electorate. It symbolizes a bookend to the Trump era, which followed the first Black US President and was buoyed by social ills including White supremacy. Harris' triumph, in particular, marks a new high point in a career of barrier-breaking accomplishments, from San Francisco district attorney to California attorney general to just the second-ever Black female US senator.Read More"That I am here tonight is a testament to the dedication of generations before me," Harris said during her Democratic National Convention acceptance speech in August, mentioning women such as Constance Baker Motley, Fannie Lou Hamer and Shirley Chisholm."Women and men who believed so fiercely in the promise of equality, liberty and justice for all," she had said.On Saturday night, during her first speech as vice president-elect, Harris also noted the historic moment. "While I may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last," she said in Wilmington, Delaware."Because every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities, and to the children of our country, regardless of your gender, our country has sent you a clear message: Dream with ambition, lead with conviction and see yourselves in a way that others may not, simply because they've never seen it before. But know that we will applaud you every step of the way," she said.Harris attended Howard University, a historically Black university in Washington. Her time at Howard, where she joined Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., profoundly shaped her political vision."You didn't have to be confined by anyone else's idea of what it means to be Black," she told CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union" in September. "You could be a fine arts student and also be class president. You could be homecoming queen and be the head of the science club. You could be a member of a sorority and be in student government and want to go to law school, and it encouraged you to be your full self."Over the course of her White House bid, Harris never shied away from mentioning that people attempted to box her in or doubted her as she sought to pave a path in politics. "I didn't listen. And the people didn't listen, either. And we won," she would say.'We are on the ticket' Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisKamala Harris speaks during an economic forum in Las Vegas in April 2019. The US senator from California is now the vice president-elect.Hide Caption 1 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisA young Harris is seen with her mother, Shyamala, in this photo that was posted on Harris' Facebook page in March 2017. "My mother was born in India and came to the United States to study at UC Berkeley, where she eventually became an endocrinologist and breast-cancer researcher," Harris wrote. "She, and so many other strong women in my life, showed me the importance of community involvement and public service."Hide Caption 2 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisHarris and her younger sister, Maya, pose for a Christmas photo in 1968.Hide Caption 3 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisHarris rides a carousel in this old photo she posted to social media in 2015. Her name, Kamala, comes from the Sanskrit word for the lotus flower. Harris is the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants and grew up attending both a Baptist church and a Hindu temple.Hide Caption 4 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisHarris tweeted this photo of her as a child after referencing it during a Democratic debate in June 2019. During the debate, she confronted Joe Biden over his opposition many years ago to the federal government mandating busing to integrate schools. "There was a little girl in California who was bussed to school," she tweeted. "That little girl was me."Hide Caption 5 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisHarris got her bachelor's degree from Howard University in Washington, DC.Hide Caption 6 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisHarris graduates from law school in 1989. "My first grade teacher, Mrs. Wilson (left), came to cheer me on," Harris said. "My mom was pretty proud, too."Hide Caption 7 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisHarris is joined by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, left, and the Rev. Cecil Williams, center, for a San Francisco march celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. in January 2004. Harris was the city's district attorney from 2004 to 2011.Hide Caption 8 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisHarris speaks to supporters before a "No on K" news conference in October 2008. The San Francisco ballot measure Proposition K sought to stop enforcing laws against prostitution. It was voted down on election day.Hide Caption 9 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisHarris looks over seized guns following a news conference in Sacramento, California, in June 2011. Harris became California's attorney general in January 2011 and held that office until 2017. She was the first African-American, the first woman and the first Asian-American to become California's attorney general.Hide Caption 10 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisHarris attends the Democratic Party's state convention in February 2012.Hide Caption 11 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisHarris watches California Gov. Jerry Brown sign copies of the California Homeowner Bill of Rights in July 2012.Hide Caption 12 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisHarris speaks on the second night of the 2012 Democratic National Convention.Hide Caption 13 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisIn May 2013, Harris and California Highway Patrol Commissioner Joe Farrow place a wreath honoring Highway Patrol officers who were killed in the line of duty. Hide Caption 14 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisHarris officiates the wedding of Kris Perry, left, and Sandy Stier in June 2013. Perry and Stier were married after a federal appeals court cleared the way for California to immediately resume issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.Hide Caption 15 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisHarris is flanked by her husband, Douglas Emhoff, and her sister, Maya. Next to Maya Harris is Maya's daughter, Meena, and Maya's husband, Tony West.Hide Caption 16 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisHarris receives a gift from supporters in January 2015, after she announced plans to run for the US Senate.Hide Caption 17 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisHarris speaks during a news conference in February 2015.Hide Caption 18 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisHarris, as a new member of the Senate, participates in a re-enacted swearing-in with Vice President Joe Biden in January 2017. She is the first Indian-American and the second African-American woman to serve as a US senator.Hide Caption 19 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisHarris talks with former US Sen. Bob Dole on Capitol Hill in January 2017.Hide Caption 20 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisHarris attends the Women's March on Washington in January 2017.Hide Caption 21 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisHarris speaks to Fatima and Yuleni Avelica, whose father was deported, before a news conference on Capitol Hill in March 2017.Hide Caption 22 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisHarris greets a crowd at an event in Richmond, Virginia, in October 2017.Hide Caption 23 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisIn November 2017, Harris was among the lawmakers on the Senate Intelligence Committee grilling Silicon Valley giants over the role that their platforms inadvertently played in Russia's meddling in US politics.Hide Caption 24 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisHarris and her husband attend a Golden State Warriors basketball game in May 2018.Hide Caption 25 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisHarris attends a rally with, from left, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom, and Newsom's wife, Jennifer, in May 2018. Newsom won the election in November.Hide Caption 26 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisHarris speaks with US Sen. Cory Booker during the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in September 2018.Hide Caption 27 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisHarris presses Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing.Hide Caption 28 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisHarris arrives with staff for a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in September 2018.Hide Caption 29 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisHarris reads from her children's book "Superheroes Are Everywhere" during a book signing in Los Angeles in January 2019. She also released a memoir, "The Truths We Hold: An American Journey."Hide Caption 30 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisA person holds a Harris poster during the Women's March in Los Angeles in January 2019.Hide Caption 31 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisHarris holds her first presidential campaign rally in January 2019. She had announced her presidential bid a week earlier on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.Hide Caption 32 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisHarris speaks during her CNN town-hall event, which was moderated by Jake Tapper in Iowa in January 2019.Hide Caption 33 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisMedia members photograph Harris and the Rev. Al Sharpton as they have lunch at Sylvia's Restaurant in New York in February 2019.Hide Caption 34 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisHarris confronts former Vice President Joe Biden, left, during the first Democratic debates in June 2019. Harris went after Biden over his early-career opposition to federally mandated busing.Hide Caption 35 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisHarris rides her campaign bus in Iowa in August 2019.Hide Caption 36 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisHarris and Biden greet each other at a Detroit high school as they attend a "Get Out the Vote" event in March 2020. Harris had dropped out of the presidential race a few months earlier.Hide Caption 37 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisFrom left, Harris, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and US Sen. Cory Booker stand near a Capitol Hill statue of abolitionist Frederick Douglass during a June 2020 event commemorating the life of George Floyd. Floyd, an unarmed Black man, was killed in police custody in Minneapolis.Hide Caption 38 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisBiden calls Harris from his Delaware home to inform her that she was his choice for vice president.Hide Caption 39 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisBiden listens as Harris speaks during their first campaign event as a presidential ticket.Hide Caption 40 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisHarris and Biden sign paperwork to officially get on the ballot in all 50 states.Hide Caption 41 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisHarris delivers a speech as she formally accepts the nomination at the Democratic National Convention. "Let's fight with conviction," Harris said in her speech. "Let's fight with hope. Let's fight with confidence in ourselves and a commitment to each other. To the America we know is possible. The America we love."Hide Caption 42 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisHarris addresses Vice President Mike Pence during the vice presidential debate in October 2020.Hide Caption 43 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisHarris waves to supporters at a campaign event in Lakewood, Ohio, in October 2020.Hide Caption 44 of 45 Photos: Vice President-elect Kamala HarrisHarris and Biden are joined by their spouses after their victory speeches in Wilmington, Delaware, in November 2020.Hide Caption 45 of 45 As a Black and South Asian woman in an overwhelmingly White arena, Harris on her journey to the White House was something of a pioneer. And voters noticed."It just feels like Black girls like me can run for class president, Black girls like me can go for the big things in life like she did," 14-year-old Paris Bond told CNN in August.Katerina Shadrach, an 11-year-old South Asian and White American, told CNN at an August 2019 Harris rally that Harris was her role model. Inside a packed gymnasium, Shadrach stood on the edges of the rally, next to her father, Sheldon, clutching Harris' memoir, "The Truths We Hold," as she waited for the senator who looked just like her to take the stage.An aspiring US senator herself, Shadrach told Harris after the event of her ambition to chart a path like Harris'. According to Shadrach, Harris told her that "as long as I put my mind to it and I do the best that I can and be like the best version of me, I will be able to accomplish my goals."Seeing Harris on the Democratic presidential ticket a year later, Shadrach called the moment a "really big step" for girls and women who look like her."She was the one who was able to prove that it's actually possible," Shadrach said. "You can see kind of a connection, because we are two similar people. And so if she can get to that, I can get to that. And I can identify with her."Or as Leah Daughtry, who headed up the 2016 and 2008 Democratic conventions, said of Harris earlier this year to The New York Times: "She is the stand-in for Black women. We are on the ticket."Rise and reignMr. Vice President, she's speaking: How Kamala Harris beat the stereotypes during her historic VP debate Harris was born in Oakland, California, in 1964, to parents who raised her in a bassinet of civil rights activism.Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, an Indian immigrant, was a breast cancer researcher; she died of cancer in 2009. Harris' father, Donald, is a Jamaican American professor of economics. On the campaign trail, the vice president-elect often talked about how her activist parents would push her in her stroller at civil rights marches. The couple divorced in 1972.Harris grew up in the Bay Area but took frequent trips to India to visit extended family. At 12, she and her sister, Maya, moved with their mother to majority-White Montréal, where Gopalan Harris had secured a teaching post at McGill University as well as a research position at the Jewish General Hospital.While campaigning, Harris frequently spoke about her closeness to her mother. "My mother, she raised my sister and me, and she was tough," Harris would say. "Our mother was all of 5 feet tall, but if you ever met her, you would've thought she was 10 feet tall."After graduating from Howard in 1986 for her undergraduate degree and from the University of California's Hastings College of the Law in 1989, Harris passed the bar the following year and joined the Alameda County prosecutor's office as an assistant district attorney. From there, she began her political ascent.In 2003, Harris won her first race for San Francisco district attorney, becoming the first Black woman to hold such an office in California. In 2010, she became the first Black woman elected as California attorney general, and in 2016, she became only the second Black woman ever elected as a US senator.She often spoke of her barrier-breaking life during her presidential primary campaign, saying that she understood how being the first requires voters to "see what can be unburdened by what has been."More than a demographicKamala Harris' balancing act Harris is a lot of things beyond her gender and her race, of course. But her mere presence brings so much with it -- so much to those, of all ages, who see themselves in her.As she waited for Harris to take the stage at a rally in Asheville, North Carolina, in October, Elinor Earl, 77, said she never thought that she'd see a Black woman like herself rise through the ranks as Harris has."Not at my age," Earl told CNN. "It's wonderful to see her. I wouldn't have missed it for nothing in the world."Harris isn't shy about highlighting her upbringing or her influences, as was clear through her shoutouts to AKAs and HBCUs during her DNC speech."Family is my beloved Alpha Kappa Alpha, our Divine Nine, and my HBCU brothers and sisters," she said.Harris was referring to the nickname for America's nine historically Black fraternities and sororities, and nodding to the fact that she was the first graduate of a historically Black college or university to be selected as a major party's candidate's running mate.Harris' remarks couldn't have contrasted more with President Donald Trump's rhetoric over the past four years.Nasty. Sh*thole countries. Go back. Whereas Trump has spent his tenure in the White House excoriating otherness and propping up the country's many hierarchies, Harris used the campaign trail to do the precise opposite.Indeed, Harris' bid was a pure distillation of the complex joy of representation. Often in her Converse sneakers, the former prosecutor made space for women of color to tell their lived experiences during campaign events on the trail. She made a point to prop up women of color small business owners, frequently telling them to say their companies' names clearly in front of the press so they could be included in news stories. Certain voters felt, in today's parlance, seen. And come Inauguration Day, that visibility will extend to the White House and, likely, alchemize into substantive representation.There's a sobering corollary to Harris' historic win. In important ways, her success says as much about America's political institutions as it does about her.That Harris is the first female, first Black and first South Asian vice president-elect is both an affirmation of her excellence -- her skill as a debater against Mike Pence, for instance -- and a reflection of the racism and sexism that punish women of color who run for executive office.And while it's true that Harris this week achieved yet more firsts, it's maybe more accurate to describe these firsts as onlys -- she became the only female, only Black and only South Asian vice president-elect.That framing shines a less flattering light on America. But it's more honest. It also hints at possibility -- the possibility that Harris on Saturday opened up the door for women and girls who look like her to follow, to claim power for their own.Harris' mother put it best: "Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last."This story has been updated with remarks from Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on Saturday night.
|
{
"Q1": ""
}
|
{
"Q1": []
}
|
{
"Q1": 0
}
|
3084781d9d9b68e8
|
Democratic women wear white - CNNPolitics
|
Story highlightsMany of the 66 Democratic women in Congress wore white clothing to Trump's address"Tonight, our Democratic #WomenWearWhite in support of women's rights -- in spite of a @POTUS who doesn't!" Nancy Pelosi tweetedWashington (CNN)Democratic women in Congress made an impression Tuesday evening as they sat in the audience for President Donald Trump's joint address to Congress.Many of the 66 Democratic women representatives and delegates who make up the House Democratic Women's Working Group wore white clothing, dubbed "suffragette white" in a nod to the women's rights movement in the early 1900s, which encouraged its supporters to dress in white as a representation of purity. Tonight, Democratic Members will wear suffragette white to oppose Republican attempts to roll back women's progress #WomenWearWhite pic.twitter.com/lh5YAIfVGW— Rep. Lois Frankel (@RepLoisFrankel) February 28, 2017
"We wear white to unite against any attempts by the Trump administration to roll back the incredible progress women have made in the last century, and we will continue to support the advancement of all women," Florida Democratic Rep. Lois Frankel, the chair of the working group, said in a statement.The members are wearing white to show support for Planned Parenthood, affordable health care, reproductive rights, equal pay, paid leave, affordable child care and "lives free from fear and violence," the statement also said.W/@RepKClark wearing white to #JointSession to honor the progress we've made & let @realDonaldTrump know women are watching. #WomenWearWhite pic.twitter.com/8Qo30GIq4C— Ann McLane Kuster (@RepAnnieKuster) February 28, 2017
"Tonight, our Democratic #WomenWearWhite in support of women's rights -- in spite of a @POTUS who doesn't!" Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi tweeted.Tonight, our Democratic #WomenWearWhite in support of women's rights -- in spite of a @POTUS who doesn't! pic.twitter.com/kKJpfV5iUE— Nancy Pelosi (@NancyPelosi) February 28, 2017
Read MoreRepublican Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the chair of the House Republican Conference, responded to her Democratic colleagues' statement by calling for unity."You know, I think this is an important time for us to be coming together," she told CNN's Erin Burnett on "OutFront" when asked about the movement by the Democratic women."Typically, when a president is elected, you have that coming together as a country, which we haven't had, and I'm hopeful that people will listen to his message tonight and that they'll be willing to come together, find the common ground, so that we can do the important work that the people expect us to do," McMorris Rodgers added.White has become the go-to color for celebrating women in politics at many points throughout history. There was a #WearWhiteToVote movement on Election Day 2016 as a tribute to the suffragettes, who fought for women's right to vote. And on the night Hillary Clinton accepted the Democratic presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention, she wore a white suit. Many women who disagree with Trump have been pushing back in the weeks following the President's inauguration, holding women's marches across the globe in January and planning more efforts to protest in the months to come.
|
{
"Q1": ""
}
|
{
"Q1": []
}
|
{
"Q1": 0
}
|
7a515a1dedf6e67e
|
US blacklists 28 Chinese organizations over Xinjiang camps - CNN
|
Hong Kong (CNN Business)Washington is adding 28 Chinese companies, government offices and security bureaus to a United States blacklist over their alleged role in facilitating human rights abuses in China's Xinjiang region. Monday's announcement targets some of China's top artificial intelligence companies in a similar way to the US move against smartphone giant Huawei earlier this year, and comes just days before crucial trade talks between the two sides. In a statement, the US Commerce Department said "these entities have been implicated in human rights violations and abuses in the implementation of China's campaign of repression, mass arbitrary detention, and high-technology surveillance against Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other members of Muslim minority groups in [Xinjiang]."For the last two-and-a-half years, China has been detaining hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities in what Beijing alternately describes as "voluntary de-radicalization camps" and "vocational training centers." Former detainees have described them as closer to internment camps, however, and allegations of abuse are rampant, including in firsthand accounts given to CNN describing torture and forced political re-education under the threat of violence.Read MoreChinese officials have long defended the crackdown in Xinjiang as necessary to tackle extremism and in line with Chinese law and international practice. In a statement Tuesday, Beijing said the US accusations were "groundless and senseless" and the sanctions on its organizations and companies "seriously violated the basic rules of international relations.""We urge the US to immediately correct its mistakes, withdraw relevant decisions and stop interfering with China's internal affairs," said Geng Shuang, a spokesman for China's foreign ministry, at a press briefing. "China will continue to take resolute measures to firmly safeguard its national sovereignty and developmental interests."Asked about potential retaliation against American companies, the spokesman said, "Please keep watching."Disturbing video shows hundreds of blindfolded prisoners in XinjiangThe organizations targeted by the United States are now barred from buying US products or importing American technology. The list includes 20 government and security bureaus in Xinjiang, and eight companies, including Hikvision, one of the world's largest manufacturers of AI-driven video surveillance products, and Meiya Pico, a leading digital forensics firm. "The US Government and Department of Commerce cannot and will not tolerate the brutal suppression of ethnic minorities within China," Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross said in a statement. "This action will ensure that our technologies, fostered in an environment of individual liberty and free enterprise, are not used to repress defenseless minority populations."Shares in Hikvision — which has previously been accused by US lawmakers of helping China create a "high-tech police state" — were suspended in Shenzhen following the move.Hikvision said the company strongly opposed the US decision, adding it had been working with Trump administration officials over the last 12 months "to clarify misunderstandings about the company and address their concerns.""Hikvision, as the security industry's global leader, respects human rights and takes our responsibility to protect people in the US and the world seriously," a company spokesperson said.Meiya Pico has yet to publicly comment. US President Donald Trump speaks during a signing of a US-Japanese trade agreement in the Roosevelt Room of the White House October 7, 2019, in Washington, DC.The blacklisting of Chinese organizations comes just before high-level trade talks are due to resume in Washington on Thursday in the hopes of finding a way to end the damaging US-China trade war. Speaking to reporters at the White House on Monday, President Donald Trump said "my inclination is to get a big deal. We've come this far. We're doing well." "Can something happen? I guess, maybe. Who knows? But I think it's probably unlikely. Okay?" Trump added. Why China is the worst country Trump could ask for a favorThe American leader is facing intense scrutiny over his apparent request to Chinese authorities to look into his potential Democratic presidential rival Joe Biden, over the former vice president and his son's business dealings in China. During a call with Chinese President Xi Jinping about Biden, Trump promised to remain quiet on ongoing anti-government unrest in Hong Kong if trade talks progressed, according to two people familiar with the discussion. He denied promising to stay quiet Monday, "but I (did) say that we are negotiating. If anything happened bad, I think that would be a very bad for the negotiation." Yong Xiong contributed reporting.
|
{
"Q1": ""
}
|
{
"Q1": []
}
|
{
"Q1": 0
}
|
6f913f9379cb897c
|
How China is tearing thousands of Uyghur families apart in Xinjiang - CNN
|
Hong Kong (CNN)Every day, US-based Uyghur journalist Gulchehra Hoja tries to call her family in the Chinese region of Xinjiang. Sometimes she tries up to 20 different numbers, just hoping that someone will pick up."I know they won't pick up the phone, but I try ... nobody picks up," she told CNN in an interview from her office in Washington.She doesn't expect an answer because 23 of her family members -- including her aunt, her brothers, her cousins -- have disappeared, along with tens of thousands of other ethnic Uyghurs inside enormous state-controlled "re-education camps." Hoja, who works as a journalist for US government-funded Radio Free Asia (RFA), says her brother was the first in the family to vanish in September 28, 2017. "This is my brother and this is me," she says, holding up a picture. "This was taken in summer 2000, it's my birthday ... this is my last picture with him .... (Now) he is missing. We don't know where he is now."Read MoreUyghur journalist Gulchehra Hoja holds a pictures of her brother who has been missing in Xinjiang for more than a yearHer aunt, who raised her, and then her cousins vanished into Xinjiang's vast detention system, without any explanation or trial. She says her parents, last she heard, were under house arrest, unable even to go to a doctor without permission. But even they stopped taking her calls a month ago.An estimated one million Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority in western China, are being held in camps across the region, according to a US congressional report.The Chinese government has never explained the disappearances, which began in 2017, nor said how many people are being held in the camps, which they insist are "vocational training centers" that local "students" are happy to attend.China admits to locking up Uyghurs, but defends Xinjiang crackdownDefending his country's human rights record at a United Nations forum in early November, China's Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Yucheng said that his country had made "remarkable progress" in the past four decades, including "lifting more than a billion people out of poverty."But many other countries remain harshly critical of Beijing's record, especially in regards to the Xinjiang camps. More than a dozen states including Australia, Germany and the United States have called on China to dismantle the camps and release those detained. "They are transformation centers, and they really are aimed at completely altering Uyghur culture and identity. It's kind of a surreal practice, I would say, that is definitely unprecedented in the 21st century," Sean Roberts, director of the International Development Studies Program at George Washington University, told CNN.Hoja goes even further. She describes it as "cultural genocide."'Brainwashed'Beijing has had a long and fractious history with Xinjiang, a massive, nominally autonomous region in the far west of the country that is home to a relatively small population of around 22 million in a nation of 1.4 billion people.Although the ruling Communist Party says Xinjiang has been part of China "since ancient times," it was only officially named and placed under central government control after being conquered by the Qing Dynasty in the 1800s.The predominately Muslim Uyghurs, who are ethnically distinct from the country's majority ethnic group, the Han Chinese, form the majority in Xinjiang, where they account for just under half of the total population. This, however, is changing fast. According to government data, in 1953 Han Chinese accounted for just 6% of Xinjiang's total population of 4.87 million, while Uyghurs made up 75%. By the year 2000 the Han Chinese population had grown to 40%, while Uyghurs had fallen to 45% of the total population of 18.46 million. Uyghur crackdown in Xinjiang doubles security spending in one yearContinued economic development has led to an increase in skilled Han Chinese migrants. The provincial capital Urumqi, Xinjiang's largest and most prosperous city, is today majority Han Chinese. "They named our homeland Xinjiang ... Uyghurs prefer to call it East Turkistan because our land was called (that) before the Chinese occupied," Hoja said, looking at the map of her home province. Xinjiang means "new frontier" in Chinese.In the past decade, perceived "Sinocization" across Xinjiang has led to Uyghur unrest -- and bouts of bloody ethnic violence. The region has also been braced by acts of terrorism, often directed at authorities. In reaction, the provincial government, which blames the terrorist attacks on independence-seeking Uyghur extremists, has greatly expanded its efforts to control the local Uyghur population. Under direction of Xinjiang's Communist Party Secretary Chen Quanguo, authorities have cracked down hard on the Muslim beliefs and practices of the Uyghur population, including face coverings and long beards, Quran study groups and preventing government employees from fasting for Ramadan. Anyone can be sent, under the flimsiest of reasons, to "re-education camps," according to Hoja. "When my brother was taken ... my Mum asked like, 'Why are you taking my son? What he do?' And the officer answered back, 'His sister's (in the US), is that not enough to take him?'" she said.But Hoja believes the real reason he was taken was simpler than that. "They are targeted just because they are Uyghurs."Uyghur journalist Gulchehra Hoja's brother and parents in an undated family photoHoja claims up to 40% of the province's Uyghur population, as many as four million people, could currently be held in the "re-education camps.""They are ill-treated there. They are tortured there. Even you cannot speak your own language in there, you are brainwashed," Hoja alleged."Every day before your meal you have to sing a 'red' (communist) song, and say thank you to (Chinese President) Xi Jinping or the Communist Party."In defense of the government's policy, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV aired footage inside what they term "vocational training camps," showing smiling Uyghurs learning Chinese and skills such as sewing.But Hoja challenged the idea that her family was in such desperate need of vocational training that they should be taken to the camps."My aunt knows more than three languages, she is also retired from the Xinjiang Museum, so what kind of education does she need to take?" she said.'The worst feeling in the world'Mamatjan Juma, another Uyghur journalist working for RFA, said not knowing where your family was, or being able to help them, was "the worst feeling in the world.""Every day I think of them, the pain is there. Because it's just like a kind of virus, it's in your mind, the pain is there every night. They were in my dreams sometimes ... You cannot do anything," he told CNN.A former teacher from a big family in the Xinjiang city of Kashgar, Juma, said Chinese authorities took away two of his brothers in May 2017."My last brother, the third one, the youngest brother was taken away this year, in February. And since then I've lost contact with my Mom and two of my younger sisters," he said.Ahmatjan Juma, a teacher and brother of Uyghur journalist Mamatjan Juma, who disappeared in Xinjiang in 2017Like Hoja, Juma feels that working as a journalist in the US has led to negative consequences for his family. From 2010, he began to receive calls from his brother trying to convince him to come home. They only stopped when his brother vanished.Juma said he is most concerned about his mother, who is severely unwell after suffering multiple heart attacks and being sent to hospital three times. "I don't know what happened to her, if she's been taken away, or something has happened to her," he said.He worries for those detained. "One Uyghur businessman told me that they were left like animals. They don't have any facilities ... They don't have enough food," he said.The Chinese government claims its actions in Xinjiang, including the mass detentions and forced home stays by Communist Party officials, are designed to make the province more secure and prosperous.Xinjiang Governor Shohrat Zakir, himself a Uyghur, told the state-run Xinhua news agency in October that since the crackdown "Xinjiang is not only beautiful but also safe and stable."But Juma told CNN Beijing is simply trying to "Sinocize" Xinjiang, remove the Uyghurs' culture and identity and make them more like the Han Chinese majority. "They call it educate and civilize, but that's not the case," he said.'Critical location'While a large part of the Chinese government's crackdown in Xinjiang has centered on efforts to "transform" Uyghurs into model Chinese citizens, Roberts, the associate professor, said there may be ulterior motives for Beijing."If you look at the plans for (Chinese President) Xi Jinping's Belt and Road Initiative, Xinjiang is a critical location that will serve as the jumping off point for all economic expansion into Central Asia and South West Asia and really into Europe," he told CNN.The Belt and Road Initiative, a signature policy of Xi's, plans to create trade corridors between Beijing and the rest of the world, through international infrastructure spending and diplomatic agreements. The name references the Maritime Silk Road, which will run to Africa through South East Asia, and the Silk Road Economic Belt, which will connect Xinjiang to important partners such as Pakistan, Turkey and Russia."The Belt and Road is part of the reason that there's such an urgency to clean up the Uyghur population in Xinjiang at the present moment," Roberts said.China's paranoia and oppression in Xinjiang has a long history"What really concerns me is that, if it's really the last chance to try to transform Uyghurs, what's the next step if they decide that the Uyghurs can't be transformed into a passive benign minority that's loyal to the state?" he said.Despite the threat of violence or abduction for her and her family, Hoja says she feels obligated to keep speaking out and working to raise awareness for the "voiceless" Uyghur.Even with everything that's happened, Hoja says, her dearest wish would be to return home, one day, to Xinjiang. "It's my biggest dream ... everybody wants to go back home right?"CNN's Rebecca Wright contributed to this article.
|
{
"Q1": ""
}
|
{
"Q1": []
}
|
{
"Q1": 0
}
|
5adc360094b13ecc
|
If Kim Jong Un destroyed North Korea's economy to keep Covid-19 out, will sanctions stop him from pursuing nuclear weapons? - CNN
|
(CNN)After arguably the most challenging year of his near-decade rule of North Korea, Kim Jong Un is sticking to his guns. Kim announced last week at the Eighth Workers' Party Congress -- a meeting for North Korea's governing elite -- that his country plans to beef up Pyongyang's already dangerous nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs with new, sophisticated armaments, such as tactical nuclear weapons designed for use on the battlefield and warheads designed to evade American-made missile defense systems. And at a parade marking the conclusion of the Congress, Kim's military showed off a new submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM).Kim's message was crystal clear: Right now, North Korea needs its nuclear weapons to deter the United States "no matter who is in power," he said -- and no matter the cost.The young leader's ambitious plans for modernizing his nuclear arsenal will prove expensive, at a time when money is already tight. North Korea voluntarily severed the last of its scant ties with the outside world in 2020 to prevent an influx of Covid-19. That included cutting off almost all trade with Beijing, an economic lifeline the impoverished country needs to keep its people from going hungry. Read MoreNorth Korea's economy is now in the gutter, and its food supply is reportedly in peril.To ward off the pandemic, Kim effectively did to his country what many in Washington hoped economic sanctions would do: bring the North Korean economy close to the brink of collapse. That he did it on his own volition has led many to question if sanctions ever be strong enough to change Kim's thinking. Some analysts disagree with that line of thinking. They see opportunity.With North Korea's economy already on the ropes, they believe now is the time to deliver the knockout punch -- a blow of crippling coercive measures that, once and for all, convinces Kim that his continued pursuit of nuclear weapons does not guarantee his regime's safety, it threatens it. Either way, Kim's plans will prove to be a major challenge for President-elect Joe Biden. Trump, like Obama and President George W. Bush, will leave his successor a more-dangerous and better-armed adversary than the one he inherited. This picture taken on Thursday and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Friday shows what appears to be a submarine-launched ballistic missiles during a military parade.Maximum pressureBefore Trump agreed to sit face-to-face with Kim in 2018, his administration put in place an aptly named strategy called "maximum pressure." The goal was to use sanctions, diplomacy and other coercive measures, short of armed conflict, to convince Kim to agree to the complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantlement of its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs.As North Korea tested missiles and nuclear bombs at an unprecedented clip in 2017, the Trump administration turned up the heat. The US mission to the United Nations successfully lobbied the UN Security Council to put in place resolutions that went after North Korea's ability to make money by selling regular goods, such as coal and seafood. The Treasury Department used its tremendous power and influence over the global financial system to enact their own, unilateral sanctions. And diplomats successfully lobbied US partners to close Pyongyang's embassies overseas, which the regime has been accused of using as fronts for money-making opportunities. By the end of 2017, North Korea was barred from almost all international trade. Even long-time North Korean ally China agreed to sign on to incredibly punitive UN sanctions that year, and Beijing appeared to be enforcing them at first. That momentum didn't last. As Trump pivoted to diplomacy with Pyongyang in 2018, the United States took its foot off the gas on the pressure campaign. Hundreds of new sanctions that were ready to go were put on hold ahead of Trump's first summit with Kim in Singapore, the President said. Sanctions have been issued at a much slower clip since.As the threat subsided and its relationship with the United States crumbled, China began loosening its enforcement of restrictions, Washington alleged, though Beijing repeatedly denies any claims that it does not fully enforce UN sanctions.Many experts believe Washington gave up on maximum pressure too soon.Some, including former US acting assistant secretary of state for East Asia and the Pacific Evans Revere, argue Biden's team should seriously consider a new maximum pressure model, ramping up sanctions "in ways that would impose even more pain and isolation on North Korea.""Intensification of sanctions, plus other diplomatic, economic and banking and military pressures that you could apply on North Korea could certainly shake the regimes foundations, particularly now that we see that the regime is suffering a severe economic crisis the likes of which we haven't seen in a while," Revere said. Revere and other proponents of sanctions argue there are still tools left in the US arsenal to pressure North Korea, and they should be pursued. The Biden administration could, for example, try harder to close North Korean trading companies in conjunction with US allies and target Chinese banks that help North Korea access foreign currency."There is much, much more to be done that could squeeze, isolate and undermine North Korea in ways that would shake their confidence in their long-standing assumption that nuclear weapons are their salvation and would also drive the point home that not only are nuclear weapons not your salvation, they are the thing that has the potential to undermine the stability of your regime," Revere said. JUST WATCHEDSouth Korean FM: 'Complacency' led to Covid riseReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHSouth Korean FM: 'Complacency' led to Covid rise 13:08Risky businessRevere said he recognizes that such an approach is risky. It could force North Koreans to choose between feeding its people and funding its nuclear weapons, and history shows Kim would likely choose the latter.Kim Jong Il, the current leader's father and predecessor, let millions die of starvation during a famine in the 1990s rather than reform, accept aid or or do anything that might have threatened his iron grip on leadership. Things aren't that bad in North Korea right now, but analysts believe the economic situation is more dire than it has been since the famine. Devastating storms, the punishing sanctions and the pandemic pummeled North Korea's economy in 2020. There appears to be enough food to go around, but the supply is under more strain than any time since the famine, according to Chad O'Carroll, the CEO of Korea Risk Group, which produces North Korea publications NK Pro and NK News."We can safely say there are nationwide shortages of several key food types, food items," he said. Though costly, Kim's decision to shut North Korea's borders appear to have worked from a public health perspective. North Korea's claim not to have contracted a single case of Covid-19 is likely untrue, but the country has not seemingly not experienced a serious wave of infections.A large number of cases would likely overwhelm North Korea's dilapidated healthcare infrastructure, so Kim is unlikely to lift border restrictions until the pandemic subsides. That means Pyongyang will, in order to achieve its objectives, continue to inflict a level of economic pain upon itself.John Delury, a professor at Yonsei University's Graduate School of International Relations, said that should be "a sobering reminder to the Biden administration that (economic) pressure does not work on North Korea.""North Korea subjected itself to an even more extreme form of economic pain (than sanctions) to keep away Covid. And yet, they're not budging on the nuclear thing," Delury said. Kim Jong Un claps his hands at the Workers' Party Congress on Sunday, January 10.Getting everyone on the same pageBiden now faces the same foreign policy issue that has plagued his previous five predecessors: How to get North Korea to give up its pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. He may be forced to do so sooner than he'd like. Though the new weapons Kim mentioned are at various stages of development, most would need to be test-fired to be considered operational. If North Korea were to conduct such a test, it would likely set the stage for a diplomatic confrontation between Washington and Pyongyang in the first days of Biden's presidency.There are hints about how the new US administration would approach that challenge. Based on his public remarks, Biden's strategy will likely involve a commitment to multilateral alliances. Biden's pick for Secretary of State is on the record saying Washington should look to the Iran deal for inspiration on how to deal with North Korea, meaning the new administration may consider something like trading a freeze in proliferation activities for limited sanctions relief. But sources familiar with the transition said the incoming administration will take time to flesh out a policy after meeting with allies and partners.North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gesturing from the tribune during a military parade on Thursday.Whatever path Biden chooses, major roadblocks remain.If, like his predecessor, Biden responded with sanctions and pressure, it might preclude the type of back-channel diplomacy used to set up the Iran deal. Pyongyang views sanctions as "hostile" acts and could in turn shut the door to talks with its typical bombastic language. North Korea referred to the last round of UN sanctions on it in 2017 as "an act of war," and called the idea that it would give up its nuclear weapons a US "pipe dream."The strategy would also require buy-in from three uneasy players: China, Russia and South Korea. "China and Russia will not fully enforce even existing sanctions," said Duyeon Kim, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. "Geopolitically it would be difficult to designate new sanctions without a very convincing rationale for Beijing, Moscow and even South Korea's Moon government."China and Russia appear content with the status quo. South Korean President Moon Jae-in may not be on board with a pressure strategy because he favors engagement and economic cooperation as means of lowering the temperature. Moon said that dialogue and mutually beneficial cooperation are key to the Korean peace process in a speech earlier this month.If dialogue is the path chosen, the Biden administration must recognize its limits, said Delury."We should moderate our expectations of what engagement can do," he said. "We've seen what three summits can do, and it leaves a lot to be desired." But the biggest issue might simply be bandwidth. Biden comes into office facing incredibly daunting challenges at home. He must stop the Covid-19 pandemic raging within the United States' own borders, heal a wounded nation still recovering after a Trump-incited mob of insurrectionists stormed the US Capitol, and get his Cabinet approved by the Senate which must try Trump after his impeachment on charges of insurrection."How do you deal with this North Korea challenge ... and deal with all these other things at the same time?" Revere said. "This is hard, but these are extremely capable people."CNN's Kylie Atwood and Jake Kwon contributed reporting
|
{
"Q1": ""
}
|
{
"Q1": []
}
|
{
"Q1": 0
}
|
047cdbbcc655046f
|
North Korea reports building collapse in Pyongyang - CNN
|
Story highlights Dozens of families may have been in the building, a South Korean official saysNorth Korea state media report "casualties" but don't provide any specific numbersThe accident took place at an apartment building under construction in PyongyangKCNA: Leader Kim Jong Un "sat up all night, feeling painful" after hearing the newsAn apartment building in the North Korean capital collapsed in what state media described as a "serious accident" that caused an unspecified number of casualties.The unusual, apologetic report Sunday from the North's state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said the collapse took place Tuesday at the construction site of an apartment building in Phyongchon, a central district of Pyongyang."The accident claimed casualties," the agency reported without providing details on the number of people killed and injured. Rescue efforts were abandoned on Saturday, the agency said.A South Korean government official said the building had 23 floors, estimating that as many as 92 families might have been living inside. It's common for people to move into North Korean buildings before construction is completed, the official said.The South Korean government closely monitors activities in North Korea. Photos: The photos N. Korea banned Photos: The photos N. Korea bannedPhotos North Korea didn't want you to see – A stern looking North Korean guard by the Chinese border customs office. This image was deleted by North Korean officials. Hide Caption 1 of 17 Photos: The photos N. Korea bannedDeleting the offensive photos – Writer Johan Nylander and his guide, Ko Chang Ho, watch as a North Korean guard deletes 90 photos deemed unacceptable. Nylander was able to recover the photos with the help of an IT specialist -- the images that follow are an edited selection.Hide Caption 2 of 17 Photos: The photos N. Korea bannedHello, Dear Leader – This propaganda monument of "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-Il by a countryside road, not far from the border to China, was deleted by authorities. North Korea required images of leaders be full body shots. Hide Caption 3 of 17 Photos: The photos N. Korea bannedWaiting for a train – People standing by the train track, while a guard is monitoring the bike race. Hide Caption 4 of 17 Photos: The photos N. Korea bannedWatching the race – In the city of Rason, people are leaning out of windows to get a glimpse of the Western cyclists. Hide Caption 5 of 17 Photos: The photos N. Korea bannedPedestrian peasants – A woman and a man walking by the side of the road lined with cornfields. Hide Caption 6 of 17 Photos: The photos N. Korea bannedVillage life – Villagers waving by the race path.Hide Caption 7 of 17 Photos: The photos N. Korea bannedHeavy security – Guards and custom officials by the border to China.Hide Caption 8 of 17 Photos: The photos N. Korea bannedSecret volleyball court? – By the border checkpoint next to the Tumen River, North Korean customs officials can play volleyball. Officials prohibited any photos of North Korean military bases.Hide Caption 9 of 17 Photos: The photos N. Korea bannedPhotos North Korea didn't want you to see – Peasants and villagers standing by the road to look at the Western cyclistsHide Caption 10 of 17 Photos: The photos N. Korea bannedKeeping watch – Guard keeping an eye on the bikers next to a small village. Hide Caption 11 of 17 Photos: The photos N. Korea bannedPhotos North Korea didn't want you to see – Kids playing outside village houses. Hide Caption 12 of 17 Photos: The photos N. Korea bannedWaiting for the cyclists – Spectators waiting for the bikers to reach the finish line. In the background the "Great" and "Dear Leaders" Kim Il Sung and his son, Kim Jong-Il.Hide Caption 13 of 17 Photos: The photos N. Korea bannedStanding on bikes to see cyclists – Huge crowds -- some of whom standing on their own bikes -- as they await cyclists by the race finish line in Rason.Hide Caption 14 of 17 Photos: The photos N. Korea bannedDocument check – Custom official and tourist bureau guide checking foreigners' passports. Hide Caption 15 of 17 Photos: The photos N. Korea bannedWater checkpoint – Guides from the local tourist bureau handing out water bottles to bikers, monitored by a guard in the background. Hide Caption 16 of 17 Photos: The photos N. Korea bannedWriter and his minder – Journalist Johan Nylander and his North Korean guide, Ko Chang Ho. EDITOR'S NOTE: This image was not among those deleted by North Korean officials. Hide Caption 17 of 17 Photos: North Korea through a Google Glass lens Photos: North Korea through a Google Glass lens'OK Glass' – Kenny Zhu visited North Korea from China and captured North Korea using his Google Glass. He was allowed to wear the wearable camera as long as "everything reflects the positive side of DPRK."Hide Caption 1 of 7 Photos: North Korea through a Google Glass lensKim's family photo – The words beside the two photos translate roughly as "Long live the The Great Leader Kim Jong-un," and "Long Live the Sun-Like Workers' Party of Korea."Hide Caption 2 of 7 Photos: North Korea through a Google Glass lensMansudae Grand Monuments – The Mansudae Grand Monument is where North Koreans line up to place flowers at the foot of the gigantic statue of Kim Il Sung. Hide Caption 3 of 7 Photos: North Korea through a Google Glass lensRemember what Kim said – "The banner said something like 'Fully execute the missions that our beloved General Kim Jung-un mentioned in this year's New Year Statement' -- I know some basic Korean," says Zhu.Hide Caption 4 of 7 Photos: North Korea through a Google Glass lensSouth Korean air cons found – Zhu noticed that the DMZ uses Samsung air conditioners, a South Korean brand.Hide Caption 5 of 7 Photos: North Korea through a Google Glass lensWorkers' Party of Korea Memorial Sculpture – One tour guide told Zhu that from his only visit to China, he discovered China has series pollution problems.Hide Caption 6 of 7 Photos: North Korea through a Google Glass lensPyongyang metro – Zhu also recorded two videos from the Pyongyang metro station. The short clips can be viewed on his original iReport submission: North Korea..through Google Glass.Hide Caption 7 of 7 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's military Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets with North Korea's first female fighter jet pilots in this undated photo released by the country's state media on Monday, June 22. He called the women "heroes of Korea" and "flowers of the sky."Hide Caption 1 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryKim stands on the snow-covered top of Mount Paektu in North Korea in a photo taken by North Korean newspaper Rodong Sinmun on April 18 and released the next day by South Korean news agency Yonhap. Kim scaled the country's highest mountain, North Korean state-run media reported, arriving at the summit to tell soldiers that the hike provides mental energy more powerful than nuclear weapons.Hide Caption 2 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryKim Jong Un, center, poses with soldiers on the snow-covered top of Mount Paektu in an April 18 photo released by South Korean news agency Yonhap. Hide Caption 3 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryKim visits the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun in Pyongyang, North Korea, on April 15 to celebrate the 103rd birth anniversary of his grandfather, North Korean founder Kim Il Sung.Hide Caption 4 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryKim inspects a drill for seizing an island at an undisclosed location in North Korea in an undated picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on February 21.Hide Caption 5 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryKim speaks during a meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang, North Korea, in this photo released February 19 by the state-run Korean Central News Agency.Hide Caption 6 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryA picture released by the North Korean Central News Agency shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appearing without his cane at an event with military commanders in Pyongyang on Tuesday, November 4. Kim, who recently disappeared from public view for about six weeks, had a cyst removed from his right ankle, a lawmaker told CNN.Hide Caption 7 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryKim is seen walking with a cane in this image released Thursday, October 30, by the state-run Korean Central News Agency.Hide Caption 8 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryKim sits in the pilot's seat of a fighter jet during the inspection.Hide Caption 9 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryThis undated photo, released Tuesday, October 14, by the KCNA, shows Kim inspecting a housing complex in Pyongyang, North Korea. International speculation about Kim went into overdrive after he failed to attend events on Friday, October 10, the 65th anniversary of the Workers' Party. He hadn't been seen in public since he reportedly attended a concert with his wife on September 3.Hide Caption 10 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryA picture released by the KCNA shows Kim and his wife watching a performance by the Moranbong Band on Wednesday, September 3, in Pyongyang.Hide Caption 11 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryKim tours a front-line military unit in this image released Wednesday, July 16, by the KCNA.Hide Caption 12 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryKim poses for a photo as he oversees a tactical rocket-firing drill in June.Hide Caption 13 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryKim watches a tactical rocket-firing drill in June.Hide Caption 14 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryA North Korean soldier patrols the bank of the Yalu River, which separates the North Korean town of Sinuiju from the Chinese border town of Dandong, on Saturday, April 26.Hide Caption 15 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryIn this photo released Thursday, April 24, by the Korean Central News Agency, Kim smiles with female soldiers after inspecting a rocket-launching drill at an undisclosed location.Hide Caption 16 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryA picture released Tuesday, March 18, by the KCNA shows Kim attending a shooting practice at a military academy in Pyongyang.Hide Caption 17 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryA North Korean soldier uses binoculars on Thursday, February 6, to look at South Korea from the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War. Hide Caption 18 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryA North Korean soldier kicks a pole along the banks of the Yalu River on Tuesday, February 4.Hide Caption 19 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryA photo released by the KCNA on Thursday, January 23, shows the North Korean leader inspecting an army unit during a winter drill.Hide Caption 20 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryKim inspects the command of an army unit in this undated photo released Sunday, January 12, by the KCNA.Hide Caption 21 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryKim visits an army unit in this undated photo. Hide Caption 22 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryKim inspects a military factory in this undated picture released by the KCNA in May 2013.Hide Caption 23 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryKim visits the Ministry of People's Security in 2013 as part of the country's May Day celebrations.Hide Caption 24 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryA North Korean soldier, near Sinuiju, gestures to stop photographers from taking photos in April 2013.Hide Caption 25 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryNorth Korean soldiers patrol near the Yalu River in April 2013.Hide Caption 26 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryKim is briefed by his generals in this undated photo. On the wall is a map titled "Plan for the strategic forces to target mainland U.S." Hide Caption 27 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryKim works during a briefing in this undated photo.Hide Caption 28 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryIn this KCNA photo, Kim inspects naval drills at an undisclosed location on North Korea's east coast in March 2013.Hide Caption 29 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryKim, with North Korean soldiers, makes his way to an observation post in March 2013.Hide Caption 30 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryKim uses a pair of binoculars to look south from the Jangjae Islet Defense Detachment, near South Korea's Taeyonphyong Island, in March 2013.Hide Caption 31 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryKim is greeted by a soldier's family as he inspects the Jangjae Islet Defense Detachment in March 2013.Hide Caption 32 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryKim is surrounded by soldiers during a visit to the Mu Islet Hero Defense Detachment, also near Taeyonphyong Island, in March 2013.Hide Caption 33 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryKim arrives at Jangjae Islet by boat to meet with soldiers of the Jangjae Islet Defense Detachment in March 2013.Hide Caption 34 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militarySoldiers in the North Korean army train at an undisclosed location in March 2013.Hide Caption 35 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryIn a photo released by the official North Korean news agency in December 2012, Kim celebrates a rocket's launch with staff from the satellite control center in Pyongyang.Hide Caption 36 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryKim, center, poses in this undated picture released by North Korea's official news agency in November 2012.Hide Caption 37 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryKim visits the Rungna People's Pleasure Ground, under construction in Pyongyang, in a photo released in July 2012 by the KCNA.Hide Caption 38 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryA crowd watches as statues of North Korean founder Kim Il Sung and his son Kim Jong Il are unveiled during a ceremony in Pyongyang in April 2012.Hide Caption 39 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryA North Korean soldier stands guard in front of an UNHA III rocket at the Tangachai-ri Space Center in April 2012.Hide Caption 40 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryIn April 2012, Pyongyang launched a long-range rocket that broke apart and fell into the sea. Here, the UNHA III rocket is pictured on its launch pad in Tang Chung Ri, North Korea.Hide Caption 41 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's military – A closer look at the UNHA III rocket on its launch pad in Tang Chung Ri, North Korea.Hide Caption 42 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryA military vehicle participates in a parade in Pyongyang in April 2012.Hide Caption 43 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryNorth Korean soldiers relax at the end of an official ceremony attended by leader Kim Jong Un at a stadium in Pyongyang in April 2012.Hide Caption 44 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryKim Jong Un applauds as he watches a military parade in Pyongyang in April 2012.Hide Caption 45 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryA North Korean soldier stands on a balcony in Pyongyang in April 2012.Hide Caption 46 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryNorth Korean soldiers march during a military parade in Pyongyang in April 2012.Hide Caption 47 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militarySoldiers board a bus outside a theater in Pyongyang in April 2012.Hide Caption 48 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryNorth Korean performers sit below a screen showing images of leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang in April 2012.Hide Caption 49 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryNorth Korean soldiers salute during a military parade in Pyongyang in April 2012.Hide Caption 50 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryNorth Korean soldiers listen to a speech during an official ceremony attended by leader Kim Jong Un at a stadium in Pyongyang in April 2012.Hide Caption 51 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryMembers of a North Korean military band gather following an official ceremony at the Kim Il Sung stadium in Pyongyang in April 2012.Hide Caption 52 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryNorth Korean military personnel watch a performance in Pyongyang in April 2012.Hide Caption 53 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryA North Korean controller is seen along the railway line between the Pyongyang and North Pyongan provinces in April 2012.Hide Caption 54 of 55 Photos: Kim Jong Un and North Korea's militaryA North Korean military honor guard stands at attention at Pyongyang's airport in May 2001.Hide Caption 55 of 55The construction of the building "was not done properly and officials supervised and controlled it in an irresponsible manner," KCNA reported. Pyongyang residents were "greatly shocked" it said.Kim Jong Un upsetThe secretive North Korean regime rarely calls attention to problems within its borders.The publication of the state media report, which contained a series of apologies from senior public officials, suggests it was a severe calamity.Kim Jong Un, the country's leader, "sat up all night, feeling painful after being told about the accident" and put aside "all other affairs," KCNA reported, citing Kim Su Gil, the chief secretary of the Pyongyang City Committee of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea.Minister of People's Security Choe Pu Il described the accident as "unimaginable," according to the news agency.Kim Su Gil said authorities are taking steps to help the families of the victims and provide them with new housing, supporting the conclusion that people were living in the building while it was still under construction.Among the disasters that North Korea has taken the rare step of acknowledging publicly are floods in 2012 that killed scores of people and an explosion at a train station in 2004 that caused hundreds of casualties.
|
{
"Q1": ""
}
|
{
"Q1": []
}
|
{
"Q1": 0
}
|
5d9079de55289a0e
|
What sea level rise will look like around the globe - CNN
|
(CNN)The planet is warming rapidly, resulting in historic drought, deadly floods and unusual melting events in the Arctic. It is also causing steady sea level rise, which scientists say will continue for decades.A new study from Climate Central, a nonprofit research group, shows that roughly 50 major coastal cities will need to implement "unprecedented" adaptation measures to prevent rising seas from swallowing their most populated areas. The analysis, in collaboration with researchers at Princeton University and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, resulted in striking visual contrasts between the world as we know it today and our underwater future, if the planet warms to 3 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Climate scientists reported in August the world is already around 1.2 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial levels. Temperatures should stay below 1.5 degrees, they say — a critical threshold to avoid the most severe impacts of the climate crisis. But even in the most optimistic scenario, where global greenhouse gas emissions begin to decline today and are slashed to net zero by 2050, global temperature will still peak above the 1.5-degree threshold before falling.Read MoreIn less-optimistic scenarios, where emissions continue to climb beyond 2050, the planet could reach 3 degrees as early as the 2060s or 2070s, and the oceans will continue to rise for decades beyond that before they reach peak levels."Today's choices will set our path," said Benjamin Strauss, the chief scientist at Climate Central and lead author on the report. Climate Central researchers used global elevation and population data to analyze parts of the world that will be most vulnerable to sea level rise, which tend to be concentrated in the Asia-Pacific region. Small island nations at risk of "near-total loss" of land, the report says, and eight of the top 10 areas exposed to sea level rise are in Asia, with approximately 600 million people exposed to inundation under a 3-degree warming scenario.See more:Climate change is creeping up on this fairytale landA woman asked us where her recycling goes. See what CNN discoveredNew York's secret weapon against big storms? OystersExtreme weather in 2021 is on pace to shatter a recordScientists looked at more than 100,000 studies and found the world has a giant climate blind spotAccording to Climate Central's analysis, China, India, Vietnam, and Indonesia are in the top five countries most vulnerable to long-term sea level rise. The researchers note that these are also countries that have added additional coal-burning capacity in recent years.In September, a study published in the journal Nature found nearly 60% of the planet's remaining oil and natural gas and 90% of its coal reserves should remain in the ground by 2050 to have a higher chance of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Most regions around the world, it said, must reach peak fossil fuel production now or within the next decade to avoid the critical climate threshold.At the UN General Assembly in September, China made a major climate pledge as one of the world's largest emitters of greenhouse gases: the country will no longer build any new coal-fired power projects abroad, marking a shift in policy around its sprawling Belt and Road infrastructure initiative, which had already begun to dwindle its coal initiatives.If the planet hits 3 degrees, Climate Central reports that roughly 43 million people in China will live on land projected to be below high-tide levels by 2100, with 200 million people living in areas at risk of sea level rise over the longer term. With every fraction of a degree of warming, the consequences of climate change worsen. Even limiting warming to 1.5 degrees, scientists say the kinds of extreme weather the world experienced this summer will become more severe and more frequent.Beyond 1.5 degrees, the climate system could begin to look unrecognizable. According to the Climate Central report, roughly 385 million people currently live on land that will eventually be inundated by high tide, even if greenhouse gas emissions are reduced.If warming is limited to 1.5 degrees, sea level rise would affect land inhabited by 510 million people today.If the planet reaches 3 degrees, the high-tide line could encroach above land where more than 800 million people live, the study finds. The authors note in the report that a key caveat in their assessment is the lack of global data on existing coastal defenses such as levees and seawalls to fully project exposure to rising seas. Nonetheless, they recognize that because of the impacts seen today with recent flooding events and storm surges, cities will likely revamp infrastructure to avoid worsening impacts. "Higher levels of warming will require globally unprecedented defenses or abandonment in scores of major coastal cities worldwide," the authors wrote, "whereas the count could be limited to a relative handful through strong compliance with the Paris Agreement, especially limiting warming to 1.5 degrees." But coastal infrastructure costs money. Wealthy nations like the United States and the United Kingdom could afford these measures, but low-income nations could be left behind.And while many small island nations are surrounded by mangroves and coral reefs that could protect their lands from rising seas, warming temperatures are causing ocean acidification and other forms of environmental destruction that threaten such defense measures. During the first two weeks of November, world leaders will gather at UN-brokered climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland. They will discuss further limiting greenhouse gas emissions, as well as the amount of funding developed nations will pledge to help the Global South move away from fossil fuels and adapt to the impacts of the climate crisis.Unless bold and rapid actions are taken, extreme weather events and climate change-fueled sea level rise will increasingly fill the future of the Earth. Scientists say the planet is running out of time to avoid these worst-case scenarios."World leaders have a fleeting opportunity to help or betray the future of humanity with their actions today on climate change," said Strauss. "This research and the images created from it illustrate the enormous stakes behind the climate talks in Glasgow."
|
{
"Q1": ""
}
|
{
"Q1": []
}
|
{
"Q1": 0
}
|
End of preview. Expand
in Data Studio
This dataset resource is from OpenEvents V1: Large-Scale Benchmark Dataset for Multimodal Event Grounding.
We are trying to establish a benchmark for research based on this dataset.
- Downloads last month
- 9