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Flight can­cel­la­tions con­tinue at LAX

Weather, staff­ing issues due to virus wreak havoc on hol­i­day trav­el­ers

Gian­luigi Guer­cia AFP/Getty Images

Tutu’s leg­acy res­on­ates with youths

South Afric­ans born too late to remem­ber the arch­bishop’s battle against apartheid are moved to learn more.

Dar­win’s ‘heir’ dies at 92

Bio­lo­gist Wilson linked war and kind­ness to DNA

No sign of ver­dict in the Max­well case

The jury reques­ted sticky notes, a white board, and trial tran­scripts. They also had some ques­tions.

Fauci: U.S. should con­sider requir­ing vac­cin­a­tion for domestic flights

Fauci: U.S. should con­sider requir­ing vac­cin­a­tion for domestic flights

Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infec­tious-dis­ease expert, said Monday the United States should con­sider a vac­cin­a­tion require­ment for domestic air travel amid a coronavirus surge that has con­...

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Tutu’s leg­acy res­on­ates with youths

South Afric­ans born too late to remem­ber the arch­bishop’s battle against apartheid are moved to learn more.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Arch­bishop Des­mond Tutu’s leg­acy is rever­ber­at­ing among young South Afric­ans, many of whom were not born when the cler­gy­man battled apartheid and sought full rights for the nation’s Black major­ity.

Tutu, who died Sunday at the age of 90, was awar­ded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for those efforts.

Even though they did not know much about him, some young South Afric­ans told the Asso­ci­ated Press on Monday that they under­stood his role as one of the most prom­in­ent fig­ures to help their coun­try become a demo­cracy.

Zinhle Gamede, 16, said she found out about Tutu’s passing on social media and has learned more about him over the last day.

“At first I only knew that he was an arch­bishop. I really did not know much else,” Gamede said.

She said his death had inspired her to learn more about South Africa’s his­tory, espe­cially the struggle against white minor­ity rule.

“I think that people who fought for our free­dom are great people. We are in a bet­ter place because of them. Today I am liv­ing my life freely, unlike in the olden days where there was no free­dom,” she said.

After the end of apartheid in 1994, when South Africa became a demo­cracy, Tutu chaired the Truth and Recon­cili­ation Com­mis­sion that doc­u­mented atro­cit­ies dur­ing apartheid and sought to pro­mote national recon­cili­ation. He also became one of the world’s most prom­in­ent reli­gious lead­ers to cham­pion LGBTQ rights.

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Iran presses on oil exports as nuc­lear pact talks con­tinue

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Afghan women chant and hold signs of protest in Kabul, Afgh­anistan, on Monday. Around 20 mem­bers of Afgh­anistan Women’s Polit­ical Par­ti­cip­a­tion Net­work protest­ing in a closed area in Kabul dis­played signs ask­ing the coun­try’s new Taliban lead­er­ship for edu­ca­tion, food, jobs, secur­ity, polit­ical par­ti­cip­a­tion and equal­ity with men.

VIENNA — Nego­ti­at­ors from Iran and five world powers resumed nego­ti­ations Monday on restor­ing Tehran’s tattered 2015 nuc­lear deal, with Iran insist­ing that the United States and its allies prom­ise to allow it to export its crude oil.

The latest round of talks in Vienna, the eighth, opened 10 days after nego­ti­ations were adjourned for the Ira­nian nego­ti­ator to return home for con­sulta­tions. The pre­vi­ous round, the first after a more than five-month gap caused by the arrival of a new hard­line gov­ern­ment in Iran, was marked by ten­sions over new Ira­nian demands.

“If we work hard in the days and weeks ahead, we should have a pos­it­ive res­ult,” Enrique Mora, the European Union dip­lo­mat who chaired the talks, said after the open­ing ses­sion. But “it’s going to be very hard — dif­fi­cult polit­ical decisions have to be taken.”

Tehran’s land­mark accord with world powers — Bri­tain, France, Ger­many, the U.S., Rus­sia and China — gran­ted Iran sanc­tions relief in exchange for curbs on its nuc­lear pro­gram.

But in 2018, then-Pres­id­ent Don­ald Trump with­drew Amer­ica from the deal and imposed sweep­ing sanc­tions on Iran, includ­ing against its oil sec­tor — the life­line of its eco­nomy. Iran’s crude exports plummeted and inter­na­tional oil com­pan­ies scrapped deals with Tehran, weak­en­ing its eco­nomy.

The other sig­nat­or­ies struggled to keep alive the agree­ment, form­ally known as the Joint Com­pre­hens­ive Plan of Action. The United States is par­ti­cip­at­ing only indir­ectly in this year’s talks to restore the deal, which

Pres­id­ent Joe Biden has signaled he wants to rejoin.

Speak­ing in Tehran ahead of the talks’ resump­tion, For­eign Min­is­ter Hos­sein Amir­abdol­lahian said Iran wants the upcom­ing round of talks to focus on its sanc­tions-hit oil industry. The aim is to get to the “point where Ira­nian oil is being sold eas­ily and without any bar­ri­ers and its money arrives in Iran’s bank accounts,” he said.

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No sign of ver­dict in the Max­well case

The jury reques­ted sticky notes, a white board, and trial tran­scripts. They also had some ques­tions.

NEW YORK — The jury con­sid­er­ing the fate of Ghis­laine Max­well at her sex-traf­fick­ing trial fin­ished a third full day of delib­er­a­tions Monday with no sign that a ver­dict is near and no clear sig­nal either that there is dis­sen­sion in their ranks.

Jur­ors in Man­hat­tan fed­eral court asked for multi-colored sticky notes and a white board, along with tran­scripts of some trial testi­mony, the defin­i­tion of “entice­ment” and a ques­tion on the law. Judge Alison J. Nathan referred them to her legal instruc­tions that she read to them just before they began delib­er­a­tions a week ago.

The judge also reques­ted that they delib­er­ate an extra hour begin­ning Tues­day, unless that cre­ated a hard­ship.

The Brit­ish social­ite is charged with recruit­ing and groom­ing teen­agers as young as 14 to be sexu­ally assaul­ted by fin­an­cier Jef­frey Epstein. Max­well’s law­yers say she was a U.S. gov­ern­ment scape­goat after Epstein killed him­self in 2019 in a Man­hat­tan fed­eral jail cell while await­ing a sex-traf­fick­ing trial.

Max­well, who was behind bars for her 60th birth­day Sat­urday, was described as a cent­ral com­pon­ent to Epstein’s plans by four women who test­i­fied they were sexu­ally abused as teen­agers by Epstein with help from Max­well when she was his girl­friend and after­ward.

Max­well’s law­yers said the memor­ies of her accusers were cor­rup­ted by the pas­sage of time and the influ­ence of law­yers steer­ing them toward mul­ti­mil­lion-dol­lar pay­outs from a fund set up to com­pensate Epstein vic­tims.

The jury, which delib­er­ated two full days last week, already has asked to review the testi­mony of the four women, along with former Epstein house­keeper Juan Patri­cio Alessi. They have given little hint of their over­all pro­gress on six charges, includ­ing a sex-traf­fick­ing count that car­ries a poten­tial pen­alty of up to 40 years in prison.

On Monday, jur­ors asked for the tran­script of testi­mony by “Matt,” the pseud­onym of a tele­vi­sion actor who test­i­fied that he is the ex-boy­friend of “Jane,” the pseud­onym of an actor who is one of the four accusers who test­i­fied against Max­well. The judge had ruled that some wit­nesses in the trial could testify with only first names or pseud­onyms to pro­tect their pri­vacy.

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Young South Afric­ans learn of Tutu’s fight for equal­ity

Asso­ci­ated Press
Flowers are placed on a fence with a por­trait of Des­mond Tutu out­side St. George’s Cat­her­d­ral on Monday in Cape Town, South Africa. The ‘people’s cathed­ral’ is where Tutu worked to unite all South Afric­ans against apartheid.

Arch­bishop Des­mond Tutu’s leg­acy is rever­ber­at­ing among young South Afric­ans, many of whom were not born when the cler­gy­man battled apartheid and sought full rights for the nation’s Black maj...

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Dar­win’s ‘heir’ dies at 92

Bio­lo­gist Wilson linked war and kind­ness to DNA

Edward O. Wilson, affec­tion­ately known as “the ant man” for his work on insects, died Sunday. He leaves a leg­acy of accom­plish­ments, includ­ing a the­ory that human traits such as kind­ness and viol­ence are linked to our DNA.

BOSTON — Edward O. Wilson, the pion­eer­ing Har­vard bio­lo­gist who advanced the pro­voc­at­ive the­ory that human beha­vior such as war and altru­ism has a genetic basis and warned against the decline of eco­sys­tems, has died. He was 92.

Wilson was “called ‘Dar­win’s nat­ural heir,’ and was known affec­tion­ately as ‘the ant man’ for his pion­eer­ing work as an ento­mo­lo­gist,” accord­ing to an announce­ment pos­ted Monday on the E.O. Wilson Biod­iversity Found­a­tion’s web­site. He died Sunday in Bur­l­ing­ton, Mass.

“It would be hard to under­state Ed’s sci­entific achieve­ments, but his impact extends to every facet of soci­ety. He was a true vis­ion­ary with a unique abil­ity to inspire and gal­van­ize. He artic­u­lated, per­haps bet­ter than any­one, what it means to be human,” David Prend, chair­man of the board of E.O. Wilson Biod­iversity Found­a­tion, said in a state­ment.

The pro­fessor and two-time Pulitzer Prize-win­ning author first gained wide­spread atten­tion for his 1975 book, “Sociobi­o­logy: The New Syn­thesis,” in which he spelled out the evid­ence sug­gest­ing a link between human beha­vior and genet­ics.

The work cre­ated a storm of con­tro­versy among act­iv­ists and fel­low aca­dem­ics who equated sociobi­o­logy’s ground­break­ing the­or­ies with sex­ism, racism and Nazism.

More recently, Wilson has cham­pioned the import­ance of pre­serving diverse spe­cies and eco­sys­tems. “The diversity of life on Earth is far greater than even most bio­lo­gists recog­nize,” he said in 1993.

Less than 10% of the Earth’s spe­cies have sci­entific names, he said, mak­ing it “a still mostly unex­plored planet.”

In 1979, “On Human Nature” — the third volume in a series includ­ing “The Insect Soci­et­ies” and “Sociobi­o­logy” — earned Wilson his first Pulitzer Prize. His second Pulitzer came in 1991 with “The Ants,” which Wilson co-wrote with Har­vard col­league Bert Holl­do­bler.

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Flight can­cel­la­tions con­tinue at LAX

Weather, staff­ing issues due to virus wreak havoc on hol­i­day trav­el­ers

Hol­i­day travel woes con­tin­ued Monday at Los Angeles Inter­na­tional Air­port, after a wave of flight can­cel­la­tions over the hol­i­day week­end.

Dozens of flights were scrapped as winter weather and staff­ing short­ages plagued the industry amid a surge in coronavirus infec­tions.

The can­cel­la­tions hit dur­ing “one of the busier days” of the already bust­ling hol­i­day travel sea­son, with 188,000 pas­sen­gers expec­ted at the air­port Monday, accord­ing to Heath Mont­gomery, a spokes­man for LAX.

Pas­sen­ger num­bers are expec­ted to decrease over the next few days, he said, before rebound­ing to roughly 204,000 on Jan. 2 — one of the air­port’s peak travel days for the month.

Track­ing site Flight­Aware.com lis­ted 61 can­cel­la­tions at LAX as of Monday night — about 6% of the estim­ated 1,010 flights sched­uled for the day. Trav­el­ers com­ing to or from the air­port had seen even more inter­fer­ence Sunday, when 119 flights were can­celed.

Addi­tion­ally, there were 189 delays Monday at LAX, accord­ing to Flight­Aware.com, and Mont­gomery said they would con­tinue throughout the day.

“It is import­ant for people to check their flight status, because there are a large num­ber of delays and can­cel­la­tions,” he said.

Flight­Aware lis­ted nearly 1,400 flights can­celed within, into or out of

the U.S. on Monday, and more than 3,160 were stopped around the world. That’s a slight improve­ment over the pre­vi­ous day, when there were 1,517 can­cel­la­tions nation­ally and 3,274 glob­ally.

The dis­rup­tions come as the Omic­ron vari­ant surges across Cali­for­nia, con­trib­ut­ing to a spike in coronavirus cases and hos­pit­al­iz­a­tions, and coin­cides with more people fly­ing to see fam­ily and friends, some for the first time since the pan­demic began nearly two years ago. Travel has doubled and tripled at some U.S. air­ports com­pared with 2020 levels, based on recent pas­sen­ger screen­ings by the Trans­port­a­tion Secur­ity Admin­is­tra­tion.

The dis­rup­tions come as the Omic­ron vari­ant surges across Cali­for­nia, con­trib­ut­ing to a spike in coronavirus cases and hos­pit­al­iz­a­tions, and coin­cides with more people fly­ing to see fam­ily and friends, some for the first time since the pan­demic began nearly two years ago. Travel has doubled and tripled at some U.S. air­ports com­pared with 2020 levels, based on recent pas­sen­ger screen­ings by the Trans­port­a­tion Secur­ity Admin­is­tra­tion.

Over the last week, Cali­for­nia has aver­aged 11,914 new coronavirus cases, an increase of 72.9% from two weeks ago, accord­ing to The Times’ coronavirus tracker. There are 3,781 people hos­pit­al­ized with a con­firmed case statewide, a 9.8% increase from two weeks ago.

Some air­lines have attrib­uted hampered oper­a­tions to a rash of Omic­ron infec­tions among employ­ees, lim­it­ing staff­ing — which was already driven down by pan­demic-era cuts — dur­ing the hol­i­day travel boom.

United Air­lines can­celed 115 of 4,000 flights sched­uled for Monday, and Delta Air Lines expec­ted to can­cel more than 200 of 4,166 flights, accord­ing to rep­res­ent­at­ives for the air­lines.

“The nation­wide spike in Omic­ron cases has had a dir­ect impact on our flight crews and the people who run our oper­a­tion,” United said in a state­ment. “As a res­ult, we’ve unfor­tu­nately had to can­cel some flights and are noti­fy­ing impacted cus­tom­ers in advance of them com­ing to the air­port.”

United spokes­per­son Mad­die King said the air­line con­tac­ted pas­sen­gers early throughout the week­end if their f lights were can­celed to give them time to rebook or make other travel arrange­ments. She said about 50% of all pas­sen­gers arrived at their des­tin­a­tion early or within four hours of their ori­gin­ally sched­uled flight.

Delta said can­cel­la­tions of its flights were due to coronavirus effects as well as to winter weather. Inclement weather proved dis­rupt­ive at Delta’s hubs in Min­neapolis-St. Paul, Seattle and Salt Lake City, the air­line said on its web­site.

Delta can­celed 374 of 4,155 main­line and con­nec­tion f lights Sunday, point­ing to the same factors.

“Can­celing a flight is always Delta’s last resort,” John Laughter, the com­pany’s exec­ut­ive vice pres­id­ent and chief of oper­a­tions, said in a state­ment. “The res­ult is not only dif­fi­cult for cus­tom­ers, but for our people who want noth­ing more than to take care of them — espe­cially over the hol­i­days.”

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Week of mourn­ing begins for revered apartheid foe

Asso­ci­ated Press
An admirer takes a photo Sunday next to a statue of Des­mond Tutu in Cape Town. The funeral for the anti-apartheid leader will be held Sat­urday.

The bells of St. George’s Cathed­ral in Cape Town rang out Monday as South Afric­ans began a week of mourn­ing for Des­mond Tutu, the first Black arch­bishop of Cape Town, who died Sunday at 90.

The cleric was one of the most power­ful forces in the anti-apartheid move­ment and remained a voice of moral con­science in the dec­ades after the sys­tem of insti­tu­tion­al­ized segreg­a­tion crumbled in South Africa. His death was met with an out­pour­ing of trib­utes in South Africa and from around the world.

The bells of Tutu’s former church will toll for 10 minutes at noon every day this week, until his funeral Mass on Sat­urday at the same cathed­ral. The ser­vice will be lim­ited to 100 people because of the coronavirus pan­demic.

The arch­bishop’s remains will be cremated, and his ashes interred at St. George’s Cathed­ral, church lead­ers said. As the first Black arch­bishop of Cape Town from 1986 to 1996, and leader of the Anglican Church in South Africa, Tutu cel­eb­rated Mass at the same cathed­ral.

Until his funeral, flags across the coun­try will fly at half-staff, South Africa’s pres­id­ent said. Table Moun­tain, a Cape Town land­mark, will be lit up in purple, remin­is­cent of the purple robe that Tutu wore as leader of the Anglican Church in South Africa.

In accord­ance with Tutu’s wishes, the church will take the lead in plan­ning events sur­round­ing his funeral. Throughout the week, sev­eral churches across South Africa and in neigh­bor­ing coun­tries will host memorial ser­vices, both Chris­tian and inter­faith, in his honor.

The Nobel laur­eate will lie in state at St. George’s Cathed­ral on Fri­day, where mem­bers of the pub­lic will be allowed to pay their respects. The pub­lic view­ing will be reg­u­lated by social dis­tan­cing rules, in addi­tion to the lim­ited attend­ance at the funeral Mass.

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НО­ВО­ГОД­НИЙ ПЕРЕПОЛОХ НА КА­НА­ЛЕ «РОС­СИЯ 1»

Чем зай­мут­ся Пет­ро­сян с Бу­зо­вой и Кир­ко­ров с Бас­ко­вым в но­во­год­нюю ночь

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Лю­би­мые ар­ти­сты в неожи­дан­ных об­ра­зах, бес­ко­неч­ные ис­кро­мет­ные шут­ки, му­зы­ка, тан­цы и, ко­неч­но, вол­шеб­ная сказ­ка — те­ле­зри­те­ли в эту но­во­год­нюю ночь не смо­гут ото­рвать­ся от экра­на. Ка­нал «Рос­сия 1» при­го­то­вил для всех неве­ро­ят­ную праздничную про­грам­му. «МК» узнал экс­клю­зив­ные по­дроб­но­сти.

Итак, про­во­жать ста­рый год зри­те­ли ка­на­ла смо­гут вме­сте с « Но­во­год­ним па­ра­дом звезд » , ко­то­рый прой­дет до при­вет­ствен­ных слов Пре­зи­ден­та Вла­ди­ми­ра Пу­ти­на. Не­ве­ро­ят­но ис­кро­мет­ный юмо­ри­сти­че­ский ве­чер не оста­вит ни­ко­го рав­но­душ­ным, ведь каж­дый номер — это спе­ци­аль­но под­го­тов­лен­ное шу­точ­ное дей­ствие. Вме­сте с рос­сий­ски­ми звез­да­ми мы вспом­ним все хо­ро­шее и, воз­мож­но, не очень, что про­ис­хо­ди­ло в стране в ухо­дя­щем го­ду.

Ве­ду­щи­ми но­во­год­не­го кон­цер­та ста­нут две па­ры лю­би­мых ар­ти­стов: Фи­липп Кир­ко­ров и Ни­ко­лай Бас­ков, а так­же Сер­гей Ла­за­рев и На­та­лья Мед­ве­де­ва. Ар­ти­сты так­же по­про­бу­ют се­бя в необыч­ных ам­плуа. На­при­мер, в пе­ре­да­че « Спо­кой­ной но­чи, ма­лы­ши » Кир­ко­ров и Бас­ков вы­сту­пят в ро­лях Фи­ли и Сте­паш­ки в го­стях у ве­ду­ще­го Ни­ко­лая Ва­лу­е­ва. При этом по­смот­рят на про­ис­хо­дя­щее гла­за­ми де­тей. По­ра­ду­ет зри­те­лей и боль­шой по­ста­но­воч­ный номер, участ­ни­ка­ми ко­то­ро­го ста­нут Сер­гей Рост, Станислав Дуж­ни­ков и Го­ша Ку­цен­ко. Ар­ти­сты спо­ют шу­точ­ную пес­ню на зло­бу дня про три ва­лю­ты: рубль, юань и дол­лар. Не труд­но до­га­дать­ся, что в этой песне имен­но рубль с юа­нем бу­дут бо­роть­ся про­тив дол­ла­ра.

Тра­ди­ци­он­но « Но­во­год­ний па­рад звезд » по­се­тит … До­нальд Трамп, ко­то­ро­го сыг­ра­ет Юрий Сто­я­нов. Аме­ри­кан­ский пре­зи­дент про­де­мон­стри­ру­ет свои во­каль­ные спо­соб­но­сти, прав­да, не один, а в ком­па­нии... Ал­лы Пу­га­че­вой. Впро­чем, у При­ма­дон­ны здесь то­же бу­дет свой двой­ник. Роль ле­ген­дар­ной рос­сий­ской звез­ды ис­пол­нит ак­три­са Еле­на Во­ро­бей, ко­то­рая с при­су­щим ей та­лан­том па­ро­ди­ста вос­со­здаст об­раз пе­ви­цы. « Слад­кая » па­роч­ка ис­пол­нит из­вест­ный хит «Без меня те­бе, лю­би­мый мой » .

Еще один боль­шой по­ста­но­воч­ный номер с уча­сти­ем пев­ца Алек­сандра Мар­ша­ла и те­ле­ви­зи­он­но­го ком­мен­та­то­ра Дмит­рия Гу­бер­ни­е­ва не оста­вит ни­ко­го рав­но­душ­ным. Звез­ды в те­че­ние од­но­го но­ме­ра успе­ют сме­нить сра­зу несколь­ко ам­плуа: они вы­сту­пят в ро­ли кос­мо­нав­тов, неф­тя­ни­ков, док­то­ров, учи­те­лей, ту­ри­стов. Ну и ко­неч­но, ис­пол­нят ак­ту­аль­ные му­зы­каль­ные ком­по­зи­ции. Ес­ли неф­тя­ни­ки спо­ют про Северный по­ток, то в об­ра­зе ту­ри­стов Гу­бер­ни­ев и Мар­шал уже бу­дут раз­мыш­лять на те­му пу­те­ше­ствий. В кон­цер­те так­же спо­ют По­ли­на Га­га­ри­на, Со­со Пав­ли­а­шви­ли, Стас Пье­ха, Юлия Са­ви­че­ва А ду­э­ты им со­ста­вят Ни­ко­лай Цис­ка­рид­зе, Игорь Вер­ник, Дмит­рий Гу­бер­ни­ев, Оль­га Ска­бе­е­ва, Ев­ге­ний По­пов и мно­гие дру­гие.

Еще один боль­шой по­ста­но­воч­ный номер с уча­сти­ем пев­ца Алек­сандра Мар­ша­ла и те­ле­ви­зи­он­но­го ком­мен­та­то­ра Дмит­рия Гу­бер­ни­е­ва не оста­вит ни­ко­го рав­но­душ­ным. Звез­ды в те­че­ние од­но­го но­ме­ра успе­ют сме­нить сра­зу несколь­ко ам­плуа: они вы­сту­пят в ро­ли кос­мо­нав­тов, неф­тя­ни­ков, док­то­ров, учи­те­лей, ту­ри­стов. Ну и ко­неч­но, ис­пол­нят ак­ту­аль­ные му­зы­каль­ные ком­по­зи­ции. Ес­ли неф­тя­ни­ки спо­ют про Северный по­ток, то в об­ра­зе ту­ри­стов Гу­бер­ни­ев и Мар­шал уже бу­дут раз­мыш­лять на те­му пу­те­ше­ствий. В кон­цер­те так­же спо­ют По­ли­на Га­га­ри­на, Со­со Пав­ли­а­шви­ли, Стас Пье­ха, Юлия Са­ви­че­ва А ду­э­ты им со­ста­вят Ни­ко­лай Цис­ка­рид­зе, Игорь Вер­ник, Дмит­рий Гу­бер­ни­ев, Оль­га Ска­бе­е­ва, Ев­ге­ний По­пов и мно­гие дру­гие.

На этой ве­се­лой но­те зри­те­ли про­стят­ся со ста­рым го­дом и вой­дут в но­вый под зву­ки ле­ген­дар­ной пе­ре­да­чи « Голубой ого­нек на Ша­бо­лов­ке » . Про­грам­ма прой­дет в тра­ди­ци­он­ном фор­ма­те те­ле­ка­фе, ко­то­рый уже не пер­вый год ра­ду­ет те­ле­зри­те­лей. Весь цвет со­вре­мен­ной эст­ра­ды и те­ле­ви­де­ния в необыч­ных ду­э­тах и ан­сам­блях ис­пол­нит хи­ты и шля­ге­ры всех вре­мен. И хо­тя фор­мат оста­нет­ся при­выч­ным, зри­те­лей обе­ща­ют уди­вить аб­со­лют­но неве­ро­ят­ны­ми но­ме­ра­ми.

На­при­мер, в про­грам­ме не­ко­то­рые звез­ды вы­сту­пят це­лы­ми се­мья­ми, как Со­со Пав­ли­а­шви­ли, ко­то­рый спо­ет со сво­и­ми та­лант­ли­вы­ми доч­ка­ми. Вс­пом­нят здесь Ио­си­фа Коб­зо­на — ему бу­дет по­свя­щен боль­шой кра­си­вый номер, ко­то­рый объ­еди­нит несколь­ко по­ко­ле­ний. В сту­дии «Го­лу­бо­го огонь­ка на Ша­бо­лов­ке » по­явит­ся же­на мэт­ра Нел­ли, де­ти и вну­ки Ио­си­фа Да­вы­до­ви­ча, а за ро­я­лем мы уви­дим Алек­сан­дру Па­хму­то­ву и ря­дом — Ни­ко­лая Доб­ро­нра­во­ва. Ну а кол­ле­ги и дру­зья Коб­зо­на спо­ют ле­ген­дар­ную ком­по­зи­цию «На­деж­да» — од­ну из лю­би­мых пе­сен ма­эст­ро.

На­при­мер, в про­грам­ме не­ко­то­рые звез­ды вы­сту­пят це­лы­ми се­мья­ми, как Со­со Пав­ли­а­шви­ли, ко­то­рый спо­ет со сво­и­ми та­лант­ли­вы­ми доч­ка­ми. Вс­пом­нят здесь Ио­си­фа Коб­зо­на — ему бу­дет по­свя­щен боль­шой кра­си­вый номер, ко­то­рый объ­еди­нит несколь­ко по­ко­ле­ний. В сту­дии «Го­лу­бо­го огонь­ка на Ша­бо­лов­ке » по­явит­ся же­на мэт­ра Нел­ли, де­ти и вну­ки Ио­си­фа Да­вы­до­ви­ча, а за ро­я­лем мы уви­дим Алек­сан­дру Па­хму­то­ву и ря­дом — Ни­ко­лая Доб­ро­нра­во­ва. Ну а кол­ле­ги и дру­зья Коб­зо­на спо­ют ле­ген­дар­ную ком­по­зи­цию «На­деж­да» — од­ну из лю­би­мых пе­сен ма­эст­ро.

Тра­ди­ци­он­но «Голубой ого­нек на Ша­бо­лов­ке » бу­дет про­ни­зан юмо­ром и шут­ка­ми. « МК » уда­лось вы­яс­нить, что в эту но­во­год­нюю ночь весь­ма непло­хо спо­ют­ся ста­рей­ший участник этой про­грам­мы Ев­ге­ний Пет­ро­сян и... Оль­га Бузова, ко­то­рая стре­ми­тель­но взо­шла на пье­де­стал по­пу­ляр­но­сти в этом го­ду. Для нее по­доб­ное уча­стие, кста­ти, ста­нет де­бю­том. Ра­зу­ме­ет­ся, мно­гие хотят узнать, что же имен­но бу­дет де­лать на пе­ре­да­че эта па­роч­ка. А она ис­пол­нит вме­сте пес­ню Ада­ма и Евы. Спе­ци­аль­но для это­го но­ме­ра сде­ла­ли на за­каз боль­шое де­ре­во, на ко­то­ром и бу­дут вос­се­дать ге­рои: Ев­ге­ний Ва­га­но­вич на од­ной вет­ке, а Оль­га Бузова — на дру­гой. В те­че­ние но­ме­ра они плав­но бу­дут ле­ви­ти­ро­вать на сце­ну. Что ин­те­рес­но, во вре­мя съе­мок Ев­ге­ний Пет­ро­сян про­яв­лял чу­де­са са­мо­сто­я­тель­но­сти и сам вы­пол­нял трю­ко­вые эле­мен­ты. Ока­за­лось, что Пет­ро­сян лю­бит экс­пе­ри­мен­ты, по­это­му спус­кал­ся вниз он с по­мо­щью цир­ко­вой лон­жи и сам взби­рал­ся по лест­ни­це на де­ре­во на про­тя­же­нии несколь­ких дуб­лей. А вот для Оль­ги этот про­цесс ока­зал­ся не са­мым лег­ким: что­бы по­пасть на де­ре­во в объ­ем­ном пла­тье неве­сты, при­шлось при­бег­нуть к по­мо­щи тех­ни­че­ско­го пер­со­на­ла. Еще один неве­ро­ят­ной смеш­ной номер те­ле­зри­те­ли смо­гут уви­деть бла­го­да­ря Фи­лип­пу Кир­ко­ро­ву и Ни­ко­лаю Бас­ко­ву, ко­то­рые ис­пол­нят пес­ню «Иби­ца», си­дя на... боль­ших ба­на­нах. Кро­ме упо­мя­ну­тых звезд с на­сту­пив­шим но­вым го­дом зри­те­лей по­здра­вят Вя­че­слав Фе­ти­сов и Станислав Чер­че­сов — тре­нер сбор­ной России, ко­то­рый по­мог выглядеть до­стой­но на­шей сбор­ной на чем­пи­о­на­те ми­ра по фут­бо­лу. Зри­те­лей так­же по­ра­ду­ют неожи­дан­ные ду­э­ты. Фи­липп Кир­ко­ров спо­ет с Его­ром Кри­дом, а Глюк`oza ис­пол­нит с рэпе­ром ST — так что лю­би­те­лям рэпа мож­но быть спо­кой­ны­ми. Ну и ко­неч­но, здесь бу­дет весь цвет оте­че­ствен­но­го шоу-биз­не­са, а Ве­ра Бреж­не­ва да­же спо­ет с но­вым со­ста­вом груп­пы ВИА Гра. Зри­те­лей те­ле­ка­на­ла так­же по­здра­вят Ка­рен Шах­на­за­ров, Ма­рия Сит­тель, Да­рья Зла­то­поль­ская, Ни­ко­лай Цис­ка­рид­зе, Дмит­рий Гу­бер­ни­ев, Ди­а­на Ар­бе­ни­на, Ло­ли­та и мно­гие дру­гие. Ну и ка­кая но­во­год­няя ночь об­хо­дит­ся без вол­шеб­ной сказ­ки. Зри­те­ли ка­на­ла «Рос­сия 1» смо­гут стать пер­вы­ми, кто уви­дит не­ве­ро­ят­но смеш­ную и тро­га­тель­ную сказ­ку- мю­зикл « Зо­луш­ка», сня­тую по мо­ти­вам ле­ген­дар­но­го филь­ма «Зо­луш­ка» 1947 го­да. Зна­ко­мый всем с дет­ства сю­жет за­иг­ра­ет но­вы­ми крас­ка­ми, бла­го­да­ря неожи­дан­но­му ка­стин­гу. Так, глав­ная роль до­ста­лась ак­три­се На­та­лье Мед­ве­де­вой, об­ла­да­ю­щей непод­ра­жа­е­мым ко­ме­дий­ным шар­мом. Ко­неч­но, На­та­лья ста­ла нестан­дарт­ной Зо­луш­кой: к об­ра­зу крот­кой и скром­ной де­вуш­ки до­ба­ви­ли немно­го су­ма­сшед­шин­ки Мед­ве­де­вой, и по­лу­чи­лась со­вер­шен­но но­вая ге­ро­и­ня. Зо­луш­ка ино­гда ве­дет се­бя стран­но, на­при­мер, прям на ба­лу со­чи­ня­ет та­нец « ру­ко­мах » , на ко­то­ром нуж­но ма­хать ру­ка­ми.

Тра­ди­ци­он­но «Голубой ого­нек на Ша­бо­лов­ке » бу­дет про­ни­зан юмо­ром и шут­ка­ми. « МК » уда­лось вы­яс­нить, что в эту но­во­год­нюю ночь весь­ма непло­хо спо­ют­ся ста­рей­ший участник этой про­грам­мы Ев­ге­ний Пет­ро­сян и... Оль­га Бузова, ко­то­рая стре­ми­тель­но взо­шла на пье­де­стал по­пу­ляр­но­сти в этом го­ду. Для нее по­доб­ное уча­стие, кста­ти, ста­нет де­бю­том. Ра­зу­ме­ет­ся, мно­гие хотят узнать, что же имен­но бу­дет де­лать на пе­ре­да­че эта па­роч­ка. А она ис­пол­нит вме­сте пес­ню Ада­ма и Евы. Спе­ци­аль­но для это­го но­ме­ра сде­ла­ли на за­каз боль­шое де­ре­во, на ко­то­ром и бу­дут вос­се­дать ге­рои: Ев­ге­ний Ва­га­но­вич на од­ной вет­ке, а Оль­га Бузова — на дру­гой. В те­че­ние но­ме­ра они плав­но бу­дут ле­ви­ти­ро­вать на сце­ну. Что ин­те­рес­но, во вре­мя съе­мок Ев­ге­ний Пет­ро­сян про­яв­лял чу­де­са са­мо­сто­я­тель­но­сти и сам вы­пол­нял трю­ко­вые эле­мен­ты. Ока­за­лось, что Пет­ро­сян лю­бит экс­пе­ри­мен­ты, по­это­му спус­кал­ся вниз он с по­мо­щью цир­ко­вой лон­жи и сам взби­рал­ся по лест­ни­це на де­ре­во на про­тя­же­нии несколь­ких дуб­лей. А вот для Оль­ги этот про­цесс ока­зал­ся не са­мым лег­ким: что­бы по­пасть на де­ре­во в объ­ем­ном пла­тье неве­сты, при­шлось при­бег­нуть к по­мо­щи тех­ни­че­ско­го пер­со­на­ла. Еще один неве­ро­ят­ной смеш­ной номер те­ле­зри­те­ли смо­гут уви­деть бла­го­да­ря Фи­лип­пу Кир­ко­ро­ву и Ни­ко­лаю Бас­ко­ву, ко­то­рые ис­пол­нят пес­ню «Иби­ца», си­дя на... боль­ших ба­на­нах. Кро­ме упо­мя­ну­тых звезд с на­сту­пив­шим но­вым го­дом зри­те­лей по­здра­вят Вя­че­слав Фе­ти­сов и Станислав Чер­че­сов — тре­нер сбор­ной России, ко­то­рый по­мог выглядеть до­стой­но на­шей сбор­ной на чем­пи­о­на­те ми­ра по фут­бо­лу. Зри­те­лей так­же по­ра­ду­ют неожи­дан­ные ду­э­ты. Фи­липп Кир­ко­ров спо­ет с Его­ром Кри­дом, а Глюк`oza ис­пол­нит с рэпе­ром ST — так что лю­би­те­лям рэпа мож­но быть спо­кой­ны­ми. Ну и ко­неч­но, здесь бу­дет весь цвет оте­че­ствен­но­го шоу-биз­не­са, а Ве­ра Бреж­не­ва да­же спо­ет с но­вым со­ста­вом груп­пы ВИА Гра. Зри­те­лей те­ле­ка­на­ла так­же по­здра­вят Ка­рен Шах­на­за­ров, Ма­рия Сит­тель, Да­рья Зла­то­поль­ская, Ни­ко­лай Цис­ка­рид­зе, Дмит­рий Гу­бер­ни­ев, Ди­а­на Ар­бе­ни­на, Ло­ли­та и мно­гие дру­гие. Ну и ка­кая но­во­год­няя ночь об­хо­дит­ся без вол­шеб­ной сказ­ки. Зри­те­ли ка­на­ла «Рос­сия 1» смо­гут стать пер­вы­ми, кто уви­дит не­ве­ро­ят­но смеш­ную и тро­га­тель­ную сказ­ку- мю­зикл « Зо­луш­ка», сня­тую по мо­ти­вам ле­ген­дар­но­го филь­ма «Зо­луш­ка» 1947 го­да. Зна­ко­мый всем с дет­ства сю­жет за­иг­ра­ет но­вы­ми крас­ка­ми, бла­го­да­ря неожи­дан­но­му ка­стин­гу. Так, глав­ная роль до­ста­лась ак­три­се На­та­лье Мед­ве­де­вой, об­ла­да­ю­щей непод­ра­жа­е­мым ко­ме­дий­ным шар­мом. Ко­неч­но, На­та­лья ста­ла нестан­дарт­ной Зо­луш­кой: к об­ра­зу крот­кой и скром­ной де­вуш­ки до­ба­ви­ли немно­го су­ма­сшед­шин­ки Мед­ве­де­вой, и по­лу­чи­лась со­вер­шен­но но­вая ге­ро­и­ня. Зо­луш­ка ино­гда ве­дет се­бя стран­но, на­при­мер, прям на ба­лу со­чи­ня­ет та­нец « ру­ко­мах » , на ко­то­ром нуж­но ма­хать ру­ка­ми.

Тра­ди­ци­он­но «Голубой ого­нек на Ша­бо­лов­ке » бу­дет про­ни­зан юмо­ром и шут­ка­ми. « МК » уда­лось вы­яс­нить, что в эту но­во­год­нюю ночь весь­ма непло­хо спо­ют­ся ста­рей­ший участник этой про­грам­мы Ев­ге­ний Пет­ро­сян и... Оль­га Бузова, ко­то­рая стре­ми­тель­но взо­шла на пье­де­стал по­пу­ляр­но­сти в этом го­ду. Для нее по­доб­ное уча­стие, кста­ти, ста­нет де­бю­том. Ра­зу­ме­ет­ся, мно­гие хотят узнать, что же имен­но бу­дет де­лать на пе­ре­да­че эта па­роч­ка. А она ис­пол­нит вме­сте пес­ню Ада­ма и Евы. Спе­ци­аль­но для это­го но­ме­ра сде­ла­ли на за­каз боль­шое де­ре­во, на ко­то­ром и бу­дут вос­се­дать ге­рои: Ев­ге­ний Ва­га­но­вич на од­ной вет­ке, а Оль­га Бузова — на дру­гой. В те­че­ние но­ме­ра они плав­но бу­дут ле­ви­ти­ро­вать на сце­ну. Что ин­те­рес­но, во вре­мя съе­мок Ев­ге­ний Пет­ро­сян про­яв­лял чу­де­са са­мо­сто­я­тель­но­сти и сам вы­пол­нял трю­ко­вые эле­мен­ты. Ока­за­лось, что Пет­ро­сян лю­бит экс­пе­ри­мен­ты, по­это­му спус­кал­ся вниз он с по­мо­щью цир­ко­вой лон­жи и сам взби­рал­ся по лест­ни­це на де­ре­во на про­тя­же­нии несколь­ких дуб­лей. А вот для Оль­ги этот про­цесс ока­зал­ся не са­мым лег­ким: что­бы по­пасть на де­ре­во в объ­ем­ном пла­тье неве­сты, при­шлось при­бег­нуть к по­мо­щи тех­ни­че­ско­го пер­со­на­ла. Еще один неве­ро­ят­ной смеш­ной номер те­ле­зри­те­ли смо­гут уви­деть бла­го­да­ря Фи­лип­пу Кир­ко­ро­ву и Ни­ко­лаю Бас­ко­ву, ко­то­рые ис­пол­нят пес­ню «Иби­ца», си­дя на... боль­ших ба­на­нах. Кро­ме упо­мя­ну­тых звезд с на­сту­пив­шим но­вым го­дом зри­те­лей по­здра­вят Вя­че­слав Фе­ти­сов и Станислав Чер­че­сов — тре­нер сбор­ной России, ко­то­рый по­мог выглядеть до­стой­но на­шей сбор­ной на чем­пи­о­на­те ми­ра по фут­бо­лу. Зри­те­лей так­же по­ра­ду­ют неожи­дан­ные ду­э­ты. Фи­липп Кир­ко­ров спо­ет с Его­ром Кри­дом, а Глюк`oza ис­пол­нит с рэпе­ром ST — так что лю­би­те­лям рэпа мож­но быть спо­кой­ны­ми. Ну и ко­неч­но, здесь бу­дет весь цвет оте­че­ствен­но­го шоу-биз­не­са, а Ве­ра Бреж­не­ва да­же спо­ет с но­вым со­ста­вом груп­пы ВИА Гра. Зри­те­лей те­ле­ка­на­ла так­же по­здра­вят Ка­рен Шах­на­за­ров, Ма­рия Сит­тель, Да­рья Зла­то­поль­ская, Ни­ко­лай Цис­ка­рид­зе, Дмит­рий Гу­бер­ни­ев, Ди­а­на Ар­бе­ни­на, Ло­ли­та и мно­гие дру­гие. Ну и ка­кая но­во­год­няя ночь об­хо­дит­ся без вол­шеб­ной сказ­ки. Зри­те­ли ка­на­ла «Рос­сия 1» смо­гут стать пер­вы­ми, кто уви­дит не­ве­ро­ят­но смеш­ную и тро­га­тель­ную сказ­ку- мю­зикл « Зо­луш­ка», сня­тую по мо­ти­вам ле­ген­дар­но­го филь­ма «Зо­луш­ка» 1947 го­да. Зна­ко­мый всем с дет­ства сю­жет за­иг­ра­ет но­вы­ми крас­ка­ми, бла­го­да­ря неожи­дан­но­му ка­стин­гу. Так, глав­ная роль до­ста­лась ак­три­се На­та­лье Мед­ве­де­вой, об­ла­да­ю­щей непод­ра­жа­е­мым ко­ме­дий­ным шар­мом. Ко­неч­но, На­та­лья ста­ла нестан­дарт­ной Зо­луш­кой: к об­ра­зу крот­кой и скром­ной де­вуш­ки до­ба­ви­ли немно­го су­ма­сшед­шин­ки Мед­ве­де­вой, и по­лу­чи­лась со­вер­шен­но но­вая ге­ро­и­ня. Зо­луш­ка ино­гда ве­дет се­бя стран­но, на­при­мер, прям на ба­лу со­чи­ня­ет та­нец « ру­ко­мах » , на ко­то­ром нуж­но ма­хать ру­ка­ми.

Без­услов­но, те­ле­зри­те­лям бу­дет весь­ма ин­те­рес­но на­блю­дать за раз­ви­ти­ем от­но­ше­ний с прин­цем, ко­то­рый по ха­рак­те­ру яв­но не по­хож на Зо­луш­ку. Он оказывается са­мым вме­ня­е­мым во всем ко­ро­лев­стве и чет­ко по­ни­ма­ет, что ему нуж­но в жиз­ни. Роль принца до­ста­лась Сер­гею Ла­за­ре­ву, ко­то­рый сыг­рал на­сто­я­ще­го ли­ри­че­ско­го пер­со­на­жа.

А вот ко­ро­лем на­зна­чи­ли Юрия Галь­це­ва, для ко­то­ро­го ро­ли ца­рей — де­ло дав­но при­выч­ное. Ко­роль в ис­пол­не­нии Галь­це­ва — доб­рый пра­ви­тель ко­ро­лев­ства, ко­то­рый вро­де бы всем за­прав­ля­ет, но ни за что не от­ве­ча­ет.

По­клон­ни­ки твор­че­ства Еле­ны Сте­па­нен­ко смо­гут уви­деть по­след­нюю в ро­ли злой ма­че­хи. Сце­на­ри­сты на­пол­ни­ли об­раз ис­кро­мет­ны­ми шут­ка­ми в со­вре­мен­ном фор­ма­те, так что не ис­клю­че­но, что не­ко­то­рые ее фра­зы разой­дут­ся на ци­та­ты. На­при­мер, на­ка­нуне ба­ла ма­че­ха со­об­ща­ет Зо­луш­ке, что та не мо­жет ехать в ко­ро­лев­ство, по­то­му что сна­ча­ла на­до со­здать в ого­ро­де ланд­шафт­ный ди­зайн, от­де­лить зер­на от­дель­но — ко­фе­ин от­дель­но и са­мое глав­ное — за­ре­ги­стри­ро­вать ма­че­ху на Пор­та­ле го­сус­луг. Ко­гда Зо­луш­ка со­об­ща­ет о по­след­нем за­да­нии сво­ей крест­ной фее в ис­пол­не­нии Еле­ны Во­ро­бей, той оста­ет­ся толь­ко всплес­нуть ру­ка­ми: «Ты же по­ни­ма­ешь, что это не ре­аль­но!»

Кста­ти, по­ми­мо при­выч­ных ге­ро­ев в сказ­ке по­явят­ся и со­вер­шен­но но­вые. Так, роль це­ре­мо­ний­мей­сте­ра, ко­то­рый го­то­вит бал, сыг­рал Фи­липп Кир­ко­ров, глав­ным на­чаль­ни­ком ст­ра­жи стал Ми­ха­ил Бо­яр­ский, а зо­ло­тым го­ло­сом ко­ро­лев­ства ока­зал­ся, есте­ствен­но, Ни­ко­лай Бас­ков. Что ин­те­рес­но, ар­тист шу­тил не толь­ко в кад­ре, но и за его пре­де­ла­ми, так что съе­моч­ная груп­па по­сто­ян­но хо­хо­та­ла. А в один прекрасный момент он от­нял ги­рос­ку­тер у опе­ра­то­ра и при­нял­ся ка­тать­ся на нем, слов­но ре­бе­нок. Так что не­ко­то­рые кад­ры пе­ре­дви­же­ния на ску­те­ре во­шли в фильм.

Кста­ти, по­ми­мо при­выч­ных ге­ро­ев в сказ­ке по­явят­ся и со­вер­шен­но но­вые. Так, роль це­ре­мо­ний­мей­сте­ра, ко­то­рый го­то­вит бал, сыг­рал Фи­липп Кир­ко­ров, глав­ным на­чаль­ни­ком ст­ра­жи стал Ми­ха­ил Бо­яр­ский, а зо­ло­тым го­ло­сом ко­ро­лев­ства ока­зал­ся, есте­ствен­но, Ни­ко­лай Бас­ков. Что ин­те­рес­но, ар­тист шу­тил не толь­ко в кад­ре, но и за его пре­де­ла­ми, так что съе­моч­ная груп­па по­сто­ян­но хо­хо­та­ла. А в один прекрасный момент он от­нял ги­рос­ку­тер у опе­ра­то­ра и при­нял­ся ка­тать­ся на нем, слов­но ре­бе­нок. Так что не­ко­то­рые кад­ры пе­ре­дви­же­ния на ску­те­ре во­шли в фильм.

Moskovski Komsomolets
2018年12月27日
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Somalia faces fresh tur­moil over elec­tion

Manuella Luana / Asso­ci­ated Press
Flood waters inund­ate the city of Ita­petinga in Brazil’s state of Bahia on Sunday. Heavy rains across the region have caused floods that have killed 18 people and affected at least 50 cit­ies since early Novem­ber.

Somalia’s pres­id­ent sus­pen­ded the coun­try’s prime min­is­ter and mar­ine forces com­mander Monday, a sharp escal­a­tion in a polit­ical dis­pute that threatens to fur­ther destabil­ize the troubled nation on the Horn of Africa.

Pres­id­ent Mohamed Abdul­lahi Mohamed sus­pen­ded Prime Min­is­ter Mohamed Hus­sein Roble over alleg­a­tions of cor­rup­tion and mis­use of pub­lic land. Mohamed’s office had earlier accused Roble of “pos­ing a ser­i­ous threat to the elect­oral pro­cess.”

Roble refused to accept the order and accused Mohamed of deploy­ing troops to attack his office and those of the Cab­inet to pre­vent them from car­ry­ing out their duties. The moves, he said in a tele­vised address, were “a blatant attempt to over­throw the gov­ern­ment, the con­sti­tu­tion and the laws of the land.”

On Monday, for­eign gov­ern­ments and inter­na­tional observ­ers expressed con­cern that the dis­pute could set off yet another cycle of viol­ence in a nation battered by dec­ades of fight­ing.

The sim­mer­ing polit­ical impasse blew into open viol­ence in the streets in April, after Mohamed signed a law extend­ing his term in office by two years. Oppon­ents of Mohamed, a former U.S. cit­izen and bur­eau­crat, along with his West­ern allies denounced the move, with many Somalis wor­ry­ing that it could reverse the mod­est demo­cratic gains the coun­try has achieved after dec­ades of civil war.

The show­down even­tu­ally led Mohamed to ask Par­lia­ment to nul­lify the exten­sion and request that Roble help organ­ize the delayed elec­tions.

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Pub­lic scep­tical about suc­cess of Cop26, research finds1

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▲ Pro­test­ers in Glas­gow demand action to tackle the cli­mate crisis dur­ing the Cop26 event

Bri­tons are con­cerned that hypo­crisy by politi­cians will affect the pub­lic’s will­ing­ness to change their beha­viour to tackle cli­mate change – and doubt that Cop26 com­mit­ments can be met unl...

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Resent­ment and para­noia widen Amer­ica’s divi­sions

Ideo­logy may not be the root cause of tur­moil

Pentagon is get­ting more money than Biden reques­ted

Defense bill signed by pres­id­ent also raises ser­vice mem­bers’ pay.

Kamala Digs in Deeper

Eric Adams and the shadow of David Dinkins

Pol­ish leader vetoes media law that could have sparked row with US

Rus­sian envoy gives time frame for secur­ity talks with US

Nego­ti­at­ors are expec­ted to meet in early Janu­ary

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Pol­ish leader vetoes media law that could have sparked row with US

The Pol­ish pres­id­ent has vetoed a media own­er­ship law that crit­ics said was aimed at silen­cing the US-owned news chan­nel TVN24, side-step­ping a row with Wash­ing­ton as ten­sions rise in east...

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Resent­ment and para­noia widen Amer­ica’s divi­sions

Ideo­logy may not be the root cause of tur­moil

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  • Michael Med­ved Michael Med­ved, nation­ally syn­dic­ated talk radio host, is a mem­ber of the USA TODAY Board of Con­trib­ut­ors and author of 14 non- fic­tion books, most recently “God’s Hand on Amer­ica.”
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Will the United States be able to over­come polit­ical divi­sions to end the pan­demic?

It’s not ideas that cur­rently divide the nation; it’s emo­tions, atti­tudes, para­noia and tri­bal loy­al­ties. Rather than focused argu­ments over clash­ing val­ues, Amer­ic­ans express a gen­er­al­ized sense of resent­ment aggrieve­ment and grudge. That makes the chances of com­prom­ise increas­ingly remote and the pro­spects for res­ol­u­tion all but unthink­able.

Take the ongo­ing battles over man­age­ment of the coronavirus: both sides insist they are defend­ing some hon­or­able prin­ciple but their fero­cious dis­agree­ments reflect under­ly­ing hos­til­it­ies and irra­tional instincts.

Anti- vaxxers march sol­emnly and self- right­eously with plac­ards pro­claim­ing “My Body, My Choice” – express­ing the sort of logic they would force­fully reject regard­ing the abor­tion issue or recent pro­pos­als for sweep­ing leg­al­iz­a­tion of recre­ational drugs.

On the other side, left­ists who nor­mally love the man­tra that “Dis­sent is Pat­ri­otic” and view civil dis­obedi­ence as tran­scend­ent vir­tue, will brook neither dis­sent nor dis­obedi­ence when it comes to the pub­lic health stric­tures they sup­port. And their talk of sweep­ing national man­dates only could be enforced by the police and mil­it­ary – insti­tu­tions whose expand­ing power they tra­di­tion­ally fear and decry.

‘ Sus­pi­cious detest­a­tion’

It’s not just that the think­ing on these issues is utterly inco­her­ent, it’s that there is no think­ing at all – just feel­ing: an angry, sus­pi­cious detest­a­tion of those with whom you dis­agree and an impas­sioned determ­in­a­tion for “our side” to come out on top.

What can be gained for the nation at large if earn­est plead­ing and relent­less mis­in­form­a­tion suc­ceed in keep­ing a sub­stan­tial amount of Amer­ic­ans unvac­cin­ated. The major­ity of such folks may emerge from the pan­demic without death or hos­pit­al­iz­a­tion, but no evid­ence exists to sug­gest that dodging the jab enhances health pro­spects.

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Eric Adams and the shadow of David Dinkins

On Jan. 1, Eric Adams will take office as the 110th mayor of New York City. However, he stands to be judged as the second Black mayor to take office dur­ing a time of crisis. For Adams to avoid the fate of David Dinkins, the only one-term mayor in the last 45 years, the former police cap­tain must serve the interests of the city — and pro­tect the occu­pa­tional needs of his lower-middle-class sup­port­ers.

Like Dinkins, Adams comes to office dur­ing a time of unpre­ced­en­ted chal­lenges. Between 1990 and 1993, the gen­teel Dinkins had to con­tend with the after­math of the 1970s bank­ruptcy, fact­ory flight, unem­ploy­ment, high crime rates, raw racial ten­sions and polit­ical rival­ries.

Adams inher­its a city reel­ing from the double-whammy of pan­demic and reces­sion. As he takes office, new cases are mount­ing at the highest level in months — and claimed his inaug­ur­a­tion among the cas­u­al­ties. He is the first mayor to can­cel an inaug­ur­a­tion since Fiorello LaGuardia in the Great Depres­sion.

He will grapple with the con­tro­versy of school and busi­ness clos­ures, vac­cine and mask man­dates, high unem­ploy­ment, over­crowded emer­gency rooms, rising crime, lack of afford­able hous­ing, Black Lives Mat­ter protests, a pro­gress­ive wing look­ing to trip him up and a press pre­pared to raise ques­tions of com­pet­ence and integ­rity.

Yet to be suc­cess­ful amidst the chal­lenges, his admin­is­tra­tion dare not ignore the needs of his base of sup­port­ers; that is the Black and Brown res­id­ents in the outer bor­oughs, who are among the most endangered in the pan­demic and uncer­tain recov­ery.

Adams embod­ies the polit­ical his­tory of Black NYC that began with the mass migra­tion to Har­lem dur­ing World War I. His ten­ure will rep­res­ent the com­munity’s return to a prag­matic agenda after an ill-fated dal­li­ance with the pro­gress­ive coali­tion of Bill de Bla­sio. His mod­er­ate coali­tion should anti­cip­ate pro­gress­ive rivals look­ing for ways to dilute the influ­ence of Black voters; among the schemes to watch are non­cit­izen vot­ing — which Adams sup­ports, but which will dump 800,000 immig­rants onto the vot­ing rolls.

Amos Wilson, the late social psy­cho­lo­gist at the City Uni­versity, offered sage advice dur­ing the Dinkins era in “Blue­print for Black Power: A Moral, Polit­ical and Eco­nomic Imper­at­ive for the 21st Cen­tury.” He admon­ished that a polit­ics without the own­er­ship and con­trol of “prop­erty, wealth and organ­iz­a­tion is the recipe for Black polit­ical and non-polit­ical power­less­ness.”

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Kamala Digs in Deeper4

ACCORDING to Vice Pres­id­ent Kamala Har­ris, all her prob­lems can be summed up in two words: race and gender. In her telling, the only reason for the wide­spread per­cep­tion that she’s gone from his­toric role model to much-ridiculed fail­ure in less than a year is that she’s the only veep who wasn’t a white male.

But deploy­ing that excuse to answer ques­tions about both her insig­ni­fic­ance within the admin­is­tra­tion and the notion that she is a deeply unser­i­ous fig­ure won’t cut it.

First of all, Dan Quayle — who was both white and male — was given just as bad a time dur­ing his bumpy ride as Pres­id­ent George H. W. Bush’s veep 30 years ago (not to men­tion that Charles Curtis, Her­bert Hoover’s vice pres­id­ent, was Nat­ive Amer­ican, mean­ing she isn’t the first per­son of color in that post by today’s defin­i­tion).

But even when she plays the veep’s tra­di­tional role of par­tisan enfor­cer, Har­ris embar­rasses her­self, as with her week­end claim on “Face the Nation” that the coun­try’s “biggest national-secur­ity prob­lem” is the effort to defend “our demo­cracy” — by which she meant some state legis­latures’ efforts to pass laws ensur­ing that the guard­rails around voter integ­rity dropped dur­ing the pan­demic-plagued 2020 elec­tion are restored. That she invoked the pas­sage of pop­u­lar voter-ID laws ahead of lib­eral talk­ing points about cli­mate change and rather than genu­ine threats like China speaks volumes about her incom­pet­ence and fool­ish­ness.

Most of the dam­age being done to her in the media also comes from Demo­crats — the party whose lead­er­ship, her poor poll num­bers not­with­stand­ing, she still might inherit once Pres­id­ent Biden is done.

White House sources told The New York Times that Biden instruc­ted Har­ris to make her­self scarce dur­ing the failed nego­ti­ations with Sen. Joe Manchin to pass the mul­ti­tril­lion-dol­lar Build Back Bet­ter boon­doggle, lest she worsen an already-bad situ­ation with her toxic per­son­al­ity. And it was former Har­ris loy­al­ists who jumped ship and dished to The Wash­ing­ton Post that she wasn’t only a mean boss who bul­lied staffers but also a dumb one who refused to read the pos­i­tion papers pre­pared for her and then raged at under­lings when she appeared unpre­pared in pub­lic.

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Rus­sian envoy gives time frame for secur­ity talks with US

Nego­ti­at­ors are expec­ted to meet in early Janu­ary

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Sergey Lav­rov said Rus­sia will also talk with NATO.

MOSCOW — Talks between Rus­sia and the United States on Moscow’s demand for West­ern guar­an­tees pre­clud­ing NATO’s expan­sion to Ukraine will start imme­di­ately after the New Year hol­i­day period, Rus­sia’s top dip­lo­mat announced Monday.

“It is with the U.S. that we will carry out the main work of nego­ti­ations, which will take place imme­di­ately after the New Year hol­i­days end,” Rus­sian For­eign Min­is­ter Sergey Lav­rov said in an inter­view Monday.

The hol­i­day period in Rus­sia will last for 10 days, through Jan. 9.

Earlier this month, Moscow sub­mit­ted draft secur­ity doc­u­ments demand­ing that NATO deny mem­ber­ship to Ukraine and other former Soviet coun­tries and roll back the alli­ance’s mil­it­ary deploy­ments in Cent­ral and East­ern Europe.

Wash­ing­ton and its allies have refused to provide such pledges, but said they are ready for the talks.

The demands, con­tained in a pro­posed Rus­sia-U.S. secur­ity treaty and a secur­ity agree­ment between Moscow and NATO, were draf­ted amid soar­ing ten­sions over a Rus­sian troop buildup near Ukraine that has stoked fears of a pos­sible inva­sion.

Rus­sia has denied it has plans to attack its neigh­bor but pressed for legal guar­an­tees that would rule out NATO expan­sion and weapons deploy­ment there.

Lav­rov said last week that, in addi­tion to talks with the U.S., Moscow will start sep­ar­ate talks with NATO on the issue, as well as sep­ar­ate nego­ti­ations under the aus­pices of the Organ­iz­a­tion for Secur­ity and Cooper­a­tion in Europe.

It is import­ant that “our pro­pos­als aren’t wound up in end­less dis­cus­sions, which the West is fam­ous for and which it knows how to do, that there is a res­ult of all these dip­lo­matic efforts,” Lav­rov said Monday.

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Pentagon is get­ting more money than Biden reques­ted

Defense bill signed by pres­id­ent also raises ser­vice mem­bers’ pay.

WASHINGTON — Pres­id­ent Biden signed the National Defense Author­iz­a­tion Act into law Monday, author­iz­ing $768.2 bil­lion in mil­it­ary spend­ing, includ­ing a 2.7% pay raise for ser­vice mem­bers, for 2022.

The NDAA author­izes a 5% increase in mil­it­ary spend­ing and is the product of intense nego­ti­ations between Demo­crats and Repub­lic­ans over issues such as reforms of the mil­it­ary justice sys­tem and COVID-19 vac­cine require­ments for troops.

“The Act provides vital bene­fits and enhances access to justice for mil­it­ary per­son­nel and their fam­il­ies, and includes crit­ical author­it­ies to sup­port our coun­try’s national defense,” Biden said in a state­ment.

The $768.2-bil­lion price tag marks $25 bil­lion more than Biden ini­tially reques­ted from Con­gress, a prior pro­posal that was rejec­ted by mem­bers of both parties out of con­cerns it would under­mine U.S. efforts to keep pace mil­it­ar­ily with China and Rus­sia.

The new bill passed this month with bipar­tisan sup­port, with Demo­crats and Repub­lic­ans tout­ing wins in the final pack­age.

Demo­crats applauded pro­vi­sions in the bill over­haul­ing how the mil­it­ary justice sys­tem handles sexual assault and other related crimes, in effect tak­ing pro­sec­utorial jur­is­dic­tion over such crimes out of the hands of mil­it­ary com­mand­ers.

Repub­lic­ans, mean­while, touted suc­cess in block­ing an effort to add women to the draft, as well as the inclu­sion of a pro­vi­sion that bars dis­hon­or­able dis­charges for ser­vice mem­bers who refuse the COVID-19 vac­cine.

The bill includes $7.1 bil­lion for the Pacific Deterrence Ini­ti­at­ive and a state­ment of con­gres­sional sup­port for the defense of Taiwan, meas­ures inten­ded to coun­ter­act China’s influ­ence in the region.

It also includes $300 mil­lion for the Ukraine Secur­ity Assist­ance Ini­ti­at­ive, a show of sup­port in the face of Rus­sian aggres­sion, as well as $4 bil­lion for the European Defense Ini­ti­at­ive.

In his state­ment, the pres­id­ent also out­lined a num­ber of pro­vi­sions his admin­is­tra­tion opposes over what he char­ac­ter­ized as “con­sti­tu­tional con­cerns or ques­tions of con­struc­tion.”

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More CEOs worry about los­ing job

The second year of pan­demic has execs stressed over sup­ply chain, expert says.

The C-suite is a bundle of nerves this winter. A new sur­vey shows that 72% of chief exec­ut­ives are wor­ried about los­ing their jobs in 2022 because of busi­ness dis­rup­tions, track­ing closely wi...

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Pol­ish pres­id­ent vetoes bill hit­ting US firm

WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s pres­id­ent on Monday vetoed a media bill that would have forced U.S. com­pany Dis­cov­ery to give up its con­trolling share in Pol­ish tele­vi­sion net­work TVN.

For many, it was a vic­tory for free­dom of speech and media inde­pend­ence in a coun­try where demo­cratic norms are being chal­lenged by the nation­al­ist gov­ern­ment.

The veto was also expec­ted to be wel­comed by Wash­ing­ton, which had been seek­ing to defend the largest U.S. invest­ment in Poland.

Pres­id­ent Andrzej Duda noted that the bill was unpop­u­lar with many Poles and would have dealt a blow to Poland’s repu­ta­tion as a place to do busi­ness.

“Con­tracts have to be kept,” Duda said at a news con­fer­ence in Warsaw where he announced his veto. “For us Poles it is a mat­ter of honor.”

The bill, recently passed by the lower house of par­lia­ment, would have pre­ven­ted any non-European entity from own­ing more than a 49% stake in tele­vi­sion or radio broad­casters in Poland.

Its prac­tical effect would have tar­geted only one exist­ing com­pany, Dis­cov­ery Inc., for­cing the U.S. owner of Poland’s largest private tele­vi­sion net­work, TVN, to sell the major­ity or even all of its Pol­ish hold­ings.

The rul­ing party, Law and Justice, pushed the legis­la­tion and argued that it was import­ant for national secur­ity and sov­er­eignty to ensure that no com­pany out­side of Europe can con­trol com­pan­ies that help form pub­lic opin­ion.

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Perhaps if those who have made a comment understood the global market in energy then you would realise that all countries and users are paying very high prices irrespective if it is a private company or a nationalised concern. Renationalising energy companies operating in the UK would have absolutely no impact on the price of energy.

Cab­inet ‘crisis’ talks with energy bosses end without break­through7

Min­is­ters’ crunch talks with energy bosses have failed to deliver a break­through des­pite the industry’s calls for an urgent inter­ven­tion and a warn­ing from the founder of Ovo Energy that house­...

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Hol­i­day sales jump 8.5%

Hol­i­day sales rose at the fast­est pace in 17 years, even as shop­pers grappled with higher prices, product short­ages and a raging new COVID-19 vari­ant in the last few weeks of the sea­son.

Mas­ter­card Spend­ing­Pulse, a report that tracks all kinds of pay­ments includ­ing cash and debit cards, repor­ted sales had risen 8.5% from a year earlier. Mas­ter­card Spend­ing­Pulse had expec­ted an 8.8% increase.

The res­ults, which covered Nov. 1 through Dec. 24, showed hol­i­day sales were up 10.7% com­pared with the pre-pan­demic 2019 hol­i­day period.

By cat­egory, cloth­ing rose 47%, jew­elry 32%, elec­tron­ics 16%. Online sales were up 11% from a year ago and 61% from 2019. Depart­ment stores registered a 21% increase over 2020.

After omic­ron hit, some con­sumers stayed home and shif­ted their spend­ing to e-com­merce — but sales stayed strong.

“I feel really good about how the sea­son played out,” said Steve Sad­ove, senior adviser to Mas­ter­card and former CEO of Saks Inc. “When people feel a little bit uncom­fort­able, you’ll see a little bit of a pickup in online and a little bit of a slow­down in store per­form­ance.”

Over­all, ana­lysts had expec­ted a strong hol­i­day sea­son, fueled by early shop­ping that star­ted in Octo­ber in anti­cip­a­tion of a product short­age. Con­sumers were also determ­ined to cel­eb­rate the hol­i­days after a muted one a year ago.

The National Retail Fed­er­a­tion said early in Decem­ber that hol­i­day sales were on track to beat its already record­break­ing fore­casts for an increase of 8.5% to 10.5% com­pared to the year-ago period. The group expects that online and other non-store sales will increase between 11% and 15%. The num­bers exclude auto­mobile deal­ers, gas­ol­ine sta­tions and res­taur­ants.

Retail sales have con­tin­ued to rise in an eco­nomic envir­on­ment that has ham­strung some retail­ers. Many have had to sharply increase pay to find and keep work­ers, increas­ing their cost of doing busi­ness. They also scrambled to fill shelves with major U.S. ports still backed up.

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Is work­ing remotely an option for good?

Omic­ron is slam­ming doors on some offices

The omic­ron vari­ant has thrown Amer­ica’s great return to the office into dis­ar­ray – per­haps for months.

Most com­pan­ies who had notified employ­ees they would need to come back to the office at least part- time early next year have pushed back those plans or are con­sid­er­ing doing so because of the latest COVID- 19 spike, accord­ing to human resources experts and sur­veys.

Among those slam­ming the brakes on office reopen­ings are house­hold names such as Apple, Ford Motor and Fidel­ity Invest­ments.

“Most exec­ut­ives have just aban­doned the return to the office” until omic­ron no longer poses a health threat, says Nich­olas Bloom, a Stan­ford Uni­versity eco­nom­ics pro­fessor who has stud­ied the work- from- home trend and spoken to officials at sev­eral hun­dred com­pan­ies.

Twenty- two per­cent of cor­por­ate lead­ers have delayed their reopen­ing plans and another 34% haven’t yet made a decision, accord­ing to a Gart­ner sur­vey last week of 129 exec­ut­ives who atten­ded a com­pany webinar on return to the office and vac­cin­a­tion man­dates. A third said omic­ron has had no impact on their plans.

Keep­ing a close eye on ‘ return to office’

Mean­while, just 5% of firms that already reopened their work­places are revers­ing course and send­ing people home, the Gart­ner sur­vey shows.

“In gen­eral, we are see­ing those that have already brought people back to the office are con­tinu­ing with those plans while keep­ing a close eye on the situ­ation,” says Bill Arm­strong, vice pres­id­ent of Global Upside, a con­sult­ing firm.

By con­trast, he adds, “Many of those that had plans to bring people back in 2022 have at least for the moment put those plans on hold.”

That means many of the down­town res­taur­ants, shops and other busi­nesses that rely heav­ily on pur­chases by office work­ers could struggle longer.

Office occu­pancy hit 40%

Worker occu­pancy of offices in 10 large cit­ies hit a pan­demic high of 40.6% the week end­ing Dec. 1 before edging down to a still- elev­ated 39.5% the fol­low­ing week, accord­ing to Kastle Sys­tems, which tracks employee swipes of devices such as key cards.

Kastle Chair­man Mark Ein says he was expect­ing a leap in occu­pancy to above 50% after New Year’s Day, but

that’s no longer the case.

“A lot of com­pan­ies were using that tar­get date,” he says. “Com­pan­ies have ten­ded to plan return to work around mile­stone dates.”

Omic­ron has proven more con­ta­gious than the delta vari­ant and the ori­ginal virus – account­ing for 73.2% of new COVID infec­tions in the U. S. – but it has shown signs of being less vir­u­lent. It’s unclear if that’s the case but it could still lead to enough hos­pit­al­iz­a­tions to over­whelm health sys­tems, experts say.

Apple said last week it’s push­ing off its return to the office, slated for Feb­ru­ary 1, after sev­eral pre­vi­ous delays.

“We are delay­ing the start of our hybrid work pilot to a date yet to be determ­ined,” com­pany CEO Tim Cook wrote in a memo to employ­ees obtained by Bloomberg. “Our offices remain open and many of our col­leagues are com­ing in reg­u­larly, includ­ing our teams in Greater China and else­where.”

Google, Ford and Meta, formerly known as Face­book, are let­ting work­ers post­pone their returns. Lyft, the ride­hail­ing firm, told staffers they won’t be required to return to offices until 2023.

Fidel­ity Invest­ments closed its offices in Boston and else­where in New Eng­land amid the COVID surge. And JPMor­gan Chase is let­ting employ­ees, many of whom had come back, work from home at least through the hol­i­days.

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Boomi’s out­go­ing CEO is telling all

Chris McNabb has built the Ches­ter­brook firm into an integ­ra­tion spe­cial­ist.

Chris McNabb has spent the last nine years run­ning Boomi, a Ches­ter­brook-based soft­ware com­pany that pion­eered what info tech people call IPaaS, “integ­ra­tion plat­form as a ser­vice,” which smooths the trans­fer of data between a busi­ness’ applic­a­tions. Among other upgrades, the cloud com­pany helped cor­por­ate employ­ees work remotely even before the pan­demic. Demand zoomed as offices shut to com­ply with local rules.

A vet­eran of one of the first suc­cess­ful Phil­adelphia-area national soft­ware com­pan­ies, Sys­tems and Com­puter Tech­no­lo­gies, McNabb joined Boomi in 2010, the year it was acquired by Dell Tech­no­lo­gies, and has run it as CEO since 2012, grow­ing the staff to more than 1,300 from 45 work­ers when he first star­ted.

After Boomi was pur­chased by private-equity firms Fran­cisco Part­ners and TPG earlier this year for $4 bil­lion, McNabb said he would retire — but pre­dicts that the new own­ers, instead of strip­ping value, will accel­er­ate hir­ing to meet com­pan­ies’ seem­ingly insa­ti­able demand for auto­ma­tion, and work­ing from home, in the face of hack­ers, remote-com­put­ing break­downs, and other chal­lenges. He is slated to step down next month. Boomi’s new CEO will be David Meredith, who headed Boston-based emer­gency soft­ware pro­vider Ever­bridge. This inter­view has been edited for clar­ity and length.

What does Boomi do for com­pan­ies that they can’t do bet­ter them­selves?

Inform­a­tion tech­no­logy has become so widely dis­trib­uted, and so dis­join­ted. On your smart­phone, you may have a lot of apps, but you don’t really think much about them once they are installed; you can reach them by press­ing but­tons on a single screen.

Your employer also has many applic­a­tions (for sales, ser­vice, engin­eer­ing, invent­ory, fin­ance, payroll, travel, research) but unlike on your phone, many of them were built by dif­fer­ent vendors, who never really thought about their work­ing together.

So to have the kind of ser­vice people expect, now that Apple and Amazon and other tech com­pan­ies have raised expect­a­tions, you have to gather the apps and their pro­viders and their data access together. And you can’t just build that by bolt­ing one app onto another app. You need a ser­vice that can tie your import­ant applic­a­tions into one suite, one dash­board. That’s what we do at Boomi.

So to have the kind of ser­vice people expect, now that Apple and Amazon and other tech com­pan­ies have raised expect­a­tions, you have to gather the apps and their pro­viders and their data access together. And you can’t just build that by bolt­ing one app onto another app. You need a ser­vice that can tie your import­ant applic­a­tions into one suite, one dash­board. That’s what we do at Boomi.

For whom?

Name an industry. You likely know Mod­erna, a com­pany that has come as if out of nowhere to meet the COVID-19 pan­demic with its vac­cine. They have scaled up very rap­idly. They faced a lot of chal­lenges, scal­ing their back-end [office] ser­vices to sup­port their work on the clin­ical side. We have had to tie all the busi­ness and fin­ance together so they can focus on their drug rol­lout and meet demand rap­idly.

At the Uni­versity of Miami, they are try­ing to engage stu­dents who grew up with Amazon-qual­ity exper­i­ences. They don’t want to have to enroll, then repeat everything for tuition, fin­an­cial aid, classes, meals, on and on. So Miami is work­ing toward auto­mat­ing all of that, through a mobile app. And we are there to help them make it clear and secure.

Can this work for gov­ern­ments, or is the secur­ity chal­lenge too great?

There’s a coun­try in Europe, they really don’t want us to identify them, that has a national health plan, but they still had a manual annual card renewal pro­cess. It was all con­nec­ted to these old IBM main­frame com­puters, noth­ing in the cloud. So it was like going to the DMV — you sit in a lot of lines.

Then the pan­demic hits, and every­body who works in the health depart­ment build­ing is sent home. Which means nobody can renew their health-care cards. Their renewal and val­id­a­tion pro­cess went into crisis when they needed it most.

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Industry relief as extra curbs ruled out

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Shop­pers walk through Cov­ent Garden mar­ket, Lon­don. Tour­ist areas have been hard hit by Covid

Hos­pit­al­ity bosses have wel­comed news that the gov­ern­ment has ruled out addi­tional Covid restric­tions in Eng­land before the busy New Year’s Eve trad­ing period.

Busi­nesses had been call­ing f...

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Gro­cery prices going bana­nas3

More and more shop­pers may be wide-eyed in dis­be­lief next month as a dra­matic rise in a wide range of gro­cery items will drive bills higher.

If you think your gro­cery bills are high, wait until next month.

A fresh wave of super­mar­ket price hikes is expec­ted to begin in Janu­ary, rais­ing prices any­where from 2% to 20% on a slew of staples includ­ing pasta, con­di­ments, soups, cook­ies, pro­duce, dairy products and meats, accord­ing to a report.

A soar­ing infla­tion rate of 6.8% as of Novem­ber — the highest rate of increase in 39 years — shows no signs of slow­ing down, with major food man­u­fac­tur­ers pre­par­ing to raise their prices once again, accord­ing to the Wall Street Journal.

Per­sist­ent sup­ply-chain dis­rup­tions and increas­ing labor costs are a major factor in the increases.

Kraft Heinz — which makes Oscar Mayer lunch meats, Kraft Macar­oni & Cheese and Jell-O pud­ding — told retail­ers it is plan­ning to raise prices on some items by as much as 20%, accord­ing to a memo viewed by the paper.

The aver­age price increase on Kraft Heinz products will be 5%, the com­pany told the Journal, adding that some products like Grey

Poupon mus­tard will increase by 6% to 13%, because its pro­duc­tion costs have risen by 22%.

Mondelez Inter­na­tional, which makes snacks includ­ing Oreo cook­ies and Ritz crack­ers, will increase prices by 6% to 7% in Janu­ary, the com­pany said last month.

Other food man­u­fac­tur­ers, includ­ing Camp­bell Soup and Gen­eral Mills, maker of Cheerios, have also warned that they will be rais­ing prices on their goods in Janu­ary but have not dis­closed what the hikes will be.

Con­sumers have already been wal­loped by high food costs, accord­ing to gov­ern­ment data.

The food-at-home index, which includes gro­cery stores, rose 6.4% over the past 12 months, with pro­teins includ­ing beef, poultry, fish and eggs increas­ing by nearly 13%.

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1 HOW SMART’S YOUR BOAT?

The com­bin­a­tion of mod­ern com­mu­nic­a­tions, digital-switch­ing hard­ware and app-styled soft­ware lets own­ers mon­itor and con­trol onboard sys­tems at sea or from home.

China pur­sues tech ‘self-reli­ance’, fuel­ing global unease

Drone wars: U.S. imposes new sanc­tions on China

Intro­du­cing ATEM Mini Pro

The com­pact tele­vi­sion stu­dio that lets you cre­ate present­a­tion videos and live streams!

Baidu JV read­ies for rob­ocar launch

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Miami vir­tual gam­ing developer stopped hid­ing his homet­own, learned to love #Miam­itech

  • Rob Wile: 305-376-3203, @rjwile BY ROB WILE rwile@miami­her­ald.com

Miami tech had a stel­lar year in 2021. It wasn’t always like this.

For the co-founders of Miami-based vir­tual real­ity gam­ing stu­dio AEXLAB, there had been an unof­fi­cial rule when meet­ing with t...

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Inex­pens­ive gad­gets for under $50

Gone are the days of giv­ing the same old gifts to your loved ones. If you want a unique and thought­ful gift, here’s a list of great ideas. Your loved ones will prefer uncom­mon goods to the usual pens, socks and bath tow­els.

You don’t need to spend hun­dreds of dol­lars if you’re look­ing for a tech gift. Even with 2021’s burst of infla­tion, there are plenty of inex­pens­ive gad­gets out there. Cyber Monday’s passed us by, but there are still plenty of great deals float­ing around, bring­ing some pri­cier gad­gets down to under $50.

The trick is know­ing what’s not only a good value but use­ful, too. Just for starters, here are three of CNET’s best choices for under $50.

Google Nest Hub (2nd gen)

Google’s 2nd-gen Nest Hub smart dis­play offers a 7-inch dis­play that you can watch videos on, read recipes, host video chats and so much more. You can ask Google Assist­ant to help with math prob­lems, con­ver­sions, to tell you the weather each day and even to help with con­trolling your smart home gear.

At this price, you may want to just grab two of them since you’re going to want one for your­self, too.

Apple Air­Tags

Here’s a gift any­one who’s sus­cept­ible to los­ing things will appre­ci­ate. Apple’s new-for-2021 Air­Tags accessor­ies work with any Apple device and use the com­pany’s FindMy net­work — the same one used to find lost iPhones. Attach them to keys, a back­pack or just about any­thing else. It’s $29 for one, $99 for four — and if you buy through Apple, you can get free cus­tom­ized engrav­ing, too.

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China pur­sues tech ‘self-reli­ance’, fuel­ing global unease

  • By Joe Mcdon­ald | AP researcher Yu Bing in Beijing and AP Writer Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations con­trib­uted.

BEIJING—TO help make China a self-reli­ant “tech­no­logy super­power,” the rul­ing Com­mun­ist Party is push­ing the world’s biggest e-com­merce com­pany to take on the tricky, expens­ive busi­ness of design­ing its own pro­cessor chips—a busi­ness unlike any­thing Alibaba Group has done before.

Its 3-year-old chip unit, T-head, unveiled its third pro­cessor in Octo­ber, the Yitian 710 for Alibaba’s cloud com­put­ing busi­ness. Alibaba says for now, it has no plans to sell the chip to out­siders.

Other rookie chip developers includ­ing Ten­cent, a games and social media giant, and smart­phone brand Xiaomi are pledging bil­lions of dol­lars in line with offi­cial plans to cre­ate com­put­ing, clean energy and other tech­no­logy that can build China’s wealth and global influ­ence.

Pro­cessor chips play an increas­ingly crit­ical role in products from smart­phones and cars to med­ical devices and home appli­ances. Short­ages due to the coronavirus pan­demic are dis­rupt­ing global man­u­fac­tur­ing and adding to wor­ries about sup­plies.

Chips are a top pri­or­ity in the rul­ing Com­mun­ist Party’s mara­thon cam­paign to end China’s reli­ance on tech­no­logy from the United States, Japan and other sup­pli­ers Beijing sees as poten­tial eco­nomic and stra­tegic rivals. If it suc­ceeds, busi­ness and polit­ical lead­ers warn that might slow down innov­a­tion, dis­rupt global trade and make the world poorer.

“Self-reli­ance is the found­a­tion for the Chinese nation,” Pres­id­ent Xi Jin­ping said in a speech released in March. He called for China to become a “tech­no­logy super­power” to safe­guard “national eco­nomic secur­ity.”

“We must strive to become the world’s main cen­ter of sci­ence and the high ground of innov­a­tion,” Xi said.

Beijing might be chas­ing a costly dis­ap­point­ment. Even with huge offi­cial invest­ments, busi­nesspeople and ana­lysts say chip­makers and other com­pan­ies will struggle to com­pete if they detach from global sup­pli­ers of advanced com­pon­ents and tech­no­logy—a goal no other coun­try is pur­su­ing.

Beijing might be chas­ing a costly dis­ap­point­ment. Even with huge offi­cial invest­ments, busi­nesspeople and ana­lysts say chip­makers and other com­pan­ies will struggle to com­pete if they detach from global sup­pli­ers of advanced com­pon­ents and tech­no­logy—a goal no other coun­try is pur­su­ing.

“It’s hard to ima­gine any one coun­try rebuild­ing all of that and hav­ing the best tech­no­logy,” said Peter Han­bury, who fol­lows the industry for Bain & Co.

Beijing’s cam­paign is adding to ten­sion with Wash­ing­ton and Europe, which see China as a stra­tegic com­pet­itor and com­plain it steals tech­no­logy. They limit access to tools needed to improve its indus­tries.

If the world were to decouple, or split into mar­kets with incom­pat­ible stand­ards and products, US- or European-made parts might not work in Chinese com­puters or cars. Smart­phone makers who have a single dom­in­ant global oper­at­ing sys­tem and two net­work stand­ards might need to make unique ver­sions for dif­fer­ent mar­kets. That could slow down devel­op­ment.

Wash­ing­ton and Beijing need to “avoid that the world becomes sep­ar­ated,” UN Sec­ret­ary-gen­eral Ant­o­nio Guterres told The Asso­ci­ated Press in Septem­ber.

China’s factor­ies assemble the world’s smart­phones and tab­let com­puters but need com­pon­ents from the United States, Europe, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea. Chips are China’s biggest import, ahead of crude oil, at more than $300 bil­lion last year.

Offi­cial urgency over that grew after Hua­wei Tech­no­lo­gies Ltd., China’s first global tech brand, lost access to US chips and other tech­no­logy in 2018 under sanc­tions imposed by the White House.

That crippled the tele­com equip­ment maker’s ambi­tion to be a leader in next-gen­er­a­tion smart­phones. Amer­ican offi­cials say Hua­wei is a secur­ity risk and might aid Chinese spy­ing, an accus­a­tion the com­pany denies.

Hua­wei and some Chinese rivals are close to match­ing Intel Corp., Qual­comm Inc., South Korea’s Sam­sung Elec­tron­ics and Bri­tain’s Arm Ltd. at being able to design “bleed­ing edge” logic chips for smart­phones, accord­ing to industry ana­lysts.

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Baidu JV read­ies for rob­ocar launch

Smart elec­tric vehicle ven­ture Jidu Auto, a joint ven­ture that tech giant Baidu Inc and car­maker Geely Hold­ing Group set up in March, plans to unveil its first concept rob­ocar with level 4 autonom­ous driv­ing abil­ity in the first half of 2022, Baidu said.

Baidu, a Chinese online search pion­eer that evolved into a full-fledged tech player, said mass pro­duc­tion of rob­ocars will start in 2023.

Robin Li, co-founder and CEO of Baidu, said the rob­ocars need no human inter­ven­tion, and are cap­able of self-learn­ing and selfim­prove­ment.

Li made the remarks at the com­pany’s annual flag­ship developers’ con­fer­ence Baidu Cre­ate, which is also China’s first meta­verse sym­posium, on Monday via its meta­verse plat­form called Xir­ang.

The Xir­ang plat­form, which trans­lates as the “land of hope”, enables up to 100,000 online attendees to inter­act sim­ul­tan­eously in the same space.

Accord­ing to Li, intel­li­gent trans­port­a­tion will wit­ness a sig­ni­fic­ant trans­form­a­tion in the next 10 to 40 years and influ­ence people’s daily lives. It will lift the pur­chase restric­tions on private cars in China’s first-tier cit­ies within five years and solve the urban road con­ges­tion within 10 years, Li said.

Smart mobil­ity can also reduce road acci­dents by 90 per­cent and help reduce car­bon emis­sions, Li said. AI is a power­ful tool that can recon­struct vari­ous indus­tries and bene­fit human­ity by expand­ing the bound­ar­ies of what is pos­sible for man­kind, he said.

Baidu’s autonom­ous driv­ing cap­ab­il­it­ies have made rapid pro­gress in recent months. With 115,000 rides provided in the third quarter of the year, Baidu’s autonom­ous ride-hail­ing plat­form Apollo Go has become the world’s largest autonom­ous mobil­ity ser­vice pro­vider.

The com­pany aims to expand the robo­taxi ser­vices to 65 cit­ies by 2025 and to 100 cit­ies by 2030.

Li said AI’s cog­nit­ive and con­trol cap­ab­il­it­ies will find broad applic­a­tions in the aerospace industry. Earlier this month, Baidu formed a stra­tegic part­ner­ship with China’s lunar explor­a­tion and aerospace projects. The two sides will carry out cooper­a­tion in space and AI tech­no­lo­gies in the field of lunar and plan­et­ary explor­a­tion.

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1 HOW SMART’S YOUR BOAT?

The com­bin­a­tion of mod­ern com­mu­nic­a­tions, digital-switch­ing hard­ware and app-styled soft­ware lets own­ers mon­itor and con­trol onboard sys­tems at sea or from home.

Sys­tems from Garmin, GOST and Siren Mar­ine all allow you to mon­itor sys­tems via a smart­phone (top row). Ray­mar­ine’s Yacht­sense provides onboard con­trol.

WSEAMANSHIP

ith boat­build­ers intent on launch­ing yachts filled with all the com­forts of home, it was only a mat­ter of time before they would find a way to put con­trol of those com­forts at a skip­per’s fin­ger­tips—all thanks to the rapid con­ver­gence of onboard com­mu­nic­a­tions, digital switch­ing, app-based soft­ware, and smart­phones and tab­lets. But how does one actu­ally cre­ate a smarter boat? This being 2022, let us count the ways, as sail­ors have sev­eral com­pel­ling options for everything from new builds to refits.

But first, let’s start with a bit of found­a­tion-lay­ing back­story. So-called smart sys­tems entered the every­day lex­icon with the advent of the smart­phones—and then devices such as the Nest Learn­ing Ther­mo­stat (early 2012), Ring video door­bells (2013) and Amazon’s Alexa (2014). While each ful­filled a dif­fer­ent niche—which included deliv­er­ing remote con­trol over the fur­nace and air con­di­tioner, remotely view­ing front-door soli­cit­ors, and dim­ming the lights and queuing a Barry Manilow track—all three har­nessed cel­lu­lar and Wi-fi com­mu­nic­a­tions, app-based soft­ware, and smart screens to give users bet­ter con­trol over their dom­i­cile.

Soon, sim­il­arly smart tech­no­lo­gies began migrat­ing aboard sail­boats, espe­cially as satel­lite com­mu­nic­a­tions and cel­lu­lar net­works expan­ded and onboard Wi-fi net­works became more pre­val­ent. The final piece of the puzzle has been the

advent of digital-switch­ing sys­tems that replace fuses and ana­log switches with cur­rent-meas­ur­ing devices and elec­tronic switches across NMEA 2000 net­works that tie everything together.

This evol­u­tion of life aboard came about rel­at­ively quickly. Less than a dec­ade ago, a cruis­ing boat was fairly soph­ist­ic­ated if its owner could run a chart plot­ter with a radar over­lay. Now, thanks to the advent of what’s known as mon­itor, track and con­trol tech­no­lo­gies, users can track their ves­sel and turn net­worked devices or sys­tems on and off—and in some cases, enjoy next-level con­trol of devices such as cam­eras and secur­ity sys­tems—from a single screen. Cooler still, thanks to cel­lu­lar, satel­lite and Wi-fi con­nectiv­ity, that screen can be any­where.

Here’s a look at some of the mar­ket lead­ers (dis­cussed in alpha­bet­ical order) and the strengths and util­it­ies that each sys­tem affords.

NOW ONDECK

On its sur­face (and as of this writ­ing), Garmin’s Ondeck sys­tem (garmin.com) deliv­ers fairly basic track­ing and con­trol fea­tures because the product is the com­pany’s first foray into this mar­ket. But to sense the poten­tial of how things could evolve, it’s help­ful to con­sider the other tech­no­lo­gies that are in Garmin’s port­fo­lio and how they could be integ­rated into Ondeck.

Hard­ware-wise, Ondeck cur­rently con­sists of a GPS -enabled black-box mod­ule that’s NMEA 2000-com­pat­ible and comes with three pro­pri­et­ary sensors: secur­ity, tem­per­at­ure and shore-power detec­tion, along with a 12-volt DC relay switch that can be used to turn an onboard device on and off (more on this in a moment). Users can add up to 33 addi­tional sensors, plus an after­mar­ket LTE cel­lu­lar antenna. On the soft­ware side, Ondeck was added as a vir­tual but­ton to Garmin’s exist­ing Act­ive­cap­tain app and requires an Ondeck monthly plan for cel­lu­lar data.

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Nation to get first com­mer­cial UDC in Sanya

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An illus­tra­tion of the under­wa­ter data cen­ter in Sanya, a city on the south­ern coast of Hainan Island.

The demon­stra­tion project, to be loc­ated in Hait­ang Bay... will be grown into a com­pre­hens­ive mar­ine new tech­no­logy indus­trial park with the under­wa­ter data cen­ter as the core.” Xu Tan, vice-pres­id­ent of Beijing High­lander Digital Tech­no­logy Co Ltd

Hainan pro­vin­cial author­it­ies reached a stra­tegic agree­ment with a Beijing com­pany on Sunday, aim­ing to build the world’s first com­mer­cial demon­stra­tion under­wa­ter data cen­ter in Sanya, a coastal city on the south­ern tip of Hainan Island, accord­ing to local offi­cials.

The project, to be built with a total invest­ment of more than 5.6 bil­lion yuan ($880 mil­lion), will be the world’s first com­mer­cial UDC, said Wang Bin, vice-gov­ernor of Hainan, at a meet­ing on the devel­op­ment of low-car­bon inform­a­tion infra­struc­ture, held in Sanya on Sunday.

Wang said that accel­er­at­ing the con­struc­tion of new infra­struc­ture is an import­ant task in the devel­op­ment of Hainan Free Trade Port, and the pro­vin­cial gov­ern­ment will provide key sup­port to pro­mote new innov­at­ive mar­ine infra­struc­ture tech­no­lo­gies. Hainan will make good use of its unique mar­ine resources to cul­tiv­ate a lead­ing low-car­bon green mar­ine infra­struc­ture industry cluster in the coun­try.

The under­wa­ter data cen­ter will employ inform­a­tion tech­no­logy facil­it­ies such as serv­ers in seabed cab­ins, using sub­mar­ine com­pos­ite cables to power trans­mis­sion of data back to onshore inter­net data sta­tions. Cooled by sea­wa­ter, the under­wa­ter data cen­ter has such advant­ages as power sav­ing, land sav­ing, water sav­ing and low total costs, said Xu Tan, vice-pres­id­ent of Beijing High­lander Digital Tech­no­logy Co Ltd, which is engaged in smart sea eco­nomy tech­no­lo­gies research and devel­op­ment and will be in charge of the data cen­ter’s con­struc­tion.

As a new explor­a­tion of over­all plan­ning and usage of land and sea resources, UDCs will share mari­time areas and serve each other with eco­lo­gical projects such as mar­ine pas­tures and fish­ery cages, as well as indus­trial projects such as off­shore wind power and off­shore oil plat­forms, accord­ing to experts.

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