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ECB Forum on Central Banking 2023, Lippi (Luiss University) focused on "Inflation and misallocation in New Keynesian models"

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Thursday, June 29, 2023

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The event, titled "Macroeconomic stabilisation in a volatile inflation environment" prominently featured statements by ECB President Christine Lagarde on the persistence of inflation.

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The event, titled "Macroeconomic stabilisation in a volatile inflation environment" prominently featured statements by ECB President Christine Lagarde on the persistence of inflation.
According to Lagarde, the ECB has made “significant progress" in combating high inflation but emphasized that victory cannot yet be declared.
“This threatens to create a vicious cycle between wages and prices that the central bank must avoid”, as reported by the Associated Press.
The research was developed by Professor Lippi at Luiss university, which he described as a very stimulating academic environment.

CUSP Chairwoman Mary Bono Renews Call for FDA Action After AP Story Exposes Failure to Crack Down on Illegal, Disposable, Flavored Vapes Flooding U.S. Market from China

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Tuesday, June 27, 2023

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According to the AP, "The number of different electronic cigarette devices sold in the U.S. has nearly tripled to over 9,000 since 2020, driven almost entirely by a wave of unauthorized disposable vapes from China."

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According to the AP, "The number of different electronic cigarette devices sold in the U.S. has nearly tripled to over 9,000 since 2020, driven almost entirely by a wave of unauthorized disposable vapes from China."
"For years, FDA inaction has allowed unscrupulous Chinese manufacturers to pour millions of illegal, disposable vapes in youth-enticing flavors into the United States.
Parents, teachers, and kids are now dealing with the predictable and devastating aftermath: an illegal, disposable youth vaping epidemic.
The FDA has to step up, do its job, and get every one of these illegal, disposable vapes off shelves and away from our young people."

Do federal or state prosecutors get to go first in trying Trump? A law professor untangles the conflict

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Saturday, June 10, 2023

But the federal charges come on top of other legal trouble Trump is facing at the state level.

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But the federal charges come on top of other legal trouble Trump is facing at the state level.
If a person is charged by federal and state prosecutors – or prosecutors in different states – at the same time, which case goes first?
Then, Fields pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges after the state conviction and received two life sentences for his crime from both the state and federal charges.
It is exceedingly unlikely that federal prosecutors would ask a court to detain Trump in jail before trial.

Nephron Announces New President of 503B Outsourcing Facility

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Thursday, June 8, 2023

WEST COLUMBIA, S.C., June 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Nephron Pharmaceuticals Corporation today announced Christopher Fortier, PharmD, FASHP, CPEL, will join as President of its 503B Outsourcing Facility.

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WEST COLUMBIA, S.C., June 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Nephron Pharmaceuticals Corporation today announced Christopher Fortier, PharmD, FASHP, CPEL, will join as President of its 503B Outsourcing Facility.
"That combination will be an invaluable asset to the Nephron team."
Prior to joining Nephron, Fortier was the Chief Pharmacy Officer at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
The company also operates an industry-leading 503B Outsourcing Facility division which produces pre-filled sterile syringes, luer-lock vials, IV bottles and IV bags for hospitals across America, in an effort to alleviate drug shortage needs.

Mr. Associated Press: How 20th-century journalism titan Kent Cooper transformed the news industry

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Thursday, June 1, 2023

In scores of AP bureaus and thousands of newsrooms around the world, the printers that hammered out the news fell silent.

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In scores of AP bureaus and thousands of newsrooms around the world, the printers that hammered out the news fell silent.
Almost a century after Cooper became AP’s general manager, what can we learn from his career and the development of the institution he led?
And what does it tell us about how journalism — including the international news system — evolved during the mid-20th century?

Human-interest news

First, driven by competition with the United Press, AP’s great rival, Cooper loosened the strictures that made AP news colourless and dull (even if widely recognized for its accuracy and impartiality).
Editors of AP member newspapers were turning to the livelier and breezier (and, according to some AP supporters, less accurate) stories provided by UP.
“If one man fails to file a story of a millionairess marrying a poor factory hand because that man understands such a story is not properly A.P.

Moving beyond North America

The second major change — one that Cooper spent more than 15 years fighting for — was loosening restrictions that prevented AP from distributing news outside North America.
These restrictions were a product of AP’s earlier reliance on the British agency Reuters and its allies for almost all its international news.
While many AP directors considered the Reuters connection an essential foundation of AP’s dominance of the U.S. newspaper market, Cooper insisted AP could succeed on its own.
By 1945, his campaign had succeeded: AP was poised to sell North American-style news everywhere in the world with virtually no restrictions.

Embracing technology

He also pioneered the development of same-day news photography by wire, permanently changing daily journalism’s repertoire of storytelling methods.
Before the advent of AP’s Wirephoto, photographs were delivered by mail, train or airplane, often taking days to reach their destination.

Commitment to facts and accuracy

One thing that Cooper did not change was AP’s commitment to factual accuracy and political neutrality — a rejection of the virulent partisanship that dominated U.S. journalism for most of the 19th century, and that is now returning.
On the factual side, few things caused him, and AP, more grief than high-profile errors.
Such errors led to immediate investigations of what had gone wrong, embarrassed and apologetic corrections, and severe consequences including firing of those responsible.

International Criminal Court is using digital evidence to investigate Putin – but how can it tell if a video or photo is real or fake?

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Tuesday, May 16, 2023

The International Criminal Court – an international tribunal in the Hague, Netherlands, designed to investigate and prosecute war crimes – is trying to keep pace with this trend.

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The International Criminal Court – an international tribunal in the Hague, Netherlands, designed to investigate and prosecute war crimes – is trying to keep pace with this trend.
The ICC, a common acronym for the court, issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia’s children’s rights commissioner, Maria Lvova-Belova in March 2023.
The ICC’s current investigation in Ukraine could further cement this shift toward using digital evidence to investigate war crimes – and raises new challenges about verifying the authenticity of these photos and videos.

A rise in digital forensics

War crimes investigations have traditionally relied almost exclusively on witness testimony and mud and bones forensics from crime scenes.
Prosecutors ultimately had such a large trove of video evidence that they organized them into a digital visual platform.
Satellite imagery, mobile phone videos and other sources of digital data can offer powerful supplements to eyewitness accounts of war crimes.

Is it real or fake?

With the rise of advanced video editing and artificial intelligence tools, it can be challenging to tell real videos or images from fake ones.
If investigators are unable to guarantee that the evidence they download is real, they are unable to proceed with their work.
This guide, known as the Berkeley Protocol, sets standards for legal relevance, security and the handling of digital evidence.
This includes guidance for investigators, such as protecting the identity of witnesses who provide digital evidence and awareness of the psychological effects of viewing disturbing content.

The digital evidence so far for Ukraine

For now, they are safe by staying within Russia’s borders, since Russia does not abide by the ICC’s arrest warrants or prosecutions.
But the court’s investigation of Russian war crimes is ongoing, and it will rely on the thick trail of digital evidence that journalists, regular citizens and even perpetrators themselves have documented over the course of the Ukraine war.
Two research agencies that previously consulted for the ICC have also released their own visual investigations of war crimes in Ukraine, showing digital evidence that Russian artillery attacked a theater in Mariupol where civilians took shelter in March 2022, for example.

Cision Fortifies Its Omni-Channel Intelligence Offering and Renews Twitter Strategic Partnership

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Monday, May 15, 2023

CHICAGO, May 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Cision, an end-to-end consumer and media intelligence and communications platform, creates a complete, omni-channel view of brands and their relationships with key stakeholders. Through thousands of curated partnerships, Cision delivers the most comprehensive media intelligence and media distribution in the communications and marketing ecosystem with unmatched scale at the global, regional and local level. Notable relationships include the New York Times, the Associated Press, the Financial Times, Yahoo International, Captivate and almost 1,000 additional exclusive relationships with publishers.

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In addition to print, broadcast, and digital media, social media offers an essential lens into omni-channel media intelligence.
Cision is proud to announce the renewal of its global strategic partnership that includes Brandwatch with Twitter, a social platform that gives voice to constituents across segments.
Our decade long-standing partnership with Twitter helps us deliver on this commitment," said Pehr Luedtke, Senior Vice President Content Partnerships at Cision.
Haim Vaturi, Revenue and Partnerships lead at Twitter added, "Twitter is committed to deepening our data relationships with industry- best providers.

Cision Fortifies Its Omni-Channel Intelligence Offering and Renews Twitter Strategic Partnership

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Monday, May 15, 2023

CHICAGO, May 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Cision, an end-to-end consumer and media intelligence and communications platform, creates a complete, omni-channel view of brands and their relationships with key stakeholders. Through thousands of curated partnerships, Cision delivers the most comprehensive media intelligence and media distribution in the communications and marketing ecosystem with unmatched scale at the global, regional and local level. Notable relationships include the New York Times, the Associated Press, the Financial Times, Yahoo International, Captivate and almost 1,000 additional exclusive relationships with publishers.

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In addition to print, broadcast, and digital media, social media offers an essential lens into omni-channel media intelligence.
Cision is proud to announce the renewal of its global strategic partnership that includes Brandwatch with Twitter, a social platform that gives voice to constituents across segments.
Our decade long-standing partnership with Twitter helps us deliver on this commitment," said Pehr Luedtke, Senior Vice President Content Partnerships at Cision.
Haim Vaturi, Revenue and Partnerships lead at Twitter added, "Twitter is committed to deepening our data relationships with industry- best providers.

Climate change first 'went viral' exactly 70 years ago

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Friday, May 12, 2023

UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher warned of a giant experiment being conducted “with the system of this planet itself”.

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UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher warned of a giant experiment being conducted “with the system of this planet itself”.
But it was actually 35 years before that – fully 70 years ago this month – that the danger of carbon dioxide build-up in the atmosphere first travelled around the world.
In 1938 English steam engineer Guy Callendar suggested to the Royal Society in London that warming was under way.
He looked at how carbon dioxide actually functions in the real world, not just at sea level (without getting too technical.
Every year, as we burn more oil, coal and gas, the concentration climbs and more heat is trapped.
There’s a very good chance we will have gone over the 2°C warming level that used to be regarded as “safe”.

Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Announces 2023 Book and Journalism Awards Winners

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Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Winners of the 2023 RFK Journalism Awards were selected from over 450 global submissions to 13 categories, including a recently updated Criminal Justice category and pieces presented in a "nontraditional" format.

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Winners of the 2023 RFK Journalism Awards were selected from over 450 global submissions to 13 categories, including a recently updated Criminal Justice category and pieces presented in a "nontraditional" format.
"Despite frequent attacks on their work – and in some cases, their safety – journalists and authors around the world continue to courageously expose injustice," said Kerry Kennedy, president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights.
The full list of honorees for the 2023 RFK Book and Journalism Awards can be found below.
Special thanks to historian and author Michael Beschloss, head of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award committee, and Margaret Engel, director of the Alicia Patterson Journalism Foundation and chair of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards committee, as well as the more than 90 volunteer judges who participated this year.