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The Extraordinary Perseverance Of Walter Lange

Forbes.com 

The revival of A. Lange & Söhne is an against all odds story, where Walter Lange held on to his vision with great perseverance until it became a reality. Today he would have celebrated his 100th birthday.

New Thinking For CFOs On Strategic Sourcing

Forbes.com 

As leaders clamor for more resilient supply chains, CFOs need to support efforts by procurement groups to design and execute a modern approach to strategic sourcing.

Behind hoopla, Democrats anxious about Harris

TheHill.com 

Behind the public jubilation over Vice President Harris’s swift rise to become their party’s likely nominee for president, Democratic lawmakers are privately anxious about her prospects of defeating former President Trump, acknowledging that she is largely untested as a candidate and faces serious challenges. The anxiety, for the most part, has been set aside out...

LGBTQ groups rally around Harris in battle vs. Trump

TheHill.com 

Major LGBTQ organizations and leaders are rallying around Vice President Harris’s historic bid for the White House, highlighting her positive record on LGBTQ rights over a decades-long political career and what a Harris presidency could mean for the community. “Kamala Harris was a supporter of LGBTQ+ people when that was not an easy thing to...

The iPhone 16 might not arrive with Apple Intelligence

Macworld.com 

Macworld

iOS 18 brings tons of new features to iPhones, including new customization options, iMessage enhancements, and a Photos redesign, but the one feature everyone is waiting to try out is Apple Intelligence. While we already know Apple will hold some AI features until 2025, a new report claims the first release of iOS 18 won’t have any Apple Intelligence features at all.

According to Mark Gurman of Bloomberg, the Apple Intelligence release plan “presents the possibility... Читать дальше...

Kamala’s Biden Balancing Act

The New Republic 

President Joe Biden suffers from abysmally low approval ratings, and was so vulnerable to Donald Trump this fall that fellow Democrats mounted their own campaign to hound him from the race. His apparent replacement as the Democratic nominee is like an A.I.-generated image of a more salable alternative: younger, female, Black and Asian, and able to litigate the campaign against the 34-times-convicted Trump like the prosecutor she is.

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The Decay of America’s Political Parties

The New Republic 

What is a party for? A month of existential uncertainty—sparked by President Joe Biden’s catastrophic debate performance, and mercifully concluded when Biden withdrew and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris—tested the institutional capacity of America’s oldest party. In that interregnum, alliances formed across ideological lines, with donors, left-leaning voters, and party elders applying public and private pressure to a recalcitrant Biden until he could hold out no longer; in the words of an anonymous Democratic source... Читать дальше...

Bankers want regulators, police to get serious about check fraud

Americanbanker.com 

In a new survey of bank executives from IntraFi, 90% of respondents said instances of check fraud have increased in recent years and half want law enforcement to make check fraud a bigger priority to stop criminals from stealing checks in the mail.

Met Office issues thunder weather warning as month's worth of rain forecast to end 'heatwave' - The Mirror

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  1. Met Office issues thunder weather warning as month's worth of rain forecast to end 'heatwave'  The Mirror
  2. Thunderstorm warning issued for Norfolk  Eastern Daily Press
  3. Met Office issue major 12hr yellow thunderstorm alert for most of the UK as heavy rain could pose 'danger to life'  GB News
  4. Storm warning issued for whole of Kent  Kent Online
  5. Met Office issues 'danger to life' Nottingham weather warning as it predicts thunder and flooding  Nottinghamshire Live

Build No Small Things

The New Republic 

Early in his presidency, Joe Biden proposed the Build Back Better economic plan, which both the media and the White House framed as an ambitious, New Deal–style program for the twenty-first century. The bill that emerged from this plan was foiled, in the end, by the swing vote of Senator Joe Manchin, late in 2021. But many of its original objectives—investing in clean energy, climate resilience, and affordable housing—reemerged, albeit in diluted form, in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, or BIL, and the Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA. Читать дальше...