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Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has privately told people he donated around $50 million
toward electing Kamala Harris president, people familiar with the matter said. Gates
made the donation to Future Forward, a nonprofit organization with ties to fellow billionaire
and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the people said. The New York Times
earlier reported Gates's donation.


Sofia Coppola is ready for her close-up on the new cover of WSJ. Magazine. Here’s what
The Beguiled director, and some of the stars she’s worked with, had to share: Kirsten Dunst
on Sofia’s movies being a tight-knit operation: “People are bringing their kids, [Sofia's] own
kids are saying, ‘Action!’ She sticks with what she wants, and she doesn’t waver. That’s
really what matters from a director. When you see a Sofia movie, you know it’s a Sofia
movie.” Nicole Kidman on Sofia: “She’s so dignified and soft-spoken [but] she still gets
everything done.” Sofia on casting Colin Farrell: “He’s so charming and masculine. And
he has a bad boy kind of thing.”


The Wall Street Journal’s annual technology conference, Tech Live, kicks off Monday at
11:30 a.m. Pacific. For three days, top tech executives and other movers and shakers
in the industry. Yeah, so lawmakers have been cracking down on big tech and they have
been scrutinizing many aspects of technology, including cryptocurrencies for example.
And also social media. So there's going to be quite a bit of talk about that. Pat Gelsinger,
as I mentioned, will be talking about the CHIPS Act which is one of the most significant
pieces of legislation that was passed recently in the tech sector. And US China
competition is going to be a pretty big focus as well. There's been a lot of talk about how
the US can bolster innovation and compete against China so that will be a pretty big focus.


The result is a volume that intersperses an account of Gen. Petraeus's life story with an
insider's look at the general's year in command in Afghanistan, where he had granted Ms.
Broadwell access to his headquarters. Events in Afghanistan serve as a spur for
biographical flashbacks showing how Gen. Petraeus grappled with similar challenges in
past commands. As if this were not enough, "All In" adds battlefield vignettes gleaned from
Ms. Broadwell's visits across Afghanistan with battalion commanders of the 101st
Airborne, Gen. Petraeus's old division, and with a Dari-speaking Special Forces officer who
embedded as a counterinsurgency adviser with Afghan army units.


The Wall Street Journal celebrated its 125th anniversary on Tuesday with a look back at
the headlines from July 8, 1889. The Journal put together several print and digital features
to commemorate the anniversary. Most notably, the newspaper reprinted its very first front
page on Tuesday along with annotations that explain the way many of the top stories
unfolded. The paper also noted the original price, which was 2 cents, pointing out that it
would cost about 51 cents today.


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The Future of Everything. New Wearable Devices Target the Brain to Bring Better Sleep. They
promise to speed up the onset of slumber, improve its quality and even transition travelers
to a different time zone before they land at their destination.The clock is ticking. You should
have been asleep long ago. But instead, you’re lying in bed wide awake, wondering if you’ll
ever doze off. New gadgets that target the brain promise to speed up the onset of sleep,
improve the length and quality of rest, and even transition travelers to a different time zone
before their planes touch down.


A group of Mexican sugar workers that fought for the right to form an independent union
could fundamentally change the balance of power in Mexico's political system. On
Wednesday, Mexico's Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional the "exclusivity clause" that
for decades has given union leaders overwhelming control over company workers. The
suit was brought on behalf of 31 sugar-industry workers who were fired from their jobs
after they left their company-sanctioned union to create an alternative body. The
exclusivity clause had been used by unions since 1934 to ensure that all company
workers are union members. Moreover, the billions of pesos in union dues used to
support the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, contributed hugely to assuring its
victory in past elections. Last July the citizens of Mexico voted to end 71 years of PRI one-
party rule when they elected the reform-minded, pro-market Vicente Fox to the
presidency. Nine months later, Mexico's Supreme Court has dealt another welcome blow
to the dinosaurs.


Donald Trump is leading President Biden in six of the seven most competitive states in the
2024 election, propelled by broad voter dissatisfaction with the national economy and deep
doubts about Biden’s capabilities and job performance, a new Wall Street Journal poll finds.
The poll of the election’s main battlegrounds shows Trump holding leads of between 2 and
8 percentage points in six states—Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and
North Carolina—on a test ballot that includes third-party and independent candidates.
Trump holds similar leads when voters are asked to choose only between him and Biden.
Discover what comes next with this in-depth look at how science and technology are
revolutionizing the way we live, work and play. Join our award-winning team of journalists
as we crisscross the country to interview the leaders and luminaries reshaping our world.
WSJ’s The Future of Everything Podcast Series - Apple Podcasts.


Some 10 months after the mortgage hurricane made landfall, Merrill Lynch & Co. is still
trying to dig out. On Thursday Merrill will report $6 billion to $8 billion in new write-downs,
according to a person familiar with the matter. The latest would bring its total since October
to more than $30 billion and mean that Merrill reports a third straight quarterly net loss,
the longest losing streak in its 94-year history.


Thierry Breton, who resigned last month as the EU’s internal market commissioner, drew
criticism after he issued a letter warning about the bloc’s digital rules in the context of a
live discussion with former President Donald Trump on X. Elon Musk’s public clash with
the European Union this summer offered a chance to explain to Americans that the bloc’s
new online content law isn’t aimed at suppressing free speech, one of the law’s architects
said. Thierry Breton, who resigned last month as the EU’s internal market commissioner,
drew criticism in August after he issued a letter warning about the bloc’s digital rules in
the context of a live discussion Musk had planned with former President Donald Trump.



Videos of The NYC Underground


When Hurricane Sandy hit New York City, on the night of Monday, October 29, 2012, the
first man to realize that the underground was flooding—and calamitously so—was an
unassuming subway manager named Joseph Leader, who, having ridden in a National
Guard truck from the subway’s Midtown control center to the lower tip of Manhattan,
climbed down into the darkened South Ferry station expecting to find it dry but instead
finding it inundated by ocean waters that had risen from the track level, had submerged the
platform, and were inexorably climbing the steps at his feet. The South Ferry terminal was
the pride of the system, opened three years earlier after four years of construction, at
a cost of $530 million, and now it was being destroyed.


“We’re in the business of moving water, but we’re not in the business of moving water when
it comes down like a river and goes into our vents.” This was a horribly insensitive statement
to make, considering the suffering that New Yorkers had endured. Leader told me that after
the fiasco the subway’s hierarchy, knowing that little could be done to increase the capacity
of the city’s storm drains, decided on a two-pronged approach to at least limit the ingress
of surface water during heavy rains. The first prong was a short-term program called
Operation Submarine, which required the most vulnerable sidewalk vents—those in the
known path of storm runoff—to be quickly boarded over and sandbagged if weather
radar showed heavy rain approaching the city. That was easy, and on several occasions
it proved to work.


New York City’s Best Underground Bars. Underneath the hustle and bustle of is an intriguing
world of subterranean drinkeries. These spaces are non-touristy, visually interesting, offer
more than just a libation, and are just as varied and surprising as Manhattanites themselves.
A stone’s throw from the Highline, in the fashionable Meatpacking district, is The Tippler. The
entrance is marked by a large marquee-style open sign and a small, understated metal
plaque on the south side of Chelsea Market, one of the greatest food halls in the world. A
1920s-style mural adorns the stairwell which leads down into the bowels of this former
warehouse. Exposed red brick, cast iron embellishments, and plush oriental rugs immediately
beckon the visitor to sit down, have a tipple, and forget that it’s the 21st century. The Tippler
offers a decent selection of mainstream beers and liquor, but the real joy is in their cocktails
such as the Chelsea Smash (vodka, lemon, mint, honey, Branca Menta) or the Something
Wicked (fennel seed-infused tequila, grapefruit, lime, crème de mûre, ginger beer). Or go
all out and try a Lushie, a frozen blended cocktail. Go early to get a table and enjoy a little
corner of the past.


Descrizione - Wealthy, Manhattanite brothers Dylan, Logan and a group of their friends head
to Brooklyn for a concert when they meet notorious gangster, Simon and make an ill-advised
deal with him. Soon, things go wrong and now the group is desperately running from Simon's
crew through New York City's labyrinthine subway system in a terrifying life-or-death race.


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N.Y.C. Underground (Video 2013) - IMDb. Jul 17, 2013 · N.Y.C. Underground: Directed by
Jessy Terrero. With Clayne Crawford, Sean Faris, Arielle Kebbel, Rob Mayes. Four people
run for their lives in the Brooklyn subway.


Watch NYC Underground (2013) - Free Movies - Tubi Jan 1, 2021 · Action · Thriller. Four
friends going to Brooklyn for a concert make a botched drug deal with a gangster that
makes them run for their lives through many anti-human turns and efforts


N.Y.C. Underground (2013) - Rotten Tomatoes N.Y.C. Underground. Four people flee for their
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with ads or buy it as Wealthy, Manhattanite brothers Dylan, Logan and a group of their
friends head to Brooklyn for a concert when they meet notorious gangster, Simon and make
an ill-advised deal with him.


Director: Jessy Terrero. Terrero appeared as an extra on the 1992 film Juice starring Tupac
Shakur. According to Terrero, it was his experience on the set of the movie that inspired him
to become a director. Terrero shot his first student film on Super 8. After college, he landed
an associate producer internship on the set of Darnell Martin's I Like It Like That. In 1996,
he teamed up with his brother and formed T and T Casting, supervising extras casting for
low-budget films. His acting credits include appearances in Law & Order, The Sopranos and
In Search of a Dream (Buscando un sueño). Tererro's film director credits include the short
film The Clinic. He made his movie directorial debut with the film Soul Plane in 2004. In 2009
Brooklyn to Manhattan was in production. Terrero also directed Freelancers, starring Robert
De Niro, Forest Whitaker, and 50 Cent. The movie was released in 2012. "NYC
Underground (2013)" his best production ever.


Videos of 9 Iconic Free Spirits Who Defined the Hippie Movement


The hippie movement was characterized by a vibrant array of free spirits who challenged
societal norms. Prominent figures like Janis Joplin and Grace Slick became synonymous
with the counterculture, using their music to express themes of peace and love. Protests
and demonstrations. Influential activists such as Abbie Hoffman and Angela Davis
advocated for social change, often through provocative protests and demonstrations.
Essence of the era. The movement's visual aesthetic was shaped by artists like Peter
Max, whose colorful designs captured the essence of the era. Powerful voices.
Women like Joan Baez and Linda Ronstadt emerged as powerful voices, using their
platforms to promote civil rights and anti-war sentiments.


This movement involved literary “hipsters” who rejected social norms, often referred to as
beatniks. The beat movement was the foundation of the counterculture movement that
emerged in the late 1960s. Beat poetry began in New York City in the 1940s and made
its way to San Francisco a decade later. Beatniks focused on topics that clashed with
mainstream culture and ideas. These perspectives carried into a slightly younger group
in their teens to mid-20s. In the latter half of the 1960s, San Francisco became a hotspot
for tens of thousands of youths who shared the common desire for peace and freedom.
Haight-Ashbury was the most notable San Francisco neighborhood that drew in almost
100,000 youths during the summer of 1967, who soon became the heart and soul of the
counterculture movement. This summer of youth migration became known as the Summer
of Love, which marked the prominence of a movement that would impact decades to come.


The “hipsters” in as the Summer of Love. Though the hippie ideology had been brewing
under the radar in San Francisco for many years, in June of 1967, the necessary catalyst
appeared to advance the hippie movement to nationwide prominence, encouraging
thousands of American youths to reject mainstream ideology. That catalyst, the
recordtopping Beatles’ album Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, conveyed
the simplest principles of the counterculture: LSD, love, and rejection of the unhip
establishment. Entering into “the zone of maximal contact,” the Beatles’ music inspired
thousands to make a hippie pilgrimage to Haight-Ashbury.1 Known to its residents as
“the Haight,” this San Francisco district adapted to the influx of hippies with the creation
of an alternative social order, including functional counterinstitutions to serve the needs
of the hippie community.


For a few, brief months in 1967, the United States was shocked by a counterculture influence
that was able to permeate the mainstream, influencing popular music and demanding media
attention. Known as the Summer of Love, this era marked the peak of hippie influence on
America. The hippie movement of the nineteen-sixties evolved from the Beatnik
counterculture of the previous decade. The Beatniks, also known as hipsters, retreated
from the mainstream. Like that of the hippies who would follow, hipster ideology emphasized
the importance of expanded consciousness through drug use. The label “hippie,” originally
“the beats’ derogatory term for the half-hip,” became nationally recognized in 1967.2 In that
year, hippie culture took shape in San Francisco and influenced artists and musicians who
shared their vision of peace, love, and expanded consciousness.


Originally taken from ‘Hipster’, the term ‘hippie’ was used to describe beatniks who found
their technicolor heart in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco; children of the road
who believed they should make love, not war. Their vocal opposition to the United States’
involvement in the Vietnam War and the increasingly rocky road to shared civil rights
among all Americans led to this new, alternative form of activism. Donning psychedelic
floral clothing and growing beards that rivaled Rasputin’s in length all became part of the
evolving counter-culture in the hippie era. With this also came a new epoch of fashion,
film and literature; one which would grow out of the San Francisco valley and spill into the
daily lives of the masses at home and abroad within the span of a couple of years.


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1960s counterculture, a broad-ranging social movement in the United States, Canada, and
western Europe that rejected conventional mores and traditional authorities and whose
members variously advocated peace, love, social justice, and revolution. The 1960s
counterculture movement, which generally extended into the early 1970s, was an
alternative approach to life that manifested itself in a variety of activities, lifestyles,
and artistic expressions, including recreational drug use, communal living, political
protests, casual sex, and folk and rock music.


The movement was perhaps best encapsulated by the phrase “turn on, tune in, drop out,”
coined by the American psychologist Timothy Leary, who demonstrated contempt for
authority and championed the use of LSD and other psychoactive drugs. U.S. Pres. Richard
Nixon famously called Leary “the most dangerous man in America.” The counterculture
movement featured artists such as Andy Warhol, who was famous for his Pop art works.
Adherents advocated freedom of expression and a distrust of those in power. The
movement ranged from nonviolent “peaceniks” to revolutionaries who engaged in armed
resistance.


Fueled by college students, it included protests of the Vietnam War and racial injustice and
struggles for women’s rights, gay rights, and sexual freedom. It led to mass demonstrations,
such as a 1969 antiwar protest in Washington, D.C., that drew as many as 500,000 people,
and a “national teach-in on the environment” in 1970 called Earth Day, which is still
commemorated annually. How did flowers become a symbol of peace and love in the
1960s? One enduring image of the counterculture movement is that of “hippies,” who
were mostly white, middle-class, young Americans. Many felt alienated from their parents’
lifestyles, which they viewed as too focused on material goods and consumerism.


That tension drove a “generation gap” that became a hallmark of the 1960s. Hippies often
let their hair grow long, and many men had facial hair. The title track of the musical Hair,
first performed in 1967, captures this style with the lyrics: My hair like Jesus wore it
Hallelujah, I adore it Hallelujah, Mary loved her son, Why don’t my mother love me?
Hippies wore colourful clothes and typically donned sandals. They eschewed regular jobs,
many had vegetarian diets, and some engaged in “free love.” Hippies often traveled the
country, sometimes in Volkswagen Microbuses, dubbed “hippie buses,” adorned with
peace signs. One of their most famous slogans was “Make love, not war.”


The movement’s soundtrack the Beatles. The Beatles, c. 1969–70: George Harrison, Ringo
Starr, Paul McCartney, and John Lennon. Rock music was an important part of the
counterculture movement. Bands like the Grateful Dead—whose fans are known as
“Deadheads”—had a strong influence on 1960s counterculture. The Beatles, the most
influential band of the era, “helped make rock music a battering ram for the youth culture’s
assault on the mainstream,” according to a New York Times article in 1975. The folk
music icon Bob Dylan spoke for many alienated youth when in 1965 he sang, “I ain’t
gonna work on Maggie’s farm no more.” Other artists and bands associated with the
counterculture movement included Joan Baez, Jefferson Airplane, the Velvet
Underground and the Rolling Stones.