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New York Times
17 hours ago
- Business
- New York Times
Audrey Gelman's World Isn't Millennial Pink Anymore
The easily digestible story is that Audrey Gelman resigned as chief executive of the Wing in 2020, withdrew to the Hudson Valley of New York, and took refuge in nostalgia. She licked her wounds, reflecting on the accusations of inequity and racism at the company she co-founded. The Wing was a chain of co-working and events spaces for women that captured national attention, expanding from one location to 11 in three years. But it also polarized the millennial cohort it sought to recruit, and when it fell short of its feminist 'utopia' promise, Ms. Gelman was ousted. In country kitsch, Ms. Gelman found comfort, then purpose. She returned to Brooklyn, where she still owned a home with her husband, a start-up president turned psychoanalyst, and opened a small store called the Six Bells in 2022. She sold antiques and handmade goods meant to conjure a slow, bucolic life: taper candles, spongeware vases, frill pillows mismatched to perfection. To Ms. Gelman, the store felt safe, like a 'cozy sort of womb,' she said. The entrepreneur whose brainchild had once attracted a $365 million valuation — who had named a conference room in San Francisco after Christine Blasey Ford and a phone booth in Washington after Shirley Chisholm — was now content collecting woven Longaberger baskets and dreaming up fictional English villagers to inspire the shop. But this story is not quite right. It assumes that when Ms. Gelman relinquished control of the Wing, she yielded some of her ambition, too; that the 'girlbosses' were going 'tradwife'; that her desire to build big businesses dried up when she pivoted to chintz and craft. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Yahoo
02-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Shifting targets, growing support: The rise of Germany's AfD
By Thomas Escritt BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's domestic security agency classified the Alternative for Germany (AfD) as "extremist" on Friday, allowing for closer monitoring of the country's largest opposition party, which condemned the move as a "blow against democracy". Here is a timeline for the AfD, Germany's most successful far-right party since World War Two. 2013 February 6 - Founded by right-wing economists, the party opposes Germany helping to bail out Greece at the height of the eurozone debt crisis, rejecting then-Chancellor Angela Merkel's assertion that there was "no alternative". Headed by Bernd Lucke and Frauke Petry, the party grows quickly, fuelled by ample donations from small businesses and attracting disillusioned conservative and neoliberal politicians and voters. September 22 - It narrowly misses the 5% threshold for winning seats in that year's parliamentary election 2014 May 25 - The party wins 7% in European Parliament elections, allowing it to send seven members to Brussels. Though nativist overtones are never far from the surface, the party denies any racist motivation for its opposition to bailing out Greece and other heavily indebted countries. August - A string of regional election victories in eastern Germany fuels the AfD's move further to the right, and Bjoern Hoecke, the party's nativist leader in the state of Thuringia, becomes one its most emblematic figures. 2015 The refugee crisis sees more than one million, mostly Muslim migrants fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East and Africa arrive in Germany, propelling the AfD's nativist wing to the fore and giving the party a toehold in western Germany. 2016 March 13 - The AfD scores double-digit results in west German regional elections for the first time and wins nearly a quarter of the vote in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt - at the time the best result ever for a far-right party. 2017 January - Hoecke achieves notoriety for describing Berlin's Holocaust memorial as a "monument of shame". A court overrules Petry's attempts to kick him out of the party the following year. January 21 - The party's growing prominence is signalled by its presence at an international gathering of far-right politicians in Koblenz, where Petry rubs shoulders with France's Marine Le Pen and the Netherlands' Geert Wilders. September - Petry is ousted, in a defeat for the economic libertarian wing of the party, and is replaced by Alice Weidel, who leads the party to this day, and Alexander Gauland, a right-wing former Christian Democrat. September 24 - The party wins 12.6% in Germany's federal election, entering the national parliament for the first time and becoming the largest opposition party. 2019 January 15 - The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) places the AfD under examination, and labels The Wing - a nativist grouping within the party led by Hoecke - and the party's youth wings as suspected far-right cases. 2020 April 30 - The Wing is dissolved. 2021 January 20 - The AfD mounts a legal challenge against being classified as a suspect far-right case. February 25 - The BfV confirms the party is suspected far-right. September 26 - Partly as a result of growing concerns about the cluster of far-right figures at the top of the party, and partly thanks to a buoyant economy, the party falls to 10.3% in the parliamentary election. The COVID-19 pandemic and the slowing economy subsequently give the party a boost, and it also benefits from infighting in Chancellor Olaf Scholz's unwieldy three-way coalition. Leaning heavily into culture war issues with demands for enquiries into alleged mishandling of the pandemic, critiques of modern architecture or rejection of supposed "gender ideologies", the party is able to secure and expand its base. 2022 April 5 - The party's youth wing is declared officially right extremist. 2024 January - A series of scandals - a bombshell report that senior figures had discussed deporting citizens of non-German ethnicity, the discovery of an alleged Chinese spy in one politician's office, and allegations that another had taken money from pro-Russian propaganda outlets - sparks months of protests but fails to sustainably dent support. Increasingly, the party relies on a strategy of attempting to gum up government, peppering courts and ministries with filings and questions that critics regard as frivolous, in a way that seems designed to slow and discredit the state. Hoecke is the leading champion of this strategy, deploying slogans that resemble those used by Adolf Hitler's Nazis in a manner guaranteed to command attention. May 13 - A court rules that the classification as suspected far-right - one step short of Friday's confirmed far-right classification - is justified. The party had called members from ethnic minorities to testify that it was not. May 22 - Le Pen distances herself from the AfD after Maximilian Krah, one of its most popular figures, fails to condemn Hitler's paramiltary SS in a newspaper interview. 2024 September 1 - The party becomes the first far-right party to top a regional election since World War Two. 2025 January - Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of Tesla and adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, interviews AfD co-leader Alice Weidel, declaring weeks ahead of a federal election: "Only the AfD can save Germany." February 23 - The AfD comes second in the federal election, the best result for a far-right party since the German Federal Republic's founding. March 31 - The party's youth wing is dissolved to make way for a replacement under closer supervision of party headquarters.
Reuters
02-05-2025
- Politics
- Reuters
Shifting targets, growing support: The rise of Germany's AfD
BERLIN, May 2 (Reuters) - Germany's domestic security agency classified the Alternative for Germany (AfD) as "extremist" on Friday, allowing for closer monitoring of the country's largest opposition party, which condemned the move as a "blow against democracy". Here is a timeline for the AfD, Germany's most successful far-right party since World War Two. 2013 February 6 - Founded by right-wing economists, the party opposes Germany helping to bail out Greece at the height of the eurozone debt crisis, rejecting then-Chancellor Angela Merkel's assertion that there was "no alternative". Headed by Bernd Lucke and Frauke Petry, the party grows quickly, fuelled by ample donations from small businesses and attracting disillusioned conservative and neoliberal politicians and voters. September 22 - It narrowly misses the 5% threshold for winning seats in that year's parliamentary election 2014 May 25 - The party wins 7% in European Parliament elections, allowing it to send seven members to Brussels. Though nativist overtones are never far from the surface, the party denies any racist motivation for its opposition to bailing out Greece and other heavily indebted countries. August - A string of regional election victories in eastern Germany fuels the AfD's move further to the right, and Bjoern Hoecke, the party's nativist leader in the state of Thuringia, becomes one its most emblematic figures. 2015 The refugee crisis sees more than one million, mostly Muslim migrants fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East and Africa arrive in Germany, propelling the AfD's nativist wing to the fore and giving the party a toehold in western Germany. 2016 March 13 - The AfD scores double-digit results in west German regional elections for the first time and wins nearly a quarter of the vote in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt - at the time the best result ever for a far-right party. 2017 January - Hoecke achieves notoriety for describing Berlin's Holocaust memorial as a "monument of shame". A court overrules Petry's attempts to kick him out of the party the following year. January 21 - The party's growing prominence is signalled by its presence at an international gathering of far-right politicians in Koblenz, where Petry rubs shoulders with France's Marine Le Pen and the Netherlands' Geert Wilders. September - Petry is ousted, in a defeat for the economic libertarian wing of the party, and is replaced by Alice Weidel, who leads the party to this day, and Alexander Gauland, a right-wing former Christian Democrat. September 24 - The party wins 12.6% in Germany's federal election, entering the national parliament for the first time and becoming the largest opposition party. 2019 January 15 - The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) places the AfD under examination, and labels The Wing - a nativist grouping within the party led by Hoecke - and the party's youth wings as suspected far-right cases. 2020 April 30 - The Wing is dissolved. 2021 January 20 - The AfD mounts a legal challenge against being classified as a suspect far-right case. February 25 - The BfV confirms the party is suspected far-right. September 26 - Partly as a result of growing concerns about the cluster of far-right figures at the top of the party, and partly thanks to a buoyant economy, the party falls to 10.3% in the parliamentary election. The COVID-19 pandemic and the slowing economy subsequently give the party a boost, and it also benefits from infighting in Chancellor Olaf Scholz's unwieldy three-way coalition. Leaning heavily into culture war issues with demands for enquiries into alleged mishandling of the pandemic, critiques of modern architecture or rejection of supposed "gender ideologies", the party is able to secure and expand its base. 2022 April 5 - The party's youth wing is declared officially right extremist. 2024 January - A series of scandals - a bombshell report that senior figures had discussed deporting citizens of non-German ethnicity, the discovery of an alleged Chinese spy in one politician's office, and allegations that another had taken money from pro-Russian propaganda outlets - sparks months of protests but fails to sustainably dent support. Increasingly, the party relies on a strategy of attempting to gum up government, peppering courts and ministries with filings and questions that critics regard as frivolous, in a way that seems designed to slow and discredit the state. Hoecke is the leading champion of this strategy, deploying slogans that resemble those used by Adolf Hitler's Nazis in a manner guaranteed to command attention. May 13 - A court rules that the classification as suspected far-right - one step short of Friday's confirmed far-right classification - is justified. The party had called members from ethnic minorities to testify that it was not. May 22 - Le Pen distances herself from the AfD after Maximilian Krah, one of its most popular figures, fails to condemn Hitler's paramiltary SS in a newspaper interview. 2024 September 1 - The party becomes the first far-right party to top a regional election since World War Two. 2025 January - Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of Tesla and adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, interviews AfD co-leader Alice Weidel, declaring weeks ahead of a federal election: "Only the AfD can save Germany." February 23 - The AfD comes second in the federal election, the best result for a far-right party since the German Federal Republic's founding. March 31 - The party's youth wing is dissolved to make way for a replacement under closer supervision of party headquarters.
Jordan News
06-04-2025
- Science
- Jordan News
The discovery of insects in gypsum in Jordan. - Jordan News
The discovery of insects in gypsum in Jordan. The researcher Abbas Haddadin discovered three types of Virgin larvae and a whole insect in gypsum in Almojeb area south of Jordan dating back to the second geological time of the Upper Cretaceous, gypsum is calcium sulfate, which is one of the rocks that formed in water, especially in swamps, the water evaporates leaving calcium sulfate in the form of transparent crystals called gypsum in the swamp of Almojeb lived insect larvae with some aquatic insects when the marsh water evaporates, the gypsum crystals remain inside, and the insect larvae that used to live in the water swamp, the bacteria could not decompose these larvae because gypsum is a preservative that kills bacteria, so the larvae and insects remained the same and did not decompose, as we see in the attached picture, this area where the larvae found a known area and a specific age from 90 million sea urchins in previous studies a wing of a grass Hopper was found in gypsum in 1910-1915 in Australia in the state of Queensland and was written about by and his colleagues also wrote about this wing in 1922, Tony Forsyth titled The Wing of an insect in gypsum, and they also found a larva of atmospheric tremor in gypsum crystals in northern Italy dating back 23 million years ago, and two scientists wrote about it in 2001, Rolf schlater and the scientist Kokring Thomas, this is only what they found in gypsum in the world, in addition to the four insects of the researcher Abbas Haddadin, which he discovered in gypsum in the Almojeb area. اضافة اعلان
