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One of the reasons I'm so passionate about entrepreneurship is that it allows anyone to chart their own destiny. If you have a good idea and the willingness to pursue it, you're on your way to supporting yourself and adding value to our economy. Which is why, as my company gathered stories from LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs for Pride Month, I was happy to hear that the spirit of self-determination is alive and well. "Ever since I was a child, I've always wanted to be my own boss," says RJ Silver, owner of Sad Boy Designs. "The only thing that ever struck my interest was art, and I wanted to find the best way to display my talents. Today, I'm a graphic designer, and I create multiple things ranging from small keychains to large car decals." We need more, not less, of stories like this. That's one reason Hello Alice regularly surveys the more than 800,000 small business owners on our platform to understand their quantitative and qualitative experiences and advance targeted … [Read more...] about 4 Challenges–and Triumphs–of LGBTQ+ Entrepreneurs in 2022

The Associated Press MADRID (AP) — The Latest on the NATO summit in Madrid: ___ Italian Premier Mario Draghi says plans for an increased U.S. military presence in Europe don’t amount to a military escalation within NATO. Draghi says the increase announced Wednesday by the White House would amount to just 70 additional U.S. troops on Italian soil and an air defense system that had already been planned. But he added at the NATO summit in Madrid: “You have to be ready.” Draghi said overall Italy is committing 10,000 troops to NATO. That includes 2,000 divided among the Italian command of NATO in Bulgaria, its presence in Romania and staffing of air patrols over the Baltics. Another 8,000 are on standby in Italy “if eventually necessary.” ___ — Turkey lifts objections to Sweden, Finland joining NATO ahead of alliance summit — Biden, NATO to beef up force posture amid Russian aggression — Macron says Russia can’t win in Ukraine — The AP Interview: Spanish PM … [Read more...] about Live updates | Italy sees no NATO military escalation

Park Hae-il [CJ ENM] In Park Chan-wook’s “Decision to Leave,” actor Park Hae-il portrays the unprecedented: a gentlemanly police detective who begins to fall for a suspect in his murder case. Park Hae-il's casting was equally unique in the sense that Park Chan-wook and screenwriter Jeong Seo-kyung approached him for the role before the script was even completed. “When I met Park Chan-wook [for the casting], he just explained the narrative nonstop, for a full hour or so” because the script was incomplete, the actor said at a press interview at a cafe in Samcheong-dong, central Seoul, on Friday. “Although [my character, Hae-jun] is a police detective, he is reserved, polite, dignified and proud of what he does. As I pieced the images together in my head, it was a kind of character that I’d never imagined. Hae-jun, portrayed by Park Hae-il, on a stakeout to watch Seo-rae, portrayed by Tang Wei, as she is a suspect in the death of her husband. [CJ ENM] “I knew that they … [Read more...] about Actor Park Hae-il portrays the unprecedented in ‘Decision to Leave’

- A + A (June 29): European Central Bank policy makers preparing for the first interest-rate increases in more than a decade were handed conflicting signals on the inflation they’re trying to curb, as price growth unexpectedly hit a record in Spain while easing off in Germany. Energy and food costs drove Spanish inflation to 10% last month — defying government efforts to curb it and raising pressure on Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. In Germany, meanwhile, cuts in fuel duty and discounted public-transport tickets helped slow the surge in prices. “It’s a question of waiting until July 1 when we have the consolidated number for the whole of the euro area, and we’ll see — because we are data dependent,” ECB President Christine Lagarde said in Sintra, Portugal, referring to both sets of data published Wednesday. “We need to do what we have to do, which is to bring it back to 2%, and we shall do so.” With the measures implemented in Berlin being temporary in nature, … [Read more...] about ECB gets inflation whiplash as Spain at 10%, Germany slows

New diesel and petrol cars could be booted from one of the world’s biggest markets in 2035, if Europe follows through on plans to ban the sale of combustion engines. The EU’s countries have moved a step closer to becoming among the first in the world to ban the sale of diesel and petrol cars after the European Parliament approved a draft law on June 8 that would prohibit the sale of new carbon dioxide-emitting vehicles from 2035 onwards. If the bill enters into force it would lead to the end of combustion-engine powered cars and vans in the European Union, where some of the world’s biggest manufacturers of such cars reside. Norway meanwhile is already planning to ban the sale of internal combustion engine cars by 2025, while Britain aims to ban them by 2030, followed by hybrids in 2035. A number of car brands have announced plans to go all-electric by 2035 or sooner, among them Mercedes-Benz, Rolls-Royce, Volvo and Fiat. Others, such as Ford and VW, currently plan to continue … [Read more...] about Europe could ban new diesel and petrol cars by 2035