Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information Friedberg tapped into the rhythm of the city for modernist landscapes such as Peavey Plaza in Minneapolis Photographer: KeriPickett/Cultural Landscape Foundation Paul Friedberg rejected the European garden tradition and followed the sculptural logic of the urban environment Paul Friedberg as one of the “New Left of playground designers” for his radical breaks with tradition His playgrounds and landscapes emphasized abstract inserted into gritty New York City public housing projects light years away from the ornamental gardening approach that spawned the discipline in the 19th century combining the standard designer fit (black pants and black turtleneck) with a bit of countercultural swag in the form of a black leather jacket Friedberg would roar into his office on a motorcycle and park it in the vestibule dropping off a handful of napkin sketches the moment after he put the kickstand down A meeting across town meant mounting the bike again and weaving through traffic this time with a member of his staff holding on tight swept along in Friedberg’s relentless energy and quest to make cities livable invigorating and joyful — at a time when American urbanism was in a deep crisis The Cancer Letter The leading source for information on the issues that shape oncology since 1973 including a large office with numerous people and including staff that sit in some of the rural counties to make sure that we’re educating and engaging those individuals and I think that investment has really only helped us. The University of Rochester Wilmot Cancer Institute last week was named the 73rd NCI-designated cancer center New York State has eight NCI-designated cancer centers Wilmot is the only cancer center serving a unique and diverse part of New York “Our catchment area is 27 counties in Central and Western New York All but three of them are not served by any existing cancer center We’re a white spot on that map,” Jonathan Friedberg “This catchment area has over three million people and is very rural over a third of patients live in rural RUCA codes “If that catchment area were a state and it’s certainly big enough geographically and population-wise to be a state it would have the second highest incidence of cancer in the country behind only the state of Kentucky.” The University of Rochester and the Wilmot Cancer Institute began their years-long effort to gain NCI-Designation when Friedberg became director in 2013 Wilmot enhanced its entire clinical research infrastructure and expanded its footprint in the region to include 13 care locations located at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester The Community Outreach and Engagement component of the CCSG application was especially useful in preparing the application and figuring out how Wilmot can serve its catchment area we didn’t even know what we didn’t know about our catchment area and it was really the CCSG that pushed us to invest in building the understanding as to what our catchment area needs are Those statistics that I quoted to you earlier I couldn’t have told you that 10 years ago And that in and of itself has been incredibly motivating but also our scientists who are so interested in the burden of cancer in our catchment area and how they may be able to contribute And it’s become routine now for our scientists to go to our COE office for data and reports to speak to why this is an important place to study specific cancers the designation comes with $10 million in Cancer Center Support Grant funding over five years. What are some of the threats Friedberg sees on the horizon the administration’s efforts to cap indirect costs is among them we haven’t seen a change yet at our institution Our current indirect cost rate is 51%,” Friedberg said It’s lower than some of the highest institutions And that delta would be potentially paralyzing to broad research programs in our institution that even go beyond cancer And I think it’s been quite revealing how we’ve stumbled into this indirect way of funding essential research elements and the challenge to translate that explanation to lay people who don’t understand how this research is funded and what this is really paying for And I’ve seen certain things written about it with some good analogies about how essential infrastructure is around research and particularly research that requires high technology all of which are funded through the indirect cost mechanism As a component of Strong Memorial Hospital Wilmot provides specialty cancer care services at the University of Rochester Medical Center and a network of 13 locations throughout the region including an 88-bed hospital on the campus of the university’s Medical Center Wilmot includes a team of more than 190 oncology physicians and approximately 115 scientists who investigate many aspects of cancer. editor and publisher of The Cancer Letter. This conversation is also available as a video it’s wonderful to hear good news about cancer centers now We learned just earlier in the week that we’re the 73rd NCI-designated cancer center This has been in the works for quite a few years JF: I started as director about 10 years ago but we really were working in earnest since 2016 when we had a retreat that resulted in the plan to get NCI designation We applied in 2021 and received an excellent score at that time But the NCI made a decision that we should come back in with an A-1 application we put in the A-1 application and we learned that we were funded raising funds for a new building that I’m sitting in right now that was clearly an impactful part of this that it was really in 2016 that we had some of the magic around alignment of leadership both at my level as well as the senior leadership of the institution that led to the necessary investments to make this happen and it’s always a little bit challenging to come up with a final number But if you look at capital investments as well as personnel investments easily more than $100 million was invested in this project part of that is because we were a little bit different from many of the other new cancer centers that have come online in that we had a lot of historic strength in basic science We had funding that was at a reasonable level for a long time What was missing for us was a lot of the organization and a culture around a Cancer Center Support Grant I spent more time building culture than anything else—obviously very important in this entity we started investing in Community Outreach and Engagement and some of those other pieces we ended up recruiting about 30 funded investigators but it’s not as if we had to buy entire research programs like some of the other new cancer centers had to do JF: I would say there were a few critical pieces I don’t know if these are really lessons for others but the first two years of my tenure as cancer center director We moved from two locations to 13 locations installing linear accelerators and chemotherapy infusion throughout our broad region because part of that generated the patients that we needed to conduct clinical trials in rare and complex cancers because it helped us raise resources that the institution could invest specifically in cancer And I think that got the attention of senior leadership that led to much more openness around the necessary investment to get to the CCSG The other pivotal part was the first meeting of our External Advisory Board, which was in 2018. Mark Evers chairs that group, and we have several cancer center directors on that group, including Candace Johnson who’s down the road 70 miles in Buffalo you have the next closest competitor… on your EAB because I think it’s clear that we’re not really competitors JF: But that board meeting was essential in multiple ways because they pointed out that we still had a lot of work to do they also said with clarity that they could see a path and that we really should do the work our CEO and dean at that time heard that message and that’s when we could do what we needed to do even through COVID with financial pressures this investment didn’t slow down at all all the way through to us getting the grant just this week You mentioned that line: When you’ve seen one cancer center, you’ve seen one cancer center. That’s attributed widely to Joe Simone like you’ve seen one community health center you’ve seen one community health center But how is Rochester or Wilmot different from all the other cancer centers we have to start by describing our catchment area There are only three counties that overlap between our catchment area and Roswell Park’s Our catchment area is 27 counties in Central and Western New York This catchment area has over three million people and is very rural it would have the second highest incidence of cancer in the country behind only the state of Kentucky A lot of it is that the demographics of our catchment area are much more aligned with Kentucky than they are with New York City 14 of the counties that are in our catchment area are officially part of Appalachia and lack of access to healthcare are drivers of cancer incidence in our catchment area as they are in other parts of Appalachia that’s the beginning as to what we’re about We’re the only academic cancer center that is capable of helping to bend that regional disparity And I think that really resonated with NCI despite the fact we’re from a state that has a number of cancer centers the majority of the state land area was not being served by any of those other cancer centers the other things that we bring that I think are somewhat unique we have broad and well-recognized expertise in cancer and aging and this goes from fundamental biology of aging looking at long-lived rodents and mammals and understanding why they don’t get cancer all the way through to one of the largest geriatric oncology clinical programs in the country that is recognized for contributions around geriatric assessments to predict outcome in older patients and to help decide treatment plans And I’d say a third unique part of Wilmot is that we’re one of only two academic centers with an NCORP research base The NCORP program conducts symptom management research funded by NCI in parallel with the cooperative groups The other such cancer center is Wake Forest and the University of Rochester has been long recognized as leaders in that symptom management field our cancer prevention and control program is our best funded program and scored very I think that’s another area that I did not have to build as much as some of the other new cancer centers JF: Yes, exactly. This is the legacy of the CCOP. You’re exactly right. It’s Gary Morrow who ran the CCOP transitioned it to this NCORP research base and he’s still around as a senior advisor but his legacy is really that NCORP research base JF: He’s always a character to speak to so it’s been great having him around I’m just wondering about those 13 outposts JF: It was a combination of a few different things basically purchased a few hospitals in the region and in those hospitals we created cancer programs we acquired practices that were there and took over those programs And in others we created new bona fide cancer programs from scratch it was a combination of purchasing and opening facilities in strategic areas of strength where we had primary care base and where we recognized there was an unmet need for cancer services That must’ve been quite an undertaking JF: It was… I joined as director here, I was an interim director after Dr. Fisher left, and he left rather abruptly [to become director of Fox Chase Cancer Center] (The Cancer Letter, Aug 2 it took a little bit of time for things to settle out And I have to say it turned out to be incredibly informative as I was cancer center director because I really understood our region well because it took a lot of trips back and forth to all of these places and we had to deal with their town boards and counties to sign off on this New York State is a Certificate of Need state we had to deal with state officials as well and that was a crash course in some of those activities of being cancer center director I now am privileged to have a medical director who helps oversee that component directly informed to me the need for us to have a CCSG the resources and the energy at the institution behind cancer And I think when our CEO saw the success of those regional programs he realized that a CCSG was the logical next step but doesn’t sound like it took forever I said that our plan was to submit in 2021 and they thought that was a very bold timeline I think that we had some pivotal recruitments that came through that really helped us And having that level of strength in our leadership group really helped to catapult us and move forward very quickly because people weren’t traveling and we were all in on this and we really didn’t miss a beat I think that having everybody around really helped us writing things up COVID took away many of the distractions that otherwise could have been there I’ve been accused of that frequently but how long have you been in Rochester and what is your area of expertise JF: I’m a lymphoma clinical investigator I trained at Dana-Farber and then I worked at Dana-Farber as faculty for a couple of years before moving here to join Richard Fisher and build the lymphoma program And Richard was also a lymphoma investigator so he was a mentor to me when I moved here I became the chief of the Hematology Oncology Division in 2009 and then the cancer center director in 2013 I’m still the chair of the SWOG Lymphoma Committee and I sit on the Lymphoma Steering Committee I help run the national clinical Trial portfolio in lymphoma And I’m also the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Clinical Oncology which I’ve served in that role for about three years and that’s obviously an incredible privilege to be in that seat and some not particularly smart person might confuse it with DEI which also is being somewhat misunderstood somewhat Are you worried about losing COE and disparities research the CCSG really pushed us in this direction and it was really the CCSG that pushed us to really invest in building the understanding as to what our catchment area needs are And I think that the whole CCSG enterprise but to think that we have these unique cancer needs in this catchment area that even though we have amazing cancer centers in the state like Memorial Sloan Kettering and NYU and all the rest they’re not going to pay attention to those needs The second part of COE that took longer was the creation of the community advisory boards and trying to get bi-directional engagement over our research programs. And Erin Kobetz from Miami is a member of our External Advisory Board and she really pushed us hard in this direction But the result was really some great examples as to how our research was improved through input by the community And we now have a very vigorous community advisory board We’re making our public announcement tomorrow They’ve been part of this for the last five or six years in earnest And this community advisory board is an incredibly diverse group of people Rochester has the largest per capita deaf community in the country based on schools for the deaf that are here and long-standing relationships we have deaf members of that community advisory board that’s an example of how we’ve learned strategies to help engage that important patient population and understand what their needs are that all cancer center directors recognize the importance of serving their community That’s the mission of academic medical centers and even though we didn’t have a CCSG until earlier this week and our budget for COE is over $1 million a year and including staff that sit in some of the rural counties to make sure that we’re educating and engaging those individuals and I think that investment has really only helped us Otis Brawley is always quoting from one of his papers that the largest underserved population in the United States is white And I think we also have clear challenges in our urban centers with very diverse populations all but one of those counties has disproportionate amounts of poverty and a lot of that is rural poverty and an aging population Can you imagine if… Can you even have disparities research if COE is not there JF: I think COE has been helpful at helping us understand what disparities exist that information base is critical to proposing any research at least what I’ve been hearing is that disparities research as a scientific subject matter remains okay You’re correct in saying that I think some individuals are challenged by differentiating that from the diversity But we remain optimistic that disparities research is going to go on and it’s an important component of our cancer center we got outstanding to exceptional on CRTEC I think that we’ve been recognized nationally for a very long time around quality of education here Many luminaries in cancer have come through the halls here is he has a T32 in cancer control research that really focuses on symptom management And in their most recent renewal of that T32 And I think that speaks to some of the strengths we have in CRTEC that we have some of these very well recognized education programs That’s something that everybody’s talking about And I think it’s been quite revealing how we’ve stumbled into this indirect way of funding essential research elements and the challenge to translate that explanation to lay people who don’t understand how this research is funded and what this is really paying for Can you do data science without indirect costs JF: I think it’s mandatory for all research And if the vision is to move some of the indirect costs to direct costs I mean ultimately that might be a reasonable goal That can’t be done in 12 hours or 12 days or 12 months That’s going to take time in order to understand how the budgeting is And I think that the abruptness of the decision-making was very challenging for medical centers And it appears that we may have a reprieve for a few months all of us as cancer centers need to understand what the models are going to look like moving forward And in parallel with all the challenges to some of the other sources of revenue like 340B and site neutrality I think it could be a perfect storm where research funding is really under threat And I have to say that the cancer centers group has been having meetings about this that I find very productive because I think shared wisdom from all of the cancer center directors is going to be critical moving forward Maybe we should just go some more on the indirect I have a question about CAR T-cell therapy how much of your CAR T is being done through facilities that are funded through indirects JF: Most of the CAR T studies that we’ve done have been in collaboration with industry We don’t have a GMP facility making our own CAR Ts right now that’s not as much under threat as some of the other clinical research that we’re doing that’s an area that’s only growing We have a scientist who’s been very focused on some new solid tumor-targeted CAR T cells and ways of directing CAR T cells using light to pull CAR T cells into cancers including radiation shared resources would be very challenged without the indirect costs I think that the 15 is not the number that’s probably going to stick I don’t know if you’re hearing something else is that it’s more likely that there’s time to negotiate this thing that at least right now the federal stance is that they’re looking to have a fixed rate and not a variable rate based on institution and that number is probably not going to be 15 we could probably absorb that a lot easier than if it landed at 25 Those are the numbers I’m kind of hearing as a goal They can also put some things in direct costs that are now in indirect costs JF: And I think that’s the important detail that we have to understand if the budget for NIH stays fixed and they’re going to shift dollars into more research-oriented investment and allow for some of the current indirects to be counted as directs that may be in the long run more sustainable and better for certain investigators It’s just that seeing that path is not quite apparent yet I think to many of us This will be a very interesting set of negotiations reasonable to be expecting something more transparent than the current system I think that the reason why we’re in this situation now is that the current model of the direct costs are only partially funding research is making an investment up to 50 cents on the dollar for research because there’s such limited budgets for NIH-funded grants NIH modular grants haven’t changed in my whole career as far as how much they fund And we know the level of inflation in science is higher than inflation nationally If all of that can be fixed as part of that I think that is better for the American public and for the scientists But all of that has to be part of this decision You can’t just look at one line item and cut it and not fix those other pieces the other part that indirects really help pay for are the buildings where scientists work I think that’s an important level of investment that goes beyond the scientists working in those buildings there’s construction and all of that expense and there really aren’t straightforward ways to put up those buildings without some investment by indirect costs there was talk about having specific grants from the government for buildings like this the indirect cost evolved as a partial mechanism to pay for some construction I think that’s the other piece that would need to be part of any negotiation is to understand these buildings all need to house very high technology that needs to be in place for laboratories Does your congressional delegation understand this our representative from Rochester is extremely supportive And he’s been a tireless advocate for cancer and NIH research And obviously our senators from New York have historically been very supportive JF: Joe Morelle I guess we’ve covered a lot of ground But I’m sure we’ve missed something JF: Let me add a comment about Roswell Park because I briefly went through that They’ve been a longstanding NCI-designated cancer center our scientists have often enjoyed collaborations with Roswell It’s drivable, particularly in the summer. In the winter, it’s a snow belt, so depends on the day. But they have a lot of complementary strengths. There was some brief period where Dr. Fisher and Dr. Trump at that time who was leading Roswell, were speaking about a consortium cancer center between the two institutions. And as part of that effort, they asked the question, “Are they competing for patients?” And it was very clear from data that patients in Rochester were not driving to Buffalo for care and vice versa, that they really were two very different areas. And the cities are somewhat different historically as well, just because they’re both in upstate New York, they have a very different feel to them. Buffalo is a blue-collar, industrial city. Rochester’s industries historically were Kodak, Bausch & Lomb, and Xerox. So I would say that they were culturally somewhat different, and some of that has remained. So, it was clear that there wasn’t competition for patients, but the decision was made at that time that it was going to be hard to build a consortium center. And candidly, we weren’t ready for that. We weren’t organized well enough. We decided we were going to go for the designation ourselves. But all along, Candace has been incredibly supportive. And I think she really sees the advantage of having two designated centers in this part of the country, that there are a lot of things like COE that we can collaborate on. And as I said, she was a member of our External Advisory Board. And I’ll say that when we were practicing for our site visit, the most helpful practice that we had was a team from Roswell who came and put us through our paces in a very friendly, but supportive and rigorous way. And that was much better practice than even our external advisory board, because they took a real fresh look at us, and I really thank them for that. JF: About a year ago. It was in May of 2024. And then you would have been approved in December maybe? JF: Right. We heard initially in December that this was coming, and then the NIH was sort of in lockdown, as you’re aware, since the inauguration. It took a long time for us to hear anything. And then it was only very recently that we had to make a couple of adjustments and they funded us. But NCAB would have approved it in December? So, it was just a little bit slower than you would have expected. Not too bad. Can you imagine the world without the NCI cancer centers, or the world without NCI? JF: I have to say, Paul, that this CCSG process has made our cancer center so much better. We’re a real case study because 10 years ago when I was recruited for this position, I spoke to potentially doing this, but this was not necessarily 100% expectation. It wasn’t like, “You don’t get a CCSG, you’re fired,” kind of thing. And what I can tell you is the following: The CCSG template, building the research programs, the infrastructure, the CRTEC office, our COE office, all of those pieces in the way that the CCSG grant dictates has made us so much better. And we have doubled our clinical trial accrual. We deeply understand our catchment area. We nearly doubled our NCI funding. We were able to recruit specialists, and we’re just a much better place. So, I have to say that although there are parts of this that can get a little crazy: The site visits and the whole choreography and all of that, we’ve probably gone maybe a little too far, the process of pulling all of us together and making us all work on this over years has made us so much better. And I have to say that it would be such a shame for us to lose that. I think cancer is the envy of all parts of the medical centers, because we have the CCSG. And all medical centers are really forced to disproportionately invest in cancer, because it’s an expectation of the CCSG. Without having that CCSG-required infrastructure, I fear that the contributions that we’ve made in cancer and the leadership positions we have globally would disappear. So, you’re right, it’s a hard day to picture. Is there anything else we’ve missed? There’s a lot to cover. JF: No, I guess the one final point I’d make is one of the happy surprises is how supportive other cancer centers have been around this. You’d kind of think that at some level, this is a competition, a grant, but it really feels like everybody is in it to help the patients. And we’ve had literally dozens of people from other cancer centers help us with various pieces of this, from informal consultations to being members of our External Advisory Board, to practice site visits, and all of those pieces. I feel fortunate to be working in a field where people are so collaborative and collegial. It’s really inspiring at some level, and I hope to be able to give that back now that we’re officially part of the club. Well, congratulations again. This is a happy day. 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Friedberg Twenty-five years after the beginning of the first so-called China shock when a surge in Chinese exports disrupted manufacturing and industrial sectors worldwide Beijing has again begun to flood global markets with a wave of heavily subsidized manufactured goods and materials—including everything from metals and textiles to more cutting-edge products such as electric vehicles this influx threatens to upend emerging technology sectors and derail post-pandemic plans to “de-risk” economies by shifting supply chains away from China a new tsunami of cheap imports could disrupt plans for industrialization and modernization According to the theories of economics and trade that are prevalent in the West, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has little choice but to pull back: China’s economy has become dangerously imbalanced the country accounted for 30 percent of global manufacturing value added but only 13 percent of global consumption But it is a mistake to presume that Xi and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) think about the Chinese economy the same way Western economists do The key to understanding Xi’s economic policies is to recognize that they are principally about power He will almost certainly forge ahead toward concentrating the world’s industrial power within China even at the risk of provoking a cataclysmic trade conflict with other countries The emergence of a shared challenge has created an opportunity for enhanced cooperation among the advanced industrial democracies of the West and less developed countries in the global South Beijing will push back hard against any attempt at policy coordination and overwhelm those who try to stand in its way But the problems posed by the intensification of Chinese mercantilism are now so great that they cannot be addressed in an enduring way by any one country Nor can they be solved merely by applying the usual assortment of stopgap remedies Only by banding together in a trade defense coalition—an idea I developed with an economist in Asia—can countries with market-based economies protect themselves against China’s predatory practices. Leading this effort will require the United States and its allies to set aside the post–Cold War dream of building a fully integrated But rather than abandon the liberal principles that underpinned the free-trade vision they must focus on constructing a core subsystem of countries that are genuinely committed to the concepts of openness and reciprocity and are willing to defend and abide by them This kind of coalition will be challenging to create but the alternative is worse: a world in which democracies are dramatically divided and weakened as the Chinese party-state continues to privilege its interests and enhance its power at the expense of other nations—and the Chinese people these changes were not effectively resisted because they were widely seen as part of a mutually beneficial process of economic evolution: as older industries withered in the West Western analysts expected that China would have to shed its statist market-distorting policies to meet the commitments it made on entering the WTO would quickly follow China’s economic liberalization In the first decade of the twenty-first century China sought to pursue more economically advanced nations up the value-added chain by continuing to use subsidies and other tools to expand its manufacturing capacity and win growing shares of global production in established industries such as steel and solar panels Despite the initial success of this approach CCP planners realized that they could not indefinitely sustain it without eventually swamping global markets and generating dangerous financial bubbles warned that China’s economy was becoming “unstable Beijing openly acknowledged that it had created overcapacity in six state-dominated heavy industries Yet even when export demand collapsed in the wake of the 2008–9 global financial crisis Beijing doubled down on its familiar model further diverting national savings into domestic infrastructure building still more excess capacity in existing industries Beijing unveiled its Made in China 2025 program which aimed to capture growing shares of both the domestic and overseas markets for advanced products such as industrial robots and electric vehicles According to an April 2024 South China Morning Post analysis based on government sources this plan has already achieved 86 percent of its objectives This impressive burst of technological and industrial upgrading came at a steep cost China far outspent its foreign rivals on public subsidies and spurred provincial and private debt-fueled investment into priority sectors The approach created a free-for-all of domestic industrial competition that resulted in vast overcapacity—and helped drive China’s total debt to over 300 percent of GDP Beijing did throttle lending to construction firms and property developers out of concern for the oversupply in those sectors Bursting the real estate bubble may have been necessary but doing so then contributed to a dramatic post-pandemic slump in consumer demand and economic confidence in China and underscored the central question of how to sustain growth in both the near and longer term The answer that Xi’s government has settled on has now become clear: yet more investment in manufacturing and another big export push with a particular emphasis on high-tech sectors and European officials have accused Beijing of deliberately cultivating industrial overcapacity Chinese media outlets deride such allegations as a cover for a strategically motivated effort to contain their country’s rising power Xi has flatly stated that “there is no such thing” as Chinese “overcapacity.” The acute sensitivity to the term “overcapacity” reveals something essential about China’s political economy In contrast to their liberal Western counterparts Xi and his colleagues are not concerned primarily with the pursuit of efficiency or the enhancement of aggregate national welfare for its own sake Neither market-loving capitalists nor true-believing Marxists they can best be understood as mercantilist Leninists whose top priority is to acquire and exercise political power Their economic policies are designed to preserve the CCP’s dominance and control at home while boosting the country’s industrial and technological capacities to transform China into the world’s most productive These priorities help illuminate both what Beijing is doing and what it refuses to do Most Western experts, and some of their Chinese colleagues, have long believed that the only acceptable substitute for domestic investment is increased consumption. According to World Bank figures household consumption in 2022 accounted for only 37 percent of China’s GDP compared with 68 percent in the United States and the economist Michael Pettis has estimated that China would have to reallocate as much as ten to 15 percent of its GDP toward consumption to sustain healthy growth This could be accomplished through greater wealth transfers to households in the form of higher wages because shifting a substantial portion of the country’s wealth into the hands of ordinary citizens would empower them at the CCP’s expense And redirecting resources toward consumption and services could diminish China’s industrial prowess and relative power leaving it less capable of undertaking a military buildup or an emergency expansion of arms production Losing its position as the irreplaceable link in many global supply chains would also reduce China’s geopolitical leverage rather than committing to liberalizing reforms Xi is relying on China’s so-called new productive forces to turbocharge his country’s already outsize manufacturing base Beijing is now deploying massive subsidies (estimated to be three to nine times the levels found in the countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development depending on the industry) and a shrewd predatory pricing strategy The goal is to achieve an unrivaled position in fields such as semiconductors and biotechnology before competitors can react as well as in the three vanguard sectors in which it already has a commanding lead: solar technology And China shows no sign of relinquishing its hold on the sectors it has long dominated Chinese officials now boast that theirs is the only country that produces goods in every one of the UN’s trade categories Based on July 2024 estimates from Bloomberg this approach might temporarily alleviate China’s economic woes but only on the optimistic assumption that other countries do not resist it China aims to drive foreign competitors out of business and tighten its grip over what officials in Beijing describe as “chokepoints,” including lower-end semiconductors and critical minerals boosting manufacturing is part of an urgent “whole nation” effort to achieve self-reliance and reduce China’s vulnerability to technological blockades Even as Xi seeks to enhance China’s leverage over other countries, he is working to diminish their leverage over China Beijing is betting that breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies will increase productivity and permit Chinese companies to dominate global markets for new products China aims to leapfrog ahead of current generations of military and intelligence systems to surpass even the capabilities of the United States China will be able to lock in enduring advantages creating a perilous concentration of industrial power Its manufacturing surplus—already approaching two percent of global GDP The United States and its key allies would find themselves in a position of deepening dependence on China for goods essential to the manufacture of both commercial products and military systems The harm to other countries would extend well beyond those that are already industrialized Beijing often claims that its economic development helps poorer nations but Chinese firms are already feasting on demand that would otherwise be met by local manufacturers The fact that China is trying to retain control of less advanced as well as advanced industrial sectors means that much of its gains will come at developing countries’ expense closing off routes to industrialization and relegating them to exporting the raw materials to feed China’s manufacturing machine and then importing its finished products and government officials to China’s new export wave has been to try to persuade Beijing that it now has no choice but to reconfigure its economic strategy to rely more heavily on domestic demand But such appeals are destined to fail because a wholesale rebalancing of China’s economy toward consumption would weaken the CCP’s power Beijing could also diminish friction with other countries through a substantial exchange-rate appreciation which would drive up the cost of China’s exports But the CCP dismisses that option as a deflationary trap of the sort that it claims the United States sprung on Japan in 1985 Washington pressured Tokyo to accept a drastic revaluation of its currency relative to the dollar triggering an asset price bubble that eventually burst and ushered in a so-called lost decade of economic stagnation still cling to the hope that China’s schemes to subsidize overcapacity can be addressed through the WTO’s dispute resolution mechanisms even when China was weaker and the trade organization was stronger Donald Trump has promised that if he again wins the U.S he will impose steep across-the-board tariffs on all Chinese imports as well as lower tariffs on other countries tariffs cannot solve the larger problems posed by Beijing’s distortionary trade and industrial policies Building a dam solely around the American economy would reduce its competitiveness and deflect the impending flood of Chinese exports into other markets The disputes between advanced democracies that would inevitably follow would merely create fresh opportunities for Beijing to play those countries off one another U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration has already begun to raise tariffs and use national security provisions in U.S trade law to restrict certain Chinese imports such as electric vehicles By carefully tailoring its restrictions to a limited set of products and sectors for which it can make a plausible environmental or national security argument the administration is trying to avoid setting off another tit-for-tat trade war Although some officials in Washington have emphasized the importance of coordinating with allies to respond to China’s export wave in a united way they clearly hope to avoid taking concerted actions that could be seen as discriminatory toward China violate the multilateral principles of the WTO these are precisely the kinds of measures that are needed No country alone can forestall or contain the impending second China shock is one of the few world leaders to recognize this openly acknowledging that China’s global trade surplus is a systemic problem that demands a systemic response Anything less will yield what she aptly calls a “whack-a-mole” approach in which Beijing deflects complaints about particular industries and pursues endless dialogues to evade more serious pressure Avoiding this outcome will require the formation of a trade defense coalition modeled loosely on a collective security alliance Its purpose would be to reduce its members’ dependence on China by encouraging the proliferation of productive capacity for a wide array of manufactured goods members would seek safety in numbers and through binding rules to reduce the risks of free-riding or defection joining the coalition would require formal legislation rather than executive orders which can be overturned through a change of government their markets would be swamped by underpriced imports from Chinese producers seeking a way through the coalition’s defensive armor and possibly compel holdouts to reconsider its inaugural members should include a core group of liberal democratic allies and an assortment of high-deficit industrializing countries that share the objective of shielding their economies from Chinese mercantilism the United States and the EU would need to take part along with at least half the world’s 15 next-largest economies allies or strategically more aligned with the United States than with China According to the International Monetary Fund in 2022 these countries together accounted for 62 percent of global GDP and ran a collective deficit of $1 trillion with China and Hong Kong Potential coalition members would also include other existing or aspiring members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development as well as any other nations that seek to industrialize independently of China to safeguard their economic or military security The members of such a trade defense coalition could deploy a variety of tools to restrict access to their markets including import quotas and regulatory measures such as bans imposed for the purpose of national security grounds or to protect industries endangered by unfairly priced imports But the most important mechanism would be a system of import tariffs applied to specific product categories that are critical to national defense or essential to the functioning of modern economies and societies and are vulnerable to supply dominance by China Most countries that would need to take part in the coalition have already developed such lists; these must be integrated It is critical that this coalition have a unified set of rules and target items; otherwise trade circumvention or leakage would erode its effectiveness The purpose of a tariff barrier would be genuinely protective: to buy time and create sufficient commercial incentives for new alternative suppliers to emerge both inside the coalition and beyond its perimeter Tariffs shield existing producers from predatory pricing but they might not be sufficient to induce new companies to enter markets the coalition would also need to harmonize industrial policy tools including members’ technology-sharing arrangements and capital perhaps coordinating with aspiring manufacturers in other countries it will also be essential to devise a method for calculating the true origin of the value added to each product Many of the world’s most important goods are now what the WTO defines as “complex products,” such as cellphones and vehicles which cross at least two national borders before their final assembly The economist Richard Baldwin has estimated that China now produces about 40 percent of the intermediate components incorporated in these goods meaning that its actual dominance in many sectors is hidden Since the U.S.-Chinese trade war began in 2018 many Chinese firms have begun to offshore a fraction of their manufacturing processes to other countries to avoid the higher tariffs that would be imposed on their products if they were exported directly from China To thwart such tactics and determine the appropriate tariffs on specific products the trade defense coalition would need to create a much fuller supply chain accounting system The higher the amount of Chinese-origin content in a final product that arrives at a coalition member’s borders Such a system would have been impossible to implement a generation ago But today’s information systems can track even the smallest of parts as they move through the production process The likely objections to this proposal are numerous It cannot be denied that creating a defensive coalition would violate the WTO’s principle of nondiscrimination China has already warped and distorted the WTO’s principles and now uses the organization’s procedures to shield its own discriminatory practices from scrutiny and avoid compliance The United States and its allies must not permanently abandon the WTO but neither can they currently depend on it to protect their economies The creation of a trade defense coalition would also further fragment the global economy into at least partly separated trading blocs But the alternative is not the renewal of a march toward a fully integrated balanced global economy based on the principle of comparative advantage Xi likes to present himself as the great defender of globalization in which China protects its own market and uses subsidies to expand its already overgrown industrial base while other countries remain open and capital it needs to grow even as their own industrial capacities erode and their dependence on China deepens Learning from China’s experience so as to better counter its policies need not mean that through some perverse process of convergence “we” will become more like “them.” A decade after Beijing unveiled its Made in China 2025 program other industrialized countries are slowly grasping the reality that Chinese leaders indeed intend to make almost everything in China Other major economies now have little choice but to adopt trade and industrial policies that mirror some of China’s own successful efforts In addition to walling off infant or embattled industries these policies may include offering subsidies and requiring technology transfers from any Chinese company permitted to operate inside the coalition’s defensive barriers A trade defense coalition would not leave Beijing free to commercially dominate the global South Nor would it compel developing nations to choose between China and the West by promoting the broad diffusion of industrial capacity and know-how a coalition would offer these countries a better deal than the extractive one they currently get from China It would be in the interests of the coalition to cultivate alternative suppliers in a variety of nations Everyone outside the coalition would be free to continue buying low-cost goods from China; if they incorporated targeted items into their exports the coalition would levy appropriately weighted tariffs That would pressure Chinese companies to add more value to products in other countries permitting companies in those countries to manufacture more components and do more of the work multinational companies based in coalition countries would be incentivized to transfer skills and capacity to countries other than China preferably friendly ones with market economies and a dedication to the rule of law Although penalizing China’s underpriced exports could slow the world’s shift toward renewable energy environmental considerations must be appropriately weighed against security concerns China’s oversize solar power industry has already driven prices so low that foreign competitors have largely been eliminated from the market This is not the case yet for wind turbines As the world’s energy systems slowly tilt away from fossil-fuel-dependent grids and internal combustion engines and toward renewable energy technology and distributed storage most industrialized nations will seek to control the manufacturing and operation of substantial portions of these critical networks Beijing will no doubt retaliate against the formation of a defensive coalition whether by cutting imports from member countries or threatening to limit their access to the supply chains it dominates But because the countries that would make up the coalition will continue to be the major source of global demand a group of like-minded countries should have the scale and resources needed to resist Chinese pressure and sustain their own prosperity which began with a more modest 1951 agreement to form the European Coal and Steel Community the automotive sector would be a logical place to start Chinese planners recognized the promise of electric vehicles early on But because auto industries provide millions of jobs and have direct links to manufacturing sectors critical to national defense most major economies still want to retain them Preserving them in the face of cheap Chinese imports will be impossible without tariffs and incentives for alternative suppliers of batteries and components These methods will be more effective if they are applied in a coordinated fashion Cars and car parts produced under the policies of a trade defense coalition would likely be more expensive than those imported from China But the data they collect would be more secure and they would be built by better-paid workers in liberal Consumers would have more opportunities to bypass Chinese brands and thereby avoid rewarding the CCP for its mercantilist policies Ultimately, the strongest argument in favor of a trade coalition is that it is vital for the security of advanced democracies. The world is already dangerously reliant on China for an astounding assortment of essential goods and intermediate components, as the COVID-19 pandemic laid bare The war in Ukraine has driven home how central manufacturing capacity still is to modern warfare It takes little imagination to foresee a future crisis or conflict in which China could inflict sudden and potentially paralyzing supply chain shocks on its adversaries Democracies understand that they must pay a premium to preserve their freedom of action by at times increasing their defense budgets They must also learn to take steps to defend their economies a trade defense coalition need not hold China back or stifle its growth it would prevent the country from exercising its self-proclaimed right to development in ways that deindustrialize the economies and endanger the security of other countries a trade coalition could even be good for China Limiting Beijing’s ability to externalize its domestic economic imbalances and use other countries as outlets for its overproduction would increase the odds that the Chinese government will finally abandon its mercantilist model in favor of genuine China could take its proper place in the open and mutually beneficial global trading system that democratic countries envisioned when the Cold War ended three decades ago Subscribe to Foreign Affairs to get unlimited access Already a subscriber? Sign In Evan S. Medeiros Elizabeth Economy Stephen G. Brooks and Ben A. Vagle Eyck Freymann and Hugo Bromley Kristen Hopewell Dev Patel, Justin Sandefur, and Arvind Subramanian Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay Tong Zhao Zongyuan Zoe Liu Anne Neuberger Liana Fix and Michael Kimmage * Note that when you provide your email address, the Foreign Affairs Privacy Policy and Terms of Use will apply to your newsletter subscription Published by The Council on Foreign Relations Privacy Policy Terms of Use From the publishers of Foreign Affairs This website uses cookies to improve your experience You can opt-out of certain cookies using the cookie management page * Note that when you provide your email address, the Foreign Affairs Privacy Policy and Terms of Use will apply to your newsletter subscription The London-based four-piece led by Austrian singer-songwriter Anna F serve up the coolest dance punk this side of LCD Soundsystem bassist Cheryl Pinero and drummer Fifi Dewey Excellent early singles Lizzy, Yeah and Go Wild established the band as a great go-to for tracks that leaven emotion with motion LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy would be proud off-kilter warmth warps punk-funk into slinky new shapes clear voice and more cowbell than you’d expect outside a Saturday Night Live sketch they intersperse road-toughened material with new tracks such as My Best Friend that come over cooler than a Brooklyn basement in winter plus covers including Grauzone’s cult classic Eisbär (literally “ice bear”) we’ve just recorded a version with Hot Chip,” says Anna “We were partying in the studio with them listening to it.” Friedberg’s single Hardcore Workout Queen is out now. Their debut album of the same name is out on 11 November via Clouds Hill Watch the video for Hardcore Workout Queen by Friedberg.This is the archive of The Observer up until 21/04/2025 The Observer is now owned and operated by Tortoise Media (TV-PG, L) Watch episodes next day on Hulu Dave Friedberg raised $175,000 for The Humane Society Robin Thede raised $175,000 for Women in Film Triple Stumpers: 20Max Greenfield's charity receives $30,000 - Wags and WalksCamilla Luddington's charity receives $30,000 - I Stand With My PackW.Kamau Bell - Advances to Semifinals Triple Stumpers: 22Melissa Peterman's charity receives $30,000 - Diana DiSalvatore Nursing Scholarship at St Catherine’s UniversityNeil deGrasse Tyson's charity receives $30,000 - STRIVEJackie Tohn - Advances to Semifinals Triple Stumpers: 8Margaret ran the WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH THE PERIODIC TABLE categoryRachel Brosnahan's charity receives $30,000 - Covenant House NYSeth Green's charity receives $30,000 - LA Food BankMargaret Cho - 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Current inventory can be purchased from Whitman.com and website in this browser for the next time I comment This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. 2025 © CoinWeek DISCLAIMER: All content within CoinWeek.com is presented for informational purposes only Commentary and Opinions are contributed by the author(s) who are solely responsible for the content CoinWeek does not buy or sell coins or numismatic material and No endorsement or affiliation to or from CoinWeek.com is made News and Analysis on Global Agri-Tech Innovation 31-Mar-2025 Last updated on 31-Mar-2025 at 10:26 GMT Speaking with AgTechNavigator at the recent World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in San Francisco Friedberg filled us in on the company’s progress since it came out of stealth last year Ohalo’s boosted breeding technology, he explains, allows parent plants to pass on 100% of their genomes to offspring instead of the usual 50%. This results in polyploid offspring with doubled genetic material producing genetically uniform or ‘true’ seeds offering faster breeding cycles polyploidy gives plants “greater genes in the toolbox” to be able to grow faster the agronomy data company sold to Bayer for $1 billion What are the plans for Ohalo and how will the company measure its impact “We want to be providing seed on over 100 million acres by 2040,” Friedberg says Today there’s 45 million acres of potato globally Assuming the seeds sells for 500 bucks an acre that’s a 20-billion-dollar seed revenue opportunity “So that’s how we think about the scale of the opportunity for potato I think that over time if we’re successful with bringing seed to market in potato we could see significant growth in potato acreage worldwide.” Friedberg is also CEO of The Production Board which invests in technology businesses in food the popular business and investing podcast Thanks to his polymathic expertise spanning multiple disciplines, there have been rumours he may advise President Trump’s administration. Although he denies any inside knowledge, he’s well placed to discuss the potential impact of tariffs on the sector. With prices for inputs and parts such as LEDs already up 25% or more “someone’s gonna get hurt in the trade problem” Though he caveats this with some reassurance that he expects financial support will be provided to farmers in the face of trade challenges as it was in the first Trump administration Friedberg is also fairly languid in the face of the industry’s major capital drought one could argue this is a normalisation for an industry that has long investment cycles,” he tells us Regardless of whether we have reached the bottom of the agtech venture capital cycle Friedberg is at pains to stress one thing: “There is always extraordinary returns to be made with extraordinary innovation in any cycle in any market in any point of time Some disagree in the notion there will ever be a Facebook, Google, Amazon of agech, instead choosing to bet smaller on a larger number of companies that have a greater chance of exit via an M&A rather than a IPO. But Friedberg believes in the “power law” phenomenon where a small number of entities (like companies, users, or products) disproportionately contribute to the majority of outcomes, such as revenue or market share. “What happens in every industry is you have a power law of returns,” he explains. “You have one company: Facebook, Google, Amazon that returns 100s of billions of dollars of capital and then you have thousands of companies that lose money. What matters is that one company. “So the VC that invests in that one company in that one moment of time gets all the returns and the same will happen in agriculture. That one breakthrough that is transformative regardless of the overall investment cycle will transform the world and will make a significant return for its investors and shareholders.” In the last 10 years you were better off buying the NASDAQ than you were betting in the top quartile of venture capital funds. Nevertheless, Friedberg point outs that at any given moment any start-up and investor has the opportunity to find and build that power law business. In other words, you’ve got to be in it to win it. Will Friedberg hit another jackpot with Ohalo? Perhaps tellingly, he is focussed exclusively on the start-up. “When we had our breakthroughs and we saw the results with Boosted Breeding it became apparent to me that this company could be a transformative business for all of agriculture and I had to dedicate all my time and attention,” he reveals. ‘It’s a giant iceberg, and we’re at the very tip’: Why polyploidy is taking centre stage after a century on the sidelines06-Jun-2024By Oliver MorrisonThe concept of polyploidy has hit the headlines. But what is it – and why are scientists keen to learn more about its potential impact in agriculture? ‘The yield gains are insane’. David Friedberg unwraps Ohalo’s much-awaited ‘Boosted Breeding’ tech24-May-2024By Oliver Morrison The entrepreneur and investor’s plant-breeding platform Ohalo Genetics is out of stealth mode and out to boost crop yields worldwide. Agtech investment: Time to just forget the glory days of 2021?28-Mar-2024By Oliver MorrisonOver the last 18 months there has been a notable shift in investor sentiment within the agtech sector, with the recent economic downturn casting a long shadow over the entrepreneurial landscape. Are we going to hell in a handcart? Is this an opportune... WATCH: Parametric insurance - a new era of coveragePaid for and in partnership with EarthDaily Agro Driving sustainable and climate-smart practices in South AmericaPaid for and in partnership with Rethink Events Ltd Reimagining aquafeed: Paving the way for scalable next-gen solutionsPaid for and content provided by Rethink Events Ltd of a guy who just cannot keep up with the pace of his lover A female voice on the chorus coolly intones a postmortem: “The only reason we never worked out was he didn’t work out.” The name and title track of indie rock girl group Friedberg’s Hardcore Workout Queen (out November 8 through Clouds Hill) ostensibly suggest her side of MGMT’s story But give the track a listen—preferably along with the zany music video directed by the Nuësch sisters—and you’ll realize that the working out isn’t hardcore at all It’s actually a carefully calibrated regiment of doing *almost* nothing In an interview New Noise did with Austria-born lead singer Anna F. (whose birth town lends its name to the band) she discussed the challenges of keeping her head above water in a world oversaturated with lofty ideals and the relentless rhetoric of self-optimization “Navigating through all this madness and making decisions: shopping “I’m just trying to stay sane.” This album does everything it can to preserve the sanity of you and those AI-voiced life hack YouTube shorts and often surreal dance-punk sendup of impossible standards and even more impossible choices The 10 tracks here all sound ready for a live circuit which makes sense because that’s where Friedberg fleshed them out They essentially toured most of this album before releasing it It helps that the band (also including Emily Linden on guitar and Fifi Dewey on drums) worked on the album with famed producer Dan Carey who operates on the grounds of doing it in “one live take.” calls herself a “personified contradiction,” and most of the songs’ lyrics play out like back-and-forth arguments in her own head She wrote two separate sets of lines for “The Greatest,” and the more she waffled between them the more clear it became that she had to pick the lyrics about being wholly indecisive I wanna stay in / Make up some space in between,” she sings over sharp synth arpeggios reminiscent of LCD Soundsystem Hardcore Workout Queen makes this incessant squabbling enjoyable which is especially refreshing in the month of November It’s not an American record; it’s by a British band with German and Austrian roots But as any stateside Friedberg fan tatted with a cowbell might tell you this music thrives along the highways of the U.S And if you find yourself dancing to the record Buy or listen to the album here Issue 73 featuring Pinhead Gunpowder is available now This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website Learn more Game Recap: Men's Soccer | 8/31/2024 2:00:00 PM Thanks for visiting The use of software that blocks ads hinders our ability to serve you the content you came here to enjoy We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here We have the address for the funeral home & the family on file If you're not happy with your card we'll send a replacement or refund your money Information on COVID-19 Funeral Assistance through FEMA \u003ca href=\"/coronavirus-notice/\"\u003eRead More\u003c/a\u003e On September 14, 2024 Charlton Gillet Campbell Friedberg, died peacefully at her home at the age of 99 ¼ . Beloved wife of the late Sidney M. Friedberg and the late R. McLean Campbell, devoted mother of Chaddie Hughes, Gina Campbell (Paul Sevigny)... View Obituary & Service Information The family of Mrs. Charlton Gillet Campbell Friedberg created this Life Tributes page to make it easy to share your memories. On September 14, 2024 Charlton Gillet Campbell Frie... Customized sympathy cards. Mailed for you. The film attests to the power of art-making to affirm life in the face of omnipresent death. Beyond tragedy, Masharawi and his collaborators show an emphatic interest in defining Palestinians as living, speaking subjects beyond just martyrs for a flag or ideal. Life persists amid the ruins: Neighbors greet each other and share what little food and supplies they have, and children play and continue their studies in the absence of school buildings—their names scrawled on their arms in permanent ink to identify them if they’re killed. From Ground Zero’s particular interest is a self-reflexive survey of art as a universal, democratically accessible testament to life and identity. Beyond the film’s very form, Masharawi incorporates multiple portraits of artists across different mediums struggling to continue their craft as they fear for their bodily survival and the devastation of their people. Eli Friedberg is a freelancer who’s writing has also appeared in The Film Stage. “depicting a prospective Palestinian state engulfing all of Israel” and very likely resulting in a secular democracy of equal rights – that is the dystopia which Zionists use to excuse their mass murder of the Palestinian people. The author of this piece sees the region from a Zionist perspective of zero sum power: if the Palestinians won, it would mean the end of their state. Well yes. But what kind of new state would replace it? “a secular democracy of equal rights” – obviously you are joking, or severely delussioned. Israelis would be butchered and strung up in the outskirts of towns and cities by the bloodthirsty demons you wish to defend with your words. Never heard such rubbish in my life document.getElementById("comment").setAttribute( "id", "abeda608dd0fb8378d9f355375b0db4c" );document.getElementById("facec42938").setAttribute( "id", "comment" ); Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Joe Friedberg delivers opening statements at the Minnesota Judicial Center in St Paul.Ben Garvin | AP pool via Pioneer PressGo Deeper.CloseCreate an account or log in to save stories We have added it to a list of your favorite stories who played a large role in some of the most high-profile criminal cases in the state in the last fifty years started out as an encyclopedia salesperson before working his way through law school a great researcher and just a great trial lawyer,” Valentini said and he represented his clients within the boundaries of the law Friedberg’s death Monday following an illness with cancer was confirmed by the Minnesota Defense Lawyers Association eulogized him in a social media post on Tuesday: “Fearless MPR News helps you turn down the noise and build shared understanding Turn up your support for this public resource and keep trusted journalism accessible to all Friedberg argued strongly on MPR News that judges should overturn a ruling against Coleman “I’ll do it without guile or sophistication and I’ll tell you I submit that you’re wrong,” Friedberg told judges overseeing the appeal and said he was a “Godfather” of defense attorneys generous and would always help any lawyer that ever asked for help,” Valentini said Friedberg was trying cases right up until he got sick Attorney Ryan Pacyga said in a social media post that every defense lawyer knew about Friedberg: “What began as a man I admired from afar turned into a wonderful mentor and friendship Joe Friedberg looks over exhibits during a Senate recount trial on Feb boasts an acquittal rate at state courts of 80 percent and a better-than-average acquittal rate in federal court on their website Friedberg was first admitted to the state law board in 1966, according to state records. He was named an attorney of the year by Minnesota Lawyer in 2016, where he said attorneys should be “arrogant enough to get kicked in the ass Friedberg was also inducted into the Minnesota Lawyers Hall of Fame and chosen as one of the 100 most influential attorneys in state history by Minnesota Law and Politics Friedberg is survived by two children and his wife Carolyn Valentini said Friedberg “worshipped the ground she walked on.” Access to trusted news and information is urgently needed right now - and when you support WXXI’s public media mission today WXXI offers Rochester and the Finger Lakes solid trusted reporting built on a mission that uses the resources and independence of public media to serve the public good Become a monthly sustainer or increase your current sustaining gift now and your gift will be matched every month for a full year Support the facts and the truth right at the source by making a commitment to public media today your generous support for the essential coverage of WXXI is critical The University of Rochester’s Wilmot Cancer Institute has been designated as a National Cancer Institute The prestigious award aims to spotlight institutions that demonstrate leadership and excellence in cancer research and they definitely deserve it,” said Sarah Moore Roughly three years ago Moore began treatment at the center for a kind of bone cancer called osteosarcoma Moore was present to celebrate the center’s new designation on Wednesday because I just think it's so incredible,” Moore said Wilmot is the largest cancer care provider in upstate New York and the second largest in the state “Cancer is moving so quickly as a field that having access to the cutting-edge treatment and bringing that treatment here to Rochester — often before it's available anyplace else — is part of what this designation is about,” said Dr Friedberg said the designation will help Wilmot to be more attractive to patients It also unlocks up to $10 million in additional federal funding for the institution “Federal funding of cancer research is essential,” he said and we've had and really enjoyed support from a bipartisan legislation group.” The designation comes as President Donald Trump and his administration have considered cutting millions in federal funding to some medical research institutions Friedberg said he doesn't see the cancer institute funding being threatened by the changes unfolding in the federal government will allow Wilmot to host many new clinical trials He said the team at Wilmot is also excited about pursuing an area called developmental therapeutics which involves creating infrastructure to more rapidly translate laboratory discoveries to the clinic “It's going to require some extensive recruitment and a little bit of capital to build a new center and that's going to be our big area of focus.” Friedberg said More New York State News and Emily Linden chart the development of the band’s sound and ask the timeless question: “can there ever be too much cowbell?” with a different sound – but after a roadtrip across California in 2017 she came back with a set of songs that called for a change in approach but I didn’t really want to proceed with that because the new sound of these songs was so different Upon her return she quickly assembled the lineup for Friedberg (named for Anna’s hometown in Austria) in London the project was vindicated by the audience response people were jumping up from the tables and cheering for us – I remember feeling at the time like the band’s debut EP Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah arrived in 2021 But they’re now gearing up to release their first full-length The album is an awesome collection of angular indie-rock is something enabled by forming a band rather than keeping Friedberg as a solo project: “The songs just developed in a different direction two guitarists and so on – but it was a different kind of sound It wasn’t as guitar-focused – the songs moved into that guitar-heavy direction.” Friedberg’s guitarist – and as we’ll discuss later Anna’s ‘gear curator’ – Emily Linden explains: “It’s hard to say it’s one thing but then live we have the setup of two guitars And the live performance is different to the recordings at least that’s what many people say after they see us live,” Anna adds She laughs as she then recalls the last attempt at pinning Friedberg down to a set of standard genre markers: “The latest was ‘alternative rock with slices of dance punk’ – that was our latest attempt!” So I play around with those for different synth sounds “And then for the guitar sounds, I’ve got a Cali76 compressor, and also a Fulltone OCD. I want to get rid of my OCD, really. Only because with the new songs we’ve dialled down the amount of distorted, crunchy rock tones So I want to get something to replace that I’m using the Spark booster set quite clean really to just give it a low-key crunch.” Anna adds that she also has an OCD (“and I hate it too!”) but explains that her approach is a lot more straightforward and basically consists of that OCD as an always-on drive “I have so much to do on stage – I have to play a million cowbells at the same time playing guitar and swapping between things So I basically just have one setting that I use throughout the set.” When it comes to amps, Emily is also clear on her preference for the analogue approach. “Because we play a lot of gigs in Germany and Austria and we’ve been to America a few times, I was always thinking that it’d be so much easier to fly with a Kemper – everything’s all set You can become limitless with a digital board But… when you bring it down and you are limited and trying to get as much as you can from what you’ve got – I love doing that.” that limiting – there are so many options in these current times Like everything – 10 oat milks and so on,” she adds and laughs – “but there’s definitely more excitement more potential for something unexpected to happen with the analogue stuff.” Emily’s passion for her gear has clearly let her slide into a natural role within Friedberg as Anna explains: “Emily is basically my pedal curator because I’m not a geek about it at all – I’ve got a lot of other things on stage so I’m always happy to hand that over to her!” Anna has a similarly straightforward approach in that she’s found her number one guitar and has stuck with it since “I have a Duesenberg Starplayer – and I like the sound of it back in another time when I had another curator Whenever I have to use another guitar live One genre descriptor that Hardcore Workout Queen does bring to mind is krautrock – there’s a driving percussion-focused sound accentuated by spiky guitar lines and even within the shorter format of the band’s recorded songs but maybe there’s one kick drum missing from that typical motorik pattern But there’s still kind of that drum machine vibe And I love that thing where it just stays on the same thing and then there’s some psychedelic thing that happens or one little element that’s added and it’s amazing – a similar moment to when a cowbell comes in!” The humble cowbell has become somewhat of a flagship for Friedberg and generally driving the music into a fun And it all started exactly where you’d think when you hear that a band has embraced “more cowbell.” “Someone showed me the Saturday Night Live sketch,” Anna says “that was literally the first thing that hooked me in and that was when I just fell in love completely Just because of the way they used them – whenever a cowbell or a woodblock would appear it just made me so happy To any track it adds something that just makes me happy.” Emily notes that while she may be the guitar curator which is actually still with us,” says Anna “and now we need a whole flight case just for cowbells then it’s like… can there ever be too much cowbell?” Hardcore Workout Queen is out now The world’s leading authority and resource for all things guitar. Quest Resource Management Group is elevating a former Rubicon leader to its CEO role and bringing in another executive Quest Resource Management Group is making changes to its leadership team and workforce to strengthen its position heading into 2025. The company ended the year with a nominal revenue increase but drops in gross profit and margin, a symptom of what board chairman Dan Friedberg called "execution issues" on Quest's earnings call Wednesday "We have not executed at the level or with the consistency that we need," Friedberg said Former CEO Ray Hatch will retire to a role on the company's board of directors, and former Chief Revenue Officer Perry Moss was named CEO on Wednesday Moss came to Quest from Rubicon, which he joined in 2011. He previously was an executive at Oakleaf Waste Management, which sold to WM in 2011 Friedberg praised Moss's "track record of growing businesses and delivering strong operating performance" in a statement announcing the move Moss led successful organic growth initiatives for the company driving new client wins and implementing a new sales management process “It’s an honor to lead Quest into what will surely be an exciting and productive new chapter,” Moss said in a statement Quest reported progress in attracting new business last year The company secured eight “significant” new clients in 2024 which it said was the most in one year ever for the company It expects each will generate "seven figures" of annual revenue Quest also added more than 1,200 vendors to the company's service platform during the year The company also announced a 15% reduction in workforce Moss said on the earnings call that Quests’s remaining workforce would have to meet goals and that leadership would be keeping “a much closer pulse on the business.” He said the high volume of new clients coming in last year “exposed some flaws in our processes.” “When you’re trickling water through a pipe that’s when the leaks expose themselves,” Moss said Quest's finances were weighed down by several issues last year according to the company's earnings release Cost increases from onboarding new clients and implementing the company's new vendor management system as well as softness in the industrial market "We have grown quickly over the past few years this has exposed weaknesses in our processes and systems," Friedberg noted Beyond layoffs, the company listed several cost-cutting measures in order to drive improved results. That includes selling a division of RWS serving mall tenants. Quest acquired RWS for $33 million in cash in 2021 announced as one of a pair of acquisitions at the time Quest said the deal would grow its position in both the commercial property management market and industrial market consumer base But an analyst called the deal and subsequent integration a “disaster,” a sentiment with which Friedberg agreed “While our acquisitions have provided scale and scope it has been clear for a while that the non-core tenant direct mall business within RWS was creating issues and was not contributing to the bottom line,” Friedberg said Friedberg said the issues pertained to invoice accounting issues and was “a very small portion of overall RWS.” Quest expects to reveal details on the proceeds from that sale process in the next few months Quest refinanced its debt to give it more access to capital lowering its interest rates in the process Friedberg said it would focus on allocating improving cash flows to pay down debt rather than M&A The company also hired a new senior vice president of operations Nick Ober was previously a vice president at RXO He previously held senior roles at Republic Services and WM Ober will lead a new “operational excellence initiative,” which the company touted as an internal efficiency measure that would improve margins Get the free daily newsletter read by industry experts Extended producer responsibility and bottle bills will continue to influence recycling policy at the state level Other bills for batteries or mattresses could also make an appearance in 2025 The Los Angeles County fires destroyed thousands of properties including a National Recycling Coalition member Subscribe to the Waste Dive free daily newsletter The free newsletter covering the top industry headlines CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE TDN FOR FREE! Remember Ben with a gift to Thoroughbred aftercare Subscribe for FREE to the Daily PDF or the News Alerts Home » Archive » Shared News » Owner Joe Friedberg Passes Away at 87 a prominent Minneapolis defense attorney and racehorse owner was a graduate of the University of North Carolina law school A colorful attorney with a large personality Friedberg represented a long list of NFL players and they Carolyn raised a daughter and son both of whom married and presented their parents with grandchildren to adore and shared a rare bond of love that made them truly unique as a couple Carolyn Friedberg once named a stakes-winning filly Blonde Moment after seemingly bidding on the wrong Affirmed filly one September Sale Joe loved horses and racing–and especially those involved in racing because I wouldn't want to be walking around lucky and not know it.” from the shoe-shine man at the track to those with powerful stables Some of his greatest friendships were with those who had their hands on his horses Joe teamed up with a young trainer from New Orleans who also lost his fight with cancer at age 53 in 2017 Together they had a number of stakes horses who won both the Locust Grove and Ashland Mile at Churchill Downs “Joe Friedberg was one of a rare breed self-made (paying for his education by selling encyclopedias door-to-door) with a big heart,” said Tom Thornbury as will everyone who ever knew him.” Not a subscriber? Click here to sign up for the daily PDF or alerts. Copy Article Link Editor / News Stories:editor@thetdn.com Advertising:advertising@thetdn.com Customer Service:customerservice@thetdn.com Click Here to sign up for a free subscription. The tens of thousands of students and schoolchildren who took to the streets of cities around the UK yesterday were protesting not just against the rise in university tuition fees but also the scrapping of the Education Maintenance Allowance for disadvantaged school pupils – an issue that's increasingly coming to the fore "Some estimates placed the number of protesters nationwide yesterday at up to 130,000 students While the most protests passed off without incident there were isolated incidents of violence and skirmishes with police although there were also clashes in Manchester." This morning, several protests are continuing – and being reported in Adam's live blog There was an amazing series of tweets from @pennyred the Twitter name of journalist Laurie Penny beginning at around 1pm yesterday: "Running down whitehall through the traffic "Just got hit in back of head by cop." "Pushed through falling barrier by cop "The cops have blocked us off at the back "Kids streaming through double line cops We have the right to protest!' Police kidney punching a child." "Cops look like they're getting ready to charge Laurie Penny then wrote a comment piece for the Guardian that begins: and the schoolchildren who have skipped classes gather around as a student with a three-string guitar strikes up the chords to Tracy Chapman's Talkin' Bout a Revolution an apocalyptic choir knotted around a small bright circle of warmth and energy." While the Guardian is stressing the largely peaceful nature of the protests others are predictably revelling in the violence The Sun, under the headline Here Fee Go Again "Yobs attacked cops with metal crash barriers and trashed a police van as a second protest against rising university tuition fees turned violent yesterday." The Mail has found itself a new angle – it's all about the riot girls: It's supersize headline reads: "Rage of the girl rioters: Britain's students take to the streets again – and this time women are leading the charge." "Rioting girls became the disturbing new face of violent protest yesterday "They threatened to overturn a police riot squad van as they smashed windows uniforms and helmets and daubed the sides with graffiti "Police fled the van as the young demonstrators against university tuition fees yelled obscenities only yards from Downing Street." The BBC reports a warning from vice-chancellors (namely Steve Smith) of the "devastating impact on universities if politicians fail to agree on government plans to raise tuition fees" Smith's view is that unless students are made to pay up universities will have to cut drastically the number of places they offer The one about Gove making the most sweeping changes to schools in a generation in yesterday's white paper He's going to give headteachers the powers to make decisions about their own schools – as long as they decide to dress the kids up in blazers and ties and teach them chemistry and French And sort them into houses and put prefects in charge And get teachers to search their pupils for knives and guns Warwick Mansell takes Gove to task for foisting academy status on to schools "Something extraordinary is happening in education announced in a white paper being billed by the coalition as decentralising actually introduce a mechanism that breaks new ground in the power it hands to the secretary of state "Michael Gove has pledged to take tough action to intervene in cases where schools – both primary and secondary – are deemed to be underperforming "Schools found to have GCSE or national test results below centrally set minimum expectations which are failing to improve and where Ofsted has concerns will be converted by the government into academies And Comment is Free is running a debate between a teacher and former soldier about the idea of smoothing the path from the battleground to the classroom A Guardian editorial accuses the white paper of being "as busy as a demented bee" such as bits of the new approach to training and the improved sanctions against bad teachers such as the further downgrading of sport and the nostalgia for houses The Telegraph, on other hand, declares: "Michael Gove knows the true importance of education" He is "a passionate advocate of better schools and should be allowed to see the job through" EducationGuardian.co.uk All today's EducationGuardian stories EducationGuardian on Twitter Judy Friedberg on Twitter Jeevan Vasagar on Twitter Jessica Shepherd on Twitter Claire Phipps on Twitter EducationGuardian on Facebook The Guardian University Guide 2011 School league tables Postgrad tables The world's top 100 universities Online learning and teaching resources from Learn Job vacancies in education Sign up to get Crib sheet as an email on Tuesdays Your Ads Privacy ChoicesIMDb Welcome to Websitename.com. This site uses cookies. Read our policy By Rebecca Jeffrey2025-04-28T10:06:00+01:00 CEVA Logistics has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of Turkish logistics firm Borusan Tedarik Zinciri Çözümleri ve Teknoloji Anonim Şirketi. The $440m deal for Borusan Tedarik will see CEVA Logistics acquire air and ocean business as well as customs, contract logistics full truckload (FTL) and less than truckload (LTL) ground transport business France-based CEVA Logistics, a subsidiary of the CMA CGM Group since 2019, said the acquisition would see its airfreight capabilities rank among the top five companies in Turkey while its ocean capacity would increase by 25% The acquisition would also nearly double the size of CEVA’s domestic warehousing and distribution operations adding approximately 570,000 sq m to its existing 620,000 sq m of warehouse space In addition, the combined ground transport activities would execute nearly 1m domestic transports per year, while Borusan Tedarik’s activities would also strengthen CEVA’s existing network connecting with Europe CEVA Logistics added that Borusan Tedarik’s relationships in the automotive industry would boost CEVA’s domestic FVL operations into a top-three position As well as Borusan Tedarik's business in Tukey CEVA Logistics will also acquire Borusan Tedarik subsidiaries in Germany Privately held Borusan Holding has 69.47% of Borusan Tedarik’s shares while the remaining 30.53% is held by publicly traded Borusan Yatırım Borusan Tedarik had gross revenue of $567m in 2024. The deal remains subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals Mathieu Friedberg, chief executive at CEVA Logistics, said: “As a top five global logistics player we have identified Turkey as one of our strategic geographies where we expect to grow significantly "Complementing our existing presence in Turkey with the reputable experts and operations of Borusan Tedarik would put us in a position to offer even greater value to our combined customers and CEVA Logistics has contined its growth trajectory following its 2019 acquisition by the CMA CGM Group. As the Group’s strategic logistics pillar, CEVA has integrated large logistics players, including Ingram Micro’s CLS division, GEFCO, and most recently, Bolloré Logistics, which the CMA CGM Group acquired from the Bolloré Group last year CEVA Logistics said it has also made domestic bolt-on acquisitions and launched joint ventures to accelerate its growth in key geographies or market sectors The CMA CGM Group has increased its stake in airfreight by completing the acquisition of Air Belgium and its fleet of four freighters The European Commission has approved DSV’s planned takeover of DB Schenker following the acquisition announcement last year UK multimodal logistics company Kingscote Rojay Ltd has completed the acquisition of fellow UK-based Republic Cargo Systems UK Ltd Site powered by Webvision Cloud encyclopedic knowledge of the law and a client list of NFL players He died Monday after battling colon cancer for eight months A titan of the Minnesota legal community has died who in nearly 60 years as an attorney represented some of the region’s most high-profile criminal defendants His colleagues in the legal world remember Friedberg as a gregarious larger-than-life character whose legend preceded him in the courtroom often evoking a smirk from a judge or opposing counsel who knew they’d be in for a good show when Friedberg walked through the door a true living legend,” said fellow defense attorney Ryan Pacyga who called Friedberg “one of the godfathers of criminal defense in Minnesota.” Friedberg’s lore was born out of humble beginnings: Originally from Brooklyn and moved to Minnesota as a young man selling Britannica Encyclopedias The door-to-door salesman job turned into an education in the unpredictable nature of the populace that would one day comprise his jury pools giving him fodder for stories later of being insulted by kids chased off porches by knife-wielding prospective clients and urinated on by a German Shepherd One of his successful sales was to a federal judge who was so impressed with Friedberg he persuaded him to take the Minnesota bar exam uncanny ability to read a witness and impressive recall when it came to the law Friedberg established himself as one of the most capable and hardworking lawyers in the state Along with a couple of other up-and-coming attorneys Friedberg helped build a new school of high-quality defense in Minnesota a defense attorney who worked out of Friedberg’s office for more than two decades “He’s probably the most clever guy I ever met,” said Rivers Friedberg boosted his career by working on a landmark lawsuit against the makers of the birth control device Dalkon Shield who had ignored repeated warning signs of serious health concerns for users he caught a case that would become the subject of national headlines and late night show jokes: Gerald and Judy Dick a wealthy Roseville couple who were charged in a bizarre scheme involving a personal shopper stealing expensive Armani suits from a Dayton’s store Friedberg worked on more than 100 murder cases over the years and his colleagues said he prided himself on building the best defense possible for clients boasts a winning record of over 97% of felony sex cases and 89% of other types of cases including the Distinguished Service Award from the Minnesota Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and induction into the Minnesota Lawyers Hall of Fame Earl Gray, another defense attorney in Minnesota who is a close friend and worked on several cases with Friedberg, said he always admired his ability to win over skeptical jurors and judges. “If there is a heaven, if they’re reluctant on it and Joe can talk, he’ll get in,” Gray said. “There’s no question about it. He’ll talk his way in.” Mike Friedberg said his father was diagnosed with colon cancer late last year. He described him as a consummate storyteller, sharp to the end. “He had a million stories,” said Mike Friedberg. “I’m 57 years old and he could still tell a story three weeks ago that I’ve never heard before.” Pacyga said the elder Friedberg was an “eternally generous, gentle soul who loved his family, loved his life, loved the profession” and who still had “fire in his belly” and worked until he died. “More than just being an incredible lawyer, he was just a decent man,” said Rivers. “He was good to his wife, his kids, his colleagues — I could always rely on him for anything.” Andy Mannix covers Minneapolis crime and policing for the Minnesota Star Tribune. No Section Peek inside homes for sale in the Twin Cities area After falling behind 17-0 at halftime and being dominated most of the game the Bulldogs may have locked up a spot in the College Football Playoff musomuso is your one stop shop for Music News We strive to bring you the highest quality content at all times If for whatever reason you wish to return your purchased product please return it in the same condition it was sent to you (at your own cost) where the purchase price will be refunded to you (less the postage costs) We were invited along to catch the mighty PLACEBO when they performed at the Canons Marsh Amphitheatre in the heart of Bristol a while back I reached out to Anna from a band called FRIEDBERG who opened for them on the night and asked if we could have a chat to her after their set she jumped at the chance and met us behind the main bar to chat Fresh off the stage at the Canons Ampitheatre here in the heart of Bristol is London/Berlin based Friedberg I read that you are an alt rock band and an alt pop band we were talking about this recently and we have agreed on a new description as everyone keeps asking You have literally come off the stage about 20 minutes ago the sun was starting to set and lots of people had come early to watch us play which is really nice to see I’m not that familiar with their music but our bass player is a HUGE fan I have started to listen to their music a lot more lately and I really like what I have heard so far! setting off in New York and ending up in Los Angeles is there an amusing story that you can tell us from your time on the road? there are too many stories from the time on the road in America I think what surprised me the most is that there were many of our fans following us on the tour and even got tattoos of our cowbells we had to draw them for them and then they went and got them tattooed we spent around 8 hours per day in the van which sounds awful we saw a lot of the country and LOADS of petrol stations! Were you in a luxury tour bus or hopping from place to place in a U-Haul van and crashing in hotels and motels along the way? We had a luxury Sprinter style van which was great we hopped from Airbnb to Airbnb which worked well for us and you miss the scenery so whilst I missed the comfort I think that we enjoyed being in the smaller van a lot more. Did you notice a change in the audience as you travelled from East to West What about between UK and US audiences? people were a lot more outgoing and up for a good time (Washington DC was CRAZY!) whereas the audience on the West coast were way more laidback and chilled Were there places on the tour that you hadn’t played before? we had never played Canada before so that was a first for us and there were many cities that we had not played in before Which was your favourite place or venue on the tour? I really enjoyed the shows we did on the East coast and the Canadian dates because we had never played there before tell me your top three survival tips? Get a coolbox and buy healthy food to survive! Get some sleep when you can on the road how does it feel to know it’s out there for everyone to hear? it feels like you are no longer pregnant! It’s so nice to be able to share it with the world properly! Has it been a track that you have been playing live on your recent tour? We started playing it on the US/Canadian tour it’s nice to be able to play new songs as you do start to tire of your older material and it’s so nice to play something that the audience may have never heard before. I saw on Instagram that it was recorded in Peckham how long did it take to get it all done? we actually took just one day to record the whole thing This was an amazing feat as we had so many costume changes and also the technical elements which were quite tricky We started at 7am and finished at 9:30pm so it was a long day Any interesting things happen whilst you were recording it? We shot the video on the BUSIEST street in Peckham and all day long it must have looked very funny to them! has this always played a major part in your set? It was the Saturday night Live sketch that got me into the cowbell (laughs) - “what we need I see that it also features on the tour poster as well! Yes, a post-punk band from New York called ESG got me into the cowbell after I saw them live there’s more new music in the pipeline and there may even be an album in the pipeline! Dare I ask WHEN we might see the album? What is the best social site to keep in touch up to date with your musical happenings? Instagram is the best place to keep up to date with all things Friedberg I guess I just don’t really understand how it works I need to spend more time on TikTok and work out how we can use it for the best We’d like to thank Anna for sparing the time to chat to us and we wish her and the band every success in the future Keep your eyes on their Instagram page for news of forthcoming new music and the album that Anna teased us about above Fastening solutions supplier Stafa has secured an exclusive dealership for August Friedberg GmbH products in the Benelux and France markets The partnership became effective on 1 January 2025 providing Stafa customers with access to a premium and sustainable product range entirely manufactured in Germany Stafa said the dealership aligns with its strategy to offer customers a comprehensive package that meets the growing demand for European quality and sustainability Friedberg’s HV products are renowned for innovative technology reliability and full production in Germany Complying with all stringent European standards Friedberg’s products feature the unique AF Pro® lubrication which ensures easy and consistent assembly cold or heat “no longer” impact the tightening torque while the nuts feature a dirt-repellent design ensuring a significant advantage during assembly the products are offered in standard sizes up to M36 Larger sizes up to M72 are available on request Stafa also has an experienced technical team to assist customers with challenges stafa.nl Media Information Privacy and Security Terms and Conditions Stag Publications Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with Company Number 03530248 a politics and international affairs professor at Princeton University said it would not be easy for the United States to rapidly implement a tariff on imported semiconductors because the cost of the policy to the country would be too high President Donald Trump wants to use tariffs to persuade companies to manufacture in the U.S. he did not expect the threats to be carried out quickly "Given that it will likely take many years to increase U.S the imposition of high tariffs would drive up the costs and reduce the competitiveness of other American industries," Friedberg said I would not expect to see these threats carried out all at once or quickly," he added Friedberg said Trump's chip tariff threats aimed to push domestic and foreign manufacturers to boost U.S "Whether by the threat of tariffs or perhaps more positive inducements and incentives will definitely be trying to encourage Taiwanese and other foreign companies to invest more in the U.S.," the Princeton professor said Trump said he would like to impose a 25 percent tariff on semiconductors with an official announcement expected as soon as April and it'll go very substantially higher over the course of a year," Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago club Trump has repeatedly alleged Taiwan "stole our chip business." Joseph Wu (吳釗燮), secretary-general of Taiwan's National Security Council said on Friday that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co the world's largest contract chipmaker was a self-made success TSMC is investing US$65 billion in Arizona to build three advanced fabs it is widely thought that TSMC will establish more sophisticated IC assembly plants in the U.S or even acquire a stake in Intel Corp.'s fab operations through technology transfer and many Western countries are not as efficient as Taiwan when it comes to building semiconductor fabs saying "building semiconductor plants in the U.S It added that the West has to streamline fab construction processes to catch up with the semiconductor ecosystems in Taiwan and other Asian manufacturing hubs TechSpot highlighted the challenges TSMC has faced in the U.S. explaining that "TSMC struggled to find skilled workers locally It added that "cultural differences between TSMC's Taiwanese management and American employees created unforeseen obstacles," but that "perhaps most critically navigating local regulations proved difficult for the global chip manufacturer." former National Security Advisor to Trump told CNA in an interview that imposing a tariff on chips from Taiwan would not change the reality that the U.S Bolton said the real issue is that the U.S cannot develop cutting-edge IC capabilities overnight Seventy-one years after its first edition, the 23rd edition of Paper Money of the United States, the standard reference book on American currency, is being released by the Coin & Currency Institute in July 2024. In 1953, the late Robert Friedberg (1912-1963) broke new ground when the Treasury Department granted permission for photographs of American paper money to be printed for the first time The current edition’s 336 pages feature notes from America’s greatest currency collections The inaugural edition of Paper Money of the United States also introduced other innovations never before attempted and the book earned a permanent place on reference shelves The 23rd edition of Paper Money of the United States is a snapshot in time – and as the new edition debuts it shows that the market for paper money is stable or rising in all categories Notes of great rarity or top quality often establish price records every time they are sold All valuations in the new edition have been adjusted These prices are given in up to seven states of preservation from Very Good (VG8) to Gem Uncirculated (Gem65) A major addition is the expansion of the section on the Treasury Notes of the War of 1812 to include those issued from 1837 to 1860 There are also several other additions and revisions to the new volume making it a necessity for every collector and dealer of American currency From the first year of federal paper money (1861) to the present the fronts and backs of all classes and types of currency and pricing every variety of paper money ever issued – more than 10,000 prices in all descriptive and numismatic history of the currency of the United States There are supplemental sections on Continental and Colonial Currency (notes issued from 1680 to 1788); Treasury Notes from 1812 to 1861 considered by some to be the first national currency; a comprehensive listing by type of the issues of the Confederate States of America; and sections devoted to paper money errors were created to alleviate the shortage of change needed for commerce during and after the Civil War The listing in the Appendix of the 14,348 National Banks that existed from 1863 to 1929 also shows the number of large size and small size notes known to exist for each note-issuing bank The Appendix also includes information on uncut sheets of small-size notes including the modern issues sold by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Paper money collectors depend on the Friedberg Numbering System a uniform method of cataloging bank notes that is the international standard for American currency enables anyone to instantly locate a specific banknote and allows a dealer to advertise a note without need of extensive description A distinguished panel of acknowledged experts on paper money has assisted the authors enabling them to establish accurate and up-to-the minute valuations for all issues Paper Money of the United States has been an invaluable asset to currency collectors and numismatists for generations It possesses an appeal and value of its own not just to lovers of Americana and of the fine art of engraving but also to students of American history It is recognized as a landmark work and is the undisputed standard reference on American currency – internationally acknowledged as the most comprehensive and universally quoted guide on the subject Banks in America and throughout the world will find this book especially useful in that it makes possible the immediate identification of all obsolete but still legal tender paper money while simultaneously giving the collector’s value of each note It is a book that belongs in every library The Friedberg Paper Money of the United States is available from bookstores, coin and paper money dealers, and internet book sellers once trade orders are fulfilled. It may also be ordered from the publisher, Coin & Currency Institute, at P.O. Box 399, Williston, VT 05495, toll free at 1-800-421-1866 or online at www.PaperMoneyoftheUS.com The film’s images and words are an imprint of tremendous state violence Oksana Karpovych’s Intercepted is a chilly but significant document of war It aims to psychoanalyze imperial violence by juxtaposing haunting depersonalized landscape and interior photography of physical damage wrought by the Russian invasion of Ukraine—and life persisting in its wake—with allegedly intercepted audio of phone calls by Russian men on the front to their mothers Some men we hear question the war and the Russian government only for the women to parrot state propaganda narratives justifying the invasion (such as the West giving Russia no choice or conspiracy theories about American nuclear sites and biolabs) as correction or encouragement with the men falling back on state narratives to justify their actions torture and execution of prisoners—and the women’s responses range from shocked and horrified to the chillingly supportive we hear Ukrainians dehumanized ethnically (as “khokhols”) economically (as “pigs” suckling off the teat of the West) and ideologically (as “Banderites,” “Nazis,” and “fascists”) The Soviet relic of ideological invective is the most chilling for its subtlety: the invocation of hated beliefs and their ascription to broad national and ethnic groups as moral permission to dehumanize and kill in a mixture that destabilizes Anglosphere perceptions of left-right political alignment Ukrainians are seen but not heard in Karpovych’s film they trickle about the periphery of the frame among blasted residential buildings and country roads Atrocities are described graphically by their perpetrators but no blood or bodies are ever shown—only the now-empty spaces where combat and killing took place The film’s images and words are an imprint of tremendous state violence but not the violence itself The combination of NFNR’s ghostly electronic score and the overall focus on the perpetrators of violence results in an eerie sense of incompleteness reminiscent of Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest But where Glazer constructed artificial images over his imagined version of a world-historic architect of atrocity Karpovych looks to wring truth out of authentic found objects depicting the truly ordinary functionaries and victims of the razing Karpovych clearly intends to evoke our disgust at the Russian women encouraging their men But regardless of the political content of their remarks the anatomy of their emotional responses to loved ones in extreme situations aren’t peculiarly Russian nor ideologically outstanding One could imagine similar frontline-homefront dialogues including dehumanization of the enemy as encouragement and catharsis coming from many sides in many wars past and present Karpovych’s investigations offer little insight into why the average Russian soldier fights in Ukraine that isn’t obvious to even cursory observers of the conflict and the film merely illustrates the obvious at exhausting length in this regard Karpovych and the film’s press materials cite the “banality of evil” and insinuate comparisons between Russian war crimes and the Holocaust but the national mythology fueling Russia’s assault on Ukraine is simply not as arcane in its exterminatory impulses as Nazism Where Hitler was a true believer in his own perverse fictions of racial and national identity and inspired true belief in kind Vladimir Putin’s cruelty is of a more common opportunism While ordinary citizens may be the state’s willing agents of warfare there’s no real question that moral responsibility lies with the ruling class that manipulated them and sent them to fight: As one soldier ruefully observes the film’s most effective material comes in its analysis of how the military state’s permission structures for inhumanity traumatize citizens in order to harden them and focus their hatred a particularly appalling form of torture nicknamed “the 21 roses.” (The “21 roses” are 10 fingers and the penis—made to “bloom.”) First he describes it passively as something he witnessed from FSB superiors only to remind his mother and himself that the enemy would do the same to him includes a few placid scenes of Russian POWs being fed and clothed later in the film.) It’s the most stomach-churning capsule illustration of learned cruelty as an ideological baptism the most horrific psychological weapon of the authoritarian impulse as it expands itself by the darkest most torturous thoughts of its constituents and victims Though she avoids any kind of conventional dramatization—all human figures and they hardly ever appear in center frame—Karpovych makes no secret of her stance on the war Her selection of Russian accounts from 2022 depicts a demoralized army while the Ukrainian flag and national colors are nearly omnipresent in the scenery portraying a national resistance that the audience is meant to believe is too deeply rooted and stubborn to be conquered A concluding intertitle directly condemns Russia’s “imperialist violence” and praises the Ukrainian resistance but the post-apocalyptic imagery of men and dogs strolling casually by ruined apartments or scrounging in rusty decapitated tanks is a poetic snapshot of uncertainty Eli Friedberg is a freelancer who’s writing has also appeared in The Film Stage document.getElementById("comment").setAttribute( "id" "acf665e1732541ea400d4b39ae714152" );document.getElementById("facec42938").setAttribute( "id" The video features several magazines coming to life – including a mock NME Cover Indie band Friedberg have released the zany music video ‘Hardcore Workout Queen’ the title track of their upcoming debut album ‘Hardcore Workout Queen’ is set to drop November 8 via Clouds Hill features several magazines coming to life – including a mock NME Cover Austrian-born frontwoman Anna Friedberg shared: “It’s about being the Champion of the slobs whilst cheering for the Hardcore Workout Queens who run past your bedroom window early morning when you’re just tucking into your second breakfast It’s kind of you do you and I do me and maybe one day we’ll switch “It’s the perfect song to listen to whether you’ve got a protein shake or a beer in your hand whether you’ve got a popcorn machine or a rowing machine in your home whether you’re a wake and baker or a record breaker.” Take a look at the video and see the album’s full tracklist below: Friedberg was formed in 2019 by lead singer Anna Friedberg, along with London/Berlin-based Emily Linden (guitar, vocals), Cheryl Pinero (bass, vocals) and Fifi Dewey (drums). Their song ‘Go Wild’ previously featured on the FIFA 2020 soundtrack, along with BBC series Normal People the band have released their 2021 debut EP ‘Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah’ Friedberg have also dropped a string of singles this year including ‘Hello’ ‘My Best Friend’ and ‘The Greatest’ They have also previously supported Hot Chip on their US tour in 2022 and Placebo last June The world’s defining voice in music and pop culture: breaking what’s new and what’s next since 1952.