Bill Gates said he "had a really good, very long dinner" with President Donald Trump last year.Gates said he told Trump to retain PEPFAR, a long-running foreign aid program that combats HIV.Trump signed an executive order halting all foreign aid programs for 90 days after he was sworn in.Bill Gates said he pushed President Donald Trump to maintain America's aid and relief programs for HIV during a meeting they had in 2024.Gates told The New Yorker's editor David Remnick in an interview published Sunday, that he "had a really good, very long dinner" with Trump at Mar-a-Lago after Christmas."Well, we talked about the world broadly, but my first request was on HIV, where there's a question of whether the US maintains the PEPFAR program that's over twenty years standing, that keeps over ten million people alive with HIV medicines," Gates told Remnick.PEPFAR, or the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, is a foreign aid program that was started by then-President George W. Bush in 2003. The program has saved 26 million lives and prevented millions of HIV infections around the world, the State Department said on its website.But funding for PEPFAR was paused on January 20, after Trump signed an executive order freezing all foreign aid programs for 90 days until they are reviewed. According to the State Department, the US has given over $110 billion in funding to PEPFAR."I got his ear for three hours. He couldn't have been nicer. Doesn't mean that other people won't come in and say the HIV money should be cut, but I did my best," Gates said of his meeting with Trump in his interview with The New Yorker.It is unclear what will become of PEPFAR under Trump. On Tuesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a waiver "for life-saving humanitarian assistance" to Trump's executive order on foreign aid."This resumption is temporary in nature, and with limited exceptions as needed to continue life-saving humanitarian assistance programs, no new contracts shall be entered into," Rubio said in a statement on Wednesday.Gates has given money to philanthropic causes like climate change and global health since stepping down as CEO of Microsoft, the software giant he cofounded with Paul Allen in 1975.Gates was Microsoft's CEO until 2000, and was its chairman until 2014. He left Microsoft's board in 2020. Gates said in a LinkedIn post in March 2020 that stepping down from the board would allow him "to dedicate more time to philanthropic priorities."According to the Gates Foundation's website, Gates and his former wife, Melinda French Gates, have given $59.5 billion to the foundation since its inception in 2000. French Gates left the foundation in June, three years after she'd announced her divorce from Gates. The couple had been married for 27 years.The foundation had a total endowment of $75.2 billion as of December 31, 2023.In April 2018, Gates told medical publication STAT in an interview that he had suggested to Trump to hire a science adviser only for Trump to offer the job to him.Gates said he declined the offer, telling Trump that it wouldn't be "a good use of my time."Representative for Gates and Trump did not respond to requests for comment from Business Insider.

Shein, which was banned from India in 2020, has regained access to the populous market.The Chinese fast fashion brand has entered an agreement with Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries.It will sell products under a new e-commerce platform called Shein India Fast Fashion.Shein is re-entering the world's biggest consumer market, India, nearly five years after it was banned there in 2020.India's Ministry of Information Technology banned Shein and dozens of other Chinese apps including TikTok in 2020, citing concerns over national security and data privacy.But Reliance Industries, a multinational conglomerate owned by India's richest man, Mukesh Ambani, is bringing Shein back into the country under a new platform called Shein India Fast Fashion.Business Insider's checks showed that a new Shein app was available on Apple and Google's app stores as of January 27. The app listing showed it was operated by Reliance Retail, Reliance Industries' consumer arm. The Shein India Fast Fashion app was available on Apple and Google's app stores from January 27. Screenshots by BI "The fashion OG is back!" a pop-up message on the app wrote.According to a memo on the app seen by Business Insider, the brand currently ships products only to select regions, such as Delhi NCR, Mumbai, and Bangalore, India's tech hub."Pan-India shipping very soon," the notice said.When BI searched the App Store in India for the original Shein app, a notice said it was not available.The Reliance and Shein agreement was brought up in a parliament address in December when India's commerce minister, Piyush Goyal, said the two companies had entered into a technology agreement to develop an e-commerce platform."The platform is intended to create a network of local manufacturers and suppliers who will manufacture products under the brand of Shein and sell them domestically and globally," Goyal said.Shein faces an uphill battle in the US, its largest marketRe-entry into India, the world's most populous country with nearly 1.43 billion people, comes at a crucial time for Shein as it faces a reckoning in the US. The US is its largest consumer market, according to GlobalData estimates seen by Reuters.But President Donald Trump imposed a 10% tariff on goods from China on Saturday, along with a 25% tariff on goods from Canada and Mexico. During his 2024 campaign, Trump said he planned to impose tariffs of 60% or higher taxes on Chinese products.Jeffrey Towson, the founder of US and China-based retail consultancy TechMoat Consulting, told BI in November that Shein and Temu, another budget Chinese retailer, won't be able to escape the consequences of the tariffs."Shein and Temu excel at very low prices. That's why American consumers love them. But there is nothing left to squeeze out of their China supply chains," Towson told BI.He said that consumers are likely to see price increases due to the tariffs unless "the supply chains are redirected," which he said was "very likely."Representatives for Shein and Reliance Industries did not respond to requests for comment from Business Insider.

Speargrass House / Sumich Chaplin ArchitectsSave this picture! Simon DevittHousesQueenstown, New ZealandArchitects: Sumich Chaplin ArchitectsAreaArea of this architecture projectArea:625 mYearCompletion year of this architecture project Year: 2024 PhotographsPhotographs:Simon Devitt Lead Architect: Matt Chaplin More SpecsLess SpecsSave this picture!Text description provided by the architects. Our client relocated from Sydney, Australia to Queenstown, New Zealand, and wanted a family home and lifestyle to raise their young boys. They wished to create an environment that immersed their family in rural living with the opportunity to take full advantage of farm life and the activities on offer in the Wakatipu community.Save this picture!The site is a 35-hectare property located on Speargrass Flat Road. It is elevated in a majestic location above the Wakatipu Basin. The outlook is dramatic with a north aspect to Coronet Peak and a stunning south aspect to the basin below with The Remarkables mountain range beyond.Save this picture!The house is set on a natural plateau up a steep incline above Speargrass Flat Road. The design response was to plan a series of single-level structures on the plateau around a central north-orientated courtyard with the main living space opening to both the north and south aspects. The intention was to create at a domestic scale within a dramatic rural landscape.Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!The forms are traditional in shape but have a hierarchy based on height and materiality. The main living and bedrooms, being the highest forms, are clad in schist rockwork and stained cedar. The schist cladding is washed with mineral paint, light in color. This is in reference to the historic limewashed stone dwellings on the neighboring property.Save this picture!The roof of the main living form opens to the views both north and south, with an inverted gable referencing an old deer-run structure that was found on the property on the first site visit. The secondary forms of the garage and guest are clad in the weatherboards only. All forms are linked together by triple-glazed flat-roofed galleries and natural rock landscape walls.Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!Material The two main cladding elements are band sawn Cedar weatherboards stained in a washed Cedar color and schist stone completed in a buttered-up style and finished with a white wash paint, similar to the finish used at the historic neighboring Thurlby Domain. Both these materials and treatments were used historically and are currently utilized for buildings in this region. The roof and chimneys are completed in a dark-colored metal tray roof with an LRV of less than 36%. The window joinery is aluminum and triple-glazed.Save this picture!Project gallerySee allShow lessAbout this officePublished on February 03, 2025Cite: "Speargrass House / Sumich Chaplin Architects" 03 Feb 2025. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1026348/speargrass-house-sumich-chaplin-architects&gt ISSN 0719-8884Save!ArchDaily?You've started following your first account!Did you know?You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors, offices and users.Go to my stream

United-in-Diversity Campus / Willis Kusuma ArchitectsSave this picture! Mario Wibowo Photography StudioSchoolsBali, IndonesiaArchitects: Willis Kusuma ArchitectsAreaArea of this architecture projectArea:13100 mYearCompletion year of this architecture project Year: 2022 PhotographsPhotographs:Mario Wibowo Photography Studio Lead Architects: Willis Kusuma More SpecsLess SpecsSave this picture!Text description provided by the architects. Located in Kura-Kura Island, Bali, Indonesia, the Kura-Kura Bali Unity-in-Diversity (UID) Campus is a mixed-use facility encompassing an approximately 60 x 140 meter footprint that combines commercial, educational, office, and event programs. The building orients itself in the direction of the sacred Mount Agung, the highest point on Bali Island.Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!In establishing a general logic on how the plan is defined, the building operates on two intersecting axes, the horizontal axis - giving the building its horizontal language - as well as a skewed axis, pointed at Mt. Agung cutting into it, which diagonally intersects the building's longitudinal form and orients its space.Save this picture!Save this picture!Save this picture!The design builds on the 'Bale' vernacular, a traditional Balinese thatched hip-roof structure that is often interpreted as a multipurpose hall for people to gather under. Bale adopts its roofed form by symbolically pointing up to the mountains and to the skies. Willis Kusuma Architects has taken this traditional form, scaling it up into a superstructure to create one giant roof that shelters all its programs underneath it.Save this picture!It adopts a sensitive understanding of its tropical surroundings, embracing Balinese heritage as a reference point to create a modern facility. Inspiring its name, the Kura-Kura Bali Unity-in-Diversity Campus' range of programs is compartmentalized into distinct brick volumes, hoisted on steel columns that project up to the roof, creating communal open-air spaces---permeable by the weather's conditions---in and around the solid units.Save this picture!The ground floor hosts commercial functions and a mini museum. Co-working spaces and classrooms are hosted on the second and third floors, while private office spaces, a function hall, and media rooms are hosted on the third floor. Indoor and outdoor amphitheaters create informal gathering spaces. Closest under the massive roof are decks that provide seating areas, enjoying views of the island's surroundings. The interaction between the closed brick volumes and all the open-air internal spaces under one roof creates a unique spatial experience, engaging the building's users dynamically with visual and auditory connections.Save this picture!Project gallerySee allShow lessAbout this officePublished on February 03, 2025Cite: "United-in-Diversity Campus / Willis Kusuma Architects" 03 Feb 2025. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/1026180/united-in-diversity-campus-willis-kusuma-architects&gt ISSN 0719-8884Save!ArchDaily?You've started following your first account!Did you know?You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors, offices and users.Go to my stream

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Obsidian EntertainmentFallout: New Vegas and Horizon: Zero Dawn Lead Writer John Gonzalez has returned to Obsidian after 14 years. However, he stated that he would not work on the sequel to Fallout New Vegas.In aLinkedIn post, the developer shared that he started a new position as Creative Director at Obsidian Entertainment and anticipated the possible fans assumptions and questions, noting No, its not FNV2 in a description of the position on his resume.It is unclear which projects Gonzalez will work on. Obsidians upcoming releases are Avowed and The Outer Worlds 2. However, they will launch too soon, with Avowed releasing on February 18 and The Outer Worlds later this year, so the developer will probably not be involved in their production. But theres a possibility of the launch of their sequels in the future. Also, the developer might be working on a brand new title for Obsidian, especially given the reportthat the studio was working on an unannounced title.John Gonzalez worked at Obsidian for over two years, starting back in 2008. He designed the games main quest and wrote most of its dialogue. Also, original contributions included multiple characters such as Mr. House, Yes Man, Benny, Vulpes Inculta, and more. The dev also created concepts for and wrote several side quests, including Come Fly with Me.Then, the creator joined Monolith Productions and worked on Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. After that, he contributed to the development of Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West at Guerrilla Games. Before, the developer shared insights into his work, discussing creating an engaging story of Aloy. Then, John Gonzalez worked as Narrative Director at Smilegate Barcelona, Fantastic Pixel Castle, while also working as a freelance Novelist since 2023.What are your suggestions? Share in the comments and dont forget to join our 80 Level Talent platform and our new Discord server, follow us on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Telegram, TikTok, and Threads, where we share breakdowns, the latest news, awesome artworks, and more.Source link The post Fallout New Vegas & Horizon Zero Dawn Lead Writer Returns to Obsidian appeared first on CG SHARES.

The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom opens up halfway through the main quest line, giving players complete freedom to choose where they go and in which order they want to complete some of the 23 main quests in. While there is no level scaling to worry about, many players may wonder what the best order to complete these missions is.

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