Gary Vaynerchuk wishes young people would stop aspiring to make millions of dollars. The 44-year-old self-mademultimillionaire entrepreneur and CEO of VaynerMedia says he's seen that chasing millions makes people unhappy in life.

"If you're under 25, you think you have to make a million dollars a year to even be in the game," Vaynerchuk tells CNBC Make It.

But"I wish every 16-year-old on earth thought $70,000, not a million," he says.

"You would have a whole different world. You'd have people not doing things they hate."

Science supports Vaynerchuk's premise.

First, studies have shown that people feel happier the more money they make, but only to a point of about $75,000 per person a year. That's because money makes people happier to the point that it allows you to meet your basic needs, like food, a place to live and healthcare. After that, the correlation with happiness stops.

Beyond that, research also consistently shows that, from a happiness standpoint, it's more important that your job provides a sense of meaning or purpose than a high salary.

"I have so many friends who make $53,000 a year and genuinely enjoy their life," Vaynerchuk says. "And then, the serendipity of my life the last 20 years, I have an uncomfortable amount of friends who make $12 million dollars a year and are unhappy.

"I think we need to really redefine success."

Vaynerchuk also points out that "the entry level into the 1% in America, one of the richest countries in the world, is [over] $400,000 a year" indeed, you need to make $478,000 to be among the top 1% of earners in the U.S., as of 2019. So he also likes the $70,000 benchmark because it "frames up a conversation for people who can't even imagine [making millions]." In other words, for someone at the start of their career, that number may seem more attainable.

On a personal level, when Vaynerchuk was in his 20s and 30s, "my life didn't really have me running in circles of high net worth or luxury," he says. "I grew up pretty in pretty humble places and as a poor student."

Vaynerchuk immigrated to the U.S. from Belarus in the 1970s. His first job was bagging ice for his parents' liquor store for $2 an hour. As a student at Mount Ida College, he created a YouTube channel for reviewing fine wine, which turned him into an internet sensation.

But even with all of his success, Vaynerchuk believes that there's "no correlation" between his happiness and how much money he has. Instead, he believes what makes him happy is the work he does.

"I just love the game of entrepreneurship, the good, the bad and the ugly," he says. "And so I consider myself very happy because I love my process."

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With great money comes great taxes; this is the sentiment throughout all the governments in the world. Managing your finance can become a tedious affair, and one needs a good personal finance manager to maximize their wealth, generate more savings, and also pay the needed taxes. To have a proper personal finance manager is a boon and only a hundred percent trust and transparency yield success for the ones who hire. There is an entrepreneur who, with transparency and brilliant work ethic, transformed his and many of his clients personal finance life, he is Umesh Agarwal.Born in India, Umesh originally became an Engineer, and then came to the US for a post-graduate studies. Umesh belonged to a middle-class family; he traveled to India and back in an economy class, and always dreamed of sitting in the business class. This thought gave him an idea, i.e. to ethically figure out his way into the business class. Umesh was a quick learner since childhood, and he cracked the algorithm to earn a place in the business class of the flight using airlines mile program to his advantage. Umesh was thriving in the United States but felt that his life had become monotonous. He felt that he lacked the zeal and excitement in his life, just like the travel hacking he had done in his earlier days in the US.Umesh also learned that in the US, one needs a good credit score. Not knowing the credit business, Umesh focused on learning the ins and outs of credit, build his credit profile, and various techniques of maintaining that credibility. On the surface, a pretty boring subject, but Umeshs instincts kicked in, and he thought of digging in further with topics of personal finance such as the US housing market, business line of credit, etc. This research felt like attaining an MBA degree. Umesh gave up his monthly paycheck job and started his journey to become a successful entrepreneur.Umesh co-founded Credit 101 LLC and started giving tips to people on managing the credit score and finances. Umeshs steep rise in the personal finance manager business is because he chose transparency over money. Umesh built a strong base of clients as he would work with full honesty and transparency. Many major clients would jokingly say to him that he should not be 100% transparent in his work, but Umesh knew that it was the reason for his success in the first place and that didnt change. Umesh Agarwal became a millionaire, earning a seven-figure sum with his hard-work, patience, and strong will for success. Credit 101, the product of Umeshs and his partners combined skills and knowledge in credit repair, is a results-oriented company that is committed to developing strong relationships with its customers and teaching new skills for credit score restoration solutions. Credit 101 analyzes the credit report of the concerned clients to identify all negative factors hurting clients scores and then comes up with a custom game plan for each client's needs. Its client-centric strategies and methods to credit repair have been used by only 1% of companies in the same field nationwide.His journey has inspired a lot of young entrepreneurs, and his following has increased to over 300,000+ people on Instagram. Umeshs agency also offers comprehensive credit repair services and financial advice with complete transparency, which has turned him into a successful entrepreneur, and his followers have dubbed him as the King of Credit.If you want to learn more about how Umesh Agarwal and Credit 101 can restore your credit, check out his website or message him on Instagram.Disclaimer: The views, suggestions and opinions expressed here are the sole responsibility of the experts. NoForbes Indiajournalist was involved in the writing and production of this article.

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When Alena Sharp and Sarah Bowmans relationship started to blossom, it was in the most Canadian of ways they were playing hockey.

She loved to chase me down and definitely engage in some body-checking, says a laughing Bowman, who is from Pennsylvania. I just assumed that was a Canadian form of flirtation.

Sharp is one of just two Canadians with full-time status on the LPGA Tour, and Bowman has been her caddie since 2014.

Bowman is Sharps partner off the course as well.

Sharp, of Hamilton, says in her first years as a professional golfer, she wasnt as comfortable being openly gay although she says all of her friends knew. But with maturation comes confidence, and Sharp has found her voice as an LGBTQ athlete.

Its different to be open with the media, even though people knew, says Sharp, who turned 39 earlier this year and is in her 15th year as a pro. (But) things have got a lot easier. Well, not easier because its not an easy thing to come out but its more widely accepted now than when I was 22, 23, and I was really starting to tell people about who I actually was.

Despite the occasional difficulty mixing their professional and personal lives, Sharp says shes been lucky to have Bowman work alongside her. Their full-time inside-the-ropes relationship began when Sharp let her previous caddie go before an event in Hawaii, a trip Bowman was going to come on anyway.

It quickly became a working holiday. Of course, by that point Sharp already knew that Bowman had caddie skills she had won a Symetra Tour event earlier that same year with Bowman on the bag.

Sharp says its easier to let go with someone you love versus someone youre working with, so there are occasional vent sessions between the pair when the heat is on. But she says Bowman has been a huge part of her recent successes.

Im older and I have more experience on the course, but shes given me so much positive reinforcement no matter whats going on, she says. [Bowman] has helped me become more positive and not react too much to the ups and downs of golf in general.

No matter what, there is love, says Bowman. It doesnt matter if she makes a big putt or hits the shot thats not what Im there for, so to speak.

Bowman says she is able to bring some much-needed levity to a sport where there is lots of time to overthink or doubt oneself. On the links, the pair mostly talks about their dogs or, a couple of years ago, their backyard renovations.

Although Sharp hasnt found the winners circle on the LPGA Tour, shes become a fixture on womens golfs biggest stage. Her best career result was a fourth-place finish at the 2016 CP Womens Open, part of the big summer when she played in the Olympics as well. Shes earned more than $2 million (USD) in her career basically all of it since she started working with Bowman.

Sharp has also often been right there with Brooke Henderson as shes re-written the record books. Canadian womens golf has seen a handful of its bright lights burn out over the last couple of years whether for personal or health reasons but Henderson and Sharp have been a steady 1-2.

After almost every Henderson victory, Sharp and Bowman have been on the 18th green ready to celebrate with her. Henderson tells Sportsnet even on weeks when she came close but didnt win (including the CP Womens Open in 2019), the pair was there to greet her after her round.

Golf Canada Chief Executive Officer Laurence Applebaum says hes been impressed by Sharps off-course contributions as much as her on-course ones the past few years, particularly her leadership as a member of the LPGA Tours Board of Directors.

She has been a contributing and active voice in golf for me personally in wanting to help the sport and womens golf especially move forward and grow, says Applebaum. She brings her candor and authenticity in everything she does.

Off the course, Sharp says the wider acceptance shes seen for LGBTQ athletes, especially in Canada, is a positive step in the right direction.

She points to a recent Golf Canada initiative as one such example. At last years CP Womens Open, signs emblazoned with a rainbow triangle saying CP, Golf Canada & LPGA support positive space in sports were posted around Magna Golf Club.

There have been other indicators of the Tour standing for broader social change. In a statement on Twitter in the wake of the death of George Floyd, the Tour said that it had stood firmly for equality, opportunity, fairness, and unity since it was founded 70 years ago.

Its a start, and there are lots of good things happening, Bowman says, but there is still more to be done. After TV broadcasts, the couple has received messages from viewers saying the broadcast crews rarely mention Sharp and Bowman are a couple.

Normalizing their relationship on TV could go a long way, she says. Organizations like the You Can Play Project are helping to encourage LGBTQ participation in sport, but Bowman points to a recent study from the University of British Columbia that shows lesbian, gay, and bisexual teens are still half as likely to play sports as straight youth.

It is not something that concerns me on a personal level as we are comfortable in our own skin and our relationship, and do not need validation from outside sources, says Bowman. However, there are LGBTQ youth, and adults, that are watching and possibly struggling. A mention could possibly serve as reinforcement to them that they are normal and it really is OK.

Sharp, meanwhile, is more than OK. Shes found her voice, shes found love, and shes playing some great golf to boot.

Im embracing the role, says Sharp, and if I can help people by telling my story if it helps them thats something Im passionate about.

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Last week I read Don Landrys piece on the excruciating task that is selecting your All-Decade Team presented by LeoVegas.

As always, Dons perspective was a valued one as he described the uphill battle against your own mind in debating the pros and cons of numerous worthwhile players and coaches.

After using Dons take as the preface to my own statistical reading, I began to formulate a plan on how to attack the list.

What I came to learn in the process is that in evaluating others, were really evaluating ourselves.

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Before you accuse me of going on a Tony Robbins mind bending twist of semantics, let me explain.

I understand that many of you will favour the eye test, team colours and feelings over facts. I, too, apply all of this to my analysis on radio and on CFL.ca, but love to validate opinions based on well researched numbers.

In this list, there is an argument to be made for literally every player involved. Not a single one of the eligible names doesnt belong, its just that some belong more than others.

With that in mind I began peeling through the numbers and realized my perspective is shaped by the metrics I deem to be most important in finding Canadian Football League success.

Lets use quarterbacks as an example.

Each dominant CFL quarterback of the past decade holds a distinct skill set, approach and numbers to match both.

Mike Reilly throws for more yards per game but takes more deep shots and risks leading to a higher interception total.

Ricky Ray won two championships but the second came in a mediocre performance buoyed by his defence and one big pass play.

Bo Levi Mitchell is by far the most successful regular season quarterback of the decade and could have set himself kilometres ahead of the field by closing the deal in 2016 and 2017, but leaves the decade with half as many rings as he likely should own.

Trevor Harris boasts multiple Grey Cup appearances with his accuracy and completion percentage leading the statistical charge.

Henry Burris had one of the most dominant seasons in memory a stunning 43-18 TD to INT rate for Hamilton in 2012 along with a culminating performance for the ages in a career ending Grey Cup victory.

That goes without mentioning the exploits of Kevin Glenn, Travis Lulay, Darian Durant and oh yeah, I almost forgot the all-time leading passer in pro football history Anthony Calvillo.

Pick one? Good luck.

Do I punish Bo for the winning system he adopted in Calgary or praise his ability to make it his own?

Can I celebrate Mike Reillys daring confidence without criticizing its likelihood to create turnovers?

Are Trevor Harris and Ricky Rays efficient style the best way to play the game over the last decade or just the fruits of patience bearing inflated numbers?

Whether you realize it or not by evaluating others we are forced to self-evaluate the way we perceive the game, for better or worse.

What I find even more intriguing about this process which thousands of fans will delve into while parsing the All-Decade voting is that our perspectives all vary based on the way we learned the game and the people who taught us what mattered.

Will Ricky Ray be voted the best quarterback of the decade? (Johany Jutras/CFL.ca)

It could be a dad who talked about the legend of old Ticats and Bombers players, an aunt who took you to your first Riders game, a coach who passed down their values or a friend who took you for a drink, only to spend the entire first half debating all-time greatness of legends gone by.

The All-Decade CFL team is a beautiful thing. It symbolizes CFL fans from across the world coming together to have their individual voice heard, a voice shaped by how THEY and nobody else watch the game.

With much love for every quarterback I went through this process and realized I value a balance of efficiency (65%) and daring (35%) with winning and leading by example prioritized.

Result: Bo Levi Mitchell.

You cant tell the story of the last decade in CFL football without Bo Levis ups and downs. Through them all he has remained one of the winningest and most productive passers in the CFL while not being afraid to target any area of the field but knowing when to take the easy throw. However, that doesnt mean he will be anything close to unanimous.

Some of you will prefer Mike Reilly, youll have moments where Smilin Hank and Ricky Ray tug at your heart strings and youll question whether longevity or performance matter more when you see names like Collaros, Masoli and more.

There are a million directions to take your argument and they all rely on one thing: How YOU and just you view the game. Without determining that, the choices are just too difficult to make.

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Jon Batiste, the jazz pianist and The Late Show With Stephen Colbert bandleader, has spent the last three weekends marching in the streets of New York, leading musicians and protesters through hymns and songs like We Shall Overcome and Down by the Riverside. Those without a horn or drum sing and, at Mr. Batistes exhortation, say their names: George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. And many others.

On June 12, however, Mr. Batiste opened his protest concert, part of a series called We Are, seated at an upright piano in front of the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, wearing a mask and bright-blue protective gloves. Unaccompanied, surrounded by hundreds of silent protesters, he dug deep into a song that he says demands reinvention: The Star-Spangled Banner.

We all know that Francis Scott Key owned slaves, Mr. Batiste said of the songs lyricist in a Zoom interview last week. In Mr. Batistes hands, the national anthem seethes, mourns and aspires, drawing on the rollicking stride piano of Fats Waller and the volcanic eruptions of Art Tatum.

The way that Jimi Hendrix took the song, the way that Marvin Gaye or Whitney took it that tradition is what I am thinking of when I play it, Mr. Batiste, 33, added. The diaspora that they infused into it is a response to the toxic ideologies that are embedded in the song and thus in the culture.

The history of jazz is in many ways a history of protest, of celebrating blackness and insisting on individual freedom. The composer and bass player William Parker, who has taken free jazz from community centers to Town Hall, traces this spirit to works like Duke Ellingtons 1943 Black, Brown and Beige to later suites by Max Roach and Sonny Rollins, and the free jazz and loft jazz movements of the 1960s and 70s. Then came the 80s, when everybody went to sleep thinking that we had accomplished something, but all we really got were the leftovers, Mr. Parker said in a Zoom interview. Artists like Mr. Parker, of course, have performed and recorded revolution-minded fire music through the 1980s and up to the present, and the last decade has seen a resurgence in political jazz music, especially from the downtown, avant-garde and Brooklyn scenes.

Its certainly rare, though, to see a jazz musician with a household name and a national platform like Mr. Batiste inviting thousands into the streets. And the pianist has the support of Mr. Colbert, who has carved out time on his broadcast to discuss his musical directors activism.

In the present darkness that constitutes so much of the national conversation, Jon, by his example and his spirit, gives me hope I might do my job and maintain my own humanity, Mr. Colbert said in an email. I believe long after no one knows who I am, the name Jon Batiste will be spoken with admiration. Im grateful to know him.

A genre-crossing virtuoso and crowd-pleaser, Mr. Batiste is particularly suited for a moment of protest in the streets: Hes from New Orleans, where the citys famed Second Line marches have built a tradition of catharsis and release, he said, in which music lifts anguish or outrage toward a collective joy. He grew up surrounded by musical relatives and draws special inspiration from his grandfather, the president of a New Orleans postal workers union, who marched and organized for his workers.

Jon is walking in that lineage, and not just musically, said Brian Blade, a drummer and composer with his own strong New Orleans connection. Its in the essence of our feet on the ground, moving forward, gathering a movement through example.

A spirit of collective humanity has always powered Mr. Batistes art. His Late Show band, Stay Human, is a diverse ensemble known for marching right into the crowd during performances. The protests take their name from We Are, his new single, a pop gospel showcase written and recorded last year that features the marching band from St. Augustine High School in New Orleans. He recorded The Star Spangled Banner, with all that thunder, on the 2013 album Social Music. And at the marches the music is indisputably social.

It was such a powerful day, the saxophonist Grace Kelly, a frequent Batiste collaborator, said of Mr. Batistes June 6 march from Union Square to Washington Square Park, which organizers say drew 5,000 people. There were over 10 tubas, 30-plus trumpets, and maybe 50 saxophones. It was louder than we could speak. Louder than we could sing.

Mr. Batiste and his organizers are weighing the logistics of taking the We Are protests to cities across the United States in the coming months, focusing on a practical goal: voter registration and the exposure of voter suppression.

There are three candidates that were dealing with, Mr. Batiste said. Donald Trump, Joe Biden and the candidate of apathy. Apathys insidious. It comes from having a weight on our collective shoulders for centuries that has made us feel that we dont matter, that were not seen and that our vote doesnt count.

Like many of the citys jazz players, Caroline Davis, a saxophonist and composer, has protested at several Brooklyn and Manhattan rallies in recent weeks. Its inspiring to be with people who are in this for the long haul, she said, after marching with Mr. Batiste on June 6, the first time shes gotten to play music with colleagues in person since March.

Ms. Davis co-teaches a course in jazz and gender at the New School and feels a responsibility to honor jazzs history of protest. I feel that, as Nina Simone said, its the artists job to reference the time in which we live, she said.

Mr. Parker has dedicated his career to nurturing that activist spirit. He has marched dozens of times since 2016 with the Artists for a Free World marching band, a loose collective organized by Arts for Art, the nonprofit organization that hosts the annual Vision Festival and is currently presenting Zoom concerts and salons.

Ive been talking for the last, oh, 40 years or so about how every once in a while a window opens up and things can happen, Mr. Parker, 68, said. But we have to have numbers, we have to be persistent, and we have to really lay it out in the consciousness of people.

Last week, on Bandcamp he released the searing and mournful Baldwin, a track from an upcoming 10-disc box set of new material dedicated to those who want to eliminate hate, racism, sexism, greed and lies.

Hes not alone in sharing fresh music keyed to the cause: The drummer Johnathan Blake and the vibes player Joel Ross both released pre-Covid commissioned concerts from the Jazz Gallery on YouTube. The sets, titled My Life Matters and Being a Young Black Man, come with requests for donations to Black Lives Matter and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. And the poet Camae Ayewa shouts: Enough! Enough! Enough! over the free-jazz squall of Irreversible Live in Berlin on a pair of blistering live sets from the protest-minded quintet Irreversible Entanglements.

Music is a wake-up call, Mr. Parker said. After the protest, you listen to it and it helps keep you awake. Because the problem is not to wake up its not to go back to sleep.

Mr. Batiste believes its his responsibility to use his platform to keep the crowds awake. That platform is also expanding. Mr. Batistes fingers will power the music in Soul, the first Pixar feature to center on a black lead, slated for a Nov. 20 release. He has maintained the kind of proudly unpredictable career common to 21st-century jazz musicians. In 2019 he released a pair of in-the-tradition Verve albums recorded at the Village Vanguard. Since then hes debuted a funk-favoring band of all-women collaborators on NPRs Tiny Desk Concerts and improvised on an independent release, Meditations, with the guitarist Cory Wong.

Despite his personal success, he remains focused on the inequality hes committed to fighting. Four hundred and one years of people and their voices being completely marginalized has led to systemic racism and sexism that has been perpetuated even in our triumphs, he said. The idea that we can have triumphs and also perpetuate toxic ideologies is a nuance that we have yet to explore in the public dialogue. But now theres a chance for a real collective consciousness shifting.

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In the wake of the current civil unrest occurring throughout our country, many companies are now seeing the gaping corporate hole where cultural diversity and inclusion initiatives should have been. Some may think its too little too late or be timid to jump into the discussion, but now it is imperative for companies to take the first step admit past faults, take action and begin to create change.

At Power Home Remodeling, our purpose is to improve everything we touch from our customers homes to our employees lives to our communities in which we live and work. But when we looked at our efforts in diversity and inclusion, it became clear we needed a formalized program to attract, retain and grow diverse talent making Power an inclusive place to work for everyone. In 2017, we launched our Cultural Diversity & Inclusion Initiative (CD&I) to breed open, educational dialogue and awareness, while developing formalized programs to drive more diversity within our walls.

Like many others, we still have a long way to go. Research studies show that around 30% or more diversity is a proven organizational tipping point when it comes to large-scale social change related to a minority group. At Power, our goal this year is to exceed 30% with hope to strongly exceed that proportion in the years to come as we continue to grow our programs, push for honest dialogue and make Power a place where everyone feels comfortable in their skin, without alteration. Its something we strive to be better at every day, and hope to empower others to do the same.

I recommend starting with listening. When you foster an open and safe workplace, employees feel comfortable sharing their voice and speaking their mind. But in order for these voices to be heard, you must encourage active listening from all parties. It is then you can strengthen your awareness and understanding and take this candid feedback to help shape how you address topics moving forward with your employees.

One way that we encourage listening and sharing is through our annual Cultural Diversity & Inclusion Summit. Natasha Maye, scrum master, started at Power the same week of the annual CD&I Summit in 2019.

Natasha Maye. (Photo via LinkedIn)

Looking back, to see hundreds of diverse individuals come from all branches of the company, to have conversations about their diverse realities all to break through personal bias this made me very emotional, said Maye, who is Black. To top it all off, this coalition was started and led by a woman who looks like me. At that moment, I knew Power was a place I could stay for the future of my career.

The conversations that are fostered by Power are the conversations Ive prayed for especially to have them with individuals whom we spend more time with on a daily basis than our own family.

Much of the acceptance and positivity surrounding our differences within our walls is largely due to both leadership and employees who have created that space for our diverse colleagues. Not only does this foster an inclusive workplace from a company perspective, but it is championed down to a department level.

Powers Business Technology (BT) department is a group where its leadership is steadfast and determined to hire and onboard more diverse employees. Tim Wenhold, COO and partner at Power, makes it a point to consistently recruit for diverse tech talent and when we cant find it, we build diverse tech talent from within. Through Powers Code Academy an immersive six-month coding bootcamp that trains employees from other departments at Power for entry-level developer roles on the BT team. Recruiting and retaining diverse talent is critical, but what you cant lose sight of is developing that talent and Code Academy is one way we remained committed to that.

Timothy Wenhold speaking at a past PTW Dev Conference. (Technical.ly file photo)

Jonathan Levy, a Nitro support ninja, has seen this push for more diversity firsthand since coming onboard in 2017, both from a hiring perspective and from an educational perspective.

Our CD&I Initiative enables and fosters conversations about race and equality, said Levy. Specifically, in BT, weve had members of our team present and educate our group about members of their own community that have been pioneers within the technology space, and how they contributed to the betterment of society. Ive learned quite a bit from Kelly Tran, a [committee] member of CD&I. She continues to educate me personally more and more each month on her Asian Pacific American heritage, and how women from her culture have contributed to the industry.

Jonathan Levy. (Photo via LinkedIn)

Being an employee at Power and being exposed to the CD&I Initiative has allowed for continued personal growth for Levy and a deeper understanding of why racial equality in the workplace is so important, believing that all communities must have the opportunity to display their talents and contribute to the betterment of that business and the success for all.

CD&I has changed me in a myriad of positive ways, said Levy. One that stands out is my approach to others outside of my own community. I have learned to be patient and to foster conversations that educate others, so that we might come to a better understanding and be more successful together.

For companies that have already been prioritizing diversity and inclusion within the workplace, do not take your foot off the gas. And for those whose eyes have just been opened, start today. Listen to your employees to make your workplace an inclusive one. Make it a goal to recruit diverse talent. Develop programs that help retain and develop that talent. And, keep listening, learning and growing with your entire workforce.

Power Home Remodeling is committed to fostering and supporting an inclusive and diverse workplace for all. To learn more about career opportunities at Power, visit workatpower.com.

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Around 249 flights will have been completed when Airbridge, an effort launched at a time when the US faced dire supply shortages, ends, according to an agency spokesperson.

Still, administration officials have left the door open for Airbridge to restart if necessary.

In mid-June, administration officials indicated that Airbridge would be phased out by June 30, but stressed it remains an option for future needs for personal protective equipment. FEMA Administrator Pete Gaynor told reporters that any decision to restart Airbridge will rely on information from states and the White House coronavirus task force, among others.

In late March, the federal government partnered with six major US distributors to rush equipment overseas to the United States. FEMA covered the cost of flights, averaging between $750,000 to $800,000 each, and six companies -- Cardinal Health, Concordance, Owens and Minor, McKesson, Medline, and Henry Schein -- distributed the equipment in the US.

Project Airbridge accelerated the shipment of supplies from weeks to days and got supplies straight to the frontline workers, according to Gaynor. Half of the supplies flown in went to designated hotspot areas and the other half went to distributors' customers, some of whom might also be in those critical areas.

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The Supreme Court surprised both sides in the polarized abortion battle Monday by ruling, 5-4, that a Louisiana law requiring doctors who perform the procedure to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital is an unconstitutional infringement of a womans right to an abortion.

As expected, the courts four liberals in the case, June Medical Services v. Russo, said that the law did not provide any protections for women and merely made it harder for them to obtain an abortion and that it was nearly identical to a Texas law struck down in 2016. The four conservatives said the Louisiana law should be upheld, although that would have left the state with only a single abortion provider. The swing vote was Chief Justice John Roberts, who, in a concurring opinion, said he disagreed with the ruling in the Texas case but it is now precedent and thus should not be overturned.

This weeks panelists are Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico and Jennifer Haberkorn of the Los Angeles Times.

The panelists broke down the decision along several lines, including:

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This round-up is part of Harvard Magazines series At Home with Harvard, a guide to what to read, watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the prior pieces, featuring stories about the history of women at Harvard, the climate crisis, racial justice, and more, here.

Whats the best diet and exercise routine for you? This is a question with a seemingly infinite number of answers and follow-up questions. Sifting through questionable health and fitness content on the Web can be exhausting, especially when quarantine has given many of us more time to invest in exercise. Thats why weve compiled some of our best coverage on health and fitness research for you to read and rely on.

The immune system protects the human body from diseases, but its power to destroy invading pathogens, if misdirected, can lead to illness and death. Many chronic diseases are linked to low-level inflammation. Researchers have therefore sought ways to turn the immune response off, or at least tamp it down. In the course of this work, Harvard Medical School professors Paul Ridker and Peter Libby made a fortuitous discovery: an experimental drug, acting through the immune system, was anti-inflammatory without being immunosuppressive at the same time. The idea that the immune response is multifaceted has led other researchers to explore its final phase, when healing occurs, after the inflammation caused by injury or illness has begun to subside. This is an active process mediated by a class of immune-system moleculescalled specialized pro-resolving mediatorswith properties that are just beginning to be understood as scientists work to develop them into a pharmacology for resolving inflammation.

This story about the power of exercise had its origins in a pile of press releases. Sometime in the late 1990s, I began saving science-based press releases that showed how exercise could prevent everything from gallstones to strokes, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and declines in mental acuity (that can occur naturally with age). Each of these was a separate finding, conducted by researchers who did not know each other, and who in most cases were not even acquainted with each others work. At the time, I found it extraordinary that so many maladies were linked through exercise, and wondered why. Shortly after the article was published, I began receiving heartfelt letters from people saying that it had changed their livesand that was extremely gratifying. The letters continued for many years, and the opening paragraph was reprinted with permission in several books. Scientific understanding of how exercise confers its many benefits has come a long way. Remarkably, however, more is being discovered all the time!

~Jonathan Shaw, Managing Editor

Matthias Nahrendorf uses equipment like this PET/CT imaging scanner to study the role of white blood cells in inflammation. Photograph by Jim Harrison

The culprits are well known: sleep, diet, exercise, and stress. These four lifestyle factors are implicated again and again in studies of chronic health conditions, and one way they affect the body is by causing inflammation. But how? wondered radiology professor Matthias Nahrendorf. Biologically speaking, what links inflammation to lifestyle? In a study published in 2019, he found an answer in the behavior of blood stem cells. When mice exercised, for instance, he saw that their blood stem cells went into a kind of dormancy, generating fewer pro-inflammatory white blood cells and platelets, without decreasing the number of oxygen-carrying red blood cells. Soon, reports Harvard Magazine writer Jonathan Shaw, Nahrendorfs exercising mice had fewer circulating white blood cells than their sedentary counterparts, dampening inflammationan effect that persisted for weeks.

Bruce Spiegelman and Michael Greenberg

Imagine getting the neurological benefits of endurance exercise from a pill. The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is working on it. In 2013, scientists there, working with Harvard neurobiologist Bruce Spiegelman, isolated a protein that increases with endurance exercise and gave it to sedentary mice. The protein turned on genes that promote brain health and lead to the growth of new neurons involved in learning and memory. If it can be made in a stable form and developed into a drug, it could improve therapies for cognitive decline in older people caused by diseases like Alzheimers and Parkinsons. Spiegelman noted at the time that more study was needednow presumably underwaybut said, What is exciting is that a natural substance can be given in the bloodstream that can mimic some of the effects of endurance exercise on the brain.

~Lydialyle Gibson, Associate Editor

Photograph of gymsuit by Kevin Grady/Radcliffe Institute

Recently, I was looking through our online archives for a lively piece to promote on social media. An article came up with a photo of a Radcliffe College gymsuit circa 1896that immediately piqued my interest. Womens fitness was highly encouraged at the time because it was widely thought that intellectual exertion would damage a young womans childbearing capacity. These gymsuits were made of heavy wool that was hard to wash, and buttoned from chin to belly. Today they may seem awfully restrictive, but back then these outfits, with their divided skirts, were rather scandalousand liberating.

~Kristina DeMichele, Digital Content Strategist

In recent years, the microbiomethe universe of microbes teeming in the guthas become the focus of intense research as scientists have come to realize its powerful influence on human health. The microbiome has been linked to conditions like depression, anxiety, allergies, and obesitybut the mechanism remains mostly unknown. Two years ago, A. Sloan Devlin, a Harvard biological chemist, discovered that altering a single gene in a single type of bacteria in the human gut can vastly change metabolism. As she explained to writer John Griffin, Its a bacterium, and a single enzyme in a bacterium, thats causing a change in whether the host is using fats versus carbohydrates.

~Lydialyle Gibson, Associate Editor

Weve all experienced the internal conflict: we like the feeling we get from exercise, but the idea of just curling up on the couch with a pint of ice cream has appeal, too. These competing impulses are the two sides of a deep-seated, highly evolved tension. On the one hand, the human body has evolved in myriad ways that have made us among the best endurance athletes on the planet. On the other hand, humans evolved in an environment of food scarcity. Survival hinged on conserving energy. In the modern context of caloric abundance, that strategic laziness is maladaptive, as Lerner professor of biological sciences Dan Lieberman explains. In Born to Rest (with apologies to Christopher McDougall 85, author of Born to Run) he suggests tactical countermeasures that anyone can employ to help tip the scale toward exercise.

~Jonathan Shaw, Managing Editor

Hu believes a plant-based diet can help feed a growing population in a healthy, sustainable way. Photograph by Jim Harrison

For this feature, I profiled Stare professor of nutrition and epidemiology Frank Hu, who has spent his life studying how diet and lifestyle affect health. A member of the 2015 USDA Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, Hu saw first-hand that developing a strong scientific base for recommendations isnt enough to get science-backed nutritional advice to the public. Today, he believes that a plant-based dietone low in meat, especially of the red or processed varietiescan improve personal and population health while reducing the production of greenhouse gases. No longer content just to let the science speak for itself, Hu has embraced political leadership, advocacy, and communication.

~Jacob Sweet, Staff Writer/Editor

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