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☆ Colon cancer rates are rising in young people. If you have two symptoms you should get a colonoscopy, a GI oncologist says.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-18 | by ( Kim Schewitz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Rates of colorectal cancer in people under 50 have been rising by 2% each year since 2011, according to the American Cancer Society. Iron deficiency anemiaIron deficiency anemia, which is where a person has low iron levels, can be a sign of colon cancer. Advertisement"When someone is found to have iron deficiency anemia, I think the important question is always going to be 'why is the person having iron deficiency anemia?' Unintentional weight lossUnintentional weight loss can be a symptom of any type of cancer, including colon cancer, Cleary said. AdvertisementAbdominal painAbdominal pain, aches, or cramps that don't go away could also be an indication that a person has colon cancer.

Persons: Dr, James Cleary, —, it's, Cleary, that's Organizations: Service, American Cancer Society, Centers for Disease Control, CDC, Mayo Clinic, Dana, Farber Cancer Institute, Cancer Locations: Boston

☆ Corporate politics can feel just like high school drama — but there are ways to cope
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-24 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Workplace conflict often looks like high school drama, according to consultant Rosalind Wiseman. Wiseman is no stranger to teen drama — in fact, she literally wrote the book on it. The corporate world and high school aren't the same, but the similarities are striking"The answer that I should say is that, 'Oh, adults are so much more mature than kids,'" she told Business Insider when asked about how workplace drama compares to high school. Wiseman said workplace drama tends to look different than what you see in high school — teens can be far more "crass" — but the levels of sophistication in which the conflicts and undermining play out can be similar. AdvertisementWhatever the conflict, adults can end up feeling similar to high schoolers — excluded, taken advantage of, or even bullied.

Persons: Rosalind Wiseman, Wiseman, —, weren't, it's, you've, Jimi Celeste, Patrick McMullan, cleary Organizations: Service, Bees, US State Department, UBS Financial Services, Los Angeles Bar Association, Broadway, Wilson Theatre Locations: New York City

☆ My name is so common my husband even dated someone with the same name before meeting me
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-18 | by ( Emily Grosvenor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Call it the John Smithification of naming: What was once a distinctive, literary-leaning name with nuanced shades of meaning has started to feel common and empty. AdvertisementEmily may mean “industrious, eager, ” but what I took from her is that to be an Emily (Emily Ratjakowski excluded) is to be a rule follower — at least publicly. AdvertisementMy husband dated an Emily before meBut once I joined the media world, they were everywhere — on all the magazine mastheads, in my ear as NPR reporters, sitting behind news desks, getting nominated for Oscars (Emma Stone is actually Emily, by the way). So, I’ve tasked myself with identifying a plural form for that moment when I discover several Emilys in one room.

Persons: —, Emily, “, It’s, John Smithification, I’ve, Susan, Emily Jean, ”, Karen, Emilys, Emily Dickinson, Emily Bartlett, Beverly Cleary’s, Emily Post’s, Emily Ratjakowski, Emily Good, Goods, Emma Stone, Smith ”, Em Henderson, Charitably, you’re Organizations: Service, LinkedIn, Facebook Locations: United States, America

NEW YORK (AP) — Dave Eggers is now an award-winning children’s author. Eggers’ “The Eyes & the Impossible,” the great adventure of a very fast dog, has received the John Newbery Medal for the year’s best children’s book, an honor previously given to Beverly Cleary, Neil Gaiman and Lois Lowry among others. Last fall , “Big” was a National Book Award finalist. The awards were announced Monday by the American Library Association. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Persons: — Dave Eggers, Eggers ’, Newbery, Beverly Cleary, Neil Gaiman, Lois Lowry, Eggers, ”, Caldecott Organizations: American Library Association, Associated Press

TORONTO (AP) — The hostility brewing between Sean Strickland and Dricus Du Plessis finally hit its boiling point at UFC 297 on Saturday night. “This is history!” Du Plessis (21-2) screamed in honor of his homeland. That country is amazing.”It was December when Du Plessis referenced Strickland’s abusive relationship with his father. Despite the tension leading up to fight night, Du Plessis gave Strickland (28-6) his just due afterward. You are one heck of a man, thank you for bringing out the best of me tonight,” Du Plessis said.

Persons: Sean Strickland, Dricus Du Plessis, Du Plessis, Derek Cleary, Eric Colon, Sal D’Amato, Strickland, ” Du Plessis, “, Raquel Pennington, Mayra Bueno Silva, Pennington, Neil Magny, Mike Malott, Chris Curtis, Marc, Andre Barriault, Curtis, Barriault, Movsar Evloev, Arnold Allen, Evloev Organizations: TORONTO, UFC Locations: “ South Africa, FanDuel

☆ Synopsys to acquire graphics software maker Ansys in $35 billion tech deal
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( Rohan Goswami | In Rohangoswamicnbc | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Semiconductor design and software firm Synopsys on Tuesday announced it would acquire Ansys , an engineering and product design software firm, in a cash-and-stock deal valued at approximately $35 billion. Synopsys will pay consideration of roughly $390 per share: $197 per share in cash and roughly one-third of a Synopsys share for each Ansys share. Synopsys shares were up 3% on Tuesday morning, after a 12% slump since The Wall Street Journal reported in December that the two companies were in advanced talks. Ansys shares slipped 5% but were up more than 14% in that same period since December. The remaining $3 billion nonequity consideration will come from Synopsys' cash.

Persons: Synopsys, Ansys, Sassine Ghazi, Shelagh Glaser, Ghazi, Ajei Gopal, Evercore, Cleary Gottlieb Steen, Hamilton, Goodwin Procter, Raimondo, Chips Organizations: Street, Activision Blizzard, VMware, Cisco, Splunk, Qatalyst Partners Locations: China

☆ House Republicans push IRS for answers on processing pause for small business tax credit
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-04 | by ( Kate Dore | Cfp | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., speaks during a House Oversight and Accountability Committee impeachment inquiry hearing on Sept. 28, 2023. Jonathan Ernst | ReutersHouse Republicans are pressing the IRS for answers after the agency paused processing new claims for a pandemic-era small business tax break. Lawmakers voiced "continued concerns" about the employee retention credit, or ERC, which was enacted to support small businesses during the Covid-19 pandemic. The backlog of unprocessed ERC claimsAs of Sept. 27, the total inventory of unprocessed Forms 941-X, used to amend an employer's quarterly federal tax returns, was roughly 779,000, according to the IRS. However, the ERC claim backlog may be significantly higher due to professional employer organizations, or PEOs, which provide payroll benefits and other HR services.

Persons: Jason Smith, Jonathan Ernst, David Schweikert, Pat Cleary Organizations: Reuters, Republicans, ERC, IRS, National Association of Professional Locations: Worth

☆ Opinion: The transformation of Kim Jong Un’s sister
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Sheena Mckenzie | Cnn Opinion | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The woman was Kim Yo Jong — younger sister of the North Korean leader and one of the country’s most important political advisors. Kim Jong Un's sister stands alongside the North Korean leader at the Vostochny Сosmodrome in the Amur region, Russia, on September 13, 2023. CNN: Of all the members of the Kim Dynasty, why did you choose to focus on Kim Yo Jong in your book? South Korean President Moon Jae-in (right) shakes hands with Kim Yo-Jong (middle), North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un's sister, in 2018. I’ve watched hundreds of hours of North Korean footage and read thousands of North Korean articles and statements in writing this book.

Persons: Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin, Kim Yo Jong, Kim Jong, Yoon Lee, ” Kim Yo Jong, Sung, Kim Yo, Kim, Alonso Nichols, Tufts University Sung, Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Chol, Jong, Cleary, Kim Il Sung, Stalin, Moon Jae, ”, Joe Biden “, Lord David Alton, Kim’s, I’ve, that’s, Yoo Lee, It’s, it’s, Jang, Thaek Organizations: CNN, North, North Korean, South Korea —, Woodrow Wilson International Center, Scholars, Tufts University, Jong Un, Soviet Army, South Korea’s, Games, South, House, United Nations Locations: Pyeongchang, South Korea, North Korean, Amur, Russia, North, North Korea, Switzerland, Mt, Paektu, China, Korean, Communist, Pyongyang, Handout, United

☆ The DC Circuit just upheld a controversial law aimed at protecting sex trafficking victims. Advocacy groups say it 'inadvertently encouraged the kind of abuse it sought to eradicate,' as more women ar
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-16 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Consensual sex workers and advocates say the law, an addition to Section 230, makes them less safe. I was doing online work in the past and this feels more dangerous' or 'I've experienced assault' since it happened," Cleary told Insider. After FOSTA was passed, sex workers, advocates, and some anti-trafficking groups predicted this outcome, warning lawmakers that the overbroad law would lead to a chilling effect and reduced resources for consensual sex workers and trafficking victims. If this law has had an effect on rates of trafficking in the United States, it has evidently only increased the risks sex workers and trafficking survivors face." "As Bardot Smith has said, 'Sex workers are often the canaries in the coal mine,'" Kendra Albert, the cyberlaw clinic instructor at Harvard Law School, told WHYY.

Persons: Rebecca Cleary, I've, Cleary, FOSTA, they're, SESTA, Lexi, HuffPost, TechDirt, Bardot Smith, Kendra Albert, WHYY Organizations: DC, Service, Communications, Twitter, Baylor University and West Virginia University, Craigslist, Harvard Law School Locations: Wall, Silicon, United States, Florida

☆ Meta loses as top EU court backs antitrust regulators over privacy breach checks
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Meta Platforms on Tuesday lost its fight against a German data curb order that strikes at the heart of its business model as Europe's top court backed the German antitrust watchdog's power to also investigate privacy breaches. The ruling from the Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) potentially hand antitrust authorities more leeway in Big Tech probes. At issue was whether the German antitrust agency overstepped its authority by using its antitrust power to address data protection concerns, which are the remit of national data protection authorities. Thomas Graf, a partner at law firm Cleary Gottlieb, was more cautious on whether antitrust authorities would want to go into the details of privacy law. "Are antitrust authorities going to become GDPR regulators?

Persons: Andreas Mundt, Benoit Coeure, Thomas Graf, Cleary Gottlieb, Graf, Max Schrems Organizations: Justice, European Union, Big Tech, Meta, Facebook, Data Protection Locations: Menlo Park , California, Luxembourg

☆ Retailers are preparing for a discount heavy, down holiday season: CNBC survey
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Lori Ann Larocco | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Many retailers are still drawing down inventories now as peak season for orders begins. Based on the concerns about cutbacks by consumers, 77% of all items being ordered this holiday season are middle-price point items, including jackets. Traditionally, retail sector orders for peak season items are placed in late winter, or early spring. Trucking, ground, rail profit hits For ground logistical firms, rail companies, and short-haul trucking, moving holiday products during peak season is a lucrative and critical time of year for making money. The largest subgroup of survey respondents who predict placing higher freight orders (42%) pegged the increase in a range of 6%-10%.

Persons: Patrick T, Cleary, Stephen Lamar, Jon Gold Organizations: Fallon, Bloomberg, Getty, CNBC Supply Chain Survey, Target, Walmart, CNBC, American Apparel & Footwear Association, American Footwear and Apparel Association, National Retail Federation, Council of Supply Chain Management, United National Consumer Suppliers, CNBC Fed Survey, Wall Street, Survey, Retailers, Chain, Labor Locations: West Coast, West

Fox will pay $6 million, and CBS, now known as Paramount Global (PARA.O), will pay $5 million, the court filing showed. Representatives for Cox, Fox and CBS either declined to comment or did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment. Representatives from those defendants either declined to comment on the pending litigation or did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment. Plaintiffs' attorney Megan Jones at law firm Hausfeld, on Tuesday did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment. The case is In re: Local TV Advertising Antitrust Litigation, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, No.

Persons: Cox, District Judge Virginia Kendall, schemed, Sinclair, Kendall, Megan Jones, Hausfeld, Freed, Robins Kaplan, Jennifer Giordano, George Cary, Cleary Gottlieb Steen, Nathan Eimer, Eimer Stahl, Weil, Brian Sher, Bryan Cave Leighton, Mike Scarcella, Leigh Jones Organizations: Fox, CBS, Cox Media Group, Fox Corp, CBS Corp, Northern, Northern District of Illinois, Paramount Global, U.S, District Judge, Cox, Sinclair Broadcasting Group Inc, Scripps Company, TEGNA Inc, U.S . Justice Department, Local, Antitrust Litigation, Northern District of, Millen, Latham, Watkins, Hamilton, Thomson Locations: U.S, Northern District, Chicago, Northern District of Illinois

[1/2] The logo of commodities trader Glencore is pictured in front of the company's headquarters in Baar, Switzerland, July 18, 2017. REUTERS/Arnd WiegmannApril 19 (Reuters) - Glencore (GLEN.L) has told Teck Resources (TECKb.TO) shareholders it is willing to improve its $22.5 billion takeover offer, raising pressure on the Canadian miner to ditch a restructuring plan and sit down at the negotiating table. In an open letter on Wednesday, Glencore said it would consider taking the offer to Teck's shareholders directly if the board failed to engage. "With engagement, we could improve our proposal's terms and value, which would be in the best interests of all Teck shareholders." "The vote (on Teck's restructuring plan) is highly likely to go through without an official bump in terms (from Glencore)," Ben Cleary, portfolio manager at Tribeca Global Natural Resources Fund, told Reuters.

☆ Glencore courts 120 Teck investors for bid backing as spinoff vote looms -source
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] The logo of commodities trader Glencore is pictured in front of the company's headquarters in Baar, Switzerland, July 18, 2017. The Swiss mining giant would instead combine and spin off its thermal coal unit and Teck's steelmaking coal business. Glencore's initial bid represented a 20% premium to Teck's closing stock price on March 26, when it was made privately. JP Morgan analysts said in a note on Monday that Glencore could pay as much as $27.2 billion. Reporting by Clara Denina; Additional reporting by Mrinalika Roy; Editing by Alexander SmithOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

And that has the impact of postponing some announcements," said Anu Aiyengar, global head of M&A at JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N). M&A volumes dropped 44% to $282.7 billion in the U.S. and 70% to $81.87 billion in Europe. Reuters Graphics"Having a well-functioning financing market is a critical ingredient for M&A. Global M&A volumes in Q1 2023LACK OF CONFIDENCEThe depressed market valuations also presented an opportunity for prominent activist investors to launch new proxy fights, with dealmakers anticipating a boost to M&A volumes from activist campaigns in the coming quarters. "Inflationary pressures aren't subsiding as fast as people expected; there's still a lot of geopolitical tensions, and in a lot of ways, the disruption in the financing market is intensifying," Langston said.

☆ Virginia blocks a bill that would have stopped police from viewing period app data, raising fears it could be used to prosecute abortions
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Virginia bill that would have prohibited police search warrants on menstrual cycle data was shelved. Glenn Youngkin announced his opposition to the bill this week, resulting in it being tabled. The White House has warned women against using period-tracking apps, citing privacy concerns. Around a third of menstruating adults use period-tracking apps, according to a 2019 survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Abortion rights activists have raised alarm at the idea that period-tracking apps could be used to prosecute abortion-law violations, following the overturning of Roe v. Wade last year.

☆ We got an exclusive look at the 18-slide pitch deck hybrid working platform Cleary used to raise $4.5 million in seed funding
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-31 | by ( Riddhi Kanetkar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

San Francisco-based HR startup Cleary has raised $4.5 million in a seed round led by Moonshots Capital. We got a look at the 18-slide pitch deck Cleary used to raise the fresh funds. A US startup that has designed a digital platform to engage and connect remote and hybrid employees just raised $4.5 million. This follows Cleary's $3 million pre-seed raise, bringing the startup's funding to $7.5 million. Check out the 18-slide deck used to raise the fresh funds.

Silbert is the founder of Digital Currency Group (DCG), a crypto conglomerate that includes the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust and trading platform Genesis. Winklevoss, along with his brother Tyler, co-founded Gemini, a popular crypto exchange that, unlike many of its peers, is subject to New York banking regulation. Winklevoss and Silbert were linked through an offering called Earn, a nearly two-year-old product from Gemini that promoted returns of up to 8% on customer deposits. With Earn, Gemini loaned client money to Genesis for placement across various crypto trading desks and borrowers. Silbert has avoided responding directly to Winklevoss' latest accusation, though the company has taken up his defense.

☆ Analysis: Bankman-Fried fraud charges sidestep debate over how U.S. law sees crypto
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Luc Cohen | Thomson Reuters | Reports On The New York Federal Courts. Previously Worked As A Correspondent In Venezuela | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

"It's a pretty simple deception," said Shane Stansbury, a professor at Duke University School of Law and former Manhattan federal prosecutor. The debate matters to cryptocurrency companies because it could determine which agency regulates the trading of digital assets. Both have pleaded not guilty and argued the charges should be dismissed because insider trading charges must involve securities or commodities. In bringing wire fraud charges in both cases, prosecutors avoided taking a position on how cryptocurrencies or NFTs should be classified. It is unlikely Bankman-Fried's lawyers will attempt a similar argument because the wire fraud charges are more straightforward, Kasten said.

Companies are increasingly working together to cut greenhouse-gas emissions but such collaboration faces the threat of antitrust action demanded by politicians who say it violates competition rules. There are now more than 150 business climate collaborations, according to research by Harvard Business Review. “There are a lot of ways to stay on the right side of antitrust laws,” says Justin Stewart-Teitelbaum, antitrust partner at Freshfields. Traditionally, in most jurisdictions, antitrust officials weigh whether the benefits of cooperation outweigh any economic harm caused by it. The anti-ESG movement in the U.S. bases its antitrust threats partly on an assertion that climate action provides little societal benefit to outweigh any economic harm of cooperation.

☆ Michigan librarian dedicated to 41-year-old Halloween cold case
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-30 | by ( Sarah Portney | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +12 min

On October 31, 1981, 11-year-old Karl Heikell told his parents he was going out for a walk in his town of Calumet, Michigan. “And sure enough, I found newspaper clippings about Karl Heikell going missing.”The young librarian was eager to learn more about this local mystery. Cleary told Dateline. “It's a shame that so many people have Billy in their heads as this” kind of person, he told Dateline. Detective Cleary told Dateline that after Billy’s suicide, police looked into his possible involvement in the case.

☆ Barbados issues world's first pandemic-protected bond
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Marc Jones | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Barbados' new bond - finalised in a deal with bankers on Wednesday - is likely to leave an even bigger imprint, especially with smaller, tourism-dependent countries that were pushed to the brink of economic collapse during the COVID-19 pandemic. "And hence we would not be facing the kind of debt crises that many countries are about to face". Credit Suisse banker Ramzi Issa, who led on some of the key financing aspects on the bond deal which involved a buyback, said it was "hugely significant". "It is like a dose of vaccine for your debt," said Sui-Jim Ho, a partner at Cleary Gottlieb - the law firm that helped craft the clause for Barbados. The bond deal has an ecological feature too.

☆ Homeowners still want space to quarantine and take Zoom calls, even though the worst of the pandemic is over. 3 real-estate experts explain the trends they're seeing.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-02 | by ( Abigail Bassett | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Quarantine spaces, flexible rooms, and accessory dwelling units (ADUs), are hot trends right now. The lower level matched exactly the kind of space Trevett was looking to build out. Additional data from the NAHB shows that demand for things like flexible living spaces, dedicated office or Zoom spaces, outdoor spaces, laundry rooms, and home technology has risen during the pandemic. Adding more living space separate from the main home has also become more important for families considering the needs of aging parents and boomerang kids. "Having a dedicated quarantine space gives me a sense of relief," Trevett said.

☆ Lawyers Open up About Depression and Suicide, Saying It's Key to Saving Others
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-30 | by ( Casey Sullivan | Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

His doctor had prescribed him antidepressants, but he was starting to realize that his mental health issues needed additional care. They said that doing so could alleviate the struggles of others, and that it's important for law firm attorneys to understand they aren't alone. He also co-founded the Lawyers Depression Project, a support network of some 900 legal professionals around the world, an endeavor he has found meaningful. "I didn't feel like I could keep surviving in an environment that played into the worst aspects of my own mental health," Alexander said. For lawyer-specific inquiries, you can find confidential, live assistance through Lawyer Assistance Programs offered through your state bar, as well as through the Lawyers Depression Project.

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