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☆ ‘Winners and Losers’ as $20 Fast-Food Wage Nears in California
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-28 | by ( Kurtis Lee | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A decade ago, Jamie Bynum poured his life savings into a barbecue restaurant now tucked between a Thai eatery and a nutrition store in a Southern California strip mall. The staffing, he said, has become harder in recent years, as the state’s minimum wage has steadily increased since 2017, often rising by a dollar per year. Today, it’s $16 an hour. But on Monday, it will jump to $20 an hour for most fast-food workers in California, propelling them to the top of what minimum-wage earners make anywhere in the country. (Only Tukwila, Wash., a small city outside Seattle, sets the bar higher, with a minimum wage of $20.29 for many employees.)

Persons: Jamie Bynum, Bynum Locations: Thai, Southern California, California, Seattle

The European Cave Rescue Association (ECRA) received a call on September 2 saying that he was experiencing severe gastric pain. American caver Mark Dickey, 40, had been trapped inside the Morca Sinkhole in southern Turkey. Turkish Government Directorate of Communications/APAn international rescue operation led by at least 200 aid workers began on Saturday. Italian Alpine Rescue/ReutersThe Turkish Caving Federation said Dickey was removed from the last exit of the cave at 12:37 am local time, in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. He is also a medical commission secretary at the European Cave Rescue Association, and the executive director at Caving Academy.

Persons: Mark Dickey, Recep Salci, Dickey, ”, “, ” Dickey, ECRA, Mark, cavers Organizations: CNN, Turkish, Federation, Rescue, Directorate of Communications, Academy, Rescue Association Locations: Anamur, Turkey, Mersin, Morca Valley, United States, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Ukraine

CNN —An American man stuck in the third-deepest cave in Turkey after falling ill has said he is “doing well” as rescue operations to retrieve him from hundreds of meters below the surface continue. American caver Mark Dickey, talks to camera inside the Morca cave near Anamur, southern Turkey, on Sept. 7, 2023. Turkish Government Directorate of Communications/AP“As you can see I’m up, I’m alert, I’m talking. Gretchen Baker, from National Cave Rescue Commission (NCRC), who has known and worked with Dickey for several years and has been in communication with the rescue team, expressed cautious optimism about Dickey’s safe passage out of the cave. Despite Dickey’s improving medical situation, Baker said even with him helping, the rescue operation still has some way to go.

Persons: Mark Dickey, Dickey, I’m, ”, Bulent Genc, Gretchen Baker, CNN’s Isa Soares, Baker, “ Organizations: CNN, Turkish, Federation, Directorate of Communications, Rescue, Cave Rescue Locations: American, Turkey, Morca Valley, Anamur, Turkish, Cave

Efforts to extract an American explorer who became ill more than 3,400 feet underground in a cave in southern Turkey expanded on Friday, as international rescue teams installed communications equipment and blasted open narrow areas to allow the passage of a stretcher, officials involved in the rescue said. The caver, Mark Dickey, 40, was part of an expedition exploring the Morca cave in southern Turkey when he suddenly suffered from abdominal bleeding last week. Unable to communicate from underground, one of his colleagues made the arduous, hourslong climb to the surface and sounded the alarm last Saturday. In the days since, more than 180 people from eight countries, including Turkey, Hungary, Bulgaria, Ukraine and the United States, have joined the rescue effort, many of them camped out near the cave’s opening in a remote part of the Taurus Mountains in Turkey — and up and down the cave itself. Mr. Dickey’s medical condition and the depth and confines of the cave will make his rescue a highly complicated logistical feat.

Persons: Mark Dickey Organizations: Turkey — Locations: Turkey, Hungary, Bulgaria, Ukraine, United States

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish and international cave rescue experts are working to save a 40-year-old American speleologist who became ill and is trapped more than 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) into a cave in southern Turkey. Mark Dickey became sick during an international expedition in Morca cave in southern Turkey’s Taurus Mountains, according to the European Cave Rescue Association. Political Cartoons View All 1146 ImagesMarton Kovacs of the Hungarian Cave Rescue Service said the cave is being prepared for his safe extraction. The cave has been divided into several sections, with each country’s rescue team being responsible for one section. The volunteer Hungarian Cave Rescue Service was the first to arrive at Dickey’s location and provided emergency blood transfusions to stabilize his condition.

Persons: Mark Dickey, Dickey, ”, Marton Kovacs, Kovacs, Justin Spike, Aritz Parra Organizations: Rescue, Turkish, Rescue Service, Associated Press Locations: ISTANBUL, Turkey, Hungarian, Hungary, Bulgaria, Italy, Croatia, Poland, Budapest, Madrid, Spain

☆ Forcing Bulbs Isn’t Hard. So Why Don’t More People Try It?
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Margaret Roach | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Before Page Dickey and Francis Bosco Schell spent a single night in their house in northwestern Connecticut, clay pots of flower bulbs slumbered there, setting down roots in a space of their own. The species tulips, miniature daffodils and dwarf irises that would grace the windowsills and dining table in late winter and early spring — after the couple’s yearlong renovation was complete and the December 2015 move-in day had arrived — were all present and accounted for. Ms. Dickey, a garden writer and designer and a founder of the Garden Conservancy Open Days program, and Mr. Schell, a retired book editor and lifelong gardener, knew there would be no parade of homegrown flowers in the leanest months if the bulbs didn’t get their needed chill period. That meant starting around October, so they could root and otherwise get ready. With that in mind, they had placed the pressing matter of building at least one cold frame (Ms. Dickey’s preferred bulb-forcing spot) near the top of their to-do list.

Persons: Page Dickey, Francis Bosco Schell, —, Dickey, Schell, Dickey’s Organizations: Garden Conservancy Locations: Connecticut

☆ If You Love Fire Pits and Wood-Fired Pizzas, Get Ready
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: +4 min

By Leslie YazelWhen I first heard about the Solo Stove Pi Fire pizza oven, I scoffed. You use semolina or cornmeal on the oven’s pizza stone for easy sliding in and out, and in about 8 minutes, you have great tasting wood-fired pizza. It’s perfect for the crucial rotation of the pie and it’s sized exactly for the Pi oven. That tool, combined with the wide “mouth” of the oven, makes rotating the pie easier than with tabletop pizza ovens I’ve tried. If you’ve read this and you’re still thinking, eh, too much time commitment for me, then this wildly-popular, high-quality pizza oven may be a great fit for your needs.

☆ We still have to take a reduction in our menu that we haven't in 30-40 years, says Dickey's Barbecue CEO
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWe still have to take a reduction in our menu that we haven't in 30-40 years, says Dickey's Barbecue CEOLaura Rea Dickey, Dickey’s Barbecue Restaurants CEO, joins 'The Exchange' to discuss what's driving up her costs the most, how much food commodity prices moderating offset Dickey Barbecue's costs and insight's into the restaurant's labor picture.

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