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At the Milken Institute’s Global Conference this week, a little-known risky financial tool became the subject of a hot debate among Wall Street titans. Many private equity firms have quietly begun mortgaging their investment funds, piling leverage upon leverage. In other words, they’re taking out loans against the businesses they’ve already taken out loans to buy. At a time when dealmakers are desperate to raise new cash after the boom of the pandemic era, this mechanism — known as a net asset value loan — is allowing them to do it overnight. firms are using the tool as they set out to raise their next funds, especially those confronting a hurdle during a slow period for dealmaking: They have yet to return cash to the limited partners they tapped for their last round.

Organizations: Milken Institute’s Global Conference, Wall Street titans

A different kind of battle for Third PointA small computer chip design company, R2 Semiconductor, has been notching wins in a potentially big patent fight against Intel over the past few months — a dispute that could force Intel to stop selling several chip lines in Europe. The context: R2 sued Intel, as well as two customers, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Dell, in Germany, alleging that the chipmaker had infringed on a patent dealing with voltage regulation in semiconductors. A regional court in February issued injunctions against the sale of at least some Intel chips. And on March 8, a higher court rejected Intel’s effort to halt the decision. Meanwhile, a trial in Britain over the patent is set to begin next month.

Persons: DealBook, Dan, haven’t Organizations: R2 Semiconductor, Intel, Amazon Web Services, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dell Locations: Europe, Germany, Britain

☆ When the Pandemic Hit Home
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-12 | by ( Catherine Pearson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +11 min

The World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020 — but we all have our own memories of when normal life stopped. ASIA EDWARDS, 39, BLOOMFIELD, N.J.Johnna Wallace While driving to work at the beginning of the pandemic, I couldn’t help but wonder: Was this how I was going to die? I am an emergency room nurse. Scott McGlasson My 55-year-old wife was dying from metastatic breast cancer when the pandemic hit. WENDY LAMPARELLI, 57, RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J.Ellen Blossom Our home was hit by a tornado on March 3.

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☆ The ‘Mean Girls’ Movie Is Nicer. Teens Are Not. - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Jessica Bennett | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

For a certain breed of millennial like me, Tina Fey’s “Mean Girls” was gospel — a movie turned cultural phenomenon that put names and labels to the kind of bullying that any woman who’d been to middle or high school would recognize. For a long time, researchers just thought girls didn’t bully as much as boys. Then in the early aughts, a handful of books brought the concept of girls’ “relational aggression” into the mainstream. But much has changed in the 20 years since the original “Mean Girls" movie came out. So when Ms. Fey returned last month with her musical movie “Mean Girls” — her latest twist on the original, starring Reneé Rapp — it was inevitable there would be some changes.

Persons: Tina Fey’s, who’d, Fey, Reneé Rapp, Carr, Jon Hamm, Janis Ian, “, Ms, Queen Bee, Regina George Organizations: Bees, North Shore, Plastics Locations: Regina

☆ A creator coach who's landed over 500 brand deals shares his 4-step pitch method, and why he doesn't advise using outreach templates
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Marta Biino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Here's his four-step pitching method, and why he's against using templates for cold outreach. Justin Moore and his wife April have been content creators since the dawn of YouTube. He shared with Insider the pitch method he teaches as part of his course. method for pitchingMoore said the biggest mistake creators make when pitching brands is that they make it all about themselves. Justin MooreIn Moore's method, the creator's pitch should be "relevant" to a campaign that the brand is working on, or they've run in the past.

Persons: Justin Moore, he's, Moore, He's, —, Moore's, Justin Organizations: That's

☆ The Bar That Will Do Anything to Make You Feel ‘Insane and Alive’
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Harron Walker | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

That quality of being both laid back and unpredictable is part of Singers’ appeal, said P.E. Moskowitz, a writer and a Singers regular who helped organize Twinks vs. “When I go to a hip bar like Clandestino, I feel like I’m being watched,” Mx. “Maybe some people come here because they think it’s cool, but no offense, I don’t think it’s a cool place,” they said. 1” (a spicy pineapple margarita the bar has recently rebranded as “Girl Dinner”).

Persons: P.E, Moskowitz, ”, “, Michael Guisinger, Brooke Peshke

☆ Opinion | The Duggar Family and Reality TV’s Exploitation of Kids
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Jessica Grose | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

While it’s legal to put kids in reality shows, in many cases, it’s hard to see how it’s ethical. In the documentary, Jill says the Duggar children were never adequately compensated for the loss of their privacy. “That’s how this whole system is set up, for the men to have just total, ultimate authority over their family,” she said. “Yes,” Jill says in the film, “we were taken advantage of.”Jim Bob ultimately offered Jill and Derick a lump sum, they say, but there were strings attached. “You had to sign another deal with my dad — his production company,” Jill said, for a term that “would be like forever.

Persons: Josh, Jill Duggar Dillard, Jim Bob, Michelle, Jill, Derick Dillard, Julia Willoughby Nason, I.B.L.P.ers, “, ”, ” Jill, ” Jim Bob

☆ I quit my job as a teacher after 6 years to work in tech sales. I make $20,000 more, have greater flexibility in my day, and am so much happier now.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-10 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

She now works in tech sales, where she makes $20,000 more, works from home, and has greater work flexibility. I got into teaching because I love sharing what I know and I love helping people, so it just seemed natural. The way you teach students who live in poverty is different because you need to make sure their basic needs are met before they can learn. When you're surrounded by students day in and day out for years, it can start to wear on you. I've since been promoted to sales coach, and I make about $20,000 more now than I did teaching.

☆ World sport leaders champion women on IWD
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-08 | by ( Lori Ewing | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

MANCHESTER, England, March 8 (Reuters) - FIFA General Secretary Fatma Samoura applauded the eight nations who are debuting at the Women's World Cup in celebration of International Women's Day on Wednesday, urging the players to take pride in their ability to inspire. Women they identify with, excelling on the pitch," Samoura said in a statement. "This will encourage a generation of young girls and women to aim high, to aim big. The ITF launched the Men as Allies programme, an element of the ITF Advantage All gender equality strategy. Sebastian Coe championed female leadership in a Twitter video, saying having women in positions of influence makes for a better organisation.

☆ Three Years Into Covid, We Still Don’t Know How to Talk About It
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Jon Mooallem | Photographs Ashley Gilbertson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +53 min

It will play out and reverberate for years or decades, Hagen told me. “The pathological normal,” Hagen calls it: a patchwork of homespun, bespoke realities, each one invested in a different story about what exactly happened when Covid ruptured the story of our lives. garb.”More than once, life seemed to be attaining “an uncanny resemblance to normal life,” as one man put it. But because we don’t totally understand where that experience has delivered us, we don’t know the right gloss to give it. “The days are strange,” one public-school teacher told Milstein toward the end of his first interview, in May 2020.

ONE AFTERNOON last month, Eristheo Raif freed his shins with the swoosh of two zips. Mr. Raif, 35, a Los Angeles high-school teacher, had been in a chilly classroom all morning, but it was time for P.E. Since the bottom halves of his new convertible cargo pants detach above the knees, he could unsheath his shanks in seconds. When a student inquired, “Weren’t they pants?” Mr. Raif replied, “Yeah, but it got hot, so now they’re shorts!” He last wore convertible cargos in the early 2000s. Indeed: These pants are “a big thing,” said Katie Devlin, an analyst at trend-forecasting agency Stylus.

☆ Influencers on social media are starting to fight back against the platforms that profit from their followings
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-31 | by ( P.E. Moskowitz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

But then other users began noticing the same thing, and in late July, Kim and Kourtney Kardashian and Kylie Jenner all posted a block of text reading "MAKE INSTAGRAM INSTAGRAM AGAIN." Influencer as workerA study published last year compiled data from 30 in-depth interviews with content creators on platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. But often, creators don't see themselves as people with the ability to fight back. That may be slowly changing, with influencers and content creators realizing that they need to work together more to demand more transparency and standards in their industry. The second hurdle is more personal: Many, if not most, content creators still do not see themselves as laborers.

☆ „Agenția de Guvernare Electronică” anunță prelungirea termenul de depunere a dosarului pentru suplinirea postului vacant de DEZVOLTATOR DE SOFTWARE
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-05 | by ( Alte Articole | ) www.civic.md time to read: +5 min

Instituția publică „Agenția de Guvernare Electronică” anunță prelungirea termenul de depunere a dosarului pentru suplinirea postului vacant de DEZVOLTATOR DE SOFTWAREI. Responsabilitățile de bază ale funcției:- Asigură dezvoltarea continuă a serviciilor și platformelor deținute de AGE;- Asigură mentenanța și suportul tehnic a serviciilor și platformelor deținute de AGE;- Contribuie la activități operaționale aferente serviciilor și platformelor deținute de AGE. - Asigură funcționalitatea și mentenanța mediilor de testare și de producție a serviciilor și platformelor deținute de AGE. - Contribuie la planificarea capacității tehnice mediilor de testare și de producție a serviciilor și platformelor deținute de AGE. Cunoașterea și vorbirea fluentă a limbii Române și a limbii engleze.

Persons: AGE ., AGE Organizations: Agenția, NET Windows, Foundation, Core Locations: Moldova, Republica Moldova

☆ Instituția publică „Agenția de Guvernare Electronică” extinde termenul de depunere a dosarului pentru suplinirea postului vacant de DEZVOLTATOR DE SOFTWARE
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-21 | by ( Alte Articole | ) www.civic.md time to read: +5 min

Instituția publică „Agenția de Guvernare Electronică” extinde termenul de depunere a dosarului pentru suplinirea postului vacant de DEZVOLTATOR DE SOFTWAREI. Responsabilitățile de bază ale funcției:- Asigură dezvoltarea continuă a serviciilor și platformelor deținute de AGE;- Asigură mentenanța și suportul tehnic a serviciilor și platformelor deținute de AGE;- Contribuie la activități operaționale aferente serviciilor și platformelor deținute de AGE. - Asigură funcționalitatea și mentenanța mediilor de testare și de producție a serviciilor și platformelor deținute de AGE. - Contribuie la planificarea capacității tehnice mediilor de testare și de producție a serviciilor și platformelor deținute de AGE. Cunoașterea și vorbirea fluentă a limbii Române și a limbii engleze.

Persons: AGE ., AGE Organizations: Agenția, NET Windows, Foundation, Core Locations: Moldova, Republica Moldova

☆ Исследование: африканские обезьяны могут потерять ареал обитания
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-08 | by ( Mld Media Srl | ) noi.md time to read: +2 min

Авторы предсказывают, что при хорошем сценарии человекообразные обезьяны потеряют 85% своего ареала, из которых 50% будут находиться за пределами национальных парков и других территорий, охраняемых законодательством. В статье исследуется, могут ли человекообразные обезьяны найти новые места обитания. Если человекообразные обезьяны смогут физически перемещаться с низменностей в горы, они могут выжить и даже увеличить свой ареал (в зависимости от вида и от того, является ли это лучшим или худшим сценарием). Результаты исследования подтверждают другие недавние исследования, показывающие, что популяции африканских обезьян и места их обитания резко сокращаются. Все африканские человекообразные обезьяны классифицируются как виды, которые находятся под угрозой исчезновения (горные гориллы, бонобо, нигерийско-камерунские шимпанзе, восточные шимпанзе и центральные шимпанзе).

Organizations: IUCN SSC A.P.E.S, Общество охраны природы () Locations: Африка

☆ Agenția de Guvernare Electronică angajează Manager proiect/produse
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-11 | by ( Alte Articole | ) www.civic.md time to read: +7 min

Obiectivul postului:Managerul de produs este responsabil de întreg ciclul de viață al produselor informatice ale AGE puse în sarcina acestuia, de la dezvoltarea conceptului și a modelului de business (business case), până la proiectarea, elaborarea, testarea experimentală, exploatarea și dezvoltarea continuă a acestora. De asemenea, managerul de produs va urmări promovarea continuă a produselor, realizarea obiectivelor de adopție/utilizare de către potențialii beneficiari, precum și satisfacția utilizatorilor în raport cu produsul, pentru toate canalele și categoriile de utilizatori. Responsabilitățile de bază ale funcției:Elaborarea și actualizarea viziunii și a strategiei de dezvoltare pe termen mediu și lung a produsului și comunicarea acestei strategii părților interesate. Cunoașterea limbii ruse va constitui un avantaj;Cerințe preferate:Experiența anterioară de marketing și promovare a produselor și serviciilor;Experiență anterioară de dezvoltare a afacerii;Experiență anterioară în managementul proiectelor;Experiență de dezvoltare a produselor software utilizând metodologia agile;Certificarea internațională în managementul proiectelor (PMP, PRINCE2 sau echivalent);Cunoașterea agendei de guvernare electronică;Experiența cu organizațiile de dezvoltare și/sau reforma sectorului public. Dosarul urmează a fi depus până la data de 6 ianuarie 2021, ora 17:00, la adresa de email hr@egov.md.

Organizations: Agenția Locations: Moldova, Republica Moldova

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