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☆ Indy 500 takeaways: Josef Newgarden repeats as winner with bold pass, joins elite group
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-26 | by ( Jordan Bianchi | Jeff Gluck | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

Josef Newgarden completed a daring pass to the outside of Pato O’Ward on the final lap to win the rain-delayed Indianapolis 500 on Sunday. As Newgarden and O’Ward sped down the frontstretch taking the white flag, O’Ward completed a slingshot pass of Newgarden, who then attempted his own slingshot pass as they raced into Turn 3. Josef Newgarden and Pato O’Ward battled to the end in the 108th running of the #Indy500. AdvertisementAnd Newgarden certainly earned the win Sunday, completing a bold pass that will go down in racing lore. The race had 48 lead changes, which is the fourth-most in Indianapolis 500 history (out of 108 races).

Persons: Josef Newgarden, Pato O’Ward, Newgarden, Hélio Castroneves, O’Ward, Scott Dixon, Alexander Rossi, Alex Palou, 0QqbcbnfYl, “ Pato, Pato, ”, Arrow McLaren, Wilbur Shaw, Mauri Rose, Bill Vukovich, Al Unser Sr, Kyle Larson, Ryan Hunter, Reay, Larson, Borg, — Jordan Bianchi, Indy, Newgarden’s elation, Jeff Gluck, Justin Casterline Organizations: Borg, Warner, INDYCAR, NBC, Indianapolis, Castroneves, NASCAR, Team Penske, Penske, Indy, Drivers Locations: Mexican, O’Ward, Charlotte, Indianapolis

☆ Racism Alleged at Multiple Globe Life Affiliates
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-10 | by ( Susan Antilla | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +20 min

"If I'd brought it up, I would have been blackballed," he told BI. She told BI that Lobello frequently sent her racist memes he found online that contained the N-word. AdvertisementBell, in the hat at right, at a team dinner for an AIL agency then known as Giglione-Ackerman. In the areas she was assigned, she told BI, "most of the people were uninsurable" because of poor health, hard drug use, and poverty. If you work at Globe Life or AIL and have information to share about the company, please contact Susan Antilla at susan.antilla1@gmail.com .

Persons: Domenico Bertini, Chris Selejan, Rob Gray, James " Bo, E, Gentile, Organization —, Frank Svoboda, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, Fuzzy Panda, Scott Dehning, AIL, Dehning, Jennifer Haworth, I'd, John L, Ann Marie Arcadi, Gray, Eric Giglione, Giglione, Bell, He'd, Brian W, Fraser, Popeyes, Morgan Lobello, Lobello she'd, y'all, Lobello, David Zophin, Ackerman, Andy Mercado, texted, quieted, Bell's, Raynaldo Lafontant, David Ackerman, Lafontant, Mercado, Sarah Reay, Reay, Debra Gamble, Gamble, Nicole Korkolis, Donnaya Presberry, Presberry, Abeni, Mayfield, Amy Williamson, Abeni Mayfield, Rosem Morton, Silvana Pajor Flores, Pajor Flores, Susan Antilla Organizations: Globe Life, Business, Globe, New York Stock Exchange, Texas Rangers, Dallas Cowboys, Organization, BI, Department of Justice, Research, Latina, Ackerman Agency, New Jersey Superior Court, SEAT, Giglione, Commission, Professional Employees International Union, Liberty National Division, Liberty National, Edison, AIL Locations: Kentucky, Bertini, Pennsylvania, McKinney , Texas, Michigan, West Virginia, New Jersey, Argentina, Aurora , Colorado, Edison , New Jersey, Edison, Giglione, Morgantown , West Virginia, Moon Township , Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Columbia , Maryland, Cumberland , Maryland, Kansas, Waco , Texas, Colorado, AIL, susan.antilla1@gmail.com

☆ Global warming: Humanity just lived through the hottest 12 months in at least 125,000 years
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Manav Tanneeru | Laura Paddison | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

A temperature display reading 99 degrees Fahrenheit (37.2 degrees Celsius) in Houston, Texas, on June 21, 2023. “October 2023 has seen exceptional temperature anomalies, following on from four months of global temperature records being obliterated,” Samantha Burgess, deputy director of Copernicus, said in a statement. Every month since June has smashed monthly heat records and every month since July has been at least 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The year to-date is averaging 1.43 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, according to Copernicus — perilously close to the internationally agreed ambition to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. China saw more than 12 monthly temperature records broken on Monday, with temperatures reaching 34 degrees Celsius (93 Fahrenheit) in some places.

Persons: ” David Reay, Niño, ” Andrew Pershing, “, Chen Chen, Samantha Burgess, Copernicus, ” Hannah Cloke, Hurricane Otis, ” Reay, it’s what’s, Friederike Otto, ”, “ El Niño, ” Pershing, ” CNN’s Robert Shackelford, Sara Tonks, Brandon Miller Organizations: CNN, University of Edinburgh, Climate, University of Reading, Hurricane, Southern, Grantham Institute, Imperial College London, UN Locations: Edinburgh, India, United States, South, Southwest, Houston, Iceland, Lesotho, Houston , Texas, Xinhua, Southern Mexico, China, Texas, Dubai, Paris

☆ Startup employees are reeling as they brace for back-to-back rounds of layoffs: 'When it happens again, you start to lose that confidence and faith in your leadership.'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Samantha Stokes | Madeline Renbarger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

For the startup employees interviewed by Insider, the constant threat of layoffs is having a detrimental effect on company morale. said one employee working at a growth stage startup that's conducted three rounds of layoffs this year. For Reay, the former Sendoso employee, constant rounds of layoffs gave him and his surviving colleagues "strategy whiplash." "When it happens again, you start to lose that confidence and faith in your leadership." Some startup employees are reconsidering their future in the industryAs startup employees brace for the potential of more job cuts, they say that the experience has them second-guessing whether to stay in the industry at all.

Persons: Sean Reay, it's, Reay, SoftBank, Sendoso, what's, I'm, Raey, SchoolMint, I've, you'd, he's, Jackie Xu, Xu Talent, Kleiner Perkins, Xu, you've Organizations: Facebook, Meta, Twitter, Sendoso, GV, Google, Employees Locations: San Diego, That's, SPAC

MONTEREY, Calif. (AP) — By the time Scott Dixon turned his season around, it was too late to beat teammate Alex Palou for the IndyCar championship. Palou became the first driver in nearly 20 years to clinch the IndyCar title before the season finale with his victory last weekend in Portland. Palou won his second title in three years with last week's win, his fifth of the season. “It's a credit to the team, they've been executing like that all season,” Dixon said. We won.”Ganassi became the first team owner to win the championship and top rookie honors in the same season.

Persons: Scott Dixon, Alex Palou, “ It’s, ”, Dixon, Palou, Chip Ganassi, ” Dixon, Alex, ” Dixon's, AJ Foyt's, Scott McLaughlin, Will, Callum Ilott, Christian Lundgaard, Rahal Letterman Lanigan, Alexander Rossi, Arrow McLaren, Marcus Armstrong, Pato O'Ward, McLaren, Ryan Hunter, Reay, Ed Carpenter Racing, they've, ” Ganassi, Armstrong, Colton Herta, Helio Castroneves, Bryan, Herta, he'd, Josef Newgarden Organizations: IndyCar, Laguna Seca, Team Penske, Will Power, Juncos Hollinger Racing, Ganassi, Laguna, Andretti Global, Chevrolet, Indianapolis, Honda, Palou Locations: MONTEREY, Calif, California, Portland, New Zealand, Laguna Seca

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