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☆ CIA: Her case began the agency’s #MeToo movement. A jury found the man she accused of assault not guilty.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-30 | by ( Katie Bo Lillis | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Victims’ rights advocates point out that women who come forward with allegations of sexual assault are often not believed. They took frequent walks around agency grounds, and Bayatpour testified that Cuda often seemed to be going through a hard time. Cuda testified that he told her, “This is what I want to do to you,” and leaned in to kiss her. Bayatpour told her he was in love, that he thought he had found the woman he was going to marry. “In the stairwell, I was thinking, I need to do something funny to break the mood,” Bayatpour told the jury.

Persons: Rachel Cuda, “, ”, Somebody’s, Elle, Ashkan Bayatpour, Cuda, ” Bayatpour, — “, Bayatpour, ‘, ’ Cuda, emoticons, ” Cuda, “ lmao, disentangled, Bayatpour “, —, Kevin Carroll, ” Carroll, Bill Burns Organizations: CNN, Capitol, CIA, Skype, Blue Angels, “, Civil Rights Locations: Fairfax County , Virginia, Virginia, Washington, Cuda

☆ Jessica Fern's 'Polysecure' promised a world beyond monogamy. She didn't say it would be easy.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-05 | by ( Anna Silman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +40 min

The psychotherapist's 2020 book, "Polysecure," has become the poly bible for an increasingly queer and fluid generation. As consensual nonmonogamy went mainstream, searches for Fern's "Polysecure" spiked. "I've heard authors joke they get a cup of coffee from their book," Fern said. When Jessica Fern and Dave Cooley opened up their relationship, Cooley was surprised at the "searing anguish" he felt about his wife seeing other men. Fern, Cooley, and Fern's partner bought the property together and settled in, planning to live there long term.

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☆ Employee Productivity Is Booming As Workers Get Better at Their Jobs
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-21 | by ( Neil Dutta | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

At the simplest level, labor productivity is how much output (widgets, meals, spreadsheet computation) one person can complete in an hour. Employers were running around with fishnets trying to find people, and workers used their leverage. By contrast, the late 1990s were a period of higher productivity growth and underestimated growth, starting the year at 2% but ending closer to 4%. But it's probably too soon to be thinking about these factors as the main driver of recent productivity growth. The investment implications of this are clear: Stronger productivity growth implies a higher speed limit for the economy.

Persons: —, it's, we'll Organizations: Federal Reserve Bank of San, Labor, P Global, Manufacturing, Capital, Employers, downturns, Professional Locations: Silicon Valley, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

☆ Where Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism Do and Don’t Overlap - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-11 | by ( Michelle Goldberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Every time I write, as I did last week, that I don’t think anti-Zionism is necessarily antisemitic, I get emails from Jewish readers that are angry, disappointed or sometimes simply baffled. “Israel is the political entity through which the Jewish people exercises its natural right of self-determination and control over its own fate,” said one typical recent message. Well-intentioned opponents of Jewish nationalism, some Jewish themselves, are being falsely smeared as antisemites. After Israel’s creation, more Jews were uprooted from Arab and Muslim countries than Arabs expelled from their homes in historic Palestine. It is not Israel’s fault that some of its neighbors kept displaced Palestinians as stateless refugees rather than integrating them as full citizens.

Persons: ” Locations: Israel, Gaza, Palestine

☆ The wildest moments of WeWork’s rise
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

And many early WeWork employees, who worked at lower salaries because they were given stock options, ended up with nothing. WeWork’s wild rise and fall is the latest high-profile incident to shatter that myth. Here is a look at four of the wildest moments from WeWork’s rise, according to the company’s statements and a best-seller about the company. (Part of WeWork’s push to appeal to millennials included free-flowing beer and open bars set up within its coworking outposts.) That pre-IPO paperworkThe beginning of the end can perhaps be traced back to WeWork’s first attempt to go public back in 2019.

Persons: New York CNN — WeWork, Adam Neumann’s, Neumann, Son, Adam Neumann, Kelly Sullivan, Eliot Brown, Maureen Farrell, millennials, Darryl McDaniels, Mike Segar, ”, Rebekah, WeWork, Caitlin Ochs, WeWork’s, Neuman, Mark Lennihan, “, Tolga Akmen Organizations: New, New York CNN, WeWork, San Francisco, of Fine Arts, Gulfstream G650, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Getty, Nasdaq, City of Locations: New York, San, San Francisco , California, Israel, Manhattan , New York, WeGrow, WeLive, New York City, U.S, City, City of London, AFP

☆ LGBTQ community celebrates Pride in the face of online and offline attacks
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-11 | by ( Christina Anagnostopoulos | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

[1/5] Parents and pro-LGBT counter protesters face off outside of an elementary school over a Pride Day assembly in Los Angeles, California, U.S., June 2, 2023. REUTERS/David SwansonJune 11 (Reuters) - Millions of LGBTQ Americans are taking part in this year’s Pride celebrations against a backdrop of increasing attacks, both online and offline. LGBTQ advocacy organization GLAAD has already recorded eight instances of 2023 Pride events that had to modify their plans due to threats of violence by June 1, said spokesperson Angela Dallara. Online, slurs like “groomer” – a trope that LGBTQ people are “child groomers” or pedophiles – have traveled from the fringe into mainstream discourse. “An event, like the ‘Don’t Say Gay bill,’ can increase the online chatter.

Persons: David Swanson, Jay Ulfelder, Jen Kuhn, Angela Dallara, Ron DeSantis’s, groomers ”, –, Ilan Meyer, Joel Day, Kimberly Balsam, Brigitte Bandit, she’s, “ They’re, I’m, ”, we’re, Pride, Christina Anagnostopoulos, Claudia Parsons Organizations: Pride, REUTERS, Reuters, Harvard University, GLAAD, FBI, ACLU, Republican, Center, UCLA, Princeton University, Palo Alto University, Thomson Locations: Los Angeles , California, U.S, Columbus , Ohio, Florida, Glendale , California, Austin , Texas, New York City

☆ Inside SETI’s E.T. transmission test
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Deblina Chakraborty | Jacopo Prisco | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, shown here, played a key role in SETI's test by sending a message to Earth on May 24. The Allen Telescope Array in Northern California is one of three observatories that picked up the transmission. But the event also correctly simulates the fact that it wouldn’t be SETI’s role to decipher the message, just to point out its reception. However, neither SETI nor any other organization on Earth has yet picked up any intelligent signal from the stars. He composed an interstellar radio message that was sent in 1974.

Persons: It’s, ”, Daniela de Paulis, “, Seth Shostak, ” de Paulis, Wael Farah, “ It’s, Jodie Foster, ” Farrah, Frank Drake, —, Neil Hall, Drake, , Neill Sanders, they’ve Organizations: CNN, SETI, Green Bank, Medicina, Orbiter, ESA, Allen, NASA, SETI Institute, Reuters, Arecibo Locations: Northern California, West Virginia, Bologna, Italy, American, Puerto Rico, Arecibo, British

LONDON, Oct 21 (Reuters) - It's not the first time the 145-year-old London Metal Exchange (LME) has found itself in crisis. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterMarch brought Nickel Crisis II, a much scarier update of the original, and now we have the unfolding Russian Metal Crisis. It's perilous legal territory and would have a significant impact on LME price and physical premiums. Meanwhile, CME's (CME.O) cobalt contract has steadily built up liquidity since its end-2020 launch even as activity in the LME's contract has steadily dwindled. Disgruntled funds have already voted with their feet, the collective departure causing LME trading volumes to slide by 6% over the first nine months of this year.

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