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The social media company said in an email to staff that it will alert employees by 9 a.m. Pacific time on Friday (12 p.m. EDT/1600 GMT) about staff cuts. The social media platform said Twitter employees who are not affected by the layoffs will be notified via their work email addresses. The layoffs, which were long expected, have chilled Twitter's famously open corporate culture that has been revered by its employees. Shortly after the email landed in Twitter employee inboxes, hundreds of people flooded the company's Slack channels to say goodbye, two employees told Reuters. "If you are in an office or on your way to an office, please return home," Twitter said in the email on Thursday.

☆ Read the first memo from Elon Musk's Twitter to employees confirming plans for layoffs and ordering the temporary closure of all offices
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

After seven days of hearing nothing from their new boss, Twitter employees on Thursday received an email from the company confirming that there would be layoffs on Friday. It also said all of the company's offices were being "temporarily closed and all badge access will be suspended." By 9AM PST on Friday Nov. 4th, everyone will receive an individual email with the subject line: Your Role at Twitter. If your employment is not impacted, you will receive a notification via your Twitter email. If you do not receive an email from twitter-hr@ by 5PM PST on Friday Nov. 4th, please email xxxxxxxx.

☆ Twitter employees will find out whether or not they've been laid off via an email called 'Your Role at Twitter,' company says
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Nidhi Pandurangi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Twitter staffers are expected to receive an email titled "Your Role at Twitter" by 9 a.m. PST on Friday. If their employment is not impacted, they'll receive a note on their Twitter email, per a Musk memo. If their employment is impacted, they will receive a note with next steps via their personal email. Around 3,700 Twitter employees are expected to be hit with Musk's planned layoffs. Another employee wrote on LinkedIn: "Just got remotely logged out of my company laptop and removed from Twitter Slack.

☆ Elon Musk bars Twitter employees from the company's offices in the run up to layoffs, unless staff are working on one of his 'critical' projects
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Other than a few people on "critical" projects, employees have been told to go home. Elon Musk is closing Twitter's offices and ensuring that employees do not return for now, except for the few working directly on projects deemed "Elon critical." On Thursday evening, Twitter employees received their first communication from the company since Musk took over. "Badge access," which allows Twitter workers to enter offices with their company ID, was also being suspended without a date given for when the access would be back. Some workers are being allowed to stay however, one of the people said, those who "are working on his projects," referring to Musk.

☆ Residents told to evacuate as flood waters rise in regional Australia
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Lewis Jackson | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Authorities are urging residents to evacuate from parts of the New South Wales regional towns of Wagga Wagga, Gunnedah, and Forbes, collectively home to roughly 90,000. Across Australia's most populous state, emergency services conducted 15 flood rescues in the 24 hours to Thursday morning. "We are expecting major flooding in the next couple of days equivalent to probably the 1952 flooding in that area." Blue skies have replaced rain across most of New South Wales and Victoria with little rain forecast for the weekend. But emergency services warn rivers will keep rising for days as water seeps into already swollen floodwaters moving slowly downstream.

☆ iPhone maker Foxconn has hit back at 'maliciously edited' videos of worker deaths at its facility following a COVID outbreak, after clarifying there have been no casualties
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Foxconn denied claims on social media that some of its workers died from COVID in their dormitory. Unverified videos circulating online claimed that eight workers died in one dormitory room. Foxconn called the footage "maliciously edited," and said no workers had died at its facility. According to the system, workers have to be transported directly from their dormitories to the factory and back. Reuters and Bloomberg reported separately this week that Foxconn is raising workers' wages at the Zhengzhou plant in an attempt to shore up its workforce amid the departures.

☆ iPhone maker Foxconn is raising wages in a scramble to lure back workers fleeing its prison-like COVID restrictions: reports
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Major iPhone maker Foxconn is raising wages in a scramble to get fleeing workers to return. Before the recent pay bump, Foxconn workers made around $1,082 per month, the South China Morning Post reported in January. Reports of Foxconn raising wages comes amid a critical period, as Apple looks to produce newly-launched iPhone 14s for the holiday season. Frustrated with their new living conditions, some workers were filmed climbing fences at the Zhengzhou plant and trekking to their hometowns miles away. The iPhone maker further said it was arranging transport for employees who wanted to return home, after videos of its workers walking home went viral on Chinese social media.

New Delhi CNN Business —Foxconn, one of Apple’s largest suppliers, is wrestling with major disruption at its biggest iPhone assembly factory in China, as anxious workers reportedly flee the facility, according to social media videos. “[We] fully understand your eagerness to go back home,” Foxconn told its employees over the weekend, according to a post on Zhengzhou government’s official WeChat account. The Zhengzhou campus is the world’s biggest iPhone factory and typically accounts for as much as 85% of iPhone assembly capacity, according to Lam’s estimates. State media has said that many Foxconn workers are among those walking miles to escape the city. While these disruptions will impact iPhone production in the near term, analysts say it may not dent Apple’s iPhone shipments in the key holiday season.

☆ Workers in China flee major iPhone factory amid Covid curbs
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Late on Saturday, cities near Zhengzhou, including Yuzhou, Changge and Qinyang, urged Foxconn workers to report to local authorities in advance before heading home. Apple did not immediately reply to a Reuters request for comment on the Foxconn situation. Photographs and videos circulating on Chinese social media since Saturday showed Foxconn workers, apparently returning home, trekking across fields in the day and along roads at night. In a show of support, residents in the vicinity left bottled water and provisions next to roads with signs such as: “For Foxconn workers returning home,” according to social media posts. “Some people were walking amid wheat fields with their luggage, blankets and quilts,” one user on WeChat, a popular social media platform, wrote about the images.

☆ Workers are fleeing from Foxconn, China's biggest iPhone factory, by climbing over fences and walking down highways on foot amid COVID fears, photos and videos show
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Workers are reportedly fleeing the world's largest iPhone factory in droves, amid a Covid outbreak. Dramatic photos and videos of Foxconn workers escaping the Zhengzhou compound have made their way online. Foxconn said it's continuing to implement pandemic prevention measures in Zhengzhou park, including setting up a 24-hour hotline for employees. The Foxconn outbreak happened just as Apple enters the crucial holiday quarter for retail trade. Foxconn shares are flat on Monday, trading at 45.50 New Taiwan Dollars, or $1.41 apiece, on the Taiwan Stock Exchange.

☆ Chinese cities brace for wave of Foxconn workers from COVID-hit Zhengzhou
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-30 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Taiwan-based Foxconn, which has about 300,000 workers in Zhengzhou, has not disclosed the number of infected workers. On Oct. 19, Foxconn banned all dining-in at canteens and required workers to take their meals in their dormitories, but assured that production was normal. Photographs and videos circulating widely on Chinese social media since Saturday showed Foxconn workers trekking across fields in the day and along roads at night. "They were Foxconn employees who escaped from the factory and were walking home," wrote a user of WeChat in a post about the social media images. Returning workers are to travel "point-to-point" in pre-arranged vehicles en route, and are to be quarantined on arrival, they said in separate letters on their respective social media accounts addressed to Zhengzhou Foxconn workers.

But a shorter and more satisfying narrative would not have been as true to the material, or to Remarque’s pacifism. This "All Quiet on the Western Front” doesn’t have a real plot, per se. For most of the movie, viewers and soldiers alike know that peace is coming at any moment. War is a kind of anti-narrative, which causes a rupture in the satisfying progress of the plot. “All Quiet on the Western Front” is an antiwar movie that refuses to turn war into a tale of progress or success.

☆ Venezuelans stranded in Panama by U.S. policy change return home
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

The policy change shut the door on Venezuelan asylum seekers, many of whom previously were being paroled into the United States. We began to call relatives in the United States, in Chile and they us yes, it was true. We all lost the little that we had.”Some 900 Venezuelans have returned on charter flights from Panama since the U.S. policy change, according to Panama’s National Immigration Service. The U.S. policy change was driven by a surge in Venezuelans arriving at the U.S. border that put them second only to Mexicans this year. The program, which requires pre-registration online and that applicants have a sponsor in the United States, is similar to one set up for Ukrainians earlier this year.

☆ Family questions death of domestic violence victim whose case made it to Supreme Court following yearslong custody battle
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Julianne Mcshane | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +10 min

Narkis Golan outside the Supreme Court after the unanimous decision in her domestic violence case. But domestic violence victims, advocates and experts say that today, abusers and judges weaponize the clauses to punish women who flee domestic abusers to protect themselves and their children. Though there are no definitive statistics, research estimates that domestic violence could be a factor in up to 70% of Hague Convention child abduction cases. Both Fidler and Weiner criticized the ruling, alleging it did not take into account the realities of domestic violence. Golan also hoped, once her custody battle was over, to establish an organization to help protect kids and their mothers from domestic violence, Morin said.

☆ Syrian refugees return home as Lebanese repatriation scheme begins
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/5] Syrian refugees sit with their belongings on a pick-up truck as they prepare to return to Syria from Wadi Hmayyed, on the outskirts of the Lebanese border town of Arsal, Lebanon October 26, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamed AzakirARSAL, Lebanon Oct 26 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Syrian refugees living in Lebanon returned home on Wednesday, the first day of repatriations organised by Beirut, amid concerns from rights groups that the scheme may involve elements of coercion. Lebanese authorities say the repatriations, under a revived programme run coordinated by the country's General Security agency, are voluntary. In 2018, the General Security agency launched a mechanism through which any Syrian refugee could signal a desire to return home, liaise with Syrian authorities to make sure that individual was not wanted there. That pathway saw around 400,000 Syrians return home but was put on hold with the outbreak of COVID-19.

☆ Princeton University student who vanished days ago has been found dead, officials say
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Marlene Lenthang | Minyvonne Burke | Marlene Lenthang Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

A Princeton University student who vanished days ago has been found dead, authorities said Thursday. Since Sunday, the Princeton University DPS had been leading the investigation into her disappearance along with the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office. On Wednesday and Thursday, Princeton University students were told to expect an increased law enforcement presence on and around campus as the desperate search continued with the use of a helicopter, drones and watercraft. They said they worked with her at Minds Matter Cleveland, a nonprofit that offers academic and mentoring resources for high-performing, low-income high school students. Slife added the sociology major “interned for Bank of America and worked for McKinsey.”Ewunetie's high school, Villa Angela-St. Joseph High School in Cleveland, said she was a 2020 honors graduate.

☆ Iran boxer in exile says street protests 'not a good strategy' as climber returns home
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Julien Pretot | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

PARIS, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Street protests are not a good strategy for opposing Iran's government, an Iranian female boxer in exile said after climber Elnaz Rekabi - who caused controversy by competing in an international contest without a headscarf - returned home to cheering supporters. The 27-year-old has since settled in western France, launching her own clothing brand and taking up business studies. "I don't agree with the street protests as a strategy because the government in Iran is so strong. Amini was detained for "inappropriate attire" and her death prompted nationwide protests during which women have removed and burned headscarves. Iranian female athletes had to live with an extra weight on their shoulders, said Khadem.

☆ CEO of Singapore's multi-million dollar homecare start-up shares top tips for success
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Goh Chiew Tong | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

It's doing good, while doing well," said Gillian Tee, co-founder and CEO of Homage. After spending 15 years abroad, Singaporean entrepreneur Gillian Tee decided to return home in 2016 to be closer to her family. "I started off as a software developer and I was just very drawn to it because I liked building things. Gillian Tee Co-founder and CEO, HomageShe was referring to the book Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days, written by Jessica Livingston, who co-founded seed stage investment firm Y Combinator. Gillian Tee Co-founder and CEO, Homage"It's important to lean on specialists for clinical governance and compliance.

☆ NASA astronauts returning from space station on SpaceX capsule delayed by weather
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

The astronauts — NASA’s Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins, as well as Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti with the European Space Agency — were scheduled to depart from the space station aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule Thursday morning. Aerospace company SpaceX developed the Crew Dragon spacecraft under a $2.6 billion contract with NASA as part of the Commercial Crew Program. SpaceX renewed orbital human spaceflight capabilities from US soil in 2020 with the launch of its Demo-2 mission, which carried two NASA astronauts to the space station. The Crew-4 astronauts’ return to Earth comes less than a week after the Crew-5 astronauts arrived on a separate SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule. Since SpaceX developed the Crew Dragon under a fixed-price commercial contract, however, it retains ownership over the vehicle.

☆ Trans Twitch streamer Keffals is ready to return home after Kiwi Farms
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Morgan Sung | Morgan Sung Is A Trends Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

The internet archive site Wayback Machine removed Kiwi Farms from its records, and Google delisted it from search results. After Cloudflare stopped servicing it, Kiwi Farms moved to Russian servers, where it was quickly shuttered again when web-hosting provider DDos-Guard also terminated services. It’s so important to be able to collaborate with other trans streamers of that size.”Sorrenti poses at Hasan Piker's TwitchCon booth. NBC NewsAnnie Roberts, a Twitch ambassador, noted the increase of the trans streamers on the platform in recent years. She became even closer to the creators who moderate her channel and make up her executive staff, because they too were doxxed by Kiwi Farms users for working with her.

A body believed to be that of a California woman reported missing two months ago was found at a wrecked car that apparently went off a cliff, officials said Tuesday. Jolissa Fuentes, 22, was reported missing Aug. 8 after she didn’t return home and couldn’t be reached, police said. Fresno County Sheriff's Office via FacebookOn Monday, searchers found the wreckage of Fuentes’ car and a body, along with the woman’s belongings, in a ravine near Pine Flat Lake, officials said. "He promised me he was going to find my daughter,” Fuentes’ father, Joe Fuentes, said at Tuesday’s news conference. Alcaraz said he went to the area because he had a fresh set of eyes, and "I just got lucky."

☆ Long waiting lists, long drives and costly care hinder many kids’ access to mental health care
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-06 | by ( Brenda Goodman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Nearly half of those parents, 47%, say the pandemic has negatively affected their kids’ mental health, with 17% saying it had a major negative impact. Mental health providers who specialize in care for kids are concentrated in urban areas but missing from rural communities. One, TeamUp for Children, has placed full-time mental health providers in seven federally qualified health centers around the Boston area. She says this model – integrating mental health services into primary care – is being copied to varying degrees in pilot projects across the country. The KFF CNN Mental Health Survey was conducted by SSRS from July 28 through August 9 among a random national sample of 2,004 adults.

☆ Yankees clinch AL East but Judge's home run record chase stalls
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Steve Keating | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Sep 27, 2022; Toronto, Ontario, CAN; New York Yankees center fielder Aaron Judge (99) celebrates in the dugout with team mates after scoring against the Toronto Blue Jays in the third inning at Rogers Centre. Mandatory Credit: Dan Hamilton-USA TODAY SportsTORONTO, Sept 27 (Reuters) - The New York Yankees clinched top spot in the American League East with a 5-2 win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday but Aaron Judge's pursuit of Roger Maris's home run record remained stalled on 60. But with eight games remaining in the regular season that pressure is being dialled up with each missed opportunity. The seven-game home run drought is the second longest of the season for Judge after a nine-game homerless stretch in mid-August. Tuesday's game marked just the second time in his career Judge had been issued four walks.

☆ ‘I’ve always wanted to be a tree’: Human composting starts to catch on
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Evan Bush | Evan Bush Is A Science Reporter For Nbc News. He Can Be Reached At Evan.Bush Nbcuni.Com. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

The bill took cues from Washington state, where lawmakers in 2019 became the first in the U.S. to legalize human composting and where a nascent industry is growing. Four Washington state funeral facilities are now licensed to perform natural organic reduction, according to Rob Goff, the executive director of the Washington State Funeral Directors Association. California’s law will give regulators with the state’s Cemetery and Funeral Bureau until 2027 to create regulations for a human composting program. The know-how behind human composting began in ranchers’ fields. Human composting could instead help soils sequester carbon and provide nutrients for plant life.

☆ Holiday in Montenegro becomes escape from call-up for Russians
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Alexander and his wife Svetlana walk on Jaz beach near Budva, Montenegro, September 26, 2022. REUTERS/Stevo VasiljevicBUDVA, Montenegro, Sept 27 (Reuters) - When Alexander and his wife Svetlana arrived for a two-week vacation in Montenegro, they planned to return home to Russia. But President Vladimir Putin's announcement last week ordering a mobilisation of reservists for the war in Ukraine has thrown their lives into disarray. I am afraid we will have no friends left in Russia," Alexander said. Maxim, 48, a physician, was also vacationing in Montenegro when he heard about mobilisation at home.

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