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☆ Why hundreds of Twitter workers are fleeing the company
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Jordan Parker Erb | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Two months after Elon Musk declared his intent to acquire Twitter in a $44 billion deal, the billionaire spoke directly with employees at the company. Musk's meeting with Twitter employees covered everything from aliens to layoffs, but did little to reassure workers, according to people with knowledge of the matter. According to the Twitter workers, who asked not to be identified, the business saw a net loss of more than 700 full-time staff as of September. Pittsburgh tech workers on why they chose the lesser-known tech hub. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet that the company would "ask for an exemption to Iranian sanctions."

☆ Developers rush to convert run-down hotels and offices into shiny new apartments as the costs of new construction and borrowing money soar
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Robert Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Some real-estate developers are increasingly targeting offices and hotels for conversion into apartments because, they say, these projects are the only ones that make financial sense right now. The company spent a total of $14.2 million to acquire the properties, which Hubbard described as "on the run-down side." With conversions, developers are also hoping to capitalize on the increased demand for rentals as buying a home becomes less affordable. By extension, the value of office space is declining — making conversion projects more profitable when financing can be secured. The program includes zoning reforms designed to make the conversion projects easier and funding from the federal American Rescue Plan, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.

☆ MLB roundup: Aaron Judge bashes No. 60 in Yanks' rally
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +10 min

Mets 7, Brewers 5Francisco Lindor's seventh-inning grand slam completed a comeback from a four-run deficit as visiting New York beat Milwaukee. Guardians 10, White Sox 7 (11 innings)Myles Straw delivered a two-run double in the 11th inning to spark visiting Cleveland over Chicago. Ketel Marte homered for the Diamondbacks, who won for the second time in their last 22 games at Los Angeles. Dennis Santana (3-8) recorded just one out and gave up three runs on three hits. Rockies starter Kyle Freeland (9-10) left after allowing three runs -- two earned -- on five hits over six innings.

☆ U.S. House Republicans to push energy, crime and immigration agenda in midterms push
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( David Morgan | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

"I don't think they have an agenda that the American people will ... want," House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, the chamber's No. FLASHBACK TO 1994The "Commitment to America" is modeled on the 1994 "Contract with America," which helped give Republicans control of the House and Senate. 2 House Republican, told reporters. A national Reuters/Ipsos poll concluded on Sept. 12 found that 37% of Americans would prefer to vote for a Democratic congressional candidate, with 34% preferring Republicans and 15% still undecided. Nonpartisan forecasters say Democrats have a better chance of holding onto their Senate majority than they do in the House.

☆ Pittsburgh tech workers say building community and financial stability has made the move to work remotely from a lesser-known tech hub worth it
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Katie Malone | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Amid a market downturn, tech workers in Pittsburgh say they're happy to live in a low-cost area. Three tech workers told Insider their stories and why they chose to work from Pittsburgh. When the world shut down early in the COVID-19 pandemic, it suddenly became less important for tech workers to live in hot spots like New York; Austin, Texas; or San Francisco. Now, she says, intangible perks like Pittsburgh's supportive tech community have made her very satisfied with her decision. And at some jobs, even ones without a Pittsburgh HQ, there's a pride in the locality that keeps workers here.

☆ Factbox: Meet the big bank CEOs set to be grilled by Congress
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Pete Schroeder | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

In his prepared testimony, Moynihan touted the firm's focus on "responsible growth" as critical to its stability and strength. CITIGROUP INCJane Fraser, the first woman to lead a major Wall Street bank, was appointed in March 2021. In her prepared testimony, Fraser said the bank had made "significant progress" in divesting from those areas, while supporting institutional clients. U.S. Bancorp is currently the fifth largest bank in the U.S. with $582 billion in assets, and the largest bank outside of the "globally systemic" firms. Rogers describes the bank as "purpose-driven" in his prepared testimony, and highlighted efforts to boost investment in lower income and majority-minority communities.

☆ Clare Ansberry — Columnist at The Wall Street Journal
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Clare Ansberry | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Clare AnsberryClare Ansberry writes the Turning Points column for The Wall Street Journal, exploring the various turning points in people’s lives. She was previously the Journal's Pittsburgh bureau chief, overseeing coverage of various industries, while also writing about issues involving aging, family, community and people with developmental disabilities. She also co-authored the book “Comes the Peace, My Journey to Forgiveness” about a young man’s journey to reconnect with his family. Both books are based on stories she wrote for The Wall Street Journal. A graduate of St. Francis University in Loretto, Pa., she has been awarded the Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Award, a Casey Medals Award, and the Darrell Sifford Memorial Prize in Journalism from the Missouri School of Journalism.

☆ MLB roundup: Aaron Judge belts 2 more HRs in Yankees' win
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +10 min

Gerrit Cole (12-7) earned the win with four hits, four runs, three walks and eight strikeouts in five innings. Eloy Jimenez had three hits, including a two-run home run, and drove in three runs. Willi Castro hit a two-run homer and Javier Baez had a solo shot for the Tigers. Rays 5, Rangers 3Christian Bethancourt and Jose Siri hit back-to-back homers in host Tampa Bay's win over Texas. The duo went deep in the second inning for a 2-1 lead that the Rays never relinquished.

☆ NFL roundup: Tua Tagovailoa tosses 6 TDs as Dolphins rally past Ravens
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +9 min

Tagovailoa completed 36 of 50 passes for 469 yards and six TD passes, tied for the second-most in a single game in NFL history. Buccaneers 20, Saints 10Tom Brady threw a tiebreaking touchdown pass to Breshad Perriman as visiting Tampa Bay defeated New Orleans. Lawrence completed 25 of 30 passes and Christian Kirk caught both touchdown passes for the Jaguars (1-1). Marcus Mariota pulled the Falcons (0-2) to within 31-17 with an 11-yard touchdown pass to Olamide Zaccheaus with 8:14 left in the game. Rush tossed a 9-yard touchdown pass to Noah Brown to cap a 12-play, 75-yard drive in the first quarter.

☆ Rep. Lauren Boebert said humanity is in its 'last days' and Christians should 'rise up,' invoking Christian nationalist imagery that's linked to violence
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-18 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Boebert echoed Christian nationalist talking points and invoked the end times in a recent speech. Christian nationalism experts say such rhetoric has been linked to violence. But by invoking the end times, Boebert is tapping into a side of Christian nationalism that has been associated with violence. Though Boebert's comments aren't new among proponents of Christian nationalism, such rhetoric has rarely, if ever, been deployed by a member of Congress. Christian nationalist ideals were also espoused by the suspects in the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting and the 2019 New Zealand mosque shootings.

In the run-up to the 2020 election, doctored videos that made House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., seem impaired went viral on social media. Experts have warned that such lightly edited videos, also sometimes called “shallow fakes,” can be particularly effective pieces of misinformation. Fetterman gave the speech used in the edited video at a campaign rally Sunday. One video Price tweeted Monday has over 600,000 views and has been shared hundreds of times. One edited video posted on the platform has over 32,000 views.

☆ The 2022 NFL season continues with Amazon's first exclusive Thursday Night Football matchup — here's how to livestream games all season long
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-15 | by ( Kevin Webb | Video Game Reporter | Read More | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Prime Video will air its first Thursday Night Football game of the 2022 NFL season on September 15. Throughout the season, HD antennas and streaming services offer select NFL games without cable. ESPN will host its first Monday Night Football doubleheader during week two on September 19. Throughout the regular season, NFL games are spread between Fox, CBS, ESPN, NBC, Amazon Prime Video, and the NFL Network. Here's a chart detailing which NFL games are included on every major platform:Note: This chart is for local in-market and national broadcasts only.

☆ Police arrest armed gunman in clown wig at Pennsylvania Dairy Queen who claimed he planned to 'restore Trump to president king'
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-14 | by ( Bethany Biron | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Police apprehended a gunman at a Pennsylvania Dairy Queen restaurant on Saturday. The man was wearing a clown wig and yellow safety vest, and claimed he wanted to "kill all Democrats." No one was harmed and the gunman was immediately taken into custody. No one was harmed, and Stawovy immediately was taken into custody. Dairy Queen did not immediately respond to Insider's request to comment.

☆ See the 20-slide presentation this biotech startup used to raise $75 million for a way to treat blindness with CRISPR
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-14 | by ( Andrew Dunn | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

About a year ago, the startup secured an exclusive deal with CRISPR gene-editing leader Intellia. SparingVision, a Paris-based startup, just raised $75 million to advance a suite of gene-therapy and gene-editing programs to treat eye diseases. The company plans to use the funds to enter the clinic with its first gene-therapy program. The cash will also help advance SPVN50, SparingVision's first gene-editing program. The program came out of a research collaboration SparingVision struck with Intellia Therapeutics, a CRISPR gene-editing leader, last year.

☆ 'Deadly drop': Hotel housekeeper faces avalanche of laundry showing desperate hotel labor shortage in viral TikTok posts
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-21 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

One housekeeper uses TikTok to show how much laundry she must fold in an 8-plus hour shift. Zeiber's TikTok videos showing what she calls "deadly drops" from a linen chute into the hotel's laundry room, have gone viral, shocking viewers. In the comments section of her account, Zeiber clarified that she is not the only housekeeper at the hotel, but she's the only person responsible for laundry. Sometimes her workdays last beyond eight hours and include more than just laundry, according to Zeiber. Kasea Zeiber is the only housekeeper responsible for folding laundry in an 126-room hotel in the Pittsburgh area.

☆ Frustrated pharmacists are opting out of the insurance system, saving some customers hundreds of dollars a month
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-19 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Headshot_Small.Png | Adiel Kaplan | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +14 min

Hux has owned Pickerington Pharmacy, which takes nearly every kind of insurance, since 2016. For some drugs, especially name-brand medications without generic alternatives, the insurance pharmacy, Pickerington, will most likely be the better bet. For other drugs, particularly those that have recently gone generic, it will be the all-cash pharmacy, Freedom. Or is it the noninsurance world?”For Kitchen, a retired registered nurse with arthritis and fibromyalgia, it was the noninsurance world of Freedom Pharmacy. By cutting out the middlemen, Freedom Pharmacy is far cheaper to operate.

☆ Factbox: Mass shootings in the U.S. from Club Q to Pulse nightclub
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

[1/2] A police officer sits in their vehicle while responding to a mass shooting at the Club Q gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S., November 20, 2022. - BUFFALO, May 14, 2022 - A white gunman killed 10 Black people inside a supermarket in a racially motivated attack. - ORLANDO, June 12, 2016 - A gunman fatally shot 49 people at Pulse, a gay nightclub, before he was shot dead by police. - WASHINGTON, Sept. 16, 2013 - A former Navy reservist working as a government contractor killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard. - AURORA, July 20, 2012 - A masked gunman killed 12 people at a cinema in Aurora, Colorado.

☆ Here’s when to say ‘no’ at work
▼ + stars: | 2022-06-02 | by ( Kathryn Vasel | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

To evaluate whether to take on a task, Vesterlund advised identifying what is considered promotable and non-promotable work for a role and how much workers are expected to take on. Babcock said her research shows that when women say “no” at work, they are often seen as not being a team player. It shouldn’t be on employees to say ‘no’But the onus shouldn’t just be on employees when it comes to making sure non-promotable work is being distributed evenly. “You can reward non-promotable work,” said Babcock, who noted that one organization she worked with added “helping others” to its performance evaluations. And then it’s amazing everyone wants to do it then.”Companies should also look at who is doing the most non-promotable work and how work is allocated.

☆ California cities dominate the list of those in the US with the lowest gender pay gap. These are the 10 cities where women earn the most in comparison with men.
▼ + stars: | 2022-05-31 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The area around Los Angeles has the smallest gender pay gap, according to a report by GoodHire. Across the US' 100 biggest cities, women earn $44,220 a year, or 19% less than men, per the study. In comparison, women living in Provo-Orem, Utah, earn just under two-thirds of the amount men earn. Here are the 10 areas with the smallest gender pay gap, per GoodHire's study:Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, California – women earn 9% less than men Durham-Chapel Hill, North Carolina – women earn 10% less than men Fresno, California – women earn 11% less than men Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Florida – women earn 11% less than men Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, Florida – women earn 12% less than men Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, Nevada – women earn 12% less than men Winston-Salem, North Carolina – women earn 14% less than men Springfield, Massachusetts – women earn 14% less than men San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, California– women earn 14% less than men Albuquerque, New Mexico – women earn 14% less than menGoodHire also ranked the cities with the biggest gender pay gap:Provo-Orem, Utah – women earn 38% less than men Baton Rouge, Louisiana – women earn 32% less than men Ogden-Clearfield, Utah – women earn 31% less than men San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, California – women earn 28% less than men Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, Michigan – women earn 25% less than men Augusta-Richmond County, Georgia/South Carolina – women earn 25% less than men Tulsa, Oklahoma – women earn 25% less than men Salt Lake City, Utah – women earn 25% less than men Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – women earn 25% less than men Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – women earn 25% less than menAcross the US, the gender pay gap shrank slightly in 2020. On average, across the 100 most populous cities, women earn $44,220 a year, which is 19% less than men, per GoodHire's study.

☆ The technology, devices, and benefits of remote patient monitoring in the healthcare industry
▼ + stars: | 2022-01-15 | by ( Shelagh Dolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

One of the tools US health systems and hospitals are turning to for improved outcomes and reduced costs is remote patient monitoring (RPM) technology. Insider IntelligenceOne of the tools US health systems and hospitals are turning to improved outcomes and reduced costs is remote patient monitoring (RPM) technology. What is remote patient monitoring (RPM)? Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is a healthcare delivery method that uses technology to monitor patient health outside of a traditional clinical setting. What are remote patient monitoring devices?

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☆ Duolingo is hiring across all of its teams. The company's global head of talent says it looks for 2 traits in all candidates.
▼ + stars: | 2021-12-13 | by ( Rachel Durose | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Duolingo has just over 500 employees, according to Jocelyn Lai, global head of talent acquisition. To land a job at the growing company, candidates should also be an expert in their craft, she added. According to Jocelyn Lai, global head of talent acquisition, quirkiness is one of two core traits — along with caring — she and her team look for in Duolingo job candidates. Despite the company's quirkiness, the talent team is still looking for highly skilled talent. For Duolingo, that means looking for candidates with a "level of craft," meaning heightened precision or mastery.

☆ S-a stins din viață actorul american Charles Grodin, cunoscut pentru rolul din comedia „Beethoven”,
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-19 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Actorul american Charles Grodin, cunoscut pentru rolurile din „Beethoven”, „Midnight Run” și „The Heartbreak Kid”, a murit la 86 de ani. Grodin a fost o figură populară la Hollywood, despre care s-a spus că vreme de decenii a stârnit hohote de râs cu rolurile sale, relatează BBC, citează digi24.ro. Unul dintre cele mai cunoscute roluri ale sale a fost cel din comedia de familie, „Beethoven”. Charles Grodin s-a născut în Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, și a renunţat la studiile de la Universitatea din Miami pentru a deveni actor. Pentru rolul din „The Heartbreak Kid”, a primit o nominalizare la Globurile de Aur pentru cel mai bun actor.

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Totuși, problemele sunt mai grave, iar sezonul din Serie A este compromis, anunță Gazzetta Dello Sport. Ibrahimovic a fost consultat de medicul Volker Musahl, din Pittsburgh, care l-a operat în 2017, când evolua la Manchester United. Zlatan are acum două variante - fie să urmeze un tratament de conservare, fie să se opereze la genunchi. În cazul în care va suferi o intervenție chirurgicală, atacantul va rata cu siguranță turneul final și, posibil, câteva meciuri din sezonul următor. Suedia a fost repartizată în grupa E la EURO 2020, alături de Spania, Polonia și Slovacia.

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☆ Zlatan Ibrahimovic poate rata EURO. Fotbalistul are nevoie de intervenție chirurgicală
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-14 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

A anunțat că revine la națională la 39 de ani ca să joace la Campionatului European, însă este în pericol să rateze turneul final din acest an. Este vorba de Zlatan Ibrahimovic, care recent s-a accidentat, iar acum a primit verdictul medicului. Acum, fotbalistul a fost consultat de medicul Volker Musahl, din Pittsburgh, care l-a operat în 2017, când evolua la Manchester United. În cazul în care va suferi o intervenție chirurgicală, atacantul va rata cu siguranță turneul final și, posibil, câteva meciuri din sezonul următor. Suedezul a evoluat în 118 partide pentru prima reprezentativă a țării sale și a marcat 62 de goluri.

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