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☆ Microsoft’s World of Warcraft Workers Vote to Unionize
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( John Yoon | More About John Yoon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

More than 500 workers in the team behind World of Warcraft, one of the most popular video games in the world, have voted to unionize, the Communication Workers of America said on Wednesday. The move expands the ranks of organized labor at Microsoft, which acquired the video game giant Activision Blizzard — whose subsidiary Blizzard Entertainment produces World of Warcraft — for $69 billion last year. To satisfy the regulators overseeing the mega-acquisition, Microsoft promised to remain neutral on unionizing efforts, an unusually permissive policy in the tech industry. An arbitrator determined on Wednesday that a majority of the World of Warcraft workers, including designers, engineers, artists and quality testers, supported the C.W.A., the union said in a statement. Blizzard Entertainment recognized the union, increasing the number of unionized game workers at Microsoft to more than 1,750, the C.W.A.

Organizations: Communication Workers of America, Microsoft, Activision, Blizzard Entertainment

☆ A New Yorker took her first solo trip to Greece at 38. She loved the slower pace of life so much that she moved there.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-24 | by ( Ella Hopkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

She told Business Insider she worked 16 hours a day some days and often worked weekends. Rodriguez told BI they'd been working hard on a new project just before being let go. AdvertisementWith her new business, Rodriguez thought she needed to stay in New York to meet clients in person. She took a solo trip to GreeceRodriguez decided to attend a friend's birthday party in Greece in June 2021. She'd never visited the country before and decided to take a 10-day solo vacation to Greece around the party.

Persons: —, Marissa Rodriguez, Rodriguez, she'd, Chris Burch, Wonder, Sofia Vergara, Renata Black's, Greece Rodriguez, She'd, New York —, couldn't Organizations: Service, New York University, Business, C.Wonder Locations: Puerto Rico, Manhattan, New York, Greece, America, Athens, there's, New York City

☆ This is what it's like for US Army paratroopers jumping out of giant C-17s for freezing Arctic airborne assaults
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

US Army paratroopers jumped into Arctic terrain at an exercise in Alaska last month. AdvertisementIn the skies above Alaska, US Army paratroopers, loaded with heavy gear, take the plunge out of a perfectly fine airplane into freezing air temperatures and whipping Arctic winds. The experience is quite intense, troops told Business Insider, an adrenaline rush only heightened by doing it in the Arctic environment. Abreanna GoodrichLast month, US Army Pacific hosted a Joint Pacific Multinational Rotation Center training event near Fairbanks, Alaska. Paratroopers with 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 11th Airborne Division, stage onboard a Boeing C-17 Globemaster III prior to conducting an airborne operation in Donnelly Training Area, Delta Junction, AK, Feb. 8, 2024.

Persons: —, Abreanna Goodrich, USARPAC, Molly Treece, Charles A, Flynn, Derek Dion, you've, Donte Smith, Natalie Doan Smith, Spc.Wyatt Moore, Smith, Natalie Doan, David Hanson, it's Organizations: Army, Service, US Army, Business, U.S . Army, 3rd Battalion, 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 11th Airborne Division, Pacific Multinational Readiness, Donnelly Training, U.S, Spc, US Army Pacific, Multinational Rotation Center, Boeing, Delta Junction, U.S . Air Force, 36th Airlift Squadron, Yokota Air Base, Joint Base Elmendorf, . Air Force, Public Affairs, Paratroopers, U.S . Army 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Public, Public Affairs Detachment Paratroopers, 11th Airborne Locations: Alaska, Fairbanks , Alaska, Hawaii, Delta, AK, China, Russia, North Korea, Wainwright, U.S, Japan, Richardson , Alaska

☆ What MAGA World Gets Wrong About the N.F.L. and Taylor - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-11 | by ( Jane Coaston | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The National Football League is an American cultural behemoth: Ninety-three of 2023’s 100 most-watched television broadcasts were N.F.L. Among those who will be watching the game is National Review senior editor Charles C.W. A native of England, Cooke has become an avid football fan (specifically, of the Jacksonville Jaguars) and has written about his growing understanding of America’s one true national sport. He has also written about some on the Right’s aversion to the N.F.L., particularly as some concoct convoluted conspiracy theories involving singer Taylor Swift and her boyfriend, the Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, while others denounce professional sports as a whole. As Cooke wrote in National Review, “Online, one can say that Taylor Swift is a ‘Deep State psyop’ and prompt a million Lost Boys to clap their hands in glee.

Persons: —, Charles C.W, Cooke, Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce, ’, ” Organizations: Kansas City Chiefs, San Francisco 49ers, National Football League, National Review, Jacksonville Jaguars, Chiefs, National, Boys, 49ers Locations: American, England

☆ This 66-year-old has worked at McDonald's for 50 years: ‘I never thought it would be my forever job’
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-05 | by ( Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

In the 1970s, the coolest job you could have was flipping burgers at McDonald's. "Believe it or not, you needed to have an in to get a job at McDonald's back then, so my brother, who was working in the kitchen, recommended me for the job," Hendel, 66, tells CNBC Make It. "I never thought it would be my forever job," says Hendel. And he goes, 'Do you think you're good at it?' In 1990, Hendel became the owner/operator of his first McDonald's restaurant in Brooklyn.

Persons: Paul Hendel, Hank, Hendel, Merrick McDonald's, McDonald's, Peter Hunt, Paul, I'm, It's, I've, Lauren, Mark Organizations: CNBC, C.W, Post University, Long Island University, McDonald's Locations: Merrick , New York, Long, McDonald's, Long Island, Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, Glen Cove, Nassau County, Oceanside , New York, Hunt

☆ Building a Better Colonial Williamsburg
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Jennifer Schuessler | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In 2021, the foundation raised a record-breaking $102 million, up 42 percent from the previous high in 2019. Those projects have won support across the political spectrum, including from Gov. “The scholarship of decades has shown us this fuller, richer picture of Early America,” Wulf said. But it’s the real thing.”A Patriotic ShrineColonial Williamsburg has its own complicated founding story. In the 1920s, a local minister persuaded John D. Rockefeller Jr. to quietly buy most of the historic area, with the goal of recreating Virginia’s 18th-century colonial capital, down to each historically correct brick and nail.

☆ We spoke with 21 of Matt Gaetz's high-school classmates. Some say they could have predicted the congressman's sex scandal.
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-14 | by ( Robin Bravender | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

His high-school classmates are gossiping about him on their Facebook alumni group. Insider interviewed 21 of Gaetz's former classmates this month, including alumni from his Niceville High School graduating class of 2000 and members of Gaetz's high-school debate team. Gaetz's high-school classmates have been gossiping about him in a Facebook alumni group. Defining 'archipelago'Some of Gaetz's high-school classmates also knew him from his days in middle school. In high school, Gaetz "thought he was smarter than the teacher," Donahoo said.

☆ 2020 год стал одним из самых теплых
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-15 | by ( Mld Media Srl | ) noi.md time to read: +8 min

2020 год стал одним из трех самых теплых лет за всю историю наблюдений, и по результатам консолидации пяти ведущих международных наборов данных Всемирной метеорологической организацией (ВМО) соперничал за первое место с 2016 годом. Самые теплые шесть лет следовали с 2015 года, при этом 2016, 2019 и 2020 годы входят в тройку самых теплых. «Подтверждение Всемирной метеорологической организации, что 2020 год был одним из самых теплых лет в истории, является еще одним суровым напоминанием о неумолимых темпах изменения климата, которое уничтожает жизни и средства к существованию на всей нашей планете. «Примечательно, что температура в 2020 году была практически на одном уровне с 2016 годом, когда мы наблюдали одно из самых сильных вызывающих потепление явлений Эль-Ниньо в истории наблюдений. НУОА и британский набор данных HadCRUT поставили 2020 год на второе место после 2016 года, а комплект данных ЯМА — на третье.

Persons: Антониу Гутерриш, Петтери Таалас, Таалас Organizations: Всемирная метеорологическая организация (ВМО), ВМО, Всемирная метеорологическая организация, ООН, Члены, Национальное управление по исследованию океанов и атмосферы, Институт космических исследований им. Годдард НАСА (ГИСС НАСА), Центр им. Гадлей Метеобюро, Отдел исследований климата, Университет Восточной Англии, Европейский центр среднесрочные прогнозы погоды, Служба по вопросам изменения климата «Коперник, Японское метеорологическое агентство (ЯМА), НАСА, Университет Восточная Англия, Метеобюро Соединенного Королевства, Метеобюро Locations: Сибирь, Арктика, Атлантика, рН, Соединенные Штаты, США, Соединенные Штаты Америка (НУОА), Соединенное Королевство, Соединенное Королевство (), Соединенного Королевство, Земля

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