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☆ We're DINKs who make $190k a year and work from home. Here's what our typical Costco haul looks like.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-20 | by ( Jacqueline Gualtieri | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Here's what my partner and I usually get for $350 in our high-cost-of-living California city. AdvertisementWe usually pick up variety packs of Poppi, which contain prebiotics for gut health and have fewer calories and added sugars than most sodas. There are few places to grab bagels around my home now, so the bagels at Costco are a decent replacement. Instead of using cream cheese, I put Laughing Cow spreadable cheese on my bagel, preferably the light option if Costco has it. It's a good substitute for unhealthier snacks, and a pack of 60 only costs us about $10 at Costco.

Persons: —, we're DINKs, Jacqueline Gualtieri, we're, Ade kombucha, Costco's, Caesar, Costco Jacqueline Gualtieri, Gualtieri, We've, Kirkland Organizations: Service, Area, Business, Costco, Del Real Foods, Kirkland Locations: Central Coast, Monterey, California, Del Real, Italian

BERLIN (AP) — Plans for the first “open category” swimming races to accommodate transgender competitors at a World Cup this weekend have been scrapped because of a lack of entries. World Aquatics said Tuesday it had received “no entries” for the open category events scheduled to take place at a World Cup starting Friday in Berlin. The open category was supposed to make its debut on a pilot basis with 50-meter and 100-meter races in Berlin. World Aquatics said its open category working group will continue its work. Political Cartoons View All 1196 Images“Even if there is no current demand at the elite level, the working group is planning to look at the possibility of including open category races at Masters events in the future,” World Aquatics said.

Persons: ___ Organizations: BERLIN, FINA, Aquatics Locations: Berlin, Budapest, Hungary

CNN —The death earlier this year of former US swimming champion Jamie Cail has been ruled accidental and fentanyl related, according to a Facebook post from the US Virgin Islands Police Department. An autopsy report from the US Virgin Islands Office of the Medical Examiner listed Cail’s cause of death as “fentanyl intoxication with aspiration of gastric content,” police said Friday. Cail, who had previously lived in New Hampshire, ultimately “succumbed to her ailment,” officials added, saying she had died on arrival. Cail won gold at the 1997 Pan Pacific Championships as a member of the US women’s 4x200-meter freestyle relay, according to FINA, the international governing body of swimming. USA Swimming said Cail was “a cherished teammate” in a February statement.

Persons: Jamie Cail, Cail, Myrah Keating, “, ”, Jooyoung Lee, Jamie, ” Cail Organizations: CNN, US Virgin Islands Police Department, US Virgin Islands Office, Medical, John . Police, Smith Community Health Center, Pan, FINA, Bolles School, Bolles, University of Southern, University of Maine Locations: St, John, New Hampshire, Brazil, Jacksonville , Florida, University of Southern California

☆ FIDE bans transgender women from competing in women’s chess events pending ‘further analysis’
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Ben Church | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

In a meeting earlier this month, FIDE’s council approved the updated policy which will come into effect on August 21. The policy says that once a player informs FIDE they are changing their gender from male to female, they will be banned from competing in official women’s events. This is so insulting to cis women, to trans women, and to the game itself,” it wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. “So FIDE just published (yesterday) a list of anti-trans regulations, like it was ‘the biggest threat of women in chess’. WA said the exclusion would apply to “male-to-female transgender athletes.”Advocates of banning transgender women from women’s sport have argued that transgender women have a physical advantage over cisgender women in sports.

Persons: Federation –, –, ” “, Yosha Iglesias, “, ” Iglesias, FIDE’s Organizations: CNN, Federation, FIDE, Center for Transgender Equality, Cup, FINA, Athletics, WA, Sports Medicine

☆ UK rowing body bans transgender women from competing in women’s events
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Amy Woodyatt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

London CNN —Transgender women will not be allowed to compete in the women’s category of British Rowing events, the sport’s UK governing body has announced ahead of a change in policy due to come in later this year. Only athletes “assigned female at birth” will be allowed to compete in the women’s category in competitions under its jurisdiction, or be selected to represent Great Britain or England at international events, British Rowing said in a media release published Thursday. Meanwhile, any athletes are eligible to compete in an “Open” category, while competitions can stage “Mixed” events at any level of competition, providing 50% of crew are eligible to compete as women, British Rowing added. The policy includes athletes who compete in rowing and para-rowing, and applies at all levels including the Olympics and Paralympics, British Rowing added. “While elite sport often dominates these discussions, it only makes up a tiny proportion of all sport played in the UK.

Persons: “, Liz Ward, ” Organizations: London CNN —, British Rowing, Olympics, Rowing, British Cycling, Swimming Federation, FINA, Athletics, WA Locations: British, Great Britain, England

☆ Analysis: Investors see trouble ahead after Europe's stellar first quarter
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Joice Alves | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Europe's largest listed company LVMH (LVMH.PA) produced stellar sales as China rebounded sharply after COVID restrictions ended. The robust corporate margins on show in the first quarter are seen coming under pressure later in the year. Based on Refinitiv I/B/E/S estimates, STOXX 600 companies are expected to report net profit margins of 11.4% in the first quarter, up from 10.2% in the last quarter of 2022. But margins are seen declining to 10.5% in the third quarter, according to Refinitiv estimates. But there has not been a wave of companies revising earnings forecasts down, providing a cushion for European equities.

☆ Investors see trouble ahead after Europe's stellar first quarter
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Joice Alves | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

☆ You Don’t Need to Speak Another Language to Love a Bilingual Edition
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Hasan Altaf | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

In “The Rebel’s Silhouette,” for example, an untitled Urdu poem by Faiz Ahmed Faiz on Page 50 is placed opposite its translation, by the Kashmiri American poet Agha Shahid Ali, on Page 51. Even if you don’t read Urdu, the original is sharply outlined: four lines in two couplets, taking up barely a third of the page. One great charm of a bilingual edition is that you don’t have to give up one for the other, as you would with a translation. You can have both at the same time, and treat language as a Jenga tower, moving its pieces but preserving its structure. Look at the beginning of another untitled poem and you can hear the music of “Passará/tem passado/passa com a sua fina faca” — the time-traveling verb, the echoing sibilants, the alliteration.

☆ Mexican government takes pride in artistic team after cutting funding
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Mexico increased their World Cup medal tally to four on Monday at the competition in Egypt, having travelled there thanks to the support of businessman Carlos Slim. With three golds and a bronze, the North American country finished second in the medal table behind Spain. Their first medal success came in the Mixed Team Technical event on Saturday, when a statement from the government praising the swimmers raised eyebrows after the National Commission for Physical Culture and Sport (CONADE) cut support from the team. "The Mexican artistic swimming team's historic participation in the World Cup in Egypt was a golden one. loadingCONADE head Ana Guevara announced the cut in funding in January after global governing body World Aquatics did not recognise the president of the Mexican Swimming Federation, Kiril Todorov, who is facing a trial for embezzlement.

☆ The trans soccer team that’s making history
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Hannah Ryan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

On the rainy evening of March 31, 2023, he captained what he says is the first ever all trans masculine soccer team in Europe in a match. “I was quite nervous before the match,” Webber told CNN. They now also aim to make soccer a more inclusive sport and connect the trans community. “After the all trans feminine team played their game and once I’d played with the all-gender team, she took me aside and said she’d been thinking about what we could do next and asked if I’d be interested in captaining an all trans masc team,” Webber said. “One day, there’ll be hundreds of trans people playing football all over the country at all levels.”

☆ Quotes: Global banks under pressure as SVB triggers contagion worries
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +8 min

LONDON, March 14 (Reuters) - The health of the global banking sector as interest rates rise remained in the spotlight on Tuesday in the wake of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). But days of wild swings in global markets and hefty losses in bank shares, left the outlook for the sector in focus. Banks are now faced with the classic problem that has threatened banks throughout history: a mismatch in terms between assets and liabilities." Hopefully we'll go over the next few days, whether or not the financial system is going to calm down or not. "It’s been an indiscriminate sell off in banking stocks, the financial sector repriced everywhere.

☆ World Athletics proposes tighter rules for transgender women athletes
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

World Athletics on Saturday said it is consulting with member federations on a proposal that would impose more stringent testosterone limits on transgender women athletes competing in women’s track and field events. World Athletics stressed that no final decision has been made on the matter after the U.K.’s Telegraph newspaper reported on the discussions. In June, World Athletics and soccer’s governing body FIFA both said they were reviewing their transgender eligibility policies after swimming’s world governing body FINA passed rules banning transgender participation in women’s events. World Athletics president Sebastian Coe at the time praised FINA’s decision, which has been criticized by transgender rights supporters. Advocates for transgender inclusion say that there are relatively few trans women athletes and that not enough studies have been done on the impact of transition on physical performance.

☆ The Dramatic World of Artistic Swimming Will be Open to Men at the Paris Olympics
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Louise Radnofsky | Rachel Bachman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Bill May and Natalia Vega Figueroa perform during the Mixed Duet Technical Artistic Swimming Preliminary at the FINA Swimming World Championships 2019. An Olympic competition long associated with dramatically made-up women swimming and swirling will have a new addition for the 2024 Paris Games: men. World Aquatics announced Thursday that countries would be allowed to include up to two men in their entries for the 2024 Olympic team event—in which eight swimmers perform a routine as a group. Nations could also choose not to field men in their lineups. The duet event will remain limited to pairs of women.

☆ Nikki Hiltz: How this professional runner is making their sport more inclusive
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

“I was open about my sexuality at that point, but not my gender identity,” Hiltz tells CNN Sport. After coming out as trans and non-binary, Hiltz continues to compete in the women’s division. “You know, I have no business putting on an in-person race,” Hiltz jokes. Spencer Cox’s veto of a bill that bans transgender women from competing on women’s and girls’ sports teams. Since coming out as trans and non-binary last year, Hiltz has had conversations with race directors and announcers about making running more inclusive.

☆ Katie Ledecky breaks yet another world record
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-06 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —A week after she obliterated the 1500m short-course record, Katie Ledecky broke another – this time in the 800m as she stormed to victory at the FINA World Cup in Indianapolis. The American shaved almost two seconds off Mireia Belmonte’s previous record of 7:59.34, setting a new best time of 7:57.42. Ledecky almost broke this record last week when she completed the 1500m in record time with a split time of 8:00.58, a second off world-record pace. “I pushed myself a lot after last week,” Ledecky said, according to FINA’s, the sport’s world governing body, website. Maddie Meyer/Getty ImagesAnd like her record-breaking 1500m swim, Ledecky led from the first turn, always ahead of world-record pace, and never seemed to be troubled by her fellow competitors.

☆ Ledecky breaks 800m freestyle short-course world record
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/2] Nov 4, 2022; Indianapolis, IN, USA; United States Katie Ledecky walks off the poo deck after competing in the 200 meter freestyle swim during the FINA Swimming World Cup finals on Friday, Nov 4, 2022; Indianapolis, IN, USA; at Indiana University Natatorium. Mandatory Credit: Grace Hollars-USA TODAY SportsNov 5 (Reuters) - Ten-times Olympic medallist Katie Ledecky broke her second world record in just over a week on Saturday, beating the all-time women's short-course time in the 800 metres freestyle at the Indianapolis FINA World Cup meeting on Saturday. The American led from the start and finished in 7:57.42, shaving nearly two seconds off the previous mark set by Spain’s Mireia Belmonte in 2013. Ledecky, who earned her third straight Olympic gold in the 800m freestyle in Tokyo last year, the short-course world record in the 1,500 metres freestyle by nearly 10 seconds the previous Saturday. Reporting by Amy Tennery in New York; Editing by Ken FerrisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Katie Ledecky obliterates short-course 1500m freestyle world record
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-30 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

And on Saturday the American obliterated yet another world record – this time in the 1500m short-course freestyle as she completed the race in 15:08.24, 10 seconds faster than anyone has done so before. “I felt good and very pleased with the outcome in both that and the 200m.”Ledecky distanced all her competitors to win and set a new world record. Steve Russell/Toronto Star/Getty ImagesLedecky’s time was so fast that she almost broke the 800m world record in the same event, with a split time of 8:00.58, a second off world-record pace. Capturing the 1500m short-course record marked the American’s first world record in a 25m pool as all her others have come in the long-course or in a 50m pool. “I didn’t have it as a set goal (to break the world record),” Ledecky said, according to FINA.

☆ Ledecky smashes short-course 1,500m freestyle world record
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-30 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

TORONTO, Oct 29 (Reuters) - American swimmer Katie Ledecky broke the women's short-course world record in the 1,500 metre freestyle at the FINA Swimming World Cup in Toronto on Saturday, shaving nearly 10 seconds off the previous mark set by Germany's Sarah Wellbrock. "That was my first time swimming this event in a short-course pool and I didn't know what to expect," said Ledecky, who is the reigning Olympic and world long-course champion in the distance. "The record was a fantastic performance by Sarah and I was happy to have swum this fast." Wellbrock had held the previous world short-course mark of 15:18.01 since 2019. "I didn't have it as a set goal (to break the world record).

☆ Zhou Jihong: She apologized for verbally abusing an Olympic judge, but questions over the conduct of China's 'Iron Lady' of diving remain
▼ + stars: | 2022-05-11 | by ( George Ramsay | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

That was after Zhou, who has been dubbed the “Iron Lady” of Chinese diving, allegedly launched a verbal tirade at Wright at the 10m platform event’s conclusion for underscoring Chinese divers. In a diving event, judges on the panel award each dive a score ranging from zero to 10. Lintao Zhang/Getty ImagesAccording to Latimer, Zhou has “substantial input” when it comes to deciding which judges are chosen to officiate at competitions. From FINAAllegations against Zhou, Latimer says, have been slow to emerge due to her influential status within the sport. The “Iron Lady” of Chinese diving, Zhou became the country’s first ever Olympic gold medalist in the sport in 1984.

☆ Arsurile solare, un pericol pentru copii; Expunerea prelungită poate conduce la apariția cancerului de piele
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-09 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +6 min

Sursa foto: Facebook/Diana Munteanu-CovilaArsurile solare, un pericol pentru copii; Expunerea prelungită poate conduce la apariția cancerului de pieleArsurile solare, în special la copiii mici sunt extrem de periculoase, deoarece pot avea efecte devastatoare la maturitate. Potrivit specialiștilor, arsurile solare cresc riscul de cancer de piele, iată de ce este important să le oferim maximă protecție și grijă. Cu cât suntem mai aproape de zona ecuatorială, cu atât mai mare este riscul de arsuri solare”, a mai adăugat medicul. Expunerea prelungită la soare conduce și la deshidratarea organismului prin transpirație excesivă și lipsa unui aport mărit de lichide. Un alt aspect important este aplicarea unei cantități suficiente de cremă SPF pentru a atinge nivelul recomandat de protecție”, a mai spus medicul dermatolog-cosmetolog.

Persons: Diana Munteanu

☆ Tipurile de bere pentru orice gust. Află diferențele dintre ele
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-05 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +3 min

Totuși, una dintre cele mai renumite tipuri de bere brună este considerat stout-ul, care are câteva varietăți:# American stout – este unul dintre sorturile de bere brună cu nuanțe aromatice de cafea și de ciocolată. # Lager este o clasă de bere cu concentrație de maxim 5 % alcool, gust ușor de hamei și malț. # Pilsner este cea mai universală categorie de bere, reprezentând circa două treimi din consumul mondial de bere din lume. # Extra lager se potrivește pentru cei care preferă o halbă de bere spumoasă și cu un gust puternic, fiind una dintre berile cu arome persistente. Pentru toate aceste clase de bere este prezent gustul plăcut, proaspăt și ușor.

Persons: Zakaz, bock

☆ DOC/ Mai mulți angajați din cadrul „Moldpres” acuză administrația instituției de „abuz de putere” și pe directorul instituției că „nu se prezintă la muncă”. Reacția directorului: „Sunt în birou, trimi
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-25 | by ( Buzdugan Loredana | ) www.zdg.md time to read: +7 min

Mai mulți angajați din cadrul Agenției Informaționale de Stat „Moldpres” (I.P Moldpres A.I.S.) Solicitat de ZdG, directorul „Moldpres”, Andrei Volentir, și membru CEC, a calificat scrisoarea drept „o bârfă”. Dacă este cineva nemulțumit poate să se plângă la Cancelaria de Stat, dacă era vorba despre o plângere reală și nu de bârfe. Din iulie 2001, „Moldpres” a trecut în subordinea Cancelariei de Stat a Guvernului Republicii Moldova. La 23 iunie 2018, prin Hotărârea Guvernului Republicii Moldova, Întreprinderea de stat Agenția Informațională de Stat „Moldpres” se reorganizează prin transformare în Instituția publică „Agenția Informațională de Stat „Moldpres”, având în calitate de fondator Cancelaria de Stat.

Persons: Ina Railean, Andrei Volentir, ZdG, Volentir, Eu, Vicol Organizations: CEC Locations: CEC, Republicii Moldova, Moldova

Înțepăturile căpușelor ce pot fi infectate cu diferiți agenți patogeni, are loc molipsirea populației cu maladii grave, precum boala Lyme, encefalita de căpuşă, febra hemoragică Crimeea Congo, febra Q etc. Preferă păduri umbroase și umede, poienițe cu multă iarbă, câmp deschis cu arbuști, parcuri, bazine acvatice cu o vegetație abundentă etc. Semnul cel mai evident și frecvent al bolii Lyme este „eritemul migrator”, o leziune cutanată ce apare la 60-80% persoane agresate de căpușe. În cazul prezenței pe corp a căpușei se vor depune eforturi de înlăturare operativă și inofensivă. La efectuarea procedurilor de înlăturare a căpușei nu se recomandă răsucirea, smulgerea, strivirea acesteia, sau aplicarea uleiurilor, ojei etc.

Persons: ANSP Locations: encefalita, Crimeea Congo, inghinală, smulgerea

☆ (video) Recomandări de la Mircea, fără spoilere: cinci filme savuroase pentru iubitorii de vinuri
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-19 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +7 min

O poveste romantică, nebunatică, în care două spirite rătăcite se află pe sine și își acceptă limitele. E o poveste ușoară, pe alocuri zburătoare, îndesată cu glume de tot soiul. O rezolvare modestă, un sfârșit previzibil și o atmosferă plăcută. Deși lasă de dorit, totuși e un film autentic, care merită atenție, îți trezește emoții și îți dă de gândit. O poveste în care vinul orbește asemenea unei comori blestemate și ademenește spre o cale greșită.

Persons: Miles, Paul Giamatti, Jack, Thomas, Alexander Payne, Schmidt, Steven Spurrier, Alan Rickman, Jim Barret, Bill Pullman, Jim, Bo, Chris Pine, Gustavo, Freddy Rodríguez, Sir Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe, Albert Finney, Marion Cotillard, Max Skinner, Henry, Max, Paul, Marseul, Niels Arestrup, Martin, Francois, Philip, Mussolini, Stanley Kramer, Anthony Quinn, Rudy Organizations: Prime, HBO GO Locations: Californiei, Paris, California, Franța, Saint, Italia, Santa Vittoria, Bombolini

☆ Cunoaște ideile de startup ce se dezvoltă în acceleratorul de afaceri Upcelerator by Dreamups
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-17 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +7 min

Cunoaște ideile de startup ce se dezvoltă în acceleratorul de afaceri Upcelerator by DreamupsPeste 30 de participanți și participante lucrează la ideile lor de afacere de mai bine de opt săptămâni, conectându-se din diferite colțuri ale lumii. Tinerii și tinerele participă complet online în acceleratorul de startup-uri tech, Upcelerator, unde timp de patru luni dezvoltă propria afacere scalabilă și cu impact. Beneficiarii programului primesc suportul necesar din partea a 40 mentori internaționali și locali și lucrează în continuu la dezvoltarea ideii pe platforma de e-learning Upfactory dezvoltată de Dreamups. Participanții vor putea partaja videoclipuri de la orice evenimente curente și să discute despre experiențele și opiniile lor. Balog Szabolcs, Fina Sebastian, Ioana Grozav, Yulia Serbinovich – România, Moldova#Serviciu online pentru planificarea călătoriei, susținut de o platformă socială.

Persons: Wanderer, Sebastian, Ioana, Svetlana, Marina, Ionut Baranga, Ionut Neagu, PlusUs, Dan Danilescu, Nina Petica, STEEPER, Andriy, Nikita, . AlexChef, Cristina Tofan, Alexandru, Ana, Andrei Ceban, Valentin, MentorsHub, Vadim Casap, Dorin Pușcaș, Come2Casa, Diana Matiescu, Ana Dodi, Diana, Acell, Cristian, Catalina Popescu, Ogunranti, Moses Organizations: NOORMAN, JOBYFIT, Fox, Aero, Inga, Upcelerator, Orange Systems Locations: Chișinău, Moldova, România, Cahul, București, Luxemburg, Ucraina, Londra, Bobeica, Irlanda, Italia, Stuttgart, Germania, Chisinau, Ondo, Nigeria

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