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Its 18-month investigation found that Petr “Gara” Garabik had engaged in repeated sexual harassment and unwanted sexual contact with Reid. “New women on the team were warned about him,” Reid told the AP. Garabik told the AP in an email that the case against him was "complete nonsense from the start." By that I mean other team members.”Last May, six months after SafeSport concluded its investigation, U.S. Biathlon retroactively changed the criteria for being pre-qualified for the World Cup team — and Reid was bumped off. During the SafeSport investigation Reid underwent hours of questioning, a process that retraumatized her, she said.

Persons: Joanne Reid, Deedra Irwin, Reid, ” Irwin, Petr “ Gara ” Garabik, Wax, ”, Larry Nassar, Garabik “, “, Beth, Heiden, Eric Heiden, ” Reid, Garabik, SafeSport, —, Jack Gierhart, ” Gierhart, “ We’re, pats, Bernd Eisenbichler, Irwin, Lowell Bailey, Bailey, ’, Ju’Riese Colón, there's Organizations: Biathlon, Army National Guard, U.S . Center, SafeSport, The Associated Press, U.S, AP, World, U.S . Locations: Czech, U.S, Slovenia, ’ ”, Garabik, Austria

☆ Turkey Launches Airstrikes Against Militants in Iraq, Syria
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( Jan. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +2 min

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's military carried out airstrikes against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq and Syria on Monday night, destroying 23 targets, the defence ministry said, sustaining an escalation of conflict south of the country's border. The upswing in violence began on Friday when nine Turkish soldiers were killed in clashes with Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants in northern Iraq, prompting Ankara to conduct airstrikes and operations both there and in northern Syria. The latest airstrikes were carried out late on Monday in the Metina, Gara, Hakurk and Qandil regions of northern Iraq as well as in northern Syria to ensure border security and prevent attacks, the ministry said. Turkish forces regularly strike PKK militants based in the mountains of northern Iraq. Turkey has carried out a series of military incursions and bombing campaigns in Syria against the Kurdish YPG militia, which it regards as a wing of the PKK.

Persons: Daren Butler, Michael Perry Organizations: Kurdistan Workers Party, European Union, Kurdish YPG Locations: ISTANBUL, Iraq, Syria, Ankara, Gara, Hakurk, Turkey, United States, Turkish, Kurdish

☆ Turkey Conducts Fresh Air Strikes in Northern Iraq
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-03 | by ( Oct. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: 1 min

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish air forces conducted fresh air strikes in northern Iraq on Tuesday and destroyed 16 targets of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Turkey's defence ministry said. The operations were conducted in the Metina, Gara, Hakurk, Qandil and Asos regions of northern Iraq at 8 p.m. (1700 GMT) and that every measure was taken to avoid harm to civilians and the environment, the ministry said. Two attackers detonated a bomb in front of Turkish government buildings in Ankara on Sunday, leaving both of them dead and two police officers wounded, and the PKK claimed responsibility for the attack. (Reporting by Huseyin Hayatsever)

Persons: Huseyin Hayatsever Organizations: Kurdistan Workers Party Locations: ANKARA, Iraq, Gara, Hakurk, Ankara

☆ After Ankara bombing, Turkey hits back in Iraq and at home
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Daren Butler | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

[1/5] Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan addresses members of parliament as he attends the reopening of the Turkish parliament after the summer recess in Ankara, Turkey, October 1, 2023. On Sunday morning, two attackers detonated a bomb near government buildings in Ankara, killing them both and wounding two police officers. It launched an insurgency in southeast Turkey in 1984 and more than 40,000 people have been killed in the conflict. It said the attackers had hijacked the vehicle and killed its driver in Kayseri, a city 260 km (161 miles) southeast of Ankara. Turkey's armed forces have in recent years conducted several large-scale military operations in northern Iraq and northern Syria against Kurdish militants.

Persons: Tayyip Erdogan, Murat Cetinmuhurdar, Abdul, Latif Rashid, Ali Yerlikaya, Yerlikaya, Yasar Guler, Huseyin Hayatsever, Robert Birsel, Jonathan Spicer, Mark Heinrich, Alex Richardson Organizations: REUTERS Acquire, Kurdistan Workers Party, United Nations, Iraq, European Union, Reuters, PKK, Counterterrorism, Immortals Battalion, Kurdish, Islamic, Defence, Thomson Locations: Turkish, Ankara, Turkey, Handout, Iraq, Iraq ISTANBUL, Istanbul, Iraq's, Gara, Kurdistan, United States, Kayseri, Kurdish, Ataturk, Islamic State, Syria

☆ Turkey says "neutralised" many militants in north Iraq air strikes
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Daren Butler | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/5] Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan addresses members of parliament as he attends the reopening of the Turkish parliament after the summer recess in Ankara, Turkey, October 1, 2023. Murat Cetinmuhurdar/PPO/Handout via REUTERS Acquire Licensing RightsSummary Air strikes destroy 20 militant targets in Iraq, Turkey saysPKK group earlier claimed responsibility for Ankara attackIt was the first such attack in Ankara in yearsISTANBUL, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Turkish air strikes in north Iraq late on Sunday "neutralised" many Kurdish militants and destroyed their depots and shelters, Turkey's defence ministry said, hours after a Kurdish group claimed responsibility for a bomb attack in Ankara. The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group claimed responsibility for the attack. The bomb killed one attacker and authorities killed the other, the interior minister said. It launched an insurgency in southeast Turkey in 1984 and more than 40,000 people have been killed in the conflict.

Persons: Tayyip Erdogan, Murat Cetinmuhurdar, Daren Butler, Robert Birsel Organizations: REUTERS Acquire, Kurdistan Workers Party, Reuters, Immortals Battalion, European Union, Renault, Turkish, Islamic, Thomson Locations: Turkish, Ankara, Turkey, Handout, Iraq, ISTANBUL, Gara, United States, Ataturk, Kayseri, Islamic State

Istanbul CNN —Turkey’s military carried out airstrikes targeting Kurdish militants in northern Iraq on Sunday, just hours after the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) claimed responsibility for a deadly bombing in the capital in the latest attack of its nearly four-decade long insurgency. The ministry said in a statement that two attackers murdered a civilian and stole his vehicle ahead of the opening of parliament in Ankara. According to Ankara, the PKK trains separatist fighters and launches attacks against Turkey from its bases in northern Iraq and Syria, where a PKK-affiliated Kurdish group controls large swaths of territory. And in November last year, Ankara blamed the PKK for a bomb attack on a central pedestrian boulevard in Istanbul that killed six and injured dozens. In recent years, Turkey has carried out a steady stream of operations against the PKK domestically as well as cross-border operations into Syria.

Persons: Istanbul CNN —, ”, Ali Unal, Recep Tayyip Erdogan Organizations: Istanbul CNN, Kurdistan Workers ’ Party, Turkish Defense Ministry, United Nations Charter, European Union, Turkey’s, Ministry, Firat News Agency, Sunday, Group, Kurdistan Regional Government Locations: Istanbul, Iraq, Kurdistan, Metina, Gara, “, Turkey, United States, Ankara, Turkish, Iran, Kordestan, Iraqi Kurdistan, Syria, Kurdish

☆ How Cooking Videos Took Over the World
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Priya Krishna | Umi Syam | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +9 min

Cooking videos have never been more persuasive, more inescapable, more addictive, more entertaining. How Cooking Videos Took Over The WorldVideos on TikTok with the #foodtok hashtag have been viewed more than 64 billion times. But cooking videos are not only an unavoidable part of being online — they’ve also infiltrated physical spaces. That is what makes these videos so engaging.”Today, there isn’t just one way to make a successful cooking video. But the evolution of cooking videos represents a broader shift: Algorithms and artificial intelligence increasingly drive everyday behaviors and can stifle creativity.

Persons: they’ve, Julia Child, Joyce Chen, ”, Ashley Rose Young, —, John Gara, … TikTok, Covid, Sunny Xun Liu, “, Bennett, Hetal Vasavada, soothingly, Althea Brown, Frankenfood, Gara, Bacon, Ahmad Alzahabi, Liu, Vasavada, that’s, they’re Organizations: Department of Motor Vehicles, Smithsonian Institution, Food Network, “ East, YouTube, Facebook, Stanford Social Media, “ Locations: New York City, United States, TikTok, Denver

☆ A tech CEO apologized for quoting Martin Luther King Jr. when announcing layoffs, calling it 'inappropriate and insensitive'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-01 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

PagerDuty's CEO has apologized for quoting Martin Luther King Jr. in an email about mass layoffs. The quote was "inappropriate and insensitive" and the email's tone was wrong, CEO Jennifer Tejada said. "It is unbelievably callous to announce layoffs and the promotion of executives in the same email," one person wrote on Twitter. "The quote I included from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was inappropriate and insensitive. I should have been more upfront about the layoffs in the email, more thoughtful about my tone, and more concise.

☆ A CEO quoted Martin Luther King Jr. in an email to employees announcing layoffs. It did not go over well.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

In an email to employees announcing layoffs, PagerDuty's CEO quoted Martin Luther King Jr.People on Twitter quickly criticized her use of a quote from the noted civil rights activist. In paragraphs before mentioning the layoffs, Tejada referenced the uncertainty of macroeconomic conditions and said the company is changing its current operating mode. Tom Gara, a technology communications manager at Meta, said on Twitter that Tejada's email was an "all time classic bad layoff announcement." Although King is largely remembered for his civil rights activism, he was also a proponent of unions and workers' rights. Tejada, who became CEO of the San Francisco-based company in 2016, has referenced King before.

☆ NY Fed paper ties reverse repo surge to bank regulation change
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Michael S. Derby | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

That had a knock-on effect on money market funds, the main user of reverse repos, which surged cash into the reverse repo facility. Meanwhile, banks reduced short-term debt offerings, constraining what money funds could invest in. The reverse repo tool offers money market funds and other firms a place to park cash at the Fed overnight and earn a return. The Fed’s reverse repo facility was largely unused into the spring of 2021 and then inflows steadily ramped up. Some have made the case that as the Fed raises rates and reduces the size of its balance sheet to combat high inflation, inflows to the reverse repo facility should decline over time.

☆ Gov. Mike Dunleavy faces off against a slate of opponents in Alaska's gubernatorial election
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Hanna Kang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Mike Dunleavy is running against Democrat Les Gara, Republican Charlie Pierce, and independent candidate Bill Walker — a former governor — in Alaska's gubernatorial race. This is the first Alaskan gubernatorial election since the state implemented a top-four election for the primary. Mike Dunleavy faces off against Democrat Les Gara, Republican Charlie Pierce, and independent candidate Bill Walker in Alaska's gubernatorial election. This is the first Alaskan gubernatorial election since the state implemented a top-four election for the primary and ranked-choice voting in the general election. Prior to being elected governor, Dunleavy was a member of the Alaska State Senate, a seat he held from 2012 to 2018.

☆ Alianța pentru Unirea Românilor a comemorat victimele deportărilor staliniste din 6 iulie
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-06 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Este mesajul Alianței pentru Unirea Românilor (AUR) la împlinirea a 72 de ani de la cel mai mare val de deportări din Basarabia și Nordul Bucovinei. Potrivit Alianței pentru Unirea Românilor, deportările, foametea organizată, politica agresivă de deznaționalizare și represiunile staliniste reprezintă și astăzi o rană deschisă a neamului românesc, iar urmările regimului criminal sovietic se resimt până în ziua de astăzi. „Astăzi, cei vinovați sunt la putere, au funcții importante, vor să fie parlamentari, au fost președinți, se comportă precum stăpânii. Mai grav este când urmașii victimelor de atunci s-au alăturat călăilor sau sunt ținuți în sărăcie pentru a fi ușor de manipulat, când victimele merg triumfător alături de vinovați”, a declarat Vlad Bilețchi, președintele Alianței pentru Unirea Românilor (AUR). Menționăm că noaptea din 5 spre 6 iulie 1949 a fost una dintre cele mai dramatice din istoria românilor basarabeni, desemnând cea mai masivă deportare a familiilor din aceste ținuturi cu oameni harnici, vrednici și iubitori de neam.

Persons: Vlad Organizations: Unirea, Unirea Românilor, Alianței Locations: Basarabia, Nordul Bucovinei, Gară, Siberia

„Astăzi se împlinesc 72 de ani de la cel mai mare val de deportări din Moldova sovietică și tot astăzi în țara noastră sunt comemorate victimele stalinismului. În ziua de 6 iulie 1949 au fost scoase din casele lor și duse, la un alt capăt de lume, peste 11 mii de familii. Acești 35 de mii de oameni sunt o parte din zecile de milioane de victime, provocate de-a lungul anilor de regimul autoritar stalinist. La peste 70 de ani distanță, datoria noastră e să-i ajutăm pe supraviețuitorii deportărilor și, mai ales, să nu uităm ororile acelor vremi. Primul val de deportări a avut loc în noaptea de 12 spre 13 iunie 1941 (ora 2.30) și a cuprins teritoriile anexate de URSS de la România în iunie 1940.

Persons: Maia Sandu, Octavian Țîcu, Octavian Organizations: Facebook Locations: Moldova sovietică, Chișinău, Republica Moldova, Kazahstan, Siberia, anexate, URSS, România, RSS Moldovenească

☆ Vasile Botnaru: Cine nu are un bătrân de utilitate electorală, să și-l cumpere*… — Moldova.org
▼ + stars: | 2021-07-03 | by ( Marta Sterpu | Autor Invitat | ) www.moldova.org time to read: +1 min

Bunăoară, ca la teatru, lovești zdravăn cu hârlețul într-o covată ori spargi o placă de sticlă și efectul e asigurat. Exact așa procedează o casă de sondaje, care se întreabă dacă nu cumva grija exagerată a partidelor pentru diaspora are să trezească gelozia electoratului intern. – descoperă punctaje comparabile obținute de Maia, Igor, Igor, Vladimir și Gheorghe. Și nu vede nicio deosebire între notorietatea erectă stoarsă din scandaluri și spectacole macabre și vizibilitatea obținută din activități de rutină. Vasile Botnaru, jurnalist, conduce biroul din Chișinău al Radio Europa Liberă din 2004, autorul emisiunii duminicale „Punct și de la capăt”.