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Wednesday, June 7, 2023 by Ava Garderet
A pilot opportunity from the Community Technology and Telecommunications Commission aims to support the city's digital inclusion program by resourcing new computer labs around the community.At the commission's May 24 meeting, Chair Nehemiah Pitts described how he initially came across the partnership opportunity when he met contacts from the N50 Project , a coalition of companies and organizations working to close the global digital divide.

impact.com, the world's leading partnership management platform, announces the appointment of Michelle Denman as chief people officer (CPO).Denman brings more than three decades of experience in human resources, people development, talent acquisition, and organisational development.As CPO, she will lead impact.com's

Top U.S. originator United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) is the target of two lawsuits filed by former underwriters alleging retaliation, a hostile workplace environment, gender/sexual harassment and failure to pay minimum wages and overtime.The company declined to comment on the accusations.According to the lawsuits filed in a U.S. district court in Michigan, the alleged events occurred amid the mortgage lender's return-to-work policy during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Sir Gavin Williamson allegedly told a senior civil servant to slit your throat in what they claimed was a bullying campaign while he was defence secretary.Rishi Sunak is under increasing pressure over his decision to bring his ally back into government after The Guardian reported fresh incendiary claims about his conduct.

Sir Gavin Williamson allegedly told a senior civil servant to slit your throat in what they claimed was a bullying campaign while he was defence secretary.Rishi Sunak is under increasing pressure over his decision to bring his ally back into Government after The Guardian reported fresh incendiary claims about his conduct.

(Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)

USC has appointed an "interim executive administrator" to help steer a reeling department in the wake of Mike Bohn's resignation Friday.Denise Kwok, USC's executive senior associate athletic director for student-athlete development, will be the interim executive administrator while USC balances conducting a search for a new athletic director and navigating a transition to the Big Ten Conference.

Late in the third quarter in the Hocking College football team's game against Sussex Community College on Sept. 11, 2021, kicker Caden Cox's number was called.The ball was snapped, and Cox sent it soaring between the goal posts, cementing his place in history as the first college football player with Down syndrome to score.

A separate report last August by the Legislative Analyst's Office found that, during the pandemic, state appeals judges overturned EDD unemployment denials up to 80% of the time.That report highlighted another sample of 1.1 million unemployment claims stopped due to fraud concerns by an EDD consultant early in the pandemic, where at least 600,000 cases were later "confirmed as legitimate" and workers saw payments needlessly delayed.

Diego Scotti has been the chief marketing officer at Verizon for eight years, leading it to multiple Cannes Lions wins and Super Bowl campaigns.Now, Scotti has announced that he will leave Verizon to focus on another yet-to-be-named venture.In an internal memo obtained by Adweek, Scotti said he is building a new chapter in his career and looking to explore new challenges, and that the company wishes him all the best in the future.

Records show that staff members in Mayor Ted Wheeler's office were warned of former staffer Sam Adams' "theme" of poor interactions with female employees since at least October 2021-more than a year prior to Adams' reported resignation from the Mayor's office.At least six women who worked with Adams brought their complaints to the city's Bureau of Human Resources over the past 16 months, with the first complaints of Adams' alleged unprofessional behavior beginning just six months after he joined Wheeler's staff.

Portland Thorns FC head coach Rhian Wilkinson resigned Friday following one season and a National Women's Soccer League title.In a lengthy message posted to Twitter, Wilkinson said the players asked for her resignation following an investigation into her conduct as head coach -- conduct she said she self-reported to the team's human resources officials.

Following closely on the heels of the county assessor's office, Circuit Court Clerk Iris Martinez announced Monday that her office was also freed from federal oversight of hiring and employment practices, known as Shakman monitoring.But the person in charge of birddogging compliance and reporting back to the court suggested the office was still deficient in key areas.

DANVILLE  Nicholas Moseby was two months into his first-ever teaching job at San Ramon Valley High School when two freshmen girls warned campus administrators about a troubling comment he made.He whispered, You are lucky you guys are hot,' according to one girl's written account in October 2021.More complaints followed, in February from another girl and in March from a parent, reporting alleged inappropriate behavior by Moseby, a 41-year-old biology teacher who also coached cheerleaders in Danville and San Ramon.

United Airlines plans to hire 15,000 employees this year, with the largest group of new jobs in Chicago, as part of ongoing efforts to bring in tens of thousands of new workers in the coming years.The Chicago-based carrier is looking to add 3,800 new hires in its home city, including roles at O'Hare International Airport and the corporate office.

San Jose's largest school district is projecting a need for hundreds of teachers starting next fall, but hurdles remain amid an ongoing shortage.San Jose Unified School District estimates it needs to hire 202 teachers for the 2023-24 school year, according to the California Department of Education.Education officials said districts are looking for teachers, but face an uphill battle as students and instructors alike leave the Bay Area.

Slightly more than half (53%) of CFOs expect to increase their marketing budgets by at least 3% this year, according to a Gartner survey of 300 top financial executives.Some 21% are planning on level funding, while 25% predict they will cut the marketing budget by at least 3%."CFOs are most polarized in this area with one quarter planning large increases in marketing of 10% or more, another quarter planning cuts, and the remaining half sitting somewhere in between," said Alexander Bant, chief of research in the Gartner Finance practice, in a statement.

A community meeting held on Tuesday evening to discuss the hiring of an investigator to lead the nascent Sheriff's Department Oversight Board attracted exactly one participant - a longtime friend of one of seven members of the board.Four of the seven board members were present at the meeting, with a fifth arriving as it was concluding.

The LinkedIn Podcast Academy is a 6-month incubator pilot, which will connect emerging business podcasts with exclusive programming, coaching, tools and LinkedIn co-branding to expand and better reach their audience.This inaugural group of professional voices cover a wide range of topics in the professional arena: From leadership and entrepreneurship to human resources and technology."

A new Linux version of Royal ransomware is targeting VMware ESXi virtual machines.Learn more about this security threat and how to protect from it.Royal ransomware is malware that first appeared around September 2022.The people behind this ransomware are probably a subgroup of the infamous Conti threat actor.

Local Funeral services for the 55-year-old woman and her 12-year-old son are planned for Saturday.Loved ones are remembering an Andover mother and her 12-year-old son, who were killed Thursday in what authorities have described as a murder-suicide, for their love and devotion to one another.Linda Robinson, 55, and Sebastian Robinson, 12, were allegedly shot and killed by 56-year-old Andrew Robinson early Thursday morning in their Andover home.

Crime Officials released new details surrounding the deaths of Andrew, Linda, and Sebastian Robinson.Officials released new information Wednesday regarding the Andover man who allegedly shot and killed his wife and son before taking his own life earlier this month.Investigators revealed more information about the chilling 911 call police received before the Feb. 9 incident.

New York (CNN)Boeing plans to cut about 2,000 white-collar jobs in finance and human resources, and it will be shifting some of that work to an outside contractor in India.Although Boeing will reduce office staff, the company is preparing to add 10,000 employees focused on engineering and manufacturing.

Semiconductor giant TSMC plans to add more than 6,000 jobs this year, despite a broader slowdown in demand for chips.The world's largest contract chipmaker is looking to recruit new engineers and production line operators across its home base of Taiwan in the cities of Hsinchu, Taichung, Tainan and Kaohsiung it confirmed Monday.

Canada's economy added 150,000 jobs in January, blowing past expectations for the second month in a row.Statistics Canada reported Friday that most of the jobs more than 120,000 were of the full-time variety.Canada's economy added 150,000 jobs last month, Statistics Canada reported Friday.(Anis Heydari/CBC) The gains come on the heels of an initial report of more than 100,000 jobs in December, a report that the data agency later revised down to just 69,000.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails A man has been jailed for 14 years after killing a 21-year-old woman when he drove the wrong way on a major arterial road at high speed in a stolen van and crashed head on into an Uber cab.

Friday, March 3, 2023 by Nina Hernandez
Austin is on pace to hire a sufficient number of lifeguards to open all of its pools and splash pads this upcoming summer - aided by the city's minimum wage increase to $20 an hour and dedicated outreach from its Aquatic Division.The Parks and Recreation Board was provided with an update on the hiring efforts during a Feb. 27 staff briefing on the aquatics program.

Europe's proposed "Chat Control" legislation to automatically scan chat, email, and instant message communications for child sexual exploitation material (CSEM) ran up against broad resistance at a meeting of the German Parliament's (Bundestag) Digital Affairs Committee on Wednesday.By the Digital Affairs Committee's own account, as algorithmically translated, "The plans, which include the use of technologies such as client-side scanning (CSS), were met with criticism from many quarters, which was also reflected in the assessments of the experts: the majority of the invited experts emphasized that the project [went] too far in crucial places."

KHARKIV, Ukraine  Ukraine is a traditional and sexist society caught in a grueling artillery war with Russia, so the last person you'd expect to see in an army uniform is a grandma.But Mariia Stalinska, 41, a bookkeeper whose first grandchild was born a year ago, enlisted in the army after Russia invaded her country in February.

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Twitter Chief Elon Musk apologized publicly to a former employee with disabilities Tuesday.He suggested that the person did not do any meaningful work at the company.The billionaire also asked for accommodations for him, which was rare in the face of the ongoing chaos and uncertainty at Twitter.

Last week, billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk cut close to 3,700 jobs at Twitter - roughly half of the social media platform's workforce.Musk, who paid a reported $44 billion for the service has been looking to find ways to reduce expenditures, while at the same time has begun to implement the "24/7" work culture that he is famous for - including calling upon employees to work around the clock to make the changes he'd like to see.

French President Emmanuel Macron meets with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on the sidelines of the COP27 climate summit in Egypt's Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh on November 7, 2022.Ludovic Marin, AFP France and Britain are working on a new deal to thwart migrants crossing the Channel, which could be agreed at a summit between leaders Emmanuel Macron and Rishi Sunak later this week, a French official said Wednesday.

Over the past year, generative AI has kicked off a wave of existential dread over potential machine-fueled job loss not seen since the advent of the industrial revolution.On Tuesday, Netflix reinvigorated that fear when it debuted a short film called Dog and Boy that utilizes AI image synthesis to help generate its background artwork.

The way our brain works, we become almost numb and blind to the most mundane things that we see every day.It's a survival tactic that prevents our brains from blowing up at every external stimulus.For example, we easily take styrofoam for granted in whatever form it comes in, be it large slabs or tiny balls, because they're easy to ignore in all the packaging, cups, and containers that we see day in and day out.

Amazon offices on Monday in New York City.After decades of near-constant expansion, Amazon began laying off corporate workers on Tuesday, becoming the latest tech giant to slash its workforce in recent weeks.Amazon is expected to cut about 10,000 workers, about 3 percent of its corporate workforce.The company started communicating the layoffs to employees Tuesday afternoon, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe sensitive matters.

A lab worker strangled a colleague, cut her throat to make sure she was dead, and then dumped her body in undergrowth beside a country lane, a murder trial has heard.A jury at Leicester Crown Court was told that Ross McCullum killed Megan Newborough at his home and immediately staged a calculated and carefully executed cover-up, including leaving phone messages professing love and supposed concern for her.

A lab worker strangled a colleague, cut her throat to make sure she was dead, and then dumped her body in undergrowth beside a country lane, a murder trial has heard.A jury at Leicester Crown Court was told that Ross McCullum killed Megan Newborough at his home and immediately staged a calculated and carefully executed cover-up, including leaving phone messages professing love and supposed concern for her.

As I watched last fall's showdown of TV's big-money epic fantasy franchises, I was wincingly reminded that language is the most underrated special effect.Unforced errors of word choice loose talk of focus and stress in HBO's House of the Dragon, for example kept pulling me down from my fantasy high and into the diction of emails from human resources.

[caption id="attachment_188757" align="alignright" width="231"] It's our annual December donation drive.Please give from the heart (and wallet!) by clicking above or here.Thanks.[/caption]On a spring day not long ago, John Bauters was waiting for a bus in the Bay Area city of Emeryville, Calif.

How much do you pay for six tennis balls?Twice a year, the Economist Intelligence Unit publishes its Worldwide Cost of Living Survey.Asian cities typically feature high in the rankings, with Singapore tied with New York for the most expensive in 2022.The Garden City has been at the top eight times in the past decade; Hong Kong is often up there (fourth this year), typically along with the likes of Tokyo and Osaka.

Reader: I've heard some words of encouragement, but never any commitment to changing my situation.Every year I'm told I am "indispensable" and that there are opportunities for growth, but positions above me are filled from the outside.I have been here long enough to know that going to human resources would only result in passive-aggressive maltreatment.

The alleged October incident involving Breen was recounted in several documents released in response to KQED's records request.The Oct. 5 encounter, which lasted about 20 seconds, was captured on a building security camera.The video, also obtained through a records request, does not include audio.The documents include an email written by the director of security at the Bay Area Metro Center, a Beale Street building that houses the air district and several other regional agencies, and an incident report written by Cushman and Wakefield, the company that manages the center.

Staff at the Royal Society of the Arts have overwhelmingly voted for union representation in a bitter blow to the senior management team, who vigorously opposed a six-month-long grassroots campaign.Almost 86% of the votes cast in a ballot of RSA staff organised by the Central Arbitration Committee, a government tribunal, which handles union recognition disputes, were in favour of the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB) negotiating over pay, holidays and hours.

John Y. Brown Jr., a born salesman who became a multimillionaire by transforming Kentucky Fried Chicken into a global brand and then sold himself to voters in a six-week TV blitz to become Kentucky's governor, serving one term, died on Tuesday in Lexington, Ky.He was 88.His family said the death, in a hospital, was caused by complications of Covid-19.

Employers may be pushing for more workers to return to the office.But that's proving to be an uphill battle, especially as the cold and flu season gets underway.A triple whammy of the flu, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and new Covid variants is already taking hold and forcing some workers to call out sick.

The Marlins went 0-5 this season in games that Angel Hernández worked as the home plate umpire.Marlins Podcast Episodes
Scheduled Games for November 15, 2022 (all times ET)
Cardenales de Lara at Navegantes del Magallanes, 6:00 p.m.
RA12 at Cangrejeros de Santurce, 6:10 p.m.
Estrellas Orientales at Tigres del Licey, 6:15 p.m.
Leones del Escogido at Águilas Cibaeñas, 6:30 p.m.
Gigantes del Cibao at Toros del Este, 6:30 p.m.


     Monday's winter ball updates: Bryan De La Cruz went 0-for-5 and Jesús Sánchez went 1-for-4 with a walk for Toros del Este; Jerar Encarnación received his belated LIDOM MVP of the Week award, but didn't play for Águilas Cibaeñas.