Here ' s why travel to Europe is no longer a ' screaming, bargain-basement ' deal
When the U.S. dollar strengthens relative to other currencies, it means Americans can buy more abroad. Their dollar stretches further. The euro hit parity with the U.S. dollar in July — the first time Americans enjoyed a 1:1 exchange rate with the euro since 2002. Not all European countries use…#euro #rome #markzandi #moodyanalytics #southamerica #usdepartmentofstate #hopper #usfederalreserve #zandi #ukraine
Source: Reuters: Health - April 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Blog: Launching UNISON ’ s campaign for a National Care Service
It’s clear to everyone that social care is broken. During the pandemic, this crucial public service was left exposed to the ravages of COVID-19. Care workers forced to work without PPE, no sick pay for self-isolation and older and disabled patients discharged from hospitals into care homes while COVID-positive. It led to a national tragedy and the scale of loss was among the worse in Europe. But the problems in social care didn’t start when COVID-19 arrived. For decades, governments have tried to run our social care system as a privatised bargain basement service, where care workers are left unsupported and care recipi...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - April 5, 2023 Category: Food Science Authors: Christina McAnea Tags: General Secretary General Secretary's blog News adult social care national care service Source Type: news

Cyberwarfare leaks show Russian army is adopting mindset of secret police
A consortium of media outlets have published a bombshell investigation about Russia’s cyber-capabilities, based on a rare leak of documents. The files come from NTC Vulkan, a cybersecurity firm in Moscow that doubles as a contractor to Russian military and intelligence agencies. They reveal how,…#ntc #moscow #russian #fsb #vladimirputins #sovietunion #josephstalins #kgb #vulkan #amezit
Source: Reuters: Health - March 30, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Top 20 Federal Contractor SAIC to Report Earnings
In morning trading on Thursday, the Dow Jones industrials were up 0.45%, the S&P 500 up 0.58% and the Nasdaq up 0.63%. Before U.S. markets opened on Thursday, Manchester United reported a larger-than-expected loss per share but beat the revenue estimate. The share price rose by 1.25%, but…#manchesterunited #evgo #blackberry #nasa #statedepartment #saic #eps
Source: Reuters: Health - March 30, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

The second day of Tesla ' s racial bias trial included testimony from a former worker who said he found feces on a factory cart
Former Tesla contractor Michael Wheeler testified that the N-word was often used at the factory he worked at and detailed an alleged incident where he said he found feces on the driver's seat of a work cart he used. Benjamin Zhang/Business Insider An ex-Tesla worker testified on Tuesday that he…#tesla #michaelwheeler #usdistrictcourt #owendiaz #fremont #larryorgan #law360 #williamorrick #alexspiro
Source: Reuters: Health - March 29, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Tesla lawyer asks San Francisco jury to cut $137 million award in race discrimination case
By Malathi Nayak | Bloomberg Tesla Inc.’s lawyer asked the jury in a damages trial over racism at a California plant to focus on how much money the victim of the abuse should get and not on changing the world. The five-day trial that started Monday is a redo for Owen Diaz, a former contractor who…#malathinayak #bloombergteslaincs #owendiaz #fremont #tesla #alexspiro #bernardalexander #alexander #relatedarticles #elonmusk
Source: Reuters: Health - March 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Ready to remodel? Here are the home projects that will get you the best return on your investment
Even when they don't buy a fixer-upper, most people will end up doing some amount of repairs on a new home. About 95% of homeowners said they plan to take on a major home improvement project in the next five years, according to a recent report by Real Estate Witch. However, only 50% said they can…#realestatewitch #zondamedia #hgtv #toddtomalak #zonda #tomalak #sophiaberadaigle #genyplanning #beradaigle
Source: Reuters: Health - March 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Biden: U.S. Does Not ‘Seek Conflict’ With Iran
President Joe Biden said Friday the U.S. “does not seek conflict with Iran” but plans to act “forcefully to protect our people” after he said an Iranian drone killed an American contractor and wounded several military personnel in Syria—an incident that raised already heated tensions between the…#iran #iranian #syria #justintrudeau #pentagon #patrickryder #ryder #middleeast #saudiarabia #michaelkurilla
Source: Reuters: Health - March 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Season 4 is the wildest Love Is Blind season since the first. Let ’s discuss
The pods are open, people are talking, and love is blind — maybe. (It’s the name of the grand “experiment,” after all.) The new, fourth season of Netflix’s Love Is Blind takes the reality show to Seattle (or, at least, it will, following its first five episodes spread across the pod basement and…#netflix #loveisblind #seattle #mexico #loveisblinds #zosha #tiffany #micah #irina #brett
Source: Reuters: Health - March 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

US air strikes target Iran-backed militants in Syria
Washington retaliates following drone attack that killed an American contractor
Source: Reuters: Health - March 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Analysis
There is the small matter of whether Johnson “inadvertently or intentionally and recklessly” misled the House of Commons about the shenanigans at No. 10 — this is the British bargain-basement version of President Nixon’s Watergate. In the American scandal, bloodhound investigators Bob Woodward and…#houseofcommons #watergate #bobwoodward #carlbernstein #deepthroat #westminster #partygate #privilegescommittee #tory #conservative
Source: Reuters: Health - March 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Major shake-up coming for Fermilab, the troubled U.S. particle physics center
In an unusual move, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has quietly begun a new competition for the contract to run the United States’s sole dedicated particle physics laboratory. Announced in January , the rebid comes 1 year after Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), which is managed in part by the University of Chicago (UChicago), failed an annual DOE performance review and 9 months after it named a new director. DOE would not comment, but observers say its frustrations include cost increases and delays in a gargantuan new neutrino experiment. “I don’t think it’s surprising at all giv...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 22, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news

Primary care dental, optical and pharmaceutical services – an introduction
Integrated care board (ICB) teams need to be familiar with all the primary care contractor groups, as responsibilities for commissioning are delegated to them.
Source: NHS Networks - March 21, 2023 Category: UK Health Source Type: news

‘I’ve inherited a house from my deceased aunt in San Francisco. She rented the basement to an older couple for years without a lease.’ Can I evict them?
I’ve inherited a house in San Francisco from my aunt. My aunt had rented her basement to an older couple (probably illegally) for a few years for below market rates. I don’t believe there was a lease, and it is probably against the building code to have tenants in the basement. The couple’s family…#marketwatch #aarthiswaminathan #scottfreedman #freedman #justcauses #sf #dowjonescompany
Source: Reuters: Health - March 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Inside the university basement in Denmark housing 10,000 brains from mental health patients
In the cold, grey basement of the University of Southern Denmark is a room with nearly 10,000 white plastic buckets with scribbled numbers on each one. Walking through the aisles of rolling shelves on which the buckets are placed, there is not much there to tell you that this is the world’s…#russian #danish #erikströmgren #láruseinarson #risskov #denmark #schizophrenia #mania #danes #jespervaczykragh
Source: Reuters: Health - March 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

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