For the past two years, I have worked at a company whose workforce hails from around the globe, including the United States, Europe, and Latin America. I’m the only team member based in Santa Marta, on Colombia’s Caribbean coast, and I work remotely — like many of my colleagues on the other continents. The experience has opened my eyes to a dynamic blend of workplace norms and cultures, but has also posed some challenges. Differing time zones, humour and customs, access to technology,...
Since 2012, the nation's fourth-largest city has reduced homelessness in the greater Houston area by 63%. Now
A lot of bad luck led 62-year-old Army veteran Julie Blow to homelessness – a serious kidney issues, a fall that cost her the sight in one eye, two surgeries. Blow couldn't work, and ran out of money. And now? She has an apartment; brand-new furniture donated by a local retailer; and a TV. The 320-sq.-ft. studio is nothing fancy, but for Blow, it's a luxury after the tent where she had been living. "I feel like a teenager, I am that happy!" she said. "You know, before all the stuff happens to...
Since 2012, the nation's fourth-largest city has reduced homelessness in the greater Houston area by 63%. Now other cities are looking to replicate this model.
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(OSV News) — When people are impacted in their daily lives by strong examples of priests and religious faithfully living out their vocations, Bishop Earl K. Fernandes of Columbus believes that’s when vocations to the priesthood and religious life flourish. Bishop Fernandes, who spoke with OSV News ahead of the World Day of Prayer for […] The post Bishop Fernandes on building a ‘culture of vocations’ in his diocese where priestly vocations have increased first appeared on OSV News.
Microsoft won't launch new Windows Insider Program builds this week for the members of the Canary or Dev Channels, as it offered Beta Channel members a pretty big update earlier today.
The Cal Poly Humboldt campus in Northern California has closed after several student protesters occupied a building Monday night. The campus said it would be closed through Wednesday. Several pro-Palestinian student protesters entered Siemens Hall on Monday evening and have refused to leave. Local media reports say that chairs and other furniture have been stacked []
The company, formerly known as Square, now building a full bitcoin mining system.
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Volvo Group North America says it will build a new heavy-duty truck manufacturing plant in Mexico to supplement the Group’s U.S. production.
Inside the 2023 Fort Myers High School baseball walkout when two teammates were left behind.