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Work-life balance: Yay or nay for unlimited PTO?

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:35:13 GMT

Unlimited PTO (Paid Time Off) has been a hotly debated topic in recent years, with some companies embracing it as a perk for employees, while others remain skeptical. On the one hand, unlimited PTO seems like an attractive benefit for workers who value flexibility and work-life balance. After all, who wouldn’t want the freedom to take as much time off as they need without worrying about running out of vacation days? On the other hand, some experts argue that unlimited PTO can actually be a double-edged sword, leading to burnout and decreased productivity in the long run. In this article, we’ll explore both sides of the unlimited PTO debate and consider whether it’s truly a hurray or a nay for today’s workforce. So, let’s dive in and find out if unlimited PTO is really all it’s cracked up to be.Read the full article on our sister site, the Marina Times, here. Advertising disclosure: We may receive compensation for some of the links in our stories. ...

The Pink Ladies at Mel’s Diner And Hot Stuff For OnlyFans – Here’s What’s Popping Up

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:35:13 GMT

Starting on Saturday, April 8, the Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows will debut its first-ever afternoon high tea service featuring an elegant spread of scones, pastries, and finger sandwiches designed to pair with a selection of freshly brewed Lot 35 loose-leaf teas from Fairmont Miramar’s own luxury tea collection. Service will be on garden-inspired Bernardaud porcelain in the library and ocean terrace every Saturday and Sunday at 3 p.m. Helmed by FIG Head Chef Damon Gordon, menu highlights include a savory crab roll, cucumber tea sandwich with mint, lemon cream cheese on wheat bread, house smoked salmon tea sandwich with dill, profiteroles with chocolate and sea salt caramel, as well as traditional scones with clotted cream, lemon curd, and house-made preserves. In addition to the two 3 p.m. seatings, there will be seating added during Easter weekend on Saturday, April 8, at noon. Reservations are required via Fairmont Miramar’s website or Resy.Paramount+ will bring its upco...

Boop Oop A Doop — It’s Betty Who

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:35:13 GMT

Boop Oop A Doop: Rarely has an artist been so perfectly named. “Betty Who” is an appropriate moniker for the Australian synth-pop artist. Not because she’s an anonymous figure in the modern, brutal pop world but because she seems to have been spending the first few years of her career discovering herself, working out what she wants her signature sound to be and, of course, growing up. Hence, her last EP was called Betty, Pt. 1 and her album is called Betty, despite the fact that they’re preceded by two albums and two EPs for RCA Records. She’s an indie artist now, going it alone, and she’s at the beginning of a new chapter. Shea Couleé also plays.We spoke to Who in 2018, and she told us that, “The place that I’m at in my life right now, personally as well as professionally, I’ve gone through a lot of changes. When you’re 20-something, you think, ‘This is my grown-up life now.’ I think most people have experienced that or are going to. This EP, in a lot of ways, is very representativ...

Notorious ‘drunk ranger’ gets 6 years in prison for crashing into California vacationers’ van

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:35:13 GMT

A Fortuna man who made headlines with a previous drunken incident was sentenced last week to six years in prison for a crash that almost cost a teenage girl her leg.Tyson Randall Young, 41, pleaded guilty last month to two felony counts concerning the injury he caused while driving drunk last summer, the Mendocino County district attorney said.On the evening of Aug. 12, 2022, Young’s Toyota Tundra crossed the center line of Highway 101 in Mendocino County and hit the minivan of an Arcata family returning from a Disneyland trip.A 15-year-old girl in the van suffered a leg injury that doctors described as “partial amputation by trauma.” Her mother was also injured, as was Young.Young’s blood alcohol content was 0.27%, prosecutors said.It was the second arrest in which he had blood alcohol three times the legal limit. In August 2014, a driver in Humboldt Redwoods State Park found Young, then a state parks ranger, passed out in uniform and in his official truck w...

Freediver sues Netflix claiming ‘No Limits’ film depicted him as a murderer

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:35:13 GMT

By Joe Schneider | BloombergA Cuban-American freediver who set 21 world records sued Netflix Inc. for defamation, claiming the media giant wrongly depicted him as a murderer in the 2022 film No Limits.The film is presented as a fictional work, inspired by real events, but Francisco Ferreras Rodriguez claims it’s very similar to what happened in his life, with the exception that the film’s lead character, Pascal Gautier, deliberately killed his wife, a fellow freediver. A picture and the name of Ferraras’s wife, Audrey, who drowned in a record attempt dive, appear at the end of the film.“Many viewers reasonably concluded that Ferreras behaved in real life in the same way that the Gautier character behaves in the film,” Ferreras’s lawyer Alexander Rufus-Isaacs wrote in the complaint, filed Wednesday in Los Angeles federal court. “There was a storm of online abuse directed at him by viewers who believed that he had murdered Audrey.”Netflix’s docudramas have landed the company in court ...

EA Sports announces 6% staffing cut

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:35:13 GMT

(KRON) -- Redwood City-based sports video games company EA Sports announced a 6 percent staffing cut as it prepares for a company restructure, CEO Andrew Wilson announced in a letter published on the company blog. EA Sports is the division of company Electronic Arts that develops and publishes sports video games."As we drive greater focus across our portfolio, we are moving away from projects that do not contribute to our strategy, reviewing our real estate footprint, and restructuring some of our teams," Wilson said in the letter. Executive Director of the San Jose Police Officers’ Association charged with importing fentanyl Wilson said where possible, the company is offering opportunities for employees impacted by the layoffs to transition to other projects or offering severance packages to others."It’s through your love of games that we continue to deliver on our mission of inspiring the world to play," Wilson said.EA Sports has developed games around sports leagues including F...

Thieves Rip Off U.S. Weapons as Shadow War in Syria Escalates

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:35:13 GMT

Thieves have made off with hundreds of thousands of dollars in artillery equipment, unspecified “weapons systems,” and specialized ammunition meant for U.S. forces in Syria and Iraq, according to exclusive documents obtained by The Intercept.The thefts, which occurred on, or in transit to, far-flung U.S. outposts in the region, remain unsolved. They are just the latest evidence of a persistent problem that has allowed enemy forces from ISIS in Iraq to the Taliban in Afghanistan to arm themselves — and even kill Americans and their foreign partners — at U.S. taxpayer expense.The previously unreported thefts illuminate America’s shadow wars in the region, where a U.S. contractor was killed and six other Americans were wounded last week in a suicide drone assault on a U.S. base in northeast Syria. The kamikaze airstrike on the outpost known as RLZ was one of roughly 80 attacks on American bases in Iraq and Syria since January 2021 that the U.S. has blamed on Iranian proxy groups. Presi...

Senegal’s top opposition leader found guilty of libel

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:35:13 GMT

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s top opposition leader has been given a two-month suspended sentence after being found guilty of libel.Ousmane Sonko on Thursday was convicted of spreading false statements and will also have to pay about $330,000 to Minister of Tourism Mame Mbaye Niang, who accused the politician of defamation and public insults. “This is a historic day for Senegal. Many had said that the trial would not take place, but it did. This is a victory,” the Cabinet minister’s lawyer El-hadji Diouf told reporters in Senegal’s capital, Dakar.The case stems from accusations that Sonko, 48, made against the tourism minister during a news conference late last year. He had alleged the minister stole $47 million from a government agency.Security was tight around the courtroom Thursday, as small groups of people gathered in support of Sonko. Sonko was not present at the hearing. His lawyers had requested to postpone the trial, saying that Sonko was sick from tear ...

Día de apertura en el Nats Park: lo que debes saber si vas al primer juego

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:35:13 GMT

Ya sea que estés planeando salir para el “Opening Day” en Nationals Park, o simplemente pensando en ir a algunos juegos más adelante en la temporada, esto es lo que debes saber.¿Cuándo es el día de apertura 2023?El Día Inaugural oficial de Major League Baseball es el jueves 30 de marzo, ¡y los Nats están en la ciudad para ello!Los boletos están disponibles en línea aquí.¿Con quién juegan los Nats el día inaugural? ¿Cuál es el horario?Los Nats comenzarán su temporada el jueves contra los Bravos de Atlanta. El lanzador de los Nats, Patrick Corbin, hará su segunda apertura consecutiva en el Día Inaugural de este año.Una procesión de Budweiser Clydesdales encabezada por el campeón de la Serie Mundial Nats 2019 (y aficionado a “Baby Shark”) Gerardo Parra partirá de Nats Park (esquina de las calles First y N SE) a las 10:45 a. m. Parra saludará a los fanáticos y entregará obsequios (que incluyen recuerdos autografiados, según los Nats) en el camino. Aquí está la ru...

Lawyer: FTX founder likely challenging new crypto charges

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:35:13 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — A lawyer for Sam Bankman-Fried signaled Thursday that the onetime cryptocurrency darling is challenging the validity of new charges added to an indictment after he agreed to be brought to the United States in December from the Bahamas rather than fight extradition.Attorney Mark Cohen told a Manhattan federal court judge that his 31-year-old client, a founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was pleading not guilty to new charges lodged against him in recent weeks in what a prosecutor has labeled as one of the biggest frauds in American history.But Cohen quickly added that although he was pleading not guilty to the new charges, Bankman-Fried was not acknowledging that he can be tried on them. He didn’t elaborate and left the courthouse quickly just before his client was ushered to a waiting vehicle.Earlier this week, a rewritten indictment charged Bankman-Fried with a new conspiracy count, alleging that he violated the anti-bribery provisions of the Foreign C...