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2022 - 10 - 29

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'Today is Day 1': Starbucks district managers are challenged ... (Starbucks Stories)

'Today is Day 1': Starbucks retail leaders are challenged, inspired at leadership event.

So fortunate and so blessed to be part of a company that has the quality of people in this room. “I sat here for two days, so proud, feeling so fortunate to be part of this, so fortunate to see the history of the company unfold this way. “Whereas this time around, I play a really big role in the reinvention of our company and where we want to go,” Nunez said. “And that built the baseline for who we are today, and today is what’s going to build the baseline for who we are 20 years from now. I want that to be the experience that my partners have (in the stores I manage).” Founder Howard Schultz closed the event with a tough-love, tell-the-truth “family meeting.” He talked about how the company grew from 11 stores and 100 employees in 1987, while building a different kind of company. When the financial global recession hit soon after, she said she was “in a threat state” just trying to learn the business. “There were leaders before us, who were in our position right now, and they had to make decisions and they had to be courageous and be inspirational,” Alamian said. “When you have to go through all of that stuff, it drains you from being able to be inspirational. She started at Starbucks as a barista 18 years ago, after having immigrated to the U.S. “Seventy percent of the business is drive-thrus. And though there might be practical reasons – like the snow and bigger cars in her home state – Gamache is also a bottom-line, results-oriented person who’d like to move customers through faster.

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Why Shares of Nvidia, AMD, and Skyworks Are Rallying Today (Motley Fool)

Beaten-down semiconductor stocks rose on better-than-feared results from peers, and positive inflation data helped boost gains further.

The lower wage-inflation figures are likely helping to spur optimism that the Fed might soon be done with its restrictive interest rate increases. [AAPL](/quote/nasdaq/aapl/) 7.55%) and Intel ( [INTC](/quote/nasdaq/intc/) 10.66%) last night, as well as some better-than-feared economic data in the U.S. Meanwhile, consumer spending metrics from September also came in higher than expected, despite worries over inflation and a deceleration in wages. And that should mean a higher overall addressable market, despite the near-term correction. Expectations were very low heading into each earnings report, since it had been well documented that both the PC and handset markets are in a sharp slowdown. The synchronous move highlighted a good day for semiconductor stocks generally.

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Opinion | Mental Health in America Today (The New York Times)

Readers discuss recovered memories of abuse, community-based care, politics and more.

Is it respectful to stigmatize people as “stubborn” if they do not care to bare their souls? We are influenced by what is happening in the world, and some of us care, and suffer because we care. 16), Cassady Rosenblum asks what if everyone in town “was trained, even a little, to recognize symptoms of emotional distress and intervene?” Are we as Americans and human beings not supposed to care that our democracy is being destroyed, that racism and gun violence have exploded, that climate-change deniers, thanks to Mr. We need to push state and federal legislators to fund mental health infrastructure. Our vibrant, caring staff members are attuned to the compounding traumas of poverty and racism and dedicated to supporting people with serious mental illness. 16), a conversation with Dea Bridge, a conservative therapist: Insurance payments and grants are insufficient. Carr for stating what many clinicians encounter daily — patients with anxiety and depression in reaction to socioeconomic stratification, climate change and leadership betrayal. Dr. Delayed recall usually happens spontaneously in the context of specific reminders, only very rarely in a therapist’s office. For these reasons, “false memory” allegations have not been accepted in our courtrooms in recent years.

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