Bruce Hawsking, Author at Equicoli

Socionaut: the perfect strategic ally to improve companies’ social performance

4Feb

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Empresas

Socionaut: the perfect strategic ally to improve companies’ social performance

In today's interconnected global world, the success of companies and organizations heavily relies on social performance. Socionaut, a prominent international consulting firm, specializes in various aspects of social performance, aiming to forge a more just, sustainable, and equitable future in line with the 2030 agenda.The firm deeply acknowledges the significance of comprehending and considering the needs and concerns of all parties involved in a project. Consequently, they make it their mission to grasp the perspectives of all stakeholders, recognizing the role it plays in formulating effective and permanent solutions. Addiotionally, innovation is a core value upheld by the company, as they ardently apply innovative thinking and methodologies to tackle the evolving needs of the comm...

3Feb

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Health

When a Spouse Goes to the Nursing Home

Even as the signals of approaching dementia became impossible to ignore, Joseph Drolet dreaded the prospect of moving his partner into a long-term care facility.Mr. Drolet, 79, and his beloved Rebecca, 71, both retired lawyers and prosecutors in Atlanta, had been a couple for 33 years, though they retained separate homes. In 2019, she began getting lost while driving, mishandling her finances and struggling with the television remote. The diagnosis — Alzheimer’s disease — came in 2021.Over time, Mr. Drolet moved Rebecca (whose surname he asked to withhold to protect her privacy) into his home. But serving as her round-the-clock caregiver, as she needed help with every daily task, became exhausting and untenable. Rebecca began wandering their neighborhood and “getting dressed in the middle ...

Hey NBA, Knicks’ Jalen Brunson is damn good and proving the naysayers wrong

3Feb

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Sports

Hey NBA, Knicks’ Jalen Brunson is damn good and proving the naysayers wrong

After yet another disappointing, early-season loss, Jalen Brunson stood at his locker, ready to speak with the media in Milwaukee.As the point guard turned around, straight-faced as usual following the Knicks’ fourth defeat in six games, he donned a homemade T-shirt, all black and with white lettering on it, that appeared as if it were straight off the Vistaprint presses.Across Brunson’s chest read a familiar idiom: The magic is in the work.“This is a Sandra Brunson production,” Brunson said, referencing his mother, who stamped the family’s longtime motto onto the crewneck. Of course, “The magic is in the work” is not a Brunson family original.Anyone who knows Knicks head coach Tom Thibodeau has a Pavlovian relationship with that expression. Those 19 letters form his favorite saying. Find ...

Anxiety, Mood Swings and Sleepless Nights: Life Near a Bitcoin Mine

3Feb

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Technology

Anxiety, Mood Swings and Sleepless Nights: Life Near a Bitcoin Mine

On a sweltering July evening, the din from thousands of computers mining for Bitcoins pierced the night. Nearby, Matt Brown, a member of the Arkansas legislature, monitored the noise alongside a local magistrate.As the two men investigated complaints about the operation, Mr. Brown said, a security guard for the mine loaded rounds into an AR-15-style assault rifle that had been stored in a car.“He wanted to make sure that we knew he had his gun — that we knew it was loaded,” Mr. Brown, a Republican, said in an interview.The Bitcoin outfit here, 45 minutes north of Little Rock, is one of three sites in Arkansas owned by a network of companies embroiled in tense disputes with residents, who say the noise generated by computers performing trillions of calculations per second ruins lives, lower...

Joe Madison, Radio Host and Civil Rights Activist, Dies at 74

3Feb

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Business

Joe Madison, Radio Host and Civil Rights Activist, Dies at 74

Joe Madison, an influential talk radio host with a rumbling musical baritone, who interviewed President Barack Obama in the Oval Office and numerous other political leaders in his studio in Washington, D.C., urging them to take action on civil and human rights issues, has died at his home in Washington. He was 74.His family announced the death on Thursday but did not specify when it occurred. In December, Mr. Madison said in a statement that he was taking a leave from his daily show, on SiriusXM satellite radio, after learning that his prostate cancer had returned; it had been in remission since it was first diagnosed in 2009.Mr. Madison was ranked the No. 6 most important talk show host in the country in 2023 by Talkers magazine on its Heavy Hundred list. He was also the highest-ranked no...

Middle East Crisis: U.S. Strikes Over 85 Targets at 7 Sites in Iraq and Syria Against Iran’s Forces and Proxies

3Feb

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World

Middle East Crisis: U.S. Strikes Over 85 Targets at 7 Sites in Iraq and Syria Against Iran’s Forces and Proxies

Pro-government Iranians gathering near a banner that warns Iran’s enemies — in Farsi and in Hebrew — to “Prepare your coffins,” this month in Tehran.Credit...Arash Khamooshi for The New York TimesIran projects its military power through dozens of armed groups across the Middle East, but how much does it control their actions?That question has taken on new urgency as the United States considers its next steps after an attack by an Iranian-backed Iraqi militia on an American base in northwest Jordan. The attack on Sunday killed three soldiers and injured dozens of others.Iranian-backed groups have varying histories and relationships with Tehran, but all share Iran’s desire for the U.S. military to leave the region, and for Israel’s power to be reduced. Iranian rhetoric, echoed by its allied ...