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Oculus Inc. Enhances Hospitality Design Services with Portland Promotion

2 years 7 months ago
Oculus Inc., an award-winning, WBE-certified architecture and interior design firm, announces the promotion of Jaime Merrill, NCDIQ, IIDA, to Hospitality Design Leader. In her new role, Merrill will help enhance the firm’s hospitality roster in Portland and the West Coast, while expanding hospitality design services to other markets Oculus serves. “Jaime has been instrumental in […]
Dede Hance

Jana School to remain Closed

2 years 7 months ago

  ‘No Expectations’ Jana School Will Reopen: Hazelwood School Board Responded Even though there was no official announcement, the Hazelwood School District on its web site stated there is “no expectation” that Jana Elementary School will re-open. The school has been closed since last Fall and students have been attending other district schools this year […]

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Total factor productivity dropped 1.2% last year

2 years 7 months ago
Total factor productivity is productivity growth after you've accounted for labor and capital. Roughly speaking, it's the share of productivity growth due to technological improvements: TFP took a big jump in 2021 but then dropped in 2022. It is now back to its (sort of lousy) recent trendline.
Kevin Drum

How Forcing TikTok To Completely Separate Its US Operations Could Actually Undermine National Security

2 years 7 months ago
Back in August 2020, the Trump White House issued an executive order purporting to ban TikTok, citing national security concerns. The ban ultimately went nowhere — but not before TikTok and Oracle cobbled together “Project Texas” as an attempt to appease regulators’ privacy worries and keep TikTok available in the United States. The basic gist […]
Mike Masnick

Daily Deal: The ChatGPT By OpenAI Training Bundle

2 years 7 months ago
The ChatGPT By OpenAI Training Bundle has four courses to introduce you to ChatGPT. You will learn the fundamentals of working with ChatGPT, a state-of-the-art language model developed by OpenAI. You’ll gain hands-on experience using ChatGPT to generate text that is coherent and natural, and you will explore the many possibilities for using this tool […]
Gretchen Heckmann

Raw data: Bank borrowing from the Federal Reserve

2 years 7 months ago
Here's how much banks have borrowed from the Fed this month: During the Great Recession, this number peaked at around $400 billion in October 2008. That's the highest it's been over the past 40 years. We're nowhere near that, but March 2023 is still in a strong second place.
Kevin Drum

Native American agricultural leaders detail farm bill priorities at U.S. Senate hearing

2 years 7 months ago

WASHINGTON — A roundtable of Native American agricultural leaders at a recent U.S. Senate hearing lobbied for increased sovereignty and social justice in the coming farm bill by expanding tribes’ jurisdiction over U.S. Department of Agriculture programs. It’s called “638” authority and refers to Public Law 93-638, which gives tribes the power to manage certain federal […]

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Adam Goldstein