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“We are concerned about rapid increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and transactions, especially coal, which has the worst emissions of any fuel,” Musk said on Twitter. He added that cryptocurrency is a “good idea on many levels” but its promise cannot come at a “great cost to the environment.”

Richard Lavers, deputy commissioner for New Hampshire Employment Security, is seen May 10, 2021, a New Hampshire Works employment security job center in Manchester, New Hampshire. The U.S. Labor Department said May 13 that the number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell last week to 473,000. (Mary Schwalm/AP)

A hiring sign is displayed Nov. 19, 2020, outside a McDonald’s in Buffalo Grove. The company said May 13, 2021, that at company-owned U.S. locations, hourly wages will increase an average of 10% over the next few months to $13 per hour, rising to $15 per hour by 2024. Entry-level workers will make at least $11 per hour; shift managers will make at least $15 per hour. (Nam Y. Huh/AP)

The inclusion rider is co-authored by Fanshen Cox, a producer and development executive, and Kalpana Kotagal, a civil rights and employment attorney. But after McDormand’s 2018 Oscar speech, it was the academics at the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, a think tank at the University of Southern California, who led the charge publicly advocating for the rider — perhaps ineffectively. Getting buy-in not only from industry professionals but also general audiences requires a spirit of openness. That wasn’t the case early on; not long after McDormand’s speech, a actor on Twitter asked if the Inclusionists could provide a list of Hollywood people who had committed to the inclusion rider, only to be brushed off. The Inclusionists later declined to be interviewed by the Tribune but did acknowledge, after some protracted back and forth, that they were not, in fact, keeping a database to track any of this.

Morris, 38, owns a three-flat in the Douglas community area, where he lives on the second floor with his wife and two young children and rents out the two other units. The building offered enough space for his family, a chance to stay on the South Side, where both Morris and his wife grew up, and an investment opportunity.

East Woodlawn townhomes “are in the fives ($500,000) and the sixes, and the single families are in the sevens,” said Ware, a South Shore resident who runs Ware Realty Group. “Everybody can’t afford the sevens, so where do you go? You may want to go a little bit west and say, for this (cheaper amount) you may get (a larger space).”

“The safety of our guests and our team is our top priority,” Target said in a statement. “Out of an abundance of caution, we’ve decided to temporarily suspend the sale of MLB, NFL, NBA and Pokémon trading cards within our stores, effective May 14. Guests can continue to shop these cards online at Target.com.”

Nationwide there are about 121,000 convenience stores that sell about 5,300 gallons per day of gasoline, accounting for about 80% of retail fuel sales. At many stores demand has been two to five times the normal amount, said Jeff Lenard of the National Association of Convenience Stores, in a conference call with reporters. Retailers are even running out of fuel in parts of Florida that are not dependent on the pipeline, he said.

Menu prices are on the rise. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said prices in the “food away from home” category were up 3.8% in the 12 months ended in April. Besides increases in beef, poultry and fish prices, restaurants are spending more on labor, safety training and cleaning due to COVID-19, and passing along some of those costs, according to the National Restaurant Association.

The interior of the Crawfords’ unit was designed by Kelly Hurliman. It makes up half the building’s top floor and has a private elevator entry, 4-1/2 bathrooms, a kitchen with quartzite countertops and Wolf appliances, a living room with built-ins, a custom honed marble fireplace, a private office, a home gym, a walk-through pantry, a back kitchen and an 850-square-foot private terrace. The second level has a primary bedroom suite with two large custom walk-in closets.