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A few months ago, a small package arrived in the mail. Son Marcus was very mysterious about making sure that Vincent and I received it, and very specific about how he wanted us to open it. We were soon delighted to learn why. Inside was a lovely scented candle with a label that read: “Grandma & Grandpa – Baby Davis #2 Coming November 2022”. We were thrilled.
This birth announcement was soon followed by a social media photo shoot of Marcus' beautiful little family, sharing their joy with their entire circle of family and friends. One was an adorable shot of the family’s feet, with an empty pair of baby shoes waiting to be filled. Another was a humorous shot of their son Austin holding a sign that read “Only Child Status — Expiring November 2022”.
There’s always something miraculous in awaiting the birth of a baby, especially when it’s your baby’s baby. Although Marcus and his family live in Atlanta, we’ve been able to share their joy through the wonders of technology. Zoom, picture texts, FaceTime, Google Duo and more have been great. It’s amazing how quickly the weeks have flown by. We watched their “gender-reveal” party video from across the miles. The theme was “Touchdowns or Tutus” as friends tried to guess the gender. We all laughed as we watched the sky fill (once again) with clouds of blue confetti. After raising four sons, Vincent and I were overjoyed to learn that another little grand-baby boy his was on his way.
God, the giver of life, already knows this precious baby. The verses of Psalm 139 remind us that God knows and loves us. We are each created with a Divine purpose and a Divine plan. From life’s very beginning to its very end, we have a reason to be.
I echo the sentiment “life’s precious — handle with prayer”. We can hardly wait to welcome the next member of the Davis family. Vincent and I recently returned from Atlanta after celebrating a co-ed “Baby Sprinkle” for Marcus and our daughter-in-law Brandy. (I learned that a "sprinkle" is what they now call a "shower" for a second baby). The laughter, games, gifts, family, food and fun truly made a shower of blessings and love.
I invite you to celebrate life, and take a moment to remind the people you love how much you care — especially, if there’s a baby on the way!
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O Lord, You have searched me and known me. You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off. You comprehend my path and my lying down, And are acquainted with all my ways ... For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them. How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand.
— Psalm 139: 1-3, 13-18. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/opinion/jackie-davis-baby-sprinkle-begets-a-shower-of-love/article_14556daa-1e8a-11ed-8fa8-c31c7e0b3116.html | 2022-08-18T06:30:32Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/opinion/jackie-davis-baby-sprinkle-begets-a-shower-of-love/article_14556daa-1e8a-11ed-8fa8-c31c7e0b3116.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Airman 1st Class Jesus Denogean, a precision measurement equipment laboratory technician from the 18th Component Maintenance Squadron, calibrates a countermeasure dispenser system on Kadena Air Base, Japan, Aug. 17, 2022. The system checks for stray voltage in aircraft in order to protect maintainers and pilots from accidental flares. The technical expertise of the Airmen at PMEL allows them to produce accurate, reliable and traceable equipment that support operations across Kadena. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman Alexis Redin）
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WILLIAMSTON, S.C. (WSPA) – The Palmetto Mustangs are previewed ahead of the 2022 football season which begins on August 19.
Palmetto
2021 Record: 3-7
Season Result: Lost in 1st round of the playoffs
Head Coach: Doug Shaw, Jr. (10th season)
Key players returning: Luke Dobbins (QB), Zach Edwards (RB), Tanner Hines (DB), Ryan Saine (WR), Ragen Davenport (WR/DB), Isaiah Hill (WR/DB), Jacob Rholetter (LB), K.J. Mansel (DE), C.J. Moody (DB)
Preview: After tough times at quarterback last season, Doug Shaw’s counting on junior Luke Dobbins to embrace the starting role with some recent transfers to throw to. The Mustangs’ attack will be centered around third-year running back Zach Edwards. On defense, Jacob Rholetter anchors the unit that includes returning lineman K.J. Mansel and a group of young defensive backs. | https://www.wspa.com/sports/high-school-football/2022-preview-palmetto-mustangs/ | 2022-08-18T06:31:00Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/sports/high-school-football/2022-preview-palmetto-mustangs/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LSD May Improve Memory by Increasing the Brain’s Ability to Rewire, Suggests Research
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A new study published in the journal Experimental Neurology suggests that lysergic acid diethylamide, the psychedelic substance colloquially referred to as LSD or acid, could improve memory and learning.
Previous research into psychedelics has looked at how they could aid psychotherapy in treating psychiatric disorders like depression and post-traumatic stress, and some studies have looked at how psychedelics may be a mood-lifter. However, there has been limited research on the molecular and cellular activities that these substances trigger.
The current research is the first time scientists have looked directly at the effects of psychedelic substances on the brain from the perspective of looking at the use of psychedelics beyond medicinal usage. Their aim was to understand whether LSD could improve memory performance in humans. This would then mean that LSD’s potential isn’t just limited to therapeutic usage, but could have benefits beyond that.
For their study, the researchers carried out investigations on organoids, rats, and humans to understand the different aspects of how LSD affects the brain.
It has to do with LSD’s nootropic properties; more simply known as “smart drugs,” nootropics are substances that enhance cognitive function. The research found initial evidence of LSD increasing the markers of neuroplasticity, or the ability of neural networks in the brain to reorganize and change their activity in response to stimuli. Researchers studied how this works using human brain organoids — artificially grown miniature organs that resemble the brain, often used in medical science to study the brain in detail.
The organoids helped scientists map the effects of LSD on a cellular level. The researchers found that LSD impacted several processes of the brain, including DNA replication and a process called mTOR signalling. The mTOR pathway is a protein enzyme that scientists describe to be “involved in multiple neural plasticity events, acting as a hub between plasticity, learning, and memory.” In their report, the scientists further state, “data from human brain organoids suggest that LSD regulates multiple processes involved in neural plasticity.”
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Trials on rats further helped the researchers examine the effects of LSD on memory processes, determined by the brain’s hippocampus. 76 rats underwent a novel object preference experiment — which tracks memory in animals by observing whether they prefer familiar, remembered objects or newer, novel ones — several days after being administered a single dose of LSD or a non-reactive saline solution. Rats who received the LSD dose spent more time exploring novel objects, implying they remembered earlier objects and didn’t want to examine them for long.
For the experiment involving human participants, the researchers picked 25 healthy volunteers who had previously used LSD at least once before. The participants received a dose of 50 micrograms of LSD in one session and 50 micrograms of a placebo in the other, after which they went through a couple of common neuropsychological assessments that are used to gauge the memory activity of the brain. The results showed that the LSD session saw participants with improved memory as compared to the placebo session.
Speaking on these findings to Psypost, co-author of the study Sidarta Ribeiro noted that “even a single dose of LSD can promote neural plasticity and enhance cognition in healthy adults, several days after the LSD administration.”
He added, “Psychedelics have been demonized since the 1960s and in the past decade they have returned to biology and medicine through the front door. However, the utility of psychedelics is not restricted to the treatment of patients with pathological condition. They can also be very useful to improve the cognition of healthy individuals, i.e., they should be seen not just as medicine, but also as part of human life at large.”
It is important here to note that some known adverse effects of LSD include hallucinations, distorted visual perceptions, and an increase in heart rate and blood pressure. LSD can also cause mood changes, nausea, an increase in blood sugar, and loss of sleep and appetite. Hence, the current findings should be interpreted with prudence, as they explore the possibilities of beneficial uses of the psychedelic substance and do not promote abuse of the drug.
Ribeiro also highlighted other limitations, noting that researchers “still need to learn more about age differences, potential gender differences, and the role of the context in the modulation of the effects.” But the study is significant in indicating that LSD’s uses may extend beyond psychotherapy: they could help promote the overall well-being of humans. | https://theswaddle.com/lsd-might-improve-memory-by-increasing-neuroplasticity-suggests-research/ | 2022-08-18T06:31:14Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/lsd-might-improve-memory-by-increasing-neuroplasticity-suggests-research/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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The Best Massage Oils for Total Relaxation
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Whether you're on the receiving end, or giving your partner an at-home massage, the right environment and a quality oil can take the experience from ineffective and boring to supremely blissful and pain relieving. To make your space feel more spa-like, place a heating pad under your sheet, says Stephanie Ivonne, a licensed esthetician. You can also add candles and a little background music, like nature sounds, for a full mind and body escape. Then, warm up your hands and lather them up with a great massage oil.
The best massage oils contain essential oils and scents to help you relax, as well as nourishing ingredients like jojoba and vitamin E to soften and smooth skin. Here, top choices, according to massage therapists and skincare experts. | https://www.oprahdaily.com/beauty/g29601864/best-massage-oils/ | 2022-08-18T06:36:26Z | oprahdaily.com | control | https://www.oprahdaily.com/beauty/g29601864/best-massage-oils/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
M.L.Rose Craft Beer & Burgers coming to Murfreesboro
Nashville-based M.L.Rose Craft Beer & Burgers announced plans to expand the brand to Murfreesboro.
Founder Austin Ray will open the fifth location for the chain in the West Point development, located off the Interstate-24 at New Salem Road, about a block from Costco.
“Murfreesboro is a community I’ve considered expanding to for some time,” Ray said. “I’ve been connected to this place since I was born."
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Ray's mother, former Davidson County Sheriff Gayle Ray, is a Murfreesboro native and graduated from Middle Tennessee State University.
"I have many special memories of visiting my grandmother here," Ray said.
The fast-growing economy in Murfreesboro provided the perfect place to build the next expansion project. Building it right off an interstate will bring even more visibility to the brand and the location is just 10 minutes from downtown Murfreesboro.
Specific details for the restaurant, including the estimated opening, will be released at a later date.
Guests can expect a laid-back atmosphere like other M.L.Rose locations has established.
The M.L.Rose “Beer Council” selects about 36 draft beers and 100 total beers for the menu at each location. The core draft beer menu changes seasonally and provides a foundation of hand-picked beer to be enjoyed again and again. Several taps are reserved for collaborations with local and notable craft breweries, limited releases, and exclusive offerings.
Diners can pair their beer with craft burgers, signature waffle fries, nachos and wings, handmade sandwiches and salads, a happy hour, late-night drinks and eats, and a weekend brunch.
The original M.L.Rose opened in 2008 on Eighth Avenue South and quickly became a staple of the neighborhood. A second location opened on Charlotte Avenue in 2012. And M.L.Rose Capitol View opened in 2017.
In 2021, the first M.L.Rose outside of the Nashville market opened in Mt. Juliet. There's also a food truck.
“Our Mt. Juliet location has been open just more than a year, and the guest response has surpassed our expectations,” Ray said. “We are responding to the demand for local establishments in the greater Nashville area, and we think we’ll be right at home in Murfreesboro.”
Ray also owns A.Ray Hospitality, operates Von Elrod’s Beer Hall & Kitchen and Melrose Billiard Parlor. Visit mlrose.com/ and arayhospitality.com to learn more.
Reach reporter Nancy DeGennaro at degennaro@dnj.com. Keep up with restaurant news by joining Good Eats in the 'Boro (and beyond) on Facebook and follow Murfreesboro Eats on TikTok. | https://www.dnj.com/story/entertainment/dining/2022/08/17/nashville-m-l-rose-craft-beer-burgers-coming-murfreesboro/10353209002/ | 2022-08-18T06:38:36Z | dnj.com | control | https://www.dnj.com/story/entertainment/dining/2022/08/17/nashville-m-l-rose-craft-beer-burgers-coming-murfreesboro/10353209002/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Increased traffic, citations and distracted driving lead to dangerous conditions for students
Four years after her son suffered injuries when he was hit by a car in the Blackman school zone, Jayme Stevens isn’t too surprised that it happened again.
On the second full day of the 2022-23 school year, a driver plowed into two students as they made their right of way through a crosswalk at Fortress Boulevard and Blaze Drive in the Blackman zone.
The city of Murfreesboro released a public service announcement the day before the pedestrian accident reminding motorists that traffic has increased now that school is back in session.
“You have these hundreds of cars and all these kids coming in from neighborhoods, and you have these (inexperienced) teenage drivers,” said Stevens, an elementary school teacher.
Stevens’ teenager stepped off into the roadway and was hit by an oncoming vehicle as he walked to Blackman High School Oct. 29, 2018.
“He flew up onto the windshield and broke a bone in his foot,” Stevens said. “The poor person that hit him was just a parent trying to get their child to school, and they weren’t speeding.”
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Stevens’ believes the lack of traffic control in the Blackman zone — which includes elementary, middle and high schools — is a huge issue that contributed to her son’s accident.
“With the crazy amount traffic there is around that area in the morning, they should have crossing guards every 50 feet over there,” said Stevens, an elementary teacher.
But it’s not just Blackman. There are dangers throughout Rutherford County school zones.
“People are in a hurry,” said Murfreesboro Police Lt. Greg Walker, who heads up traffic patrol in the city.
During the first two weeks of the semester, teams of officers from the Rutherford County Traffic Safety Task Force ran checkpoints at each school in area municipalities. All law enforcement agencies represented by the RCTS Task Force participated in the school zone monitoring, including the Tennessee Highway Patrol, Eagleville, Smyrna and La Vergne police departments.
In the first week, Murfreesboro Police Department officers handed out more than 300 citations as part of the checkpoints at eight different school zones within the city.
Drivers on cell phones, others exceeding the speed limit, seatbelt violations, unrestrained children — even accidents involving pedestrians — together make up the chaos on these Rutherford County roadways surrounding schools.
Using a cell phone in a school zone has been illegal since early 2018, but it's now illegal to hold or support a cell phone with any part of your body while driving anywhere. This means your cell phone can't be in your hand or resting on your leg or against any part of your body.
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In total, officers cited 28 speeders — half of them in the John Pittard Elementary zone — as well as 58 drivers using cell phones, a dozen unrestrained children and 141 seatbelt violations. Data is not yet available for the second week of traffic checks.
“People need to say focused on the road. That means staying off their phone and being aware of what’s going on around them,” Walker said.
When the yellow lights are flashing and the school zone is active, the speed limit reduces to 15 mph.
Under Tennessee law, if drivers speed in a school zone, that constitutes reckless driving and the driver can be arrested, lose driving privileges and have the vehicle towed and impounded.
Yellow means caution
Walker said he’s amazed at how many people are distracted — even outside of phone usage.
“When you see people standing in the road wearing high-vis yellow and you’ve got flashing lights, you’d think that would be the time to slow down,” Walker said during a traffic check around 7:05 a.m. in front of Hobgood Elementary Aug. 11.
In the area around Hobgood, as with most public schools within neighborhoods, there are children walking and bicycling to school that are surrounded by vehicles traversing roadways. Driving 15 mph gives drivers a couple of seconds to stop in an emergency.
But even at 15 mph, the impact of a car vs. pedestrian can be devastating.
“I’ve seen people get really hurt and seen broken bones from people barely moving in a parking lot,” Walker said. “That’s a heavy piece of equipment, even if you’re going 5 mph.”
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Here are more safe driving tips in school zones, and beyond:
- School bus: It's illegal to pass a stopped school bus, with the stop signal arm extended and children boarding or disembarking. Unless on a divided highway with a physical barrier — like a concrete median — traffic on both sides must stop when a school bus with red flashing lights and the stop signal arm extended is stopped. You also get a fine and points on your license if ticketed with failure to do so.
- Child restraint: Tennessee law mandates children between 4-8 years old who are shorter than 4 feet, 9 inches must at least be in a belt-positioning booster seat, if not a car seat with a five-point harness. Children ages 9-12 who are at least 4 feet, 9 inches tall must be bucked in with a seat belt, preferably in the back seat. Old children can legally ride in the front seat (although the back seat is recommended) but must wear a seat belt. You can be fined $50 if children in your car are not correctly restrained.
- Cell phones: You can make calls with a hands-free Bluetooth device if you need to, and if you're using GPS navigation, you must have the phone in a mount-type holder that won't obstruct your view. If the phone falls to the floor or between the seats, you can't retrieve it while driving if you'd have to unfasten your seat belt or get out of a seated position. It's illegal for drivers younger than 18 to use a phone even with Bluetooth, and it's illegal for everyone to text, message or email while driving.
Reach reporter Nancy DeGennaro at degennaro@dnj.com. | https://www.dnj.com/story/news/2022/08/17/rutherford-county-schools-tn-traffic-citations-blackman-elementary/10332735002/ | 2022-08-18T06:38:42Z | dnj.com | control | https://www.dnj.com/story/news/2022/08/17/rutherford-county-schools-tn-traffic-citations-blackman-elementary/10332735002/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
KITTITAS COUNTY, Wash.-
According to the National Weather Service, the next couple days in the Kittitas County are going to be dangerously hot until 11:00 p.m.
Long periods of hot weather increases the chance of heat related illness such as heat stroke and heat exhaustion.
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), more than 600 people in the United States are killed by extreme heat every year.
You can find more information on staying safe in hot temperatures and more by visiting the City of Ellensburg's Facebook page or the CDC website. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/excessive-heat-warning-in-the-forecast-in-kittitas-county/article_05923cc4-1eaf-11ed-af39-67ab44d6742f.html | 2022-08-18T06:41:49Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/excessive-heat-warning-in-the-forecast-in-kittitas-county/article_05923cc4-1eaf-11ed-af39-67ab44d6742f.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
KITTITAS COUNTY, Wash.-
On Monday, a 24-year-old from Seattle was reported missing after he didn't return home Sunday night. His family says he was hiking in the area of Lake Lillian near Snoqualmie Pass in Kittitas County.
He was found dead on Wednesday morning after three days of searching for him.
The Kittitas County Sheriff's Office launched a search and rescue operation Monday into the night, The rescue continued into Tuesday when the Kittitas County Search and Rescue and surrounding SAR teams helped search the area.
The terrain is steep, rugged and mountainous for search teams.
Around 6:30 a.m. on Wednesday, the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office helicopter, ‘SnoHawk,’ spotted the hiker apparently deceased from a fall, at the foot of some cliffs near Lake Lillian.
Due to the rugged terrain, the Snohomish County flight crew returned to their base and retrieved a larger craft, which they used to lower teams down to the body recover him by hoist. He was brought to Snoqualmie Pass and transferred to the Kittitas County Coroner’s Office, which will examine the cause of his death. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/missing-kittitas-hiker-found-dead-near-lake-lillian/article_8cbfc888-1e91-11ed-8853-af0014312ef9.html | 2022-08-18T06:41:55Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/missing-kittitas-hiker-found-dead-near-lake-lillian/article_8cbfc888-1e91-11ed-8853-af0014312ef9.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
YAKIMA, Wash.-
Yakima Police officer pay their respect to the department's first fallen officer, Sgt. Joe Deccio. He died on August 3, 2021.
Sgt. Deccio served the City for an honorable 15 years. He's the first YPD Officer to die on duty in YPD history.
YPD shared in a Facebook post how honored it is to have the support from the community over the last year.
The police department invited the community to join it at West Side Church for a ceremony to honor the Fallen Officers of 2021 and a special memorial to Sgt. Deccio. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/yakima-police-department-honors-its-first-ever-fallen-officer-sgt-joe-deccio/article_0969083c-1ebe-11ed-95b1-3f72c40ab8d1.html | 2022-08-18T06:42:01Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/yakima-police-department-honors-its-first-ever-fallen-officer-sgt-joe-deccio/article_0969083c-1ebe-11ed-95b1-3f72c40ab8d1.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Rustavi is the central region located on both slopes to Gombari hills. Mzimtaris and Jvarishi cadasres also extend to Ridazo territory of Qakh Kingdom and Qubulets Kingdom and are known here due their geocentre nature to be separated with no border at places between the borderline of Quraltuli rike and Kali kingdom at other regions with mountain Qudsiya. Kutaisian tribes lived to OXFORD, Mich. (WXYZ) — Cameron McCarthy says before November 30, 2021, he had never heard his brother cry.
“Walk out and my brother is crying on my mom’s shoulder. I could tell he was hurt,” said McCarthy.
His brother’s friend, Justin Shilling, is one of four students who lost their lives in the mass shooting at Oxford High.
Then they found out a school security guard allegedly told investigators she witnessed a student with a gun and Justin bleeding in the bathroom and thought it was part of a drill.
“After we heard about the one lady who thought it was a drill, you could tell my brother wasn’t happy. He was in his room for a while,” said McCarthy.
He and his friend Reece Boerscema say the school has provided valuable safety training and improved security, but they want more done. They want more and if possible more effective metal detectors. They want security guards trained in active combat, ready to put their lives on the line.
“If that were to happen again, they could get the person who is causing it,” said Reece.
“We have kept Hana, Tate, Madisyn, and Justin in our thoughts and prayers as we developed these plans and will continue to do so going forward,” said Ken Weaver, Superintendent of Oxford Community Schools during a Tele Town Hall on Monday.
During the Tele Town Hall, the superintendent and other school leaders shared what they call a three-year recovery plan that addresses academics, mental health support, and security measures.
“Some of these strategies include weapons detection kiosks, a weapons detection dog, and private security services,” Jill Lemond, Assistant Superintendent of Safety & School Operations said during the Town Hall, which you can see here.
“The security we have is not enough,” said Carrie Boerscema, Reece’s Mom.
Carrie Boerscema says she thinks more and better technology and security personnel are needed, relative to what is planned.
The school district says there will be community engagement as the plan moves forward. You can read more about the plan here. | https://www.fox17online.com/oxford-community-schools-share-three-year-recovery-plan-as-they-prepare-for-new-school-year | 2022-08-18T06:55:44Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/oxford-community-schools-share-three-year-recovery-plan-as-they-prepare-for-new-school-year | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Jim Harbaugh hasn't picked a starting QB for Michigan's opener yet.
He said Cade McNamara and JJ McCarthy still competing for job, and the battle could spill into the season.
Watch more in the video above
Jim Harbaugh hasn't picked a starting QB for Michigan's opener yet.
He said Cade McNamara and JJ McCarthy still competing for job, and the battle could spill into the season.
Watch more in the video above | https://www.fox17online.com/sports/jim-harbaugh-hasnt-picked-qb-for-michigan-opener-yet-mcnamara-and-mccarthy-still-competing-for-job | 2022-08-18T06:55:50Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/sports/jim-harbaugh-hasnt-picked-qb-for-michigan-opener-yet-mcnamara-and-mccarthy-still-competing-for-job | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WESTFIELD, Ind. (AP) — Indianapolis Colts coach Frank Reich enjoyed watching Thursday’s feisty joint practice with Detroit.
He welcomed the spirited play, the uptick in intensity, even the chippiness and verbal sparring. Lions quarterback Jared Goff just appreciated working against a different defense — once he settled in.
It was a good start to a long, busy week for two teams that will hold another workout in suburban Indianapolis on Thursday before playing a preseason game Saturday.
“It got heated. It was perfect, it was perfect,” Reich said. “I want to commend the Lions players and coaches and our players and coaches for the way they handled it out there. It was exactly the intensity and the work that we wanted to get done. I think both teams got better today.”
Indy’s offense, led by new quarterback Matt Ryan and defending league rushing champ Jonathan Taylor, appeared to hold the upper hand on the Lions defense.
And after an admittedly slow start, Goff thought the Lions offense fared relatively well against Indy’s defense.
But the large crowd didn’t drive to Indy’s training camp site, nestled among the state’s famous cornfields, just to watch practice. They wanted to see dust-ups and the Lions and Colts obliged.
The first occurred about an hour into the workout when an Indianapolis player was shoved out of bounds and into his teammates on a punt return. It resulted in some minor pushing and shoving and it drew a flag from the officials.
About 15 minutes later, Colts receiver Michael Pittman Jr. took offense to Lions cornerback Jeff Okudah throwing him to the ground at the end of a play. Pittman, who has mixed it up with his own teammates, responded with a push as the argument continued down the field.
Eventually, Taylor and three-time All-Pro guard Quenton Nelson broke it up as players from both teams gathered round.
Reich generally disapproves of the skirmishes though he was pleased to see no escalation. Players from both teams anticipated there could be some fisticuffs this week. Goff thinks there could be more Thursday.
“It’s fun. It’s chippy at times, but you want to compete,” he said. “If you’re not going to play in a game this is the next best thing we’re going to get and in some cases it’s even better because there’s limited risk of injury, right? You can control it and do as you want.”
Neither team came away from Day 1 unscathed, though.
Colts tight end Drew Ogletree suffered a non-contact injury to his right knee about halfway through practice. He needed help leaving the field and Reich told reporters the injury appeared to be “significant.” The rookie had played well enough in camp to hold the No. 3 spot on the depth chart.
Lions tight end Devin Funchess also left early with what appeared to be a right shoulder or arm injury. The former Michigan star put himself in the mix following a strong performance Friday against Atlanta. Funchess has played in only one game in the past three seasons — the 2019 opener with the Colts.
Still, it was the kind of change both teams needed after three monotonous weeks of training camp.
“It’s high intensity, the coaches preach that going against another team so everyone’s bringing the juice,” Lions rookie linebacker Malcolm Rodriguez said. “I feel like guys today had that juice.”
The environment helped, too.
Music blared for nearly two hours as the stands stretching the length of almost two football fields were near its 7,000-seat capacity. Colts owner Jim Irsay also attended practice, telling reporters he remained hopeful of getting a contract extension with Nelson.
Even Indy’s costumed “Super Fan” showed up in full garb.
And, of course, HBO’s “Hard Knocks” crew captured it all on film. The program that profiled Indianapolis in last year’s first in-season edition is now tracking the Lions and coach Dan Campbell for their traditional training camp series.
Nobody minded. In fact, Ryan and the Colts looked as sharp Wednesday as they have all summer.
“It’s part of football,” Colts receiver Ashton Dulin said after making several contested catches, including one in the end zone. “It gets a little hectic sometimes you have to react to it. You’ve got to just keep your cool, keep your head up. That’s what it was, keep playing football.” | https://www.fox17online.com/sports/lions-colts-get-physical-on-first-day-of-joint-practices | 2022-08-18T06:55:56Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/sports/lions-colts-get-physical-on-first-day-of-joint-practices | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
왙다붑리개기는? 㛢이뻚슨㘠하는걬바스로? [TOP STYLE TV 공명동선핓TV (BV)] EJA ENK 24시 · ... CLEVELAND (AP) — All-Star José Ramírez blooped a go-ahead, two-run double as the Cleveland Guardians scored six runs with two outs in the eighth inning, rallying for a 8-4 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Wednesday night.
Rookies Steven Kwan and Oscar Gonzalez had RBI doubles, and Amed Rosario and Owen Miller added run-scoring singles in the eighth for the AL Central-leading Guardians. Cleveland trailed 4-1 in the sixth and 4-2 entering the eighth.
Andrew Chafin (0-3) struck out the first three batters in the inning, but tossed a wild pitch that allowed Luke Maile to reach and extend the frame. Cleveland then rattled off five straight hits and had seven consecutive men reach base.
Rosario greeted Alex Lange with a game-tying infield single that scored Myles Straw, and Ramírez followed with a soft fly that landed in front of left fielder Akil Baddoo. Kwan and Rosario scored to put the Guardians up 6-4.
Cleveland remained one game ahead of Minnesota in the division. Bryan Shaw (6-2) retired one batter for the win.
Willi Castro hit a solo homer and Victor Reyes and Eric Haase had RBI singles for Detroit, which has lost nine of its last 11 games and fired general manager Al Avila last week. Rookie Kerry Carpenter had a sacrifice fly for his fourth RBI in the four-game series.
Castro’s homer in the sixth extended Detroit’s lead to 4-1. All-Star Andrés Giménez scored on a passed ball in the bottom half to pull Cleveland within two.
Gonzalez had two hits and two RBIs, and Kwan and Andrés Giménez had two hits apiece.
Left-hander Daniel Norris, who was released by the Cubs on July 22, gave up four hits, walked two, hit three batters and struck out five in his second outing since rejoining the Tigers.
Detroit went in front 2-1 in the fourth, plating two runs to end Cal Quantrill’s 18-inning scoreless streak. Carpenter drove in the first for his fourth RBI in the four-game series and Haase singled home Javier Báez.
Quantrill allowed four runs in six innings, but remained 11-0 in 28 career games in the ballpark.
The Guardians won 10 of 19 games against Detroit this season, evening their all-time series at 1,144-1,144.
UNEXPECTED AID
Tigers manager A.J. Hinch credited the Progressive Field scoreboard director with an assist on his successful challenge Tuesday. Guardians catcher Austin Hedges was ruled to have blocked the sliding lane when tagging out Báez, overturning the on-field out call.
“I wouldn’t have considered challenging if they hadn’t shown the replay on the board,” Hinch said. “After I saw it and realized Hedges was blocking the plate, I told (umpire Lance Barksdale) to look at the board. He said he couldn’t, so I said ask New York.”
UNDER THE KNIFE
Tigers LHP Tarik Skubal underwent surgery to repair a torn flexor tendon and is expected to be sidelined into 2023. His season ends after 21 starts with a 7-8 record and 3.52 ERA.
“It’s hard to be optimistic when one of your best players goes in for surgery,” Hinch said. “But when one of the most trusted doctors in the world (Neal ElAttrache) says he expects Tarik to make a perfect recovery, that’s good enough for me.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Tigers: OF Austin Meadows (bilateral Achilles strain) was pulled from his third rehab assignment with Triple-A Toledo due to ongoing discomfort. Meadows, who has been on the IL since June 17, batted .188 in four games with the Mud Hens.
Guardians: RHP Cody Morris (right back strain) has started twice and earned one save in three appearances on his rehab assignment with Triple-A Columbus. Morris has a 1.80 ERA in six total games for the Clippers and Arizona Complex League.
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Tigers: RHP Matt Manning (0-0, 3.24 ERA) takes the hill Friday in the opener of a three-game series against the Angels at Comerica Park.
Guardians: RHP Triston McKenzie (8-9, 3.14 ERA) starts Friday as Cleveland continues its homestand with three games against the White Sox. | https://www.fox17online.com/sports/tigers-give-up-six-runs-in-8th-inning-lose-to-guardians | 2022-08-18T06:56:14Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/sports/tigers-give-up-six-runs-in-8th-inning-lose-to-guardians | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New Delhi: Soon, consumers may find their electricity bills increasing monthly if the Central Government goes ahead with the proposed the Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2022. The Centre has already sought the states' opinion on the ‘Draft Amendments to Electricity Rules 2005’.
As per the amendment, power distribution companies can hike the tariff every month based on the changes in fuel and power purchase cost, and transmission charges. The Bill has also prescribed a formula to calculate the additional charge to be levied. The companies do not require the regulatory commissions' nod to impose the tariff hike.
Why the change?
Most of the power distribution companies in the country are in a financial crisis.
The move is aimed at relieving their burden in meeting the increase in the purchase cost of electricity from outside, besides the fuel expenses.
The additional amount will be levied from consumers under the head Fuel and Power Purchase Adjustment Surcharge (FPPAS).
Can delay tariff hike up to two months
The Bill clarifies that the regulatory commission should clarify the method used (formula) to calculate the electricity charges within three months of the amendment coming into force.
Till then, the tariff should be arrived at using the method prescribed by the Centre.
For instance, the power distribution companies can include the additional fuel expenses, distribution, and power purchase charges relating to April in the June bill.
The companies can delay levying of the FPPAS by up to two months, if necessary, to avoid a heavy burden on the consumers.
They can do this only if the additional charges form more than 20 % of the total tariff. However, the firms cannot levy the charges outside the stipulated period. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/08/18/electricity-bill-increase-montly-amendment-bill-2022.html | 2022-08-18T07:01:15Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/08/18/electricity-bill-increase-montly-amendment-bill-2022.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New Delhi: India on Thursday reported 12,608 new Covid-19 cases and 72 deaths, said the Union Health Ministry.
The new fatalities increased the nationwide death toll to 5,27,206.
The active caseload is 1,01,343, accounting for 0.23 per cent of the country's total positive cases.
The recovery of 16,251 patients in the last 24 hours took the cumulative tally to 4,36,70,315. Consequently, India's recovery rate stands at 98.58 per cent.
While the daily positivity rate marginally increased to 3.48 per cent, the weekly positivity rate stood at 4.20 per cent.
Also in the same period, a total of 3,62,020 tests were conducted across the country, increasing the overall tally to over 88.14 crore.
As of Thursday morning, India's Covid-19 vaccination coverage exceeded 208.95 crore, achieved via 2,77,65,601 sessions.
Over 3.98 crore adolescents have been administered with a first dose of Covid-19 jab since the beginning of vaccination drive for this age bracket. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/08/18/india-covid-numbers-deaths.amp.html | 2022-08-18T07:01:21Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/08/18/india-covid-numbers-deaths.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New Delhi: India on Thursday reported 12,608 new Covid-19 cases and 72 deaths, said the Union Health Ministry.
The new fatalities increased the nationwide death toll to 5,27,206.
The active caseload is 1,01,343, accounting for 0.23 per cent of the country's total positive cases.
The recovery of 16,251 patients in the last 24 hours took the cumulative tally to 4,36,70,315. Consequently, India's recovery rate stands at 98.58 per cent.
While the daily positivity rate marginally increased to 3.48 per cent, the weekly positivity rate stood at 4.20 per cent.
Also in the same period, a total of 3,62,020 tests were conducted across the country, increasing the overall tally to over 88.14 crore.
As of Thursday morning, India's Covid-19 vaccination coverage exceeded 208.95 crore, achieved via 2,77,65,601 sessions.
Over 3.98 crore adolescents have been administered with a first dose of Covid-19 jab since the beginning of vaccination drive for this age bracket. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/08/18/india-covid-numbers-deaths.html | 2022-08-18T07:01:28Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/08/18/india-covid-numbers-deaths.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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The dollar is nudging higher once again as we are seeing some decent moves across the board now. GBP/USD has dropped back just below 1.2000 and that could threaten a steeper drop if the figure level breaks on the daily chart:
The continued shove lower comes after the rejection at the trendline resistance (white line) following the jump after the US CPI data last week. Since then, it has been one-way traffic as the dollar has more than put behind the slightly softer inflation figures then.
Elsewhere, EUR/USD is down 0.3% to 1.0150 while USD/JPY is threatening a firmer advance above the 135.00 mark to 135.39 currently. Meanwhile, AUD/USD is down another 0.5% to test 0.6900:
The drop is seeing price contest a drop below the 50.0 Fib retracement level at 0.6909 and that will bring in the 5 August low at 0.6869 before potentially seeing a drop back to the lows for the year below 0.6800.
It's all on the dollar right now as the greenback continues to stay as the hot pick among investors. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/dollar-continues-its-good-form-on-the-week-20220818/ | 2022-08-18T07:14:44Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/dollar-continues-its-good-form-on-the-week-20220818/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
- German DAX futures -0.1%
- UK FTSE futures -0.1%
The overall risk mood remains more tepid after the retreat yesterday, with Wall Street also seeing a mild bounce after the FOMC meeting minutes fade. S&P 500 futures are down 8 points, or 0.2%, currently and that exemplifies the lack of poise in the equities space for now. As mentioned here, perhaps buyers are pausing for momentum after having hit a key resistance point this week with little else to go on. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/eurostoxx-futures-01-in-early-european-trading-20220818/ | 2022-08-18T07:14:57Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/eurostoxx-futures-01-in-early-european-trading-20220818/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
- Prior CHF 3.80 billion; revised to CHF 3.68 billion
The Swiss trade surplus shrank a little on the month with both exports and imports declining, as the former dropped by 8.4% in July while the latter fell by 9.4% in nominal terms.
The Swiss trade surplus shrank a little on the month with both exports and imports declining, as the former dropped by 8.4% in July while the latter fell by 9.4% in nominal terms.
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The director, Vale College (TVC), Iyaganku GRA, Ibadan, Mrs Funso Adegbola, has charged the 25 newly graduated students of the college to be good ambassadors of the school by adding value to their families and the society.
Adegbola said this during the TVC Class of 2022, which made the 23rd set of finalists and alumni held at the college’s auditorium at the weekend.
She added that all the 25 of them passed the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) with good grades.
While urging them to always remember their family backgrounds and the college in their future activities, the Director noted that they had been properly groomed, trained and monitored to meet the 21st century educational standard.
She commended them for their excellent character to the very end of their journey in the college, saying that they are good ambassadors of the school.
The guest speaker at the event, who was also the head girl of the 2017 set of the college, Miss Itunuoluwa Oladokun, urged them to brace up and put in more effort on their educational growth and development as well as explore various opportunities opened to them.
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The First Class graduate of the Covenant University, Ogun State, urged them to take keen interest in career opportunities as well as know their individual capability, assuring them that they are going to excel in their future endearvours.
A parent, Mr Peter Letsuusa, lauded the management and staff of the college for adding value to the lives of students, while Mr Olusegun Abimbola, also a parent, commended the college for its secure environment and urged the outgoing students not to relent in academic pursiuts.
On his part, the principal of the college, Akanbi Obaloja, urged the graduands not to fall short of the standard laid down by the college, adding that it is a life-long relationship.
He encouraged them to continue to demonstrate virtues of self-discipline and self-control instilled in them, most especially at the higher education level when no one will be there to monitor them again.
“Your parents are your best ever instructors; their counsel will do you a lot of good. What you may not see while standing on a skyscraper, they see even while sitting down,” he said. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/add-value-to-society-adegbola-tells-vale-college-graduates/ | 2022-08-18T07:23:27Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/add-value-to-society-adegbola-tells-vale-college-graduates/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Having lost hope in the Federal Government after several efforts made to ensure it gets its trapped $85 million of the over $600 million funds belonging to foreign carriers but got trapped in Nigeria failed, Emirates Airlines has announced it will stop flying into Nigeria effective September 1, 2022.
In a statement issued by the airline and made available to journalists Thursday morning, the airline declared: “Emirates has tried every avenue to address our ongoing challenges in repatriating funds from Nigeria, and we have made considerable efforts to initiate dialogue with the relevant authorities for their urgent intervention to help find a viable solution.
“Regrettably there has been no progress. Therefore, Emirates has taken the difficult decision to suspend all flights to and from Nigeria, effective 1 September 2022, to limit further losses and impact on our operational costs that continue to accumulate in the market.
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“We sincerely regret the inconvenience caused to our customers, however, the circumstances are beyond our control at this stage. We will be working to help impacted customers make alternative travel arrangements wherever possible.
“Should there be any positive developments in the coming days regarding Emirates’ blocked funds in Nigeria, we will of course re-evaluate our decision. We remain keen to serve Nigeria, and our operations provide much-needed connectivity for Nigerian travellers, providing access to trade and tourism opportunities to Dubai, and to our broader network of over 130 destinations.”
All efforts so far made by the foreign airlines to get their blocked funds repatriated to their home countries had met brick wall as the federal government and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) continued to show a lackadaisical attitude towards the plight of the foreign carriers.
With the decision to pull out of Nigeria, many other foreign carriers according to information gathered are gearing up to follow suit. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/breaking-emirates-suspends-nigeria-flights-effective-september-1/ | 2022-08-18T07:23:33Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/breaking-emirates-suspends-nigeria-flights-effective-september-1/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Two oil and gas companies have announced plans to invest $2.6 billion into developing a major oil field on Alaska’s North Slope.
Australia-based Santos and Spain-based Repsol made the announcement, which was lauded by state political leaders, the Anchorage Daily News reported.
Santos has a 51% stake in the Pikka project, and the company said Tuesday that its investment will be $1.3 billion. Santos last year acquired Oil Search of Papua New Guinea, which had been working to advance the project.
Santos, in a statement, said the funds will cover the initial phase of development at the Pikka field, with 80,000 barrels of oil daily expected to begin flowing in 2026.
If developed, the field on state land east of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska could significantly boost the flow of oil through the trans-Alaska pipeline system. Development could also generate billions of dollars in state and local tax revenue, primarily through royalties to the state.
Another major North Slope oil prospect, ConocoPhillips’ Willow project, has been delayed by litigation and a new environmental review.
Alaska U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan lauded the plans for the Pikka project. Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy said it “will continue the renaissance on Alaska’s North Slope.”
The companies said they would make efforts to offset and reduce fossil-fuel emissions, including through use of natural gas instead of diesel fuel during operations.
Fully developing the first phase will involve drilling 45 wells from a single well pad. Related infrastructure would include a production facility and pipelines, Repsol said in a statement. | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/companies-plan-2-6b-investment-in-major-alaska-oil-project/ | 2022-08-18T07:23:53Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/companies-plan-2-6b-investment-in-major-alaska-oil-project/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
First Bank announces Patrick Iyamabo as Executive Director
FIRST Bank of Nigeria Limited has announced the appointment of Mr Patrick Iyamabo, as an Executive Director.
The appointment is subject to the approval of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
Prior to Mr Iyamabo’s appointment as Executive Director of FirstBank, he served as the Chief Financial Officer of FirstBank and its subsidiaries, having joined the bank in August 2016 from First City Monument Bank Limited where he served as its Senior Vice President of Strategy and M&A and then the Group Chief Financial Officer of FCMB Holdings.
Patrick Iyamabo, joined FirstBank as part of the effort to strategically turn around the group and address fundamental challenges facing the institution at that time.
He has been responsible for strategic leadership and supervision of financial control, internal control and enhancement, procurement, general services/ administrative services, business performance monitoring, subsidiary finance and capital management and enterprise data management and analytic function.
With over 27 years of professional experience in assurance, risk management, business development, accounting and finance with Nigerian and multinational institutions both within and outside the country, the newly appointed Executive Director previously worked at Arthur Andersen (“AA”) as auditor and strategy consultant, where he was a co-founding member of the Information Risk Management practice of AA.
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At various times, he worked with Booz Allen Hamilton in New York and LEK Consulting in Boston, providing strategic management and specialized corporate finance services to private and listed corporations.
Mr Iyamabo holds a Bachelor of Pharmacy (B. Pharm) from the Ahmadu Bello University and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) with dual majors in Finance and Strategic Management from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He has also attended specialised programmes at the Harvard Business School and The Wharton School.
He is a Fellow, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA); Fellow, Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (FCITN); Member, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria; Honorary Senior Member, the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (HCIB); and Member, Institute of Directors of Nigeria (M.IoD).
Speaking on the appointment, Dr Adesola Adeduntan, CEO, FirstBank said, ‘’we are delighted with the appointment of Mr Patrick Iyamabo as his elevation to the board is hinged on his excellent track record and the level of commitment he has demonstrated to the FirstBank Group.
Since joining FirstBank, Mr. Iyamabo has played a key role in repositioning the Group and has remained at the forefront of delivering to the Bank’s strategic goals as we have collectively reinforced our impact in driving financial inclusion and providing Nigerians with world class financial services” | https://tribuneonlineng.com/first-bank-announces-patrick-iyamabo-as-executive-director/ | 2022-08-18T07:23:59Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/first-bank-announces-patrick-iyamabo-as-executive-director/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials saw signs that the U.S. economy was weakening at their last meeting but still called inflation “unacceptably high’’ before raising their benchmark interest rate by a sizable three-quarters of a point in their drive to slow spiking prices.
In minutes from their July 26-27 meeting released Wednesday, the policymakers said they expected the economy to expand in the second half of 2022. But many of them suggested that growth would weaken as higher rates take hold. The officials noted that the housing market, consumer spending, business investment and factory production had decelerated after having expanded robustly in 2021.
Slower growth, they noted, could “set the stage’’ for inflation to gradually fall to the central bank’s 2% annual goal, though it remained “far above’’ that target. But the policymakers made clear that for now, they intend to continue raising rates enough to slow the economy.
In both June and July, the Fed sought to curb high inflation by raising its key rate by an unusually large three quarters of a percentage point twice. At their meeting last month, the policymakers said it might “become appropriate at some point to slow the pace of policy rate increases.’’
It remains unclear whether the Fed will announce yet another three-quarter-point rate hike when it next meets Sept. 20-21 or instead impose a more modest half-point hike then. Since the Fed’s meeting three weeks ago, the economy has sent mixed signals — unexpectedly strong hiring, a deterioration in the housing market and a surprising drop in inflation. Before the policymakers reconvene in September, they will see another monthly jobs report and another monthly report on consumer prices.
The minutes of the July meeting “suggest the Fed will remain on a tightening path, but there are signs some officials are getting a little nervous that they could end up going too hard and may need to reverse course eventually,″ said James Knightley, chief international economist at the financial firm ING.
Compounding the challenge for the central bank is that it was slow to respond to a resurgence of inflation in the spring of 2021 as the economy roared back from the 2020 pandemic recession. For many months, Chair Jerome Powell characterized high inflation as “transitory,” mainly a result of supply chain backlogs that would soon unsnarl and ease inflationary pressure. They didn’t, and year-over-year inflation hit a 40-year high of 9.1% in June before edging lower last month.
So the Fed has had to play catch-up with a series of sharp rate increases. It raised its benchmark rate in March and again in May, June and July. Those moves have raised the central bank’s key rate, which influences many consumer and business loans, from near zero to a range of 2.25% to 2.5%, the highest since 2018.
Powell has said the Fed will do what it will take to tame inflation, and more rate hikes are expected. But many economists worry that the Fed will end up overdoing it in the other direction by tightening credit so much as to trigger a recession.
Concerns about a potential recession have been eased, for now, by the ongoing strength of the job market. Employers added a robust 528,000 jobs last month, and the unemployment rate has hit 3.5%, matching a half-century low that was reached just before the pandemic erupted in 2020.
In the minutes released Wednesday, the Fed’s policymakers acknowledged the strength of the job market. But they also noted that hiring tends to be a lagging indicator of the economy’s health. And they pointed to signs that the job market might be cooling, including an increase in the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits, a drop in Americans quitting their jobs and a reduction in job openings. | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/fed-saw-evidence-of-a-slowing-economy-at-its-last-meeting/ | 2022-08-18T07:24:14Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/fed-saw-evidence-of-a-slowing-economy-at-its-last-meeting/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Otunba Abimbola Davis, an award-winning author and a man of many parts is the executive chairman of the International Psychometrics Centre (IPC), Ibadan, the first of its kind in Nigeria and Africa as well as the third in the world. In this interview, he speaks to MODUPE GEORGE on his discovery of the innovation, establishment of its centre and efforts to introduce it into the Nigerian education system and other issues. Excerpts:
What prompted the idea of establishing a psychometrics centre in Nigeria?
As a matter of fact, the International Psychometric Centre in Nigeria is the third in the world as well as the first and only centre in Nigeria. We have the Cambridge Psychometrics Centre, which is the first, and then the Psychometric Centre in America as the second. This is actually a major plus for the country. Sometimes in 2014, I had this discussion with Professor Rust at the Cambridge Psychometrics Centre which is part of the Cambridge University in England. I actually was talking to him about the possibility of going for a doctoral degree in Grammar because I was in the process of releasing a book. Having left the education system for quite some time, I thought of something that I could do to brush up my experience in this regard.
Along the line, we got talking about psychometrics issues, and I realised that we were actually practicing psychometrics in Nigeria through the aptitude tests, but there was a major gap. As a country, we are fond of introducing new things and following trends, but we fail to get proper orientation or train people in the new trends. The oil and gas industry started the aptitude tests, but the people they are testing are not trained on how to handle such. Whereas the aptitude tests, it is an arm of the psychometrics system. Somehow all of these things became so interesting to me and I decided to dig deep.
I also got to realise that every student in the West: Europe, American, among others is mandated to have psychometrics in their educational system. Over there, as a student, the first thing you need to know is who you truly are and what is your potential to study the right course or pursue the right career as well as what vocation or skill you can take along with it.
All of these discoveries are what prompted the idea of bringing psychometrics to Nigeria, many thanks to President Muhammadu Buhari and Honourable Minister for Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, who quickly realised the importance of psychometrics to our education system as a country and keyed into the vision. Credit must also be given to the former permanent secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Architect Soni Echono, who quickly understood the importance of psychometrics as a course in the educational system.
In fact, the first thing he recommended then was that it should commence at the secondary school level. After the discussion at the ministerial level, the minister set up a committee on it, and it was the same zeal we saw in the directors and permanent secretaries. Relevant boards and stakeholders such as the National Universities Commission (NUC), National Board of Technical Education (NBTE) National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) and the likes were invited to form a body and later, we did a harmonisation in 2018. This was successfully done and totally sponsored by the Access Bank. The building we are using presently was actually refurbished by the Access Bank.
When exactly did you start?
It was established in 2018 to be precise, but the official commencement started last year. We just have five Psychometrics experts in the entire country, so how can they serve the entire nation? The least one can pay to study Psychometrics abroad as a short course is $500 dollars and the textbook is about $149. How many students can afford that? So, we had to speak to different stakeholders and we agreed to bring the cost of studying the course in Nigeria to as low as N3,000. We came up with a bulk system that affords the opportunity of running the course online at the International Psychometrics Centre, located in Ibadan.
How far have you been able to drive the innovation among institutions in the country?
I want to give kudos to the executive secretaries of NBTE and NCCE; they have been able to push the innovation to a very great level. Psychometrics is now a mandatory course in all the higher institutions in the country. We have been able to push the innovation across different institutions through our stakeholders. However, on the part of the students, you have to be very patient with them to make them realise that what you have brought to them is not a scam. As a result, we had to work with the student union leaders directly along with our desk officers who are trained by Cambridge University and are also part of our board members. We have received many commendation letters from schools, appreciating us for the new project and how it has affected the lives of the students. We run an online course for students, with most of our modules being prepared by Cambridge University. Apart from creating a better IT culture among students, the online course encourages them to read. For instance, the students are away from school now, but for us they are not, because they are still taking their courses, so there is really nothing missed. I hope the government will one day look at what we are doing and plunge all the schools to our online system.
How many students have you trained so far?
Right now, we have like 100,000 students on the programme and are expecting more in or before September to have all the schools. If we have all the polytechnics and colleges of education on the project alone, that will be over two smillion students and then by the time the universities are back into the system, the same thing would have happened.
As you make progress, do you intend to retain the teaching online or make it become a course/subject that will be taught in the classroom?
We have just five psychometricians in the country, so how do you teach the subjects or course in the classroom in such a situation? However, that may be obtainable at the secondary school level because there is the teacher’s or teaching guide. This can’t be done at the higher institution level. What we are trying to do later is to make it a course that can be hosted by the education stakeholders, then it can be inculcated in the curriculum and can be taught right in the classroom.
As a matter of fact the University of Ibadan is actually the only school that is offering psychometrics at the Master’s level through Professor Benjamin Ehigie. What we are trying to do is to sponsor 10 Master’s students in psychometrics in order to gradually rebuild the system, but we don’t want to rush. However, whether we are teaching the course in the classroom or not, it will still be offered online.
With your experience in breaking this new frontier, will you say that the Nigerian education system is prone to welcoming innovations? Can we share some of the challenges you faced before getting to this level?
There were lots of obstacles while launching this new idea, but then any project that would be successful must go along with challenges. In the process, I discovered that we have bastardised the education system in this nation for political reasons. You can imagine, in a bid to win an election, school authorities have been ordered not to allow students at the higher institution level to buy any book that costs more. How can students study without having books? In order to overcome this challenge, we had to provide the students with a highly subsidised textbook on psychometrics so that they can also have access to internationally recommended materials to study the course.
Another challenge is that while some rectors understood why they should embrace innovation, the school councils did not; there were one or two people who proved very difficult. We had to get consulting partners who went around enlightening and persuading the school authorities. This really worked because the school managements are now the ones selling the idea to one another. Aside from all these, you had the government policies to grapple with. The project was initiated in 2014 and we didn’t run it until 2021. I want to give kudos to Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, the former head of state, who happens to be the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the IPC in Nigeria. He has devoted everything to make things work, ditto with other supporters of the vision too.
How have you been able to cope with the technical aspect of the online programme, considering the Nigerian factor in terms of power, internet connectivity and the likes?
The good part of the online programme is that students can study anytime. The module is there online. The students can download it and read at their own convenient time. It is not about coming for lectures at a particular time, except if there is a general lesson for learners or during examination period which are taken together online. No doubt there have been challenges in this regard in some schools, but they are surmountable.
Apart from undergraduates, who else can study this course?
Anybody can study psychometrics. We hold training for personnel in the human resources, health sector, and the likes. Psychometrics is about character measurements and reliability. When it comes to crisis management for instance, the service of psychometricians is highly required. The study of psyhchometrics is beyond individuals. One major advantage of psychometric is that it can be deployed for recruitment exercises too.
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LONDON (AP) — Britain’s inflation rate rose to a new 40-year high of 10.1% in July, a faster pace than in the U.S. and Europe as climbing food prices in the United Kingdom tightened a cost-of-living squeeze fueled by the soaring cost of energy.
The double-digit surge in consumer prices over a year earlier was higher than analysts’ central forecast of 9.8% and a jump from the annual rate of 9.4% in June, the Office for National Statistics said Wednesday. The increase was largely due to rising prices for food and staples, including toilet paper and toothbrushes, it said.
Most economists believe worse is to come. The Bank of England says soaring natural gas prices are likely to drive consumer price inflation to 13.3% in October. It says that will push Britain into a recession that is expected to last through 2023.
Those pressures persuaded the bank to boost its key interest rate by half a percentage point this month, the biggest of six consecutive increases since December. The rate now stands at 1.75%, the highest since the depths of the global financial crisis in late 2008.
“We expect another 50bp (basis points) rate hike in September,” said James Smith, developed markets economist and ING Economics. “We wouldn’t rule out another hike in November.”
Inflation is surging in many countries as Russia’s war in Ukraine has triggered unprecedented increases in energy prices worldwide. Russia has reduced natural gas shipments to Europe in retaliation for the West’s support of Ukraine, creating a crisis for the fossil fuel that powers factories and heats homes in the winter.
The gas woes are threatening a recession in the 19 countries sharing the euro currency, where inflation hit a record 8.9% in July. The United States has already seen two quarters of economic contraction, intensifying fears of a recession. U.S. inflation eased somewhat to 8.5% in July but is still near a four-decade high.
“I understand that times are tough, and people are worried about increases in prices that countries around the world are facing,” U.K. Treasury chief Nadhim Zahawi said.
“Although there are no easy solutions, we are helping where we can,” he said, including with a 400-pound ($483) payment to households facing rocketing energy bills.
Britain’s Conservative government is under pressure to do even more to help people cope with the cost-of-living crisis. The average U.K. household fuel bill has risen more than 50% this year, and another increase is due in October, when the average bill is forecast to hit 3,500 pounds ($4,300) a year.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is due to leave office next month and says any new measures must be left to his successor. The favorite to replace him, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, is opposed to major intervention, saying she favors tax cuts over “handouts.”
The other contender, former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak, introduced a 25% windfall tax on oil and gas companies’ profits in May that is expected to raise several billion pounds to help fund payments for people with rising utility costs. Opposition politicians want the tax expanded to electricity firms — a move Truss firmly opposes, saying, “I don’t think profit is a dirty word.” | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/soaring-food-and-energy-costs-drive-uk-inflation-to-10-1/ | 2022-08-18T07:25:11Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/soaring-food-and-energy-costs-drive-uk-inflation-to-10-1/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BEIJING (AP) — The U.S. government has announced talks with Taiwan on a trade treaty in a new sign of support for the self-ruled island democracy claimed by China’s ruling Communist Party as part of its territory.
The announcement Thursday comes after Beijing held military drills that included firing missiles into the seas around Taiwan in an attempt to intimidate the island after a visit by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the highest-level member of the U.S. government to visit Taiwan in 25 years.
Thursday’s announcement by the U.S. Trade Representative made no mention of tension with Beijing but said the negotiations were meant to enhance trade and regulatory cooperation, a step that would entail closer official interaction.
The United States has no official relations with Taiwan but maintains extensive informal contacts through the unofficial American Institute in Taiwan. Washington is obligated by federal law to see that the island has the means to defend itself.
Taiwan and China split in 1949. The island never has been part of the People’s Republic of China, but the Communist Party says it is obligated to rejoin the mainland, by force if necessary.
The talks also will cover agriculture, labor, the environment, digital technology, the status of state-owned enterprises and “non-market policies,” the USTR said. | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/us-to-hold-trade-talks-with-taiwan-in-new-show-of-support/ | 2022-08-18T07:25:47Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/us-to-hold-trade-talks-with-taiwan-in-new-show-of-support/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PARIS (AP) — After a summer of drought, heat waves and forest fires, violent storms are whipping France and neighboring countries and have flooded Paris subway stations, snarled traffic and disrupted the president’s agenda.
Winds over 100 kph (60 mph) were recorded at the top of the Eiffel Tower during a flash flood Tuesday, and similar winds were forecast Wednesday in the southeast.
Hail hammered Paris and other regions in Tuesday’s sudden storm. Rainwater gushed down metro station stairwells and onto platforms, and cars sloshed along embankments where the Seine River broke its banks.
In southern France, thunderstorms overnight and Wednesday flooded the Old Port of Marseille and the city’s main courthouse and forced the closure of nearby beaches.
As scattered storms swept across Belgium on Wednesday, one flooded parts of the historic town of Ghent following weeks of unrelenting drought.
London and other parts of southern England were lashed with torrential rain and thunderstorms after one of the driest summers on record which gave the country its first-ever 40 degree Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) temperature last month.
There was widespread flash flooding as the downpours fell on parched ground.
Despite the rain, much of Britain is still officially in drought. Thames Water, which supplies 15 million people in and around London, says a ban on watering lawns and gardens will take effect Aug. 24.
Much of Western Europe has experienced a season of extreme weather that scientists link to human-made climate change.
Amid the storm warnings, French President Emmanuel Macron postponed an event Wednesday on the French Riviera to mark the 78th anniversary of a key Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France. It was rescheduled for Friday.
The dramatic downpours put an end to weeks of historic heat that left much of France parched, rivers dry and dozens of villages without running water.
Across much of Europe this summer, a series of heat waves has compounded a critical drought, creating prime wildfire conditions.
Rainfall in recent days has eased the burden on firefighters facing France’s worst fire season in the past decade, though emergency authorities said scattered wildfires continued to burn Wednesday in southwest France.
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan president-elect William Ruto says that if there’s a court challenge to the election results, “we will engage in those” as East Africa’s most stable democracy awaits a likely petition from losing candidate Raila Odinga.
Ruto spoke to journalists on Wednesday after meeting with members of his political alliance. He declared that his administration “will have nothing to do with the blackmail we have seen, the threats we have seen, the fear sown around the country” amid differing political views. “We are having our democratic country back,” he said.
Ruto, Kenya’s deputy president, was declared the winner of last week’s close election on Monday, but the electoral commission publicly split minutes before the declaration. Four of the seven commissioners, who were appointed last year by President Uhuru Kenyatta, asserted that the commission chair excluded them from the final steps before his declaration.
On Wednesday, commission chairman Wafula Chebukati in a statement responding to the allegations asserted that the four dissenting commissioners “demanded that the chairperson moderates the results for purpose of forcing an election re-run contrary to their oath of office. This is tantamount to subverting the Constitution and the sovereign will of the people of Kenya.”
Odinga, an opposition figure in his fifth attempt at the presidency, has said his campaign will pursue “all constitutional and legal options” to challenge the election results. He met with his team behind closed doors Wednesday. They have seven days from Monday’s declaration to file at the Supreme Court, which then has 14 days to rule on it.
It is not clear on what grounds Odinga would challenge the results in an election widely described by Kenyans and observers as more transparent and peaceful than ever. He has urged his often passionate supporters to remain calm.
“Ours is victory deferred, but it’s coming home,” Odinga’s running mate, Martha Karua, told journalists Wednesday. “We’ll not let you down.”
In a political twist, Kenyatta backed his longtime rival Odinga in this election after falling out with his deputy, Ruto, years ago. Kenyatta has not spoken publicly since he cast his vote last Tuesday, and his spokeswoman Kanze Dena didn’t respond when asked when he would make a statement to the country.
Ruto on Wednesday said there will be “no room for exclusion of any part” of Kenya and hoped to “eliminate ethnicity from the equation from the leadership or governance” of the country. He also vowed public servants will be professional and would be under no pressure to carry out political work for any party. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/kenyas-president-elect-will-engage-in-any-court-challenge/ | 2022-08-18T07:26:44Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/kenyas-president-elect-will-engage-in-any-court-challenge/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A slightly higher dollar on the day sees the pair run up to hit 135.42 moments ago but buyers are still lacking a resolute determination to chase a firm break above 135.00 since the start of the month. The recent highs of around 135.50-58 will be key to watch but perhaps more importantly is the daily close.
As much as the dollar remains attractive, any major upside push in USD/JPY will have to be in sync with the signal from the bond market.
10-year Treasury yields are near unchanged now at 2.895% and that is just shy of its 100-day moving average of 2.898%, which has been a key level in containing action in the bond market as outlined in the linked post above.
For USD/JPY, a firm break above the resistance levels highlighted will open up the path towards 138.00 next with buyers perhaps targeting another attempt to try and get towards 140.00. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/usdjpy-continues-to-poke-and-prod-for-a-firmer-break-above-13500-20220818/ | 2022-08-18T07:27:47Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/usdjpy-continues-to-poke-and-prod-for-a-firmer-break-above-13500-20220818/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Bourbon Street Extravaganza, a free concert held in New Orleans amid Southern Decadence — one of the nation’s largest LGBTQ events — has been canceled over monkeypox concerns, organizers said Wednesday.
The concert was scheduled to return Sept. 3 for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic shut down Decadence in 2020. It normally attracts up to 20,000 people to the corner of Bourbon and St. Ann streets in New Orleans’ French Quarter outside the bar Napoleon’s Itch.
The concert’s producer, Chuck Robinson, called off the concert in light of the rapidly spreading monkeypox virus, news outlets reported. The virus, which seems to disproportionately affect gay and bisexual men, is spread by prolonged skin-to-skin contact.
“I regret that we can’t do the show, but monkeypox just came out of the blue, and quickly,” Robinson told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. “My concerns have to be the safety of the artists and the production team.”
He added there were plans to bring in stars from Australia and England and yet the virus has “stats that frighten me.”
“It’s spread by touch and closeness, not by droplets like COVID and I did not feel, in all good conscious, that I could be responsible for an event that could become a mass spreader,” he said.
The Washington Post first reported on the Bourbon Street Extravaganza’s cancelation as part of a story about the growing threat of monkeypox. There have been concerns about the lack of availability of the monkeypox vaccine in Louisiana, which has 120 confirmed cases, state health officials said.
Earlier this month, the Louisiana Department of Health said it was in contact with Southern Decadence organizers to get people vaccinated before the event scheduled to run Sept. 1-5 over the extended Labor Day holiday weekend.
Since 1972, Southern Decadence has grown from an informal gathering to an annual blowout that draws thousands of revelers to New Orleans over the long holiday weekend. In 2019, an estimated 225,000 people attended various events and the wide-ranging street party. An even larger crowd was expected this year.
The Bourbon Street Extravaganza has been part of Southern Decadence since 2004, the year Robinson and co-founder Ron Julian opened Napoleon’s Itch at 734 Bourbon. Robinson and Julian launched the concert on an outdoor stage in part as a way to promote their new bar, The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate reported. Over the years, Jeanie Tracy became a frequent, and favorite, performer at the concert.
“It has grown into the largest event of Southern Decadence,” Robinson said. “It’s our gift to the city.”
Robinson said the concert will return in 2023.
“I pray for everyone’s safety, but this is what I had to do,” he said of the decision to cancel.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Liz Cheney’s resounding primary defeat marks the end of an era for the Republican Party as well as her own family legacy, the most high-profile political casualty yet as the party of Lincoln transforms into the party of Trump.
The fall of the three-term congresswoman, who has declared it her mission to ensure Donald Trump never returns to the Oval Office, was vividly foreshadowed earlier this year, on the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
As the House convened for a moment of silence, Cheney, who is leading the investigation into the insurrection as vice chair of the 1/6 committee, and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, stood almost alone on the Republican side of the House floor.
Democratic lawmakers streamed by to shake their hands. Republicans declined to join them.
“Liz Cheney represents the Republican Party as it used to be. … All of that is gone now,” said Geoff Kabaservice, vice president of political studies at the center-right Niskanen Center.
What comes next for Liz Cheney is still to be determined.
“Now the real work begins,” she said in an election night concession speech in Wyoming, summoning the legacy of both Abraham Lincoln and his Civil War-era military and presidential successor Ulysses Grant in her campaign against Trump.
Cheney could very well announce her own run for the White House — unlikely to win a hostile Republican Party’s nomination but to at least give those opposed to Trump an alternative.
Overnight, she transferred leftover campaign funds into a new entity: “The Great Task.” That’s a phrase from The Gettysburg Address.
“I will be doing whatever it takes to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office,” Cheney told NBC’s “Today” show early Wednesday. Pressed, she said that running for president “is something I’m thinking about and I’ll make a decision in the coming months.”
Whether she runs or not, her belief that Trump poses a danger to democracy is a conviction that runs deep in her family.
But it’s a view that has no home in today’s GOP.
Trump is purging the Republican Party, ridding it of dissenters like Cheney and others who dare to defy him, shifting the coast-to-coast GOP landscape and the makeup of Congress.
Of the 10 House Republicans including Cheney who voted to impeach Trump for inciting the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection, at the Capitol, only two remain candidates for re-election. The others have bowed out or, like Cheney, have been defeated by Trump-backed challengers.
If Republicans gain control of the House and Senate in the November elections, the new Congress is destined to be remade in Trump’s image. However, his influence may in fact cut two ways, winning back the House for Republicans but costing the party the Senate if his candidates fail to generate the broader appeal needed for statewide elections.
“It’s just a party of Donald Trump’s fever dreams,” said Mark Salter, a former longtime Republican aide to the late Sen. John McCain.
“It’s just Donald Trump’s club.”
For 50 years, the Cheneys have had important influence in Washington, from the time Dick Cheney first ran for Congress — later being elected vice president — to the arrival of his daughter, elected in 2016 alongside Trump’s White House victory.
Identified with the hawkish defense wing of the Republican Party, the Cheneys with the Presidents Bush represented a cornerstone of the GOP in the post-World War II era, when it thrived as a party of small government, low taxation and muscular foreign policy.
Liz Cheney never wavered, chosen by House GOP colleagues to the same position her father held, the No. 3 Republican in the House, its highest-ranking woman.
But the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol changed all that.
Cheney was unequivocal, laying blame for the attack on the defeated president and his false claims of voter fraud and a rigged election.
Trump “summoned this mob, assembled the mob and lit the flame of this attack,” she said at the time, announcing her vote to impeach.
“There has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution.”
House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy initially defended Cheney but quickly reversed as Republicans booted her from party leadership. When Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi named Cheney to the 1/6 panel, her exile was all but complete.
Trump gloated at Cheney’s GOP primary defeat Tuesday night, deriding her as “sanctimonious” and a “fool” for suggesting his claims of a rigged election were false.
Trump had swooped into the Cowboy State to rally for Harriet Hageman, who was once highly critical of him but beat Cheney by embracing the former president, backed by McCarthy and other party leaders.
Cheney’s defeat follows that of the last Bush in public office, Jeb’s son George P. Bush, who was defeated in the Republican primary for Texas attorney general by Trump-backed Ken Paxton in May.
On Fox News, conservative author Charlie Kirk called Tuesday’s election a “mass repudiation” of the Bush-Cheney-McCain era.
Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, who replaced Cheney in House GOP leadership and endorsed Hageman, said in a statement she was glad to see Pelosi’s “puppet” defeated.
Former Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming who served in Congress alongside Dick Cheney and has known Liz Cheney since she was a child, says he can no longer recognize the party that he joined, casting his first presidential vote for Dwight Eisenhower.
“What’s happened to our party is a fear of Donald J. Trump,” Simpson said.
Founded in the mid-19th century, the Republican Party’s core conservative values have shifted in the Trump era into a strain of politics that is more inward focused on grievances at home and isolationism abroad.
Those running for Congress include many Republican incumbents who voted against certifying Joe Biden’s election, amplifying Trump’s relentless false claims of a rigged election and fueling the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.
And many of the new GOP candidates for Congress are also election deniers, according to a tally by Democrats.
“The House is — should be — the people’s House,” said former Republican Rep. Carlos Curbelo of Florida. Instead, he said, “It’s controlled by Mr. Trump,”
Cheney walks alone many days at the Capitol, flanked by plain-clothes Capitol police who guard her amid an onslaught of violent threats.
Her mission of denying Trump a return to the presidency can be seen in her daily schedule, much of her time devoted to the 1/6 committee deepening and completing its work.
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MADRID (AP) — While vacationers might enjoy the Mediterranean Sea’s summer warmth, climate scientists are warning of dire consequences for its marine life as it burns up in a series of severe heat waves.
From Barcelona to Tel Aviv, scientists say they are witnessing exceptional temperature hikes ranging from 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 Fahrenheit) to 5 degrees Celsius (9 Fahrenheit) above the norm for this time of year. Water temperatures have regularly exceeded 30 C (86 F) on some days.
Extreme heat in Europe and other countries around the Mediterranean has grabbed headlines this summer, but the rising sea temperature is largely out of sight and out of mind.
Marine heat waves are caused by ocean currents building up areas of warm water. Weather systems and heat in the atmosphere can also pile on degrees to the water’s temperature. And just like their on-land counterparts, marine heat waves are longer, more frequent and more intense because of human-induced climate change.
The situation is “very worrying,” says Joaquim Garrabou, a researcher at the Institute of Marine Sciences in Barcelona. “We are pushing the system too far. We have to take action on the climate issues as soon as possible.”
Garrabou is part of a team that recently published the report on heat waves in the Mediterranean Sea between 2015 and 2019. The report says these phenomena have led to “massive mortality” of marine species.
About 50 species, including corals, sponges and seaweed, were affected along thousands of kilometers of Mediterranean coasts, according to the study, which was published in the Global Change Biology journal.
The situation in the eastern Mediterranean basin is particularly dire.
The waters off Israel, Cyprus, Lebanon and Syria are “the hottest hot spot in the Mediterranean, for sure,” said Gil Rilov, a marine biologist at Israel’s Oceanographic and Limnological Research institute, and one of the paper’s co-authors. Average sea temperatures in the summer are now consistently over 31 C (88 F).
These warming seas are driving many native species to the brink, “because every summer their optimum temperature is being exceeded,” he said.
What he and his colleagues are witnessing in terms of biodiversity loss is what is projected to happen further west in the Mediterranean toward Greece, Italy and Spain in the coming years.
Garrabou points out that seas have been serving the planet by absorbing 90% of the earth’s excess heat and 30% of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere by coal, oil and gas production. This carbon-sink effect shields the planet from even harsher climate effects.
This was possible because oceans and seas were in a healthy condition, Garrabou said.
“But now we have driven the ocean to an unhealthy and dysfunctional state,” he said.
While the earth’s greenhouse gas emissions will have to be drastically reduced if sea warming is to be curtailed, ocean scientists are specifically looking for authorities to guarantee that 30% of sea areas are protected from human activities such as fishing, which would give species a chance to recover and thrive.
About 8% of the Mediterranean Sea area is currently protected.
Garrabou and Rilov said that policymakers are largely unaware of the warming Mediterranean and its impact.
“It’s our job as scientists to bring this to their attention so they can think about it,” Rilov said.
Heat waves occur when especially hot weather continues over a set number of days, with no rain or little wind. Land heat waves help cause marine heat waves and the two tend to feed each other in a vicious, warming circle.
Land heat waves have become commonplace in many countries around the Mediterranean, with dramatic side effects like wildfires, droughts, crop losses and excruciatingly high temperatures.
But marine heat waves could also have serious consequences for the countries bordering the Mediterranean and the more than 500 million people who live there if it’s not dealt with soon, scientists say. Fish stocks will be depleted and tourism will be adversely affected, as destructive storms could become more common on land.
Despite representing less than 1% of the global ocean surface area, the Mediterranean is one of the main reservoirs of marine biodiversity, containing between 4% and 18% of the world’s known marine species.
Some of the most affected species are key to maintaining the functioning and diversity of the sea’s habitats. Species like the Posidonia oceanica seagrass meadows, which can absorb vast amounts of carbon dioxide and shelters marine life, or coral reefs, which are also home to wildlife, would be at risk.
Garrabou says the mortality impacts on species were observed between the surface and 45 meters (around 150 feet) deep, where the recorded marine heat waves were exceptional. Heat waves affected more than 90% of the Mediterranean Sea’s surface.
According to the most recent scientific papers, the sea surface temperature in the Mediterranean has increased by 0.4 C (0.72 F) each decade between 1982 and 2018. On a yearly basis, it has been rising by some 0.05 C (0.09 F) over the past decade without any sign of letting up.
Even fractions of degrees can have disastrous effects on ocean health, experts say.
The affected areas have also grown since the 1980s and now covers most of the Mediterranean, the study suggests.
“The question is not about the survival of nature, because biodiversity will find way to a survive on the planet,” Garrabou said. “The question is if we keep going in this direction maybe our society, humans, will not have a place to live.”
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Ilan Ben Zion reported from Jerusalem.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Abortions in North Carolina are no longer legal after 20 weeks of pregnancy, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, eroding protections in one of the South’s few remaining safe havens for reproductive freedom.
U.S. District Judge William Osteen reinstated an unenforced 20-week abortion ban, with exceptions for urgent medical emergencies, after he said the June U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade erased the legal foundation for his 2019 ruling that placed an injunction on the 1973 state law.
His decision defies the recommendations of all named parties in the 2019 case, including doctors, district attorneys and the attorney general’s office, who earlier this month filed briefs requesting he let the injunction stand.
“Neither this court, nor the public, nor counsel, nor providers have the right to ignore the rule of law as determined by the Supreme Court,” wrote Osteen, who was appointed to the court by Republican President George W. Bush.
Unable to pass abortion restrictions that would survive Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto, the Republican General Assembly leaders urged Osteen to restore the ban in a July 27 friend-of-the-court brief after the state’s Democratic attorney general, an outspoken abortion rights supporter, rejected their demand that he bring the ban before a judge himself.
“I am encouraged that, although our attorney general has failed to do his duty, today we have a ruling that upholds the law,” House Speaker Tim Moore said, referring to North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein.
Osteen’s ruling adds fuel to an already contentious midterm election year after the Supreme Court ruling propelled state-level politics into the spotlight. North Carolina Republicans in November will aim to clinch the five additional seats they need for a veto-proof supermajority in the state legislature as Democrats stave off their challenges to preserve Cooper’s power.
Republican lawmakers say a successful election season could open the door to further abortion restrictions when the General Assembly reconvenes early next year. Moore told reporters on July 26 that he would like to see the legislature consider banning abortions once an ultrasound first detects fetal cardiac activity — typically around six weeks after fertilization and before some patients know they’re pregnant.
Cooper and other Democrats have already elevated abortion access as a key campaign issue. The governor signed an executive order on July 6 shielding out-of-state abortion patients from extradition and prohibiting state agencies under his control from aiding other states’ prosecutions of those who travel for the procedure.
“Denying women necessary medical care in extreme and threatening situations, even if rare, is fundamentally wrong, and we cannot let politicians mislead people about the real-world implications of this harmful law,” Cooper said Wednesday.
North Carolina has become a refuge for residents of its more restrictive neighboring states, like South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee, where abortions are now illegal after six weeks.
Before Osteen’s ruling, abortions were legal in North Carolina until fetal viability, which generally falls between 24 and 28 weeks of pregnancy, or in certain medical emergencies.
As other Southeastern states continue to chip away at abortion access, Alison Kiser, executive director of Planned Parenthood Votes! South Atlantic, said limiting treatment in “a critical access point state” like North Carolina will have ripple effects across the region.
The number of out-of-state patients at North Carolina’s Planned Parenthood health centers has tripled since the Supreme Court ruling, Kiser said. So far in August, 36% of abortion patients traveled from other states, up from 14% in June.
But Republicans argue little will change with the 20-week ban back in place. In 2019, fewer than 1% of abortions nationwide were performed after 20 weeks of gestation, consistent with data from previous years when abortion access was protected at the federal level, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“Abortions after 20 weeks are rare, but it’s still incredibly important that people have access to this care,” Kiser said. “The two primary reasons people need abortion care later in pregnancy is because they’ve received new medical information or, and ever more so now, they’re facing barriers that have delayed their care.”
The main delay, she said, is North Carolina’s 72-hour mandatory waiting period to receive an abortion after an initial doctor’s visit. The General Assembly extended the waiting period in 2015, making North Carolina the fifth state to require counseling three days before an abortion — one of the longest waiting periods in the country.
The 2015 bill also amended the state law that Osteen reinstated Wednesday, narrowing the criteria for medical emergencies that could warrant an abortion after 20 weeks.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s new moon rocket arrived at the launch pad Wednesday ahead of its debut flight in less than two weeks.
The 322-foot (98-meter) rocket emerged from its mammoth hangar late Tuesday night, drawing crowds of Kennedy Space Center workers, many of whom were not yet born when NASA sent astronauts to the moon a half-century ago. It took nearly 10 hours for the rocket to make the four-mile trip to the pad, pulling up at sunrise.
NASA is aiming for an Aug. 29 liftoff for the lunar test flight. No one will be inside the crew capsule atop the rocket, just three mannequins swarming with sensors to measure radiation and vibration.
The capsule will fly around the moon in a distant orbit for a couple weeks, before heading back for a splashdown in the Pacific. The entire flight should last six weeks.
The flight is the first moonshot in NASA’s Artemis program. The space agency is aiming for a lunar-orbiting flight with astronauts in two years and a lunar landing by a human crew as early as 2025. That’s much later than NASA anticipated when it established the program more than a decade ago, as the space shuttle fleet retired. The years of delays have added billions of dollars to the cost.
“Now for the first time since 1972, we’re going to be launching a rocket that’s designed for deep space,” NASA’s rocket program manager, John Honeycutt, said recently.
NASA’s new SLS moon rocket, short for Space Launch System, is 41 feet (12 meters) shorter than the Saturn V rockets used during Apollo a half-century ago. But it’s more powerful, using a core stage and twin strap-on boosters, similar to the ones used for the space shuttles.
“When you look at the rocket, it almost looks retro. It looks like we’re looking back toward the Saturn V,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told reporters earlier this month. “But it’s a totally different, new, highly sophisticated, more sophisticated rocket and spacecraft.”
Twenty-four astronauts flew to the moon during Apollo, with 12 of them landing on it from 1969 through 1972. The space agency wants a more diverse team and more sustained effort under Artemis, named after Apollo’s mythological twin sister.
“I want to underscore that this is a test flight,” Nelson said. “It’s just the beginning.”
This was the rocket’s third trip to the pad. A countdown test in April was marred by fuel leaks and other equipment trouble, forcing NASA to return the rocket to the hangar for repairs. The dress rehearsal was repeated at the pad in June, with improved results.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Prospect Ridge Resources Corp. (the "Company" or "Prospect Ridge") (CSE: PRR) (OTC: PRRSF) (FRA: OED) is pleased to announce that the drilling has begun on the flagship Knauss Creek property located 10 km North of Terrace, BC.
The construction of the drill pads and drilling began last week and the first drill hole on the property has been completed. The initial focus is in the area of the Jay veins, which will be followed by the historic Dorreen zone that was a past producing high-grade gold mine. The drilling will be conducted on a 24 hours per day/7 days per week schedule, until the campaign is complete. Under the direct supervision of CEO, Michael Iverson, and President, Yan Ducharme, the drilling and prospecting teams will be collecting a steady stream of samples that will be sent to the laboratory for analysis on a regular basis.
Michael Iverson, CEO states, "After great anticipation, we are pleased to announce we have commenced drilling. The drill is spinning 24/7 providing us with core samples to send to the labs as soon as possible. Yan and I will be on location guiding the team from target to target to optimize our efforts. We look forward to the potential great success this property holds."
All scientific or technical information included in this news release has been reviewed, verified and approved by Yan Ducharme, P.Geo., President of the Company and a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.
The Holy Grail and Knauss properties start about 10 kilometers north of the town of Terrace in the Province of British Columbia, Canada. They are easily accessible by two highways and a network of logging roads. They are contiguous and form a horseshoe covering about 730 square kilometers.
The southern tip of the Golden Triangle arrives just northwest of the properties. The Bower Lake and the Hazelton Groups hosting most of the deposits and mines of this area are also underlying the Holy Grail and Knauss Creek properties.
A few gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc occurrences where found in the past. The most notable is the Dorreen mine where three levels were developed and, according to historical documents, around 700 tons of ore were mined out at an average grade of more than 10 g/t Au.
The properties hold more than 10 very interesting gold showings, sometimes with silver, copper, lead and zinc.
Prospect Ridge Resources Corp. is a British Columbia based exploration and development company focused on gold exploration. Prospect Ridge's management and technical team cumulate over 100 years of mineral exploration experience and believes the Holy Grail and Knauss Creek properties to have the potential to extend the boundaries of the Golden Triangle to cover this vast under-explored region.
Neither the Canadian Securities Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the Canadian Securities Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
This release includes certain statements and information that may constitute forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws. Forward-looking statements relate to future events or future performance and reflect the expectations or beliefs of management of the Company regarding future events. Generally, forward-looking statements and information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "intends" or "anticipates", or variations of such words and phrases or statements that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "should", "would" or "occur". This information and these statements, referred to herein as "forward-looking statements", are not historical facts, are made as of the date of this news release and include without limitation, statements regarding discussions of future plans, estimates and forecasts and statements as to management's expectations and intentions with respect to, among other things, positive exploration results at the Knauss Creek and Holy Grail projects and the Company's use of proceeds from the Private Placement. These forward-looking statements involve numerous risks and uncertainties and actual results might differ materially from results suggested in any forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, among other things, that future exploration results at the Knauss Creek and Holy Grail projects will not be as anticipated and that the Company will use the proceeds from the Private Placement as anticipated.
In making the forward-looking statements in this news release, the Company has applied several material assumptions, including without limitation, that future exploration results at the Knauss Creek and Holy Grail projects will be as anticipated and that the Company will use the proceeds from the Private Placement as anticipated.
Although management of the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking statements or forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements and forward-looking information. Readers are cautioned that reliance on such information may not be appropriate for other purposes. The Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statement, forward-looking information or financial out-look that are incorporated by reference herein, except in accordance with applicable securities laws. We seek safe harbor.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Cal Raleigh homered twice, Eugenio Suárez and Jesse Winker each hit a two-run shot, and the Seattle Mariners overcame Shohei Ohtani’s four-hit performance to complete a three-game sweep of the Los Angeles Angels with an 11-7 victory Wednesday.
Raleigh had the first multi-homer game of his career with a solo shot in the fifth inning and a two-run homer in the ninth for the Mariners, who moved into the top AL wild-card slot while scoring 25 runs in three straight wins at the Big A.
Ohtani hit a two-run homer in the ninth inning after getting an RBI triple and two singles earlier in his latest outstanding day at the plate. The AL MVP’s 27th homer of the season gave him four RBIs in this game and seven hits in the last two — both blowout losses for the Angels.
Carlos Santana had a two-run single during the Mariners’ four-run third inning, and George Kirby (5-3) pitched six-hit ball into the sixth while getting ample run support in his third consecutive victory.
Luis Rengifo added an RBI double before leaving with low back tightness for the Angels, who had won five of six until getting flattened in the path of Seattle’s push toward a playoff spot.
Seattle has the majors’ longest postseason drought at 20 years, while the Angels’ current seven-year drought — tied with Detroit — will become the longest in the sport if the Mariners and Philadelphia stay on track to reach the postseason this October.
Los Angeles got good news before the game when Mike Trout said he plans to return this weekend from a five-week injury absence, but the long-struggling club ended the day by getting swept in a series for the first time since the All-Star break.
After spot starter Touki Toussaint (1-1) opened with two scoreless innings for the Angels, six Mariners reached base against him in the third. Mitch Haniger had an RBI single and J.P. Crawford drew a bases-loaded walk before Santana chased Toussaint.
Suárez hit his 20th homer and Raleigh followed with his 17th against Mike Mayers. Winker added his two-run shot in the sixth.
Rengifo followed Ohtani’s RBI single with a run-scoring double in the fifth. Ohtani then tripled in the seventh and scored on Taylor Ward’s flyout.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Angels: Rengifo didn’t return to the field in the eighth after grounding out in the seventh. He has been the Angels’ best hitter for most of the summer, getting a hit in 41 of his last 47 games. … Trout intends to return to the lineup Friday in Detroit. The three-time AL MVP has missed 30 games since July 12 with an injury to his upper back and ribcage, but he was determined not to have an early end to his second consecutive season after playing in only 36 games last year. The Halos likely will have to release a player to put Trout back on the roster.
UP NEXT
Mariners: After a day off, Marco Gonzales (7-12, 4.18 ERA) takes the mound at Oakland on Friday to open a three-game weekend series.
Angels: After a day off, hard-luck left-hander Patrick Sandoval (3-8, 3.42 ERA) takes the mound at Detroit on Friday to open a 10-game trip.
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COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — The Coeur d'Alene Police Department (CDAPD) have arrested a Lake City High School teacher for an inappropriate relationship with a former student.
48-year-old William Joseph Keylon turned himself in at the Kootenai County Public Safety Health Building after detectives obtained a warrant for his arrest on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022. Keylon has been a teacher at Lake City High School since 2003.
According to police, the department was made aware of the relationship, which reportedly began in 2012 and lasted for several years while the victim was attending school at Lake City High. Over a month, detectives worked closely with the Coeur d'Alene School District to investigate the incident.
Investigators learned that several students knew of the relationship, but were reluctant to report anything. It was also uncovered that Keylon may have committed additional crimes. The investigation is ongoing, according to police.
Anyone with information related to Keylon's behavior is encouraged to contact detectives with CDAPD.
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KABUL, Afghanistan — A bombing at a mosque in the Afghan capital of Kabul during evening prayers killed at least 21 people, including a prominent cleric, and wounded at least 33, eyewitnesses and police said Thursday.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack Wednesday night, the latest to strike the country in the year since the Taliban seized power. Several children were reported to be among the wounded.
The Islamic State group's local affiliate has stepped up attacks targeting the Taliban and civilians since the former insurgents' takeover last August as U.S. and NATO troops were in the final stages of their withdrawal from the country. Last week, the IS claimed responsibility for killing a prominent Taliban cleric at his religious center in Kabul.
Khalid Zadran, the spokesman for Kabul's police chief, gave the figures to The Associated Press for the bombing at the Sunni mosque.
According to the eyewitness, a resident of the city's Kher Khanna neighborhood where the Siddiquiya Mosque was targeted, the explosion was carried out by a suicide bomber. The slain cleric was Mullah Amir Mohammad Kabuli, the eyewitness said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid also condemned the explosion and vowed that the "perpetrators of such crimes will soon be brought to justice and will be punished."
There were fears the casualty numbers could rise further. On Thursday morning, one witness to the blast who gave his name as Qyaamuddin told the AP he believed as many as 25 people may have been killed in the blast.
"It was evening prayer time, and I was attending the prayer with others, when the explosion happened," Qyaamuddin said. Some Afghans go by a single name.
AP journalists could see the blue-roofed, Sunni mosque from a nearby hillside. The Taliban parked police trucks and other vehicles at the mosque, while several men carried out one casket for a victim of the attack.
A U.S.-led invasion toppled the previous Taliban government, which had hosted al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States.
Since regaining power, the former insurgents have faced a crippling economic crisis as the international community, which does not recognize the Taliban government, froze funding to the country.
Separately, the Taliban confirmed on Wednesday that they had captured and killed Mehdi Mujahid in western Herat province as he was trying to cross the border into Iran.
Mujahid was a former Taliban commander in the district of Balkhab in northern Sar-e-Pul province, and the only member of the minority Shiite Hazara community among the Taliban ranks.
Mujahid had turned against the Taliban over the past year, after opposing decisions made by Taliban leaders in Kabul.
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One in four Scots unlikely to go on holiday this year
More than a quarter of Scots are unlikely to take a holiday this year according to new research citing the cost of living crisis, rising fuel prices, and disruption at airports, on the railways and with ferries as major factors affecting decision-making.
Holidays in Scotland are expected to be the main choice for Scots this year, with breaks in the Highlands and Edinburgh top of their list of preferred destinations.
One in three Scots have been on holiday in Scotland so far this year, compared to just 19 per cent who had headed for Europe, and four per cent on a long-haul trip.
However more than half of holidays in Scotland were booked within a month of their departure date.
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The new research emerged as tourism industry leaders warned that the soaring rate of inflation would have a “significant” impact on the sector.
More than 1000 Scots took part in the new research, carried out from 1-2 August by consultancy 56 Degree Insight.
Managing partner Jim Eccleston said: “The cost of living crisis is having a major impact on holiday choices. Around 84 per cent of Scots claim their 2022 holiday choices have been impacted.
“Rising petrol and diesel costs are also having an impact amongst 70 per cent (an especially important factor for domestic markets), and we see that Covid continues to play a role in decision-making.
“Travel disruption has been significant over the summer - and this has also been an important consideration for many.”
Marc Crothall, chief executive of the Scottish Tourism Alliance, said: “While it’s heartening to read that many Scots have chosen to holiday at home, the levels of spending by domestic and UK visitors is not enough to provide businesses with the financial comfort they would like and now need as we move into the shoulder season.
“More worryingly, in recent weeks as inflation continues to rise, this has put added pressure on the balance sheet, as well as sparking a slowdown in booking by UK households.
“The situation remains fluid in terms of the cost-of-living crisis and with the announcement around the rise in inflation, it would seem likely more people will put plans on hold and almost certainly curtail spending.
“The economic outlook for the industry is likely to be worse than what we’ve experienced throughout Covid.
"I would urge both governments to take immediate action to lower VAT rates, put a freeze on the energy price cap, introduce a price cap for businesses plus extend relief on business rates and to do so immediately before we see a wave of business closures and job losses.”
Leon Thompson, executive director of UKHospitality Scotland, said: “Given the financial pressures people are already experiencing it is not surprising they are still to decide on holidays and booking late. Our members have been reporting last-minute and late bookings for some time.
“Another area of concern is that people are looking to lower expenditure whilst on holiday, impacting takings in bars, restaurants and coffee shops.
“The shoulder months present a particular difficulty. With so few advance bookings many hospitality businesses are considering whether they can remain open through the autumn and winter.
"Without financial assistance from our governments on energy and business rates there will be businesses that will not survive.”
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Juana Altamirano, a staff member at the Commander, Fleet Activities Sasebo (CFAS) Fleet and Family Support Center (FFSC), receives calls at a simulated emergency family assistance center at the CFAS FFSC as part of Exercise Citadel Pacific 2022 (CP22) Aug. 18, 2022. CP22 is an annual exercise that is not in response to any specific real-world threat but is used to evaluate the readiness of fleet and installation security programs. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Quinton A. Lee)
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Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) pre-announced its Q2 financials that were significantly lower than its previous guidance. Despite the noteworthy reduction in sales and margins, the NVDA stock forecast on TipRanks shows that Wall Street continues to be optimistic about its prospects, given its AI and data center leadership and attractive valuation.
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NVDA announced preliminary Q2 revenue of $6.70 billion compared to its guidance of $8.10 billion. The significant cut reflects lower sell-in of gaming products due to macro headwinds. NVDA’s CEO, Jensen Huang, said, “Our gaming product sell-through projections declined significantly as the quarter progressed.”
While data center revenue improved sequentially and year-over-year, it came somewhat lower than NVDA’s projection due to the supply chain disruptions.
Along with sales, NVDA announced a preliminary adjusted gross margin of 46.1%, drastically lower than its outlook of 67.1%.
While the shortfall in revenue and margins from the previous outlook is worrying, analysts believe that bad news is already out. Further, the momentum in the data center and NVDA’s AI (Artificial intelligence) capabilities could continue to support its growth.
In response to NVDA’s weak preliminary Q2 announcement, Needham analyst Rajvindra Gill stated that “the street may be buying into the “kitchen sink” narrative,” which implies revealing all the bad news in one go. Gill lowered his near-term estimates but kept his FY24 estimates unchanged. Also, he retained his Buy recommendation on NVDA stock.
NVDA’s strong balance sheet, attractive valuation, and AI and data center leadership support Gill’s bullish outlook.
What is the Prediction for Nvidia Stock?
Wall Street analysts are bullish about NVDA stock. It has received 25 Buy and seven Hold recommendations for a Strong Buy rating consensus. Moreover, analysts’ average price target of $235.39 implies 28.4% upside potential.
While analysts are bullish, hedge funds and insiders have been selling NVDA stock. Hedge funds sold 575.9K NVDA stock in the last quarter. Meanwhile, insiders sold NVDA stock worth $87.9M. Overall, it has a Neutral Smart Score of 4 out of 10 on TipRanks.
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Master Sgt. Sean Fetke, First Sgt. assigned to the 39th Communications Squadron, participates in a simulated First Sgt. response call during a real-world exercise scenario as part of training for the First Sergeant symposium at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, August 4, 2022. The training consisted of three scenarios the attendees might respond to while acting as a first sergeant. The purpose of this event is to teach additional duty first sergeants what it means to fill the role and share knowledge with those who might be interested in wearing a diamond of their own one day. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Gabrielle Winn)
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Could Reducing ‘Sludge’ Increase Faculty Morale?
Ever had to wait forever to speak with someone to report a simple problem? If so, then you know exactly what sludge is and how infuriating it can be, Kevin Van Winkle writes.
Faculty anger over low pay and high workload has been growing for years, but the one-two punch of COVID and rising inflation has brought the issue to a head. The most recent surveys confirm what many of us know anecdotally to be true: faculty are “calling it quits,” as a recent Inside Higher Ed article described, in ever-increasing numbers. Far from over, the Great Resignation and the Great Disengagement seem to have just gotten started.
The complexities and limitations of both state and private budgets, changing public attitudes regarding the value of higher education, market competition, and a high demand for employees in the larger marketplace make providing fair compensation for faculty an intractable problem for even the most well-intentioned administrators. Likewise, ever-expanding expectations for amenities and courses along with the inherently incommensurate nature of teaching, scholarship and service make ostensibly simple attempts to reduce workload complicated—especially without funds to hire more faculty members and spread the work around.
Who knows when—or even if—these loggerheads will ever break. In the meantime, the people seeking more immediate actions to increase engagement, reduce workload and enhance stakeholders’ overall well-being should consider looking internally for ways to reduce the morale-killing “sludge” that typically proliferates in institutions of higher education.
In a recent book on the subject, Sludge: What Stops Us From Getting Things Done and What to Do About It, Cass R. Sunstein, Harvard University law professor and chair of the technical advisory group on behavioral insights and sciences for health at the World Health Organization, explains that sludge is “understood to consist of frictions that separate people from what they want to get.” It is the extra time and energy required to complete supposedly straightforward tasks—the proverbial “thousand cuts” leading to our figurative demise.
Ever had to search and search for a link on your institution’s website that you think should be much, much easier to find than it is? Or waited for an interminably long time to speak with someone to report a simple problem? How about spending forever trying to locate the right app so you can open the new type of file being used by some external department? If so, then you’ll know exactly what sludge is. You’ll also know just how infuriating it can be.
Sometimes sludge can be a good thing and purposely introduced into a process to slow it down. Maybe we should take a second to consider if we really want to delete all those files or reformat that drive. However, when unintended, sludge can have surprisingly harmful effects. More than just demotivating or morale-diminishing, “Sludge infringes on human dignity,” as Sunstein says, making us feel disrespected and worthless. When I explained “sludge” to a colleague recently, she aptly characterized it as “soul crushing.”
Sludge can also impede cognitive capacity, an effect that can be particularly debilitating for academics. Even the most intelligent professor has a limit to how much thinking they can do—attention is a finite resource. And when it’s spent trying to navigate a convoluted financial reporting system, or figuring out which password works with which login, or crafting quarterly reports we suspect no one actually needs or reads, then less attention can be focused on research and students.
Sunstein identifies several common ways institutions have reduced sludge. Making forms shorter, electronically accessible and with recurring information prefilled can greatly diminish sludge. (I’ve lost count of the times I have had to look up my own institution’s official address so that I can include it on a form required by that exact same institution. I should remember it by now, but I don’t and probably never will.) Making information collection, meetings and other required events less frequent when possible is another. And one of the most effective sludge reducers is automatic opt-in. Voter registration, professional training, text alerts and countless other systems show a significant increase in participation—on average 26 percent, according to Sunstein—when users are automatically signed up.
While its manifestations might be different, sludge persists in any organization. Accordingly, to combat sludge, Sunstein recommends organizations conduct a “sludge audit,” which includes five steps: announce, identify, prioritize, focus and reduce.
At a college or university, a sludge audit might go something like this: the president or provost announces a “war on sludge” and assigns a person or committee to lead the effort. Deans, chairs and program directors are asked to identify three instances of sludge. Their answers are compared to determine commonalities, which can then be used to prioritize and focus on subsequent reduction efforts.
Each department and college will find their own opportunities for sludge reduction, but it wouldn’t be surprising for many to report common problems and for there to be shared solutions. If one chair finds an area of sludge that can be removed, others probably will have been slowed down by it, too, and will also welcome its removal.
Likewise, small efforts to reduce sludge can have a cumulative effect. For instance, in the writing program for which I’m the director, requisite signatures for annual evaluations usually required the lecturers to print their evaluation, scan the document and return it to me via email. This process was cumbersome by itself, but it was usually made worse by the untimely need for software or hardware updates, problems with choosing a file type that wasn’t too large to email, or sometimes the need to find a scanner in the first place.
By adding a simple option for an electronic signature to the evaluation, I saved the lecturers and myself a great deal of time and energy, not to mention an immeasurable amount of potential frustration. Moreover, it encouraged me to use electronic signatures for other documents as well as share the technique with my colleagues in other departments—indirect outcomes that will further reduce sludge elsewhere.
The positive ripple effect caused by sludge reduction has the potential to extend beyond the frustrations of faculty and staff members and improve some of the larger difficulties facing higher education right now, such as student enrollment and retention. Complicated admission processes, draconian student loan applications, unnecessary tests and a host of other types of sludge certainly account for many students not enrolling in higher education or staying there once enrolled. An institution that embraces sludge reduction could experience a cultural shift that ultimately helps students as well as improves the circumstance shaping faculty members’ compensation and workload issues.
Faculty are right to demand fair pay for the work they do. And even the best efforts to reduce sludge will do little to improve morale and counter faculty discontent if they continually feel they are being underpaid and overworked. Yet, conversely, faculty morale is unlikely to be significantly or instantly increased by raises or course reductions alone. After all, few of us worked so hard to become instructors and professors just for the money. In fact, as part of an ongoing strategy, sludge reduction can improve the processes underpinning modern institutions of higher education at the same time that it strikes at the root cause of our current malaise: not feeling valued.
Kevin Van Winkle is assistant professor of English and world languages as well as director of the communication, rhetoric and writing program at Colorado State University at Pueblo.
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Confessions of a Community College Dean
In which a veteran of cultural studies seminars in the 1990s moves into academic administration and finds himself a married suburban father of two. Foucault, plus lawn care.
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The "Welcome to College" Speech I Can't Give
This one is for all the new students out there.
Since I’m spending this academic year with the NJ Council of County Colleges, I’m in the unaccustomed position of hurtling towards September without being on a campus. Kathy Johnson Bowles’ proposed speech in IHE this week got me thinking about “welcome” speeches, which reminded me of this piece from 2014.
Spoiler: We eventually found Sally, and had several more wonderful years with her. But when I wrote this, she was still missing. We lived in Massachusetts at the time.
This one goes out to all the new students out there.
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Sally, our dog, has been missing for over a week. She broke free when I was trying to drop her off at a kennel before a weekend trip that ended up not happening; she has since been seen mostly in the Southwick, MA and Granby, CT areas. We’ve been distributing flyers, working Facebook and Twitter, putting up posters, calling animal control offices, setting humane traps, and doing just about everything possible short of actually catching her.
The entire process has been stressful. We get calls about sightings, which are great, but most of them end with “but when I called her name, she ran away.” She’s skittish on a good day, and by now I’m sure she’s scared out of her mind. Worse, the kennel is a good twenty-minute drive from our house, and in unfamiliar territory, so she hasn’t been able to find her way home. The pattern of sightings doesn’t suggest she knows where she’s going.
In the last ten days, I’ve learned quite a bit about dogs and locations. Several websites mentioned that lost dogs typically move in circles. (Sally doesn’t seem to know that, but in her defense, she can’t read.) Apparently, it’s possible now to attach a doohickey to a dog’s collar that sends a GPS signal. That’s high on my list for when Sally comes home. And I’ve been pleasantly surprised at just how helpful most people have been.
If you had asked me two weeks ago what I would do to find a missing dog, I would have shrugged. I had no clue; I really never gave it much thought. She had never bolted before, and I didn’t think she would. I have no detective experience, and I don’t think of myself as particularly gifted at that sort of thing. My sense of direction has been described as “iffy.” I claim no superior insight into canine psychology. Sally and I have been close for years, but it literally never occurred to me that she would bolt. You think you know a dog…
Okay, you’re thinking, your dog is lost. Sorry to hear that. But what does this have to do with us?
It’s about discovering capacities you didn’t know you had.
Over the past ten days, The Wife and I have developed strategies, recruited volunteers, worked social networks, tracked sightings, tromped through woods, distributed flyers, put up posters, talked to dozens of random strangers, and worked through a thicket of local police and animal control departments. We’ve dealt with the kids’ emotional crises and our own, and have sucked it up and gone out to set up yet another trap even when we really didn’t feel like it. We’ve become reasonably adept dog-hunters in a relatively short time. We didn’t want to, and we don’t ever want to again, but we did it.
If we had thought that our dog-hunting capacity two weeks ago was all it could ever be, we would have given up after a few hours. But we didn’t. When we had to, we learned quickly what you’re supposed to do when a dog bolts. We stepped up our game, and even involved the kids in carefully considered ways. I’m proud of how well the kids have handled the process to this point. They acknowledge the real fears we all have, but maintain that difficult balance of faith in a good outcome, combined with faith that we can and will handle what happens. For a thirteen year old and a ten year old, that’s pretty good.
The ability to find a lost dog isn’t genetic. It isn’t supernatural, and your dog-hunting IQ isn’t fixed. If you choose to, you can get much better at it than you are now. You can put in the effort, do the research, reach out to people who are willing and able to help, and become capable of things that probably haven’t crossed your mind yet. And if you have the motivation, you can do it quickly. There’s no guarantee of a happy ending -- Sally is still out there somewhere -- but we’re doing things I didn’t know we could. And I can honestly say we’re trying.
College is like that. Intelligence is like that. You don’t have some fixed IQ that can never change any more than I had a fixed ability to look for a lost dog. You can get better at thinking. You can train yourself to get, pardon the term, smarter. You can learn to find “x,” whether “x” is a number, an assumption, or a lost dog. You can learn the sort of quiet resolve you’ll need in that awful first moment when you face a complicated problem and have no immediate idea what to do about it. You can develop the skills to sort good information from bad, to ask the “second” question that clarifies the first, and to avoid going to pieces when things don’t go according to plan. You’ll even learn to keep going in the face of failure. That’s no small thing.
I’d love to report a happy ending to our dog hunt, but I can’t just yet. For you, endings are a long way off. I’m here to tell you that if you decide to -- and it’s really up to you -- you could develop abilities you never knew you had. And someday you can catch your own dog, or whatever it is that you’re chasing.
Happy hunting.
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Colleges Report Strong Fundraising Year
Many colleges have set fundraising records as fiscal year 2022 comes to a close. Experts note that higher ed philanthropy has boomed in recent years, even amid a pandemic.
With fiscal year 2022 in the books, some colleges are reporting blockbuster fundraising years even amid economic uncertainty and a period of high inflation.
A number of colleges—public, private, both predominantly white institutions and historically Black colleges and universities—are seeing success, some reporting record donations for fiscal year 2022, which ended June 30. Broadly speaking, the results vary by institution, with some colleges missing the money train while others have cashed in on the generosity of donors.
Well-known institutions like Pennsylvania State University, the University of Oklahoma and Virginia Tech are just a handful of the many that reported fundraising years that surpassed prior records. For example, Penn State reported commitments of more than $437 million, up from the previous high of $381.2 million; the University of Oklahoma counted $317 million in gifts and pledges, surpassing last year’s record high of $237 million; and Virginia Tech hauled in $268.5 million, up from last year’s record of $200.3 million.
But it isn’t just the big-name universities that have seen a successful fundraising year. Institutions often overlooked in the national conversation—places like the University of Idaho, Wittenberg University and Fayetteville State University, are just a few examples of colleges with a more regional focus that exceeded prior fundraising records. While their fundraising numbers may fall well short of larger, more broadly known institutions’, these colleges still hit record marks with Idaho reporting $64.6 million raised, Wittenberg counting $14.7 million and Fayetteville State landing at nearly $8 million, all new highs.
Tracking Giving Trends
Philanthropy is booming. Charitable donations across all sectors, not just higher education, hit a record high of $485 billion in calendar year 2021, per the latest Giving USA Report, released in July by the Giving USA Foundation and Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.
While overall charitable giving was up by 4 percent from 2020 to 2021, those numbers fell to -0.7 percent when adjusted for inflation. But even with inflation cutting into a robust fundraising year, the numbers are strong.
“Even with those declines, 2021 was still the second-best year ever for education,” said Bill Stanczykiewicz, director of the Fund Raising School at the Lilly school. “It’s a two-year growth rate of 13 percent in current dollars … That means that charitable giving in education is stronger than before the [coronavirus] pandemic started.”
The only year better than 2021 for overall education philanthropy—not just higher ed—was 2020, the year the COVID-19 pandemic began. Giving USA reported $72.8 billion for education in 2020 and $70.8 billion in 2021. (Giving USA tracks charitable contributions by the calendar year, not by fiscal year; results for 2022 will be available next summer.)
“It’s not surprising that charitable giving has remained robust, despite the pandemic, despite huge social concerns around racial equity, racial reconciliation, despite the uncertainty of the economy with two negative quarters, GDP, increasing inflation and so forth. But when you look at the data—and every economic challenge is different—but on average, charitable giving goes down only about one half of 1 percent, after adjusting for inflation, during a time of recession,” Stanczykiewicz explained.
While the numbers for fiscal year 2022 aren’t in yet, overall donations to higher education specifically hit $52.9 billion in fiscal year 2021, up from $49.5 billion in fiscal year 2020, according to the latest Voluntary Support of Education survey by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, which was released in February. (Survey organizers note that Giving USA and CASE track numbers differently, both in terms of how donations are counted and how a year is measured, which is why they arrive at different conclusions.)
“That’s not surprising given where the stock market was at key points during that year,” said Ann Kaplan, senior director of the Voluntary Support of Education Survey at CASE. “It was a record-breaking stock market year. And that tends to propel large numbers of gifts to endowments. It was a strong year but not unexpected.”
Kaplan also points out there have been anomalies in higher education philanthropy in the last couple of years, namely megadonors like MacKenzie Scott and Michael Bloomberg giving away staggering sums of money, with billions of dollars flowing to their preferred causes and colleges.
How donors are giving has changed over the course of the pandemic, Stanczykiewicz said, noting that there has been a focus on serving students rather than supporting capital projects. During times of crisis—such as a pandemic—donors often give to human services, he said.
Some big donations—such as many of the gifts awarded by Scott—come with no strings attached, allowing colleges to put the money where they decide it’s most needed. Other donations have gone to student causes, such as support services. And while capital projects may be getting less attention, according to Stanczykiewicz, news releases from colleges touting multimillion-dollar donations toward such endeavors show capital projects aren’t suffering.
What’s on the Horizon
Experts say that GDP and a strong stock market are factors that shape charitable giving. So what does that mean when the stock market is in a state of flux and inflation has added financial pressure for institutions and individuals alike?
“I’m a little concerned for the next fiscal year, given what we’ve experienced in the stock market,” Kaplan said.
But a good fundraising year has buoyed many colleges, which Stanczykiewicz said “is a wonderful reminder to all fundraisers to fundraise within their context—that if they’re not Harvard, they don’t have to be Harvard. They need to focus on who they are, what their strengths are.”
With endowment returns down, student enrollment slipping across the sector and runaway inflation, colleges are facing economic pressures on multiple fronts. Big fundraising years and coronavirus relief money from the federal government have helped many ease that monetary squeeze. For those in the most difficult of circumstances, sustained philanthropy may be vital.
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New Programs: Computer Science, International Security, Actuarial Science, Education
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- Clarke University has reinstated its bachelor of science in computer science.
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South Korea Can’t Hold On to an Education Minister
Three people have come and gone in three months. Many fear that key issues have been left in the lurch.
South Korea is poised to name what would be its fourth education minister—or candidate to hold the post—in a little over three months, prompting concern that political upheaval has left the university agenda in the lurch.
Park Soon-ae resigned earlier this month just 34 days into her term, following a backlash against plans to lower the school entrance age. Her brief tenure came just months after President Yoon Suk-Yeol’s first appointee to the post, the former president of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Kim In-Chul, announced he would drop his nomination over allegations of nepotism linked to university scholarships. Yoo Eun-hae, education minister in the last administration, stepped down May 9.
Even for Korea—where education controversy is rife and education ministers have famously short-lived terms—it is a high rate of turnover so early into an administration, according to academics.
“President Yoon believes that urgent reforms are necessary for education … Nevertheless, he couldn’t help seeking a third candidate for the education ministry just within three months of his presidency, which is unprecedented,” said Byung Rhee, a professor of higher education at Yonsei University and director of its Institute for Educational Research.
Yong-Chan Kim, a professor at Yonsei University’s department of communication, agreed.
“Scandals have always been there, [but] never before have there been so many of them in the early days of a presidency,” he said, noting another cause of controversy this August, when Korean university associations denounced a move by Kookmin University to clear the first lady, Kim Keon-hee, of plagiarism allegations.
“It’s a very troubling situation … The current government has not been able to even deal with university-related issues,” he said.
The disruption comes at a time when the sector is squeezed from both sides, with student fees frozen for years even as dropping enrollment rates due to steep demographic decline push universities to the brink.
“The most pressing issue for most of the universities in Korea is the lack of autonomy … Korean universities, even private ones, cannot determine the amount of tuition for their students on their own,” said Kim.
Yet there were few signs that the current leadership will push forward much-needed reforms, academics said.
“My overall impression is that the Yoon government has not had a clear vision or strategies to reform Korean education and higher education for sustainable growth and nurturing of global talents,” said Terri Kim, a visiting professor at Yonsei University and honorary professor of comparative higher education at the University of East London.
She noted that even during the presidential campaign, there was no “coherent pledge for higher education” made by either of the candidates.
Despite the outsize role of education in Korean society and politics, there’s still a tendency to think of the job as something that doesn’t require a specialist, she said. “I think there is a widespread view that everyone has an opinion on education and education is such an area that can be handled and managed regardless of the expertise or experience of the minister. Such an assumption is not applied to other sectors in Korea—such as the Ministry of Justice or Ministry of Foreign Affairs.”
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The Next Frontier in the Fight Against Student Depression—Community College
The University of California, Los Angeles, is launching multiple research projects dedicated to addressing depression among local community college students.
The University of California, Los Angeles, has launched a new center dedicated to studying and treating depression among students at California community colleges.
Leaders of the new ALACRITY center, or Advanced Laboratories for Accelerating the Reach and Impact of Treatments for Youth and Adults with Mental Illness, plan to launch multiple research projects focused on the mental health of students starting this upcoming academic year. The research builds on an ongoing partnership with the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health and the university’s Depression Grand Challenge, a large-scale effort spearheaded by UCLA scholars to combat the toll of depression. The projects are being funded by a five-year, $12 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health.
Michelle Craske, co-director of the ALACRITY center and the Depression Grand Challenge at UCLA, said depression not only affects the person suffering but has an “extensive” ripple effect on societies at large.
“It affects not only the individual’s well-being and emotional functioning [but also] job performance, parenting and involvement in the community,” said Craske, who is also a distinguished professor of psychology, psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the university. Depression is “very impactful. It’s common, and yet existing treatments are only partially effective.”
She and her colleagues want to figure out how to extend “gold-standard” care to community college students, who are disproportionately from low-income backgrounds and experience a unique set of mental health challenges while typically having less access to mental health resources on their campuses. A 2021 report by the Hope Center for College, Community and Justice at Temple University found that 39 percent of students at two-year institutions faced food insecurity compared to 29 percent of students at four-year universities.
“In community colleges, there’s a very diverse array of life contexts that I would say collide with and mutually exacerbate mental health problems,” Craske said. “This is a group that’s underresourced, facing enormous life challenges and yet highly resilient. Because despite the food insecurity, despite the financial problems, despite being a single mom, despite being a veteran with PTSD, they’re going to college and they’re trying to advance their lives.”
Researchers at the center will conduct a five-year study that enrolls about 200 East Los Angeles College students each year in the Screening and Treatment for Anxiety and Depression, or STAND, program, starting this fall. The program, introduced at UCLA in 2017 and rolled out at East Los Angeles College in spring 2021, surveys students online about whether they’re experiencing anxiety, depression and suicidal ideation and then guides them to one of three levels of care depending on the severity of their symptoms.
The students are either led through an online curriculum that teaches stress coping mechanisms, connected with trained peer coaches over video chat or sent to clinicians who can provide them with in-person counseling and medication as needed. Researchers will check in weekly with students who opt in to the study as they move through the STAND program over the academic year. They’ll be asked about a range of factors that could affect their mental health and treatment needs, such as substance abuse issues, medical and family history, and food and housing insecurity. Those variables will be used to inform an algorithm tested in the study to potentially improve how students are sorted into different tiers of care.
Craske said the goal of the study is to assess how “the whole context of the individual”—including childhood trauma or adversity, medical problems, past experiences with mental health treatment and their level of social support from friends and family—affects the level of treatment students might need.
“This has huge value for the clinical world in general,” she said. “Almost everyone relies upon symptom severity, but you can imagine, for example, someone who’s only moderately anxious or moderately depressed, but they’ve got no social support in their life, they’re financially stressed, they’ve got medical issues going on. They might actually benefit from a clinician even though their severity level is moderate.”
Jessica Olivas, coordinator of the Student Health Center at East Los Angeles College, said many students on campus are the first in their families to go to college and may be unaccustomed to reaching out for help.
One of the advantages of rolling out the STAND program at the college has been “students can easily pick up an electronic device, their phone, their tablet, and have mental health care accessible,” which is a major asset during the pandemic, she said.
Sonia Lopez, dean of student services at East Los Angeles College, added that the program can be a less intimidating entryway to mental health care since it starts with online questions rather than a meeting with a therapist. She hopes the ALACRITY center’s research at the college can be a resource to administrators at other two-year institutions looking to improve their mental health services.
“As educators, we’ve known that mental health is something that we need to address, definitely with our students at the community college level,” she said. “And there’s very little research that is done on this population” in terms of their mental health. She believes that’s partly because two-year institutions lack the research infrastructure of many universities and because they’re often commuter campuses, “so it’s really difficult to see and observe students for a long period of time, other than the time that they’re in class.”
She’s grateful the college will be a part of an expanding the body of research on the mental health needs of community college students.
ALACRITY center researchers also chose 10 community colleges in the Los Angeles area, including East Los Angeles College, to participate in another study involving the Healthy Minds survey, an assessment of student mental health conducted at colleges and universities around the country for the last 15 years by a team of scholars. The survey will be given to a sample group of at least 5,000 students on each of the campuses to assess rates of depression, anxiety and substance use among their student bodies, plus their use of various mental health services available on their campuses and any barriers to accessing them.
Daniel Eisenberg, a professor of health policy and management at UCLA who heads the Healthy Minds survey, said the goal of the project is to “help the schools get a more precise picture of what their students might need” and “further make the case for bringing more resources toward student mental health at these schools.”
Each community college will ultimately receive a report with survey results from their individual campuses. A comprehensive report will also be sent to the California Community Colleges chancellor’s office to help system leaders advocate for more funding from the state for mental health resources on their campuses, Craske added.
Nance Roy, chief clinical officer at the Jed Foundation, an organization dedicated to emotional health and suicide prevention among young people, pointed out that community colleges enroll traditional-age students, an age group known for high rates of depression and anxiety, but they also disproportionately serve older adult learners who wrestle with a different set of challenges.
Older students may be confronting situations like “dealing with aging parents or childcare or trying to juggle jobs and school or jobs, school and family, financial constraints,” she said.
Meanwhile, the pandemic shed light on and exacerbated already increasing mental health challenges among college students.
“During the pandemic, many, many people suffered losses, whether it was people dying that they know or family members, maybe parents, who lost jobs, fighting housing insecurity and food insecurity that ensued as a result, certainly isolation and loneliness for young people,” she said. “Just because the pandemic is perhaps on a decline doesn’t mean the impact of those traumas goes away. They are coming to campus grieving and with losses and with anxieties.”
Markie Pasternak, senior manager for higher education at Active Minds, an organization focused on promoting young adult mental health, said now feels like a fertile moment for an initiative such as the ALACRITY center’s because there’s a lot of “buy-in” among higher ed leaders and funders to support efforts to develop better mental health services.
“We’ve done a really great job I think in the last 10, 15 years of destigmatizing mental illness and mental health treatment,” she said. “I think a lot more people now want to talk about mental health and are more open to the conversation, but the next question a lot of folks have is, how do you talk about mental health? The awareness is there, especially after the pandemic, but now that we have the majority of people on board with mental health in a destigmatized way … how do we now mobilize that?”
Eisenberg noted that the ALACRITY center is starting its work at a time when virtual mental health services are garnering more interest and the potential benefits are being explored.
“We’re at a point where we know digital mental health resources can be very helpful, but we haven’t quite figured out how to deliver them at scale,” he said. “The key is going to be integrating digital resources with in-person communities that people are already a part of,” because otherwise these resources are often ignored or overlooked. “I think the fact that we’re working with community college communities, like real communities where people live and where people work, in tandem with digital resources, I think that’s really the power of this whole approach.”
Craske hopes the reach of the ALACRITY center eventually extends beyond Los Angeles and beyond California.
The long-term goal is to build “a template that can be transported” to community colleges across the country to improve their mental health services, she said. And that template can “make the life of these college students who are showing such resilience and motivation to keep going … easier and make their academic success more likely by addressing their mental health needs.”
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An Outage, Silence and Finally, Acknowledgment of a Cyberattack
For three weeks, Whitworth University stayed mostly mum about network and website outages, prompting speculation about ransomware and frustrating professors and students. Wednesday it acknowledged a cyberattack.
In late July, Whitworth University undergraduate Byron Gustafson tried to access information on his university’s website, but his request did not go through. At first, he assumed the glitch was temporary. But three days later, he saw a brief post from the university indicating that the institution was experiencing technical difficulties. In search of more information than the university provided, he checked the “Whitworth Confessions” Instagram account, where reports circulated widely that the university had been hit by a ransomware attack.
“My anger in this whole event is the lack of transparency,” Gustafson said. “They sent [an] email … about changing our passwords for ‘digital hygiene’ about a week after the website went down.”
On Wednesday, nearly three weeks later, Whitworth acknowledged for the first time what many concerned and frustrated students and faculty had suspected all along: the institution had been hit by a cyberattack. The university has neither confirmed nor denied rumors that the cyberattack involved ransom.
“On Friday, July 29, we became aware that our information systems had been accessed by outside actors. Our information technology and instructional resources (IT/IR) teams worked tirelessly alongside cybersecurity experts to stop the incident and have been restoring systems as fast as they can. We expect to restore about 95 percent of normal operations by Aug. 31,” a statement on the Whitworth website said.
The message, which was not attributed to an individual, indicated that experts would continue to work to identify what and whose information was accessed. The message promised to notify affected community members right away should that be necessary and thanked community members for their patience.
After the Whitworth website disappeared in late July, the institution had posted an emergency website listing the phone numbers and email addresses of campus offices. The website, which is still active today, has precisely four links—one each for “general information,” “prospective students,” “new and returning students,” and “alumni and parents.”
Until Wednesday, the university had confirmed the outage in a terse written statement but had not offered information about its cause. Students, faculty members and alumni were frustrated and concerned by the lack of communication. In the absence of information, many seized on then-unverified reports that the cause was not only a cyberattack but a ransomware attack.
“The word ‘hack’ has never been used,” a Whitworth faculty member told Inside Higher Ed Wednesday, hours before the university released the updated message. “The word was ‘don’t touch anything’ and ‘don’t get on your computers at work.’” The Wi-Fi was down, and the phones were out of commission, according to the faculty member, who requested anonymity because of concerns about recriminations from administrators.
Colleges and universities experienced a surge in ransomware attacks in 2021, and those attacks had significant operational and financial costs.
“Once [a cyberattack] happens, it is critical that there’s a forensic effort that goes on to determine where they got in, what they actually have, and how significant it is,” said Shaun McAlmont, CEO of NINJIO, a cybersecurity-awareness training company. McAlmont said he knew nothing about the specific situation at Whitworth. “As soon as you’re aware of that type of information, you’ve got to let people know if they’re at risk.”
“A lack of communications leads your constituents to believe something,” said Tricia Clay, chief information officer of Hudson County Community College and a group leader of the cybersecurity community run by Educause, the higher education technology association. Clay also said she knew nothing about the specific situation at Whitworth.
The LockBit ransomware group claimed responsibility for the attack, indicating that it stole 715 GB of data and set a ransom deadline of Aug. 23, according to an article the newspaper Inlander published on Wednesday. Many students and faculty members had been alerted to this possibility by BetterCyber, a private cybersecurity company, that tweeted this information on August 10. LockBit is often distributed as an email attachment or exploits web browser vulnerabilities, after which it “encrypts files, renders them inaccessible, and demands payment for the decryption key,” according to Microsoft.
“Ransomware is a terrible thing, and if that’s what’s going on, I absolutely have sympathy for my school,” Gustafson said hours before the updated university message. “But not telling us, and not telling us that our financial and personal info could have or has been compromised, trying to play coy about the whole issue, it’s a trust-breaking event.”
Gustafson said that he and many other students would have been “beyond willing” to support the university if it had simply offered a timely statement that community members needed to take proactive steps to protect their personal and financial information.
Faculty members teaching summer classes when the technical issues surfaced weeks ago were unable to use their university email accounts. Many elected to communicate with students using personal accounts, according to the Whitworth faculty member.
While the university has confirmed that its network issues resulted from external actors, it has not revealed the magnitude of the attack or used the word “ransom.”
“I hope Whitworth University chooses transparency and updates the community,” said Hunter Smit, an alumnus who earned a bachelor’s degree in 2019 and a master’s in business administration in 2020 said hours before the updated message. “The university extensively taught the principle of transparency in an organization during a crisis. When an organization leads with transparency, they control the narrative.”
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Dean Resigns Amid Claims He Lied About Academic Credentials
Mario Enzler, dean of the business school at the University of St. Thomas, has resigned after faculty members accused Enzler of embellishing his résumé with false academic credentials.
Enzler joined St. Thomas in 2020 after four years as a professor at the Catholic University of America. Enzler, who is from Italy and has a background in international banking, listed a bachelor’s degree from an institution that was in reality a high school and claimed a Ph.D. from an Italian university that does not grant such degrees, The Houston Chronicle reported.
Concerned with Enzler’s leadership, faculty members fact-checked his résumé, turning up the alleged false credentials, which prompted them to contact the university’s Board of Directors in April, the newspaper reported. Enzler resigned Friday. His profile and a news release announcing his hire have been deleted from the university website but remain accessible via the Internet Archive. Neither webpage mentions any academic credentials earned by Enzler.
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Details on ‘Fresh Start’ for Defaulted Borrowers Released
The Education Department released its first set of guidance on the so-called Fresh Start program that will allow the 7.5 million borrowers in default to be placed back in good standing on their federal student loans.
For most federal loans, borrowers are placed in default if they have not made a payment in 270 days. Default has numerous negative impacts on borrowers, including collection fees, possible garnishment of wages and damages to their credit scores. It also makes borrowers ineligible for all types of Title IV federal student aid, which includes federal grants and student loans.
On Wednesday, the department released guidance on the process to enroll in Fresh Start to regain eligibility for federal student aid. Further guidance is expected on how borrowers can use Fresh Start to remove defaulted loans from their credit history, among other details, according to reporting from The Washington Post.
All borrowers who defaulted before the start of the pause on federal student loan payments (March 13, 2020) will be eligible to enroll in Fresh Start. The plan only applies to borrowers who defaulted on federal Direct Loans, Federal Family Education Loan program loans and Perkins Loans held by the Education Department.
Defaulted borrowers will not be placed back in good standing automatically. According to Wednesday’s guidance, borrowers will have to either reach out to their loan servicer or their college’s financial aid office to initiate the process. Borrowers must enter the Fresh Start program within one year of the lift on the pause on federal student loan payments set to expire on Aug. 31.
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Hudson Valley Community College Allows Unvaccinated Students
Hudson Valley Community College is allowing students to return to campus unvaccinated this fall despite a vaccine mandate set by the State University of New York system and required of all institutions in the system, the Times Union reported.
“Vaccination does not prevent infection or transmission of the virus,” Louis Coplin, the college’s vice president of student affairs, wrote to the Times Union. “As one example, U.S. President Joe Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden have recently become infected after being vaccinated and boosted.”
Coplin argued that a New York State executive order requiring student vaccinations expired in spring 2022. He also noted the college doesn’t have dormitories, and K-12 students are not required to get vaccines.
The majority, 85 percent, of Hudson Valley Community College students submitted proof of vaccination ahead of the fall, he said. But “we have heard from many prospective and current students who are concerned that mandated COVID vaccination, at this point in the pandemic, imposes an undue burden on their ability to advance their education and pursue careers, after more than two years of enduring the pandemic.”
The college’s faculty association president, Robert Whitaker, called the decision “reckless and short-sighted.”
A SUNY spokesperson, Holly Liapis, told the Times Union that the systemwide vaccine mandate remains in place and that “SUNY is in communication with Hudson Valley Community College about their policy to ensure all students, faculty, and staff are protected.”
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Madera Community College Wins $1M From Lumina Foundation
The Lumina Foundation announced Wednesday that Madera Community College in California won $1 million to bolster its marketing and community outreach and enroll more adult learners.
The foundation called on two-year institutions to submit applications describing “their visions for transforming their brands” as part of the Million Dollar Community College Challenge, launched in February, according to a press release. Ten finalists were selected from among hundreds of applications in April and asked to submit videos about their work to serve adult students.
“We’re so excited for Madera,” Shauna Davis, strategy director at Lumina, said in a video announcing the winner. “They brought to life the spirit of this challenge through their focus on brand-building, community engagement and generational transformation.”
The remaining finalists also each won $100,000, plus technical assistance, to support their efforts.
“We can’t wait to see how all of their stories continue,” Mary Laphen Pope, Lumina’s strategy officer for participation at community colleges, said in the announcement.
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MLA Releases Guidelines on Evaluating Public Humanities Work
The Modern Language this week released guidelines by which faculty members, department and institutions may evaluate publicly engaged humanities scholarship. The group says the guidelines are needed to drive the peer-review process for work published in nonacademic venues and that reaches audiences beyond academe. With a particular emphasis on the ethics of community engagement, the MLA suggests considering the public humanities project’s: scope and impact; form and dissemination; extent of existing “deliverables” and, where relevant, its future trajectory; and nature and extent of collaboration, where applicable.
As for adopting the guidelines, the MLA proposes using them to review program bylaws for tenure and promotion, incorporating them into an evaluation rubric, and reviewing hiring practices to ensure that candidates’ public-facing work can be reported and involving students. “Humanities departments must take the lead in developing robust internal processes to evaluate and recognize public humanities scholarship,” says an MLA report on the guidelines. “Rather than capitulate to preconceived notions of acceptable scholarly genres, tenured faculty members have a responsibility to make the case that the unique outputs of public humanities scholarship are, in fact, accepted and valued forms of scholarship.”
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Professor Sues U of Oregon Employee Over Twitter Block
A Portland State University professor is suing a University of Oregon employee who blocked him on Twitter, KCBY11 reported.
Bruce Gilley, a political science professor, accused Tova Stabin, communications manager of the university's Division of Equity and Inclusion, of violating his First Amendment rights by blocking him on the division’s Twitter account. Stabin also manages the office’s social media accounts.
The office posted a graphic in June as part of a series of posts that provided phrases or prompts on how to interrupt racism. The June prompt read, “It sounded like you just said [blank]. Is that what you really meant?”
Gilley quote tweeted that post and said, “Fill in the blank for the @uoregon ‘Racism Interrupter’ machine. @UOequity My entry: …you just said ‘all men are created equal.’”
Fill in the blank for the @uoregon "Racism Interrupter" machine. @UOequity
My entry: ...you just said "all men are created equal". https://t.co/NSrN1RZGTs
— Bruce Gilley (@BruceDGilley) June 14, 2022
That post got him blocked, according to the lawsuit.
“Tova Stabin blocked him from the Equity Division’s Twitter account, because he promotes a colorblind viewpoint with which she, and her employer, disagree,” Gilley’s lawsuit says. “Stabin’s blocking constitutes impermissible viewpoint discrimination, and it violates the First Amendment.”
Two other Twitter users are blocked from the account, according to the lawsuit.
Gilley is a known critic of the university’s diversity, equity and inclusion principles and efforts, according to the lawsuit, and has previously declined to sign a Black Lives Matter statement.
Gilley is seeking an order to permanently unblock him and to prevent the account from blocking other users, $17.91 in damages and money to cover attorney fees. The Institute for Free Speech is representing Gilley.
“Even if he were to be temporarily unblocked, or use an alias, Bruce Gilley remains concerned that he could be blocked again in the future for expressing a viewpoint critical of the ideology of diversity, equity, and inclusion, thereby inviting self-censorship,” the lawsuit says.
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Today on the Academic Minute, part of University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Week: Dr. Christine Thuyvan Dinh, associate professor of otolaryngology, otology, neurology and lateral skull base surgery, explores one of the diseases for which we’re still seeking a cure. Learn more about the Academic Minute here.
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State Gag Order Bills Increase for Higher Ed
State legislative proposals to restrict the freedom to teach and learn have increased by 250 percent in 2022 compared to last year, according to a report released today by PEN America, the free expression and literary organization.
Most of the bills focus on K-12 education, but 39 percent of bills have targeted colleges and universities, compared with 30 percent last year.
The bills generally focus on race and ban the teaching, for example, of critical race theory. But more bills would ban things related to LGBTQ issues. Last year, five bills banned these teachings, but this year 23 did so.
“Educators are under attack from legislators bent on depriving our children of an education that is open to a breadth of perspectives,” said Jeremy C. Young, senior manager of PEN America’s Free Expression and Education program and the lead author of the report. “Vibrant learning opportunities are essential for democratic citizenship to flourish. But this report confirms a grim reality: some elected leaders are marching schools backward, and trampling on students’ free expression in the process.”
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Vaccine Mandate Moves Simon Fraser Football Games to U.S.
Two-plus years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the coronavirus continues to drive changes across the college sports world. Simon Fraser University, the NCAA’s only Canadian program, announced that it is moving four home football games to Washington State, citing vaccine requirements for crossing the border into Canada.
Simon Fraser, which plays at the Division II level, will play four home games in Blaine, Wash., roughly 28 miles away from its Burnaby, British Columbia, campus. Simon Fraser will keep two home games on campus, playing Central Washington University and the University of British Columbia. Opponents for the relocated games are Texas A&M University–Kingsville, Western New Mexico University, Angelo State University and West Texas A&M University.
Canada has had a vaccine requirement for foreign visitors since the fall of 2021.
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Fighting the Good Fight
Not all is well in North Dakota: Anastassiya Andrianova offers a dispatch from the battle against legislation barring critical race theory in the Upper Midwest.
In November 2021, during a special legislative session to address redistricting and infrastructure, the North Dakota Legislative Assembly passed House Bill 1508 banning the teaching of critical race theory in public schools.
Commenting on this new law, a local public school district superintendent described racism as “the project of the godless Democrat party that has rejected god, family, faith and America.” He added, “We will not teach institutionalized bigotry promoted by the left.”
This is but one example of the wave of anti-CRT legislation that Ellen Schrecker, a professor emeritus of history at Yeshiva University, has called “the new McCarthyism.”
As a concerned private citizen and mother of a preschooler, I have written emails to legislators and published letters to the editor in The Forum, the major regional newspaper in Fargo, N.D., opposing the legislation.
As a faculty member at North Dakota State University, I have been interviewed about the law’s implications for academic freedom.
As part of the Faculty Senate executive team, I collaborated on our Faculty Senate’s Resolution on Defending Academic Freedom to Teach About Race and Gender Justice, and Critical Race Theory, which passed overwhelmingly in February 2022. This resolution was based on a very helpful template resolution developed by Valerie Johnson (of DePaul University), Jennifer Ruth (of Portland State University) and Emily Houh (of the University of Cincinnati), which reiterates the American Association of University Professors’ 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure and affirms the Joint Statement on Legislative Efforts to Restrict Education about Racism.
Finally, as a teacher of cultural theory, I stress the importance of learning about systemic racism to my English education students, many of whom are training to become public school teachers and will be directly impacted by HB 1508.
The anti-CRT legislation, “relating to prohibiting the teaching of critical race theory in public schools,” was hastily added to the North Dakota Century Code and made effective immediately. It tasks each school district and public school to “ensure instruction of its curriculum is factual, [and] objective” and mandates that there can be no “instruction relating to critical race theory” in the curriculum.
CRT is defined in the legislation as “the theory that racism is not merely the product of learned individual bias or prejudice, but that racism is systemically embedded in American society and the American legal system to facilitate racial inequality.” This definition conveniently leaves out the fact that CRT, as any critical theory, means to expose injustice in order to effect change, being, as per the American Bar Association, “a practice of interrogating the role of race and racism in society” (my emphasis).
HB 1508 passed along party lines in a state with a Republican supermajority; only two House Republicans voted against it (one of them died a month later). During the debate over the bill, legislators variously admitted that public schools “may not” have been teaching CRT and that the fear and outrage “was manufactured”—but they still voted to ban it, to ensure that it continues not to be taught. Senator Erin Oban, a Democrat, spoke against the bill, calling it “not serious policy” and also asserting, “It’s a red herring. It’s the definition of culture wars.”
The state teachers’ union, North Dakota United, argued that critical race theory is not being taught in public schools; in a July 2021 blog post, the union’s president characterized CRT as “a construct of higher education, specifically law schools.” But this approach to opposing anti-CRT legislation by claiming it is only taught in law schools has not proven effective. I would also argue that it’s just plain gaslighting.
Critical race theory informs antiracist pedagogy and is part of the National Council of Teachers of English’s 2021 guidelines for the teaching of English Language Arts to secondary school students. According to Standard 1 of these revised guidelines for initial licensure, candidates must “foster inclusive learning environments that support coherent, relevant, standards-aligned, differentiated, and antiracist/antibias instruction to engage grade 7-12 learners in ELA.”
“Antiracist/antibias ELA” is featured in Standard 2, pertaining to content knowledge; in Standard 3, pertaining to instruction and assessment; and in Standard 4, pertaining to motivating and engaging learners. Moreover, the standards note that “the term antibias is added to antiracist to make clear … that discrimination in any form is the concern of future English teachers and those who work to prepare them.”
According to the NCTE’s statement on antiracism, originally written in 2007 and revised in 2018, “Racism in America is the systematic mistreatment and disenfranchisement of people of color who currently and historically possess less power and privilege than white Americans … Racism, then, and other forms of discrimination continue to be a part of American society, continuing to affect all students and their education.”
Notice the word “systematic” in describing “maltreatment and disenfranchisement” of BIPOC communities, both current and historical. How can you teach history in a “factual, objective” way, to use the misleading language of HB 1508, without teaching the objective fact of systemic racism? That’s not history; that’s alternative facts. This is why, as someone who teaches English education students, I insist that we must not cower before legislative pressure and instead must double down on teaching CRT.
But how might we convince hostile legislators of CRT’s importance? The most obvious and commonly employed path is to defend academic freedom. When a reporter from the Fargo Forum reached out to me for an interview regarding the passing of HB 1508, I readily agreed because I saw this K-12 bill as laying the foundation for an imminent attack on academic freedom in higher education, opening the door to other topics legislators don’t like. If this law were expanded to colleges and universities, it could “adversely affect academic freedom,” I told the reporter. “If we do not have the freedom to do that [discuss and challenge ideas], we are effectively living in a police state.”
Academic freedom, the freedom to think critically and discuss “divisive” concepts, is not just limited to the classroom; it helps educate citizens who can then actively participate in democracy. This is why antiracist/antibias pedagogies are so integral and the insistence that CRT is not taught outside law schools is so blatantly false. Although “no public universities or colleges in the state have degree programs for critical race theory,” as that Forum article notes, and may not feature courses exclusively “dedicated to or mentioning critical race theory,” classes in the North Dakota university system do engage with race, systemic racism and the various ways in which race intersects with other forms of oppression.
Another strategy for opposing anti-CRT legislation—one which the ethnic studies scholar Timothy Messer-Kruse has argued for—is appealing to accreditation.
As Messer-Kruse outlined in an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, the passage of Ohio’s House Bill 327 was apparently stalled when the Inter-University Council of Ohio, the lobbying arm of the state’s 14 public colleges and universities, sent a letter to the legislators warning that HB 327 could have “many unintended consequences” for accreditation by bodies like the Higher Learning Commission. HB 327 would have prohibited any “state institution of higher education” from “teaching … divisive concepts.”
Under Criterion 2, Integrity: Ethical and Responsible Conduct, the HLC requires that a university be “committed to academic freedom” and that its “governing board preserve its independence from undue influence on the part of donors, elected officials, ownership interests, or other external parties.”
The old adage—“it’s the economy, stupid” (or rather, “it’s accreditation, stupid”)—might work on legislators immune to appeals to free speech.
North Dakota lawmakers may or may not introduce an anti-CRT bill for higher ed when the state Legislature meets in 2023, but such efforts are well under way across the nation. In March 2022, South Dakota governor Kristi Noem signed a bill into law that bans CRT from orientation and training programs in colleges and universities. The original bill was meant to ban the teaching of CRT, as well, but it was heavily amended so as not to obviously violate academic freedom. However, preventing CRT from being part of trainings and orientation sessions may still have a chilling effect on the curriculum. The irony is lost on Noem, who stated, “College should remain a place where freedom of thought and expression are encouraged, not stifled by political agendas”—because banning ideas that do not uphold her political agenda somehow doesn’t amount to “stifling.”
The freedom to teach about gender, sexuality and critical race theory is under attack. I would say, “We’re not in Kansas anymore,” but at least the governor of Kansas had the foresight to veto Senate Bill 58, the controversial so-called parents’ bill of rights, which would have given parents the right to inspect and review curricula, allowing them to withdraw their children from activities that violate “their firmly held beliefs, values or principles.”
Here in North Dakota, Representative Jim Kasper, one of the lawmakers who sponsored HB 1508, recently commented—in a spectacular admission of ignorant and irresponsible lawmaking—“A lot of us don’t know what we don’t know. When I put the bill together I didn’t know a whole lot about critical race theory, I just knew what I heard on the radio and on TV.”
He added, “We have critical race theory all over our state, but it is hidden. I want to put some teeth into that bill.”
Is there anything we can do to stop this juggernaut? Yes. Will it change things? Probably not that much. But the bottom line is that we need to do what we do best: educate our students, their friends, parents, relatives and other members of our communities, as well as the individuals whom these communities have elected to represent their interests in state assemblies. Because what’s our other choice?
Anastassiya Andrianova is an associate professor of English and Faculty Senate president at North Dakota State University.
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From Mauna Kea, the the decades long waiting list for Hawaiian homestead land, it's a pivotal time in the Native Hawaiian community.
It was against that backdrop that there were two big Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) races on the ballot this past Saturday during the state's primary election.
For the Oahu Resident Trustee race, incumbent Kalei Akaka, the granddaughter of the late U.S. Senator Daniel Akaka won in a landslide with 56% of the vote over her nearest opponent.
There was also a race for the at-large Trustee seats. 6 candidates advanced to the general election, where voters will choose the top 3 candidates to win seats.
The top six vote-getters to advance to November are former State Sen. Brickwood Galuteria, John Waihee IV, Lei Ahu Isa, former football player Chad Owens, Keoni Souza, and Sam King.
But turnout in both races was low - 42% of voters in the Oahu trustee race and 46% of voters in the at-large race simply left their ballots blank.
Galuteria is hoping to improve those numbers in November. "Take a look at the ballot, study everybody on the ballot and vote with your heart because everyone has a Hawaiian heart at the end of the day," he says.
The reasons for the blank votes are many - some voters are more interested in bigger races at the top of the ticket like Governor and U.S. House. Some aren't informed about the candidates and issues. And there's also debate about whether non-Hawaiians should vote in OHA races.
It's a touchy subject. Although all registered voters regardless of their ethnic background can vote in OHA races, some wonder whether non-kanaka should have say.
Kumu Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu says it's a difficult balancing act - fighting for her community and candidates who support Native Hawaiian interests, but also realizing it's in everyone's hands and that native Hawaiians are a minority in their own state.
"Any support that we get even from outside the Hawaiian community I believe we should have, and we should have, and I believe we should work hard to try and secure," she says.
She's hoping that within the limits of the current system, all voters will do their homework and support candidates that give the Hawaiian community a seat at the table.
"Everyone has to step up and all of us, kanaka, kama'aina, and malihini as well need to give more credence to the place of my people in our own home," she says.
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- After remaining nearly COVID-free during the pandemic, the Marshall Islands, a Pacific island nation with a population of about 60,000, is now facing its first major outbreak.
Before the current surge, the country reported just 60 cases over the past two and a half years.
Now, more than 6,000 people have tested positive, with more than 1,100 cases in just the past 24-hours.
O'ahu resident Nikki Landry has family in the country's capital, Majuro, hit hardest by the surge.
"There is a large Marshallese population here on O'ahu," said Landry. "We've noticed that many of them have been at the post office the last week or two mailing off packages and that can get expensive so, if you have a marshallese friend or family that lives here, we'd ask that you help them cover shipping costs, or ask what you could donate to them to ship to their family."
Landry's been shipping supplies like masks, hand sanitizer, children's tylonal, and at home COVID tests to the Marshall Islands.
She encourages others to do the same.
The country's secretary of health and human services, Jack Niedenthal, has been posting updates on Facebook, including daily case counts, and where to send donations.
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To the editor — Under no circumstances will I vote for Dan Newhouse, period.
I will write in a candidate. I’m thinking I will write in who I supported for Yakima County commissioner a while back. I think Autumn Torres would make a great candidate.
Many will say that, by doing this, I will be helping get the left-winger elected. No, I’m not. I’m not supporting him.
I imagine there will be many more who write in a candidate and not vote for Newhouse for what he did. If the left-winger gets in, he gets in, but Newhouse will not get my vote.
REESE COPELAND
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To the editor — The 5-year-old and the cookies:
I did not take the cookies, there are no cookies here. I was planning to give the cookies back. You have no right to look for cookies in my room.
Maybe somebody else put the cookies in my room. They aren't really cookies anyway. If there are cookies here, I had permission to have them. Other people have taken cookies, too.
The cookies are a hoax. There are no cookies.
TORY FIEDLER
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The early gains have largely dissipated as traders aren't finding too much conviction to go running on the day. The overall risk mood remains cautious but I still maintain that the bond market is the one holding the cards here and unless 10-year Treasury yields threaten a push above its 100-day moving average, we may see more limited action for now.
EUR/USD has moved back up to 1.0168 from 1.0147, still down 0.1% on the day. Meanwhile, USD/JPY continues to keep just above 135.00 but isn't quite confident of an upside leg extension so far. Then, GBP/USD has also bounced from a low of 1.1995 to 1.2035 currently and AUD/USD has pared a drop from 0.6900 to 0.6925. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/dollar-gains-ease-up-amid-some-pushing-and-pulling-20220818/ | 2022-08-18T08:46:13Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/dollar-gains-ease-up-amid-some-pushing-and-pulling-20220818/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The pair is behaving well with respect to the technicals as the surge higher last week after the US CPI data was contained by the trendline resistance (white line) before falling back towards 1.2000 again today.
So far, the first attempt by sellers is falling short as price action is holding up amid a light bounce back to 1.2020 levels. But with the dollar seen firmer across the board and the pound failing to really see much positive sentiment, it may just be a matter of time.
A firm break below the figure level will pave the way for a retest of 1.1800 with the year's low at 1.1759 also a target.
As things stand, the dollar seems poised amid a couple of key technical considerations such as this one in USD/JPY. I reckon it is going to take a push from the bond market to really set things off, so keep your eyes peeled for that just in case. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/gbpusd-knocks-on-the-door-of-12000-again-20220818/ | 2022-08-18T08:46:19Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/gbpusd-knocks-on-the-door-of-12000-again-20220818/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Nasdaq Emini futures (NQ) needs to close a 4 hour candle below this VWAP, anchored from this pivot point (the low of 09 August), in order for bears to fully put their foot on the gas, and bulls to break up.
VWAP is a trading benchmark that shows the average price of a security based on volume and price. VWAP helps traders price a security's trend and value. If professional bulls believe that this trend up should continue, when the price reaches the VWAP line, or close to it, they would want to buy, believing they got an attractive price before Nasdaq continues its uptrend. Otherwise, they would not buy, perhaps even sell, and Nasdaq would lack the buying pressure that is needed to sustain its rally, especially at such a late stage in the rally, where more traders think that Nasdaq futures is "overbought".
Nasdaq futures anchored VWAP as key level
Still, we are in a pullback after a long rally, and today (18 Aug) still seems to be, and will probably close, as another pullback day. This would be the 3rd pullback day since 16 Aug. Three pullback days so late in a very strong bull rally of apx 24%, since 16 June, is not only natural, at best, and minimal, as most traders would consider. In short, a pullback is still expected to continue.
What are the key levels to watch? Besides a 4 hour candle closing below the aformentioned VWAP line, the following Nasdaq technical analysis video presents key lines and prices, first and foremost, a key previously broken resistance (and now that line is a support that is acting as a magnet that is pulling price to it, or close to it, to test it) | https://www.forexlive.com/technical-analysis/nq-technical-analysis-must-see-key-levels-20220818/ | 2022-08-18T08:46:25Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/technical-analysis/nq-technical-analysis-must-see-key-levels-20220818/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Making an outstanding presentation requires a great deal of skill and professionalism. It goes beyond just standing and speaking in front of a group of people, it requires mastery over certain communication and public speaking skills.
Effective communication should always be the focus of any exceptional presentation and achieving an outstanding presentation is quite possible with time if you bear in mind and take cognizance of certain things during your presentation.
In order to ensure that you effectively communicate with your audience and deliver an exceptional presentation, check out these 10 skills.
1. Learn from experts
No one is an island of knowledge and Rome certainly wasn’t built in a day. In order to help you make an outstanding presentation, you need to take out time to learn from experts that have been in the field ahead of you.
While self-practice can certainly help you be a more effective speaker, the place of learning from experts should also not be neglected.
To ace your presentation skills, you need to take time to either attend a presentation in person or watch videos online. Take note of what these speakers do well and what you think they could improve. Try to incorporate some of their effective speaking strategies into your own presentation and see how much of an exceptional presentation you will begin to give over time.
2. Give yourself adequate practice
Adequate practice is said to make perfection. Making an exceptional presentation is not just achieved in a day. It’s a result of constant adequate preparation over a period of time.
To give that exceptional presentation, you need to become so familiar with your lines that you can deliver them without your note.
Having time to prepare for your presentation can help you feel calmer and more confident.
3. Relax your mind and body
No one has ever performed exceptionally under pressure. To ace your next presentation, you need to ensure that you are relaxed physically, emotionally and psychologically.
If you find presenting difficult, it can be hard to be calm and relaxed about doing it.
One option is to start by concentrating on your breathing. Slow it down, and make sure that you’re breathing fully. Make sure that you continue to pause for breath occasionally during your presentation too.
If you can bring yourself to relax, you will almost certainly present better.
4. Make use of a catchy introduction
The beginning of your presentation is crucial. You need to grab your audience’s attention and hold it.
You only have a few minutes to secure the attention of your audience when making a presentation and this should be done within the first few minutes of your presentation.
In order to give an exceptional presentation, you need to start with a strong and catchy introduction and maintain this flow all through your presentation so you don’t lose your audience during your presentation.
You should also ensure that you devise a means to secure the attention of your audience from the beginning to the end of your presentation.
5. Tell stories
Human beings are programmed to respond to stories.
Stories help us to pay attention, and also remember things. If you can use stories in your presentation, your audience is more likely to engage and remember your points afterwards.
To make an exceptional presentation, it is always a good idea to start with a story, and also make your presentation in form of a story.
6. Connect with your audience
Every outstanding presentation must connect with the audience since they are the centre of your focus.
To connect with your audience, you should feel free to chat with your audience as people are getting settled before you begin your presentation. This can help you feel more comfortable and create a connection with your audience.
7. Smile and make eye contact with your audience
To make your presentation an outstanding one, you should ensure you smile and make eye contact with your audience.
If you smile and make eye contact, you are building rapport, which helps the audience to connect with you and your subject.
It also helps you to feel less nervous because you are talking to individuals, not to a great mass of unknown people.
8. Keep it simple
Your presentation does not need to be complex before it can be an outstanding one. Your presentation can be simple yet excellent.
Your audience does not need you to come bore them with some outrageous grammar or lexicon. You should ensure you get an easy and simple way of communicating your core message to your audience without unnecessary complexities.
9. Use your voice and body effectively
An exceptional presentation combines the effective use of the voice and body effectively.
Varying the speed at which you talk, and emphasising changes in pitch and tone all help to make your voice more interesting and hold your audience’s attention during a presentation.
In addition to your tone of voice, your body language is also crucial to getting your message across effectively.
To give an outstanding presentation, you should avoid crossing your arms, holding your hands behind your back or in your pockets, and pacing the stage.
Make your gestures open and confident, and move naturally around the stage, and among the audience too, if possible.
10. Use of fillers and pauses
No one is above making mistakes during a presentation and there is a chance of forgetting some lines in your presentation especially if you didn’t have enough time to prepare.
The use of fillers and pauses helps in organising your line of thought and prevents you from making use of phrases such as “um” or ”ah.
Making an exceptional presentation is quite possible if you are willing to give yourself to the process.
Believe in yourself, pay the price and I believe the sky is your starting point.
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We all love and desire healthy hair but there are certain things we do consciously or unconsciously that tamper with the growth of our hair, one of which is hair breakage.
Hair breakage happens when the shafts of one’s hair break, resulting in split ends and shorter hair strands. Your hair is breaking when you notice little pieces of hair, usually fragments in your sink or floor when you brush or comb through your hair.
According to carolsdaughter.com, a major cause, if not the main cause of hair breakage is how we style our hair. Things like aggressive brushing and combing, sleeping on wet hair or rough fabrics that create friction, constantly pulling our hair strands into styles that are too tight, and heat styling are all some of the main reasons why hair breaks.
Another source of hair breakage is styling that do not allow for regular washing, as this can make your scalp itchier. It’s not the protective style itself that’s the problem; it’s that scratching your itchy scalp can cause hair breakage near the root.
It is possible to put an end to hair breakage if one is currently experiencing it through changes in hair products and the hair styling process. It’s however best to prevent one’s hair from experiencing breakage and below are tips to help prevent hair breakage.
1. Ensure your hair is moisturized
One of the main reasons for hair breakage could be the lack of required moisture in our hair. Adequate application of moisture into the hair will go a long way in preventing hair breakage. Your hair is your crown and should be treated with the care it deserves.
2. Treat split ends early
It is normal for the ends of the hair to get weak after a period of time. This is referred to as split ends, however, neglecting these split ends can tamper with your hair growth. Whenever you notice split ends, be sure to use a nourishing leave-in conditioner that helps smooth and seal split ends right after you detangle your hair or observe your wash day.
Do you know shea butter can help repair your split ends, read up more
3. Make use of pre-wash moisturizer
Your hair doesn’t only require moisturizer after washing, it is also healthy to apply moisturizer into your hair before you wash it.
To further prevent your hair from breaking, you should apply your hair moisturizer on your wash day by saturating your hair strands with a rich conditioner and allowing it sit for about 10 minutes before commencing washing your hair with shampoo.
4. Braid your hair up before shampooing
Direct application of shampoo on your hair without sectioning it into big braids can make your hair get tangled especially for individuals keeping natural hair. When your hair gets tangled, the chances of experiencing hair breakage are quite high. So, when your wash day comes around, try putting your hair into big braids and then shampooing to cut down on tangles, which can lead to breakage.
Thinking of transitioning from relaxed hair to natural hair, check out these important tips.
5. Avoid the use of heat as much as possible
The use of heat on the hair is another factor that leads to hair breakage. So to prevent your hair from breaking, you need to avoid the use of heat or minimize it to the barest minimum. Regular application of heat on your hair affects your hair strands in the long run, so, do your best to keep your hair from heat.
6. Shampoo correctly
Before you purchase your shampoo at the mall or store, ensure you check that it is sulfate free. It is also worthy to note that shampoos should only be applied to the scalp and not to the hair shafts. While you may have excess product buildup on your strands, the majority of it will be on your scalp. By the time you begin to wash the shampoo off your scalp, any dirt on your hair strands will also have been washed away during the process. You can have healthy hair that is the envy of everyone if you’re willing to put in the time, resources and care your hair requires.
Desiring healthy hair, check out to achieve it here.
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Niger governor inspects renovation of boarding school
Governor Abubakar Sani Bello of Niger State has said his administration will do all it can to create a conducive learning teaching and environment for both students and teachers, especially in the state public secondary and primary schools.
Governor Sani Bello stated this after inspecting the ongoing renovation of Ahmadu Bahago Secondary School in Minna, the state capital, under the Whole School Development Approach Programme.
The governor, who expressed satisfaction with the level of work so far in the school, said the project was part of the second phase of the programme.
He noted that some of the schools in the state have not undergone renovation for over 40 years, stressing that his administration will not allow schools to collapse.
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“So far so good. The work is commendable. This is one of the missionary schools, and for me to allow this school to collapse or die off, we will be doing injustice to ourselves.
“So I am glad we have started rebuilding the school and hopefully it will provide a conducive teaching and learning environment for students and teachers.”
“We will continue to do what we have to do and what we need to do in our educational sector. This will be the tenth project under the Whole School Approach Programme, the others have been completed and hopefully, we will start that of the technical schools,” the governor stated.
The governor said his administration may not be able to fix the 54 boarding schools in the state, stressing that it has, however, started and expressed hope that the next administration will continue with the programme.
Also speaking to newsmen, Commissioner for Education, Hajiya Hannatu Jibrin Salihu explained that the Whole School Development Approach Programme is a policy initiated by Governor Abubakar Sani Bello- led administration in the state to comprehensively renovate selected boarding schools across the three geopolitical zones of the state. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/niger-governor-inspects-renovation-of-boarding-school/ | 2022-08-18T08:59:56Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/niger-governor-inspects-renovation-of-boarding-school/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Clarion County Photo of the Day
Thursday, August 18, 2022 @ 12:08 AM
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Clarion County Recipe of the Day: Cookie Jar Gingersnaps
These gingersnaps are perfect for anytime of year!
Ingredients
3/4 cup shortening
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar, divided
1/4 cup molasses
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1-1/2 teaspoons ground ginger
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
Directions
-Preheat oven to 350°. Cream shortening and 1 cup sugar until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Beat in egg and molasses. In another bowl, combine next 5 ingredients; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well.
-Shape level tablespoons of dough into balls. Dip 1 side of each ball into remaining sugar; place 2 in. apart, sugary side up, on greased baking sheets. Bake until lightly browned and crinkly, 12-15 minutes. Remove to wire racks to cool.
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Clarion Drug Free Coalition Hosts ‘Painting for the Cause of Prevention’ Event
CLARION, Pa. – Clarion Drug Free Coalition and Armstrong-Indiana-Clarion Drug and Alcohol Commission recently hosted a “Painting for the Cause of Prevention” event.
This was a free painting class that was held on Wednesday, August 10, for families to learn painting techniques and drug and alcohol prevention and safety. Families worked together to paint a picture and answer trivia questions about substance use prevention.
This event was provided as an alternative activity for the public. Alternative activities operate under the principle that healthy activities will deter individuals from the use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs (ATOD). The idea is that positive and healthy activities offset the attraction to, or otherwise meet the needs usually filled by ATOD.
Working on multiple fronts, Clarion Drug Free Coalition strives to tackle the substance use issue throughout Clarion County with a comprehensive approach including many programs and strategies that are free to the community. The Clarion Drug Free Coalition (CDFC) is a combined effort of concerned community members, agencies, organizations, law enforcement, parents, and faith groups. A project of the Armstrong-Indiana-Clarion Drug and Alcohol Commission, the coalition is an important part of making the picture of a drug-free community come to life.
The CDFC seeks to prevent and reduce substance use and addiction among our youth and young adults by empowering and encouraging parents, youth, young adults, government and community through education, resources, and awareness. The CDFC believes that every child and young adult in the communities of Clarion County will have the knowledge, opportunity, and support to make the choice to grow up drug- and alcohol-free.
Clarion Drug Free Coalition is always seeking new members.
If you are interested in joining the CDFC, or have any questions, please contact Jaclyn Dolby at [email protected] or call 814-226-6350 ext. 104.
Follow CDFC on Facebook at www.facebook.com/clariondrugfree to keep up to date on upcoming Clarion Drug Free Coalition meetings and events!
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Teaching Her Trade: Clarion Grad Kaitlyn Constantino Gives Softball Pitching Lessons to Young Players During the Summer
CLARION, Pa. (EYT/D9) – Kaitlyn Constantino remembers well receiving softball pitching lessons when she was just seven years old.
She recalls both the fun and the frustration. The exhilaration of finally mastering a grip on a pitch, as well as the festering annoyance of just not quite grasping a certain spin.
(Pictured above: Kaitlyn Constantino winds up for a pitch for Grove City College. Photo courtesy of Dave Miller of ADM Photography.)
Now heading into her junior year as a pitcher at Grove City College, the student has become the teacher. The Clarion Area High School graduate gives pitching lessons to around 12 and 15 girls between the ages of eight and 13 during the summer.
They come from school districts all around the area. They seek her out from Clarion to Strattanville to New Bethlehem–and even from right next door.
“It’s so much fun — it’s like going back in time,” Constantino said. “They say whenever you do work, if it’s something you love, it doesn’t really feel like work. Whenever I’m giving lessons, it’s just so much fun. It feels like I’m a little girl doing it all over again.
“I have some from Clarion and C-L and Redbank,” she added. “The (Central Clarion) football coach, Davey Eggleton — I’m giving lessons to his daughter, Bella. I’ve also been teaching my neighbor, who goes to Clarion. She just started this year.”
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Constantino certainly teaches from experience.
She was a star during her days at Clarion.
As a junior in 2019, she was 17-6 with a 1.60 ERA. In 144 innings pitched, the right-hander struck out 245. She was also feared at the plate, where she batted .508.
She made the Pennsylvania Softball Coaches Association All-State Team in Class A twice (after her sophomore and junior campaigns).
Constantino lost her senior year to the COVID-19 shutdown in 2020.
Through it all, she also continued to get lessons from her pitching coach in Franklin, Ed Winger, who coached her from the start.
She still goes to him today.
He’s helping her fine-tune some of her nastiest pitches.
Constantino had a strong sophomore year this spring at Grove City, going 8-7 with a 3.78 ERA. She wants to take the next step for the Wolverines as a junior.
“I really want to work on moving the ball up and down more,” Constantino said. “The rise ball and drop ball are two of my huge pitches that I have been really working on, just because it’s hard for the hitter to really see those pitches.”
Constantino’s riser is particularly effective when it’s on.
It starts at the belt, but then spins chest-high by the time it crosses the plate. Constantino generates a large number of swings and misses and pop-ups with that offering when she is throwing it well.
It can always get better, she said.
That’s why she works so often with Winger.
“He’s definitely one of the most impactful coaches in my life, as well as (recently retired Clarion High School coach Dan Shofestall),” Constantino said. “He taught me since I was young and he pushes me and pushes me hard. There were times when one pitching lesson was two-and-a-half hours. Just nonstop work.”
Constantino has never shied away from work.
She played three sports at a high level in high school. She was a 1,000-point scorer for the Clarion girls basketball team and was also a standout out the volleyball court for the Bobcats.
Even while at Grove City, she hasn’t slowed down.
In addition to playing softball, she has two jobs and works as a youth softball umpire, while tackling challenging coursework as an exercise science major.
Constantino wants to be a pediatric physical therapist. The desire to work with kids as a profession came in part from her experience as a pitching coach.
“Ever since I was younger, I kind of always wanted to help people, and I was always interested in anatomy and how the body moves,” she said. “Working with these young girls with pitching lessons is what just kind of locked me in to wanting a future in pediatric PT. I love working with children.”
Constantino gets no bigger joy than seeing one of her students succeed on the field.
She gets that opportunity fairly often as an umpire.
“I got to see some of my pitchers,” Constantino said. “It’s cool because they would talk to me before the game and during the game. When they throw a good pitch, they’d say, ‘Did you see that?’
“I’m teaching this one girl, her name is Kayla and she’s from C-L, and I was teaching her a changeup,” she added. “She tried it during a game I was working and it was one of the best changeups I’ve ever seen her pitch. The look on her face was like, ‘Oh my gosh! Did I just throw that?’”
Constantino has no plans to slow down any time soon.
Even though she’s playing softball at Grove City, she still plays volleyball and basketball in intramural leagues at the school.
“Sometimes it feels like I’m always on the go,” she said, chuckling.
She wouldn’t have it any other way.
“It feels almost weird to not be on the go,” Constantino said. “I always have something to do. I always find something to do. Always. I just love adventure. I don’t like sitting around.”
Constantino said she would like to be a softball coach one day. She’s had plenty of good mentors and she feels like she’s learned valuable lessons from all of them.
The biggest one? Have fun.
She tries to remember that when she’s working with a young pitcher. She wants her students to enjoy the game as much as she does — during the exhilarating times as well as the frustrating ones that test even the best.
“Not every kid learns the same,” Constantino said. “You use what they know and get it into terms they understand. Some come from a dancing background. Some are little bit more shy than others. You just have to use what they are interested in and then pitching becomes fun for them.
“It’s frustrating at times–I know that from experience, even still,” she added. “They’ll be games and inning where it’s like, ‘Do I even know how to pitch?’ Pitching isn’t easy, especially when you’re first starting. I tell them the first three years, or even four, are the toughest years because you have to get the mechanics down and it takes a long time. But you’ll get it. They are very dedicated, and I tell them if you put in the work, if you are dedicated and keep going with it, you will have great results.”
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Residents of Sapelo Island reached a deal with McIntosh County, which will pay $2 million in damages and increase services on the island, where descendants of the enslaved have lived for centuries.
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Residents of Sapelo Island reached a deal with McIntosh County, which will pay $2 million in damages and increase services on the island, where descendants of the enslaved have lived for centuries.
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NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Georgetown University analyst Will Hunt about the semiconductor industry and how the new CHIPS Act could ease both supply constraints and international tensions.
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NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Georgetown University analyst Will Hunt about the semiconductor industry and how the new CHIPS Act could ease both supply constraints and international tensions.
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An ex-Trump Organization executive is set to plead guilty to tax fraud. A poll examines how Americans see things at the southern border. The FDA's controversial strategy for evaluating COVID boosters.
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An ex-Trump Organization executive is set to plead guilty to tax fraud. A poll examines how Americans see things at the southern border. The FDA's controversial strategy for evaluating COVID boosters.
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Men who have sex with men are still, overwhelmingly, the people most affected by monkeypox, according to the World Health Organization. And that's caused some hurdles when it comes to public health messaging about how people can protect themselves. Everything from what we call the virus to offering advice on preventing transmission runs the risk of further stigmatizing gay and bisexual men.
But experts said that in spite of that risk, it's important to keep sex at the front and center of the monkeypox conversation.
"You have to be specific about who's actually at risk, and what are the transmission routes," said epidemiologist Chris Beyrer, incoming director of Duke Global Health Institute.
While it is possible to get monkeypox through ways besides sex, such as touching fabrics that have been used by someone with monkeypox, those instances remain extremely rare. So far in the current outbreak, sexual contact between men remains the primary mode of transmission, which is important to keep in mind, especially during a shortage of vaccines. "In a period of vaccine scarcity, you have to try and use vaccines, to interrupt chains of transmissions," said Beyrer. "It's important to try and contain the outbreak by getting higher rates of population immunity in the networks where this is spreading."
One of the biggest public health challenges has been limiting risky behavior involving sex, said Beyrer. That is, advising queer and gay people to reduce the number of sexual partners and avoid close contact with strangers.
Messaging which harkens back to the messaging of the early HIV/AIDS.
"And people found it to have some kind of elements of homophobia, and anti-sex when sexuality is a very big part of identity," said Beyrer.
How To Have Sex In An Epidemic
Jennifer Brier is a historian of HIV/AIDS at the University of Illinois Chicago. As the debates over how to talk about monkeypox went around – such as does monkeypox count as an STI? How should we think about bad-faith actors calling it a "gay disease" – she pointed back at one of the formative texts of public health, titled How to Have Sex in an Epidemic. Written by two men Michael Callen and Richard Berkowitz, in response to a dearth of information coming from the government.
While the booklet contained direct and detailed information about the dangers of sex during the HIV/AIDS crisis, it first started as a screed titled "We Know Who We Are: Two Gay Men Declare War on Promiscuity."
"And people went banana pants at that article," said Brier. "Like, 'you're attacking gay liberation, that's who we are.' And I understand that at some level. But they were also trying to figure out a model of harm reduction before it existed."
It's a playbook people are still learning lessons from today. Nick Diamond is a co-investigator with RESPND-MI, a community-driven effort to anonymously collect data on sexual networks among queer and trans people in New York City. And in July, in response to a dearth of information about monkeypox from local, state and federal officials, Diamond co-wrote a document titled "Six Ways We Can Have Safer Sex in the Time of Monkeypox."
"I'll be the first to say that we have been leaning on activists from the AIDS response to develop these actions around our response to monkeypox," said Diamond.
But he adds that it's an imperfect line to draw. HIV/AIDS was a much deadlier disease and broke out during a politically different time. That said, Diamond says people still have a hard time talking about queer and trans sex.
"We have to talk about sex when we're talking about monkeypox. I think that these are uncomfortable conversations but it is one of the determinants of our health and rights," said Diamond.
And it's important to talk about the totality of human sexuality when doing so. While men who have sex with men are currently at the center of the monkeypox outbreak, HIV/AIDS historian Jennifer Brier says that specific turn of phrase can be limiting. Men who have sex with men don't only have sex with men, and vice-versa.
"Our sexual desires and our sexual practices are way more complicated than any phrase can give us," she said.
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More than half of Americans say there's an "invasion" at the southern border, according to a new NPR/Ipsos poll, part of a broader decline in support for immigrants overall.
The poll also found that large numbers of Americans hold a variety of misconceptions about immigrants — greatly exaggerating their role in smuggling illegal drugs into the U.S., and how likely they are to use public benefits, for example — as false and misleading claims about immigration gain traction.
Republicans are more likely to hold negative views of immigrants. But the poll found they're not alone in embracing increasingly extreme rhetoric around immigration.
"Invasion" rhetoric is resonating with many Americans
The poll found that a majority of Americans — including three-quarters of Republicans — say it's either somewhat or completely true that the United States is "experiencing an invasion" at the southern border.
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The U.S. Border Patrol has apprehended migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border more than 1.8 million times since October, setting an annual record for arrests with two months still to go before the fiscal year ends.
Nearly half of those migrants were quickly expelled under the public health order known as Title 42 that's been in place since the beginning of the pandemic. But hundreds of thousands more were allowed to seek asylum and other protections in the United States.
Republican leaders are increasingly framing the situation as an "invasion." Immigrant advocates say the word has a long history in white nationalist circles, and warn that such extreme rhetoric could provoke more violence against immigrants.
Still, the polling shows that the word "invasion" has been embraced by a wide range of Americans to describe what's happening at the border.
"We are not actually screening enough people to make it safe for the rest of the country," said poll respondent Michael Cisternino, a Republican from Nevada, in a follow-up interview.
"We, the people of the United States, really don't have control over who's coming in, and where they're going or what they're going to do when they get there — if they're criminals, if they're not criminals," Cisternino said.
Studies have consistently shown that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes or be incarcerated than native-born Americans. In the NPR/Ipsos poll, a plurality of Republicans answered incorrectly that immigrants are more likely to commit crimes.
Republicans were also more likely to endorse rhetoric that echoes the so-called "replacement theory" — the false conspiracy theory that Jews or elites are deliberately replacing white Americans with immigrants and people of color.
More than a third of all poll respondents agree that "native-born Americans are being systematically replaced by immigrants" — including more than half of Republicans. Almost half of all Americans say that "Democrats are working to open our borders to more immigrants," with more than 70% of Republicans in agreement.
The issue of immigration is much more urgent for Republicans than for Democrats. About a quarter of GOP respondents say immigration is one of the "most worrying" problems facing the country, while only 4% of Democrats rank immigration as a top concern.
"A lot of immigrants are coming here for safety, and a lot of them are coming here for a chance" at a better life, said poll respondent Neel-Gopal Sharma, a Democrat from North Carolina, in a follow-up interview.
Sharma's parents emigrated from India to Canada, where he was born, and later moved to the United States. Sharma thinks it's becoming increasingly acceptable to blame immigrants and other people who look different for the country's problems.
"There is this xenophobic kind of talk that's being thrown around," he said. "So I'm not surprised by that."
Misleading claims about immigrants are gaining traction, particularly around fentanyl
The poll found that a large number of Americans, including big majorities of Republicans, blame migrants for a rise in deaths from fentanyl — even though there's no evidence directly linking them to the problem.
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It's true that fentanyl overdose deaths are up in recent years, and that much of the U.S. fentanyl supply is smuggled through the border.
But experts say the vast majority of fentanyl and other illegal drugs are smuggled through official ports of entry, hidden in large trucks and passenger vehicles, while a relatively small amount is smuggled by cartels across the border between those ports.
Virtually none is smuggled by migrants themselves, says Victor Manjarrez, Jr., a former Border Patrol sector chief who's now a professor at the University of Texas at El Paso.
"The probability that they're going to carry some kind of illicit narcotic is probably close to zero," Manjarrez said. "The vast majority of that fentanyl is going through a port of entry."
Still, six out of 10 of Republicans in the poll said incorrectly that "most" of the fentanyl entering the United States is smuggled by migrants.
Similarly, more than half of Republicans say immigrants are "more likely" to use public assistance benefits than the native-born population, even though many immigrants are barred from using most federal benefit programs. Less than a quarter of Republicans correctly identified that statement as false.
"These statements of false or misleading or incomplete information are definitely gaining more traction among Republicans," said Mallory Newall, a vice president at Ipsos, which conducted the poll.
But partisanship isn't the only factor.
"What we're seeing here in our polling is that your willingness to believe these misleading or incomplete statements around immigration not only depends on your partisan affiliation, but also where you are getting your news from," Newall said.
Republicans who get their news from Fox News and conservative media were more likely to believe false or misleading narratives, Newall says, and were also more likely to believe that these claims were "completely true."
That finding was especially strong when it comes to so-called "ghost flights." Republicans accuse the Biden administration of organizing secret flights carrying migrants from the border to communities across the country. But immigrants advocates point out that such flights aren't secret or new, and accuse Republican critics of fear-mongering for political gain.
The poll asked if the United States is "secretly flying unaccompanied migrant children across the country at night." Among Republicans whose main news source is Fox or conservative media, about eight in 10 called that statement true, Newall said. However Republicans who get their news elsewhere weren't so sure; only four in 10 answered true.
Falling support for immigration, and an uptick in approval for a border wall
When NPR polled Americans on immigration in 2018, three out of four respondents agreed that "immigrants are an important part of our American identity."
Today that number has fallen sharply.
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That's not the only sign of eroding support for immigrants in the latest poll.
When asked four years ago, nearly two-thirds of respondents favored a pathway to legal status for the so-called Dreamers, undocumented immigrants who were brought to the country as children. Now that support has fallen to a bare majority, driven largely by a steep drop among Republicans and independents.
There's also been a modest but steady increase in support for a wall at the southern border, from 38% in favor four years ago up to 46% now.
It's not clear why those numbers have shifted. Mallory Newall at Ipsos suspects the explanation is tied to broader concerns about inflation and the economy.
"One thing that we know is that during times of bad economic conditions, for example, the recession in 2009, support for immigration declines," she said.
There's also a theory that support for immigrants tends to fall when there is a perception of chaos at the southern border. And the spread of false and misleading claims could be a factor, as well.
The reach of false and misleading claims may be growing
The poll suggests that the reach of some false and misleading claims may be growing.
Four years ago, NPR asked if "immigrants are more likely to commit crimes or be incarcerated than the U.S.-born population." Back then, more than 60% of respondents correctly identified that statement as false. But when asked again this year, only 49% got it right.
That wasn't the only question where Americans' grasp of immigration seemingly declined during the past four years.
In 2018, six out of 10 respondents correctly said that most undocumented immigrants in the United States have been in the country for more than a decade. This time, 43% answered correctly; almost as many said they didn't know.
"There has historically been a lot of framing issues regarding immigration that have sometimes distorted facts intentionally," said Sophia Jordán Wallace, a professor of political science at the University of Washington who has studied false and misleading claims about immigration.
Wallace says there's a long tradition in American politics of blaming immigrants for real problems the country is facing as a way to mobilize voters — regardless of whether there's any connection between those immigrants and the problems they're accused of causing.
Those misleading or false claims don't always cross over to the mainstream. But sometimes, Wallace says, they do.
"Once it gets out there, it's hard to correct," she said.
The NPR/Ipsos poll was conducted from July 28-29, 2022, with a sample of 1,116 adults online. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.6 percentage points for all respondents.
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Kochi: Authorities have confirmed the death of Captain Nirmal Shivarajan, a Mamangalam native who had gone missing during his trip from Madhya Pradesh to Jabalpur.
He was reportedly trapped in flash floods and his body was found a kilometer away from his completely damaged car.
He was on his way to the Army Education Corps Centre in Pachmarhi on the night of August 15 when he was hit by the floods.
Though the rescue team had received the car’s GPS signals, they couldn’t find the vehicle initially. It was during a search on Thursday that they found the car, a colleague told his family.
The windshield of the vehicle was found broken.
Nirmal had contacted his mother, who resides in Kerala, around 8 pm on Monday, and his wife at 8.30 pm. He informed them there was a severe blockade on the road due to heavy rain, but didn't raise any alarm over the situation.
His phone got switched off around 9 pm on the day. A search was launched after his parents informed the army officials they failed to contact Nirmal.
Though a flood alert was issued to commuters traveling along the route, it is believed that Nirmal was unaware of the same. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/18/missing-malayali-soldier-car-found.amp.html | 2022-08-18T09:33:36Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/18/missing-malayali-soldier-car-found.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
U.S. Army 1st Lt. Ryan Arthur and veteran Matthew Holcraft receive instructions upon arrival at the Shades of Green hotel, Orlando, Florida during the 2022 Department of Defense Warrior Games, Aug. 16, 2022. The DoD Warrior Games will be conducted August 19 – 28, hosted by the U.S. Army at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. Men and Women from the U.S. Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, and U.S. Special Operations Command are joined in competition by athletes with the Canadian Soldier On organization for a variety of adaptive sports ranging from archery to wheelchair rugby. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Quince Lanford)
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Hundreds of fisherfolk have been protesting in front of the Vizhinjam port entrance for the past three days demanding the State government open its eyes to their various livelihood issues.
Led by the priests of the Latin Archdiocese, the coastal community members including women from nearby coastal hamlets flocked to the entrance of the multi-purpose seaport, located at nearby Mulloor, in large groups since Monday morning.
Onmanorama lists out the coastal community's seven-point demands.
1. Halt the Adani port project and carry out a proper study on its negative impact on coastal erosion. The team should comprise experts and locals nominated by the protesters
2. Implement the rehabilitation package announced by the State government and extend it to all affected families. The government should provide temporary, rent-free accommodation to those who lost their houses
3. Take effective steps to mitigate coastal erosion and rehabilitate those affected by it
4. Pay speedy compensation for the fishers involved in sea accidents
5. Address their other livelihood issues including supplying subsidised kerosene
6. Address the dredging near harbour at Muthalapozhi
7. Pay minimum wages on days forced to stay off work (adverse weather warnings etc.) | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/18/vizhinjam-protest-fishermen-what-are-seven-demands.amp.html | 2022-08-18T09:33:52Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/18/vizhinjam-protest-fishermen-what-are-seven-demands.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
How the Law’s Fixation on Women’s ‘Modesty’ Upholds Rape Culture
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A sessions court in Kerala granted anticipatory bail to a man accused of sexual harassment, noting that the accuser wore a “sexually provocative” dress. “Section 354A will not prima facie stand against the accused,” the order stated. To recap: Section 354A of the Indian Penal Code is a sub-section of Section 354; the latter explicitly refers to women’s “modesty.” It criminalizes “Whoever assaults or uses criminal force to any woman, intending to outrage or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby outrage her modesty.” But the question is: does it also criminalize inappropriate behavior against women whom society considers “immodest”?
“It does not make sense to retain the idea that something amounts to violence only when the modesty of women is outraged, and not the bodily integrity of all women, irrespective of modesty,” feminist lawyer Pratiksha Baxi had noted. And yet, the law continues to frame gender-based harassment and violence as having taken place only when the social construct of modesty — not bodily autonomy — is violated. In essence, the law holds societal perceptions of women’s honor as more sacrosanct than a person’s own security against any form of harm, regardless of their conduct.
The sessions court in the present case also highlighted the modesty aspect of this section of the law. But it isn’t the only one: Section 509 also refers to any “[w]ord, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman.”
In one of India’s first high-profile sexual harassment trials, the High Court of Punjab and Haryana, in 1988, upheld the conviction of KPS Gill, who had sexually harassed Rupan Deol Bajaj, under precisely these sections. But in that case, the court had outlined the meaning of modesty: “womanly propriety of behavior; scrupulous chastity of thought, speech and conduct.” The case remains one of the country’s earliest #MeToo victories before the movement even began — but it still relied upon a troubling foundation that distinguishes “good” victims from “bad” ones. Deol Bajaj was, by all accounts, a highly respectable IAS officer — making her, in the eyes of the law, an example of a woman with modesty and propriety that someone else violated. In other words, she was not someone who deserved it, and the perpetrator thus had to be punished.
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Modesty and rape culture, then, have shared a storied and long relationship — both put the onus of good behavior on women as the fair price to pay for not being subject to violence. Just last year, the Bombay High Court reiterated this notion — referring to modesty as a woman’s “most precious jewel.” But the association that’s cemented in the law reverberates even beyond it. In 2018, Telugu actor Sri Reddy subverted the association between modesty and victimhood when she performed a strip protest against casting couch culture in the Telugu film industry. But detractors diminished her protest as hysterical antics; her complaints weren’t taken seriously even outside the law because of her immodest behavior.
The reliance on modesty in the law essentially builds a larger culture of victim-blaming into it. “The essence of a woman’s modesty is her sex,” the Supreme Court ruled in 2007. This interpretation inevitably has the potential to reinforce anxieties around women’s sexuality — even going so far as to deny women the dignity of their sexuality and personhood.
In addition, the notion of modesty legally “sorts” women into those who are modest and in conformity with societal expectations around womanhood, and those who are not. Against the latter, then, violation of bodily autonomy is not a crime since there is no modesty to outrage. The way Indian society defines modesty, moreover, is intertwined with caste and class. It’s why the law has often failed to recognize caste-based sexual violence — most famously in 1972 in the case of Mathura, an Adivasi girl, whom the judge deemed to be “habituated to sex.”
The present opinion of the Kerala sessions court then strengthens the association between gender norms and gender-based violence, doing more harm than good to all survivors — even the “modest” ones. | https://theswaddle.com/how-the-laws-fixation-on-womens-modesty-upholds-rape-culture/ | 2022-08-18T09:33:59Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/how-the-laws-fixation-on-womens-modesty-upholds-rape-culture/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Masturbation Satisfies Women, Men Differently, Shows Study
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Women may masturbate while engaging in partnered sex to enhance their experience, but men may usually view masturbation as unnecessary if they are already sexually satisfied. In other words, women view it as a “complementary” element of their sex lives, while men tend to see it as a form of “compensation” with respect to partnered sex, according to a new study.
Published last month in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, the research offers insights into the distinct role masturbation plays in the sexual lives of men and women.
“Despite all advantages solo sex has largely been overlooked as a relevant sexual behavior, and we still know surprisingly little about how solo sex is associated with sexual satisfaction, well-being, and pain release,” said Nantje Fischer, one of the co-authors of the study, while explaining the motivation behind the research. “One reason I became so interested in the topic of masturbation is because of its huge potential and its many advantages…it is a free and effortless way of dealing with your sexual desires. Another huge advantage of masturbation is that it is a safe sex alternative without any risks of contracting sexually transmitted infection or unwanted pregnancy.” Fischer added.
Masturbation is an essential component of sexuality, and yet little has been understood on how exactly it differs across individuals. Previous research on the activity, especially among adolescents and preadolescents, shows that those who identified as men were much more likely to masturbate than those who identified as women. The social stigma attached to masturbation, much of which is also gendered, could be among the reasons why. In India, the stigma often extends well beyond the age of adolescence, and lack of sex education and access to sex toys also play a role in differing masturbation patterns between women and men.
For the current research, the scientists — Norway-based researchers — collected questionnaire responses from a sample of 4,160 Norwegians aged 18-89 years. Apart from questions on the participants’ sexual activity and masturbation habits, the survey also asked respondents about their porn viewing habits and body and genital image issues.
Based on their responses, the participants were divided into four clusters. The first cluster comprised respondents who reported both high sexual satisfaction and masturbation frequency. The second cluster comprised participants who reported high sexual satisfaction but low masturbation frequency. In the third, the scientists clubbed data of participants who reported low sexual satisfaction while reporting high masturbation frequency. The fourth and final cluster was characterized by responses reporting both low sexual satisfaction and masturbation frequency. The first cluster contained the largest portion of the research sample: 33.1% of the respondents. The second, third, and fourth clusters contained 31.5%, 18.7%, and 16.7% of the sample population, respectively.
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On analyzing the data in the four clusters, the researchers found that while women who reported greater sexual variety and higher intercourse frequency were also likely to report a high masturbation frequency and sexual satisfaction, among men those who reported frequent partnered sex were likely to fall in the cluster characterized by low masturbation frequency. The study thus indicates that while women may engage in masturbation to complement their involvement in partnered sex, men are more likely to think of self-pleasure in the absence of a partner, as fulfilling a compensatory role.
The researchers also found that while both women and men in the high masturbation clusters reported high porn consumption, among men greater frequency of porn viewing was associated with sexual dissatisfaction. This is in line with previous research on porn use and its differential impacts on the sexual lives of young men and women, with women affected more positively than men.
Studies from countries with a more progressive attitude towards sex and sex education, such as Sweden, have highlighted that there are similarities in masturbation habits of both men and women. These studies indicate the intersection between gender norms and sexuality: when conversations around sex are more open, the stigma around masturbation declines, and more women in such societies feel free to masturbate without any judgment or fear.
But across all societies, patriarchal expectations inevitably interfere. The present study also points out, for instance, how body image issues affect not only women, but even men. The researchers observed that sexual distress, negative body image issues, and issues with genital self-image affected sexual satisfaction among men way more than they did among women.
Commenting on this observation, the researchers in their study noted, “The fact that men’s genitalia play an important role in defining masculinity in terms of appearance (e.g., penis size) and performance (e.g., erection) might explain the influences of men’s genital self-image on their sexual satisfaction.” Earlier, a 2018 global study on Masturbation also found that stereotypes of manliness and masculinity often pervaded sexual relationships and affected not only men’s relations with their bodies and masturbation habits and also prevented them from having fulfilling sexual lives.
The current research then offers significant insights into the gendered norms behind how men and women view the role of masturbation — an easily accessible means of achieving sexual pleasure — and how it can aid in sexual satisfaction. It also adds to our understanding of how people experience their sex lives according to their gender — and the factors involved therein. | https://theswaddle.com/masturbation-satisfies-women-men-differently-shows-study/ | 2022-08-18T09:34:06Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/masturbation-satisfies-women-men-differently-shows-study/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Mom fatally shot home intruder to defend kids, she says
MILWAUKEE (WTMJ) - A family of three is now traumatized after they say a strange man broke into their home, and the mother fatally shot him while defending her children, she claims.
A mother of two, who asked not to be identified, was showering before work Monday morning when she heard her children, ages 12 and 14, screaming from the living room.
Still dripping wet, she says she ran to her bedroom, grabbed her gun and faced down a strange man, who she claims broke into her home. She says the man charged, undeterred by her dogs, and she shot him in self-defense.
“It all happened so fast — an adrenaline rush,” she said.
Community activist Bushraa Rahman helped clean up the home after authorities removed the body.
“She was scared because her children were there with her. So, she did what any mother would do. She defended her children,” Rahman said. “It was an act of self-defense.”
Police have not identified the man. The mother says he appeared to be in his late 30s and was acting erratically.
Following the shooting, police arrested the mother then released her several hours later after questioning. They referred the case to the district attorney’s office for review.
“In today’s day and age, with mental health and everything else that’s taking place in the world, I mean, you better protect yourself. To be honest, you have to,” Rahman said.
The mother says her children are traumatized after the incident, and the family intends to move out once they find a new place to live.
She says she bought the gun 10 years ago after finding a man sleeping under her son’s bed. She says she hoped she’d never have to use it.
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"Best Lawyers" Named James Scott Farrin Attorney Barry Jennings a 2023 'Lawyer of the Year' and Recognized 21 of the Firm's Attorneys on 2023 'Best Lawyers' and 'Ones to Watch' Lists.*
DURHAM, N.C., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Law Offices of James Scott Farrin is pleased to announce that the commitment and hard work of 21 of its attorneys were highlighted in the 29th edition of the "Best Lawyers in America" publication. Eight of its attorneys were recognized on the 'Best Lawyers' list, 13 of its attorneys were named to the third edition of the 'Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch' list, and one attorney was named a '2023 Lawyer of the Year.'*
This year marks the 41st year for the 'Best Lawyers' list. 2023 awardees are recognized as top lawyers in the country and are chosen by thorough peer review surveys. The James Scott Farrin attorneys named to the 2023 'Best Lawyers' list are:
- Douglas E. Berger - Workers' Compensation Law - Claimants
- Brian Clemmons - Workers' Compensation Law - Claimants
- Matt Harbin - Workers' Compensation Law - Claimants
- Matthew S. Healey - Workers' Compensation Law - Claimants, Workers' Compensation Law - Employers
- Gary W. Jackson - Litigation - Insurance
- Barry C. Jennings - Workers' Compensation Law - Claimants
- Michael F. Roessler - Workers' Compensation Law - Claimants
- Susan Vanderweert - Workers' Compensation Law - Claimants
All eight attorneys have been recognized on this list in previous years.
Barry Jennings received additional recognition and was selected by peer review as a 2023 'Lawyer of the Year' for his work in Workers' Compensation Law - Claimants in Raleigh.* Only one lawyer is recognized as 'Lawyer of the Year' for each practice area and location, and individuals who received this distinction had the highest overall peer feedback for that practice area and location.
Awardees for the 2023 "Best Lawyers" 'Ones to Watch' list are recognized as outstanding attorneys who have typically been in private practice for fewer than ten years and are nominated and reviewed by their peers.* The James Scott Farrin attorneys named to the 2023 'Ones to Watch' list are:
- Christopher Bagley - Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs
- Vanessa Beltrán - Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs
- Kenneth L. Bryan - Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law
- Patrick Clare - Workers' Compensation Law - Claimants
- Casey T. Day - Workers' Compensation Law - Claimants
- Kaitlyn Fudge - Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs, Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs
- Jennie R. Glish - Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs
- Leila Hicks - Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs
- Kelley Solomon Johnson - Elder Law
- Daniel Lehrer - Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs, Workers' Compensation Law - Claimants
- Ali Overby - Workers' Compensation Law - Claimants
- Chelsea Ragan - Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs
- Joshua D. Smith - Workers' Compensation Law - Claimants
It was the first year for Clare, Fudge, and Johnson to be listed as 'Ones to Watch' in their practice areas, while the other 10 attorneys were honored in previous years.
ABOUT THE LAW OFFICES OF JAMES SCOTT FARRIN
The Law Offices of James Scott Farrin is one of the largest personal injury firms in North Carolina and has helped over 55,000 injured people since 1997. Operating from 16 offices in NC and one in SC, many of the firm's 60+ accomplished attorneys are recognized professionals in their fields. The firm focuses on providing quality legal services to as many people as possible in the following practice areas: personal injury, car accidents, workers' compensation, nursing home abuse, whistleblowing, defective products, eminent domain, mass torts, class actions, and Social Security Disability.
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With tasty, NEW chocolate and ice cream treats to celebrate
BURLINGTON, Vt., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Two companies known for their passion for social justice have fallen bar over spoon for each other into a Chocolate Love A-Fair. Ben & Jerry's has joined Tony's Chocolonely's mission to end modern slavery and child labor in the chocolate industry. It's a match made in changemaker heaven.
To celebrate their commitment, the ice cream and chocolate makers' Flavor Gurus got busy making sweet treats inspired by each other. Coming in January 2023, Chocolatey Love A-Fair, a new flavor from Ben & Jerry's based on Tony's popular milk caramel sea salt bar; and Tony's Chocolate Love A-Fair, two new Tony's bars inspired by Ben & Jerry's Strawberry Cheesecake and Chocolate Fudge Brownie ice cream flavors. It's love at first bite.
The cocoa beans from these brand-new chocolatey treats are sourced through Tony's Open Chain which helps companies take steps to end modern slavery and child labor in the chocolate industry. Ben & Jerry's will also begin converting its ice cream portfolio to Tony's Open Chain, prioritizing the cocoa in the ice cream base mix. Ben & Jerry's already pays farmers a Fairtrade Premium for their cocoa beans through an ongoing partnership with Fairtrade, and boosts this further by paying a Living Income Reference Price. As part of Tony's Open Chain, Ben & Jerry's will now also commit to Tony's 5 Sourcing Principles which means, among other things, also paying a fee to further support the partner co-operatives in Côte d'Ivoire.
By adopting Tony's 5 Sourcing Principles, companies take responsibility for ensuring a fully traceable cocoa supply chain and paying a higher price to address poverty, the root cause of social injustice for cocoa farmers. As a Mission Ally of Tony's Open Chain and by beginning their conversion to buying cocoa directly from eight partner co-operatives in Côte d'Ivoire, Ben & Jerry's will not only get to know which farmers produce the beans that go into their chocolatey ice cream, but also under which social and environmental circumstances they are grown. Full traceability and transparency of the cocoa supply chain is crucial to achieve social justice for cocoa farmers – and to enable dignified livelihoods.
"We began this journey seven years ago, when we first partnered with Fairtrade co-ops in Côte d'Ivoire, and this is the exciting next step in our cocoa journey as we amplify our commitment to farmers, equity, and ethical sourcing," said Cheryl Pinto, Ben & Jerry's Global Head of Values-led Sourcing. "Tony's Open Chain enables us to combine traceability with sourcing principles that naturally align to Ben & Jerry's mission and supports cocoa farmers to meet high standards on social and environmental practices while strengthening their co-operative."
"Embracing the 5 Sourcing Principles of Tony's Open Chain means unlocking the key elements to driving strong trading relationships and thriving cocoa communities," Cheryl said, "We are serious about chocolatey ice cream, and we are eager to join forces with Tony's Open Chain as a Mission Ally, on a delicious journey towards a more ethical future for cocoa production that all chocolate lovers deserve!"
Joke Aerts, Inspire to Actress (Tony's Open Chain Lead) for Tony's Chocolonely, said, "We are thrilled that Ben & Jerry's joins us as a Mission Ally in Tony's Open Chain. Not only will this partnership see large volumes of cocoa beans sourced via Tony's Open Chain but collaborating with one of the world's most-loved social justice companies truly puts our initiative on the map internationally and proves that our way of working is a solution for all players in the cocoa industry. I am confident that, together, we can make big strides towards eradicating modern slavery and child labor, stopping deforestation, and improving the livelihoods of West African cocoa farmers."
- Ben & Jerry's Chocolatey Love A-Fair ice cream featuring chocolate ice cream packed with salted cara-melt-in-your-mouth swirls, and plenty of chocolatey & caramel chunks – chilling in a freezer near you early 2023. It takes its inspiration from Tony's popular milk caramel sea salt bar. Like all Ben & Jerry's tasty pints, it's Fairtrade Certified.
- Tony's Chocolate Love A-Fair, two sweet new Tony's bars - dark milk chocolate with brownie and white chocolate strawberry cheesecake style– inspired by 2 classic Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavors. Hitting shelves near you early 2023.
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- Transitioning to fully traceable cocoa beans.
- Paying an additional premium for their cocoa beans, enabling farmers to earn a living income.
- Promoting strong co-operatives to professionalize and make the work of cocoa farming safe and sustainable. Collectively, this means farmers stand strong and are empowered to change structural inequity in the value chain.
- Engaging in long-term commitments giving the farmers income security and the opportunity to invest in their businesses.
- Coaching farmers to improve their cocoa productivity and quality and improve their agricultural knowledge on relevant crops.
Ben & Jerry's has been making great ice cream since the company was founded by school friends Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, back in 1978. Their aim is (and always has been!) to make the best possible ice cream, in the nicest possible way. We use Fairtrade certified ingredients in our dairy and non-dairy ranges, including sugar, cocoa, vanilla, bananas, coffee, almonds and coconut. To learn more about how we do business, visit https://www.benjerry.com/values/how-we-do-business/cocoa-commitment.
Tony's Chocolonely is an impact company that makes chocolate. Putting social impact before profit — Tony's Chocolonely's vision is to make chocolate 100% slave free. Not just their own chocolate, but all chocolate worldwide.
The company was founded in 2005 by 3 journalists from the Dutch TV show 'Keuringsdienst van Waarde' after they discovered that the world's largest chocolate manufacturers were buying cocoa from plantations that used child labor and modern slavery.
Since then, Tony's Chocolonely has dedicated its efforts to raising awareness of and eliminating inequality in the chocolate industry. Tony's Chocolonely leads by example, building direct, long-term relationships with cocoa farmers in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, paying them a higher price and working together to solve the underlying causes of modern slavery and child labor.
Tony's Chocolonely wants to inspire the industry as a whole to make 100% slave free the norm in chocolate. They believe that being a better business should be the norm, not the exception. The brand has grown to become one of the market leaders in the Netherlands and its bars are now available almost worldwide, with teams in the Netherlands, USA, UK, Germany, Austria, Belgium and Sweden.
Tony's Chocolonely is a B-Corp and Fairtrade-certified.
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With days of torrential rain and booming thunderstorms hitting the county, Kent is set for a change in weather as of today (August 18) with the amber warning finally coming to an end. With the forecast predicting sunny skies and fairly warm temperatures, the county will be experiencing "dry" conditions once more - a welcome relief to many who have been battling against the stormy weather this week.
While inland Kent will be experiencing temperatures of around 24C with cloudy conditions and "sunny intervals", coastal areas like Dover will stay just a few degrees cooler. With "overcast" skies expected across most of the region today, all areas will experience glimpses of sunshine, a reminder that summer is not yet over.
Speaking of the weather forecast today for Kent and the South East, a Met Office spokesperson said: "A partly cloudy morning with some sunny spells, but also isolated showers. Isolated, light showers could linger into the afternoon, but western parts seeing a dry and bright afternoon with sunny spells. Feeling warm. Maximum temperature 27C."
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While no rain is forecast for Kent, it is expected that neighbouring counties could experience short intervals of light showers throughout the next few days. However, with Kent expected to see sunshine and clouds across the remainder of the week, residents can be pleased to know that flooding fears and stormy conditions will not be returning anytime soon.
Here's the outlook for across the south east according to the Met Office.
Outlook for south east
Today:
A partly cloudy morning with some sunny spells, but also isolated showers. Isolated, light showers could linger into the afternoon, but western parts seeing a dry and bright afternoon with sunny spells. Feeling warm. Maximum temperature 27C.
Tonight:
Remaining showers dying out, then dry into the late evening. Outbreaks of rain sweeping eastwards overnight these heavy at times, but dry and clear in the west by dawn. Minimum temperature 16C.
Friday:
Cloud and rain in the east at first, this soon clearing to give a bright morning. with long spells of sunshine. Staying mainly sunny through the afternoon. Warm. Maximum temperature 27C.
Outlook for Saturday to Monday:
A fine day on Saturday, some light showers possible in west. Dry and sunny morning Sunday, cloudier with scattered showers later. Band of occasionally heavy rain sweeping east Monday.
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Across Kent, thousands of sixth-form students are anxiously waiting to receive their A-Level results today (August 18). Such results play a vital role in determining the next steps that these students take in life, from university placements to the beginning of careers.
Many students will be holding onto conditional university offers, meaning they will only secure their place in higher education if they achieve certain grades today. The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, known as UCAS, will open throughout the day in order for pupils to check whether they have been accepted onto their chosen course.
Most schools are already open this morning as students pour in to collect their hotly-anticipated results. Those who do not achieve the grades to get onto their chosen course may have to go through clearing, the system where universities and colleges publicise any vacancies they have left.
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Of course, university is not for everyone, and there are a number of other options for students to take as they leave sixth-form. Many pupils will be looking to take on training courses, apprenticeships, or may already be in work.
We will be sharing all of the latest updates, reactions and results down below. Be sure to check back regularly for all the latest on A-Level results day 2022 in Kent.
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Updates to come from Tunbridge Wells
Our reporters are visiting Bennett Memorial Diocesan School in Tunbridge Wells to see just how their A-level results day has been going so far. Updates live from the scene are to follow shortly.
A word form UCAS CEO Clare Marchant
Congratulations to everyone who received their results today!
— UCAS (@ucas_online) August 18, 2022
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One of Tunbridge Wells' most recognisable buildings is set to be converted into flats. The former Job Centre building at the top of Grosvenor Road has stood empty for many years.
Plans are already approved to redevelop the grand red brick building into flats. The latest application to Tunbridge Wells Borough Council by applicant PPR Grosvenor Tunbridge Wells is about the removal of the glazed extension at the front.
The Grade II listed building is in the Royal Tunbridge Wells Conservation Area. According to planning documents, the area around the site formed part of the 19th Century expansion of the town northwards.
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It was built in around 1892 for horse carriage manufacturers Rock, Hawkins and Thorpe, which had moved to Tunbridge Wells from Hastings. There were originally showrooms on the ground floor, with carriage makers and body makers on the first floor, and painters and trimmers on the second floor.
Around the turn of the century, the firm moved into the building of motor cars. Caffyns bought the business and moved to new premises on St John's Road in the 1950s.
The building was then occupied by West Kent Technical College until the 1980s and later was used as a Job Centre. Thirteen flats will be built across the lower, ground, first, second and third floors. The glazed canopy will be removed. At the back of the building, balconies will be added for the flats.
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Drivers who don't declare they have certain medical conditions to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) could be hit with a big fine. The DVLA requires motorists who hold a driving licence to inform them if they suffer with a number of conditions.
In more serious cases, the DVLA may decide that a motorist can no longer hold a licence if it affects their ability to drive safely. The DVLA has warned drivers involved in an accident who have withheld information from the agency could be prosecuted, Lincolnshire Live reports.
Here are the conditions that you must inform the agency of:
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Medical conditions you must tell the DVLA about
The DVLA says it is important you tell them if you have a driving licence and:
- you develop a ‘notifiable’ medical condition or disability
- a condition or disability has got worse since you got your licence
Notifiable conditions are anything that could affect your ability to drive safely. They can include:
- diabetes or taking insulin
- syncope (fainting)
- heart conditions (including atrial fibrillation and pacemakers)
- sleep apnoea
- epilepsy
- strokes
- glaucoma
If you need to check whether your condition should be reported, you can do so in one of two ways. These are:
- using the online service to check if your condition needs to be reported
- checking the A to Z list for your condition
You’ll then be told how to report your condition. This will either be in the online service, or by printing off and sending a paper form.
When can the DVLA revoke a licence?
You must give up your licence if any of the following are true:
- your doctor tells you to stop driving for 3 months or more
- your medical condition affects your ability to drive safely and lasts for 3 months or more
- you do not meet the required standards for driving because of your medical condition
Once you meet the medical requirement again, you can apply to get your licence back. Full details on that process are available here.
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Last week's 40C heatwave may seem like a distant memory, thanks to the recent thunderstorms, heavy downpours and lower temperatures. However, the Met Office has revealed when the warm weather will return - and we've not got long to wait.
The forecasting agency says an area of high pressure is set to move in next week, following a period of unsettled weather, signalling some gradual warming through the coming days. High pressure will also bring settled conditions for most, although temperatures are unlikely to reach the scorching highs we saw earlier this month, they are still predicted to be above average.
Met Office deputy chief meteorologist Dan Rudman said: “There’s broad agreement between our forecasting models for a return to more settled conditions for most through next week, with temperatures likely to be above average for most.
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"Although it’s too early to put precise temperatures figures on it a week away, this high pressure is unlikely to see temperatures as high as the recent heatwave, but could still be warm for many.”
In Kent next week the BBC is reporting temperatures in the high 20s, with highs of 27C on Wednesday at 27C and 26C on Thursday, alongside sunny spells.
The long-range forecast for the start of September in the UK says: "After settled conditions carried through the end of August, September is likely to bring some more unsettled weather for many. Early to mid-September will see widely unsettled patterns prevailing across the UK. Temperatures warm and possibly remaining warm throughout this period."
It comes after the UK has faced days of wet and thundery conditions so far this week, with the unsettled conditions triggering a number of weather warnings. A yellow thunderstorm warning was put in place across much of England on Wednesday (August 17).
The worst of the weather was in the southeast, where an amber alert was issued, which warned thunderstorms and heavy downpours that were likely to cause travel disruption, flooding and possibly power cuts in places.
The unsettled theme looks to continue through the weekend, with sporadic showers for most and at times more consistent rain building in from the west and northwest.
Dan Rudman added: “While there’s more detail to be determined into the weekend, the main theme for Saturday is unsettled spell of weather with some showers but also some sunny spells, while some gusty winds and more consistent rain could affect the northwest.
“Later in the weekend, and into early next week, a warm front is expected to move in from the Atlantic, which brings with it some further rain from the west, gradually spreading eastwards.
"The heaviest rain, and highest totals, are expected to be in western areas but as the front moves eastwards it should weaken, reducing any totals in these areas, and the southeast in particular could stay mostly dry.”
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An investigation into a controversial increase in the state pension age for women born in the 1950s will be sped up, it has been announced. WASPIs (Women Against State Pension Inequality) have long since been campaigning against a legal change which raised the state pension age for women born on or after April 6, 1950.
Around 3.8 million women have been affected by the change, which saw the state pension age hiked up from 60 to 65, a move that many said they were completely unaware of until the last minute. They argue that having very little time to prepare for the reality of having to work until age 65, now 66, has caused financial loss and an adverse effect on their physical and mental health.
In the summer of 2021, The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) launched a review into how the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) told some workers about this huge change. It has already published findings from the first stage of its investigation , and has this week provided an update about the second stage., as reported by LancsLive, Take a look at some of the key background information below.
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Who are the WASPI women?
A group of women born on or after April 6, 1950, who say they have suffered hugely as a result of the 1995 Pensions Act and subsequent legislation which raised the state pension age to 65. Campaigners say the average 1950s born woman lost up to £50,000 in state pension as a result.
What is their case?
Many of the women affected have said the DWP did not tell them of the changes, or that they had not been told with enough time to financially prepare. This prompted the PHSO to look into how this change was communicated to the WASPI women.
What has happened so far?
The PHSO published findings from the first stage of its investigation last summer, which concluded that in 2005, the DWP ‘failed to make a reasonable decision about targeting information to the women affected by these changes'. Moreover, in 2006, the DWP proposed writing to women individually to tell them about the changes, ‘failed to act promptly’.
What happens next?
Both of these findings were branded 'maladministration'. Now the Ombudsman has shared its provisional views for the second stage of the investigation with complainants, their MPs, DWP and the Independent Case Examiner (ICE) who can provide comment.
In a statement published on Monday (August 15), it confirmed that stage two is considering DWP’s communication about the number of qualifying years of National Insurance contributions that are required for a full state pension, DWP’s and ICE’s complaint handling, and whether any failings led to injustice, including the maladministration identified at stage one.
Crucially, the PHSO will speed up the process for stage two by publishing its findings and any suggested remedy simultaneously. This would be to ‘minimise’ complainants’ wait to find out what the remedy should be.
In its recent statement the Ombudsman clarified that it cannot make certain recommendations, specifically that it can't recommend the DWP reimburse 'lost' pensions. "Nor can we recommend that anyone receive their state pension any earlier than the law allows," it added.
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