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HS Roundup: Sheridan volleyball outlasts New Lex THORNVILLE — New Lexington fought in every set, but Sheridan fended off its rivals for a 25-22, 21-25, 25-23, 33-31 victory in Tuesday's Muskingum Valley League crossover. Jamisyn Stinson and Alyssa Ward collected 15 kills apiece, while Stinson added nine digs and three aces to pace the Generals. Alexis Bradley tallied 36 assists with nine digs and five kills, Reagan Davis led the defense with 29 digs and was 13-of-13 serving, Rilyn Reedy went 21 of 21 at the service line with 15 digs and Dylan Fox had 17 assists in the victory. Jerilynn Koehler hit 18 kills with six blocks and five digs, Lizzie Ellis had 40 assists, Abby Wilson chipped in 11 kills and three blocks and Gracie Newlon served six aces and made five digs to lead New Lex. Sheridan reserves won 25-20, 25-20, as Madison Hupp had eight kills and six digs, Addison Grosse 12 digs and four kills and Lily Talbot 13 assists and four digs with 100% serving. Jorja Burkhart had eight assists, four digs, three kills and two aces, Brooklyn Burd five kills and Makenzy McCoy three digs and an ace for New Lex. Philo 25, 25, 25, Crooksville 15, 16, 19: The Electrics picked up a road win, but no leaders were available for the winners. Ellie Ferguson and Khirra Wilson had four kills each and Brynn Lundell added three kills, Maelee Collins made 13 digs with Lundell 10 and and Taisia Riggs eight, and Riggs and Julianna Locke had five assists apiece and Locke (11 of 11) and Lundell (7 of 7) were 100 percent serving to lead the Ceramics. Philo reserves won 25-13, 25-20. Grace Myers had three kills, four digs and two aces, Kamdyn Hall nine digs and Erica Flood four assists to lead Crooksville. Coshocton 25, 27, 23, 25, John Glenn 19, 25, 25, 20: The visiting Muskies fell short against the Lady 'Skins in a MVL crossover. Kara Fields hit 13 kills with four blocks and Emma Briggs added eight kills, three aces and 13 digs to pace John Glenn. Hannah Demattio chipped in five kills and five blocks, Emma Dolan four kills, 10 digs and four blocks, Aleea Musselman three kills, 14 digs and five blocks and Lauren Blair 26 assists and 20 digs. Jalynn West led a balanced offensive attack by dishing out 35 assists to a host of Redskin attackers. Kenidi Jackson and Lindsay Bryant both reached double-figures with 12 kills and 11 kills, respectively, while Lacey Guthrie chipped in six. Miyah Davis, anchored the back line with 24 digs, Bryant and Jackson contributed defensively with 14 and 10 digs, while Addy Gordon just missed double figures with nine. West led the blocking effort with three and Davis had three aces. JG reserves picked up a 26-24, 20-25, 25-20 win, as Brelynn Barr had six kills, 11 assists, three digs and three blocks, Lily Robinson seven assists and four digs and Aubrey Larrick four kills and five digs. Morgan 25, 25, 25, Maysville 19, 16, 13: Jensen Peyton led the Raiders' net effort with 14 kills and three blocks, while Ashtyn Filkins paced the defense with seven digs and served up three aces in a MVL crossover sweep. Montana Pettet contributed 16 assists with five aces, Chloe Baker totaled 12 assists and three digs and Blair Clawson had six digs in the win. Sailor Atkins led the Panthers with six kills and four digs, while Rachel Jarvis made 15 digs with a pair of kills, Olivia McPeek tallied 10 assists with five digs and Bekah Scott had 10 digs. Morgan reserves won 25-11, 25-17, as Klaire Cain tallied five kills and four aces, Paige Lanning seven assists, five aces and three digs, Haven Cook two kills and three aces and Grayson Welch three aces. Kaitlyn Clark had five assists and Taylor Freeland three aces and two kills for Maysville. River View 25, 25, 25, West Muskingum 9, 12, 12: Liv Spaulding and Haley Balo combined for 14 kills and Kayla Dulgar set out 15 assists, as the Lady Bears swept the Tornadoes in MVL crossover play. Spaulding collected eight kills and two blocks, Dulgar and Balo each served three aces and Balo tallied six kills for the winners. No leaders were reported for West M. Boys Soccer Morgan 2, West Muskingum 1: Brylee Shannon and Josh Stickrath each scored, and Logan Raines made 11 saves, as the Raiders captured a MVL victory. Sheridan 2, New Lexington 2: Josiah Hamilton scored both goals and Dominic McKinney assisted on both for the host Generals in a draw with the rival Panthers. Connor Spicer and Ethan Clark had goals for New Lex. Maysville 7, Philo 0: The host Panthers built a 4-0 halftime lead to pick up a MVL win, but no other information was available. John Glenn 4, Tri-Valley 2: The teams were tied at 1 at halftime before the visiting Muskies scored three unanswered goals in the second half to pull away for a league win. No other information was reported.	https://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/story/sports/high-school/2022/08/24/hs-roundup-sheridan-volleyball-outlasts-new-lex/65416180007/	2022-08-24T10:46:31Z	zanesvilletimesrecorder.com	control	https://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/story/sports/high-school/2022/08/24/hs-roundup-sheridan-volleyball-outlasts-new-lex/65416180007/	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of Americans were waiting to learn the fate of their federal student debt on Wednesday as President Joe Biden prepared to deliver on his campaign promise to provide up to $10,000 in debt cancellation. Details of the plan have been kept closely guarded, but borrowers who earn less than $125,000 a year would be eligible for the loan forgiveness, according to three people familiar with the decision. Biden is also set to extend a pause on federal student loan payments through January. If it survives legal challenges that are almost certain to come, Biden’s plan could offer a windfall to a swath of the nation in the run-up to this fall’s midterm elections. More than 43 million owe a combined $1.6 trillion in federal student debt, with almost a third owing less than $10,000, according to federal data. Still, the action is unlikely to thrill any of the factions that have been jostling for influence as Biden weighs how much to cancel and for whom. Biden has faced pressure from liberals to provide broader relief to hard-hit borrowers, and from moderates and Republicans questioning the fairness of any widespread forgiveness. The delay in Biden’s decision has only heightened the anticipation for what his own aides acknowledge represents a political no-win situation. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss Biden’s intended announcement ahead of time. The continuation of the pandemic-era payment freeze comes just days before millions of Americans were set to find out when their next student loan bills will be due. This is the closest the administration has come to hitting the end of the payment freeze extension, with the current pause set to end Aug. 31. Wednesday’s announcement was set for the White House after Biden returns from vacation in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. The administration had briefly considered higher education schools in the president’s home state for a larger reveal, but scaled back their plans. During the 2020 presidential campaign, Biden was initially skeptical of student loan debt cancellation as he faced off against more progressive candidates for the Democratic nomination. Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., had proposed cancellations of $50,000 or more. As he tried to shore up support among younger voters and prepare for a general election battle against President Donald Trump, Biden unveiled his initial proposal for debt cancellation of $10,000 per borrower, with no mention of an income cap. Biden narrowed his campaign promise in recent months by embracing the income limit as soaring inflation took a political toll and as he aimed to head off political attacks that the cancellation would benefit those with higher take-home pay. But Democrats, from members of congressional leadership to those facing tough reelection bids this November, have pushed the administration to go as broad as possible on debt relief, seeing it in part as a galvanizing issue, particularly for Black and young voters this fall. The frenzied last-minute lobbying continued Tuesday even as Biden remained on his summer vacation. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., one of the loudest advocates in recent years for canceling student loan debt, spoke privately on the phone with Biden, imploring the president to forgive as much debt as the administration can, according to a Democrat with knowledge of the call. In his pitch, Schumer argued to Biden that doing so was the right thing morally and economically, said the Democrat, who asked for anonymity to describe a private conversation. Inside the administration, officials have discussed since at least early summer forgiving more than $10,000 of student debt for certain categories of borrowers, such as Pell Grant recipients, according to three people with knowledge of the deliberations. That remained one of the final variables being considered by Biden heading into Wednesday’s announcement. Democrats are betting that Biden, who has seen his public approval rating tumble over the last year, can help motivate younger voters to the polls in November with the announcement. Although Biden’s plan is narrower than what he initially proposed during the campaign, “he’ll get a lot of credit for following through on something that he was committed to,” said Celinda Lake, a Democratic pollster who worked with Biden during the 2020 election. She described student debt as a “gateway issue” for younger voters, meaning it affects their views and decisions on housing affordability and career choices. A survey of 18- to 29-year-olds conducted by the Harvard Institute of Politics in March found that 59% of those polled favored debt cancellation of some sort — whether for all borrowers or those most in need — although student loans did not rank high among issues that most concerned people in that age group. Some advocates were already bracing for disappointment. “If the rumors are true, we’ve got a problem,” Derrick Johnson, the president of the NAACP, which has aggressively lobbied Biden to take bolder action, said Tuesday. He emphasized that Black students face higher debut burdens than white students. “President Biden’s decision on student debt cannot become the latest example of a policy that has left Black people — especially Black women — behind,” he said. “This is not how you treat Black voters who turned out in record numbers and provided 90% of their vote to once again save democracy in 2020.” John Della Volpe, who worked as a consultant on Biden’s campaign and is the director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics, said the particulars of Biden’s announcement were less important than the decision itself. “It’s about trust in politics, in government, in our system. It’s also about trust in the individual, which in this case is President Biden,” Della Volpe said. Combined with fears about expanding abortion restrictions and Trump’s reemergence on the political scene, Della Volpe said student debt forgiveness “adds an additional tailwind to an already improving position with young people.” Republicans, meanwhile, see only political upside if Biden pursues a large-scale cancellation of student debt ahead of the November midterms, anticipating backlash for Democrats — particularly in states where there are large numbers of working-class voters without college degrees. Critics of broad student debt forgiveness also believe it will open the White House to lawsuits, on the grounds that Congress has never given the president the explicit authority to cancel debt on his own. The Republican National Committee on Tuesday blasted Biden’s expected announcement as a “handout to the rich,” claiming it would unfairly burden lower-income taxpayers and those who have already paid off their student loans with covering the costs of higher education for the wealthy. “My neighbor, a detective, worked 3 jobs (including selling carpet) & his wife worked to make sure their daughter got quality college degree w/no student debt,” Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee, tweeted Tuesday. “Big sacrifice. Now their taxes must pay off someone else’s student debt?” Biden’s elongated deliberations have sent federal loan servicers, who have been instructed to hold back billing statements while Biden weighed a decision, grumbling. Industry groups had complained that the delayed decision left them with just days to notify borrowers, retrain customer service workers and update websites and digital payment systems, said Scott Buchanan, executive director of the Student Loan Servicing Alliance. It increases the risk that some borrowers will inadvertently be told they need to make payments, he said. “At this late stage I think that’s the risk we’re running,” he said. “You can’t just turn on a dime with 35 million borrowers who all have different loan types and statuses.”	https://www.wpri.com/money/student-loan-borrowers-await-biden-plan-on-debt-forgiveness/	2022-08-24T10:54:22Z	wpri.com	control	https://www.wpri.com/money/student-loan-borrowers-await-biden-plan-on-debt-forgiveness/	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
MEDFORD, Wis., Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Medford Cooperative is pleased to announce a key appointment to its senior leadership team. Jake Korzeniewski is joining the organization as the new Director of Agricultural Services. In his role, Korzeniewski will provide leadership for Medford Cooperative's Agricultural Division. Medford Cooperative has over 110 years of expertise in serving agricultural producers. Our Ag Services division continues to experience significant growth due to the trust and confidence our customers place in the services that we provide. We have doubled our feed tons since 2011, tripled our grain storage in the last five years, and more than doubled the number of employees in the last ten years to provide the highest level of customer service. Korzeniewski joins Medford Cooperative with several years of experience in the field, which include roles as Director of Grain Operations and Logistics and Production Supervisor at facilities in South Dakota and Wisconsin. In addition to his experience, he will bring valuable leadership and management knowledge from his time serving in the United States Military. Jake will be responsible for implementing programs and strategies that will continue to build upon our double-digit growth rates by elevating the customer experience that we provide, increase efficiencies through disciplined cost management, and effective procurement of raw materials, while executing essential safety protocols. "We are excited to have Jake join the Medford Cooperative team. I am confident that Jake's knowledge and strong background in grain services will help us in the advancement of services we are able to provide to our Agricultural customers," commented Chris Piotrowski, Medford Cooperative's CEO and General Manager. Medford Cooperative is currently one of the fastest growing Cooperatives in Wisconsin, with a long history in serving the agricultural community. The Cooperative looks forward to the contributions Korzeniewski will make towards both their Agricultural Division and the communities it serves. About Medford Cooperative Medford Cooperative is a member-owned, producer cooperative that was founded in 1911, making it one of the oldest cooperatives in the state of Wisconsin. The cooperative is diversified with departments in agriculture (feed/grain and agronomy), energy (refined fuels and propane) and retail (grocery, hardware and convenience stores). For more information, go to www.medfordcoop.com. Media Contact: Christopher Piotrowski christopherp@medfordcoop.com View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Medford Cooperative	https://www.wave3.com/prnewswire/2022/08/24/medford-cooperative-announces-new-director-agricultural-services/	2022-08-24T10:55:15Z	wave3.com	control	https://www.wave3.com/prnewswire/2022/08/24/medford-cooperative-announces-new-director-agricultural-services/	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- One America News Network ("OAN"), a 24/7 source of credible national and international news, announced today that it is now available through a partnership with VIDAA in the U.S. and expanding worldwide with VIDAA's upcoming deployments in international markets. The launch is powered by the global partnership between Herring Networks, VIDAA, and media tech powerhouse, Amagi. The partnership, leveraging Amagi's Content Plus marketplace, gives VIDAA users in the Americas, Australia and the UK access to Amagi's comprehensive network of FAST channels and AVOD assets from the world's leading content brands across a variety of content genres: News, sports, music, movies, documentaries and more. VIDAA is a technology and innovation company whose market-leading, independent Smart TV OS powers Hisense, Toshiba and over 100 additional TV brands worldwide. VIDAA tv, the company's FAST channels service, launched in the U.S. and Mexico in January and is expanding in Europe, LATAM, Australia, and beyond. "Both of our global FAST channel brands remain highly sought after and leaders in their respective content genres and channel categories," said Alex Kopacz, EVP Content Distribution and Strategy at OAN. "We're thrilled to be working with VIDAA and Amagi on this rollout, and we're confident that our channels will enhance the overall visibility of VIDAA tv." Both OAN Plus and AWE Plus are currently deployed on more than 30 FAST platforms globally. The monthly hours-of-viewing (HOV) for OAN Plus has recently doubled as the network continues to ramp up its coverage and conversation around the upcoming midterm elections in November. One America News Network, ("OAN"), which launched on July 4, 2013, provides an independent source of credible national and international news around the clock. The network operates news bureaus in Washington, D.C., California, New York, and Florida. In addition, the network utilizes numerous external newsgathering sources, including US Pool feeds. OAN produces eighteen hours of live news every weekday. In addition, the network features four weekday primetime political talk shows, namely REAL AMERICA with Dan Ball, IN FOCUS, TIPPING POINT with Kara McKinney, and THE REAL STORY. OAN is featured on over a hundred cable and video providers worldwide. In addition, the OAN LIVE app is available on your favorite connected devices. For more information, please visit www.oann.com. For more information, contact: Ryan Critchley, Press Contact Herring Networks, Inc. Phone: 858-270-6900 x 105 press@oann.com View original content: SOURCE One America News Network	https://www.wave3.com/prnewswire/2022/08/24/oan-partners-with-vidaa-deploy-oan-plus-awe-plus-worldwide/	2022-08-24T10:55:22Z	wave3.com	control	https://www.wave3.com/prnewswire/2022/08/24/oan-partners-with-vidaa-deploy-oan-plus-awe-plus-worldwide/	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
In August 2012 I wrote an op-ed headlined, “Biden’s unhinged, and worse, history.” Biden’s ineptness has been painfully evident during his presidency. The gaffes are legendary, but some of his blunders have been far more momentous. There was, for example, his claim that there was “unanimity” among his civilian and military advisers about the disastrous plan to precipitously withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan and that his border and immigration policies have been a “success.” In fact, military leaders understand how to conduct strategic withdrawals, and our southern border leaks like a sieve. The president’s comments last September about the costs of the massive “infrastructure” legislation favored by the administration were barely coherent, a Biden trademark: We talk about price tags. The — it is zero price tag on the debt. We’re paying — we’re going to pay for everything we spend. So they say it’s not — you know, people, understandably — “Well, you know, it started off at $6 trillion, now it’s $3.5 trillion. Now it’s — is it going to be $2.9? Is it …” It’s going to be zero — zero. A zero-price tag? As Gerard Baker observed in a column, “The Biden bill is paid for by the largest tax increase in history. You are entitled to argue that is a cost worth paying, but you can’t argue it costs nothing.” The Babylon Bee offered this amusing take on Biden’s claim: “Wife Claims $3.5 Trillion Spending Spree At Target Actually Cost $0.” None of this should be unexpected. As I pointed out 10 years ago, to anyone who had followed Biden’s political career, these sorts of missteps were part of a decades-long pattern. During his entire political career, he has been infamous for gaffes, blunders … and lies. And eventually, the habit of lying began to overlap with clear evidence of cognitive decline. In 1987, during the first of his runs for the presidency, Biden plagiarized part of a campaign speech from one by Neil Kinnock, the leader of Britain’s Labor Party, and even revised his own family history to conform to the speech. Biden also demonstrated either poor reality testing — or a propensity for lying — when he claimed in 1987 that he “went to law school on a full academic scholarship — the only one in my class to have a full academic scholarship,” and that he “ended up in the top half” of his class. He also said that in college, he was “the outstanding student in the political science department” and “graduated with three degrees.” However, after inaccuracies in his statements were exposed, Biden made this admission on Sept. 22, 1987: “I did not graduate in the top half of my class at law school, and my recollection of this was inaccurate.” He had actually graduated 76th in a class of 85 from the Syracuse College of Law. And in college, Biden had received a single B.A. degree. While he was a senator, Biden was such a joke that congressional staffers began passing around a spoof Biden résumé claiming that he was the “inventor of polyurethane and the weedeater” and “Member, Rockettes (1968).” Biden, who will turn 80 in November, has frequently fumbled and bumbled in his public comments. His staff try desperately to keep him from making unscripted remarks and give him crib sheets with detailed instructions for his public appearances. Even so, often he can’t get it right, sometimes reading aloud the instructions to him, like “Pause” or “Repeat Sentence,” and his speech is becoming increasingly slurred. Depending on which party our president comes from, there will, of course, be marked differences in policy, but he or she should be honest and smart. Joe Biden is neither, and I take no pleasure in saying, “I told you so.” Henry I. Miller, a physician and molecular biologist, was the founding director of the FDA’s Office of Biotechnology and a fellow at the Hoover Institution. Join the Conversation We invite you to use our commenting platform to engage in insightful conversations about issues in our community. We reserve the right at all times to remove any information or materials that are unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane, indecent or otherwise objectionable to us, and to disclose any information necessary to satisfy the law, regulation, or government request. We might permanently block any user who abuses these conditions.	https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2022/08/22/bidens-presidency-is-going-as-badly-as-anyone-should-have-expected/	2022-08-24T10:56:11Z	pasadenastarnews.com	control	https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2022/08/22/bidens-presidency-is-going-as-badly-as-anyone-should-have-expected/	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now The CIF-SS boys water polo preseason watch list released Monday, Aug. 22. CIF-SS BOYS WATER POLO PRESEASON WATCH LIST (Selected by the CIF-SS Boys Water Polo Advisory Committee) Teams list in alphabetical order DIVISION 1 Foothill Harvard-Westlake Huntington Beach JSerra Laguna Beach Los Alamitos Loyola Mater Dei Newport Harbor Oaks Christian Orange Lutheran Long Beach Wilson DIVISION 2 Beckman Chadwick Dana Hills Redondo San Clemente San Marcos Santiago/Corona Thousand Oaks Villa Park Westlake DIVISION 3 Agoura Buena Capistrano Valley Chino Hills Claremont Damien El Segundo El Toro Fullerton Glendora Irvine Northwood Portola South Pasadena Temescal Canyon Trabuco Hills DIVISION 4 Arcadia Arlington Canyon/Anaheim Crean Lutheran Downey Glendale Katella San Marino South Torrance Valley View DIVISION 5 Buena Park Los Amigos Ocean View Oxnard Segerstrom Sunny Hills Beaumont Rowland Warren Cabrillo/Long Beach DIVISION 6 Alhambra Arroyo Garden Grove Hemet Kennedy Moorpark San Gorgonio Sierra Vista Webb Whitney Join the Conversation We invite you to use our commenting platform to engage in insightful conversations about issues in our community. We reserve the right at all times to remove any information or materials that are unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane, indecent or otherwise objectionable to us, and to disclose any information necessary to satisfy the law, regulation, or government request. We might permanently block any user who abuses these conditions.	https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2022/08/22/cif-ss-boys-water-polo-preseason-watchlist-aug-22/	2022-08-24T10:56:17Z	pasadenastarnews.com	control	https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2022/08/22/cif-ss-boys-water-polo-preseason-watchlist-aug-22/	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Testing for COVID-19 is supposed to be provided free under federal legislation aimed at slowing the virus’ spread, but a class-action lawsuit this month accuses Oakland-based Kaiser Permanente, California’s largest health insurer, of billing patients more than $300 for the procedure. The lawsuit was filed Aug. 8 in Alameda County Superior Court on behalf of a Sacramento woman, Faye Getubig, a Kaiser Foundation Health Plan member who went to the HMO in June for a test after feeling COVID-19 symptoms. She got the nasal swab, and after she received her results, she got a bill. For $310. “Federal law says any test for COVID has to be free,” said Brian Devine, one of the lawyers at Seeger Devine in San Rafael who filed the suit on behalf of Getubig and others similarly billed by the health care giant for COVID-19 tests. “Insurers are still required to cover all the costs.” Kaiser Permanente said in a statement that “it is our policy not to charge for COVID testing, according to federal and state requirements, including multiplex COVID testing, and we have not changed that policy.” “We are reviewing our member’s allegations and if she has identified an error regarding her bill we will certainly correct it,” the statement said. “Over the last two-and-a-half years of the pandemic we have supported our members and patients in obtaining a total of more than 20 million COVID-19 tests.” The California Department of Managed Health Care which oversees insurers said in a statement that health plans the state regulates must cover COVID-19 tests without any cost-sharing including co-pays, co-insurance, deductibles or other out-of-pocket costs. “If a health plan enrollee receives a bill related to the coverage or administration of a COVID-19 test, they should first file a grievance with their health plan and include a copy of the bill,” the department said in the statement. Their health plan should review the grievance and should ensure the enrollee is reimbursed. If the enrollee disputes the plan’s response or if the plan takes more than 30 days to fix the problem, they should file a complaint with the DMHC Help Center at www.HealthHelp.ca.gov or 1-888-466-2219, the statement said. The lawsuit accuses Kaiser of using a bundling strategy to make its members shoulder part of the cost of their test. Kaiser processed Getubig’s sample using a “multiplex” diagnostic that detects both SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and influenza A and B viruses at the same time. Getubig’s bill showed Kaiser covered the full $181 cost of her COVID test results. But it showed a $536 cost for a flu virus detection test, for which her plan only paid $226. The remaining $310, it said, was her responsibility. The lawsuit said she disputed the charge but Kaiser was unmoved. The lawsuit said Getubig did not request or want any test other than one to detect the COVID virus. It said that because the multiplex test processing includes COVID-19 results, it is against federal law to bill for it, even if it also includes results for other viruses. “These people never asked for a flu test,” Devine said. “They’re bundling it together, but it’s still just one test. They shouldn’t be passing on this $310 charge to people who are just trying to get a COVID test.” The law firm has heard from several other plan members who received identical bills, and said that with Kaiser insuring 40% of Californians, the number of patients who may have been improperly billed could be huge. That will become clearer after lawyers obtain records from Kaiser, Devine said. “We don’t know how long Kaiser has been doing this or how many people it’s affected,” Devine said. “We’ve heard from probably a handful of people in the last few weeks. That gives us some sense that this is a widespread practice.” The suit asks the court to prohibit Kaiser from billing its members for COVID tests, notify them they have a right to have COVID tests, including multiplex diagnostics, at no charge, reimbursement of billed members, punitive damages and attorney fees. Testing was seen as a key part of the global effort to control the spread of COVID-19 by identifying who was infected as soon as possible to limit how many others they expose. The U.S. testing response drew widespread criticism in early 2020 over missteps that led to delays and shortages of the test kits. But legislation adopted in March 2020, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act and Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security — or CARES — Act, specified that diagnosis for the virus had to be provided at no cost, which was seen as key to removing barriers for people to seek testing. Devine said those provisions will remain in effect at least as long as the U.S. state of emergency regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. He said he’s unaware of similar cases of insurers illegally billing for COVID tests. “By imposing an illegal price barrier to receiving a COVID test, Kaiser is actively discouraging its members from being tested,” the lawsuit said. “And by driving down the number of people receiving COVID tests, fewer people will find out they are positive for COVID, and will transmit the virus on to others.” Join the Conversation We invite you to use our commenting platform to engage in insightful conversations about issues in our community. We reserve the right at all times to remove any information or materials that are unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane, indecent or otherwise objectionable to us, and to disclose any information necessary to satisfy the law, regulation, or government request. We might permanently block any user who abuses these conditions.	https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2022/08/22/lawsuit-kaiser-charged-patients-for-free-covid-tests/	2022-08-24T10:56:30Z	pasadenastarnews.com	control	https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2022/08/22/lawsuit-kaiser-charged-patients-for-free-covid-tests/	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
By Holden Lewis \| NerdWallet.com Selling a home these days isn’t as effortless as a year ago, when a seller could choose among competing buyers. “Overall, I’d say the buying/selling experience right now is comparable to the summer of 2019,” Dana Bull, a Realtor in the Boston area, said in an email. Today, “there’s still low inventory and it’s a very active market, but not as cutthroat and without underlying tones of desperation.” Last year’s home-selling advice consisted largely of tips for choosing the best offer. But those recommendations have grown stale: Homes are receiving fewer offers amid slowing sales. Sellers need fresh guidance. Buyers are taking more time, and they’re getting picky. Here are home-selling suggestions from real estate agents. Higher rates = fewer buyers and fewer offers It’s still a seller’s market, in which would-be buyers outnumber sellers, but it isn’t as imbalanced as it used to be, because mortgage rates skyrocketed this year and pushed homes past the point of affordability for some. The result is fewer home sales. Homes are also taking longer to sell: According to real estate brokerage Redfin, 61.2% of homes for sale in July were on the market at least 30 days, compared with 54.4% in July 2021. Sellers felt confident of getting multiple offers in 2021, but they receive fewer offers now. Homes for sale in June received an average of 3.4 offers, down from 4.4 offers in June 2021, according to the National Association of Realtors’ monthly Confidence Index. Not long ago, it was common to list a property on Tuesday and sell it by the weekend, says Terri Robinson, a Realtor in Ashburn, Virginia. “Or you had people putting in offer deadlines saying, ‘Please submit all offers by 4 p.m. Sunday.’ Now that language has disappeared.” Buyers await price reductions Here’s the time-honored way to sell a house: - List it for substantially more than your target price. - Negotiate with a buyer who offers less than you expect to get. That strategy isn’t ideal when selling to today’s first-time buyers. “Home buyers will ignore homes which are perceived as overpriced,” Chuck Vander Stelt, a Realtor in Valparaiso, Indiana, said in an email. This is especially true of millennial and Generation Z buyers, he said, who are more comfortable viewing and making offers on houses for which the sellers have set a “justifiable price.” Michelle Doherty, a Realtor in northern Virginia, notices the same thing. Buyers “hold off, thinking, ‘You know what? We’ll wait for them to drop [the price].’” She prods clients to make offers below asking instead of waiting for sellers to reduce prices. The worst that sellers can say is no, she points out. Pricing strategy is still fundamental Keeping the above in mind, agents and their clients still set the asking price using traditional techniques: looking up prices of recent comparable sales, then making adjustments based on the home’s condition and the seller’s patience. “If they need the proceeds to secure another home, they may be inclined to price on the low end of the range to ensure enough interest” and sell quickly, Bull said. Bull added: “I tell my sellers that it’s OK to go with their ‘reach price’ but to be prepared to react to market feedback if the home is not selling. A price reduction often attracts a new set of buyers and can get those who are already considering the home at the original price to take action.” More sellers are cutting their asking prices. Reductions almost doubled in one year, from 134,036 in June 2021 to 266,812 in June 2022, according to data from Realtor.com. Buyers don’t want to inherit costly repairs All these agents underscored the need to clean the house thoroughly, repaint or at least touch up, and beautify the outside. “I think that’s something we got away from for a long time,” Doherty says. If the seller doesn’t have time or money to make the place immaculate, she adds, “then you just have to price it in accordance with what the product looks like.” But beauty is more than Sheetrock-deep to today’s buyers. After they make down payments, pay loan closing costs and spring for pizza for friends who helped them move, they want assurance that they won’t get torched by expensive repairs in the first two or three years, Vander Stelt said. “Home sellers can get more for their homes if they can illustrate a low risk of the new owner having a major expense in the near future,” he said. He suggests hiring an inspector before listing the home, addressing issues that are identified, rehiring the inspector to prepare a report after repairs are made, then sharing the report with buyers. Vander Stelt acknowledged that a seller these days is unlikely to recoup the cost of replacing a roof, furnace or water heater. But, he said, “When sellers remove all doubt, buyers react by making offers more quickly and typically pay a higher price.” Bidding wars aren’t necessary Sales success isn’t measured by the number of competing offers that a property attracts. One acceptable offer is enough. “Yes, the market has changed,” Robinson says. “But more importantly, houses are still going under contract, and yours will, too. It may take a little bit longer, and we may get one or two offers versus the 10 or 15 that people were getting in the past. But the key here is that we’re getting the offers.” More From NerdWallet Holden Lewis writes for NerdWallet. Email: hlewis@nerdwallet.com. 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Starting Off Right With the Syllabus We can create more engaging and inspiring ways to begin a class, write Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis, who provide some concrete ideas for how to do so. As we all rush to prepare our syllabi this August, as social media fills up with instructors lamenting how many hours they are spending and how impossibly long their syllabi are growing, we recommend something counterintuitive: stop for a moment! Breathe. And take some time to think about the purpose of a syllabus, a course and higher education more generally. We promise: shorter is better—and so is giving your students a voice in what they will be learning. Who hasn’t handed out a conventional syllabus and watched the collective life drain from the class? The longer and more intimidating the syllabus, the greater the distance between you and your students. For first-time teachers, this might feel like the safest option: the syllabus becomes a buffer, a display of expertise and authority. For overworked teachers, this gives us a quick lesson plan for Day 1: we review the syllabus, answer questions, everyone (including ourselves) is made to feel sufficiently anxious and overloaded, and then we’re done. The experience is enervating, for students and instructors alike. And when students ask about subsequent assignments and deadlines, the weary teacher can respond, predictably, “It’s on the syllabus!” We can do better. We can create more engaging and inspiring ways to begin a class and more effective methods to guide students through even a daunting syllabus. Magic happens when we give students an alternative to the deadening march through the syllabus—every requirement, the laborious rules and institutional policies, all of those features of higher education that are more about risk management than learning. Here are some ideas for how you can use the syllabus to get your class off to a great start. Scavenger hunt (prep time: 5-10 minutes). An easy way to engage students is to ask them lighthearted, trivia-style quiz questions about the syllabus. Make it a game. The questions should challenge students to find key information in the syllabus—or in the course Dropbox folder, LMS or website, if you’ve spent time building one. This exercise need not be taxing, either for the instructor or for the student. Ask them, “When is the midterm due?” Or, “What assignment is due the week before Thanksgiving?” The point is to give students a memorable way to focus on the key points in the syllabus. You can have students record their answers using a variety of tools, such as a popular survey platform, a polling device or a clicker. If all else fails, simply have them shout out the responses. An alternative is to divide the class into groups, assign each group a section of the syllabus and have them ask the rest of the class questions about their section in the manner of the questions suggested above. This method not only breaks up the monotony and overload but also sets up an active learning method that saves you time and deepens your students’ learning experience. Mapping the syllabus (prep time: 5-10 minutes). With a little advance planning to collect supplies and bring them to class, you can make this another welcoming activity. If your class is meeting in person, distribute blank sheets of paper and drawing devices—markers, pencils and so forth—and ask students to visually represent the syllabus through a timeline, a concept map, a comic or some other graphic form. Give students a few minutes for reading and drawing and then ask them to tape their maps to the board or surrounding walls. You can allocate different parts of the room to different page numbers or parts of the syllabus. Then allow everyone five to 10 minutes to walk around the room and look at the maps. Finally, ask students to explain their drawings to the class. Students can engage in this activity online as well, no matter whether yours is a course in art history or data visualization, geography, or GIS mapping. If meeting online, use the whiteboard feature on Zoom or Google Jamboard for collaborative or parallel drawing time. Students can work on the same white space or on separate sheets, each with a prompt to get things started. Each sheet can be devoted to particular sections of the syllabus or “you are here” points on the map. Then take screenshots of the final product(s) and ask students to talk through what they did and why. Collaborative annotation (prep time: 15-20 minutes). This technique, which is frequently used in executive leadership workshops, can work in a seminar of 10 or a lecture of 300. Group students into teams of up to four or whatever the physical architecture of your classroom allows. Divide up your syllabus, including any addenda at the end, into sections and assign one section to each team. For a large class, different teams can work on the same section. Let them read together, annotate, ask questions and do whatever they want in their teams, including choosing one person who will be the spokesperson and another who will be the transcriber. It is especially satisfying to adapt this collaborative annotation method to remote teaching. As a primer, show students how you annotate a digital text, sharing your screen to demonstrate the tools and techniques you use as you explain why you highlight particular things. Then simply assign different parts of the syllabus to students by number, have them work independently for a short time on their given section and then, if working asynchronously, ask students to share what they did and why in a group chat, text or video. Go through each section and have the relevant individuals or groups present their annotations and raise questions. The annotations can be made in the digital document itself using a proprietary collaborative tool such as Google Docs or an open-source one like GitHub, Manifold or Hypothesis. If none of these is familiar, you might project a Microsoft Word document at the front of the room—or share your screen on Zoom—and comment on the document live with track changes to show students how the function works. Then ask them to come back next class with their own annotated syllabi. When students report back, you may find that some of the language of the syllabus can be edited for clarity, so carve out some time after class to sort, edit, compile and compose a revised version. That revised version then becomes the official class document. Peer-to-peer syllabus learning (prep time: 30-60 minutes). Give students the task of teaching parts of the syllabus to one another. Assign different parts of the syllabus to small groups of two to three people. Each group will need time to absorb and interpret their section. Then, in the second half of class, flip it around and have those groups present their section to another group or to the whole class. In remote learning, assign parts of the syllabus to groups of students who then create an FAQ for that section for other students and can respond to their questions in the chat. The FAQ can be added to your course’s learning management system (Blackboard, Canvas, Moodle or the like), or it can be made into a page on your course website. As the instructor, of course, you will be watching this activity unfold and adding explanations, making changes, fixing mistakes. And students will, indeed, find mistakes—and that’s a good thing for them and for you. In the world of co-learning, receiving feedback and correcting mistakes are essential skills in the classroom and beyond. Interactive syllabus project (prep time: two-three hours). Guy McHendry, associate professor of communications studies at Creighton University in Omaha, Neb., developed this project. It goes like this: build your syllabus as a survey that delivers a portion of the content and then asks the students questions related to that content before they move on to the next section (similar to a conditional release of content in some learning management systems). This functions like a training session to ensure that students acknowledge and understand what they have read. Importantly, you should also direct short-answer questions to students themselves about their learning goals, concerns and highest aspirations. For example, after reading the instructor’s name and contact information, the survey might ask students for their pronouns and the best ways for the professor to get in touch with them. After reading the course learning goals, the survey can prompt students to pick which goal is most important to them. This format is an effective method to get to know your students and to gauge student reactions to course policies and requirements. The interactive syllabus uses a Qualtrics tool. However, you can use any popular survey platform or Microsoft Forms, which has an accessible screen-reading feature, to walk students through each part of the syllabus and ask them questions every step of the way. Better yet, give students credit for completing the survey so that they are rewarded for careful reading and engagement. McHendry recommends sending the syllabus to students before the first day of class to give yourself time to read their answers in advance. This will also give you time to prepare to correct any misconceptions or misreadings and empower you to get to know your students and engage with them in meaningful ways on day one. Their answers might even alter the way you teach the course. Cathy N. Davidson is senior adviser to the chancellor (CUNY) on transformation and co-founder and co-director of HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory). She is Distinguished Professor of English and founding director of the Futures Initiative at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Christina Katopodis is postdoctoral research associate in the Transformative Learning in the Humanities initiative at CUNY. This article was excerpted from their book, The New College Classroom, being published this month by Harvard University Press. 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The word “evil” has been getting a lot of play in the media of late. In today’s Academic Minute, Wesleyan University’s Elise Springer delves into why the word doesn’t always fit. Springer is an associate professor of philosophy at Wesleyan. 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Kochi: The High Court on Wednesday directed the state government to extend the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) Rs 103 crore to clear the salary dues of employees. The court intervened while considering the plea submitted by the Corporation's employees asking the state government to prioritise salary disbursement. The KSRTC had requested the government to approve Rs 50 crore each for July and August; and Rs 3 crore as festival allowance. Earlier, the KSRTC told the High Court that it would need immediate financial assistance from the state government as it is in no position to pay salaries to its employees. The Corporation revealed its dire state of affairs in an affidavit to the Kerala High Court. The Corporation stated that the state government had asked KSRTC to implement duty revision before receiving any assistance from the public exchequer. But as it failed to implement the revision, the government has not extended the financial help, KSRTC told the court.	https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/24/hc-directs-kerala-govt-give-103-cr-ksrtc.amp.html	2022-08-24T11:08:34Z	onmanorama.com	control	https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/24/hc-directs-kerala-govt-give-103-cr-ksrtc.amp.html	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
- 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. Title Interview Horror Stories From the candidate’s side. This week I heard from a friend and former colleague about a job interview in which the interviewer was … uh … let’s go with “awful” and leave it at that. She was so horrified that she withdrew her application. I know we’re supposed to see job interviews as two-way streets, exercises in reciprocity and the like, but there’s often a real asymmetry underlying them. The interviewer typically knows more about the role than the interviewee. In many cases, the interviewee just needs a job and so isn’t in a great bargaining position. But even granting all of that, there are times as a candidate when the red flags are so glaring that they manage to cross the information chasm. (Flags don’t cross chasms, but you know what I mean.) No matter how much you wanted the job when you got there, the signals were so strongly negative that you had to walk away. I’ve had a couple. At one point, in grad school, I applied for a role at a research center. The interviewer was (then) a prominent scholar and public figure known as a conspicuous egalitarian. He was also quite pleased with himself. After a couple of questions, he apparently didn’t like what he heard, so he theatrically dropped my materials on the floor between us and went silent. I left. I can truthfully say that I never took him seriously again and have never questioned that decision. Many years later, I was on a phone interview for a VPAA job. The interviewer let slip first that he was the president of the faculty union. A few moments later, he mentioned that “the last guy was terrible, but we got rid of him.” Shortly thereafter, “well, we very much like the interim. (pause) But yes, it’s an open search.” I withdrew my application. About a year later, I read that the president and senior leadership had been run out of town. I didn’t see it coming, exactly, but I wasn’t surprised. It had “nightmare” written all over it. I bet I’m not the only one with stories, though. Wise and worldly readers, if you’re comfortable, I’d love to hear your “red flag” interview stories. Feel free to anonymize as much as necessary. This is more about commiseration than about nailing anybody. Ideally, maybe some managers will recognize some of their own bad habits and make some changes. Or the rising generation of managers will learn what not to do. As always, I can be reached via email at deandad (at) gmail (dot) com, or on Twitter (@deandad). Thanks! Trending Stories - Harvard May No Longer Be the Wealthiest University - New presidents or provosts: Brock Endicott Gavilan Huston-Tillotson Northwestern - Public health backlash to Dr. Leana Wen talk on backlash - Webcam Scans for Remote Tests Violate Student Privacy, Judge Rules - Boston campus leaders worry about Orange Line shutdown THE Campus Resources for faculty and staff from our partners at Times Higher Education. - How to develop a code of conduct for ethical research fieldwork - Why we should be humans first and academics second - There are great benefits to merging library and IT departments - A checklist for making disability inclusion a reality in higher education - Pedagogical wellness specialist: the role that connects teaching and well-being Most Shared Stories - Higher ed must change or die (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed - Why I gave $25M to a small liberal arts college (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed - Why did U of Florida suddenly fire its honors director? - How Should Staff Interact with Faculty? \| Inside Higher Ed - Humanities' scholarly infrastructure is vanishing (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed	https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/confessions-community-college-dean/interview-horror-stories	2022-08-24T11:08:42Z	insidehighered.com	control	https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/confessions-community-college-dean/interview-horror-stories	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
From 3 Struggling Public Colleges, a New University Emerges Enrollment declines, state underfunding and structural deficits created a crisis in Vermont’s college system. Rather than close campuses, a statewide hybrid institution aims to cut costs and build long-term legislative backing. Think higher education can’t “transform” itself? Meet Vermont State University. The newly accredited institution, the result of a merger of three financially challenged public colleges and universities scattered across more than 100 miles in Vermont, isn’t the kind of change many academic idealists might want; the consolidation will eliminate scores of programs and will cost some employees their jobs. But it may be the sort of solution more states embrace in this era of declining enrollments, constrained resources and political doubts about higher education’s value. Like many radical changes in higher education, it was prompted by crisis: an April 2020 recommendation by the then chancellor of the Vermont State Colleges system to close three of its campuses as pressure from the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated a decade of financial strain. Blowback about the proposal forced the chancellor’s resignation later that month, but the underlying issues that spurred his recommendation—including a $25 million structural deficit within the Vermont system—remained. “We had to ask ourselves, is there an alternative path to a sustainable future?” said Megan Cluver, a trustee of the Vermont system who by day is a senior manager on the higher education team at Deloitte Consulting. In the two years since then, with the help of federal recovery funds, Vermont has undertaken one of the most dramatic restructurings in the recent history of higher education, essentially consolidating three institutions—Northern Vermont University, Vermont Technical College and Castleton University—into one, Vermont State University. That may seem like a story of subtraction, and indeed, the three institutions’ 250 programs are shrinking to 100, and system leaders expect to eliminate the positions of dozens of managers. But while advocates for the new arrangement concede that it was prompted by distress and insufficiency, they are hopeful (if something short of fully confident) that the refashioned institution will better serve students and state residents and be sustainable in a way its predecessor colleges were not. The new institution, which earned accreditation this year from the New England Commission on Higher Education, will employ a new academic model that shares academic programs across campuses, reduces dependence on physical facilities and relies heavily on hybrid forms of learning. “There’s an opportunity to have a single greater reach, to lower our costs and most importantly to reduce the cost of education to our students,” Sharron Scott, chief financial and operating officer at the Vermont State Colleges, said during a session last month at the annual meeting of the National Association of College and University Business Officers. That’s no small thing in a state where students bear 84 percent of the cost of their educations, almost double the national average. The biggest threat to the plan’s success may be a factor that helped bring about the crisis in the first place: state financial support. Vermont’s politicians, who have historically competed with those in neighboring New Hampshire to fund public higher education at the lowest level, have increased their investment as part of this arrangement, but their commitment lasts only five years. A Slowly Unfolding ‘Crisis’ Like most difficult situations, this one didn’t develop overnight. Public college enrollments in Vermont, historically the smallest in the nation, began declining in 2012 after the Great Recession and have fallen by about 10 percent. (That’s before the demographic decline that many states will face later this decade, which is projected to reduce Vermont’s postsecondary enrollment by roughly another 10 percent.) As enrollments have dropped, the institutions in the Vermont State Colleges system have increased their tuition discount rates to try to limit the impact on students, as seen below. Those trends had an unmistakable impact on the finances of the system’s colleges: from 2013 through 2019, according to data the system provided to the state last year, the system’s score on the composite financial index developed by NACUBO was under 1, on a scale from -1 (the worst) to 10 (the healthiest). Each of the institutions had accumulated a structural deficit. That reality stayed under the radar screen in part because for many years system leaders didn’t share clear data about the institutions’ financial situations with board members. “When I first joined the board [in 2019], we were given a field of data that we could wander through, but it didn’t spark conversation,” Cluver said. “Everybody would look at the screen, smiling and saying, ‘What’s the next item on the agenda?’” It wasn’t until the pandemic hit and Chancellor Jeb Spaulding raised the specter of closing Northern Vermont’s campuses in the towns of Johnson and Lyndon and shutting down Vermont Technical College’s campus in Randolph that the severity of the situation could no longer be ignored. Critics objected that Spaulding’s proposal to shutter campuses would strand place-bound learners in broad swaths of Vermont and eliminate key employers and bedrock cultural institutions in multiple regions of the state. Dennis Jones, who as the longtime (now emeritus) president of the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems has seen more than his share of higher education financial and governance crises, said Spaulding’s proposal in April 2020 “hit the state cold” and increased “the willingness of folks to consider radical changes. If not then, when?” (Jones couldn’t help but add, seemingly in a plea to officials in other states, that it “shouldn’t take that level of crisis to prompt that kind of consideration. It shouldn’t get that close to the brink.”) Spaulding withdrew his proposal a week later, and quit his job a week after that. But the drastic call woke the state up. “It made it so obvious,” Jones said, “that the state couldn’t just hold its breath and say, ‘It’s going to turn around.’” In August 2020, the Legislature formed a Select Committee on the Future of Public Higher Education in Vermont to address “the urgent needs of the Vermont State Colleges (VSC) and [develop] an integrated vision and plan for a high-quality, affordable and workforce-connected future for higher education in Vermont.” The panel was made up of trustees, legislators, business leaders and others, and NCHEMS and Jones were brought in to consult. Over the course of six intense meetings, conducted over Zoom (it was in the heart of the pandemic, after all) in the second half of 2020, the select committee laid out what Scott called a “three-way path” to a more sustainable future for the system, requiring significant changes not just for the system but for the state officials who fund it. Take Two Under the plan, three of the system’s four institutions—Castleton University, Vermont Technical College and Northern Vermont University, which had itself resulted from a 2018 merger of Lyndon State and Johnson State Colleges—would combine into a single accredited institution, while the fourth, Community College of Vermont, would remain separate. Importantly, no physical locations would close; though some campuses would shrink, since the system estimated that about a half million square feet of space was underutilized, teaching and learning would happen on all existing campuses. System officials committed to wringing $25 million (the size of the structural deficit) out of the system’s budget over five years, through a restructuring of administrative services and operations. The agreement required officials to continue to provide campus-based operations at the various campuses, though it granted flexibility in how those services would be provided. And the state government, for its part, committed to provide bridge funding to help with the restructuring and to significantly increase its base appropriations to the system, by 58 percent. The money was largely made possible by the infusion of funds Vermont received from the federal government’s American Rescue Plan in response to the pandemic. Not everyone loved the plan: the labor unions within the Vermont system proposed their own design for a unified public higher education system, which acknowledged the need for significant changes and suggested unifying the four colleges (including the Community College of Vermont) within a singular accredited institution. But it differed from the select committee’s plan by emphasizing significant (and sustained) increases in state funding over cost-cutting, and calling for strong faculty and staff involvement in governance. “The administration is in an impossible situation because of the lack of funding historically, and there was a lot of overlap in the two proposals, including calling for bringing the institutions together into one,” said Linda Olson, a professor of education at Castleton and vice president of higher education at AFT Vermont, the state affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers union. “But the administration’s plan didn’t call for a long-term commitment for the state to pony up, and the administration fought our attempt to get faculty and staff representation in governance.” The strongest opposition came from officials and faculty members at Castleton University—unsurprising, given that the university didn’t face the existential threat its peers did under Spaulding’s initial plan. “A lot of people at Castleton felt everything was fine there, and they were probably going to be safe if the others closed,” Scott said. From Concept to Reality The opposition wasn’t enough to stop the Vermont State Colleges board from approving the select committee’s plan last fall—and the months since have been focused on making it happen, as documented on the system’s “transformation” website. System officials met their first-year commitment of cutting $5 million from the budget by “consolidating a number of leadership positions,” restructuring the infrastructure of the campuses’ libraries and making “some reductions in the facilities footprint,” which led to lower costs for heating (not much need for cooling in Vermont), public safety, cleaning and other services, Scott said. Among the biggest challenges facing the new combined institution was how to rationalize the nearly 250 “competing and duplicative” academic programs offered by Castleton, Northern Vermont and Vermont Tech to serve their combined 5,500 students, which resulted in “tiny class sizes” and faculty members who were “stretched far too thin,” Yasmine Ziesler, the chief academic officer at the Vermont State system, said at another session at last month’s NACUBO conference. Ziesler said that academic leaders from the three campuses and the system developed an overall framework for creating a single academic portfolio and then “took a very huge leap of faith” by asking groups of faculty members to “tell us how” to do that. “We asked them, ‘How would you take your three English majors, your five business programs, and optimize them, to improve efficiency, serve students and strengthen alignment with student careers?’” Ziesler said. Faculty leaders agreed with administrators that it wasn’t “realistic” for three separate institutions to continue to operate so many programs, said Castleton’s Olson, which is why their own restructuring proposal endorsed creating a single university with “majors across the system.” “We’re in favor of sharing our expertise with our colleagues at other campuses,” she said. But Olson rebuffs Ziesler’s suggestion that this was a faculty-driven process. “It’s not accurate to say it had faculty buy-in; it didn’t go through faculty governance,” she said. “They’re asking the faculty to create what they already envisioned, rather than asking the faculty what would be the best way out of this situation.” Scott, the Vermont system’s CFO, said that the still-unfolding process of merging academic programs isn’t expected to reduce the number of faculty positions, but it will still save money. “The creative thinking our faculty has done has already saved $1.5 million by reducing the number of faculty overload payments we make,” she said. It will be impossible to reduce the number of academic programs across the campuses and continue to give students at all physical locations the curricular options they need without a significant change in how courses are offered. Cluver said the system envisions Vermont State being the “first statewide hybrid institution,” and Ziesler calls the evolving answer “face-to-face plus,” in which courses will be delivered through a mix of in-person, virtual and other options so that students across the state can take any course. Olson said faculty members worry that many courses will lose a face-to-face component entirely, which could be problematic given that surveys show the system’s students prefer in-person learning. “Throwing them into an online program is probably not going to work for a lot of them,” she said. While system leaders and faculty groups may disagree about some aspects of Vermont’s grand experiment, they generally agree that a major overhaul was needed in response to years of underfunding and enrollment declines—and the near certainty of continued demographic changes ahead. They fall along a continuum in their confidence that the experiment will work. “I’m confident we will succeed as long as we work together,” said Scott, the system CFO. “We didn’t get in this situation overnight, and we won’t get out of it overnight.” Olson said faculty leaders are skeptical that the short-term funding the Legislature has provided will be sustained, given the many years of state underfunding that preceded it. “I’m most worried about the fact that we’ve been thrown a life preserver that’s going to be pulled out from us after five years,” she said. “Unless the state makes a longer-term commitment, I’m worried that we’ll be back in the same situation five years from now.” Trending Stories - Harvard May No Longer Be the Wealthiest University - New presidents or provosts: Brock Endicott Gavilan Huston-Tillotson Northwestern - Public health backlash to Dr. Leana Wen talk on backlash - Webcam Scans for Remote Tests Violate Student Privacy, Judge Rules - Boston campus leaders worry about Orange Line shutdown THE Campus Resources for faculty and staff from our partners at Times Higher Education. - How to develop a code of conduct for ethical research fieldwork - Why we should be humans first and academics second - There are great benefits to merging library and IT departments - A checklist for making disability inclusion a reality in higher education - Pedagogical wellness specialist: the role that connects teaching and well-being Most Shared Stories - Higher ed must change or die (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed - Why I gave $25M to a small liberal arts college (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed - Why did U of Florida suddenly fire its honors director? - How Should Staff Interact with Faculty? \| Inside Higher Ed - Humanities' scholarly infrastructure is vanishing (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed	https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/08/24/3-struggling-public-colleges-new-university-emerges	2022-08-24T11:08:52Z	insidehighered.com	control	https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/08/24/3-struggling-public-colleges-new-university-emerges	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Chalakudy: It was quite unexpectedly the police investigating the murder of Mysuru-based traditional healer Shaba Sheriff found out that two Keralites were murdered in the Middle East on the orders of Nilambur-based entrepreneur and main accused Shaibin Ashraf. On Thursday a second autopsy will be conducted here on the mortal remains of Densy, one of his overseas victims, almost two-and-a-half years after she was eliminated along with Ashraf's 35-year-old business partner Harris in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Her grave will be opened up on Thursday and the body will be exhumed for a re-postmortem. Revenue Disional Officer, Irinjalakkuda, has given the approval for the same after a police request. Densy, who was 38 at the time of her death, is the daughter of Valiyengal Rosily, a resident of North Chalakudy. A mother of three, Densy went to Abu Dhabi looking for a job in December 2019. Her death was reported three months later. Harris and Densy were found dead on March 5, 2020 in a flat in Abu Dhabi. Abu Dhabi police’s initial conclusion was that the man committed suicide after killing the woman. Densy’s family members and relatives in Chalakkudy are yet to come to terms with the reports that she was murdered. Initially, the kin were told that Densy died in a road accident. Later, it was reported she had cardiac arrest. After completing the repatriation formalities in Abudhabi, the body was brought to her hometown and buried at St Joseph’s Church. Her mother Rosily came to know it was murder only a few days ago. A person named Anwar, who claimed to be the manager of the company where Densy worked, informed the family about the murder. Thereafter, police teams from Nilambur and Chalakkudy arrived at her home and recorded statements. A re-postmortem request submitted by Deputy Superintendent of Police Saju K Abraham, who is investigating the case, was approved by the RDO. Ashraf's role Shaibin Ashraf, who is the key accused in the murder of Shaba Sheriff, is allegedly the mastermind of the double murder case. According to the statements from other accused in the case, Shaibin plotted the murder of Harris and Densy. Noushad, Cheera Shafeeq, Puthukulangara Shabeeb Rahman, Kuthradan Ajmal, and Pori Shameem who were arrested in connection with the Shaba Sheriff murder case had disclosed their roles in the UAE twin murder case. They had also given a statement that they executed the murder following directions from Shaibin who was back in Kerala. Harris body was also exhumed and a re-postmortem was carried out last week.	https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/24/rdo-nod-autopsy-chalakudy-woman-killed-uae-2020.amp.html	2022-08-24T11:09:00Z	onmanorama.com	control	https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/24/rdo-nod-autopsy-chalakudy-woman-killed-uae-2020.amp.html	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Today Is the Day President Biden is expected to announce that he will cancel $10,000 of federal student loan debt per borrower, and he will extend of the pause on federal student loan payments. Loan servicers say they have been left in the dark and warn that a big mess may be about to hit that could trigger confusion among borrowers. The White House is expected to announce its highly anticipated plan on student loan debt today. However, with less than 10 days until the current pause on repayments is set to lift on Sept. 1, the department has yet to communicate its plans to student loan servicers, who are raising red flags about anticipated operational disruptions that will likely lead to a mess of confused borrowers due to the last-minute decision. Discussions with White House officials reported by NBC show that Biden is considering extending the payment pause for many months as well as canceling up to $10,000 in student debt per borrower for those earning less than $125,000. With less than 10 days until the current pause is set to lift on Sept. 1, student loan servicers have not received any indication from the White House or the Education Department on their final plans, which the White House says are not yet final. Biden’s announcement is expected to affect the balances of a third of the 40 million Americans with federal student loan debt—however, his plan is unlikely to please everyone. Many liberals want more debt forgiveness, and many Republicans want no forgiveness. The announcement is expected to have large political implications for the administration. Republicans have long argued that the president does not have the authority to cancel student loan debt via executive order. They also argue that cancellation could increase inflation and will benefit high-income graduates. On the other hand, Democrats and civil rights activists have asked Biden to relieve as much as $50,000 in student loans per borrower in order to truly provide relief to Black borrowers, who owe an average of $25,000 more in student loan debt than white college graduates. “President Biden’s decision on student debt cannot become the latest example of a policy that has left Black people—especially Black women—behind. This is not how you treat Black voters who turned out in record numbers and provided 90 percent of their vote to once again save democracy in 2020,” said Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP. An analysis from Penn Wharton at the University of Pennsylvania released today found that a debt relief plan of $10,000 per borrower for those making under $150,000 a year would cost the federal government $298.4 billion. The same analysis found that 58 percent of debt relief under this plan would go to borrowers making under $82,000 a year. Letter From Loan Servicers A private source sent a letter sent to Inside Higher Ed confirmed to have been sent by the Student Loan Servicing Alliance, the organization that represents the loan servicers that oversee 95 percent of all federal student loans, to the Education Department on Monday. The letter said that loan servicers are in a “precarious position” and unprepared to quickly adapt their systems to reflect a final decision from Biden on student loans. “Ten days is grossly insufficient notice to reprogram the massive and interwoven systems that handle loan accounts, provide appropriate system testing time, and also construct and implement revised communication plans,” said Scott Buchanan, president of the Student Loan Servicing Alliance, in the letter. Loan servicers rely on automatic communications to relay information to borrowers on upcoming payments. According to Buchanan, borrowers are typically given notice 45 days in advance of an upcoming payment. The department requires servicers to reach out to borrowers at least 21 days before an upcoming payment is due. Servicers were instructed by the department not to send billing statements to borrowers in anticipation that payment would resume on Sept. 1. Now, some servicers are racing to change their messaging systems as the Sept. 1 deadline nears. Some of these communications are sent automatically, and loan servicers are bracing for quick changes to their systems to reflect new updates from the Biden administration anticipated today. “While servicers were instructed to hold back resumption communications and have worked to implement manual and systemic processes to try and suppress those communications[,] the core systems, programming, and call center training still reflect resumption occurring on Sept. 1. As the resumption date of Sept. 1 approaches, those manual processes and temporary work arounds used may begin to have fail points as more and more automated system transactions begin to be triggered, and there could be incidents of borrower miscommunication that will be a result of the lack of guidance in sufficient time for any operation,” said the letter. Many borrowers are already confused. According to screenshots shared on Twitter last Thursday, one servicer, Nelnet, sent emails to borrowers enrolled in automatic reduction plans reminding them that an automatic payment would be deducted on Sept. 1. Later that day, Nelnet sent another email stating that the original email “shouldn’t have been sent” and that no payment would be withdrawn from borrowers’ accounts. “If the payment pause is extended by the federal government, we will announce it at the top of the Nelnet.com homepage and post it to our Facebook and Twitter pages as soon as we are informed,” said Nelnet in the email. The email also said that a billing statement would be sent 21 days before a payment is due. Nelnet did not respond to Inside Higher Ed when asked to confirm the screenshots. Buchanan warned that without a final decision from the department, the less-then-10-day window given to loan servicers is not enough to avoid other administrative errors such as the one with Nelnet. “The pattern has been that almost every major announcement—extensions or new programs—has been done with no official advance warning to servicers, schools, or others who do the work. This means we are all made unprepared to fully guide borrowers with good information and operationally have had insufficient time to lay in plans to ensure these changes go smoothly. There’s a big opportunity to work together collaboratively to make these implementations much better, and that will benefit the government’s borrowers,” Buchanan said to Inside Higher Ed. The Education Department did not respond when asked by Inside Higher Ed about whether it has prepared loan servicers for the final announcement. “Even today, we are hearing from borrowers who are experiencing distress and deep concern about what they need to do or not do and that call volume has increased, which is being caused by this lack of clarity created by the government that we hope can be resolved,” said the letter. Trending Stories - Harvard May No Longer Be the Wealthiest University - New presidents or provosts: Brock Endicott Gavilan Huston-Tillotson Northwestern - Public health backlash to Dr. Leana Wen talk on backlash - Webcam Scans for Remote Tests Violate Student Privacy, Judge Rules - Boston campus leaders worry about Orange Line shutdown THE Campus Resources for faculty and staff from our partners at Times Higher Education. - How to develop a code of conduct for ethical research fieldwork - Why we should be humans first and academics second - There are great benefits to merging library and IT departments - A checklist for making disability inclusion a reality in higher education - Pedagogical wellness specialist: the role that connects teaching and well-being Most Shared Stories - Higher ed must change or die (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed - Why I gave $25M to a small liberal arts college (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed - Why did U of Florida suddenly fire its honors director? - How Should Staff Interact with Faculty? \| Inside Higher Ed - Humanities' scholarly infrastructure is vanishing (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed	https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/08/24/biden-announce-student-debt-cancellation	2022-08-24T11:09:02Z	insidehighered.com	control	https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/08/24/biden-announce-student-debt-cancellation	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Chalakudy: It was quite unexpectedly the police investigating the murder of Mysuru-based traditional healer Shaba Sheriff found out that two Keralites were murdered in the Middle East on the orders of Nilambur-based entrepreneur and main accused Shaibin Ashraf. On Thursday a second autopsy will be conducted here on the mortal remains of Densy, one of his overseas victims, almost two-and-a-half years after she was eliminated along with Ashraf's 35-year-old business partner Harris in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Her grave will be opened up on Thursday and the body will be exhumed for a re-postmortem. Revenue Disional Officer, Irinjalakkuda, has given the approval for the same after a police request. Densy, who was 38 at the time of her death, is the daughter of Valiyengal Rosily, a resident of North Chalakudy. A mother of three, Densy went to Abu Dhabi looking for a job in December 2019. Her death was reported three months later. Harris and Densy were found dead on March 5, 2020 in a flat in Abu Dhabi. Abu Dhabi police’s initial conclusion was that the man committed suicide after killing the woman. Densy’s family members and relatives in Chalakkudy are yet to come to terms with the reports that she was murdered. Initially, the kin were told that Densy died in a road accident. Later, it was reported she had cardiac arrest. After completing the repatriation formalities in Abudhabi, the body was brought to her hometown and buried at St Joseph’s Church. Her mother Rosily came to know it was murder only a few days ago. A person named Anwar, who claimed to be the manager of the company where Densy worked, informed the family about the murder. Thereafter, police teams from Nilambur and Chalakkudy arrived at her home and recorded statements. A re-postmortem request submitted by Deputy Superintendent of Police Saju K Abraham, who is investigating the case, was approved by the RDO. Ashraf's role Shaibin Ashraf, who is the key accused in the murder of Shaba Sheriff, is allegedly the mastermind of the double murder case. According to the statements from other accused in the case, Shaibin plotted the murder of Harris and Densy. Noushad, Cheera Shafeeq, Puthukulangara Shabeeb Rahman, Kuthradan Ajmal, and Pori Shameem who were arrested in connection with the Shaba Sheriff murder case had disclosed their roles in the UAE twin murder case. They had also given a statement that they executed the murder following directions from Shaibin who was back in Kerala. Harris body was also exhumed and a re-postmortem was carried out last week.	https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/24/rdo-nod-autopsy-chalakudy-woman-killed-uae-2020.html	2022-08-24T11:09:06Z	onmanorama.com	control	https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/24/rdo-nod-autopsy-chalakudy-woman-killed-uae-2020.html	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Kochi: A 50-year-old woman who was an accused in the murder of her infant grandchild passed away here on Wednesday. PM Sipsi died after a suspected heart attack. Her death came at a lodge at Pallimukku. Her lover John Binoy Dcruz of Palluruthy in Kochi was the accused number one in the murder of Norah Maria, the daughter of Sipsi's son Sajeev, a native of Kodisseryin Angamaly, and Diksi. Norah was just one year and eight months old when she was drowned in the bucket by John. The shocking incident happened at a hotel in the Kaloor area of Ernakulam in March this year. Sipsi was the second accused in the case. Both John, 28, and Sipsi had checked into the hotel along with two kids — Norah and her four-year-old brother. According to the police, John drowned the girl in a bucket full of water by holding her upside down at midnight. Sipsi had left the room a few hours earlier. Police said John killed the girl in an act of revenge as Sipsi had earlier filed some complaints against him after he wanted to end his relationship with her. Sipsi had also alleged that the baby was born to her from Benoy. He had also held a grudge against Sipsi for leading an immoral life, the police said.	https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/24/sipsi-drowning-grandchild-lover-kochi.amp.html	2022-08-24T11:09:12Z	onmanorama.com	control	https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/24/sipsi-drowning-grandchild-lover-kochi.amp.html	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
An Untimely Disruption A busy subway line in Boston is down for maintenance as fall classes begin at two community colleges in the area. College leaders worry their students will struggle to get to campus. A frequently trafficked subway line in Boston started a month-long shutdown for maintenance work last Friday, worrying local higher ed administrators ahead of the fall semester. Some community college leaders fear students may struggle to get to class, or delay starting college altogether, because of the disruption to their commutes. The temporary closure of the Orange Line, planned to last until Sept. 18, has been a looming source of anxiety among Bostonians for weeks. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) set a goal to complete five years’ worth of construction in a month on a line that usually transports about 100,000 daily riders. “It’s how I’m losing a lot of sleep,” said Pam Eddinger, president of Bunker Hill Community College. Most of Eddinger’s students live within a 10-mile radius of the campus and rely on the T, as Boston’s subway system is known, to get there. Her institution and Roxbury Community College both sit along the Orange Line, with stations right near their campuses, generally a major benefit to their commuter students. But the shutdown overlaps with the beginning of the fall semester, starting Aug. 31 at Roxbury and Sept. 6 at Bunker Hill. Other higher ed institutions also expect students to be inconvenienced by the maintenance work, including Northeastern University, Emerson College and Tufts University. Eddinger said the timing is especially unfortunate as Bunker Hill plans to switch back to offering more than half of its classes in person or hybrid starting this fall. She’s also concerned maintenance work on the Orange Line may take longer than a month. “There’s so much unknown,” she said. “Coming out of COVID, this is the last thing I was looking for.” The Return to In-Person Paula Umaña, director of institutional engagement at the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice at Temple University, said community college leaders across the country are eager to hold classes in person this fall to keep students engaged and enrolled after steep pandemic enrollment declines. But less remote learning means transportation issues like this one pose a serious obstacle to students. “This shutdown is going to happen right at the beginning of the fall semester, right when these two community colleges are going to receive new students,” she said. “What are those students going to do? This is their dream. They’ve been waiting to go to college, and boom, first barrier.” Both community colleges now have information up on their websites detailing other bus and commuter rail routes students can take to their campuses. Roxbury Community College leaders also instructed faculty members not to penalize students for lateness because of public transit issues, and managers have been asked to offer the same flexibility to college employees. Lisa Battiston, an MBTA spokesperson, said the agency is offering a free shuttle bus along a portion of the Orange Line route and is recommending people take the Commuter Rail, the train system in greater Boston, at no cost during the shutdown. MBTA staff members are also available at Orange Line stations to guide commuters. “We know many of our riders, like teachers and students, do not have the option to stay home during the closure,” Battiston said in an email. “The MBTA is committed to working with our municipal partners, all school districts, and all colleges and universities touched by the Orange Line shutdown in order to provide riders with alternative travel options.” Jordan E. Smock, executive director of communications, marketing and external affairs at Roxbury, said college administrators met with MBTA officials to offer input on transportation alternatives to ahead of the closure. So far, students, faculty and staff members don’t seem to be having significant problems getting to campus. However, “next week will provide us with much better insight on any shortcomings with the alternative transit options,” she said in an email, referring to the start of the fall semester. Patrick Collins, executive director of media relations at Tufts, said the university has been suggesting other modes of transportation to students, as well. “Many of our students, particularly those on our Health Sciences Campus in Boston, rely on the Orange Line to get to and from campus,” Collins said in an email. “We have communicated with students, faculty and staff on the Health Sciences campus in Boston to inform them of alternative transportation options, such as carpooling, biking, working from home, if possible, and others.” Campus administrators have also had regular meetings with local, state and MBTA officials to request expanded transportation options and resources for their students. For example, Tufts leaders and others successfully advocated for shuttle buses to Chinatown, where the university’s health sciences campus is located. Administrators also asked the MBTA to post signs about the closure in multiple languages and have multilingual MBTA staff members at stations to help campus visitors, students, faculty members and employees find their way to campuses. Collins said the signs are forthcoming, but the MBTA is struggling to find enough ambassadors who speak other languages. Eddinger said state and city officials have done their best to make the shutdown less onerous for Orange Line riders, but regardless, some students are going to have longer, more convoluted routes to campus—and to everywhere else they need to go for the next month. “Three-quarters of our students are adults, and they work,” she said. “So, it’s not just taking the bus to school. It’s dropping off the kids, taking them to school, going to work, coming back, picking up the kids … We know that it’s way more complex. And we know that our students right now, just coming back from COVID, are tentative already about restarting [college].” She believes some students may put off enrolling this semester to avoid more complicated trips to campus. Deferring is “a tendency to try to relieve the pain and stress in their lives,” but those students might not come back, she said. “I’m worried about enrollment.” Student head count at Bunker Hill has already dropped from 11,769 students in fall 2019 to 9,327 students in fall 2021. The enrollment decline echoes the trend among community colleges nationwide during the pandemic. “Enrollment numbers have just been going lower and lower and lower,” Umaña said. “It’s staggering how abysmal enrollment numbers are for community colleges for the most part.” “This particular issue with the subway being shut down in Boston—it’s going to impact, if not enrollment, definitely retention,” especially among adult learners and students with childcare responsibilities, she added. She also worries students who opt to drive to campuses in lieu of taking the Orange Line might incur extra costs, especially as inflation continues to drive up gas prices in some areas. A 2021 report by the Seldin-Harris Smith Foundation found that 99 percent of students at community colleges live off campus, and they spend $1,840 per year on transportation costs on average. “The cost of transportation is extremely expensive,” she said. “If Mom and Dad give you a car, and Mom and Dad give you gas money … you’re most likely going to be OK. But for those students, they don’t have Mom and Dad. They’re Mom and Dad.” Eddinger is ultimately glad to see long-delayed repairs made to a line frequently used by students that’s notoriously slow and unsafe, especially after an Orange Line train caught fire in July. But she’s steeling herself for the hurdles it will cause for students and their families when classes start. The Orange Line “runs through a lot of our communities of color … and our communities of high need, and it is a lifeline,” she said. “It is a lifeline for our college and a lifeline for the working life of our citizens. It’s a logistical challenge, even if everything ran smoothly.” Trending Stories - Harvard May No Longer Be the Wealthiest University - Creative ways to use the syllabus to engage and teach students (opinion) - New presidents or provosts: Brock Endicott Gavilan Huston-Tillotson Northwestern - Public health backlash to Dr. Leana Wen talk on backlash - Democrats Urge Biden to Extend PSLF Waiver THE Campus Resources for faculty and staff from our partners at Times Higher Education. - How to develop a code of conduct for ethical research fieldwork - Why we should be humans first and academics second - There are great benefits to merging library and IT departments - A checklist for making disability inclusion a reality in higher education - Pedagogical wellness specialist: the role that connects teaching and well-being Most Shared Stories - Higher ed must change or die (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed - Why I gave $25M to a small liberal arts college (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed - Why did U of Florida suddenly fire its honors director? - How Should Staff Interact with Faculty? \| Inside Higher Ed - Humanities' scholarly infrastructure is vanishing (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed	https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/08/24/boston-campus-leaders-worry-about-orange-line-shutdown	2022-08-24T11:09:12Z	insidehighered.com	control	https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/08/24/boston-campus-leaders-worry-about-orange-line-shutdown	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
New Presidents or Provosts: Brock U, Endicott College, Gavilan CC District, Huston-Tillotson U, Northwestern U August 24, 2022 - Pedro Avila, vice president for student services at Santa Rosa Junior College, in California, has been named superintendent/president of the Gavilan Joint Community College District, also in California. - Sara Quay, vice provost at Endicott College, in Massachusetts, has been promoted to provost there. - Lesley Rigg, vice president (research) and professor of geography at Western University, in Ontario, has been chosen as president and vice chancellor at Brock University, also in Ontario. - Michael H. Schill, president of the University of Oregon, has been named president of Northwestern University, in Illinois. - Melva K. Williams, chief of staff at the Southern University System, in Louisiana, has been selected as president of Huston-Tillotson University, in Texas. Trending Stories - Harvard May No Longer Be the Wealthiest University - Creative ways to use the syllabus to engage and teach students (opinion) - New presidents or provosts: Brock Endicott Gavilan Huston-Tillotson Northwestern - Public health backlash to Dr. Leana Wen talk on backlash - Democrats Urge Biden to Extend PSLF Waiver THE Campus Resources for faculty and staff from our partners at Times Higher Education. - How to develop a code of conduct for ethical research fieldwork - Why we should be humans first and academics second - There are great benefits to merging library and IT departments - A checklist for making disability inclusion a reality in higher education - Pedagogical wellness specialist: the role that connects teaching and well-being Most Shared Stories - Higher ed must change or die (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed - Why I gave $25M to a small liberal arts college (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed - Why did U of Florida suddenly fire its honors director? - How Should Staff Interact with Faculty? \| Inside Higher Ed - Humanities' scholarly infrastructure is vanishing (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed	https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/08/24/new-presidents-or-provosts-brock-endicott-gavilan-huston-tillotson-northwestern	2022-08-24T11:09:22Z	insidehighered.com	control	https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/08/24/new-presidents-or-provosts-brock-endicott-gavilan-huston-tillotson-northwestern	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
The Opposition UDF on Wednesday listed a series of appointments under the LDF tenure where merit was dismissively shooed away like it was a stray to accommodate people close to the ruling party. Higher education minister R Bindu did not bother to respond to any of these but listed equally outrageous appointments made under the UDF. No names were taken by both sides. Moral of the story: Nepotism is not the monopoly of any particular party. The illegal appointments in various higher education institutions in Kerala caused a tumult in the Assembly after Congress MLA Roji M John sought leave for an adjournment motion on the issue. Evidently, Roji wanted to speak about the first rank granted to Priya Varghese in the associate professor selection in the Malayalam Department of Kannur University. Priya Varghese is the wife of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's private secretary, K K Ragesh. Higher education minister R Bindu made a terse statement right at the start. "The rank list was drawn up in strict adherence to the UGC Regulations." Roji said it was not. He said that the candidate not only had the least research score but also did not have the sufficient experience to be shortlisted. He said that as per the UGC Regulations, the time taken to acquire an MPhil or PhD degree could not be considered as teaching experience for direct recruitment. Only those candidates who work for their MPhil or PhD degrees while working part time could consider this period as experience while applying for the post. If these regulations were followed, Roji said the candidate should have been disqualified. He then said that the instance of nepotism in the associate professor appointment was not the exception but the norm. He said many woefully under-qualified candidates were given lucrative teaching posts merely because of their close connection to the CPM. Roji said one of them had plagiarised his doctoral thesis, and had admitted to this also. Yet this candidate who had confessed to data theft was given the post ignoring more equipped candidates. Then he said an SFI leader who had failed in the sixth semester was granted grace marks for a Malayalam skit he had not been part of. Roji said even candidates who had failed in the BA Exam was given admission to the MA course. Opposition Leader V D Satheesan said that the government was bending rules and regulations to stuff higher education bodies with loyalists. "Hundreds of applicants with brilliant research and academic record are becoming increasingly disillusioned. This is causing serious unrest among the educated youth in Kerala," Satheesan said. He alleged that the CPM was using universities as party offices. When Satheesan said that the government had shrunk vice chancellors into mere puppets, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan intervened. He said all VCs appointed by the LDF government had the most exemplary credentials. To this Satheesan said: "We have not questioned their qualifications. What we are saying is that selection committees headed by VCs were being rigged to recruit party favourites ignoring merit." Minister Bindu said these allegations were just motivated charges made to malign the exemplary image of the government. She said the UDF had appointed as vice chancellor even a person with only basic education. Later, Muslim League leader P K Kunhalikutty said this was untrue. Bindu also said these charges were born out of "third-rate jealousy". Opposition Leader V D Satheesan, when his turn came, asked why would anyone feel "even the thirtieth-rated jealousy" for a higher education sector that was sinking new depths of inefficiency. He said students in Kerala were migrating outside the state for higher studies in overwhelming numbers. Satheesan said that in the Mahatma Gandhi University, the number of students enrolling for higher education yearly had fallen from nearly 1.5 lakh to just about 20,000. "Many of our students are not even going to known or reputed institutions outside. They feel that even an unknown college outside Kerala is better than the colleges we have here," Satheesan said. The minister also insinuated that the ongoing appointment controversy was part of an "attempt to sneak Sangh Parivar agenda into universities in Kerala using Constitutional posts". She was clearly referring to Governor Arif Muhammad Khan and his diatribes against the Kannur VC. She then told the Opposition benches: "If you are genuinely against Hindutva interests, please withdraw from playing along with them." This elicited a strong reaction from the Opposition Leader. "If you are so concerned about the Hindutva agenda just look how the Kannur VC revised the syllabus of the MA Governance and Politics," Satheesan said. Four books by Hindutva stalwarts like V D Savarkar, M S Golwalkar and Deen Dayal Upadhyaya were made part of the syllabus. "The charge against the Modi government is also similar, that they are trying sneak in Hindutva ideology through universities," Satheesan said.	https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/24/vice-chancellor-row-assembly.html	2022-08-24T11:09:30Z	onmanorama.com	control	https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/24/vice-chancellor-row-assembly.html	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Counselors Join Cops to Help Students in Crisis After widespread criticism of campus police departments and calls for reform, colleges and universities are supplementing departments with mental health counselors. Increasingly aware of the toll the past two years of political and pandemic-related upheaval have taken on student mental health, college administrators are seeking to provide better support by establishing crisis response teams and adding trained counselors to campus police departments. California State University, Long Beach, recently created a mobile crisis unit staffed with mental health counselors instead of police to respond to student mental health crises. Other universities, including Oregon State University and several University of California campuses, are also developing mobile response teams that are attached to campus police departments but led by trained therapists. At the University of Florida, a mental health professional now accompanies campus police officers when they respond to calls about a student in crisis. At the University of Mary Washington, in Virginia, students will have access to counseling support after business hours to reduce the decision-making role of police during such crises. These shifts on college campuses come as demand for mental health care continues to soar among students feeling emotionally battered by the police killing of George Floyd—and the wave of angry national protests that followed—and the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. Both events had deep repercussions on college campuses that continue to play out today. Students across the country have called on university administrators to substantially defund or abolish campus police departments, citing concerns about aggressive policing and racial profiling, as well as the mishandling of students experiencing mental health crises. The sudden shift to remote education triggered by the pandemic also revealed deep social and financial inequities among students and exacerbated existing concerns about student mental health. “Mental health concerns have now become one of the top few priorities for institutions in a way that you just didn’t see—I think student affairs professionals would say it was 15 years ago, but not presidents, and now presidents are saying it,” said Juliette Landphair, vice president of student affairs at Mary Washington, who chaired a working group last summer on the university’s response to mental health crises, which led to the after-hours counseling support and other changes. A New Service The mental health working group was formed following a lengthy review of the campus police force, which was prompted by the department’s decision to help local Fredericksburg police manage off-campus protests related to Floyd’s murder. Fredericksburg police used tear gas to disperse the downtown crowd, where the presence of campus police angered students, alumni and community members. Some student activists called for the university to defund the campus police department. They weren’t alone in making such demands; students at other campuses across the country have voiced similar sentiments. Some university leaders, including University of Minnesota president Joan Gabel, responded by cutting ties with local police departments. Johns Hopkins University paused a plan to create its own police force, though that has recently resumed. In a 2021 campus safety plan drafted in response to student and faculty calls for reform, the University of California system recommended that each campus create a multidisciplinary crisis team to respond to behavioral health crises, among other tasks. Troy D. Paino, president of the University of Mary Washington, responded to the demands on his campus by forming a community advisory panel to review the downtown protest and recommend reforms. The panel suggested, among other things, revising the crisis response protocol to make a mental health professional the primary responder and making counselors available 24-7 to students, which could reduce the need to call campus police. Starting this academic year, Mary Washington is contracting with ProtoCall, a mental health company and on-call counseling service that gives students another place to turn when there’s a crisis, particularly after business hours. Landphair said the university doesn’t have the staffing capacity to start its own crisis response team to meet the needs of its 4,000 students. Even with ProtoCall on board, how campus officials and students respond to a situation should depend on the type of crisis, she said; if a student is experiencing suicidal ideation, for instance, the police should be called. But the ProtoCall service could be a good resource for students having a panic attack or feeling so depressed that they haven’t gotten out of bed for several days, she said. Landphair expects the app to launch on campus in mid-September and is curious to see how it’s used. “It’s a lot about recognizing the reality of our mental health challenges right now and to acknowledge that we’re listening to students,” she said. “I think just knowing that there are resources available in and of itself is valuable.” Landphair said campus police leaders supported the change. She believes it will give officers more time to focus on community policing and building trust with students as well as with the broader community. “They’re not mental health clinicians; they are police officers,” she said. John Ojeisekhoba, chief of police at Biola University and president of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators, says collaboration between mental health professionals and campus public safety officials is “a phenomenal approach,” but he doesn’t believe campus cops should be completely removed from responding to mental health crises. “The majority of campus law enforcement or campus public safety departments operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days of the year, and have a unique role to play to support and care for students on our campuses needing support,” he wrote in an email. “Because of this, we are concerned about removing campus law enforcement or campus public safety departments from any process where the risk to the safety of the student is present and would be counterproductive. Working together is vital.” He noted that the IACLEA has been training campus police on student mental health issues and working with mental health professionals to develop best practices for years. “Although 2020 elevated the discussion about this mostly at the municipal policing level, solution-based partnerships on this subject on campuses have been taking place even before the 2020 protests,” he wrote. Dylan Rodríguez, a professor in the department of media and cultural studies at the University of California, Riverside, and a member of the UC Cops Off Campus Coalition, said universities were already planning to hire more mental health professionals prior to the protests, a move he called “the lowest-hanging fruit” for university administrators. “One of the most repetitive patterns of police violence, including fatal police violence, has been their response to people having mental health crises,” he said. “The police are not trained to actually care for people. That’s not what they do. And universities know that this is a major liability and a major public relations scandal all the time.” UC Riverside recently announced changes to its police department, including a new team of behavioral and mental health professionals who will be first responders to calls involving students in crisis. Sworn officers will be available for calls involving threats to the campus, according to a news release. Rodríguez said he’s heard from students, faculty and staff who plan to avoid the new team altogether because they are worried about the connection between the mental health workers and police departments. “They are going to have a lot of trouble earning the trust of people in mental health crises,” he said of the new mental health workers. “This paradigm of tethering mental health care responses to police power is really distressing to people.” A Co-Responder Model University of Florida administrators decided on a co-responder model to help address mental health needs on campus. The model pairs a mental health professional with a university police officer to respond to a mental health emergency on campus. “A lot of these things aren’t crimes that law enforcement across the country are getting called to,” said Meggen Sixbey, assistant director of the behavioral services division in the University of Florida Police Department. But there’s often no one else available to handle such calls, she said. Sixbey said the university’s model gives the responding officer and counselor flexibility in deciding how to best handle a situation. For example, the counselor might take the lead on a well-being check, but if they go on a call about a potentially suicidal individual who could be armed, the officer would take the lead. Sixbey previously worked as a crisis counselor in the university’s counseling center and moved to the police department to start the co-responder model. She said UFPD is the first campus police department in the country to launch this type of co-responder program, which builds on the department’s previous collaboration with campus mental health partners. The University of Florida’s police department has been a national law enforcement mental health learning site for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance since 2010. What a program looks like depends on a specific campus’s needs, she said. She’s heard from several universities that want to expand the role of counselors in responding to mental health crises. “If we can really try to flesh those out some, we can just do better by our campuses, because we know there’s so much trauma associated with arrests and hospitalizations and a lot of times they are not necessary,” she said. The co-responder or mental health counselor in the University of Florida’s model is an employee of the campus police department and started working with the department in July. A second clinician is scheduled to start within the next month. Sixbey said her goal is to have a 24-7 operation. Mobile Crisis Units At Cal State Long Beach, two mental health professionals are working out of the campus police station and are available to respond instead of a police officer to a psychiatric crisis or emergency—a change that’s part of the university’s broader mental health overhaul. The Mobile Crisis Unit launched earlier this summer with the help of a $400,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Beth Lesen, vice president of student affairs at CSULB, said the decision to create the unit was “a no-brainer.” “The police wanted it; the students wanted it,” she said. “People don’t want armed police officers responding to noncriminal emergencies if they can avoid it, especially communities of color.” She noted that students of color had advocated for the change. “Our communities have been clear that they don’t want to meet with the police unless there was a crime that happened,” she said. “We heard them and moved as quickly as we could to fix that and make sure they didn’t have to.” When Lesen started at Cal State Long Beach in June 2020, setting up the mobile crisis unit was one of her first projects. She and other administrators consulted with several Los Angeles–area precincts to determine the best way to set up the unit, ultimately deciding to station the mental health counselors in the police department. That decision also allows the mobile crisis unit to respond to calls through the police dispatch units, which Lesen said was necessary to avoid confusing callers by requiring them to use a number other than 9-1-1. Lesen said the university had to hire the two counselors, train them and develop new protocols to start the unit, which would have been difficult to do without the support of the campus police department. “This is something that the police department has been asking for for a while,” she said. “They knew that it would be a big asset to the campus. I was the one who went slow on it, because we needed to do it correctly.” The unit’s first full academic year begins this month, and Lesen will monitor the number of calls and outcomes of the responses, such as whether a student is hospitalized or referred for counseling. “This should make more of our students feel comfortable in making a call if they need help,” she said. 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SEO Headline (Max 60 characters) Democrats Urge Biden to Extend PSLF Waiver More than 110 Democrats in the House and Senate sent a letter to the Education Department Tuesday calling for the temporary Public Service Loan Forgiveness waiver to be extended until at least July 2023. The current deadline for the waiver is Oct. 31. “Since the deadline of Oct. 31, 2022 to qualify for PSLF under the waiver program is rapidly approaching, we ask that the Department extend this deadline in order to ensure that all public servants with federal student loans are able to benefit from this historic waiver,” said the letter. The PSLF waiver, announced in October 2021, was designed to eliminate bureaucratic red tape that made the program, which allows certain public service workers to get their federal student loans forgiven after 10 years of repayment, confusing and inaccessible for borrowers. The Education Department in July proposed a set of rules that would permanently simplify the application process for PSLF. It would allow all payments to count toward PSLF, regardless of loan program or payment plan. The final rule could take effect as soon as July 1, 2023, if final revisions to the proposal are made before Nov. 1. Lawmakers are asking for the waiver to be extended until next July to “align with new changes under the forthcoming rules and minimize confusion among borrowers.” So far more than 175,000 borrowers have received a total of $10 billion in student debt forgiveness under the temporary PSLF waiver. According to the letter, only 15 percent of the nine million public service workers with student debt have filed paperwork tracking their qualifying payments toward PSLF. The lawmakers also asked the department to increase outreach to borrowers on the PSLF waiver to ensure that people are taking advantage of the program while it is still available. Trending Stories - Harvard May No Longer Be the Wealthiest University - Creative ways to use the syllabus to engage and teach students (opinion) - New presidents or provosts: Brock Endicott Gavilan Huston-Tillotson Northwestern - Public health backlash to Dr. Leana Wen talk on backlash - Democrats Urge Biden to Extend PSLF Waiver THE Campus Resources for faculty and staff from our partners at Times Higher Education. - How to develop a code of conduct for ethical research fieldwork - Why we should be humans first and academics second - There are great benefits to merging library and IT departments - A checklist for making disability inclusion a reality in higher education - Pedagogical wellness specialist: the role that connects teaching and well-being Most Shared Stories - Higher ed must change or die (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed - Why I gave $25M to a small liberal arts college (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed - Why did U of Florida suddenly fire its honors director? - How Should Staff Interact with Faculty? \| Inside Higher Ed - Humanities' scholarly infrastructure is vanishing (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed	https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2022/08/24/democrats-urge-biden-extend-pslf-waiver	2022-08-24T11:09:42Z	insidehighered.com	control	https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2022/08/24/democrats-urge-biden-extend-pslf-waiver	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
SEO Headline (Max 60 characters) Former Troy U Football Player Sues Teammate for Assault John Haynes, a former Troy University football player, is suing a former teammate and three coaches over an alleged pattern of abuse and bullying that he says resulted in him being sexually assaulted with a pool cue, according to CBS42 News. The defendant, Jack Dawson, is now a punter for Jacksonville State University. He was served a summons at practice on July 29 and arrested Monday on multiple assault charges related to his alleged abuse of Haynes. Dawson was still listed on the JSU roster as of Tuesday afternoon. The lawsuit alleges that Dawson—who was also Haynes’s suite mate at the Troy, Ala., university—repeatedly abused and bullied Haynes, subjecting him to verbal homophobic harassment and slurs as well as “molestation and violence.” The charges against Dawson include urinating on Haynes’s car in a Snapchat video, repeatedly exposing himself to Haynes and making violent threats. The pattern, Haynes alleges, culminated in an incident where Dawson penetrated him with a pool cue, leading to pain and rectal bleeding that lasted for months. The suit also names three former Troy coaches, former special teams coordinators Brian Blackmon and Dayne Brown along with current chief of staff Jamaal Smith, who Haynes says turned a blind eye to the alleged abuse. According to the lawsuit, both Haynes and his parents attempted to meet with coaches on several occasions to address Dawson’s harassment, to no avail. At one meeting involving the parents, the suit says, Smith dismissed the abuse as “horseplay” and suggested that Haynes was homosexual. In another conversation with Blackmon, Haynes says he was told that “the way to handle a bully is to beat their ass.” Haynes says he and Dawson met in August 2020 and that the harassment started “almost immediately.” Haynes withdrew from Troy that same year. Trending Stories - Harvard May No Longer Be the Wealthiest University - Creative ways to use the syllabus to engage and teach students (opinion) - New presidents or provosts: Brock Endicott Gavilan Huston-Tillotson Northwestern - Public health backlash to Dr. Leana Wen talk on backlash - Democrats Urge Biden to Extend PSLF Waiver THE Campus Resources for faculty and staff from our partners at Times Higher Education. - How to develop a code of conduct for ethical research fieldwork - Why we should be humans first and academics second - There are great benefits to merging library and IT departments - A checklist for making disability inclusion a reality in higher education - Pedagogical wellness specialist: the role that connects teaching and well-being Most Shared Stories - Higher ed must change or die (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed - Why I gave $25M to a small liberal arts college (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed - Why did U of Florida suddenly fire its honors director? - How Should Staff Interact with Faculty? \| Inside Higher Ed - Humanities' scholarly infrastructure is vanishing (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed	https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2022/08/24/former-troy-u-football-player-sues-teammate-assault	2022-08-24T11:09:52Z	insidehighered.com	control	https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2022/08/24/former-troy-u-football-player-sues-teammate-assault	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
SEO Headline (Max 60 characters) Harvard May No Longer Be the Wealthiest University Harvard University may lose the title of the nation’s wealthiest university, Bloomberg reported. The potential new wealthiest university is the University of Texas, which may overtake Harvard's $53.2 billion endowment, as of June 21. The value of the Texas endowment at that time was $42.9 billion. The source of the new wealth: crude oil and natural gas. Bloomberg reports that with rising prices, Texas earns $6 million a day on 2.1 million acres it owns in the Permian Basin. At a time when other colleges are shedding fossil fuel investments, Texas is having a windfall. “The University of Texas has a cash windfall when everyone is looking at a potential cash crunch,” said William Goetzmann, a professor of finance and management studies at Yale University. “Adjusting your portfolio for social concerns is not costless.” The article said that it is “likely” that Harvard’s endowment will lose money this year. Trending Stories - Harvard May No Longer Be the Wealthiest University - New presidents or provosts: Brock Endicott Gavilan Huston-Tillotson Northwestern - Public health backlash to Dr. Leana Wen talk on backlash - Webcam Scans for Remote Tests Violate Student Privacy, Judge Rules - Boston campus leaders worry about Orange Line shutdown THE Campus Resources for faculty and staff from our partners at Times Higher Education. - How to develop a code of conduct for ethical research fieldwork - Why we should be humans first and academics second - There are great benefits to merging library and IT departments - A checklist for making disability inclusion a reality in higher education - Pedagogical wellness specialist: the role that connects teaching and well-being Most Shared Stories - Higher ed must change or die (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed - Why I gave $25M to a small liberal arts college (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed - Why did U of Florida suddenly fire its honors director? - How Should Staff Interact with Faculty? \| Inside Higher Ed - Humanities' scholarly infrastructure is vanishing (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed	https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2022/08/24/harvard-may-no-longer-be-wealthiest-university	2022-08-24T11:10:02Z	insidehighered.com	control	https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2022/08/24/harvard-may-no-longer-be-wealthiest-university	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
SEO Headline (Max 60 characters) LSU Health Faculty Urges Investigation Into Ex-Chancellor Faculty members at Louisiana State University are calling for an investigation of former LSU Health chancellor Larry Hollier, who allegedly spent lavishly on fancy dinners, first-class travel and luxury car services, all reportedly bankrolled by funds from the LSU Health Foundation. The spending came into focus following an investigation by local media outlets WWL-TV and the Times-Picayune. Now WWL-TV is reporting that faculty members want answers and have asked the current chancellor to investigate his predecessor, who stepped down in October. Records reviewed in the investigation found that Hollier billed the foundation for more than $128,000 over three years. Faculty members called Hollier’s spending habits “apparent abuses of LSU Health Foundation New Orleans funds” in a letter to interim chancellor Steve Nelson calling for an investigation. But the LSU Health Foundation has rallied to Hollier’s defense, arguing that his spending—which came from the Chancellor’s Discretionary Fund—followed the appropriate policies and procedures, though the TV station noted the foundation has not produced documentation that outlines what items can be charged to the chancellor’s account and what expenses are prohibited. Faculty members blasted the lack of accountability at LSU Health and said more fiduciary oversight is needed. Trending Stories - Harvard May No Longer Be the Wealthiest University - Creative ways to use the syllabus to engage and teach students (opinion) - New presidents or provosts: Brock Endicott Gavilan Huston-Tillotson Northwestern - Public health backlash to Dr. Leana Wen talk on backlash - Democrats Urge Biden to Extend PSLF Waiver THE Campus Resources for faculty and staff from our partners at Times Higher Education. - How to develop a code of conduct for ethical research fieldwork - Why we should be humans first and academics second - There are great benefits to merging library and IT departments - A checklist for making disability inclusion a reality in higher education - Pedagogical wellness specialist: the role that connects teaching and well-being Most Shared Stories - Higher ed must change or die (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed - Why I gave $25M to a small liberal arts college (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed - Why did U of Florida suddenly fire its honors director? - How Should Staff Interact with Faculty? \| Inside Higher Ed - Humanities' scholarly infrastructure is vanishing (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed	https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2022/08/24/lsu-health-faculty-urges-investigation-ex-chancellor	2022-08-24T11:10:12Z	insidehighered.com	control	https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2022/08/24/lsu-health-faculty-urges-investigation-ex-chancellor	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
SEO Headline (Max 60 characters) The Paradox of Blaming Evil: Academic Minute August 24, 2022 Today on the Academic Minute: Elise Springer, associate professor of philosophy at Wesleyan University, explains why the word “evil” doesn’t always mean what it seems. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Trending Stories THE Campus Resources for faculty and staff from our partners at Times Higher Education. - How to develop a code of conduct for ethical research fieldwork - Why we should be humans first and academics second - A checklist for making disability inclusion a reality in higher education - There are great benefits to merging library and IT departments - Pedagogical wellness specialist: the role that connects teaching and well-being Most Shared Stories - Higher ed must change or die (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed - Why I gave $25M to a small liberal arts college (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed - Why did U of Florida suddenly fire its honors director? - How Should Staff Interact with Faculty? \| Inside Higher Ed - Humanities' scholarly infrastructure is vanishing (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed	https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2022/08/24/paradox-blaming-evil-academic-minute	2022-08-24T11:10:22Z	insidehighered.com	control	https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2022/08/24/paradox-blaming-evil-academic-minute	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
SEO Headline (Max 60 characters) Public Universities to Scale Use of Low-Cost Statistics Courseware The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities has agreed to help spread the use of new low-cost introductory statistics courseware developed by Lumen Learning. The statistics courseware is among the first to emerge from a new initiative funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to build high-quality, low-cost courseware for 20 high-enrollment “gateway” classes that first-year students of color and those from low-income backgrounds disproportionately fail or don’t finish. The initiative aims to develop and spread the use of courseware designed to increase the odds that students from all backgrounds and academic preparation levels have an equitable chance to succeed in those key courses—and ultimately in college. The partnership with APLU is designed to drive adoption of the courseware among the association’s 250 public research and land-grant universities. Among the first universities to participate are Florida International University, Georgia State University, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and South Texas College. “Our partnership is uniquely using high-quality digital tools that provide faculty with enhanced courseware designed for more equitable outcomes, improved instruction, and more student preparedness and engagement for those participating in gateway courses like Introduction to Statistics,” Karen Vignare, APLU’s vice president for digital transformation for student success, said in a news release. Trending Stories THE Campus Resources for faculty and staff from our partners at Times Higher Education. - How to develop a code of conduct for ethical research fieldwork - Why we should be humans first and academics second - A checklist for making disability inclusion a reality in higher education - There are great benefits to merging library and IT departments - Pedagogical wellness specialist: the role that connects teaching and well-being Most Shared Stories - Higher ed must change or die (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed - Why I gave $25M to a small liberal arts college (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed - Why did U of Florida suddenly fire its honors director? - How Should Staff Interact with Faculty? \| Inside Higher Ed - Humanities' scholarly infrastructure is vanishing (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed	https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2022/08/24/public-universities-scale-use-low-cost-statistics-courseware	2022-08-24T11:10:32Z	insidehighered.com	control	https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2022/08/24/public-universities-scale-use-low-cost-statistics-courseware	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
SEO Headline (Max 60 characters) Survey of Parents: They Want to Be Involved in College Choices An EAB survey of 2,330 parents has found that they have become more important to students in deciding where to go to college and that they are more likely than in the past to want direct communication from colleges. Students (in a separate survey) named parents as among their top five sources of information 48 percent of the time, compared to 37 percent in 2020 and 34 percent in 2019. What do parents want? Seventy-five percent of them want direct communication from colleges, up from 71 percent in 2020. “Today’s parents are concerned about college cost, often uncertain about value, and anxious about their children’s safety and wellbeing,” said EAB. “For many colleges, the question is not whether, but when, to start communicating with parents. In our 2022 survey as in previous surveys, we found that parents tend to get involved in college research around the same time as their children do. Just under 20 percent of families have started researching colleges by freshman year, and just under 50 percent have done so by the end of sophomore year,” said the EAB report. “Communicating with parents early in high school can help your institution cater to parents’ desire for information and start to build a relationship with families.” On some issues, the survey notes difference between parents based on their race or ethnicity. Families of color are more likely than white families to value proximity to where they live. Eighteen percent of white parents value proximity, while 22 percent of Black parents, 25 percent of Asian parents and 28 percent of Latino parents do. Trending Stories - Harvard May No Longer Be the Wealthiest University - Creative ways to use the syllabus to engage and teach students (opinion) - New presidents or provosts: Brock Endicott Gavilan Huston-Tillotson Northwestern - Public health backlash to Dr. Leana Wen talk on backlash - Democrats Urge Biden to Extend PSLF Waiver THE Campus Resources for faculty and staff from our partners at Times Higher Education. - How to develop a code of conduct for ethical research fieldwork - Why we should be humans first and academics second - There are great benefits to merging library and IT departments - A checklist for making disability inclusion a reality in higher education - Pedagogical wellness specialist: the role that connects teaching and well-being Most Shared Stories - Higher ed must change or die (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed - Why I gave $25M to a small liberal arts college (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed - Why did U of Florida suddenly fire its honors director? - How Should Staff Interact with Faculty? \| Inside Higher Ed - Humanities' scholarly infrastructure is vanishing (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed	https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2022/08/24/survey-parents-they-want-be-involved-college-choices	2022-08-24T11:10:42Z	insidehighered.com	control	https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2022/08/24/survey-parents-they-want-be-involved-college-choices	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
SEO Headline (Max 60 characters) U of Delaware Imposes Two-Week Mask Mandate The University of Delaware is imposing a two-week mask mandate for all classrooms, research laboratories and all university transportation. The university said its action was preventative. "COVID-19 continues to spread across the nation, now with the highly transmissible BA.5 Omicron variant. We know from campus experience over the past two and a half years that COVID-19 cases tend to surge at the beginning of each semester, largely due to the sharp increase in campus density as students arrive at UD from various locations around the United States and the world," said a university notice. While most colleges are not imposing mask mandates this semester, Grinnell College also imposed one for the first two weeks. Trending Stories - Harvard May No Longer Be the Wealthiest University - New presidents or provosts: Brock Endicott Gavilan Huston-Tillotson Northwestern - Public health backlash to Dr. Leana Wen talk on backlash - Webcam Scans for Remote Tests Violate Student Privacy, Judge Rules - Boston campus leaders worry about Orange Line shutdown THE Campus Resources for faculty and staff from our partners at Times Higher Education. - How to develop a code of conduct for ethical research fieldwork - Why we should be humans first and academics second - There are great benefits to merging library and IT departments - A checklist for making disability inclusion a reality in higher education - Pedagogical wellness specialist: the role that connects teaching and well-being Most Shared Stories - Higher ed must change or die (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed - Why I gave $25M to a small liberal arts college (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed - Why did U of Florida suddenly fire its honors director? - How Should Staff Interact with Faculty? \| Inside Higher Ed - Humanities' scholarly infrastructure is vanishing (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed	https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2022/08/24/u-delaware-imposes-two-week-mask-mandate	2022-08-24T11:10:52Z	insidehighered.com	control	https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2022/08/24/u-delaware-imposes-two-week-mask-mandate	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
SEO Headline (Max 60 characters) Webcam Scans for Remote Tests Violate Student Privacy, Judge Rules Cleveland State University violated a student’s privacy when a virtual proctor required a webcam scan of the student’s room before a remote test, a federal judge ruled Monday. Aaron Ogletree was asked to scan his bedroom with a webcam prior to taking an online chemistry test in the spring 2021 semester. He tried to object to the request, citing confidential tax documents in the area, but ultimately complied. The recorded scan lasted less than one minute and was retained by a third-party vendor of the university. Ogletree subsequently sued the university, stating that the scan violated his Fourth Amendment right that guards “against unreasonable searches and seizures.” Cleveland State argued that the room scan was not a “search” because it was brief, limited in scope and conducted for noncriminal purposes. The university also argued that the inspection was “reasonable” because it happened during business hours, was not an attempt to “snoop” and did not involve law enforcement, and that the practice was a standard industry practice with which students typically cooperate. Judge J. Philip Calabrese ruled, however, that the student had a reasonable expectation of privacy in his home. Dave Kielmeyer, Cleveland State’s associate vice president for marketing and communications, told The Verge, “As directed by the Court, Cleveland State University’s counsel will confer with Mr. Ogletree’s counsel on appropriate next steps. Ensuring academic integrity is essential to our mission and will guide us as we move forward. While this matter remains in active litigation, we are unable to comment further.” Colleges’ use of online proctoring software and services has been growing, as has controversy surrounding it. Trending Stories - Harvard May No Longer Be the Wealthiest University - New presidents or provosts: Brock Endicott Gavilan Huston-Tillotson Northwestern - Public health backlash to Dr. Leana Wen talk on backlash - Webcam Scans for Remote Tests Violate Student Privacy, Judge Rules - Boston campus leaders worry about Orange Line shutdown THE Campus Resources for faculty and staff from our partners at Times Higher Education. - How to develop a code of conduct for ethical research fieldwork - Why we should be humans first and academics second - There are great benefits to merging library and IT departments - A checklist for making disability inclusion a reality in higher education - Pedagogical wellness specialist: the role that connects teaching and well-being Most Shared Stories - Higher ed must change or die (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed - Why I gave $25M to a small liberal arts college (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed - Why did U of Florida suddenly fire its honors director? - How Should Staff Interact with Faculty? \| Inside Higher Ed - Humanities' scholarly infrastructure is vanishing (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed	https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2022/08/24/webcam-scans-remote-tests-violate-student-privacy-judge-rules	2022-08-24T11:11:02Z	insidehighered.com	control	https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2022/08/24/webcam-scans-remote-tests-violate-student-privacy-judge-rules	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Online Does Not Mean Isolated And in person may not mean connected: Maha Bali, George Station and Mia Zamora discuss building community in an online conference or professional development series. We read, with interest, Nolan Higdon and Allison Butler’s recent Inside Higher Ed piece, “Conferencing Critically in a COVID-19 World,” in which they discuss various drawbacks to remote and hybrid conferences. While we agree with some of the key points in their article, we feel that others underestimate the potential of virtual and hybrid professional development. One statement in Higdon and Butler’s article stood out for us: “One additional risk of a remote conference—and, by extension, remote education—is that it keeps us isolated from each other.” People who have been teaching and connecting online since before the pandemic would disagree with this notion, especially those who centered humanizing approaches to online learning and pedagogies of care; many others learned during the pandemic how to build community and create affective ties with learners and peers globally, without gathering in a shared physical locale. Moreover, being “in person” does not necessarily result in less isolation. In-person events can be isolating for anyone who is not already part of the in crowd. We recently worked with others to organize Equity Unbound’s #MYFest22, a virtual event that sought to center community and support, and rethink the many pitfalls of online, in-person and hybrid events that we’ve seen in the past two years, and even before the pandemic. We kept MYFest virtual because we agree with Higdon and Butler that virtual conferences can promote better access for those without funds or freedom to travel, and because virtual conferences are certainly better for climate justice. The inaugural Mid-Year Festival 2022, aka #MYFest22, from Equity Unbound—an equity-focused, connected intercultural learning network that co-creates diverse, open learning experiences—was not a conference per se, nor was it similar to anyone’s local professional development. It was not a series of one-off, high-cost, multisession workshops offered by a large contracted organization. MYFest was designed to be a three-month-long “recharge and renewal experience” with a “choose-your-own-learning journey” approach, exploring a variety of themes, including critical pedagogy and open education and digital literacies. In addition, two themes intentionally addressed isolation: “well-being and joy” and “community building and community reflection.” More than 300 participants from five continents joined us. We offer here ideas for what organizers of online events can learn from MYFest. Inspired by a “call for promoting ownership, equity, and agency in faculty development via connected learning,” we aimed to deepen adult learning by leveraging human connection, respecting agency and self-determination (heutagogy), designing for equity, and recognizing the need to make time for critical self-reflection—both individually and in community—in order to support cumulative transformative learning. 1. Have a diverse community of organizers. To capture a diverse audience, design with diverse organizers. Many academic events are organized by people who are mostly from one institution, one country or one professional organization, yet claim to offer professional development for diverse participants from all over the world. Instead, #MYFest22 built on relationships among 14 organizers from four different countries (Canada, Egypt, South Africa and the United States), many of whom have built trust and collegial friendship online as part of a thriving, intersecting long-term personal learning network with community values of mutual support. We have supported each other through illness and wellness, grief and joy, frustrations and solutions. Our ongoing conversations have helped us realize just how significant a gap there is in traditional professional development worldwide. 2. Aspire toward participant agency and reflection. Educator and author Sherri Spelic has observed that badly designed professional development for educators tends to be “undifferentiated.” In contrast, MYFest was a “build-your-own-learning journey” experience over three months, a “buffet approach” (participants chose sessions of interest, could change selections at any time and could attend as much or as little as suited them). In addition, MYFest was declared a No FOMO (fear of missing out) experience. If a participant’s life and schedule did not permit attendance for certain gatherings and activities, this did not result in being left behind. Three months (not two to three days!) gave participants time to build community and relationships synchronously and asynchronously, and opened up room for reflection and cumulative transformative learning. The significance of both individual and collective reflection was the glue of the MYFest experience, including some sessions focused on group reflection, exercises with individual written reflections and a call for curation of participant-created multimodal artifacts and writings. 3. Foster global connections and community with intentionally equitable hospitality. We sought to foster global online conversations through skillful facilitation and by embracing “intentionally equitable hospitality,” designing sessions in ways that strive toward ensuring everyone participates as fully as possible in the ways they feel most comfortable, and inviting the most marginalized voices. We sought to host with the “generous authority” Priya Parker promotes (in Parker’s words, a gathering run with generous authority is one “run with a strong confident hand, but … run selflessly, for the sake of others”). Participants had various modes of participation, synchronous or asynchronous, and there were options to go to a “quiet room” during breakout room activities if someone did not want to chat that day. There was never an expectation of cameras on, or of oral participation if someone preferred typing in the chat. Slides were provided ahead of time where possible, with alternative text for images. Automated live transcription was enabled in live sessions. Chats were lively in most sessions, and opportunities to participate anonymously via Google docs, Google Jamboard or polling tools came up throughout. Sessions were recorded, unless the conversations were very personal and the more equitable choice was not to record them in order to provide a safe space. Participants were often invited to write privately and share only what they felt comfortable sharing. 4. Co-create and experience community and joy throughout. The MYFest participants did not meet to talk about community and well-being. Rather, we met to experience and co-create community and well-being. MYFest facilitators have expertise in participatory approaches to online facilitation, including the use of community-building approaches and “liberating structures” (these are “easy-to-learn microstructures that enhance relational coordination and trust” meant to “quickly foster lively participation in groups of any size”). Community (and the trust that is the foundation of healthy community) cannot be established with one or two speed networking sessions at an event. We laid the foundation for MYFest with at least one weekly community building engagement, making time for people to get to know one another in small groups with creative prompts like the Fast Friends protocol, and to reflect together creatively, through prompts like ice cream/broccoli and spiral journal. We welcomed and engaged with participants as they wove in and out of each other’s lives, building and strengthening connections over time. 5. Schedule wisely. Resist Zoom fatigue and decision fatigue. MYFest exemplified what Spelic suggests: “professional development that is wisely scheduled.” We spread our offerings out over three months, avoided overlapping sessions and had no more than three events per day. We therefore avoided the familiar Zoom fatigue as well as decision fatigue. Some MYFest events were threaded as “tracks,” where one may attend multiple sessions and do some asynchronous work around the same topic, an approach that opens up the potential of “cohort” congeniality. In our Slack channel, MYFest participants could discover, connect and share with new colleagues at any time across multiple themes and tracks. 6. Embrace emergence: welcome and leverage participant expertise. MYFest sought to be “emergent” by actively building on participant expertise. Every session in MYFest encouraged participants to bring and share their expertise. Additionally, there were special sessions within MYFest inviting participants to contribute their own expertise in building community—contributing those ideas to the OneHE/Equity Unbound community-building resource site—so these sessions built on participant expertise while also contributing to an open resource that is available to all on the open web. 7. Make it family-friendly. Another unique aspect of the MYFest experience was the intuitive involvement of family and friends. By focusing on well-being and joy, as well as critical discussions, we intentionally designed programming for the entire family. MYFest participants brought both (grand)parents and children to certain threads, embracing the power of intergenerational learning and connection. The Reader’s Theater invited children and adults to co-read plays together online, and MineFest invited children from all over the world to play Minecraft together safely. MYFest therefore addressed Spelic’s call for professional development that “acknowledges [educators’] full humanity in the learning process.” 8. Go beyond access and focus on accessibility. Compared to in-person events, there’s more flexibility to make online conferences affordable, as adding participants in a virtual event does not have an incremental cost. It is therefore easier to create a system for scholarships or waivers for folks who are marginalized or do not have institutional funding. In the case of MYFest, we were awarded a Hewlett Foundation grant that allowed for the foundational overhead cost, and it covered the labor of the main facilitators and some of the invited guest facilitators, as well as the technology needed to run the event. And while MYFest was not advertised as a free event, there were multiple discounts available, and also the possibility to attend for free via a waiver. By keeping the conference virtual, we avoided the costs of accommodation and travel associated with in-person events, as well as the logistical and social barriers to travel for parents of young children, people with disabilities and people who lack visa privilege. And, in the case of COVID-19 (and now monkeypox), people with compromised immunity. Despite these efforts, we recognize, as Higdon and Butler do, that while “digital may be more accessible, it is not entirely accessible” all the time and for everyone. Differences in time zones meant that some sessions would often fall at an inconvenient time for people (particularly those located in East Asia and Oceania). We intentionally offered some sessions in “time zone sweet spots” that might work on all continents. But these attempts can never be perfect. And of course, some people may have no internet access, expensive internet access, intermittent electricity or low bandwidth. However, accessibility goes beyond internet access. An accessible event should mean that when people join, they feel included, they feel they can access learning and belong to groups and learn in ways that reach them where they are. It means that people with different abilities can learn comfortably without constantly needing to ask for special accommodations, people from across the globe can find relevance in the work and organizers are always open to feedback and suggestions. As our colleague Kate Bowles said to us, “The pandemic has also taught us that all sorts of fixed fittings turned out to be moveable: scheduling, assessment modes, grades, logistics of scale. We’re now somewhat free not to put them back as they were.” (Twitter DM shared with permission.) Let’s not put exclusionary professional development practices back to what they were before March 2020. A more worthy goal is to aspire toward equitable, accessible professional learning environments that can bring us joy in community and promote the transformative learning we hunger for. Acknowledgment The authors would like to acknowledge the entire MYFest organizing team (all bios here). We would also like to acknowledge our guest facilitators and participants, who have all enriched the MYFest experience. Maha Bali is a professor of practice at the Center for Learning and Teaching at the American University in Cairo. She is co-facilitator of Equity Unbound. George Station is a lecturer in the first-year seminar program and faculty associate in the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment at California State University, Monterey Bay. Mia Zamora is a professor of English, director of the M.A. in writing studies program and director of the Kean University Writing Project at Kean University in New Jersey. She is co-facilitator of Equity Unbound. Trending Stories - Harvard May No Longer Be the Wealthiest University - New presidents or provosts: Brock Endicott Gavilan Huston-Tillotson Northwestern - Public health backlash to Dr. Leana Wen talk on backlash - Webcam Scans for Remote Tests Violate Student Privacy, Judge Rules - Boston campus leaders worry about Orange Line shutdown THE Campus Resources for faculty and staff from our partners at Times Higher Education. - How to develop a code of conduct for ethical research fieldwork - Why we should be humans first and academics second - There are great benefits to merging library and IT departments - A checklist for making disability inclusion a reality in higher education - Pedagogical wellness specialist: the role that connects teaching and well-being Most Shared Stories - Higher ed must change or die (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed - Why I gave $25M to a small liberal arts college (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed - Why did U of Florida suddenly fire its honors director? - How Should Staff Interact with Faculty? \| Inside Higher Ed - Humanities' scholarly infrastructure is vanishing (opinion) \| Inside Higher Ed	https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2022/08/24/building-community-online-conferences-events-opinion	2022-08-24T11:11:12Z	insidehighered.com	control	https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2022/08/24/building-community-online-conferences-events-opinion	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Daisy Green has launched Peggy Jean—a revamped Jesus College Boat Race barge—on Richmond’s charming riverside. This floating restaurant is an instagrammable haven, with 120 spots that spill out onto a floating open-aired pontoon awash with jasmine, bubblegum-pink Capri-esque parasols, fairy lights and welcome bubbles for all (it’s great before you’ve even started on the food). The good vibes start at midday, when boozy brunch kicks off, and go on late into the night, with striking sunsets on offer if the weather plays ball. The terrace is also home to twin Gozney clay ovens, where a special menu of freshly baked pizzas, fresh calamari, the catch of the day, and the showstopper Tomahawk steak are all cooked over a roaring fire—Aussie BBQ style. The latter was the juiciest, most tender steak our taste buds have had the fortune of experiencing recently, and it made the perfect crowd pleaser for the hordes of hungry party-goers. Round things off nicely with an affogato, a melt-in-your-mouth chocolate bonanza (if you’ve got room), or a delicious frozen espresso martini. Simply fabulous. V.F will return when our waistlines recover. Peggy Jean, Richmond Whether you’re (attempting to) jet off somewhere fab or just need a quick midsummer refresh, EDY London lashes are for you. In an extremely convenient spot just off Oxford Circus, you’ll find the gorgeous Edyta Kurowska—Edy to friends—a make-up artist and eyelash expert who’s worked with top beauty brands and lengthened the lashes of many an A-Lister (from Lily Allen to Rita Ora). Edy has a remarkable way with eyelashes and an intuitive manner, understanding your eye shape and preferences with a mere glance. Hypoallergenic glue, meticulous application methods and super-soft individual lashes make for the most natural results possible—you’ll emerge looking bright-eyed but not overdone, the kind of result that will have people complimenting you without being able to put their finger on what you’ve had done. Edy’s sunny disposition and easy, endlessly lovely conversation means the hour or so flies by in a comfortable haze, and her efficient but incredibly gentle technique is great for anyone from first timers to extension addicts. You can be certain of classy, fluffy lashes—and maybe even a new BFF. EDY London We’re all getting older—but can design and tech make that easier without alienating us? That’s the question that’s arrived on the floor of the atrium of the Design Museum with a new display curated by the Design Age Institute at the Royal College of Art. According to them, by 2040, more than a quarter of the U.K.’s population will be over 60; The Future of Ageing features a selection of prototypes, sketches and research, which explore how the world could be reimagined to enhance our experience of living in later life. Among these are “The Centaur”, a self-balancing, two-wheeled personal electric vehicle for people with difficulties getting around; “Gita”, a hands-free cargo-carrying robot; and “Hearing Birdsong”, a digital “audioscape” app that uses the sound of birdsong to engage visitors with their hearing health. The Future of Ageing	https://www.vanityfair.com/london/2022/08/the-a-list-what-to-do-in-london-this-week-peggy-jean	2022-08-24T11:17:26Z	vanityfair.com	control	https://www.vanityfair.com/london/2022/08/the-a-list-what-to-do-in-london-this-week-peggy-jean	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
I am an academic and a writer. I am a human rights adviser. I am a mother. But at heart, I am a war reporter. I have covered some 18 wars over the past 35 years. On a brittle February morning, preparing for a class I was teaching at Yale which dissected four murderous conflicts—in Bosnia, Rwanda, Kosovo, and Sierra Leone—I first heard the news of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. I know Putin’s tactics of war very well, so I knew I had to find my way to Ukraine and begin documenting atrocities. But I wanted to go with a different mission than my usual beat as a reporter. I felt I needed to be working at the center of the war crimes investigations that would inevitably be mobilized. But first, I need to tell you about Tata and the red tulips. Red Tulips It never gets easier. You sit in a broken house, in an overgrown field, or at a shattered kitchen table. You sit with someone’s wife, or parent, or sister, brother, friend. You listen to how the person they loved was dragged off, how they never came home. The person recounting the story tells you about the day their whole life ended—when their loved one was taken away. You listen. You watch the speaker intensely. They are still alive, their bodies still move, they eat, drink, walk. But their grief has frozen them in an anguish so palpable, they seem more dead than alive. Tata (whose name I have changed to protect her identity) is standing outside her destroyed house in Bucha, where, in February and March, battles took place between Ukrainian and Russian forces. She is 55 but looks a decade older. She wears a ripped green sweater, track pants, a yellow patterned headscarf. She alternately smokes, paces, cries, wipes her eyes, laughs, or shouts something in Russian—the language of many Bucha residents—to neighborhood boys who are helping her granddaughter rebuild the home that was destroyed by a missile. They work silently. They ignore me, the stranger with the notebook, from another country. Tata, like me, is a mother. But my son is alive. Her son, Andrij, 36, disappeared shortly after Russian troops came to Bucha and was later found dead. I heard about Tata’s son from people who live on the other side of her garden. “A boy disappeared,” one neighbor told me. “The soldiers had done terrible things.” The photo of Andrij after the soldiers took him showed more than terrible things. I have sorted through hundreds of photos of Syrians tortured during the ongoing war there. Still, I could not look at Andrij’s photo without gagging. His eyes were gouged out, his teeth were knocked clean from his jaw. A metal skewer inserted through his right eye had pushed through to the other side of his left ear. “Why?” Tata asked. But of course, there is no answer, no words of consolation for this kind of cruelty. Later, I found a photo of a younger Andrij stuck in the corner of a mirror: He once was a handsome man with an open, clean face; blondish curls. Tata told me about how the columns of soldiers swept into the town, shooting, and then forcing most of the people into their cellars. How her sister, who was 53 and epileptic, died while Tata and others cowered underground. How they lived with her corpse for days, begging soldiers to allow them to bury her. How the soldiers, even as the family dug up the frozen earth to bury Tata’s sister, told Tata she should be grateful they had come to save the townspeople from what they absurdly referred to as Ukrainian Nazis.	https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/holding-russia-to-account-for-war-crimes-in-ukraine	2022-08-24T11:17:32Z	vanityfair.com	control	https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/holding-russia-to-account-for-war-crimes-in-ukraine	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
The Trump administration is the publishing gift that keeps on grifting. A year and a half after the end of Donald Trump’s presidency, at least 20 of his advisers and lackeys have put out books. In August, his son-in-law and former senior adviser Jared Kushner will join the self-enriching authorhood. Titled Breaking History: A White House Memoir, the memoir continues in this particular canon’s tradition of face-saving and a sudden, deep dedication to transparency. But telling the public all goes down easier with a cushy advance and a fresh chance at fameballing. Here, some highlights from the standouts: Breaking History: A White House Memoir THE AUTHOR: Jared Kushner, senior adviser, 2017 to 2021; son-in-law, 2009 to present THE REVEAL: Kushner promises to bring readers “inside debates in the Oval Office, double-crosses at the United Nations, tense meetings in Arab palaces…and the daily barrage of leaks, false allegations, investigations, and West Wing infighting.” THE IRONY: Speaking of meetings in Arab palaces, Kushner’s new investment firm, Affinity Partners, recently took on $2 billion from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund. COPIES SOLD: TBD Here’s the Deal: A Memoir THE AUTHOR: Kellyanne Conway, senior counselor, 2017 to 2020 THE REVEAL: “Stuck in a parallel universe, many Trump supporters deluded themselves into thinking that somehow the president would remain in office or be reinstated once gone. Trump was more shocked to lose in 2020, I think, than he was to win in 2016. I may have been the first person Donald Trump trusted in his inner circle who told him that he had come up short this time.” THE IRONY: Including a hit list stacked with the likes of everyone from Jared Kushner to Reince Priebus, Conway spends the majority of her memoir going after all the (primarily) men who have apparently wronged her, husband George Conway included—but she spared Trump the vitriol. The alternative facts never end. COPIES SOLD: 61,660 books A Sacred Oath THE AUTHOR: Mark T. Esper, secretary of defense, 2019 to 2020 THE REVEAL: As demonstrators filled the streets around the White House following the killing of George Floyd, according to Esper’s book Trump stated: “Can’t you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?” THE IRONY: Too bad the writer who has been lauded for the “score-settling” with an “incompetent” administration had to wait for a payola moment to tell the American public the truth. Esper’s admission of how Trump reacted in light of a consequential moment of protest loses any redeeming qualities when deployed as a splashy “gotcha” quote for the purpose of drumming up attention for the book’s release. COPIES SOLD: 23,552 books The Chief’s Chief THE AUTHOR: Mark Meadows, chief of staff, 2020 to 2021 THE REVEAL: “I didn’t want to take any unnecessary risks but I also didn’t want to alarm the public if there was nothing to worry about—which according to the new, much more accurate test, there was not.” THE IRONY: Meadows confirms the sneaking public suspicion Trump was a one-man super-spreader for not properly disclosing his COVID status, or adhering to guidelines. COPIES SOLD: 22,015 books I’ll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House THE AUTHOR: Stephanie Grisham, press secretary and chief of staff to the first lady, 2017 to 2021 THE REVEAL: “With all the talk of sanctions against Russia for interfering in the 2016 election and for various human rights abuses, Trump told Putin, ‘Okay, I’m going to act a little tougher with you for a few minutes. But it’s for the cameras, and after they leave we’ll talk. You understand.’” THE IRONY: With her memoir touching on everything from the former president’s hair care routine to hangers-on like Lindsey Graham to Trump family dynamics—the Kushners earned themselves the nickname “the interns” for their constant dabbling—Grisham’s memoir is the overstuffed White House briefing she failed to give while in office. COPIES SOLD: 38,668 books Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World THE AUTHOR: H.R. McMaster, national security adviser, 2017 to 2018 THE REVEAL: “This is not the book that most people wanted me to write. Friends, agents, editors, and even family, asked me to write a tell-all about my experience in the White House to confirm their opinions of President Donald Trump…. I wanted to write a book that might help transcend the vitriol of partisan political discourse and help readers understand better the most significant challenges to security, freedom, and prosperity.” THE IRONY: Even the “adult in the room” McMaster can be counted among the Trumpworld book offerings, his memoir acting as a sequel to his Dereliction of Duty with its examinations of foreign policy issues, his call for national unity, and a healthy dose of self-aggrandizing for his “apolitical” stance.	https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/trump-administration-books	2022-08-24T11:17:38Z	vanityfair.com	control	https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/trump-administration-books	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Canadian photographer Larry Towell has spent years documenting conflict in Ukraine. Between 2014 and 2022, he’s been to the country seven times; he’s captured violent uprisings, narrowly escaped death, and bore witness to some of the most heinous war crimes in Ukraine’s history. His years of photography in the country have contextualized the nature of the current conflict. “We have to be able to create work that will be remembered and we have to be able to create work that will be analyzed, that will be used as evidence, that will be a part of history,” Towell said in an interview with Vanity Fair. His photography accompanied Janine di Giovanni’s account of the war in Vanity Fair’s October 2022 issue, where she described her work with the Reckoning Project: Ukraine Testifies to train and dispatch Ukrainian journalists to accurately document Russian war crimes. Below is a conversation with Towell about his most recent trip to Ukraine in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion, which began in February of 2022. The interview has been lightly edited for clarity and style.	https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/what-one-war-photographer-has-learned-from-conflict-in-ukraine	2022-08-24T11:17:45Z	vanityfair.com	control	https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/what-one-war-photographer-has-learned-from-conflict-in-ukraine	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Boy, 5, dies after shooting self in eye with unsecured gun DETROIT (WXYZ) - Police say a 5-year-old boy and his sibling were playing with an unsecured gun they found at a Detroit home when it went off, killing him. According to police, a pair of siblings, ages 5 and 6, were left in the care of their uncle Monday. The uncle was reportedly downstairs in the basement playing video games when the children found a gun, it went off and the 5-year-old was shot in the eye. “The 6-year-old told the uncle, ‘My brother is dying. We need help,’” said Deputy Chief Deshaune Sims with the Detroit Police Department. A neighbor took the injured child to the hospital, where he died. Police say the boy’s uncle is not cooperating and is currently in police custody. “Right now, we’re trying to locate a weapon. We have not been able to recover a weapon at this time,” Sims said. The 6-year-old sibling has reportedly been removed from the home. It’s not clear if they were removed by police or Child Protective Services. Police are also pleading with gun owners to secure their weapons. “Unfortunately, we’re here again. We have been at many of these scenes, and the message is if you have a weapon, put it up, lock it, keep it away from the children. Unfortunately, parents and caregivers are not taking heed to that message,” Sims said. Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy is pushing for laws that will criminally charge parents for not properly storing weapons, but it’s still in the legislature. Meanwhile, police say they will be handing out free gun locks in Detroit neighborhoods. “Hopefully, one person will take heed and keep weapons out of areas where children can access them easily,” Sims said. Last year, 67 children in the city were shot. Copyright 2022 WXYZ via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.	https://www.wbko.com/2022/08/24/boy-5-dies-after-shooting-self-eye-with-unsecured-gun/	2022-08-24T11:20:13Z	wbko.com	control	https://www.wbko.com/2022/08/24/boy-5-dies-after-shooting-self-eye-with-unsecured-gun/	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
It'll be another unsettled day across Acadiana with plenty of rain back in the forecast. Showers will get going early with the first round moving through before sunrise, but it certainly won't be the last. The overall setup hasn't changed with a stalled front and an abundance of moisture continue to combine for on and off showers through the day. A Flood Watch has been issued as a result for the western and northern parts of Acadiana. When it comes to flooding the primary threat is going to be for localized flash flooding on some of the lower lying streets, this will occur mostly as the rain is coming down. There are breaks in between the showers that will allow the water to drain out, but driving during the downpours could be treacherous. Rivers and bayous are going to be running full and fast so make sure that you're careful out along the local waterways. As a whole the rain will total another several inches of rain through the next several days, which is going to make it feel very wet over the next few days. This wet pattern is going to stick around through the remainder of the week with on and off showers expected through the foreseeable future. All of the clouds and showers will keep temperatures in check, which is the good news, with highs staying in the mid to upper 80s. Unfortunately the afternoon highs will stay more moderate, but the mornings will feel very sticky as a result of all the moisture. In the Tropics: There's a wave that will be worth watching off the Venezuelan coastline, and over the next couple of days we may see some development. There's some model support for development, although not much consensus, but if it does get going we could see it strengthen quickly. It's still way too early to make any specific predictions on development, and how it will impact (if at all) the Gulf Coast but this time of year these home grown systems deserve monitoring. ------------------------------------------------------------ Stay in touch with us anytime, anywhere. To reach the newsroom or report a typo/correction, click HERE. Sign up for newsletters emailed to your inbox. Select from these options: Breaking News, Evening News Headlines, Latest COVID-19 Headlines, Morning News Headlines, Special Offers	https://www.katc.com/news/unsettled-weather-continues-through-the-middle-of-the-week	2022-08-24T11:21:14Z	katc.com	control	https://www.katc.com/news/unsettled-weather-continues-through-the-middle-of-the-week	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Patna: Sparks are set to fly at the Bihar assembly on Wednesday when the BJP, now stripped of power and politically isolated, will try to hold its own against the mighty seven-party ruling 'Mahagathbandhan'. The special session is set to commence on a stormy note on account of Speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha's stout refusal to resign despite the new ruling dispensation's motion of no-confidence against him. Meanwhile, two senior leaders of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) were raided by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday in connection with the "land-for-jobs" case that alleges irregularities during Lalu Yadav's tenure as Railway minister in the UPA-I government. The action by the central agency is set to murky the scenes further in Patna. If the assembly is not adjourned following the vote over the motion against the speaker, the new government headed by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will also face the trust vote during the day. Sinha, a senior BJP leader, evidently enjoys the backing of his party which has vowed to take on "Paltu Kumar", a pejorative it has coined for the chief minister and his many volte faces, and the new government which has been formed through "back door", a charge the party has, ironically, been facing since 2017. "We have not decided on the leader of the opposition in the assembly. That does not top the agenda. We are looking forward to exposing Paltu Kumar and this new government, formed through back door, which has brought a no-confidence motion," said Nitin Nabin, a BJP leader who lost his ministerial berth to the cataclysmic political developments in the state. The 'Mahagathbandhan', which comprises the chief minister's JD(U), besides RJD, Congress, CPI(ML), CPI and CPI(M), has a combined strength of more than 160 in the 243-strong House. As such, there is little to worry for the new coalition which can comfortably vote out the speaker and proceed to prove its majority on the floor. Nonetheless, Sinha, who takes pride in having been "the first BJP leader to have become Speaker" of the state assembly, seems to have baffled his former allies by his obstinate stance. "If he does not go on his own, he will be removed. It would have been better for him to resign honourably," said JD(U) leader Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, currently a minister, who preceded Sinha as the speaker. Deputy Speaker Maheshwar Hazari too seemed confounded and when asked how would the ruling coalition stop Sinha from occupying the Chair, reacted with exasperation. "If a rabid dog bites me, I cannot bite it back. The best I can do is to get myself treated," said Hazari. BJP OBC Morcha national general secretary and state spokesman Nikhil Anand alleged in a statement, "Nitish Kumar is using the deputy speaker, a Dalit, to get abuses hurled at the Speaker. In the process, the CM wants Dalits to get a bad name."	https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/08/24/bihar-assembly-floor-test-cbi-raid.html	2022-08-24T11:21:31Z	onmanorama.com	control	https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/08/24/bihar-assembly-floor-test-cbi-raid.html	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Some Information and Communications Technology (ICT) experts have urged the Federal Government to put a policy in place to address the wrong use of social media platforms. The experts also posited that such platforms were useful in advancing the socio-economic development of the country only if they were put to proper use. The experts made their views known recently in various interactions with newsmen. Mr Ajibola Olude, Executive Secretary, Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), said, “Social media are really very important but they have to be used accordingly. “Not only can social media interfere positively on people’s lives but false, misleading and confusing information shared on social networks can do real damage to the society,” he said. Olude explained that the whole essence of social media was to provide digital platforms for people of diverse cultures to discuss and share ideas on different topics. “My suggestion is that a policy should be put in place to address this wrong use of social media platforms by the concerned government agency. “Recently, we have seen that users misuse social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram in situations that require urgent attention. “For example, in a situation where there is an accident, we expect the users of all these social media to take those that were involved in an accident to the hospital. “What they usually do is that they post the situation on the social media allowing the victims of the accident to suffer pains and pass away,” he said. Mr Ogaga Ariemu, a social media expert, called on users to endeavour to use social media for the good of the people as against other uses. He said, “Basically, I think users have different uses for social media whether positive or negative. “My call to users is to endeavour using social media for social good as against other uses, especially during emergency situations. “Instead of making frenzy from accident situations as the case is sometimes, such can be funnelled to the call for emergency services for victims.” YOU SHOULD NOT MISS THESE HEADLINES FROM NIGERIAN TRIBUNE We will be using Tinubu’s O lu’le, emi lo kan, eleyi for politics — Obasanjo NIGERIA’S former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, said that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has introduced new vocabulary into the nation’s political discourse…. Oyo Council Of Obas Backs Makinde’s Second-Term Bid THE second term bid of Governor ‘Seyi Makinde of Oyo State received a massive boost on Friday, as the Council of Obas in the state declared its support for the governor, stating that the good works being done by the administration across the state should continue beyond 2023.….. 5 Software Applications You Should Master To Be Effective In The Corporate World There are new software applications that individuals in the corporate world are expected to have mastery of as the world is evolving on a daily basis, and the required skills for individuals interested in or working in the corporate world have also evolved. These software applications have been developed to help make work in the corporate world easier, more effective and more efficient… How To Minimise Disagreements When Planning A Wedding A lot of effort goes into planning a wedding. From the choice of event centres to the choice of the bride and groom’s wears, to the picking a colour for invited guests to the decision on the meals to be served for the day, and so on.…	https://tribuneonlineng.com/experts-seek-policy-to-address-wrong-use-of-social-media-platforms/	2022-08-24T11:23:13Z	tribuneonlineng.com	control	https://tribuneonlineng.com/experts-seek-policy-to-address-wrong-use-of-social-media-platforms/	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
In this interview with JACOB SEGUN_OLATUNJI, the national chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Alhaji Shehu Musa Gabam speaks on the general insecurity across the country vis-a-vis, preparations for the 2023 general election, among other issues: state of the nation: WITH the spate of insecurity crisis in the country, are you confident the general election will hold in 2023? I will not tell you there will be elections. I will be stupid to tell you there would be elections in 2023. In terms of theory there would be elections. In terms of practical, I am not sure of that because I cannot mention three states for you that elections will hold without any crisis right now. For instance take the North-West, you can only talk of relative peace and stability in Kano and Jigawa states in the entire North-West. If you look at North-Central, you can probably talk about Kwara. But from Plateau to Benue to Kogi to Niger, they are all crisis-ridden. The FCT also falls within the North-Central and has security issues. If you talk of the South- East, the entire zone is crisis-ridden. If you look at the North-East, only Bauchi State has relative peace and Gombe a little bit. But Borno, Yobe, Adamawa, Taraba states are all crisis-ridden. Now if you take South-South, you will be amazed about what is going on; the huge number of illegal guns being displayed. The insecurity the zone is very high. If you talk of the South-West, look at Lagos, what is happening on a daily basis there. Look at what happened to vehicles of the presidential candidate of the APC recently in Osun State. That is the indices of instability all over the world. Look at Ondo, look at Osun. Ekiti has relative peace, but there is also kidnapping in Ekiti every day. Now, which of the zones can you tell me there can be free and fair and peaceful elections? Nigerians are going through trauma; trauma of insecurity, kidnapping, fear of the unknown, killings and maiming, ritual killings by young people desperate to make money. These are critical factors that in any society would give you nightmares. This is why the president has failed woefully because he is the President and Commander-in-Chief. Article 1 of the 1999 Constitution talks about the protection of lives and property of Nigerians. That article has been violated by the same president. The same president says he has done his best; the same president said he cannot wait to leave the Villa; the same president said he has given order to all the security agencies. The same President said he has bought everything the security agencies needed. The same president said he has given complete directives to security agencies to clear all the criminals. But, he has been saying this in the last three to four years. I was amazed to learn that the Tucano jets that were bought were bought on condition; that they can only operate in the North-East. And these are military hardwares that were purchased with trillions of public fund. How can a country go under an agreement for a system or operation to be dedicated to a particular zone of the country? What happens? The crisis might snowball from the North-East to other parts of the country. So, you have tied the purchase of the equipment to a particular zone. Now you are stranded. The security personnel are talking about equipment to work and function. These are issues that no serious society would allow to happen. Not only that, the president’s convoy was attacked. This is audacious at the highest level. The audacity has gone beyond attacking; they say they want to kidnap the president and the governor of Kaduna State. How else would you describe the high level of insecurity? Nigeria is on high alert. We are in the red; people are disturbed. Who is responsible? The President and Commander in chief; the buck stops at his desk because he has an avalanche of power and authority to change those who are not doing their best in terms of making sure their beats are in order. How do you explain that a high crime would happen in a state where you have a commissioner of police, director of DSS, Brigade Commander, Area commanders, divisional police officers, all sorts of security institutions? And then a fundamental crime would happen and the criminals would go unidentified; you have a situation where people would be on bike with AK-47 on Nigerian roads. You don’t blame anybody; you blame the commander-in-chief. Every operation carried out in Nigeria the president must know about it. What is most amazing to me is that President Buhari is coming from a security background. A former military general who fought a civil war; every now and then you have a situation where a general in the Nigerian Army has failed to protect the country. It is unacceptable. There is no reason for Nigerians to be killed like ants. It is unacceptable and that is why we are in tandem with what the National Assembly is doing what they plan (impeachment move against Mr President), even though they are just waking form their slumbers because the battle is at their own doorsteps. What is the way out? The way out is simple. Once you have a serious president and a serious governor. if you give them two months dedicated to curbing crime and criminality, they would do it. The DSS are doing well in terms of generating intelligence. The Kuje incident they generated sufficient intelligence for Military and the Police to prevent it from happening from what was reported. If intelligence is being generated at the disposal of the president and service chiefs, and nothing is being done, who do you blame? If you were with President Buhari today, what would be your advice to him on the state of the nation? I have said it severally: the president deserves no advice because he has a security background. And he has people that have surrounded him who do have military background or political background. And you have service chiefs whose responsibility is to provide intelligence and guide the president on what to do. We, as politicians that also have a key role in peace and stability, the president has not invited political parties for conversation for input. So, the president needs to find a way out because the buck stops at his table. He cannot shift blame to anybody. Then, how would you rate the present National Assembly? I have listened to the Senate President who said his responsibility is not to oppose the executive. Then, I know that we are terribly in deep shit as a nation. If the parliament whose responsibility is to look at the budget being proposed by the executive, fix that budget and look at the over interest of the country. Input into the budget. Look at demands in various constituencies that are critical like water, roads, basic things and input it into the budget. The same National Assembly has an oversight function of ensuring the budget is implemented. Go and check the entire budget of Nigeria and check if anyone has been implemented up to 20 percent. What happened to the money? It is the same parliament responsibility to ensure that the budget is being implemented. In the parliament chairman of committees serve as ministers in their own right. That is why they can summon any minister or head of agency of parastatal, because it is their duty. Now if they abdicated that critical responsibility, what else do you expect. Who provides funding for security agencies? It is NASS. In the absence of using the funds for what they were designated for, whose responsibility to raise the alarm? It is the National assembly. Whose responsibility is it to pass vote of no confidence on the minister or president? It is National Assembly. The most powerful institution in the world is the parliament. That is why worldwide parliamentarians are even more recognized than governors. Because their primary responsibility is to make laws for the good of the citizens of the country. Where the country is not being governed well, they have a primary responsibility of correcting it. Where you have lousy provisions or clauses it is their responsibility to correct it. But if you ask me, are we short of laws? The answer is no. Are we short of implementation, enforcement and people with will? The answer is yes. There is no will and that is why we are paying for it. What is your view on INEC so far, as preparations for the general election peak? Honestly, INEC is doing very well, especially the innovation brought by the chairman of the commission. It is very unique and impressive. It is second to none. He has tremendously reformed INEC. He has taken away all those clashes and loss of documents in INEC. Right now whatever transaction does with INEC is done online. You transmit the names of candidates and their documents and CVS online. There is no physical contact anymore. So those issues of people’s documents missing is close to zero percent right now because once you submit the document, INEC generates acknowledgement of the name you have submitted. So the possibility of anybody to tamper with the process is very rare. So it is a great innovation. It is a very good achievement this Chairman has done in transforming INEC. Anybody who knows INEC before would admit openly that there is a great transformation. Also the BVAS they brought in are very unique. They are finger capturing or visual capturing. That is why it is very rare for people to rig elections. And even if the system is being manipulated, it has a way of checkmating itself, because from the point of accreditation, it is recorded by every individual. Your fingerprint and visual capturing is also recorded. So once someone has not gone through the process of accreditation you are not eligible to cast your vote and if you cast it it is null and void. Because at the end of the day when litigations are on INEC would produce the number of people accredited by each polling unit and must correspond with the number of votes at that polling unit. Once it does not correspond according to the system that particular polling unit would be cancelled. That is why 2023 would be a litigation year for elections. Right now INEC says they have almost one million litigation cases requested and about 15 political parties are deeply involved in litigation but SDP is not one of them, because we have navigated the troubled waters. We have studied and found out that there would be a lot of litigations in 2023 because of so many factors. Knowing this, we became very creative in SDP. We did not create a jam-pack in every position. We looked at the credibility of those contesting those positions and based on the credibility, we supported people to contest. We did not look at revenue generation as the basis of running the system. We looked at credibility and the quality of the individuals. Yes, we lost some revenue, but we are happy that we have credible people that are contesting. No people of questionable characters was allowed as candidates And even if you find issues surrounding certificates it cannot be our fault, because we cannot authenticate everything. Now if a legal department or any individual finds out that that particular individual has forged a certificate and there are litigations, he/she should have himself/ herself to blame, not the party. Because the party has done its best. The party has said; ‘bring your photocopies of your certificates’. We scanned and sent then to INEC. The commission has a legal department to go through all those things and certify or raise observations about any individual. So far, we have not received any response from INEC in terms of issues relating to any of our candidates. We don’t know later, maybe rivals from other from other parties might find out something funny. But so far we are okay with our submissions. YOU SHOULD NOT MISS THESE HEADLINES FROM NIGERIAN TRIBUNE We will be using Tinubu’s O lu’le, emi lo kan, eleyi for politics — Obasanjo NIGERIA’S former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, said that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has introduced new vocabulary into the nation’s political discourse…. Oyo Council Of Obas Backs Makinde’s Second-Term Bid THE second term bid of Governor ‘Seyi Makinde of Oyo State received a massive boost on Friday, as the Council of Obas in the state declared its support for the governor, stating that the good works being done by the administration across the state should continue beyond 2023.….. 5 Software Applications You Should Master To Be Effective In The Corporate World There are new software applications that individuals in the corporate world are expected to have mastery of as the world is evolving on a daily basis, and the required skills for individuals interested in or working in the corporate world have also evolved. These software applications have been developed to help make work in the corporate world easier, more effective and more efficient… How To Minimise Disagreements When Planning A Wedding A lot of effort goes into planning a wedding. From the choice of event centres to the choice of the bride and groom’s wears, to the picking a colour for invited guests to the decision on the meals to be served for the day, and so on.…	https://tribuneonlineng.com/governors-powers-are-almost-equivalent-to-that-of-buhari-gabam-sdp-national-chair/	2022-08-24T11:23:39Z	tribuneonlineng.com	control	https://tribuneonlineng.com/governors-powers-are-almost-equivalent-to-that-of-buhari-gabam-sdp-national-chair/	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Govs should account for state-level emergency funds collected —Presidency •Says tackling natural disasters not FG’s direct business The Presidency, on Tuesday, posited that calls for the Federal Government to respond to all outbreaks of natural disasters in states show a lack of understanding of the law, noting that the states and local councils are the first responders. According to a statement issued by Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media & Publicity), the Federal Government should only step in to directly address national-level emergencies. The statement, however, noted that as many communities continue to reel under floods across the country, President Muhammadu Buhari assured that the situation is under continuous monitoring and the government at the centre will keep sending teams to assess the situation with a view to rendering all necessary help. It said the President extended heartfelt condolences on behalf of the nation to communities in towns and villages, many of whom, it said, have lost dear relatives, suffered extensive damage to property, and endured the destruction of crops and farmlands. While expressing his concerns over the hardships being faced by people due to this natural calamity, the President noted that the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) had written to each of the 36 states of the federation through the states’ respective Governors advising on the appropriate action to take in view of the gloomy forecasts of the rains this year. ALSO READ FROM NIGERIAN TRIBUNE The statement added: “The structure of the response mechanism on this issue is clear: the government at the centre should step in to directly address national-level emergencies and those local government councils and the states are the first responders in all situations. “Calls for the Federal Government to respond to all outbreaks of a natural disaster do not just display an understanding of Nigerian law. “While not a national-level emergency, the ongoing flooding is an emergency nevertheless. Nigerian lives and property are at stake. “We call on governors of those states that have swung into action and engaged the necessary gear to continue with their efforts, and those that have not, to immediately face their duties of managing the flooding within their jurisdictions – that is, the job that the President, Governors and council Chairmen have been elected to do. “Each of the three tiers, the local government, the state government and the federal government has a sizeable budget at its disposal, allocated monthly precisely for dealing with these state-level natural emergencies, as well as federal agencies dedicated to doing the same.” The Presidency wondered why the states were not utilising dedicates funds to address the Ecological problems saying that if they have exhausted the money, they should give an account of how it was deployed. The statement added: “It is not clear why some of the state governments in question are not already drawing upon those funds to tackle the current emergency, and the general population is misguidedly calling on the federal government to intervene in all situations. If those moneys are, for whatever reason, no longer available, the affected states and local councils must immediately contact the relevant authorities to explain what has happened with those funds. “Under the prevailing revenue allocation formula, 2.32 per cent of derivation funds is set aside for ecology and disaster management. “Of this amount, the 36 states and the FCT get 0.72 per cent, the 774 local governments get 0.6 per cent, adding to 1.32 per cent, leaving a balance of one per cent to the government of the federation. “By the law of land, NEMA takes 20 per cent of the amount allocated to the Federal Government. The North East Development Commission, NEDC collects 10 per cent, the National Agricultural Land Development Authority, NALDA 10 per cent, and the National Agency for the Great Green Wall, GGW 0.5 per cent, leaving 0.55 of the one per cent to the government at the centre for ecological protection and disaster management.” It said the President commended “the few states that are up in front, doing a yeoman’s effort averting disasters and managing same where they occur. While he gives the nation assurances that the federal government will continue to work closely with the state governments to provide all possible assistance to overcome this challenge, the President expects at the same time it must be seen as a shared responsibility. The response to emergencies must stand on the three-legged structure. “Flooding, droughts out of season, wild weather patterns are now global experiences due to climate change. No one now denies its detrimental effects in all corners of the planet. “Nigeria’s efforts led by the President have been acclaimed in Africa and globally. Instead of making headline-grabbing calls, politicians should take the trouble to find out from the Ministries and state governments what steps are being taken in the face of these challenges.” Start Preparing Your Kids For Resumption Now Tackling natural disasters in states not FG’s direct business ― Presidency Abducted Humanitarian Worker Released After 20 Months In Boko Haram’s Den Tackling natural disasters in states not FG’s direct business ― Presidency Tackling natural disasters in states not FG’s direct business ― Presidency	https://tribuneonlineng.com/govs-should-account-for-state-level-emergency-funds-collected-presidency/	2022-08-24T11:23:46Z	tribuneonlineng.com	control	https://tribuneonlineng.com/govs-should-account-for-state-level-emergency-funds-collected-presidency/	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
THE spate of indiscriminate killings and kidnappings for ransom in the country is worrisome and must be fought to a screeching halt. The unbroken traumatic state of insecurity in the land prompted this second write-up akin to my advice for former President Jonathan in an article – How Not to Tackle Terrorism,published by The Nation, page 16, Sunday, June 22, 2014. Eight years on, the write-up including notes from other concerned Nigerians on insecurity in our homes, roads, rail and airways is still alarming and propelling Nigeria to a failed state. Kidnappings in the country have no state or tribal face. It occurs across the thirty-six (36) states of the federation including a supposed safer Abuja where a recent outlandish attacks on Kuje Prison, Presidential Guards Brigade, Bwari and inconceivable attack on presidential security advanced team in Katsina including Owo Church massacre in Ondo State. Long and short, insecurity has finally reached an unprecedented peak when insurgents and bandits made an attempt on the president after saying clearly that they were coming after him. As a nation under siege, I humbly urge Mr President to urgently inaugurate a high-powered Presidential Committee on Anti-Terrorism (PCAT), in collaboration with present and former service chiefs to design an everlasting actionable counter-insurgency and anti-kidnapping measures in the country. The peace and security seeking PCAT which may comprise all former Nigerian Presidents and Heads of State, national assembly leaders, governors’ forum and more importantly religious and traditional leaders in the troubled states must be inclusive. In some states, bandits accord religious leaders utmost regard which will pave way for peaceful talks should dialogue be chosen. To head the proposed PCAT, I humbly suggest former President Olusegun Obasanjo. He was twice Nigerian President, during war (1976-1979) and during peace (1999-2007). As a country-wide respected elder statesman, he knows better, the structure, composition and security architecture of Nigeria and her neighbours and also understands the over 250 Nigerian ethnic languages. Besides, his wealth of experience as a contestant for United Nations Secretary-General in 1991 will further solidify his undying love for unity, peace, oneness of Nigeria and in the African warred countries such as Liberia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Mali, Congo, to mention few. By his war-peace experience and levelling all sentiments underground, he is capable of resolving the insecurity bedeviling the country and also capable of sustaining the sought peace if and only if the Presidency can work on his possible resolutions. My security advice for President Jonathan in The Nation 2014 piece was believably not optimized due to his frosty relationship with President Obasanjo in the build-up to 2015 general elections. Based on Dr. Obasanjo’s current non-partisanship and apolitical stance, heading the proposed PCAT will yield fruitful results, bring long-lasting peace and give the country a strong security footing. To nip the menace in the bud, carrot and stick approach and dialogue matter a lot in terror prevention and peacebuilding as it is more efficient in preventing terrorism than in solving them. To me, the only way to win a terror war is not to fight the war. Against this backdrop, we should further note that there is never a bad peace or a good war, hence, it sounds that unity of Nigeria is sacrosanct while peace and peaceful coexistence is non-negotiable. Since 2009 Nigeria’s Foreign Direct Investment has nosedived which translates that without the insurgency that led to total paralysis of economic activities in some parts of the country, Nigeria would have long retained its lead in Gross Domestic Product (GDP)in Africa and maintain a significant factor in contribution to World Gross Domestic Product (WGDP). I further wish to sympathise with President Buhari, families of the fallen heroes and those so far killed. Finally, I would like to admonish all Nigerians to go back to God for divine intervention on the security daring the nation and maintain the spirit of One Nigeria. - Dr. Alao is a Principal Lecturer, Department of Economics, Adeyemi Federal University of Education, Ondo. YOU SHOULD NOT MISS THESE HEADLINES FROM NIGERIAN TRIBUNE We will be using Tinubu’s O lu’le, emi lo kan, eleyi for politics — Obasanjo NIGERIA’S former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, said that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has introduced new vocabulary into the nation’s political discourse…. Oyo Council Of Obas Backs Makinde’s Second-Term Bid THE second term bid of Governor ‘Seyi Makinde of Oyo State received a massive boost on Friday, as the Council of Obas in the state declared its support for the governor, stating that the good works being done by the administration across the state should continue beyond 2023.….. 5 Software Applications You Should Master To Be Effective In The Corporate World There are new software applications that individuals in the corporate world are expected to have mastery of as the world is evolving on a daily basis, and the required skills for individuals interested in or working in the corporate world have also evolved. These software applications have been developed to help make work in the corporate world easier, more effective and more efficient… How To Minimise Disagreements When Planning A Wedding A lot of effort goes into planning a wedding. From the choice of event centres to the choice of the bride and groom’s wears, to the picking a colour for invited guests to the decision on the meals to be served for the day, and so on.…	https://tribuneonlineng.com/insecurity-how-not-to-tackle-terrorism/	2022-08-24T11:23:52Z	tribuneonlineng.com	control	https://tribuneonlineng.com/insecurity-how-not-to-tackle-terrorism/	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Junior Achievement Nigeria (JAN), in collaboration with Lagos Business School and Pan Atlantic University, has on Monday, in Lagos, partnered with Parthian Partners and GB Foods to organise the one-week 2022 edition of its Venture in Management Programme (ViMP) for some selected National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members. According to JAN, this year’s edition of the ViMP programme is designed to prepare and equip 100 NYSC members with skills that will enable them to thrive in a global economy, while transforming them to become conscientious global citizens. While appreciating Parthian Partners, GB Foods, and LBS for sponsoring the programme, the Executive Director of JAN, Foluso Gbadamosi, stated that the ViMP is one of the ways they contribute to the attainment of the United Nations (UN) sustainable development goals (SDGs), particularly goals 1, 4, 8, and 17. “Our ultimate goal is to prepare NYSC members and recent graduates for the world of business as managers and entrepreneurs,” Gbadamosi said. The Chief Executive Officer of Parthian Partners, Oluseye Olusoga, said that Parthian has a long-standing commitment to human and talent development, particularly for the next generation of nation leaders. The Country Manager of GB Foods, Vincent Egbe, said that developing leaders is at the core of their philosophy. He added that, “just as with great ingredients you could make a great dish, with great brands you could make a great business.” Dr Marvel Ogah, the ViMP Academic Director at LBS, stated that the programme aligns with their overall goal of “developing responsible and ethical business professionals and speaks to their commitment to changing the face of business practice in Africa.” YOU SHOULD NOT MISS THESE HEADLINES FROM NIGERIAN TRIBUNE We will be using Tinubu’s O lu’le, emi lo kan, eleyi for politics — Obasanjo NIGERIA’S former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, said that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has introduced new vocabulary into the nation’s political discourse…. Oyo Council Of Obas Backs Makinde’s Second-Term Bid THE second term bid of Governor ‘Seyi Makinde of Oyo State received a massive boost on Friday, as the Council of Obas in the state declared its support for the governor, stating that the good works being done by the administration across the state should continue beyond 2023.….. 5 Software Applications You Should Master To Be Effective In The Corporate World There are new software applications that individuals in the corporate world are expected to have mastery of as the world is evolving on a daily basis, and the required skills for individuals interested in or working in the corporate world have also evolved. These software applications have been developed to help make work in the corporate world easier, more effective and more efficient… How To Minimise Disagreements When Planning A Wedding A lot of effort goes into planning a wedding. From the choice of event centres to the choice of the bride and groom’s wears, to the picking a colour for invited guests to the decision on the meals to be served for the day, and so on.…	https://tribuneonlineng.com/jan-partners-firms-university-to-empower-corps-members-with-management-skills-2/	2022-08-24T11:23:59Z	tribuneonlineng.com	control	https://tribuneonlineng.com/jan-partners-firms-university-to-empower-corps-members-with-management-skills-2/	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Katsina chief kingmaker, Kauran Rimi, dies at 80 The Kauran Katsina, District Head of Rimi, Alhaji Nuhu Abdulkadir, is dead. Confirming his death to Nigerian Tribune, his son, Aminu Nuhu AbdulKadir, said he died following a brief illness at his residence in Rimi village. Aged 80, he is survived by many children and grandchildren. He was buried at his palace in Rimi, 13 kilometres from Katsina. Alhaji Nuhu AbdulKadir, who was the chief kingmaker in Katsina Emirate Council, was born in 1942, in Rimi town and was turbaned Kauran Katsina in 1982 by the former Emir of Katsina, Alhaji Kabir Usman. It was gathered that he spearheaded the crowning of the present Emir of Katsina, Alhaji Abdulmumini Kabir Usman, after the death of his father on March 8, 2008. YOU SHOULD NOT MISS THESE HEADLINES FROM NIGERIAN TRIBUNE We will be using Tinubu’s O lu’le, emi lo kan, eleyi for politics — Obasanjo NIGERIA’S former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, said that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has introduced new vocabulary into the nation’s political discourse…. Oyo Council Of Obas Backs Makinde’s Second-Term Bid THE second term bid of Governor ‘Seyi Makinde of Oyo State received a massive boost on Friday, as the Council of Obas in the state declared its support for the governor, stating that the good works being done by the administration across the state should continue beyond 2023.….. 5 Software Applications You Should Master To Be Effective In The Corporate World There are new software applications that individuals in the corporate world are expected to have mastery of as the world is evolving on a daily basis, and the required skills for individuals interested in or working in the corporate world have also evolved. These software applications have been developed to help make work in the corporate world easier, more effective and more efficient… How To Minimise Disagreements When Planning A Wedding A lot of effort goes into planning a wedding. From the choice of event centres to the choice of the bride and groom’s wears, to the picking a colour for invited guests to the decision on the meals to be served for the day, and so on.…	https://tribuneonlineng.com/katsina-chief-kingmaker-kauran-rimi-dies-at-80-2/	2022-08-24T11:24:18Z	tribuneonlineng.com	control	https://tribuneonlineng.com/katsina-chief-kingmaker-kauran-rimi-dies-at-80-2/	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
The Niagara County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a fatal crash involving a 19-year-old on an off-road vehicle and a tree-trimming truck on Youngstown-Lockport Road in Wilson Tuesday night. The accident was reported about 9:30 p.m. and involved a 1999 Ford F-800 truck with attached aerial boom, towing a tree chipper. While the truck was heading west on Youngstown-Lockport Road near Andrews Road, a collision occurred with an off road-style dirt bike being operated in the road. Following the collision, the truck left the road, overturned and came to rest in a ditch. The dirt bike also left the road and came to a rest in the ditch. A 19-year-old man operating the dirt bike was killed in the collision and died at the scene. The 30-year-old driver of the truck was taken to Erie County Medical Center by ambulance for what was described as non-life threatening injuries. Investigation of the crash by the Niagara County Sheriff's Office Accident Investigation Unit is continuing.	https://www.lockportjournal.com/dirt-bike-tree-trimming-truck-involved-in-fatal-crash-in-wilson/article_38232f82-238b-11ed-b601-ab9750f3a426.html	2022-08-24T11:24:26Z	lockportjournal.com	control	https://www.lockportjournal.com/dirt-bike-tree-trimming-truck-involved-in-fatal-crash-in-wilson/article_38232f82-238b-11ed-b601-ab9750f3a426.html	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
I recently started re-watching ‘Suits’, the legal series on Netflix; and in episode one, Harvey said something to Mike that struck me. “Threat of sanctions is better than filing for sanctions”. It’s interesting how much research goes into these shows because I strongly felt like I could relate. I once consulted for a client who was involved in a legal matter in which the plaintiff never actually went to court but kept sending letters threatening a lawsuit; the letters evoked a range of reactions: anger, panic, negotiations, counter threats, etc. This was so until the matter was finally resolved. Both parties knew that actually going to court would be a long and expensive process that neither party wanted, but the plaintiff knew that the defendant wanted it far less, because an action by their marketing team had left them exposed. The whole situation got me thinking about the work required to achieve marketing growth. We live in a fast-paced world in which it requires intentional, calculated effort for brands to hold the attention of their audiences, and more than ever before, “cultural relevance” is essential to brand communication. It goes beyond Twitter trends or influencers; it is about building relevance by becoming a huge part of conversations that strike a cultural nerve in a way that is consistent with the personality of the brand. Culture breaks down into a number of different elements, such as language, beliefs, social organisation, arts, etc. It informs the shared heritage, meaning, desire and outlook of a community which serves as a distinguishing factor for its members. Consider comedy, the greater proportion of Nigerian comedians perform in pidgin/Nigerian languages. Their individual reasons may vary from reaching a wider audience to intentionally propagating and preserving culture to the fact that the joke sometimes just does not have the same impact in English. The same applies to music; Nigerian music is winning global awards and sitting on global charts, but you can never miss our unique beats, language and style; elements of our culture, #NigeriaToTheWorld. It is however important to note that culture is much more than its individual elements. One very common mistake I have seen while working on international brands is the idea that simply changing the language spoken in an advertising material or throwing in some pidgin phrases “localises” said material. Language on its own is an element of expression; we know from the study of psychology that behavioural change involves a series of mental processes. Context, resonance and evoking emotion is the goal. Coca-cola understood this when they created their “share a coke” campaign. They evoked powerful emotions, and by extension, consumer action when they brilliantly used consumer names on Coke bottles, making consumers feel “seen” and also giving them the opportunity to share a “personalised” Coke with a loved one. The campaign achieved sales growth of about 2.5 per cent, over 18m media impressions and many more growth metrics. What do you do when you cannot plaster your customers’ names on product bottles? Well, first of all, remember that it goes beyond names. It is about striking deep emotional connections and meaning. A lot of brands do this by leveraging music and popular trends. Both are excellent tools which resonate with the audience on a deep level and when used right, can help a brand win the hearts and minds of their audience. One aspect of leveraging music and trends the right way is the understanding that these tools are the intellectual property of the creators and making use of them without legal authority places you on the wrong side of the law. When a piece of content (in this case, typically an audio clip or dance routine) is catchy enough and starts to attract a lot of attention on social media, the owner of the work sometimes realises that there’s an opportunity to make some income off the material. They might not fully understand the science behind it, but from experience seeing how brands work with influencers and sign endorsements with established artistes, they know that when they’ve created something that the market appreciates, brands are likely to want to use it as a point of connection to the audience, so they work with a lawyer to trademark their work. Then they wait, and like flies to honey, the brands come. Brand managers often do not get legal vetting because they see it as engaging with “just” a social media trend, not realising that they have “just” infringed on the creator’s intellectual property rights and fallen for the trap set by the content creator and their lawyers. Threats of lawsuits are made, settlements agreed upon, payments made and the creator/lawyer team sits and waits for the next prey. I remember one debate about the ethics of the creator/lawyer team. One side in support, one side against them. For me, the issue is that as marketing professionals, we would be remiss to think only of the creative and consumer psychology aspects of what we do. We must also consider the risk environment and the potential ways your creative idea could expose the business to litigation and other risk factors. In the “Share a Coke” campaign example used earlier, the first team to ideate and implement the Share a Coke campaign was the Australian Coca-cola team. They are said to have held 25 risk assessment meetings, conducted 225 trademark searches, ensured that over 5,000 curse and vulgar words would never be printed, and multiple other non-creative tasks. In conclusion, marketing growth is not a linear activity. It’s a lot like making music; different keys, instruments, techniques and skill sets working together to produce one coordinated, beautiful sound. Ayotunde is a marketing consultant based in Lagos. YOU SHOULD NOT MISS THESE HEADLINES FROM NIGERIAN TRIBUNE We will be using Tinubu’s O lu’le, emi lo kan, eleyi for politics — Obasanjo NIGERIA’S former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, said that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has introduced new vocabulary into the nation’s political discourse…. Oyo Council Of Obas Backs Makinde’s Second-Term Bid THE second term bid of Governor ‘Seyi Makinde of Oyo State received a massive boost on Friday, as the Council of Obas in the state declared its support for the governor, stating that the good works being done by the administration across the state should continue beyond 2023.….. 5 Software Applications You Should Master To Be Effective In The Corporate World There are new software applications that individuals in the corporate world are expected to have mastery of as the world is evolving on a daily basis, and the required skills for individuals interested in or working in the corporate world have also evolved. These software applications have been developed to help make work in the corporate world easier, more effective and more efficient… How To Minimise Disagreements When Planning A Wedding A lot of effort goes into planning a wedding. From the choice of event centres to the choice of the bride and groom’s wears, to the picking a colour for invited guests to the decision on the meals to be served for the day, and so on.…	https://tribuneonlineng.com/leveraging-culture-to-drive-business-growth/	2022-08-24T11:24:31Z	tribuneonlineng.com	control	https://tribuneonlineng.com/leveraging-culture-to-drive-business-growth/	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Meta has announced that the applications for the AR/VR Africa Metathon in partnership with Imisi 3D and BlackRhino VR are now open. The AR/VR Africa Metathon is a series of programmes and activations under the Meta global XR fund aimed at supporting African XR talents to build innovative solutions that demonstrate various use cases of the metaverse in Africa. The AR/VR Metathon would feature three major components, including a training programme, an Africa-wide hackathon, which would take place across 16 countries in Africa physically and open to everyone virtually, followed by an intensive bootcamp to further develop solutions. These components would run from mid-August to April, 2023. According to Mr Phil Oduor, Policy Programmes Lead for Africa at Meta, “The AR/VR Africa Metathon is an opportunity to demonstrate how artificial intelligence, augmented reality and virtual reality technologies that have been around for decades, are core to the future of the metaverse and what Africans are building in the industry.” Oduor further adds, “The XR programmes and research fund is a two-year $50 million investment into programmes and external research focused on building the metaverse responsibly.” Judith Okonkwo, founder, Imisi 3D & AR/VR Africa said, “Six years after our first hackathon and following subsequent events in over 28 countries across the continent, we are especially thrilled to be partnering with Meta and BlackRhino VR for the 2022 edition. “This year’s AR/VR Africa Metathon brings together our AR/VR Africa pre-hackathon training, hackathon, and bootcamp in one programme. Working with partners in 16 countries, it is our biggest and most ambitious event yet providing even greater access for XR. “In addition to physical events in these countries, we welcome participants across the continent who will be able to learn and hack virtually. “At this time of intense global interest in the Metaverse, our mission remains the same – increasing access to XR resources on the continent, accelerating XR talent, showcasing African XR solutions and creating pathways for careers and industry.” YOU SHOULD NOT MISS THESE HEADLINES FROM NIGERIAN TRIBUNE We will be using Tinubu’s O lu’le, emi lo kan, eleyi for politics — Obasanjo NIGERIA’S former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, said that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has introduced new vocabulary into the nation’s political discourse…. Oyo Council Of Obas Backs Makinde’s Second-Term Bid THE second term bid of Governor ‘Seyi Makinde of Oyo State received a massive boost on Friday, as the Council of Obas in the state declared its support for the governor, stating that the good works being done by the administration across the state should continue beyond 2023.….. 5 Software Applications You Should Master To Be Effective In The Corporate World There are new software applications that individuals in the corporate world are expected to have mastery of as the world is evolving on a daily basis, and the required skills for individuals interested in or working in the corporate world have also evolved. These software applications have been developed to help make work in the corporate world easier, more effective and more efficient… How To Minimise Disagreements When Planning A Wedding A lot of effort goes into planning a wedding. From the choice of event centres to the choice of the bride and groom’s wears, to the picking a colour for invited guests to the decision on the meals to be served for the day, and so on.…	https://tribuneonlineng.com/meta-announces-applications-for-ar-vr-africa-metathon/	2022-08-24T11:24:38Z	tribuneonlineng.com	control	https://tribuneonlineng.com/meta-announces-applications-for-ar-vr-africa-metathon/	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Nasarawa gov promises to employ more extension agents to boost food production Nasarawa State governor, Alhaji Abdullahi Sule, has promised to engage more agricultural extension agents in the ongoing effort to boost food production in the state. The governor made the pledge during a two-day workshop for National Agricultural Extension Development Committee, in Lafia, the state capital on Tuesday. The governor, who decried the dearth of extension workers despite the critical role they play in providing support services to farmers across the country, called on the federal and state governments to accord priority attention to them if the country must achieve self-sufficiency and diversification drive through agriculture. He said his administration is also committed to the training and retraining of the available agricultural extension agents for effective and efficient service delivery. “Government is not unaware of the neglect the agricultural extension agents suffered over time as a result of dependency on oil as the major source of revenue to the nation’s economy. In this regard, various policies have been put in place to resuscitate and strengthen the ADPs as a parastatal responsible for transforming the policies of government into reality in order to drive the diversification of the economy. “It is important to state that the significant role played by the ADPs in the implementation of agricultural policies and programmes through extension agents is critical to the development of agricultural sector. “To achieve food security and sufficiency, priority attention must be accorded in the selection of agricultural extension agents to man the affairs by disseminating vital information to farmers on both technological advancement and other challenges that could constitute threat to farming activities. He said the ADP is a World Bank project designed to reduce rural poverty and improve agricultural production through community-based approach, noting that this explains why government at all levels has continued to champion the project as a way of sustaining what was hitherto put in place by the donor agencies in view of its importance and associated benefits to socio-economic development. “Today, the ADPs are faced with the issue of under-staffing which has negated the programme in meeting the World Bank’s standard of agricultural practices.” YOU SHOULD NOT MISS THESE HEADLINES FROM NIGERIAN TRIBUNE We will be using Tinubu’s O lu’le, emi lo kan, eleyi for politics — Obasanjo NIGERIA’S former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, said that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has introduced new vocabulary into the nation’s political discourse…. Oyo Council Of Obas Backs Makinde’s Second-Term Bid THE second term bid of Governor ‘Seyi Makinde of Oyo State received a massive boost on Friday, as the Council of Obas in the state declared its support for the governor, stating that the good works being done by the administration across the state should continue beyond 2023.….. 5 Software Applications You Should Master To Be Effective In The Corporate World There are new software applications that individuals in the corporate world are expected to have mastery of as the world is evolving on a daily basis, and the required skills for individuals interested in or working in the corporate world have also evolved. These software applications have been developed to help make work in the corporate world easier, more effective and more efficient… How To Minimise Disagreements When Planning A Wedding A lot of effort goes into planning a wedding. From the choice of event centres to the choice of the bride and groom’s wears, to the picking a colour for invited guests to the decision on the meals to be served for the day, and so on.…	https://tribuneonlineng.com/nasarawa-gov-promises-to-employ-more-extension-agents-to-boost-food-production/	2022-08-24T11:24:44Z	tribuneonlineng.com	control	https://tribuneonlineng.com/nasarawa-gov-promises-to-employ-more-extension-agents-to-boost-food-production/	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
With grave concern, I condemn the display of a flex banner at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International airport, Abuja advertising the citizenship of other countries with the inscription “obtain and enjoy the citizenship of Vanuatu, Grenada and Turkey” with further information such as the website and phone numbers. On 10th of August, 2022, I was at the airport where I observed the flagrant display of the flex banner at the International departure section of the airport. The airport is the gateway in and out of the country, and it speaks volumes about our image. Therefore, the conspicuous placement of such adverts at the airport is not only indecent but quite unpatriotic. Emigrating temporarily or permanently is one of the fundamental human rights of every citizen in a democratic nation like Nigeria, according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 in Article 13. However, it leaves much to be desired if Nigerians are being enticed, induced or even deceived to dump their fatherland for other countries through citizenship adverts in the public facility. I doubt if Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON) or the Department of Outdoor Advertising and Signage, an agency of the Federal Capital Territory Authority endorsed this advert or the placement at the international departure section of the airport. As it were, one of the mandates of APCON or any signage agency is to ensure “that every advertisement shall be honest, legal, decent and truthful”. The aforesaid is not decent enough for a country which needs its skilled workers as a bastion of development. Apart from the unsuitability of the advert at one of the busiest airports in Nigeria, it is distasteful to know a public facility is now an avenue for traveling agencies to promote their trade which, possibly, could be an attempt to fleece innocent Nigerians. Nigeria is no doubt passing through a turbulent period but we cannot be too hopeful or too optimistic of a better Nigeria. The information online on emigrating from one country to another as well as the sponsored posts/adverts of traveling agents/agencies should be enough for anyone who wishes to leave the country. Thus, outdoor advertising of such particularly at the airport is untoward and condemnable. I hereby call on the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Ministry of Aviation and the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed to ensure that our airports or public facilities do not serve as avenues to promote unverified, unsuitable, unapproved, indecent or unpatriotic products or services. Otunba Adejare Adegbenro dejare.adegbenro@gmail.com. YOU SHOULD NOT MISS THESE HEADLINES FROM NIGERIAN TRIBUNE We will be using Tinubu’s O lu’le, emi lo kan, eleyi for politics — Obasanjo NIGERIA’S former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, said that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has introduced new vocabulary into the nation’s political discourse…. Oyo Council Of Obas Backs Makinde’s Second-Term Bid THE second term bid of Governor ‘Seyi Makinde of Oyo State received a massive boost on Friday, as the Council of Obas in the state declared its support for the governor, stating that the good works being done by the administration across the state should continue beyond 2023.….. 5 Software Applications You Should Master To Be Effective In The Corporate World There are new software applications that individuals in the corporate world are expected to have mastery of as the world is evolving on a daily basis, and the required skills for individuals interested in or working in the corporate world have also evolved. These software applications have been developed to help make work in the corporate world easier, more effective and more efficient… How To Minimise Disagreements When Planning A Wedding A lot of effort goes into planning a wedding. From the choice of event centres to the choice of the bride and groom’s wears, to the picking a colour for invited guests to the decision on the meals to be served for the day, and so on.…	https://tribuneonlineng.com/on-adverts-for-citizenship-at-abuja-airport/	2022-08-24T11:25:04Z	tribuneonlineng.com	control	https://tribuneonlineng.com/on-adverts-for-citizenship-at-abuja-airport/	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Former President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayodele Oritsejafor, has charged Itsekiri home and abroad to join hands with the Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse III, to develop Iwere (Itsekiri) land and possibly make a Dubai out of it. He said given the immense opportunities that abound in Iwereland in spite of the current economic challenges, the Olu of Warri has, in the last one year, shown some sterling prospects of development in all facets of the life of his subjects. Oritsejafor handed down the charge at the Olu’s palace (Aghofen) in Warri, Delta State on Sunday during the grand finale and thanksgiving service of the first coronation anniversary of Ogiame Atuwatse III. He charged the monarch to continue with the revolution that can translate Ode Itsekiri, the ancestral home of the Itsekiri, into another Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. “There are people who are Itsekiris who can give me N100 million, N50 million, N10 million, N20 million, N5 million and even 5,000, but together, we can turn the place to Dubai. “And as we do it, God will breathe his favour on us and then government will look our way and begin to bless us. “There is so much to see in this place. The first white people came here; the first church was built here and Christianity started here. “Where are we today? What have we done with these blessings and history?” he asked rhetorically. Delta State governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, the Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege, Speaker of Delta State House of Assembly, Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, the member representing Warri federal constituency at the National Assembly, Dr. Thomas Ereyitomi, former Delta State governor, Chief James Ibori, members representing Warri South constituency I and II in Delta state House of Assembly, Dr. Augustine Uroye and Hon. Matthew Poko Opuoru respectively, were in attendance. Others were the member representing Warri South-West constituency in the state House of Assembly, Hon. Emomotimi Dennis Guwor as well as the member representing Warri North constituency also in state House of Assembly, Hon. Fred Martins. The Olu of Warri who was elated during the paying of homage at Ode-Itsekiri, the ancestral home of Itsekiri people, commended his wife, the Olori and his subjects, for their support in moving Warri kingdom forward since he ascended the throne. “I just want to thank everyone who has come to celebrate with us. I want to specially thank and welcome my royal brothers starting with His Majesty, the Emir of Kano. “Thank you for travelling over air, land and sea. I welcome my brother the King of Agbor. It is an honour to have both of you here. You have added grace and colour to this event. Thank you,” the monarch said. Olori Atuwatse III had earlier on Friday at Koko in Warri North Local Government Area of the state provided 600 birth certificates to children who were not properly registered during their births as well as health outreach to hundreds of Koko who benefitted from free medical tests, treatment, free drugs, eye classes and palliatives to mark the first coronation anniversary of her husband. During payment of homage at Ode-Itsekiri, the Itsekiri Renaissance Group (IRG) unveiled plans to set up an Information Technology Centre (ITC) in Ode-Itsekiri as well as train over 300 youths in the next coronation anniversary. The Parish Priest of St. Anthony Catholic Church, Ode-Itsekiri, Reverend Father Ogbe Emmanuel, said “the first Church in West Africa, St. Anthony Catholic Church, was built in Big Warri and still exists in the Itsekiri ancestral home, praying for the long reign and success of the monarch on the throne. One of the Itsekiri communities, Ajigba, led by the Igba of Warri kingdom, Chief (Mrs.) Rita Lori-Ogbebor, during their homage-paying presented a sculptor of the transited Atuwatse II to Ogiame Atuwatse III, “to appreciate the Olu for his good works on the throne.” The traditional ruler and Dein of Agbor kingdom, Obi Keagborekuzi Ikenchuku Benjamin, Emir of Kano, Aminu Ado Bayero and the Head of Hausa/Fulani in Warri, Alhaji Mohammed Bello, were among dignitaries who attended the event. It will be recalled that activities of the first anniversary of the Olu of Warri, began on August 17, with Praise Day at the Palace Church, Warri and was followed with a novelty match between Ebiren Olori Vs Dynamic Ladies Club and a game between Chevron FC Vs lNYC/Chiefs at Nana College, Warri. YOU SHOULD NOT MISS THESE HEADLINES FROM NIGERIAN TRIBUNE We will be using Tinubu’s O lu’le, emi lo kan, eleyi for politics — Obasanjo NIGERIA’S former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, said that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has introduced new vocabulary into the nation’s political discourse…. Oyo Council Of Obas Backs Makinde’s Second-Term Bid THE second term bid of Governor ‘Seyi Makinde of Oyo State received a massive boost on Friday, as the Council of Obas in the state declared its support for the governor, stating that the good works being done by the administration across the state should continue beyond 2023.….. 5 Software Applications You Should Master To Be Effective In The Corporate World There are new software applications that individuals in the corporate world are expected to have mastery of as the world is evolving on a daily basis, and the required skills for individuals interested in or working in the corporate world have also evolved. These software applications have been developed to help make work in the corporate world easier, more effective and more efficient… How To Minimise Disagreements When Planning A Wedding A lot of effort goes into planning a wedding. From the choice of event centres to the choice of the bride and groom’s wears, to the picking a colour for invited guests to the decision on the meals to be served for the day, and so on.…	https://tribuneonlineng.com/oritsejafor-charges-olu-of-warri-over-ancestral-home/	2022-08-24T11:25:17Z	tribuneonlineng.com	control	https://tribuneonlineng.com/oritsejafor-charges-olu-of-warri-over-ancestral-home/	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
THERE are fears in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that the ongoing attempt to reconcile its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubukar and Governor Nyseom Wike of Rivers State may not yield results as the governor, once again, jetted out of the country for another strategy meeting with his supporters. Wike was said to have left for France on Sunday night along with Governors Sam Ortom (Benue), Seyi Makinde (Oyo), Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia) and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu). It is the second of such trip within a few weeks. Nigerian Tribune gathered that they were expected to leave France for the United Kingdom (UK) after a round of meeting before returning to the country tomorrow. Party stakeholders are worried that the Wike group may be working to ensure the defeat of the presidential candidate of PDP, despite the current effort to resolve the differences existing between them. Wike is said to be insisting that the national chairman of the PDP, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, should step down. However, the party boss has continued to rebuff all entreaties to make him to vacate his seat. Sources revealed that Wike is blaming Governor Ortom for signing an undertaking of good behaviour for Ayu, which he believes that the national chairman has violated with his alleged bias towards Atiku. “It is because of Ayu this matter is dragging. Wike wants him to step down but because he thinks he has acquired the means since coming into office, he does not want to listen to anyone again,” a top party source told the Nigerian Tribune on Tuesday. A section of the party has been pressing for the adherence to the constitutional provision on the zoning of offices which prescribes that the national chairman and the presidential candidate cannot belong to the same region of the country. Both Atiku and Ayu are from the same northern zone. There were speculation on Tuesday that Wike and his group may also have a meeting with the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Bola Tinubu, during the France trip. A source said such meeting could provide both sides the opportunity for negotiation over the 2023 presidential polls. However, the meeting with Tinubu could not be confirmed at the time of this report. The Wike group had also met with the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, for the same reason. The governors’ trip to Europe came at a time the chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT), Senator Walid Jibrin, insisted that the party must stick to constitutional prescription on zoning party offices. Jibrin, who had earlier said the presidential candidate and the party’s national chairman cannot be from the same region, on Tuesday, reiterated his postion amid criticism from some members of the party. In a statement he personally issued, he maintained that he will stand by the truth, no matter what. While noting that he has remained in the PDP and passed through different positions since inception, he stated: “I still maintain my stand on my earlier statement that PDP cannot produce president, national chairman, BoT chairman, all from the North, for 2023 presidential election. “PDP is a democratic and national party that caters for all Nigerians, it’s not sectional but loved by all Nigerians. “As PDP BoT chairman, I must say the truth and nothing but the truth. I don’t fear anyone but God and true agenda of our party. “I am a true member of PDP since its inception in 1998. Today, l am one of the truest member of the party who remained in the party since 1998 and never changed to any party but remained only in PDP, passing all positions in PDP. “I saw yesterday in PDP and today kicking very well in PDP adding to this I am also today member of PDP national caucus, NEC member, member national convention. “As chairman of BoT, I have a tenure of five years but already spent four years, six months, having only six months left as per the constitution of our party, PDP. Therefore, I will never accept any unholy criticism by any one. “I will remain in PDP until my death. I still maintain that the BoT is eagerly waiting for the report of the reconciliation committee headed by the governor of Adamawa State and Professor Jerry Gana. “Thereafter, the BoT will thoroughly discuss it and inform the public accordingly. No more no less. The BoT will continue discussing with all other aggrieved members of the party including those in states, zones and nationally. “I advise that we should concentrate more on how to win all elective positions in 2023.”	https://tribuneonlineng.com/pdp-crisis-deepens-wike-other-govs-jet-out-again/	2022-08-24T11:25:24Z	tribuneonlineng.com	control	https://tribuneonlineng.com/pdp-crisis-deepens-wike-other-govs-jet-out-again/	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Widows in Ethiope West Local Government Area of Delta State had cause to smile as a cleric, Pastor Ambrose Ogana distributed gifts items worth several millions of naira as part of activities marking his birthday anniversary. The items include foodstuffs of different kinds and clothing materials. The event took place at the City of Greatness Ministry in Oghara, the headquarters of the local government area of the state. He said the gesture was in fulfillment of his covenant with God long ago that if He (God) blessed him, he would always put a smile on the face of the needy, especially the underprivileged. Ogana added that extending love to the needy on a yearly basis gives him joy as God has blessed him beyond reasonable doubt. He charged everyone to be steadfast in serving God and to always put their trust in God, saying without God life could be miserable. Speaking to the congregation, chairman of the Ethiope West Local Government Area, Mr. Oghenedoro Owoso applauded the celebrant for the gesture towards the widows and the underprivileged at the grassroots. He encouraged everyone to always remember their neighbours whenever they receive blessings of God. The council boss who titled his message ‘remember your neighbour’ said doing the will of God was to love your neighbor as yourself. He urged all attendees to emulate Ogana by being a blessing to others with the positions and the substance God has given to them. The chairman of the Christians Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Ethiope West, Reverend Anthony Uje thanked the celebrant for reaching out to the widows and the needy. YOU SHOULD NOT MISS THESE HEADLINES FROM NIGERIAN TRIBUNE We will be using Tinubu’s O lu’le, emi lo kan, eleyi for politics — Obasanjo NIGERIA’S former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, said that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has introduced new vocabulary into the nation’s political discourse…. Oyo Council Of Obas Backs Makinde’s Second-Term Bid THE second term bid of Governor ‘Seyi Makinde of Oyo State received a massive boost on Friday, as the Council of Obas in the state declared its support for the governor, stating that the good works being done by the administration across the state should continue beyond 2023.….. 5 Software Applications You Should Master To Be Effective In The Corporate World There are new software applications that individuals in the corporate world are expected to have mastery of as the world is evolving on a daily basis, and the required skills for individuals interested in or working in the corporate world have also evolved. These software applications have been developed to help make work in the corporate world easier, more effective and more efficient… How To Minimise Disagreements When Planning A Wedding A lot of effort goes into planning a wedding. From the choice of event centres to the choice of the bride and groom’s wears, to the picking a colour for invited guests to the decision on the meals to be served for the day, and so on.…	https://tribuneonlineng.com/widows-get-foodstuffs-clothing-materials-other-items-in-delta/	2022-08-24T11:26:03Z	tribuneonlineng.com	control	https://tribuneonlineng.com/widows-get-foodstuffs-clothing-materials-other-items-in-delta/	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
The products and services mentioned below were selected independent of sales and advertising. However, Don't Waste Your Money may receive a small commission from the purchase of any products or services through an affiliate link to the retailer's website. After a test run with some lucky fans earlier this year, Bath & Body Works’ new rewards program is officially launching nationwide. The My Bath & Body Works Rewards program allows customers to earn points, redeem special offers and get free products while shopping in stores, online or via the app. Members can also unlock early access to fragrance launches and events like Candle Day, which means first pick of the most popular scents. The rewards program is free to sign up and the deals begin right away, with a coupon for $10 off a $30 purchase. From there, you’ll earn 10 points for every $1 you spend and a free full-size product (up to $16.50 value) for every $100 spent or 1,000 points earned. Members will also earn a free birthday gift each year, get sneak peeks at new product drops, and receive first choice on limited product offerings and other surprises that Bath & Body Works is keeping under wraps for now. The easiest way to sign up is via the Bath & Body Works app, which will keep track of your rewards points and includes an in-app wallet. This stores rewards as they are earned, shows all available offers and discounts and stores gift cards for shopping online and in-store. “Here at Bath & Body Works, we aim to make the world a brighter and happier place through the power of fragrance — today’s launch gives us an exciting and meaningful extension of that commitment,” Joanne Friess, senior vice president of marketing strategy said in a press release. “We know that customers expect fun and engaging experiences whether shopping in our store, online or in the app, and we’ve crafted our program to deepen the engagement and connection with our customers.” Once you sign up, you’ll start earning rewards right away and will receive your $10 off coupon within 72 hours. If you’re not sure what to use your coupon for, the Bath & Body Works Halloween Collection is out now and features favorite scents like Ghoul Friend, Purrfect Pumpkin and Sugared Spell. Or, try the new Stardust Magic or Enchanted Candy Potion, which has notes of what the company describes as “spellbinding sugar, bewitched berries and whipped pixie dust.” Will you be signing up for the My Bath & Body Works Rewards program? This story originally appeared on Don't Waste Your Money. Checkout Don't Waste Your Money for product reviews and other great ideas to save and make money.	https://www.wtxl.com/join-bath-body-works-new-rewards-program	2022-08-24T11:26:39Z	wtxl.com	control	https://www.wtxl.com/join-bath-body-works-new-rewards-program	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Rents have been soaring in 2022, whether you are in an apartment or rental home. After two years without raising rents, many landlords are now making up for it (and their higher costs) by raising rent 10% or more when leases come up. Other than moving to a new place, however, the sad truth is there's little you can do about rising rent prices. Stephanie Blanchard could soon have no place to live. The mom of three children says she's desperate after her landlord decided to raise her low-income apartment rent to "market rate" which means a $600 rent hike she can't possibly afford. "I'm gonna be honest. I just can't stay here," she said. She says every other 2-bedroom apartment near her is renting for $1,300 or more. "This one is $1,650, she said," pointing to a house for rent. "I could not afford that," she said. She's not alone. A recent Freddie Mac survey found rent increased for nearly 60 percent of renters in the past year with a third seeing increases of ten percent or more. What you can do Fighting a rent hike can be almost impossible. The problem: Rent is rarely negotiable, and most communities have no laws limiting rent hikes. That means you may need to take a hard look at your spending elsewhere unless you substantially downsize (to a studio apartment, for instance, or by taking on a new roommate). Kelsey Sheehy with Nerdwallet.com says start by checking your checking account. "You might find things you forgot you were paying for," she said. "Those are easy wins." She says you should eliminate unused subscriptions or streaming TV services and shop around the bills you can control, such as car insurance. Need to move? Before you tell the landlord you are moving out, double-check your lease, and see if it says anything about how much the rent can go up at the end of the year. If you have decided to search for a new, cheaper apartment: - Is there a washer and dryer so that you can avoid laundromat expenses? - Is there an on-site gym so you can ditch a gym membership? - Do you have to pay for some utilities you did not have to pay for before (such as water)? If so, that could make the new apartment more expensive than the old one. But Sheehy warns that even a cheaper apartment doesn't mean you will spend less. "Moving to a different town or neighborhood might lead to cheaper rents," she said. "but it could also increase your commuting costs." Also, if your new apartment requires you to park in the street, think hard about the risk your car will be sideswiped or damaged at some point, which will cost hundreds of dollars to fix. She says convincing a landlord to lower your rent is very tough. However, if you're handy, Sheehy says some landlords will give you a discount if you can help around the building. "Maybe you mow the lawn or take care of small maintenance requests in the building," she said. "That helps save them money, and they might pass those savings down to you." Stephanie Blanchard just wants something affordable before she ends up out on the street and homeless. "I feel I was begging family and friends," she said. "I don't want to live like that." But she and so many other renters these days may have to settle for a much smaller place so you don't waste your money. ______________________ Don't Waste Your Money" is a registered trademark of Scripps Media, Inc. ("Scripps"). Like" John Matarese Money on Facebook Follow John on Instagram @johnmataresemoney Follow John on Twitter (@JohnMatarese) For more consumer news and money-saving advice, go to www.dontwasteyourmoney.com.	https://www.wtxl.com/money/consumer/dont-waste-your-money/hit-with-a-rent-hike-here-are-some-things-you-can-do	2022-08-24T11:26:45Z	wtxl.com	control	https://www.wtxl.com/money/consumer/dont-waste-your-money/hit-with-a-rent-hike-here-are-some-things-you-can-do	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
TALLAHASSEE — A few bits of fog will reduce visibility through the early hours of Wednesday morning. By early afternoon, fog mixes out, but grey skies will move in. Highs today stay in the mid to upper 80s. Rain will be widespread to our west most of the day, but scattered showers and storms make their way into the Big Bend and South Georgia area later Wednesday afternoon. Some storms will contain heavy rain, frequent lightning, and gusty winds. Head indoors until storms pass. We have a very similar outlook in our forecast this week with highs in the upper 80s, midmorning clouds, and afternoon/ evening storms.	https://www.wtxl.com/weather/weather-news/first-to-know-forecast-spotty-heavy-showers-by-early-evening-wednesday	2022-08-24T11:26:51Z	wtxl.com	control	https://www.wtxl.com/weather/weather-news/first-to-know-forecast-spotty-heavy-showers-by-early-evening-wednesday	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
STAMFORD, Conn., Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aircastle Limited ("Aircastle" or "the Company") announced today the appointment of Roy Chandran as Chief Financial Officer as of September 1, 2022. On July 28, 2022, the Company had announced the resignation of Aaron Dahlke, as Chief Financial Officer, and that Mr. Chandran would serve as the Interim Chief Financial Officer until a successor was identified. Mike Inglese, Aircastle's CEO, commented, "We are pleased to have Roy succeed Aaron as our Chief Financial Officer, particularly given his extensive capital markets experience and relationships. Roy's willingness to immediately step into the interim assignment and quickly accept the permanent role underscores the depth of our management bench and succession planning processes." Roy Chandran was appointed Aircastle's Chief Strategy Officer in March 2020. Prior to joining Aircastle in May 2008, Mr. Chandran was a Director at Citi in the Global Structured Solutions Group, having originally joined Salomon Brothers in 1997. Mr. Chandran holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia and obtained his MBA from the International Institute of Management Development, Switzerland. About Aircastle Limited Aircastle Limited acquires, leases and sells commercial jet aircraft to airlines throughout the world. As of May 31, 2022, Aircastle owned and managed on behalf of its joint ventures 250 aircraft leased to 74 customers located in 44 countries. Contact: Aircastle Advisor LLC Jim Connelly, SVP ESG & Corporate Communications Tel: +1-203-504-1871 jconnelly@aircastle.com View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Aircastle Limited	https://www.wbko.com/prnewswire/2022/08/24/aircastle-appoints-roy-chandran-chief-financial-officer/	2022-08-24T11:36:34Z	wbko.com	control	https://www.wbko.com/prnewswire/2022/08/24/aircastle-appoints-roy-chandran-chief-financial-officer/	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
International show of support for Taiwan grows Some countries are showing stronger support for Taiwan in response to China's growing pressure on the self-governing island. Why it matters: Beijing's show of force against Taiwan in the wake of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit shocked many democratic governments and seems to have backfired — at least for now — by pushing some countries closer to the island. What's happening: The U.S. announced last week that it would hold trade talks with Taiwan in the fall, a major step toward a bilateral trade deal that proponents for closer U.S.-Taiwan ties have long advocated. - A congressional delegation led by Democratic Sen. Ed Markey followed closely on Pelosi's heels, and a third group of U.S. officials, led by Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb (R), is visiting the island this week. - Other countries are offering public support as well after Pelosi's visit. A Japanese parliamentary delegation is expected to visit Taiwan this week, Danish lawmakers are planning a visit in October, and a group of Canadian lawmakers is expected sometime in the fall. The backstory: The Chinese government claims Taiwan as its sovereign territory, though the island has never been ruled by the Chinese Communist Party. - Over the past several decades, China has forced Taiwan out of most international organizations and persuaded most countries to switch diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing, though many governments still maintain unofficial ties with the island and send occasional delegations. The big picture: The Chinese government's massive military drills in response to Pelosi's visit, and the additional set of drills it announced ahead of Markey's visit, suggest that Beijing is trying to establish a new normal of more restricted international access to Taiwan, analysts say. - "Military drills that simulate actual battles have become the new normal. China can now decide whether a future exercise will seamlessly be turned into actual combat," Chinese commentator Chen Feng wrote for Guancha, a nationalist Chinese website. Yes, but: China's pressure on foreign governments to limit ties with Taiwan has sometimes made those ties stronger instead, most recently in the case of Lithuania. - After Lithuania allowed Taiwan to open a representative office in its capital city Vilnius last year, China began rejecting imports made with Lithuanian components, causing some Western suppliers to avoid Lithuanian-made goods in the supply chains. - But "China’s actions have not pushed Lithuania away from Taiwan, but had the opposite effect," researchers with the Alliance for Securing Democracy wrote in a recent report. "The controversy has brought both parties closer and serves as a catalyst for deeper cooperation in a multitude of areas." - Case in point: Lithuania also just announced its first representative to Taiwan. Between the lines: Though Beijing's isolation of Taiwan worked for decades, China's hardline authoritarian turn under Chinese president Xi Jinping — and Russia's invasion of Ukraine — has renewed a sense of solidarity among democratic nations. - Leaders in some democratic nations believe that Taiwan, as a healthy democracy surviving under China's shadow, can no longer be overlooked.	https://www.axios.com/2022/08/24/china-drills-taiwan-international-support-pelosi	2022-08-24T11:40:58Z	axios.com	control	https://www.axios.com/2022/08/24/china-drills-taiwan-international-support-pelosi	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
- Wishpond attained 55% year-over-year revenue growth in Q2-2022 with revenue of $5.0 million, driven by Wishpond's expanded sales team, new product introductions and successfully integrated acquisitions. - The Company achieved positive cash flow from operating activities in Q2-2022. - Outlook continues to look strong with increasing demand for Wishpond's products from SMB customers. VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Wishpond Technologies Ltd. (TSXV: WISH) (OTCQX: WPNDF) (the "Company" or "Wishpond"), a provider of marketing-focused online business solutions, announces it has filed its interim consolidated financial statements (the "Interim Financial Statements") and management's discussion and analysis (the "MD&A") for Q2-2022, representing the three and six months ended June 30, 2022. Copies of the Interim Financial Statements and MD&A are available on the Company's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. Ali Tajskandar, Wishpond's Chairman and CEO commented, "We are very pleased with our second quarter results which proved to be the strongest quarter in the Company's history with 55% year-over-year growth compared to the same period last year. I am particularly proud of having achieved a significant milestone of $20 million annualized revenue run-rate(1). Thus far, we have not noticed any slowing down in the demand for our products. In addition, Wishpond also achieved positive cash flow from operations in the second quarter. Our outlook continues to look promising for the second half of the year with increasing sales, improving margins, and positive cash flows. Our sales pipeline remains robust and our revenue growth shows tremendous resilience despite the current uncertain economic environment." - Wishpond achieved record quarterly revenue of $5,007,343 during Q2-2022, a 55% increase compared to revenue of $3,226,877 generated in the same period of 2021 (Q2-2021). The increase in revenue is attributable to the Company's expanded sales team, new product introductions and acquisitions. Wishpond exceeded $20 million annualized revenue run-rate(1) for the first time in Q2-2022. - Wishpond achieved gross profit(1) of $3,360,715 in Q2-2022 compared to $2,238,143 in Q2-2021, representing a 50% increase from Q2-2021, driven by an increase in overall revenue. Wishpond achieved a gross margin(1) of 67% in Q2-2022 (69% in Q2-2021). The gross margin(1) achieved in Q2-2022 is within the historical range of 65% to 70%. - Wishpond recorded an operating loss of $658,712 in Q2-2022 ($1,093,556 in Q2-2021). The operating loss reflects continued investment in sales and lead generation, as well as in product development. - In Q2-2022, Wishpond had negative Adjusted EBITDA(1) of $192,196 (negative $320,027 in Q2-2021). The improvement is primarily driven by higher revenue and recent cost saving initiatives and operational efficiencies achieved in the latter half of Q2-2022 which will result in more than $1.0 million in annual cost savings. - In Q2-2022, Wishpond returned to net positive cash provided by operating activities of $81,354 (negative $801,512 in Q2-2021). - As at June 30, 2022, Wishpond had $2,484,878 in cash and no debt (March 31, 2022: cash of $4,487,151 and no debt). The reduction in cash was primarily driven by an upfront cash payment of $1,726,646 for the acquisition of Viral Loops Limited ("Viral Loops") on April 1, 2022, related transaction fees and continued investment in the business. The Company has a credit facility with a major Canadian bank for $6,000,000. As at June 30, 2022, the credit facility remained undrawn and was fully available to the Company. On April 1, 2022, the Company completed the acquisition of certain assets and specific liabilities of Viral Loops Ltd. Viral Loops is a Software-as-a-Service ("SaaS") company which helps its customers design, create and manage campaigns that result in higher referral visits and revenue for their eCommerce merchants. In consideration for the Viral Loops acquisition, Wishpond provided a cash payment of US$1,380,000 and a one-year performance earn-out that may be paid in cash or by the issuance of the Company's Shares, at the sole discretion of the Company. The one-year earn-out will be based on the projected revenue of the business and is payable on a quarterly basis. On April 20, 2022, the Company announced that the number of Winback's customer installations had increased by over 50%, including more than 180 Wishpond clients who are trialing the platform under promotional pricing plans. Wishpond also developed and launched new innovative features to the Winback platform over the last quarter. On June 15, 2022, the Company announced that the renewal of its Notice of an Intention to make a Normal Course Issuer Bid ("NCIB") was approved by the TSX Venture Exchange. Under the renewed NCIB, the Company may, during the 12-month period commencing June 20, 2022 and ending June 19, 2023, purchase up to 2,613,316 Shares in total, being 5% of the total number of 52,266,332 Shares outstanding as at June 3, 2022. During the quarter ended June 30, 2022, the Company did not purchase any common shares under the NCIB (Q1-2022: 130,100 shares for aggregate consideration of $157,265). - On July 12, 2022, the Company announced the launch of an all-new Website Builder product that includes lead tracking and segmentation tools, personalization abilities, advanced forms and pop-ups, integration with Wishpond's email marketing tool, referral marketing, calendar functionality, pop-ups, and more. Every element of this ground-breaking Website Builder has been designed to help businesses generate leads and sales. The Website Builder is expected to increase customer retention, reduce churn, and increase customer satisfaction. - On July 20, 2022, the Company announced its annualized revenue run-rate(1) exceeded $20 million for the first time in the Company's history. Also on the same date, the Company announced its cost saving initiatives and operational efficiencies resulted in the Company expecting to realize more than $1.0 million in cost savings over the course of the next twelve months. Wishpond expects to achieve record revenue and cash flows in the second half of the year driven by increased capacity in the Company's sales team, positive contributions from its acquisitions and new product related revenues. The Company's revenue and earnings growth are expected to continue in the second half of 2022 with the integration of its recent acquisitions, and an increase in cross-selling opportunities between products and solutions offered across all of its product lines. In line with the Company's focus on profitable growth, Wishpond is scrutinizing all discretionary expenditures across the organization, with the intent of optimizing operations and achieving cost-saving synergies. The Company has a clean balance sheet and is able to continue to fund the growth of its sales team and new product launches from cash flows from operations, without having to raise any additional equity or debt capital. David Pais, Wishpond's Chief Financial Officer commented, "Wishpond is in a very strong financial position with a strong balance sheet, improving cash flows and solid performance across its businesses. We are very pleased with the integrations of our most recent acquisitions, Winback and Viral Loops. Furthermore, we are very pleased with our laser focus on realizing cost efficiencies while maintaining our impressive revenue growth. We look forward to delivering our results and performance in the coming quarters." Wishpond will be hosting a webinar conference call to discuss its Q2-2022 results today at 10:00 AM (PST) / 1:00 PM (EST). To register for the webinar, please visit the following URL: https://bit.ly/WISH_Q2Results Please connect 5 minutes prior to the conference call to ensure time for any software download that may be required. The tables below set out selected financial information relating to Wishpond and should be read in conjunction with Wishpond's Interim Financial Statements and MD&A. The Company's new Equity Incentive Plan dated May 12, 2022 (the "New Plan") was approved at the Annual General and Special Meeting of Shareholders (the "AGM") held on June 14, 2022 and replaces the former Stock Option Plan of the Company (the "Old Plan") last approved by shareholders on June 30, 2021. The New Plan provides for the flexibility to grant equity-based incentive awards in the form of stock options, as well as restricted share units, deferred share units, performance share units and stock appreciation rights. The New Plan is a rolling 10% plan, allowing for a maximum of 10% of the issued and outstanding common shares of the Company to be reserved for issuance. At June 30, 2022, the Company's issued and outstanding totaled 52,266,332 common shares (10% = 5,226,633) and 3,559,814 stock options were outstanding. The New Plan is subject to shareholder approval annually. "Ali Tajskandar" Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Based out of Vancouver, British Columbia, Wishpond is a provider of marketing-focused online business solutions. Wishpond's vision is to become the leading provider of digital marketing solutions that empower entrepreneurs to achieve success online. The Company offers an "all-in-one" marketing suite that provides companies with marketing, promotion, lead generation, and sales conversion capabilities on one integrated platform. Wishpond replaces disparate marketing solutions with an easy-to-use product, for a fraction of the cost. Wishpond serves over 4,000 customers who are primarily small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in a wide variety of industries. The Company has developed cutting-edge marketing technology solutions and continues to add new features and applications with great velocity. The Company employs a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business model where substantially all the Company's revenue is subscription-based recurring revenue which provides excellent revenue predictability and cash flow visibility. Wishpond is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the ticker "WISH", and on the OTCQX Best Market under the ticker "WPNDF". For further information, visit: www.wishpond.com. Information presented in this press release may be only a summary of all available information and does not purport to be a full representation of all figures, notes and discussions provided for in the Interim Financial Statements and MD&A. Readers are cautioned to read the entirety of the Interim Financial Statements and MD&A, and to not rely only on the information presented in this press release. In the event of conflict between the information in this press release on the one hand, and the Interim Financial Statements and MD&A on the other hand, the information in the Interim Financial Statements and MD&A shall govern. In this press release, Wishpond has used the following terms ("Non-GAAP Financial Measures") that are not defined by International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS"), but are used by management to evaluate the performance of Wishpond and its business: earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization ("EBITDA"), adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization ("Adjusted EBITDA"), monthly recurring revenue, annualized revenue run-rate, gross profit and gross margin. These measures may also be used by investors, financial institutions and credit rating agencies to assess Wishpond's performance and ability to service debt. Non-GAAP Financial Measures do not have standardized meanings prescribed by GAAP and are therefore unlikely to be comparable to similar measures presented by other companies. Securities regulations require that Non-GAAP Financial Measures are clearly defined, qualified and reconciled to their most comparable GAAP financial measures. Except as otherwise indicated, these Non-GAAP Financial Measures are calculated and disclosed on a consistent basis from period to period. Specific items may only be relevant in certain periods. See the disclosure under the heading "Additional GAAP and Non-GAAP Measures" in Wishpond's MD&A for a discussion of Non-GAAP Financial Measures and certain reconciliations to GAAP financial measures. The intent of Non-GAAP Financial Measures is to provide additional useful information to investors and analysts, and the measures do not have any standardized meaning under IFRS. The measures should not, therefore, be considered in isolation or used as a substitute for measures of performance prepared in accordance with IFRS. Other issuers may calculate Non-GAAP Financial Measures differently. Non-GAAP Financial Measures are identified and defined as follows: - Gross profit and Gross margin: The Company defines "gross profit" as revenue less cost of sales and "gross margin" as gross profit as a percentage of revenue. Gross profit and gross margin should not be construed as an alternative for revenue or net loss determined in accordance with IFRS. The Company believes that gross profit and gross margin are meaningful metrics in assessing the Company's financial performance and operational efficiency. - Adjusted EBITDA: Adjusted EBITDA should not be construed as an alternative to net earnings, cash flow from operating activities or other measures of financial results determined in accordance with GAAP as an indicator of Wishpond's performance. The Company defines "Adjusted EBITDA" as Loss before income taxes less interest, depreciation and amortization, remeasurement of contingent consideration liability, filing fees, credit facility setup fees, earn-out remuneration, foreign currency losses (gains), acquisition related expenses, net other expenditures (income), reverse takeover listing expense, and stock-based compensation. The Company believes that Adjusted EBITDA is a meaningful financial metric as it measures cash generated from operations which the Company can use to fund working capital requirements, service future interest and principal debt repayments and fund future growth initiatives. - Monthly recurring revenue: The Company uses monthly recurring revenue, or MRR, as a directional indicator of subscription revenue going forward assuming customers maintain their subscription plan the following month. MRR is the total of all monthly subscription plan fees paid by customers in effect on the last day of that period. If customers pay for more than one month upfront, the amount is divided by the number of months in the subscription period. Discounts are deducted prior to the calculation and one-time payments and metered based charges are excluded. - Annualized revenue run-rate: Annualized revenue run-rate, or ARR, annualizes the Company's revenue run rate. ARR is calculated by multiplying the Company's MRR by twelve. Statements that are not reported financial results or other historical information are forward-looking statements or forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable securities laws (collectively, "forward-looking statements"). This press release includes forward-looking statements regarding the Company, its subsidiaries and the industries in which they operate, including statements about, among other things, all information contained under the heading "Outlook" herein, expectations, beliefs, plans, future operations, origination of additional targets in which the Company may hold an interest and acquisition opportunities for the Company, business and acquisition strategies, opportunities, objectives, prospects, assumptions, including those related to trends and prospects, and future events and performance. Sentences and phrases containing or modified by words such as "expect", "anticipate", "plan", "continue", "estimate", "intend", "expect", "may", "will", "project", "predict", "potential", "targets", "projects", "is designed to", "strategy", "should", "believe", "contemplate" and similar expressions, and the negative of such expressions, are not historical facts and are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Readers are cautioned to not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Actual results and developments may differ materially from those contemplated by forward-looking statements. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in forward-looking statements in this press release are reasonable and are based on, among other things, the expectations and analysis of current market trends and opportunities of management of the Company, such forward-looking statements has been based on expectations, factors and assumptions concerning future events which may prove to be inaccurate and are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, certain of which are beyond the Company's control, including, but not limited to, economic uncertainty and instability as a result of the ongoing inflation and supply chain issues, raising interest rate climate and recessionary risks, COVID-19 pandemic, Russia-Ukraine war, instability in global commodity and securities markets, shifts in consumer and institutional spending and marketing strategies, the changing global market and competition for the products and services supplied by the Company, and the additional risk factors discussed in the continuous disclosure materials of the Company which are available under the Company's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement and are made as of the date hereof. The Company disclaims any intention and has no obligation or responsibility, except as required by law, to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Wishpond Technologies Ltd.	https://www.wbko.com/prnewswire/2022/08/24/wishpond-achieves-record-revenue-q2-2022-exceeding-20-million-annualized-revenue-run-rate/	2022-08-24T11:41:04Z	wbko.com	control	https://www.wbko.com/prnewswire/2022/08/24/wishpond-achieves-record-revenue-q2-2022-exceeding-20-million-annualized-revenue-run-rate/	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Twitter's security alarm Twitter security is a huge mess, its former security boss charged in a whistleblower complaint — but huge security messes are all too common in the online world. What they're saying: "Regulators, media and users of the platform will be shocked when they inevitably learn about Twitter’s severe lack of security basics," Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, who had just been fired as Twitter's security head, wrote in a report he intended to deliver to the company's board in February. Driving the news: Zatko's complaint — filed with the Justice Department, FTC and SEC — landed with explosive force on the already high-stakes legal battleground between Twitter and Elon Musk. Yes, but: You wouldn't have to hunt too hard to find plenty of other companies that would flunk the sort of basic scrutiny Zatko applied to Twitter's practices. Between the lines: Many of the security issues Zatko identified in that report sound jaw-dropping, but may not be that far outside the norm. He found that: - more than half of Twitter employees had direct access to the service's live code and data; - 30% of employees' computers were not set up for automatic updates; - 60% of data center servers ran out-of-date operating systems; and - Twitter "dealt with more than ~50 incidents in the past year," primarily as a result of these three "systemic areas of risk." None of that is good. But findings from SecurityScorecard — a company that studies the public online infrastructure of different online services and companies to figure out how vulnerable they are to hackers — suggest that Twitter's cybersecurity strategy is probably about average. - Typically, Twitter has had a score in the 80s (out of 100), matching those of similar companies in the industry that SecurityScorecard measures, though the company's score dipped recently after it disclosed a security breach last month. - The scorecard is based on publicly available information, such as domain name ownership, the servers a firm operates and the IP addresses those servers use — so it's relying on different kinds of information than Zatko had access to. The big picture: Twitter's security woes are longstanding, and since 2011 it's been operating under a Federal Trade Commission consent decree requiring it to up its game. - Zatko's complaint puts the company once more in the FTC's sights, and lawmakers' staff — including aides for Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee — have already had briefings from the whistleblower. Zatko's lawyer John Tye also told Axios that he had been meeting with congressional offices since last week. Zatko's complaint is also being evaluated in terms of which side of the high-stakes and brightly spotlit Twitter vs. Musk legal fight will benefit. - Observers say Zatko's security alarms and arguments about Twitter's failings in measuring spam and bots appear to bolster Musk's critique of the company, but it's less clear that they help his legal case that Twitter broke the terms of its deal. - But Tye, Zatko's lawyer, said Tuesday that Zatko began working on his complaint in March, before Musk told the world he wanted to buy Twitter. That suggests Zatko's story is less about Musk's lawsuit and more of a classic boardroom pattern that the tech industry keeps repeating. - In this scenario, corporate management invites a highly credentialed and widely respected expert into its ranks to help it clean house — then ends up rejecting the expert's recommendations and showing him the door. Alex Stamos joined Facebook as chief security officer in 2015 and quit in 2018 after the Cambridge Analytica scandal. - Before he left he shared a memo urging the company to change course. "“We need to listen to people (including internally) when they tell us a feature is creepy or point out a negative impact we are having in the world,” the note continued. - After Stamos' departure, Facebook said it would not replace him and reassigned its security personnel to different parts of the company. Be smart: Stamos' story and Zatko's are more parallel than matching — Stamos' internal conflict at Facebook was largely over fighting disinformation, not everyday security hygiene. - But the dynamic that pits CEOs against security heads is common in the industry, SecurityScorecard CTO Christos Kalantzis told Axios. - "Security requires engineering attention, and in a lot of hyper-growth companies, there's an over-indexing on new feature velocity vs. 'Let's make sure everything is as secure as possible,'" he says. The bottom line: "This did not happen overnight," Zatko wrote in his report. "To get to Twitter's current state of insecurity required repeated downplaying of problems, selective reporting, and leadership ignorance around basic security expectations and practices." The other side: A statement by Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal said that Zatko had been fired for "ineffective leadership and poor performance" and that his claims "so far" are "a false narrative that is riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies."	https://www.axios.com/2022/08/24/twitter-security-alarm-mudge-zatko-whistleblower	2022-08-24T11:41:23Z	axios.com	control	https://www.axios.com/2022/08/24/twitter-security-alarm-mudge-zatko-whistleblower	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
U.S. consumer mood breaks "bummer summer" funk Lower gas prices are making everyone feel a little better. Americans — especially wealthier ones — cheered up a bit this month, according to a measure of consumer sentiment released today as part of the Morning Consult/Axios Inequality Index. The results were attributed to falling gas prices, and a stock market rebound. What's happening: In August, consumer sentiment among adults in households earning more than $100,000 improved by 6.8%, Morning Consult found. For those in households earning less than $50,000, sentiment gained by 4.2%, according to the data. Zoom out: The streak that culminated with this year's "bummer summer" is broken. Consumer sentiment had fallen month over month since last year, when the Delta variant crushed hopes for a "hot vax summer," and inflation kept surging. - We're still feeling badly though. "American consumer are still very negative about the economy," said Jesse Wheeler, an economic analyst at Morning Consult. - The big story here is that sentiment did not decline any further, he said. What to watch: Was this a blip? The stock market is in limbo at the moment, with investors uncertain about the future of Federal Reserve rate hikes. And gas prices are notoriously volatile. Stay tuned.	https://www.axios.com/2022/08/24/us-confidence-rises-morning-consult	2022-08-24T11:41:29Z	axios.com	control	https://www.axios.com/2022/08/24/us-confidence-rises-morning-consult	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Outrage after charging decision in death of Rayshard Brooks Georgia activists and some political leaders are criticizing prosecutors' decision to drop charges against two Atlanta officers for the June 12, 2020 shooting death of Rayshard Brooks. Catch up quick: The special prosecutor assigned to the case said yesterday that after studying the evidence, he concluded Atlanta officers Devin Brosnan and Garrett Rolfe reasonably believed Brooks was an immediate threat. What they're saying: Two years after Brooks' killing, which sparked more protests weeks after the murder of George Floyd, some Georgians expressed frustration with the prosecutors' decision. - Gerald Griggs, an attorney and president of the Georgia NAACP called it "extremely concerning" that the decision was not made by a grand jury. - "A Fulton County grand jury should've decided the fate of Garrett Rolfe and Devin Brosnan, not two former members of law enforcement," Griggs told Axios. "There is no statute of limitations on a murder case, and there will be no statute of limitations on our efforts to ensure there is justice for Rayshard Brooks." Atlanta City Councilman Antonio Lewis, who represents the district where the killing happened, said in a statement that the news "truly pains me." - "Rayshard Brooks was asleep at the wheel in a drive-thru line," he said. "That's all. I understand the need for accountability, but he didn't have to lose his life." Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams also weighed in, saying "accountability is an essential component for community trust and public safety — a component that is in question today.” - Democratic state Rep. Renitta Shannon called the decision "disgusting" and said it "surprises no one." - "Police are not paid to be the judge, jury and executioner," she wrote on Twitter. The other side: Attorneys for Rolfe and Brosnan applauded the news. Rolfe's attorney said he hoped any protests would be peaceful, 11Alive reports. What we're watching: Tomika Miller, Brooks' widow and mother of three of his children, last fall sued the officers, the city and the Atlanta police department on behalf of Brooks' estate for "compensatory damages" for Brooks' death. Earlier this summer Rolfe and Brosnan sued the city and the police department for being denied their due rights after the shooting. Both officers are still employed with the Atlanta Police Department. Get more local stories in your inbox with Axios Atlanta. More Atlanta stories No stories could be found Get a free daily digest of the most important news in your backyard with Axios Atlanta.	https://www.axios.com/local/atlanta/2022/08/24/charging-decision-rayshard-brooks-atlanta	2022-08-24T11:41:41Z	axios.com	control	https://www.axios.com/local/atlanta/2022/08/24/charging-decision-rayshard-brooks-atlanta	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Massachusetts could vote on licenses for undocumented people Those seeking to repeal a new law letting undocumented residents get driver's licenses in Massachusetts are poised to put the issue up to voters. Driving the news: A petition by opponents of the law blew past the threshold of signatures needed by today to put a referendum on the matter on the November ballot. Why it matters: Eighteen states and Washington, D.C. have expanded driver's license access to undocumented people. Massachusetts is among the first to see a repeal effort make headway, says Muzaffar Chishti, a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute. - The last time such a repeal campaign took off was in Oregon in 2019, but it was quashed after the secretary of state deemed the ballot question's wording unconstitutional. - A repeal of the law "would be a rarity, especially for what people perceive as a traditionally Democratic state," Chishti told Axios. Driving the news: The ballot committee Fair and Secure Massachusetts has collected double the 40,120 signatures needed to qualify for a referendum, organizer Wendy Wakeman told Axios in an email yesterday. - MassGOP chairperson Jim Lyons said the number of locally certified signatures was closer to 67,000 as of 4pm yesterday, and the number was continuing to climb ahead of today's 5pm deadline. But, but, but: Those signatures still need to be certified at the local and state level. - The petition has to be representative of the entire state, so no more than 25% of the first 40,120 signatures can be from any single county. The impact: MassBudget projects that 45,000-85,000 potential people could gain licenses over the next three years. Zoom in: Fair and Secure Massachusetts had already surpassed the signature threshold last week, chairperson Maureen Maloney told Axios at the time. - The committee has united opponents of undocumented immigration, including Maloney, whose son was killed in a car crash involving an undocumented immigrant. What they're saying: "People [who] sign [the petition are] just uncomfortable with people who aren't following the immigration laws being rewarded with a license," Wakeman told Axios. The other side: "This is a law that's not only for undocumented immigrants, but for all of us that are driving right now," Lenita Reason, executive director of the Brazilian Worker Center in Boston, told Axios. - "We want to make sure that everybody that is on the road knows what they're doing, has insurance, has been trained, passed the same tests we did." Get more local stories in your inbox with Axios Boston. More Boston stories No stories could be found Get a free daily digest of the most important news in your backyard with Axios Boston.	https://www.axios.com/local/boston/2022/08/24/massachusetts-drivers-license-undocumented-repeal	2022-08-24T11:42:06Z	axios.com	control	https://www.axios.com/local/boston/2022/08/24/massachusetts-drivers-license-undocumented-repeal	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Real estate expert sees challenges for Massachusetts economy Suffolk Construction owner John Fish sees an economy in flux, but he's bullish that Massachusetts can maintain its perch as a top economic state if it tackles its housing and transit problems. State of play: Fish says one of the biggest liabilities for the state will be the MBTA, unless it can be kept in good repair. - "It is going to stunt our growth across the board," Fish said. - Commuter rail service west of Worcester would be a boon for the whole state, and he said western Mass. would "grow like a weed," similarly to the expansion of the South Boston Seaport. Why it matters: Fish chairs the Real Estate Roundtable, a major real estate and housing lobby in D.C. He has his finger on the pulse of how federal policy is shaping Boston's economy. Threat level: Another factor hurting Massachusetts is the cost of housing. Fish, a homebuilder, says the state's efforts to increase workforce housing are at odds with local governments that don't want developments. - Fish called for tax incentives for people who want to build housing. - Resident opposition to new development and a drawn-out local permitting process at the town level are contributing to the high cost of construction, he said. Big picture: Fish thinks the Federal Reserve's increases to interest rates are helping the ailing national economy, and might be enough to stave off a recession. - But he also said the hikes will make it more expensive to construct new buildings. - "If the cost of capital continues to go up, that all of a sudden creates a challenge for how projects pencil out and is the risk worth the rewards at the end of the day," Fish said. Get more local stories in your inbox with Axios Boston. More Boston stories No stories could be found Get a free daily digest of the most important news in your backyard with Axios Boston.	https://www.axios.com/local/boston/2022/08/24/massachusetts-economy-real-estate	2022-08-24T11:42:12Z	axios.com	control	https://www.axios.com/local/boston/2022/08/24/massachusetts-economy-real-estate	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Where's Monica? The Kimball L station 👋 Hey, it's Monica. Dozens of you guessed correctly that I was visiting the Kimball L stop at the end of the Brown Line, where I spent many a high school winter night shivering and waiting for a bus. Flashback: The station opened as part of the Northwestern Elevated Railroad's Ravenswood branch in 1907 when Albany Park was still barely developed. The area soon had so many families that the city built Roosevelt High School in 1922, followed by Von Steuben less than a mile away in 1930. - The station got its first makeover in 1974 and another in 2007 when this functional tandem sculpture by Josh Garber, called Hope and Renewal, was unveiled. - Albany Park, which has hosted waves of different immigrant groups over the years, remains one of the most culturally diverse neighborhoods in the nation. 👏 Congratulations to Brian E. and Frank S., whose names we picked out of a conductor's hat. Pick up some sweet Axios swag at our next event! Musical miracle: Reader and Chicago Symphony Orchestra bassoonist William B. wrote to say he will always remember the Kimball station as a place of utter relief after he accidentally left his bassoon on the train. - After realizing the mistake, "I drove to the station, where I found another rider who had retrieved the instrument and was wandering around the station trying to figure out what to do with it." - William gave the Good Samaritan, "all the cash in my and my husband’s wallets, along with a promise of free concert tickets for him and his girlfriend." - The couple took him up on the offer and "saw their first orchestra concert ever." Get more local stories in your inbox with Axios Chicago. More Chicago stories No stories could be found Get a free daily digest of the most important news in your backyard with Axios Chicago.	https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2022/08/24/kimball-l-station-chicago-story	2022-08-24T11:42:18Z	axios.com	control	https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2022/08/24/kimball-l-station-chicago-story	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Columbus Makes Art Passport challenge returns Good news, esthetes: The Columbus Makes Art Passport challenge has returned for a second year. How it works: The program technically begins a week from tomorrow, but you can get a head start by picking up a passport booklet at 17 participating stops citywide. From Sept. 1 to Oct. 31, visit various art galleries, shops and museums to collect passport stickers that can be redeemed for prizes. The intrigue: Even the stickers feature original designs by nearly two-dozen Columbus-based artists. 💭 Tyler's thought bubble: I had fun touring art exhibits and collecting stickers at the Columbus Metropolitan Library and Columbus College of Art & Design last fall. Get more local stories in your inbox with Axios Columbus. More Columbus stories No stories could be found Get a free daily digest of the most important news in your backyard with Axios Columbus.	https://www.axios.com/local/columbus/2022/08/24/columbus-makes-art-passport-challenge-returns	2022-08-24T11:42:37Z	axios.com	control	https://www.axios.com/local/columbus/2022/08/24/columbus-makes-art-passport-challenge-returns	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
The indirect cost of tax abatements Columbus has doled out millions of dollars in tax breaks over the past decade that striking teachers contend have led to their district being underfunded. Why it matters: The tax dispute shows how Ohio's school funding issue overlaps — and often conflicts with — other municipal priorities like housing and economic growth. Flashback: Education spending has been hotly debated for decades, especially since the landmark Ohio Supreme Court ruling in 1997 that found our state's funding model to be unconstitutional. - The ruling highlighted that Ohio's overreliance on property taxes to pay for education created an unfair disparity between rich and poor school districts, the Ohio Education Policy Institute wrote in May. Zoom in: Columbus City Council routinely approves tax abatements benefitting major companies and housing developers. - "Enterprise Zone" abatements are meant to encourage development by exempting most of a company's added property taxes resulting from renovated or newly constructed buildings. - Council agreed to eight such tax breaks in July alone. These projects will lead to a combined $190 million in property investments and create 218 full-time jobs, their respective ordinances state. State of play: Property taxes remain a key component of local education funding. - The Columbus Education Association, which on Sunday voted to strike, has repeatedly condemned tax abatements as costing its school district money that could be better spent on classroom materials and building improvements. - A protest sign from earlier this year read: "End handouts to wealthy developers. Columbus students deserve fully resourced schools." What they're saying: City leaders have defended the tax breaks as beneficial to the community without costing schools money long-term. - Development director Michael Stevels told the Columbus Dispatch that developers still pay taxes on their property's original value and ultimately contribute a larger sum after the abatement periods end. - This is "growth that might not otherwise occur without the city's initial investment," he told the newspaper. Get more local stories in your inbox with Axios Columbus. More Columbus stories No stories could be found Get a free daily digest of the most important news in your backyard with Axios Columbus.	https://www.axios.com/local/columbus/2022/08/24/indirect-cost-tax-abatements-columbus	2022-08-24T11:42:43Z	axios.com	control	https://www.axios.com/local/columbus/2022/08/24/indirect-cost-tax-abatements-columbus	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Wings to host pivotal elimination game 👋 Hi, Everett here. I'm an editor at Axios who thinks you need to cancel your plans tonight. What's happening: After winning their first playoff game since moving to Dallas in 2009, the Wings are playing a do-or-die Game 3 at home Wednesday night against the Connecticut Sun. - Tip: 8pm at College Park Center. Also on ESPN. - Resale tickets start at $50. The intrigue: The first round used to be single elimination, but the WNBA changed to a best-of-three this year, with the first two games hosted by the higher seed. - In what other league does a series-deciding game happen at the lower seed's home court? This could be a huge advantage for the Wings. Zoom in: After getting pummeled in Game 1, Dallas became the second team in WNBA playoff history to lose by 25+ points and then win the following game by double digits (10). - One major difference — the starting lineup. Coach Vickie Johnson started Izzy Harrison at center, while Teaira McCowan came off the bench for the first time in more than a month. - That modification caused the Sun second unit fits, making Johnson's adjustments a key tonight. What's more: Star guard Arike Ogunbowale, who missed most of August with an abdominal injury, is probable for Game 3, per ESPN. Get more local stories in your inbox with Axios Dallas. More Dallas stories No stories could be found Get a free daily digest of the most important news in your backyard with Axios Dallas.	https://www.axios.com/local/dallas/2022/08/24/wings-pivotal-elimination-game-wnba	2022-08-24T11:43:08Z	axios.com	control	https://www.axios.com/local/dallas/2022/08/24/wings-pivotal-elimination-game-wnba	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Colorado lawmakers target turf amid unprecedented drought Colorado leaders are launching a turf war. - As climate change continues to constrict water resources in unprecedented ways, local leaders on both sides of the aisle have started to agree that lush lawns are unsustainable, and they're taking steps to phase them out. Why it matters: Denver residents alone use about 140 gallons of water per capita each day, 50% of which is guzzled up by lawns, Denver Water estimates. - Meanwhile, the Colorado River Basin — which provides water to Colorado and six other states — is in the 23rd year of a historic drought. Driving the news: Aurora's conservative-majority City Council approved a measure this week that sets limits on lawns, including a ban on "cool-weather" turf grasses for golf courses and new home developments. - Meanwhile, in left-leaning Denver, city officials are drafting a proposal to introduce later this year that would establish a water irrigation cap and limit developers' use of turf to areas that serve specific community benefits, Denver Water spokesperson Travis Thompson tells Axios. - Earlier this year, Colorado lawmakers passed a GOP-sponsored bill that allocated $2 million to establish a statewide turf replacement program for residential, commercial, institutional and industrial properties. That program, designed by the Colorado Water Conservation Board, is expected to launch after July 1, 2023. Context: Since 2018, the Mile High City has offered developers a rebate for installing the highest-efficiency fixtures, landscape designs and irrigation technology. - Several other Front Range metros — including Fort Collins, Greeley and Thornton — have launched cash-for-grass programs in recent years to incentivize residents to remove their lawns and replace them with more drought-tolerant plants. The big picture: A growing number of cities nationwide are taking similar steps to get people to tear out their turf and save water. - The moves come as the effects of climate change, often cast as a global issue, are seen more locally, increasingly impacting each of us in our own backyards, Axios' Andrew Freedman and Michael Graff write. Get more local stories in your inbox with Axios Denver. More Denver stories No stories could be found Get a free daily digest of the most important news in your backyard with Axios Denver.	https://www.axios.com/local/denver/2022/08/24/colorado-lawmakers-target-turf-drought	2022-08-24T11:43:14Z	axios.com	control	https://www.axios.com/local/denver/2022/08/24/colorado-lawmakers-target-turf-drought	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Gusto Pizza stages a Des Moines comeback The Des Moines City Council approved Gusto's Pizza new liquor permit Monday. - Located at 2301 Ingersoll Ave., it's just four blocks away from its longtime "mothership" location that closed last month. Why it matters: It's great pizza that we thought left the city. Catch up fast: Some customers were disappointed when owners announced last month that the original location at 1905 Ingersoll Ave. was permanently closed. - Relocation plans were not mentioned in July's farewell. Yes, but: The restaurant's voicemail on Tuesday advised customers to "stay tuned to new developments as we transition to a new location." Of note: Owners didn’t respond to our requests for comment but a construction crew was working inside the new site Tuesday. - No announcements or pizza signs were visible from the entrance. Get more local stories in your inbox with Axios Des Moines. More Des Moines stories No stories could be found Get a free daily digest of the most important news in your backyard with Axios Des Moines.	https://www.axios.com/local/des-moines/2022/08/24/gusto-pizza-stages-des-moines-comeback	2022-08-24T11:43:26Z	axios.com	control	https://www.axios.com/local/des-moines/2022/08/24/gusto-pizza-stages-des-moines-comeback	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Glen Casada, CadCothren face corruption charges Former Tennessee House Speaker Glen Casada and his former chief of staff Cade Cothren were arrested Tuesday on a sweeping set of corruption charges. - An indictment accuses the men of using Casada's position in the legislature as part of a fraudulent scheme to funnel state money to themselves. - They pleaded not guilty in federal court. Why it matters: Casada was the ultimate powerbroker in the Tennessee Republican Party, and Cothren was a rising star as a political aide. But their careers imploded under the weight of several scandals. - Their arrests continued a long fall from the heights of the state Capitol. Zoom out: Casada was first elected to the General Assembly in 2001 and emerged as a leading figure as the Republicans built a supermajority. He began a short tenure as speaker in January 2019. - A wave of scandals, including controversies over racist and sexually explicit text messages, helped derail both men's careers. - Cothren resigned as chief of staff and Casada stepped down as speaker in August 2019. He remains in the legislature as a representative, although he didn't run for re-election this year. Driving the news: The plan at the center of the corruption investigation lasted from October 2019-January 2021, according to the indictment. - The 20-count indictment said Casada, Cothren and an unnamed lawmaker collaborated to pocket state money used for legislative mailers. Flashback: Former state Rep. Robin Smith was previously charged in connection with the scheme but struck a plea deal in March. Zoom in: Casada and Cothren both face charges including wire fraud, money laundering, theft from programs receiving federal funds, and bribery and kickbacks concerning programs receiving federal funds. - They each face up to 20 years in prison, according to prosecutors. What they're saying: "Today is a good day for Tennesseans because we did not turn a blind eye on these criminal activities," said House Speaker Cameron Sexton, who was open about collaborating with federal authorities throughout the investigation. The other side: Casada's attorney Ed Yarbrough told Axios he would "present a vigorous defense at trial." - Cothren's attorney Cynthia Sherwood told reporters her client "looks forward to being vindicated," per The Tennessean. The focus of the indictment was political mail work billed to a company called Phoenix Solutions, which prosecutors say was created by Cothren with Casada's support. - They concealed their ties to Phoenix Solutions by concocting a fictitious executive named Matthew Phoenix, who they described as a veteran New Mexico-based political consultant with experience working in Washington, D.C., according to the indictment. - The state pays for lawmakers to hire consultants to send mail pieces to constituents with General Assembly updates. The intrigue: Prosecutors allege Cothren, Casada and the other lawmaker steered business to Phoenix Solutions. The work can be lucrative, and several lawmakers began using the firm. But Casada and Cothren faced the challenge of building up the company's portfolio without colleagues learning the truth. - In a text message exchange quoted in the indictment, Casada and Cothren discussed how to maintain their cover if Republican Caucus members asked questions or even requested to meet Matthew Phoenix. What they said: "I just hope they don't ask the representatives from Phoenix to come and make his case to do caucus mail," Casada said in a text. - "they live in New Mexico. Will have to get on the phone for it and I could disguise my voice if I has [sic] to," Cothren responded. Details: In 2020, companies linked to the scheme received approximately $51,947 from the state in payments for the mailer program, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. - Phoenix Solutions also did mail for Republican lawmakers' election campaigns. According to the indictment, a bank account for Phoenix Solutions received about $158,165 in revenue from candidates' campaigns. The bottom line: Prosecutors say Cothren, Casada and the other lawmaker shared Phoenix Solutions' profits. - The indictment describes a November 2020 text exchange when Casada asked Cothren why he had received $2,500 from Phoenix Solutions. - "that was the split profit from your mailers," Cothren wrote. "not bad, right?" - "Not bad," Casada responded. "Thank you!" Get more local stories in your inbox with Axios Nashville. More Nashville stories No stories could be found Get a free daily digest of the most important news in your backyard with Axios Nashville.	https://www.axios.com/local/nashville/2022/08/24/glen-casada-cade-cothren-indicted-corruption	2022-08-24T11:44:16Z	axios.com	control	https://www.axios.com/local/nashville/2022/08/24/glen-casada-cade-cothren-indicted-corruption	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
1 hour ago - News Philadelphia's Manayunk Bridge Trail now open 24/7 The City of Philadelphia has officially wrapped up its improvements to the Manayunk Bridge Trail. Why it matters: The path atop the iconic arches is now open all day, every day for the first time ever. Catch up fast: The city launched a $1.5 million project in May 2021 to improve access and safety along the trail, which connects the city to Lower Merion Township. Back then, access to the bridge was limited to daylight hours. - The project included adding pedestrian lighting and security cameras. Get more local stories in your inbox with Axios Philadelphia. More Philadelphia stories No stories could be found Get a free daily digest of the most important news in your backyard with Axios Philadelphia.	https://www.axios.com/local/philadelphia/2022/08/24/manayunk-bridge-trail-open	2022-08-24T11:44:33Z	axios.com	control	https://www.axios.com/local/philadelphia/2022/08/24/manayunk-bridge-trail-open	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Most North Carolina kids have had COVID-19 About three-quarters of North Carolina's children have already been infected with COVID-19, new CDC data shows. Driving the news: The CDC's pediatric antibody seroprevalence survey, released last week, examined samples from nearly 500 North Carolinians ranging in age from 6 months old to 17 years. - The results indicate that an estimated 79.5% of those children had at least one resolving or past infection with SARS-CoV-2. Why it matters: At the start of the 2022-23 school year, the story of our children's relationship with COVID-19 is dramatically different from what it was last year or the year before. - Those two Augusts brought furious arguments over prevention — if and when to reopen in 2020, whether to end mask policies in 2021. - This year, with vaccines widely available for people 6 months and up, the Wake County Public Schools COVID-19 page is a landing spot for recommendations, not mandates, and tips on how to minimize risk for the most vulnerable. By the numbers: About 69% of Wake County children between ages 12-17 have received at least one vaccine dose, according to NCDHHS. 49% of kids ages 5-11 have a dose, and 12% of kids between 0-4 do. - Durham County's numbers are about the same, with the one exception: a noticeably higher percentage of kids ages 0-4 (17%) has received a dose. The bottom line: Most North Carolina school systems on a traditional calendar welcome students back this coming Monday, and for the first time since the start of the pandemic, most of the kids sitting at desks will have had COVID-19. Get more local stories in your inbox with Axios Raleigh. More Raleigh stories No stories could be found Get a free daily digest of the most important news in your backyard with Axios Raleigh.	https://www.axios.com/local/raleigh/2022/08/24/majority-north-carolina-kids-have-had-covid-19	2022-08-24T11:44:39Z	axios.com	control	https://www.axios.com/local/raleigh/2022/08/24/majority-north-carolina-kids-have-had-covid-19	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
1 hour ago - Real Estate Buy this pirate ship houseboat for sale in Virginia Ahoy, house hunters! if you're fed up with the local housing market, maybe it's time to look seaward. What's happening: A Northern Neck man is selling this one-bedroom, one-bathroom, 45-foot-long pirate ship houseboat for just $49,000 — basically the median home sale price in 1977. Details: "Surrender the Booty," as she's called now, is docked in the Potomac River, but owner "Captain Dan" Corder tells Axios she sails — and an experienced pirate helmsman could navigate her through the Bay and into the James with no problem. - The pirate ship includes a functional kitchen and a full skeleton crew. Both convey. Get more local stories in your inbox with Axios Richmond. More Richmond stories No stories could be found Get a free daily digest of the most important news in your backyard with Axios Richmond.	https://www.axios.com/local/richmond/2022/08/24/pirate-ship-house-for-sale-virginia	2022-08-24T11:44:57Z	axios.com	control	https://www.axios.com/local/richmond/2022/08/24/pirate-ship-house-for-sale-virginia	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
1 hour ago - Food and Drink Can Can’s downtown Richmond outpost Can Can Brasserie, the swanky French restaurant in Carytown, is opening a weekday breakfast and lunch outpost in the Library of Virginia at 800 E. Broad St. What's happening: The state agency announced a partnership with Can Can to bring a Parisian-style bistro and bakery to the library's lobby starting Monday, Sept. 19. It's the latest cafe partner for the library space. - The cafe is run by Library of Virginia Foundation, which is a private entity. - It's the latest cafe partner for the library space since the Discovery Cafe, which closed in 2018. Why it matters: Downtown saw a decline in breakfast-serving restaurants during the height of the pandemic, and workers headed back to the office need places to eat. - The Padow's in City Hall, Richmond on Broad and Pop's Market, all nearby, closed during COVID. Get more local stories in your inbox with Axios Richmond. More Richmond stories No stories could be found Get a free daily digest of the most important news in your backyard with Axios Richmond.	https://www.axios.com/local/richmond/2022/08/24/richmond-can-can-restaurant-downtown	2022-08-24T11:45:03Z	axios.com	control	https://www.axios.com/local/richmond/2022/08/24/richmond-can-can-restaurant-downtown	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Minnesota Twins launch augmented reality app for fans Target Field will look a little different to some phone-toting fans at future games. What's new: The Twins recently debuted a first-of-its-kind partnership with an augmented reality (AR) platform that allows attendees to play games and unlock special content tied to what's happening on the field. Between the lines: The app is one of several of MLB-wide efforts to attract — and engage — a broader fanbase amid an ongoing slump in ticket sales. - "We know the die-hard fans are buying their tickets and we know they're bringing younger fans with them that are not necessarily following every pitch, every stat," Chris Iles, senior director of brand experience and innovation for the Twins, told the Star Tribune. How to play: Download the ARound app. Once you arrive, point your phone at the field and see what happens. - You might encounter digital versions of traditional between-innings entertainment, such as mascot races, or the chance to jump in on a stadium-wide challenge to "throw" virtual baseballs at certain areas on the field. Get more local stories in your inbox with Axios Twin Cities. More Twin Cities stories No stories could be found Get a free daily digest of the most important news in your backyard with Axios Twin Cities.	https://www.axios.com/local/twin-cities/2022/08/24/minnesota-twins-augmented-reality-app	2022-08-24T11:45:28Z	axios.com	control	https://www.axios.com/local/twin-cities/2022/08/24/minnesota-twins-augmented-reality-app	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
DCPS scrambles to prep buildings and students for another school year Some D.C. public school students may return next week to buildings that lack working heating and cooling systems. Additionally, some students may be unable to return at all to classes due to missing key vaccination requirements. Why it matters: DCPS and DC Health were required to report on the readiness status of schools by Aug. 19, including the condition of HVAC units and air quality monitors, and the routine pediatric immunization rates of children, per the Back to School Safely Emergency Act of 2022. - Children across the nation have fallen behind on their routine vaccinations, which include shots that prevent measles, mumps, chickenpox, and polio. D.C. students ages 12 and up are also required to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Yes, but: On Monday, D.C Council chair Phil Mendelson tweeted that the Department of General Services still hadn’t sent the required documents on school readiness. A spokesperson for Mendelson told Axios that the office will meet with DGS on Thursday. What’s happening: The office of Ward 4 council member Janeese Lewis George, who co-authored the emergency legislation, says it has received some, but not all of the required readiness data. For example, the office doesn't know whether school buildings with poor HVAC systems have contingency plans. - One dataset shows that approximately 80 out of 120 schools need backup cooling/heating in place to support the HVAC system in need of repair. A DGS dashboard outlines specific heating and cooling issues across D.C. schools, showing varying degrees of concern. What they’re saying: Beyond cooling and heating systems, some teachers are contending with other school readiness issues. When it rains outside, it also rains inside the classroom of Beth Prince, a kindergarten teacher at Hearst Elementary in Ward 3, she tells Axios. Prince, who has been teaching for 30 years, says her floors are buckling and there is water behind her bulletin board. She has asked DGS to fix the issue but says little has been done. - “This is the kind of system we’re working in,” Prince says. “To have the youngest learners coming into a classroom with ceiling tiles hanging out … it’s unconscionable.” DGS did not respond to Axios’ request for comment, but last week told WJLA that it’s continuing to prioritize work orders and said it has closed more work orders this year than in years past. DCPS' vaccine problem: Meanwhile, as of mid-August around a quarter of D.C. public school students are not compliant with routine pediatric immunization requirements. - In June, D.C. urged parents to kickstart vaccinations, personally calling families and opening mobile vaccination units. Across D.C.’s public schools and charters, immunization levels vary, per data provided by DC Health to Lewis George. By the numbers: DC Health data shows that 29% of students enrolled at D.C. public schools are non-compliant with vaccines. - Students who go to school in wards 1, 2, 3, and 5 are each around one-third non-compliant. - Students who go to school in wards 4 and 7 are 27% non-compliant, and 24% in wards 6 and 8. And while children under the age of 12 are not required to be vaccinated for COVID-19 as their shots are only authorized for emergency use, uptake remains fairly low. - Only 47% of D.C. children ages 5-11 are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as of August 17. - A mere 11% of children under the age of 5 are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, compared to 83% of children 12-15 and 77% of children 16-17. Yes, but: A letter sent by DC Health on Aug. 19 to the D.C. Council says these routine vaccination numbers can be an undercount, as many students are vaccinated outside of the District. Families will be able to submit students’ health certificates in the first week of school. The bottom line: Students across all District schools, including public, independent, and private who are not compliant will not be allowed to attend school, per the Office of the State Superintendent of Education’s policy. - A spokesperson for OSSE tells Axios that students have 20 days to submit up-to-date immunization records before they are prevented from attending school and after-school activities. Get more local stories in your inbox with Axios Washington D.C.. More Washington D.C. stories No stories could be found Get a free daily digest of the most important news in your backyard with Axios Washington D.C..	https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2022/08/24/dcps-back-to-school-readiness-2022	2022-08-24T11:45:46Z	axios.com	control	https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2022/08/24/dcps-back-to-school-readiness-2022	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
HMRC have warned over a million families that they have one week before their Child Benefit could be stopped. Claimants have just days to ensure the payment continues. Parents and carers of 16 to 19-year-olds are being urged to confirm key details about their child before the August 31 deadline. Failing to update the Child Benefit records by that date could see 1.3 million families lose access to the benefit, Birmingham Live reports. With young people set to receive their GCSE or Scottish National Certificate results tomorrow, officials are asking parents to confirm whether their teenager is staying in full-time education or approved training. HM Revenue and Customs has written to over one million parents and carers, but only 600,000 have replied. Read more: DWP: How do National Insurance contributions affect state benefits and pensions? People are eligible to receive Child Benefit if they are responsible for a child under 16, or under 20 if they are in full-time education or approved training. This includes A-Levels, Scottish Highers, NVQs up to Level 3, or certain traineeships – a list of approved courses and training schemes is available on GOV.UK. It does not include university degrees or equivalents. Child Benefit is worth £21.80 per week for a first child and £14.45 for each additional child. There's no limit to the number of children you can claim for. Claimants are being reminded that the deadline is one week from today and that their Child Benefit records can be updated via their Personal Tax Account on GOV.UK, by returning a completed copy of the form they were sent earlier in the year, or by telephone. Angela MacDonald, HMRC’s Deputy Chief Executive and Second Permanent Secretary, said: "Child Benefit provides vital financial support for families and we want to make sure no-one misses out because they haven’t updated their details on time. The quickest way to notify HMRC is via your Personal Tax Account online, or search 'child benefit when your child turns 16' on GOV.UK for more information or further options for contacting us." READ NEXT: DWP's Help for Households campaign: all the benefits and payments you are entitled to Santander increases interest rates on four saving accounts offering 'best returns' in market Aldi changes opening hours ahead of August bank holiday Common household devices that can add £140 onto your energy bills per month	https://www.kentlive.news/news/cost-of-living/dwp-issues-one-week-warning-7503096	2022-08-24T11:45:53Z	kentlive.news	control	https://www.kentlive.news/news/cost-of-living/dwp-issues-one-week-warning-7503096	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Pictures show Just Stop Oil protests at M25 service stations as petrol supplies disrupted Fuel stations were disrupted this morning Pictures showing the moment a campaign group brought one of Britain's major motorways to a standstill this morning have been released. Just Stop Oil's latest protest is against the use of fossil fuels. Police say the protests were held at both Clacket Lane, near Kent, and Cobham service stations on the M25. No fuel was available at either petrol pump as queues backed up on the carriageway. Surrey Police confirmed 13 people had been arrested at Clacket at around 9.30am. And the motorway services were able to reopen just before 10.30am. Read more: Live M25 updates as arrests made after protesters halt fuel supplies at four service stations Posting on Twitter, Just Stop Oil said: "Clacket Lane, Cobham and Thurrock services on the M25 are all blocked. Petrol and diesel supplies have been disrupted from Navigator, Grays and Kingsbury depots since yesterday. "Governments around the world-including our own-are fully aware of the harmful effects of burning fossil fuels, yet are continuing to do so. We are left with no other option at this time but to actively stop them. We will not stand by & watch preventable destruction." Pictures from the protest can be seen below. If you have seen or heard anything you think we should know about, or in relation to this, please contact the KentLive newsdesk by email at kentlivenewsdesk@reachplc.com . Alternatively, you can get in touch with us via our Facebook page or on Twitter @kentlivenews.	https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/gallery/pictures-show-just-stop-oil-7503267	2022-08-24T11:46:03Z	kentlive.news	control	https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/gallery/pictures-show-just-stop-oil-7503267	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
The man who died following a stabbing in Tonbridge has been named as 20-year-old Thomas Waugh. Police were called at 12.55am last Friday (August 19) to a location close to Avebury Avenue. Two suspects have been charged with murder following the incident. A 17-year-old boy from Coulsdon and a 16-year-old boy from Tonbridge will appear before Medway Magistrates' Court today (August 24). The suspects have also been further charged with the attempted robbery of Thomas, as well as an additional count of robbery relating to two men who had been with him prior to the alleged murder. A 16-year-old girl and a woman, aged 47, who were also arrested, have been released on bail, pending further enquiries. READ MORE: Huge emergency response near Tonbridge High Street - recap Detectives from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate are continuing to appeal to anyone with information, yet to speak to police, to contact them. Call 101, quoting reference 46/YY/13700/22. Members of the public can also submit any information they have, including any CCTV or dashcam footage, by visiting https://mipp.police.uk/. You can also contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111, or by using the online form on their website. If you have seen or heard anything you think we should know about, or in relation to this, please contact the KentLive newsdesk by email at kentlivenewsdesk@reachplc.com Alternatively, you can get in touch with us via our Facebook page or on Twitter @kentlivenews . READ NEXT: - The hidden gem tucked away in a Tunbridge Wells car park - Foodies open independent Fat Sam's Fried Chicken in Tunbridge Wells - Restaurant and cocktail bar in Tunbridge Wells hiring for bar staff and chef jobs - I tried Tunbridge Wells' brand new German Doner Kebab and was left overwhelmed - I tried Tunbridge Wells' best fish and chips to see if it lived up to expectations	https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/man-stabbed-death-tonbridge-named-7503473	2022-08-24T11:46:13Z	kentlive.news	control	https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/man-stabbed-death-tonbridge-named-7503473	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
How Lack of Sleep Makes People Less Helpful, More Lonely Share Anecdotal evidence of poor sleep making us mean and cranky has been around for a long time — to the point where a widespread, sustained lack of sleep is increasingly normalized in society. It has, in fact, served up comedic threads in movies and sitcoms over the years. A new study, however, delves into what lies underneath the grumpiness. Hint: it’s a trait one commonly associates with the protagonist of A Christmas Carol. “Humans help each other. This fundamental feature of homo sapiens has been one of the most powerful forces sculpting the advent of modern civilizations. But what determines whether humans choose to help one another?” notes the study. This is the question a group of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley sought to answer. Published in PLOS Biology yesterday, the study based its findings on three experiments. The first one demonstrated, through brain scans, how lack of sleep results in diminished activity in a network of brain regions associated with our ability to empathize with people around us. In the second experiment, participants completed questionnaires to measure their individual degrees of altruism — the results correlate higher altruism scores with longer sleep durations. As part of the last experiment, the researchers analyzed data on charitable donations from 2001 to 2016. They found that the hour of sleep lost due to many regions switching over to Daylight Savings Time every spring, led to a decline in donations. Unfortunately, as a result of sleep deprivation, all of society stands to lose — and that’s not just because it makes people more vulnerable to diabetes, obesity, heart attack, and stroke. “[T]his new work demonstrates that a lack of sleep not only damages the health of an individual, but degrades social interactions between individuals and, furthermore, degrades the very fabric of human society itself. How we operate as a social species — and we are a social species — seems profoundly dependent on how much sleep we are getting,” noted co-author Matthew Walker, a professor of psychology at UC Berkeley. The implications of the study are critical: the cultural valorization of sleeping less has costs for not only individual health, but that of society itself. Related on The Swaddle: How Sleeping Next to Our Partners Can Improve Our Health and Wellbeing Sleep deprivation increases the level of cortisol — the “stress hormone” — in our bodies. And as past research suggests, stress makes even the most empathetic among us, less kind to others. Whether that’s at the root of sleep deprivation making people less generous isn’t clear, but prima facie, it seems like a plausible explanation. A 2018 study, published in Nature Communications and also co-authored by Walker, had discovered that lack of sleep also increases people’s feelings of loneliness and makes them less inclined to engage with others — by reducing activity in brain regions that otherwise boost social engagement. “Looking at the big picture, we’re starting to see that a lack of sleep results in a quite asocial and, from a helping perspective, anti-social individual,” Walker added, speaking to its impact on society. “Sleep, it turns out, is an incredible lubricant to prosocial, connected, empath[et]ic, kind and generous human behavior. In these divisive times, if there was ever a need for a strong, prosocial lubricant to enable the very best version of ourselves within society, now seems to be it.” A study from May also found out that warmer weathers make it harder for people to fall asleep — leaving them with long hours of tossing and turning instead. Interestingly, higher temperatures have also been associated with increased aggression and worse moods in people — none of which are associated with socially amiable behavior. As we continue to navigate climate change-spawned rise in temperatures across the globe, the present findings sound even more alarming. Related on The Swaddle: Surviving the Pandemic Has Made Us Kinder, More Aware of Mental Health. Will It Last? The findings have thrown open a range of interpretations, too. As one Reddit user wrote, “I wonder if this is why people in historically [time-consuming] professions — like CEOs, lawyers, and military personnel — are stereotyped as less kind than the general population?” Given that long work hours can lead to inadequate sleep — either due to the volume of work itself leading them to burn the midnight oil, or due to revenge bedtime procrastination, where people in high-stress, time-consuming jobs try to sneak in a few hours of ‘me’ time that their responsibilities didn’t permit them to enjoy through the course of the day — the Reddit user’s rumination, perhaps, holds some merit. The idea that sleeplessness makes us less kind, also calls for an urgent re-examination of our present norms around work. Perhaps, our culture’s idolization of hustle culture, which determines people’s worth based on the number of hours they devote to their careers, may have a role to play in this sleeplessness debacle. “[S]ince capitalism dictates that any activity must be a productive activity, sacrificing sleep was (mistakenly) associated with the appealing sheen of hard work… [I]nside Indian households, sleep is spoken of as an antithesis to success and self-worth,” Saumya Kalia had written in The Swaddle. Unsurprisingly, then, a 2019 study had found that India is among the most sleep-deprived countries in the world. Incidentally, in a report published last year, India ranked poorly in a global assessment of how kind people from different countries are to strangers. Worse still, according to research, India’s sleep deprivation “epidemic” may have gone further downhill since the pandemic struck. In order to fix the present scenario — and, perhaps heal ourselves — it might be time for society to pay attention to the widespread lack of sleep as a public health crisis. “Sleep is essential for all aspects of our physical, mental, and emotional lives,” notes Eti Ben Simon, lead author of the present study and a research science at UC Berkeley. “When sleep is undervalued in society, not only do we get sleep-deprived doctors, nurses, and students, but we also suffer from unkind and less empathic interactions on a daily basis. It is time as a society to abandon the idea that sleep is unnecessary, or a waste and, without feeling embarrassed, start getting the sleep that we need. It is the best form of kindness we can offer ourselves, as well as the people around us.”	https://theswaddle.com/how-lack-of-sleep-makes-people-less-helpful-more-lonely/	2022-08-24T11:48:21Z	theswaddle.com	control	https://theswaddle.com/how-lack-of-sleep-makes-people-less-helpful-more-lonely/	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
The day before classes are scheduled to start, teachers in Ohio's largest school system say they won't end their strike without improvements to what they describe as dilapidated schools where a lack of heating and air conditioning has led to miserable classroom environments. Union members in Columbus hit the picket line for a second day Tuesday, as the stalemate between the Columbus Education Association and the Columbus City Schools Board of Education continued. The two sides are set to return to the bargaining table at 1 p.m. Wednesday, the afternoon of the first day of school, after a federal mediator overseeing negotiations called the union and Columbus City Schools to meet, the union said on its Facebook page. The school district confirmed that the meeting will take place on Twitter. "The Columbus Board of Education remains focused on getting our students and teachers back in the classroom. The federal mediator has called both parties to resume bargaining on Wednesday, August 24. We will provide further updates as appropriate," the district's Twitter account said. The showdown is the latest in years of tensions across the nation between teachers who argue they are underpaid and underappreciated, particularly after navigating the coronavirus pandemic, and school systems that say they are strapped for cash. In Columbus, teachers say they want guarantees of smaller class sizes, full-time art, music and physical education teachers in elementary schools and a cap on the number of class periods throughout the school day. But at the core of the strike is their complaint that too many schools, or parts of schools, lack heating and air conditioning, leaving students sweltering in the summer, shivering in the winter and distracted from learning. "98 DEGREES IS A BOY BAND NOT A CLASSROOM TEMPERATURE," read the sign one teacher held outside East High School -- a reference to a pop group that was briefly popular in the late 1990s. The strike began Monday after 94% of the union's membership voted Sunday night to reject the board's latest offer. If a deal isn't struck late Tuesday, Columbus City Schools plans to begin its year with a return to early pandemic practices, having students log on remotely for classes led by substitutes. The district plans to distribute free lunches in grab-and-go containers. Sports and other extracurricular activities will be postponed. Union members focused their protests on more than 20 schools where they would be visible from high-traffic streets or intersections. Passersby honked their horns in solidarity. The union -- with a membership of nearly 4,500 made up of mostly teachers, but also librarians, counselors, nurses and other school employees -- had appointed captains to organize each picket location. Members protested in shifts: morning groups starting at 7 a.m., and afternoon groups that would remain out until 4:30 p.m. Members and supporters delivered coolers of water and bags of snacks at several locations for those standing for hours on sidewalks on a sunny day with temperatures in the low 80s. In front of East High School, one teacher was blaring classic rock protest songs from a speaker. The union had instructed its members not to talk to reporters and to direct questions to their spokespeople. Instead, teachers pointed out nonunion members who were free to talk. "A lot of people in the suburbs are unaware of how bad the conditions are, and I think they're finally getting to see that," said Maggy Counts, a former art teacher at East High School. Counts, whose young twin boys will attend the district's schools, said a teacher strike "has been a long time coming." She said she has heard promises to improve buildings and install heating and air conditioning systems for years, but that those improvements have never fully materialized. It's left teachers -- who also complain that their pay is not keeping up with inflation and say they are dismally short on supplies -- working in an environment that Counts described as burdensome for both educators and students. "They should be able to come to a safe place where there's not rats and roaches and hot conditions and little kindergartners in 58-degree weather," Counts said. "As an adult, if you go to work and it's freezing or 98 degrees or you forgot your lunch, you're not going to be a productive employee. And school is the same way," she said. "We can't have kids continuing to come to buildings and not have these basic needs, and we can't expect teachers to come work in these conditions, either." Other protesters also said the board of education had delivered years of vague promises to improve schools' conditions, but had not offered enough specific details on their plans or timelines to complete those improvements. Columbus City Schools is using hundreds of millions in federal pandemic stimulus dollars to pay for HVAC systems in 16 schools. But six of the 13 schools that were initially planned to be ready by the start of this school year do not yet have working air conditioning. "It's 100% about the conditions of the schools," said Lauren Chivington, a former Columbus City Schools teacher who is now an adjunct professor and PhD student and protested alongside union members at East High School on Tuesday. "They haven't gone on strike since the '70s," Chivington said of the union, which last went on strike in 1975. "They wouldn't be doing this unless it were very, very dire, and very much about their students." While union members and their supporters nearly unanimously pointed to school conditions as the most significant reason for the strike, the two sides are also at odds over pay: Teachers had sought 8% annual pay increases, while the district's most recent offer included 3% pay bumps each year. On Monday night, the Columbus City Schools Board of Education met behind closed doors while hundreds of teachers' union members protested outside. "We want a contract, just and fair. Give our classrooms central air," they chanted. Jennifer Adair, the board of education president, released a statement after the four-hour meeting pledging that a path forward would come "soon." "We are working to find a collaborative path forward. We don't have action on that to report yet. But we will -- soon. Our board fully recognizes the disruption and concern felt by our children and families and across Columbus," Adair said in the statement. "To our school community, like you, we are saddened by this start to the school year," she said. "Be assured we will support your children and families with the resources they need in this time of uncertainty." The-CNN-Wire ™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.	https://www.local3news.com/regional-national/ohio-teachers-say-they-wont-end-their-strike-without-improvements-to-miserable-classroom-environment/article_c76bfb9b-d5d6-587c-b5e1-b8f74c312c78.html	2022-08-24T11:49:46Z	local3news.com	control	https://www.local3news.com/regional-national/ohio-teachers-say-they-wont-end-their-strike-without-improvements-to-miserable-classroom-environment/article_c76bfb9b-d5d6-587c-b5e1-b8f74c312c78.html	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
A federal jury in Michigan convicted the men of conspiring to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer — in what the FBI called a domestic terrorism case. Prosecutors say they wanted to overthrow the government. Copyright 2022 Michigan Radio A federal jury in Michigan convicted the men of conspiring to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer — in what the FBI called a domestic terrorism case. Prosecutors say they wanted to overthrow the government. Copyright 2022 Michigan Radio	https://www.klcc.org/2022-08-24/2-men-are-found-guilty-of-conspiring-to-kidnap-michigan-gov-whitmer-in-2020	2022-08-24T11:51:50Z	klcc.org	control	https://www.klcc.org/2022-08-24/2-men-are-found-guilty-of-conspiring-to-kidnap-michigan-gov-whitmer-in-2020	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
The Biden administration's renewable energy and climate policies face pushback from a misinformation campaign that some Republicans tap when the power grid is strained. Copyright 2022 NPR The Biden administration's renewable energy and climate policies face pushback from a misinformation campaign that some Republicans tap when the power grid is strained. Copyright 2022 NPR	https://www.klcc.org/2022-08-24/a-gop-misinformation-campaign-targets-democrats-climate-spending-packages	2022-08-24T11:51:56Z	klcc.org	control	https://www.klcc.org/2022-08-24/a-gop-misinformation-campaign-targets-democrats-climate-spending-packages	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
BREAKING NEWS: Two Killed, Another Airlifted Following Head-On Collision in Paint Township PAINT TWP., Pa. (EYT) – State police have identified two victims that were killed as the result of a two-vehicle crash on Monday afternoon on State Route 66, in Paint Township, Clarion County. According to Clarion-based State Police, the crash occurred around 5:00 p.m. on Monday, August 22, along Paint Boulevard (State Route 66), near Doe Run Road, in Paint Township, Clarion County. Police say a 2013 Chevrolet CK3500 pickup driven by 34-year-old Nicholas A. Colwell, of Knox, was traveling north on State Route 66 and crossed over the centerline into the southbound lane and collided head-on with a 1999 Mercury driven by 54-year-old Carrie A. Hunt, of Clarion. Hunt was found deceased upon EMS arrival, according to police. A front passenger in Hunt’s vehicle, identified as 73-year-old Gilbert E. Slaugenhaupt, of Shippenville, was transported to Clarion Hospital where he was pronounced deceased at 5:57 p.m. A rear seat passenger in Hunt’s vehicle, identified as 43-year-old Heather M. Garrett, of Strattanville, was airlifted to Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh. The extent of her injuries is unknown. According to police, Colwell was transported to Clarion Hospital where he was interviewed by members of PSP Clarion. Colwell told police he had just left work and “believed that he fell asleep at the wheel.” It is unknown if Colwell suffered any injuries. Clarion County Coroner Dan Shingledecker told exploreClarion.com that both Hunt and Slaugenhaupt suffered blunt force injuries, and the manner of death is ruled as accidental. A Clarion County 9-1-1 dispatcher said Shippenville-Elk Volunteer Fire Department, Clarion Fire & Hose Company No. 1, Clarion Hospital EMS, Knox Area Volunteer Ambulance Company, and PSP Clarion were dispatched to the scene around 4:55 p.m. LifeFlight and STAT MedEVac were also called to the scene. The scene was cleared at 10:24 p.m. According to PennDOT, State Route 66 was closed in both directions between the intersections of Doe Run Road and the Interstate 80 on- and off-ramps from around 5:00 p.m. until approximately 11:00 p.m. Copyright © 2022 EYT Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. Any copying, redistribution or retransmission of the contents of this service without the express written consent of EYT Media Group, Inc. is expressly prohibited.	https://www.exploreclarion.com/2022/08/22/breaking-news-route-66-in-paint-twp-closed-due-to-multi-vehicle-crash/	2022-08-24T11:53:54Z	exploreclarion.com	control	https://www.exploreclarion.com/2022/08/22/breaking-news-route-66-in-paint-twp-closed-due-to-multi-vehicle-crash/	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
7-Day Weather Forecast for Clarion County The 7-day weather forecast for the Clarion County area is brought to you by Redbank Chevrolet and DuBrook. Today – A chance of showers, mainly before 11am. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with a high near 77. Northwest wind 3 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Tonight – Areas of fog after 5am. Otherwise, mostly clear, with a low around 54. Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening. Wednesday – Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, sunny, with a high near 82. Calm wind becoming northwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Wednesday Night – Mostly clear, with a low around 58. Calm wind. Thursday – Sunny, with a high near 85. Calm wind becoming southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Thursday Night – Partly cloudy, with a low around 60. Friday – A chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 82. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Friday Night – A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 58. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Saturday – Mostly sunny, with a high near 83. Saturday Night – Mostly clear, with a low around 62. Sunday – Mostly sunny, with a high near 86. Sunday Night – Partly cloudy, with a low around 64. Monday – A chance of showers. Mostly sunny, with a high near 86. Chance of precipitation is 30%. 7-Day Weather Forecast, brought to you by Redbank Chevrolet and DuBrook. Copyright © 2022 EYT Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. Any copying, redistribution or retransmission of the contents of this service without the express written consent of EYT Media Group, Inc. is expressly prohibited.	https://www.exploreclarion.com/2022/08/23/7-day-weather-forecast-for-clarion-county-3085/	2022-08-24T11:54:00Z	exploreclarion.com	control	https://www.exploreclarion.com/2022/08/23/7-day-weather-forecast-for-clarion-county-3085/	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
A Jase in the Hole: In His Second Year as Central Clarion’s Starting QB, Ferguson Wants to Take His Game to the Next Level STRATTANVILLE, Pa. (EYT/D9) — Jase Ferguson prepared hard for his first varsity start at quarterback for the Central Clarion football team last season. (Pictured above: Jase Ferguson takes off running against Kane last season. Now a sophomore and bigger and strong, the Central Clarion QB wants to be more effective as a runner this season/photo by Dave Cyphert of ProPoint Media Photography.) He didn’t get a scrimmage because that game against Redbank Valley was canceled, but he watched hours of film on Punxsutawney, the Wildcats’ opponent to open the regular season. By the end of the week, Ferguson, just a freshman, felt like he was ready. “We had a pretty good idea what they were going to do,” Ferguson said. “I was feeling pretty confident going into the Punxsy game, and then …” Then things changed dramatically. The Chucks had to cancel the game because of COVID protocols on the morning of the opener. Just hours before kickoff, Central Clarion scrambled to find an opponent — Slippery Rock — and later that afternoon loaded onto a bus to play the Rockets on the road. Suddenly, all that preparation against Punxsy was out the window. Ferguson had to make his first start against an unknown opponent on the road. “That was my first-ever game, and I was already nervous,” Ferguson said. “The beginning of the season, yeah, it started rough.” But Ferguson, a Clarion-Limestone student, didn’t allow the tumult of the first month of the season — and an 0-4 start — rattle him. He showed poise beyond his years. Clarion-Limestone High School and Clarion Area High School sports coverage on Explore and D9Sports.com is brought to you by Redbank Chevrolet and DuBrook. Midway through the season, Central Clarion began to click and the wins came — four in a row with Ferguson playing at a high level at quarterback. The Wildcats were a playoff team, falling to Karns City in the first round of the playoffs. But the experience was a valuable one for Ferguson and Central Clarion. The adversity the Wildcats faced tempered them like steel, and Ferguson feels like he is a better player all ready for it. By the end of the season, his numbers were strong for a freshman. Ferguson completed 55% of his passes for 1,620 yards and 18 touchdowns. “As a freshman coming in and starting your first varsity game, it’s definitely tough, especially when you don’t have any film on the team you’re playing against,” said Central Clarion coach Dave Eggleton. “As we got into the season, we were able to prepare better for teams we were playing, and he got more comfortable. You could really see it on the field. Each game, I thought, he improved and just started to play freer.” Now Ferguson is looking to expand his game more. He’s grown. He’s two inches taller and 20 pounds heavier. He worked diligently in the weight room this offseason to add muscle and strength. “I lifted a lot over the offseason,” Ferguson said. “I feel like that really helped.” Central Clarion is looking to expand Ferguson’s role into being more of a running threat this season. He only rushed for 24 yards last season but did score four TDs on the ground. “I want to improve in the run game this year,” Ferguson said. “I had a couple of nice runs, but I didn’t really do much.” Eggleton said he has no doubt Ferguson will take his game to the next level this season. He already has. The coach has already seen it. “His growth and maturity from last year to this year has just been tremendous,” Eggleton said. “He’s not only able to come in and diagnose and make reads in the passing game, but he’s also getting us into run plays that are giving us an advantage up front. We’re excited with what he’s doing.” Ferguson has put the work in to become that cerebral quarterback. “Lots of reps in practice,” Ferguson said. “We run plays over and over and over again, just repeating them. Getting the timing down. Getting the reads right.” Ferguson has been playing football since the second grade. He began his grid career as a running back but shifted to quarterback in the fifth grade. He’s been there ever since. “I was pretty excited about that,” he said. He also had a standout freshman season on the basketball court for Clarion-Limestone. Football, though, is his favorite sport. He said he hasn’t thought that much about life after high school — he’s just a sophomore, after all. That time will come. For now, he’s solely focused on helping the Wildcats win. “We have a great amount of athletes to share the ball,” Ferguson said. “We can run it and we can pass it. I think it’s gonna be pretty hard for teams to stop us.” And his goals? “Hopefully go undefeated,” Ferguson said. “That’s our top goal.” Clarion-Limestone High School and Clarion Area High School sports coverage on Explore and D9Sports.com is brought to you by Redbank Chevrolet and DuBrook. Copyright © 2022 EYT Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. Any copying, redistribution or retransmission of the contents of this service without the express written consent of EYT Media Group, Inc. is expressly prohibited.	https://www.exploreclarion.com/2022/08/23/a-jase-in-the-hole-in-his-second-year-as-central-clarions-starting-qb-ferguson-wants-to-take-his-game-to-the-next-level/	2022-08-24T11:54:07Z	exploreclarion.com	control	https://www.exploreclarion.com/2022/08/23/a-jase-in-the-hole-in-his-second-year-as-central-clarions-starting-qb-ferguson-wants-to-take-his-game-to-the-next-level/	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
AG’s Office Files Charges Against Man Accused of Selling Meth in Clarion County CLARION, Pa. (EYT) – The Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General has filed criminal charges against an Ohio man accused of selling methamphetamine to a Confidential Informant (C.I.) in Clarion County. Lewer Frank Dent, 33, of Youngstown, Ohio, is facing the following charges: - Manufacture, Delivery, or Possession With Intent to Manufacture or Deliver, Felony (2 counts) - Criminal Use Of Communication Facility, Felony 3 (2 counts) - Int. Possession Controlled Substance By Person Not Registered, Misdemeanor (3 counts) Dent was arraigned on August 17 at 9:30 p.m. by Magisterial District Judge Jarah Lee Heeter. According to a criminal complaint filed jointly by Special Agent Stephanie Mcelhaney from the Attorney General’s Office and Clarion County Chief Detective William Peck, Dent has an Ohio criminal history which includes drug and firearms-related convictions and various other offenses. On April 8, 2022, Task Force Officers met in a pre-determined location in Clarion County to purchase approximately 2.5 ounces of methamphetamine from Dent via a C.I. and a known undercover narcotics agent. Official Attorney General’s Office funds in the amount of $1,200.00 were provided to the C.I. The C.I had communicated with Dent and established a meeting time and place in Clarion County. Officers searched the C.I. and found him to be clear of any weapons, drugs and/or contraband. The C.I. contacted Dent again and the meeting location was moved to Walmart in Hermitage, Pa. According to the criminal complaint, the undercover agent and the C.I. departed Clarion County and arrived at the Walmart parking lot along with surveillance units. A short time later, Dent arrived in a black Jeep SUV. The black SUV pulled up on the passenger side of the undercover vehicle so the passenger sides of both vehicles were facing each other. The C.I. exited the undercover vehicle and handed Dent the money through the passenger side window and Dent provided the C.I. with a plastic baggie containing a crystalline substance. The C.I. then re-entered the undercover vehicle and immediately handed the plastic baggie of suspected methamphetamine to the narcotics agent. Upon arrival in Clarion County, the C.I. was searched for weapons, money, or contraband with negative results. Officers provided the suspected methamphetamine to Detective Peck for processing and laboratory analysis. On April 19, 2022, the undercover agent communicated with Dent via electronic communications and arranged to purchase approximately two ounces of methamphetamine for $1,000.00 of official funds. The undercover agent and other officers met in a pre-determined location in Clarion County. Then, the undercover agent contacted Dent and the purchase location was changed to Walmart in Hermitage. The undercover agent and surveillance units departed Clarion County and arrived at Walmart. Dent and the undercover agent met and eventually Dent provided the agent with a crystalline substance, approximately two ounces, which he placed in the undercover vehicle in exchange for $1,000.00 of official funds. Surveillance and the undercover agent traveled back to Clarion County, where the methamphetamine was provided to Detective Peck for processing and laboratory analysis. On August 17, 2022, an undercover agent communicated with Dent via electronic communications and arranged to purchase approximately two ounces of methamphetamine for $1,100.00 of official funds. The undercover agent and other officers met in a pre-determined location in Clarion County. The undercover agent contacted Dent, who informed the undercover agent that he was in town and had to go back to “the city” to get the two ounces. Agents and officers identified Dent, who was riding in a black Jeep bearing a New Jersey plate. Surveillance continued on the vehicle and it was determined that it was occupied by Dent and a second black male. Detective Peck verified Dent’s identity at the Kwik Fill gas station in Monroe Township, Clarion County, according to the criminal complaint. Later that day, a felony traffic stop was conducted at mile marker 57.4 on Interstate 80 westbound. Dent was in the front passenger seat. He was taken into custody without incident. While searching Dent, officers found $940.00 in his left pocket and $20.00 in his right pocket. At the time of his arrest, Dent also had an active warrant out of Venango County for a failure to appear. The driver, Eugene Thompkins, was also taken into custody without incident. Thompkins gave consent to a search the vehicle, in which a small amount of marijuana was found in the center console. It was later determined that Thompkins was wanted in Ohio. Dent was lodged in the Clarion County Jail after failing to post $100,000.00 cash bail. He faces a preliminary hearing on September 6 at 1:45 p.m. with Judge Heeter presiding. Copyright © 2022 EYT Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. Any copying, redistribution or retransmission of the contents of this service without the express written consent of EYT Media Group, Inc. is expressly prohibited.	https://www.exploreclarion.com/2022/08/23/ags-office-files-charges-against-man-accused-of-selling-meth-in-clarion-county/	2022-08-24T11:54:20Z	exploreclarion.com	control	https://www.exploreclarion.com/2022/08/23/ags-office-files-charges-against-man-accused-of-selling-meth-in-clarion-county/	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Two Killed, Another Airlifted Following Head-On Collision in Paint Township PAINT TWP., Pa. (EYT) – State police have identified two victims that were killed as the result of a two-vehicle crash on Monday afternoon on State Route 66, in Paint Township, Clarion County. According to Clarion-based State Police, the crash occurred around 5:00 p.m. on Monday, August 22, along Paint Boulevard (State Route 66), near Doe Run Road, in Paint Township, Clarion County. Police say a 2013 Chevrolet CK3500 pickup driven by 34-year-old Nicholas A. Colwell, of Knox, was traveling north on State Route 66 and crossed over the centerline into the southbound lane and collided head-on with a 1999 Mercury driven by 54-year-old Carrie A. Hunt, of Clarion. Hunt was found deceased upon EMS arrival, according to police. A front passenger in Hunt’s vehicle, identified as 73-year-old Gilbert E. Slaugenhaupt, of Shippenville, was transported to Clarion Hospital where he was pronounced deceased at 5:57 p.m. A rear seat passenger in Hunt’s vehicle, identified as 43-year-old Heather M. Garrett, of Strattanville, was airlifted to Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh. The extent of her injuries is unknown. According to police, Colwell was transported to Clarion Hospital where he was interviewed by members of PSP Clarion. Colwell told police he had just left work and “believed that he fell asleep at the wheel.” It is unknown if Colwell suffered any injuries. Clarion County Coroner Dan Shingledecker told exploreClarion.com that both Hunt and Slaugenhaupt suffered blunt force injuries, and the manner of death is ruled as accidental. A Clarion County 9-1-1 dispatcher said Shippenville-Elk Volunteer Fire Department, Clarion Fire & Hose Company No. 1, Clarion Hospital EMS, Knox Area Volunteer Ambulance Company, and PSP Clarion were dispatched to the scene around 4:55 p.m. LifeFlight and STAT MedEVac were also called to the scene. The scene was cleared at 10:24 p.m. According to PennDOT, State Route 66 was closed in both directions between the intersections of Doe Run Road and the Interstate 80 on- and off-ramps from around 5:00 p.m. until approximately 11:00 p.m. Copyright © 2022 EYT Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. Any copying, redistribution or retransmission of the contents of this service without the express written consent of EYT Media Group, Inc. is expressly prohibited.	https://www.exploreclarion.com/2022/08/23/breaking-news-two-killed-another-airlifted-following-head-on-collision-in-paint-township/	2022-08-24T11:54:26Z	exploreclarion.com	control	https://www.exploreclarion.com/2022/08/23/breaking-news-two-killed-another-airlifted-following-head-on-collision-in-paint-township/	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Clarion Area Legend Robert Lee Murphy, Jr. Passes Away Robert Lee Murphy, Jr., (also known as Bob or Murf), of Clarion, passed away on Friday, August 19, 2022 at the age of 87. He was born along with his twin sister Carolyn, on May 28, 1935 in East Brady, PA, and was the son of the late Robert Lee Murphy Sr. and Martha Stanley Murphy. Bob married Janice C. Sloan of New Bethlehem on August 24, 1956. They were 5 days short of celebrating their 66th Anniversary. Together they had seven children. Bob graduated from East Brady Area High School in 1953, where he participated on four championship basketball teams. He also played baseball and golf. After high school he attended Slippery Rock State College where he played freshman basketball. He then transferred to Clarion State College for the second semester of his freshman year. While at Clarion he participated in basketball, tennis, and baseball for three years. His athletic background from high school and college led him into teaching and coaching. He graduated from Clarion State College in the spring of 1957, and soon after began a 36 year career at Clarion Area Junior Senior High School. He taught junior high science for three years, and driver education for 33, teaching approximately 6,200 students how to drive. From 1960-1976 he was the Varsity Boy’s Basketball Coach. During his tenure, his teams won 246 games and lost 139. His teams won two County Championships and finished second nine times. They also won three District 10 Championships and one Western PA Championship. Murf started the Clarion High School’s golf team in the late 50’s and continued to coach them for 33 years. During that time there were 15 State qualifiers, two District 9 individual Boys Champions, one District 9 individual Girls Champion, and three individual State top 10 Champions. There were two District 9 Boys Championship teams and three League Championship teams. His final 17 years at Clarion Area were also spent as Athletic Director where he was in charge of 14 varsity boys and girls teams along with several junior high teams. As a “farewell” gift to the school, he commissioned the building and installation of ten trophy cases in 1993. In addition to a very rewarding athletic and teaching career, Murf was a member of the P.I.A.A. District 9 Committee for 10 years. During this time he served on the Athletic Directors Executive Council. He assisted with game management of basketball, tennis, baseball, and golf, as well as being responsible for all of the team and individual awards presented to participants. He was also a member of the State Athletic Directors Association for 17 years and a representative to the board of Control of the P.I.A.A. from District 9. He was instrumental in getting District 9 into the playoff system for football. Murf was an avid golfer with memberships at Mayfield, now Clarion Oaks, and Pinecrest Country Club in Brookville for over 50 years. He loved to compete in matches, tournaments, and scrambles. During his years as a member of Mayfield Golf Course, he won the Men’s Championship and Senior Championship. Over the years he was also fortunate to have scored nine holes-in-one. After his formal retirement in 1993, Bob and his wife Jan enjoyed traveling up and down the east coast from Pennsylvania to Florida visiting family and friends, usually spending winters in central and southwestern areas of the sunshine state. They had developed a love for the sun and sand during 17 years of family vacations on the Outer Banks in North Carolina. Bob was a member of the Clarion First United Methodist Church for 63 years, where he served as an usher, sang in the choir, and was a member of the church board. In addition to his wife and sister, Bob is survived by his seven children: Deborah (Mark) Whisner of Clarion; Robert M. Murphy of Sterling, VA; Diana (Bill) Hager of Hawthorn, PA; Brian (Marilee) Murphy of Sterling, VA; Julie (Bill) Brosius of Elverson, PA; Bradley Murphy of Orlando, FL; and Jennifer (David) MacInnes of Bonita Springs, FL. He is also survived by ten grandchildren: Stephanie (Steve Arose) Hager; Briana (David) Hawkins; William (Andrea) Hager; Garret Whisner; Luke Hager; Jacob (Natalie) Brosius; Joseph and Nicholas Brosius; Aidan and Evan MacInnes. He had three great- grandchildren: Lincoln and Charlotte Hawkins and William Hager. Bob Murphy, known mostly as “Murf,” lived a simple life and his philosophy was “Go as long as you can, and as hard as you can! Life is short- play hard! So Be It!” Family and friends will be received from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday, August 25, 2022 at the Robert V. Burns Funeral Home in Clarion. Additional viewing will be held from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Friday, August 26, 2022 at the Clarion First United Methodist Church where funeral services will follow at 11 a.m. with Rev. John E. Flower presiding. Interment will take place in the Clarion Cemetery. The family suggests memorial contributions be made to the Clarion County YMCA, 499 Mayfield Road, Clarion, PA 16214 or to the Clarion First United Methodist Church designated “Living Stones” in memory of Robert Murphy, 600 Wood Street, Clarion, PA 16214. Online condolences can be sent to the family by visiting www.rvburnsfuneralhome.com. Copyright © 2022 EYT Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. 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Clarion County Photo of the Day Tuesday, August 23, 2022 @ 12:08 AM Copyright © 2022 EYT Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. Any copying, redistribution or retransmission of the contents of this service without the express written consent of EYT Media Group, Inc. is expressly prohibited.	https://www.exploreclarion.com/2022/08/23/clarion-county-photo-of-the-day-8-23/	2022-08-24T11:54:38Z	exploreclarion.com	control	https://www.exploreclarion.com/2022/08/23/clarion-county-photo-of-the-day-8-23/	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Clarion County Recipe of the Day: Rhubarb Compote with Yogurt & Almonds Enjoy this tart treat for breakfast or dessert! Ingredients 2 cups finely chopped fresh rhubarb 1/4 cup sugar 3 cups reduced-fat plain Greek yogurt 2 tablespoons honey 3/4 cup sliced almonds, toasted Directions -In a small saucepan, combine rhubarb, sugar, and water. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 10-15 minutes or until rhubarb is tender, stirring occasionally. Transfer to a bowl; cool slightly. Refrigerate until cold. -In a small bowl, whisk yogurt and honey until blended. Spoon into serving dishes. Top with compote; sprinkle with almonds. Do you want to have your recipe featured as the Clarion County Recipe of the day? If the answer is yes, the process is quick and easy! Simply email your recipe to [email protected] with “Clarion County Recipe of the Day” as the subject. Also, we’d love for you to include a fun picture of the dish you’re sharing. Make your recipe famous today! Copyright © 2022 EYT Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. Any copying, redistribution or retransmission of the contents of this service without the express written consent of EYT Media Group, Inc. is expressly prohibited.	https://www.exploreclarion.com/2022/08/23/clarion-county-recipe-of-the-day-rhubarb-compote-with-yogurt-almonds/	2022-08-24T11:54:44Z	exploreclarion.com	control	https://www.exploreclarion.com/2022/08/23/clarion-county-recipe-of-the-day-rhubarb-compote-with-yogurt-almonds/	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
CLIENT REVIEW: Clarion Forest VNA Ladies Golf Outing Set for September 17 in Loving Memory of Cheryl Scott CLARION, Pa. (EYT) – The 26th annual Clarion Forest VNA Ladies Golf Outing is scheduled for September 17 in loving memory of Cheryl Scott, a long-time co-worker and friend. Clarion Forest VNA Ladies Golf Outing When: Saturday, September 17, 2022 Where: Clarion Oaks Golf Course Shotgun Start: 10:00 a.m. Auction Items Open: 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. Lunch Will Be Provided Immediately Following Play The proceeds from this event go toward supporting Clarion Forest VNA’s hospice program. Click here to download the Registration Form. About the Ladies Golf Outing One thing unique about the Clarion Forest VNA, Inc. golf outing is that it is exclusively for women. Years ago when the organization started the fundraising event, there were very few outings just for women. With this being said, the non-profit has an extremely large bucket auction with an array of fantastic prizes! Golf Outing in Memory of Cheryl Scott This year’s outing is extra special to the non-profit, as it will be in memory of their long-time co-worker and friend, Cheryl Scott. She passed away in a tragic accident on April 30, 2022, while vacationing with family and friends. She loved to golf and golfed whenever she could at the outing. Clarion Forest VNA is excited to have Cheryl’s family not only golfing but also volunteering to help with the event this year in her honor. Thanks to a Generous Community and Staff Clarion Forest VNA thanks the local community for providing their agency with such great auction items! The non-profit organization also extends a thank you to their major sponsors, hole sponsors, their dedicated staff members who are helping with the event, and Clarion Oaks Golf Course owners Karen and Dana Davis. About Clarion Forest VNA’s Hospice Program In 2021, Clarion Forest VNA’s hospice program provided end-of-life care to 183 patients. One of the core services a hospice program is required to offer is counseling services. Part of these counseling services includes bereavement. Bereavement can be defined as the experience of losing someone important to us. These services are to be provided by a qualified professional with experience or education in grief or loss counseling. Hospices are required to offer bereavement services to the family and other individuals in the bereavement plan of care for up to one year following the death of a patient. Their bereavement counselor performs in-home visits and well as providing grief groups and grief camps for children. About Clarion Forest VNA Clarion Forest VNA is a non-profit organization that provides home health, hospice, palliative care, and maternal/infant services to Clarion, Forest, and Jefferson Counties with the following mission statement: MISSION: Clarion Forest VNA, Inc. is dedicated to promoting the community’s health and patient independence through the delivery of personalized compassionate care involving home-based services, hospice care, adult daily living options, and education and outreach initiatives–regardless of the patient’s ability to the extent that resources are available. So, needless to say, being a non-profit organization, Clarion Forest VNA depends heavily on fundraising to support its mission statement. In 2021, CFVNA provided over $280,000.00 in free or reduced-cost care. The non-profit’s largest yearly fundraising effort is their annual golf tournament. Their second largest fundraising event is their annual butterfly release. Both of these fundraising events go toward supporting their hospice program. For more information on the how you can donate to the Clarion Forest VNA, visit their website here: https://cfvna.org/. Copyright © 2022 EYT Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. Any copying, redistribution or retransmission of the contents of this service without the express written consent of EYT Media Group, Inc. is expressly prohibited.	https://www.exploreclarion.com/2022/08/23/clarion-forest-vna-ladies-golf-outing-set-for-september-17-in-loving-memory-of-cheryl-scott/	2022-08-24T11:54:50Z	exploreclarion.com	control	https://www.exploreclarion.com/2022/08/23/clarion-forest-vna-ladies-golf-outing-set-for-september-17-in-loving-memory-of-cheryl-scott/	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Featured Local Job: Counselor – Education/Prevention Abraxas Youth & Family Services currently has an opening for a Counselor – Education/Prevention to join their team at Abraxas I in Marienville, PA. Education and Prevention Counselor also known as Intervention Counselor works directly with Adolescents at their inpatient drug and alcohol treatment program – starting pay is $15.77 per hour! In this role, you will be helping youth BUILD BETTER FUTURES. Seeking individuals to provide a full range of counseling and/or case management services to youth with substance abuse/dependency problems. Join their wonderful team of dynamic, multidisciplinary healthcare professionals, who collaborate to provide youth with evidence and competency-based treatment, increasing their chances for sustained recovery from active addiction. Salary: $15.77 – $22.15 per hour Bonus: $3,000 Sign On Bonus Shift: Days and Evenings Who Abraxas Is: Abraxas Youth & Family Services is a national nonprofit human services provider dedicated to Building Better Futures for at-risk youth, adults, and families. Our diversified array of services includes alternative education, outpatient counseling, in-home services, shelter, detention, residential treatment and re-entry/transition services. Since 1973, Abraxas team members have positively impacted the lives of those they serve and the communities in which they live. Benefits & Perks: Abraxas provides a competitive and comprehensive benefits program that offers the protection, peace of mind, and flexibility designed to support you – both at home and at work. - Medical & Dental & Vision Insurance - Flexible Spending Accounts - Basic Life & Short-Term Disability Insurance - 403(b) Savings Plan - Life Assistance Program (LAP) - Tuition Assistance Program - Paid Time Off (PTO) * Paid Holidays * Paid Training - Advancement Opportunities In this role, you will: - Provide direct supervision, leadership, and serve as a role model to clients while interacting in a therapeutic and meaningful manner. - Observe client behavior and intervene appropriately, as dictated by policy and individual client treatment plan. - Develop and implement individualized treatment plans while shaping the course of treatment for assigned clients. - Coordinate and implement case management activities for assigned clients. - Provide individual and caseload group counseling, as well as family conferencing for assigned clients. - Complete required documentation, such as progress and court reports, discharge summaries, treatment plans, etc. - Facilitate various treatment and life skills groups via standardized group curricula. - Participate in case consultations, treatment reviews, administrative reviews, and other multi-disciplinary meetings for assigned clients. - Attend court hearings for assigned clients. - Communicate and maintain regular contact with families, caseworkers/probation officers/guardians ad litem/etc. and provide thorough updates of progress for assigned clients. - Conduct scheduled and random head counts to provide effective people security. - Assist with mentoring and on-the-job training of newer team members. - Support the Abraxas philosophy and mission and promote the Seven Key Principles of care. - Demonstrate appropriate use of Safe Crisis Management techniques and skills. Hiring Requirements: Why Should I Consider Abraxas? - At Abraxas, they celebrate the richness of their diverse employees and the communities they serve. They are actively committed to building a culture of awareness and belonging, as they strive to ensure they are a welcoming, inclusive, and culturally competent organization. - As they work to make a difference in people’s lives, they are dedicated to respect, equity, and the engagement of those they serve and their employees. - As a provider of trauma-informed care, they firmly believe in recovery and that their clients can lead fulfilling and meaningful lives, and they consider it an honor and a privilege to assist them in their journey. - Whether you’re looking to begin a rewarding career or you’re a seasoned professional wanting a new challenge, Abraxas has a place for you and opportunities for development at all levels. - At Abraxas, their staff is at the core of everything they do. That is why they are committed to providing you with competitive pay and comprehensive benefits options that help make your life easier and healthier, with a focus on providing choice when it comes to physical, emotional, and financial wellness. Their benefit options meet you where you are in your life and set you up for success both in and outside of work. - If you want to have a positive impact in the lives of others, join Abraxas! Equal Opportunity Employer Abraxas Youth & Family Services, an affiliate of Apis Services Inc., offers a rewarding career for those passionate about making a difference in the lives of others. Abraxas is a great place to start your career whether you have a high school diploma or GED, military experience, some college, or a bachelor’s or advanced degree. If you are interested in counseling, juvenile justice, psychology, social work, teaching, or just want to make a difference, they have a career path for you. Apis Services, Inc. provides administrative services to a variety of businesses and non-profit agencies so they can focus on their individual goals and missions. Apis serves 30+ affiliates throughout the USA including locations in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Colorado, New Jersey, and North Carolina. “Join Us in Building Better Futures!” Interested in joining their outstanding team? If you have any questions, you can contact them by email at [email protected] Give them a Call at (814) 927-6615 and Brenda or Wendy will be happy to help you! Apply online by following this link. Also, you can explore other positions that Abraxas has to offer on their website. https://jobsatabraxas.org/careers.html Copyright © 2022 EYT Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. 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Featured Local Job: Multiple Positions at Clarion Area School District Tuesday, August 23, 2022 @ 08:08 AM The Clarion Area School District is accepting applications for multiple positions for the 2022-2023 school year. Positions include: - Girls Varsity Softball Head Coach - Full-Time Evening Custodian - Custodial Substitutes - Part-Time Food Service Worker - Daily Food Service Substitutes - Paraprofessional - Day-to-Day Secretarial Substitute All applicants must possess or be able to obtain the required clearances. Applicants should send a letter of interest and references to: Dr. Joseph Carrico, Superintendent Clarion Area School District 221 Liberty Street Clarion, PA 16214 Applications review will begin immediately and continue until the deadline of September 1, 2022. Copyright © 2022 EYT Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. Any copying, redistribution or retransmission of the contents of this service without the express written consent of EYT Media Group, Inc. is expressly prohibited.	https://www.exploreclarion.com/2022/08/23/featured-local-job-multiple-positions-at-clarion-area-school-district-5/	2022-08-24T11:55:03Z	exploreclarion.com	control	https://www.exploreclarion.com/2022/08/23/featured-local-job-multiple-positions-at-clarion-area-school-district-5/	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Gary S. Spieker Gary S. Spieker, 71, of Grove City, passed away at his home on August 15, 2022. Gary was born April 7, 1951, he was the son of Clyde and Ella Mae (Nale) Spieker. Gary graduated from Hopewell High and then graduated from Penn State University. Early in his career, Gary worked as a police officer in Pottsgrove, PA and with Western Berks EMS. He retired as an IT Manager in the health care field at UPMC Northwest. Gary was an avid Penn State Football Fan, and enjoyed playing for Joe Paterno. He took great pride in taking care of his lawn and would relax with a cold diet Pepsi watching tv. Loved ones to cherish Gary’s memory are his wife Jean Spieker, his mother Ella Mae Spieker, his children Kate Oldham and her husband Justin of Columbus, Ohio, Carley Smith and her husband Joe of Lacey, Washington and Steven Spieker and his wife Caitlyn of Winchester, Virginia. His grandchildren Riley Shiplet and Lucia Oldham of Columbus, Ohio, Asher Smith and Ella Smith of Lacey, Washington and Layken Spieker of Winchester, Virginia. As well as his brother Richard Spieker and family of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Gary was preceded in death by his father Clyde Spieker and his brother Terry Spieker. Private services were held at the Amity Church. Burial took place at Mt. Irwin Cemetery. The Larry E. McKinley Funeral Home in Clintonville is assisted the family with arrangements. Friends can email condolences by visiting www.mckinleyfuneralhome.net. Copyright © 2022 EYT Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. Any copying, redistribution or retransmission of the contents of this service without the express written consent of EYT Media Group, Inc. is expressly prohibited.	https://www.exploreclarion.com/2022/08/23/gary-s-spieker/	2022-08-24T11:55:13Z	exploreclarion.com	control	https://www.exploreclarion.com/2022/08/23/gary-s-spieker/	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Immovable Forces: D9 Products James Parenti and Kobe Bonanno Form Brick Wall for Stout Grove City College Run Defense GROVE CITY, Pa. (EYT/D9) — There’s no pushing James Parenti around. He’s become an immovable force at nose tackle for the formidable Grove City College defense. (Above, Moniteau graduate and Grove City College senior James Parenti was one of the best defensive linemen in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference last season/photo courtesy of Grove City College). The 6-foot, 285-pound senior and Moniteau High School graduate was an anchor for a unit that was ranked sixth in the nation in NCAA Division III college football in run defense last season, yielding a mere 63.1 yards per game and 2.3 yards per carry. “Him in the heart of our defense was the big reason why,” said Grove City College head coach Andrew DiDonato. “He was right in the middle of it at (the) nose. We play an odd front, so if you’re going to stop the run the way we’ve been able to, you better have a nose who is going to defeat two every play, it doesn’t matter if it’s defeating the double team, or defeating the guy in front of you and making the tackle. “We talk about playing with great effort and mastering your art,” DiDonato added. “James is a guy who lives in that, and he is truly a model of so many things we talk about in this program.” Football, however, wasn’t at the forefront of Parenti’s thoughts when he came to Grove City College. Track and field was what Parenti thought would be his calling at the next level. While at Moniteau, he placed fourth in the discus at the PIAA championships in back-to-back years. His career-best high school throw was 171 feet, 10 inches — good enough for fifth all-time in Butler County history. He was eager to see what he could do as a thrower at the next level. Parenti, a Hilliards native, owns the indoor records at Grove City College in the shot put and weight throw. He decided to play football, too, and his career in that sport took off quickly. “Football was the one for me that kind of came out of nowhere here,” Parenti said. “In track, you can look at the numbers and kind of see where you stand coming in, so I expected it. In football, I didn’t really know what to think coming in, but as soon as I got here and put the pas on, I just knew this is where I want to be.” There was an adjustment period for Parenti on the gridiron. At Moniteau, he played a different style up front, using speed and quickness to penetrate gaps and get into the backfield. At GCC, the expectations for his position changed. “I almost had to learn to play an entirely new sport,” Parenti said. “It’s just a different way to play the game. Here, it’s being a lot more physical and actually playing through offensive linemen. It’s honestly a lot more like playing offensive line in high school where you’re driving guys back and things like that. Instead of looking to get to a linebacker, you’re trying to get to the running back or quarterback.” Near the end of his freshman season, Parenti had adapted well enough to crack the starting lineup. “It comes really quick if you trust it,” Parenti said. “I’m right here. The center is right there. I just have to punch him. But it takes just hundreds and thousands of repetitions to actually be able to do it and do it well consistently.” His sophomore year was cut to just four games in the spring because of COVID, but he recorded 25 tackles in that truncated campaign. Last year, Parenti emerged as one of the most dominant interior defensive linemen in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference. His ability — as well as the ability of the rest of the defensive linemen — to consistently take on and beat double teams allowed the Wolverine linebackers to flourish and make plays. “It’s just our mindset that we’re going to be the toughest unit out on the field at any given time and that we’re going to make things happen,” Parenti said. “We’re going to take away your run. Tackle to tackle, that’s our territory.” Parenti’s backup at nose tackle last season was Redbank Valley graduate Kobe Bonanno. (Redbank Valley grad and GCC sophomore Kobe Bonanno will move into the starting lineup at defensive end this season/photo courtesy of Grove City College.) This season, Bonanno, now a sophomore, will move to the defensive end and line up next to Parenti. Bonanno is a perfect fit for Grove City’s defense. He’s 6-3 and 280 pounds and hard to move. At Redbank, he was a standout defensive tackle for the Bulldogs. He played in all 11 games for the Wolverines as a freshman. “Last year, Kobe rotated in a decent bit and he got to see the field,” Parenti said. “We were just talking about ways to get Kobe on the field. He’s too valuable. Getting him in this year and playing next to him is going to be great.” Bonanno is ready for the challenge. “The biggest thing was learning the technique and getting that all down,” Bonanno said. “Moving from nose to end isn’t all that different. We basically do the same things. My job is to beat the two guys in front of me. It’s a fun way to play football.” DiDonato said he anticipates Bonanno being another stalwart up front. The Wolverines’ defense has a chance to be even better this season. “We lost two first-team, all-conference guys on our defense, and a defensive end position opened up,” DiDonato said. “We knew coming into camp that would be a position battle and we already can tell he’s going to win that spot. We’re just excited about him starting next to James. He has great size and he learned to execute things the way we like to do things up front. He’s just completely bought in and has done a great job.” Grove City went 8-3 last season. Two of those losses came by a combined five points — a 33-32 setback to Westminster and a 28-24 defeat at the hands of Washington & Jefferson. The Wolverines won the ECAC Scotty Whitelaw Bowl, 49-7, over Utica. It was the program’s third bowl win in the last three full seasons. Grove City has come a long way since three straight 0-10 campaigns from 2014 to 2016. Parenti and Bonanno would like nothing more than to help Grove City College win a long-awaited PAC title. “One thing now is we have a really, really solid identity,” Parenti said. “We know exactly who we are as a defense and what we have to do to accomplish these things. It’s just about going out there and getting it done.” Copyright © 2022 EYT Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. 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Karen R. Steele Karen R. Steele, 76, of Franklin, went to be with her Lord and Savior on Thursday, August 18, 2022. Born on March 10, 1946, she was the daughter of the late Claude E. and Ruth E. (Coulter) Smith. After receiving her degree from Grove City College and her Master’s degree from Slippery Rock University, Karen was employed by North Hill School District where she faithfully taught the third and fourth grade classes for thirty-two years. She was well loved by her coworkers and students. Karen’s faith and love for Jesus Christ was everything to her. She was a proud member of the St. John’s Episcopal Church where she served as treasurer. She was also an integral part of the church’s women’s prayer group, Daughters of the King. Karen loved spending all the time she could with her family and church family. She loved old family stories After retiring from teaching, Karen enjoying spending time playing bridge with her friends. She loved to travel and especially enjoyed going on river cruises. Karen was grateful to have had the opportunity to visit the Holy Land. It was one of her greatest accomplishments. Left to cherish her wonderful memory is her brother, John H. Smith and his wife, Sue of Polk; her nephew and niece, Dave W. Smith and his wife, Ashley of Franklin and Erica Rohrabaugh and her husband, Jason of Saline, Michigan; and her beloved great nieces and nephew, Madison Porter of Greensburg, Kaiden Rohrabaugh of Michigan, Isabella Rohrabaugh of Michigan, Lainey Smith of Franklin, and Josie Smith of Franklin. Her great nieces and nephew were her world and she loved them dearly. There will be no visitation at this time and a memorial service will be announced at a later date. Karen will be laid to rest at Mt. Irwin Cemetery. Memorial contributions can be made in Karen’s memory to St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1145 Buffalo St, Franklin, PA 16323. Please take a moment to share a memory or condolence with the family on Karen’s Book of Memories at www.WarrenFH.com. Copyright © 2022 EYT Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. Any copying, redistribution or retransmission of the contents of this service without the express written consent of EYT Media Group, Inc. is expressly prohibited.	https://www.exploreclarion.com/2022/08/23/karen-r-steele/	2022-08-24T11:55:31Z	exploreclarion.com	control	https://www.exploreclarion.com/2022/08/23/karen-r-steele/	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Learn to Hunt With Pennsylvania Game Commission This Fall HARRISBURG, Pa. – The Pennsylvania Game Commission will, once again, be providing free webinars to teach people of all ages how to hunt. Learn to Hunt webinars include information on where to hunt, what you need to hunt, hunting tips and tactics, and preparing game for the table. The series kicks off this Wednesday, August 24, at 6:00 p.m. with a webinar on squirrel hunting. Additional webinars – two on archery deer hunting on September 7 and September 21, and one on pheasant hunting on October 5 – will be provided. Webinars are approximately one hour long and are followed by a question-and-answer session. Each webinar is recorded and is made available to watch later on the Game Commission’s Learn to Hunt webpage, and those who register receive an email after the live event to access the recording. Register for webinars or learn more here: http://bit.ly/pgclearntohunt. The Learn to Hunt program is provided in addition to other online resources designed to help new or experienced hunters develop the confidence and skills they need to get afield. Other online programs include the Hunter-Trapper Education Course (which is required to purchase a hunting license), the Pennsylvania Archery Safety Course, the Successful Bowhunting Course, and the Successful Furtaking Course. Check these out here: https://www.pgc.pa.gov/HuntTrap/Hunter-TrapperEducation/Pages/default.aspx. Copyright © 2022 EYT Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. Any copying, redistribution or retransmission of the contents of this service without the express written consent of EYT Media Group, Inc. is expressly prohibited.	https://www.exploreclarion.com/2022/08/23/learn-to-hunt-with-pennsylvania-game-commission-this-fall/	2022-08-24T11:55:37Z	exploreclarion.com	control	https://www.exploreclarion.com/2022/08/23/learn-to-hunt-with-pennsylvania-game-commission-this-fall/	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Local Man Arrested on Warrant for Armed Robbery Faces Additional Charges for Contraband KNOX BOROUGH, Pa. (EYT) – An area man is facing an additional felony charge after he was found to be in possession of contraband while being processed for an arrest warrant. Court documents indicate on Monday, August 22, the Knox Borough Police Department filed an additional criminal charge against 24-year-old Bradley Richard Elder, of Strattanville, in Magisterial District Judge Jarah Lee Heeter’s office. According to a criminal complaint, Elder was taken into custody on a felony arrest warrant on July 5, 2022, around 10:00 a.m., in Knox Borough, Clarion County, and was subsequently found to be in possession of 19.5 Subutex tablets. Police say 16 Subutex tablets were packaged in a blue medical glove that was knotted off at the end, while 3.5 Subutex tablets were packaged in a small clear baggie. Both a medical glove and the plastic baggie containing the drugs were discovered inside a purple “One Tattoo Touch” condom that was found in Elder’s basketball shorts pocket that he was wearing under a pair of jeans, the complaint states. The complaint notes that the above-described method of packaging is a known trend to place narcotics or other contraband into a lubricated bag or condom, in order to successfully smuggle the contraband into a secured facility. The packaging and the items found on Elder were then processed and logged into evidence. Elder was turning himself in on an outstanding bench warrant to Magistrate Heeter’s office and had knowledge that he was possibly going to be committed to the Clarion County Corrections Facility, according to the complaint. The following additional charge was filed against Elder: – Contraband/Controlled Substance, Felony 2 He is currently awaiting a preliminary hearing. RELATED ARTICLES: Clarion County Pair Arrested in Alleged Armed Robbery in Knox Clarion County Pair Charged in Armed Robbery in Knox Face Hearings Tomorrow Copyright © 2022 EYT Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. Any copying, redistribution or retransmission of the contents of this service without the express written consent of EYT Media Group, Inc. is expressly prohibited.	https://www.exploreclarion.com/2022/08/23/local-man-arrested-on-warrant-for-armed-robbery-faces-additional-charges-for-contraband/	2022-08-24T11:55:43Z	exploreclarion.com	control	https://www.exploreclarion.com/2022/08/23/local-man-arrested-on-warrant-for-armed-robbery-faces-additional-charges-for-contraband/	1	1	green-iguana-35	null
Lois Carol Kerr Lois Carol Kerr, 86, of Youngsville, PA passed away on Thursday, August 18, 2022, at The Rouse Home, surrounded by family. Lois was born on March 14, 1936, in New Bethlehem, PA and was the daughter of Frederick Darl Kerr and Iva Irene (Lucas) Kerr. Lois worked over 30+ years in the precious metals department at Sylvania, retiring in 1993. She enjoyed bowling in her younger years, cooking (especially baking), playing cards with her card club, bird watching, reading, spending summers at her nephew’s camp in Rimer, PA, but most of all spending time with her family and friends. Lois is survived by her daughter, Tina Kerr-Garris of Youngsville, PA; her grandchildren, Samantha Garris and Steven Garris, both of Youngsville, PA; one brother, Melvin Kerr; and many nieces and nephews. Who she loved dearly. Lois was preceded in death by her parents, Frederick and Irene Kerr, three brothers, James Kerr, Frederick Kerr and Glenn Kerr, two sisters, Shirley Kerr-Panciera and Ellen Kerr-Herron. Due to Lois’ wishes, there will be no memorial services held. Arrangements are under the care of the Goble Funeral Home in Clarion. Memorials may be made to The Rouse Home, 701 Rouse Avenue, Youngsville, PA 16371. Friends and family may send online condolences, memorials, and obtain additional information by visiting www.goblefh.net. Copyright © 2022 EYT Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. Any copying, redistribution or retransmission of the contents of this service without the express written consent of EYT Media Group, Inc. is expressly prohibited.	https://www.exploreclarion.com/2022/08/23/lois-carol-kerr/	2022-08-24T11:55:49Z	exploreclarion.com	control	https://www.exploreclarion.com/2022/08/23/lois-carol-kerr/	1	1	green-iguana-35	null

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