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(CN) — A federal judge blocked part of Idaho’s abortion law on Wednesday, one day before the near-total ban on abortions was set to take effect statewide.
Ruling in favor of the Department of Justice, U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill temporarily halted part of the abortion law said to conflict with the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), which requires the approximately 39 hospitals in the state that receive federal Medicaid funding to provide stabilizing care to patients experiencing emergency medical conditions.
Wednesday’s decision out of Idaho comes one day after a federal judge in Texas blocked enforcement of Biden’s emergency abortion guidance, ruling that hospitals in the state cannot facilitate emergency abortions or lean on a 1968 law as a defense against prosecution as a “trigger ban” allowing tougher penalties for the procedure is set to take effect Thursday.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland applauded the Idaho ruling and criticized the Texas ruling in a statement on Wednesday.
“Today’s decision by the District Court for the District of Idaho ensures that women in the State of Idaho can obtain the emergency medical treatment to which they are entitled under federal law,” Garland said, adding that the department “will continue to use every tool at its disposal to defend the reproductive rights protected by federal law.”
Meanwhile, the attorney general said the department “disagrees” with the Texas decision and said officials “are considering appropriate next steps.”
In Judge Winmill’s 39-page decision, the Clinton-appointee wrote that the state’s law presents doctors deciding whether to perform an emergency abortion with the risk of “indictment, arrest, pretrial detention, loss of [their] medical license, a trial on felony charges, and at least two years in prison.”
“Yet if the physician does not perform the abortion, the pregnant patient faces grave risks to her health,” he wrote, “such as severe sepsis requiring limb amputation, uncontrollable uterine hemorrhage requiring hysterectomy, kidney failure requiring lifelong dialysis, hypoxic brain injury, or even death.”
And if the woman lives, Winmill said she may have to spend the rest of her life with “significant disabilities and chronic medical conditions … all because Idaho law prohibited the physician from performing the abortion.”
While the state statute offers “a narrow affirmative defense to avoid conviction,” the judge described it as “cold comfort” for a doctor facing conviction who must convince a jury that performing the abortion was necessary to prevent the death of the pregnant patient.
Judge Winmill also referenced a series of questions he asked the state’s attorney during oral arguments on Monday, in which he quizzed state Deputy Attorney General Brian Church about how the law might play out in a real-life emergency hospital setting where a doctor must quickly decide whether to perform an abortion on a pregnant patient who has a 50-50 chance of survival without one.
If the doctor cannot testify, Church argued earlier in the week, that it was her “good-faith medical belief” that an abortion was necessary to preserve or prevent the death of a pregnant patient, then the affirmative defense would be “inapplicable now,” meaning that the doctor could not raise such an argument in court if prosecuted.
Judge Winmill wrote in Wednesday’s decision that he found a “clear answer” to his question is in the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, which basically says “state law must yield to federal law when it’s impossible to comply with both.”
“And that’s all this case is about,” he wrote.
The court, he said, is not “grappling” with the larger, more profound question of the “bygone” constitutional right to an abortion, rather, it is addressing a “far more modest issue – whether Idaho’s criminal abortion statute conflicts with a small but important corner of federal legislation.”
“It does,” he said.
Earlier this month, the Idaho Supreme Court issued a 3-2 ruling denying abortion groups’ attempt to block the law while litigation plays out in the courts.
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(CN) — The state of Utah sued the Biden administration Wednesday over last year’s decision by the president to restore the original boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante, two national monuments that had their protections slashed by former President Donald Trump.
The lawsuit is the latest in a fight between the Republican-led state government and the federal government over the creation of national monuments. Grand Staircase was created by President Bill Clinton in 1996, with Bears Ears created by President Barack Obama in 2016.
Governor Spencer Cox and Utah’s Republican delegation in a statement said the federal government failed to properly manage the monuments and cited the expanded boundaries as a reason for “unmanageable visitation levels.”
“We now challenge this repeated, abusive federal overreach to ensure that our public lands are adequately protected and that smart stewardship remains with the people closest to the land," said the delegation.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Utah, accuses Biden of violating the Antiquities Act, a 1906 law meant to protect important and cultural archeological sites. The Utah lawmakers claim the law was used to create new environmental protections, bypassing Congress to do so.
The lawmakers are asking a federal judge to remove the added protections. In 2017, former President Trump slashed the size of Bears Ears by almost 75% and Grand Staircase by almost half.
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(WXYZ) — Pfizer and Moderna submitted their emergency use applications for updated boosters to the Food and Drug Administration this week. And it’s possible that COVID-19 shots targeting Omicron could be ready by Labor Day.
It’s great news that new boosters are just around the corner. Both Pfizer and Moderna’s updated boosters target the original virus plus Omicron’s BA.5 and BA.4 subvariants.
But there are differences between the two mRNA shots. Pfizer’s shot is a 30-microgram dose and they’re seeking approval for people aged 12 and up. Whereas Moderna’s shot is a 50-microgram dose and they’re seeking approval for adults age 18 and up.
As for how effective the new boosters are, we don’t have many details yet.
Moderna just started human trials. So their application only includes data from mice experiments as well as data from a human trial where participants received a booster targeting Omicron’s BA.1 subvariant. That particular booster was approved in the United Kingdom.
As for Pfizer, they will be starting their human trials soon. They too provided the FDA with data involving mice. And research found antibodies produced in mice increased protection against infection by about 2.6 fold.
Now, the FDA is reviewing the data and is reportedly close to granting authorization. Following approval, the CDC’s Advisory Committee will meet September 1st and 2nd. And if they give the green light, then Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the CDC’s director, would most likely sign off on the updated boosters shortly thereafter.
In a perfect world, we’d have all the human data we’d need before approval. In my opinion, it’s difficult to demand an effective vaccine with extensive data when dealing with a virus that mutates so quickly. If we wait too long, then we could lag behind whatever new variant pops up.
Having said that, we’re not starting from scratch. The FDA will be looking at the totality of the available evidence. So it’s not based just on data based on mice, but also data from previous human trials for variant vaccines including beta, delta, and omicron BA.1.
As for safety, it should not be any different than with vaccines based on previous variants. Also, the whole process is very similar to how scientists select and test which strains need to be included in the annual flu vaccine. So this is not new.
What we have right now is a variant that is causing almost 90% of new COVID cases in the US. And school is about to kick off and cooler weather is just around the corner. So having an updated booster that is actually targeting the current dominant strain will – in my opinion - help curb more infections this fall and winter.
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- Prior 88.6; revised to 88.7
- Current conditions 97.5 vs 96.0 expected
- Prior 97.7
- Outlook 80.3 vs 79.0 expected
- Prior 80.3; revised to 80.4
The headline reading is a beat on estimates but still softer than it was in July. The same goes as well for the current conditions and outlook indices. In short, it tells that overall business sentiment remains soft but it seems to be another case of it could have been worse as economic conditions continue to weaken going into the winter months. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/germany-august-ifo-business-climate-index-885-vs-868-expected-20220825/ | 2022-08-25T08:20:12Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/germany-august-ifo-business-climate-index-885-vs-868-expected-20220825/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The West Valley Rams are looking to get back atop the Big 9 this year.
After winning the unofficial Yakima city title, but finishing only 3-3 in the league last year, the Rams are hoping their senior leaders will take them in the state playoffs.
Coach Dan Eyman says they're going to be a wide open, attacking offense this season with the run and shoot.
"We have one of the best quarterbacks in the state I believe and a great receiving corps. We're excited about what we can be. Defensively we got some all-league kids back and so we're excited to get rolling."
That offense has gotten the players excited for what they can do this year with such a talented quarterback and skill position players.
And it has them believing that big things are possible.
"I don't think we've made it to state since 2017," said Senior QB Skyler Cassel. "That would be really sweet for my last year and for all the seniors, juniors and sophomores to be able to do that."
Senior WR/S Jackson May said, "I feel like this year's energy is a lot different than any other year. Everyone is just out here, ready to go every single day and it's helping everyone out."
"We adjusting to a little bit more passing offense," said Senior OL/DL Aden Mata. "We got a great quarterback. We got great receivers. We're going to be really good this year."
The players pointed to Moses Lake and Eastmont as the teams they need to beat to win the league title, something they are very motivated to do.
West Valley starts the season on September 2nd when they host Walla Walla. they also travel to Alaska to play Juneau-Douglas in Week 2. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/sports/high_school_sports/west-valley-hoping-to-get-back-atop-the-big-9/article_4b729148-2437-11ed-b3ba-7b7b7594de3e.html | 2022-08-25T08:22:39Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/sports/high_school_sports/west-valley-hoping-to-get-back-atop-the-big-9/article_4b729148-2437-11ed-b3ba-7b7b7594de3e.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
How to tell if you're buying real Palisade peaches, Rocky Ford melons and more
August is a crescendo of Colorado-grown crops from peaches to melons to chiles to sweet corn.
But how do you know if what you are buying from the street-side stands are truly Palisade peaches, Rocky Ford melons, Pueblo chiles or Olathe sweet corn?
That can be as difficult as determining the ripeness of what you are buying.
"It's difficult because you are really depending on the person selling you the peaches to be truthful,'' said Debbie Bridge, who manages the Debbie's Palisade Peaches stand at Bath Nursery, 2000 E. Prospect Road, Fort Collins.
How to tell if you're buying a true Palisade peach
There is no official labeling of Palisade peaches.
Bridge and other vendors said the best way is to ask the vendor if the peaches are from Palisade. Some said you can ask workers at the stand from what growers the peaches came. However, they added some workers may not know.
Another clue includes looking at the boxes of peaches at the stand to see if they have Palisade written on them. Or look to see if the peaches have a California peaches sticker on them. Some vendors cautioned boxes are reused so the boxes might not have an indicator that they are Palisade peaches on them.
Also, a number of grocery chains such as King Soopers, Safeway and Whole Foods sell Palisade peaches as well as other Colorado-grown fruits and vegetables.
Bridge knows her prized produce is fresh. Every three to four days, she makes the more than 600-mile roundtrip to McLean Farms in Palisade. She arrives just after the peaches are picked in the cool of the morning, loads them up and drives them back to Fort Collins.
She said when she first started selling Palisade peaches 20 years ago at her Loveland stand, she had a vinyl sign that read "Colorado peaches.''
"People would come to the stand and ask what Colorado peaches were,'' Bridge said. "They wanted to know if the peaches were from Palisade, which they were. But I didn't realize they specifically wanted Palisade peaches because there is something special about peaches grown in the valley by the river.''
It's important to know what you are buying because of taste and cost.
Vendors said regular consumers of Palisade peaches can tell the difference between peaches grown in the Grand Valley of Colorado and those grown in California. Others, not so much — and so you may end up paying Palisade prices for California peaches. Bridge said a box of Palisade peaches weighing around 24 pounds costs $65.
Bridge said you can determine peak peach ripeness by looking at the blossom end of the fruit. She said if it is yellow-green to wait a few days to eat it. If creamy in color or if the peach is slightly flat on the bottom from sitting on the counter, it is ready to eat.
Palisade peaches first arrive at stands in July. Bridge said she just received peaches from the late harvest, which she said produces larger fruit. Colorado State University Extension's website said the best time to buy Colorado peaches is August and September.
What about Rocky Ford melons, Pueblo chiles and Olathe sweet corn?
The Rocky Ford Growers Association formed in 2011 to protect the reputation of its melons, most notably cantaloupe but also watermelon and honeydew.
Only those melons grown in Otero and parts of Crowley County can include stickers that include the Rocky Ford Growers Association label.
A ripe cantaloupe will have a white netting or webbing with golden yellow beneath. Look for ones with no stem left on. If there is a piece of stem attached, the cantaloupe is not fully ripe and will not ripen. If you hear seeds when you shake the cantaloupe, it is past prime.
Rocky Ford melons are available mid-July to mid-September.
For more information, visit https://rocky-ford-growers-association.mandccommunications.com/.
The Pueblo Chile Growers Association started in 2015 to go head-to-head with the more-famous Hatch chiles grown in New Mexico.
Donielle Kitzman, vice president of the Visit Pueblo Convention & Visitors Bureau, said the best way to know if you are buying a certified Pueblo chile is to buy from certified Pueblo chile growers and stands and look for the grower organization's stickers on the chiles.
Kitzman said Pueblo chiles differ from Hatch in that they are are bolder in taste and meatier, making them ideal for roasting.
Pueblo chiles start showing up on shelves in August and harvest lasts into October.
For more information about Pueblo chiles, visit https://pueblochile.org/.
Like Palisade peaches, Olathe sweet corn has no official label designation, so you will need to rely on the truthfulness of vendors.
Reporter Miles Blumhardt looks for stories that impact your life. Be it news, outdoors, sports — you name it, he wants to report it. Have a story idea? Contact him at milesblumhardt@coloradoan.com or on Twitter @MilesBlumhardt.
Fort Collins Peach Festival
When: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 27
Where: Holiday Twin Drive-in, 2206 South Overland Trail
Cost: $10. Event includes bands, vendors and more with proceeds benefitting Rotary Clubs of Fort Collins
Website: http://fortcollinspeachfestival.com/ | https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2022/08/25/how-to-tell-if-you-are-buying-palisade-peaches-rocky-ford-melons-colorado/65415997007/ | 2022-08-25T08:26:25Z | coloradoan.com | control | https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2022/08/25/how-to-tell-if-you-are-buying-palisade-peaches-rocky-ford-melons-colorado/65415997007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kottayam: The Crime Branch on Thursday raided Kerala Janapaksham leader PC George's residence.
The raid was conducted by Crime Branch DySP's team at George's residence in Erattupetta.
The Crime Branch had earlier registered a case against PC George's son Shone George for allegedly creating a WhatsApp group for spreading false information about the survivor in the actress assault case of 2017.
The source of the fake WhatsApp messages related to Malayalam actor Dileep meant to derail the probe is also being looked into. The messages from Shone's number are being investigated.
Shone had allegedly spoken to Dileep's brother on phone. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/25/crime-branch-raid-pc-george-dileep-brother.html | 2022-08-25T09:01:08Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/25/crime-branch-raid-pc-george-dileep-brother.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kochi: The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has collected a whopping Rs 50.75 crore penalty countrywide in the financial year 2020-21 for violating food safety standards. Kerala’s share comes to Rs 59.69 lakh, according to the latest FSSAI report.
As many as 28,347 cases out of the 1.07 lakh samples examined did not adhere to food safety standards. Of this, 5220 cases were found not safe for consumption, while 13,394 were sub-standard in quality. A total of 28,062 cases, including 3869 criminal cases, were registered for the food safety standards violation.
Out of 6971 samples collected from Kerala, the FSSAI found 1020 cases not meeting the food safety standards. A total of 696 cases were registered in the state in this connection.
The FSSAI provided a hygiene rating to 1790 institutions countrywide.
A meeting of the Central Advisory Committee of the FSSAI was held here the other day in which the Food Safety Commissioners from various states attended. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/25/food-safety-standards-fine-collection.amp.html | 2022-08-25T09:01:11Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/25/food-safety-standards-fine-collection.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kozhikode: The Kerala government has started taking measures on a war footing to solve the crises in the implementation of MEDISEP, the cashless health insurance scheme for State employees and pensioners.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has convened an urgent meeting of cooperative hospitals at noon on August 27. Besides, the administration has started training private hospitals to help them overcome practical difficulties in implementing the scheme.
Many cooperative hospitals empanelled under the Medical Insurance Scheme for State Employees and Pensioners (MEDISEP) are unwilling to continue treatment under the project. They had informed the government of discontinuing the treatment under the scheme, citing that, when it came to implementation, things were "not the same" as the terms agreed upon during the signing of the deal.
The hospitals are not reimbursed for the patient's entire treatment expense. In most cases, the amount is yet to be transferred to bank accounts of hospitals even after the final nod. The promise to allot additional compensation to meet expenses, including room rent, remains on paper. Cooperative hospitals stopped providing treatment, citing all these reasons.
It is in this scenario that the chief minister directly convened a meeting of the cooperative institutions to discuss all pending issues. The Finance department has asked the Joint Registrar to collect details of all cooperative hospitals and those having in-patient facilities in all the districts. The exercise has begun.
Meanwhile, the authorities started extending direct training to hospitals to help them overcome the practical difficulties in successfully implementing the MEDISEP scheme.
The government's assessment is that the present crisis results from a lack of clarity regarding the scheme's implementation. On this basis, the administration directed the agencies entrusted with the scheme implementation to provide training, including teaching employees of empanelled hospitals how to claim the whole treatment amount.
The training programme, which started the other day, will be provided to hospitals in various districts till September 1. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/25/govt-on-war-footing-resolve-medisep-crisis.html | 2022-08-25T09:01:38Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/25/govt-on-war-footing-resolve-medisep-crisis.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear the Lavalin case, in which Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan is an accused, on September 13.
A bench, headed by Justice U U Lalit, also passed a strict instruction that the case should not be adjourned from the list of petitions being considered on the day. The intervention came after the lawyer pointed out that the case was constantly being moved.
According to the lawyer, a notice was sent in January 2018 on a petition filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against the verdict that acquitted Pinarayi Vijayan and others in the Lavalin case. However, there was no significant follow-up and the case was adjourned several times.
Meanwhile, there is uncertainty as to whether the bench headed by Lalit will hear the case on September 13.
With Lalit being nominated as the next Chief Justice of India, there will be many important cases presented before him. It is in this context that ambiguity arose.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan is the seventh accused in the case. The first accused is former energy secretary K Mohanachandran.
The case relates to the alleged corruption in a contract awarded by the Kerala government to Canadian company SNC Lavalin in 1995 for the renovation and modernisation of three hydroelectric projects in Idukki.
A CBI special court had cleared Pinarayi Vijayan and other accused. The agency appealed against the order in the Kerala High Court, which acquitted them in August 2017. The CBI then went to appeal at the Supreme Court. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/25/supreme-court-to-hear-lavalin-case-september-13.amp.html | 2022-08-25T09:02:09Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/25/supreme-court-to-hear-lavalin-case-september-13.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Thenjipalam (Malappuram): Timely intervention by teachers averted a tragedy on Wednesday after a student swallowed a colour pencil during class hours.
While being rushed to the hospital, Pranav, 6, a Class 1 student of SVA UP School at Pulliparambu in Chelembra in Malappuram district, was gasping for breath due to heavy coughing.
The teachers, who accompanied him, kept pressing his chest and gave him artificial respiration. On reaching the private hospital in Kozhikode, the colour pencil, which was lodged in his abdomen, was taken out by conducting an endoscopy. The boy is now recuperating in the ICU of the hospital.
It was during the last period that teacher K Shibi noticed Pranav wheezing continuously. After finding a small piece of colour pencil in his pocket, the teacher realised that he had swallowed the rest of it.
Immediately, he was taken to a private hospital situated at Kallambra, around 1.5 km from the school, in the vehicle of another teacher, Sudheer. After administering first aid to Pranav there, he was shifted to a private hospital in Kozhikode.
On the way to the hospital, teachers Shibi, K A Jini and non-teaching staff T Tharanath and Binoy gave him artificial respiration.
The teachers led by headmaster K P Muhammed Shameem also raised a portion of the money needed for his medical treatment from the school itself. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/25/timely-intervention-saves-boy-who-swallowed-pencil.html | 2022-08-25T09:02:40Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/25/timely-intervention-saves-boy-who-swallowed-pencil.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Munnar: A taxi driver who was sipping tea at a roadside eatery here was seriously injured on Wednesday when an uprooted tree fell on him. The tree was uprooted after a car crashed into it.
Taxi driver Leenboy Gracious, 55, hailing from Panmana in Kollam district, has been admitted to the hospital with severe head injury.
The incident occurred near the old KSRTC bus stand in Munnar around 4 pm.
The car of a tourist who came along with his family for a visit to Munnar lost control and dashed against the fully dried-up tree, causing its instant fall.
Ananda Bhavani, wife of the tea shop, miraculously survived the incident. The tea shop was partially damaged. The scooter of the tea shop owner Chandru was also damaged. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/25/tree-falls-on-man-drinking-tea-car-crash-munnar.html | 2022-08-25T09:02:52Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/25/tree-falls-on-man-drinking-tea-car-crash-munnar.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Koruthodu: A 26-year-old woman was found dead in mysterious circumstances in the well of her house at Koruthodu, Mundakayam in Kottayam district on Wednesday.
The deceased, Anjali, is the wife of Puthanparambil Shyam of Mynakkulam, Madukka, and mother to twin girls Ayana and Ahana.
Anjali had gone to bed on Tuesday night with her daughters. However, she was missing on Wednesday morning and relatives launched a search. Anjali’s body was soon located in the well behind the house. Police and Fire and Rescue Services personnel recovered the body sometime later.
The body was found in a reclining position in the well. According to Mundakayam police, who have registered a case and commenced an investigation into the incident, it is unlikely that Anjali slipped into the well accidentally as there was a protective wall around it.
Meanwhile, neighbours and other local people told the police that they were not aware of any domestic issues between Anjali and her relatives. At the same time, police are yet to confirm whether Anjali had committed suicide. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/25/woman-found-dead-in-well-kottayam.html | 2022-08-25T09:03:04Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/25/woman-found-dead-in-well-kottayam.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Last week’s enactment of the 2022 budget-reconciliation bill, also known as the Inflation Reduction Act, is being treated by many analysts as a major turning point in Joe Biden’s presidency. As recently as last month, when it looked like Congress might not pass reconciliation legislation this year, conventional wisdom in Washington suggested that Biden was a failing president who should even reconsider seeking a second term. But once the IRA unexpectedly secured sufficient support, Biden enjoyed an immediate reputational rebound as a master of legislative achievement; a few hyperbolic responses even compared him to Great Society-era Lyndon Johnson.
This wasn’t too surprising. Americans usually regard the president as the gravitational center around which the entire political universe revolves, responsible for almost everything — good and bad — that happens on his watch. But the events of the past few weeks demonstrate how much this view can distort the more complicated truth. What changed between July and August wasn’t Biden’s presidential acumen, but rather the behavior of a single key senator: Joe Manchin of West Virginia.
Despite the credit he received for its passage, Biden had little involvement in crafting the bill he happily signed into law last Tuesday. The policy areas addressed by the IRA reflected Manchin’s preferences more than those of the president or any other public official. It was Manchin who compelled Biden to settle for a bill much smaller in scope and cost than the White House originally favored, Manchin whose open skepticism earlier this summer had seemed to sink the prospects of reconciliation legislation passing at all, and Manchin (along with fellow moderate Kyrsten Sinema) who was responsible for many of the specific provisions included in the final product.
There’s nothing unusual about moderates like Manchin using their pivotal positions in Congress to exert substantial legislative influence. The ideological polarization of American politics over the past several decades has steadily reduced the number of moderate members in both parties. But our current era is also historically distinctive for its remarkable degree of electoral parity. As noted by the political scientist Frances Lee, Democrats and Republicans are now more evenly matched at the national level than at any time since the late 1800s.
The consistently narrow margins of party control in the contemporary Congress ensure that the shrinking number of moderates who can survive both primaries and general elections continue to hold the balance of power between blocs of ideological stalwarts — even during periods when the same party controls the presidency and both congressional chambers. The objection of just three Republican senators permanently blocked President Donald Trump’s attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act during the last period of unified party rule in 2017-18. Manchin and Sinema have similarly used a credible threat of defection from the party line to shape the IRA and last year’s American Rescue Plan.
When combined with the separation of powers established by the Constitution and a cloture rule in the Senate that requires most bills — including, crucially, annual appropriations legislation — to pass with supermajority support, the enduring clout of moderates explains why widening polarization hasn’t produced dramatic swings in policy when the majority shifts from one party to the other. The status quo still holds a systematic advantage over proposals for major change in either ideological direction; most successful congressional action remains incremental and bipartisan; and no session of Congress in this polarized era has matched the transformative productivity of the New Deal, Great Society or Reagan Revolution.
Despite the frustration that Manchin and Sinema have provoked among progressive activists over the past two years, both the IRA and American Rescue Plan were more substantively ambitious — and much more responsive to top Democratic Party priorities such as health care and climate change — than any hypothetical product of negotiations with moderate Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski would’ve been. So while the dwindling ranks of centrist officeholders continue to play a crucial policy-making role, the question of which party’s moderates will be empowered to supply the deciding votes has never been more meaningful. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/commentary-in-u-s-politics-moderates-still-run-the-show/article_c8dd8d16-232b-11ed-897a-a738373d55c7.html | 2022-08-25T09:04:39Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/commentary-in-u-s-politics-moderates-still-run-the-show/article_c8dd8d16-232b-11ed-897a-a738373d55c7.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
To the editor — Just read the article about the Robert family and their hopes for a solar farm. I have known this family for ages. The finest and most upstanding family people could know.
And what a grand place for a solar farm. Could not think of a better place to erect it.
What I do not understand is Benton County opposing it. Makes absolutely no sense at all. What I do not understand is that Benton County has the Hanford Reservation. Perhaps the MOST POLLUTED place in the United States. Where the cleanup has been going on for years and no gain, it seems.
Now it looks as though Benton County does not want competition for the Hanford nuclear energy projects. All political and no more. Now I must ask myself if the Robert family wanted to put up some nuclear plants, would Benton County oppose that?
Not a better place to place a solar field than on the Roberts' lands. Come on, Benton County. Upholding such a polluted area as Hanford and objecting to a solar farm not even in your county?
This objection seems as polluted as Benton County. Let's work with the Roberts.
DONALD PADELFORD
Sunnyside | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/letter-benton-countys-ok-with-hanford-but-not-a-solar-farm/article_17c3c33e-232f-11ed-a698-7fb2abae7b6d.html | 2022-08-25T09:04:45Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/letter-benton-countys-ok-with-hanford-but-not-a-solar-farm/article_17c3c33e-232f-11ed-a698-7fb2abae7b6d.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
To the editor — Campaigning is hard and earning the trust of voters takes time. Incumbents have a distinct advantage during election season because of name recognition, prior campaign contributions and infrastructure to launch a re-election bid. Incumbents enjoy these advantages regardless of how ineffective they have been during their term.
These facts make the performance of Angie Girard for Yakima County commissioner District 1 that much more impressive. She did not start campaigning until after the primary had started and many ballots had already been submitted. Angie’s professional background, community experience, willingness to listen and genuine passion for Yakima convinced over 2,000 voters to trust her as a write-in candidate and put her name on the General Election ballot.
Now, over the next few months, I challenge every voter in Yakima County District 1 to give Angie Girard a chance. Watch and listen to see for yourself how Angie doesn’t claim to know every answer but promises to listen to all of Yakima so that she can help craft solutions to the issues that matter most to our community.
If you’re ready for a change and want a humble leader who believes in the power of working together — consider Angie Girard.
SAM JOHNSON
Yakima | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/letter-girards-campaign-has-been-impressive-hear-her-out/article_2fedbbd2-232e-11ed-8669-f75fba6f4e92.html | 2022-08-25T09:04:51Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/letter-girards-campaign-has-been-impressive-hear-her-out/article_2fedbbd2-232e-11ed-8669-f75fba6f4e92.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
In 1989, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then the supreme leader of Iran, issued a fatwa that called for the killing of author Salman Rushdie for his portrayal of Islam and the Prophet Muhammad in his novel “The Satanic Verses.”
Not recognizing the irony, in just that decree alone Iran’s top cleric did more to defile his religion than Rushdie’s writings could ever do.
That seems especially apparent after Friday’s heinous attack on Rushdie at a literary conference in upstate New York.
A 24-year-old New Jersey man who hadn’t even been born when Khomeini issued the fatwa was arrested, later entering a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. Authorities have yet to provide a motive.
Gravely injured, Rushdie was initially put on a ventilator. While he’s expected to recover, he may tragically lose an eye.
Rushdie’s clarity on the extremism that is tightening its grip worldwide is likely unaffected. That scourge was evident again when “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling was warned, “Don’t worry you are next,” on Twitter after she rallied behind Rushdie. While Scotland Yard is investigating that threat, others may be targeted, too, as they decry the attack and the atmosphere that may have triggered it.
But ideally, the rejection of the theocracy’s fanaticism will be so widespread that the intolerance can’t be directed at just one individual as institutions, government and civilized society at large speak up for the right of free expression.
Those groups include PEN America, the U.S. chapter of the 100-plus PEN International organization dedicated to freedom of expression. Writing in The Guardian, current PEN CEO Suzanne Nossel said that just hours before he was attacked Rushdie emailed her to help secure safe refuge for Ukrainian writers imperiled by Russia’s brutal invasion.
Rushdie, a past president of PEN America, “has been an unflagging, unflappable presence in the public arena, devoted to defending the written word, telling his stories and standing with others who are vulnerable and menaced,” Nossel wrote.
The attack comes in the context of “intensifying and protean attacks on free expression worldwide,” Nossel said, with prompted PEN America to take “the unprecedented step of convening an Emergency World Voices Congress of Writers this year — the first such gathering since 1939 when our leading intellectuals convened to grapple with the dangers of rising fascism.”
Indeed, Tehran is not alone in capitalizing on a global rise of intolerance.
According to Reporters Without Borders, Kabul has lost nearly 40% of its media outlets and 60% of its journalists since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan. Similar situations are playing out globally, especially in consequential capitals like Moscow and Beijing, where Orwellian autocracies quash free expression and, ultimately, freedom.
The U.S. is not immune. Targets have included health care leaders, school board members, U.S. Supreme Court justices and even the FBI, which has seen an “unprecedented” rise in threats against its personnel and property in the wake of the recent Mar-a-Lago search.
The increasing intolerance must be addressed not only by law enforcement but also by those who have stoked online and on-air hate.
That includes former President Donald Trump and his followers in Congress, who have fanned the flames of anti-government sentiment since the Mar-a-Lago search.
Trump recently told Fox Digital that the “temperature has to be brought down,” but he raised it again by saying: “The country is in a very dangerous position. There is tremendous anger like I’ve never seen before, over all of the scams, and now this new one — years of scams and witch hunts, and now this.”
Referring to a legitimate and legal search by the FBI as a “scam” and “witch hunt” only stokes anger — a trick Trump knows well.
He’s right that this country is in a “very dangerous position,” which means the world it is supposed to lead is in an even more precarious one.
Iran’s leaders have denied culpability for Rushdie’s attack, for example, but they did not condemn it.
America’s leaders in politics, the news media and beyond may not be directly responsible for specific acts of intolerance, but they must not create the atmosphere that makes them possible. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/opinion-an-attack-on-rushdie-and-free-society/article_2310b654-232d-11ed-9632-7b5872fad9de.html | 2022-08-25T09:04:57Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/opinion-an-attack-on-rushdie-and-free-society/article_2310b654-232d-11ed-9632-7b5872fad9de.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AppSealing, a leading cloud-based, end-to-end mobile app protection solution by INKA Entworks, announced it has been identified as a Sample Vendor in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Application Security, 2022. It has been named in the application shielding category. The recognition comes after a series of recent customer wins, product innovations and industry accolades.
The report covers multiple technologies like policy-as-code, SaaS security posture management, SBOM, API security testing, API threat protection among others. It looks at two broad families of app shielding functionality – hardening and anti-tampering – while pointing out that "adoption of app shielding is experiencing growth for consumer-facing mobile in industry verticals such as gaming apps, financial services, online retail, healthcare, insurance and automotive." It also provides drivers, obstacles and user recommendations.
Emphasizing the importance of application security, Gartner observes, "Security and risk management leaders need to adopt a composable view of application security. They should focus on orchestrating multiple application security innovations to serve as a coherent defense, rather than relying on a set of stand-alone products."
"Application shielding and security have been a key focus area for us at AppSealing. We are happy to be helping global companies manage their mobile application security needs all through one single, holistic platform. Be it constantly innovating, fine-tuning our offerings or responding to changing market needs, AppSealing has been a frontrunner. We think this recognition from Gartner will help us take yet another step closer to leveraging the power of robust app shielding strategies to enable smooth user experience while helping companies save costs and reputation," says James Ahn, CEO of INKA Entworks which delivers AppSealing, a mobile app security solution for global brands. "We believe being named by Gartner as a Sample Vendor reinforces our solution's value to our customers."
AppSealing has been at the forefront of innovation on the back of consistently upgraded product capabilities around data encryption, mobile app security and, notably, runtime application self protection (RASP) features. The solution enables application security teams to work on adding scalable mobile application security to their technology stack in a simple, seamless manner with SaaS and On premise offering. With clients spread across geographies and industries like gaming, financial services, online retail, e-commerce, insurance, government apps and healthcare verticals, AppSealing offers a real-time threat analytics dashboard to prevent and detect attacks such as tampering, reverse engineering, untrusted environments, IP theft and emulators.
Gartner, "Hype Cycle for Application Security, 2022," Dionisio Zumerle, 11 July 2022.
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An AI Rapper Perpetuated Racist Stereotypes, Showing How Tech Commodifies Culture
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We’re increasingly grappling with a world where artificial intelligence coexists with us, asking to be taken seriously as a person, and nudging our ethical considerations about who gets to be called human. The rise of sentient chatbots and virtual influencers forces us to think about what it would mean to create tech that tries to simulate humanity while slowly but surely, getting smarter than us. Now, a virtual rapper’s cancellation brings these questions to a head. FN Meka is an AI artist, who appears to be a black male — the catch, of course, is that he’s not real. As a result, his music videos featured caricaturish portrayals of black culture — ultimately leading to Capitol Music Group (CMG), a record label, dropping the “artist.”
FN Meka was made by AI company Factory New — which went on to claim that the artist is voiced by an anonymous black man. For its part, CMG breathlessly announced the collaboration as “the world’s first AR [augmented reality] artist to sign with a major label,” The Guardian reported. But black activist group Industry Blackout was quick to point out the unsettling implications in an open letter. While slamming the virtual rapper for offensive lyrics with racial slurs, the group noted that “This digital effigy is a careless abomination and disrespectful to real people who face real consequences in real life.”
The AI is also “an amalgamation of gross stereotypes, appropriative mannerisms that derive from Black artists, complete with slurs infused in lyrics,” the group noted. The criticism speaks to a sobering reality of AI: that in trying to emulate human culture and behavior, it can commodify them. As a result, people themselves are reduced to caricatures — and FN Meka shows how the rich history of black culture is reduced to only its most superficial, exaggerated, and outwardly visible parts. In other words, AI has everything except the most important thing: humanity.
The problem, perhaps, lies in AI being evaluated solely for its intelligence. The guiding principle behind making AI smarter and smarter is to have it emulate human intelligence — but it’s often done without accounting for the fact that intelligence isn’t divorced from feeling and emotion. In the race to constantly make AI more like us and even outsmart us, we forget a crucial element of what makes us, well, us: our history, and everything we’ve shared, inherited, and have been through as a species.
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Culture is made from these elements — and arguably, robots can never be taught. Tech “…treat[s] ‘data’ as a kind of unshakable truth, but there needs to be more human intervention and curation into how we build and deploy AI,” Arun Kale, founder of alternative culture magazine Helter Skelter, told The Swaddle earlier.
Rap, as a genre of music, for instance, is rooted in black identity — its themes deal with marginalization, incarceration, police brutality, love, family, and other aspects of black culture that a robot can simply never understand. As Industry Blackout pointed out, the robot can never be arrested for its lyrics, will never experience racist oppression, and therefore has no claim to using the vocabulary and aesthetics born out of these experiences.
AI people are ahistorical. To give them a race, a culture, and a vocabulary that’s born out of a centuries-old history too vast and complex for a robot to grasp, then points to how AI tech itself can commodify human beings. It’s dangerous territory — AI may be smarter at computing than human beings, but the elements of culture, history, and affect that shape us aren’t easily transposed. As a result, it’s humans who make the AI and inadvertently transfer their own prejudices and biases; tech may be smart, but no human or bot is smart enough to evade the social constructs that guide our lives.
The debacle with FN Meka as an AI rapper represents an unholy alliance between social media commodification of aesthetics, and tech increasingly aspiring toward sentience and personhood. Black aesthetics are already commodified and appropriated by influencers online — now, artificial people who exist solely online threaten to bolster this to a degree that fundamentally misunderstands what it means to be human — or even intelligent. | https://theswaddle.com/an-ai-rapper-was-slammed-for-perpetuating-racist-stereotypes/ | 2022-08-25T09:08:04Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/an-ai-rapper-was-slammed-for-perpetuating-racist-stereotypes/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
An AI Rapper Perpetuated Racist Stereotypes, Showing How Tech Commodifies Culture
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We’re increasingly grappling with a world where artificial intelligence coexists with us, asking to be taken seriously as a person, and nudging our ethical considerations about who gets to be called human. The rise of sentient chatbots and virtual influencers forces us to think about what it would mean to create tech that tries to simulate humanity while slowly but surely, getting smarter than us. Now, a virtual rapper’s cancellation brings these questions to a head. FN Meka is an AI artist, who appears to be a black male — the catch, of course, is that he’s not real. As a result, his music videos featured caricaturish portrayals of black culture — ultimately leading to Capitol Music Group (CMG), a record label, dropping the “artist.”
FN Meka was made by AI company Factory New — which went on to claim that the artist is voiced by an anonymous black man. For its part, CMG breathlessly announced the collaboration as “the world’s first AR [augmented reality] artist to sign with a major label,” The Guardian reported. But black activist group Industry Blackout was quick to point out the unsettling implications in an open letter. While slamming the virtual rapper for offensive lyrics with racial slurs, the group noted that “This digital effigy is a careless abomination and disrespectful to real people who face real consequences in real life.”
The AI is also “an amalgamation of gross stereotypes, appropriative mannerisms that derive from Black artists, complete with slurs infused in lyrics,” the group noted. The criticism speaks to a sobering reality of AI: that in trying to emulate human culture and behavior, it can commodify them. As a result, people themselves are reduced to caricatures — and FN Meka shows how the rich history of black culture is reduced to only its most superficial, exaggerated, and outwardly visible parts. In other words, AI has everything except the most important thing: humanity.
The problem, perhaps, lies in AI being evaluated solely for its intelligence. The guiding principle behind making AI smarter and smarter is to have it emulate human intelligence — but it’s often done without accounting for the fact that intelligence isn’t divorced from feeling and emotion. In the race to constantly make AI more like us and even outsmart us, we forget a crucial element of what makes us, well, us: our history, and everything we’ve shared, inherited, and have been through as a species.
Related on The Swaddle:
The Tech Industry’s Sexism, Racism Is Making Artificial Intelligence Less Intelligent
Culture is made from these elements — and arguably, robots can never be taught. Tech “…treat[s] ‘data’ as a kind of unshakable truth, but there needs to be more human intervention and curation into how we build and deploy AI,” Arun Kale, founder of alternative culture magazine Helter Skelter, told The Swaddle earlier.
Rap, as a genre of music, for instance, is rooted in black identity — its themes deal with marginalization, incarceration, police brutality, love, family, and other aspects of black culture that a robot can simply never understand. As Industry Blackout pointed out, the robot can never be arrested for its lyrics, will never experience racist oppression, and therefore has no claim to using the vocabulary and aesthetics born out of these experiences.
AI people are ahistorical. To give them a race, a culture, and a vocabulary that’s born out of a centuries-old history too vast and complex for a robot to grasp, then points to how AI tech itself can commodify human beings. It’s dangerous territory — AI may be smarter at computing than human beings, but the elements of culture, history, and affect that shape us aren’t easily transposed. As a result, it’s humans who make the AI and inadvertently transfer their own prejudices and biases; tech may be smart, but no human or bot is smart enough to evade the social constructs that guide our lives.
The debacle with FN Meka as an AI rapper represents an unholy alliance between social media commodification of aesthetics, and tech increasingly aspiring toward sentience and personhood. Black aesthetics are already commodified and appropriated by influencers online — now, artificial people who exist solely online threaten to bolster this to a degree that fundamentally misunderstands what it means to be human — or even intelligent. | https://theswaddle.com/an-ai-rapper-was-slammed-for-perpetuating-racist-stereotypes/ | 2022-08-25T09:08:04Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/an-ai-rapper-was-slammed-for-perpetuating-racist-stereotypes/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 1 |
People Underestimate How Much Random Acts of Kindness Mean to Others, Finds Study
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Randomly sending cupcakes to colleagues, or soup to a sick friend living away from home, are understated gestures of love. Yet, they probably make people happier than we ever realize. New research suggests that people routinely underestimate how much their small, random acts of kindness — like helping a neighbor carry their grocery upstairs, offering to pet-sit for an acquaintance, or simply, remembering to call an elderly relative on their birthday — can bring joy to others.
“People aren’t way off base… They get that being kind to people makes them feel good. What we don’t get is how good it really makes others feel,” noted the study’s first author, Amit Kumar, an assistant professor of marketing and psychology at the University of Texas at Austin.
Published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, the study suggests that people’s “miscalibrated expectations” about how much their gesture will be appreciated, can keep them from engaging in prosocial behaviors like helping, sharing, or donating.
The researchers arrived at their findings through a series of experiments. One involved asking people at a park whether they wanted to give away a cup of hot chocolate from the kiosk to a stranger, or keep it for themselves. An overwhelming majority of the participants chose to give it away, but they didn’t expect their gesture to cause nearly the same degree of emotional splash (pun not intended) it ended up creating.
In another leg of the experiment, some participants received cupcakes from the researchers as part of the study as a token of gratitude for participating in the study. Others received the same cupcakes, but through acts of kindness — basically, much like in the previous experiment, a fraction of participants were asked if they’d like to have their cupcakes, or give them away. Turns out, people who received their cupcakes as a result of the kindness of other participants were actually mch happier upon receiving them.
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The researchers believe this is because recipients of an act of kindness tend to focus more on the warm feeling the gesture exudes, rather than on the object they receive. “Performers are not fully taking into account that their warm acts provide value from the act itself… The fact that you’re being nice to others adds a lot of value beyond whatever the thing is,” Kumar added.
While the person may fret about what to give, the idea is the person on the other side is more likely to focus on the act of kindness, rather than how it is packaged.
And kindness doesn’t just benefit its recipients. People performing acts of kindness also stand to gain from it, albeit intangibly.
“[K]indness can promote gratitude. You are kind to others in need; having that awareness then heightens the sense of your own good fortune. Kindness promotes empathy and compassion; which, in turn, leads to a sense of interconnectedness with others… When you feel connected with others, you lessen alienation,” psychologists Shoba Sreenivasan and Linda Weinberger had written in Psychology Today. Research also suggests that the more spontaneous one’s act of kindness is, the more happiness it results in.
By enhancing feelings of confidence and optimism, kindness can help combat depression, too. “Kindness is potent in strengthening a sense of community and belonging,” Sreenivasan and Weinberger note.
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Being kind benefits our physical health as well — by lowering cortisol the “stress hormone.” Past research on older adults suggests that when people spend money on others rather than themselves, they also report lower blood pressure. Not only that, but it can lower the perception of pain, too.
“Humans are extremely social, we have better health when we are interconnected, and part of being interconnected is giving,” Tristen Inagaki, a neuroscientist had told BBC News in 2020. “There is really something about just focusing on others sometimes that’s really good for you.”
While there is a link to happiness and contentment, kindness as a value is often disregarded, Sreenivasan and Weinberger argued, “This is because “kind people may be viewed as ‘enablers’ by some, or worse, as ‘suckers’ by the cynical… reflect[ing] a belief system that success is only achieved through stepping on or ignoring others. Yet, the cynic’s behavior rarely results in true happiness.” The present study debunks that perception to an extent.
Interestingly, in the present study, the researchers also explored the consequences of kindness — beyond just feeling happy — on the recipients. When asked to divide US$ 100 between themselves and a random stranger, recipients chose to pass the kindness forward — by being more generous in sharing. Evidently, small acts of kindness can spur a domino effect of sorts. That’s something India needs rather direly; just last year, the country ranked poorly last year in a global assessment of how kind people from different countries are, to strangers.
“It turns out generosity can actually be contagious… Kindness can actually spread,” concluded Kumar. | https://theswaddle.com/people-underestimate-how-much-random-acts-of-kindness-mean-to-others-finds-study/ | 2022-08-25T09:08:06Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/people-underestimate-how-much-random-acts-of-kindness-mean-to-others-finds-study/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Union Govt to Offer Health Insurance Scheme for Trans Persons
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Through a press release issued on Wednesday evening, the Union Government announced a health scheme providing an insurance policy for transgender individuals. The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Health Authority under the Ministry of Health to extend the benefits of its existing Ayushman Bharat Scheme to trans people.
An existing scheme provides families with health insurance cover of up to five lakh rupees per year. For transgender people, this clause was tweaked to provide every individual transgender person an insurance cover of the same amount. The government highlighted that the scheme will enable trans persons to access over 50 different health facilities, and also announced that it would cover cosmetic surgery free of cost for those registered under it.
However, despite these benefits, bureaucratic and societal limitations may prevent its meaningful implementation.
The government’s own statements on the reach and eligibility criteria of the scheme hint at some limitations. For instance, the government said that it would tap into its database of 4.8 lakh transgender persons registered under the Social Justice Ministry to identify eligible beneficiaries of the scheme. This means that only those who hold official certification stating their trans identity will be able to access the scheme’s benefits. However, as Dr Aqsa Shaikh, a trans medical practitioner and activist, pointed out to the Indian Express, “The 4.8 lakh figure is as per the 2011 census and only 2 percent of this number have been issued the certificate by the Social Justice Ministry so far.”
Then, there’s the larger, more fundamental issue of self-determination.
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In 2014, the Supreme Court of India in a landmark judgment, affirmed the fundamental rights of trans people, and accorded to them the right to self-identify their own gender. Colloquially known as the NALSA Judgment, this verdict has been the cornerstone of trans rights in the country.
However, in 2019, the Government introduced the controversial Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019 (Trans Act for short), which undermines the Supreme Court’s emphasis on the right to self-identification, and other aspects of the NALSA judgment. The Trans Act was framed by the Social Justice Ministry without any consultation with any transgender person or group; the trans community has consequently accused the Act of being transphobic and exclusionary.
Among other things, the legislation necessitates that a transgender person must apply to their District Magistrate for a certificate identifying their gender. In other words, the final say on any trans individual’s gender rests with the District Magistrate instead of the individual themselves. Moreover, in a society where transphobia is rampant and slotting people into a gender binary is the norm, a gender certificate can also lead to a wider scope of potential discrimination, and exclude non-binary individuals as well.
Beyond the issues with registration and identification of trans individuals as potential beneficiaries for the scheme, the government announcement also makes no mention of the institutional, infrastructural, and societal hurdles transgender people face in accessing healthcare in the country. For instance, while the scheme provides for free sex reassignment surgeries for trans individuals, in reality the situation with gender confirming surgery in India is quite grim. Transition surgery is a complicated process and there are few healthcare centres and medical professionals in India equipped to carry out the procedure. There are several instances of medical negligence leading to botched-up surgeries, which in occasional cases have also resulted in the death of the patient. Without addressing this fundamental issue at the infrastructural level, free sex reassignment surgeries will remain an empty promise.
Thus, the government must first address the bureaucratic and infrastructural barriers that prevent transgender individuals from accessing quality healthcare. The implementation of the insurance scheme can be meaningful only when transgender persons are confident enough to avail its benefits. | https://theswaddle.com/union-govt-to-offer-health-insurance-scheme-for-trans-persons/ | 2022-08-25T09:08:13Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/union-govt-to-offer-health-insurance-scheme-for-trans-persons/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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BOISE, Idaho — Lunchtime on the first day of school at Mountain View Elementary earlier this month brought the familiar bustle of students scurrying to find their assigned table in the cafeteria while administrators checked trays and lunch bags to make sure everyone had something to eat.
Many brought their own sack lunches this school year, because unlike the last two, not every child is eligible for free meals provided by the school.
During the pandemic, schools were able to provide meals for free to kids regardless of income as a part of COVID-19 assistance passed by Congress to reduce food insecurity. This meant that nationally, an estimated 10 million kids who would have previously paid for school meals were able to get them free. But Congress did not agree to provide universal free lunches for a third school year.
About 30 percent of the student population here qualifies for free or reduced lunch, mirroring data from the whole Boise School District system. But the other 70 percent are now responsible for paying their own way for breakfast and lunch.
"The biggest challenge is going to be on the children," said Christy Smith, supervisor of the Food and Nutrition Services at the Boise School District. "Regardless of income, there are children who are hungry because children face obstacles to accessing nourishing food at home and those are the kids that are going to suffer the most."
Nationwide, families across all income levels are feeling the strain of high food, gas, housing and utility costs. And Congress' decision to not extend a pandemic benefit that provided free meals to all students regardless of need will soon hit the pocketbooks of parents and provide new challenges for schools still grappling to return to normal.
"We are not on the edge, but our grocery budget could not afford $7.50 a day [for her kids' school lunches] five days a week," said Vanessa Gamma, a mother of three attending Mountain View. "It would just be not something that even not on the edge we could afford."
School meal prices challenge parents and educators
The Boise School District, like others across the country, is preparing to raise the prices of meals in its elementary schools by 10 cents this academic year in order to combat rising food and labor costs.
"Our families in Boise can't afford even a modest price increase," Smith said. "Boise's become a very expensive place to live and even 10 cents sounds modest, but that's a lot of money to families who can't pay their bills right now and don't qualify for free or reduced-price meals."
Across the country, school meals can cost parents upwards of $5 per meal.
In nearby West Ada – Idaho's largest school district, where only 14% of the student population fully qualifies for free and reduced-price meals – prices will increase by 30 cents.
Shannon McCarthy Beasley, West Ada's school nutrition supervisor, is on a mission to get as many kids as possible to buy the schools' hot, fresh and, most importantly she says, nutritious, meals.
"I have this challenge of convincing families my meals are better. My meals are better than what you can pack," said McCarthy Beasley. "And I am up for that challenge."
Advocates like McCarthy Beasley say school meals are often some of the healthiest that many students have access to because of the nutrition requirements behind every dish served. In order to streamline the process, West Ada has created a QR code families can scan and use to fill out the applications to see if they qualify for free or reduced-price meals. But that final bill is still a challenge.
"A mom and dad making $15 an hour with a family of three — they don't qualify," McCarthy Beasley said.
The challenges to pivot back to a pre-pandemic system are felt across the country as schools work to reach all parents, hire additional staff members to collect meal money in lunch lines and prepare to return to tracking the finances of each child.
"As much as we all would like to go back to normal into a pre-COVID world, we're just not there," said Lisa Davis, senior vice president of Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry campaign. "Staffing shortages are impacting school nutrition departments across the country and the supply chain continues to be a mess. Food price inflation is increasing significantly, and so school meal programs continue to have to continue to face a lot of challenges and juggle a lot of different dynamics."
Federal rules add to the challenges
When Congress created the ability for schools to give universal free meals, it did so by allowing the Agriculture Department, the federal agency that governs what and how is served at school, to waive certain federal requirements. Lawmakers waived requirements for schools to provide free lunch based on need, nutrition requirements for the food served and requirements that meals needed to be served in congregate settings, like cafeterias.
All of those waivers were set to expire on June 30.
Two of them were recently extended. But Senate Republicans balked at the cost of providing universal free meals for another year, and as part of the final compromise, Democrats agreed to drop it from the package.
This means all schools will go back to requiring that families pay the full price for each meal if they do not qualify for free or reduced-price meals.
In order to qualify, families must meet income requirements that are the same across the country. For the 2022-2023 school year a family of four must make less than $51,338 to qualify for reduced-price meals and $36,075 to qualify for free meals.
But each school district sets its own school meal prices, and those can significantly vary, as can the cost of living – not just within states but from state to state, which the income requirements don't account for.
"I've already received an unprecedented number of requests from families to reconsider their denial for meal benefits after they submitted an application," said Smith of the Boise School District. "And of course, that's not something that we have control over. It is heart-wrenching."
In Colorado, some schools are raising their meal prices by 50 cents. For families with multiple kids, it adds up.
Sarah Kremmerling is a mother of two in Boulder, Colo., and her family has qualified for free lunches on and off over the years. For both kids, her monthly bill could total upwards of $200 if they were to eat at school every day.
"I fill out the application every year, but the only time I've been able to qualify for them is usually when I'm working like almost less than part-time — like I really can't be working at all to qualify for them," Kremmerling said. "I just think that's kind of crazy when you look at, like, the price of living."
Mary Rochelle, who works as the program, events and grant coordinator at the Food Services Department of the Boulder Valley School District, said her district is scrambling to hire employees to help students purchase the meals as opposed to just being able to hand them a tray for food.
Lawmakers waited until just days before all the waivers expired on June 30 to pass the bill that extended some waivers but left free school meals out. Congressional delay in extending, or not extending, pandemic school meal waivers also hindered schools' ability to plan.
"There was a lot of talk and a lot of hope that the universal meals would be extended and we weren't really sure how much we should tell parents free meals are definitely ending because we felt like we weren't given a clear answer until June and our school year ends the end of May," Rochelle said.
The universal school meal debate resumes
Even before the pandemic, progressives, food and nutrition advocates were pushing for a universal school meal system that would offer school meals to students regardless of income. Advocates said the existing system of having three categories of pricing results in burdensome application processes, stigmatizes students who receive free meals and can cause families to carry lunch debt.
"We also have seen kids who were eligible for free school meals kind of slipped through the cracks and not get certified either because they were missed in direct certification or there were literacy or language barriers to the school meal application," said Crystal FitzSimmons, director of school and out of school time programs at the Food Research and Action Center.
Some states have taken their own action. California, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada and Vermont have passed legislation or rules to allow all students in their states to receive free meals this upcoming school year. Others have legislation pending in statehouses.
"There's a lot of innovation happening in communities and at the state level. I think where the conversation gets stuck is at the federal level," said Davis. "And a big part of that is because the discussions again are all around price tags and offsets through that very narrow lens."
On the Hill, Democrats and Republicans are still divided. Some progressives have introduced legislation that would provide free meals, but GOP members argue the price tag would be too high and that free meals is an assistance program that should be targeted.
"Congress never intended to provide universal free breakfast and lunches to all K-12 students regardless of need," said Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-NY, during a floor speech debating the waiver extensions in June. She favored the bill because the free meals would be extended by only one year, not longer. "By returning these programs back to normal we can return our responsibility to taxpayers and the principle that aid should be targeted and temporary."
Many education, hunger and nutrition groups have asked the White House to recommend that Congress implement universal school meals as a part of the broader list of recommendations expected to come out of the conference on hunger, nutrition and health next month. But until then, schools will need to adjust for the foreseeable future — whether or not they or families are ready.
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It's not often you find a bright side to drought, but in Texas, the heat and lack of rain have uncovered dinosaur tracks from 113 million years ago.
The tracks were unveiled at Dinosaur Valley State Park in Glen Rose, Texas — about an hour's drive from Fort Worth. The park is known for its dinosaur tracks, but these newer ones are usually covered with water from the Paluxy River and aren't visible.
"Due to the excessive drought conditions this past summer, the river dried up completely in most locations, allowing for more tracks to be uncovered here in the park," the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department said in a statement. "Under normal river conditions, these newer tracks are under water and are commonly filled in with sediment, making them buried and not as visible."
Dinosaur tracks are not as rare as, say, dinosaur bones, according to professor Jerry Harris, the director of paleontology at Utah Tech University, but that's because dinosaurs left way more footprints throughout their lives and ultimately had only one skeleton to leave behind.
Dinosaur tracks reveal more about how the reptiles lived
Still, Harris said the newly exposed tracks present a valuable find for researchers because they were made by living animals and can tell those studying the fossils more about the dinosaurs' behavior and day-to-day lives.
"You can get a lot of information about the posture of the animal that would be more difficult to get from the skeleton, about the speed, the animal which was moving, how it was responding to the sediment when the sediment was loose before it was turned to rock," Harris said.
It's also possible to determine whether the dinosaur was moving in a certain direction, why it was going that way or whether multiple dinosaurs were moving together in a herd, Harris said, adding that all this is much more difficult to discern from studying skeletons alone.
As for the dinosaur that left the newly uncovered tracks, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department said they belong to a theropod called Acrocanthosaurus — one of the two dinosaurs that make up the majority of tracks found around the state park.
"This was a dinosaur that would stand, as an adult, about 15 feet tall and [weigh] close to seven tons," the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department said.
Water will cover the tracks again
Eventually, water will cover the tracks again, and they'll be filled with sediment that helps prevent them from eroding away. But before that happens, researchers are working on mapping the tracks and collecting data.
While the discovery of the tracks is exciting, it also presents an interesting juxtaposition, Harris said.
"There's some irony in the fact that dinosaurs, which were ultimately wiped out by very rapid climate change, now [the] evidence of their living animals was exposed because of human-made climate change today."
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HENDERSON, Nev., Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CH4 Global announced today yet another milestone in its path to globalization: construction of the company's first EcoPark, an integrated facility in New Zealand for sustainable aquaculture. This facility, together with several EcoParks beginning construction in Australia this year, will enable large-scale commercial production of the company's Asparagopsis-based animal supplements for enteric methane mitigation.
For the EcoPark, CH4 Global will repurpose a brownfield site at Ocean Beach, a land-based aquaculture park near Bluff that is on track to become the largest such park in New Zealand.
Phase 1 kicks off this year with the beginning of construction, with full production by the middle of 2023. In Phase 2, the facility will be expanded to 500 bioreactors with the capacity to supply raw material required for the company's feedlot formulation for up to 15,000 head of cattle.
Currently, the Ocean Beach brownfield site is being upgraded to meet CH4 Global's requirements. A leading provider of recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) in the region, Fresh By Design, has been commissioned to design and construct the facility.
The CH4 Global EcoPark model is designed to maximize efficiencies and build sustainability into all aspects of the facility and its operation. The company's integrated system for growing and processing Asparagopsis seaweed will include regional hatcheries.
CH4 Global achieved another major milestone in June 2022, when it announced the first commercial sale of its Asparagopsis-based livestock supplement that reduces enteric methane by up to 90%. The new CH4 Global EcoPark at Ocean Beach will guarantee controlled, consistent Asparagopsis production as the company expands commercial supply to the Australian and New Zealand markets. Most of the seaweed will be exported to Australia for use in the large feedlot cattle market. At any one time, there are more than 1.5 million cattle being finished on Australian feedlots for local and international markets.
Commenting on the announcement, CH4 Aotearoa GM Nigel Little, said: "This is a key milestone in our path to full commercialisation. This EcoPark is proof of our ability to scale our technology on a sound commercial basis – both for us and for the farmers that use our product. It will be the first of many EcoParks planned over the next five years. We will be working closely with Blair and his team at Ocean Beach who share our passion and vision."
Commenting on the announcement, Ocean Beach Managing Director Blair Wolfgram, said: "We are very excited about our partnership with the CH4 Global team that has gone from strength to strength over the last couple of challenging years. The technology CH4 have developed to grow this exceptional seaweed at scale is very impressive. Globally, Steve Meller; and Nigel Little, domestically here in Aotearoa, have built an incredibly talented team with a true international outlook for this worldwide issue. CH4 have a strong alignment with Ocean Beach's aspiration to be an Aquaculture Centre of Excellence and will be a significant contributor with our other partners to growing the aquaculture industry in Murihiku / Southland. We are sure the founder of Ocean Beach and former Prime Minister, Sir Joseph Ward, would be very proud that what he created at Ocean Beach is now being utilised to grow a seaweed that helps farmers fight against global warming."
Fresh By Design General Manager Lachlan Bassett said: "We are extremely proud to be working on this project with CH4 Global at Ocean Beach. The opportunity to work with a world class team in CH4 Global on their mission to reduce global methane emissions is incredibly exciting. We look forward to supporting CH4 Global on their path to large scale commercial production of Asparagopsis"
About CH4 Global
CH4 Global™, Inc. is on an urgent mission to positively impact climate change worldwide. With expertise in turning ambitious ideas into successful, fit-for-purpose products, CH4 Global enables customers to radically reduce methane emissions in support of the 2 degrees Celsius target. Its first line of methane-reducing cattle feed additives is derived from Asparagopsis seaweed, for large beef and dairy producers, which, even if adopted for only 10% of cattle, would deliver more climate benefit than decommissioning 50 million fossil-fueled cars. CH4 Global is headquartered in Henderson, NV, with subsidiaries in Australia and New Zealand. Visit www.ch4global.com for more information.
About Ocean Beach
Ocean Beach is a land-based Aquaculture Park located at the gateway to Bluff, New Zealand with spectacular views across Foveaux Strait to Rakiura / Stewart Island. The Ocean Beach Aquaculture Park is spread over 15 hectares with an adjacent 160 hectares of rural farmland. This unique property has Coastal Permits and infrastructure in place to utilizOce large quantities of sea water from the fast moving and cold clean waters of Foveaux Strait as well as sea water supply from the nearby Bluff Harbour.
Located at the narrowest part of Aotearoa and bridging two harbors, Ocean Beach has historically been an important seafood and seaweed harvesting site for local Māori. In 1891, Ocean Beach was established as a freezing works by Bluff resident and former Prime Minister, Sir Joseph Ward. The Ocean Beach Freezing Works closed in 1991 due to technological change and started its rejuvenation journey to be an Aquaculture Centre of Excellence in 2018.
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HONG KONG, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited ("NetDragon" or "the Company", Hong Kong Stock Code: 777), a global leader in building internet communities, is pleased to announce that its flagship classroom technology subsidiary Promethean continues to be a global leader for Interactive Flat Panel Display (IFPD) technology, according to Futuresource Consulting's Q2 2022 report on the World IFPD market. As schools closed out the 2021-2022 school year, administrators set their sights on a successful upcoming year by purchasing the right edtech for their classrooms. Significant demand and investment in education technology increased market share for Promethean's ActivPanel.
Promethean maintains its global K-12 education sector IFPD market leader position from 2018 to 2022 collectively, excluding sales in China. From July 2021 to June 2022, Promethean achieved a 24.2% volume share of the total IFPD market. In that same 12-month period, Promethean remained the number one brand in the United States, United Kingdom & Ireland, and Germany. Most recently, in Q2 2022, the company continued strong growth in the United States, achieving a 30.2% volume share of the IFPD market.
Promethean rounded out Q2 2022 with the launch of the all-new ActivPanel 9 with ActivSync, which delivers the most robust, seamless, and secure user experience to teachers, students, and IT administrators. After listening to more than 1,300 customers across the globe, Promethean designed the interactive panel to navigate a changing learning environment. The ActivPanel 9 is the only interactive panel with ActivSync, Promethean's patented technology which eliminates digital barriers between devices and enables increased connectivity, customizable settings, and enhanced mobility so teachers can move around freely. In addition, teachers can record lessons, including classroom voices and panel content, to be shared with remote and absent students and parents through any platform. Promethean also announced a strategic alliance with artificial intelligence (AI) technology company Merlyn Mind, where Promethean will distribute Symphony Classroom™, the AI solution that brings the Merlyn digital assistant to teachers powered by voice-activated AI, in the US market.
"As we lead the way to Q3 2022 and beyond, it is clear that Promethean continues to accelerate our commitment to bringing innovative, market-leading technology to teachers, students, and IT administrators," said Chris Hand, Chief Revenue Officer at Promethean. "With the all-new ActivPanel in use, classrooms are now outfitted with interactive panels that are more secure, user-friendly, and interoperable with other technologies."
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About NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited
NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited (HKSE: 0777) is a global leader in building internet communities with a long track record of developing and scaling multiple internet and mobile platforms that impact hundreds of millions of users, including previous establishments of China's first online gaming portal, 17173.com, and China's most influential smartphone app store platform, 91 Wireless.
Established in 1999, NetDragon is one of the most reputable and well-known online game developers in China with a history of successful game titles including Eudemons Online, Heroes Evolved, Conquer Online and Under Oath. In recent years, NetDragon has also started to scale its online education business on the back of management's vision to create the largest global online learning community, and to bring true integrated blended learning solutions to every school around the world.
About Promethean
Promethean is a leading education technology company working to transform the way the world learns and collaborates. From our founding in Blackburn, England, more than 25 years ago to our global operations in 22 countries today, we've continued to explore, innovate, and inspire—designing learning and collaboration tools that are built for breakthroughs. Our award-winning interactive display, ActivPanel, and lesson delivery software, ActivInspire and ClassFlow, were designed to engage students, connect colleagues, and bring out the brilliance in everyone. With headquarters in Seattle, Washington, and offices worldwide, Promethean is a subsidiary of the NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited (HKSE: 0777) group of companies. Visit us at PrometheanWorld.com.
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No, Harry Styles Isn’t Secretly Bald
Harry Styles’s early popularity amongst One Direction fans had a great deal to do with his signature head of then-long, floppy hair. Fans were especially perplexed, then, when the infamous celebrity gossip account @DeuxMoi prompted a rumor that the 28-year-old is actually bald. “This A list musician/occasional actor has a dirty little secret he hasn’t shared with his fans,” began a blind item posted earlier this year. “Literally! He has gone almost completely bald. His hairpiece is so lifelike that only a good eye could pick it out, and that’s on a bad day.” To make it especially juicy, they claimed that the celeb in question “doesn’t take it off and clean it enough.”
Styles may limit his social media usage to looking at plants and architecture on Instagram, but he’s very much aware of the rumor. His friend and collaborator Tom Hull (who performs under the name Kid Harpoon) is “completely obsessed with it,” Styles said in a new interview with Rolling Stone, and sends him messages about the theory every chance he gets. He may be particularly tickled because those who’ve been straining their eyes digging up photos of Hazza’s hairline have been wasting their time. If the musician-slash-actor is to be believed, he hasn’t lost any hair just yet.
“What is it with baldness?,” Style asked. “It skips a generation or something, right? If your grandad’s bald then you’ll be bald? Well, my granddad wasn’t bald, so fingers crossed.”
Now that Styles has debunked the rumor, some will no doubt return to theorizing. Current suspects include Machine Gun Kelly (though not everyone considers him A-list) and Taron Edgerton, whom one Reddit user has accused of having hairpieces “specially flown in and glued to his head.” When it comes to starting outlandish celebrity rumors, tabloids have nothing on @DeuxMoi. | https://www.wmagazine.com/beauty/harry-styles-bald-hairline-rumor | 2022-08-25T09:18:25Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/beauty/harry-styles-bald-hairline-rumor | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A Necessary Breakdown of all the Alleged Don’t Worry Darling Drama
Olivia Wilde’s sophomore film, Don’t Worry Darling, has been making headlines since it began production all the way back in 2020, and not always for the right reasons. It started when Wilde fired Shia LaBeouf not long after filming began, and subsequently replaced the controversial actor with Harry Styles. Of course, the pop star’s casting led to a whole other slew of headlines, including the relationship that formed between him and the director. Now, as we approach the long-awaited premiere of Darling at next month’s Venice Film Festival, the rumors continue to go strong, encircling the three biggest names on the film. When did Styles and Wilde initially hook up? How did the movie’s star, Florence Pugh, feel about it? And what is the relationship like between Pugh and Wilde now? Here’s what all three have said about their experience on Darling.
For her part, Wilde has been very outspoken when it comes to discussing her film, which makes sense, considering it’s...well, her film. She has praised Styles’ and Pugh’s acting on many occasions. Most notably, the actress-turned-director shared an Instagram dedicated to Pugh, which showed Wilde watching one of the actress’ scenes. “Watching this woman work was such a fucking thrill!” Wilde wrote as the caption. Pugh never acknowledged the post.
In fact, for awhile, as Wilde promoted the film tirelessly, Pugh did not reciprocate, never mentioning Darling on her social media. Fans took note when, Pugh remained silent the day one of the trailers for the film came out, instead opting to share the poster for her other upcoming film, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, instead.
Since then, though, Pugh has broken her Darling silence, sharing a poster for the movie on social media. And now, Page Six is reporting that the Oppenheimer debacle was simply poor timing. “I heard she was already scheduled to post [about Oppenheimer] that day for some specific reason, it had nothing to do with a response to Olivia,” a source said.
Others, though, think Pugh is taking her frustration about Wilde out on the movie. Another source claimed to Page Six that Pugh didn’t like seeing Styles and Wilde “all over each other on set” as Wilde was still with her ex, Jason Sudekis at the time, who happens to be a friend of Pugh’s recent ex, Zach Braff. That rumor could be contested, however, as the timeline for Wilde’s breakup and her subsequent hookup with Styles remains pretty up in the air.
Others think Pugh doesn’t like Wilde’s very sex-focused narrative when it comes to the film. The director has been extremely outspoken about the role sex plays in Darling. Back in April, Wilde discussed the film at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, where she commented that there isn’t any “good sex” in film anymore and Darling would change that.
“Men don’t come in this film,” Wilde said recently in an interview with Variety. “Only women here!” She continued, saying that the sex between Pugh and Styles’ characters in the film is “integral to the story itself and how the audience is meant to connect to them.” Pugh, though, doesn’t seem to agree.
“When it’s reduced to your sex scenes, or to watch the most famous man in the world go down on someone, it’s not why we do it,” she said in an interview with Harpers Bazaar. “It’s not why I’m in this industry...That’s just not what I’m going to be discussing because [this movie is] bigger and better than that. And the people who made it are bigger and better than that.” It’s also notable that Pugh doesn’t speak about working with Wilde in her interview, though Wilde praises the actress repeatedly in her Variety piece (a story Pugh declined to be interviewed for, by the way, though she was filming Dune: Part 2 at the time).
“I had been blown the fuck away by her,” Wilde said of Pugh in Midsommar, the film that convinced Wilde to cast the actress in Darling. “I loved the film, but I loved her. I was just like, ‘Well, she’s extraordinary. She’s clearly the most exciting young actress working today.’”
Wilde did also (kind of) comment on the rumors circulating around Darling, specifically that Styles was paid over three times more than Pugh, though it seems like Wilde was talking about the rumors as a whole in the process. “There has been a lot out there that I largely don’t pay attention to,” she wrote in an e-mail to Variety. “But the absurdity of invented clickbait and subsequent reaction regarding a nonexistent pay disparity between our lead and supporting actors really upset me...There is absolutely no validity to those claims.”
Styles, meanwhile, has mostly stayed out of the alleged drama, not commenting on any aspect of it in his own recent feature for Rolling Stone, which at this point, seems like the smart move. That is, of course, assuming any of this is actually real and not just a conspiracy created by the media and the DeuxMoi-obsessed. | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/dont-worry-darling-drama-olivia-wilde-florence-pugh | 2022-08-25T09:18:26Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/dont-worry-darling-drama-olivia-wilde-florence-pugh | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Is Kim Kardashian a Better Lawyer Than Hillary Clinton?
If you told me ten years ago that, in the year 2022, reality star Hillary Clinton would lose in a round of legal trivia to law apprentice Kim Kardashian, I would have laughed in your face for multiple reasons. Of course, I would’ve be wrong, because that’s exactly what just happened. In a clip for Clinton’s upcoming Apple TV+ show, Gutsy, we see the politician lose decisively to Kardashian, 11-4, in a battle of legal wits.
“Oh, it was heartbreaking!” Clinton said to People, who exclusively premiered the clip where the two go head to head, answering legal questions posed by Chelsea Clinton. Hillary, though, did suggest that Kardashian had an “unfair advantage” considering she was just studying for the baby bar exam last year, a lot more recently than Clinton.
And if you’re looking for another excuse to explain Kardashian’s success over the former first lady, Chelsea has you covered. She believes it was her mom’s reaction time, not inadequate legal knowledge that led to the loss. "Sometimes, I could see my mom knew what the answer was, but she wouldn't hit the buzzer in time,” Chelsea said. Now, that’s a good daughter right there.
These days, Kardashian and Clinton—who once seemed like complete opposites—have a lot in common. They’re both interested in the law, and now, they both have a TV show on a streaming service. Kardashian will appear alongside the Clinton women in Gusty (which to be fair, is more of a documentary series than a reality show) when it premieres on September 9th. But don’t expect the Clintons to become the next Kardashians. There will be no sex tapes or family drama discussed on Gutsy. Instead, Hillary and Chelsea chat and interact with celebrities and activists like Megan Thee Stallion, Kate Hudson, and Gloria Steinem for the series. Who knows what’s in store. Clinton could lose a mock presidential debate to Megan in episode three. | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/hillary-clinton-lost-legal-quiz-kim-kardashian | 2022-08-25T09:18:28Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/hillary-clinton-lost-legal-quiz-kim-kardashian | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Lola Leon Makes Her Musical Debut as Lolahol
Lola Leon has officially gone from music video choreographer and dancer to full out music video star. On Wednesday, the 25-year-old daughter of Madonna revealed that she’s embarked on a new project performing under the name Lolahol. While Leon has previously worked as a choregrapher for the Queens-based musician Eartheater, this time Eartheater steps behind the scenes to direct the video for Lolahol’s first single, “Lock&Key.” It all begins with Leon singing “Why can’t I just lock into a Polly Pocket? / It could all be crystal clear,” while spending a sunny day at a cemetery in the outer boroughs with a German Sheperd named Kali. Next, she steps into the night wearing a set of bedazzled nipple pasties. For a ride in a convertible driven by a skeleton, she swaps them out for a hot pink cutout playsuit by the London-based label Poster Girl.
Lyrics-wise, it seems their may be a slight nod to a popular Lady Gaga meme. Leon sings “no sleep, next car, next plane,” a similar phrase to the one that the pop star spouted off in a 2011 interview with Fuse about the difference between making her albums The Fame and Born This Way. “I wrote record after record until, finally, ‘Just Dance' occurred,” she said. “And then it wasn't ‘in peace.’ I had to fight for a year tooth and nail, blood, sweat, and leather. Every night. No sleep! Bus, club, ’nother club, ’nother club, plane, next place. No sleep. No fear.” A video of her stressing the bus and club line on loop has become such a thing on Twitter that it was also recently referenced on an episode of Emily in Paris.
Back in the cemetery, Leon is decked out in Martine Ali jewelry and camped out at the grave of Harry Houdini. She then hops into a portal that transports her to a beach where she’s wearing an even more revealing ensemble. Wherever Leon is going, we’re ready to come along for the ride. Get your first taste of what she’s hinted will be dance music with an “electronic, experimental vibe” in the video below. | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/lola-leon-lolahol-music-video | 2022-08-25T09:18:29Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/lola-leon-lolahol-music-video | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Artist Vivian Fu Wants to Fight You
The Los Angeles-based creator makes NFT artworks that explore her conflicting roles in the world.
NFT artists can be polarizing figures within the traditional arts space. But Vivian Fu, along with thousands of others who believe digitally native art can (and should) live online, are hedging their bets on creating works in Web3. Fu, an L.A. native still based in the area, makes highly personal, at times cute and simultaneously aggressive, portrait photography that represents the performative nature of existing, both in the real world and on the Internet. Through her images, Fu—who works a day job as the creative content producer for the Web3 arts marketplace Foundation, and also helms the podcast JPEG2000 with her cohost, Noah Kalina—contemplates her place in the world as a young Asian American woman. Her latest work, titled Fight!, was commissioned by Friends With Benefits, an Internet-based co-op known as a DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) founded by Trevor McFedries, who also created the first CGI influencer, Lil Miquela. This year, the organization held Friends With Benefits Fest, an IRL festival that took place in Idyllwild, California in August. OpenSea—an NFT marketplace—partnered with FWB on the event to put $100,000 toward commissioning NFT artworks by up-and-coming artists in the Web3 space, including Ezra Miller, Petra Cortright, and Fu.
In Fight!, Fu wears “a janky muscle suit—like, it’s literally tights filled with pillow stuffing,” the artist tells me over Zoom during a trip to New York City, “but I’m wearing this pink, hyper-feminine, Valley-bimbo look.” Below, Fu discusses Japanese photo booths, why weightlifting has become a priority in her life, and her favorite NFT artists.
How did this project come into your life?
I had previously done self-portraits in Purikura photo booths that doubled as performances. A lot of the personal photography work I’ve done in the past has centered performing yourself: taking pictures with the knowledge that somebody will be looking at them later, and navigating knowing that people are going to be able to tell that I’m Asian, because they have eyeballs. It’s about exploring Asian American identity, performing Asian American identity, and performing expectations about femininity.
You seem a little nervous to talk about this.
I am being squirrely. [Laughs]. It’s hard to talk about work that might be influenced by identity without identity becoming the center of the conversation. Even though, in a way, it is the center of the conversation. I don’t want to suggest that all of my work is about being Asian, because when I talk about the work like that, it assumes I’m making this work to educate the audience, who is presumably white. And that’s not necessarily what I’m trying to do.
Why did you choose Purikura booths as your preferred set for these works?
These photo booths are such a loaded space that’s imbued with Asianness—watching people enter them and seeing the pictures that they take, how they pose, is really interesting. They’re doing the Korean heart with their fingers and throwing peace signs. Asian culture is trendy: Asian skincare, Korean cinema. I’m not trying to say anything in particular, but I’m just wondering, what’s that about?
How does a question like that inform Fight! specifically?
The piece is called Fight! because I’m trying to fight, low-key. I’m pissed because people interact with me a certain way due to their perceptions or assumptions about Asian femininity. Part of me is like, If you think I’m that, then I’ll perform that, but I’m also mad about it. I will do that for you, but I want to fight you also. This is another reason why [my concepts] are hard to talk about, because they feel like two very disparate things that are, actually, in the same thought.
The event for which Fight! was commissioned, Friends With Benefits Fest, touts the concept that the blockchain supports emerging artists by paying royalties. As an NFT artist yourself, is this a real thing you’ve experienced?
Yes. The royalty structure within Web3 art is particularly interesting. I like that it’s an opportunity for art that is digitally native to be sold in a digital fashion. For example, my piece Fight! is a gif—how would I sell a gif in a more traditional art world? If I turned my piece into photos, would that be as impactful? I don’t have experience selling things on secondary—meaning, after my piece sells to a collector, that collector can then sell it and each time it sells, I get paid. But I still think that’s sick. Your work always accrues value and you get to maintain that. I think in the traditional art world, you wouldn’t get any of that sale.
This might be a dumb question, but after you’ve purchased a piece of NFT art, what do you do with it?
I just let it live in my wallet.
Do you scroll through them, like your camera roll?
Kind of, yeah. I use Context, which is a way for you to follow people’s wallets in a visual manner. There’s a link to my Contact profile, which follows my wallet, and you can see what I’m into and what I’ve bought. I’m not a flipper type, even though I should probably take profit.
Onto the Culture Diet questions. What is the first thing that you do when you wake up?
Depending on how stressed I am, I will listen to a Headspace. I find that it calms me. Even if I wake up and I don’t feel stressed, I try to be in the habit of just doing it. But usually, I just flip over and I look at my phone and tap multiple apps before drinking coffee.
What is the last piece of art that you bought or that you have your eye on?
I just bid on this piece by the art duo Hypereikon, the title is Weird Symbol. It’s GAN art—or AI art—of flowers, and it’s very pretty. I’m hoping nobody else outbids me.
What are your favorite social media accounts to follow?
Not to plug more NFTs, but there’s this project called Allstarz. I like following Allstarz because it’s this community that I’m a part of, and they make cute little memes for their projects. My friend Maya, who actually bought my piece Fight!, did this art blocks project that is referential of Instagram infographics about self care. Whenever she posts, I’m excited.
What’s the last song you had on repeat?
I’ve been listening to the Nine Inch Nails’s “Closer.” It’s a really good song for stomping around, or walking, or driving on a freeway or deadlifting at the gym.
Are you a weightlifter?
Yeah. Which is also why I wanted Fight! to show me as a buff person. Because the idea is, Oh, Asian girls, you’re all so tiny. And I’m actively trying to be massive and scary-looking.
Are you into astrology?
I like astrology and I like being a Leo because it affirms things I want to be true, like, you have good hair and everybody loves you. I’m actually a double Leo: I’m a Leo sun and a Leo rising. So I’m not like other girls.
What TV shows have been keeping you up at night?
What’s comforting to me is King of the Hill. I watched all of King of the Hill during lockdown, and then I finished it and I was depressed. I tried watching other TV shows and none of it made me feel comforted, so I just rewatched King of the Hill.
What is the final thing you do before going to bed?
Be annoying to my boyfriend.
What does that look like?
I do a lot of pranks before bed, and they’re not even funny. I’ll try to trick my boyfriend into thinking I fell asleep, so I’ll slow my breathing and maybe snore a little, and then I’ll jump up. He gets annoyed and is like, You need to stop. And I go, Okay. I’ve pushed the limits far enough. Then it’s actually time for bed. | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/vivian-fu-nft-web3-artist-friends-with-benefits-fest-fight-artwork | 2022-08-25T09:18:32Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/vivian-fu-nft-web3-artist-friends-with-benefits-fest-fight-artwork | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New Delhi: The Election Commission (EC) has sent its opinion to Jharkhand Governor Ramesh Bais on a plea seeking that Chief Minister Hemant Soren be disqualified as an MLA for violating electoral law by extending a mining lease to himself, sources said on Thursday.
The opinion was sent to the Jharkhand Raj Bhavan in a sealed cover this morning, they said. The Jharkhand governor had referred the matter to the poll panel.
The BJP, the petitioner in the case, has sought Soren's disqualification for violating section 9 A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, which deals with disqualification for government contracts.
Under Article 192 of the Constitution, if any question arises as to whether a member of a House of the Legislature of a state has become subject to any of the disqualifications, the question shall be referred to the governor whose decision shall be final.
"Before giving any decision on any such question, the Governor shall obtain the opinion of the Election Commission and shall act according to such opinion," it reads.
While dealing with such cases, the poll panel functions as a quasi-judicial body. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/08/25/election-commission-sends-opinion-jharkhand-guv-hemant-soren-mining-case.html | 2022-08-25T09:18:35Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/08/25/election-commission-sends-opinion-jharkhand-guv-hemant-soren-mining-case.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New Delhi: The Centre did not cooperate with the probe into the Pegasus spyware row, the apex court-appointed technical and supervisory committees to look into the matter said.
A bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana said on Thursday that the panel also found some kind of malware in five mobile phones out of the 29 examined.
The court will now hear the matter after four weeks.
The bench also comprising justices Surya Kant and Hima Kohli said the panel has submitted its lengthy report in three parts and one part suggested amending the law to protect the right to privacy of citizens and ensure cyber security of the nation.
It said the report of the overseeing judge (Justice retired) R V Raveendran, which is general in nature, would be uploaded on its website. The bench said it would consider the plea to give redacted part of other reports to the parties.
The bench on October 27 last year had ordered a probe into the allegations of use of Israeli spyware by government agencies for targeted surveillance of politicians, journalists, and activists.
The panel, which included three experts on cyber security, digital forensics, networks, and hardware, was asked to inquire, investigate and determine whether Pegasus spyware was used for snooping on citizens and their probe would be monitored by a former apex court judge Raveendran.
The panel members were Naveen Kumar Chaudhary, Prabaharan P, and Ashwin Anil Gumaste. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/08/25/pegasus-row-government-supreme-court.amp.html | 2022-08-25T09:18:42Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/india/2022/08/25/pegasus-row-government-supreme-court.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
It’s Looking Like Clogs May be the Shoe of the Fall
To say that clogs are the hot new fall shoe trend would be an egregious falsehood. For one thing, the backless shoes have literally been around for almost a thousand years, dating back to the early 13th century in the Netherlands. Even in modern times, however, clogs have experienced their fair share of fame. In the ‘70s, they had quite the resurgence, becoming one of the most popular styles of the decade. Over the past few years, they’ve been facing a similar comeback, with brands like Simon Miller providing new, modern takes on the classic look. Now, though, as summer begins to wind down, and we prepare to wear our strappy sandals for the last time, good ol’ classic clogs are seeming like a perfect substitute for summer footwear during those transitional weather days.
It helps that clogs are currently being championed by street style stars like Kendall Jenner and the ultimate fashion couple, Rihanna and A$AP Rocky. Jenner has been a fan of clogs for awhile, but her recent “normal shoe” push has led her to embrace comfort without compromising style. For an outing in Los Angeles earlier this week, that meant opting for some heelless Khaite clogs, with a classic cork base. Jenner paired the shoes with a toned-down look featuring black, straight-leg Levis, a cropped tee, and her favorite shoulder bag from The Row. While perhaps a month ago, Jenner would have opted to pair this look with the two-strap Arizona Birkenstocks, it’s becoming time to cover up those toes for autumn, making the clogs a perfect choice.
And while Jenner proved clogs work perfectly with a simple, running out for lunch look, Rihanna is here to show them off in the context of a more maximalist aesthetic. On Tuesday night, the singer headed out in NYC with her boyfriend, Rocky. For the outing, Rihanna opted to wear oversized green and black checkered corduroy trousers from Marni, a vintage TLC Fanmail Chargers jersey, and a Tom Ford-era Gucci bag. There was already a lot going on with this look, but Rihanna never misses an opportunity to add more. For footwear, then, she opted for the Gucci x Adidas clogs released earlier this year, featuring the Adidas logo printed on the toe of each shoe.
The shoes have Rocky’s approval as well. The rapper wore them just last week with a similarly maximalist look, warming them up for his girlfriend, and once again proving their couple style is completely unmatched.
Chances are, as the weather begins to cool, you’re going to see these backless bad boys a lot more on celebs and the fashion sect alike. So whether you’re interested in a heelless style, the rubber take, or the good old classic wooden ones, it might be time to invest in some clogs.
It’s time to get yourself a pair of clogs:
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Nicole Beharie Went Full Church Girl at the Honk for Jesus Premiere
Nicole Beharie’s breakout role in Channing Godfrey Peoples’s 2020 film Miss Juneteenth called for the Florida native to tap into a character with a tough exterior. As Turquoise, a single mother hoping to enter her defiant daughter in the local Miss Juneteenth pageant, Beharie could have leaned into the grit—but instead, she lent a sense of softness to the role, which endeared her to audiences worldwide. Since then, she’s gone on to star in Little Fires Everywhere, along with a role on Scenes From a Marriage. Now, Beharie is in the midst of promoting two projects: the thriller Breaking and the comedy Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. In the latter, a mockumentary send-up of Southern mega-churches, the actress portrays a sweet but sassy pastor’s wife Shakura Sumpter. “She’s got a velvet glove with, probably, claws underneath,” Beharie says. “That’s her vibe.”
It turns out, that’s the vibe the actress decided to channel for her look at the Honk for Jesus premiere on August 22. Alongside producer Daniel Kaluuya and executive producer Jordan Peele, Beharie owned the purple carpet in a colorful two-piece set by Christopher John Rogers. “I love the colors in his work, and also the awareness of the female silhouette,” Beharie says of Rogers, adding that ultimately, going with a powerhouse Black designer for the film’s opening was a no-brainer. As she tells it, the look is a noted departure from her everyday style, which she describes as “utilitarian, sexy, ninja.” “Sometimes, I feel like color is too much,” she says. “I’m always in cropped things, or completely covered. I can run in it. I can shop in it. I can, maybe, stick on a heel and you’ll be like, Oh, she’s ready to go out. But for this daytime premiere, I was like, you know what? I’m gonna go for it.”
“I had this beautiful hair and makeup crew, Kim Kimble and Tasha Reiko Brown, who were with me the whole day,” she adds. “It was my first time working with both of them, but throughout the day, we found a nice vibe. I mean, if you spend 13 hours with folks, they start to get you.”
Beharie used Chanel makeup products exclusively for her soft glam look.
A close-up of the matching set by Christopher John Rogers—a designer who, as Beharie points out, gleaned inspiration from churchgoing ladies he saw in his congregation growing up.
Beharie putting the finishing touches on her look before heading to the premiere. “I just thought it was so much fun, and very different from other things that I’ve gravitated toward in the past,” she says.
“The set reminded me of the film, which is a comedy,” Beharie adds. “I’ve been doing a lot of drama, so this is a departure for me, in a way.”
Beharie’s final look at the Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. premiere. | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/nicole-beharie-honk-for-jesus-premiere-christopher-john-rogers | 2022-08-25T09:18:51Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/nicole-beharie-honk-for-jesus-premiere-christopher-john-rogers | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Rihanna Just Turned the Big Pants Trend Up a Notch
Just when us layman were getting comfortable with the oversized pants trend that has been adopted by every celebrity from Jennifer Lawrence to Bella Hadid, Rihanna decided to step in and provide her own take on the style. On Tuesday night, the singer was spotted exiting an office building in New York City with her boyfriend, A$AP Rocky by her side, wearing a maximalist outfit that paired big pants with bigger patterns.
Yes, this is what Rihanna wears to what is said to have been a dentist visit, but the couple did seemingly head to dinner immediately after, lest she waste that look. For the evening out, Rihanna wore a pair of green and black Marni checkered corduroy trousers, the undeniable star of the show. She topped the pants with a vintage TLC Fanmail Chargers jersey from the group’s 2000 concert tour. Rihanna then added more neon green to the ensemble with the addition of one of her favorite bags, the Tom Ford for Gucci Pistachio Anaconda from 1996. She finished off the look with Gucci x Adidas clogs and a pair of white Prada sunglasses.
Not to be outdone, Rocky also donned some flashy pants, opting for a pair of Gucci jacquard jeans, embossed in the brand’s logo. While not as oversized as Rihanna’s, the pants are once again proof that the pair has mastered couples dressing, while expertly avoiding matchy-matchy style.
To be fair, big pants are nothing new for these two. Not only did they wear the style together earlier this month, but they’ve been champions of the silhouette for quite awhile. It makes sense then, that Rihanna would be the one to push it into its next iteration. | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/rihanna-big-pants-trend-patterns | 2022-08-25T09:18:57Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/rihanna-big-pants-trend-patterns | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Ask Catherine Cohen: Help! I’m Allergic to My Partner's Family
“The good news is that doctors are calling this a very common allergy this season.”
Catherine Cohen is a comedian and actress. In her original show tunes, character videos and on her popular podcast Seek Treatment (co-hosted with fellow comedian Pat Regan) she skewers the clichés of millennial aspiration, deadpans about sex on antidepressants, and earnestly celebrates such triumphs as finding love or drinking seven beers. Her Netflix Special, The Twist...? She’s Gorgeous, and her book, God I Feel Modern Tonight: Poems From a Gal About Town are out now.
Have a question for Catherine? Send it to askcatherine@wmagazine.com for a chance to be answered in her next column.
Is there such a thing as a non-cringe way to announce a major life event (i.e. an engagement, a gender reveal, a new job) on social media?
Honey, I swear this collective fixation on cringe will be the death of me! There is no avoiding cringe. Cringe, like its successor, death, comes for us all! As we live, we change and grow in such a way that everything eventually becomes cosmically embarrassing.
There are few decisions we can look back on with complete confidence. I’m already mortified that I wrote the first sentence of this paragraph. Instead of worrying about what other people think of you, ask yourself a simple question– why are you posting? For example: I post because I get a dopamine rush when I feel like people like me and support my career and if I’m successful in my career I will be worthy of love and never feel pain again. Slay!
There’s nothing wrong with posting about something you’re proud of—it’s a great way to let family and friends share in your happiness. Even if some haters hate (which they’re wont to do) the people who actually care about you will find your joy contagious.
Don’t half-ass it either. There’s nothing worse than a post that reeks of faux humility (aka fumility) So OWN it, baby!! Who knows how many times you’ll get engaged? I only hope to do it three times and lord knows I’m gonna be posting.
Share that new job update—it’s easier than texting everyone you know. That being said, I don’t think we need to be announcing “gender reveals” at all…feels a bit retrograde, I must say! If posting makes you happy, post. If it doesn’t, don’t. It’s 2022 and the chicest thing you can possibly be is offline. Privacy is a luxury in the attention economy. Anyways, please do post and retweet this. My self-worth depends on it Xo
What do you do if you're deeply allergic to your partner’s family?
The good news is that doctors are calling this a very common allergy this season. Most family dynamics are bizarre/annoying at best. Even seemingly perfect families are addicted to reverting back into old toxic patterns. But if you’re in a long-term relationship you’re unfortunately also in a long-term relationship with your partner’s family. And as is true with any long-term relationship, it’s important to make the occasional sacrifice and know when to set boundaries. If you love your partner and they love their family, you must (publicly) love their family as well. Beyond that, what goes on in the recesses of your heart is not for moi to judge.
Try to reframe spending time with your sweetie’s fam as an Act of Service towards your beloved. (I used to think my love language was “Acts of Service” but I recently found out it’s literally “Gifts.” To quote Taylor Swift, “Ain’t that the worst thing you ever heard?!”) Be patient with the family and whenever they’re driving you absolutely bonkers, just pretend you’re in a quirky holiday movie. When in pain? Romanticize it away!
Cat!!! I just found out a person I have been in a relationship with for six months is married. I think I’m in love, what do I do!
Nooooo can you hear that? I’m screaming. Six months? Why do people insist on being monstrous against all odds? I’m so sorry. You may be in love, but you also need to be away from this person ASAP. How can you build something with someone who has been hiding a major part of their reality from you? It’s so shitty, but whatever version of this person you fell in love with wasn’t real in the first place. Whether or not you end it now, it’s done. The illusion has collapsed in on itself. There may be reasons why this person lied to you, but it doesn’t matter. It’s time to move on. May I suggest my breakup starter pack? I prescribe 2 weeks of beer and Pad Thai followed by 2 months of bicycling, journaling, and hydrating.
Sending you all the love. Forgive this person (they’re unwell), forgive yourself (you’re swell), and get ready to open yourself to a love based on mutual trust and understanding or at least like…someone who is single.
I have a crush on my coworker and I think she might like me too. How bad of an idea is it to start an in-office romance?
Umm it sounds like a hot good idea to me but what do I know? The only time I worked in an office I slept with a co-worker who “didn’t like soup”—how fucked up this that? I love soup! It can be full of so many things.
Either way, it doesn’t matter what I say—a crush is pure inertia, it cannot be stopped by an advice columnist alone. Time reveals all and your feelings will surely seep out of your pores eventually. And a little flirting can lift you out of the mundane, provided that both parties feel safe and respected. After all, what else is there to do at an office job? Send emails? Honey, you can do that from anywhere. Ever heard of a laptop? Look at me being a Woman in Tech. Crushes serve as a reminder that you’re alive. You’re alive and your big bloody heart is beating right next to someone else’s. Someone else who is living a whole life in the same lifetime as you—how remarkable is that?
Just make sure you’re not crossing any boundaries. If you’re getting any pushback, let it go and move onto the next crush, wherever they may be… But if the crush turns into an actual relationship, that’s another thing entirely, and in that case, I’ve seen TV shows where people disclose their relationships to HR…so I guess you can eventually…do that? | https://www.wmagazine.com/life/ask-catherine-cohen-august-2022 | 2022-08-25T09:19:03Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/life/ask-catherine-cohen-august-2022 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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220804-N-UJ449-1034 NAVAL AIR STATION SIGONELLA, Italy (Aug. 4, 2022)— Sailors and local nationals, sort mail at the post office on Naval Air Station Sigonella, Aug. 4, 2022. NAS Sigonella’s strategic location enables U.S., allied, and partner nation forces to deploy and respond as required, ensuring security and stability in Europe, Africa and Central Command. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Josh Coté)
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A U.S. Air Force MC-130 J Commando II aircraft assigned to the 352d Special Operations Wing conducts search patterns overhead during open ocean personnel recovery training off the east coast of England, Aug. 23, 2022. The Commando II flies a variety of low-level air refueling missions for special operations helicopters and aircraft, while also supporting infiltration, exfiltration and resupply of special operations forces. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin Long)
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(WWLP) – Thursday, August 25th is recognized as National Burger Day, believed to be first invented in 1885 at the Erie County Fair in Hamburg, New York.
The traditional beef patty has transformed over the years to include other options such as bison, chicken, turkey, etc.
According to Yelp, these are the top 10 best burger spots in western Massachusetts:
- Local Burgy: 93 Main St Williamsburg
- Local Burger: 16 Main St Northampton
- Black Cow Burger Bar: 125 Ave A Turners Falls
- Classic Burgers: 1261 Westfield St West Springfield
- Burgy Brews: 4 Main St Williamsburg
- Johnny’s Tavern: 30 Boltwood Walk Amherst
- Chester Common Table: 30 Main St Chester
- Flat Burger Society: 75 North St Pittsfield
- Max Burger: 684 Bliss Rd Longmeadow
- District Kitchen & Bar: 40 West St Pittsfield
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Senator Wiener's SB 930 Fails as Lawmakers Choose Public Health & Safety Over Nightlife Profits
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcohol Justice and the California Alcohol Policy Alliance (CAPA) expressed deep gratitude today as the California State Assembly voted to stop SB 930. 31 voted NO, 25 voted YES, and 24 didn't vote at all which was another way of making sure Senator Scott Wiener would be handed his 4th failure since 2017 in attempting to establish a so-called "pilot project" to give some California cities the ability to extend last call at bars, restaurants, and clubs.
"This afternoon, Senator Wiener's gut & amend bar bill died so that Californians won't," stated Cruz Avila, Executive Director / CEO of Alcohol Justice. "This is a huge victory for California. The Assembly chose the safety of the state's residents and visitors over profits for alcohol-related businesses. I am proud of their actions and of the coalition that fought to oppose this dangerous bill. We implore current and future legislators to never resurrect this faulty concept again."
After the final tally of the failed bill was reported, former California Highway Patrol Officer, Assemblymember Tom Lackey (R-Palmdale) said…"Thanks to the intense coalition fighting to kill SB 930, we once again saved lives by defeating this hurtful proposal."
Originally, SB 930 would have allowed closing times for on-sale retailers to be extended from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m. as part of a dangerous "pilot project" in 7 cities: San Francisco, Oakland, West Hollywood, Cathedral City, Coachella, Palm Springs and Fresno. But Fresno soon requested to be removed from the bill due to intense opposition and concerns among Fresno city leaders who then passed a formal resolution of opposition. This followed the late-July passage of a resolution of opposition by the Los Angeles City Council and a letter of opposition from the powerful Los Angeles County Democratic Party (LACDP).
"This bill threatened public safety in Los Angeles - MORE than before because it not only put consumers of alcohol in danger but all the innocent bystanders that would have been impacted," stated Los Angeles City Councilmember Paul Koretz. "Current data showed we could expect a SPLASH effect of more DUIs, more drunk driving and more deaths in L.A. because drivers are willing to drive 7-40 miles from their Place of Last Drink (POLD). According to the Berkeley, Safe Transportation Research and Education Center, the greatest number of alcohol-involved fatal and severe injuries in California is already concentrated in Los Angeles County."
"Today they State Assembly took a stand for low-income and people of color–those most impacted by alcohol harms–by defeating SB 930," said Mayra Jimenez, advocacy manager at Alcohol Justice and lead organizer for CAPA. "Community and public health advocates stopped yet another attempt by the nightlife lobby from pouring more alcohol into our streets under the guise of pandemic recovery. Thank you to the members of the legislature that chose to vote for the people of California and chose not be to coerced by unfounded allegations of revenue."
This month, perhaps sensing looming failure, SB 930's authors reduced the pilot project's cities from 7 to 6, then finally to 3, leaving only San Francisco, Palm Springs, and West Hollywood. And the last call changed from 4 a.m. to 3 a.m. during the week, 4 a.m. on weekends and holidays. Critics of the policy change, however, were quick to point out that even one more hour of alcohol sales in three different cities disrupts the protections of a uniform, statewide 2 a.m. last call. Surrounding communities would have experienced increased harms and costs while alcohol sellers in the epicenter of nightlife entertainment districts would have seen marginal economic benefits.
For Alcohol Justice this was the 5th campaign since 2013 to stop alcohol trading hours from being extended into the early morning commute. In 2018, the evidence for increased harms was presented to the legislature in an Alcohol Justice/CAPA report entitled The Late Night Threat, Science, Harms, and Costs of Extending Bar Service Hours. It highlighted the existing data supporting how the acute effects of extending alcohol sales would spread to "Splash Zones" surrounding the pilot project cities.
In 2019, another analysis was done by the respected Oakland-based ARG organization, a project of the Public Health Institute. The "High Cost of the 4 A.M. Bar Bill" was a first of its kind cost-benefit analysis detailing the effects of changing state alcohol policy to allow later last call at bars, restaurants, and clubs. The analysis disturbingly documented the worst concerns of Alcohol Justice and CAPA, that public health and safety would be severely compromised if any so-called "pilot project" became law and allowed a patchwork quilt of last calls across the state.
According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), California currently suffers more annual alcohol-related harm than any other state: 11,000 alcohol-related deaths, $35 billion in total costs, $18.5 billion in state costs. The CDC also identifies maintaining existing last call times as one of the 10 key policies for reducing the harms from reckless drinking and from alcohol-related motor vehicle deaths.
SB 930:
- Was a poorly conceived and inadequately funded pilot project
- Would have stripped away uniform protections of statewide 2 a.m. last call
- Would have cost the state at least $5 million per year to administer, mitigate the harm, and clean the blood off the highway; and would have cost cities and towns in "Splash Zones" millions more
- Disregarded 40 years of peer-reviewed, public health research on the dangers of extending last call
- Ignored the existing annual catastrophe of alcohol-related harm in California
- Used the false narrative of COVID economic recovery to subsidize and reward late-night alcohol-sellers at government and tax-payer expense
"The Assembly saw through the authors' haze of faulty justifications and said NO to this dangerous policy change," stated Michael Scippa, Public Affairs Director at Alcohol Justice. "To paraphrase a song from the Wizard of Oz, '...it's not only merely dead, it's really most sincerely dead'. And we are committed to making sure this Zombie last-call bill is gone for good."
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MANAMA, Bahrain – Forces from Bahrain and the United States completed a joint exercise in the Arabian Gulf, Aug. 23, led by a nine-nation coalition staff based in the Middle East.
Royal Bahrain Naval Force ship RBNS Ahmed Al-Fateh (P20) and U.S. Coast Guard patrol boat USCGC Baranof (WPB 1318) participated in exercise Sentinel Shield with a Saildrone Explorer unmanned surface vessel from U.S. 5th Fleet.
Sentinel Shield is a monthly exercise series organized by the International Maritime Security Construct (IMSC) to enhance communication and coordination among partner naval forces. This month’s iteration was the first designed to integrate unmanned systems.
“The continued interoperability and coordination of U.S. and Bahraini naval assets are crucial to stability in the Arabian Gulf,” said Lt. Vaughn Gehman, commanding officer of Baranof. “Integration of unmanned systems is a force-multiplier for IMSC and its ability to detect and deter malign activity.”
IMSC was formed in July 2019 in response to increased threats to freedom of navigation for merchant mariners transiting international waters in the Middle East. Coalition Task Force (CTF) Sentinel was established four months later to deter state-sponsored malign activity and reassure the merchant shipping industry in the Bab al-Mandeb and Strait of Hormuz.
The coalition is headquartered in Bahrain under U.S. 5th Fleet and includes forces from Albania, Bahrain, Estonia, Lithuania, Romania, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and United States.
“I was delighted to see our host nation participating in this month's exercise, and especially pleased to again see Bahrain leading the way in unmanned systems integration,” said British Royal Navy Commodore Ben Aldous, commander of IMSC and CTF Sentinel.
In October, Bahrain was the first nation U.S. 5th Fleet partnered with after establishing a new unmanned systems and artificial intelligence task force. During a two-day training exercise, U.S. patrol craft and Bahrain Defense Force maritime assets sailed alongside Mantas T-12 unmanned surface vessels in the Arabian Gulf, marking the first time the platforms operated in regional waters.
“Incorporating unmanned systems into Sentinel Shield enables the coalition to plan for the future by developing and exercising concepts of employment that most effectively utilize this new technology to benefit the Sentinel mission and strengthen our coalition,” said Aldous.
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sonatus, a global leader in software-defined vehicle technology, today announced it has joined the Renesas R-Car Consortium. The R-Car Consortium, enables customers to quickly identify and engage with the partners whose solutions will help them to accelerate innovation and receive end-to-end development support to build advanced Connected Car & ADAS solutions.
"As software becomes a critical driver in automobiles, application software becomes larger and more complex, the R-Car Consortium is a certified and trusted ecosystem that enables customers to cut through information overload to select the partners and solutions that will set them up for success," said Jeffrey Chou, Co-founder and CEO of Sonatus. "Working with the R-Consortium we hope to simplify the journey for system developers to further reduce the number of development steps and costs required to bring the power of software-defined vehicle automation to market faster, while reducing complexity and cost, in the face of rapid change."
The R-Car Consortium creates a flexible and diverse collaborative environment for system developers. By bringing together system integrators, middleware/application developers, and operating system and tools vendors who are developing solutions for the Connected Car, ADAS and Gateway market, with highly reliable and technically advanced SoCs, evaluation boards and software from Renesas. A global automotive semiconductor leader, Renesas has a long history delivering reliable and innovative automotive solutions for a wide range of systems.
To learn more about Sonatus and its award-winning Digital Dynamics™ software-defined vehicle platform, please visit www.sonatus.com.
Sonatus helps automakers build software-defined vehicles that can evolve and adapt over their entire lifetimes through code-less updates that don't require new software. Leveraging extensive software-defined and automotive expertise, the company compresses decades of digital innovation into scalable vehicle and cloud software solutions, empowering OEMs to innovate faster, reduce complexity and costs, and become more agile. Sonatus' award-winning Digital Dynamics™ platform is currently in-market in Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis, and will be on the road in millions more vehicles by 2023. The company has raised more than $35 million USD with world-class automotive, technology, and venture investors including Hyundai Motor Group's Kia Corporation, LG Electronics, Marvell, SAIC Capital, Translink Capital, UMC Capital, and Wanxiang Group Company. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, with offices in Detroit, MI, and Seoul, Korea.
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- Inflation is a big problem
- At this point, I'd toss a coin between 50 bps and 75 bps
- But if data remains strong and inflation doesn't soften, it may make a case for another 75 bps
- Some weakening in the economy is to be expected
- Fed needs to really make sure inflation is well on its way to 2% before taking steps to increase accommodative policy stance
- Full interview (may be gated)
The door for a 75 bps rate hike remains open and we'll have to get through a few hurdles to settle the debate. The first will be Fed chair Powell's speech tomorrow but in what is largely a data-driven market at the moment, the US jobs report on 2 September and US CPI data on 13 September will be the next two key releases to watch out for. | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/feds-bostic-strong-data-may-make-a-case-for-another-75-bps-rate-hike-20220825/ | 2022-08-25T09:51:34Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/feds-bostic-strong-data-may-make-a-case-for-another-75-bps-rate-hike-20220825/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
In its endeavor to acquire VR player Within Unlimited Inc. and its Supernatural app, Facebook, now rebranded as Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META), has been caught up in a legal mess. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) have also entered the metaverse fray. Here’s what’s happening behind the scenes as these tech giants move toward the Metaverse.
With the increasing popularity of the Metaverse among users, pressure is mounting on technology companies to stay ahead in the race. Huge investments are being made to enhance the user experience in the Metaverse, an immersive virtual world that can be enjoyed using augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) headsets.
While many tech giants are focusing on developing advanced Metaverse technologies, some have even resorted to acquiring small players in the field to stay ahead in the race. Meta is one of the companies that tried. However, a lawsuit seeking to prevent Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg from buying Within Unlimited was filed in July 2022. The acquisition of Within Unlimited was announced by Meta in October 2021.
The lawsuit is now in the headlines as the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has proposed to drop Mark Zuckerberg from the case only if he refrains from buying the VR startup in any capacity. In July, FTC Deputy Director Bureau of Competition, John Newman, said, “Instead of competing on the merits, Meta is trying to buy its way to the top.”
Amid this backdrop, let’s talk about Meta Platforms and two other Metaverse players, Microsoft Corporation and Apple Inc. A consolidated chart, designed using TipRanks’ Stock Comparison tool, is provided below.
Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META)
The $438.8-billion social media giant is one of the most active players in the Metaverse space. It operates a dedicated Metaverse platform, called Horizon Worlds, and offers users its Meta Quest 2 VR headsets. Also, the company has acquired multiple VR players in the past few quarters, which include the buyout of ImagineOptix Corp. in December 2021.
In June, Meta Platforms launched a digital clothing store, Meta Avatars Store.
On TipRanks, Meta Platforms has a Moderate Buy consensus rating based on 27 Buys, five Holds, and two Sells. META’s average price target is $224.21, which reflects upside potential of 37.33% from the current level. Over the past year, shares of META have declined 55.7%.
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)
The $2.06-trillion software company has exposure to the Metaverse space through its software, Microsoft Mesh. Also, the company is committed to integrating VR technologies in its existing offerings like Microsoft Teams.
Moreover, Microsoft is all set to acquire Activision Blizzard, Inc. in Fiscal Year 2023 (ending June 30, 2023). This buyout would strengthen Microsoft’s footprint in the gaming and Metaverse space.
Analysts covered by TipRanks are unanimously optimistic about the prospects of Microsoft, which commands a Strong Buy consensus rating based on 28 Buys and two Holds. MSFT’s average price forecast of $325.77 mirrors upside potential of 18.12% from the current level. Shares of MSFT have slipped 8.7% in the past year.
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)
The $2.69-trillion smartphone maker intends to extend its reach in the Metaverse space through planned investments, the development of VR headsets, and designing applications that would assist users in easily accessing the Metaverse. Also, it is worth noting that the company is already offering Metaverse applications on its platform.
The analyst community looks optimistic about Apple and has a Strong Buy consensus rating based on 23 Buys, four Holds, and one Sell. APPL’s average price target of $183.07 reflects upside potential of 9.28% from the current level. In the past year, APPL stock has advanced 12.9%.
Concluding Remarks
The Metaverse is getting larger by the day, with its users demanding enhanced experiences and tech companies aggressively trying to fulfill their demands. According to Statista, the global Metaverse market is expected to be worth $47.48 billion in 2022 and expand to $678.8 billion by 2030. Thanks to their investments in the Metaverse, AAPL stock, META stock, and MSFT stock all have potential to gain as the Metaverse market grows.
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Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker Nio Inc. (NIO) is preparing for deliveries of its most awaited ES7 five-seater SUV across China as well as the shipment of the first batch of ET7 full-size electric sedan to Europe. The demand for the new EV models could help NIO stock rebound from its year-to-date slump.
While the Chinese EV industry has faced production challenges owing to the COVID-19-related lockdowns and supply chain bottlenecks, Nio has managed to report strong auto delivery numbers both in the second quarter and the month of July.
Notably, Nio also offers a subscription-based battery swap option for its EVs. These are eligible for subsidy under China’s current subsidy policy for the new energy vehicle industry, which expires next year. This has also helped propel the demand for Nio’s autos in China.
Nio’s ES7 Ready for Delivery Across China
Nio’s ES7 model is based on the company’s latest technology platform, called NIO Technology 2.0. The SUV is slated to start delivery across the mainland beginning August 28.
On August 25, Nio began shipping the ES7 autos from its Hefei advanced manufacturing base to various locations in China. The company stated that deliveries will be allotted as per the order schedule and will depend on factors including production progress and distance to destination.
Nio’s ES7 comes in three variants, which are priced at RMB 468,000, RMB 526,000, and RMB 548,000, respectively, before subsidies.
Nio’s ET7 Starts Shipping to Europe
Nio’s flagship ET7 sedan has gained popularity in China and is being shipped for its first delivery to Europe. This year, the ET7 will be available in Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden. Nio hopes to witness a solid jump in vehicle deliveries in the fourth quarter this year, once the EV deliveries begin in full swing across Europe.
Nio’s ET7 received permission for sale in Europe from the European Community Whole Vehicle Type Approval (EWVTA) in April 2022. This is Nio’s second model to be sold in Europe following the success of ES8 last year in Norway. Details of ET7 variants and battery packs for Europe are not available at the time.
Is NIO a Buy, Sell or Hold?
Analysts on the Street remain highly optimistic about Nio stock. Recently, Deutsche Bank analyst Edison Yu called Nio’s expansion efforts in overseas markets “underappreciated.” The analyst noted that the company’s expansion into European markets this year has not been fully acknowledged in its long-term growth potential.
Furthermore, Yu also noted that Nio’s CEO William Li was seen visiting its U.S. headquarters recently. During his visit, Li was also looking at probable store options to open Nio’s first store in San Francisco, which adds to the analyst’s optimism for NIO stock.
Yu has a Buy rating on NIO stock with a price target of $45, which implies a stellar 138.5% upside potential to current levels.
On TipRanks, NIO stock commands a Strong Buy consensus rating with 11 unanimous Buys. The average Nio price target of $33.04 implies a whopping 75% upside potential to current levels. Meanwhile, NIO stock has lost 43.6% so far this year.
Ending Thoughts
Nio is well positioned to gain from the large EV shift across China and Europe. Moreover, the company also has plans to enter into battery production, which could solve the major supply challenge in manufacturing EVs. In 2024, Nio is expected to start producing in-house lithium manganese iron phosphate (LMFP) and 4680-type batteries for both the NIO brand and other local EVs.
Meanwhile, NIO is preparing for its annual shareholder meeting scheduled for today. Shareholders are likely to vote on multiple topics. One of the most important updates that are awaited is on the short seller Grizzly Research. On June 28, Grizzly alleged that Nio uses its battery seller Weineng to balloon its revenue and net income. Although NIO has denied any wrongdoing, the company is undertaking a thorough investigation of the allegations. Shareholders await more clarity on the case in the annual meeting. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/nio-stock-nysenio-could-rise-as-the-ev-maker-gears-up-for-es7-et7-deliveries | 2022-08-25T10:03:26Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/nio-stock-nysenio-could-rise-as-the-ev-maker-gears-up-for-es7-et7-deliveries | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
GameStop (GME) is bringing more retail investors to its meme stock, and it is not looking far to find them because they are just within its stores. The video game retailer has launched a reward program that will see thousands of its store workers own a piece of GME stock.
GameStop plans to give its U.S. store employees stock awards as part of a new compensation initiative, according to a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report citing a leaked internal memo. Store leaders would get as much as $21,000 in GameStop shares. The stock awards would vest in installments over three years. It means GameStop’s insider retail investors will be required to hold on to their stocks for some time before they can sell.
GameStop’s Pivot to Digital Sales Strained Relationship with Store Workers
The gaming retailer has had a little difficult relationship with some of its store workers, following its focus on growing online sales. A Fortune report detailed mass resignations at some GameStop stores in Nebraska. The store workers quit in protest of low pay and unrealistic performance targets. Some of the staff who quit noted that the atmosphere changed after the video game retailer pivoted to e-commerce.
In the memo cited in the WSJ report, GameStop CEO Matt Furlong wrote that the store fleet remains critical to the retailer’s business. Indeed, the digital strategy has faced reality checks recently. For example, GameStop’s NFT sales have dropped sharply from the peak levels.
The stock award program for store staff may be an effort to motivate the team after the digital shift seemed to strain the relationship. The retail staff stock award program could cost GameStop as much as $50 million. In addition to potentially helping prevent brain drain, the compensation initiative may also motivate workers to do their best to help the business become profitable. Achieving profitability has become a priority for GameStop CEO Furlong.
Is GameStop Stock Expected to Rise?
Wall Street professionals are bearish on GameStop. According to TipRanks’ analyst rating consensus, GME stock is a Moderate Sell. The average GameStop stock price prediction of $17.50 implies 46% downside potential.
While Wall Street experts have a dim view of GameStop, retail investors seem optimistic. Retail investors are usually the force behind meme stock rallies. TipRanks’ Stock Investors tool shows that retail investor sentiment is currently Very Positive on GameStop. In the past 30 days, 5.6% of the top-performing portfolios tracked by TipRanks increased their exposure to GME stock.
Final Thoughts
The stock award to store workers should put GameStop shares in the hands of more retail investors, expanding an investment community base that already likes GME stock. It would be an added advantage if the stock reward program motivates workers to drive more store sales and help GameStop turn a profit.
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The wait for new iPhones may soon come to an end. On August 24, Apple (AAPL) sent out invites to select journalists for its Far Out press event that will be held on September 7 at its campus in Cupertino, CA. The event will be streamed on the company’s website.
Though the invites did not reveal much information about the event, except the date and time, it is largely expected that four variations of the iPhone 14 will be released that day. New models of the Apple Watch and AirPods may also be launched at the event.
Going by Apple’s launch history, the Far Out event is being held earlier than usual, since iPhone launch events are typically held around the second week of September. Also, Apple has been working on new models of its iPad and Mac, but they are unlikely to be released before October.
Is Apple a Buy or Sell Now?
On TipRanks, AAPL stock has a Strong Buy consensus rating, which is supported by 23 Buys, four Holds, and one Sell. Apple’s average price prediction points to an average price target of $183.07, indicating a 9.28% upside from current price levels.
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Fast food giant McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE:MCD) has appointed Jon Banner as Executive Vice President and Global Chief Impact Officer. Banner served in a similar capacity at beverage giant PepsiCo (PEP). He will report directly to McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski.
Banner Comes with Rich Experience
Banner has extensive experience in developing sustainable growth strategies. Prior to joining McDonald’s, Banner was responsible for PepsiCo’s Communications department, the PepsiCo Foundation, and also worked with the company’s Sustainability and Government Affairs departments. He co-created PepsiCo’s sustainability vision, called PepsiCo Positive.
Prior to PepsiCo, Banner worked at Disney (DIS), where he was an Executive Producer for popular news programs such as World News Tonight and This Week.
In the present role at McDonald’s, Banner will oversee several functions, including Sustainability and ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance), Government Relations and Public Policy, Communications and International Corporate Relations. He will also be responsible for Ronald McDonald House Charities.
Meanwhile, McDonald’s Board has seen some recent changes with the retirement of Sheila A. Penrose.
Is McDonald’s a Buy Now?
Top investors are confident about the company’s growth prospects and they are loading up on the company’s stock.
TipRanks’ Stock Investors tool shows that top investors currently have a Very Positive stance on MCD. Further, 4.3% of the top portfolios tracked by TipRanks, increased their exposure to MCD stock over the past 30 days.
Overall, the consensus among analysts for McDonald’s stock is a Strong Buy based on 20 Buys and three Holds. The average MCD price target of $283.55 implies an upside potential of 8.7% from current levels. Shares have gained 9.2% over the past year.
Final Thoughts
ESG is increasingly becoming a critical component for organizations and McDonald’s is looking to strengthen its position in the space. Jon Banner’s track record in the ESG space and his ESG strategy formulation capabilities can benefit McDonald’s.
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U.S. stock market futures rose early on Thursday morning as delegates from the Federal Reserve arrived at Jackson Hole for the first day of the annual economic symposium. More information is expected to be out by Fed Chair Jerome Powell on the central bank’s next move in its inflation-fighting campaign.
Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) inched 0.35% higher, while those on the S&P 500 (SPX) gained 0.54%, as of 5.44 a.m. EST, Thursday. Meanwhile, the Nasdaq 100 (NDX) futures advanced 0.60%.
However, experts are of the opinion that a drastic change in stance shouldn’t be expected from the Fed, especially because the target inflation rate is still very far below the current rate. Plus, the job market also seems to be holding up impressively, giving the Fed more encouragement to keep increasing the interest rates aggressively. This indicates that regardless of what Powell says, market activity is expected to pick up pace after the event is over.
What is Driving Pre-Market Action On the Earnings Front
As the market reaches the last leg of the earnings season, chip giant Nvidia (NVDA) tumbled more than 3% during the pre-market trading Thursday after missing Street estimates in its quarterly earnings report announced on Wednesday. Moreover, software provider Salesforce (CRM) also dipped almost 6% early on Thursday after providing a dismal guidance for fiscal 2023.
There was good news too on the earnings front, with data-software company Snowflake (SNOW) surging almost 18% in pre-market trading after posting a revenue beat and encouraging guidance in its quarterly earnings report.
More Economic Updates Released and Upcoming
A routine annual revision of the labor market by the Labor Department, on Wednesday, revealed the remarkable volume of jobs churned out by the economy last year which ended in March. Job additions exceeded the agency’s estimates by 462,000, which means about 39,000 roles were added per month on average for the year.
Moving on, weekly jobless claims for the week ended August 19 is on the deck to be released on Thursday. After rising to a peak number in the week ended August 5, claims for unemployment benefits cooled for the week ended August 12.
This apart, the personal consumption expenditures (PCE) data is expected to be out on Friday. Looking back, the PCE data has influenced the Fed’s actions meaningfully before, and is expected to have some influence on the policy tightening path for 2022.
Biden’s Student Loan Waiver Likely to Fuel Inflation?
On August 24, U.S. President Joe Biden made a bold move and waived off student loans by $10,000 per student earning less than $125,000 annually, and $20,000 per student from low-income families registered for Pell grants.
While this comes as welcome news for scores of students, experts believe that this does not solve the unaffordability issues in the U.S. education system, and most importantly, may cost an average increase of $2,000 in taxes per taxpayer.
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As baseball fans wonder who might become the Angels’ fourth owner in the team’s 61-year history, Anaheim officials and residents are reacting to the news that Arte Moreno may sell the franchise with questions of their own.
When might Angel Stadium get some improvements? Can the city make a new deal to develop the acres of parking lots around it? And what about the team name?
Angels Baseball announced Tuesday that owner Arte Moreno has hired a firm to explore selling the team, nearly three months after Anaheim officials pulled the plug on a deal to sell the stadium and surrounding property to his business partnership.
The sale had overcome several obstacles, including a residents’ group’s lawsuit and a dispute with the state over affordable housing, but it couldn’t withstand news that its chief champion, Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu, was under federal investigation.
Allegations in court documents say he may have tried to pass confidential information to Angels Baseball officials while the city was negotiating the stadium deal with them, and in return he allegedly hoped to seek $1 million in support for his reelection.
Sidhu has not been charged with a crime. His attorney has maintained that a thorough investigation would prove Sidhu did not disclose any secret information, and that his campaign contributions are in compliance with the law. Investigators noted in the court documents, the FBI agent had no evidence the team’s representative was aware of his intention or if Sidhu actually solicited any campaign funding.
Sidhu announced his resignation in May, the day before the council voted to void the sale of Angel Stadium.
For some, Tuesday’s news that the team could change hands was unexpected.
Councilman Steve Faessel said he didn’t want to speculate about what may have triggered it, but noted that Moreno has “had the team for 20 years, he’s no longer a youngster – this may or may not have resulted from the voiding of the stadium deal, he could have always had this at the back of his mind.”
Good news?
Surprising or not, Moreno’s announcement was seen by many as good news for everyone involved.
The team owner no longer has a lucrative development deal with Anaheim, but his prospects to turn a profit for the Angels are good, Ballpark Digest publisher Kevin Reichard said.
“Franchise values are very high right now,” Reichard said – and with Major League Baseball’s decision last year to allow private equity investment in its teams, “all of a sudden there’s a lot of money lying around.”
A new owner also would give the city a chance to reset expectations for the future lease or sale of the stadium.
While baseball has been part of Anaheim culture for a half-century and that tradition is expected to continue with a new owner, Councilman Trevor O’Neil said, “it is an opportunity for a fresh start that I think is welcome among all of us now.”
The prospect also has rekindled the flames of hope that the team could again be called the Anaheim Angels.
In 2005, Moreno changed the name by putting “Los Angeles” in front and “Anaheim” at the back, saying he wanted to make the team more marketable. The city spent more than $4 million on an unsuccessful legal challenge that concluded in 2009; now some see a potential ownership change as a new path to their desired result.
It’s a reasonable issue for the city to bring up, said former Mayor Tom Tait, who left office in 2018.
“My hope is that any buyer would honor the intent of the lease and name the team Anaheim Angels rather than naming the team after our rival city, Los Angeles,” Tait said.
State Sen. Tom Umberg (whose district includes the stadium and who was critical of the sale) put it this way: “I’m hopeful the new owner won’t be afraid to be associated with the city of Anaheim.”
That’s not Umberg’s only wish. “I’m a huge Angels fan and I look forward to them putting together a team that goes to the playoffs regularly.”
Questions remain
As prospective buyers begin considering the major investment of owning a baseball team, they’ll likely weigh the fact that the Angels come with a stadium lease that runs through 2029 and could be extended through 2038. The City Council does not need to approve the transfer of the lease to new owners.
That lease charges the city as landlord with some maintenance costs, but it gives the tenant the responsibility of keeping the stadium up to the standard of “first class professional baseball stadiums” – something the city hasn’t so far tried to interpret.
A city study from nearly 10 years ago estimated the venue would need at least $150 million in improvements, and with inflation “we would estimate that figure is easily double,” city spokesman Mike Lyster said.
Moreno never publicly said whether he planned to renovate the stadium or build a new one had the property sale gone through; the deal left room for both options.
The city would welcome working with new ownership and addressing “critical questions” that remain, Lyster said, including what to do with a stadium that’s more than 50 years old (and hasn’t had a major overhaul since 1998), and what to do with parking lot space “that is really underutilized and could be put to better use.”
Councilman Jose Moreno (no relation to Arte Moreno) was an early critic of the stadium sale, but he said he’s never had any animosity toward the Angels owner, who as a businessman was trying to get the best deal he could.
“I think regardless of who buys the team, it’s still incumbent upon the city to have honest, transparent and tough negotiators who will negotiate on behalf of the city of Anaheim” and its residents, he said.
“We must ask ourselves in choosing a council and mayor,” he said of the upcoming elections for three seats and the mayor, “will they negotiate in the best interests of the people of Anaheim, and who has the track record to be able to do that?”
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Jared Walsh said his hitting issues have boiled down to one simple problem.
“I haven’t been on time with the bat this year,” Walsh said, “and I think the results show that.”
The timing problem has caused Walsh to endure a nightmare season on the heels of being an All-Star in 2021. Last year, he hit 29 homers with an .850 OPS. This year he’s got 15 homers with a .644 OPS, including a .421 OPS over his last 49 games. Walsh had just five hits in his last 47 at-bats heading into Wednesday’s game, in which he was out of the lineup against Tampa Bay ace left-hander Shane McClanahan.
“It’s been a struggle for me all year, but I feel like I’m putting in the work and hoping I’ll see a benefit,” Walsh said.
Walsh said he’s tried to work on the timing issue by facing a high-velocity pitching machine and also by taking batting practice thrown from close range. He’s also looked at plenty of video.
“I’ve watched a lot of video the last two seasons, to figure out what the missing link is,” Walsh said, “but for me, it’s more trying to slow it down and be controlled and early. It seems like a lot of times if I get a good pitch over the plate, I’m catching it a tick late and I’m fouling it off.”
Walsh said the hitting coaches and analytics staff have not been a part of the problem.
“I haven’t received anything that would have changed what I did last year,” Walsh said. “They were happy with how I performed. It’s just been tougher for me to repeat.”
There are moments when he seems to be turning a corner. He had a 7-for-17 stretch, with five doubles, just after the All-Star break. Walsh hit a homer on Friday night in Detroit. On Tuesday night in Tampa, Walsh hit two balls to the warning track.
“He’s going through some things,” Manager Phil Nevin said. “It’s a frustrating time for him and it’s kind of snowballed a little bit. … He’s grinding through this. He’s never once complained. He’s never once asked for a day off. He wants to be out there for his teammates. He does a lot for us defensively at first base. He’s doing a great job around the bag especially.”
PREPARING FOR CANADA
The Angels will have at least two new players in the clubhouse on Thursday, as they prepare to replace the players who won’t be able to play in Toronto because they are not vaccinated.
Outfielder Ryan Aguilar and right-hander José Marte will join the Angels, a source confirmed. The Angels might add other players, depending on how many members of their current roster are prohibited from traveling to Canada because of their vaccination status.
The Angels have not revealed which players will not be traveling to Toronto for the three-game series that begins on Friday.
Aguilar will be making his major league debut. The 27-year-old is a product of Esperanza High in Anaheim and the University of Arizona. He spent six seasons in the Milwaukee Brewers system, never reaching the majors.
The Angels picked him up over the winter, and he’s spent the entire season at Double-A. Aguilar has hit .280 with 15 homers and a .944 OPS. He has played 69 games in the outfield and 11 at first base.
Marte, 26, is back for his third stint in the majors this season. He has allowed three earned runs in five innings, with seven walks and seven strikeouts. Marte has a 5.79 ERA at Triple-A.
NOTES
Infielder Phil Gosselin said his inning on the mound late in the Angels’ 11-1 loss to the Rays on Tuesday night made “something good out of a bad situation with a loss.” Gosselin retired three hitters on five pitches, all of them slower than 50 mph. “I was just happy I didn’t walk anybody,” Gosselin said. “I just wanted to throw it over the plate. I know it’s like almost impossible to hit when guys throw that slow. I’ve seen it on the other side when I’m hitting. I figured that was my best chance.” Gosselin said he hadn’t pitched since he was 15 years old, and he’s not eager to do it again. “I’d like to sit on my numbers.” …
Matt Duffy (back) has passed all the physical tests during his rehab assignment at Triple-A, so he can be activated as soon as the Angels deem he’s ready from a baseball perspective, head athletic trainer Mike Frostad said on Wednesday. Duffy is 2 for 23 in seven games with Triple-A Salt Lake. …
Michael Lorenzen (shoulder strain) came through his first rehab outing with no issues, Frostad said. Lorenzen is scheduled to pitch again on Saturday. Lorenzen is eligible to come off the 60-day injured list on Sept. 2, which would be six days after his upcoming minor league start.
UP NEXT
Angels (LHP Patrick Sandoval, 4-8, 3.14) at Rays (RHP Drew Rasmussen, 8-4, 2.82), Thursday, 10:10 a.m., Bally Sports West, 830 AM
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The Angels will open the 2023 season with a series against the A’s in Oakland, marking the fifth time in seven seasons they have started their season in that ballpark.
Otherwise, the 2023 Major League schedule, which was released Wednesday, is significantly different. For the first time in history, each team will play all other teams, with more interleague games and fewer intradivision games.
The Angels will now play 13 games against each of their four division rivals, down from 19. They will play a three-game series against 14 of the 15 teams in the National League, with seven at home and seven on the road. The Angels will also play a pair of two-game series against the Dodgers, one in each ballpark. The Angels will face the Dodgers on June 20-21 at Angel Stadium and July 7-8 at Dodger Stadium.
The Angels will open their home schedule against the Toronto Blue Jays on April 7. They will play their final six games at home, ending with a series against the A’s from Sept. 29 to Oct. 1.
— Jeff Fletcher (@JeffFletcherOCR) August 24, 2022
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Orange County Register’s Angels beat writer Jeff Fletcher joined Southern California News Group assistant sports editor James H. Williams for a Twitter Spaces discussion about longtime Angels owner Arte Moreno’s decision to potentially sell the Angels.
Moreno purchased the Angels for $184 million in 2003, and the franchise’s value is now estimated at more than $2 billion.
Fletcher talks about Mike Trout’s comments following the announcement and what direction the team could go in next. He also answers baseball fans’ questions.
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COSTA MESA — When cornerback J.C. Jackson began to feel discomfort in his ankle several weeks ago, the Chargers’ athletic training staff treated it with rehabilitation exercises and then an injection. When matters didn’t improve and the pain didn’t go away, surgery was performed Tuesday.
It was a minor surgery, Chargers coach Brandon Staley stressed Wednesday. Jackson is expected back on the field sooner than later, possibly even for the season-opening game against the Las Vegas Raiders on Sept. 11. It all depends on how quickly the surgical wound heals.
“A very minor procedure, more for comfort more than anything,” Staley said. “It’s not a structural problem. There’s no injury, so to speak. That’s why he didn’t miss practice. It’s more about comfort moving forward and just him feeling his best overall. He’ll be back here shortly.”
The Chargers estimated Jackson would be sidelined between two and four weeks. If he’s out for two weeks or less, he could play against the Raiders. If it takes longer for the wound to heal, if it’s closer to four weeks, then he might also miss the Week 2 game against the Kansas City Chiefs.
“Minor setback for a major comeback,” Jackson wrote on Instagram.
Staley said, “It came up, like, two-and-a-half weeks ago, when he started to feel it in practice a little bit. It didn’t prohibit him from practicing. He practiced full speed, went against the Cowboys full speed, and played beautifully. It’s really more of a comfort level when he would decelerate at times.”
If Jackson can’t play, Staley has options. Cornerbacks Bryce Callahan, Michael Davis or Asante Samuel Jr. could replace Jackson, depending on the defensive package employed on any given down. Nasir Adderley and Derwin James Jr. have the safety positions locked down.
“We have three corners who we think are starting caliber players,” Staley said before the Chargers’ final practice before their exhibition finale Friday at New Orleans. “Asante and Bryce and those guys will be starting in five (defensive back)-type packages until further notice, and we’ll get J.C. back there soon.”
Jackson, 26, signed a five-year, $82.5 million contract, with $40 million guaranteed, as a free agent from the New England Patriots on March 14. He had eight interceptions and 23 passes defended last season with New England and was selected to play in the Pro Bowl for the first time.
In addition to Jackson, the Chargers bolstered their defense by signing Callahan, defensive linemen Austin Johnson and Sebastian Joseph-Day and linebackers Troy Reeder and Kyle Van Noy as free agents. Linebacker Khalil Mack was acquired in a trade from the Chicago Bears for a 2022 second-round draft pick and a sixth-rounder in 2023.
MURRAY UPDATE
Staley ruled out the possibility of linebacker Kenneth Murray Jr. playing in Friday’s exhibition against the Saints. After sitting out the start of camp after undergoing offseason ankle surgery, Murray returned to the practice field Monday and participated in limited drills this week.
The Chargers are hopeful Murray will be sound enough to play without restrictions for Week 1.
“I think it just depends on how he does the next two or three weeks, but he looked good at practice (Tuesday),” Staley said. “I’m really excited to have him back. He looks really good. He has the right mindset. We’re just going to see how it goes the next three weeks. I definitely think he’s going to play in that game, for sure. How much? That will just depend on how he ramps up here in the next three weeks.”
QUARTERBACK ROTATION
As they did in the Chargers’ first two exhibitions, Chase Daniel and Easton Stick will split the quarterbacking duties Friday against New Orleans. Daniel will play in the first half and Stick will play in the second, Staley said. Starter Justin Herbert is not expected to play until the season-opening game.
INJURY UPDATE
Wide receiver Joshua Palmer exited concussion protocol and rejoined the Chargers for individual drills.
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Safaricom has announced the appointment of Cynthia Karuri-Kropac as the Chief Enterprise Business Officer.
Safaricom hires executive from world largest telecommunications company
Cynthia Karuri-Kropac holds an MBA in Finance from Kent State University and a BSc in Finance from the University of Toledo.
Cynthia will officially join the company on September 1, 2022, from US telecommunications company AT&T.
It is the world's largest telecommunications company by revenue and the third largest provider of mobile telephone services in the US.
AT&T revenue for the twelve months ending June 30, 2022, was reported to be $156.933 billion (Sh18.8 trillion).
She worked for the company for 19 years with her last assignment being the Senior Director, Enterprise Mobile and IoT Technologies.
“With over 20 years experience in the yelecommunications sector, Cynthia has a wealth of knowledge in various crafts, including business strategy, industrial IoT, enterprise technology solutions, executive advisory & decision support, operational excellence & process reengineering,” Safaricom said in a statement.
She has won awards in various capacities, including recognition by Women of Color Magazine as a Rising Star in STEM, and as top Supplier of the Year award for the largest Healthcare OEM in the world.
Cynthia has a passion for teaching and the pursuit of learning, has taught Finance at a local community college level and is a budding blogger for teaching financial literacy and planning.
She holds an MBA in Finance from Kent State University and a BSc in Finance from the University of Toledo.
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The Hot Wheels Monster Truck Glow Party tour is coming to the Toyota Arena in Ontario Sept. 3-4.
The show will bring out life-sized Hot Wheels monster trucks including the Mega Wrex, Tiger Shark, Boneshaker, Bigfoot and more. There will also be a live appearance of the car-eating and flame-breathing robot, Megasaurus. The tour will also serve as the debut of the all-new Gunkster monster truck. There will also be a Hot Wheels toy giveaway and a dance party with glow sticks and lasers.
Show times are 12:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sept. 3 and 2:30 p.m. Sept. 4. Tickets are $12-$18 for kids ages 2-12 and $27-$37 for adults at Ticketmaster.com.
There’s also the Crash Zone Pre-Show Party scheduled two and a half hours before every performance that is $7.50 per person at Ticketmaster.com. This event includes access to the competition floor to see the Hot Wheels Monster Trucks up close, an autograph card and a souvenir pass and lanyard.
For more information, go to hotwheelsmonstertruckslive.com.
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By Carla K. Johnson | Associated Press
The compound in psychedelic mushrooms helped heavy drinkers cut back or quit entirely in the most rigorous test of psilocybin for alcoholism.
More research is needed to see if the effect lasts and whether it works in a larger study. Many who took a dummy drug instead of psilocybin also succeeded in drinking less, likely because all study participants were highly motivated and received talk therapy.
Psilocybin, found in several species of mushrooms, can cause hours of vivid hallucinations. Indigenous people have used it in healing rituals and scientists are exploring whether it can ease depression or help longtime smokers quit. It’s illegal in the U.S., though Oregon and several cities have decriminalized it. Starting next year, Oregon will allow its supervised use by licensed facilitators.
The new research, published Wednesday in JAMA Psychiatry, is “the first modern, rigorous, controlled trial” of whether it can also help people struggling with alcohol, said Fred Barrett, a Johns Hopkins University neuroscientist who wasn’t involved in the study.
In the study, 93 patients took a capsule containing psilocybin or a dummy medicine, lay on a couch, their eyes covered, and listened to recorded music through headphones. They received two such sessions, one month apart, and 12 sessions of talk therapy.
During the eight months after their first dosing session, patients taking psilocybin did better than the other group, drinking heavily on about 1 in 10 days on average vs. about 1 in 4 days for the dummy pill group. Almost half who took psilocybin stopped drinking entirely compared with 24% of the control group.
Only three conventional drugs — disulfiram, naltrexone and acamprosate — are approved to treat alcohol use disorder and there’s been no new drug approvals in nearly 20 years.
While it’s not known exactly how psilocybin works in the brain, researchers believe it increases connections and, at least temporarily, changes the way the brain organizes itself.
“More parts of the brain are talking to more parts of the brain,” said Dr. Michael Bogenschutz, director of the NYU Langone Center for Psychedelic Medicine, who led the research.
Less is known about how enduring those new connections might be. In theory, combined with talk therapy, people might be able to break bad habits and adopt new attitudes more easily.
“There’s a possibility of really shifting in a relatively permanent way the functional organization of the brain,” Bogenschutz said.
Patients described life-changing insights that gave them lasting inspiration, Bogenschutz said.
Mary Beth Orr, 69, of Burien, Washington, said her psilocybin-induced hallucinations — flying over breathtaking landscapes and merging telepathically with creative people throughout history — taught her she wasn’t alone.
Before enrolling in the study in 2018, Orr had five or six drinks every evening and more on weekends.
“The quantity was unacceptable and yet I couldn’t stop,” she said. “There was no off switch that I could access.”
During her first psilocybin experience, she saw a vision of her late father, who gave her a pair of eagle eyes and said, “Go.” She told the therapists monitoring her: “These eagle eyes can’t see God’s face, but they know where it is.”
She stopped drinking entirely for two years, and now has an occasional glass of wine. More than the talk therapy, she credits psilocybin.
“It made alcohol irrelevant and uninteresting to me,” Orr said. Now, “I am tethered to my children and my loved ones in a way that just precludes the desire to be alone with alcohol.”
Patients receiving psilocybin had more headaches, nausea and anxiety than those getting the dummy drug. One person reported thoughts of suicide during a psilocybin session.
In an experiment like this, it’s important that patients don’t know or guess if they got the psilocybin or the dummy drug. To try to achieve this, the researchers chose a generic antihistamine with some psychoactive effects as the placebo.
Still, most patients in the study correctly guessed whether they got the psilocybin or the dummy pill.
Paul Mavis couldn’t guess. The 61-year-old from Wilton, Connecticut, got the placebo, but still quit drinking. For one thing, the talk therapy helped, suggesting to him that his emotional life stalled at age 15 when he started drinking to feel numb.
And he described a life-changing moment during a session where he was taking the dummy drug: He imagined the death of a loved one. Suddenly, an intense, incapacitating grief overcame him.
“I was crying, which isn’t typical for me. I was sweating. I was bereft,” he said. “As I’m trying to reconcile this grief, like, why am I feeling this?
“Instantly, I thought, ‘Drinking equals death.’” He said he hasn’t had a drink since.
Dr. Mark Willenbring, former director of treatment research at the National Institute for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, said more research is needed before psilocybin can be considered an effective addition to talk therapy. He noted that talking with a therapist helped both groups — those who got psilocybin and those who didn’t — and the added benefit of psilocybin appeared to wear off over time.
“It’s tantalizing, absolutely,” Willenbring said. “Is more research required? Yes. Is it ready for prime time? No.”
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — One of the drivers of a Brink’s tractor-trailer was asleep inside the big rig, parked near a remote Southern California rest stop earlier this summer, when thieves broke a lock and stole millions of dollars worth of jewelry and gemstones, according to a lawsuit filed by the security company.
While the second driver was getting food inside the rest stop early July 11 — spending nearly 30 minutes away from the vehicle — the thieves stole 22 bags of jewelry from the vehicle and fled.
The heist nabbed a haul that’s been described by some as worth less than $10 million and others as roughly $100 million and the value is now the subject of two lawsuits filed this month. If the latter figure is accurate, it would be one of the largest jewelry thefts in modern history.
But Brink’s, in a federal lawsuit filed Aug. 4 in New York, stated that the pickup manifests signed by the jewelers reported a total of $8.7 million worth of merchandise in the 22 stolen bags.
The security company’s lawsuit alleges that the jewelers under-declared the value of the items that were being transported and the company is only responsible for the declared value.
The theft occurred near the “Flying J” rest stop and gas station in the unincorporated community of Lebec, about 75 miles (120.7 kilometers) north of downtown Los Angeles, as the items were being sent overnight from a jewelry show in the San Francisco Bay Area down to the Los Angeles region for another event.
Brink’s is seeking to limit potential payouts to the jewelers, who say their cargo was worth $100 million and that the security company is trying to deny compensation to its customers for a theft “its drivers practically invited to happen.”
Fourteen jewelers and jewelry companies alleged breach of contract and negligence in a lawsuit filed Monday against Brink’s in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
“Everyone in our group has been emotionally and financially destroyed,” the plaintiffs said in a statement on Tuesday. “We are lost and do not know what comes next in our lives. Whatever plans we all have for the future for our businesses and our families has evaporated in an instant.”
A spokesperson for Brink’s declined to comment to The Associated Press on Tuesday, citing the pending litigation. The Los Angeles County sheriff’s sergeant who is investigating the case did not respond to a request for comment.
The Los Angeles Times first reported the lawsuits on Tuesday.
Brink’s lawsuit states that the driver left his partner in the big rig’s sleeping berth while he went to get food — a move the company says was “per Department of Transportation regulations.”
He was gone for 27 minutes and returned to find the lock broken, though the sleeping driver said he hadn’t seen or heard anything unusual, according to the lawsuit. It was not immediately clear whether the driver was supposed to be gone for so long, and if the sleeping berth is sound-proof.
In their lawsuit, the “mom and pop” jewelers are seeking $100 million in damages and $100 million in restitution from Brink’s. The jewelers allege that a Brink’s employee told them to under-value their merchandise on the pickup manifests “in order to save money, because the cost of shipping would be too expensive if they declared the full value of their goods.”
“We are astounded by Brink’s lack of support for their longtime customers who thought they were in safe hands with Brink’s,” Jerry Kroll, an attorney for the jewelers, said in a statement. “After relying on Brink’s for their guarded transportation services, our clients have lost virtually everything in this theft, including their source of income.”
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LOS ANGELES — Organized theft rings from Northern California are targeting the vehicles of tourists and other visitors at Los Angeles’ Griffith Park, the sprawling urban wilderness that is home to some of the city’s most famous attractions.
Thieves break into vehicles, particularly rental cars, in the most popular areas of the park and take off with valuables in seconds, Los Angeles police officials told a press conference Tuesday in front of the iconic triple-domed Griffith Observatory.
“Car thieves target property left in plain sight such as luggage, purses, electronics, laptops, tablets, expensive sunglasses, even passports,” said Capt. Gary Walters, commanding officer of the Los Angeles Police Department’s northeast area patrol.
The mountainous park sprawls over more than 4,200 acres (1,700 hectares) in the middle of the city. In addition to the observatory, it is home to the Hollywood sign, the Greek Theatre, the LA Zoo, the Autry Museum of the American West, the Travel Town railroad museum and the LA Equestrian Center. Daily visitors include hikers, joggers and bicyclists.
The park is patrolled by city police, park rangers and community volunteers.
Detective Michael Ventura said some of the thieves are local but surveillance camera footage of license plates shows that many are organized groups that use rental cars to drive down from Northern California to Griffith Park.
Ventura said his department has primarily been sharing information about the crimes with authorities in San Francisco and Oakland.
In particular, the thieves look for rental cars that can easily be identified by markings the rental companies use to scan vehicles going in and out of their lots, Ventura said.
He urged visitors to leave their valuables at their lodging or lock them out of sight in the trunk of their car.
“Your windshield’s been broken and your property’s been taken, that’s probably the fastest way to ruin somebody’s vacation,” he said.
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BEIRUT — The U.S. military said early Wednesday it carried out airstrikes in eastern Syria that targeted areas used by militias backed by Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.
Opposition war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and activist collective Deir Ezzor 24 said the airstrikes targeted the Ayash Camp run by the Fatimiyoun group made up of Shiite fighters from Afghanistan. The war monitor reported that at least six Syrian and foreign militants were killed in the airstrikes, while Deir Ezzor 24 reported 10 deaths.
Deir Ez-Zor is a strategic province that borders Iraq and contains oil fields. Iran-backed militia groups and Syrian forces control the area and have often been the target of Israeli war planes in previous strikes.
In Iran, Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani issued a statement later Wednesday condemning the American strike “against the people and infrastructure of Syria.” He also denied that Iran had any link to those targeted. Iran routinely denies arming militia groups targeting U.S. forces in the region, despite weaponry linking back to them.
The U.S. military’s Central Command said the strikes “took proportionate, deliberate action intended to limit the risk of escalation and minimize the risk of casualties.” It did not identify the targets, nor offer any casualty figures from the strikes, which the military said came at the orders of President Joe Biden.
“Today’s strikes were necessary to protect and defend U.S. personnel,” Central Command spokesman Col. Joe Buccino said in a statement.
The U.S. Treasury said the the Fatimiyoun has fought numerous battles in Syria, and is led by Iran’s elite Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guard.
“The Ayash warehouse is a very important one for Iran’s militias,” Deir Ezzor 24 CEO Omar Abu Layla told The Associated Press. “We expect that Iran will respond, either in al-Tanf or possibly in Iraq.”
Buccino added the attack was in response to an Aug. 15 attack targeting U.S. forces. That attack saw drones allegedly launched by Iranian-backed militias target the al-Tanf Garrison used by American forces. U.S. Central Command described the assault as causing “zero casualties and no damage” at the time.
There was no immediate acknowledgment by Syria’s state-run media of the strikes hitting Deir Ez-Zor.
U.S. forces entered Syria in 2015, backing allied forces in their fight against the Islamic State group.
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On a busy corner in Wellston, volunteers recently passed out essential items — including bottled water and cellphones — to people in need.
Under one tent, sex workers Miyonnee Hickman and Esmeralda, who uses the name for work, fill bags with condoms, pregnancy tests and emergency contraception.
Hickman and Esmeralda represent the MO-Ho Justice Coalition, a statewide organization of sex workers trying to decriminalize and destigmatize sex work in Missouri.
After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Missouri outlawed nearly all abortions. Now, the coalition is starting an abortion fund to help sex workers pay for the costs of abortion in Illinois. Abortion funds are among the fastest-growing ways that grassroots groups are trying to help people continue to access abortion services.
“It's going to be these grassroots groups on the ground who are going there to serve people when the state has let them down and cannot meet their needs,” said Maggie Olivia, the policy manager for Pro-Choice Missouri, the state’s largest abortion-rights organization.
Sex workers face higher rates of sexual violence. Many entered the industry to afford food and housing. People who use abortion funds often are parents who lack full-time jobs and permanent housing.
Esmeralda, who has had two abortions, said she wants others to be able to access the same care.
“Knowing that I had that option and how difficult [it] was at those moments in my life and knowing now that a lot of people don't have the option that I had, it puts me in a position of like, ‘I need to do something about this,’” she said.
Difficult decisions
Esmeralda, 26, began sex work at the start of the coronavirus pandemic when she lost both of her jobs. She started by selling photos and videos on Twitter and Instagram, and after making $500 in two days, decided to stick with it. She later began advertising herself for sugar baby arrangements through online dating sites.
But she said going into sex work wasn’t easy, mostly because she was afraid her family would find out.
Ultimately, Esmeralda decided to do what she wanted with her own body.
“I can't live my life thinking about others [and] what they're going to think,” Esmeralda said. “They're not the ones that are going to be paying my bills.”
Her decision to have an abortion wasn’t easy either, she said. But it came down to the fact that she couldn’t give a child the life she wanted to.
”If I’m going to bring another human into the world, I want to give them everything they need,” Esmeralda said. “And at that time, I couldn’t give that little person that.”
As sex workers could become pregnant while working, it’s essential that they have access to abortion, she said.
“Sex work is with our own bodies,” Esmeralda said. “We're always on the verge of getting pregnant or getting an STD.”
Predictive policy changes
Sex workers have sounded the alarm for decades about how politicians were increasingly restricting their bodily autonomy. It was no surprise, they said, when the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade this summer, leaving legal abortion access up to individual states.
In 2018, Congress passed a set of laws that aimed to shut down websites that facilitate sex trafficking. FOSTA-SESTA made it harder for sex workers to advertise their services online and made their work more dangerous, they said, driving them more often to street work.
“First, the state makes you more vulnerable to being sexually assaulted,” said Heather Berg, a Washington University professor of gender, women and sexuality studies who studies sex work. “And then," when it comes to abortion services, "it takes your ability to access health care off the table.”
Berg said many sex workers she has interviewed began sex work so they could pay for abortions. Now because of travel costs, abortion is even more expensive.
Old laws like the Mann Act of 1910, which made transporting sex workers across state lines illegal — or any woman for what it called "an immoral purpose" — could be used as a template for legislation to prohibit helping someone get an abortion in another state, Berg said.
“What sex workers mourn when contesting these laws is that it they won't just affect them,” Berg said. “Sex workers always warn with policing and surveillance policy, that they won't be the last ones — that they’re canaries in the coal mine.”
That’s why sex workers are experts in staying safe and navigating new statewide abortion restrictions throughout the country, she said.
A fine legal line
The rights of sex workers and others seeking abortions are inherently intertwined because they ultimately have the same goal of bodily autonomy, said MO-Ho Justice Coalition’s co-founder, Indigo Hann.
“At the end of the day, what we are all advocating for is for people to be able to be in charge of what they do with their bodies,” Hann said.
Organizing as a group gives sex workers, who often face stigma from friends, family and society, a place to be themselves and talk about issues they face in their communities, Hann said.
Sex workers often choose their own family, they said, and rely on each other for protection and support.
“It opens a space for people who are truly at the margins to be able to be free to be who you are, without apology [and] without violence, and to care for each other in substantive, material ways,” Hann said.
Sex workers have always had to walk a fine legal line because of their work, Hann said. Now that much of the rest of the country is having to navigate to access abortion, sex workers constitute a community that’s ready to help.
“Sex workers offer a beacon of wisdom, guidance and and hope in a post-Roe world,” Hann said.
Farrah Anderson is the newsroom intern at St. Louis Public Radio. Follow her on Twitter: @farrahsoa.
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HAYS, KANSAS — Even for a perennially dry region like western Kansas, this year sticks out.
Barely any rain. Temperatures that bake the soil into a cracked, parched mess. And forecasts that don't offer much hope of relief.
This summer in Dodge City ranks as its 5th hottest on record. And this year is the southwest Kansas city’s 12th driest in history going back to the 1870s.
And Dodge City is merely one hot, dry spot in a state that’s only occasionally found itself this warm and parched.
Drought currently covers nearly three-fourths of Kansas. And roughly one-third of the state is in extreme or exceptional drought — the highest levels on the U.S. Drought Monitor scale.
But is 2022 one of the worst drought years in the state’s history? It depends on how you look at it.
“It is bad, but it’s not near as bad as it has been,” National Weather Service meteorologist Jeff Hutton in Dodge City said. “It's been far, far worse than this.”
That doesn’t mean 2022’s drought hasn’t had grave consequences. The timing and location of some of this year’s harshest conditions devastated crops, as western Kansas wheat farmers saw earlier this summer.
But dry, hot weather is nothing new in this semi-arid part of the world. And experts like Hutton and Kansas State University meteorologist Chip Redmond said frequent breaks in the heat and timely bits of moisture have kept 2022 from surpassing the records set by the most extreme years in Kansas history.
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That illustrates the complexity of trying to compare one bad year with another.
“We can look at basic statistics, such as average monthly precipitation and temperature and their departure from normal,” said Redmond, who manages K-State’s Kansas Mesonet climate monitoring system. “(But) that doesn’t tell the whole story.”
Based on historical data, he said, the years that top the charts for drought and heat in Kansas history came during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s — particularly 1934 and 1936 — and then in 1956, 1974, 1976, 1980, 1983, 2000 and 2011-2012.
So, how does 2022 measure up against those benchmark years? Here are seven ways to compare them.
1. Dry spells
Rainfall totals this year are several inches below normal across Kansas. Hays has received around 9.5 inches of precipitation so far in 2022. That’s roughly half of the 18 inches it can usually expect to bank by this time of year.
Hutchinson has seen fewer than 14 inches of precipitation when it’s supposed to have more than 22 inches. Only 6.5 inches have fallen on Scott City — way less than its usual 15 inches.
Here’s another way to look at it: How many inches of rain would a town need today in order to get back in line with its historical year-to-date average?
For places like Hays, Hutchinson and Scott City, it would take more than eight inches of rain to climb out of their current deficits. Some pockets of northwest, central and southeast Kansas would need more than 10 inches of rain just to get back to average.
But even with how dry it’s been this year, 2022 doesn’t come close to being the driest in Kansas history.
“This year has quite a bit of work needed,” Redmond said, “if it wants to rank high.”
Out of 358 Kansas weather stations measuring precipitation, none have recorded their driest-ever 40-day period in 2022. That’s compared to 46 stations that set records for their driest 40-day period in 2000, 39 that set records in 1983 and 10 that still have records standing from the Dust Bowl in 1936.
2. Summer rain
In this traditionally dry region, annual precipitation averages are already measured in inches instead of feet. So when parts of western Kansas miss out on their precious few chances for summer rain — as has been the case this year — it particularly stings.
“The majority of our precipitation anywhere in the High Plains comes during the warm season from thunderstorms,” Hutton said, “So typically, you're not going to get a lot of precip in the late fall (or) wintertime that's going to alleviate the drought.”
A lack of moisture can directly fuel hotter temperatures, too. The drier soil gets, Hutton said, the faster it heats up.
But this summer still doesn’t hold a candle to the driest summers of years past.
Only one location in Kansas is on track to set a new record for its driest summer this year. Girard in southeast Kansas has received just over 2 inches of rain from the start of June to late August. That’s compared with 45 locations that experienced their driest June-August period in 1980 and 35 stations that set records in 1936.
It’s also worth noting that there are considerably more weather stations active today than there were in 1936, which makes it all the more remarkable that so many precipitation and heat records still stand from the Dust Bowl era. The Girard weather station, for example, didn’t begin monitoring until 1957, so one of those earlier years might actually have been drier than 2022.
3. 100-degree days
One way to assess this year’s heat is to compare the number of days that reached 100 degrees.
In Wichita, 23 days have hit that mark so far this year. In northwest Kansas, the town of Atwood has seen 31 of those days. Ashland in southwest Kansas leads the state with 39 days.
Those figures run well above average. Ashland’s total is more than double the number of 100-degree days the town has normally racked up at this point in the year. Wichita’s total puts 2022 in the top 10% of its recorded history.
But it’s still not close to breaking records.
“I’ve already heard people say, ‘Oh, it’s the hottest year ever,’” Hutton said. “No, it’s not. We only have to go back 11 years to 2011.”
Dodge City set an all-time record with 50 days of 100-degree weather that year. So far in 2022, it has seen 31 days that hot.
While that doesn’t come close to touching 2011’s record, it still means that 2022 already has the sixth most 100-degree days ever recorded in Dodge City.
4. Back-to-back days of heat
Unlike the most extreme years in Kansas history, this year’s 100-degree days have been much less likely to be strung together consecutively.
Ashland had 23 consecutive 100-degree days back in 1954 and 22 in a row in 1934. This year, it’s had two separate streaks of six days. That’s just the 81st longest streak in Ashland history.
Wichita experienced 20 days in a row in 1936 and an 18-day streak in 1980. Its longest run in 2022 was five days in a row. That’s Wichita’s 47th longest streak ever.
Hays saw streaks of 18 days and 15 days in 1934 and a streak of 17 days in 1980. This year, its longest streak is only three days, which is actually tied for the shortest streak in Hays history.
The number of consecutive 100-degree days matters because the heat’s impact — on people, crops and the environment — is multiplied as more extremely hot days fall back-to-back.
“When considering flash — or rapid onset — drought,” Redmond said, “stringing together consecutive hot days is important.”
5. Hot high temps
So far this year, seven of 159 Kansas weather stations have set new records for their hottest average high temperatures over a 20-day period.
That’s bad news for those seven locations. But statewide, that total pales in comparison to the 42 stations that have records still standing from 1980 or the 31 stations still holding on to records from 1936.
The actual temperatures this year haven’t been quite as hot as past record years either.
The state’s two all-time hottest 20-day periods both happened during the Dust Bowl — an average of 110.2 degrees in Winfield (1936) and Lincoln (1934). The hottest 20-day average of the seven new records set this year is several degrees below that — 102.7 degrees in Garden City.
6. Afternoon highs and overnight lows
Another way to look at heat is to compare a combined average of the high and low temperatures. This shows not only which years had the hottest afternoon highs, but also which years had the warmest overnight lows.
Climate change has slowly increased average low temperatures across Kansas since 1970 — nights have gotten 2.7 degrees warmer in Wichita. Dodge City recorded its warmest nighttime low temperature ever this June. And those rising nighttime temps can have destructive effects on crops and livestock.
But 2022 still falls far short of being the state’s hottest year by this measure as well.
In all, only seven of 159 Kansas weather stations set a new record for the hottest combined average temperature across a 20-day period in 2022 — compared with 40 records that still stand from 1980, 39 records from 2011 and 25 records from 1934.
And the record temperatures in 2022 aren’t as hot as their counterparts from past years.
The warmest 20-day period for combined high and low temperatures happened in 1980 when Wichita, Eureka and Anthony all recorded averages of 93.4 degrees. The comparable highest temperature from a record set this year — 85.3 degrees in Liberal — is several degrees cooler than that.
7. What happens next
One thing we don’t know yet about this year’s drought? When it will end.
Some of the most destructive droughts in Kansas history spanned multiple years. Depending on whom you ask, the Dust Bowl lasted somewhere between six and 10 years during the 1930s. A decade ago, Kansas experienced two historically dry, hot years back-to-back in 2011 and 2012.
Just like the compounding power of consecutive 100-degree days, having dry years back-to-back amplifies the damage those years inflict. Some parts of western Kansas saw the current dry spell begin to creep in during the second half of last year as rain totals fell below average, which set them up to fall faster and harder into drought this year.
And if the current drought continues into next year, Hutton said, that’s when it would be time to reassess 2022’s place in history.
“If I felt that we were going to be in a super dry pattern for two or three years,” Hutton said, “then we'll start looking at that 1956 drought, look at the 2011 drought, 2012 drought … and just compare the aerial extent and the severity of it.”
But he said that’s unlikely to happen. Long-term forecasts point toward Kansas getting more rain next year than this year, even though next year’s precipitation totals will likely remain below-average.
What’s happening in 2022, Hutton said, is just part of the natural weather cycle in this near-desert region.
Dodge City actually enjoyed above-average precipitation for seven straight years from 2013-2020. Prior to that, the southwest Kansas city had never experienced more than three years in a row of above-average rainfall.
So after decades of periodically extreme weather, he said, Kansans who farm this land should expect a year like this to come around sooner or later.
“They know that they’re going to have to endure these bad years,” Hutton said, “before we get back to the good gravy train.”
David Condos covers western Kansas for High Plains Public Radio and the Kansas News Service. You can follow him on Twitter @davidcondos.
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Shayla Curts, 22, had been living at Newhouse KC, a domestic violence shelter in Kansas City, Missouri, for several months after the birth of her second child. She said it gave her a safe place to breast feed her infant and care for her four-year-old while trying to get back on her feet.
But she was asked to leave Newhouse after what she claims were false allegations of misconduct. Because Curts didn't have a stable housing alternative, on June 15, 2022, investigators from the Jackson County Children’s Division and two policemen came to take her children into protective custody.
“I was still in between weaning (the baby) off breastfeeding and starting formula, and worried she was having trouble with the formula,” Curts said recently at a midtown coffee shop. “There was a lot the case manager needed to know.”
The case worker gave her a business card, but when Curts called to find out where her kids were, the case worker had left for vacation.
When she showed up a week later at the 16th Circuit Family & Juvenile Court for her first hearing, there was a different case worker. But that person almost immediately went on medical leave. Curts had heard her kids were jumping from one foster home to another, but she couldn’t find out where they were or when she’d next see them.
Over the last year, Jackson County has been hemorrhaging case workers, with vacancy rates in the hundreds. There were 887 kids in foster care as of end of July and only 19 case workers to handle their cases, officials told KCUR. Many workers left during the pandemic and didn’t return, deciding instead to take less stressful and emotionally draining jobs for higher pay.
Low pay, trauma
Brian West, regional director of the Kansas City office of the Children’s Division of the Missouri Department of Social Services, said by some measures salaries for Missouri child welfare workers may be the lowest in the nation. This makes it hard to recruit and retain them.
"(Social workers) come to this work because they want to help families and they're so overwhelmed, they feel like they’re just treading water,” West said.
Not only do workers feel they can’t do their jobs, West said they often suffer what’s known as secondary trauma, the experience of absorbing the grief, anxiety and anger that comes with routinely seeing the impact on families when parents are children are separated.
They often put themselves at risk while making home visits where domestic violence and substance abuse are issues. It takes a toll on their psychological and physical health.
“When you do this work day in and day out and try to support these families, you take some of that trauma onto yourself,” West said. “And we’re seeing a significant amount of that.”
The case managers are the primary liaison between parents and the court in cases of child abuse and neglect. They set up visits between families and kids in foster care. They find therapy and treatment programs and sign off on how well a parent is meeting court-ordered requirements for family reunification.
Juan Mendez, 23, married right out of high school and had two children within a few years. He worked 50 hours a week, overnights, at Quick Trip, but the family still had a hard time making ends meet.
Mendez said he knows now he and his wife were too young to have a family. The marriage became toxic.
“We both had anger issues, and both became physical," he said. "We were irresponsible with the kids and that led to the state getting involved.”
In 2020, the Jackson County Children’s Division placed the kids in foster care.
Today, Mendez lives on a quiet residential street in Independence, Missouri, with his girlfriend, Gracie, and their 18-month-old baby, Arabella. He has a steady job in Olathe, Kansas. Gracie is a substitute teacher.
Mendez continues to adhere to the requirements of his court order: going to therapy, getting psychological evaluations, taking anger management and parenting classes. He has been rewarded by progressively more time with his four-year-old son and three-year-old daughter.
But the court’s not holding up its end of the deal, he said. There have been three-month periods when he's gone without seeing his children. It's been hard to get questions answered, team meetings to occur or instructions for where and when he would see his kids.
“So far I’m on case worker number six or seven in two years,” Mendez said. “Some talk with you and some don’t. It’s really chaos, is what it feels like.”
'It's unconscionable'
Family court attorney Laurie Snell has been a child welfare case worker for more than two decades. She says the employment crisis at the Children’s Division is not only delaying family reunification, it might be breaking the law.
“Families are getting maybe a one-hour visit a month, even though the law and the practice has been that, in most cases, if your family is separated you should at least have weekly visits,” Snell said. “I’ve worked in the system for over 25 years and there's always ebbs and flows, exodus of workers, but never this bad. It’s unconscionable."
Zoda Ballew, 25, graduated two years ago from the University of Kansas with a psychology degree and, after two months of training, began as a contract social worker for $34,000 with the Missouri Department of Social Services.
She didn’t carry as many cases as social workers employed directly by the state, but she still had 25 at one time, well over what advocates say is a reasonable load. Case workers with the state may have 45 cases at a time, according to officials. The council that accredits social workers in Missouri recommends no more than 15.
Ballew said the hardest part of her job were the bureaucratic obstacles she faced in trying to reunite families after relatively minor infractions.
"There was often nothing there, no reason for a kid to be in foster care," she said. “I remember one of the these cases took an entire year. It was like the court pushed for them to remain separated."
The job took an emotional toll. “I didn’t realize the stress I was bearing until I was out of the profession,” she said. "For some people, that stress is overwhelming. Case workers coming to work every day crying."
Ballew is starting law school at UMKC this fall, planning to earn a degree she knows will allow her to still work in the child welfare system.
The director of the Missouri Department of Social Services Children’s Division testified to a joint committee of the legislature last December he was doing his best to “stem the bleeding,” but Gov. Mike Parson vetoed a $2 million funding increase in the budget. The state Senate refused to take up the House override.
Officials say this crisis will continue if they can't offer prospective social workers higher pay, counseling support to address their secondary trauma and prevention services to keep kids out of the system in the first place.
Shayla Curts had the first visit in a month with her infant and toddler this past weekend. It was only the second time she’d seen them since June.
She has a new caseworker who has been responding and appears committed to helping Curts get her kids back as soon as possible. And she’s started a job at McDonald's.
“It should be 60 days, four checks or so and I’ll have at least enough to get accepted into an apartment,’" she said. “I need housing before I can get my kids back. My plan is to have a place, and move in, within 60 days.” | https://www.kcur.org/news/2022-08-25/jackson-county-foster-kids-are-missing-visits-with-their-birth-parents-for-months-at-a-time | 2022-08-25T10:17:54Z | kcur.org | control | https://www.kcur.org/news/2022-08-25/jackson-county-foster-kids-are-missing-visits-with-their-birth-parents-for-months-at-a-time | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
With almost 900 kids in foster care and just 19 social workers, Jackson County Children’s Division is short hundreds of workers and has the worst case-overload problem in the state.
That means parents are going for months at a time without seeing their kids. KCUR's Laura Ziegler reports on why so many social workers left the field and never came back.
The Missouri Senate conservative caucus, which slowed down debates and pushed amendments relating to transgender student athletes and COVID-19 vaccine mandates, has disbanded.
Claiming a victory for their views, the caucus is now calling for more unity within the Republican Party. Up To Date's Steve Kraske spoke with the Missouri Independent's Jason Hancock to break down this story.
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The Trailing Spouse
If colleges are interested in real diversity work, their spousal accommodation policies for dual-career academic couples should be much clearer and more supportive, argues Mireille Rebeiz.
My husband quit academe after almost two decades of teaching. The same week, I was tenured and promoted to the rank of associate professor at Dickinson College.
Our journey is common in higher education when it comes to scholars and their spouses both trying to land full-time positions at the same higher education institutions. And it raises important questions about bias, gender and equity for dual-career academics that many institutions have yet to answer adequately.
We met in 2008 at Florida State University. I had recently left my home country of Lebanon and migrated to the United States to pursue a doctoral degree in Francophone studies. He had started his doctorate in English. We fell in love right away and got married 11 months after. We both graduated in 2012. I landed a tenure-track position at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, where he got a lecturer position in the general studies writing program.
It was not spousal accommodation but rather two independent hires, as both positions were advertised separately. We stayed in Bowling Green for two years. Living in a predominantly white, small rural town in America was something of a challenge. I started looking for jobs in big cities and was offered a tenure-track position at Stony Brook University on Long Island, N.Y. This round, we were not as lucky, as the university had no full-time positions in the English department. As such, my spouse accepted an adjunct position in the program in writing and rhetoric.
And then we discovered the hard way that: 1) Long Island is unaffordable for a young couple like us, especially when one has daycare expenses to cover and 2) spousal accommodation was not going to happen anytime soon. That pushed us to consider our options. On the job market we went again, and I was offered a tenure-track position at Dickinson.
In negotiating my contract, I asked for a full-time spousal accommodation and, once again, the answer was no. However, the college offered my husband an adjunct position in English and American studies. We agreed and moved to Carlisle, Pa., in 2018.
We immediately noticed the number of dual-career academic couples on campus, which is somewhat common in small college towns. Nevertheless, it felt like they were part of a secret club to which we were denied entry. We wondered how they managed to navigate the treacherous waters of negotiation for spousal accommodation. Was it a question of pure luck? Was it timing? Both my spouse and I were perplexed.
My research and personal experience indicate that colleges generally negotiate a spousal accommodation for a wife after a husband has accepted a position as senior administrator or in a tenured academic position. In other words, it is reserved for few high-ranked people who will generate money and/or publicity for the institution. As such, spousal accommodation has a hidden gendered attribute and is often assumed to be requested for a woman in a junior position following a man in a higher position. It seems to throw people off when the request comes instead from a woman acting on her husband’s behalf. An unspoken bias often exists—a view that the woman has emasculated her husband and is “wearing the pants,” while he is “not man enough” to find a job on his own.
I also noted that the concept of spousal accommodation is sometimes invoked to promote diversity—to recruit and retain faculty from underrepresented groups. While that’s an admirable idea, I am skeptical about how widely it is actually applied. I would be interested in seeing statistics on it, especially at a time when some institutions use diversity as a marketing tool and do surface-level work that does not necessarily address issues of systematic oppression. This kind of work feels performative and sounds great on a brochure. Other institutions have stretched the definition of diversity so wide to include everything and nothing.
In fact, it is fair to say that not much research has been done on spousal accommodation, although, while published in 2008, “Dual-Career Academic Couples. What Universities Need to Know” by Londa Schiebinger, Andrea Davies Henderson and Shannon K. Gilmartin continues to offer a solid foundation on the topic. It shows the myriad problems dual-career academic couples face and presents multiple recommendations. For instance, the study the book was based on statistically shows that dual-career academic couples are not a rarity, and as such, institutions should want to develop a dual-career hiring protocol to “compete for the best and the brightest.” This new hiring practice, the authors write, would support a diverse professoriate and “a more diverse, equitable, and competitive workforce, especially with regard to gender.”
For example, when an institution hires a woman as the first partner hired in the couple, this “breaks the stereotype of senior academics seeking to negotiate jobs for junior partners and may help universities achieve gender equality,” Schiebinger, Henderson and Gilmartin write. In addition, this practice shows a dual-career academic couple that the institution is willing to invest equally in both partners and that it strives to create a healthy work-life balance.
A Level of Secrecy
I’ve found that, at Dickinson, like many institutions, a level of secrecy surrounds the practice of spousal accommodation, which is inconsistently scattered across various departments. To my knowledge, the college, although seriously committed to diversity work, does not have a clear policy on spousal accommodation. But if higher education is interested in real diversity work, spousal accommodation for dual-career academic couples should be on the table, and adjunct positions do not and should not be viewed as spousal accommodation.
Indeed, if it were up to me, I would ban adjunct positions for spouses entirely for all the anxieties, unfairness and indignities that come with this temporary employment. While it allows for partners to move and stay together, it creates an unbalanced lifestyle where one partner is at a disadvantage, since “temporary positions typically do not provide the resources required to further careers,” in the words of Schiebinger, Henderson and Gilmartin. As many scholars have already reported, the pandemic highlighted and exacerbated adjuncts’ difficult working and living conditions: low pay and no job security, no retirement contribution from the employer, no health-care coverage, no dental and vision insurance, no paid sick days, no parental leave, no departmental support or access to research or travel funds, no raise for per-course pay … The list goes on. These are all things my husband had to cope with during his adjuncting years. He also had to face the elitism of some full-time faculty who consider themselves above adjuncts.
As academics, we preach about work ethics and importance of diversity, yet institutions are not willing to invest in guaranteeing a healthy work-life balance and dignified jobs that would retain not only faculty members in general but also, more important, those from underrepresented groups. Worse, institutions are willing to take advantage of adjuncts who are the most vulnerable among us—and those of us who are full-time academics are oftentimes willing participants in this vicious cycle of inequity.
According to the 2022 AAUP Survey of Tenure Practices, in 2019, only “10.5 percent of appointments were tenure track, 26.5 percent tenured, 20 percent full-time contingent, and 43 percent part-time contingent.” Higher education institutions cannot preach about diversity, equity and inclusion and pay thousands of dollars to employ chiefs of diversity yet heavily rely on adjuncts. They must steer away from contingent employment altogether, and they must invest in faculty members’ lives and create clear retention policies that include spousal accommodation.
After nearly two decades of teaching, my husband quit his job. While he is struggling to redefine himself, he said he finally feels liberated. He is done being the trailing spouse. Academe lost one hell of a professor. But seeing how the academic world had mistreated him—despite pretending to be a bastion of progressive values—I have no other choice but to fully support his decision and to rejoice for his newly acquired freedom
Inside Higher Ed reached out to Dickinson College, and Neil B. Weissman, provost, dean of the college and professor of history, had the following comment: “Dickinson College supports partner hiring, offering positions—full-time and part-time—when needs, financial resources and a candidate’s credentials create opportunities. Offers are made on a case by case basis. All candidates for partner hires are fully informed of the terms of an offer before a position is accepted.”
Mireille Rebeiz (she/her/hers) is associate professor of Francophone studies and women’s, gender and sexuality studies at Dickinson College.
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Beyond Transfer
Building common ground and shared will for accelerated change
Title
A System's Roles in Transfer Partnerships and Pipelines
How the University of Illinois system positively impacts the lives of students through influence and leadership.
The University of Illinois System is fortunate to be a part of a state that historically has placed a great emphasis on transfer student success. With a total of 12 public four-year institutions, 48 community colleges, and more than 60 non-profit four-year institutions, the state of Illinois is a national leader in bachelor’s degree completion rates among community college students who transfer to four-year institutions. This can be attributed in large part to a statewide general education course articulation mandate (Illinois Articulation Initiative) alongside a statewide initiative designed to facilitate transfer within Illinois using the nationally available tool, Transferology.
Yet, the work does not stop at the state level. As a system, the University of Illinois is committed to our transfer student population – from early transfer planning to graduation and beyond. With three diverse universities that comprise the state’s land-grant institution located in Urbana-Champaign, the state’s second public Research 1 university located in Chicago, and a smaller comprehensive university located in the state’s capital of Springfield, the system is home to more than half of all undergraduate students enrolled in a public university in the state. Our current student body includes transfer students from all 48 Illinois community colleges and almost a third of our undergraduate degrees handed out at our May 2022 graduation ceremonies were to former transfer students.
The University of Illinois System is a light touch system, and its three universities operate their recruiting and admissions strategies based on their own strategic planning and enrollment goals. The robust cooperative, collegial, and collaborative state-wide environment – necessary for effective transfer relationships – has inspired the system to develop a more active transfer portfolio.
MyCreditsTransfer
The system houses and supplements the state grant to provide Transferology, an online transfer advising tool. This follows best practices to make clear, current, and transparent information available to students about how their coursework will transfer. The MyCreditsTransfer project also provides support to the 85 participating Illinois institutions and their advisors.
Salute to Illinois Scholars event
Salute to Illinois Scholars (SIS) is a collaborative student recruitment and recognition event hosted by Illinois’ 12 public universities, led by the University of Illinois System. This event was established as a statewide effort to help reduce outmigration of Illinois’ high school and transfer students. A full third of the attendees from last year’s SIS event were potential transfer students. To help ensure our students know how much we value them, each public university commits to admission application fee waivers for all students registered to attend.
The Illinois Transfer Symposium
This annual event is designed to bring together representatives from community colleges, their local four-year public university partners, and the University of Illinois System’s three universities. The symposium is intentionally hosted by a community college so that administrators, admissions staff, academic advisors, and faculty can come together to learn more about the higher education pipeline available to students who begin college at two-year institutions. The event kicks off with a panel of students – both those currently enrolled at a community college and those who have already transferred – to share their experiences with the process.
Credits at Completion
The system has worked diligently both internally and externally to maximize the number of applicable credits a transfer student brings into our university. A recent finding is that students who transferred into the University of Illinois System earned an average three additional credit hours at the time of completion in comparison to the students who started as first-time freshmen within the system. While this is certainly positive news, especially when the most recent analysis by the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that students who transfer lose 43 percent of the credits they’ve already earned. A recent Transcript Study performed by our system documents that on average, 87 percent of credit earned is both transferable and applicable to degree requirements for our transfer students. The work continues to limit any excess credits at completion.
The U of I System Transfer Guarantee
Another critical component of the system’s transfer initiatives is enhancing relationships with our community college partners across the state and to develop pathways that allow for early transfer planning. Educating more than half of all students enrolled in a public university in our state, it’s imperative that we critically examine how to provide equitable, accessible opportunities to all groups – including those in the transfer pipeline using a student-centered approach.
Our most recently launched initiative - The U of I System Transfer Guarantee – now offers guaranteed transfer admission into any of the University of Illinois locations to transfer applicants who meet the following requirements –
- Enrolled only at an Illinois community college after graduating from an Illinois high school
- Earned a minimum of 36 graded, transferable semester hours at the time of application to the university
- Attained a minimum grade point average of 3.0 in all transferable coursework completed at the time of application to the university
- Satisfied the university's English language proficiency requirement
With The U of I System Transfer Guarantee, students are provided flexibility.
- Flexibility to start their higher education journeys at a community college, likely close to home
- Flexibility to cut costs
- Flexibility to explore their academic interests before enrolling in a baccalaureate program at one of our universities
- Flexibility to choose from over 550 undergraduate programs offered by our universities
- Flexibility to earn a bachelor’s degree from one of our three unique institutions – one that is a top public research university in the U.S., another that is one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse college campuses nationwide, or another that is continuously ranked the top public regional university in Illinois
Developing transfer pathways for this population is only one piece of the very complex puzzle. As we consider student-centric approaches to meet the needs of shifting demographics for our college-going students, what IS best for the student? It certainly isn’t a ‘one size fits all approach.’ Research shows us that most students who start at a community college do not pursue a lockstep, 2+2 pattern. The question regarding how to best streamline processes while ensuring that it’s customizable to the students’ needs - especially when their trajectory changes due to changes in major, life events, or other - is not a simple one.
The University of Illinois System is committed to the state’s transfer environment. As the largest system in the state, we are aware that we have an extraordinary reach, positively impacting the lives of our students, but also in influencing and leading the broader higher education community.
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In which a veteran of cultural studies seminars in the 1990s moves into academic administration and finds himself a married suburban father of two. Foucault, plus lawn care.
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The Horror! The Horror!
Readers share their job interview horror stories.
The Horror! The Horror!
When I put out the call for job interview horror stories, I thought I might receive three or four.
Alas, terrible behavior is an infinitely renewable resource. The outpouring was dramatic. That said, though, the stories fell into three main buckets.
The first includes tales of generally boorish, clueless, or disingenuous interviewer behavior.
The second includes stories of inappropriate comments about a candidate’s appearance, whether derogatory or flirtatious. These stories, of which there were many, came mostly from women.
The final one is about poor institutional decisions, whether ghosting a candidate after a full-day finalist gamut – been there – or reorganizations launched spontaneously in the middle of searches. Those aren’t primarily about individual behavior, though, so for today I’ll focus on buckets one and two. And in the spirit of a learning exercise, I won’t share any names.
If you recognize your own interviewing behavior in any of these, please take a moment to reflect. You can do better. If I didn’t believe change could happen, I wouldn’t bother blogging in the first place.
Some from the first bucket:
“When I was applying for a teaching position after a few years’ experience at a cc, some of the folks who came to my teaching demonstration brought grading with them.”
Don’t do that, people…
“Walked into an empty office. When someone came along, no one introduced or welcomed me, just told me where to sit & that the chair would be in shortly. During the interview, the chair noted that someone else from my institution had applied & openly speculated about why he did.”
Boundaries matter.
“At lunch, everyone talked about recent violent crimes in the area; at the interview, a faculty member noted how nice it was to talk to someone who was intellectually engaged; the search chair insisted on driving me two hours home instead of bringing me to the bus stop, but the trip took four hours because they drove about 40 mph on the highway and we had to stop for dinner in between.”
That’s an impressive number of red flags in a single visit.
Two separate people mentioned a provost who asked the candidate, in all apparent earnestness, what the deans had said about them.
“I had a campus interview for a student affairs job where it was less of an interview and more folks wanting me to take sides in a feud for which I lacked context. At one point, someone stormed out and slammed a door. I met with the person who would be my supervisor, and they cried, seemingly from exhaustion. In my interview with the next highest level person, they told me that queer people don’t normally work out there because they’re ‘histrionic.’”
Where to start?
“Many years ago I interviewed for a director position. The schedule was amended after I flew in, with an early (6-6:30 am) breakfast meeting added with a Board of Trustees member who administered a personality test.”
Self-awareness is not evenly distributed.
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As bad as those are, the ones in the second bucket are worse.
“I was interviewing to be an administrator on a campus where I had been a faculty member. In a one-on-one conversation with my would-be supervisor, he paused and said “Now I love babies as much as the next person. Babies are wonderful. But, you’re done having them, right?”
I can confirm that in all the interviews I’ve had, I’ve never been asked that.
“A PI for a post-doc asked if I would be comfortable regularly sharing a hotel room with him (allegedly due to limited outreach budget and wanting his lab to be involved in community outreach). He also asked about if I was married and whether it was a happy marriage. By the end of the interview I was certain I’d rather leave the field than take that position.”
Ewww.
“One of the VPs asked me ‘How does your husband feel about you working full-time?’”
I’ve never been asked how my wife feels about me working full-time.
“[T]he interviewer who looked me up and down and volunteered that there’s a Weight Watchers on campus…”
No, no, no. Nooooo!!!!!
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My gratitude, and condolences, to everyone who shared their stories. If you’re an interviewee, at least know you aren’t alone. If you’re an interviewer, and you don’t see what’s wrong with any of these, please reach out to HR post-haste.
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Is There a Place for LGBTQ+ Students in Greek Life?
A nonbinary student failed to win acceptance into a University of Alabama sorority. Experts say Greek life has made progress on LGBTQ+ inclusion, but membership selection remains fraught.
With the start of the school year comes rush week, the recruitment period for fraternities and sororities. At the University of Alabama, recruitment has exploded into a social media extravaganza known as “Bama Rush Tok,” an event covered by The New York Times and other media outlets fascinated with the style, drama and nitpicky rules governing the rush process.
In the Bama Rush Tok world, where popularity and pizzazz factor into the selection process, some TikTok users dubbed Grant Sikes, a nonbinary student at Alabama, “the main star.”
But Sikes, who has racked up millions of TikTok views posing in pink skirts and doling out makeup tips, wasn’t accepted into any sorority. Sikes—who lists she/her pronouns on Instagram—was reportedly cut from membership consideration last week.
With Sikes out, the question of inclusivity in Greek life—a culture known for exclusivity—looms. Where do nonbinary and transgender individuals fit in a world that thrives on distinguishing males from females? How are fraternities and sororities approaching the era of gender fluidity?
LGBTQ+ Acceptance in Greek Life
Sikes—who did not reply to a request for comment—is hardly the only individual to miss the cut for a sorority. It happens to thousands of women on campuses across the U.S. each year. For example, local media reported that roughly 8 percent of participants who attended the first session of open house events during fall 2022 recruitment didn’t receive a bid to join a sorority. But for transgender women or nonbinary individuals, winning acceptance into a sorority remains especially fraught.
Transgender women have spoken up about not being selected for sororities at a number of institutions in recent years, including the University of Michigan and the University of Utah. And even when transgender women have been offered membership, pushback has occasionally ensued; in 2016, the national leadership of Alpha Omicron Pi clashed with the local chapter at Tufts University, which extended a bid to a trans woman, prompting members to quit en masse. A year later, Alpha Omicron Pi closed its Tufts chapter and has not returned to campus. (The national leadership for Alpha Omicron Pi did not return a request for comment.)
But the Tufts chapter took issue with the national leadership on the issue of transgender inclusion in Greek life, ultimately prompting Alpha Omicron Pi to reverse course amid a campus backlash. Greek life experts say, however, that national organizations typically set the policy for local chapters to follow.
Conversations around inclusivity have expanded since 2016, experts say.
“Over the last couple of years, our organization has studied the fluidity of gender and gender identity,” said Dani Weatherford, CEO of the National Panhellenic Council, a support and advocacy organization for sororities that serves 26 autonomous members that set their own rules. “In 2016 NPC had a gender identity study group that gathered information and helped develop questions that member organizations could use in reviewing their own membership eligibility criteria, or for membership into the organization. And in those years since that study group did their work, all 26 of our organizations have moved to becoming trans-inclusive.”
The North American Interfraternity Conference, which has 6,000 chapters, struck a similar tone.
“Nationally, our member fraternities are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive environment. Like society as a whole, perspectives on LGBT+ acceptance continue to evolve within the fraternity community. While membership decisions and policies are made by individual fraternities, all NIC members support the NIC Position on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion,” Todd Shelton, spokesperson for the North American Interfraternity Conference, said in a statement.
The DEI policy Sheldon mentioned references gender identity and expression, which concludes that “the definition of a ‘men’s fraternity’ is left to the discretion of the member organization.”
Though 2016 may represent a flashpoint for gender identity issues in Greek life, outside experts have been working on LGBTQ+ inclusion for much longer. Stevie Tran, a transgender woman and attorney with Tran Arrowsmith, has been focused on gender inclusion for the past 12 years.
“During that time, transgender visibility has increased significantly, bolstered by the various trans-inclusive policies and protections enacted on the federal and local levels. This growth in representation of transgender folks has led to greater conversations about inclusion, generally, within the educational setting, including fraternal organizations,” Tran said by email.
Tran added that since each Greek organization is unique, so, too, is their approach to such issues.
Policy vs. Implementation
While national leadership establishes policies that guide local chapters, those only go so far, experts say. For example, national leadership may create policies that expand recruitment eligibility to transgender and nonbinary students, but that doesn’t guarantee their inclusion. Membership selection is a secretive process determined at the local level, meaning that doors to LGBTQ+ participation are only as open as the minds of chapter leaders.
In states that are less LGBTQ+ friendly—which includes Alabama by reputation—that means transgender and nonbinary students may have opportunities for participation in a fraternity or sorority but may not be selected for membership if there is resistance at the local level. And Alabama is less than 10 years removed from accusations of maintaining a segregated sorority system that excluded Black applicants as recently as 2013.
“This concept of mutual selection is the thing that really becomes complicated, this idea that chapters get the unique opportunities to select their own members,” said Jason Bergeron, executive director of the Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisers, a professional support organization for college employees working in Greek life. “Those members need to be selected within the context of nondiscrimination, but it’s still a selection process, so it can be easier for the local chapter to exclude sometimes because it might be grounded in other fit issues.”
Fit—in this context, said Bergeron—may be an excuse to exclude someone from membership.
While Bergeron said there can be a disconnect between national organization policies and local chapter actions, he noted that it goes both ways, as the 2016 situation at Tufts demonstrated.
“There was local behavior driving a more inclusive approach around membership selection that wasn’t being reflected more broadly within the national organization,” Bergeron said.
Bergeron noted a number of factors driving the growing acceptance of transgender and nonbinary students by national Greek organizations, including calls for racial justice that have expanded to respect diversity more broadly, social media buzz about issues that used to go unnoticed and a new generation of students with different ideas about gender.
“I think undergraduate members are feeling like they want to exercise their voice more in national and international policy. And they’re also using that opportunity to tell [national organizations] when they feel like they’re not meeting expectations,” Bergeron said.
Bergeron also emphasized that each of the thousands of fraternities and sororities across the nation is different. While Bama Rush Tok offers an amplified view of a selection process at one flagship institution, the process can look radically different at another college.
At California State University, Long Beach, for instance, a fraternity brother was named homecoming queen in 2019.
LGBTQ+ acceptance in Greek life, as in much of American society, is mixed. Tran cited victories in recent years for transgender students but also a flurry of legislation targeting the same population.
“The past decade, importantly, has seen numerous fraternal organizations enact transgender-inclusive membership eligibility requirements,” Tran said. “On the individual level, the trans experience really depends on the region of the country and specific college or university involved, in addition to the fraternal organizations present on that campus. That said, this decade has also seen a spike in openly anti-transgender legislation targeting transgender people and youth across the country. Therefore, ongoing education and visibility will be key as fraternal organizations and educational institutions work to support an increasingly diverse student body.”
Bama Rush Tok Fallout
University of Alabama spokesperson Shane Dorrill noted in an emailed statement to Inside Higher Ed that membership in student organizations is open to all students “without regard to race, religion, sex, ability status, national origin, color, age, gender identity, gender expression, sexual identity, or veteran status except in cases of designated fraternal organizations exempted by federal law from Title IX regulations concerning discrimination on the basis of sex.” Dorrill also noted that “each sorority has its own membership selection criteria” as a private organization.
The university does not collect data on LGBTQ+ participation in Greek life.
In an Instagram post last week, Sikes said being dropped from recruitment was not a surprise. Ultimately, Sikes—who also took to TikTok to debunk various rumors that came out of rush week—closed the chapter on the Bama Rush Tok experience with an air of positivity.
“I’m hopeful of a future where everyone is welcomed for just being themselves—everywhere,” she wrote on Instagram.
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Inside Biden’s Debt Relief Plan
The president announced a plan expected to impact 95 percent of the 43 million federal student loan borrowers. The Democrats call the announcement a win for low- and middle-income Americans. Republicans call the move legally questionable.
President Biden announced today that he will cancel up to $10,000 in student debt for Americans earning less than $125,000 per year (or $250,000 for couples filing jointly) with additional relief for low-income Pell Grant recipients. He will also extend the current pause on student loan payments for an additional four months, through Dec. 31.
“The cost of education beyond higher school has gone up significantly,” said Biden. “An entire generation is now saddled with unsustainable debt in exchange for an attempt, at least, at a college degree. The burden is so heavy that even if you graduate, you may not have access to the middle-class life that the college degree once provided.”
The announcement marks an unprecedented act of executive authority and will be the first broad-based debt cancellation effort in American history. It comes after months of deliberation from the administration about its possible implications for the upcoming midterm elections in November, and fears that it could worsen inflation. Debt cancellation of up to $10,000 per borrower is favored by 55 percent of Americans. Most are pleased with the proposal, even prominent Democrats and civil rights groups that called for Biden to cancel more than $10,000 in student debt. The plan is expected to face legal challenges and has been highly criticized by Republicans as a costly handout.
Biden clarified today that this will be the last extension of the payment pause, which began in March 2020 under the Trump administration. The pause was set to expire in less than 10 days, on Aug. 31. “It’s time for the payments to resume,” said Biden. Borrowers will not be required to make payments on their federal student loans until Jan. 1, 2023.
Who Is Eligible for Debt Relief?
Any loan disbursed before June 30, 2022, will be eligible for debt relief, including Graduate and Parent PLUS loans. The income threshold of $125,000 annually for individuals or $250,000 annually for couples filing jointly will be based on income reported in either 2020 or 2021. Current students are eligible for forgiveness if their parents’ household income is below the $250,000 threshold.
Of the 45 million Americans with student loan debt, 90 percent of the debt relief from today’s announcement will go to individuals earning less than $75,000 a year, according to the White House.
Pell Grant recipients, who have an average of $4,500 more in student loan debt than their peers who did not receive the federal grant for low-income students, will be eligible for up to $20,000 in student debt relief. Currently, 60 percent of the 43 million Americans with student loan debt received a Pell Grant while attending college, and an expected 27 million borrowers could benefit as a result.
The plan is expected to be especially impactful for low-income borrowers who accumulated some debt but did not finish their college degrees. These borrowers hold less debt, an average of around $15,000, compared to the national average of $37,000, but they do not have the same economic benefits of a college degree as college graduates with student debt.
Although Biden announced his debt relief plan today, it will be the Education Department that puts the plan into action. The department has the ability to automatically cancel the debts of around eight million borrowers who already have reported their income information as a part of income-driven repayment enrollment or the Free Application for Federal Student Aid; those borrowers will receive automatic forgiveness. Others will have to apply through an application.
Some supporters of debt relief urged the Biden administration to avoid the need for an application at all costs by not instituting an income cap. Biden said Wednesday that the application will be “short and sweet” and that it is currently in the process of being created by the Education Department. According to a fact sheet from the White House, the application will be available “no later than when the pause on federal student loan repayments terminates at the end of the year.”
“Every layer of complication that is added here and every additional administrative step that borrowers need to take makes it more likely that borrowers are going to fall through the cracks,” said Michelle Dimino, a senior policy adviser at the think tank Third Way. “It’s especially going to be borrowers who are at the lower end of the income distribution, so right now it’s really key, if the department wants to direct the bulk of this forgiveness to low- and middle-income borrowers who are struggling with their debt, that they make that application clear, that they make it easy to access.”
New Changes to Income-Driven Repayment
The Biden administration also proposed a new income-driven repayment plan that will cut monthly payments in half for those with undergraduate student loans. Under the proposal, monthly payments would be capped at 5 percent of an individual’s monthly income (it is currently set at 10 percent). Borrowers with both undergraduate and graduate debt will pay a weighted-average rate.
The new income-driven plan will also fully cover a borrower’s unpaid monthly interest and allow them to have their debts forgiven after 10 years, as opposed to 20, for borrowers with balances under $12,000, which the department says will allow nearly all community college borrowers to be debt-free in 10 years.
Biden said these changes could save eligible borrowers up to $1,000 annually.
Winning Support for the Plan
Some Democrats and civil rights groups have pushed Biden to cancel far more than $10,000 in student debt in order to address economic and racial disparities. Black college graduates hold $25,000 more in student debt than white college graduates.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and Senator Elizabeth Warren have pushed Biden to cancel up to $50,000 in student debt. The night before the announcement, Schumer even called Biden, asking him to go as far as possible on debt relief.
However, Schumer and Warren seem to be pleased with the president’s final plan. In a joint statement, they said, “With the flick of a pen, President Biden has taken a giant step forward in addressing the student debt crisis by canceling significant amounts of student debt for millions of borrowers.”
Although Biden did not go as big on debt relief as some had wished, many seem to be pleased that the president included Pell Grant recipients. Wisdom Cole, the national director of the Youth and College Division at the NAACP, who advocated for more than $50,000 in debt relief per borrower, called the inclusion of Pell Grant recipients a “racial justice lens” for student debt cancellation. Black students are more likely to have received Pell Grants. Currently, 72 percent of Pell Grant recipients are Black, while 34 percent are white.
On Tuesday, Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP, and Cole wrote an op-ed in CNN that said canceling $10,000 of student debt “is like pouring a bucket of ice water on a forest fire. It hardly achieves anything—only making a mere dent in the problem.”
However, in a statement issued Wednesday, Johnson said, “President Biden’s announcement today, cancelling up to $20,000 for Americans across many generations, takes us one step closer to the NAACP’s ultimate goal of alleviating the burden of student debt. We’ve got a ways to go, but the NAACP is proud that we were able to push President Biden to exceed $10,000, bringing us closer to $50,000 and beyond.”
Cole said to Inside Higher Ed that “hopefully this is not the end of cancellation but the beginning of seeing more economic relief for those who are most impacted by the burden of student loans.”
Concerns Over Inflation
Some critics of debt relief have voiced concern over possible impacts on inflation as well as costs to the government. Biden said that the administration does not believe debt relief will have an impact on inflation because it will be followed by the resumption of repayment next year.
“We’re taking an economically responsible course, and as a consequence, about $50 billion a year will start coming back into the Treasury because of the resumption of debt [repayment],” said Biden. “Independent experts agree that these actions taken together will provide real benefits for families without meaningful effect on inflation.”
On Monday, former Treasury secretary Larry Summers took to Twitter, stating that he believed debt relief would be inflationary.
Criticism of the Biden administration’s handling of federal student loans heightened after a recent Government Accountability Office report found that the Education Department greatly underestimated the actual cost of the federal student loan program by $311 billion and it has cost the government $197 billion over the last 25 years.
The White House did not give a figure for the overall cost implications for Biden’s debt relief plan, which a senior official said was complicated to determine because it depends on how much debt is forgiven at the end of repayment. According to the Penn Wharton Budget Model, $10,000 of debt relief for borrowers making under $125,000 would cost the federal government $300 billion.
Republicans have long questioned the president’s legal ability to cancel student loan debt via executive fiat, calling it “legally dubious” and a waste of taxpayer dollars. House Republicans introduced a bill this month that would prevent the education secretary from issuing new regulations on student loans without permission from Congress.
Representative Virginia Foxx of North Carolina, the ranking member of the House Committee on Education and Labor, said, “President Biden will say and do anything to appease his radical progressive base, even if it means bankrupting our country and kneecapping taxpayers in the midst of an inflation crisis. This is a slap in the face to those who never went to college, as well as borrowers who upheld their responsibility to taxpayers and paid back their loans. It’s a signal to every freshman stepping foot on campus to borrow as much as they can because taxpayers are picking up the tab.”
In conjunction with the announcement on student loans, the Education Department released a legal memorandum that details the authority of the president to cancel student loan debt. Republicans have long challenged Biden’s authority to cancel student loan debt via executive action, as he did today. The memorandum states that the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act of 2003 grants the education secretary the legal authority to “effectuate a program of targeted loan cancellation directed at addressing the financial harms of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
“This move will not solve sky-high college tuitions. This will pour fuel on the fire, increasing college prices and accelerating inflation,” said Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina, the Republican leader of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. “It will encourage more schools to increase costs and encourage more students to take out loans they cannot pay back in the hopes they’ll never have to do so. The president knows he does not have the legal authority to unilaterally cancel student loan debt but is ignoring the law and bipartisan opposition in Congress.”
Biden’s Next Challenge
With debt relief set into action, many higher education leaders are calling on the Biden administration to address the issue of the rising costs of college that placed millions of Americans in debt in the first place.
The administration seems to be heading in that direction; a statement on the debt relief plan said, “The Biden-Harris Administration will keep fighting to reduce the cost of higher education by working to make community college free and doubling the maximum size of the Pell Grant.”
Biden also said in his address on debt relief today that “Twelve years of universal education is not enough.”
“I am gonna continue to fight for doubling the Pell Grant,” he said
Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education, applauded the actions from the administration on Wednesday but also said, “To avoid forcing current and future students into the same debt morass, we must act in a comprehensive manner to modernize the federal student loan program. Congress, state legislatures, federal agencies, loan servicers and colleges and universities all bear responsibility for the problems plaguing the student loan program and all must contribute to the solutions.”
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Addressing a Professor’s Use of the N-Word
A professor at Claremont McKenna accuses it of violating his academic freedom, but the college pokes holes in his story. Beyond these competing narratives, how should colleges respond to student complaints about professors quoting racial slurs in class?
Claremont McKenna College stands accused of censoring faculty members who were discussing texts including Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple. But the college, which is known for promoting freedom of expression, is pushing back on these allegations, saying that its actions have been misrepresented.
“In my nine years as president, we have never held a disciplinary review, investigation or remedial action (e.g., demand, alteration, censure, ban or any adverse action) against any faculty members,” Claremont McKenna president Hiram Chodosh said in a statement, “for speech in the classroom.”
Like numerous academic freedom disputes within the last decade, the one playing out at Claremont McKenna turns on the N-word—namely, whether it’s acceptable for a professor to say the full word (not the euphemism) in class when quoting a text or a case study.
Across academe, professors have a variety of perspectives on this issue, with some admitting that their thinking has changed over time (in one high-profile case at the University of Chicago, First Amendment scholar Geoffrey Stone said that he’d no longer use the N-word in his law classes because it was more harmful to students than it was educational). But regarding Claremont McKenna, the question isn't necessarily whether professors should be able to say the N-word for pedagogical reasons (the college hasn't said they can't) but rather how administrators should respond to student complaints about offensive language in the classroom.
‘Serious Concerns’
Christopher Nadon, associate professor of government at Claremont McKenna, shared his side of the story this week in an opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal. He wrote that he was discussing censorship in Plato’s Republic last fall when a student argued that censorship doesn’t exist in the U.S. Another student mentioned the history of censorship of Huck Finn, Nadon said, but the first student was not familiar with that history. So Nadon said he quoted “Twain’s precise language, which meant speaking the N-word,” to provide some context for the student.
“This caused the first student to change her mind and acknowledge the existence of censorship in America,” Nadon wrote. “Far from being harmed by hearing the word, she now saw that Plato’s views [on censorship] couldn’t be dismissed as outdated and merited more serious consideration."
Ten days after this class session, Nadon said, Claremont McKenna’s associate dean of faculty emailed him to schedule a phone call about a student’s “serious concerns” about one of Nadon’s courses. Nadon said he asked repeatedly for details about those concerns in writing prior to agreeing to any conversation.
A few weeks later, Heather Antecol, the college’s dean of faculty, emailed Nadon to explain that the student in question was not filing a formal complaint, and she said, “this is not a disciplinary matter,” Nadon recalled. However, Antecol then said that Claremont had a “duty to appropriately respond to concerns brought to the college’s attention,” Nadon continued, and “demanded to know the ‘pedagogic principles’ that I thought justified using ‘the n* word expressly.’”
‘I Tell Him the Truth’
Nadon said he replied as follows: “I do think that when a student asks me a direct question that I am able to answer, good ‘pedagogy’ requires that I tell him the truth. Do you disagree? Similarly, when a student makes a false statement, I think my job requires me to confront that student with facts that contradict him. Do you think I am wrong to do so? I also hold the view that before criticizing or praising an author, one should first attempt to understand that author as he understood himself, something that requires reading and discussing exactly what he wrote. Do you think I am mistaken in this approach?”
Antecol never responded, Nadon said. But he alleged that Antecol worked with his department and Claremont McKenna’s Open Academy program on civic dialogue to have him banned from teaching required courses. He said he was told by faculty members that this was because of his Huck Finn comment, a separate instance in which he'd said this "forbidden word aloud [in class] from the autobiographical Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, as well as "alleged complaints for making arguments on all sides of contentious issues such as the equality of the sexes."
The dean's office "has never informed me of a single complaint, though I had repeatedly asked in the fall for her office to detail what complaints, if any, students had filed against me," Nadon said. Instead, Antecol "kept the process secret and played the role of investigator, prosecutor, judge and jury."
In July, Nadon filed an internal grievance. While that process is ongoing, he said, “I can report that two weeks after that filing, when it was apparent that my case and other similar ones would become public, Ms. Antecol decided to permit me to teach in the fall one of the two courses she had taken away from me and given to adjuncts.”
Nadon’s op-ed describes two other cases involving unnamed faculty members in the department of literature. In one instance, Nadon said, “a literature adjunct read aloud and asked students to discuss a passage from The Color Purple that contained the N-word. They complained. Ms. Antecol summoned the adjunct, who apologized and agreed to undergo recommended counseling.”
This professor “submitted to re-education and training in critical race theory,” Nadon wrote, but their scheduled fall class was “abruptly canceled.”
Regarding the third faculty member, Nadon said a tenured professor who is “well-connected to the Board of Trustees and the media, committed a similar offense, [and] received no penalty.” Nadon said that this professor played the class a recording of Robert Lowell’s poem “For the Union Dead,” which contains the N-word, and that “a student exploded, excoriating both author and teacher as old white men.”
This professor was told that he was “in the clear” because he hadn’t said the word himself, according to Nadon’s account.
‘Merely Words on Paper’
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (formerly the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education), which has ranked Claremont McKenna the nation’s No. 1 institution for free speech, this week sent Antecol a letter saying it’s concerned the college is “deviating from its strong commitments to academic freedom by reportedly punishing and warning faculty members after students complained the faculty taught historical works containing a racial slur.”
The FIRE letter names the two other professors of literature that Nadon discussed in his opinion piece: Robert Faggen, Barton Evans and H. Andrea Neves Professor of Literature, and Eva Revesz, an adjunct.
Faggen said he wasn’t immediately available for an interview Wednesday, and Revesz could not immediately be reached.
Regarding Nadon’s case, the FIRE letter says that Antecol said a student reported him for saying in class, “Do you know why they don’t teach Huckleberry Finn in schools anymore? Because it says n* on every other page.” Per FIRE’s summary, Antecol also said that the unnamed student was concerned that Nadon had “pressured” another student to agree that Huck Finn had been censored by schools.
The reporting student also complained that Nadon had equated the Black Lives Matter movement with Nazism, according to FIRE’s letter.
Regarding the use of the N-word in the classroom, FIRE wrote that “Expressly referencing racial slurs in a pedagogically relevant context is not uncommon—and is properly protected under the basic tenets of academic freedom. There is a clear distinction between using a racial slur as a slur and employing the slur in teaching about its ramifications or history.” And while FIRE still rates Claremont McKenna highly with respect to free speech, FIRE wrote, “these policies are merely words on paper if the college does not put them into practice.”
FIRE ultimately called on Claremont McKenna to “undertake a review of the cases of Professors Nadon, Faggen and Revesz, reverse any punishments imposed in contravention of college policy, and ensure that all faculty members know CMC will honor their academic freedom to teach controversial material.”
‘That Is False’
In his written statement in response to questions from Inside Higher Ed, Chodosh, Claremont’s McKenna’s president, challenged these accounts—including by saying that Nadon will be teaching a required course this fall because no students signed up for his previously offered elective. Chodosh also said that multiple students reported concerns about Nadon, and noted (as did Nadon) that he was accused of saying the N-word on more than one occasion.
“Nadon claims that he was banned ‘from teaching any required courses into the future, seemingly into perpetuity.’ That is false,” Chodosh wrote. "We received expressions of concern from students in three separate, recent classes. The first cited Nadon’s express use of the N-word independent from the reading of Huck Finn or any other text and Nadon’s argument with a student that was reported to ‘box her in’ and ‘force her’ to support Nadon’s point of view.”
Nadon was “never under investigation, never barred and never censured,” Chodosh continued. “Nor were any other faculty, as Nadon claims.”
Instead, Chodosh said that a department chair’s discussion with Nadon regarding his upcoming fall courses was about “efforts to increase enrollments in the department’s program in political philosophy.” Chodosh said, “Nadon omits: the detrimental effect of low enrollments on his department, and the department’s ability to recruit and retain majors at a college where government has been a mission-driven core discipline and strength.”
Further, Chodosh said, one of Nadon’s “upper-level courses, an elective scheduled for this fall resulted in no students signing up to take it. As a result, the department recommended, and the dean agreed, that Nadon would teach the major-required Gov 80 this fall. The number of students currently enrolled for this semester in his section of Gov 80 is 1.”
Chodosh didn’t address Faggen’s case in any detail. Of Revesz, the adjunct instructor, Chodosh said she “had an at-will contract for one semester only, with no promise of reappointment. She was never required to submit to ‘re-education and training in critical race theory.’ Based on the availability of a tenure-line faculty member to teach the next semester always our preference, there was no need to reappoint her for fall 2022 but left open the possibility for future opportunities.”
At Claremont McKenna, Chodosh said, academic freedom is “paramount.”
“We extend the freedom of expression to every member of our community, not just professors, even when that includes language that is offensive to some. We are committed to open and active listening and engagement of diverse viewpoints. We are committed to constructive dialogue through and across our differences on all and any issues—both in and outside the classroom—including the most sensitive and controversial.”
Alluding to Antecol’s handling of the complaints about Nadon, Chodosh said, “When we receive any concern, from any source, whether from a professor or a student, we ask questions and look to make sure we have a strong factual understanding of what has occurred. We often reach out to directly to those concerned.”
In faculty cases, “when appropriate, we reach out directly to (i) inform the professor, so that he or she can consider how (if at all) to respond to the concerns raised; (ii) answer questions or concerns the professor may have; and (iii) to provide the professor with suggestions, resources, or support that he or she might find useful in achieving their pedagogical goals. We find that our faculty’s understanding of the student experience helps strengthen pedagogy and higher learning.”
Reprimand vs. Conversation
Nadon declined to discuss the case or provide documentation to support his account Wednesday until he'd seen Chodosh's statement in full. In a written response to that statement sent late Wednesday night, Nadon said while it’s “technically true that I have not been banned from teaching any intro courses,” he was told by a colleague that Antecol “was adamant about me not teaching Introduction to Political Philosophy or the Freshman Humanities Sequence (the two required courses I regularly teach) going forward.” Regarding the discussion with his chair that was allegedly about low enrollment in political philosophy, Nadon said he was told by other colleagues that this talk happened at “the behest of the dean for the purpose of removing me from teaching the introductory level course in response to alleged student complaints.”
Nadon said he “immediately refused to go along with this agreement” not to teach introductory courses, and that his chair took weeks to respond and hired an adjunct to teach the introductory Gov 80 course in the interim. This course was only restored to Nadon after he filed his grievance in July, he also said, and it now suffers from low enrollment because it was added back into the course schedule late. Regarding his upper-level course with low enrollment, Nadon said that his chair assigned him the class at an unpopular 8:10 a.m. time slot, without his consent.
He reiterated that the second time he said the N-word, he was reading Frederick Douglass, and said that any allegation about any other utterance of this word would be false.
Whatever happened with Nadon's fall courses, how should colleges and universities respond to student complaints about these issues? Is even asking a professor to explain why they did what they did in the classroom a violation of academic freedom or a form of discipline? Alex Morey, director of campus rights advocacy at FIRE, told Inside Higher Ed Wednesday that “Even calling a faculty member in for a quote-unquote educational meeting about their controversial teaching can violate professors’ academic freedom where the context of that request suggests they’re being asked not to teach or discuss certain material.”
Morey said FIRE frequently sees faculty members “making good-faith attempts to engage students on critically important topics like race, gender, religion and more, derailed by administrative interference,” and that this is “unacceptable at any college committed to free speech, meaning they promise not to exert institutional pressure to dictate what faculty and students may or may not say.”
When students do complain about language in the classroom, Morey said that administrators should listen “and explain that offensive language used in an educational context is protected under the college’s commitments to free expression. They can also provide them the school’s discrimination and harassment policies, and educate them about when the use of racially charged language might cross the line into illegal conduct.”
“Most importantly,” Morey continued, “colleges should open additional avenues for discussion rather than suggesting faculty adapt their teaching styles. After all, it is faculty, not administrators, who are the experts in their fields.”
The American Association of University Professors had a slightly different take. First, some background: the AAUP’s widely followed Recommended Institutional Regulations on Academic Freedom and Tenure policy doesn’t mention conversations with administrators about classroom choices but describes “reprimand” as a minor sanction. The AAUP also considers an oral reprimand to be less serious than a written one.
Greg Scholtz, director of academic freedom, tenure and governance at the organization, said Wednesday that, in general, being asked by an administrator to “discuss the pedagogy underlying one’s classroom use of the N-word is not an oral reprimand, though I suppose it might lead to one.”
Because recognizing what constitutes a sanction or punishment “may be to some degree subjective,” he continued, “we will sometimes advise complainants that it’s up to them to make the case to the appropriate faculty body [at their institution] that the punishment they’ve received is a minor or major sanction.”
However, Scholtz said, “I think most disinterested observers would be hard put to imagine a compelling case that a dean’s calling you merely to ask about your pedagogical justification for using the N-word is a sanction. Our policies would not support such an argument.”
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Small Colleges Share Online Programs, Powered by a Company
Several colleges have increased enrollment and reaped financial gains from using Rize Education’s courses in high-demand fields, largely overcoming faculty concerns about loss of control.
When Steve Tedford, professor of mathematics at Misericordia University, wanted to boost enrollment in the department’s math and statistics courses, he thought of offering elective courses in the high-demand field of data analytics. But hiring a faculty member with expertise to develop and teach new courses was not an option; the Pennsylvania university had suspended tenure in 2020 and had lost faculty positions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Tedford investigated whether his institution might partner with a data analytics graduate school to offer students a three-two program—a five-year dual degree program in which students spend three years earning an undergraduate degree at one institution and two years earning a graduate degree at another institution. But those programs were in such high demand that they were not looking for additional students.
Instead, he found Rize Education, a for-profit company that works in partnership with the Lower Cost Models for Independent Colleges Consortium, a coalition of dozens of independent colleges that share financial information and strategies for institutional sustainability. Beginning in the fall of 2023, Misericordia students will have the option of pursuing an online data science major delivered by Rize that is now listed in the university catalog. That could boost enrollment in many on-campus math and statistics courses that serve as prerequisites for the new major.
“I’ll admit, it’s hard to get high enrollment in math and stats, so it’ll be interesting to see if data science kind of pumps up the department in general,” Tedford said. “We’ve been given in writing that if we get a good number of students over the next three to five years, then we’re guaranteed to be able to hire a data scientist and bring everything back onto campus.”
Nationwide, undergraduate enrollment dropped nearly 7 percent between fall 2019 and fall 2021, and the declines were even more pronounced at smaller, less selective colleges, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Since declining enrollment means declining revenue, many institutions have sought course-sharing options for surviving and thriving.
Colleges have partnered with companies to share their courses by way of online platforms in the past. But Rize is part of an emerging trend in which colleges outsource not only the course-sharing platform but the development of course content. Rize, for example, creates the courses in more than 25 career-oriented fields, including data analytics, supply chain management, cybersecurity and public health. Each course is taught by a full-time or adjunct faculty member from a teaching institution selected by Rize from among the members of the Lower Cost Models Consortium. (Courses are not identified or marketed as offered by particular teaching institutions, as these institutions may vary by semester for individual courses.) Some colleges that have partnered with Rize to boost enrollment in high-demand areas have reported surpluses within the first year of launch.
“Course sharing and program sharing have happened for a long time before the digital opportunities existed,” said Jo Ellen Parker, vice president for communications at the Council for Independent Colleges, which has its own Online Course Sharing Consortium. She offered several examples, including study abroad programs, internship programs offered by nonacademic partners and in-person course-sharing consortia such as those offered by the Claremont Colleges in California or the five-college consortium in western Massachusetts.
“What digital opportunities do is expand the speed and scale,” Parker said. When asked about Rize’s model, she said that “it’s good for the ecosystem to have a lot of options available” and that universities should be encouraged to make decisions based on whether a course-sharing option aligns with their mission and values.
Corporate involvement in the delivery of instruction often stokes faculty concerns about academic quality and the potential for technology to replace people. At Misericordia, for instance, faculty members said as much when the Rize courses were reviewed through the university’s regular course-approval process, according to Maureen Pascal, Misericordia Faculty Senate chair, who presided over the votes. Faculty members were concerned that they would exercise less control over Rize’s instructor choices than they did for faculty members who taught on their campus. But Pascal said those concerns were allayed when David Rehm, Misericordia’s vice president of academic affairs, offered tangible evidence that Rize’s program offerings could be considered an intermediary step toward possible new on-campus programs in which faculty members would exercise more control.
Rize’s CEO, Kevin Harrington, considers Misericordia’s plan a “responsible use” of the company’s product. “That’s part of why we do short-term contracts with colleges,” Harrington said, while noting that other institutions join with long-term goals. Rize helps colleges like Misericordia “affordably test out a bunch of new programs quickly, some of which may boom and bring you a ton of enrollment and some of which may not … and the ones that boom, you can always internalize.”
A Focus on Tangible Skills
Rize, which was incubated at Adrian College, in Michigan, manages the course-sharing logistics for participating institutions. The company relies on job market and enrollment data to determine which courses and programs to offer. Then it commissions a leading academic in the field and industry representatives to build a project-based course. Students engage with at least one industry speaker in every course. Courses also have mandatory career-service modules in which students may create portfolios, update résumés, prepare for interviews or conduct informational interviews with experts in the field. Every course assignment is mapped to a tangible skill set in a specific employment sector, and courses are reviewed and updated based on data from postcourse surveys.
Rize is similar in some key ways to the more established and larger Council for Independent Colleges’ Online Course Sharing Consortium, which offers thousands of courses. Like the Rize model, the consortium is powered by a tech company—the course-sharing platform Acadeum, in this case—that offers an online platform and support services. Also, in both the Rize and CIC models, institutions can decide whether to approve individual courses after reviewing course materials.
But the models have one fundamental difference. In the Council for Independent Colleges’ consortium, participating colleges develop and provide oversight for the courses. That is, an institution can open its courses for enrollment across the consortium, enroll its students in courses offered by member institutions, or both. Colleges that partner with Rize, however, enroll students in courses developed and overseen by the company.
In the past, some colleges have hesitated to accept courses produced by for-profit companies.
“With anything like this, the devil’s in the details,” said Stephen Pruitt, president of the Southern Regional Education Board, which launched the Historically Black Colleges and Universities–Minority-Serving Institutions Course-Sharing Consortium. In that collaboration, the Southern Regional Education Board also partnered with Acadeum to cross-list courses offered by participating institutions. Though those courses were developed by universities, skeptics warned that too much collaboration could dilute students’ academic experiences. Upon first encountering Rize, some faculty members had a similar fear.
“My biggest concern when we started down this path was ‘would we lose the richness of the Wittenberg experience?’” said Brian Yontz, professor of education at Wittenberg University, in Ohio, where Rize courses in supply chain management and project management will roll out this fall. “But we built an internal policy that limits the number of courses and experiences per semester that students can take through this modality.” Yontz said that the faculty members at his institution did not have the capacity to offer students courses in these areas.
Students and parents have been questioning the value of higher education, according to Susan Dileno, vice president of enrollment at Mount Saint Mary’s University in Los Angeles. For that reason, Mount Saint Mary’s partnered with Rize to offer new certificate programs this fall designed for both graduate and undergraduate students in data analytics, human resource management and digital marketing.
“We knew we would be able to address some of those questions that the public had [and] get these up and running quickly and … do this cheaply because it’s a consortium,” Dileno said. “It doesn’t matter if we have two people in a class, one or 10, because we’re only paying the consortium for each student that is enrolled.” Dileno hopes that some of the certificate students will convert to degree-seeking students. Since Rize enrolls students from multiple institutions, the model works. Though all classes are designed to be completed via an online delivery, some colleges have experimented with hybrid add-ons that bring together enrolled students from their campuses.
The consortium “gives these small little places a way to compete with the bigger universities,” Dileno said.
Rize uses a mixed model to charge universities for its service. Each academic year, a university offering one of Rize’s core academic programs (a major, minor or certificate) pays a fixed fee that typically averages between $10,000 and $15,000, plus $500 per student who registers for a three-credit course, according to Harrington. Much of that $500-per-student registration goes to the teaching institution and the professor teaching the course, according to Harrington.
“We think this aligns our incentives around the student experiences and outcomes as much as possible and ensures we always remain affordable for institutions,” Harrington said.
In addition to helping students prepare for high-demand careers, Rize aims to produce surpluses for the colleges. Adrian, where Rize was incubated, launched 10 new programs in the fall of 2021 that enrolled 49 new first-year students (29 of whom were retained) and brought in $4 million in revenue, according to Harrington.
Michigan’s Rochester University launched six new academic programs in its first year with Rize that enrolled 22 first-year students and brought in $1.5 million in revenue. In another case study, Tiffin University in Ohio will launch four new academic programs in fall 2022 projected to enroll 15 first-year students with a revenue of $1 million.
“We really believe that these small schools, if they tweak some things, are well positioned 10 to 15 years from now to be the most competitive, most innovative schools that a student can go to,” Harrington said.
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Canceling Debt Is a Start—but Only a Start
Biden’s student loan forgiveness, while welcome, barely scratches the surface of what’s needed to address higher education affordability and access, Jamie Merisotis writes.
The uniquely American experiment since the 1980s of viewing college as mainly benefiting graduates and passing rising expenses along to students and families has been a costly failure, recent Public Agenda–USA Today polling suggests.
The decision by the Biden administration Wednesday to address college debt-financing woes by canceling up to $10,000 in student loan debt for borrowers making under $125,000, and up to $20,000 for individuals who’d received federal Pell Grants to attend college, underscores the consequences of decades of misdirected policies.
College costs have nearly tripled since 1980, after accounting for inflation, putting college out of reach for many, especially when you factor in wealth inequality from practices such as redlining that made it difficult for people to build savings. Not to mention pay for Black and brown Americans is unequal and unfair, making it tougher to pay back college loans.
The Biden administration estimates that 20 million borrowers could have their full remaining balances canceled if all borrowers claim the relief they’re entitled to. But Wednesday’s much-anticipated announcement addresses only a symptom of the return-on-investment skepticism that has contributed to steep college enrollment declines.
Colleges must build a stronger case for the value of higher education. This case-making should begin with acknowledging shortcomings and committing to delivering education and training that prepare people for meaningful work and community participation.
The country needs more college-educated adults to prepare for the future. To help the nation get there, colleges must offer affordable pathways that deliver tangible benefits for individuals and society. Without dramatic action, new student debt will start to accrue immediately.
Many Americans no longer seem willing to acknowledge that everyone benefits when more people go to college. The nation has abandoned a commitment to higher education as a public good that confers personal benefits. By default, elected officials and college leaders have allowed tuition to spiral, seriously harming today’s students, many of whom hold jobs, have family responsibilities and are racially and ethnically diverse. These students were told to suck it up and borrow to get ahead.
Today, nearly 45 million adults are paying on federal student loans totaling more than $1.6 trillion. More than six in 10 Americans who graduated from public and private nonprofit colleges in 2019 took out student loans, owing an average of $28,950. Two-thirds of people who default on loans owe less than $10,000, and many did not finish their degree.
Students who are the first in their families to attend college, who served in the military or who have children face higher risks of default. Black women spend a greater share of their incomes on repayment than anyone else, and 12 years after starting college, the typical Black borrower who first enrolled in 2003–04 owed more than the original loan amount.
All of this affects how people view their college experience. About two-thirds of Americans told Public Agenda–USA Today colleges are stuck in the past and aren’t meeting the needs of today’s students. Almost six of every seven of the 1,662 adults who responded to the May 2022 poll also said the expense of going to college makes it tough on people from low-income families. And roughly 60 percent agreed earning a college degree is “too time-consuming and expensive for working adults.”
Through his actions this week, President Biden fulfilled a campaign pledge. In doing so, he satisfied very few. Canceling a slice of debt among borrowers with the lowest incomes scratches the surface of all that is wrong with higher education.
You will hear loan cancellation is a one-time taxpayer giveaway. You will hear capping loan cancellation at $10,000 (or $20,000 for Pell recipients) and applying an income test do not go far enough. Other steps the administration has taken—including simplifying loan forgiveness for public service, eliminating debt among students defrauded by for-profit colleges and giving borrowers in default a path back to good standing—all are moves in the right direction by Biden.
Yet these steps do not make education affordable.
Nor do they address how education and training can position people for better lives and good jobs.
For those reasons, some criticism is justified.
But making affordable higher education that helps people live better lives, improves communities and boosts the economy is a bigger challenge than the president alone can meet.
Jamie Merisotis is president and CEO of Lumina Foundation, an independent, private foundation in Indianapolis committed to making opportunities for learning beyond high school available to all.
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On the eve of his retirement, the nation’s first Black justice and constitutional giant, Thurgood Marshall, took a moment to denounce the Supreme Court of the United States over its “radical” path of abandoning past decisions for no other reason than the court’s membership had changed. Owing to these shifts in personnel, Marshall charged, now “scores of established constitutional liberties” hung in the balance, the powerless were left defenseless, and the court’s own authority and legitimacy were diminished. “Power, not reason, is the new currency of this Court’s decisionmaking,” Marshall warned in 1991, in what turned out to be his final dissenting opinion.
The dissenting justices in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the watershed case that discarded nearly 50 years of American jurisprudence protecting a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy, felt the need to quote from Marshall’s decades-old warning because power, indeed, is the only sensible explanation for the Supreme Court’s present course. The seismic end of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, two pillars of a much larger structure of unenumerated constitutional rights the high court has erected over almost a century, was neither legally necessary nor a product of profound changes in American society. Instead, five justices tore these precedents off the law books, ushering in a new era of abortion criminalization and second-class citizenship for half the nation, simply because they could—and had the numbers to do so. “Neither law nor facts nor attitudes have provided any new reasons to reach a different result than Roe and Casey did,” wrote Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan in their anguished Dobbs dissent. “All that has changed is this Court.”
As radical and destabilizing as the fall of Roe is for our most intimate personal decisions, beyond just abortion rights, its ripples will extend to other areas where the conservative justices are already smelling blood. Not satisfied with the erasure of just one constitutional right, Clarence Thomas, writing separately in Dobbs, indicated that contraception and same-sex marriage could be next. That future begins now. These actions and other signals make abundantly clear what Marshall foresaw: The Supreme Court is on a collision course with democracy itself. Dobbs merely sets the stage.
Every new justice creates a new court, the maxim goes. Yet for much of their time on the bench, Justice Samuel Alito, long a soldier in the Republican holy war to curtail abortion rights, and Thomas, an avowed Roe antagonist, had the will but not the votes to impose their antiabortion vision on the majority of the Supreme Court, much less on the rest of the country. Their fortunes, and power, changed with the election of Donald Trump, whose own marriage of convenience with white evangelicals and social conservatives paved the way for his presidency and the installation of three new justices of a different mold, all of them more extreme and lacking the moderation of Republican appointees of the past, including those who made Roe and Casey possible.
Next to this “restless and newly constituted Court,” as Sotomayor branded this new majority in June, Chief Justice John Roberts looks as weakened as ever. The Supreme Court may bear his name, and the chief may have come of age during the abortion wars of the 1980s and ’90s, but neither his title nor institutionalist bent could convince the reactionaries to his right that their power grab in Dobbs represented “a serious jolt to the legal system” that he simply could not join in full. Too much, too soon. To the Trump justices, plus Thomas and Alito, this shock to the nation could not come soon enough.
Nominated by a president who lost the popular vote and narrowly confirmed by a Senate plagued by minority rule, these justices—Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett—were all groomed for this moment. All of them were grown in the test tube of the Federalist Society, the conservative legal brain trust that for decades has been a judicial pipeline for Republican administrations and state governments, which since the time of Ronald Reagan have made the fall of Roe a white whale of their politics.
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Off the Kuff comments on the resignations of Gillespie County’s elections staff and the shameful silence of the Republicans whose words and deeds are the root cause of the problem.
SocraticGadfly talks about the FDA’s decision last month to put “black box” warnings on puberty blockers and the sad lack of overall media coverage.
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Sean Pendergast grades Deshaun Watson’s “apology”.
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We deserve a little good news.
For the first time in 75 years, hatchlings of the world’s smallest sea turtle species have been discovered on the Chandeleur Islands, a chain of barrier islands in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of New Orleans.
Wildlife experts at the Breton national wildlife refuge have documented more than 53 turtle crawls and two live hatchlings that were navigating towards the sea, Louisiana’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority announced in a press statement this week.
The news was particularly uplifting for environmentalists because the hatchlings were Kemp’s ridley sea turtles, an endangered species that also happens to be the world’s smallest sea turtle. The turtles are predominantly found in the Gulf, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Their population flourished during the early 1900s as tens of thousands of females nested in Rancho Nuevo, Mexico. However, from the mid-1900s to the 1980s, their population dropped drastically, reaching a low of only several hundred females.
Some of the major threats Kemp’s ridleys face include being caught unintentionally by fishers, being harvested or having their eggs harvested, degradation of their nesting habitats, natural predators preying on their eggs and hatchlings, being struck by sea vessels, ocean pollution and climate change.
The recent discovery of the hatchlings in Louisiana is particularly significant as 95% of the nesting take place in Tamaulipas, Mexico.
“Louisiana was largely written off as a nesting spot for sea turtles decades ago, but this determination demonstrates why barrier island restoration is so important,” said the coastal authority’s chairman, Chip Kline.
He added: “As we develop and implement projects statewide, we are always keeping in mind what’s needed to preserve our communities and enhance wildlife habitat. Having this knowledge now allows us to make sure these turtles and other wildlife return to our shores year after year.”
Times were especially tough for the Kemp’s ridleys after the BP oils spill in 2010, as I noted here and here. This doesn’t mean that they’re out of trouble, but it is a very good sign of progress. That’s worth celebrating. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106668 | 2022-08-25T10:38:15Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106668 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
There will be chaos, in addition to the fear and danger to pregnant people that already exists.
Abortions are already effectively outlawed in Texas, where clinics closed after the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe vs. Wade. But a new law takes effect Thursday that makes performing the procedure a felony, punishable by up to life in prison and fines of at least $100,000. There are no exemptions for rape, incest or fetal anomaly — only for when the pregnant person’s life is in danger.
It’s not clear how many prosecutions will materialize or even how police will handle complaints. But the first cases will test the bounds of a sweeping new law that is prompting fear and confusion for patients, their families and the medical community alike. Experts say the few abortions that do occur in Texas are now carried out in hospitals during emergencies, or at home with medication obtained online or through other means. Pregnant women cannot be prosecuted.
“Are they going to be going after doctors who perform emergency abortions? What does that look like?” said Joanna Grossman, a professor at Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law.
So far, Attorney General Ken Paxton has been the most bullish about enforcement. His office can only enforce the six-figure civil fines, but he offered to help local prosecutors bring criminal charges under the state’s abortion ban.
“I will do everything in my power to protect mothers, families, and unborn children, and to uphold the state laws duly enacted by the Texas Legislature,” Paxton, aRepublican up for a third term in November, said in an advisory.
[…]
In Tarrant and Denton County, officials said prosecutors will evaluate each case and present it to a grand jury only if the facts warrant prosecution. Neither office specified what circumstances might qualify.
“Prosecutors do not make the law – we follow it,” Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney Sharen Wilson said in a written statement. “We followed Roe v. Wade when it was the law and we will follow Texas state law now.”
“Police agencies bring us cases, we don’t go out and investigate cases ourselves,” said Denton County First Assistant District Attorney Jamie Beck. “If an agency brings us a case that deals with this issue and these laws, we will treat it like any other case.”
Yet, how the police will handle complaints remains a question mark.
Some city councils, including in Dallas and Denton, voted to restrict the resources that can be used to investigate abortions or request that police deprioritize those cases. Several police groups said they don’t know how enforcement will work, and one questioned whether law enforcement would want to be involved at all.
“They are extremely difficult investigations and there’s all kinds of politics surrounding it,” said Kevin Lawrence, executive director of the Texas Municipal Police Association. “It’s a lot easier to say something is illegal than to actually prosecute someone for it.”
In Dallas, Police Chief Eddie García said that depending on priority and call type, there will be instances “that we may have to respond and take a report.” But he echoed the uncertainty, saying it’s “too soon to tell how the state plans to enforce this new law, and who will be enforcing it.”
While almost every felony complaint is looked into, final decisions about how to proceed rest with district attorneys, said James McLaughlin Jr., executive director and general counsel for the Texas Police Chiefs Association. “What proof would they want to see in order to accept a case?” he said. “We’re pretty used to filing burglary cases, robbery cases, homicide cases, but this is different.”
We’ve talked about this in various forms. Dallas County’s DA, along with several other large county DAs (not, as far as I know, including Harris County, at least at this time), has said he won’t pursue prosecutions of abortion-related charges. Which is nice and noble and morally correct and certain to be turned into roadkill by the next Legislature if they have the power to do so. It’s interesting to see what these cops are saying about investigating abortion-related allegations – as we have discussed, they can seek out evidence in various privacy-intruding ways, but we just don’t know yet what they actually will do. Again, the Lege is sure to meddle in this if they can. We also have the TDCAA’s analysis and guidance on Texas’ new laws that criminalize abortion, which among other things show that the zeal to continuously be passing anti-abortion laws has introduced quite a bit of chaos and more than a little potential for contradictions and double jeopardy possibilities. The courts are going to have so much fun with all this. That touched on the vigilant bounty hunter law SB8, which so far as served only as a tool of intimidation rather than of enforcement. But with the “trigger” law going into effect today, it’s a whole new ball game. And just a matter of time before someone gets arrested.
UPDATE: The Trib now has a story on the enabling of the trigger law. The 19th notes that four other states have similar laws coming online this week. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106700 | 2022-08-25T10:38:22Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106700 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Ugh.
Texas hospitals will not be required to provide emergency abortions after a federal judge ruled the Biden administration was unauthorized to enforce such a rule.
U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix in Lubbock ruled that the guidance by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services went beyond the text of a related federal law, Reuters reported. The judge’s ruling agreed with Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Hendrix, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, only barred federal regulators from enforcing the guidance and its interpretation of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act in Texas, and against two anti-abortion groups of doctors. The judge declined to enjoin the guidance nationwide.
[…]
The ruling is the latest in an ongoing battle for abortion rights in Texas and other conservative-led states. When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned abortion rights in the country, Texas had a clear path for its “trigger law” that bans almost all abortions, which goes into effect Thursday.
The Biden administration’s guidance was an attempted response to concerns about the health of pregnant patients being turned away or delayed care by hospitals worried about abortion bans. The Texas Medical Association wrote a letter asking state regulators to “prevent any wrongful intrusion into the practice of medicine.”
See here for the background. At least this time it’s just limited to the state and not nationwide, though of course it’s our effed-up state that needed this to be decided differently. As TPM notes, there’s a similar case in Idaho that may have a ruling by the time you read this, so we’re going to be fighting this out in the appeals courts and then very likely SCOTUS. Joy.
I often say that I Am Not A Lawyer in posts about legal things. I say that in part to make it clear that my analysis is that of a layperson, and one should be wary of accepting my acumen of the finer points of legal theory. But that also frees me to an extent of the concern about the technicalities and lets me just focus on the things that should matter, whether they actually will in a real courtroom or not. As a prime example of this, let’s look at a bit of the judge’s ruling. I’m quoting from that TPM story now:
“That Guidance goes well beyond EMTALA’s text, which protects both mothers and unborn children, is silent as to abortion, and preempts state law only when the two directly conflict,” Hendrix writes.
Siding with the two groups of anti-abortion physicians as well as the state of Texas, Hendrix writes that the HHS guidance requiring physicians to act when the woman’s health is at risk is too generous.
“The Guidance states that EMTALA may require an abortion when the health of the pregnant woman is in serious jeopardy,” he says. “Texas law, on the other hand, limits abortions to when the medical condition is life-threatening, and HLPA goes further to expressly limit the condition to a physical condition,” he adds, referring to Texas’ trigger law that outlaws abortions in most cases.
He argues that the guidance also does away with consideration for the embryo or fetus. The government contends that, when the wellbeing of the woman and embryo or fetus are in conflict, it should be the pregnant patient who decides whether or not to go forth with an abortion. Hendrix says that the decision should be taken out of the woman’s hands and put into the doctor’s — who has to then comply with state law.
He also dips into agency power arguments to hack back the guidance, claiming that Congress has not resolved the specific question at play.
“Specifically, the question at issue here is whether Congress has directly addressed whether physicians must perform abortions when they believe that it would resolve a pregnant woman’s emergency medical condition, irrespective of the unborn child’s health and state law,” he writes. “Congress has not.”
In other words, unless you the doctor who may get prosecuted for murder are sure the pregnant person is going to die, you have to let them suffer. I don’t care about the legal technicalities, I’m here to say that if you’re capable of committing these words to a document, you’re a goddamned sociopath and you have no business having power of any kind. That of course also applies to Ken Paxton and Greg Abbott and every single member of the Legislature who voted for these barbaric laws. It’s what this election is about. And I should note that Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern, who is an actual lawyer, sees this the same way I do. So there. Daily Kos and CNN have more. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106706 | 2022-08-25T10:38:30Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106706 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The world's largest blockchain and crypto provider announces its second conference this year, in Paris from September 14-16, 2022
PARIS, Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- After its incredible success in Dubai, Binance is now bringing Binance Blockchain Week to Paris between September 14 and 16, 2022. A celebration of Web3 through a uniquely Parisian lens, Binance Blockchain Week Paris will bring together thought leaders, captains of industry, cultural icons, and more to lay out a grand vision for a more prosperous, equitable future for all.
Binance Blockchain Week Paris will welcome more than 5,000 physical attendees, and millions more live-streamed via Binance Live, to dive into tomorrow's technology. Topics range from art, film and fashion to the future of finance, regulations and more in a Web3 world.
Alongside Changpeng Zhao 'CZ', CEO and Founder of Binance, there will be over 60 speakers including: Peter Kerstens, Advisor at the European Commission; Yves Guillemot, President and CEO of Ubisoft; Thomas Uhm, Crypto Institutional Sales and Trading at Jane Street; Sebastien Borget, COO and Co-Founder of The Sandbox; Benjamin Eymère, CEO of L'OFFICIEL Inc.; Guy Gino, Special Agent at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigations; Jarno Laatikainen, Head of Crypto Incident Response at Chainalysis; Eowyn Chen, CEO of Trust Wallet; Pascal Gauthier, CEO of Ledger; Anand Iyer, Venture Partner from Lightspeed Venture Partners; Fereshteh Forough, Founder and Executive Director of Code to Inspire; Frédéric Bardeau, President & Co-Founder of Simplon.Co; and Céline Wong, Head of Digital Assets Business Consulting at VP Bank AG.
CZ, CEO and Founder of Binance commented: "The past few months have demonstrated the importance of utility value as we define the next phase of technological innovation. Both Web3 and blockchain are still new, fresh and full of opportunities. This is the perfect time to discuss where the industry is right now and what the future holds."
"Taking cues from the City of Lights, Binance Blockchain Week Paris will envision a world where Web3 is able to infuse its distinctiveness to culture, the arts, sports, and more," added CZ.
Binance Blockchain Week Paris will cover the following topics:
DAY 1 - Sept 14: 'Frameworks and Foundations' & 'Build Bold'
DAY 2 - Sept 15: 'Web3 Culture Convergence' & 'A Web3-Powered World'
Binance Blockchain Week Paris is an opportunity to engage in one of the world's most important conversations and be part of the next phase of technological innovation. Tickets are on sale now.
The event will be live streamed online through Binance Live and in the Binance App for those who are unable to join on-site. Binance will also be hosting a series of online campaigns that users can participate in and get rewarded. Stay tuned to Binance's social media channels as more information will be shared soon.
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Biden loan cancellation just a drop in the bucket for medical students
President Biden's student loan forgiveness may help medical students chip away at the mountains of debt they accumulate, especially if they still owe from their undergraduate studies.
Why it matters: Almost three quarters of all medical school students had education debt when they graduated in 2021, most of it usually tied to federal loans.
By the numbers: On average, medical students graduated with $203,062 in education debt according to data for the class of 2021 from the Association of American Medical Colleges.
- 30% had debt left from before medical school, with a median amount of $27,000.
- The four-year cost for medical school for the class of 2022 ranged from $263,488 for public schools to $357,868 for private schools.
- In 2022, medical residents made on average $64,200 per year, according to a 2022 Medscape Resident survey. That means many should qualify for Biden’s forgiveness program, since the salary cut-off is $125,000.
- Fully trained doctors will likely be shut out. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that a pediatrician makes around $198,000 while a cardiologist makes around $331,000.
Between the lines: While physicians often become high earners, they still have to go through years of residency training to reach that salary level. The interest on their student loans is increasing during that period.
- Given the parameters the Biden administration laid out, almost all medical residents and most current medical students should qualify, Matthew Shick, senior director of government relations and regulatory affairs at the Association of American Medical Colleges, told Axios.
- “$10,000 to $20,000 forgiven in terms of over $200,000 in debt might not sound like a lot, but everything helps,” said Shick. “It’s good to receive that help early in your career in medicine, because then the interest isn’t accruing as long.” | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/25/biden-loan-cancellation-just-drop-in-the-bucket-med-students | 2022-08-25T10:41:06Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/25/biden-loan-cancellation-just-drop-in-the-bucket-med-students | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A group of Hopi teenagers rallied together to bring a skate park to their village. When the pandemic began, the outdoor activity took on new life and the teens created what they called Skate264.
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A group of Hopi teenagers rallied together to bring a skate park to their village. When the pandemic began, the outdoor activity took on new life and the teens created what they called Skate264.
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"Cities of the future," built from scratch
Billionaire Marc Lore is fleshing out his plan to build a utopian city called Telosa for 5 million people in the American desert — and he's not the only one with such ambitions.
Why it matters: There are about a dozen projects worldwide to create sustainable, hypermodern cities-from-scratch.
- While they may never come to fruition, the proposals themselves hint at what the city of the future might look like.
Driving the news: Telosa is set to be built on 150,000 acres in either Nevada, Utah or Arizona, and 50,000 "diverse" people will call it home by 2030, according to newly released details from Lore — a serial entrepreneur who sold Jet.com to Walmart for $3.3 billion and the parent company of Diapers.com to Amazon for $545 million.
- "We're not just building a new city — this is a new model for society," Lore said at a Telosa "town hall meeting" in July, adding that he wants his new city to be "sustainable and equitable to all."
- It'll be governed by a principle he calls "equitism," which seems to be a mashup of democracy, capitalism and socialism.
In Lore's vision, vehicles will be electric and autonomous, and roads won't have curbs (which could hinder differently-abled people), or on-street parking.
- Telosa's 36 districts will each be "15-minute cities," where everything a resident needs is a short walk away.
- Every building will be "green," with rooftop panels producing renewable energy.
- The design calls for fresh water to be "stored, cleaned and reused on site," creating a "diverse and efficient water system that is resistant to drought."
How it'll work: A nonprofit called the Telosa Community Foundation will purchase the land to build the city — "land that is virtually worthless," as Lore put it.
- The hope is that development will increase the land's value, and then the foundation eventually would be able to create a market for it — investing the proceeds in an endowment-style vehicle that would fund education, job training, health care, housing and more.
- This structure "allows us to offer these incredible social services without having to increase taxes. That is the Holy Grail," says Lore.
Among those working to make Telosa happen: Preet Bharara, the former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and a childhood friend of Lore's, and Bjarke Ingels, the prominent Danish architect whose firm is designing the city.
The big picture: Telosa, a name derived from the ancient Greek word meaning "highest purpose," is one of a growing number of dewy-eyed ambitions to build centrally planned and sustainable communities on a blank landscape — despite obvious impediments, like a lack of fresh water.
- In Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is constructing a megacity named The Line, part of a larger development called Neom.
- The Line's plan calls for a city 105 miles long but only 220 yards wide, enclosed by mirrored walls and powered entirely by renewable energy, according to newly released designs.
- Water will be plentiful, according to the project's claims, through desalinization, wastewater and seawater processing, and smart metering.
- "Saudi projections call for 1.5 million people to live in The Line by 2030," NPR reports, with eventual plans for 9 million residents.
- But recent Businessweek reporting suggests the broader Neom project has been plagued by indecision at the top and other problems.
- Floating City in the Maldives is envisioned as a large cluster of hexagonal structures that rise and fall with the sea, with room for up to 20,000 people. It's set to be completed in 2027.
- Toyota Woven City is a company town being built in the foothills of Japan's Mount Fuji. The proposal calls for a 2,000-person city where Toyota "will test autonomous vehicles, smart technology and robot-assisted living," per CNN.
- Masdar City in Abu Dhabi is a "master-planned eco-complex designed to show off the UAE’s commitment to sustainability," Bloomberg has reported.
- Net City in Shenzhen, China, is another company town being built by tech giant Tencent. It'll be a Monaco-size metropolis for 80,000 workers, CNN reports.
Other billionaires with city-building aspirations include Bill Gates, who wants to build a "smart city" called Belmont in the Arizona desert, and Elon Musk.
- On Earth, Musk has discussed creating a city called Starbase in southernmost Texas, as a hub for space exploration — and, of course, he aims to one day build a "self-sustaining city on Mars."
Reality check: Some of the claims being made by the utopian planners strain credulity — like Telosa's assertion that it'll eventually be a net exporter of water and energy.
- In the real world, the promise of smart cities — where intelligent sensors, cameras, and Big Data combine to improve everything from traffic flow to city services — has been a consistent disappointment.
The bottom line: The road to utopia is littered with shattered dreams.
- "We still haven't figured out how to make utopian environments work for people," Professor Sylvie Albert of the University of Winnipeg writes in The Conversation.
- She reviews the flaws in experiments like Brasília, Levittown, Celebration, Songdo, Eko Atlantic and Sidewalk Toronto. | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/25/city-of-the-future-neom-telosa-lore-mbs | 2022-08-25T10:41:12Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/25/city-of-the-future-neom-telosa-lore-mbs | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
With inflation running high, more people are driving for Uber and Lyft. Most of them say the cost of living is why they signed up. (Story first aired on All Things Considered on Aug. 8, 2022.)
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With inflation running high, more people are driving for Uber and Lyft. Most of them say the cost of living is why they signed up. (Story first aired on All Things Considered on Aug. 8, 2022.)
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The next student loan crisis
President Biden's student debt cancellation plan is welcome news for millions of existing borrowers, but it does little to address high college costs that will burden future students.
Why it matters: Student Defense, a nonprofit that is pushing for broader systemic changes, compared the plan to bailing the water out of a sinking boat without plugging the leak.
By the numbers: Higher ed costs are astronomical, including for graduate programs, even though "sticker price" inflation has moderated in recent years.
- Average in-state tuition for a four-year public university is $9,410 per year, and more than doubles to $23,890 for out-of-state students, per The College Board. Average four-year private university costs are $32,410, per year, or nearly $130,000 for the diploma.
- For context, the median family income in 2021 was $79,900. If such a family has two in-state college students, 23.5% of their pre-tax income would be consumed by college costs (minus financial aid and/or federal loans). If the kids attend a four-year private school, it would be 81% of the family's pre-tax income.
- And none of this includes room and board.
Why costs are so high: The simplest answer is that schools have had little incentive to control costs, particularly when abundant student loans — both public and private — can make tuition rates appear more affordable than they really are.
- Moreover, some schools are motivated to spend on high-ticket items like new construction, because that can attract wealthier students (including from overseas) who don't request financial aid. In the end, however, those costs often get passed down to everyone.
This is a systemic issue, which explains why most politicians have preferred to play along the easier margins.
- Biden's primary responses to future loan obligations have been to increase the size of Pell Grants, to crack down on predatory schools and to reduce monthly repayment percentages. None addresses the costs of the product being financed.
There are possible solutions that have been circulating among education experts, not all of which rely on taxpayer largesse like making public college free for lower-income students.
- One would be to limit loans tied to education at schools that have a demonstrated history of onerous student debt burdens. In other words, if most of a school's students aren't receiving the sort of education that allows them to pay off their loans, cut it off at the source.
- This could include a gainful employment rule focused on career programs, which is favored by the Biden administration but languishing in Congress.
- Another would be to deny federal research grants to schools whose tuition rates increase at an unacceptably high level. This would be particularly impactful at large public and private universities.
- The federal government also could consider revoking the tax-exempt status of schools that exceed tuition inflation limits, although that likely would face court challenges.
The bottom line: Debates over student loan cancellation will continue to rage through the midterms. Debates over student costs hasn't even begun. | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/25/college-costs-biden-student-loans | 2022-08-25T10:41:24Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/25/college-costs-biden-student-loans | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
There's a national shortage of 911 operators. In Washington state, the situation is so dire that it closed a rural dispatch center. (Story first aired on All Things Considered on Aug. 22, 2022.)
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There's a national shortage of 911 operators. In Washington state, the situation is so dire that it closed a rural dispatch center. (Story first aired on All Things Considered on Aug. 22, 2022.)
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Teachers in Florida are navigating new rules on how they teach topics involving sexual orientation, race and more. Some say the rules are stifling while others pledge they won't change how they teach.
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Teachers in Florida are navigating new rules on how they teach topics involving sexual orientation, race and more. Some say the rules are stifling while others pledge they won't change how they teach.
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Democrats' stunning turnaround
Passion about abortion rights has fueled a stunning turnaround in Democrats’ midterm fortunes.
Why it matters: The inflation slowdown and lower gas prices also are big factors. But officials in both parties tell us abortion has animated Democratic engagement like no other issue since President Trump left office.
- The result: A reset for a party that was defensive and disillusioned before the Supreme Court ruling in June that overturned Roe v. Wade.
- 75 days from election day, Democrats now have a good chance of keeping the Senate.
- And keeping the GOP to a narrow win in the House is now a realistic possibility.
What’s happening: Abortion has helped drive primary-season triumphs for Democrats both in fundraising and in turnout approaching, and in some cases exceeding, historic 2018 levels.
- Now, officials in both parties see signs that it could blunt a red wave of GOP midterm gains that once looked inevitable.
Driving the news: Tuesday night's primaries in New York and Florida offer the latest evidence.
- Democrat Pat Ryan's unexpected victory in a House special election (NY-19) was driven by a message centered on abortion. “Choice was on the ballot. Freedom was on the ballot, and tonight choice and freedom won," Ryan declared in a post-election victory statement.
- Ryan's ads focused on protecting abortion rights, while his GOP opponent Marc Molinaro hammered Democrats over the economy and crime. Ryan won by two points in a district Biden carried by the same margin.
- In Florida's gubernatorial primary, more Democrats showed up to vote (1,513,180) than in 2018 (1,509,960). Given that 2018 was a historically favorable year for Democrats and 2022 recently looked like a Democratic wipeout, the similar level of Democratic engagement is surprising.
The big picture: An Axios analysis found that Democratic primary turnout for governors' races increased between 2018 and 2022 in five of the eight states holding contested primaries after June, in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision.
- Over 922,000 Kansans showed up when an anti-abortion referendum was held in August, a significant turnout for a summer primary. The referendum lost by 18 points.
But, but, but... Republicans have also been turning out at historically high levels throughout the primary calendar.
- In battleground states like Arizona and Florida, where Democratic primary turnout increased from 2018, Republican turnout in those states was even higher — driven by issues including the economy, immigration and competitive primaries where former President Trump was involved.
- Democrats may not be able to control that, but if they can give their own base a reason to turn out, they can at least remain competitive.
Recent polling confirms the growing significance of abortion rights in the midterm dynamic.
- A Pew Research Center poll conducted Aug. 1-14 found 56% of voters said the issue of abortion would be "very important" in their midterm decision. That's up 13 percentage points from Pew's March survey. The increased interest in abortion was entirely driven by Democratic voters.
- A new NBC News poll found Democrats closing in on Republican enthusiasm for voting in the midterms, driven by partisans citing abortion as a top issue. Only 38% said they supported the Dobbs decision, while 58% opposed it.
- Abortion rated as a top issue in last week's Fox News polls in Arizona and Wisconsin, moving closer to economic concerns.
- In Arizona, 20% of respondents said inflation was the most important issue in the Senate race, with 16% naming abortion rights. In Wisconsin, 28% named economic concerns as the top issue while abortion came in second at 17%.
The bottom line: The economy is still the dominant issue for voters. But lower gas prices in recent week are helping improve the mood for persuadable voters — and signaling to base voters that they can afford to let themselves be mobilized by issues like reproductive rights rather than pure pocketbook needs.
- "Gas prices coming down is such a powerful mood enhancement," said one Democratic strategist after witnessing a focus group in a Midwestern battleground race. "People complained about prices and general economic stuff, but there was some optimism that things were improving."
- "That allows people to focus on the social issue dynamics and divisiveness they don't like." | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/25/democrats-midterms-abortion-turnaround | 2022-08-25T10:41:36Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/25/democrats-midterms-abortion-turnaround | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The California Air Resource Board is expected to approve a plan Thursday to ban the sale of new gas cars by 2035. The state will have interim goals of 35% zero emission cars by 2026 and 68% by 2030.
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The California Air Resource Board is expected to approve a plan Thursday to ban the sale of new gas cars by 2035. The state will have interim goals of 35% zero emission cars by 2026 and 68% by 2030.
Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.klcc.org/2022-08-25/largest-u-s-auto-market-is-moving-away-from-the-internal-combustion-engine | 2022-08-25T10:41:41Z | klcc.org | control | https://www.klcc.org/2022-08-25/largest-u-s-auto-market-is-moving-away-from-the-internal-combustion-engine | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Hong Kong is one of the planet's most densely packed urban areas. Not far from its concrete jungle is a real jungle with free-roaming wild cows and water buffalos. One woman is trying to save them.
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Hong Kong is one of the planet's most densely packed urban areas. Not far from its concrete jungle is a real jungle with free-roaming wild cows and water buffalos. One woman is trying to save them.
Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.klcc.org/2022-08-25/outside-hong-kong-theres-something-unexpected-free-roaming-animals | 2022-08-25T10:41:53Z | klcc.org | control | https://www.klcc.org/2022-08-25/outside-hong-kong-theres-something-unexpected-free-roaming-animals | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Zoom boom meets doom
Remember the stay-at-home stocks? How the trendy have fallen.
Why it matters: The saga of the stay-at-home stocks is a useful reminder that hot new technology stocks can fall out of favor fast.
Driving the news: Two of the companies whose businesses seemed custom made for the COVID era — Zoom Video and Peloton — are making a splash this week.
- Ubiquitous video meeting software provider Zoom is down roughly 16% this week after it reported piddling sales growth and cut its forecasts for the year.
- Home exercise company Peloton was up 20% on Wednesday — a drop in the bucket compared to the roughly 90% drop from its 2021 peak — after it announced it would try to stem flagging sales by hawking products on Amazon.
The big picture: While such moves are fairly large for any given week, they obscure the big story of these companies — a familiar one on Wall Street.
- It's called boom-and-bust.
Flashback: During peak COVID, a number of companies that were optimized for the WFH era posted remarkable gains, as customers flocked to their services.
- In 2020 alone, shares of both Peloton and Zoom were up an astounding 400%.
- Shopify, which helps brick-and-mortar retailers set up online stores, rose nearly 200%.
- Chegg, which offered digital textbook rentals, roughly doubled.
Today: Almost all those gains have vaporized.
Yes, but: Not all the companies that surged during COVID have collapsed.
- With many workplaces going to a hybrid home/office model, the need for online security continued to grow.
- Online security firms CrowdStrike and Zscaler rose more than 300% in 2020, and they've both held on to most of those gains. | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/25/stay-at-home-stocks-suffering | 2022-08-25T10:42:07Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/08/25/stay-at-home-stocks-suffering | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
All summer, NPR's Science Desk has been looking at sweat. Humans are covered with millions of sweat glands, but it wasn't always that way. When did humans start to sweat?
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All summer, NPR's Science Desk has been looking at sweat. Humans are covered with millions of sweat glands, but it wasn't always that way. When did humans start to sweat?
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Cities often get nicknames. Just don't call San Francisco "Frisco" or "San Fran" — locals generally despise that. Why then is the San Francisco Giants baseball team selling a "San Fran" T-shirt?
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Cities often get nicknames. Just don't call San Francisco "Frisco" or "San Fran" — locals generally despise that. Why then is the San Francisco Giants baseball team selling a "San Fran" T-shirt?
Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.klcc.org/2022-08-25/why-are-the-giants-selling-gear-with-san-franciscos-most-hated-nickname | 2022-08-25T10:42:18Z | klcc.org | control | https://www.klcc.org/2022-08-25/why-are-the-giants-selling-gear-with-san-franciscos-most-hated-nickname | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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