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ZHANGJIAGANG, China, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2022 Yangtze River Culture Festival kicked off on Aug 27 in Zhangjiagang, a port city in East China's Jiangsu province, and will run until October. The annual gathering has become a habit for artists, scholars and inheritors of intangible cultural heritages in the Yangtze River Basin, according to the Organizing Committee of Yangtze River Culture Festival. As the event has been held for 19 consecutive years, people cannot help to ask why the small city is so influential in the whole Yangtze River region.
There are 181 bends of more than 90 degrees in the main stream of the Yangtze River, and the last one forms Zhangjiagang Bay. Today, here is an ecological scenic spot where the river can be seen and nostalgia remembered. Not far away is the Shanghai-Suzhou-Nantong Yangtze River Bridge, which began operations in 2020, with the high-speed trains on it running between Shanghai and northern Jiangsu. Especially on the bridge, people can enjoy the magnificent river and the city skyline on the riverbank.
Despite that Zhangjiagang, about 130 kilometers away from Shanghai, is only a county-level city in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, it is always ranked among the top three county-level cities in China in terms of economic strength. It is generally believed that the spirit of Zhangjiagang people's striving for the first comes from their riverside life experience featuring the courage to make the tide.
Zhangjiagang was founded just 60 years ago, but archaeological discoveries show that it was where the first civilization in the Yangtze River Basin emerged. During the Tang and Song dynasties, it was an important port for Sino-foreign exchanges, with palmette patterns typical of the western style appearing on excavated porcelain.
The young Zhangjiagang city is not only seeking to elevate its economy to the next level, but more importantly to build itself into a highly civilized city. Since the 1990s, a high level of civilization has been its pride, and the Yangtze River Culture Festival is one of its major initiatives.
Liu Pengchun, an artist who has attended the festival many times, said that artists from the Yangtze River Basin have diverse living habits, but the festival organizers manage to meet their different needs, which attracts people to the festival. Zhangjiagang boasts the best group of volunteers in China.
Another reason why the festival can be echoed across the basin is that Zhangjiagang respects cultural expression, where the diversity of Yangtze River culture can be fully showcased on the stage.
In recent years, the concept of preserving the Yangtze River and promoting its culture has gained unanimous recognition in China. Themed "Integrate, Promote, Share", this year's festival allows the audience to interact online and offline, learning about the diverse and splendid cultural relics exhibitions, intangible cultural heritage displays, cultural performances and more from the Yangtze River Basin.
In 2014, BBC producer Simon Reeve recorded the colorful Yangtze River culture with his documentary 'Sacred River: Yangtze River' in which he also expressed his concerns about over-exploitation. It is a pity that he has never been to Zhangjiagang. Zhangjiagang is an indispensable choice for anyone who wants to understand the Yangtze River and the Chinese people living along it today.
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The dollar is slightly on the backfoot today but is keepng within the confines of recent price action at least. Markets are settling in and it looks like we are in for some choppiness ahead of the US jobs report on Friday.
The White House has already alluded to labour market conditions "cooling off" and that might be a hint that traders are working with ahead of the key risk event. In any case, the slightly better risk mood - at least for now - is also helping to give major currencies a bit more of a boost against the greenback. That said, equities are still in a tricky spot as noted here earlier.
Looking ahead, inflation will be the big topic in Europe as we will be getting the August figures for France and overall Eurozone. All that before the ADP jobs report later in North America trading.
0600 GMT - Germany July import price index
0645 GMT - France Q2 final GDP figures
0645 GMT - France August preliminary CPI figures
0755 GMT - Germany August unemployment change, rate
0800 GMT - Switzerland August Credit Suisse investor sentiment
0900 GMT - Eurozone August preliminary CPI figures
1100 GMT - US MBA mortgage applications w.e. 26 August
That's all for the session ahead. I wish you all the best of days to come and good luck with your trading! Stay safe out there. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/eurozone-inflation-in-focus-in-the-session-ahead-20220831/ | 2022-08-31T06:03:48Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/eurozone-inflation-in-focus-in-the-session-ahead-20220831/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BEND, Ore. - Community members held a vigil at Drake Park to honor the people who died in the shooting on August 28, 2022 at a Safeway in Bend. The man went into the store and started shooting, according to the Bend Police Department. Two people were killed and several others were injured before the suspect shooter was found dead.
Officers say the suspected shooter was a man in his 20s who lived nearby.
Community member Meg Brookover attended the vigil and said she was shocked by the events.
"It just stops everything and you feel... I think confused, and of course sad, but I think like everyone, we don't want this to happen in our town," said Brookover.
Bend police officers are now saying one of the victims was a store employee who had tried to disarm the shooter, likely preventing further injuries.
Officers say they are still trying to determine the motive behind the shooting. | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/community-members-hold-vigil-for-bend-shooting-victims/article_07c7615e-28eb-11ed-91d7-078fcf3278c5.html | 2022-08-31T06:05:50Z | nbcrightnow.com | control | https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/community-members-hold-vigil-for-bend-shooting-victims/article_07c7615e-28eb-11ed-91d7-078fcf3278c5.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Football: 2022 preseason All-Middlesex County selections
Here are MyCentralJersey.com football analyst Marcus Borden's selections for our 2022 Preseason All-Middlesex County football team.
They're based on returning picks from last year's All-Area team, as well as his observations from attending scrimmages and practices all summer.
Following is a look at their selections by position.
ALL-MIDDLESEX FOOTBALL 2022 PRESEASON TEAM
OFFENSE
QB Frankie Garbolino, North Brunswick
QB Matt Yascko, Edison
RB Zaimer Wright, Sayreville
WR AJ Bosch, Woodbridge
WR Malcolm Stansbury, Edison
WR Ben Bussiere, St. Thomas Aquinas
OL Rodney Fanning, St. Joseph
OL Omar Rackley, East Brunswick
OL Kaelyb Barahona, Woodbridge
OL Malik Wilson, Piscataway
OL Jake Tulli, St. Joseph
PK Selbin Sabio, Edison
RET Omari Jones, St. Joseph
ATH Jeremy DeCaro, St. Joseph
ATH Jayden Young, St. Thomas Aquinas
ATH Ben Solimini, East Brunswick
DEFENSE
DL Adekunle Shittu, Edison
DL Jared Tynes, North Brunswick
DL Jeremiah Derilhomme, St. Thomas Aquinas
DL Aiden Gilbert, Sayreville
LB Tamir Jenkins, North Brunswick
LB Christian Magliacano, St. Joseph
LB Lazarus Lisojo, Woodbridge
DB Najee Lovejoy, St. Thomas Aquinas
DB Jaeden Jones, Colonia
DB Zahmir Dawud, North Brunswick
DB Caiden Holmes, Sayreville
RET JoJo Huntley, St. Joseph
ATH Israel Rodriguez, Edison
ATH Damarion Potts, South Brunswick
ATH Khiri Summers, South Brunswick
Punter Patrick Miller, Colonia
Others to Watch: Daniel DeGennaro,St. Joseph; Jakir Thomas, Carteret; Andrew Safara, East Brunswick; Matt Saucedo, Colonia; Braden Paulmenn South Brunswick; Joel Marelis, St. Thomas Aquinas; Bryan Anderson, Woodbridge; Aidan Sangiray, Dunellen; Eli Rodriguez, New Brunswick; Joseph Lakatos, South River; Patrick Smith, South Plainfield; Saket Pabba, J.P. Stevens; Patrick Miller, Metuchen; Ryan Piscitelli, Monroe; Giovanni Maglione, J.F. Kennedy; Connor Walsh, Sayreville; Matt Bueno, Edison; Jack Garbolino, North Brunswick; Anthony Adeniji, Highland Park; Brady Cavallaro, Old Bridge; Trey Lazar, Spotswood; Antonio Rivera, Piscataway; Xavier Morales, Perth Amboy; Anthony Gonzalez, Middlesex. | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2022/08/30/nj-football-2022-preseason-all-middlesex-county-selections/65464742007/ | 2022-08-31T06:07:27Z | mycentraljersey.com | control | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/sports/high-school/football/2022/08/30/nj-football-2022-preseason-all-middlesex-county-selections/65464742007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
US government documents were “likely concealed and removed” from a storage room at Mar-a-Lago as part of an effort to “obstruct” the FBI’s investigation into former President Donald Trump’s potential mishandling of classified materials, the Justice Department said in a blockbuster court filing Tuesday night.
More than 320 classified documents have now been recovered from Mar-a-Lago, the Justice Department said, including more than 100 in the FBI search earlier this month.
Tuesday’s filing represents the Justice Department’s strongest case to date that Trump concealed classified material he was keeping at Mar-a-Lago in an attempt to obstruct the FBI’s investigation into the potential mishandling of classified material.
The Justice Department revealed the startling new details as part of its move to oppose Trump’s effort to intervene in the federal investigation that led to the search of his Florida resort and his desire for a “special master” to be appointed to the case.
Trump has pushed an “incomplete and inaccurate narrative” in his recent court filings about the Mar-a-Lago search, the Justice Department said.
“The government provides below a detailed recitation of the relevant facts, many of which are provided to correct the incomplete and inaccurate narrative set forth in Plaintiff’s filings,” prosecutors wrote.
It presents a strong rebuttal of the criticisms of the FBI’s unprecedented search of a former President’s residence, laying out clearly how Trump had failed to return dozens of classified documents even after his lawyer attested that he had provided all classified material in his possession.
A picture on the final page of the filing showing classified documents strewn about on the floor of Trump’s office — full of classified markings like “HCS,” or human confidential sources — hammered home how sensitive the material Trump had taken was.
At issue is Trump’s compliance with a grand jury subpoena, issued in May, demanding that he turn over classified documents from Mar-a-Lago. Prosecutors said Tuesday that some documents were likely removed from a storage room before Trump’s lawyers examined the area, while they were trying to comply with the subpoena. The timeline is essential, because Trump’s lawyers later told investigators that they searched the storage area and that all classified documents were accounted for.
“The government also developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the Storage Room and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government’s investigation,” prosecutors wrote. “This included evidence indicating that boxes formerly in the Storage Room were not returned prior to counsel’s review.”
In the filing opposing Trump’s request, DOJ argues that the former president lacks standing over presidential records “because those records do not belong to him,” as presidential records are considered property of the government.
The Presidential Records Act makes clear that “[t]he United States” has “complete ownership, possession, and control of them,” the DOJ filing states.
Trump has argued that his constitutional rights have been violated and that some of the documents seized earlier this month contain material covered by privilege — particularly executive privilege.
The Justice Department was ordered to submit the filing by Judge Aileen Cannon, who has already indicated she is inclined to grant Trump’s request for third party oversight of documents the FBI seized Mar-a-Lago.
The role of a special master is to filter out any materials seized in a search that don’t belong in the hands of investigators because of a privilege. Special masters have been used in high-profile cases before, but usually in cases where the FBI has searched an attorney’s office or home and there is a need to filter out materials concerning attorney-client privilege. Trump’s request has centered on the need to protect documents concerning executive privilege from his conduct as president.
Signals from Cannon, a Trump appointee, that she is leaning toward appointing a special master in the Mar-a-Lago search have raised eyebrows among legal observers. For one, Trump filed his request for the appointment two weeks after the search of his Florida home, risking the potential that the Justice Department is already done with the bulk of its review. Secondly, Trump and the judge alike have pointed to civil rules concerning special master appointments, when the search warrant is arising in a criminal context.
Since the August 8 search, a number of previously secret court filings the DOJ submitted to obtain the warrant have been made partially public in part because of a bid for transparency filed in court by several media organizations, including CNN.
Those redacted documents have revealed that the search was connected to a DOJ investigation into alleged violations of the Espionage Act, criminal mishandling of government documents and obstruction of justice. According to an FBI affidavit that was released last week, an FBI review of 15 boxes retrieved by the National Archives from Mar-a-Lago in January found 184 documents bearing classification markings — some of them identified as particularly sensitive government documents.
Trump, in seeking the special master, has stressed in court filings the lack of criminal enforcement in the Presidential Records Act, a Watergate-era law laying out the process for preserving presidential records. He did not mention the three criminal statutes the DOJ cited in its warrant documents. Trump’s lawyers have also emphasized his supposedly unfettered ability when he was president to declassify documents, though the statutes in question don’t require that the materials be classified.
Trump’s attorney limited what DOJ could look at during June visit
A top Justice Department official contends that federal investigators were limited in what they could look through when visiting the resort in June — contrary to the Trump team’s narrative of total cooperation.
Trump’s lawyer requested that the FBI come to the resort to pick up the documents after the Trump team had received a grand jury subpoena in May seeking any materials marked classified, according to the Justice Department.
DOJ’s account also undermined claims by Trump and his allies that the former President had declassified the materials in question.
“When producing the documents, neither counsel nor the custodian asserted that the former President had declassified the documents or asserted any claim of executive privilege,” the filing said. “Instead, counsel handled them in a manner that suggested counsel believed that the documents were classified: the production included a single Redweld envelope, double-wrapped in tape, containing the document.”
In the DOJ’s account, Trump’s lawyer said that all the remaining documents from Trump’s White House were being kept in the storage at Mar-a-Lago. “Counsel further represented that there were no other records stored in any private office space or other location at the Premises and that all available boxes were searched,” the filing said.
Prosecutors confirmed Trump’s assertion that the visiting DOJ and FBI officials were then allowed to visit the storage area.
“Critically, however, the former President’s counsel explicitly prohibited government personnel from opening or looking inside any of the boxes that remained in the storage room, giving no opportunity for the government to confirm that no documents with classification markings remained,” the DOJ said.
DOJ reveals proceedings related to Mar-a-Lago search happening in DC
The Justice Department confirmed that grand jury subpoenas had been issued in its probe, and in doing so, prosecutors indicated that proceedings related to the search were also unfolding secretly at the federal courthouse in Washington, DC.
Referring to a subpoena issued in May for “[a]ny and all documents or writings in the custody or control of Donald J. Trump and/or the Office of Donald J. Trump bearing classification markings [list of classification markings],” the DOJ said in a footnote that it had been authorized by Chief Judge Beryl Howell in the DC District Court to disclose those grand jury subpoenas. The reference to her suggests that in addition to Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart and Cannon in Florida, a third judge is now involved in the DOJ’s probe.
“The former President disclosed this subpoena and a subpoena for video footage at the Premises in his filings to this Court,” the footnote says. “Thereafter, on August 29, 2022, Chief Judge Howell in the District of Columbia authorized the government to disclose to this Court these grand jury subpoenas and material discussed herein.”
This story has been updated with additional details.
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Palakkad: Heavy rains, usually associated with the peak monsoon season, continue to lash the state in what can be seen as a significant change in weather patterns.
The retreating monsoon winds which typically move from west to east have been blowing in the opposite direction lately. While the climatic experts and scientists fail to give a satisfactory explanation for the phenomenon, the primary assessment is that a strong cyclonic circulation over the Southeast Bay of Bengal is reason for the same, i.e., the winds are changing direction under the influence of a low-pressure belt formed between Chennai and Sri Lanka.
While discussions focus on the warming sea, the rising global temperature, the substantial gradual changes in the atmosphere, and the fragility of the Western Ghats over the years, scientists reiterate the need to keep an extreme vigil amid changing weather patterns.
Weather agencies had no prior hints about the cloudburst at Kudayatoor in Idukki and failed to issue a warning. The heavy rains in the wee hours led to a landslip in which a family got buried under. The same situation has happened in many regions of Pathanamthitta. The experts term the downpours as "totally unexpected”.
Meteorologists have failed to predict cloudbursts, and such unexpected extreme precipitation is likely occur anywhere in the state till December. Heavy rains are likely at many places across the state in the next three days as hinted by the forecast of Indian Meteorological Department and other climatic agencies.
As per the warnings, the Central part of the state will be the most affected. The satellite images indicate the large-scale formation of dark clouds over places like Muvattupuzha, Haripad, hilly regions of Kottayam, southern parts of Thrissur, Palakkad-Thrissur border areas, Pathanamthitta, Nilambur, Lakkidi in Wayanad, and eastern hilly areas in Thiruvananthapuram. Though the assessment is that the northern parts won’t be much affected, people staying at Kozhikode-Wayanad and Kasaragod-Karnataka border should be alert. The changing weather patterns call for maintaining a vigil throughout midnight and early hours, even if it means putting off your sleep.
“While the volume of heavy rains that inundated Kochi city on Tuesday morning is yet to be ascertained, the 10-cm rainfall in just five hours, starting from 5.19 am, recorded in the CUSAT region, gives a clear indication of the rain intensity,” says Dr MG Manoj, Scientist at the CUSAT Advanced Centre for Atmospheric Radar Research.
“Out of this, 7 cm of rainfall was received from 8 am to 9.30 am.”
According to Dr Manoj, the current situation requires families in areas receiving climatic warnings to form a grouping for crisis communication and weather updates. Much of the heavy rains and landslides happen during the wee hours between 2 am and 4 am when the families are fast asleep.
The limited range of radars implies that clouds forming over many hilly regions go undetected. Currently, radars are located only at Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi, while there is none in the northern parts of the state. Though the Centre decided to set up radars at Kannur airport and Mangaluru regions, the projects are yet to be implemented. The change in weather patterns is such that small areas could be inundated at any time. Usually, this season witnesses moderate rains, but we are presently experiencing intense rainfall, similar to the monsoon showers, but in a more threatening manner. The heavy rains which lashed Kochi city the other day could not be detected in any weather prediction models.
Rough conditions persist in the Arabian sea, with strong winds and lightning. The depression is such that boats could not proceed further than one km from the coast. Hence, weather experts doubt the formation of a low-pressure belt, which may result in yet another spell of incessant rains across the state. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/31/kerala-rain-changing-weather-pattern-cyclone.html | 2022-08-31T06:26:31Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/31/kerala-rain-changing-weather-pattern-cyclone.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
‘This is not our culture!’
‘Don’t you have any shame?’
‘Good girls don’t dress like this’
‘You are asking for it!’
There is no dearth of cliched comments that our society throws at women who wear modern attire. Most recently, when the Kozhikode District Sessions judge granted bail to writer Civic Chandran in a sexual assault case stating that the survivor’s dress was “provocative,” the verdict was slammed by many for the regressive attitude.
While the High Court stayed the order, and the misogynistic comment was ridiculed by many, the women students of Calicut Medical College (CMC), Kozhikode, felt that it was not enough. They wanted to register their protest louder and stronger but in a more youthful fashion. Thus was born the #NotAskingForIt campaign, which has gone viral on social media since it was launched a few days ago.
The campaign presents a series of photos in which CMC students – Fiona Joseph, Ancy Shaju, Sreenima P, Sreelakhshmi Prakash and Radhika Deeju - are photographed in various public localities wearing modern outfits.
It’s an initiative of their WINCA aka Women in Campus, a club under their college union. The first of the three-part series ‘In the street,’ is out. The next, which would be staged on campus and on beaches or malls, will be done soon.
They have already received predictable comments like ‘This is a publicity stunt' and ‘What impact can such shoots have?’ from the conservative lot, but the youngsters are undeterred.
Third-year MBBS student Fiona, who is also the lady vice-chairperson of the college union, says, “No outfit – however revealing or not – gives one the licence to touch anyone inappropriately. Though many opposed the controversial judgment granting bail to Civic Chandran, we felt that enough was not done to protest the attitude. Moreover, after the judgment came out, even on our campus, girls feared that wearing modern outfits might get dubbed as an ‘invitation.’ That’s why we decided to stage such a protest and clear the air that you can’t touch anyone without their consent.”
A creative reaction
What they wanted to do was a creative protest within their time constraints and budget. That’s when WINCA came up with the idea of the photoshoot. Fiona says, “The first stage named ‘On the Streets’ was shot in Kozhikode’s famed SM Street and in the bus stop in front of our college. The next two parts – ‘On the campus’ and ‘Outing’ will be staged in our college and malls, beaches and the like. We have continuous exams and other work going on at the moment. Moreover, we want to execute them after considering many aspects like the dress code on campus and more. Once that’s done, we will shoot the next two parts too.”
Apparently, in their college, female students are only allowed to wear salwar or sarees. Ancy Shaju says, “Modesty is a huge word that’s thrown around here and according to many, women doctors should only wear those attires (salwar and sarees). However, we know doctors who work outside Kerala and the dress they wear. Here, we can’t even wear jeans, pants, shirts and the like. These restrictions can't be justified. There are times when I have protested in my own way by wearing pants and tops.”
The ‘unsavory’ reactions
These women are not new to the comments of the culture police and the reactions of their family members who, they say, 'don’t get it'. To those who throw the ‘culture’ comment at them, Fiona asks, “If we should dress following our culture, shouldn’t the men restrict themselves to mundu and women to saree, chatta-mundu and the like? Dresses like pants, shirts and salwars that we wear for comfort and convenience are from other cultures and were normalised over time. A few years ago, wearing salwars without shawls wasn’t considered decent and now, isn’t that normal enough? Even today’s modern dresses like shorts would be nothing new if more and more people wear them."
“I wonder how people who boast of ‘culture’ can make nasty, tasteless comments,” she adds.
Ancy, who was also told not to wear modern outfits on campus, says she let her actions speak. “I wore a similar outfit to the campus the next day too,” she says with a smile.
“The reactions from our families too depended on various people’s attitudes. However, what we are aiming at is a change of such narrow perspectives in the years to come,” says Sreenima. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/31/not-asking-for-it-medicos-photoshoot-protest-civic-chandran.amp.html | 2022-08-31T06:26:37Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/08/31/not-asking-for-it-medicos-photoshoot-protest-civic-chandran.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Safaricom kicked-off what it described as a large-scale customer pilot of its network in Ethiopia, ahead of a planned full launch for its operation in October.
In the latest phase customers will be able to buy SIM cards in various locations in Dire Dawa City, the first area to be covered by its 2G, 3G and 4G services. Sign-ups at the trial stage will receive a welcome offer including data voice and SMS allocations so they can test the network for a month.
The Ethiopia newcomer is providing customer care support, in-person registration and device sales from three shops. It is also opening a call centre service providing support in four local languages and English.
Safaricom Ethiopia CEO Anwar Soussa said the move was “an important milestone” adding it was testing “end-to-end readiness of technical and commercial operations ahead of full network launch”.
As previously announced the company plans to provide mobile services in 25 cities by April 2023 with its first locations set to be switched on for full commercial availability later this year.
The update comes as Safaricom continues to build-up to providing the first private mobile services across the country. The company won Ethiopia’s first licence to compete with incumbent Ethio Telecom last year, alongside its backers.
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Honda Motor Co. and LG Energy Solution on Monday announced plans to establish a joint venture company for making lithium-ion battery cells in the U.S. that will power “Honda and Acura EV models for the North American market,” according to the companies.
The joint-venture plant will represent a combined investment of $4.4 billion and aims for a capacity of 40 gigawatt-hours per year. It will make pouch-type cells, to be supplied “exclusively to Honda facilities in North America,” a release from the companies said.
That point underscores an important distinction as the company shifts toward a future electric vehicle lineup. Although the upcoming Honda Prologue and Acura ZDX electric vehicles will be based on General Motors’ Ultium battery ecosystem and separate Ultium Cells LLC joint venture with LG, the next generation of Honda EVs will be built on Honda’s own EV architecture, said to be arriving in the first vehicles in 2026.
It appears the joint venture will fit right in with that timeline. The two companies plan to start construction—at a location not yet announced—in early 2023, with the start of mass production for cells by the end of 2025.
The scale of the Honda platform could span beyond just Honda and Acura vehicles, ultimately. Honda hasn’t yet revealed whether EVs from a new joint venture with Sony will use the same building blocks, and details from the joint venture itself have been scant.
Honda president and CEO Toshihiro Mibe said that the move is “aligned with our longstanding commitment to build products close to the customer.” Honda assembles many of its vehicles for the U.S. in North America—including engines.
The move also fits with the much stricter raw materials and supply-chain requirements to be put in place as part of eligibility for the EV tax credit and its reboot set in motion by the recent Inflation Reduction Act.
The companies did not confirm any similarities or differences between the Ultium Cells LLC products and those from the future Honda-LG venture. GM’s Ultium pouch cells are the largest such cells currently used in electric vehicles, so if Honda wants a format that could translate easily to small cars or sports cars for other markets, it might opt for a smaller form factor.
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Earlier this summer, driving under a crested archway and up a softly winding road toward the Madrona, I immediately realized that this reimagined estate and mansion stands apart from some of the sprawling modern retreats of Northern California’s wine country. The Madrona, a collection of utterly charming historic buildings scattered across eight acres of gardens in the hills of Healdsburg, recently emerged from an extensive renovation that married designer Jay Jeffers’s fresh aesthetic with the soulfulness of the original structures.
I was on a quick getaway an hour-and-a-half drive from my home in the East Bay with two of my best friends who were visiting from Southern California, eager to experience the current incarnation of the 24-room boutique hotel. The brainchild of San Francisco–based Jeffers, the Madrona reopened in April 2022 with rooms and public spaces that preserve the history of the hotel, with roots dating back to the 1800s, while entering the 21st century via Jeffers’s modern and eclectic style vision.
What was initially a private residence built in 1881, the Madrona still features many of the furnishings and art that the original owners collected during their travels—more than 200 antiques and 30 art pieces are on display. Jeffers also commissioned a wide swath of contemporary artwork from San Francisco–based Dolby Chadwick Gallery and brought in unique design pieces for the hotel, including elaborate chandeliers and a watercolor painting that was converted into a carpet and wallpaper by Detroit painter Kelly Ventura.
“When designing the hotel, it was important for me to respect its historic architecture and 19th-century roots, while reimagining the property to be more modern and exciting for today’s traveler,” said Jeffers, who is also a co-owner of the property. Jeffers was on site during my visit, overseeing the arrival of much-anticipated armoires for the guest rooms that had been held up by shipping delays. His passion for every detail of the property was evident by his delight that the new furnishings had finally been delivered.
Prior to the remodel, the Madrona had operated as an inn named the Madrona Manor. But at the height of the pandemic, in spring 2020, the opportunity presented itself for Jeffers and several partners to purchase the property and transform it into what it is today. Of course, the pandemic provided numerous challenges and delays, but the result, which is a visual sensation, has been truly worth the wait.
Today, the property has been transformed into a chic boutique hotel and gathering place steeped in layered, maximalist design, complete with a relaxing resort-style pool area and fitness center, plus a bar and restaurant featuring haute American cuisine open to both guests and visitors.
Those who choose to overnight (and you won’t go wrong if you do) will have a wide range of accommodations to choose from, including guest rooms in the main mansion (and original residence), perfect for easy access to the restaurant and bar scene down below. There are also private bungalows with individual entrances that offer more space and serenity, including some bungalows that can also be connected to create two-bedroom suites. My traveling companions and I stayed in one of the bungalows situated across the lawn from the restaurant, where we appreciated the quieter setting and peaceful sleep by being removed from the mansion—I actually slept on the room’s sofa bed, which was so comfortable I couldn’t tell it was a pullout.
Each guest room is unique in feel and layout—some feature balconies, porches, bay windows, and fireplaces—no two are alike. Jeffers incorporated at least one furnishing or design element from the original collection into each room, which he then complemented with his own selection of furniture and (extremely comfortable) bedding. The result is that the rooms feel purposefully a bit more minimalist than the public spaces, but are still accented with vintage details that maintain the character of the property.
The original mansion, which houses the restaurant and Hannah’s Bar, is the perfect place to linger over a morning coffee or evening cocktail, whether you’re catching some rays out on the porch or have sunken into a comfy couch in the parlor.
At the restaurant, seasonal breakfast, lunch, and dinner menus by chef Jesse Mallgren (who helped earned the former restaurant concept in the same space a Michelin star for 13 straight years) are served in the dining room and on the outdoor Palm Terrace, a covered patio overlooking the gardens. Breakfast includes healthier fare such as yogurt and granola, porridge with roasted bananas, and poached eggs with spinach, as well as a more indulgent daily waffle—the waffle was my favorite (no big surprise there). The lunch and dinner menus feature comfort foods with a twist, such as chicken paillard with Southeast Asian spices or steak tartare dressed with a quail egg and wasabi; we loved the dinner menu’s hamachi crudo so much we ordered it on two separate occasions. You can also saddle up to the bar for small bites like oysters on the half shell or deviled eggs alongside a glass of wine, beer, or a Madrona custom cocktail (an Estate Martini or Guava Sour, anyone?) in a speakeasy-style setting.
When we weren’t eating or drinking, we relaxed on the chaise lounges by the heated pool. I also enjoyed roaming the gardens and exploring the working produce garden. For lunch one day, we borrowed the on-site Van Moof electric bikes for a two-wheeled turn around Healdsburg and through the neighboring rolling hills of wine country—one of my favorite ways to explore the region. If you’d rather drive, there is a complimentary car service for guests within a five-mile radius of the hotel and an on-site concierge service that can help arrange outings, such as a private winetasting or a dinner in the redwoods. The Madrona also hosts groups and events ranging from private dinner parties for 10 people to property buyouts for large gatherings such as weddings for up to 150 people. There couldn’t be a more delightful place and spaces in which to gather with friends and family. Personally, I’m looking forward to returning for a relaxing escape with my husband (minus our kids—though the Madrona welcomes guests of all ages, the serenity of the property feels a bit better suited to more mature members of the fam).
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The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at Laguna Seca was once again the best-value celebration of the automobile in the Monterey area during Car Week this year.
Sure, there are some free shows and gatherings you can attend, and the math gets pretty weird when you try to divide by zero dollar, but I’ve always been a believer that the track is the best place you can spend $100 or so. It’s a small fraction of the cost of other concurrent local events.
Concours shows and lawn parties have their place throughout Car Week, and you can see some truly incredible machinery at Pebble Beach or The Quail, for example, where I wandered around the day prior. But if you’d rather trade the super high gloss of a fresh restoration — which will likely drive less miles over the rest of its life than the number of cubic centimeters it displaces — for the weathered patina and screaming combustion of a race car, the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion (RMMR) is the event to attend.
Between the Bring a Trailer Alumni Gathering, various booths, hundreds of competitor cars and this year’s Le Mans-themed display, there was plenty of interest to devour in the Laguna Seca paddock.
Following a management shake up a few years back, various incremental improvements have been made at Laguna Seca, including new lounge areas and places to hang out as your favorite race cars from bygone eras roar by. Perhaps more importantly, later this year the track itself will be repaved. I intend to drive on the old surface one last time at Halloween before the track closes for months.
While they’re nice, I personally never find myself using these seating areas and other spaces for more than a few minutes anyway. Besides the racing itself, half the fun of a vintage race event like RMMR is getting up close and personal with these historic racers and other cars that come out, which requires that you continuously move your legs.
The Alumni GatheringAugust 2022 marked my third anniversary working for BaT, and like last year I stopped in to check out the Alumni Gathering. Nearly all of the cars here transacted on the site or were brought to the event out of staffers’ garages — sadly my M3 wasn’t in shape for a drive because of BMW things, but more on Project 345 another time — and as always there was an eclectic mix of vehicles scattered about.
It never fails to amaze me how much attention a stock Civic Si will garner, even parked up in the vicinity of Ferrari Testarossas, vintage Jaguars, a 959 and countless other Porsches. They really are great cars, and congrats to my friend and colleague Jasper for finding this tidy Electron Blue EM1. I can confirm it’s a blast to drive.
This was the second 959 I’d seen in as many days, and I think I’ve personally encountered close to 10% of the entire production run now. Only another 300 or so to go!
Some readers from before my time contributing to Speedhunters might recognize Project Yankee, albeit now looking slightly different under different ownership. This was my first time seeing the car in person.
Plenty of other cars and trucks of all types and from all marques and price points were on display at BaT’s shindig. From the office’s old S30, to a 2023 Nissan Z press car, to my friend Cam’s GX 470 that still wears dirt from when we went camping together last month, there was something for everyone.
While events like the Alumni Gathering really help to add value to the RMMR’s ticket price, we were all really here to watch some racing and peer longingly into the cockpits of old school race cars. Cars like this 968 Turbo RS, one of just four — or three, depending who you ask — examples built by Porsche for racing as sales of the production car declined.
I’ve included a handful of my favorite cars I encountered around the paddock down below; make sure you don’t miss that mustachioed character with his yellow speedster on a period flatbed, Jackie Ickx’s Le Mans-winning GT40, or the legendary rotary-powered Mazdas. The stories in this paddock are countless, and if you see anything you’d like us to try and feature, leave a comment down below.
Trevor Ryan
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In case you're wondering what the situation is like in China, things haven't drastically changed as the country is still sticking with its 'dynamic COVID zero' policy. The city of Guangzhou is the latest to step up restrictions today after five locally transmitted cases were reported, with local authorities ordering certain areas in one district to close all indoor entertainment venues and restaurant dining until Saturday at least.
All kindergartens and primary, middle and high schools in said district have also been ordered to delay resuming fall semesters until further notice. In addition, bus and subway services were also reduced.
This comes after Shenzhen ordered four districts (with roughly 9 million residents) to close all entertainment and cultural businesses amid a flare up in local cases.
You can imagine that with the constant start-stop living conditions, it is surely to keep taking a toll on businesses and that is continuing to impact the domestic economy rather forcefully for the time being. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/covid-19-restrictions-continue-to-stay-the-course-in-china-20220831/ | 2022-08-31T06:38:45Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/covid-19-restrictions-continue-to-stay-the-course-in-china-20220831/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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SPOKANE, Wash. — Anger erupted at Tuesday night's town hall meeting in Spokane, which was so packed, dozens of people had to stand outside.
Mayor Nadine Woodward reminded people that the City only had 30 days to work out a plan in order to receive $24 million from the Department of Commerce to clear out the homeless camp near I-90 and Freya, which has swelled to more than 600 people.
"It was a sloppy, messy process," Woodward said.
Catholic Charities plans to begin renovating the hotel into an emergency supportive housing community which they are calling The Catalyst. Catholic Charities is scheduled to close on the $6.5 million property September 12.
Catholic Charities of Eastern Washington CEO Rob McCann says The Catalyst is not a homeless shelter. Clients will have to be referred and interviewed, and only those ready and willing to stabilize their lives will be let in.
"We will have rules and expectations at the Catalyst program," McCann said. "Our expectations are that drugs and alcohol will not be used in or around our property and in fact that will extend to the entire surrounding neighborhood. We will remove anyone who does not conform to our expectations about good behavior."
There will also be 24/7 security. Still, neighbors worry about the crowd it could attract.
"There's nothing but criminal activity in that encampment and you're bringing them to my home," One neighbor said.
"We already have a huge drug problem at Palisades Park, we already have prostitution," another neighbor added. "I carry a gun and two 80 pound dogs with me when I walk."
Catholic Charities say they strive to provide dignity to the people they serve, as well as neighbors and businesses.
"It does look messy around our properties at times," said Jonathan Mallahan, Catholic Charities Chief Housing Officer. "We're committed to continuing to work with you and other neighbors to make sure we have systems in place for this property, a perimeter fence, 30 staff on site, they are going to help us make this a beautiful property."
Many neighbors want the project stopped and relocated to a different part of town.
"I think we have accepted as a community that sometimes the interest of the marginalized need to rise up and take precedent, and that's what is happening," Mallahan said.
Catholic Charities is also looking for a new home for House of Charity, which has been downtown for many years. Mayor Woodward says it will not be located in the Sunset Hill area.
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(WTXL) — The Quincy Police Department announced Monday night that it had arrested an individual suspected to be connected to multiple deadly shootings in recent days in the city of Quincy.
According to the Quincy Police Department, 23-year-old Arderrious M. Smith was arrested in connection to the murder of Quadre Kirkland, age 20.
Smith was charged with first degree murder and attempted murder.
The police department notes that it is expected that Smith will be charged with first degree murder of 18-year-old Shanti Lewis along with two counts of attempted first degree murder.
Smith is accused of shooting and killing Kirkland around U.S. Highway 90 and South Jackson Street on Sunday, Aug. 21.
Law enforcement officials arrived at the scene in the early hours of Aug. 21 and found Kirkland lying on the ground near to a black four door sedan.
Kirkland was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced deceased from a gunshot wound.
On Friday, Aug. 26 after 9:45 p.m., the Quincy Police Department responded to a shooting incident on West Crawford Street.
When the officers arrived, they learned that the vehicle operated by Lewis was traveling west on West Crawford Street near South 9th Street. Another vehicle was traveling behind Lewis' vehicle.
The other vehicle maneuvered next to Lewis’ vehicle.
At that point, gunfire came from the suspect’s vehicle.
The gunfire struck Lewis, who died at the scene while passengers in Lewis’ vehicle reportedly were not injured. | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/arrest-made-in-connection-to-deadly-shootings-in-quincy | 2022-08-31T06:43:07Z | wtxl.com | control | https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/arrest-made-in-connection-to-deadly-shootings-in-quincy | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Roundup: New Lex netters cruise to MVL road win
Larimer medals at EagleSticks for Maysville golf team
COSHOCTON — A long road trip proved worthwhile for New Lexington's volleyball team on Tuesday night.
Jerilyn Koehler, Abby Wilson and Trinity Cook paced a balanced Panther offense with 23 combined kills in a 25-18, 25-23, 25-16 win against Coshocton in a Muskingum Valley League-Small School match.
Koehler had 10 kills, Wilson seven and Cook six, while Nora Duperow had five kills with five aces and eight digs, and Lizzie Ellis set up 34 assists. Koehler also had four blocks and four digs.
Jalynn West tallied 20 assists and recorded two blocks for Coshocton; Lindsay Bryant had seven kills and 11 digs and Kenedi Jackson six kills and eight digs.
Caroline Dupler and Emma Sole had six kills in the Panthers' 24-26, 25-21, 25-16 reserve win. Maggie Laaper and Sophia McFadden had six kills for Coshocton.
The Redskins host West Muskingum on Thursday.
Tri-Valley 25, 25, 25, John Glenn 18, 23, 17: Evan Dittmar and Lexi Howe combined for 21 kills in the Scotties' MVL-Big School win on the road.
Kinze Albertson added fdive aces and Ingrid Dittmar 26 assists for Tri-Valley (4-2, 3-1). Anna Scheurman and Caity Journey had 16 and 11 digs, respectively, and Annika Collett and Dittmar three blocks.
Kara Fields and Emma Briggs collected five kils and Aleea Musselman had four kills with 12 digs for John Glenn (1-5, 1-2). Lauren Blair had 20 assists and three aces, Emma Dolan had five aces, three blocks and 10 digs and Hannah DeMattio three kills, four blocks and seven digs. Sydney White had 14 digs.
John Glenn won the reserve match behind seven kills and three blocks from Sophia Derry and Brelynn Barr's four assists and two aces.
Sheridan 25, 25, 25, Maysville 10, 20, 14: Dylan Fox distributed 16 assists and connected on all 11 of her serves to lead a balanced General attack in an MVL-Big School match in Newton Township.
Jamisyn Stinson had 13 digs to go with her team-high 10 kills and Halle Warner added five kills and 14-of-14 serving for Sheridan (3-1, 3-0 MVL-Big). Reagan Davis had a team-best 14 kills and had two aces among her 12-of-12 serving; Alexis Bradley had three aces, four kills, 11 assists and nine digs.
Olivia McPeek had 18 assists with seven digs and Rachel Jarvis four kills and seven digs for Maysville (3-5, 2-2). Haylee Cornett served up two aces with three kills.
Sheridan took the reserve match, 25-21, 25-11, behind two kills and four aces from Addison Grosse and 10 digs from Maddie Bishop. Ayven Johnson's three aces and four digs led Maysville.
Ella Thomas tallied 11 assists with 16-of-17 serving and six aces as Sheridan's freshmen won, 25-11, 25-19. Dorthy Patterson's four aces and two kills led Maysville.
Morgan, 25, 25, 25, Crooksville 17, 18, 14: Jensen Peyton tallied 12 kills and Evelyn Newton 10 to pace the Raiders in an MVL-Small School match in McLuney.
Chloe Baker added 23 assists and Ashtyn Filkins 11 digsfor Morgan (3-2, 2-1). Baker and Blair Clawson had 10 digs and Peyton chipped in two blocks; Odessa Smith had four kills.
Brynn Lundell's eight kills and seven digs led Crooksville (1-5, 0-3), while Ellie Ferguson contributed six kills with three blocks, Khirra Wilson four aces, four kills and four digs and Tasia Riggs nine assists and three digs. Julianna Locke chipped in eight assists.
Klaire Cain's five kills and four aces and Paige Lanning's four kills and 10 assists led Morgan's 25-10, 20-25, 25-16 reserve conquest. Mylee Davis had six kills and two blocks and Alexis Eyman five kills for Crooksville.
River View 25, 25, 25, Philo 11, 20, 11: Kayla Dulgar and Alivia Spaulding combined for 28 kills in the Lady Bears' dominant MVL-Big School win at The Power Plant.
Dulgar added 27 assists and nine digs; Cayla Shrimplin added two aces and 15 digs, Brittany Henderson 16 assists and Spaulding three blocks. Shrimplin, Bailey Laudick and Henderson boasted 100 percent serving.
Leaders were not reported for Philo.
Philo won the reserve match, 22-25, 25-22, 25-14. Shaelyn Yoder had 13 points and Shieann Waldren eight
Columbus Hartley 25, 20, 25, 25, Sheridan 10, 25, 15, 16: Jamisyn Stinson tallied 16 kills and was active on defense with 13 digs and three blocks. She also connected on 10 of 11 serves and had three aces to lead the Generals' in Monday's loss.
Reagan Davis added 14 digs, Alyssa Ward nine kills with four digs and Alexis Bradley 14 assists with four kills and 10 digs for the Generals.
Sheridan's reserves dropped a 20-25, 12-25 decision, as Madison Hupp had three kills, Lily Talbot six assists and Maddie Bishop 13 digs, while Sheridan took the freshman match, 25-19, 25-17, behind four kills and seven assists from Ella Thomas and nine digs from Laken Wilson.
Maysville 25, 25, 25, Zanesville 9, 18, 10: Olivia McPeek served six aces with four digs and Rachel Jarvis hit five kills and made four digs, as the Panthers (3-4) swept the Lady Devils.
Bekah Scott had six digs and three aces, Taelynn Dickinson also made six digs with four kills and Arissa Savage had two kills and two assists for Maysville.
The Maysville reserves also won 25-14, 25-14, as Bella Pfeifer had five aces and four kills, Rachel Gundelfinger passed out nine assists and Avyen Johnson had five aces and two kills.
No leaders were reported for Zanesville.
Boys Golf
Maysville 159, New Lexington 196, Tri-Valley 199: The Panthers' 1-2 punch of Connor Larimer and Owen Lutz ruled the day in an MVL triangular on the front nine at EagleSticks.
Larimer was overall medalist with a 1-under-par 34 and Lutz was next in line at 35. Matt Harper added 44 and Hoyt Dodson and Cade Pickrell 46 for Maysville, which improved to 11-1 in league play and 44-8 overall.
Brody Agriesti led New Lex with 43 and Drew Barnette had 48; Caden Gibson added 52 and Peyton Everett 53.
Jacob Grear shot 46 and Xander Smalley 49 to pace Tri-Valley, which also saw Conner Preston and Garrett Brocklehurst post 52.
Rosecrans wins MSL Midseason meet: Charlie Peterson was overall medalist with 83 and Weston Hartman was third with 86 to lead the Bishops to the MSL-Cardinal midseason title at Turnberry.
Nathan Hart added 93 and Evan Bauer 102 for Rosecrans, which shot 364.
Harrison Teal shot 84 as the individual runner-up for Fairfield Christian, which placed third with 423. Grove City Christian was second with 413.
Girls Golf
Lakewood 174, Sheridan 198: Lexi French shot 39 to pace the Lancers in a nonleague dual match at Harbor Hills.
Avery Thompson had 40 and Savannah Zwayer 46 for the Lancers.
Scores were not reported for Sheridan.
Boys Soccer
Philo 2, West M 1: Andrew Van Meter and Blake Bernard scored goals for the Electrics (1-2-0 MVL) in their MVL win at the Philo Athletic Complex.
Hunter Wallace added six saves for the winners, who host Millersburg West Holmes at 11 a.m. on Saturday.
West slipped to 1-3-1.
Tri-Valley 2, Morgan 1: Gael Oseguera and Sam Schott each scored for the Scotties, who held on to top the Raiders.
No leaders were reported for Morgan.
John Glenn 6, Sheridan 0: The Muskies scored three times in the first half to record a road shutout in the MVL.
Leaders were not reported.
River View 15, New Lex 0: The Black Bears rolled to a shutout on the road in the MVL.
Details were not available.
Maysville 6, Coshocton 0: The host Panthers led 2-0 at the half and rolled past the Redskins in MVL play.
No other information was reported.
Girls Soccer
Lakewood 3, West Muskingum 2: Jaylie Mass scored the go-ahead goal in the second half to lead the Lancers in a nonleague road win.
Claire Smith scored a goal and Jayden Thornton converted a penalty kick for West. Gracie Settles had seven saves.
Ellie Conaway scored twice in the first half for the winners, who led 2-1 at halftime. Mckenna Clem had 19 saves to preserve the win. | https://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/story/sports/high-school/2022/08/31/roundup-new-lexington-volleyball-cruises-to-mvl-road-win/65464713007/ | 2022-08-31T06:50:25Z | zanesvilletimesrecorder.com | control | https://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/story/sports/high-school/2022/08/31/roundup-new-lexington-volleyball-cruises-to-mvl-road-win/65464713007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
People Count From Left to Right. But There Is a Better Way to Use Numbers, According to Research
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We read numbers just the way we read words in English. It’s always 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; mentally, you processed this as a count from one all the way up to six, because the count starts from the left, the territory of smaller numbers. But if regular programming were to stop, here’s a question: why aren’t we wired to look at numbers differently, say understand them if they were jumbled? Or, if the numbers were positioned like this:
6
5
4
3
2
1
Would this presentation make any difference in the way people process it, and use the said information for making decisions?
That appears to be the consensus of a new study. Researchers looked at our tendency to stick to the “mental number line” (positioning numbers in a horizontal dimension), which in itself is an important metric of how we place information across time and space. Civilizations have been built on the idea that smaller quantities take the left side of this line, gradually increasing to bigger numbers.
But the study, published in PLOS One last week, found there may be a more efficient way to look at, and use numbers. “We found that humans actually process numbers faster when they are displayed vertically – with smaller numbers at the bottom and larger numbers at the top,” wrote researchers from Monash University. In the above example, someone would process the fact that 6 is greater than 1 much faster, as compared to if 1 to 6 were listed horizontally.
The dominance of the left-to-right mental line is what the present study questions. In an experiment, they showed pairs of numbers to participants in different arrangements: say, 1 and 9 were positioned diagonally in one, 2 and 7 positioned vertically, 1 and 5 horizontally. They asked the participants to indicate by way of a joystick where the larger number was located, thus measuring the speed with which the participants picked the right number.
They found that the spatial arrangement of the numbers decided how fast people responded to the question. When the larger number was placed vertically above the smaller one, people reached the answer much more quickly than when it was placed on the left or right side.
“This suggests our mental number line actually goes from bottom (small numbers) to top (large numbers),” the study concluded. Instinctively, this makes sense: numbers are indeed displayed vertically in high-intensity fields such as stock market trading.
“Bottom-to-top appears to be how our brains are wired to be most efficient at using numbers – and that might help [in] getting our heads around how numbers work a little easier.”
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All You Need to Know About ‘Math Dyslexia’
The relationship between space and numbers is one determined by language and culture. Some languages are read from right to left (Urdu, Persian, Hebrew, etc.); some are read from top to bottom (Mongolian, Chinese, certain Japanese, and Korean dialects). There’s no right or wrong way, just a common way that dictates which way rivers of numbers run across cultures.
But over the years, scientific inquiry has established that this relationship of how we view numbers spatially is indeed wired into our brains (and that of other animals like birds too). And indeed, numbers function as an index to the world we live in: we measure days, weeks, months, years, and time in its entirety through them. We calculate when the train or bus will come, or how far person A is from us. Numbers indicate the right dose for medicines in pharmacy; altitude and speed are all determined in the language of these digits for pilots.
“The way we learn to use numbers, and how designers choose to display numerical information to us, can have important implications for how we make fast and accurate decisions,” the researchers in the present study noted.
The findings carry implications not only in the way we teach numbers within the education space, but also how we deal with them as adults. There is an opportunity to teach children how to read mental number lines that run both horizontally and vertically to attune their brains to a more nuanced understanding of numbers. Knowing how numerical information is best-processed inevitably impacts people’s knowledge of health infrastructures, economic systems, our experience of living in a collective set-up. We make decisions based on our ability to grasp numbers, which explains why an inability to properly grasp numerical knowledge is also linked to poor confidence and self-esteem.
Moreover, we already know the human mind is bad at interpreting large numbers, which explains the intellectual challenge of processing, say, millions of deaths due to a pandemic. Interestingly, the brain categorizes anything bigger than the number five as a large quantity to “intuitively recognize, it follows that the brain must rely on different methods of thinking when confronted with much bigger numbers,” one researcher argued.
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Fidelity Bank Plc has announced that it has entered into a binding agreement for the acquisition of 100.0percent equity stake in Union Bank United Kingdom (UK) Plc for which the Central Bank of Nigeria has issued a letter of “No Objection”.
In a corporate filing on the Nigerian Exchange Limited on Tuesday, Fidelity Bank said the Central Bank of Nigeria‘s letter signifies acceptance to its proposed acquisition of the bank which commenced London operations in 1983.
The notice signed by Fidelity Bank’s Company Secretary, Ezinwa Unuigboje, said the transaction is still subject to the approval of the Prudential Regulatory Authority of the United Kingdom.
Commenting on the agreement, Mrs. Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Fidelity Bank Plc said this transaction aligns with the strategic plan of expanding the lender’s service touchpoints beyond the Nigerian market and providing straight-through services that meet and exceed the needs of its growing clients.
According to her, “The diverse service bouquet and business model of Union Bank UK offered a compelling synergy, and we hope to build on the existing capacity to create a scalable and more sustaining service franchise that will support the wider ecosystem of our trade businesses and diaspora banking services.”
The transaction is subject to the approval of the Prudential Regulatory Authority (PRA} of the United Kingdom.
In June, Titan Trust Bank Limited completed the takeover of Union Bank of Nigeria Plc which was one of Nigeria’s oldest banks
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President Muhammadu Buhari has restated why his administration does not interfere in elections, telling governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in a meeting on Tuesday that he will allow Nigerians to vote for whoever they want.
Speaking at the meeting, which took place in his office at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, he assured that governing party will continue to bequeath strong political institutions that reflect their choices, through non-interference in elections, citing the outcome of polls in Ekiti, Anambra and the Osun States as indicators.
The President noted that non-interference in elections gives credence to the political process, ensures participation and inclusiveness, and shows that the governing party respects the electorate.
He said under his leadership, the APC will continue to respect Nigerians by ensuring that their votes count and the people’s voice matters in choosing political leaders at different levels.
In a statement issued by Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President
(Media & Publicity), quoted Buhari as saying: “I want Nigerians to know that we respect them, and for us to show that we will allow them to vote who they want.
“We all witnessed what happened in Anambra, Ekiti and Osun States. What happened in those states gives me a lot of hope that we are succeeding.’’
For the 2023 elections, President Buhari said the government will also ensure that Nigerians don’t get intimidated, or humiliated by those in positions, or the more privileged.
“We will not allow anyone to use personal resources or their influence to intimidate other Nigerians. We will not allow intimidation materially, morally or physically. This is the kind of leadership that can emerge and consolidate our nation.
“In six months, Nigerians will appreciate the government of APC that we are sincere and we respect them,’’ he added.
President Buhari urged the party’s political leaders to intensify efforts in “thinking, meeting and strategizing for the 2023 elections.’’
In his remarks, the Chairman of the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF) and Governor of Kebbi State, Atiku Bagudu, who led the delegation, thanked the President for his leadership, guided by wisdom and foresight, affirming that the Nigerian economy had been growing, in spite of challenges.
He stated: “We want to congratulate you on the positive trajectory of the economy, with the 3.5 per cent growth in the second quarter, up from 3.1 per cent of the first quarter of this year. Infrastructure projects are ongoing in parts of the country, and the social intervention programme is expanding.”
The governor said the growth trajectory had defied initial predictions of some multilateral institutions, affirming that the World Bank and others had acknowledged the resilience of the economy, and reviewed their positions.
“Your Excellency, as we speak, there is drought in Europe and China. The Ukraine-Russia war is taking a toll on economies. In the UK, there is rationing of electricity and energy shortages in China.
“While other countries are banning food export, we are preparing for more production, in spite of floods in places like Jigawa State. We note your instruction for the release of 40,000 tonnes of grains.
“We also note efforts on improving security and measures to cut oil theft,’’ he said.
The PGF Chairman told the President that some APC governors were contesting elections for a second term in 2023 with impressive records in their first term.
“We note the pronouncement of ASUU. We recall the appeal of the President to ASUU while we were visiting Daura that they should consider the future of students.
We will not dwell on that now. We are ready to accept any negotiations for resolution,’’ Bagudu added.
The Kebbi State Governor commended Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha and Chief of Staff to the President, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, for their steadfastness and stewardship.
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PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Commandant-General of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Dr Abubakar Audi, to put an end to the menace of oil theft and bunkering taking toll on the nation’s economy.
The NSCDC boss disclosed that more than 200 suspects had been arrested by the corps in the last one year for alleged oil theft and illegal oil bunkering activities in some parts of the country.
He said that the corps has also arrested over 300 trucks and destroyed over 50 Illegal refineries, saying oil theft and illegal oil bunkering had become alarming.
Audi spoke in Abuja at an emergency meeting with the heads of anti-vandalisastion units in all the state commands, where he read Riot Act to them on the need to step up action on protection of assets and infrastructure in the country.
He noted that the Federal Government is worried about the rate of oil theft and illegal bunkering, disclosing that President Buhari has directed that the menace must be stopped.
He warned that the corps has also set up a panel to investigate some members of anti-vandalisastion squad alleged to have compromised in the illegal bunkering, threatening that any officer found culpable would be severely sanctioned.
“I invited you here to register my displeasure and disappointment at the attitude to work by some Heads of Anti-Vandal Units and members of their squad.
“You are all aware that one of the core mandate of the corps is the protection of Critical National Assets and Infrastructure (CNAI) for which the corps remains the lead agency.
“The corps’ management under my supervision has taken several proactive measures to stem the tide of oil theft and vandalisation which include but not limited to the setting up of the Commandant General’s Special Intelligence Squad.
“However, it appears some elements in the system are working to draw the corps backwards from realising the expected gains from our efforts to eradicate or reduce to the barest minimum, incidences of oil theft, oil pipeline vandalisation, among others.
“There are indications that some of the anti-vandal units in some state commands had been found wanting in the discharge of their duties as the corps management has received reports of irresponsibility and connivance on the part of some of them, hence the imperative of summoning all heads of anti-vandal units nationwide to this meeting to deliberate on the dangerous slide and rather unfortunate development which the management frowns at as it is inimical to the image the corps has built over the years.
“The importance of this meeting is to draw your attention to some of these observed lapses and shortcomings in the operations of the anti-vandal squad and the need for a total reorganisation and overhauling of the entire anti-vandal units across board to reposition the unit for better performance.
“As heads of anti-vandal units, you are expected to display a high sense of responsibility, commitment, loyalty and dedication to duty. Let me sound this note of warning that the corps has no space for mediocrity, laziness, nonchalance and incompetence and will therefore not hesitate to appropriately deal with any officer found wanting in the discharge of his duties,” Audi said.
“You must therefore go back to your various state commands and redouble your efforts to re-invigorate, re-engineer and reposition your various Anti Vandal Squads for better performance to justify the confidence reposed in the corps by government and the good people of Nigeria.
“Members of the Anti-Vandal Squad must re-dedicate themselves to our collective goal and objective to curb and checkmate crime and eradicate incidences of oil theft/oil bunkering and vandalisation of oil pipelines and other CNAI.
“Meanwhile, the management has commenced discrete investigation into the activities of the Anti-Vandal Squads across the states while those found culpable in any act of criminal connivance capable of damaging the image of the corps will be severely sanctioned to serve as deterrent.
“Let me also assure you that those who have shown a high sense of responsibility, diligence, competence and commitment in the discharge of their duties will be rewarded accordingly through the reward system already emplaced by the corps’ management.
“All hands must be on deck in our collective efforts to rid the society of crime and criminality even as we synergise with sister agencies to enhance a safe and secure environment,” Audi said.
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TODAY: Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Winds northwest-west at 10 to 20 mph. HIGH SWIM RISK with wave heights 3 to 5 feet.
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Broadcom (AVGO) supplies semiconductor chips for various applications, including smartphones and data centers. The company plans to report its fiscal Q3 2022 earnings on September 1, after the closing bell. TipRanks’ Blogger Sentiment tool shows that financial bloggers are highly bullish on AVGO stock ahead of the earnings report.
The TipRanks Blogger Sentiment tool can help you identify the best stocks to invest in. The tool analyzes opinions across various financial blogging platforms to gauge the sentiments towards a particular stock. In this case, the tool shows that financial blogger opinions are 95% Bullish on AVGO, compared to a sector average of 66%.
Broadcom supplies components that go into renewable energy systems. The Inflation Reduction Act offers various incentives to encourage renewable power adoption. As a result, it may drive more demand for Broadcom’s chips in the energy sector. Moreover, the VMware (VMW) acquisition promises to greatly expand and diversify Broadcom’s business.
What Is Wall Street Saying about Broadcom’s Q3 Earnings Expectations?
Wall Street expects Broadcom to report adjusted EPS of $9.56 on revenue of $8.41 billion. The company expects revenue of $8.4 billion for the third quarter. However, Broadcom did not provide an EPS outlook for the upcoming quarter. In the year-ago quarter, Broadcom delivered adjusted EPS of $6.96 on revenue of $6.78 billion. The results exceeded expectations.
Is Broadcom a Buy or Sell?
Though Broadcom shares have declined more than 20% year-to-date, Wall Street professionals remain bullish on the stock. According to TipRanks’ analyst rating consensus, AVGO stock is a Strong Buy. The average Broadcom stock price prediction of $660 implies 30% upside potential.
Broadcom has a long dividend history and has been paying increasing annual dividends over the past 12 years. AVGO stock currently has a dividend yield of 3.05%, which is more than triple the sector average of 0.94%.
Final Thoughts
Broadcom’s stock stands to benefit from a number of tailwinds. For example, the Chips Act seeks to promote the domestic U.S. semiconductor industry. As a result, it may see Broadcom get a helping hand toward its research and manufacturing projects. Furthermore, demand is building for Broadcom in the renewable energy sector, and the VMware acquisition should help diversify the business.
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The tightening of monetary policy, cost inflation, and supply-chain bottlenecks have eroded corporate revenues and margins over the past few quarters, making investment decisions tougher. Under such circumstances, a proper study of the investment strategies and choices of well-versed investors, like U.S. politicians, could lessen the pain for prospective investors. Notably, some renowned U.S. politicians bought shares of three high market cap companies in August. These companies include The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG), AbbVie Inc. (NYSE:ABBV), and Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ:SBUX).
While shares of Procter & Gamble slipped 1.9% in the past month, AbbVie and Starbucks declined 3.3% and 1.8%, respectively. Meanwhile, in the past month, the S&P 500 fell 2.6%, the NYSE decreased 1.5%, and the NASDAQ lost 3.8%.
A consolidated chart providing Wall Street’s take on the companies mentioned above has been designed using TipRanks’ Stock Comparison tool for a better understanding of prospective investors.
The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG)
The consumer goods company deals in products related to health care, beauty, family care, home care, and baby care. Shares of this $338.6-billion company were purchased by Democrat Debbie Dingell once in August. The Representative from Michigan bought seven to 104 shares of The Procter & Gamble Company for approximately $1,000 to $15,000.
In July 2022, the company’s Chairman of the Board, President, and CEO, Jon Moeller, said, “We remain committed to our integrated strategies of superiority, productivity, constructive disruption, and an agile and accountable organization structure. They remain the right strategies to step forward into the near-term challenges we are facing and continue to deliver balanced growth and value creation.”
Is PG Stock a Buy or Sell?
TipRanks’ analysts have a Moderate Buy consensus rating on PG stock, which is based on seven Buys and five Holds. PG’s average price forecast is $155.08, representing 10.63% upside potential from the current level.
Meanwhile, retail investors are optimistic about the prospects of Procter & Gamble. The number of retail portfolios with investments in PG stock increased 0.9% in the past month. The investments of Top TipRanks Portfolios have grown 1.8% in the same period.
AbbVie Inc. (NYSE:ABBV)
AbbVie is a $240-billion biopharmaceutical company, which specializes in eye care, neurology, women’s health, immunology, and other fields. The U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania, Dwight Evans, purchased eight to 109 shares of ABBV in August. The Democrat’s Buy trade is valued within the $1,000-$15,000 range.
In July, AbbVie’s Chairman and CEO, Richard A. Gonzalez, said, “The momentum of our business, combined with advances across our pipeline continue to support AbbVie’s promising long-term outlook.”
What Is ABBV’s Price Target?
On TipRanks, ABBV’s price target is $160.54, representing an upside of 18.44% from the current level. The highest price target is $188, and the lowest is $135.
Also, the company carries a Moderate Buy consensus rating based on seven Buys, five Holds, and one Sell rating. Despite the cautiously optimistic tone of analysts, retail investors increased their exposure to ABBV stock by 0.3% in the past 30 days. Further, the number of top portfolios holding ABBV stock is up 1.5%.
Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ:SBUX)
The $96.5-billion company is known for its beverages, especially coffee, breakfast sandwiches, pastries, ground coffee, roasted beans, and other food products. Shares of the company were purchased by Republican John Curtis in August. Notably, the Representative from Utah bought 12 to 170 SBUX shares for $1,000 to $15,000.
In August, the company’s interim CEO, said, “We have a clear line-of-sight on what we need to do to reinvent the company, elevate our partner and customer experiences and drive accelerated, profitable growth all around the world.”
What Is the Price Target for SBUX Stock?
SBUX’s average price target of $92.89 reflects 11.37% upside potential from the current level. The highest price target is $110 and the lowest is $84.
On TipRanks, as many as nine analysts have assigned a Buy rating to SBUX stock, and 10 analysts have rated the stock a Hold. Talking about retail investors, the number of portfolios with exposure to SBUX stock increased 0.7% in the past month. The same for top portfolios grew 0.4%.
Concluding Remarks
It is worth mentioning that economic activities in the U.S. have weakened. The country’s GDP fell 1.6% in the first quarter of 2022 and 0.6% in the second quarter. Also, the U.S. economy is forecast to grow 2.3% in 2022 and 1% in 2023 versus 5.7% in 2021, according to the International Monetary Fund.
Amid economic uncertainties caused by multiple factors, including those mentioned above, we believe that investors will be keen to learn from the trading activities of U.S. politicians and other experienced investors and institutions. It appears that the long-term prospects of Procter & Gamble, AbbVie, and Starbucks are solid. In the near-term, prevalent headwinds might be concerning as evident from analysts’ cautiously optimistic tone on these stocks.
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The basic materials sector can be volatile. With both the demand and supply sides of commodities being constantly impacted by unpredictable external factors, companies in the space tend to produce fluctuating returns. In good times, these companies tend to record massive profits and pay out exciting dividends. During turbulent times, the opposite happens. However, Eastman Chemical (EMN) appears to have differentiated itself with its relatively stable results.
Nonetheless, I’m neutral on the stock.
Eastman Chemical: A Solid Basic Materials Company
Despite the sector’s abnormalities, there are some companies trading basic materials that are diversified enough, both in terms of their offerings and their geographical footprint, that has allowed them to keep producing relatively stable financials and grow their capital returns over time.
One such company is Eastman Chemical, a specialty materials company serving its customers worldwide. The company supplies a broad range of products found in goods people use daily to multiple clients in various industries. These comprise transportation, building and construction materials, consumables, animal nutrition, and crop protection, among other markets.
Unlike its more volatile peers, the company has historically delivered rather steady cash flows while sustainably increasing its dividend. Specifically, the company has managed to grow its dividend for 13 consecutive years while slowly but gradually expanding the underlying business. This has been possible through management’s top-notch capital allocation, as they have been skillfully juggling between investing back into the business, managing debt levels, and rewarding shareholders.
Strong Q2 Results Despite a Turbulent Macro Environment
Eastman’s Q2 results demonstrated the company’s ability to keep producing stable results in a rather uncertain environment due to how diversified its operations are. While the company’s revenues were impacted by FX headwinds and the divested rubber activities, the company continued to capitalize on the elevated basic materials prices, delivering growth in both the top and bottom lines.
In particular, the company produced revenues and adjusted earnings per share of $2.78 billion and $2.83, implying growth of 4.9% and 15%, respectively. Revenue growth was pushed by 15% higher selling prices and a 2% increase in sales volume/mix, offset by headwinds of 2% and 10%, connected to FX and divestitures, respectively.
Higher selling prices were, in turn, caused by quite higher raw material, energy, and distribution prices and strong end-market demand driven by the ongoing recovery momentum stemming from the pandemic easing year-over-year. The current inflationary environment and geopolitical unrest following the war in Ukraine have also strengthened commodity prices, which Eastman has passed on to its clients.
Following increased pricing, the company was able to realize higher profit margins, hence the growth in adjusted earnings per share. Backed by a strong bottom line, which was in line with the company’s prior estimates, management reiterated its adjusted earnings-per-share outlook for Fiscal 2022. Thus, the company is still expecting the metric to land between $9.50 and $10.00 for the full year.
Management also reaffirmed its capital allocation priorities, which comprise paying the quarterly dividend, supporting organic growth, executing bolt-on acquisitions, and repurchasing shares.
Eastman’s Capital Returns are Strengthening
As mentioned, Eastman Chemical’s prudent capital management has allowed the company to gradually grow its dividend. After all, it’s one of management’s top priorities. In years of elevated profitability levels, the company has often chosen to repurchase shares to further increase shareholder value, as is currently the case. Let’s break these two capital return avenues down.
The Dividend
As mentioned earlier, Eastman Chemical counts 13 years of successive annual dividend increases. The company has also never slashed its dividend since the initial one it paid back in 1994. Eastman’s latest dividend hike last year was by a satisfactory 10.1%, to a quarterly rate of $0.76 per share.
Amid strong earnings growth, the dividend payout ratio remains healthy despite the rather aggressive dividend increase. Specifically, based on the midpoint of management’s guidance and the current annualized dividend of $3.04, the payout ratio presently stands at around 31%.
Therefore, I support that Eastman’s pace of dividend growth should remain quite vigorous, with enough space to meaningfully increase payouts in the coming years.
It’s also worth noting that since the company has already declared four consecutive $0.76 dividends, the next dividend announcement is quite likely to reveal another dividend hike. With the dividend yield currently at around 3.1% and robust dividend growth prospects, Eastman should make for a noteworthy pick for dividend growth investors.
Share Repurchases
At a lower rank but still important among management’s priorities are share repurchases. Eastman has executed substantial buybacks over the past decade, repurchasing roughly 19% of its outstanding shares since 2013. Buybacks play a notable role in boosting EPS as well.
Again, amid record profit levels, Eastman’s management stressed in its earnings report that it expects share repurchases for the full year to exceed $1 billion. With the company’s market cap currently at $11.6 billion, the company is set to retire a significant portion of its outstanding shares.
Further, stock buybacks can shield Eastman’s dividend safety in two ways. Firstly, by retiring shares, the company saves money on future dividends it would pay connected to these shares.
Secondly, if the business were to come under pressure, the company would most likely soften or suspend repurchases before touching the dividend. Thus, seeing strong buybacks provides another layer of safety for investors regarding the current payouts.
Is EMN a Good Stock to Buy?
Turning to Wall Street, Eastman Chemical has a Moderate Buy consensus rating based on seven Buys and seven Holds assigned in the past three months. At $113.29, the average Eastman Chemical price target implies 21.3% upside potential.
Conclusion: A Robust Capital-Return Machine
Despite the sector’s volatile nature, Eastman Chemical has managed to remain a stable capital-return machine, prioritizing shareholder value creation over the long term.
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Inflation could hit 22.4% in 2023 if prices for natural gas remain as high as they currently are, according to a forecast by Goldman Sachs.
The figure is considerably higher than recent forecasts by Citi and the Bank of England, which predicted that inflation could hit 18.6% and 13% respectively.
The prediction adds pressure on the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee which is due to have its next interest rate meeting on September 15.
The National Institute of Economic and Social Research warned last month that the Bank of England would need to raise interest rates to 3% to bring down inflation.
Inflation ‘worst since 70s’
The think tank said, “The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee must continue to be cautious as it walks a fine line between tightening policy too quickly, worsening the recession, and too slowly, increasing the risk of high inflation becoming embedded in expectations.”
In a poll of economists by news agency Reuters, 30 out of 51 forecast that the Bank would raise interest rates by 50 basis points to 2.25% in September.
Another 21 economists suggested that the bank would raise interest rates by 0.25% in September – after a 0.5% raise in August.
Inflation ‘already at 10.1%’
British consumer price inflation rose to 10.1% in July, up from 9.4% in June, in the highest figure since February 1982, according to the Office of National Statistics.
The last time British inflation hit such heights was in 1976, after an oil supply shock left Britain seeking a bailout from the International Monetary Fund. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/british-inflation-could-hit-22-4-next-year-goldman-sachs-warns | 2022-08-31T07:08:15Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/british-inflation-could-hit-22-4-next-year-goldman-sachs-warns | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The FTSE 100 finished up by 0.88% at 7,361.6 while the FTSE 250 was up by 0.11% at 19.149.6 after a mixed day where both indices had been buoyed by an early rally driven by gains in oil and banking stocks – only to slump later as the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and the Nasdaq fell on news that the Estonian central bank governor Madis Muller had discussed a possible 75 point basis rate hike next Month.
AJ Bell investment director, Russ Mould, said “The FTSE 100 started on the front foot after the Bank Holiday, having careered into the long weekend with some substantial losses after Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell’s hawkish speech at the Jackson Hole summit.”
Meanwhile, more worrying signs about the state of Britain’s economy emerged as credit card borrowing grew at the fastest annual rate for 17 years, with consumers borrowing an additional £1.4 billion in July.
British energy firms including gas producers and electricity generators could make excess profits of up to £170 billion over the next two years, a controversial report has claimed.
Bloomberg News reported the futures on Tuesday, based on unpublished analysis, but this is disputed by Britain’s government.
Fund manager Abrdn (GB:ABDN) may well be relegated from the FTSE 100 this week for the first time since the 2017 merger of Standard Life and Aberdeen Asset Management, after a more than 40% slump in its share price.
Iconic British food retailer Marks and Spencers (GB:MKS) rose 2% on news that it was placed second in a NIelsenIQ list of food retailers, based on sales momentum over the past three months.
British business news
Sunak warns of risk that investors could lose faith in British economy (FT)
Get ready for 22% inflation, Goldman warns (The Times)
Why rising energy prices will kill the work-from-home dream (Telegraph) | https://www.tipranks.com/news/british-stock-market-today-wednesday-august-31-what-you-need-to-know | 2022-08-31T07:08:21Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/british-stock-market-today-wednesday-august-31-what-you-need-to-know | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Bunzl (GB:BNZL) published its half-year results for 2022 amid strong recovery in business volumes and rapid growth from acquisitions.
The company’s revenue increased by 16% to £5.7 billion – and the company, which distributes products including latex gloves, workwear and food packaging, is further on track to expand its operations with six acquisitions announced so far in 2022.
The adjusted operating profit grew by 12.2% to £411.4 million.
This reflected the company’s ability to withstand inflationary pressures: Bunzl has revised its margin guidance for 2022 to be higher, but a little lower than the margins reported in 2021.
The company also announced an increase in its interim dividend by 6.8% to 17.3p per share, as compared to 16.2p in the first half of 2021.
The good performance and the growth in dividends didn’t help the stock, which went down around 6.5% in one day after the results.
Expert Views
Victoria Scholar, head of Investment at Interactive Investor, said, “Shares in Bunzl are trading lower after its first-half earnings report disappointed investors. Although it raised its operating margin outlook, it is still expected to fall in the full year versus 2021. The stock initially slumped to the bottom of the FTSE 100, shedding more than 5 percent, but has since pared some of those losses.
“Global geopolitical uncertainty and equity market turmoil weighed on the stock between April and June, but since the lows, Bunzl has enjoyed a strong uptrend, rallying by more than 20 per cent. Shares are giving back some of those gains today.”
What is Bunzl as a company?
Bunzl is a UK-based distribution and services group serving customers in 31 countries across the world.
The company supplies food packaging and disposables, cleaning and hygiene supplies, stationery, and more to retail stores, hospitals, restaurants, and other companies.
The company is known for its environmental awareness: the majority of its products are recyclable and reusable.
Is Bunzl a good buy?
According to TipRanks’ analyst rating consensus, Bunzl stock has a Hold rating. It includes five Hold, three Buy, and one Sell recommendations.
The Bunzl target price is 2,923.13p, which represents a slight change of 0.12% on the current price level. The price target has a low and a high forecast of 2,250p and 3,500p, respectively.
Conclusion
Bunzl stock fell on yesterday’s news, but there are promising aspects to this week’s numbers, analysts believe. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/bunzl-posts-a-jump-in-profits-riding-on-higher-volumes | 2022-08-31T07:08:32Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/bunzl-posts-a-jump-in-profits-riding-on-higher-volumes | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK - Australian Open finalist Danielle Collins defeated two-time champion Naomi Osaka 7-6(5), 6-3 in the first round of the US Open. Seeded No.19, Collins snapped her three-match losing streak with a powerful baseline display to earn her first win in four tries against Osaka. She will face Spain's Cristina Bucsa in the next round.
"When you lose to someone three times you get a lot of information on what you can do better," Collins said. She had been 0-6 in sets against Osaka. "With Naomi being the player that she is, she definitely whooped me the last time. I just had to learn from that and make adjustments and I think I did that."
Day 2: Cornet makes history, beats Raducanu | Venus bows out | Stephens advances | Swiatek leads Top 10 charge
Three takeaways on Collins' triumphant return to New York:
The hitting in this match was magnificent: After Osaka burst to a 3-0 lead in under 10 minutes, Collins responded immediately to level the score at 3-3. From there, the quality of shot-making rose with every game, with both women going toe-to-toe for power.
"I got lucky in some big moments," Collins said. "But I was working really hard for the points. She wasn't giving me a ton much free ones. Really overall I think it was a solid match, high level of tennis from both of us."
After saving a late break point to hold to 6-5, Osaka found herself down an early mini-break in the tiebreak. But a double-fault and backhand error from Collins allowed Osaka to level at 4-4. The American responded by hitting a desperation lob winner that stunned Osaka when it landed in.
The margins continued to be razor thin as the set inched towards the finish, as Osaka saved one set point only to see the set disappear with a forehand error.
Danielle Collins' cmon: elite. pic.twitter.com/KdNUIPyOda
— US Open Tennis (@usopen) August 31, 2022
After a long absence, Collins makes a statement: Tennis is a fickle sport with a short memory. Jessica Pegula comes into this tournament as the top-ranked American, with Coco Gauff and Madison Keys as plausible title favorites.
But it was Collins who set the bar for the American contingent at the start of the season. Her run to the Australian Open final boosted her into the Top 10 and she could count herself as the standard-bearer for American tennis until Pegula overtook her in July.
Seeded No.19, Collins came into New York well under the radar. She had not played since Lausanne in July and had lost her last three matches dating back to Roland Garros. After Lausanne, she chose to step away from the tour to address a neck injury and put in a solid training block.
But Collins cut a relaxed and confident figure in her pre-match interview with Pam Shriver, saying this was as healthy and fit as she's felt all season. It showed.
"When I made finals in Australian Open, I didn't play any warmup tournaments," Collins said. "That gave me a lot of confidence. I was thinking my best results in Slams have been when sometimes I don't play a warmup tournament. I made the quarterfinals of the French back in 2020. Didn't play any clay court tournaments that year before. Just went out and felt really good. I guess it works for me sometimes."
Every shot that Osaka screamed her way was met with an even bigger ball off Collins' racquet. And if there was any rust, Collins showed no signs of it. In a match that combined for 48 winners, two from Collins' trusty Babolat stood out. Her stunning stab lob at 4-4 in the first-set tiebreaker and another clutch desperation volley to save break point in the fourth game of the second set. Those are shots you miss when you've been sidelined from competition. Collins nailed them.
Collins finished the match with 23 winners to 24 unforced errors. She converted three of the five break points she earned while saving six of eight on her own serve.
Danielle Collins is into Round 2 of the #USOpen pic.twitter.com/rUZa0hWKHx
— US Open Tennis (@usopen) August 31, 2022
Osaka played a stellar match but came up short: The two-time champion said she was feeling anxious ahead of tough opener. Unseeded and ranked No.44, Osaka was the underdog on paper. She had not won back-to-back matches since her run to the final in Miami in April.
Despite her lack of momentum, Osaka played a strong match. She finished with 25 winners to 19 unforced errors, striking eight aces to zero double faults. Serving at 65%, she won 80% of her first serve points and landed 67% of her returns.
"I thought she was really aggressive on my second serve, so I had to change it up a little bit," Osaka said. "She still was able to be quite aggressive, so I thought that was really good on her. I also felt like her plan was to immediately put me in defense, so she would have hit the ball no matter what type of ball I hit on her side of the court."
Ultimately, the difference was a handful points as well as Osaka's second serve. She won just 23% behind it. But that's all it takes on a fast hard court when one of the game's best ball-strikers is playing in her element.
Naomi always has time for the fans 💙
— US Open Tennis (@usopen) August 31, 2022
See you next year, champ. pic.twitter.com/R97NqEfKFh | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2770473/collins-powers-past-osaka-in-us-open-first-round | 2022-08-31T07:09:11Z | wtatennis.com | control | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2770473/collins-powers-past-osaka-in-us-open-first-round | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Onam has arrived and Malayalis everywhere are gearing up to celebrate the 10-day festivities with their loved ones. To make your Onam extra special, Malayalam filmmakers have lined up a couple of releases in the coming days. Here's a look at some of the releases which are hitting theatres and OTT platforms during Onam.
'Palthu Janwar' (September 2)
Minnal Murali director and upcoming actor Basil Joseph headlines this movie by debutante filmmaker Sangeeth R Rajan. The plotline is quite different and revolves around a livestock inspector named Prasoon who arrives at a village where families own several domestic animals. He is inexperienced and faces a lot of challenges. The film is set to hit theatres on September 2. Shammi Thilakan, Indrans, Johnny Antony and Dileesh Pothan are also part of the film which is produced by Bhavana Studios, a production wing operated by Dileesh Pothan, Fahadh Faasil and Shyam Pushkaran. The cast and trailer has upped the expectations of the movie and the makers assure us that we won't be disappointed.
'Sundari Gardens' (September 2)
National award-winning actress Aparna Balamurali plays the protagonist in this romantic comedy which will stream on Sony Liv from August 2. Actor and singer Neeraj Madhav plays the male lead in the movie, which revolves around a librarian named Sundari Sara Mathews who falls in love with a teacher, played by Neeraj, at the same school. The movie directed by Charlie Davis promises to be entertaining. There are a couple of songs in the film which have been composed by Alphons Joseph. Jude Anthony Joseph, Binu Pappu and Lekshmi Menon also essay prominent role in the films.
'Gold' (September 8)
Amid a string of movie releases, 'Gold' directed by Alphonse Puthren, is easily one of the most anticipated films of the year. This is because the movie marks Alphonse Puthren's return to film-making after a span of seven years. His last film 'Premam' was a superhit and people can't wait to see the director work his magic once again. The film has a star cast, including Prithviraj and Nayanthara. The first look poster of the film had caught the attention of the public. However, the director later confirmed there would not be any trailer prior to the movie release, but hinted they would bring out a song before the film hit theatres. The OTT rights of the film has also been reportedly purchased in a record deal, say industry sources.
'Pathonpatham Noottandu' (September 8)
The film by veteran director Vinayan has Siju Wilson essaying the role of Arattapuzha Velayudhan Panicker, an Ezhava warrior who fought against social injustice in the 19th century. The movie is based on a true incident and is touted to be the biggest film made by the director. The trailer of the film has crossed one crore viewership ever since it was dropped on the internet on August 20. Kannada actress Kayadu Lohar plays Nangeli in the film.
'Oru Thekkan Thallu Case' (September 8)
'Oru Thekkan Thallu Case' is yet another anticipated Onam release and will hit theatres on September. The film will see award-winning actor Biju Menon play Ammini Pilla and is based on the short novel 'Amminipilla Vettucase' written by Malayalam writer G R Indugopan. The movie. The movie is directed by debutant Sreejith N. The film depicts a relationship between two people from different castes. A crime takes place in the village leading to a dramatic turn of events. | https://www.onmanorama.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/2022/08/31/mollywood-films-onam-releases-malayali-festivities-ott-theatre.amp.html | 2022-08-31T07:16:44Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/2022/08/31/mollywood-films-onam-releases-malayali-festivities-ott-theatre.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Problems with U.S. run deeper than Trump
The United States of America has a problem, and it’s not former President Donald J. Trump. No doubt he has contributed to the demise of this country with his recent actions of supposed espionage to his invitation to storm the capital on Jan. 6, 2021. But he is just the result of everything this country has worked so hard to keep hidden.
The history of America has never been a fairy tale. According to Wikipedia.com, “European colonization of the Americas, which began in 1492, resulted in a precipitous decline in Native American population because of wars, ethnic cleansing and enslavement.” It also goes on to say, “after its formation, the United States, as part of its policy of settler colonialism, continued to wage war and perpetrated massacres against many Native American peoples, removed them from their ancestral lands, and subjected them to one-sided treaties and to discriminatory government policies, later focused on forced assimilation, into the 20th century.”
Based on the famed Thanksgiving Day story, one would think that the Native Americans and the Europeans were pretty friendly with each other, and they probably were at times, but overall the Europeans were dangerous and continued to terrorize the Native Americans until they had complete domination over them.
Over the course of history, we begin to see the same thing that was done to the Native Americans start to occur with other nationalities. This internal need of complete dominance over what they deem to be a “lesser” race is and always has been quite troubling. History has shown how the New World Europeans, also known as the colonists, stormed the shores of Western Africa to buy other humans, steal them away from their tribes and land only to bring them to an unknown country to work for free. Now, in 2022, people will freely admit that the original Americans were brutalized and that the enslavement of African Americans and their continued mistreatment is and was very horrific, but is that the truth?
When Donald Trump announced he was running for president, he famously said: "(Mexicans) they’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists and some I assume are good people." This person, who would later go on to be one of the most powerful men in the world, categorized all the people who cross our borders as criminals. So does that mean the children are, too? Are they criminals just because they desire a better life? Granted, our immigration policies aren’t the best, but to single out a whole ethnic group and characterize them as criminals should have been where the true patriots drew the line.
But, sadly, the people who considered themselves to be most patriotic of this country pulled out their once-hidden Confederate flags, donned their crosses in the name of their Jesus and supported the man who just declared war on a minority group of people.
In America, land of the free and home of the brave, where all men are supposed to be created equal, this rhetoric was now openly welcomed. The rhetoric of violence soon followed, along with the disrespect of women. How did America go from electing the first Black president to electing someone who believes African nations are s---hole countries? Was this some type of fluke?
Unfortunately, this is America, a country where some believe they are better than other people or countries and will terrorize anyone who dares to disagree with them. Although this is not the majority of Americans, the homegrown domestic terrorists have infiltrated every corner of this country. The blood that was shed in the name of God runs deep into the very soil of this nation.
Systemic racism has fueled this country for centuries and it’s truly what this nation was built on. But until we deal with our sordid history, the God we supposedly trust in will never bless this country. He just may damn it.
Dionna Riley Johnson is a member of Stronger Together Huddle, a group engaged in supporting and promoting the common good of all. Comments can be sent to mcneil102@icloud.com. | https://www.monroenews.com/story/opinion/columns/2022/08/31/dionna-johnson-problems-us-run-deeper-trump/65418197007/ | 2022-08-31T07:24:47Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/opinion/columns/2022/08/31/dionna-johnson-problems-us-run-deeper-trump/65418197007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Economic impact of climate change is substantial
There is a shift in weather patterns that is causing lakes and rivers to dry up, forest fires, floods and droughts, heat waves, and other natural disasters all at the same time. Call it global warming, climate change or whatever — it is real!
The economic impact of climate change can be divided into two major categories: market and nonmarket costs. Market costs can be put in dollars, and nonmarket costs are not easily put in dollars. Some market costs include: the costs of cooling and repairing buildings as a result of heat waves, storms, floods and other disasters. A damaged ecosystem like a coral reef is an example of a nonmarket cost; it is not something that can be measured or expressed in dollars.
Let’s first consider market costs — mostly measurable in dollars:
Agriculture: Changes in temperature and rainfall impacts crop production. In some areas there will be more or less water and heat, affecting crop and animal yields.
Forestry: Forest fires are devastating entire regions, reducing forestry and animal life and destroying trees which give off oxygen that we need to breathe. Trees reduce stormwater runoff, erosion and pollution in our waterways and may also reduce the effects of flooding. Many species of wildlife and humans depend on trees for habitat, food, protection and clothing. The consequences of climate change in the forestry sector of the economy will vary from place to place, much of this is measurable.
Fisheries: Runoff water, pollution of our waterways, drying up lakes and rivers will all have negative effects on fisheries, coral reefs and much that we depend on. Water is becoming more of a scarce resource. In some regions, the dependence of fisheries on a broader ecosystem such as coral reefs will increase warming and acidification.
Insurance: Due to numerous weather catastrophes, insurance companies are challenged to effectively insure people against climate-related damages. The industry is adapting and paying close attention to the relationship between global warming and more frequent severe weather events. In the future, this will mean higher premiums and a greater cost to the economy.
Public Infrastructure: Global warming and consequent sea level rise will place burdens on the system of roads, pipelines, water supply, water treatment, power transmission lines, etc. that make up the infrastructure of countries. Governments will have to spend more to keep these systems running and this will cause a drag on the economy.
Energy: As the climate changes, we will use more electricity/energy for cooling and heating, which will vary globally. For the U.S., the Environmental Protection Agency estimates that for a 1-degree Celsius rise in temperature, we will use 5-20% more energy for cooling and 3-15% less energy for heating.
Tourism/Recreation: In mountainous areas around the globe, more snowmakers are appearing, as ski resorts try to keep themselves viable for longer snowless seasons. There are vast economic stakes in tourism based on recreation of this type. Also, beach resorts face challenges from rising sea levels.
Next, let's look at nonmarket costs, which are not measurable in dollars:
Human Health: As climate changes there will be a toll on human health and life due to various diseases, other health risks and lost lives.
Ecosystems: Coral reefs and many other marine ecosystems are threatened by warming and acidification; coastal terrestrial ecosystems are threatened by sea level rise; polar ecosystems are threatened by loss of ice and warming. All of these are challenges whose costs to the global economy are nearly impossible to determine.
Freshwater Resources: Melting glaciers and winter snows are diminished, an important source of freshwater will decline; as precipitation patterns change, surface water will decrease and groundwater aquifers will become depleted even faster. These are significant costs which are difficult to measure.
Summing up the costs
Numerous economists and organizations have tried to sum up the costs of global warming, it is estimated to be between 2% and 5% of the global economy as global warming continues. https://www.e-education.psu.edu/earth103/node/717
We will have to wait and see how all this will be impacted by recently passed federal legislation. Whether you believe in global warming or not, climate change is happening, and the more we remain cognizant of this fact and take measures individually (recycling, less waste, conservation) and collectively to mitigate the effects, the better for us and future generations.
Kojo Quartey is president of Monroe County Community College and an economist. He may be reached at kquartey@monroeccc.edu. | https://www.monroenews.com/story/opinion/columns/2022/08/31/kojo-quartey-economic-impact-climate-change/65418162007/ | 2022-08-31T07:24:53Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/opinion/columns/2022/08/31/kojo-quartey-economic-impact-climate-change/65418162007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Raid on Trump's Mar-A-Lago was outrageous
When the FBI raided Mar-A-Lago, the home of former President Donald Trump, they found him destroying 33,000 email documents belonging to our U.S. government.
Oh, wait, that was former first lady, senator, secretary of state and wife of the president impeached for having sex with an intern and then lying to the world on national TV who still kept his job.
After being beaten down by four years of constant and daily Trump criticism by mainstream media, I switched my 2024 presidential inclinations to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis; the media had worn me out!
I also confess that despite openly acknowledging no physical evidence exists proving the last election was stolen, I am a conspiracy theorist who believes it will eventually appear, just as truth will that Oswald didn’t kill Kennedy alone.
I am a dyed-in-the-wool patriot who loves and has served his country but who also believes evil forces are at work in America that historically and repeatedly have overthrown governments to fit our financial and economic needs in the global community. If they can do that to places like Iran, Chile, Cuba and others, surely you know they can do it here!
That’s why they fear Trump; they must do whatever necessary to destroy him and any chance of him ever returning to the White House.
The phony and illegal Steele Dossier couldn’t destroy him, four years of constant negative media couldn’t, impeachment one and two couldn’t, the Mueller Investigation couldn’t do it, and the politically charged insurrection committee hasn’t done it yet. So now it’s tactics never before used in history by raiding the unoccupied former president’s home hoping to find (plant?) something, anything that would.
I’ve watched little of the bogus Jan. 6 committee hearings. And while I rebuke what insurgents did that day, I believe they were manipulated into doing exactly what they did by more than Donald Trump.
Putting things into perspective: How many countries have been overthrown by extremists armed with virtually nothing more than bear spray? Please.
Not long ago, Portland’s federal courthouse was burned and occupied by insurgents. Homeland Security sent 750 federal officers and spent $12.3 million trying to defend it; protesters caused $1.6 million in damage during their government takeover. Where were outraged Democrats and committee hearings then?
Portland’s liberal city council outrageously voted to prevent Portland police from cooperating with federal law enforcement as they tear gassed and fought protesters on a nightly basis. And from Democrats? Crickets.
I, too, have been disgusted by Trump’s persona, but despite those unpresidential qualities I’ve voted twice for him because of his policies.
Thankfully, he named three conservatives to the Supreme Court to help properly determine the Constitution guarantees no one the right to kill their children. How outrageous American women fight for their "right" to do just that!
For 50-plus years the court was revered as law of the land regarding abortion, but the instant Roe v. Wade was overturned, suddenly the court is outdated and needs restructuring.
I laughed hearing Biden celebrate gas prices falling under $4 while remembering filling my tank for $1.67 just 20 months ago. Then I was a bit outraged paying nearly $4 yesterday for the same dozen eggs I paid 47 cents for that same time period.
And while I want to help others, am I the only one scratching my head as America continues sending billions to Ukraine while suffering through the worst inflation in 40 years?
Fentanyl streams across our southern border daily along with thousands of illegal immigrants but don’t dare build a wall or enforce immigrations laws. And regardless of what the law says, I will have a big problem with any man who thinks he’s a woman and enters a bathroom with my granddaughter in it or a swimming pool to compete against her.
I could go on, but I’ll just close by thanking FBI Director Merrick Garland for authorizing the Mar-A-Lago raid. I had pretty much given up on Trump draining the Washington swamp, but I believe that outrageous raid — coupled with the reminder that Hillary still roams free — has re-ignited more than just my torch for putting not particularly Trump but anyone other than a Democrat back in the White House.
But, what do I know.
Tom Treece is a Monroe native and musician. Contact him atrttreece@aol.com. | https://www.monroenews.com/story/opinion/columns/2022/08/31/tom-treece-raid-trump-mar-a-lago-outrageous/65414560007/ | 2022-08-31T07:24:59Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/opinion/columns/2022/08/31/tom-treece-raid-trump-mar-a-lago-outrageous/65414560007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Letter: Conspiracies and coincidences follow Trump
Oh, c’mon, Mr. Treece. The raid on The Don’s Mar-A-Lago was merely a jovial group of vacationing agents touring the resort.
Related:Raid on Trump's Mar-A-Lago was outrageous
Like you, I also enjoy a good conspiracy theory. How about the former president’s relationship to Russian oligarchs in Trump Tower? He lied to the country and world about the pandemic, the 2020 election and continues to do so. He fanned the flames of fury on Jan. 6 in a desperate attempt to overthrow our government, degrades women by boasting that he likes to grab them by their lady parts and belittles menstrual cycles. He is the subject of allegations of sexual assault by 26 women, has a “thing” for porn stars and makes fun of the disabled. Oops. My bad. Not a theory.
Well, then, how coincidental was it that Ivana Trump (the ex-wife who helped build The Don’s empire) died as a result of an unwitnessed fall on the cusp of The Don’s appearance for a deposition in New York’s investigation into his business dealings? Could she have been pushed?
And, lastly, there’s speculation that some of the documents retrieved from The Don’s resort home contained nuclear intelligence. Saudi Arabia wants to develop nuclear weapons. How convenient that Jared Kushner lands a $2 billion business deal with the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, six months after the election. It's an odd deal considering Jared isn’t that smart. But, then again, maybe he’s the “mole.”
Cynthia Vincent
Temperance | https://www.monroenews.com/story/opinion/letters/2022/08/31/letter-conspiracies-coincidences-trump/65420096007/ | 2022-08-31T07:25:05Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/opinion/letters/2022/08/31/letter-conspiracies-coincidences-trump/65420096007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Letter: Incidents of voter restrictions are part of U.S. history
In regards to the gentleman who said voter restriction is not, nor has it ever been, a problem in this country, this is easily fact-checked and completely false. There are many examples.
One example is the Colfax (Louisiana) massacre on Easter Sunday, April 13, 1873. White supremacists from surrounding districts converged, and the gathering ended with the slaughter of 150 Blacks, whose so-called crime was attempting to vote. As I said, this is just one of many examples. Also, check out 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina, when a white mob destroyed a Black-owned newspaper office and terrorized the African American community. Is this not voter restriction?
The term grandfathered-in comes from Jim Crow-era laws. Southerners had literacy tests that had to be passed to be able to vote. However, if your grandfather was a legal voter before the Civil War, you were exempt. Thus the tests only applied to Blacks and were deliberately made difficult.
To say voter suppression never happened shows a high level of historical ignorance.
Thomas Eberhart
Carleton | https://www.monroenews.com/story/opinion/letters/2022/08/31/letter-incidents-of-voter-restrictions-are-part-of-u-s-history/65414533007/ | 2022-08-31T07:25:11Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/opinion/letters/2022/08/31/letter-incidents-of-voter-restrictions-are-part-of-u-s-history/65414533007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Letter: It's hard to respect hypocrisy
Submitted
Sharon Kourous wrote an emotional article concerning abortion, “Protecting women’s bodies imperative now after Roe decision” (Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022). She is a member of Stronger Together Huddle.
Although I personally disagree with much of her construct, I respect her opinion.
Sister Mary Agnes Ryan, IHM, is co-founder of Stronger Together Huddle. Please, Sister Ryan, explain why you support abortion and those who do (i.e., Nancy Pelosi of whom you have a glowing report). You are a Catholic educator. Your Catholic Church unequivocally condemns abortion as a sin.
It's hard to respect hypocrisy.
Stan Stachak
Temperance | https://www.monroenews.com/story/opinion/letters/2022/08/31/letter-its-hard-to-respect-hypocrisy/65418536007/ | 2022-08-31T07:25:17Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/opinion/letters/2022/08/31/letter-its-hard-to-respect-hypocrisy/65418536007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Letter: Nuclear was always a cleaner option
A recent article discussed the "Climate Bill" pushing toward smaller nuclear plants to reduce the need for the coal industry and the resulting impact on the climate or, as it used to be called, "weather." If the "Greens" were serious about emissions, the entire world would have switched to nuclear plants 50 years ago and we would have Fermi Eight on the lake now.
I noticed the words "700 million to produce uranium fuel in the United States." I recall the little reporting on the sale of a large percent of U.S. uranium to the Russians that was approved by the Secretary of State Hillary Cllinton. There is a seemingly never-ending link of the Russians and Hillary Clinton.
While the word "billion(s)" was mentioned several times, the word "million" was mentioned only once. The river of money from this Democrat government has no end, and I'm sure that more than a few bucks will disappear in the process. My guess is that the goal of the article is to move away from coal plants by using smaller nukes that would be cheaper and consume less land than the current delusion of windmill farms and black solar panel fields.
The same day's edition's contained the article, "Experts warn of California megaflood" and earlier "megafloods" occurred when floods happened in a "warmer climate long before climate change during California's Great Flood of 1862."
Evidently the sun didn't shine and the wind didn't blow back then. No climate change before our century.
Jim Sherman
Monroe | https://www.monroenews.com/story/opinion/letters/2022/08/31/letter-nuclear-was-always-a-cleaner-option/65418688007/ | 2022-08-31T07:25:23Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/opinion/letters/2022/08/31/letter-nuclear-was-always-a-cleaner-option/65418688007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Letter: No vote for Trump supporters
Submitted
This is in response to Charles Milliken’s recent column.
I’m guessing he doesn’t read anyone else’s letters or columns because I know I’m not the first liberal to respond. For his information, I’m both a Christian and a liberal and I believe God is very much alive and well. Is he happy with the way things are on this planet? Doubtful. But then I’m not God. Not even close. And it’s my religious beliefs that influence how I vote.
While I admit to voting Republican a few times in the past, even though I’m a registered Democrat, at 68 years old, it’s extremely doubtful I’ll ever vote for a Republican again in my lifetime. Not if they were supporters of Trump.
Does anyone else tire of Mr. Milliken’s weekly whine? I certainly do.
Mark Clark
Monroe | https://www.monroenews.com/story/opinion/letters/2022/08/31/no-vote-for-trump-supporters/65414581007/ | 2022-08-31T07:25:29Z | monroenews.com | control | https://www.monroenews.com/story/opinion/letters/2022/08/31/no-vote-for-trump-supporters/65414581007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Local Sports: Jefferson cross country gets off to fast start at Puddle Jumper
MILAN – Jefferson got its cross country seasons off to fast starts Tuesday by sweeping the individual and team titles in Division 2 of the Puddle Jumper Invitational Tuesday.
Carter McCalister won the Division 2 boys race in 16:14.3 and the Bears finished with 44 points, 24 better than runner-up Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard. Dundee was fourth with 99, Flat Rock fifth with 119 and Milan sixth with 148.
Jefferson had all five runners in the top 13 as Blake Schroeder ran 8th, Ben Merkel 10th, Xander Hartunian 12th and William Steinhour 13th.
"This was a good start," Jefferson coach Phil Speare said. "It’s just that we all know that everyone’s going to keep improving throughout the season on the other teams too. It was great to see so many of our boys and girls medal today. When they divided the divisions up, 7 of our varsity boys medalled and all 8 of our varsity girls medalled. I can’t downplay that and I’m very proud of all of them for that."
Isaak Rubley of Dundee was second, Flat Rock’s Jacob Stanislawski third and Milan’s Brayden Humes fifth.
Jenna Pilachowski of Jefferson was the girls winner in 19:22.7. Her teammates Kim Miller, Riley Peer, Veronica Fitzgerald and Madison Duvall ran 4-5-7-16 as the Bears scored 29 points to 38 for runner-up Richard. Milan was third with 93 and Dundee fourth with 106.
Flat Rock did not have a full team, but Megan Woelkers took third individually. Kaily McDaniel’s ninth-place finish led Milan and Kaylee Hovey took 13th for Dundee.
Monroe’s boys scored 72 points to finish second to Saline (21) in the boys Division 1 race. Bedford was third with 79.
Kyle Hoffner and Luke Butler where fifth and seventh, respectively, for Monroe. Aidan Ortiz ran 13th and Ncholas Balla 15th for Bedford.
Bedford was third (82) and Monroe fourth (107) in the girls race which was won by Saline (37).
Vikoria Bloniarz placed fourth for Monroe. Rebekah Asselin and Izabella Loubser ran 13th and 15th for Bedford.
CROSS COUNTRY
Masters nips Ansel
OTTAWA LAKE – Whiteford’s Keegan Masters ran 16:51.1 to hold off Jackson Ansel of Erie Mason (16:53.6) for the boys Junior-Senior title in Tuesday’s Nick Haynes Invitational.
Whiteford also placed Elliott Rodgers fourth and Zach Kah sixth. Ryan Joyce was fifth for Mason. Seth Haliburda ran 10th for Airport.
Parker Campbell (19:01.7) and Austin Sulier of Mason took the top two spots in the Freshman-Sophomore Boys race. The Eagles also were fifth with Lucas Sachs.
Brendon Masters was seventh for Whiteford and Kenny Wingate of Airport ninth.
Annabelle Gapp, Madelyn Thomas and Jillian Webb went 5-7-8 for Whiteford in Junior-Senior Girls. Babbi Colburn (12th) led Mason.
Courtney Bovair took third for Airport in Freshman-Sophomore Girls. Bailey Meiring was fifth for Mason and Emily Rasor seventh for Whiteford.
PREP SWIMMING
Malach, Rhoney lead
WILLIS – Elaina Malach (200-yard freestyle, backstroke) and Phoebe Rhoney (50, 100) each won a pair of events to lead Milan to a 128-46 win over Ypsilanti Lincoln Tuesday night.
The Big Reds also got wins from Mary-Kate Wayne, Nadia Smith, Kiera Luhrs, Laila Nemeth and Rylee Mitchell and swept the relays.
Ella Cummings and Peyton Bergstrom logged best times.
Nine enough for Mules
TECUMSEH – Bedford had just nine girls available Tuesday, but that was enough to beat Tecumseh.
Gracie Ahl and Hannah Smith each won both of their events, Savannah Fritz had a personal best to win diving, Annabell Hill had two personal bests and Luna Heinz and Izzy Rischman swam well.
“I was very happy with our small but determined team,” Bedford coach Holly Scheffer said.
PREP SOCCER
State Line adapts
TEMPERANCE – Landon Worley moved from sweeper to center halfback and scored two goals to help State Line Christian overcome injuries and beat Waterford Lakecrest 4-1 Tuesday.
Treven Johnson had the other two goals, Andrew Knapp logged the first two assists of his career and Andrew Knapp added an assist for the 2-1 Patriots.
PREP GOLF
Smith, Lump lead Mules
YPSILANTI – Grace Lump shot 46 and Grace Lump 48, but Bedford fell 194-203 to Ypsilanti Lincoln Tuesday.
Monroe shows progress
ANN ARBOR – Monroe had a lot of personal-best scores, but shot 218 to finish behind Ann Arbor Skyline (181) and Adrian (213) Tuesday.
Makayla Hammond led the Trojans with 50 while Kendra Zureki shot 54, Kara Danish 56 and Allison Casy 58.
PREP VOLLEYBALL
Royals stop Whiteford
OTTAWA LAKE – Alaina Andrews logged 20 assists, but Whiteford fell 25-18, 20-25, 25-11, 25-5 to Blissfield Tuesday.
Kenzie Gray had 6 kills and Aly VanBrandt 8 digs for the 1-4 Bobcats.
State Line stumbles
TEMPERANCE – State Line Christian lost its home opener 25-23, 25-23 to Waterford Lakecrest Tuesday.
“We lacked control while digging and need to a better job attacking,” State Line coach Gina Yglesias said. “Looking forward to the next time we play them.”
The junior high team won 25-14, 27-25 behind strong play by setter Gracie Kuhns.
AUTO RACING
Flat Rock champs crowned
FLAT ROCK – Eric Lee and Billy Earley wrapped up their titles with flair, winning feature races at Flat Rock Speedway Saturday night to secure season championships.
Lee won for the sixth time this season to clinch the Outlaw Super Late Models crown while Earley took home the feature and season championships in Figure 8.
Other season champs were Jeremy Vanderhoof (Street Stocks A Main), Mike Miller (B Main) and Derrick Shepphard (Enduro). Saturday winners were Greg Studt (A Main), Jeremy Cronenwett (B Main) and Ed Case (Enduro).
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SHANGHAI, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arctech, the world's leading tracking, racking, and BIPV solutions provider, announced it has successfully launched its latest solar tracking solution, SkyWings. Enabled by the patented bidirectional slew drives, SkyWings is the world's first dual row solar tracker designed with a multi-point drive mechanism.
SkyWings combines the advantage of dual row trackers and is compatible with undulation terrain with the high rigidity enabled by multi-point drive design. The patented bidirectional slew drives enable two tracker rows to simultaneously move in synchrony.
The undulation tolerance of adjacent rows is largely increased, standing at 15% in both E-W and N-S directions. SkyWings' modular design also adds flexibility to the plant layout, hence the new solar tracking solution accommodates more PV modules than other conventional solar tracking systems under the same terrain circumstances.
Besides stronger adaptability to undulation terrains, SkyWings is facilitated with the multi-point drive mechanism and specially designed torque tube-the patented triple D torque tube, allowing for stowing in a horizontal position with the highest stability.
Stowing flat greatly reduces pressure onto the PV modules surface, which is especially critical to preventing cracking and delamination on the current large-size modules. SkyWings only starts stowing at 22m/s, which generates up to 2% more energy yield per year, hence a lower levelized cost of energy.
SkyWings' post span can be extended up to 10 meters, bringing down installation costs by up to 20% and the entire EPC expenditure by up to 2%, compared to projects utilizing traditional 1P trackers.
Equipped with the second-generation AI algorithms, SkyWings is able to calculate the optimum tracker tilt in various topographies and environments, which allows for real time shading avoidance to 8% more energy generation.
SkyWings, fully compatible with Arctech's cleaning robot product, SkyWe, is well suited to maximize solar energy production in power plant facilities in desert environments.
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- Eurostoxx +0.5%
- Germany DAX +0.4%
- France CAC 40 +0.3%
- UK FTSE +0.2%
- Spain IBEX +0.2%
This mirrors the mood in US futures, with S&P 500 futures seen up 17 points, or 0.4%, at the moment. But we'll see if it can hold through to the end of the day. It might be a whole different landscape once Wall Street wakes up later in the day. Some thoughts from earlier here. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/european-equities-open-higher-to-start-the-day-20220831/ | 2022-08-31T07:35:18Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/european-equities-open-higher-to-start-the-day-20220831/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
No change to the initial estimate but the early indications for Q3 aren't looking good. French consumer spending for July was released at the same time and it showed a bigger drop (-0.8%) than estimated (-0.3%) on the month. With inflation keeping high and energy prices soaring, it's not going to be pretty going into year-end.
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Russell 2000 futures (RTY) on the daily timeframe is retesting this previously broken bull flag (green channel) and might still decline but as long as a daily candle does close below 1820, bulls should be fine. Otherwise, bears regain control.
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Controversial quarry plan refused
Controversial plans for a quarry “the size of 12 football pitches” just outside Newmachar have been refused.
Councillors of the Formartine area committee met last week to discuss the development.
JKR Contractors Ltd had hoped to create the nine hectare quarry at Beauty Hill.
They had said that the site at Rainnieshill would provide up to 500,000 tonnes of “high-quality” hard rock over 13 years.
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The application previously went before the Garioch area committee in April and members recommended it be refused.
They said the application would have a “significant and detrimental” impact on the surrounding landscape and neighbouring properties.
But council planners had recommended the development be given the go-ahead.
Formartine councillors previously considered the application back in June but agreed to visit the site before making a final decision.
At the meeting councillor Derek Ritchie moved a motion to refuse the application.
He told his fellow members that he went to the site visit with an “open mind” but said he still had concerns about dust, noise and transport.
He also said the application’s disadvantages “outweighed the advantages” and asked for the plan to be refused as per the refusal made by the Garioch area committee.
Councillor Andrew Hassan seconded the motion: “I don’t believe this meets policies or our Local Development Plan and I move that we refuse in line with what the Garioch councillors offered us.
“There’s going to be a significant and demonstratable adverse impact on the landscape given the prominence of the site and I would agree that’s the case.
“They said there’s going to be an unacceptable detrimental adverse impact on the amentiy of the neighbouring properties, given the proximity to the access of the site and I would agree with that.
“And the principles have not been established given the limited information about the current reserves.”
The committee unanimously agreed to refuse the application.
Plans for the quarry were first formed in 2019 and it has faced opposition from a large number of local residents since.
A petition against the quarry gathered 743 signatures while 189 people wrote to the council to object to the plan.
But the development also received 135 letters of support.
Those backing the plan said it would support local businesses and provide a boost to the area’s economic recovery.
However objectors raised concerns that the quarry would lead to an increase in noise and dust, create road safety issues and impact on the landscape. | https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/controversial-quarry-plan-refused-3824983 | 2022-08-31T07:38:49Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/controversial-quarry-plan-refused-3824983 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Rangers flop on verge of €20m move to La Liga side after 19-goal season
Rangers flop Umar Sadiq is on the verge of completing a €20million move to Real Sociedad.
The Nigerian international career has been on an upward trajectory since an ill-fated six month spell at Ibrox, on loan from Roma, during the 2018/19 season, making just four appearances under Steven Gerrard.
Across the past four and a half seasons he has scored 69 goals for Perugia, Partizan Belgrade and Almeria, helping the latter win promotion to La Liga.
In his first three games in the Spanish top-flight he has scored twice, including the winner against Sevilla.
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Real Sociedad, who finished sixth last season to qualify for the Europa League, have completed negotiations over a bumper deal which will see him sign on Wednesday, according to Fabrizio Romano.
Sadiq will be most remembered for his role in a League Cup semi-final defeat to Aberdeen when he was presented with a golden opportunity through on goal but opted to go down in the box instead.
In an interview with the Sunday Post, he claimed he was due wages from Rangers, that he was fined £20,000 for liking a social media post and was made to feel an outcast and not allowed to use the first-team car park.
“I believe absolutely that I was not given a fair chance to show what I can do. They made me feel like a stranger,” he said.
“As long as I was a Rangers player, I behaved like a professional, giving everything I could of myself to the shirt.
“But now I don’t want to hear about them and what they are doing any more."
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Franco Smith ditches Glasgow Warriors co-captains model and explains Kyle Steyn appointment
Franco Smith, the new Glasgow Warriors coach, believes Kyle Steyn has character, leadership skills and the respect of the dressing room after naming him as captain for the forthcoming season.
The appointment is Smith’s first big call since taking over at Scotstoun. Steyn, who has been with Glasgow since February 2019, succeeds experienced duo Fraser Brown and Ryan Wilson as skipper.
Brown and Wilson have done the job jointly for the last two seasons but Smith wants to move away from the co-captains model as he attempts to put his stamp on the club. The coach, who took over from Danny Wilson, said naming Steyn, 28, as captain signalled a fresh approach.
“First of all, he’s shown consistency in the way he plays,” said Smith, whose previous role was as head of high performance with Italian rugby. “He’s a club man and has a huge amount of respect from the players. He’s a person that symbolises the character of what we expect from a Glasgow Warrior. He trains and works hard and his off-field activities are aligned with what we want from the club.
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“Also, when a new coach comes in there’s a bit of change and a new way of thinking. So we’re not going to have co-captains, we’re going to have a club captain. There will be captains on the day. If Kyle is in the team, he will be the captain on the field but if he’s not playing we’re not going to stop the whole wagon because one player is not on the field.
“We’ve got a leadership group and it includes young players with aspirations who are just making the step up. And obviously we have older players like Ryan Wilson, Fraser Brown and Richie Gray and we’re going to use their influence as a point of reference in a different way.
“As I explained to them, they've got a very important role to play with others in the group. They’ve walked the walk and now it’s time to let some others develop so the legacy can live on.”
Steyn, who can play wing or centre, missed Glasgow’s calamitous end to the season with an Achilles injury but is back to full fitness and is expected to captain the team for the first time in the pre-season match against Worcester Warriors in Inverness on Friday.
The Johannesburg-born player came to Glasgow via a spell in the Scotland Sevens squad, qualifying through his Glasgow-born mother. A former student at the University of Stellenbosch, he arrived in this country from the Griquas whom he captained.
His Scotland debut came against France in the 2020 Six Nations and he made history last season when he scored four tries in the 60-14 win over Tonga, becoming the first Scotland men’s player to do so since Gavin Hastings against Côte d'Ivoire at the 1995 Rugby World Cup.
Smith and Steyn both hail from South Africa but had never previously worked together although the coach discovered a connection to Steyn’s father, Rory, this week.
“By accident I realised that his dad was the Springbok security officer when I was playing back in the day. I never knew Kyle was his son until this week.”
Rory Steyn was also Nelson Mandela’s security officer when he became president of South Africa in 1994.
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Matt Currie hopes Scotland A cap can be springboard to more game-time at Edinburgh
Matt Currie hopes to use his international breakthrough as a springboard to more game-time with Edinburgh.
The 21-year-old outside centre signed his first professional contract with the capital club in January and ended the domestic season playing Super6 rugby for Watsonians. He was then called up by national coach Gregor Townsend for the summer tour of South America and played for Scotland A in the 45-5 win over Chile in Santiago.
Currie spent time training with the full squad as they prepared for the series in Argentina before flying home ahead of the first Test.
The experience has whet his appetite but he knows he needs to establish himself at Edinburgh before furthering his international ambitions.
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“Chile was a really good experience for me and I loved it,” said Currie.
“I was then in Argentina with the squad for four days and I did the prep with the them for the first Test, and it was a great learning experience because you’re training against an international rugby team.”
He is now determined to kick on at club level.
“The summer tour was a breakthrough, it was massive for me and a really proud moment. For me, game-time is going to be a big one. I really want to get into the games here at Edinburgh and play as much as I can because that’s how I can gain experience and learn and hopefully it will push me on to be a better player.
“I’ve had my A cap and it’s made me hungry for more. Obviously the big dream is mine to play for Scotland so that is probably the goal in the future.”
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Family: At 81, it's time to release Lincoln Mabry Jr. after 42 years in prison
The family of Lincoln Mabry Jr. wants to see him live out his remaining years outside of the prison walls, generally as a free man.
Mabry, 81, was convicted of murder for shooting Rebecca "Becky" Kerr multiple times in 1980 in a gas station parking lot in Perry Township. He has spent more than four decades behind bars. But a parole hearing scheduled Thursday could change that.
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Canton resident Michael Mabry was a teenager when his father was convicted and sent to prison for killing Kerr. He said that 42 years in a cell is enough. Lincoln Mabry is housed at the London Correctional Institution in London, Ohio.
"If there's a question of him being a risk to society, he's 81 years old," said Michael Mabry, a retired police detective. "He's not going to hurt anybody."
On Feb. 15, 1980, Mabry shot his former girlfriend Kerr, a 29-year-old mother, seven times.
The younger Mabry said he has sympathy for the Kerr family and the pain they've had to endure over the years. He also believes his father has served enough prison time.
"He is my dad. I'd like to see whatever is left of his life be comfortable," Michael Mabry said.
Joe Kerr, the brother of Becky Kerr, said his sister was threatened multiple times by Lincoln Mabry before her death, and that her murder was premeditated.
The Kerr family is steadfast on Mabry's release from prison being denied.
"We've seen no remorse from (Mabry) at all over the 42 years. There has been no apology letter — nothing," said Joe Kerr.
Lincoln Mabry's nephew, sister also want his parole granted
Stacey Fields, also of Canton, is Lincoln Mabry's nephew. He said now is the time for his uncle to be paroled. He was 14 when Mabry was convicted.
"He's basically served two life sentences," said Fields. "He wants to spend his last years with his sisters (and other family). He cares about that."
Fields said he also has empathy for the Kerr family, noting his uncle was "not himself" when the crimes took place in 1980.
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"We feel bad for all of them," Fields said. "He (Mabry) was on drugs and alcohol at the time."
Mabry's sister, Valeri Fields, 86, said her brother has tried to improve his life in prison, earning a college degree and "working with people." She would like to see her brother released, but does not want him to return to Canton.
"He can't come back here," said Valeri Fields, who feels her younger brother would not be welcomed or well received by most folks. "People don't forget that (type of crime)."
Lincoln Mabry has adult children and siblings who live around Columbus. Valeri Fields said living there might be the best fit for her brother.
The Independent had requested to interview Lincoln Mabry via the London prison, but has not heard back about scheduling a time.
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WAIALUA, O'AHU (KITV4) -- An O'ahu family is picking up the pieces after their trip of a lifetime turned into a nightmare.
About a week and a half ago, the Burgoyne ohana from Waialua set off on a year-long road trip across the country.
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WAIALUA, O'AHU (KITV4) -- An O'ahu family is picking up the pieces after their trip of a lifetime turned into a nightmare.
About a week and a half ago, the Burgoyne ohana from Waialua set off on a year-long road trip across the country.
The purpose of the trip was to spread aloha through volunteer work and helping others along the way.
Three hours into their journey, their RV caught fire, eventually destroying all of their belongings.
"The vehicle was acting funny, so we pulled off to the side of the freeway," explained Heidi Burgoyne, who said they had just picked up the RV from a mechanic.
After noticing fire under the motor vehicle, they quickly got out before it burst into flames.
"We had everything in there for the whole year," said Burgoyne. "The kids have been whittling down their belongings to just what was important to them, what they would need for our journey, so those most important items were there with us."
According to the family, the cause of the fire is still under investigation.
With just their phones and the clothes on their back, the Burgoyne's said they're grateful for the strong show of support from their family and the community back home.
Community members said they didn't think twice to step in and help, as the Burgoyne's played an instrumental part in spearheading relief efforts during the devastating Haleiwa flood event in March of last year.
"I only shared what happened with three people but it kind of just spread. People just started flooding in with kind messages, and sending us money to help replace our items that we had lost," said Burgoyne. "It was such a difficult time. It really helped us get through."
The Burgoyne's said the aloha spirit gave them hope to continue their trip, and were even able to buy a new RV from a family member.
"It was so tragic for us but now I can't look at that situation without already being just overwhelmed as well with the love that we've experienced. I think that's why we're smiling. Because we're ok. It feels so good to just be enveloped in so much love and aloha."
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NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - A judge in Virginia dismissed a lawsuit Tuesday that had sought to declare two books as obscene for children and to restrict their distribution to minors, including by booksellers and libraries.
The books in question were “Gender Queer: A Memoir” by Maia Kobabe and “A Court of Mist and Fury” by Sarah J. Maas.
Both books describe or illustrate sexual acts that prompted the lawsuit. In a petition to the court, Tommy Altman, a Virginia Beach tattoo shop owner and former Republican congressional candidate, said the depictions were inappropriate for children.
Altman asked the court to issue an order under state law against distributing, selling or loaning the books to minors. The suit was filed in April and dismissed Tuesday before it could proceed to trial.
Circuit Court Judge Pamela S. Baskervill struck it down on jurisdictional grounds, citing state law as well as the U.S. Constitution.
For example, Baskervill wrote that Virginia law doesn't give her the specific authority to determine whether the books are obscene for minors.
The judge also wrote that restricting the books' distribution would authorize “prior restraint” of speech and violate the First Amendment. The judge also described concerns about prosecuting someone who didn't know they were selling or loaning books that were deemed to be obscene.
The judge's order comes at a time when book challenges and bans have surged across the U.S. to levels not seen in decades. Virginia has been on the frontlines, with public school curricula and books serving as a major prong for Republican Glenn Youngkin’s successful run for governor last year.
Author and publisher groups hailed the judge's decision.
Maria A. Pallante, president and CEO of the Association of American Publishers, said Tuesday that it was an “unequivocal victory for the free speech rights of readers, authors, publishers, booksellers and libraries.”
Eden Heilman, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia, said “access to diverse perspectives is a huge part of our democracy, and any efforts to thwart that are really concerning.”
Heilman, who represented independent booksellers and other parties in the suit, said her organization will continue to fight such legal efforts.
Many of the targeted books have focused on sexuality, gender identity or race. Kobabe's “Gender Queer,” a graphic novel that contains explicit illustrations of oral sex and masturbation, has served as a particular flashpoint.
The Virginia Beach school board removed the book from school libraries earlier this year, The Virginian-Pilot reported. Schools in Fairfax County, in northern Virginia, also briefly removed it last year before it was reinstated. Loudoun County Public Schools chose to pull the book.
In his petition against the fantasy book “Court of Mist and Fury,” Altman said it “contains pages of extreme sexual conduct not suitable for children as young as 10 years old.”
In his petition against “Gender Queer,” Altman cited content that illustrates “two minors engaged in sexual intercourse," among other actions.
Jeff Trexler, an attorney for the author of “Gender Queer," pointed out that Altman was running for Congress when he filed the suit. Altman lost in a crowded Republican primary.
“This isn't 200 pages of people from various gender identities, having sex and nothing else,” Trexler said. “It's an award-winning work as a literary memoir and as a graphic novel. It’s been relevant to lots of people in terms of understanding themselves and their children”
Tim Anderson, Altman's attorney, said the lawsuit “was never never about trying to ban gay literature or trans literature.”
“This was simply just saying these (books) have really sexual explicit content and it’s not appropriate for kids,” Anderson said.
Anderson said the suit's intent was changing a state law that determines what is obscene for both children and adults alike. Altman wanted a “carve out" that deems what's obscene for juveniles specifically.
Anderson, who is also a state lawmaker, said Altman is considering his options following the judge's order. He said one way forward could be a ratings system for books like there are for video games and movies.
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DEAR ABBY: I recently met the love of my life, and I’m planning to leave my life and family in Arkansas and move to California to marry him. He’s recently divorced after a 25-year marriage. My problem is that his ex wanted the divorce, but now she wants him back. She knows he has met someone, but she’s constantly telling him she wants a “booty call.”
They have two grown children, and their daughter is being married soon. His ex is now threatening that if he brings me to the wedding, she will do something crazy. I know he loves me and he talks to her only to keep her calm, but I feel if he doesn’t take me to the wedding he will be highly disrespecting me. He still talks to her even though she has said some nasty things about me, which is also hurtful. Am I being too sensitive? — PERPLEXED IN THE SOUTH
DEAR PERPLEXED: When this man’s ex tells him she wants a booty call, how does he respond? If he’s still sexually involved with her, your odds of success with him are zero. He may talk to her (in spite of her saying nasty things about you) because they have children and possibly grandchildren in common. That he would repeat her less than complimentary comments to you does not say much for his judgment.
Under these circumstances, I don’t think you should insist upon attending that wedding. Instead, think carefully about the wisdom of leaving your life and family and relocating unless you have a job waiting and a guaranteed timeline regarding marriage.
DEAR ABBY: My 50-year-old nephew has always used women and was finally caught embezzling $60,000 from one of them. He was arrested and ordered to pay restitution, or he would stay in prison for years. After only two weeks of incarceration, he cried and pleaded with our family and promised he would pay anyone back the money if they would pay his restitution.
My sister was a wreck and came to me. I came up with the money and got a promissory note from my nephew. Long story short, he stuck my sister with every payment. When my sister went bankrupt because of it, I asked if he could at least pay $25 toward what he owed, but he did nothing. My sister finally repaid everything my nephew owed me, and now she expects us all to be one big, happy family.
She has invited me and my husband to come for the holidays, which will include my nephew. I told her I will never again be in the same room with that liar and cheat, so now she’s upset with me! Am I making the right choice? He used all of us to get out of jail, never paid anyone back and is still using women. For that, I’m supposed to embrace him with open arms? I think it would be condoning his actions. — UPSET AUNT
DEAR AUNT: I agree with you about that. Your instinctive reaction to keep your sociopathic nephew at arm’s length (or even further) is healthy. It’s safer to keep people with no ethics at a distance. After what happened, as much as your sister might wish it, you are no longer one big happy family.
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- Unemployment rate 5.5% vs 5.5% expected
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German unemployment rises once again as the numbers are still largely driven by a substantial amount of Ukrainian refugees entering the labour market, alongside the end of the summer break. The number of jobless persons rose to 2.497 million as of this month. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/germany-august-unemployment-change-28k-vs-28k-expected-20220831/ | 2022-08-31T08:10:10Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/germany-august-unemployment-change-28k-vs-28k-expected-20220831/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Conspiracy Theories Surrounding Princess Diana's Death Resurface Amid 25th Anniversary
William and Harry are planning to spend the anniversary of their mother apart amid reports of an ongoing feud between the brothers.
William and Harry are refusing to set aside their bitter feud, even for the 25th anniversary of their mother's death. The brothers reportedly haven't spoken since they unveiled a statue of Princess Diana together last year.
Harry revealed that he and Meghan Markle are planning to mark Diana’s passing in California.
“I want it to be a day to share the spirit of my mom with my family, with my children, who I wish could have met her,” Harry said.
The anniversary is also reviving a host of conspiracy theories. This week, several TV specials marking her iconic life are airing.
“It once once again dredges up things from the past that the royal family have tried very hard to put behind them,” Daily Mail Femail editor Charlie Lankston said.
Diana herself laid the foundation for the swirl of conspiracy theories. In 1993, four years before her death, she wrote a friend, “My husband is planning ‘an accident’ in my car.”
Diana's former bodyguard, Lee Sansum, told Inside Edition that her fears of being the target of an assassination were heightened by the slaying of fashion designer Gianni Versace in 1997.
“When her friend Versace died, and she spoke to me about it, she was crying and she said, ‘Lee, are they going to do this to me?’ A lot of people say she was paranoid, but was it a healthy paranoia?” Sansum said.
Prince Harry himself is expected to reveal more about his mother's death in a book out next year.
“It wouldn't surprise me to see his anger and frustration over how it was handled, how it was investigated and how it still continues to remain something of a mystery even to this day, 25 years later,” Lankston said.
If Diana were still alive, she would now be 61 years old and the grandmother of five.
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Florida Man Released From Jail for Domestic Abuse 2 Days Before Alleged Murder-Suicide
Eduardo Lopez Garcia stabbed a woman to death before succumbing to his own injuries two days after being released from jail for domestic violence.
The Florida man who recently stabbed a woman before dying from his own injuries was released from jail two days before the incident, according to local reports.
The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office said Eduardo Lopez Garcia fatally stabbed a woman and threw a knife at a deputy before succumbing to his own wounds, according to local outlet WFLA.
Garcia, 48, was arrested after being accused of domestic battery and was released on bond on August 24, according to a release from the sheriff’s office.
This release came two days before the alleged murder-sucicide at a home in Venice, Florida.
According to WFLA, the sheriff’s office said deputies were responding to a report of a possible battery on Friday evening when Garcia, bleeding from his torso, approached them with a knife.
Authorities said when they told Garcia to drop his weapon, he threw the knife at the deputy before charging at him, and the deputy then used the butt of his gun to defend himself. Eventually Garcia complied, according to local outlet Fox 13.
When the deputies entered the home, they found the woman — whose identity has not been released — and a pet with several stab wounds, according to WFLA.
Paramedics attempted to revive both the woman and Garcia, but they were pronounced dead, according to the outlet.
The sheriff’s office said that the deputy was taken to the hospital but was not seriously hurt, according to Fox 13. The department says they have not released his name because he was the victim of an assault, according to the outlet.
The pet survived the attack, but remains in critical condition, according to the reports.
According to the outlet, detectives determined that there were no other suspects or victims, leading them to believe that the incident was a murder-suicide. The official causes of death will be released at a later date.
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Invasive Asian Carp, 'Most Hated Fish in America,' Gets a New Name and Image Makeover
“[Asian carp] are bad for the environment. They're competing with native fish. They're competing for food and then competing for space as well. We need to pivot and convince people that they're actually good to eat," an expert tells Inside Edition.
They're causing chaos in lakes around the country, making them the most hated fish in America. Now, Asian carp are getting a major image makeover and may even be coming to a kitchen near you.
Asian carp is an invasive species and can cause major problems for the ecosystem.
“They are bad for the environment. They're competing with native fish. They're competing for food and then competing for space as well. We need to pivot and convince people that they're actually good to eat,” said Brian Schoenung, Illinois Aquatic Nuisance Species program manager.
To change the perception of these nasty fish, the state of Illinois is actually giving the Asian carp a new name — copi.
“It’s copious, essentially, which is what these fish are — very. They’re all over the place, so it's a nice little play on words,” Schoenung said.
Shirley Romig, co-founder of the food app Mixo, showed Inside Edition how the fish is prepared.
“It is so healthy for you. It's got the highest omega-3 fatty acids of any fish other than wild caught salmon,” Romig said.
She says it's a mild white fish that can be prepared in a number of ways, with one very serious warning.
“Be careful, this is a very tough fish to cut. There's a lot of bones in here,” Ronig said.
To prepare the fish, start with pan-frying some ginger and garlic. Then, salt the fish and steam it for 10-12 minutes with the fried aromatics and drizzled soy sauce on top.
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Matt Araiza Accuser Shares Video of Injuries, Diary Entries After Alleged Gang Rape
The alleged victim says she was gang raped by Araiza and two of his SDSU teammates, Zavier Leonard and Nowlin Ewaliko, who have all denied the allegations. Football officials at the university faced tough questions during a press conference.
Football officials at San Diego State University are under fire after one of their former players, who was drafted by the NFL, and two of his college teammates, were accused of rape by an unidentified woman.
In a civil suit filed as “Jane Doe," the accuser alleges she was gang raped at a Halloween party last October by star punter Matt Araiza and former teammates Zavier Leonard and Nowlin Ewaliko.
Araiza was just fired by the Buffalo Bills after being drafted earlier this year.
The alleged victim says she was a 17-year-old high school senior at the time. The next day, she says she went to the police and an investigation was launched. But 10 months later, no charges have been filed.
Many are wondering why it has taken so long for the allegations to come to light, and some have suggested that the university kept it under wraps to protect a winning football season.
San Diego State head coach, Brady Hoke, faced tough questions at a press conference.
“Was San Diego State more concerned with image and winning games than addressing this publicly?” a reporter asked.
Hoke said he was not aware of the allegations until the civil suit was filed last Thursday.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the San Diego Police Department contacted the university three days after the alleged assault. One month after the Halloween party, the school brought in gang rape survivor and sensitivity trainer Brenda Tracy to talk to the football players about sexual assault.
Doe spoke about the alleged incident with Inside Edition, saying several men assaulted her on a bed while she was “going in and out of consciousness.”
She is also sharing video of the bruising on her neck she says she suffered during the alleged assault, images of her blood-stained costume and entries from her diary from the day after the party.
“I have no idea how long I was even in there or how many guys had sex with me,” she wrote. “All I keep replaying in my mind is being face down in a random bed waiting for it to be over.”
The three accused men have denied the allegations. Araiza’s parents released a statement, saying, “There has been a war waged against our son.”
“He has been tried and convicted in the media based on information released solely from the alleged victim and her attorney. The rule of law is innocent until proven guilty,” they said.
Araiza’s attorney, Kerry Anderson, says the family has been getting death threats.
“They're scared. My client's mother can't even go to work right now. She's a teacher, and she can't even go to work. It's a scary situation," Anderson said.
The case is now in the hands of the San Diego District Attorney’s office, who will determine whether criminal charges will be filed.
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Mississippi Governor Declares State of Emergency as Residents Live Without Reliable Water Supply
Residents is Mississippi’s capital city, Jackson, are being encouraged to boil their water before using it.
Due to rain and floods, the Pearl River reached unsafe levels on Monday, leaving the Mississippi’s capital and most populous city without a dependable water supply, according to officials.
In response to the failing water system in Jackson, Mississippi, Governor Tate Reeves issued a statement declaring a State of Emergency and has activated the National Guard to assist in the ongoing water system failure.
Jackson residents have been boiling water since July due to water safety issues.
The recent flooding of the Pearl River created issues with water treatment at the O.B. Curtis Water Plant.
“The city cannot produce enough water to reliably flush toilets, fight fires, and meet other critical needs,” said Gov. Reeves.
While the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) is leading the distribution efforts of safe drinking water and non-drinking water, the governor's focus is on fire safety.
“We have immediately organized water for fire safety, which was our first priority. We are also organizing the resources to provide water for sanitation and life safety,” said Gov. Reeves.
According to his statement the state is doing everything it can to get water pressure back to the residents of Jackson. They are increasing resources available to the city’s water treatment plan and initiating emergency maintenance, repairs, and improvements to the facility. They also have created an incident command structure, and the mobile incident command center will be running this morning.
As for how the emergency improvements will be paid for, the governor said that the city has agreed to pay for half the costs. He also made it clear that the workers they have reached out to and that have been working through the crisis will get paid.
This is the second state of emergency declared in Mississippi in the past three days. On Aug. 27, Gov. Reeves, via Facebook, declared a State of Emergency in preparation for the flooding of Pearl River.
“Today I declared a State of Emergency for areas that have been or may be affected by the recent flooding. This will allow our state agencies to better assist in our response efforts and carry out their emergency responsibilities,” said Gov. Reeves.
According to a statement released by the city on Monday, the flooding of Pearl River only created more problems at the water treatment plant.
“Adjustments to the water treatment process are being made and has led to a temporary decrease in the production of water for some areas. This will remain an issue for the next couple days as we work to refill the tanks,” said the city.
Following the flood and the continued water crisis on Monday, Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba declared a water system emergency due to the lack of water pressure. He made it clear that though the water pressure is low, that the city will not be cutting water off from the residents.
Due to the water crisis and the unsafe water in the faucets, the Mississippi State Department of Health recommends residents boil their water for at least one minute and only cook, drink, brush teeth, and wash dishes with boiled water.
With the current water crisis, all Jackson Public Schools, starting today, will switch over to virtual learning until school and city officials determine that it is safe for students and staff to return safely, according to a statement by the district.
The schools will continue to distribute breakfast and lunch once they have been tested for adequate water pressure for preparing meals.
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Texas Officer Who Shot Woman While Aiming for Her Dog Found Not Guilty of Criminally Negligent Homicide
Ravi Singh was accused of criminally negligent homicide after opening fire on a dog running towards him. A bullet ricocheted and hit the dog's owner, killing her. “No one should have taken that shot, ever,” the slain woman's father said after the verdict.
A Texas police officer has been acquitted in the death of a woman he accidentally shot while aiming at her dog.
Ravi Singh had been on street patrol in Arlington for just a month when he responded to a welfare check on a woman seen lying with her dog on the grass.
Bodycam video shows the dog running toward Singh, who yelled “Get back!” before opening fire on the animal. The woman on ground, Maggie Brooks, was shot instead and died of a chest wound.
Jurors found Singh not guilty of criminally negligent homicide. The decision was “extremely disappointing” for Brooks’ father, Troy.
“No one should have taken that shot, ever,” the father said.
Maggie Brooks leaves behind three kids.
“How do you explain to these kids, they get to see on YouTube, if they choose to, everyday their mother being killed, and no one is held responsible?” Troy said.
During the trial, jurors learned that Maggie Brooks was killed by a bullet that had ricocheted.
The defense said Singh feared he would be mauled, and the shooting of Maggie Brooks was accidental. The former Marine, who resigned from the force, addressed the family following his acquittal.
“My sincere condolences to the Brooks family and her friends for their loss. I, too, have been at a loss, because the outcome of my actions has not been easy to bear,” Singh said.
Maggie Brooks’ father says his daughter lived a troubled life and was homeless at the time of the shooting. Her dog Marilyn was her companion.
“She sleeps every night on one of my grandchildren’s beds. It’s what we have left of my daughter Maggie,” Troy said.
The woman's family has filed a wrongful death suit against the city and the former police officer. They have both moved to dismiss the case.
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Washington Fire and Rescue Crews Retrieve Body of Hang Glider From Tree
Authorities are investigating the death of the person who died in Issaquah, Washington, during a hang gliding session.
A Washington State hang glider was found dead in a tree on Sunday, according to local reports.
The Eastside Fire and Rescue crew responded to a 911 call — initially reported as a paraglider but was confirmed to be a fixed-wing hang glider, according to the fire department.
The report stated that the person could be seen from the road and was stuck in some trees in according to local outlet KIRO 7.
The first responders arrived at Tiger Mountain Road in Issaquah, Washington, shortly before 6 p.m. and reported an active rescue about 30 feet up in a tree, according to local outlet The Seattle Times.
According to the rescue crew's social media report, the person was initially reported as unconscious and unresponsive, but within a few minutes they reported the person was dead.
While one witness said the incident looked like a heart attack, the King County Sheriff’s Office is investigating, and the cause and manner of death will be determined by the King County Medical Examiner’s Office, according to the local reports.
Marc Chirico, the owner of Seattle Paragliding, which operates from Poo Poo Point, said that the deceased is Chi Tang, according to KIRO 7.
According to the outlet, a student at Seattle Paragliding reportedly saw Tang flying in the hang glider as normal before slumping in his harness and slowly descending before landing softly among some trees.
Chirico told the outlet that Tang was a student who learned how to paraglide from them eight years ago. The owner said that Tang had a known heart condition, estimating him to be in his 60s.
“His hang glider was completely intact and they will find in short order he died mid-flight,” Chirico said to KIRO 7.
Eastside Fire told the outlet that while there are risks involved in activities like hang gliding and people should take caution when assuming the risks, deaths are uncommon.
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The Lions have finalized their 53-man roster, cutting 27 players down from the original 80-man training camp roster.
PLACED ON RESERVE/PUP:
- CB Jerry Jacobs
RELEASED:
- QB Tim Boyle
- LB Jarrad Davis
- TE Devin Funchess
- DL Bruce Hector
- RB Justin Jackson
- T Kendall Lamm
- T Dan Skipper
WAIVED INJURED:
- DL Eric Banks
- WR Trinity Benson
- DL Jashon Cornell
- G Kevin Jarvis
- S C.J. Moore
WAIVED:
- WR Maurice Alexander
- CB Cedric Boswell
- TE Derrick Deese
- T Obinna Eze
- CB Mark Gilbert
- LB James Houston
- RB Godwin Igwebuike
- WR Tom Kennedy
- CB A.J. Parker
- K Riley Patterson
- T Darrin Paulo
- WR Kalil Pimpleton
- LB Anthony Pittman
- CB Saivion Smith
"I mean, it’s a lot more difficult than even last year. It was tough last year, but this year, it – because we are so much farther along," said Dan Campbell. "And it’s a credit to Brad, because our talent level is better, and the competition is better, and I’ll just say it again, the better the competition, the better the players rise to that occasion, and so you have a talented player, and if he’s not getting challenged every day, he’s not going to grow. But now you give somebody that can challenge that player, they begin to grow together, and they get that much better. And that’s kind of where we’re at."
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PENDLETON, Ore. - Fire crews in Pendleton are still watching the ongoing burning of a grain craft mill. The fire has caused hot spots in areas that crews can't get to, like the basement.
Chief Jim Critchley says they'll continue to work hard, but until they get a demolition plan so they can have access to the basement, the small fires will continue.
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There's a new stadium, new coach and a lot of new faces, but the Sunnyside Grizzlies have the same high expectations.
The new field hosted two games last season, both losses for the Griz, so they are still looking for their first win at the new digs.
They will have a new quarterback with the graduation of Logan Rodriguez, and running back to replace Myles Newhouse.
Still, the players have a lot of confidence.
"Defense wins championships. That's what everybody says," said Senior Daunte Ramos. "Our defense is our core, it always has been. Our offense is looking pretty good too, solid. Our run game and our pass game."
Junior Santiago Casas agreed, adding, "Effort and the dedication one puts in every practice to win games and be league champs and get to state."
Still, they have to replace the Big 9 Offensive MVP in Rodriguez along with multiple all-league performers.
The new head coach is Marshall Lobbestael who takes over from his brother John who helped rejuvenate the program.
The former Cougar quarterback says he owes a debt to those that came before him.
"I'm extremely fortunate to come in and have this opportunity to coach. I just want to maintain and try to elevate in the areas that we can improve in and maintain those other strengths and play my role in the program."
Before Sunnyside gets into the Big 9 portion of their schedule, they face some tough non-league opponents in Prosser, Post Falls and Kennewick.
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GRANDVIEW, Wash. -- The Grandview School District can't offer any incentives like signing bonuses or paid training, so bus drivers are going elsewhere, said the transportation director, Kyle Carrier.
"It's frustrating, especially when a lot of those candidates are probably community members who see our district and then go to another," said Carrier.
Carrier said he's working with the superintendent to find a budget for driver incentives by the end of the school year.
The district has 16 full-time drivers and two substitutes. Carrier said he wants at least 30 drivers to be ready when one calls in sick or takes a vacation.
"When it comes to our special needs and our preschool routes, that's where students are affected by a bus running late or a bus not even being available," said Carrier.
Carrier said he had to drive when there were not enough drivers. He said bus drivers also have combined routes.
"When it comes to our special needs and our preschool routes, that's where students are affected by a bus running late or a bus not even being available," said a bus driver, Sonia Merck.
In her 20 years with Grandview, Merck said she's never seen a shortage like this.
"[More drivers would be] a huge burden off our shoulders as far as being able to staff the buses efficiently and not overcrowd buses," said Merk.
Merk said loves getting to every student on her bus. She said driving a bus isn't as hard as it looks.
"Once you get in and learn how to do it, there's no difficulty to it and the children are wonderful," said Merk.
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Allegations of Inappropriate Conduct at Nickelodeon Raises Debate on Banning Child Acting
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Last week, former child actor Alexa Nicholas, who had starred in Zoey 101, staged a protest outside Nickelodeon’s offices, alleging systemic abuse at the network. She specifically named Dan Schneider, the creator of Zoey 101 and other popular shows on the channel. “I didn’t feel safe around Dan Schneider; every time he came on set, my body got extremely tense,” Nicholas said.
Last month, former Nickelodeon child star Jennette McCurdy published a memoir detailing her years as the lead character in iCarly. The book, titled I’m Glad My Mom Died details years of abuse, trauma, and systemic silence perpetuated by the entertainment industry; a space which McCurdy’s mother forced her into while tormenting her throughout. The book also references a top executive by the moniker ‘The Creator,’ who is believed to be Schneider himself.
But it isn’t just one man — the group organized by Nicholas, that calls itself Eat Predators, alleges a culture of silencing survivors through non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) at Nickelodeon. The events have, however, stirred a larger conversation around the ethics of children being hired as actors overall. The entertainment industry would be incomplete without child actors — some of the biggest and most memorable works of art featured children, and continue to have a lasting legacy on the media landscape. But many have begun to question the costs, and whether it’s worth it.
Many countries, including India, ban child labor. But when it comes to child artists, the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 provides a way to employ them in the media industry — just with some restrictions. Among some of the minimal regulations in place are those pertaining to continuing education, ensuring nutrition, and overall safety. But some argue that these are limited in their scope when it comes to child actors. “While these regulatory processes intend to ensure that children are safe and their schooling or education is not compromised with, what is ignored is the child’s right to leisure and recreation in order to grow to his or her full potential,” wrote Komal Ganotra in Scroll.
On the one hand, some argue that banning child acting would mean that their talent goes unrecognized. On the other, many believe it’s not absolute deprivation of opportunity since there’s room to explore their talent as adults, too. Moreover, acting or any form of art, too, is labor. But children’s agency in claiming wages for their labor as their own is regularly undermined.
A study in India found that child artists work 12-13 hours a day — in contravention of the law. Further, the law states that at least 20% of the child’s income must be deposited in a fixed deposit account in the child’s name — but this, too, is a regulation that the study found to be flouted regularly.
Beyond work ethics, there’s an additional layer to contend with: fame. There’s a troubling pattern, moreover, of child stars succumbing to addiction or suffering from trauma in adulthood. McCaulay Culkin, Lindsay Lohan, and several former Disney child stars are textbook examples of the darkness that follows child actors who reach staggering levels of fame early in life.
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“Marbled through cinema history are the same awful stories, of girls, bullied, as Garland was, into self-loathing; child actors of both sexes abused and commodified. As adults, they become punchlines. The executives are elsewhere by then,” notes The Guardian, on how child stars are compelled to tolerate exploitation and commodification at a time when they’re meant to be safe and have the space to grow, learn, and make mistakes. Sometimes, the process itself is punishing and exploitative even for adults — for children, it can be deadly. Judy Garland, for instance, was alleged to have been given amphetamines by MGM to sustain 72-hour shifts while she worked on Wizard of Oz.
“The bigger question of whether a child will benefit long-term from being in films is largely unanswerable,” said Lenny Abrahamson, whose film Room featured seven-year-old Jacob Tremblay in a pivotal role. While some directors do — or claim to — try their best to make films with children ethically, there are bigger questions to be asked about the structure of the entertainment industry itself. Is it ethical, for instance, to expose a growing, vulnerable mind to millions, awaiting their judgment? How do studios themselves assess the commercial bankability of a child star without irreparably damaging their self-worth in the process?
Sometimes, parents themselves are complicit in subjecting their children to abusive work environments, and sustaining themselves through their child’s income. Modern Family’s Ariel Winter spoke about how her stage mom realized her own acting dreams vicariously through Winter, making her wear “the smallest miniskirts, sailor suits, low-cut things, the shortest dresses you’ve ever seen. People thought I was 24 when I was 12. If there was going to be a nude scene when I was that age, my mother would have a 1,000% said yes.” Citing this and other forms of abusive practices, Winter legally emancipated herself from her mother when she was 14. But the problem goes back way beyond her time; Shirley Temple, a legendary Hollywood child star, was a prominent voice on this front, who opened up about how her mother put her in the industry when she was three, which opened her up to sexual harassment, exploitation, and abuse therein.
But some note that it isn’t a matter of banning child acting itself — instead, stronger protections are key. “… it’s important for children to see themselves in media. What it’s time for is unions for child actors so that they are equally and fairly represented, compensated, and awarded,” one Reddit user commented. Moreover, child stars also need to be given more respect for the work they put in — it is a service to the public to take on the mantle of telling stories for adults and children alike.
The debate around the ethics of child acting, then, hinges on workplace safety norms and a recognition of the unique needs of growing children within them. We may be unable to imagine a cinematic world without children represented — but we must collectively ensure that they get to have a childhood in the process. | https://theswaddle.com/allegations-of-inappropriate-conduct-at-nickelodeon-raises-debate-on-banning-child-acting/ | 2022-08-31T08:23:14Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/allegations-of-inappropriate-conduct-at-nickelodeon-raises-debate-on-banning-child-acting/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Leonardo DiCaprio & Camila Morrone Have Broken Up
Leonardo DiCaprio is single again. According to People, the 47-year-old actor has broken up with his 25-year-old girlfriend, Camila Morrone. The couple were first linked in 2018, but kept a decidedly low profile. They never walked a read carpet together, but did sit side-by-side at major events like the 2020 Oscars and the U.S. Open. They were last spotted together over July 4th weekend in Malibu. People magazine offered no details about the split, other than that “a source” confirmed it.
Born in Los Angeles to Argentinian parents, Morrone first established herself as a model, but in recent years has concentrated on acting. She won particular praise for her role in the 2019 indie film Mickey and the Bear. Her biggest role yet is likely to be as a costar in the Amazon Prime series Daisy Jones & The Six, alongside Riley Keough and Suki Waterhouse. For a while, Morrone’s mother was also married to Al Pacino, making the actor her one-time stepfather.
Morron didn’t discuss the relationship publicly, but in some interviews did address the public’s perception of it. “I feel like there should always be an identity besides who you’re dating,” she told The LA Times in 2019. “I understand the association, but I’m confident that will continue to slip away and be less of a conversation.” DiCaprio said even less about the relationship. | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/leonardo-dicaprio-camila-morrone-breakup | 2022-08-31T08:32:25Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/leonardo-dicaprio-camila-morrone-breakup | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
24 Hour Squash Match
A 24hr Squash Match to raise funds and awareness for Prostate Cancer UK will begin on October 1st at 8am in Belfast Boat Club. At the end of the 24hrs the team with the most points will win the trophy, sponsored by Central Belfast Apartments.
In total, there will be approximately 50 players taking part, 25 per team. Some well-known faces will be taking part, with more expected as the event nears. Boxers such as Tyrone McKenna, Sean McComb and Tommy McCarthy and comedians like Paddy McDonnell and William Thompson have all signed up.
The aim for the event is to raise £2000 for the charity. To achieve this, some NIFL clubs and the Belfast Giants have donated jerseys to raffle off and the event has been backed by some great businesses who have come on as sponsors.
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220830-N-UL352-1043 SUEZ CANAL (Aug 30, 2022) Guided-missile destroyer USS Delbert D. Black (DDG 119) transits the Suez Canal, Aug. 30. Delbert D. Black is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations to help ensure maritime security and stability in the Middle East region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jeremy R. Boan)
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What does it take to be successful? This is one of the tough questions that many people struggle with. But the answer to this question is quite easy for successful people. To some, what it takes to be successful is taking risks. To others, it means being dedicated to a plan. Some believe success is a bye product of hard work and dedication. Regardless of what it takes to be successful, it is an undeniable fact that success doesn’t come on a platter of gold.
As a matter of fact, being born into a rich family does not automatically make one successful. However, it will help to make the journey easier since there is a template of success already on the ground for such a person, rather than building from scratch. Regardless of that, we’ve seen quite a few people born into rich homes but end up not being successful due to their lack of the ability to sustain their wealth.
Be it as it may be, discussed in this article are some of the tips to become successful.
1. Learn to start small
In order to be successful, you have to start from somewhere. You don’t need to have it all figured out or have all the resources at your disposal before you start anything. If you have a big idea, it may be very hard to start, but all you need to do is to start small. Create a small goal at first and keep expanding it as time goes by.
2. Always have a plan
As the saying goes, ” If you fail to plan, you have already planned to fail.” You must always have a plan in place before embarking on any venture. Always stick to a schedule while working on your goals in life. Proper planning helps to keep you in constant check and helps to evaluate success. Without a plan, it is very easy for you to lose focus and your idea to fail.
3. Stay focused
To be successful in life, it’s important to stay focused on your goal and take away any form of distraction. Whatever it is that will impede your goals should be done away with. For instance, If excess usage of social media is affecting your academics, you should endeavor to minimize its usage and channel more energy to the roads that lead to your success.
4. Be positive
To be successful in life, you need to develop a positive mindset. You must always think positively, speak positively, and hope for positive things to happen to you. Being positive attracts lots of positive motives to keep going no matter what life throws at you, while a negative mindset, on the other hand, will only help to precipitate your downfall and prepare you for failure.
5. Hard work
As common as this may sound, it is a well-known fact that you need to put in a great effort to succeed in life. While the role of luck in success can’t be counted out, it is not something to be depended on. Success doesn’t come easily; it requires a lot of hard work and dedication.
6. Patience & consistency
As the popular saying goes, “Rome was not built in a day.” To be successful in life, you have to exhibit the act of patience and most may not and create time for things to grow big. Your business, initiative, and skills may not start generating money for you immediately, but with patience and consistency, the sky will only be your beginning.
7. Courage
Success and courage are often inseparable. For you to be successful, you must be confident, willing to take risks, and not be easily intimidated. You must develop a strong mentality to overcome your fear and never be afraid of failure. Instead, you should take every failure as a lesson and learn from it.
8. Believe in yourself
It’s easy to lose hope because you have hundreds of people telling you that you can’t do it, but if you believe in yourself and have a vision for your future, you can accomplish anything in life. You must be your own biggest cheerleader. If you don’t believe in yourself, it may be difficult to get others to believe in you.
9. Be persistent
Success is never easy, but it is always worth the effort. Persistence is the key to achieving your goals. You must never take “no” for an answer, regardless of what comes your way in your course of chasing greatness. You must be relentless and never give up on your dreams, no matter how hard it is.
10. Network with people with similar goals
Networking with people who share similar goals as you will lead to an exchange of ideas and brainstorming, which helps to keep you abreast of the current happenings in your profession. All these will play a role in your way to the top.
11. Find a mentor
Apart from helping you with words of encouragement, sharing valuable information about their career paths with you and helping you to set goals, mentors also help to share networking connections with their mentees. While success can be achieved without having a mentor, it will be much easier for you to become successful with a mentor to guide you through.
12. Take a rest when it is needed
Being burned out will undoubtedly affect your performance and ability to focus on your goals. Regardless of how ambitious you are, you should always take a break when it is needed. Just as the saying goes, “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” Don’t be like Jack, rest when you are tired. Giving yourself a break will help to re-energize you and provide you with the necessary strength to forge further.
Conclusion: Although there may not be any certain roots to becoming successful in life, if the tips above can be imbibed, one can be assured that he or she is already treading the paths to success.
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The feelings of regret can be powerful and overwhelming. From making a wrong career decision to missing a life changing opportunity, these mistakes can undoubtedly ruin one’s life. Sometimes we wish some things never happened – that some words were never said, and some actions were never taken. But the sad truth is, it is impossible to reverse the hands of time and right our wrongs.
But what is possible, however, is avoiding some of these acts that may lead to regret. In this article, we will take a look at eight things people regret doing.
1. Not taking our chances
As the saying goes, “you miss one hundred per cent of the shot you don’t take.” Sometimes, due to fear and other factors, we end up letting go of a life-changing opportunity. Inability to take chances has caused so many people everlasting regret and “had I known” feelings.
2. Not asking for help
As much as we all strive to be independent, it is an undeniable fact that we can’t do it all alone. At some point in time, we will need to seek help. A great number of people have fallen into depression simply because they don’t want to appear vulnerable by asking people for help.
3. Not being honest
Sometimes, a single lie is all that it takes for people to doubt you for the rest of their lives. Once trust is broken, it may never be fixed again. Dishonesty is a concept associated with guilt and regret. Many relationships and friendships have ended due to dishonesty.
4. Not being able to say “no”
If you are the type who always succumbs to the needs of others, even if it doesn’t go well with you, then you may never be your true self. Not being able to say no has made so many people agree to terms that don’t favour them, attend events they don’t like, drink to a stupor, and make so many life decisions they later live to regret.
5. Not being able to say “I am sorry”
As simple as it is, saying sorry goes a long way towards fixing a whole lot of things. From fixing broken relationships to helping to rebuild trust, the importance of saying sorry can never be overemphasized. Sometimes, we end up escalating things that we later regret in our lives due to our failure to say the magical simple word of “sorry.”
6. Not being able to say “thank you”
If you fail to be thankful for a favour rendered to you today, you are indirectly blocking the way for another favour. Even God Almighty requires us to be thankful. Nobody wants to help an ungrateful soul which may cost you life-changing opportunities if you fall into this category.
7. Not being able to take a break
All work and no rest is what makes Jack a dull boy. If you overstress yourself, it will likely affect your productivity and mental well-being. Remember how you regret not having enough sleep which later affected your productivity at work the other time? Well, that is why you need to give yourself that much-needed break once in a while.
8. Not being able to change
Change is inevitable in life. It is a concept that is constant. The world itself keeps evolving every day. Sticking to a particular concept or ideology when it is apparent that there is a better one may impede one’s growth and bring a feeling of regret later in life when you realise you should have embraced it.
HOW TO AVOID YOUR HAVING REGRET
1. Learn from your mistakes
Rather than seeing your past deeds as mistakes, you should instead take your undoings as a lesson, learn from them and let go of any form of regret. Understand that mistakes are inevitable to humans and never let your past comes in the way of your future
2. Don’t follow someone else’s dream
Avoid taking vital decisions simply because others are doing it. Be true to yourself and make decisions in line with your aims and dreams and not necessarily join the bandwagon.
3. Think before you act
You should be clear on what you want. Before making any vital decision, be sure it is something you wanted. Ask yourself how such activities will benefit you in the long run.
4. Plan ahead
Always have a plan as a guide. Stick to a principle that regulates your activities and decisions making.
5. Think about the consequences
Is this thing I’m about to do capable of bringing me happiness or guilt? What do I tend to gain from this? What was the outcome of those who did similar things in the past? These are some of the rhetorical questions you honestly ask yourself to avoid regret.
6. Be prayerful
The importance of Almighty God’s intervention should not be underestimated. Regardless of how meticulous we are, we sometimes end up making decisions we live to regret. Ask God for divine intervention before taking don’t vital life decisions.
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The 2023 presidential campaign is scheduled to kick off on September 28. In this piece, Northern Bureau Chief, MUHAMMAD SABIU looks at the strengths and weaknesses of five presidential candidates, especially in the North.
Not underestimating the chances of candidates of the various parties for the 2023 presidential election, there appears to be five of them that have dominated the political space since they became standard-bearers of their parties. The more resounding names are Senator Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP), Alhaji Rabiu Kwankwaso of New Nigerian People›s Party (NNPP) and Mr Dumebi Kachikwu of the African Democratic Congress (ADC). For every electoral cycle, presidential candidates are known to take their campaign to every geopolitical zone of the country with the intention of getting as many votes as possible across board. Whether in the North or South, the scramble for votes is fierce as the winning candidate must receive a majority of the votes and over 25 percent of the votes in at least 24 of the 36 states in the country.
The strategic North
The Northern zone comprises of three geopolitical zones: the North-West, North-Central and the North-East. With the quantum of total votes of the North, there is always a serious scramble for votes of the zone. In fact, the recently concluded Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) again justified the fact that the North will always be the beautiful bride of politicians in elections. In the exercise, the North had the highest number of 6,359,711 registrants as against the South with 5,939,233 new registrants. According to the present INEC register, the North-West zone, which comprises the seven states of Sokoto, Zamfara, Kano, Kaduna, Katsina, Kebbi and Jigawa, has a total of 22.67 million registered voters, is the highest number of registered voters. The North-Central with over 14.1million registered voters has the second highest number of registered voters followed by the Northeast with over 12. 8 million registered voters. In the present voter register, the northern region has at least half of the number of the total voters in the country with a total number of 49.57 million. As it has always been, the region will once again be an important battle ground for all the contestants. In the past weeks, it is not a coincidence that presidential candidates and their foot soldiers have continued to transverse the North, apparently in recognition of its electoral value.
Why North-West is critical
In the recent 2015 and 2019 presidential elections, the North-West showed that votes from the zone are critical to whoever will win the election. In both elections, for instance, President Muhammadu Buhari got the highest votes in the zone. While in 2015, Buhari’s candidate polled 46 percent of the entire votes cast, he amassed 39 percent of the total votes cast in the 2019 election. Generally, the number of votes that Buhari got from the North-West enabled him defeat his opponents, the former president Goodluck Jonathan and former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Again, the All Progressives Congress (APC) will hope for similar electoral feat from the zone in 2023. Speaking about the critical nature of the North-West, the APC senatorial candidate for Kaduna Central, Muhammad Sani Dattijo, said: “The North-West zone is critical to the party›s victory in 2023. So whoever wins in the zone will be the next president.” National vice-chairman of the APC North-West, Salihu Lukman, said the APC was all-out to have the most voting number of the North-West. “We will not give a breathing space for other parties to maneuvre in subsequent elections. The North-West is for APC,” Lukman said. The APC is not leaving any stone to amass as much votes as possible of the zone as it has embarked on regular consultations with the seven states in the zone to see how the zonal office and the state chapters can work together. The party has also reached out to aspirants who lost out in the battle for tickets. The zonal office is also consulting widely to promote the Tinubu/Kashim Shettima ticket. Also, the APC looks to be in good stead in the zone with six out of the seven governors of the zone. Only Sokoto State is controlled by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). At various fora, the likes of Governor Nasir El›rufai (Kaduna), Governor Abdullahi Ganduje (Kano), Governor Bello Masari (Katsina), Governor Atiku Bagudu (Kebbi), Governor Badaru Abubakar (Jigawa) and Governor Bello Matawalle (Zamfara) have all promised to deliver their states for Tinubu. The governors are also sponsoring different support groups for Tinubu/Shettima, to include the Tinubu Support Group and the APC Northwest Stakeholders. Though the APC appears optimistic of victory, it faces issues of high cost of living, insecurity, kidnapping, banditry, cattle rustling and anti-people policies adopted by some of the state governments.
For the PDP and Atiku, the North-West was once its stronghold until 2015 when its lost control to the APC. The task before the PDP is clearly to strategise to bounce back to reckoning in the zone. True to the task at hand, several support groups to include Atiku Support Organizations, Atiku PDP Ambassadors, Atikulated are all out, reaching out to people and marketing their presidential candidate. The party will be banking on its sole PDP governor, Governor Aminu Tamubwal (Sokoto), its few senators, members of the house of representatives, members of the house of assembly to woo electorates to vote its presidential candidate, Atiku. The PDP still boasts of being a formidable force in the zone having produced past national party leaders, former ministers, former senators, generals, ambassadors and party elders. In campaigning, the PDP will also be talking about the fact that it is out to rescue and relieve Nigerians of the hardship many are presently facing. However, there are those who argue that people are yet to forget the sour past antecedents of the party. To this end, some pundits are skeptical whether the party can be entrusted with power again.
Meanwhile, the Labour Party and its presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, are still trying to find its footing in the zone. The party is simply not popular in the zone. In recent times, however, the party is gaining popularity among the youths. No doubt, youths of the North-West zone are part of the 71 percent of the number of people that have registered to collect their voter card. Relying on the huge number of youth voters, the Labour party may pull off some surprises. Suffice it to note that concerted efforts by few elites to push for Obi’s candidature have been futile. The spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum, Hakeem Baba Ahmed openly declared his support for Obi›s candidature. But some pundits argued that he is doing so because of his brother, who is the Vice presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed.
Many people in the zone see Alhaji Rabiu Kwankwaso, the candidate of NNPP, as out to play ‘a spoiler role’ than being out to win the election. Pundits hold that his new party, the NNPP, will make its greatest impact in Kano apart from one or two other states in the zone. For several observers, NNPP is a party for the future.
Dubemi Kachikwu of ADC is largely unknown in the zone. Two weeks ago, his party came to Kaduna to mobilise supporters from the North West under a lecture series held at the Arewa House. It will be most difficult for Kachikwu’s candidature to fly in the zone.
Strengths and weaknesses of candidates in North-Central
The North-Central, which is made up of Nasarawa, Kogi, Benue, Niger, Kwara and Plateau, now has 14.1 million voters in INEC register. The zone is the second most important zone in the region due to its voting strength. Out of the five governors in the zone, APC has four governors, while PDP has the governor of Benue. Bearing this in mind, the probability of the APC or Tinubu having more votes than other presidential candidates is high. But, like the Northwest, the zone is also a strong base of the PDP when the party once held sway. All the five states were once the stronghold of PDP from 1999 to 2015, until they were swept away by the APC tsunami. In the 2023 election, the APC will like to repeat its feats of 2015 and 2019. However, it is a fact that, in the zone, religion plays a role in people’s choice of candidates to vote for. However, the power of incumbency might be used to get votes for the APC presidential candidate, Tinubu. Tinubu is expected to get good number of votes from Nasarawa where the National Chairman of the party, Abdullahi Adamu, hails from; Kogi which has a diehard Buhari supporter as governor in person of Governor Yahaya Bello and Governor Sani Bello of Niger state who might be supported by a general to garner votes for their presidential candidate. Plateau governor, Simon Lalong, who is the chairman of the Northern governors forum may also use his influence to get votes. But in states like Kwara and Benue, Atiku may have the upper hand. Though, Kwara has an APC governor, it is expected to be a tight race in scramble for votes as the influence of a former president of the senate, Bukola Saraki, cannot be wished away. The NNPP is not popular in the zone. Meanwhile, religion will play a significant role with the North-Central mostly dominated by Christians. The religion factor may make candidates of the Labour party and ADC get some votes in the zone.
Chances of candidates in North-East
The North-East is made up of Yobe, Borno, Taraba, Adamawa, Bauchi and Gombe with a total number of 12.8 million registered voters. Interestingly too, it has two political gladiators that will test their supremacy in the zone. Like the North-west, the North-east will also be a battle ground for the presidential candidates. Four out of the six governors in the zone are of the APC extraction, while two are PDP governors. Out of the four APC governors, two states, Borno and Yobe have consistently voted for APC for the past two decades. Thus, with a PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and APC vice presidential candidate, Kashim Shettima from the zone, the scramble for votes will be fierce. Both APC and PDP are popular in zone. The candidates of NNPP, LP and ADC can only get a few votes as the real battle will be between Atiku and Shettima who are from the zone. Whether the issue of Muslim-Muslim ticket of the APC will have an impact will be determined by how well the minority are united.
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Following the pronouncement by Governor Rotimi Akeredolu that the Araromi seaside community in Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State would soon be turned to a tourist centre, there have been claims and counter claims involving indigenes of Ondo and Ogun states over ownership of the community. HAKEEM GBADAMOSI writes on the controversy.
The recent declaration by the Ondo State governor, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu, to turn the Araromi seaside community in Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State to a tourist centre which would attract global attention, as part of his administration’s plan to develop tourism as a viable means of revenue generation in the state, has turned the long forgotten community to a beautiful bride.
Akeredolu had, earlier in August, disclosed that the government had concluded arrangements to declare the seaside a tourism zone, noting that the huge potentials of the area had been left untapped by the tourism sector.
The governor, who promised to replicate the success stories of tourism in the state, said: “We have reached an agreement to declare our waterfronts or shores, where we have a lot of advantage in the country, a tourism zone.”
The recent announcement may be one of the reasons the governor embarked on the construction of a 50-kilometre road to link the coastal communities in the state with Lagos State. The governor had, a few years ago signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to construct the road.
The road is expected to connect Araromi seaside with Akodo in Ibeju-Lekki Local Government Area of Lagos State, which is expected to be completed within two and half years. Akeredolu stated during the flag-off ceremony for the road, that when completed, the road would help to decongest the Benin-Ore-Lagos expressway.
According to the governor, “once this project is completed, the people can now travel to Lagos by road in less than an hour, as against the usual four to five hours being spent through other roads to Lagos.”
However, following the announcement by Akeredolu, a traditional ruler, the Onirokun of Irokun, Oba Buari Ola Balogun (Ogbelege IV), in the Ogun Waterside Local Government Area of Ogun state, said the Araromi seaside, the proposed tourism zone, is part of Ogun Waterside Local Government and is under Ogun State, not Ondo State.
The monarch said: “For the sake of clarification, reference should be made to the geographical boundary declaration of states along the Bight of Benin, even at the time, and after the Western Region, where it will be found that the entire landmark of Araromi seaside fell into Ijebu land and is one of the communities of Irokun Kingdom of Ogun Waterside.
“Secondly, it should interest everyone that may be concerned to know that I have severally visited Araromi seaside as one of the communities under my jurisdiction, and had serious consultations with the dwellers of the land, who were scheming to move out to Ondo State on the grounds that they are a community that has been abandoned by the Ogun State government.
“I frantically established it to the people there on the land, that despite their agitation for Ondo State as a people, the land they occupy cannot be transferred to Ondo State by them; that the land belongs to the Irokun Kingdom, an Ijebu community under the administration of the Awujale of Ijebu land, and is under Ogun Waterside Local Government Area of Ogun State.
“It is, therefore, very pertinent this time around that I am using this opportunity and medium to voice out to both Ogun Waterside Local Government and Ogun State Government that the land mentioned here, Araromi seaside, is their land and not that of Ondo State.”
But countering the claim, the people of the Maporure community of Aheri-land in Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State, faulted the claims of the Onirokun, Oba Buari Ola Balogun, that Araromi seaside is part of Ogun Waterside Local Government Area and not Ondo State.
The people of Aheri-land, in a letter to the state governor through their solicitors, Royal Practice Legal Practitioners and Consultants, and signed by Ige Asemudara, described the claims as not only false but unfounded, and maintained that Araromi seaside had been part of Ilaje community of Ondo State from time immemorial.
The letter to the governor read: “We are Solicitors to the royal dynasty of the Maporure of Aheri-land in Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State.
“Our Client has drawn our attention to the above-captioned publication with instructions to correct the several false claims made therein by one Buari Ola Balogun purporting himself as the ‘Onirokun of Irokun’, a community forming part of the ancient territory of Aheri-land and to urge Your Excellency to ignore such insignificant tantrum.
“In the said publication, the self-styled Onirokun falsely claimed that Araromi seaside was in the Ogun Waterside Local Government Area of Ogun State, contrary to the truth that Araromi is squarely within the Aheri Ward of Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State and not even a border community.
“For the avoidance of doubt, Aheri land, which is coterminous with the Ward is the most westerly of the four Ilaje Kingdoms with its littoral boundary extending to Olosunmeta on the Lekki Peninsula corridor as long determined even before Nigeria became a British Protectorate and later a colony in 1900.
“It is the fact of its territorial contiguity with Lagos that the British Government, by an Act of the Nigerian Legislative Council, on the 29th day of November 1895, extended the laws of the Colony of Lagos to Ilaje land and by which it was declared part of the Colony.
“Attempts later to alter this well defined boundary and territory for political exigencies has been the source of unending crises between Ondo/Abeokuta Provinces, which birthed the present Ondo and Ogun States, particularly when Ijebu was crafted from Abeokuta in 1915 with a rejected policy to create costal territory for Ijebu on part of the western fringe of Ilaje soil.
“Your Excellency, the same attempt was rejected in the hinterland of the territory forcing the contrived Ijebu Waterside to be changed to Ogun Waterside in the false hopes of appropriating the Ilaje/Ikale territories along the Itebu Elero/Ayila corridor.
“In recent times, the National Boundary Commission, in agreement with all stakeholders, had to resort to ethnographic analysis to resolve the unwarranted crises.
“In the final analysis, we state without equivocation that both Araromi and Irokun are one hundred percent Ilaje communities and within the Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State. No state or ethnic group is in dispute with us over them.”
In a twist, the people of the Araromi seaside community faulted the claims of the traditional ruler and the Aheri people, saying the area is neither part of Aheri-land nor Ogun State as claimed by the two parties.
Speaking on behalf of the people, the Baale of Araromi seaside community, High Chief Benaya Okuntade, said the community has from time immemorial been under the suzerainty of the Amapetu of Mahin, adding that the inhabitants are of Mahin origin.
Okuntade explained that Irokun itself was, at a time, under the sovereignty of the Amapetu of Mahin as most of the inhabitants were of Mahin origin, saying the the traditional ruler of Mahin, Oba Igbaakin Omowole 1, appointed an Oloja in Irokun, granting him powers to collect tax in 1919.
Okuntade said: “Never in the history of Araromi seaside has the Aheri people or the Maporure ever exercised any form of authority over Araromi land or its people. A 1955 agreement between Oba M.A. Gbose, the Maporure of Agerige, and the people of Araromi bears out this fact, when he expressly stated that his kingdom did not extend to Araromi Seaside.
“There was a case instituted and fought by the Aheri people against Araromi such as the HOK/9/91, HOK/8/2012 and CA/AK/275/2014 over Araromi land and the authority of Amapetu over Araromi, which they lost.
“For the record, I reiterate that Araromi seaside is not part of Irokun land nor in Ogun State, and I state that not one of their progenitors of Buari Balogun ever stepped on Araromi soil in exercise of any form of authority over our land and people, and I dare him to attempt to step on our land.
“Araromi seaside has never been part of Aheri-land. We, therefore, use this medium to appeal to Ondo State government to expedite action and approve the desire of the Araromi seaside people through their memorandum which is before it to have their Oloja.
“The government should approve Adeoloye Olawole, the Oba-elect, to be upgraded to status of Oba to ward off the incursion of the Ijebu people in their expansionist agenda over the area.”
They, however, maintained that Araromi seaside has been part of Ondo State, and urged the state governor to ignore any contrary position.
Speaking on the development, a Prince of Araromi seaside, Prince Rafael Adesuyi, said if the government can develop the beach to attract tourists, it will be of great benefit to the community and Ondo State in general.
He called on the the people of Araromi seaside and the state to invest in the untapped tourism potentials that abound in the community, saying this will help to to change the socio economic status of the community and the people.
He said: “The community possesses a unique scenery that could attract large tourist patronage that could compliment the effort of the administration to boost the state tourism sector.”
A resident of the community, John Morakinyo, attributed the controversy over ownership of the community to the potentials within the community.
Morakinyo, who explained that the state government is planning to site a port in the area, said the site of the proposed Port of Ondo, which also has an industrial city with Free Trade Zone status, measures 2,771.2 hectares with longest coastline in West Africa.
Another resident, Aromire Ikuesan, said the port and tourist centre will contribute to improving the economy.
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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department said Tuesday it had uncovered efforts to obstruct its investigation into the discovery of classified documents at Donald Trump's Florida estate, saying “government records were likely concealed and removed” from a storage room even after the former president's representatives had assured officials that they'd thoroughly searched the property.
The FBI also seized 33 boxes containing more than 100 classified records during its Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago and found three classified documents stashed in office drawers, according to a filing that lays out the most detailed chronology to date of stained interactions between Justice Department officials and Trump representatives over the discovery of government secrets.
Tuesday night’s filing included a photo showing the cover pages of a smattering of paperclip-bound classified documents — some marked as “TOP SECRET//SCI” with bright yellow borders, and one marked as “SECRET//SCI” with a rust-colored border — along with whited-out pages, splayed out on a carpet at Mar-a-Lago. Beside them sits a cardboard box filled with gold-framed pictures, including a Time Magazine cover.
The filing offers yet another indication of the sheer volume of classified records retrieved from Mar-a-Lago. It shows how investigators conducting a criminal probe have focused not just on why the records were improperly stored there, but also on the question of whether the Trump team intentionally misled them about the continued, and unlawful, presence of government secrets.
The document sheds new details on the events of this past May and June, when FBI and Justice Department officials issued a subpoena for the missing records and then visited a storage room at Mar-a-Lago that contained top-secret documents and other information.
During that June visit, the document says, Trump’s lawyers told investigators that all the records that had come from the White House were stored in one location — a Mar-a-Lago storage room — and that “there were no other records stored in any private office space or other location at the Premises and that all available boxes were searched.”
After that, though, the Justice Department “developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the Storage Room and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government’s investigation.”
In their search earlier this month, agents found classified documents both in the storage room as well as in the former president’s office, including three classified documents found not in boxes, but in office desks.
The filing responds to a request from the Trump legal team for a special master to review the documents seized during the Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon is set to hear arguments on the matter.
Trump's lawyers last week asked for the appointment of a special master who'd be tasked with reviewing the records taken and setting aside documents protected by claims of legal privilege. Cannon on Saturday said it was her “preliminary intent” to appoint such a person but also gave the Justice Department an opportunity to respond.
On Monday, the department said it had already completed its review of potentially privileged documents and identified a “limited set of materials that potentially contain attorney-client privileged information.”
In a separate development, the Trump legal team has grown with the addition of another attorney. Chris Kise, Florida's former solicitor general, has joined the team of lawyers representing Trump, according to two people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to discuss the move by name and spoke on condition of anonymity. Kise did not return messages seeking comment. | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/feds-cite-efforts-to-obstruct-probe-of-docs-at-trump-estate/article_7dcec8c2-28ed-11ed-93fc-3b0a673c2c8f.html | 2022-08-31T08:53:03Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/feds-cite-efforts-to-obstruct-probe-of-docs-at-trump-estate/article_7dcec8c2-28ed-11ed-93fc-3b0a673c2c8f.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Man in coma after stung by bees 20,000 times, family says
RIPLEY, Ohio (WXIX) - A 20-year-old man nearly lost his life getting stung thousands of times by bees after accidentally cutting into a nest while tree trimming.
Austin Bellamy remains on a ventilator in a medically induced coma at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, as of Tuesday night, WXIX reports.
The 20-year-old was up in a lemon tree trimming branches Friday morning with his grandmother, Phyllis Edwards, and his uncle, Dustin Edwards, standing below. At some point, Bellamy unknowingly cut into a bee’s nest.
“When he started cutting them, that’s when the bees came out, and he tried to anchor himself down, and he couldn’t,” Phyllis Edwards said. “He was hollering, ‘Help! Help me! Help!’ And nobody would help him.”
Bellamy’s family members watched the entire episode unfold from the ground, unable to scale the ladder because they themselves were under attack.
“I was going to try and climb the ladder to get to Austin... I seen how high he was... but I couldn’t get to him because I was surrounded in bees,” Phyllis Edwards said.
Shawna Carter, Bellamy’s mother, says she passed out when she got the phone call.
“It was just too much for me to take,” she said. “It looked like he had a black blanket on his head down to his neck, down to his arms.”
EMS called UC Air Care for Bellamy. Phyllis Edwards left for the hospital in an ambulance moments before the medical helicopter arrived to transport the 20-year-old to Corryville.
Bellamy was stung at least 20,000 times, according to an online fundraiser set up by the family. Carter says he ingested around 30 bees as well.
“So he had bees inside of him, and they suctioned bees out of him until Sunday morning,” she explained.
Carter says it was a Ripley Fire Department firefighter named Craig who saved his life.
“When I think of Craig, Craig is a life-saver,” she said. “He’s Austin’s angel. He saved Austin’s life.”
Doctors say Bellamy will make a full recovery.
“I just want to tell him that I love him and I miss him and he’s my boy,” Dustin Edwards said.
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After a pandemic imposed 2-year hiatus, The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo is back! The tattoo is an annual series of performances by British Armed Forces, Commonwealth, international military bands, and cultural performance teams at Edinburgh Castle in the capital of Scotland. The commander of the US Army Field Band talks about the privilege of performing alongside allies and partners.
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There will be some cloud around in Kent in many parts this morning (Wednesday) and even a small chance of rain in some areas. But from after lunch, those clouds will mostly be gone, and it will be full on sunshine for the rest of the day.
Many areas of the county will be basking in very summery temperatures of 22C. And this looks to be the general picture across much of the UK, with clear skies expected and temperatures in the mid-20s
Dartford will be sunny intervals this morning with a 30 per cent chance of rain around noon. But from 3pm the overcast skies should turn sunny. Top temperature of 22C.
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Tunbridge Wells starts with a 10 per cent chance of rain until 9am. Then it will be sunny intervals or cloud until 2pm, with full sun for the rest of the day. Top temperature of 21C.
Margate started sunny and there will be sunny intervals all day until 2pm, when it will be full sun for the rest of the day. Temperature of 20C. Folkestone had a bright sunny start and should expect two hours of sunny intervals until full sun from around 1pm for the rest of the day. Top temperature of 21C.
The picture across much of the UK today is expected be clear skies and temperatures in the mid-20s, reports Mirror online. A long range forecast for Saturday (September 4) to Tuesday (September 13) from the Met Office reads: "The start of this period is expected to bring areas of thick cloud and heavy or thundery periods of rain or showers to many places.
"Any periods of rain could be longer spells than recently experienced. Strong winds are also likely in places, perhaps with a risk of gales too. Temperatures are expected to be around average but could be variable, especially under longer spells of rain where it may be cooler, or in any sunshine which will feel warmer.
"Towards the end of the period, the rainfall is likely to die out, leading to many areas becoming a little drier, although there may still be a chance of showers for many places. Temperatures will probably be around average."
Today: Fine and dry with sunny spells for most areas, though parts of northern and eastern England may catch occasional showers. Breezy in the south and most areas warmer than today.
Tonight: Most areas dry with long clear periods. A few mist or fog patches, most likely over parts of Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England. Breezy in the south.
Thursday: Many areas dry and sunny, though some northern and eastern areas likely to see more in the way of cloud and a few showers. Outlook for Friday to Sunday: Rather cloudy Friday with scattered showers into the northwest and far south. Showers or periods of rain more widely over the weekend, occasionally heavy and thundery. Windy in the north.
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A man has been left injured after several armed thieves broke into a Sevenoaks property and stole numerous items. Kent Police was called to an address on St James’ Road at around 10.15pm on Sunday (August 28).
Police responded to reports that a group of men had forced their way into the property and made off with several items, including money and multiple mobile phones. The suspects were allegedly armed with knives.
In the incident, one of the occupants was assaulted and sustained injuries, including cuts to his hands. Investigations will continue.
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Currently no arrests have been made in connection to this case. Kent Police said: “Kent Police was called at 10.15pm on Sunday 28 August 2022, to an address in St James’s Road Sevenoaks.
“It is reported that a number of men forced their way into the property and stole items including money and several mobile phones. The suspects are alleged to have been armed with knives and one of the occupants was assaulted, suffering injuries including cuts to his hands. An investigation is ongoing and at this stage no arrests have been made.”
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Iron ore miner, Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) and oil and gas producer, Woodside Energy Group (WDS) both released strong earnings results this week, but received contrasting market reactions, as their respective commodity prices continue running at inverse long term trajectories.
Both commodities have had their market fortunes significantly impacted by high profile global events over the last 12 to 18 months, namely the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the outbreak of war in Ukraine this year.
Geo-political forces shape iron ore and oil prices
Australian iron ore producers were riding high not so long ago, with China’s post COVID-19 demand soaring, and restricted supply from major Brazilian miners.
In May 2021, iron ore prices hit record highs, at above $US230 per tonne. These days it’s hovering around $US100 a tonne, now that Brazil has ramped up supply, and China is dialling down demand.
Brent crude has taken the opposite trajectory, due to the Ukraine conflict stymying global supply.
It’s risen from around $US65 a barrel in May 2021, jumped to about $US120 a barrel early this year, and is currently sitting at around $US100.
These macro trends have flipped fortunes for a number of ASX listed resources stocks, most recently typified by immediate market reactions to Fortescue and Woodside’s earning results.
Both released strong earnings results this week, but with contrasting impacts on their share prices.
FMG shares dip, despite strong profits
Fortescue released the company’s full year results for 2022, early this week.
The Western Australian based miner announced a $US6.19 billion ($A9 billion) profit, which was better than anticipated, but down 39.8% for the year due to the lower iron ore prices.
Fortescue’s share price dropped on the news, despite the result being the company’s second highest ever net profit after tax.
Is FMG overpriced?
The TipRanks Analyst Forecast tool reveals industry analysts are bearish about the company’s longer term future.
The iron ore miner has a Moderate Sell consensus, based on three Sell ratings, six Hold ratings and no Buy ratings.
An average Fortescue price forecast of $A17 implies a downside potential of around -10%.
Morgan Stanley analyst, Rahul Anand, who has an average return per rating of +11.50%, reiterated his Sell position on the U.S over-the-counter market, with a price target of $US10.13 and a downside sitting at around -21%
He has a success rating of 58% on previous Fortescue transactions, with 11 out of 19 profitable transactions. Despite this, Anand’s average return per rating on Fortescue is in negative territory, at around -19%.
Despite Fortescue’s strong operational performance announced in its results, the Australian miner’s fortunes are intrinsically linked with the broader market forces, also impacting other iron ore producers across the globe.
Iron ore futures dropped below $US100 a tonne this week, amid fresh worries over COVID-19 impacts and steel output restrictions in China.
Earning results see WDS shares surge
Like Fortescue, Woodside released strong earnings results that beat analyst forecasts. But unlike Fortescue, its share price surged upwards when news hit the markets.
The company’s half-year 2022 results, saw underlying net profit after tax of US$1.82 billion (A$2.6) an increase of more than 400% compared to the first half of 2021.
Analyst sentiment over the longer term is overwhelmingly positive too.
Is Woodside a buy or sell?
Woodside has a Moderate Buy consensus, based on four Buy ratings, two Hold ratings and no Sell ratings.
An average Woodside price forecast of $A34.38 implies a -0.43% downside potential.
UBS Analyst, Tom Allen, who has an average return per rating of +5.60%, reiterated his Buy position with a price target of A$33.65.
Woodside shareholders will be hoping Allen, who has been bullish on Woodside over the long term, is on the money again and his future predictions ring true.
Morgan Stanley analyst, Adam Martin, who has a success rate of around 80%, also reiterated his Buy position, with a price target of A$40.
Final thoughts
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Canada-based Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. (TSE:ATD) has reported solid results for the fiscal first quarter (ended July 17). Shares of the convenience stores operator have gained 13.7% over the last six months as people returned to in-store shopping after two years of restrictions.
Q1 Results in Detail
Revenues: Revenues increased 37.4% year-over-year to $18.7 billion, driven by a higher average selling price of fuel and fuel products, and a $4.5 million rise in merchandise and service revenues to $4.1 billion. Road transportation fuel revenues rose $4.9 billion year-over-year to $14.3 billion, and other revenues more than doubled to $266.1 million from $115.7 million in the year-ago quarter.
Gross profit: Gross profit totaled $2.9 billion, up 10.9% year-over-year, primarily due to a rise in ATD’s convenience activities.
EBITDA: Adjusted EBITDA rose 10.6% versus the first quarter of the last fiscal year and stood at $1.5 billion.
Earnings: Adjusted earnings came in at 85 cents per share, compared to 71 cents in the corresponding quarter of the Fiscal Year 2022. However, the figure missed the consensus estimate of 94 cents a share.
Encouraged by the results, Brian Hannasch, the President and CEO of Alimentation Couche-Tard, said, “In the face of continued and historic inflationary conditions and high fuel prices, we are pleased to report strong results this quarter, especially in convenience where we had healthy same stores sales in our U.S. market. We also continued to generate robust fuel margins across all of our platforms. In this period of high inflation and high prices, we remain focused on delivering a strong and consistent value to our customers and on maintaining cost discipline in our operations.”
Is ATD Stock a Buy?
On TipRanks, ATD has a Strong Buy consensus rating based on four Buys and one Hold. Alimentation Couche-Tard’s average price prediction of C$67.80 implies almost 20% upside potential.
Ahead of ATD’s quarterly results, Chris Li of Desjardins said, “We expect 1Q to reflect strong U.S. fuel margins, partly offset by continuing fuel volume pressures, temporary fuel margin softness in Europe and elevated SG&A expenses. We remain constructive on ATD’s longer-term growth potential, supported by a robust pipeline of organic growth initiatives.”
Additionally, Alimentation Couche-Tard scores a nine out of 10 on TipRanks’ Smart Score rating system, suggesting that ATD stock has strong potential to outperform the market. Bloggers are also 100% Bullish on ATD stock, compared to the sector average of 64%.
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Pre-Market Update
Stock futures are pointing to a positive opening today after yesterday’s third consecutive drop in broader indices.
Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) are up 0.68%, while those on the S&P 500 (SPX) are up 0.71% as of 2.07a.m. EST, Wednesday. Tech bellwether NASDAQ 100 (NDX) futures are up 0.87% after the index’s 1.12% drop yesterday. The Dow and the S&P 500 declined 0.96% and 1.10%, respectively, on Tuesday.
Could More Rate Hikes be in the Cards?
While Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s comments last week caused tremors in the market, yesterday John Williams, the New York Fed President, commented that interest rates should be “somewhat restrictive” to slow demand, indicating interest rates could stay elevated until inflation is tamed.
Throughout the day, the market can be expected to take cues from the ADP Jobs Report at 8.15 a.m., the Chicago PMI at 9.45 a.m., the EIA Petroleum Inventories at 10.30 a.m., and Farm price numbers at 3 p.m. The Chicago PMI remains a key barometer of how businesses are faring in the current environment.
Moreover, two important speeches today from the new President and CEO of the Dallas Fed, Lorrie K. Logan, at 6 p.m. and the President and CEO of the Atlanta Fed, Dr. Raphael W. Bostic, will also be key events to watch.
Equities and Cryptos Alike Feel the Pressure
The U.S. 10-year Treasury Yield is now at 3.101%, up from 2.7910% only two weeks ago. In China, manufacturing contracted for the second month in a row as lockdowns and power shortages take a toll on its economy.
As the tech world continues to make noise about hiring slowdowns and job cuts, SNAP (SNAP) (GB:0RNH) looks set to join the trend with a 20% headcount trim. A large number of workers moderating content for Facebook (META) in the U.S. are also looking at job cuts as the company looks to source this work from Singapore.
The weakening market confidence is also spilling into the crypto world, and Bitcoin (BTC-USD) and Ethereum (ETH-USD), the two leading cryptocurrencies, are down ~6% each over the past five days, even as the crypto community remains excited about the Ethereum Merge next month.
While investors may look to take advantage of the current market weakness, the next direction for the market will possibly be set at the next Fed meeting on September 13.
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Thompson: For Trey Lance, pressure was inevitable — and the 49ers think he’s ready for it (paywall)
“Shanahan’s retort to the challenge of Lance’s position? Suck it up. This is the life of an NFL quarterback. Better listen to Tha Carter II or something, get his mind right....Buried in there, unspoken but obvious, is Shanahan believes Lance can handle this. They see the right spirit in Lance, enough that they could put him in this situation and publicly act like it’s not even a situation. It’s been seven months of transition already, and Lance seemed to come through that pretty well.”
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“He made clear it’s Lance’s team — and consulted Lance before making the decision — while again pointing out that other teams erred in allowing the 49ers to keep two starting-caliber quarterbacks for cheap. They have a sizable chunk of cap space now, and at the very least, the 49ers should expect to get a compensatory third-round pick next offseason for Garoppolo.”
John Lynch and Kyle Shanahan discuss the 49ers keeping Jimmy Garoppolo
“San Francisco 49ers general manager John Lynch and head coach Kyle Shanahan spoke with reporters via a conference call on Tuesday to discuss Jimmy Garoppolo’s contract restructure. Here is everything they had to say.”
“Why did the 49ers not see this coming? Why did they not get to work earlier to convince Garoppolo that taking a pay cut to remain with the organization was something that was in the best interest of both sides?”
Matt Maiocco discusses Trey Lance’s leash, what doesn’t make sense about Jimmy Garoppolo situation
“What Trey Lance’s strong suit is right now is he’ll make a dynamic play. He’ll make it with his arm, he’ll stretch the field vertically, horizontally, he’s not going to be super accurate, but he’ll stretch the field. He’ll be able to when a play breaks down, he will make something out of nothing with his legs...But what he doesn’t do as of yet, is he doesn’t make the layup at the 100 percent which it should be. So he doesn’t put the ball on guys like Jimmy does, and allow those guys to run after the catch.”
“The San Francisco 49ers announced the following roster moves, with distinctions between veteran players who were released and not subject to waivers, and younger players who are subject to the waiver wire.”
Ian Rapoport explains when and why 49ers decided to bring back Jimmy Garoppolo
“I’d say about four or five days ago, conversations picked up between Jimmy Garoppolo’s agents and the 49ers about him possibly staying,” Rapoport said on “Good Morning Football.”
“Having five running backs on a 53-man roster – six if you count fullback Kyle Juszczyk – is the most stereotypically Kyle Shanahan thing Shanahan has ever done.”
49ers agree to bring back recently-released TE Tyler Kroft, DE Jordan Willis
“Willis is a good rotational defensive end who can also contribute on special teams. His release was a surprise, but since he didn’t have to pass waivers the team knew they could get him back without risking another team claiming him. Willis will be the 10th defensive lineman.”
“The only draft pick who was waived on Tuesday was cornerback Tariq Castro-Fields, whom the 49ers selected out of Penn State in the sixth round.”
49ers’ 53-man roster breakdown: 3 QBs, 5 running backs and other twists (paywall)
“It seems that the rookie Womack has sealed the 49ers’ starting nickelback job. Shanahan has previously coached for a team that started a rookie at that slot cornerback position. The 2014 Browns, with Shanahan as offensive coordinator, featured K’Waun Williams in that role. Williams would later man the nickel for the first five years of Shanahan’s 49ers tenure, and now Womack will succeed him.”
Kawakami: Why Jimmy Garoppolo and the 49ers just can’t quit each other (paywall)
“This is a value play for the 49ers, who are stunned that nobody else wanted to give up anything to trade for Garoppolo. It’s also a bet on their own leadership abilities and the cohesion of that locker room. Other teams would fear a two-QB soap opera. The 49ers have just renewed the show for a second season.”
Barrows: Worried about Trey Lance-Jimmy Garoppolo dynamic? The 49ers consider it a coup (paywall)
“Two things were made clear to Garoppolo and Lance: Garoppolo would serve as the younger man’s backup, and their respective salaries would reflect that hierarchy...that’s true in terms of base salaries — Garoppolo’s is $6.5 million, and Lance will earn $7.75 million this season.” | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/8/31/23330253/49ers-news-trey-lance-jimmy-g-backup-contract-locker-room-tartt-safety-quarterback-pressure-job-nfl | 2022-08-31T09:21:40Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/8/31/23330253/49ers-news-trey-lance-jimmy-g-backup-contract-locker-room-tartt-safety-quarterback-pressure-job-nfl | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Are We Doing It Wrong?
How, in a polarized nation, Stephanie L. Liberatore asks, should we be teaching argument in the academy? Should we be focusing less on persuasion and more on understanding?
It’s late at night, not long before the semester ends, and I’ve graded 42 annotated bibliographies in the last 48 hours. I’m bleary-eyed and exhausted—not just from reading so many assignments in a row but also from the ways my students are thinking about their final projects.
The advanced composition course I teach requires them to do rhetorical analysis, research and writing in their disciplines. And for this final project, they’ve selected an issue in their field of study they want to explore. They’ve done pre-research to develop a good research question about it. And they’ve tracked their understanding and any gaps they’ve found in the literature through the annotated bibliographies I just graded.
“Identify an issue you actually want to know more about,” I tell them when I introduce the assignment in Week 6. “That will make the project more meaningful—and maybe even fun!”
My students look at me, panicked—because they hate choosing their own topics—but over the next few weeks, we work through the selection process together. We have a visit from our class librarian. They read the publications in their fields. And eventually, they find things happening there that they want to explore.
As we move through the research process, I encourage students to be open-minded. “That’s the point of research, after all,” I often say. “To let it shape the way you think about something,”
I don’t ask them to develop a thesis for their final project until after the annotated bibliography assignment, hoping they’ll suspend judgment for a while and be open to what they find. But when those annotated bibliographies roll in that fateful week each semester, their annotations often say things like, “This source will support my argument because …”
One student even listed his argument at the top of his annotated bib instead of his research question, as the assignment requires.
I’d met with this student to discuss his project a few weeks earlier. He was quarantining because he’d been exposed to someone with COVID-19 and was falling behind in class. He’d missed the proposal assignment, where students pitch an issue that interests them and some questions they might ask about it, so I asked him to tell me what he found interesting in his field of economics and what questions they might raise.
“I want to challenge the conventional wisdom that the housing bubble caused the 2008 financial crisis,” he said without missing a beat.
I hesitated.
“But that’s not really a question, is it?” I asked.
“Oh, right,” he said.
We talked about how to reframe his idea as a question, and I encouraged him to be open to reading sources that confirmed his preconceptions and those that challenged them, and even some different perspectives altogether.
But I could tell this student had already made up his mind. He was excited about the assignment, and I didn’t want to discourage that.
“I just go into attack mode when I get assignments like this,” he said, as I was thinking about what to say next. “I’ve just written so many of them.”
And I thought well, shoot. Maybe the problem is me.
Is Everything an Argument?
I’ve been teaching full-time at a large public university in Virginia for the last seven years, and every semester, I teach at least one, and often three or four, advanced composition courses. For two years before that, I taught first-year composition as a TA as the instructor of record. And in every composition course I taught my first few years, I assigned a researched-argument assignment as the final project: one about a local issue for a local magazine in first-year comp and one for a trade magazine in their field (mostly business) in my advanced composition courses.
Nowadays, my university’s learning goals for these courses don’t use the word “argument” at all. They are focused, as many are, on rhetorical awareness, synthesis, critical reading and writing as a process. But I always felt the need to teach thesis statements and argument. Students would need it in their other classes and in their lives as citizens, I reasoned. And other instructors in my department taught these kinds of researched-argument assignments when I was just starting out, so I thought I should, too.
The emphasis on argument in my discipline—and in colleges and universities in general—goes way back, all the way to the Greeks and Romans, to Sophists and to Aristotle, of course. And it’s been taught in composition courses since we moved away from the modes-based model—focused on exposition, description, process and so on—in the ’80s.
Today, most college textbook publishers offer at least one textbook on argument. The one that comes immediately to mind is the best-selling Everything’s an Argument series, by leading thinkers and scholars Andrea Lunsford and John Ruszkiewicz—a new edition of which is being released this year. And there are more than 100 textbooks in the Argument and Persuasion section of Textbooks.com.
But living where we are now, still struggling with—one hopes—the final stages of a global pandemic, with the insurrection at our Capitol again on folks’ minds thanks to the recent hearings, and a nation so polarized bringing up politics is as uncomfortable as it’s ever been, I have to ask myself: Is this partly our fault?
Is it partly my fault?
Should I have pushed that student, for example, to ask a more open-ended question, even if he was excited about the one he ended up with?
Should I be teaching a more expansive version of argument that focuses less on persuasion and more on understanding?
Instead of persuading, would the focus on analysis, on sifting through information and making sense of it for themselves, be more helpful for my students than having them try to persuade someone who probably won’t listen anyway?
To our credit, I know that I, and other professors like me who have taught argument, don’t teach it in the bilateral way it’s often expressed in our hostile argument culture, where the word “argument” has become synonymous with “fight.” I know that we talk about counterargument in our classes, about putting yourself in others’ shoes. About being open to all sides of an issue, not just one or two, before taking a position.
But maybe the fact that we’re focusing on argument so much is part of the problem. That for the last 40 years, we’ve taught our students that everything is an argument, and they’ve acted accordingly.
As I revised my materials this last year, I got rid of my old researched-argument assignment. And I focused my new ones less on argument and intervention and more on listening and understanding, as these, too, are ways to engage. Of course, I want my students to see themselves as part of the larger conversations happening in our world. To know that they can enter them with civility. That they can—and should—add something to those conversations.
But maybe that thing doesn’t have to be an argument in the traditional sense.
Maybe it can be a kind of meaning-making, of deciding for themselves what to do with that listening instead.
Stephanie L. Liberatore is a term associate professor in the English department at George Mason University.
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Confessions of a Community College Dean
In which a veteran of cultural studies seminars in the 1990s moves into academic administration and finds himself a married suburban father of two. Foucault, plus lawn care.
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Readers Respond on Dual Enrollment
Looks like the question struck a nerve...
Yesterday’s post about students losing credits from dual enrollment programs when they declare different majors upon transfer drew quite a response. Apparently it touched a nerve.
Responses fell into several camps.
The most optimistic group offered workarounds. One common workaround is a legislative mandate that credits must transfer. (Readers from Pennsylvania and Kentucky offered those.) Legislative mandates have their place – New Jersey has one for Gen Ed classes if the student graduates with an associate degree – but they don’t really get at the issue of students changing their minds as they get older and see more options. One worldly reader noted that many European countries “track” students into college prep or trades at age 14 and don’t look back; they might see my concerns about students changing their minds as bizarre. I’ll admit not having thought of that, but having seen the objection, I’m unpersuaded; part of the point of higher education in America is to expose students to options they didn’t know they had. To put it differently, you can have early occupational tracking, or you can have social mobility, but you can’t have both. In the real world, tracking tends to reproduce existing strata.
Others pointed to specifically career-focused early college programs, like P-TECH, as an answer. It’s true that programs like P-TECH find ways of including both gen ed and applied courses in the early college experience, and that they frequently have excellent job placement results. For students who know what they want, or are willing to be told what they want, it can be a terrific option. But it still doesn’t address the student who changes their mind.
I’ll admit some trepidation around building large-scale programs around single employers, given how quickly companies’ fortunes can change. Growing up in Rochester, NY in the 70’s and 80’s, Kodak looked like a safe bet. It was not. Technical training should be portable; the stuff that’s unique to a given company should be that company’s role to provide.
A third camp argued that focusing on whether the credits transfer is missing the point. If we place weak high school classes with more academically robust dual enrollment classes, then we’re effectively strengthening the academics of the high school. If the students have to (mostly) start over when they get to college, at least they’ll arrive better prepared.
I used this argument with my kids when they complained about the workload of IB courses and the uncertainty of transfer, depending on scores. I had to concede the point about uncertainty, but argued that having an intensive academic high school program could only help them with college classes. After some time in college, The Boy admitted there was some truth to that. If dual enrollment means that more students arrive in college well-prepared to succeed, that’s no small thing. It’s probably not the most effective marketing approach for dual enrollment, but the academic in me thrills at the prospect of a better-read population of high school graduates.
The final camp took issue with the premise of dual enrollment, arguing that outside of the occasional math prodigy or the equivalent, it shouldn’t exist. The argument took a few forms. One was substantive: high school courses hone skills necessary for success in college courses, so skipping those high school courses will likely lead to students performing poorly in the college courses. (On this point, I’ll add that experience has taught the necessity of scaling up tutoring services for dual enrollment classes.) Another was historical: community colleges grew out of high schools, which is why many of them still use terms like “district” or “superintendent.” To the extent that dual enrollment grows, the distinction between high school and college starts to blur, and not necessarily for the better. If students can get the associate degree in high school and then move directly to a four-year school, why have community colleges at all?
I’ve heard this argument from college faculty. (One memorably declared “if I had wanted to teach high school, I would have taught high school.”) Even allowing for some hyperbole and a whiff of status anxiety, there’s a worthwhile caution embedded in these concerns. Dual enrollment can serve many purposes, some of them contradictory. Clarity of purpose is key; without it, the force of budgetary gravity can compel decisions that are rational in the short term and devastating in the long term.
Thanks to my wise and worldly readers for expanding the discussion so thoughtfully! I’m grateful to everyone who took the time to write.
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Just Explain It to Me!
Breaking down notoriously confusing, perplexing and annoying systems and practices in higher education
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And Just Like That, She Became Unhinged
In search of a meal, an encounter with a vociferous opponent of student loan forgiveness.
While work as a higher education consultant finds its reward in helping institutions sort out problems no one has the time to solve, it can be mentally exhausting. Currently, I’m auditing all the scholarship endowment funds for an institution—focusing on records management, compliance and cross-divisional policies, procedures and workflows. The goals for the project I’m working on now include:
- determining if the information advancement, the business office and financial aid holds are consistent and correct (or not),
- verifying corpus amounts and spend rules,
- ascertaining if the funds are being spent according to donor intent and within the confines of the law (or not),
- assessing the institution’s effectiveness and efficiency in deploying scarce resources, and
- recommending corrective actions and improvements.
It’s a labor of love; I know the work will positively affect getting more funds to students in need. I’ve reviewed hundreds of scholarships (maybe more than a thousand?) over the years, and I never ceased to be moved by the donors’ stories and why they give to help strangers. The stories I could tell you.
What I’m most struck by is how often people create a scholarship endowment to memorialize someone they loved dearly, who was kind and generous to them or influenced them in some profoundly positive way. Rarely do people create a scholarship in their own names. (Let that be a note to all fundraisers and others who think giving is about the donor’s self-aggrandizement.) In the hard-copy archives, I examine the exquisite cursive (albeit sometimes shaky from an elderly hand) on a now-fragile yellowed note card or personalized stationery detailing the qualities of their dear departed parents, spouse, child or friend.
Reading through the records this week, a story dating from the late 1970s moved me. An impoverished student from a troubled home could no longer pay for college. His professor, recognizing the young man’s talent, talked to a woman who lived in the student’s town, asking if she knew anyone who could help him. The student needed $350 for each of his last two semesters. She then wrote to a man originally from the town who had become a successful businessman on the other side of the country. Meanwhile, the college president wrote a personal letter to the student, telling him not to give up hope and to go ahead and register for classes. The student’s letter in response reflected astonishment, humility and gratitude.
The man, who lived thousands of miles away and never met the student, ultimately gave the funds for his education (and additional funds for books and supplies). He even wrote a two-page letter of encouragement to the student. The donor’s experience with this student inspired a more significant gift to create an endowment in the donor’s mother’s name as he remembered her work as a teacher of students from poor rural locales. Accounts like this one fill the files documenting scholarship giving.
The stories illustrate the capacity of individuals to see past their own struggles and pain to consider the well-being of others. During this consulting period, I’ve read letters from parents who lost a daughter in a tragic car accident, a spouse who lost the love of their life from sudden illness, a colleague who lost a co-worker to suicide and a nephew honoring the selflessness of an aunt who always offered encouragement and acceptance of his passions and dreams. They all wished to leave something behind that might relieve the suffering of others and instill hope for a more prosperous future. During these readings, I found an outpouring of human emotion. What profound offerings of love, compassion and generosity in the face of injustice.
Last week I found myself in need of a break on Friday evening. Like anyone after a week of intense concentration at work, the chore of cooking and cleaning couldn’t be further from need or desire. Nearby the university where I’ve been consulting is a charming downtown with lovely locally owned restaurants. I set my sights on a place touting Southern comfort food. Unfortunately, arriving after 6 p.m. without a reservation meant there were no tables until 8 p.m. If you are a lone dinner (#academic nomad/ #higheredconsultant), sitting at the bar for dinner means kissing a quiet meal of decompression goodbye (people think you are lonely and need to talk—I don’t). Still, despite my better judgment, I jimmied my way onto an available bar stool.
Immediately, the fellow next to me started chatting me up and offered to buy my first drink. Despite his wife telling him to leave me alone since I had already mentioned a tiring week, the conversation continued like a rapid-fire assault (they had started imbibing long before my arrival). We bantered back and forth, seeking nuggets of information to connect us, whether people or places. We arrived at the fact we were graduates of Ohio University from the late 1980s, which led to a discussion about alcohol-fueled Halloween festivities, O’Hooley’s, the Union and late-night trips to the burrito food truck.
The woman stated she was a special ed teacher for the local school system. She politely inquired about my profession. I explained what I did for a living and why I was in the area. They detailed their life as parents with children in college. The couple noted the importance of scholarships and even asked if there were any scholarships I knew of for their daughter, who attends the university where I’m a consultant. The conversation was pleasant and lighthearted as we shared experiences of being parents with children in college.
And then, it was like a switch flipped for the woman, provoking a rant I’ve rarely seen in person, much less directly in my face—the topic: federal loan forgiveness for students. Please note I did not bring up the subject, nor did I allude to it. (Who would want to get into a hot topic debate when you first meet someone?) I can’t begin to explain her rambling monologue’s circuitous path as it pointed to socialism, lying Democrats, Biden and Pelosi, et al. She gesticulated when perseverating about how she had to pay back her student loans and work several jobs, and that when you borrow money, “You know what you’re getting into!” She also tried to act as if she was looking out for the poor by arguing a “lowly struggling steelworker’s taxes shouldn’t be used to pay for student loan forgiveness.” When I said, “What about corporate tax breaks, and who pays for those?” she insisted it wasn’t the same thing.
I did try to put on my best “Just Explain It to Me!” hat. I even used a conversational tone and phrases like “Have you ever considered …” I attempted to explain how college financing differed from the 1980s when she went to school. I talked about cost versus price. I mentioned the average amount of student debt was far more significant today than in the 1980s and that proportionately more for the poor. She lost it when I told her what she paid even in the 1980s wasn’t the actual cost, because taxpayers subsidized her education. The diatribe continued without cessation. She was hell-bent on being angry that someone might be getting something she wasn’t. There was such fear and vitriol in her whole being her body shook. Her voice continued to rise, and the stir provoked the attention of others around us. I thought she might strike me if not for her husband elbowing her to calm down.
Finally, I said, without returning the anger, “It’s clear we can’t have a conversation about this. We all came here to enjoy a good meal tonight. I think we need to end this conversation and do so.” I turned away and let the bartender know I was ready to make my order.
I spent the rest of the night and all this past weekend thinking about this woman and her attitude toward students who had received a federal loan—mind you, these are loans provided to the poorest of students, who likely had private loans as well. I wanted to ask if she and her husband had continued to receive their salaries during COVID through the PPP loans that were ultimately forgiven. I thought about so many things.
I thought about the duplicitousness of her wanting scholarships for her own children but not wanting others to receive help. I thought, “How can she earn a living by giving differently abled kids access to public education and not want to give access to students whose families didn’t have money for education?” I wondered, “What kind of logic fuels the perpetuation of suffering when relief can be afforded?” and “Doesn’t it make all of us better to have an educated populace?” My brain recalled various studies and statistics evidencing the benefits.
Mostly, I thought that trying to help students shouldn’t be a political issue. The amount of personal fulfillment and success I’ve seen produced over the course of decades from scholarship dollars provided by donors could easily prove the point that human compassion and the pursuit of happiness has no political affiliation.
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History Hiring in the Pandemic
New report from the American Historical Association shows that job ads, a proxy for faculty hiring, declined dramatically in 2020–21 but have started to rebound. The long-term outlook remains sobering.
In 2020–21, history faculty job postings hit their lowest point since the American Historical Association started tracking openings in 1975, at just 347 positions total.
“Pandemic-related austerity measures, hiring freezes, and the like were implemented by almost every U.S. university, and the resulting downturn was as expected as it was unwelcome,” says a report on the COVID-era job market, out this week in the AHA’s Perspectives on History magazine.
According to the report, written by editor Leland Renato Grigoli, the availability of jobs from 2016–17 to 2019–20 had been stable, as had the relative ratios of tenure-track, non-tenure-track and nonteaching jobs. Specifically, the period saw an average of 536 jobs listed per year: 312 tenure-track jobs, 168 non-tenure-track jobs and 56 nonteaching positions. This represented something of a rebound from the Great Recession.
Enter COVID-19. From June 2020 to the end of May 2021, just 347 positions were listed with the AHA Career Center, a significant decline from the year before. Posted tenure and tenure-track positions declined by about half, to 167, a “historic low.” Non-tenure-track positions dropped from 161 to 127, according to the AHA’s report.
The number of nonfaculty jobs listed (mostly nonteaching jobs within college and universities) increased from 51 to 80 positions, however.
The Current Outlook
Are things improving? Yes and no.
According to the AHA’s report, some 634 positions were listed from June 2021 to the end of May 2022—a major increase from the previous year’s 347 jobs and an increase from even the 2019–20 (pre-pandemic) listings. Of these 634 jobs, 358 were on the tenure track, an increase from both 2020–21 and 2019–20. There were 222 non-tenure-track listings, more than in each of the earlier two years. Noninstructional jobs ads, meanwhile, dropped to 54.
H-Net, another popular job listing site, showed a similar year-over-year increase, with 670 jobs in history and area studies for 2021–22.
While job ads jumped in 2021–22 relative to 2020–21, the average number of AHA job ads for the two years is 505, lower than the post-recession annual average of 536. Moreover, the AHA’s report says, there is a drop in the number of tenure-track listings when the 2020–22 average is compared to the average listings for the four years prior to the pandemic: 263 to 312.
The ratio of non-tenure-track to tenure-track job offerings, which had remained steady from 2016 to 2020, "has shifted decisively toward contingent labor during the pandemic," the report says. "Universities are delaying or forgoing tenured hires in favor of short-term appointments.”
As for what kind of expertise institutions are looking for, ads for world history jobs and listings categorized as “other/open” saw similar overall increases, the AHA found. The open category jobs were mostly tenure track, but the majority of world history jobs were contract.
Scholars seeking jobs in Asian and Latin American history saw “substantial” increases in both permanent and contingent positions, while African historians saw fewer non-tenure-track listings in 2021–22 than the year prior. “The relatively small number of listings for these fields, however, makes it difficult to judge whether these variations are significant,” the report says.
Nonfaculty Jobs and Sobering Data on History Majors
Beyond academic job listings, Grigoli wrote that 15 percent of new history Ph.D.s immediately took nonacademic jobs, citing the 2021 federal Survey of Earned Doctorates. These jobs were in government, business, nonprofits and K-12 and other positions.
Some 1,799 historians earned their Ph.D.s in 2019 and 2020, based on federal data. According to information from the AHA’s directory of history departments, 175 are now employed as full-time faculty members.
“Taken together, these indicators should encourage a continuing focus on maintaining strong and diverse career options for history Ph.D.s at all U.S. institutions,” the AHA’s report says. “Even with the significant rebound in academic hiring in the past year—at least relatively speaking—finding a permanent faculty position is and will remain extremely difficult for the foreseeable future.”
According to a recent analysis of federal data on COVID-19–era undergraduate majors by Benjamin Schmidt, director of digital humanities and clinical associate professor of history at New York University, the share of humanities majors—including history—continued to decline in 2021, with history and religion joining English in being down to half their 2000s peak. One exception was philosophy, which appears to be rebounding as a percentage of all bachelor’s degrees.
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New Presidents or Provosts: Frontier College, Palm Beach State College–Lake Worth, U of Montevallo, Woodbury U
August 31, 2022
- Barbara Cipriano, associate dean of public safety at Palm Beach State College, in Florida, has been named provost of the college’s Lake Worth campus.
- Courtney Bentley, interim provost and vice president of academic affairs at the University of Montevallo, in Alabama, has been appointed to the job on a permanent basis.
- Barry Ryan, interim chief of staff and associate vice president at California State University, San Bernardino, has been chosen as president and CEO of Woodbury University, also in California.
- Mélanie Valcin, vice president for programs and impact at Frontier College, in Ontario, has been promoted to president and chief executive officer there.
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High Oil Prices Offer Endowment Boost
Oil prices are on a major upswing and paying off for some endowments, even as colleges face pressure to divest from fossil fuels over climate change concerns.
As anyone who has been to the gas pump lately knows, oil prices have boomed this year.
Colleges and their constituents are feeling the squeeze, with some institutions even moving courses online to offer students and employees a slight reprieve from gas prices. The surge comes at a time when many universities have backed away from fossil fuels, divesting from the energy sector following sustained pressure from students and environmental activists concerned about climate change and the ways colleges are contributing to it.
Others, like the University of Texas system, which has vast oil and gas holdings, are cashing in.
According to a recent Bloomberg article, the Texas system oversees 2.1 million acres in the oil-rich Permian Basin, which it leases to fossil fuel companies, raking in about $6 million daily. The article speculates that such returns could lead Texas to unseat Harvard University as the richest institution in higher education.
But what do soaring oil prices mean for colleges that have divested from fossil fuels?
The Divestment Movement
Calls for colleges to divest from fossil fuels have echoed through the halls of higher education for years, with some institutions reducing their investments in fossil fuels as far back as a decade ago.
Since then, the calls have only gotten louder, and in some cases, they’ve been punctuated by lawsuits. That pressure has been especially intense at the richest universities with the most money to divest, theoretically setting the tone for the rest of higher education. In recent years, the divestment dominoes have fallen at places like Brown University, Columbia University, Georgetown University, the University of Southern California and various others.
As other institutions consider divestment, they must weigh the economic costs and benefits.
“I think with every decision that management teams make, you’re weighing different strategies and costs and benefits,” said Jessica Wood, sector lead for higher education at S&P Global. “If the priority is an environmentally conscious mission, then that would be the strategic priority versus perhaps an offset in terms of investment gains, or whatever the offset might be.”
Universities have increasingly focused on responsible investing approaches, adding environmental and other factors into their investment policies, according to the most recent endowments study from the National Association of College and University Business Officers. NACUBO found that more than 80 percent of respondents to its endowment survey have added “environmental, social, and governance factors” into their strategic plans.
However, many institutions are skeptical that responsible investing will deliver strong financial results.
“Universities have always been reluctant to divest around social issues, preferring to use a rationale that they should invest endowments according to what will grow the endowment most. This has complex ethical implications,” Charlie Eaton, a sociology professor at the University of California, Merced, and the author of Bankers in the Ivory Tower, explained by email.
Universities with oil and gas investments are enjoying strong returns at the moment, but financial experts note that they are playing the long game when it comes to endowments. While oil prices are high now, that’s a relatively recent development. Unpredictable events—such as the coronavirus pandemic and the war between Russia and Ukraine—have reshaped the market.
“Pre-pandemic, pre–Ukraine war, energy was one of the worst-performing sectors in the market,” Michael Rosen, chief investment officer at the firm Angeles Investments, told Inside Higher Ed, adding that much of the change can be explained through the classic economic principle of supply and demand. “The demand for the use of energy has risen. At the same time, we see supply constrained primarily through the sanctions imposed on Russian oil and gas.”
Divestment, of course, has not been universal, with many higher education holdouts remaining.
“Not every university has pursued a divestment policy and, even in the face of student demands, has pushed back and determined that that would not be in the interest of the university to do so,” Rosen said.
John Griffith, an endowment specialist at the investment firm Hirtle Callaghan, said by email that “divestment has always been a difficult philosophical issue.” If a goal of the university is to maximize endowment returns, then investment committees need to carefully consider “what issues are significant enough” to make them deviate from that goal. Essentially, it’s a matter of trade-offs—are colleges willing to forgo potential earnings for an environmental cause?
Griffith stresses that markets are ever-changing. What’s hot now may be cold tomorrow.
“Like all investments, sometimes oil/gas divestment pays off and sometimes it does not; it flows with the market. Now is a good time for those who did not divest, but it is just one point in time,” Griffith said.
Divestment Beyond Fossil Fuels
Endowment experts point to the 1980s and the apartheid government of South Africa as a key inflection point for the broader divestment movement. Student activists at the time pushed colleges to pull investments out of South Africa to protest the government’s racist policies. Many did, with the University of California system divesting a reported $3 billion out of firms tied to the country.
Similar protests over other issues have also prompted divestment decisions. Harvard, for example, divested from a Chinese oil company in 2007 that was accused of contributing to genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan by aiding the Sudanese government financially. At the time, Harvard officials said the circumstances in Sudan warranted “the rare step of divestment.”
While fossil fuels are the prime target of the latest divestment push, Eaton pointed to other divestment campaigns in recent years that have taken aim at holdings in controversial for-profit prisons and in Israel, which has come under fire for its treatments of Palestinians—an issue that has landed at U.S. colleges with tensions flaring over human rights. He also flagged “endowment investments in predatory for-profit colleges,” which “have received surprisingly little attention.”
Some observers suggest that the notion that divestment will drive companies to change their behavior doesn’t play out in reality. Rosen questions the efficacy of the divestment movement, arguing that colleges would be better served by focusing on what they can control internally—such as more renewable energy on campus—rather than on what can be accomplished by asserting external pressure.
“There’s no evidence that divestment causes behavior modification by companies,” Rosen said, adding that divestment is more of a statement of values than a useful lever to drive change.
Griffith suggests that colleges “look at climate change holistically.” Using the University of Texas as an example—which experts note is unusual for its vast assets in oil and gas fields—he points out that even as the UT system cashes in on fossil fuels, it is developing renewable energy at the same time.
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Outsourcing Reproductive Health
After partnering with a Roman Catholic health-care system that said it wouldn’t provide students with birth control for contraception, Oberlin College abruptly changed course.
The Oberlin College community learned via a local news report Sunday that the college was outsourcing all its student health services to a Roman Catholic-run health-care agency that would only prescribe birth control pills with “medical indications.” But on Tuesday, after facing a barrage of criticism, President Carmen Twillie Ambar announced that the college was changing course and would partner with a local family planning clinic to provide reproductive health services—including birth control—to students.
The local family planning clinic will be on site at Oberlin three days a week, and the college plans to shuttle students to the clinic the other two days.
The move comes after the local Chronicle-Telegram reported on Oberlin’s partnership with Harness Health Partners, a division of the Catholic health-care system Bon Secours Mercy Health, which runs a hospital in town. The college worked with Harness Health over the last two years to conduct campus COVID testing and contracted with the provider earlier this summer to run the campus clinic for the coming academic year.
College officials said last week that the change wouldn’t affect prescriptions for birth control or the Plan B morning-after pill, but a spokeswoman for Bon Secours told the local newspaper that birth control would only be prescribed for “medical indications,” rather than just for contraception. Additionally, the Plan B pill would only be given to victims of sexual assault, the spokeswoman said.
A Bon Secours spokeswoman referred Inside Higher Ed to Oberlin.
Oberlin’s partnership with the Catholic health agency was roundly criticized on social media after the Chronicle-Telegram article was published. Students returned to campus this week and will start classes Thursday.
To cut costs, colleges nationally have outsourced college health programs, cut down on clinic hours and staffing, and closed pharmacies.
“Outsourcing has proven to be a very controversial topic, yet as colleges and universities face increasing regulatory, programmatic, and financial pressures, a growing number of institutions are looking at alternative approaches to providing a comprehensive college health program,” the American College Health Association said in its May 2019 guidelines on outsourcing.
Although outsourcing campus health is not new, navigating a post-Roe environment is. Many colleges and universities are grappling with new state laws that restrict access to abortion. In Ohio, abortion is illegal at six weeks of pregnancy or when a fetal heartbeat is detected.
After the U.S. Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade in June, Oberlin president Ambar pledged to continue to support the reproductive health needs of students, faculty and staff. Ambar also joined a roundtable discussion on abortion with Vice President Kamala Harris earlier this month.
“In this singular moment, higher education has a responsibility to help America conduct a more civil dialogue about a woman’s right to make decisions about her own health care and, dare I say, about equity itself,” she said at the time.
Ambar said in a statement Tuesday that Bon Secours had informed the college “through media reports and emails” that its position on birth control for the sake of contraception and providing gender-affirming care had changed since Oberlin’s initial conversations with Harness Health Partners.
“While we were disappointed by this change so close to the start of the semester, we quickly moved to ensure the needs of our students would be met without interruption,” the statement said. “Our solution was to turn to another partner with whom we have had an established working relationship.”
Harness Health will still provide basic health-care services to Oberlin students, while Family Planning Services of Lorain County will cover reproductive health-care services. That includes offering gender-affirming care and dispensing contraceptives and medication such as Plan B. The family planning clinic also is considering offering telemedicine visits, according to the statement.
“Oberlin already hosts three vending machines that dispense condoms,” according to Ambar’s statement. “We are exploring the possibility of placing vending machines on campus that would dispense Plan B and other contraceptives.”
Ambar reiterated that equitable access to reproductive health is a personal and institutional value.
“I want to assure our students and parents, faculty, staff, and alumni that we will have a layered approach to student care that will include the full range of reproductive healthcare services that our students deserve,” she wrote.
‘Poor Decision’
To former student health employees, Tuesday’s announcement is welcome but could have been avoided had administrators spoken with clinic employees.
“I think that they made a poor decision by choosing Mercy,” said Aimee Holmes, a former women’s health specialist in Student Health Services. “I don’t think they were thinking about reproductive health issues.”
Oberlin first outsourced its student health services a year ago when it contracted with Cleveland-based University Hospitals—a decision the college said was related to an increased demand for services during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the campus newspaper. (The college also has outsourced dining and custodial operations in recent years.) Students complained about long wait times and a lack of appointments following the transition.
Holmes stayed on with Student Health Services during the switch to University Hospitals but said she was not given the opportunity to apply for a job with Harness Health Partners because her position was essentially eliminated.
Erin Gornall, a registered nurse who served as the clinical coordinator for Student Health Services, had a similar experience.
Both Gornall and Holmes said that under University Hospitals, Oberlin’s student health services had a staff of six. Under Harness Health, the clinic only has three staff members—and no registered nurses. Both said they asked but never got an answer as to why Oberlin switched student health providers.
Gornall said she was worried that the overturning of Roe combined with the shift to Harness Health meant students wouldn’t get the reproductive health care they needed.
In the last year, Student Health Services added birth control pills to its on-site pharmacy to make them easier for students to access. The clinic also offered free Plan B pills to students, no questions asked. Both are hopeful that with Family Planning Services stepping in, students will continue to get the services they need.
“We want to make sure that [students are] getting the services that they need, even if it doesn’t include us, because that’s what we all love to do,” Gornall said.
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Virtual Exchanges Promote Equity in Global Learning
Proponents argue that virtual exchange programs shouldn’t be dismissed as “second best” to on-the-ground study abroad, and they can expand the global learning ecosystem in important ways.
Students in a business class at Porterville College in California recently joined a video call with students from Iraq for an instructor-facilitated discussion on the United Nations’ sustainability goals. Afterward, the groups dispersed to seek input about the nature of local sustainability challenges from members of their respective communities. In the weeks that followed, over Zoom, Slack and WhatsApp, the students connected for synchronous and asynchronous chats to discuss their findings. Then they selected one problem—a strained Iraqi power grid due to an influx of refugees fleeing the Syrian war—to help mitigate.
The students researched solar power solutions but determined they were too expensive. Next, they identified a design for a micro-hydroelectric turbine. They found specs for the turbine, identified what they needed to build it and subsequently built a working prototype from parts made by a 3-D printer. When they had trouble communicating or making sense of each other’s cultures and contexts, trained instructors offered real-time support.
As the 10-week term drew to a close, the students also identified nongovernmental organizations that might take over and scale the effort. Once the course ended, the American students reported a deeper understanding of Iraqi infrastructure and Kurdish culture, and the Iraqi students reported an appreciation for the collaboration that offered a first exposure to nonmilitary Americans and helped their community.
“[My students] have very little money. They have very few connections,” said Elisa Queenan, a professor of business and economics who co-taught the class with her colleagues at Porterville and peers at a partner school in Iraq. At Porterville, a community college roughly equidistant from Fresno and Bakersfield in central California, 73 percent of the students receive Pell Grants. “[Now], they all talk about how incredibly empowered and confident they are to move forward with different ethnicities, different religions, different cultures, how bold they feel about being able to tackle problems that before they would have thought were completely outside of their realm.”
Students who study abroad often gain meaningful cultural, communication and career skills that help them thrive in an increasingly global world. But traditional study abroad programs are often inaccessible to low-income students with significant work or family responsibilities. Also, more than half of U.S. students who study abroad do so in Europe, which reinforces Eurocentric culture and values. An emerging trend of virtual international exchanges seeks to broaden collaborations with non-European countries while leveling the playing field for students in need of flexible, economical alternatives. Proponents argue that these programs should not be dismissed as “second best” to on-the-ground study abroad opportunities. Rather, such programs have intrinsic value that expands the global learning ecosystem in important ways.
“We don’t want to pit ourselves against study abroad,” said Christine Shiau, director of the Stevens Initiative, the organization that provided support for the Global Solutions Sustainability Challenge in which the Porterville students participated. “There’s a place for that different type of cultural exchange and learning. This is a different type of exchange.”
Virtual international exchanges offer participants in at least two different geographic locations sustained engagement and mutual transformation over time, according to the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. State Department. These exchanges set specific goals, use skilled facilitators and go deeper than “foods, flags and festivals” to connect students. The most common virtual exchange programs focus on intercultural dialogue and peace building; science, technology, engineering and mathematics; and global or international affairs, according to a Stevens Institute survey published last year. Many study abroad programs offer study in these areas, too, but the experiences have fundamental differences.
“When students pay to go abroad, their relationship with the providers of services and the host culture is never reciprocal,” said Paloma Rodriguez, director of the Office of Global Learning at the University of Florida International Center. “Students might expect certain services, comfort or excitement from the experience that is catered to them abroad. The host culture is presented to them as a source from which to extract benefits, such as learning, enjoyment and personal growth.”
Virtual exchanges, on the other hand, typically seek to promote interdependency and mutuality in ways that are otherwise hard to achieve, according to Rodriguez. That said, Rodriguez was quick to note that all global learning modalities have shortcomings. For example, most virtual exchanges are conducted in English, even when that is not the first language of all participants.
Students in virtual exchanges have shorter periods of intercultural contact and fewer opportunities for casual encounters than those in traditional programs. But those focused bursts of collaboration on instructor-designed and instructor-facilitated tasks oblige students to negotiate meaning on specific curricular objectives, according to Robert O’Dowd, associate professor for English as a foreign language and applied linguistics at the University of León, in Spain.
“A student abroad may have a rich intercultural encounter in class or at the bakery or at the post office,” O’Dowd said. “But they can also very easily avoid intercultural contact through the constant use of their mobile phones and staying within their national group networks.”
The Stevens Institute is a U.S. government–funded initiative administered by the Aspen Institute that works to expand virtual exchange options to regions of the world where U.S. students have not studied abroad in large numbers, including in the Middle East and North Africa. It makes grants, shares best practices and raises awareness about virtual exchanges. Stevens’ programs can achieve a larger scale more quickly than on-the-ground counterparts and have an estimated per-student cost of $250 to $650, according to Shiau. The organization is on track to have engaged 75,000 young people in the United States, the Middle East and North Africa by 2023.
Virtual international exchanges “are certainly less stigmatized now,” said Lindsay Calvert, who leads the Institute for International Education’s IIE Network. She noted that students today are accustomed to meeting online and that traditional study abroad programs sometimes present insurmountable barriers such as cost and length of time. “Students these days are looking for various types of opportunities, so we just have to keep our programming open and flexible where possible.”
Virtual experiences also help prepare students for Zoom-enabled workplaces that “demand cross-cultural negotiation, remote collaboration and digital literacy,” according to Rodriguez.
Fewer than 1 percent of all U.S. college students studied abroad during the 2019–20 academic year, which represented a more-than-50-percent decline from pre-pandemic levels. While virtual options hold potential to reach a greater number and wider demographic of students, in-person experiences do not quickly, easily or successfully pivot online without planning, resources, capacity and thought.
A 2021 Stevens Institute survey identified virtual exchange programs as a growing trend with gaps in data about the quality and outcomes of these programs. Two follow-up surveys on outcomes conducted this year produced what may appear to be divergent results. One found that virtual exchanges positively impact “students’ knowledge of the other, perspective taking, cross-cultural collaboration, self-other overlap, and warm feelings.” The other survey found no significant impact on “students’ self-efficacy, global perspective-taking, or cultural humility.” The apparent discrepancy, the institute noted, may be that the two studies investigated different outcomes or that individual program objectives vary, and not all programs seek to achieve all outcomes.
“Although universities continue to try to diversify study abroad programs, the reality is that international offerings are often not available in certain disciplines and that some groups of students are vastly underrepresented,” Rodriguez said before noting that in the 2018–19 academic year, for example, nearly 70 percent of U.S. students who participated in study abroad programs were white women. In contrast, virtual exchange participants better represent a college’s student population when “offered as a mandatory project embedded in courses in a wide variety of disciplines.”
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22% of Tenure-Track Professors Have a Parent With a Ph.D.
Current tenure-track faculty members are up to 25 more times likely to have a parent with a Ph.D. than the general population, according to a new study in Nature: Human Behavior. This rate nearly doubles at highly selective institutions and has remained stable for 50 years. The study involved combining national-level data on education, income and university rankings with a 2017–2020 survey of 7,204 U.S.-based tenure-track faculty members across eight disciplines in the natural sciences, social sciences, business and the humanities.
“Our results suggest that the professoriate is, and has remained, accessible disproportionately to the socioeconomically privileged, which is likely to deeply shape their scholarship and their reproduction,” lead author Allison C. Morgan, a recent computer science Ph.D. from the University of Colorado at Boulder and current Twitter data scientist, wrote with her colleagues. According to the study, 22 percent of tenure-track professors in the eight fields studied report that at least one of their parents holds a Ph.D., and 4 percent report both parents have Ph.D.s. Some 52 percent report having at least one parent with a master’s degree or Ph.D. In the U.S., on average, fewer than 1 percent of similarly aged adults hold a Ph.D., and just 7 percent hold a graduate degree of any kind.
Other studies have found similar results. Research published earlier this year suggests that economics Ph.D.s, in particular, are increasingly likely to have at least one parent with a graduate degree. (Morgan’s study previously received attention as a preprint.)
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Driving Learning Through Collaboration in the Arts: Academic Minute
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Today on the Academic Minute: Ryan Romine, associate professor of bassoon at Shenandoah University, explores one method for driving positive student outcomes. Learn more about the Academic Minute here.
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Education Department Approves $1.5B in Debt Relief
The Department of Education announced Tuesday that it will discharge all remaining federal student loans for borrowers who enrolled in any location of Westwood College (including enrollment in Westwood’s online program) between Jan. 1, 2002, and Nov. 17, 2015, when it stopped enrolling new borrowers in advance of its 2016 closure.
The department said that it has analyzed the evidence related to Westwood and concluded that the for-profit college “engaged in widespread misrepresentations about the value of its credentials for attendees’ and graduates’ employment prospects such that all borrowers who attended during the period described above are entitled to a full loan discharge.”
This action will result in $1.5 billion in discharges for 79,000 borrowers, regardless of whether they have applied for a borrower-defense discharge.
“Westwood College’s exploitation of students and abuse of federal financial aid place it in the same circle of infamy occupied by Corinthian Colleges and ITT Technical Institute,” said Under Secretary James Kvaal. “Westwood operated on a culture of false promises, lies and manipulation in order to profit off student debt that burdened borrowers long after Westwood closed.”
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Florida A&M Football Team Blasts Campus Administrators
Florida A&M University’s football team is speaking out against the university’s administration, chastising leaders in a letter after 26 players were declared ineligible to play in last Saturday’s season opener.
The five-page letter, signed by 89 players, blasts administrators for various issues “within the university structure” such as a dearth of academic advisers and other procedural issues that they believe contributed to players being declared ineligible, the Tallahassee Democrat reported.
“At the root of this issue is the fact that our Academic Advisement and Compliance Officers are understaffed,” the letter states. Florida A&M coach Willie Simmons expanded on that claim in an interview with ESPN, telling the news outlet that there is only one academic adviser for the athletic department. Florida A&M’s compliance officer is stretched thin due to another appointment in the financial aid department and lacks experience with collegiate athletics, he added.
Other complaints included delays in disbursing financial aid.
Florida A&M president Larry Robinson released a statement in the wake of the criticism commending the football team for speaking up and promising that “these matters will be a standing agenda item at my weekly Senior Leadership Team meetings. We will see progress.”
Florida A&M subsequently released another statement defending its compliance processes.
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Lewis & Clark Student Killed in Hammock Accident
A 19-year-old student was killed and two others were badly injured when a brick pillar collapsed at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Ore., on Monday night, just hours after the start of the fall semester.
Six students were sharing three hammocks attached to free-standing masonry columns when one of them buckled and fell toward several students, according to Portland Fire and Rescue.
“We are working to contact the students’ families and will report more information as it becomes available,” the college wrote in a statement. “We are deeply saddened by the shocking loss of a member of our community.”
Hammocks have grown in popularity on college campuses, leading some institutions to worry about student safety. The University of Central Arkansas erected two “hammock farms,” groupings of sturdy wooden columns designed specifically for hammocks, after students had taken to hanging their hammocks from a set of Corinthian columns that the university worried were not “structurally sound for hammock use.”
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UCLA Orthodontics Professors Allegedly Defrauded Students
A whistle-blower reported that orthodontics professors at the University of California, Los Angeles, were charging certain international students extra fees. And while an investigation found those claims had merit, and all three implicated professors subsequently resigned, the former faculty members are fighting to keep the investigation sealed, citing their privacy rights, the Los Angeles Times reported. The legal case—which refers to the professors as John Does 1, 2 and 3—is ongoing, and UCLA has not released the investigative report.
The alleged scheme reportedly involved an unknown number of Middle Eastern orthodontics residents, with the professors assuming that the students’ foreign government sponsors would cover the unauthorized fees. UCLA told the Times that upholding university “values of transparency, integrity and accountability, we engaged an external firm in 2018 to examine past use of the clinical training program at the Section of Orthodontics and have taken several steps to ensure improved adherence to School of Dentistry and university policies.” It declined further comment.
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Safe Space for Me, but Not for Thee?
If universities sign on to principles to “protect and promote” free and open debate, those principles should apply to all members of the university community, Thomas Day writes.
One day after the massacre of 19 schoolchildren and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Tex., NBC News reporter Frank Thorp V posted on Twitter this summary of an exchange with former U.S. senator Heidi Heitkamp:
Heitkamp was right, of course. She no longer is required to answer a reporter’s question about her votes against gun control measures. But should she be required to directly answer mine?
I am a part-time lecturer at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy. Heitkamp is a member of the advisory board of the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics. In 2014, the University of Chicago issued its Chicago Principles, making clear its support for open dialogue and debate among members of the university community. The university’s Committee on Freedom of Expression wrote that “fostering the ability of members of the University community to engage in such debate and deliberation in an effective and responsible manner is an essential part of the University’s educational mission.” That word, “fostering,” would indicate the Chicago Principles aren’t simply a matter welcoming guest speakers who may present objectionable views, but instead implies a responsibility on the part of the institution to actively facilitate and inspire debates that inform and even advance understanding of controversial subject matter.
Because both Heitkamp and I are members of the University of Chicago community, shouldn’t the principles expressed by the university’s principles provide me the opportunity to engage another member of the university community on the issue of gun violence?
I tried. I emailed the Institute of Politics directly, a leading member of the university’s (now-disbanded) Committee on Freedom of Expression and the university chancellor, asking that Heitkamp be engaged on her gun control views. Of course, no conversation was facilitated
The former committee member I corresponded with noted that the idea of “compelled speech” was not among the values endorsed by the committee. Nor would I support this. But I do believe that at a university that has emerged as a leading voice for free inquiry in higher education, faculty members and other powerful members of the university community should be responsible for advancing free and open debate by exposing our own viewpoints to opposing arguments, especially within the university community.
The University of Chicago has not only defined a bold set of principles for free inquiry but has enlisted support from more than 80 universities across the United States in enforcing these principles. It is quite easy to wag fingers at undergraduate students for wanting to block conservative viewpoints from campus. It’s more difficult to actively facilitate discourse between all members of the university community, even conversations that put faculty (or board!) members on the defensive. This especially holds true when the faculty or board member has espoused ideas relevant to the national and international public discourse, or has served in positions of public leadership and made decisions relevant to public concerns in dispute.
For some time now, public officials have moved from elected office into positions at universities. An early champion of the Chicago Principles, Purdue University president Mitch Daniels, is a former governor of Indiana. Former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan joined the faculty of the University of Notre Dame months after leaving office. Years ago, Al Gore and John Edwards, after their defeats on successive presidential tickets, joined the faculties of the Columbia School of Journalism and the University of North Carolina, respectively; more contemporaneously, Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas, who has taught a law seminar at George Washington University since 2011, will not be returning to teach this fall after students circulated a petition opposing his role in the decision overturning Roe v. Wade (the university stood behind Thomas continuing to teach, but he reportedly withdrew, citing a lack of availability).
This procession of public officials into academia is no doubt alluring to both the former public officials and the universities. For the former, I can only imagine academia provides a respite before re-entering public life, or a comforting closing act where their previous accomplishments can be revered. For the latter, these public officials lend their star power, providing students with viewpoints rooted in policy making at the highest level.
The controlled environments that these and other visible faculty members often operate within seem at odds with the Chicago Principles. To closely control who can engage a faculty member in free and open dialogue is simply taking restrictions to discourse and inverting them to the benefit of the faculty members. I agree that students should have their own views challenged within the university environment. I agree that we should not be taking an overly broad interpretation of what constitutes speech that threatens one’s physical safety. But shouldn’t that policy apply to all members of the university community? And do faculty members have a particular responsibility to engage in debate, even if it puts them on the defensive?
If a faculty member writes an opinion piece in a news publication, should he or she be asked to defend that view before other members of the university community?
What if a university faculty member tweets an unpopular view? Instead of complaining about being canceled, what if that faculty member took a seat in front of students and answered questions in an open format?
And what if a faculty member has had a public record, distinguished in a previous career, that students can question as a part of the learning experience they are on campus to receive?
We all have a right to walk away from or deny a debate if we do not wish to engage in one. However, faculty members and other members of the university community, especially at universities that have signed on to the Chicago Principles, hold a special charge to engage in open discourse.
A faculty member or other member of the university community claiming they are too busy, or above the fray, or simply too senior to entertain opposing ideas is engaging in another form of restricting dialogue on campus. By refusing to be active participants in debate, faculty members simply shift the venue of speech away from the university environment—where I believe dialogue is at its most productive—toward more toxic environments, like social media.
Universities have a choice to make. In Washington, public figures like Heitkamp get to define debates on their own terms, issuing press releases, attempting to mold opinions through messaging and not reason, and making an art form of providing evasive answers to straightforward questions. The Chicago Principles dictate that the price of joining a university community is the willingness to engage in open discourse, and that goes for students, faculty members—and all other members of the university community, no matter how high profile.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Institute of Politics said in a statement that “we embrace the values of free expression and civil discourse and apply them to everything we do. As a member of our IOP senior advisory board, a Pritzker Fellow, and as a guest in our Speaker Series, Senator Heitkamp has led robust discussions and participated in public events at which students and members of the university community were free to question her views and her record. We are grateful to Senator Heitkamp for her investment in the IOP and her adherence to its fundamental values.”
Thomas Day is a lecturer at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy.
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Dems' vote-shaming turnout strategy
A leading Democratic super PAC is looking to boost young voters' turnout in November though a public pressure campaign, explaining it's a matter of public record whether individuals cast a ballot or sit out the election.
Why it matters: Studies have shown "vote shaming" can be an effective way to increase voter participation. Priorities USA's approach uses digital ads and social media to tap into more than 8 million young people newly eligible to vote this year.
- Priorities prefers the term "social pressure" to describe the tactic. The group says it's devoted significant resources to research and data efforts designed to maximize its effectiveness in turning out Democratic voters.
The big picture: It's part of a digital-centric strategy for the super PAC, which plans to spend about $30 million this cycle — with none going toward traditional TV advertising.
Driving the news: "Who you vote for is secret. But whether you decide to cast a vote or not is public. So keep making your community proud this November," says one of the ads posted last week on social media pages.
- "This is Bob," says another ad, featuring an animated stick figure. "Bob liked posting that he voted in 2020 ... But we know he let his voter registration get out of date. Don't be like Bob."
- The ads are running on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, streaming music services and connected TV, Priorities deputy executive director Aneesa McMillan told Axios.
- So far, it's spent just under $200,000 on the campaign, which also includes messages designed to educate voters on how to check their registration status.
Zoom in: Ad disclosure data show the ads are targeting people in specific zip codes in Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, all key midterm battleground states.
- The zip codes targeted by the Facebook and Instagram ads include urban centers and areas around large universities, while a number of more rural zip codes are specifically excluded.
- Disclosure data on Snapchat shows the ads are aimed at people ages 18-34.
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- "We have an entire research apparatus that we have built upon since 2017 to make sure that our targeting and tactics are accurate," McMillan said.
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