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The skeletal remains of a girl discovered in Tennessee more than 30 years ago have been identified as a 15-year-old Indiana girl who went missing in the 1970s.
The unidentified body investigators had called “Baby Girl” was matched to Tracy Sue Walker through DNA technology, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations announced Tuesday.
Walker went missing in 1978 from Lafayette, Indiana — nearly 400 miles from where her body was discovered in Campbell County, Tennessee.
How she ended up across multiple state lines and how she died remains a mystery, investigators said.
Walker’s body was found in the Big Wheel Gap area of Elk Valley on April 3, 1985 about seven years after she disappeared.
Forensic anthropologists were unable to identify the body, but confirmed the remains were those of a white female, likely between the ages of 10 and 15 — which inspired investigators to affectionately call her “Baby Girl.”
More than two decades after the body was recovered, investigators submitted a sample of the remains to the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification in hopes of learning who she was.
University scientists developed a DNA profile that was entered into the Combined DNA Index System, as well as the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System.
In 2013, a Tennessee Bureau of Investigations agent and intelligence analyst revisited the case, looking for any new leads that could find out who Baby Girl was.
Finally — nine years later — the investigators received a breakthrough in the case after sending a sample of the girl’s remains to a private lab that analyzes human DNA.
Scientists at the lab, Othram, conducted forensic genetic genealogy testing and in June, found a possible relative of the child who shared a similar DNA profile in Indiana.
Tennessee investigators identified potential family members in Lafayette, Indiana off the DNA intel. They reached out to one individual, who confirmed a family member went missing from the area in 1978.
Together with the Lafayette police, the investigators obtained familial DNA standards for possible siblings of Baby Girl and submitted them to the DNA database.
This week, the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification confirmed that Baby Girl was in fact Walker.
Now, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations is shifting its focus to learning what happened to Walker.
The bureau is asking anyone with information about the case or knowledge about individuals Walker was with before her death to call 1-800-TBI-FIND. | https://nypost.com/2022/09/01/indiana-girl-tracy-sue-walker-idd-as-remains-found-in-tennessee-more-than-30-years-ago/ | 2022-09-01T06:51:40Z | nypost.com | control | https://nypost.com/2022/09/01/indiana-girl-tracy-sue-walker-idd-as-remains-found-in-tennessee-more-than-30-years-ago/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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SPOKANE, Wash. — Rick Clark and the Spokane Quaranteam have helped a lot of people and businesses over the years. But, the phone call Clark received Wednesday truly took his breath away.
That call came from staff at the American Childhood Cancer Organization of the Inland Northwest. It was about a five-year-old girl they've helped since she was diagnosed with cancer a year and a half ago.
She's undergone treatment in Spokane and Seattle. On Wednesday, doctors in Houston said there was nothing else they could do.
"They've taken her off chemo, so she has a very short window of time where she's going to feel good," Leslie Woodfull of American Childhood Cancer Organization said.
That little girl now wants to come home and spend her final days in a house instead of a hospital.
"She wants to ride in her dad's pickup and have snacks, she wants to see her siblings, she wants to eat pizza," Woodfull said.
On Wednesday afternoon, Clark made an urgent post to the 34,000 members of Spokane Quaranteam asking if anyone had a plane.
"They just really didn't think this would happen in a couple hours," Clark said. "Within 70 minutes, we had multiple pilots with multiple personal planes and said 'where do you need me? I'm ready to go.'"
One of those pilots is Dennis Combs. He owns a car dealership in Boise and his own jet. Combs said there was no need to raise any money for fuel. He's done 40 missions like this before.
"Very soon, the cancer will take over and it will hit her hard," Woodfull said. "So, she's got this tiny window that she can get home in."
The five-year-old will be ready to fly back to Spokane on Friday to see her siblings, ride in her Dad's truck, and of course, eat some pizza.
"If she's going to heaven, we want her to be surrounded by her family," Clark said.
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. The Inland Northwest chapter of the American Childhood Cancer Organization is hoping the community will also support the 93 children getting cancer treatment at Sacred Heart right now.
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WASHINGTON — The Biden administration hopes to make getting a COVID-19 booster as routine as going in for the yearly flu shot.
That’s at the heart of its campaign to sell the newly authorized shot to an American public that has widely rejected COVID-19 boosters since they first became available last fall.
Shots of the updated boosters, specifically designed by Pfizer and Moderna to respond to the omicron strain, could start within days. The U.S. government has purchased 170 million doses and is emphasizing that everyone will have free access to the booster.
White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said this latest round of shots will offer protection during the busy cold and flu season, with the hope of transitioning people to get the vaccine yearly. Typically, at least half of U.S. adults get a flu shot.
“We expect them to provide more durable protection over time,” Jha said in an interview Wednesday with The Associated Press. “The goal very much is to get to a point where people get their COVID shot on a regular basis, the way they do their flu shot.”
Community health workers in North Carolina, home to the country’s lowest COVID-19 booster rate, like the strategy, especially because of confusion among some people about vaccine schedules.
“I believe in keeping things simple,” said Marty Stamey, an outreach coordinator for the Mountain Area Health Education Center in western North Carolina. “I’ve heard a lot of people say, ‘I think I’ll just wait and try to do it like the flu shots.’”
The White House plan also relies in part of on local health departments, providers and community groups to reach out and encourage people to get the updated booster. Pharmacies, health providers and state or local health departments are preparing to send text messages to millions of people that will encourage them to get a booster this fall, White House officials said.
Jha said he recommends most Americans get the booster by the end of October.
Still, this latest vaccination campaign faces several challenges.
A majority of Americans got their first and second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine when it was released last year but they’ve been more reluctant to get a booster jab, with less than half getting their first booster since it became available late last year.
Congress also has not moved forward on President Joe Biden’s $22.5 billion request earlier this year for the COVID-19 response. Republicans criticized the request, pointing to the $1.9 trillion already spent on responding to the pandemic. Running short on funds, the government announced it would stop shipping COVID-19 tests to people’s homes after Friday.
And COVID-19 funding is drying up for many of the community groups that received millions of federal tax dollars to hire workers who spent months reaching deep into neighborhoods with door knocks, mobile vaccine clinics and posters encouraging people to inoculate against COVID-19.
White House officials say those local leaders deserve a lot of credit for stamping out misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine and convincing many around the country that the shot will protect them.
“Those are the really critical messengers,” Jha said.
That on-the-ground work has been crucial to getting people vaccinated in the rural, Spanish- and Haitian-speaking communities that the Migrant Clinicians Network has reached throughout Texas, California and Maryland with its $8.5 million federal grant.
“Simply having the vaccines available is one thing, but getting the shots in the arms is another,” said Amy Liebman, a chief program officer for the nonprofit group.
Some of those local health organizations, too, are now stretched as they work to get low vaccination rates among children under 12 up. Only a third of 5- to 11-year-olds received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine since becoming eligible late last year. Meanwhile, just 7% of children under 5 have gotten a first dose since it was made available this summer.
Dr. Niharika Khanna at the University of Maryland School of Medicine has just started making progress on convincing new mothers that the vaccine is safe and effective for their babies.
Her program, which has hired more than 269 health workers and administered more than 12,000 vaccinations and boosters across Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia, isn’t quite ready to transition back to pushing COVID-19 boosters.
“All of these people, all of these relationships we’ve carefully cultivated are at risk for falling apart,” Khanna said. “Today if you were to say to me switch to booster, I’d say no. I need another two to three weeks to really get these people going.” | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/white-house-to-encourage-covid-boosters-this-fall/507-522299cc-c7ef-4053-8360-672ebc5723f4 | 2022-09-01T06:58:09Z | krem.com | control | https://www.krem.com/article/news/nation-world/white-house-to-encourage-covid-boosters-this-fall/507-522299cc-c7ef-4053-8360-672ebc5723f4 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
There isn't anything major to take note of for today but keep an eye out for tomorrow with the US non-farm payrolls report coming into focus as well. There are some large ones to be wary about for EUR/USD and also a couple for USD/JPY, though the ones for the latter are quite some distance to the downside.
As such, the technicals will continue to do the talking in the meantime ahead of the main event before the long weekend hits.
For more information on how to use this data, you may refer to this post here. | https://www.forexlive.com/Orders/fx-option-expiries-for-1-september-10am-new-york-cut-20220901/ | 2022-09-01T07:03:03Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/Orders/fx-option-expiries-for-1-september-10am-new-york-cut-20220901/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
There isn't anything major to take note of for today but keep an eye out for tomorrow with the US non-farm payrolls report coming into focus as well. There are some large ones to be wary about for EUR/USD and also a couple for USD/JPY, though the ones for the latter are quite some distance to the downside.
As such, the technicals will continue to do the talking in the meantime ahead of the main event before the long weekend hits.
For more information on how to use this data, you may refer to this post here. | https://www.forexlive.com/Orders/fx-option-expiries-for-1-september-10am-new-york-cut-20220901/ | 2022-09-01T07:03:03Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/Orders/fx-option-expiries-for-1-september-10am-new-york-cut-20220901/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Taking 10‑Minute ‘Micro‑Breaks’ Helps Prevent Burnout, Shows Study
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In the workplace, breaks carry a notorious charm. The person pursuing a deliberate moment of respite risks being seen as lousy, unproductive, or slow — all adjectives that threaten to deflate our productivity bubbles. But there may be some merit in engaging in tiny work breaks in between tasks: grabbing a snack, going for a walk, watching a video, or other activities associated with some form of recovery for a period of 10 minutes or less. They help reduce fatigue among people, according to new research.
Researchers at the West University of Timișoara, Romania, examined almost 22 studies published over the past three decades to piece together a puzzle of work and productivity. Their meta-review, published in PLOS One on Wednesday, showed that there is a link between short breaks improving workers’ well-being. Here, well-being was defined by the person’s ability to complete tasks by the end of the day without feeling a dip in their energy.
This is the science of “micro-breaks,” which endeavors to legitimize the cultural movement of rest and leisure inside the office. The review not only acknowledges that energy during a day is an exhaustible resource, but also helps challenge the guilt many people may face about taking a 10-minute nap during the work day.
“It seemed quite unintuitive to have a full week and to wait for the weekend just to feel better, or have a hard day at the office and to count the hours till the evening,” said study author Irina Macsinga, an associate professor of psychology. Recovery is referred to as an exercise neatly detached from work; its time and space never intersect with labor.
Moments of respite at work are a contested use of time, but our current approach has proven to be untenable. Work trends over the last few years show that people are working longer and also experiencing burnout — induced by the pandemic and otherwise — unlike ever before. Conversations on rest and leisure have picked up tepidly, only for the pendulum to swing back and have people feeling guilty about not optimizing their “downtime.” This is a crisis of both debilitating exhaustion and unattainable recovery.
The current analysis then calls for reasonable inclusion of recovery during the workday. Macsigna and their team looked at a range of experiments: work simulations of students in a laboratory setting, real work-related tasks done by employees, and non-work-related cognitive tests. The geographical scope included literature from the U.S., Netherlands, Germany, Australia, Brazil, China, Austria, and Japan. The kind of work breaks people took included physical activities — like going for a walk, watching a video, or even just relaxing without a clear agenda.
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But what people do during their work breaks matters, too. For instance, when the micro-break involved any activity related to work, like speaking to a colleague too, “work-related micro-break activities were associated with decreased wellbeing, decreased sleep quality, and increased negative mood,” the study noted. On the other hand, walking around or mentally tapping out from work tasks had a positive effect.
While the said micro-breaks helped usher in a feeling of rejuvenation, there wasn’t a direct impact on people’s performance. This observation also varied according to the kind of work people participated in too. For those engaged in creative or clerical tasks (such as writing or data keeping), longer breaks were indeed linked to better performance at work. This corresponds with research on how work breaks help people in retaining information and be more creative. The brain operates in two modes: the “focused mode” when we’re tangibly doing things and the “diffuse mode,” which refers to a more relaxed state of functioning. Research has found that the diffused mode plays a role in determining how productive we are too; daydreaming in and of itself “can allow the brain to hook up and return valuable insights,” explained engineering professor Barbara Oakley previously.
“A meta-regression showed that the longer the break, the greater the boost was on performance,” the authors wrote. “Overall, the data support the role of micro-breaks for wellbeing, while for performance, recovering from highly depleting tasks may need more than 10-minute breaks.” Put simply, there is no one-sit-fits-all approach to be taken here. Professions are different, just like the people breathing life into them.
For those who undertook more cognitively demanding tasks, however, the breaks didn’t directly translate into better, quantifiable performance. Arguably, in the discourse of labor and recovery, that should be okay too; the sense of vigor does not always have to materialize into measured aspects of productivity.
People can take a break without having to account for that emotional time away. Addressing the guilt that comes with taking breaks is a necessary component of this discourse. “The environment should be one in which employees feel that they can take micro-breaks without being questioned and without having to feel guilty for doing so,” according to Katie Moore, a licensed clinical psychologist who wasn’t involved in the review.
There are some limitations to the present review, for it relies on self-reported forms of wellbeing instead of objectively tracking how relieved or less fatigued people felt. Future research exploring the intersection of work and leisure can perhaps address this gap.
But Moore adds that “in general, employees benefit from taking regular breaks between tasks” and they “show less fatigue and greater energy and enthusiasm after taking micro-breaks.”
The analysis reaffirms what the pandemic years are teaching us in the stark display: that willpower and motivation are exhaustible resources. The rhythm of a work day falls and climbs with ravishing uncertainty. What carries some certitude, though, is that breaks do function as battery packs to help with fatigue. | https://theswaddle.com/taking-10-minute-micro-breaks-helps-prevent-burnout-shows-study/ | 2022-09-01T07:16:08Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/taking-10-minute-micro-breaks-helps-prevent-burnout-shows-study/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Thiruvananthapuram: Leader of opposition V D Satheesan turned emotional in the Kerala Assembly on Wednesday as he spoke about his close friend’s son who is addicted to drugs.
Satheesan was speaking after the opposition UDF gave notice for an adjournment motion, seeking action against the drug menace.
"He is the son of a close friend. I know him right from his childhood and have watched him grow. He was brilliant at studies and passed out from a top engineering college. But today he is addicted to drugs. And now, he has been admitted to the drug de-addiction centre for the second time,” Satheesan said, his voice choking.
“I am hoping and praying that he would overcome the addiction and be back amidst us," he added.
On Wednesday, the ruling LDF and opposition UDF had resolved to jointly fight the increasing drug menace in the state with Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan announcing stringent measures in the assembly to the curb the evil.
The detention of habitual offenders for two years without trial, preparation of a data bank of those punished under NDPS Act and steps to ensure maximum punishment for the offenders were among the various measures announced by the CM.
The otherwise warring ruling and opposition benches engaged in constructive discussions when Congress MLA P C Vishnunath came up with a notice seeking adjournment motion over the alarming increase in drug cases in the southern state.
Over 16,000 drug cases have been reported so far in 2022, he noted drawing the government's urgent attention to the need to check the growing menace in the society.
He said the narcotics have become a major bane as criminals, eyeing profit, target even young children studying in schools in the state.
The legislator also narrated an alleged incident in a school where a 14 year old boy sexually abused 11 children after providing them drugs.
In his reply, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said it is an undisputed fact that the drug consumption and trade have been posing a threat to the society for some time. Noting that it was not an issue confined to the state or the country, he said the LDF government was viewing it with utmost seriousness.
"The number of arrests for trafficking and selling drugs has increased tremendously in recent times and this is a result of concerted efforts taken by government agencies," Vijayan said. The Excise and the Police departments are conducting a coordinated drug hunt in the state.
Quoting figures, the Chief Minister said as many as 4,650 cases have been registered in 2020 and 5,334 cases in 2021 in connection with the drug consumption.
A total of 16,128 cases have been registered till August 29 this year. If 5,674 people were arrested in 2020, the number rose to 6704 in 2021. "As many as 17,834 people have been arrested in drug cases so far this year," the CM added.
If substances like ganja were widely used in the past, the current major threat was the widespread availability and consumption of synthetic drugs, he said, adding that such drugs are even making their way to educational institutions through various means.
He also stressed the need for a coordinated approach of various government agencies with the support and participation of people in eliminating drug abuse. Detailing various measures being implemented by his government, Vijayan said the habitual offenders involved in drug cases would be detained.
A history sheet of those involved in such cases multiple times would be prepared and they would be constantly monitored, the CM said adding that steps would be taken to observe 'Gandhi Jayanthi'' as 'anti-narcotic day' in the state and awareness programmes would be conducted in educational institutions to mark the occasion.
The parent teachers' association (PTA), NCC, NSS and similar platforms in educational institutions would also be used to fight the evil. During the discussion, the opposition UDF members extended whole-hearted support to the efforts being taken by the government in the fight against drugs.
During the CM's reply, senior Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala sought the Centre's intervention to amend the NDPS Act to ensure stringent punishment for those involved in the illegal trade of drugs.
According to the law, those caught with ganja weighing less than one kg escape by misusing the loopholes in the Act. The chief minister accepted his suggestion and said laws have to be further strengthened to save the society from the threat.
Welcoming the steps announced by the government to curb the menace, Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly, V D Satheesan said the society should launch a united fight against drugs, which according to him, is a major challenge being faced by Kerala.
Appealing to the government to prioritise the issue, Satheesan said the drug mafia has laid traps everywhere targeting children. He said during a visit to a de-addiction centre, he could notice that out of 85 young inmates, 37 were girls. As they extended support to the government's drive against drugs, the opposition did not press for the motion.
(With inputs from PTI) | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/01/drugs-menace-vd-satheeshan-seeks-action.amp.html | 2022-09-01T07:20:29Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/01/drugs-menace-vd-satheeshan-seeks-action.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kottayam: Academician and women's rights activist Mary Roy passed away here on Thursday. She was 89.
Roy, the founder of the Pallikoodam school, was known for winning the sensational Supreme Court lawsuit in 1986 against the gender-biased inheritance law prevalent within the Syrian Christian community of Kerala. The judgment gave Syrian Christian women equal rights over the ancestral property as their male siblings.
She is the mother of Booker Prize-winning author Arundathi Roy.
Born in 1933, Mary Roy was the daughter of P V Isaac, an entomologist by profession. Her grandfather John Kuriyan established the first school in Kottayam district - Rao Bahadur John Kuriyan School. She did her schooling at the Jesus and Mary Convent in Delhi and earned her degree from Queen's Mary College in Chennai.
She met her husband Rajib Roy while working as the secretary of a company in Calcutta. After facing marital issues, she returned to her father's house in Ootty with her two kids.The property dispute about this house eventually led to her legal battle with her brother George Isaac.
She founded the school Corpus Christi in 1961. It was later renamed Pallikoodam.
She is survived by her daughter Arundhati and her son Lalit Roy. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/01/educationalist-activist-mary-roy-passes-away.amp.html | 2022-09-01T07:20:41Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/01/educationalist-activist-mary-roy-passes-away.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The political blame game stoked by the June 3 Supreme Court verdict that wanted ecologically sensitive zones (ESZs) of at least one kilometre around protected areas refuses to die down.
During the last day of the ongoing Assembly session on Thursday, both the LDF and the UDF accused each other of creating a situation that has now threatened the future of thousands of farmers, traders and families living along the forest fringes of Kerala.
The arguments were staged during the adjournment motion on the issue moved by Congress MLA Mathew Kuzhalnadan. His basic contention was that the LDF government's refusal to withdraw its October, 2019, order that included even human habitations within the proposed 0-1 kilometre ESZ would defeat Kerala's case before the Supreme Court.
Law minister P Rajeeve said that the '0 kilometre' clause was included to avoid human habitations. "After we issued the notification, the public was heard and our recommendations were revised to exempt all human habitations," the minister said. Since the '0 km' clause was in the 2019 notification, the minister argued that it was not necessary to withdraw the 2019 order. "We have filed the review petition in the Supreme Court by acting within the the 2019 order," Rajeeve said.
Mathew Kuzhalnadan argued that the 2019 notification had complicated the issue. He said the UDF draft notification issued in 2015 based on a Cabinet decision in 2013 had recommended the exemption of all human habitations from the buffer zone.
He said this notification lapsed because the LDF government failed to furnish certain clarifications sought by the Centre in 2016. "But when it got the chance to restate Kerala's case, the LDF government went ahead and included habitations also within buffer zones citing the ecological devastation caused by the 2018 floods," Kuzhalnadan said.
Even earlier, the Congress had levelled the charge that the Supreme Court's June 3 order was based on the LDF government's notification.
The law minister said the buffer zone was fixed as 10 km during the Congres-led UPA regime, when Jairam Ramesh was minister. "I was MP then. We had then told Jairam Ramesh that 10 km was unacceptable for Kerala," Rajeeve, a former Rajya Sabha MP said. "The Supreme Court verdict was based on the guidelines issued by the UPA Government," he said.
Opposition Leader V D Satheesan said that former union environment minister Prakash Javadekar had told the Parliament in 2021 that buffer zones were based on the recommendations made by state governments.
He also said that the review petition filed by the LDF government did not reflect political will either. "Instead of emphasising Kerala's forest cover, the highest in the country, the review petition speaks of encroachments. This will only weaken our case," Satheesan said.
He also said it was evident that the new government position that wants all habitations exempted had come only after the Supreme Court's June 3 verdict. He said that this would render the government's intent very vague. "Therefore, it is very important that the 2019 order is officially withdrawn," Satheesan said.
Rajeeve argued that the mention of encroachments in the review petition would only strengthen Kerala's case. He said the Supreme Court had earlier regularised many pre-1977 encroachments, some of which come within one kilometre of the boundaries of protected areas. "However, the apex court's latest order insisting on a one-km buffer zone contradicts it's earlier order. We were only trying to point this out," Rajeeve said. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/01/habitation-buffer-zone-jairam-pinarayi.html | 2022-09-01T07:21:00Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/01/habitation-buffer-zone-jairam-pinarayi.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Palakkad: Police have revealed that the couple arrested in the Palakkad honey trap case were paid commission as agents.
The case pertains to the kidnapping of an owner of a financial firm from Irinjalakuda and robbing him of all his money, jewellery, car, and ATM cards.
Police have arrested six accused, including Kollam Perunad native Devu, 24, and her husband Valiyannur Gokul Dev, 29, from Mele Chovva in Kannur, in the case.
The couple Devu and Gokul were popular on social media as the 'Phoenix Couple'.
The couple, who enjoyed a huge following doing Instagram reels – videos – have many followers. As they were in deep debt owing to their luxurious lifestyle, they resorted to ‘honey trap’ wealthy people for money, police said.
According to the couple’s statement to the police, once the victim is ‘taken’ to a safe place, they would get Rs 40,000 as commission.
Police have also arrested Pala Ramapuram native Sharath, 24, Iringalakkuda natives Vinay, 24, Kakkeri Jishnu, 20 and Ajith, 20.
Police said Sharath was the kingpin of the operation. The gang followed the owner of the financial firm in Iringalakkuda for six months. One of the accused had stayed on the top floor of the complainant’s house during the floods. The trap was laid after confirming that he was vulnerable and would fall into the 'trap'.
Sharath created a profile in a woman’s name and got close to the complainant through social media, thereby setting the ground for fraud. Later, they asked Devu to call and bring him to Yakkara in Palakkad.
The complainant was told that her husband was abroad and that her mother was hospitalised.
The man reached Palakkad on July 28. First, they met at Olavakkod. By night, they moved to a rented house in Yakkara.
There, the gang, including Sharath, pretended to physically assault Devu in the name of moral policing. Later, the gang took the complainant’s 4 sovereign gold chains, mobile phone, Rs 1,000 in cash, and ATM cards. He was blindfolded and taken in a car to Kodungalloor.
Before reaching Kodungalloor, the complainant asked them to stop the car to answer nature's call. When the accused stopped the car, he ran out and escaped. The gang fled from the spot when local people started noticing their movements.
The duped man decided to complain to the police when the gang called his wife seeking to strike a ‘compromise’, an officer said. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/01/honey-trap-repay-debuts-couple-commission.amp.html | 2022-09-01T07:21:06Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/01/honey-trap-repay-debuts-couple-commission.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
OCEAN CITY, Md. -- Multiple businesses in Ocean City are expecting an influx of customers during the upcoming Labor Day weekend, but they are also bracing for a shortage of workers as students return to classes or go back home.
Popular Ocean City restaurants like Fish Tales, Coconuts, and Guido's Burritos rely heavily on both American students and J-1 students to fill positions during the summer. Jason D'Amore, the Human Resources Manager at Fish Tales is preparing to lose many of his workers right before the holiday.
"Kids are back to school and the J-1 students are now having to go back to their colleges and their countries," D'Amore says. "So, it's all gonna be like one day - a mass departure."
September 1 seems to be the date that most employers fear as J-1 students return to their home countries or colleges and American students return to classes. According to the Anne Marie Conestabile, who is the United Work and Travels Program Director for Ocean City, over 4,000 J-1 students work in Ocean City during the summer season. Many of them have two jobs, resulting in 8,000 jobs filled by J-1 students alone.
"Customers come to Ocean City expecting top notch service and they may not be getting top notch services," says Conestabile. "Establishments will do everything to provide good service, but their might be a long wait. There might not be enough staffing to provide the top rated service."
The shortage will also cause permanent employees to work more shifts and take on more roles than usual.
"You have to like pick up extra shifts and that's what's happening now actually," says Lexi Antkowiak, a bartender at Guido's Burritos. "Everybody needs some help so they're like who can pick up? Who can double today, and tomorrow, and the next day? You just have to work more hours at the end of the summer to pick up the slack from students who have gone back to school."
Despite the challenges managers and workers are facing this weekend, they are excited to welcome more customers to their establishments for the holiday weekend. Their hope is that customers will be mindful of staff shortages and the adjustments that businesses will have to make.
"Have patience," says Jeff Hicks, Food and Beverage Manager at the Castle in the Sand Hotel. "If you see something good, say something good. Don't always harp on the bad." | https://www.wboc.com/news/businesses-prepare-for-labor-day-weekend-amid-staff-shortages/article_721d4c8a-29b3-11ed-b7ca-436375f93518.html | 2022-09-01T07:23:11Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/businesses-prepare-for-labor-day-weekend-amid-staff-shortages/article_721d4c8a-29b3-11ed-b7ca-436375f93518.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Scotland bin strikes: Waste workers to return to work as first wave of strikes to end
Waste workers in authorities across Scotland will return to work on Thursday as the first wave of strike action ends.
Staff from the Unite, Unison and GMB unions walked out as part of a dispute over pay, but negotiations failed to reach an acceptable settlement for the unions.
Action coincided with a similar strike in Edinburgh that left the streets littered with rubbish during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
But the disruption is likely to return next week – and spread to schools – if a new offer is not accepted by the unions.
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The latest offer, made by local authority body Cosla on Monday, was rejected as unions urged Cosla to make a flat-rate pay offer as opposed to one based on a percentage increase to current wages.
According to the Scottish Government, the deal included a payment of at least £1,925 for council staff, with those earning £20,000 receiving £2,000.
But Unite said the payment could be as low as £989 for some employees, with 85% receiving between £1,925 and £2,000, and any payment would not be recurring.
Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said all options in making more funding available amid the strikes have been “exhausted”.
With the latest offer being turned down, waste workers look set to be joined by school support staff, including cleaners, caterers, janitors and pupil support assistants in action set to take place next week.
Hundreds of schools will close as a result of the action across the country for three days. | https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/scotland-bin-strikes-waste-workers-to-return-to-work-as-first-wave-of-strikes-to-end-3826674 | 2022-09-01T07:25:23Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/scotland-bin-strikes-waste-workers-to-return-to-work-as-first-wave-of-strikes-to-end-3826674 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
'He's a winner': Arkansas football puts faith in leadership of quarterback KJ Jefferson
FAYETTEVILLE - At halftime of Arkansas football's 2021 season opener against Rice, the Razorbacks found themselves down three points at halftime. Their lone score of the first half had come when newly minted starting quarterback KJ Jefferson ran for a 34-yard score on Arkansas' second drive.
Playing from behind against a mid-major opponent wasn't how coach Sam Pittman wanted to start his second season, nor Jefferson his first. At the half, Pittman had a message for Jefferson.
"He pulled me to the side and said that at some point, I was going to have to be able to make a play and rally the team together," Jefferson told the Southwest Times Record. "That was the only way we could come out victorious."
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Jefferson led five scoring drives in the second half, and the Razorbacks beat the Owls 38-17. It was the start of a 9-4 season that was Arkansas' best in years and saw Jefferson lead the Razorbacks in rushing yards. But it was in that second half of the first game of the year that Pittman saw his starting quarterback change.
"That’s kind of when he took the team over," Pittman said. "He’s got a mentality of physicality about him, a little bit to a fault when he gets in the open field. ... In games, he’s a big part of that tough part of our football team.”
In retrospect, Pittman acknowledges he didn't know then what he had in Jefferson. The run-up to the 2022 season has been a different story. Jefferson begins his second year as starter on Saturday (2:30 p.m. CT, ESPN) against No. 22 Cincinnati at Razorback Stadium. He's the first second-year starter offensive coordinator Kendal Briles has had, and he'll be behind a veteran offensive line. But the Razorbacks' offense isn't without questions.
Star receiver Treylon Burks is gone after being selected in the first round of the 2022 NFL Draft by the Tennessee Titans. Arkansas' offense will be different without him, but the question is whether it will be worse. What will Jefferson look like as a passer without one of the league's top receivers on the other end of his throws?
Despite being the league's third-leading passer last season, Jefferson was left off multiple preseason All-SEC teams in part because of that uncertainty. But the doubt hasn't cracked Jefferson's mild-mannered personality. He's approaching the season the same way he always has: With an attitude of humility befitting the brand Arkansas football has built.
Jefferson's mother, Katorie Wilson-Moore, is proud of the approach her son takes. He's confident but doesn't boast, she said. He's not going to tell you how good he is. He's going to show you.
"That's basically what I've told him ever since he became the starting quarterback," Wilson-Moore said. "Ever since then, I've told him, 'Let what you do speak for you. You don't have to open your mouth because they're going to know KJ Jefferson by your actions, by what you do and how you do it.'"
It's the same approach he takes to leadership. He's not shy, but he's never one to shout down a teammate or make some epic halftime speech.
His style is to simply be present and be heard. It's advice he's gotten from leaders he admires, including Arkansas strength and condition coach Jamil Walker.
"Just talk more throughout practice so people get used to hearing your voice," Jefferson said. "When adversity does come or a crunch-time situation does come and you speak, everybody knows it's coming directly from you. Everybody's not shocked or surprised or caught off guard by hearing your voice."
Teammates and coaches have said all offseason that Jefferson has made strides in his accuracy, his reads, and even shed some weight. Improving as a quarterback is key to proving that Burks wasn't all that made Jefferson a success. But most of all, those around him have said Jefferson has become the kind of vocal leader who's talking through plays. What's going right? What's going wrong?
Jefferson will bring the same physicality and run ability to the Arkansas offense that he did a season ago. As Cincinnati coach Luke Fickell put it, "He's not just a dual-threat guy to run, he's a dual-threat guy to run you over."
What remains to be seen is how the Razorbacks put together their passing game and compete against one of the nation's toughest schedules. One thing Jefferson showed back in that first game as starter, though? He can find a way.
"Bottom line is, he is a winner," Briles said. "To be a great quarterback, you have to win football games. I believe in him, and I wouldn't trade him for anybody in America when it comes to winning football games."
Christina Long covers the Arkansas Razorbacks for the Southwest Times Record and USA Today Network. You can follow her on Twitter @christinalong00 or email her at clong@swtimes.com. | https://www.swtimes.com/story/sports/college/2022/09/01/arkansas-football-quarterback-kj-jefferson-2022-season/65459255007/ | 2022-09-01T07:33:48Z | swtimes.com | control | https://www.swtimes.com/story/sports/college/2022/09/01/arkansas-football-quarterback-kj-jefferson-2022-season/65459255007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Letter: Try to determine success of Trump's policies
In his recent opinion article, Tom Treece states that he voted for the orange-haired one twice due to his “policies.” Not sure which policies he meant, but I'll cite some I'm aware of.
Build the wall and make Mexico pay? Nope. Ban Muslims? Nope, ruled illegal. Big tax break? Yep, costs the government $2 trillion over 10 years, but corporations and the rich loved it. Separate asylum seekers from their children and then lose track of their location? Yep, did that.
Abandon the Iran nuclear deal and renegotiate? Nope. Cancel Obamacare and replace it with market-based health care? Nope. Bring manufacturing jobs back to United States? Nope. As of January 2021, there were less manufacturing jobs than when Trump took office.
Dismantle NATO? Luckily, nope. Infrastructure improvements to roads, bridges, internet? Nope. Gas, oil and coal at the expense of the environment? Yep. Tariffs on China and Mexico paid for by U.S. consumers, helped fuel inflation, a loss to U.S. economy of $7.8 billion in 2018 alone? Yep, he did that.
To give him credit, he did push for drug companies to develop a vaccine for COVID, but most of his supporters thought it was a conspiracy and didn't trust the vaccine, which helped fuel the pandemic.
Tom believes in a conspiracy surrounding the election and Jan. 6 insurrection. I believe there was a conspiracy, but it involved law enforcement and Homeland Security personnel; they ignored all the internet traffic promising a bloody insurrection. Secret Service did nothing to prevent this and destroyed text messages on the day of the insurrection.
There were some police on site who invited protesters to enter the Capitol. Do you think that would have happened if the protesters were Muslim? FBI and other relevant agencies knew of the possibility of violence, but never showed a presence until well into the insurrection. The protesters numbered approximately 10,000 with at least 700 actually entering the Capitol Building. They came armed with guns, knives, flagpoles and bear spray, and if they had breached the Speaker's Lobby where Ashli Babbitt was shot, there would have been some dead Congress members and Mike Pence as well.
Thank goodness the Capitol security personnel made a stand where they did.
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Local Sports: Summerfield volleyball roars back to beat Jefferson in five sets
There is a famous scene in the movie “Hoosiers” where coach Norman Dale measures the court before his team plays a big game to assure his players that it is the exactly the same size as their gym back home.
Perhaps Summerfield volleyball coach Dawn Perry needed to do the same thing Wednesday.
Her Bulldogs were out of sorts in the first set at Jefferson.
“In the first game our problem was we were used to our own gym,” she said. “We were sending everything out. We could not find the end line.”
During the break between sets, some internal leadership settled Summerfield down.
“Our senior leaders did a good job of rallying the team,” Perry said. “I asked them what was going wrong. They said all good things, were positive and talked about constant improvement.”
After dropping the first set by 9 points, Summerfield roared back for a 16-25, 25-21, 23-25, 25-23, 15-7 victory.
“It was definitely a battle,” Perry said. “With it being such a mental sport, we learned that you have to fight back and push back. Not everything is going to be handed to them.”
Addison Ciacelli was Summerfield’s leader with 24 assists and 21 digs.
Julia Fietz topped the hitters with 7 kills and Kailee LaPlante and Megan Pease added 5 each. Ava Fisher was credited with 7 digs. LaPlante served for 25 points, Fietz 16 and Fisher 14. Marissa Eastman played well defensively.
The numbers were very modest for a five-set match.
“There defense was scrappy,” Perry said. “They didn’t let a whole lot hit the floor.”
The Bulldogs improved to 2-1 on the young season.
“We’re hoping that we can build from here,” Perry said. “We needed a kick start to get some momentum with a big non-league win.”
Jefferson got 22 digs and 5 aces from Anna Boggs and 6 kills from Gracie Jones.
“We lacked consistency and struggled to make in game adjustments,” Jefferson coach Kylie Ely said. “We have some kinks we need to work out but we will come together. The season is just starting.”
Summerfield took the junior varsity match 25-19, 25-12, 25-23 as Maya Stone collected 16 points, 7 aces and 5 digs. Kyra Horak added, Addie Spoering and Jaeli Jones also played well.
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Bears off to 9-1 start
NEW BOSTON – Jefferson pushed its record to 9-1 with a 216-261 win over Flat Rock Wednesday.
The Bears were led by Rylee Dunn 50, Kayce Maitland 54, Olivia Peare 55 and Claire Conover 57. Amanda Page shot 56 and Sabrina Barrett 59 for Flat Rock.
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Bedford wins quad
WOODHAVEN -- Bedford swept the singles flights to win Wednesday's Woodhaven Quad over Woodhaven, Southgate Anderson and St. Mary Catholic Central.
The Mules had 23 points and Woodhaven finished second with 18.
Jaxon Nejedlik did not lose a match at No. 2 singles and Carter Ryan and Taylor Burgermeister won all three of their matches at No. 2 doubles in straight sets for Bedford.
Monroe rules top spots
Monroe won the top two singles spots and No. 1 doubles, but fell 5-3 to Ann Arbor Huron Tuesday.
Junior Azariah Duran had a victory at No. 1 singles and Kyle Pafford and Christian Koszka-Lombardo ruled the top doubles spot. The other point for the Trojans came from Hosea Duran at No. 2 singles.
Milan singles strong
ADRIAN – Zach Fink, Tyler Denham and Nathan Bowman dropped just two games combined at No. 2-3-4 singles in leading Milan past Adrian 8-0 Wednesday.
Jet singles shine
Airport won the first three singles flights with Aiden Self, Ryan Lewis and Ethan Lassiter, but fell 5-3 to Tecumseh Wednesday.
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SMCC triumphs
Alaina Wylie shot 53 and Gracie Gentry 54 to lead St. Mary Catholic Central to a victory over Milan Wednesday.
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Carlson blanked
GIBRALTAR – Gibraltar Carlson fell 3-0 to Melvindale Wednesday night.
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Bydlowski takes 12th
HILLSDALE – Katelyn Bydlowski placed 12th for Ida in Wednesday’s Hillsdale Invitational, helping the Blue Streaks finish in eighth place.
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Airman 1st Class Spencer Kans, 36th Airlift Squadron loadmaster, bumps fists with a local area aviation enthusiast during a tour at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Aug. 31, 2022. The tour showcased the importance of the 374th Airlift Wing mission helping build a stronger relationship within the community. (U.S. Air Force photo by Machiko Arita)
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Fringe mustn’t price itself out of the market - Karen Koren
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe has come to an end and it feels like it’s been the longest month ever.
It started with a glorious heatwave and wonderful optimism that the biggest arts festival in the world had returned and ended up with Edinburgh being knee deep in overflowing, stinking rubbish all over the city, due to a bin strike.
The big clean-up has started too late for the mass exodus of the city. It’s embarrassing that the rubbish was allowed to build up, especially when there were so many artists, audiences and tourists in the city.
We all tried very hard to ignore it but it was nearly impossible as more and more waste began to spread out of the over-stuffed bins.
There was sympathy for the strikers as they deserve their pay rise – but with the rising cost of accommodation in the city and other rising costs, we run the risk of the performers and tourists alike abandoning Edinburgh for other more affordable destinations in future.
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It is imperative that we make it affordable for visitors to come to Edinburgh and especially for the wonderful performers that bring their work to Edinburgh in August. On top of these issues there are the challenges of not being able to find experienced staff capable of running all the temporary venues that exist during August.
Skilled production and technical workers are in short supply and we need to look at retraining workers to keep our venues running smoothly. This year was going to be a difficult year, we knew that because ithas been almost three years since the last full festival in August 2019 and the fact that many experienced staff retrained in different fields and we had all new teams taking on the unknown.
This year we did have some of the most amazing shows ever. The talent that came to Edinburgh was some of the best it’s ever been and proved that our Festival is unique.
We have to be incredibly careful that we do not price ourselves out of the market and lose what the Fringe has achieved over the past 75 years.
Many had a great time and we got through the highs and lows and I believe we will come back stronger in August 2023 invigorated and ready to take on the world’s biggest arts festival once again. | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/fringe-mustnt-price-itself-out-of-the-market-karen-koren-3823936 | 2022-09-01T07:55:16Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/fringe-mustnt-price-itself-out-of-the-market-karen-koren-3823936 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Italian factory activity declines for a second month running amid a further steep fall in new orders. Weak demand conditions remain a problem but at least that is helping to see inflation
Inflation
Inflation is defined as a quantitative measure of the rate in which the average price level of goods and services in an economy or country increases over a period of time. It is the rise in the general level of prices where a given currency effectively buys less than it did in prior periods.In terms of assessing the strength or currencies, and by extension foreign exchange, inflation or measures of it are extremely influential. Inflation stems from the overall creation of money. This money is measured by the level of the total money supply of a specific currency, for example the US dollar, which is constantly increasing. However, an increase in the money supply does not necessarily mean that there is inflation. What leads to inflation is a faster increase in the money supply in relation to the wealth produced (measured with GDP). As such, this generates pressure of demand on a supply that does not increase at the same rate. The consumer price index then increases, generating inflation.How Does Inflation Affect Forex?The level of inflation has a direct impact on the exchange rate between two currencies on several levels.This includes purchasing power parity, which attempts to compare different purchasing powers of each country according to the general price level. In doing so, this makes it possible to determine the country with the most expensive cost of living.The currency with the higher inflation rate consequently loses value and depreciates, while the currency with the lower inflation rate appreciates on the forex market.Interest rates are also impacted. Inflation rates that are too high push interest rates up, which has the effect of depreciating the currency on foreign exchange. Conversely, inflation that is too low (or deflation) pushes interest rates down, which has the effect of appreciating the currency on the forex market.
Inflation is defined as a quantitative measure of the rate in which the average price level of goods and services in an economy or country increases over a period of time. It is the rise in the general level of prices where a given currency effectively buys less than it did in prior periods.In terms of assessing the strength or currencies, and by extension foreign exchange, inflation or measures of it are extremely influential. Inflation stems from the overall creation of money. This money is measured by the level of the total money supply of a specific currency, for example the US dollar, which is constantly increasing. However, an increase in the money supply does not necessarily mean that there is inflation. What leads to inflation is a faster increase in the money supply in relation to the wealth produced (measured with GDP). As such, this generates pressure of demand on a supply that does not increase at the same rate. The consumer price index then increases, generating inflation.How Does Inflation Affect Forex?The level of inflation has a direct impact on the exchange rate between two currencies on several levels.This includes purchasing power parity, which attempts to compare different purchasing powers of each country according to the general price level. In doing so, this makes it possible to determine the country with the most expensive cost of living.The currency with the higher inflation rate consequently loses value and depreciates, while the currency with the lower inflation rate appreciates on the forex market.Interest rates are also impacted. Inflation rates that are too high push interest rates up, which has the effect of depreciating the currency on foreign exchange. Conversely, inflation that is too low (or deflation) pushes interest rates down, which has the effect of appreciating the currency on the forex market.
Read this Term pressures ease slightly. S&P Global notes that:
"August PMI data pointed to a sustained deterioration in manufacturing conditions in Italy. Factory production declined further amid a marked drop in order book volumes.
"The weak demand picture led firms to pare back further on purchasing, and notably, a near record rate of increase in stocks of finished goods held by firms was recorded as items were left unsold.
"Some good news was again found with respect to inflationary pressures which continued to ease amid weaker demand for inputs.
"Nonetheless, the weak performance was reflected further in historically downbeat sentiment towards outlook over the coming year. Though firms, on average, expect output to be higher in 12 months’ time, fears of a recession are building further, which, combined with the war in Ukraine and inflationary concerns is weighing heavily on business confidence."
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The S&P is at a potential double support area and some short positions should be covering soon. The reward vs risk for a contrarian Long is interesting enough to take this trade, IMHO.
The strategy for this trade calls for a risk of 0.86% on the stop loss, with the intention of taking a 50% profit cut if and when the first profit goal is hit at 3999.50. That is a 2 to 1 reward vs risk for half of the position. The other half will be kept in Long (stay tuned for further updates).
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A cost of living crisis is continuing to grip the UK, with the soaring cost of energy set to be one of a number of extra burdens on families this winter. The news that the energy price cap will rise to £3,549 in October, and is likely to increase to more than £6,000 next year, has left many reeling.
This is just one aspect of a financial landscape that also features inflation at a 40-year high of 10.1%, which the Bank of England is attempting to get under control by increasing the interest rate to 1.75%. While there is governmental support, consumer expert Martin Lewis is leading the voices calling for more.
To help you keep on top of the latest money changes, the Mirror has rounded up ten financial updates to expect in September. Take a look.
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1. £326 cost of living payment for Tax Credit households - September 2
Households who claim Tax Credits will receive the first half of their £650 cost of living payment from September 2. The £326 payment should arrive in the bank accounts of eligible Brits by September 7.
Tax Credit households must have been entitled, or later found to be entitled, to a payment or an annual award of at least £26 for any day between April 26, 2022 and May 25, 2022. The payment will contain the reference “CL” followed by your National Insurance number followed by “0001AX”.
2. New Prime Minister - September 5
Either Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak will become the new Prime Minister on September 5, with the cost of living crisis one of the first tasks on the winner's in tray. Lewis has urged the new Conservative Party leader to tackle the issue as a matter of urgency, and has warned that "people will die" unless the government offers more support with energy bills.
With the price cap set to rise by £750 more per year than the figures used to shape the original support measures announced in May, those financial aids are no longer considered enough. The government's stance throughout is that further assistance will not be announced until the new Prime Minister is in post.
3. Inflation rates - September 14
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) will release inflation rates for the 12 months to August on September 14. Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation is currently at 10.1% - but the Bank of England expects it to hit 13.3% in October.
Inflation is a figure used to explain how much the prices of everyday essentials have increased. When inflation is high, it means the cost of living has increased and you’re getting less for your money than you did before.
4. Interest rates - September 15
The Bank of England will meet on September 15 to decide whether to raise interest rates for the seventh time in a row, having already implemented the biggest single rise in 27 years last month by hiking the base rate by 0.5 percentage points. This rate is what the Bank of England charges other banks and lenders, which in turn then influences the rates they charge customers - meaning it may cost more to borrow.
5. Amazon Prime price hike - September 15
Amazon has confirmed it is increasing the price of its Prime delivery and streaming service. The cost of Prime for monthly subscribers will rise from £7.99 to £8.99, while its annual membership will increase from £79 to £95 - with both rates kicking in from September 15.
6. £150 disability cost of living payment - September 20
Six million disabled people will get their £150 cost of living payment from September 20. People on Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and Attendance Allowance are among those who qualify - but Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) is not included.
People on income-related ESA were due to get a separate £324 payment in July. You must have received a payment - or later receive a payment - of one of these qualifying benefits by May 25, 2022 to get the cost of living cash.
7. Universal Credit changes - September 26
Roughly 114,000 people on Universal Credit will be moved from the "light touch" work group to "intensive work search" from September 26. This is due to a planned increase in the Administration Earnings Threshold (AET).
The AET determines which "work group" you’re placed in - this then has an impact on if you’re required to look for more work. The rate is being increased from £355 a month to £494 a month, or from £567 a month to £782 a month for joint claims, from September 26.
8. Household Support Fund deadline - September 30
Councils have until September 30 to spend or "commit" to spend the remainder of the extra £500million that was put into the Household Support Fund. The support available is decided by each individual council - further information on Kent's provision can be found here.
9. Energy meter reading day - September 30
The last time the price cap rose in April, experts including Martin Lewis suggested taking a meter reading the day before the new figure came into place. This is so customers can tell their energy providers exactly much gas and electricity they are using before the price soars once again, reducing the risk of you being overcharged.
The same logic applies again. You should look to submit an energy meter reading on Friday, September 30, the day before everything goes up.
10. Last day to spend paper £20 and £50 notes - September 30
The Bank of England will withdraw the legal tender status of old paper £20 and £50 notes after September 30. You can still spend these bank notes in stores before this date, or you can deposit them at your bank or the Post Office.
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A baby girl who died at three days old could have contracted congenital pneumonia “hours or even days” before her birth, an inquest has been told. Rosanna Matthews died on November 23, 2020, and the inquest into her death continued at Archbishop’s Palace in Maidstone, Kent, on Wednesday.
Mum Elena Sala was on the labour ward of Tunbridge Wells Hospital on November 20 of that year and said she started feeling the urge to push along with contractions at around 3pm. However, she was told not to push until after a vaginal examination at 4.45pm.
The inquest heard evidence from four doctors who were on shift at the time of Rosanna’s birth including Philippa Moth, the consultant obstetrician on duty until 5pm on that day, and Oliver Wildman, who took over that role when shift changeover occurred.
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When Miss Sala was brought into theatre for Rosanna to be delivered at 5.23pm, the baby heartbeat monitor (cardiotocograph) found the baby was suffering foetal bradycardia. This is an abnormally low heart rate. Mr Wildman then decided to deliver Rosanna immediately via a caesarean section. This followed two failed attempts at instrumental delivery using a suction cup and forceps in the birthing room.
Explaining the foetal bradycardia, Miss Moth said: “This could have been a hypoxic or infective process. The cardiotocograph was considered pathological due to two non-reassuring features but it didn’t show hypoxic issues, so we concluded the bradycardia was caused by an infection.
“Congenital pneumonia is an infection in the lungs and can be contracted during or before labour.
“It could be an ascending infection where it moves from the vagina upwards or could be contracted through the placenta.
“Analysis of the gases in the umbilical cord during the post-mortem suggests this process was ongoing for possibly many hours or days. This makes babies more sensitive to any issues in labour and this would have made Rosanna more vulnerable. It’s difficult to know the point when Rosanna could have been born with a heartbeat.”
The inquest, which is expected to run until tomorrow (September 2), continues.
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Hoodlums pelt Kwankwaso with missiles in Kogi
THE presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Party (NNNP), Musa Rabiu Kwankwaso, was on Wednesday pelted with missiles, during a visit to Kogi State Kwankwaso was in Lokoja, the state capital to commission the party’s secretariat and his campaign offices besides Dave Mercy Pharmacy, along Kogi Government House road.
The NNPP presidential flag bearer, who arrived in a motorcade with few supporters, was shouted down by some hoodlums and efforts to pacify them didn’t go down well, just as they hauled sachets of water and stones at him.
On getting to a popular hotel where he was billed to address his supporters, hoodlums in their numbers invaded the venue and hauled stones and other ob- jects at him.
It took the intervention of his security details to disperse the hoodlums and bring the situation under control.
Kwankwaso had earlier visited Ogbonicha, the country home of late Prince Abubarkar Audu, where similar treatment was meted out to the NNNP presidential candidate.
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He was accused of trying to hide under the platform of the late ex-governor to woo the supporters of the All Progressive Congress (APC).
Those who spoke to journalists under the condition of anonymity, lamented that having waited since the early hours of the morning in Lokoja, the presidential candidate abandoned them for the NNPP faction in the former late Governor Audu country home, whom they claimed were still members of the APC.
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The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Isiaka Oladayo Amao, has expressed discontent over the current challenges of JET A-1 (aviation fuel) scarcity, saying if the situation persists it could adversely affect NAF air operations in the country.
Air Marshall Amao stated this while delivering a paper titled “Management of Emerging Air Threat: Implications for Strengthening Governance in Nigeria” as part of the activities marking Senior Executive Course (SEC) 44 Defence Week of the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Study (NIPSS) Kuru, Plateau State, current sales for JET A-1 stand at N950 per litre, as opposed to the N360 per litre appropriated in the NAF 2022 budget.
According to him, the current cost, and the implication was far beyond the NAF budgetary provision in which NAF requires the Federal Government to quickly intervene to ensure safe air operations in the country.
He stated that the way out of the predicament as an interim measure is for the federal government to grant NAF operational licenses and provide the necessary infrastructure to independently import and bridge the aviation fuel scarcity by the first quarter of 2023.
Air Marshall Amao further advised that to cushion the scarcity, a coastal reception depot could be built for the NAF as an immediate measure, where special trucks would move the fuel from the reception depot to operation units.
On airport security, the Chief of Air Staff said the Nigeria Air Force coordinates with the other airport security agencies, adding that the NAF Special Operations Force and Quick Response unit have been responding to the emerging threats across the country.
“NAF has consolidated the security of international airports through the activities of Mobile Field Defence Teams that are deployed at the airports,” he said.
To mitigate challenges militating against robust airspace management, Air Marshall Amao recommended that the federal government should commence implementation of the military component of the TRACON project by the third quarter of 2023.
On internal threats, the Air Force boss said the report indicated that some arms used to perpetuate insecurity in Nigeria came from the various conflict zones in the sub-region coupled with the proliferation of small arms.
The Chief of Air Staff pointed out that the MoU between the Nigeria Air Force and the Nigeria Air Space Management Agency is currently being reviewed and will improve cooperation and coordination in several areas, including research and development.
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Technology bigwig Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) is poised for robust growth potential as the macroeconomic headwinds gradually fade away. Inflation and supply chain constraints were the biggest two challenges hampering Amazon’s performance considering its well-diversified business model.
Amazon’s Diversified Offerings
Notably, Amazon boasts of five successful businesses. Its Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides cloud computing services and is contributing handsomely to its top-line growth. In Q2FY22, AWS generated $19.74 billion in revenue, growing 33% year-over-year and representing about 16% of total revenue.
Next is Amazon Marketplace, its e-commerce website that allows third-party sellers to sell their offerings online along with Amazon’s range of products. Undoubtedly, Amazon’s marketplace continued to strengthen its stronghold even during the pandemic and after. Amazon’s online stores contributed $50.86 billion in revenue in Q2, declining slightly by 4.3% compared to Q2FY21.
Amazon Prime, its paid subscription service, enables premium services to customers across the globe. It has over 200 million subscribers worldwide. Revenue from Prime is included in Amazon’s subscription services revenue, which contributed $8.72 billion in Q2, jumping 10.1% year-over-year.
Next up is the Amazon Advertising service, which works similarly to pay-per-click ads on Google (GOOGL) (GOOG) and is one of the top advertising services available online. In Q2, Amazon earned $8.76 billion in revenue from advertising services, growing 17.6% compared to the prior-year period.
And lastly, Amazon Logistics provides last-mile shipping and delivery services. Amazon boasts one of the largest fulfillment and distribution centers in the world from where it delivers packages to customers. Logistics revenue is included in Amazon’s third-party seller services, the biggest revenue contributor. In Q2, this segment generated $27.38 billion in revenue, growing 9.2% year-over-year.
Is Amazon a Buy, Sell or Hold?
Wall Street analysts are highly optimistic about AMZN stock’s trajectory. On TipRanks, AMZN stock commands a Strong Buy consensus rating based on 38 Buys and one Hold. The average Amazon.com price target of $176.94 implies 39.6% upside potential to current levels. Meanwhile, its stock has lost 25.6% so far this year.
In a recent internet sector study, Robert W. Baird analyst Colin Sebastian stated that he expects domestic e-commerce in the United States to grow by 10% year on year. This means that the second half of 2022 is poised for 12%–13% year-over-year growth and double-digit growth for e-commerce stocks, including AMZN.
The analyst projects domestic e-commerce to hit $1 trillion in 2022 and $1.5 trillion by 2025. Sebastian has a Buy rating on AMZN stock with a price target of $150, implying 18.3% upside potential.
Takeaway- Amazon Poised for Substantial Growth
With the passing of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Amazon may see its bottom line shrink to a certain extent. One of the components of the IRA is to set the minimum corporate tax rate at 15%. As a result of this ruling, Amazon’s income taxes may increase and may impact its bottom line.
Nonetheless, over the years, Amazon has emerged as one of the biggest tech giants worldwide. With a broad moat and an extremely well-diversified business model, the company is poised for substantial growth ahead. With the demand for e-commerce and cloud services expected to boost considerably in the coming years, Amazon should perform well. Moreover, analysts are also highly bullish on the trajectory of the stock, making for an attractive investment case. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/amazon-nasdaqamzn-stock-is-set-for-substantial-growth | 2022-09-01T08:15:49Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/amazon-nasdaqamzn-stock-is-set-for-substantial-growth | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
It can be clearly seen that crypto adoption is highly successful in many developing countries around the globe. Where inflation continues to steer out of control, many citizens lose their faith in the local currency and economic policy and are often driven to seek out alternative methods of making, saving, and spending money. The crypto market not only offers the dream of making money and getting rich but also helps citizens to protect their wealth by holding it in crypto instead of their local currency.
Some of these countries include El Salvador, for example, which made bitcoin (BTC-USD) its legal tender in September 2021, and Nigeria, where as of April 2022, it was recorded that around 33.4 million citizens traded or owned crypto assets despite restrictions on cryptocurrency transactions by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). It was also estimated in the Philippines that over 4.3 million people (4.0% of the total population) currently own cryptocurrency.
The State of Crypto in India
According to a recent survey by KuCoin, The Cryptoverse India Report mentioned that during the first half of 2022, around 115 million Indian citizens aged between 18-60 had either traded or held cryptocurrencies. Despite 2022 being extremely difficult for the crypto market, the survey also showed that in the past quarter, young investors remained more interested in crypto relative to older investors. Therefore, the number of crypto investors aged 18 to 30 increased by 7% year-over-year.
Furthermore, The KuCoin survey also revealed that 56% of investors think crypto can be the future of finance, and 52% have already invested in crypto to earn a passive income that can help them improve their quality of life.
The Indian government, like other governments around the world that have less control and supervision over crypto transactions and the capital of citizens, is worried about the amount of money that escapes the local monetary system and goes into the crypto world. This has led the Indian regulator to force one of the strictest crypto regulations in the world, and as of April 2022, there is a 30% tax on unrealized crypto gains, while users are also subjected to a 1% tax per transaction.
China, for example, took it one step further and went to the extreme of completely banning the use of cryptocurrencies in investing, trading, mining, and other related activities, allowing only the Digital Yuan. The Digital Yuan is a CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) and is controlled by the government.
The hard hand of the Indian regulator was also felt by the local exchanges when Wazrix, the biggest cryptocurrency exchange platform in India, with more than 10 million users, came under the Enforcement Directorate freezing accounts. This led to over a 54% decrease in trading volume during the first few days of August 2022. This drop saw the trading volume dramatically decrease from $4.3 million to $2 million. At the end of last year, Wazrix had a trading volume of $43 billion.
Despite the harsh government’s stance on digital assets, the report stated that the Indian crypto-tech market is expected to reach $241 million by 2030 and that younger investors will recognize the long-term value of crypto.
Mohit Kumar, a long-term investor of cryptocurrencies in Delhi, said, “Honestly, crypto did a backdoor entry in India through [Union] Budget 2022. And there is no going back now. I don’t care about the 30% slab as I am holding crypto for a long-term vision, and by that time, I am expecting a lot of changes in tax slabs, so let’s chill. The good thing is that it is not banned.” “I will still keep investing,” he told CoinGeek in February.
Also, Kumar stated that executing something new in India takes a long time, and tracking traders seems to be an incredibly hard task for the government. Kumar also said, “They won’t be able to track them. The exchanges will be required to report each transaction and the rate of exchange in a crystal-clear manner, and the government might do it or might not, time shall tell.”
Conclusion: Crypto is on the Rise and Only Getting Stronger
Despite government efforts to make it harder for citizens in India to trade and hold cryptocurrencies, crypto enthusiasts seem determined to continue and invest in this new and upcoming market.
Diving a bit deeper into the survey, 41% of respondents mentioned that the lack of education about the crypto market presented a hurdle in their investments, adding that they don’t know how to choose between the many different cryptocurrency products available. Around 37% stated that they didn’t know how to manage portfolio risk, while 27% said they didn’t have the right knowledge and tools to predict market movements. 21% were not even clear about how crypto works at all.
2023 is set to be the busiest year yet in terms of regulations for the crypto market worldwide. I believe that these regulations may slow down the market initially but will eventually prepare it for its next stage of growth. Looking forward, five-to-10 years from now, I am very optimistic that the mass adoption of cryptos will continue and grow globally and in developing countries like India. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/why-is-crypto-so-big-among-developing-countries | 2022-09-01T08:16:01Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/article/why-is-crypto-so-big-among-developing-countries | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The FTSE 100 suffered its worst day in seven weeks amid continuing fears over the British economy, with the FTSE 100 down 1.05% at 7,284.1 and the FTSE 250 down by 0.45% at 19,063.7, as lower oil prices offered solace to U.S. investors but were outweighed by inflation fears in Europe.
Further warnings over soaring inflation in 2023 were the main bugbear for investors once again, with the FTSE 100 index slumping 2% in August in total.
New figures from the British Retail Consortium added to investor woes, with shop price inflation jumping to 5.1% in August, the highest figure since records began in 2005 and up from 4.4% in July.
Helen Dickinson OBE, Chief Executive of the British Retail Consortium, said:
“Mounting cost pressures up and down supply chains meant shop price inflation hit a new high in August. The war in Ukraine, and consequent rise in the price of animal feed, fertiliser, wheat and vegetable oils continued to push up food prices. The rise in shop prices is playing into wider UK inflation, which some analysts are predicting could top 18% in 2023.”
British supermarket giant Sainsbury’s (GB:SBRY) is to spend £65 million on maintaining food prices in coming months, with £60 million going towards food prices in September.
Retailers were among stocks which gained on Wednesday, with J.D. Sports (GB:JD) rising 2.1% at 115p while oil stocks slumped on news of lower prices, with Shell (GB:SHEL) down 3% at 2267p.
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The Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance has selected a consortium that includes Delta Air Lines, Inc. (NYSE:DAL) and Air France-KLM (AFLYY) to conduct exclusive talks for the sale of a majority stake in its flag carrier, ITA Airways. If the deal pans out, it could expand DAL’s presence in the North Atlantic market, which would mean more revenue for the company.
The consortium, which is led by U.S.-based equity fund Certares, beat a bid by Germany’s Deutsche Lufthansa AG (DLAKY) and Swiss container shipping company MSC.
DAL’s consortium has reportedly offered to pay around €600 million for a 60% stake in ITA Airways, compared to MSC and Lufthansa’s offer of €850 million to €900 million for an 80% stake.
Commenting on the news, the ministry said, “After exclusive talks, a binding agreement will be signed only if the outcome will be fully satisfactory for the public shareholder.”
Meanwhile, a DAL spokesman said, “Delta looks forward to forging even closer commercial ties with ITA Airways.”
The deal could expand Delta Air Lines and Air France-KLM’s presence in the North Atlantic market, an Air France-KLM spokeswoman said. It would also connect ITA’s frequent flier program to Air France-KLM’s Flying Blue and Delta’s SkyMiles reward programs.
However, the Franco-Dutch airline does not plan to invest in ITA immediately and could consider acquiring a minority stake in the medium term. Delta Air Lines also intends to invest in the Italian airline at a later stage.
A Lufthansa spokesperson expressed discontent that Italy had not chosen them (Lufthansa and MSC) so that the government could hold a higher stake in the flag carrier.
Stifel Nicolaus analyst Johannes Braun said, “This is surprising because MSC-Lufthansa was previously considered the preferred bidder.”
The Italian government is pushing for a preliminary deal before the general elections on September 25.
Is Delta Air Lines a Buy or Sell?
As of now, Delta Air Lines seems to be a good investment option. This is because DAL stock has a Strong Buy consensus rating, which is based on 10 Buys and two Holds. As per TipRanks, DAL’s average price target of $46.95 implies 51.1% upside potential.
Also, DAL stock scores a “Perfect 10” on TipRanks’ Smart Score rating system, suggesting that it has strong potential to outperform the market. Hedge funds, too, are bullish on the stock. TipRanks data shows that the 18 hedge funds that were active in the last quarter increased their holding in DAL stock by 4.7 million shares.
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It is estimated that the honey bee’s annual contribution to the United States economy is at least $15 billion. Beyond the profitable products and byproducts harvested directly from honey bee colonies such as honey, wax, propolis, and royal jelly, more than 90 different crops—about one-third of total crop production in the U.S.—are dependent upon these prolific pollinators for their survival and prosperity.
A world without bees would be bleak; there would be less food for human consumption, less variety among the fruits, vegetables, and nuts that remain, and the impacts of their absence would ripple throughout the food web. While the dystopian future is distant, honey bees are nonetheless under threat. Loss of habitat, diseases like Colony Collapse Disorder, herbicides, pesticides, and parasites like the aptly named varroa destructor mite are all contributing, often in concert, to high rates of colony decline across the country.
Between 2020 and 2021, beekeepers lost about 45% of their managed honey bee colonies. The expected or acceptable rate of colony turnover due to natural environmental factors such as winter weather is 20%.
Stacker compiled statistics on honey bee populations in Massachusetts using the most recent annual data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. So far in 2022, colonies are down by 22% according to the most recent data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Beekeepers, researchers, and scientists take great care to mitigate managed colony loss by moving honey bees seasonally, feeding them sugar water when flowers are not in bloom to prevent die-off, renovating or requeening colonies when a queen bee dies, and expanding existing colonies to keep them healthy and productive. Still, there is little improvement year-over-year, according to colony data.
The dystopian world without bees is not imminent, but the battle for their protection and prosperity is an uphill one.
Honey bee population health in Massachusetts
– Maximum total colonies, April-June 2022: 14,000
— 16.7% increase since 2021, #14 biggest increase nationally
– Lost colonies, April-June 2022: 290
— 64.2% decrease since 2021
– Added colonies, April-June 2022: 1,200
— 40.0% decrease since 2021
– Renovated colonies, April-June 2022: 910
— 193.5% increase since 2021
States with the largest increase in honey bee colonies from 2021 to 2022
#1. Missouri: 118.8% increase
#2. Arkansas: 76.0% increase
#3. Louisiana: 48.3% increase
#4. Mississippi: 34.3% increase
#5. North Carolina: 30.4% increase
States with the largest decrease in honey bee colonies from 2021 to 2022
#1. Kansas: 38.8% decrease
#2. Illinois: 26.9% decrease
#3. Wyoming: 23.3% decrease
#4. Indiana: 23.1% decrease
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TOPEKA, Kansas — Charles Peckham works 70 hours a week as an attorney. He’s 72.
He daydreams about retirement. But if he closed up shop, clients would just show up at his home in Atwood, Kansas.
“(Stopping) is not workable at this point,” he said.
The next closest attorney is 30 miles away. That might not be accessible for the older population in need of legal help.
Atwood boasted six attorneys, counting Peckham, when he first arrived in 1983, but that number has dwindled down to two and the other attorney farms on the side.
If the town of about 1,300 people in a county with some 2,500 had enough lawyers, Peckham could cut back his workload and spend more time with his grandchildren. But with nobody around to take over his practice, he’ll keep working.
Stories like Peckham’s are not unique.
Three of four Kansas attorneys are licensed in just five counties. Johnson, Sedgwick, Shawnee, Wyandotte and Douglas have 78% of the over 6,500 lawyers in the state. In the 103 counties statewide, 40 have five or fewer licensed lawyers and eight have only one.
The number of attorneys in Western Kansas is dropping as older lawyers retire with nobody around to take their practice. Attorneys have too much work and clients might travel long distances for representation. The attorneys that do practice are often general practitioners who handle everything from divorces to burglary defendants to farm law.
Shawn Leisinger, associate dean for centers and external programs at Washburn University, helps with the university’s rural attorney program. He said some counties could easily support two to three times the number of lawyers that they currently have.
The solution to the problem seems simple. If older attorneys are retiring, just find younger ones to take over. The demand is there, which should mean those people could make a decent income. But Leisinger said it isn’t that simple.
People need to understand and connect with the community they represent, they can’t just be dropped in, Leisinger said. They need to be mentored.
Washburn’s rural attorney program is doing that. It allows students to finish their education from anywhere in the state and pairs them with mentors. The program has placed a few dozen attorneys into rural Kansas in the last five years, but Leisinger says “it's a drop in the bucket based on the demand that's out there.”
This isn’t a Kansas-specific problem and the state Supreme Court is creating a task force to address the issue. It’ll include people from all across Kansas who will eventually recommend changes to encourage more attorneys to move out west.
The state could take inspiration from Nebraska or South Dakota – two states that have also attempted to address shortages.
In Nebraska, a possible solution came in two waves. First, law students were driven to rural corners of the state to talk with community members to see what their needs were, and then they set up interviews with firms in that area.
The bus tours have since stopped, but twice a year job-seeking lawyers meet with law firms that are hiring as part of the Rural Practice Initiative program.
In South Dakota, someone could sign a contract that pays 90% of one year’s resident tuition and fees at the University of South Dakota Law School. In return, that person would practice law for a minimum of 35 hours a week for a set amount of weeks over the span of five years.
Nebraska’s program netted at least 38 attorneys and South Dakota got 13. Even those small numbers can make a difference in remote places.
Sam Clinch, associate executive director with the Nebraska Bar Association, said small towns would start to dry up without the program.
“You have a lot of clients that are traveling 100 to 150 miles one way to get a simple will drafted, a divorce case or a real estate transaction,” he said. “That’s an access to justice issue when you have people that have to travel 300 miles round trip to do a simple will.”
Zoom has become more prevalent in court cases, but multiple people told the Kansas News Service that it’s only a tool and not the sole solution to the problem. Local attorneys know their communities, judges and potential jurors better. And while big-city lawyers are qualified to represent someone over Zoom, they can’t understand the nuances of each community.
Peckham has lived in larger cities – like Chicago and Washington, D.C. – before moving to rural Kansas. He said people in urban and rural settings both fail to understand the perks of living in one place or another, but he wants more people to give rural Kansas a try.
“You're going to have to be more reliable and independent,” he said. “But if you're interested in the family, spending a little more time with Mother Nature and avoiding a long commute to do your job, I think this is worth looking at.”
Blaise Mesa reports on criminal justice and social services for the Kansas News Service in Topeka. You can follow him on Twitter @Blaise_Mesa or email him at blaise@kcur.org.
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A U.S. Air Force C-130J Super Hercules aircraft takes off with Airmen with the 424th Air Base Squadron and Soldiers, assigned to local units, who perform an orientation flight, on Chièvres Air Base, Belgium, Aug. 02, 2022. (U.S. Army photo by Pierre-Etienne Courtejoie)
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Emil Blonsky Explains Himself In a New Clip From She-Hulk Episode 3
As far as everyone knew, Emil Blonsky a.k.a. the Abomination had been rotting in a cell since the events of The Incredible Hulk movie in 2008. However, Abomination had a cameo appearance in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings in which he fought Wong in an underground cage match. Blonsky even returned to his cell after that fight. Regardless, that little jaunt caught up with him in the second episode of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. Just after Tatiana Maslany’s Jennifer Walters agreed to represent Blonsky at his parole hearing, the video of the fight was leaked online. And in a new preview from She-Hulk episode 3, Blonsky has to explain himself.
In this clip from tonight’s episode, Tim Roth’s Blonsky paints himself as the victim. He also claims that Wong (Benedict Wong), was the man who broke him out. Blonsky is probably stretching the truth there, but tracking down Wong may be Jen’s only hope of winning her case.
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As implied in the preview, Benedict Wong will be making a guest appearance in tonight’s episode. There are even some fun callbacks to Doctor Strange as Jen’s paralegal, Nikki, sets herself up as a thirst trap to lure Wong in. He may be the Sorcerer Supreme, but even Wong needs a little companionship from time to time.
She-Hulk episode 3 will premiere at midnight on Thursday, September 1.
What do you think about Blonsky’s explanation? Let us know in the comment section below!
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Jeff Bezos Thanks The Rings of Power Showrunners For Ignoring His Notes
Say what you will about Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, but the man seems to truly love sci-fi and fantasy. There wouldn’t have been additional seasons of The Expanse on Amazon Prime Video without Bezos’ support for the show. And as one of the richest men in the world, he was one of the few who could afford to spend reportedly $1 billion to get the series rights to The Lord of the Rings and produce The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. The series will premiere in two days, and fans will soon learn if that money was well spent. Regardless, Bezos has offered his thanks to the series’ showrunners, in part for not listening to his notes.
Via Variety, Bezos gave a speech at the London premiere for The Rings of Power and shared his gratitude for showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay. Bezos admitted that he was very hands-on with the series. He even mentioned that Payne and McKay did take his advice in some areas. But Bezos was particularly thankful that they didn’t always listen to him.
“Every showrunner’s dream – and I mean every showrunner – their dream is to get notes on scripts and early cuts from the founder and executive chairman,” said Bezos. “They loved that. I need to thank you both for listening whenever it helped. But mostly I need to thank you for ignoring me at exactly the right times.”
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Bezos went on to explain his personal fandom for J.R.R. Tolkien’s world of Hobbits, Elves, Wizards, and Dwarves.
“My grandfather’s the one who introduced me to Tolkien. I fell in love immediately,” said Bezos. “I was probably 13 or 14 years old [and] I fell in love with the adventure of course, with the detailed universe, with the feelings of hope and optimism, with the idea that everybody has a role to play. And I’m happy to report that that cycle continues today. My kids have become Tolkien fans as well.”
“In fact one of my boys I think approaches the level of a Tolkien scholar he knows so much about this universe,” continued Bezos. “And after Amazon got involved in this project, my son came up to me one day, he looked me in the eyes, very sincerely, and he said: ‘Dad, please don’t eff this up.’ And he was right. We know that this world is important to so many people, we know it’s a privilege to work inside this world and we know it’s a big responsibility.”
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will premiere on Friday, September 2.
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Prosser enters the 2022 season as the defending CWAC champions, making the state playoffs last year before falling to eventual state title winner Lynden in the quarterfinals.
They will try to improve on that finish with a new quarterback, Kory McClure, who succeeds last year's league offensive MVP Kaiden Rivera.
Coach Corey Ingvalson says McClure has a great grasp of the offense and that they return a lot of players who saw varsity time last year giving them a strong start.
"It's going to take a lot in our league to be able to take that picture again, which we pride ourselves on, but that's our goal. Then just be the best team that we can be by the end of the year. If you can do that you should give yourself an opportunity to hopefully play into November."
Prosser went undefeated in league play last season scoring the most points in the CWAC, but Ingvalson says they will see some very tough competition from teams that he believes will take a step forward in 2022.
The players are ready for the start of the season, and think they have all the pieces for a state title.
"On defense we're pretty physical," said Neo Medrano when asked about the team's strengths. "I think we're really fast. I think it's just all around."
Senior Brennen Carey said, "Definitely our D-line. They're big and strong. We're a good throwing team."
The Mustangs are not too far removed from their most recent state championship, which was in 2015, and many preseason rankings have them as a top 10 2A team.
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Selecting Empathic Leaders: 4 Qualities to Seek
In an era of disruption, when top administrators face intense scrutiny, key characteristics can foster resilience and model traits that reflect the core of university life, writes Michael Patullo.
It’s no secret that higher education leaders are announcing their departures at quite a clip this year. This churn in the labor market for top administrators is disruptive and, in many cases, reflects an increasing level of burnout—accelerated by the physical and mental toll exacted by the pandemic. But it also comes with some opportunities. For instance, this period of turnover could be a chance for colleges and universities to recruit leaders from groups that have been traditionally underrepresented within academe. New executives with fresh ways of thinking might also help spur innovation and re-energize campus communities.
But as the pressures and complexities that come with top administrative jobs continue to expand, so does the list of essential skills and qualities to look for in a leader. It seems as though selecting the right person is harder—and perhaps more consequential—than ever before.
Recognizing this, some search committees have responded by prioritizing candidates with experience in change management, data-driven decision-making and fiscal stewardship. Others have gone so far as to require candidates to submit to physical and psychological examinations as a way to protect the institution’s “investment.”
One important quality, though, is too often glossed over: empathy.
Sure, position descriptions identify emotional intelligence, cross-cultural competency and interpersonal skills as essential for successful leaders. But when it comes down to actually selecting someone, empathic leadership can be hard to define—and even harder to tease out in the search process.
Why is empathic leadership important? In an era when leaders face intense scrutiny—from the public, political leaders, alumni and parents, and even from within their own institutions—empathic leaders are able to self-reflect, be present, listen actively, identify and act on their emotions, and withhold judgment. These qualities can foster resilience and longevity, especially during a time of disruption. Moreover, by displaying empathy, leaders model qualities that are at the very core of university life: civility, authenticity and openness to vigorous debate.
I’ve spent more than a decade working closely with top university administrators. Here are four specific traits I’ve observed that can help hiring committees identify empathic leaders. (Spoiler alert: they can also be used as guideposts for those currently in leadership positions seeking to embrace empathic leadership.)
No. 1: Empathic leaders can help stakeholders internalize trade-offs when faced with complex decisions. No executive can avoid choosing between less-than-ideal options—whether to increase tuition or furlough staff to close a budget gap; whether to pursue a controversial building project or preserve town-gown relations; whether to remove a statue of a racist historical figure and alienate one segment of your alumni base or let it stand and alienate another.
When confronting such tough calls, some leaders retreat into their own heads—or worse, they insult the intelligence of the people under their charge by providing only selective details. Instead, they should seek to invite the community into their thinking. While committees are often appointed to deliberate and provide recommendations, empathic leaders can go further by making three things clear to their constituents: 1) that, among the potential options, no easy or obvious choice exists, 2) that there is a process and/or clearly established criteria in place to weigh options and make a decision, and 3) that the ultimate decision will be one that will be fair, principled and transparent, even though some people may disagree.
No. 2: Empathic leaders can speak personally, not just institutionally. After the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Carol Christ, chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, was “compelled by the magnitude and meaning of [the] decision … to share [her] own perspectives.” Careful of the boundary between institutional and individual speech, Christ spoke with power and intimacy, calling the decision’s impact “profoundly personal, alarming and distressing.” She went on to describe the “unimaginable” feeling that the same freedoms she has enjoyed “will not be shared by [her] granddaughters.”
What is striking about Christ’s approach is that, rather than reiterating institutional values in the abstract, it provides a window into her humanity. Sure, reasonable community members could disagree with her position on abortion rights, but it is much more difficult to argue with the validity of her personal experiences. And in choosing to speak openly, she exemplified vulnerability and free expression—two values that are essential to empathic leadership and civil discourse.
No. 3: Empathic leaders can admit they’re wrong, even if they don’t actually think they bear full responsibility. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, a dean I worked with shared an honest message with the student body: she knew it was a challenging time, but the administration was doing its best to navigate the uncertainty, even if it hadn’t always gotten things right. The backlash was swift. Students felt unheard, even dismissed, at a time when they needed support more than ever.
Instead of doubling down on her original position, the dean acknowledged that her message missed the mark—even if she continued to believe in the merit of its central premise. She went to students and asked for their help in better understanding the kinds of support they needed. In that case, the dean recognized the value of meeting students where they were. Although she believed fervently in the diligence and hard work of her team in responding to the pandemic, she also understood that students needed to hear more about how the institution was centering their needs and well-being. For empathic leaders, ceding some ground doesn’t mean compromising their core beliefs or principles. It shows stakeholders that they care, that they can pivot and that they are capable of seeing multiple sides of a complex issue.
No. 4: Empathic leaders can hear the message beneath the noise. Many college and university leaders have a regular practice of holding town-hall meetings with students. They are rarely convivial affairs, as student (and sometimes faculty) activists seize the opportunity to share their concerns and demands on the record with the people in charge. In one particularly heated meeting that I attended at an institution some years ago, a student confronted a top administrator and accused him of enabling international human rights violations by pursuing an international branch campus expansion. Rather than hearing the student, the administrator interrupted and interrogated her as if she were a litigator arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court. As you might imagine, this only inflamed the already simmering tensions between the university administration and the student body.
In that situation, the executive was unable to understand the point that the student was trying to get across because he was so consumed by defending his signature initiative. Empathic leaders, by contrast, can draw a distinction between the message and its inartful—even vitriolic—delivery. They take time to reflect on criticism, even if it’s not constructive, rather than dismiss it. They can defuse tensions by identifying the driving forces behind strong and opposing perspectives and engaging with them.
When searching for new leaders, choosing those who display empathy doesn’t have to come at the expense of other important personal characteristics and professional skills. Each institution must examine its needs and consider how to prioritize them. But, no matter the order of priority, seeking out these traits among candidates will help identify individuals who are not only empathic but who can use their empathy for the benefit of the institution.
Michael Patullo is an associate dean at Columbia Law School in New York.
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English professors don’t always have their nose in a book. In today’s Academic Minute, Santa Clara University’s Amy Lueck explains. Lueck is an associate professor of rhetoric and composition at Santa Clara and author of A Shared History: Writing in the High School, College, and University, 1856–1886 (SIU Press, 2020). A transcript of this podcast can be found here.
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Building common ground and shared will for accelerated change
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Transforming Transfer at Selective Colleges and Universities
Millions of community college students are pursuing their higher education journeys right now. Many aspire to transfer to a four-year college or university. But if trends hold, just a fraction of them will make the jump–especially to a selective institution. Now that we can look at data from the fall 2017 cohort, we see just three percent of community college transfer students enrolled at selective schools.
That’s disappointing, considering tens of thousands of community college students have the credentials, skills, and talents to excel at selective colleges and universities. The pandemic has likely led to additional missed opportunities, with community college transfer enrollment declining by 12.5 percent at highly selective institutions this past spring. This trend has major equity implications for these schools, given who enrolls in community colleges: Recent data shows that about 40 percent of community college students are Black or Latino, and nearly half are from lower-income backgrounds.
Through our work at the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation and the Aspen Institute College Excellence Program, we aim to broaden the horizon for what is possible for the incredible talent that resides in community colleges.
Over the past 21 years, the Cooke Foundation’s Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship has supported hundreds of transfer students as they have thrived at these institutions—and we have supported thousands more through Community College Transfer Initiative grants to selective schools. This past spring, we awarded the Undergraduate Transfer scholarship to 100 high-achieving community college students, the largest group in the program's history. These students are poised to realize their potential in part because we address the barrier of cost for transfer students—devoting up to $55,000 per year for each student toward tuition, living expenses, books, and fees—and support their development through summer internship stipends, career advising, and funding for travel to conferences.
Consider the stories of two Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholars. Francesca Raoelison, who transferred from Northern Virginia Community College to Brown University in 2018, has been featured in the Boston Globe and TEDx for founding Omena, a nonprofit working to stop cycles of emotional abuse in her home country of Madagascar. Matin Ghavamizadeh transferred from Los Angeles Valley College to the University of California, Berkeley to double major in applied mathematics/electrical engineering and computer science. He went on to study probabilistic machine learning at the University of Cambridge and continues his research as a doctoral student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Through the American Talent Initiative, which we at Aspen co-manage, we are working with presidents and senior leaders at the nation’s prominent schools to attract, enroll, and support more community college transfers like Francesca and Matin.
Our organizations have partnered to make further progress toward this goal through the Transfer Scholars Network, which connects students at eight community colleges with admissions representatives from 13 highly selective private institutions offering generous financial aid. In its first year, the early results are promising: 372 high-achieving community college students have built relationships with four-year admissions leaders at these schools—and are receiving the guidance and supports to apply as transfers and ultimately enroll.
Admitting more community college transfers is just the first step: Selective schools must transform the transfer student experience to ensure that those admitted can thrive.
Here are three important steps for selective institutions to consider:
- Partnerships with community colleges. Smaller selective schools may not be able to establish robust pipelines with community colleges the same way their larger, more access-oriented counterparts can. However, they can build meaningful relationships in other ways. For example, presidents at selective institutions can reach out to their community college peers to learn more about each other’s students, break ground on partnerships between their faculty to co-teach classes, and broker relationships between admissions and key community college advisors and mentors.
- Dedicated financial aid and affordability for transfers. With two-thirds of transfer students coming from lower-income backgrounds, selective schools are well-positioned to ensure transfers access an affordable four-year education paired via generous financial aid. Four-year schools can reinforce a message of affordability across recruitment and outreach efforts, dispelling notions that their institutions are out of reach. Alongside sustained investments in financial aid and supplemental funding for the specific needs for transfer students (like housing and childcare), selective schools can accept more community college credits to further reduce the overall cost of attendance.
- Focus on transfer students’ sense of belonging. With transfers representing a small segment of the student body, selective schools must be thoughtful about how they foster a sense of inclusion and belonging. Supporting dedicated transfer initiatives like family housing, transfer centers, and transfer personnel goes a long way to help students see how they would fit in and thrive. By elevating leadership opportunities and access to high-impact experiences, selective schools can signal to transfers they are valued members of the campus community.
The Transfer Playbook points to presidential leadership as a key factor in ensuring transfer student success. This holds true for selective institutions. Presidential commitment can help clear the way for the financial investment, addition of human capital, adjustments to academic and student life policies, and culture change needed for a strong transfer student experience. When that happens, we see community college transfer students like Francesca and Matin primed to succeed—and enrich campuses in the process.
Alan Royal is the director of outreach and partnerships with the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. Benjamin Fresquez is a senior program manager at the Aspen Institute College Excellence Program. For more information about the Cooke Transfer Scholarship and the application process, launching in October, click here.
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If desired, there are many more than the traditional passing, receiving, rushing and defensive statistics to keep track of during high-school football games. Others are the untraditional stats that also accumulate as the action continues.
A few examples:
* How many times will game officials huddle during a contest to discuss the specifics of whatever, usually some type of penalty?
* How many times will the referee huddle with one of the head coaches to talk about something?
* How many times will the ball girls or boys have to retrieve footballs, and how many times will they have to give it to the officials, and be scolded by those same officials that they aren’t doing an efficient enough job?
* How many photographers will be on the field taking pictures?
* How many yellow penalty flags will be thrown? Not the number of penalties called, but how many flags will actually wind up on the ground?
* How many times will the chain crew be obstructed by those in the way along the sidelines and have to wait or sidestep, as the trio moves up and down the field?
* How much team sideline clutter of various items will gather about on the ground between the standing players and the bench during a game, all too easy to trip over?
* How many breaks in the action will occur because of injuries or players suffering leg cramps?
* How many unnecessary people will be gathered along the sidelines?
* How long will the game last, and did the contest start on time?
* How many times will the referee have to adjust the game play clocks?
* How many different cheers will the two cheerleading teams perform?
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Tech firm Pufferfish aiming to 'scale at pace' with new £600k funding round
Edinburgh-based tech firm Pufferfish has announced a funding round to raise £600,000 as it prepares to capitalise on what it sees as a rapidly accelerating global market for its expanding offering.
The business says its digital display systems deliver appealing, interactive engagement and multi-sensory experiences for a range of uses and settings, including corporate conferences, museums, science centres, planetariums, art exhibitions and other visitor attractions, as well as education institutions, and can integrate with other tech systems to turn “complicated data into powerful immersive experiences”.
It added that it is seeking the six-figure sum to expedite its growth plans and maximise commercial opportunities from the ongoing revolution of the digital display market, and investment will support go-to-market activities, product innovation, and new product launches, as well as funding new talent.
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The company in the next year aims to debut improved versions of two of its core products, PufferSphere and PufferTouch, with sharper images and more powerful touch functionality, as well as three completely new products including one that it says will “offer a greater ‘wow’ factor through size and scale”.
Pufferfish also said it is seeking investment from existing and new investors, while a new head of creative will join the business this month, bringing decades of experience from MTV and Disney.
Recently appointed chief executive Elaine Van Der Berg said: “Interactive and immersive display experiences are more in-demand than ever as in-person visitor attractions, events, and exhibitions not only normalise but increase as the Covid-19 pandemic slows.
“The business has almost entirely relied on repeat business and word of mouth to generate sales,” she added, saying its clients include NASA, Google, IBM and the BBC.
“But there’s much more we can do; Pufferfish hasn’t realised its full potential yet. The market is ripe, with advances in technology fuelling the demand for multi-sensory, immersive, audio-visual experiences across a range of sectors from art and entertainment to science and education.
“This investment will allow us to scale at pace to meet growing worldwide demand. It will be used to support new talent in the business, research innovative technology to further improve our products, and roll-out a strong go-to market strategy, including a significant increase in outbound sales and marketing activity.”
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China Will Again Welcome International Students
About 450,000 are waiting to return.
After months of slow progress, China’s authorities appear to be preparing for a widespread return of international students.
“Welcome news! International students can now return to China to resume their studies,” wrote Ma Hui, China’s ambassador to Cuba, in a recent post on Twitter.
The message comes as China readies to ease its COVID-19 restrictions on foreign travelers after two and a half years. By this week, it is slated to scrap current requirements that visitors to the country report the results of a nucleic acid test, their infection status and vaccination dates, the Chinese state–run Global Times reported.
For months, education analysts have been predicting a slow and steady return by some 450,000 foreign learners waiting to get back to the country. While July brought indications that some small groups of overseas students were returning, so far, these have been an exception rather than the rule.
The latest official messages contain the strongest signs yet that Beijing is readying for a mass return of international students.
By the end of August, roughly two dozen countries—including the recent additions of India, Malaysia and Thailand—had received permission for their students to apply for a Chinese X1 study visa, according to the higher education consultancy China Admissions.
“Many students on an X1 visa have already been contacted by their universities, or will be contacted in the following weeks. In addition to the embassies that have already opened student X1 visa applications, we expect all [Chinese] embassies to open their student visa services again in a gradual and coordinated manner,” the group said in a recent post.
Richard Coward, its founder and CEO, told Times Higher Education, “It’s a very positive sign, but we still need to be cautious,” with students needing permission to return from their university and embassy, and mobility levels as yet “far from pre-COVID levels.”
A representative of the student lobbying group China International Student Union said that “at the moment embassies have started accepting student visa applications, and most schools, although not all, have issued return certificates to students [and] others in the process.”
Amid the excitement, there was also confusion among students. On social media, dozens of them reported being in the dark about when they could come back.
“My university didn’t [get] any information about overseas students returning,” wrote one.
Another of those hoping to return claimed his university had said he would need to wait another two months before being allowed entry into China.
Ji Rong, a counselor in China’s ministry of foreign affairs, urged students to “keep patience and faith.”
“Dear students, I’ve got many requests for helping [with] university documents and understand your worries. What I’ve learnt from MOE [the Ministry of Education] is Chinese universities welcome you back and need some time to get prepared since [the] new study policy [was] just announced,” she wrote on Aug. 23.
But even with patience, those hoping to return may be seeking reassurance on concerns over a more tangible issue: money.
A Pakistani medical student talking to Times Higher Education said that even if he were issued a visa with immediate effect, he would be unable to pay for a flight.
“The flights to China these days are less affordable. No one can afford to buy it,” he said.
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Sustainable Scotland: The Scottish beer with a can-do way to tackle nature and climate crises
Would you better enjoy that nice cold drink at the end of the day if you knew it was also helping to save the planet?
Well there’s good news.
Black Isle Brewing Company, a pioneering eco-friendly craft brewer based on an organic farm near Munlochy in the Highlands, has concocted a new pale ale that not only tastes great but will also raise cash for tree-planting projects at home and abroad as part of a special collaboration with the world’s biggest not-for-profit search engine.
Named Silent Spring, the beer is inspired by the seminal book of the same name which caused shockwaves when it was published 60 years ago, drawing attention to the ways humans were destroying the world.
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In partnership with Ecosia – a sort of green Google that sinks 100 per cent of its profits into planting trees – Black Isle will plough half of the cash from sales of the ale into funding woodland projects in Scotland, the UK and more than 35 other countries across the globe.
Silent Spring is making its official debut today at a ‘first pour’ event in the brewery’s flagship Inverness pub, the Black Isle Bar & Rooms, allowing customers to get their first taste of the eco brew – an organic, unfiltered pale ale with a hazy body, fruity nose and zesty, hoppy character.
It will also be featured in launch events elsewhere in Scotland, including Edinburgh and Glasgow.
The book Silent Spring was penned by Rachel Carson in 1962 and is credited with drawing attention to the biodiversity crisis and the disastrous ecological effects of pesticide use.
However, despite many positive changes initiated by the book, many of the author’s warnings remain unheeded six decades on.
In the UK alone, 41 per cent of species have declined over the past 50 years – blamed on a combination of pollution, urbanisation, agriculture, loss and degradation of habitats and climate change.
Now the Highland brewery and Ecosia aim to use the beer to highlight the environmental emergency still facing the planet and make it easier for people to make sustainable choices in their daily lives.
Lawrie Wotherspoon, business development manager at Black Isle, said: “We’ve always held Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring as a foundational text here at Black Isle.
“In fact, her views align perfectly with our own approach to the natural environment and informed our decision to remain free from artificial chemical fertilisers or pesticides, which destroy biodiverse ecosystems whilst also polluting waterways and emitting greenhouse gases.
“Our own experience of tree-planting, habitat-creation, permaculture and community involvement around our market garden and farm encouraged us to reach out to Ecosia, with whom we share so many of these key values.”
Sophie Dembinski, head of policy and UK for Ecosia, says Silent Spring remains one of the most important and urgent examples of environmental literature and advocacy, even 60 years on.
“Yet too many of Carson’s warnings have been ignored, and today we are facing biodiversity and ecological collapse,” she added.
“Agricultural expansion not only uses around two million tonnes of pesticides annually but contributes 25 per cent of carbon emissions and is one of the primary causes of deforestation globally.
“We’re facing biodiversity and ecological collapse.
“By working with regenerative partners such as Black Isle Brewery we hope to remind people of Carson’s warnings and demonstrate just how much better the results are for people when we work with nature rather than against it.”
The beer will shortly be available in bars across the UK, with 50 per cent of the proceeds from each sale going towards Ecosia’s biodiversity-focused planting projects.
It will also be available to buy at Black Isle’s online store with UK supermarkets and EU distributors to be announced at a later date.
Black Isle Brewing, first set up in a cart shed in 1998, uses only organic ingredients – grown on farms without chemicals, as nature intended.
The firm employs more than 50 people across its businesses – which include the brewery, two bars and a boutique hotel – and actively encourages engagement with the local community to share its nature-focused work.
Headquartered in Germany, tech company Ecosia dedicates 100 per cent of its profits to environmental causes and has collaborated with communities in more than 35 countries to plant in excess of 150 million trees.
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New Programs: Data Science, Dental Therapy, Computer Engineering
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- College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University are starting a major in data science.
- Skagit Valley College, in partnership with Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, will launch a dental therapy education program.
- University of Texas at Tyler is starting a bachelor of science in computer engineering.
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A Market Solution to Teacher Shortages Raises Alarms
For-profit “alternate route” teacher-preparation programs are gaining popularity. Some say they’re key to ending teacher shortages; others fear quality and retention will suffer.
With public schools facing a dearth of teachers and traditional teacher-training programs struggling to reverse a long-declining enrollment trend, for-profit companies offering “alternative certification programs” are rising to fill states’ needs.
Enrollment in for-profit alternative teacher-certification programs grew by 48,000 students nationally, or 283 percent, from 2010–11 to 2018–19, according to a 2022 study jointly conducted by the left-leaning think tank the Center for American Progress and the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE). Meanwhile, both traditional degree programs and nonprofit alternative-certification pathways saw a decline in enrollment over the same period.
For-profit companies and their advocates say they are offering students—who are often nontraditional teaching candidates, including adults switching careers—a quick, affordable path to the classroom, while giving their state and district partners an innovative, market-based solution to the shortages wracking their schools.
But some leaders in educator preparation say the for-profit certification model has had negative effects on teacher quality and retention in the states that have adopted it.
According to a 2021 study by the University of Texas at Austin’s College of Education, teachers who completed university-based teacher-prep programs had a 24 percent higher retention rate than those who went through alternate-route programs.
Alternative teacher-certification programs, unlike colleges of education, don’t need to be accredited to operate; states set their own standards and determine which organizations to approve. With shortages driving some districts to shorten school weeks or call on parents to become long-term substitutes, some education experts worry that state legislators and education boards may be more willing than ever to sacrifice quality for an efficient solution.
“In every subject, at every level, teachers prepared by universities had student learning gains that were one to two months greater per year than the learning gains obtained by the students of alternatively certified teachers,” said Michael Marder, one of the lead researchers on the UT Austin study and the founder of UTeach, a nonprofit educator-preparation program based at UT Austin that focuses on training teachers in STEM. “Teacher shortages are placing enormous pressure on schools to accept things that they haven’t been willing to accept in the past.”
“There’s always been entities that are really more interested in profit than they are quality preparation,” said Chris Koch, president of the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP). “We have to hold the line on that stuff.”
‘When Can You Start?’
Nationwide, “comprehensive” education programs based at colleges and universities still train the bulk of new teachers. In 2018–19, 77 percent of students who completed an educator-preparation program, or EPP, did so through a comprehensive program, according to the CAP/AACTE report. But alternate-route programs have flourished in some states.
Texas, for one, has welcomed alternative teacher preparation since 2002, when it became the first state to allow programs unaffiliated with an institution of higher education to certify educators. The Lone Star State is currently home to over 100 alternate-route programs, which account for 68 percent of the state’s non-higher-education-based EPPs. During the 2021–22 school year, 69 percent of all teachers who entered the field had either completed or were in the process of completing an alternative-certification program.
Littered across the state’s sprawling highway system is a trail of billboards asking drivers two simple questions: “Want to become a teacher? When can you start?”
The advertisements belong to the Houston-based educator-preparation company Teachers of Tomorrow, the largest and most influential of the state’s alternative-certification programs. More than half of the roughly 132,000 teaching candidates enrolled in Texas teacher-prep programs last year were training through Teachers of Tomorrow.
“Teachers of Tomorrow is the ground zero of for-profit alternate-route programs,” said Jacqueline King, a research, policy and advocacy consultant for AACTE and co-author of the report. “They were the first to do it, and they have the biggest chunk of the sector.”
The program is entirely online and asynchronous, meaning students can move through it at their own pace whenever it's convenient; Teachers of Tomorrow CEO Trent Beekman says this makes it ideal for adult learners who need flexibility that university-based programs can’t provide. The program’s price tag varies from state to state but hovers around $5,000 for the courses and certification.
“We try to do everything we can to make the pathway to teaching as frictionless as possible,” Beekman said. “We’re constantly trying to evolve and make it more readily available to people who want it, because at the end of the day, if you want to be a teacher, we need to find every avenue we can to make that happen.”
The company boasts that it has trained tens of thousands of teachers, including three of the past four Texas Association of School Administrators’ teachers of the year. But it has also run into issues with state oversight agencies.
In 2016 a Texas Educators Association (TEA) audit found the company noncompliant with five out of nine state standards for quality in teacher education; the next audit, in 2021, found it to be in violation of seven standards.
TEA initially recommended that Teachers of Tomorrow be stripped of its operating rights in Texas, a move that would have had wide-ranging consequences given the state’s ongoing teacher shortage and the company’s outsize role in certifying its educators. After conversations with the company, in April the organization walked back its recommendation to a yearlong suspension.
Beekman said the audit did not discredit the company’s curriculum or the quality of its teacher preparation, but rather its organizational shortcomings.
A representative for TEA did not agree.
“There were multiple aspects of the program design that did not meet TEA’s bar for compliance or quality,” the spokesperson wrote in an email to Inside Higher Ed. “There were additional areas that met the minimum standard for Texas Administrative Code and Texas Education Code compliance but did not include high-quality elements largely accepted in the field as basic best practices.”
In July, members of the Texas State Board for Educator Certification voted to put Teachers of Tomorrow on probation until Oct. 21, meaning the company can continue its standard operations but under the supervision of a state-mandated monitor. Teachers of Tomorrow must demonstrate improvement on the standards it fell short on in order to continue operating past the set date.
For years, Teachers of Tomorrow operated unaccredited in Texas. Then, in January 2021, shortly before the TEA audit, the company was accredited by the Association for Advancing Quality in Educator Preparation (AAQEP). But even that decision wasn’t without controversy.
AAQEP wasn’t recognized by the national Council for Higher Education until May of 2021, months after it accredited Teachers of Tomorrow.
Koch, the president of CAEP, AAQEP’s chief competition, said AAQEP has made a pattern of picking up organizations that CAEP rejects—including Teachers of Tomorrow, which he said had applied for accreditation through CAEP years ago but withdrew shortly after being presented with the organization’s requirements.
“They saw the standards and said, forget it,” Koch said.
AAQEP president Mark LaCelle-Peterson said the organization stands by its decision to accredit Teachers of Tomorrow. He added that AAQEP is closely monitoring the company’s compliance review during its probation period in Texas.
“Thus far, we have found no cause to revisit the accreditation status,” Peterson wrote in an email to Inside Higher Ed.
The company has come under new ownership since the 2021 TEA audit. Private equity firm TPG purchased a majority stake from Gauge Capital last year, shortly after the TEA’s findings were released; in June, Beekman was hired as CEO. He says Teachers of Tomorrow has already resolved many of the issues unearthed in the audit, such as a lack of personal mentorship for candidates and unresponsive customer service.
“We’re putting a lot of money, resources and energy into improving the candidate experience when they’re dealing with Teachers of Tomorrow,” Beekman said. “In a way the audit is a huge benefit for us, in that it’s forcing our hand and really helping us be a better company and build better services for the district and the students.”
The TEA representative said its monitor has been watching the company’s efforts to improve since July.
“To date, the organization has made limited progress,” they wrote.
A Texas Export Spreads its Wings
From its incubator in Texas, Teachers of Tomorrow has multiplied and expanded into eight other states since 2016, including Arizona, Florida and Nevada. Once it was accredited by the AAQEP, the company could begin operating in states with stricter EPP requirements, such as Michigan and Indiana.
Koch said companies like Teachers of Tomorrow have pushed for legislation in many states to relax the requirements for teacher-certification programs.
“With the shortages, we’ve definitely seen growing flexibility from states,” Koch said. “They pay lobbyists to tell legislators, ‘We’re going to address your shortage problem’ … if you’ve got money behind you and you can convince even one legislator, then you’re pretty well set up.”
Indiana was one of the most recent states to open its doors to alternative-certification programs. Last year the state Legislature paved the way for teacher-prep companies by passing a law allowing teaching candidates to pursue licensure through self-paced online programs.
Ed DeLaney, an Indiana state representative who opposes opening the door to for-profit teacher-prep programs, said he’s worried introducing for-profit alternate-route certification will worsen the decline of the state’s public educator-preparation programs.
“The purpose of these companies is to take money out of public universities and public education,” he said. “They are masked as an attempt to solve the problem of teacher shortages, but those firms make their living because there are teacher shortages.”
Jennifer Barce, assistant dean for teacher education at Purdue University and the president of the Indiana Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, is of two minds about the new legislation.
“Alternative programs are a really important piece of solving the teacher-shortage puzzle, but we need to make sure there’s some kind of quality assurance there,” she said. “When I go to a new medical provider, I look them up and see if that person is board-certified, and I also usually look up where they went to school, because that matters. Are those candidates who are coming out of alternative programs meeting the same standards as a traditional candidate?”
Barce added that the influx of alternate-route programs has made university programs like Purdue’s re-evaluate their own strategies for recruitment.
“If I can get a job and be paid and get this teacher license just by taking an online course and the test, why should I go into debt by going to a university program? So I think we’ve really tried to think about how we demonstrate and add value,” she said. “It’s also shown that we have to up our game and get a handle on controlling costs for students.”
Beekman said Teachers of Tomorrow has no ambition to displace comprehensive university-based teacher-prep programs, or even other alternate-route pathways. But the company is on a path of growth, he said. Within the next five years, Beekman hopes it will be operating in at least 20 states; last month was the company’s most successful yet in terms of enrollment.
“I think plenty of states are becoming less resistant to [alternate route] because the shortage just keeps getting worse and worse,” Beekman said. “We want to clear the pathway while making sure the quality of our program isn’t diluted at all.”
Marder said he wouldn’t be surprised if for-profit companies like Teachers of Tomorrow spread even farther and faster.
“I don’t want to be on the record as saying that alternative certification is an unalloyed negative. My concern is that it’s starting to knock everybody else out,” he said. “We’re already at a point where, when I listen to [Texas] state officials talk about teacher preparation, they’re no longer thinking about the university context. They’re thinking about universities as boutique producers who might demonstrate good practice. But when we want to get the job done, it’s ‘let’s ask the companies.’
“If the Texas model is successful, more and more states are going to adopt it,” he added. “I would look for it everywhere.”
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — The International Monetary Fund will provide Sri Lanka $2.9 billion over four years to help salvage the country from its worst economic crisis under a preliminary agreement the agency announced Thursday.
The arrangement will work to restore financial and macroeconomic stability and debt sustainability as well as unlock the country's growth potential, the IMF team visiting Sri Lanka said in a statement.
The package is contingent on approval from the IMF management and executive board, as well as on receiving assurances from Sri Lanka's creditors, which include countries like China, India and Japan, that debt sustainability will be restored.
"Debt relief from Sri Lanka's creditors and additional financing from multilateral partners will be required to help ensure debt sustainability and close financing gaps," the statement said.
Sri Lanka is in the midst of an unprecedented economic crisis with acute monthslong shortages of essentials like fuel, medicine, and cooking gas due to a severe foreign currency dearth. Though cooking gas supplies were restored through World Bank support, shortages of fuel, critical medicines and some food items continue.
The island nation has suspended repayment of nearly $7 billion in foreign debt due for this year. The country's total foreign debt amounts to more than $51 billion of which $28 billion has to be repaid by 2028.
Sri Lanka's economy is expected to shrink by 8.7% in 2022 with inflation rising above 60%, the IMF said, adding that the impact has hit the poor and vulnerable the hardest.
The lender said its package will focus on stabilizing the economy, protecting the livelihoods of citizens and help to spur growth. Key elements include major tax and energy pricing reforms, raising social spending, replenishing foreign exchange reserves, and introducing a stronger anti-corruption legal framework.
On Tuesday, Sri Lanka's president, Ranil Wickremesinghe, said talks with the IMF successfully reached final stages as he presented an interim budget aimed at obtaining a rescue package. Measures outlined covered raising some taxes, slashing capital expenditure, taming inflation and bolstering relief programs.
Wickremesinghe delivered his first budget proposal after he was elected by Parliament in July to fill the rest of the five-year term of ousted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the country in July and resigned after protesters who blame him and his family for the crisis stormed his official residence.
Wickremesinghe said the United Nations and other international organizations have launched a program to ensure food security. Schools have reopened and universities have resumed classes after long closures, he said. However, long fuel lines have reappeared after a quota system seemed to have brought them under control over the past weeks.
In his budget speech, Wickremesinghe said his administration's fiscal program will strive to increase government revenue to around 15% of the GDP by 2025, cut down public sector debt, control inflation and increase value added tax to 15% from the current 12%.
The new budget came amid a relative calm following months of public protests that ousted the once-powerful Rajapaksa political dynasty. Sri Lanka's crisis was made worse by global factors like the pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but many have accused the Rajapaksas of severe economic mismanagement and corruption that pushed the country into bankruptcy.
Rajapaksa is now in Thailand. Party leaders say he is expected to return from exile early in September and have asked Wickremesinghe to provide him with security and facilities to which a former president is legally entitled.
Since becoming president, Wickremesinghe has cracked down on protesters and dismantled their main camp outside the president's office. The use of a harsh anti-terror law to detain a protest leader has led to the United States and European Union raising human rights concerns.
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The Future of the NEH: Q&A With Chair Shelly Lowe
Lowe spoke with Inside Higher Ed about her goal for the National Endowment for the Humanities to reach more underrepresented communities in the U.S., her approach to leadership and her vision for the agency’s future.
Shelly Lowe spoke with Inside Higher Ed this week about what it is like to be the first Native American chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the federal agency charged with supporting research and education in the humanities.
Lowe has a history of scholarship in the field of Native American studies from working as executive director of Harvard University’s Native American program, as assistant dean and director of the Native American Cultural Center at Yale University and as a graduate education program facilitator for American Indian studies at the University of Arizona. Before she was nominated to the chair position by President Biden in October 2021 and confirmed by the Senate in February this year, she was appointed by President Obama to the NEH’s advisory board, the National Council on the Humanities, in 2015.
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Q: How does your Native American heritage inform your leadership style and your approach to studying the humanities?
A: I think that was a question that I had to stop and reflect upon myself. The first time I ever thought about it was when I got onto the National Council for the Humanities and we were in our council meeting with then chair Bill Adams, and he asked us at what point did we understand that humanities was important in our lives? People would go around and talk about, well, I read this book or I went to a lecture. I said, I didn’t have one of those moments. I said I’ve always known that it’s just the way that I grew up and the way that you were supposed to kind of understand and think about things in the world from a very specific kind of cultural aspect. It was just always a part of what you were taught and what you did.
There is no one moment where you think, “Oh, that’s humanities!” It was living it every single day. Just being reinforced every day as you are continually taught cultural teachings, as you were continually kind of working through understanding what it means to be Navajo living on the Navajo reservation. So it was just always a constant for me. It’s a part of everything we do, and it’s instilled in us from the very start. However your culture or your family teaches you, what kind of person you’re supposed to be and how you’re supposed to live in the world and the ideals and the goals that you’re supposed to have in life. Native culture is connected for everybody. We just haven’t thought about it that way.
Q: Why do you think we’re not taught to think about it that way?
A: I think that there are just other aspects that were more important, right? So not thinking about the natural world in exactly the same way, and our relationship to the natural. I think we are coming back to it. I think there’s a lot of focus now on how do we live in the world and how do we live responsibly in the world so that we can continue to live in the world? And I’m talking about the natural world, the environment. We’ve got away from that and focused on other things—development, industrialization, technology—and we started to forget about the natural world and our connection to it. But I definitely think we’re coming back to it.
Q: Do you think it’s important right now to view humanities as adjacent to other fields of research?
A: I think the humanities is the basis for all things. I used an analogy one time—one of our first Navajo surgeons, we talk a lot to our Native youth about going and becoming lawyers, becoming doctors. The health field is a really big draw for a lot of our youth—they want to go and become doctors and nurses, physicians, because they want to come back and help the health disparities on the Navajo reservation and help heal the health issues that we have. And you can do that and you can be a doctor. But the unique thing is you’re always going to be a Navajo doctor. You’re always going to think about that work in a very specific Navajo frame of mind. Which means understanding that sometimes what we do with medicine, practical medicine, is going to be complemented with what you have to do with ceremony and more traditional healing aspects. I think everybody has that cultural worldview that they come in from.
Q: Can you talk a bit about your previous roles in Native American studies?
A: I’ll start at University of Arizona, because that’s where I was introduced to American Indian studies. Once I took an American Indian studies course, you start to understand why things aren’t good. That was the first time I was taught those very specific historical aspects of policies that the government had enacted laws, rules, regulations, how reservations are set up. I was never taught that before. When I kind of got that larger view, it’s like, oh, I get it now. That makes sense. And now I see that there are avenues to be able to work through and address these issues and be part of creating solutions and making things better. It was kind of like, how come I never was taught this before? And the worst part was 95 percent of the students on campus weren’t being taught this.
Q: What do you think it means for people who are studying Indigenous cultures to have someone like you in a position at the NEH?
A: I am hoping it brings a spotlight. One, to the fact that we have Native studies. I think one of the things about putting an individual who has experience like I do, who has come out of Native studies, who has worked in Native studies, who has worked in Native support programs within higher education, it actually helps people understand that these things exist. There’s so many people that don’t even know that these kinds of programs exist. There’s always this assumption they exist because there’s a problem with Native students and they have to have these programs to help Native students get through college. It’s not about everybody learning from these programs and getting resources and support from these officers.
People are starting to pay attention, like, oh, wait, there are these programs that are doing really great things. They’re teaching not just Native students, they’re teaching entire communities on campus. There really is a value to the entire campus and the entire population, and not just for Native students, and I think people forget that fairly often.
Q: How do you want to leave this place better off than you found it? What are some things that you are really focusing on as your objectives?
A: I came into the position with some groundwork having been done in terms of the agency and the kind of administrative foundation for the agency. So when I was a council member, we didn’t get a lot of information about where we weren’t funding grants. When I came in, there had already been a discussion about an Office of Data and Evaluation. And I said, yes, please can we put that in? How do you do work within an agency if you don’t have an Office of Data and Evaluation that really can tell you where you’re having an impact and, more importantly, where you are not having an impact and help you try to figure out why that is not happening? The agency has had this before; we just haven’t had it in more recent years. We really need to be data-driven in the work that we do.
Q: What are some specific provisions of the application process that you think could be changed to reach into underrepresented communities?
A: One of the things our division directors are looking at is how do we put in place some smaller grant sizes that really can help us reach out to smaller organizations, organizations with fewer administrative staff sizes and get them connected to us? Have them apply if we can fund them, then they have a relationship with us. Very often when an organization has a relationship with any agency, they will come back later. They’ll build upon whatever it is they’ve proposed, and then they’ll come back again. Or at least they have, then, this connection to all of the other resources and programs and offices and organizations that NEH is connected to. It does broaden kind of the resource level and feel that they are able to connect to after that.
Q: You recently announced $31.5 million for 226 humanities projects nationwide. Can you give me some of the highlights?
A: I think one of the ones that I’m really excited about is the Latino poetry project. This is very, very large. This project got a special chair’s grant or designation, so this is going to be a national project that really is focusing on Latino poetry. There are going to be events across the country. It’s going to be the first time that the kind of anthology and a pulling together of Latino poetry over time. It’s gonna come together. It’s gonna be cool!
[The Latino poetry project referenced by Lowe is a project by the Library of America, a nonprofit publisher founded with money from the NEH in 1979, in partnership with the National Association of the Latino Arts and Cultures. The project received almost $850,000 from the NEH to create an anthology of 400 years of Latino poetry, starting in the 16th century and continuing to the present day. The project will also host cultural events at 75 public libraries nationwide.]
Q: You mentioned in a prior interview for Humanities Magazine that you were hiring a chief diversity officer and creating an office of outreach. What are these roles going to bring that has never existed before and when do you expect to have them filled?
A: These should be filled later this year. We’re starting with the Office of Data and Evaluation, and we’re in the process now of trying to identify and hire somebody to direct that office. That’s step one of understanding internally our work. The second part of that for the director of outreach is, you know, when we do have a sense of where are we not reaching? How do we start to build those relationships? How do we start to reach those communities and encourage them to think about NEH as a place to apply for their amazing and outstanding programs? The director of outreach will be the individual that will really do the legwork. So really trying to get out into those communities, find out what their needs are, find out what has kept them from thinking about NEH in the past, find out what kind of hurdles that they’ve had if they’ve applied before and start to work with communities to help us figure out how do we make our grant lines much more equitable to smaller organizations, to rural organizations, to community colleges, to HBCUs? Those organizations that just don’t have the grant-writing staff that large institutions that we’re familiar with generally have and are doing this on a full-time basis. That person will be kind of the, what I’m calling our recruiter. The person who is really going to be out there speaking for us.
The chief diversity officer will be internal, and it is the part of doing this work and making the agency and our work more equitable [that] is making sure that we as staff within the agency are understanding exactly what doing equitable work looks like. How do we create a foundation for every single staff member to be thinking about equity, inclusion, diversity, accessibility in the work that we do? So the person that comes in as our chief diversity officer is going to ensure that we as staff and administrators in the agency are trained, that we have the information, that we are understanding the populations that we are trying to reach, and that we understand that even internally that we are doing things in a manner that does bring in accessibility across all of the areas of the agency that does have and thinks about inclusion.
Q: What can we expect from the NEH in the future?
A: I expect that more small organizations that haven’t had NEH funding will be applying and will be announced as receiving grants. This will bring more attention to what I hear all the time as untold stories of our country. One of the things I said is that we’re such a great and wonderful country, but we don’t tell all of our great and wonderful stories all the time. Or we are not telling them in a national way. We kind of focus on the negativity more often than I think that we should. We have such wonderful, rich, diverse cultures in this country, and there’s so much that we can learn from each and every one of those communities that I think is part of the work that we’re going to be putting out there. Might start with some Latino poetry (laughs).
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LiveScottish transfer deadline day LIVE: Rangers 'to receive £10m bid', Celtic eye midfielder, Hearts and Hibs active
Transfer deadline day is upon us which means clubs up and down the country face a race against time to finalise their squads for the season ahead.
A flurry of activity is expected across the Scottish Premiership with incomings and outgoings possible at Celtic, Rangers, Hearts, Hibs and others – but they only have until midnight tonight to get the deals pushed through.
Rangers resolve could be tested with reports of a £10m move from French club Nice for midfielder Glen Kamara, while there is uncertainty surrounds the future of Alfredo Morelos and Ryan Kent, who are in the final year of their contracts.
There is also the possibility of incomings at Ibrox, while Celtic are expected to make a deadline day move for Rubin Kazan holding midfielder Oliver Abildgaard, a Danish international, as well as St Mirren youngster Dylan Reid.
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Robbie Neilson says Hearts plan to be “more aggressive” ahead of the window shutting after suffering key injuries while Hibs are keen to strengthen in both defence and attack after an indifferent start to the season under new manager Lee Johnson.
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Celtic ‘agree deal’ for Dane
Celtic’s move for Rubin Kazan midfielder Oliver Abildgaard is very much on with transfer expert Fabrizio Romano claiming that the transfer will go through ahead of tonight’s deadline.
He tweeted: “Celtic are now set to sign Danish midfielder Oliver Abildgaard. Deal in place, agreement has been reached now waiting to sign contracts.”
Abildgaard commanded a £1.8million transfer fee when he moved from Aalborg BK to Rubin Kazan in 2019 and has been capped once by Denmark.
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Hibs linked with trio
The morning is still young, but three players have already been linked with making a deadline day move to Hibs.
According to reports, striker Harry McKirdy is in Edinburgh for a medical ahead of completing a move from Swindon Town.
Hibs have also been credited with interest in loaning Manchester United midfielder Ethan Galbraith, a 21-year-old Northern Ireland international who spent time on loan at Doncaster Rovers last season.
Southampton centre-back Dynel Simeu, a former England youth internationalist, has also been tipped to join the Easter Road side on loan as manager Lee Johnson looks to bolster his defence.
Ramirez wanted by Hearts
Hearts have made their first move of transfer deadline day after making an approach for Aberdeen striker Christian Ramirez.
The Edinburgh Evening News report that the Tynecastle side are keen to take the USA international on loan as they look to bolster their attack following the news Liam Boyce faces up to nine months out injured.
However, despite falling out of the first-team picture under Jim Goodwin this season, the Dons are said to be reluctant to allow last season’s top scorer to depart for a Premiership rival.
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Rangers £10 offer incoming?
Could Glen Kamara be on his way out of Rangers amid reports of a megabucks move to France?
The Scottish Sun claim that the Finnish international midfielder is the subject of serious interest from Ligue 1 side Nice with a £10million bid in the offing for a player who cost the Ibrox club just £50,000 in 2019.
Ange hints at Celtic arrival
Celtic could make a move for Danish holding midfielder Oliver Abildgaard in the final hours of the window.
After watching his side confidently despatch Ross County 4-1 in the Premier Sport Cup, boss Ange Postecoglou indulged in a spot of badinage when asked about reports of interest in the 26-year-old who is currently on special leave from Russian club Rubin Kazan.
“That’s a name, definitely a name,” he said of a player from a club Celtic have already raided for Sead Haksabanovic and Carl Starfelt. “There have been a lot of names. There are 24 hours to go, there are still some outgoings we are working on as well. We’ll see how things fall.”
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Completion Boost for 2-Year Students Who Take (Some) Online Courses
Black, Hispanic and low-income community college students who take up to half their courses online increase their odds of completing degrees, a working paper finds. Fully online learners are less likely to earn a credential.
A longtime higher ed paradox is this: community colleges open doors to educational opportunities, particularly for underrepresented, low-income or underprepared students, but most students who enter these institutions do not earn degrees. Past studies have produced sometimes-conflicting results on whether online coursework helps community college students progress toward degrees. Many of those studies, however, have not distinguished between students who pursue one or two online classes and those who take all their courses online.
A new working paper from the Institute of Higher Education at the University of Florida suggests that Black, Hispanic and low-income community college students who take some, but not all, of their courses online increase their likelihood of completing an associate or bachelor’s degree. The online-course-percentage sweet spot for degree completion falls somewhere between “more than zero” but “less than one-quarter.” Also, among all community college students, those who pursued online courses exclusively were less likely to earn associate or bachelor’s degrees than their peers who enrolled in some in-person classes.
The added flexibility that online courses provide helps community college students overcome the time constraints many face from work and family responsibilities, said Justin Ortagus, the study’s author and director of the Institute of Higher Education. “But my study shows that you can have too much of a good thing, and the benefits of engaging in some online courses turn into burdens when students enroll exclusively in online coursework.”
Black community college students who enrolled in some online courses (fewer than 50 percent of their courses) were more likely (between 11.6 and 23 percent) to complete their associate and bachelor’s degrees than those who studied fully in person, according to the paper. Hispanic students with this enrollment pattern experienced similar results (between 6.2 and 22.4 percent more likely to earn degrees), as did low-income students (between 9.4 and 18.5 percent more likely). In the pooled group of students and all subgroups (Black, Hispanic and low-income students), the strongest outcomes happened when students’ academic programs included some, but less than one-quarter, online coursework.
Students who enrolled exclusively in online courses were 15.8 percent less likely than students who studied fully in person to earn associate degrees, according to the study. The results were more pronounced for Black students (18.1 percent less likely), Hispanic students (17.8 percent less likely) and low-income students (16.8 percent less likely) seeking associate degrees. In all cases, enrolling in some but not all online courses increased the likelihood of obtaining associate degrees.
“We know the importance from other research of creating a sense of belonging for students, especially for students of color and students who have faced structural and historical disadvantages in higher education,” said Shayne Spaulding, senior fellow at the Urban Institute, a nonprofit research organization that provides data and evidence to help advance upward mobility and equity. “Engaging students and creating a sense of connection is hard to do in the virtual space.”
To provide the nuanced analysis, Ortagus gained access to and drew from 10 years of transcripts from Sunshine Community College, a pseudonym for a high-enrollment community college. (The data set included more than 40,000 transcripts.) The U.S. government does not currently require community colleges to report percentages of students’ online and in-person coursework. In the paper, Ortagus calls on policy makers to demand more transparent reporting by delivery method and to enhance accountability for exclusively online programs.
“Many students facing time or location constraints may not be able to enroll in some face-to-face courses due to schedule conflicts, but enrolling in a few online courses would allow these students to earn additional credits,” Ortagus said. “In addition, community college students who only take face-to-face courses may be forced to wait a semester or two to enroll in certain high-demand courses due to space constraints, but online courses can remove this barrier and allow students to continue to make progress toward their degree.”
Earlier studies have found that underprepared students fare worse online, which has prompted questions about which students stand to benefit from online program funding. In one study, community college students in California, many of whom are low income and underrepresented, were 11 percent less likely to pass a course if taken online as opposed to in person.
“It’s important for colleges to offer a variety of modalities for students, help each student make informed decisions about whether and how online learning could benefit that student and be proactive about intervening and providing support to students who struggle in key courses, whether they are online or face-to-face,” said Shanna Smith Jaggars, director of the Ohio State University Student Success Research Lab. The interplay of societal and demographic factors can shed light on whether online options serve as an advantage or disadvantage.
“An older, full-time-working mom with a strong academic background may do just fine in either an online or face-to-face course, but a young man who is the first in his family to attend college may perform much more poorly in an online course than in a face-to-face one,” Jaggars said.
To parse when and whether online community college courses are beneficial requires insight into not only students’ demographic backgrounds but their intended fields of study.
“A lot of people are like, ‘Oh, an online program will be so much less expensive to deliver,’ but there are a lot of other, different costs that need to be considered,” Spaulding said before providing examples: online students need internet access, and some need specific hardware or software. Those studying IT, for example, need state-of-the-art computers matched to the industries for which they are preparing. A student preparing to work as a nurse who can draw blood will need an in-person component. Also, faculty members need professional development opportunities that support best online teaching practices, which costs money and can be challenging to deliver to adjunct faculty.
“There are ways to design programs more intentionally to make sure that they’re meeting students’ needs,” Spaulding said. Community college administrators and faculty members need to “really think about what student-centered design means in the online context and how to consider issues of equity.”
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Today on the Academic Minute: Amy J. Lueck, associate professor of rhetoric and composition at Santa Clara University, explains that English professors don’t always have their nose in a book. Learn more about the Academic Minute here.
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Ohio Supreme Court Won’t Hear Oberlin Appeal
The Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review a lower court’s ruling that Oberlin College must pay $36 million to a nearby bakery, Cleveland.com reported.
Without issuing any statements, the court voted 4 to 3 not to hear an appeal. The vote was along party lines, with all four Republican justices voting with the majority and the three votes to hear the appeal coming from Democratic judges.
The case started in 2016, when Allyn Gibson caught three Black Oberlin students stealing wine from Gibson’s Bakery, which is located near the college. The students claimed racism. The fallout led to student protests, elevated by then dean of students Meredith Raimondo, who handed out fliers protesting the bakery, and Oberlin's student government, which passed a resolution accusing the bakery of a history of racial discrimination.
In 2017, the bakery sued Oberlin, claiming the college had hurt its reputation.
In April, an Ohio appeals court upheld a verdict against the college.
The judge who initially heard the case had settled on a verdict of $25 million, plus $6 million for Gibson’s lawyers. That amount has increased to $36 million with interest.
In a statement, Oberlin said it was “disappointed” that the Supreme Court will not hear its appeal. “The issues raised by this case have been challenging, not only for the parties involved, but for the entire Oberlin community,” said the statement. “We remain committed to strengthening the partnership between the college, the City of Oberlin and its residents, and the downtown business community. We will continue in that important work while remaining focused on our core educational mission.”
The Gibson family and their lawyers, in a statement, said that the entire state of Ohio should appreciate that the courts recognized Oberlin’s “deplorable conduct.”
The statement said, “The power of truth has enabled the Gibson family to survive Oberlin’s onslaught. Truth still matters, David can still overcome Goliath.”
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Penn Convocation Interrupted by 'Penntrification' Protesters
Upset about the looming eviction of residents in a nearby affordable housing complex, protesters descended on Monday’s convocation at the University of Pennsylvania, interrupting President Liz Magill and accusing Penn of gentrifying neighborhoods near campus—or “Penntrification,” as they called it.
Despite being targeted, Penn does not own the nearby University City Townhomes complex at the heart of the protest, which The Philadelphia Inquirer reported largely houses Black and Hispanic families who will likely be forced to move out in October. While Penn does not own the housing facility and has no plans to purchase the site, the newspaper reported that activists believe the university should step in given how its presence has contributed to gentrification.
University City Townhomes is owned by IBID Associates, which is not affiliated with Penn. IBID Associates is attempting to sell the complex, which reportedly houses around 70 families.
The newspaper reported that protesters held signs reading “Penn is displacing Black families” and “Liz Magill, stop the eviction,” among other slogans. Students were among the protesters, with some telling the Inquirer that Penn should invest its resources in affordable housing.
A Penn spokesperson told the Inquirer it was ironic that the protest disrupted Magill’s speech, which was about “productive disagreement and the value of learning across differences.”
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NASA's Artemis I spacecraft was supposed to head to the moon earlier this week. But after suffering a technical error it had to be delayed until Saturday afternoon.
It's been nearly 50 years since the last Apollo landing, and the landscape for space exploration has changed drastically since then. One obvious update? This ship has no crew (for now). NASA hopes that later Artemis missions will eventually return humans on the moon.
Efficiency, costs, and motivations for the mission have been brought into question leading up to the launch. Lori Garver was the deputy administrator of NASA during the Obama administration and joined All Things Considered to shed light on the process, and the future of humans in space.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Interview highlights
On the purpose of the mission
Within the space community, this has been something they wanted to do since they left the moon. And I think one of the reasons we haven't, is because we haven't answered that question [of why they took such a long hiatus]. Today, NASA says it's because we're in a race with China, but of course, we've won that race six times. So I think the space program is incredibly valuable and the things that we are doing have helped humanity tremendously. Going back to the moon is, I think, a positive path, but I don't think we have well articulated the purpose for spending the amounts of money that are now required.
On the impact of private space exploration companies
Private space companies are actually part of this mission. Of course, they were part of Apollo as well. Space X has a contract with them to build the lunar lander, but they are also building a large launch vehicle that could get us there for a fraction of the cost of the government owned and operated planned systems that have taken more than a decade and tens of billions of dollars. So this isn't an either-or.
On the delayed launch of Artemis 1, and other challenges
Well, it's not just this latest setback that is an issue. It's emblematic of why a program that was supposed to take five years has now taken nearly 12. And that was supposed to cost $20 billion, has cost $43 billion. That is something that I don't understand how the public and their elected representatives will continue to support once there is a private sector option flying.
On what other avenues NASA should expend resources on
I think NASA could go back to the moon for significantly less resources in a way that drives technology, which is what really returns to the nation and the planet. The money that they save for doing that could be spent on priorities like increasing the Earth sciences programs, studying greenhouse gas emissions from space, helping us to manage our resources on this planet. There are a lot of ways NASA's can contribute to a better world, both here on Earth and beyond.
On how space exploration benefits humans on Earth
We believe they're inspirational and allow people to invest in themselves and go into fields which help us all. I think there is also a direct return ultimately, and things like being able to detect incoming asteroids. You don't need humans in space to do that. But it is exploration. And ultimately, we do have to get off of this planet to survive over the longer term. In my view, that is a multigenerational activity and we need to figure out how to last long enough on this planet in order to be to a point where we can expand beyond in a permanent way.
On whether NASA has struggled to keep up with the times
Well, I wrote a book, Escaping Gravity that just came out about this. I think, you know, no one's bad. It's just the status quo in Washington. Contractors already have jobs, they're going to argue for keeping those jobs, their members of Congress want them to keep those jobs. And it just becomes sort of a do-over when, in my view, we weren't established — we being NASA — to do the same thing again. We are supposed to be driving technologies. And so that's why I think many of us are critical of this rocket program, because it really is 1970s technology, and that is not the way we think it's best to go back to the moon.
On the desire to get to Mars
I think within NASA and the some of these private companies, Mars is the ultimate goal. I think that going to the moon is not required before you get to Mars, but it is certainly helpful, and a place where you can learn again to operate at a distance from this planet. I think the goal of getting to Mars for many people is more exciting, but that is an order of magnitude more challenging.
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Most people are not fortunate enough to realize the impact their life has made on others because, well, the majority of the accolades often come at memorials. But when you are Serena Williams, playing what is expected to be the final major tournament of a career emblazoned with the acronym G.O.A.T, you must recognize how your presence and accomplishments on and off the tennis court have inspired the hopes and dreams of African Americans, in particular female athletes, how you have introduced a sport that appeared off limits to a new, diverse audience, and how you have rewritten society's definition of beauty – all this by doing things your way.
Not even father Richard Williams, shunned, disrespected and laughed at when he shuttled his two young daughters, Venus and Serena, from their home in Compton, Calif., where they learned to play on public courts, to tennis clinics and tournaments throughout Southern California, could have predicted the influence his baby girl would have in a country club sport – and beyond. He knew they would both be No. 1. But that wasn't enough for Serena.
In her 2009 memoir, On The Line, Serena wrote about how a national newspaper article on Venus, published after the two started playing tournaments, spurred her because the article "suggested that I'd never be anything more than a footnote to Venus's career...I promised myself I'd never forget that article, that one day I'd prove the reporter wrong."
Venus, 15 months older, certainly paved the way for Serena. Then Serena, with that article fueling the fire that burned inside her, blazed her own path to become the most dominant female athlete of all time with a jaw-dropping 23 Grand Slam singles championships, a record in the Open era, that fittingly began at the U.S. Open in 1999.
Just two years prior, in August 1997, Richard sat with this journalist in the family's West Palm Beach, Fla., home and wondered aloud if he was doing the right thing by delaying Serena's U.S. Open debut. Serena was itching to play. But dad wanted to bring his tennis prodigies along slowly so the sisters could enjoy being youths and focus on their studies. Serena had turned pro when she was 14 but only played one tournament in 1995, none in 1996 then five in 1997. The following year, it was game on as she made her first appearance in each of the four Grand Slam tournaments.
Soon, there was no surface Serena couldn't master, from grass at the prestigious All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, where she won seven prestigious Wimbledon titles, to the hardcourts at Melbourne Park, where she also claimed seven Australian Open titles, and the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, where she earned six U.S. Open trophies, to the hallowed clay courts at Stade Roland Garros, where three French Open championships came her way. Few people knew Serena was pregnant with her daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr. when she beat Venus in the 2017 Australian Open finals for her 23rd Grand Slam singles trophy. In all, seven of Serena's Grand Slam triumphs have come against Venus, the sister who taught her so much.
Serena always had the luxury of having her protective big sister share tips on how to play opponents whom Venus may have already faced. With Venus, Serena also had a confidant who knew exactly what she was going through when it came to matters of race in the sport. Althea Gibson, who in 1956 became the first African American to win a Grand Slam title, and Arthur Ashe, who won three Grand Slam titles and remains the only African American male tennis player to win the U.S. Open and Wimbledon singles titles, didn't have this advantage.
At 42, Venus has not mentioned retiring. Serena also hasn't used the R word, preferring evolving. Yet hasn't she already changed so much? The Williams sisters brought to tennis something never before seen in their sport. They flaunted their cultural heritage with braids and beads in their early years on the tour. They played with an aggressiveness and phenomenal power that was decried but has become more commonplace in the women's game. Serena, with her bulging biceps, took twice the criticism with detractors body shaming her. The younger, more muscular sister accepted being blessed with thick thighs and a round buttocks that women pay good money to achieve through surgery. She proved that her thighs and butt didn't slow her down when it came to chasing opponents' shots on the court and returning blistering winners. Instead of hiding her curves, she flaunted them in her outfits on the court and posed nude for the cover of Vanity Fair while pregnant.
Not afraid to show emotion and possessing passion and confidence while winning on her terms in a white man's sports, Serena inspired little girls and boys of color to pick up racquets. Were it not for the Williams sisters, it's highly unlikely the 2020 U.S. Open would have boasted 16 either Black or multiracial players, including 12 on the women's side.
African American players Zina Garrison, the 1990 Wimbledon singles runner-up, and Lori McNeil, a singles semifinalist at the U.S. Open in 1987 and Wimbledon in 1994, were role models for Serena, who in turn inspired Grand Slam champions Naomi Osaka and Sloane Stephens, along with Coco Gauff and Frances Tiafoe, currently ranked second, respectively, among U.S. women and men. Even race car driver Lewis Hamilton, the record holder with 103 Formula One wins and a record-tying seven world championships, has stated how much the Williams sisters inspired him in his sport where he is the only Black driver.
For the past 27 years, Serena has given her all to the game. Now it's time to say goodbye, to let her continue to blossom into the mother, wife and businesswoman roles she has taken on while excelling on the court. We say, thank you, Serena.
Kelly E. Carter is the New York Times bestselling author of Come to Win: Business Leaders, Artists, Doctors, and Other Visionaries on How Sports Can Help You Top Your Profession.
Grace Widyatmadja and Şeyma Bayram photo edited this story.
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Study Examines How Colleges Borrow During Times of Crisis
How colleges use debt during times of crisis varies greatly depending on institutional characteristics, according to a new report from Ithaka S+R funded by the TIAA Institute.
The study, released Wednesday, found that while historically Black colleges and universities tend to borrow less than non-HBCUs—a pattern that has remained relatively constant—HBCUs “became significantly more leveraged than non-HBCUs” after the Great Recession of 2008. One explanation for this was that HBCUs borrowed to weather financial hardships, rather than for capital projects such as campus residence halls.
Likewise, public institutions were more likely than private ones to increase debt levels during the recession, which the authors suggest can be attributed to declining state support amid an economic downturn.
“During the Great Recession, states faced significant budget shortfalls, and higher education was frequently at the top of the list of things to be cut. Historically, HBCUs have faced severe underfunding. For both public institutions and HBCUs, these funding shortfalls may have contributed to a need to engage debt markets when other revenue sources were insufficient,” the study found, noting that, over all, colleges that increased debt at that time did so strategically.
The report also looked at how colleges weathered the coronavirus pandemic, noting that the influx of federal dollars helped colleges through a period of financial uncertainty.
Both an executive summary and the full report are available on Ithaka S+R’s website.
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Tenn. Lawmaker Tells Universities to Suspend LGBTQ+ Policies
A Tennessee state lawmaker has ordered state universities to suspend policies that designate LGBTQ+ students as a protected class, the Tennessee Lookout reported.
State representative John Ragan’s order, sent in a letter to East Tennessee State University president Brian Noland, follows a federal court decision to block the Biden administration’s new Title IX guidance that would formally protect LGBTQ+ students. Tennessee is leading a lawsuit against the new Title IX regulations.
Ragan, a Republican who serves as House chairman of the Legislature’s Joint Government Operations Committee, told the university that policies following the new Title IX guidance would violate state laws, and that “any publications, policies and website entries for which your institution is responsible that state or imply that LGBTQI+ students are a protected class under Title IX” should be removed. He wants a response by Friday, according to the Lookout.
Tennessee Democrats and LGBTQ+ advocates criticized Ragan’s letter while an East Tennessee State University spokeswoman told the Lookout that the university’s legal team was reviewing the document.
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Beneath the Student Loan Crisis, There’s an ROI Crisis
The reality is college doesn’t pay off for many graduates—and until we’re more transparent about that, the student loan crisis will be a recurrent one, Chris Keaveney writes.
Consider, really consider, the numbers: one in seven Americans is still paying on their college loans that now total about $1.6 trillion. Recent graduates who borrowed money for college each owed an average of nearly $29,000 before they landed their first full-time job.
The sheer amount of outstanding student loans is staggering, so it’s a no-brainer to say that the debt forgiveness announced by the Biden administration last week could be life-changing to many of the approximately 45 million Americans who are still paying off college. But this debate over forgiving student debt—How much? For whom? And should we do it at all?—hides a more systemic problem: there is a vast misalignment between what many students pay to attend college and the salaries they earn after graduation.
Too many students are failing to consider the return on their education investment when they choose a college or a degree program; this, coupled with the relative ease of borrowing for both students and parents, has resulted in student loan debt more than tripling since 2006. Colleges and universities are at least partially to blame for this disconnect. The good news is that they can play an important role going forward in informing learners about the realities of learning and earning.
Make no mistake: degree completion still holds enormous value. For people from all walks of life, a college degree can lead to long-term social and economic mobility. The data show a generally positive correlation between education and income: the more education a person has, the more they’re paid each week and over their lifetimes.
But that’s not an ironclad rule. A recent report from the Center on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University found significant numbers of people who outearn those with more advanced degrees. The report found, “Thirty-one percent of workers with no more than a high school diploma earn more than half of workers with an associate’s degree. Likewise, 28 percent of workers with an associate’s degree earn more than half of workers with a bachelor’s degree, and 36 percent of workers with a bachelor’s degree earn more than half of workers with a master’s degree.”
Students take out college loans with the best-case belief that their education will help them launch a high-paying career that will pay off their debt and set them up for success over their lifetimes. But the fact that significant numbers of Americans are being outearned by those with less education suggests that many college students don’t realize how much—or how little—their degrees are worth in the world of work.
It’s not hard to find examples of colleges and degree programs where the cost of attendance far outweighs the return on investment in the labor market. The Georgetown center found that more than half the students at 1,233 different postsecondary institutions—30 percent of the nation’s colleges—earn less 10 years after enrolling than someone with only a high school diploma.
Many Americans have come to realize they have been shortchanged. A survey conducted by Strada Education Network and Gallup found that only about a quarter (26 percent) of working American adults who attended college strongly agree that what they learned is relevant to their careers and their daily lives. And large numbers of people with college degrees—41 percent of recent grads and a third of all college grads—report being underemployed, stuck in jobs that don’t ask them to use the skills and knowledge they learned in college.
To rectify this situation, colleges and universities must do a better job of teaching in-demand skills that students need and employers seek. Institutions of higher education must help learners from the moment they step foot on campus make informed decisions about their career aspirations.
Colleges must establish pathways from the classroom to careers as soon as students arrive on campus. Institutions must clearly show which classes and degree programs lead to specific professions, and they must provide all students with professional guidance to help them stay on their chosen paths.
But most importantly, colleges must be transparent about the payoffs—or lack thereof—for all their academic majors and degree programs. The University of Texas system, the California Community Colleges system, the State University System of Florida and the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard publish valuable student debt and/or salary information for graduates of different colleges and majors that can help learners make informed choices about courses of study and careers so they can maximize their educational return on investment. This sort of detailed data, along with local and regional internship and job postings and growth trends for various industries and professions, should be a standard feature at all colleges and universities.
In addition to making degrees more transparent, there’s growing interest among students and employers in short-term skills-based training programs that lead directly to a specific job. These short-term credentials are an efficient and cost-effective way to get people the education and training they need without loading them down with debt.
Employer-sponsored education could be a relatively low-risk way to finance college for those who would otherwise have to borrow. Having employers helping to create talent rather than just consuming it would go a long way toward creating financially sustainable training programs.
President Biden’s announcement last week that he would cancel $10,000 for all borrowers, and $20,000 for those who received Pell Grants, came after months of intense pressure for student loan relief from young Americans. Going forward, our nation would be wise to address the underlying issues that have caused so many Americans to rack up so much college debt. Until the cost of college and skills training programs become more transparent and aligned with market incentives for employers and job seekers—and until institutions and learners are laser-focused on educational ROI—every American president after Biden will be asked to settle the same debate over student debt.
Chris Keaveney is founder and CEO of Meritize, a student lending company based in Texas.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Biden administration hopes to make getting a COVID-19 booster as routine as going in for the yearly flu shot.
That’s at the heart of its campaign to sell the newly authorized shot to an American public that has widely rejected COVID-19 boosters since they first became available last fall.
Shots of the updated boosters, specifically designed by Pfizer and Moderna to respond to the omicron strain, could start within days. The U.S. government has purchased 170 million doses and is emphasizing that everyone will have free access to the booster.
White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said this latest round of shots will offer protection during the busy cold and flu season, with the hope of transitioning people to get the vaccine yearly. Typically, at least half of U.S. adults get a flu shot.
“We expect them to provide more durable protection over time,” Jha said in an interview Wednesday with The Associated Press. “The goal very much is to get to a point where people get their COVID shot on a regular basis, the way they do their flu shot.”
Community health workers in North Carolina, home to the country’s lowest COVID-19 booster rate, like the strategy, especially because of confusion among some people about vaccine schedules.
“I believe in keeping things simple,” said Marty Stamey, an outreach coordinator for the Mountain Area Health Education Center in western North Carolina. “I’ve heard a lot of people say, ‘I think I’ll just wait and try to do it like the flu shots.’”
The White House plan also relies in part of on local health departments, providers and community groups to reach out and encourage people to get the updated booster. Pharmacies, health providers and state or local health departments are preparing to send text messages to millions of people that will encourage them to get a booster this fall, White House officials said.
Jha said he recommends most Americans get the booster by the end of October.
Still, this latest vaccination campaign faces several challenges.
A majority of Americans got their first and second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine when it was released last year but they’ve been more reluctant to get a booster jab, with less than half getting their first booster since it became available late last year.
Congress also has not moved forward on President Joe Biden’s $22.5 billion request earlier this year for the COVID-19 response. Republicans criticized the request, pointing to the $1.9 trillion already spent on responding to the pandemic. Running short on funds, the government announced it would stop shipping COVID-19 tests to people’s homes after Friday.
And COVID-19 funding is drying up for many of the community groups that received millions of federal tax dollars to hire workers who spent months reaching deep into neighborhoods with door knocks, mobile vaccine clinics and posters encouraging people to inoculate against COVID-19.
White House officials say those local leaders deserve a lot of credit for stamping out misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine and convincing many around the country that the shot will protect them.
“Those are the really critical messengers,” Jha said.
That on-the-ground work has been crucial to getting people vaccinated in the rural, Spanish- and Haitian-speaking communities that the Migrant Clinicians Network has reached throughout Texas, California and Maryland with its $8.5 million federal grant.
“Simply having the vaccines available is one thing, but getting the shots in the arms is another,” said Amy Liebman, a chief program officer for the nonprofit group.
Some of those local health organizations, too, are now stretched as they work to get low vaccination rates among children under 12 up. Only a third of 5- to 11-year-olds received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine since becoming eligible late last year. Meanwhile, just 7% of children under 5 have gotten a first dose since it was made available this summer.
Dr. Niharika Khanna at the University of Maryland School of Medicine has just started making progress on convincing new mothers that the vaccine is safe and effective for their babies.
Her program, which has hired more than 269 health workers and administered more than 12,000 vaccinations and boosters across Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia, isn’t quite ready to transition back to pushing COVID-19 boosters.
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Forecast Updated on Thursday, September 1, 2022, at 3:35am by WBOC Meteorologist Mike Lichniak
Today: Sunny. Highs: 84-88. Winds: NW-N 5-10 mph.
Tonight: Clear. Lows: 58-68. Winds: N 5-10 mph.
Friday: Sunny. Highs: 84-89. Winds: NE 5-15 mph.
Friday Night: Clear. Lows: 64-71. Winds: E-SE 5-10 mph.
Saturday: Mostly sunny. Highs: 86-90. Winds: SE 5-10 mph.
Sunday: Partly to mostly sunny. Highs: 84-89. Winds: S-SW 5-15 mph.
The high pressure from the west is parking itself overhead and will lead to an amazing Thursday on Delmarva. Expect temperatures to reach the low to mid 80s with nothing but sunshine and lower humidity. By the time we get to tonight, the wind will start to shift on us more out of the northeast and east as we wake up on Friday morning. This will keep our overnight temperatures a little warmer, especially at the beach. Most of us will still wake up to morning temperatures in the 60s by Friday morning.
Friday will be in the 80s with a few extra high clouds mixing in with the sunshine as the humidity starts to slowly go up as we head toward the weekend. The high slides a little off the coast for the Labor Day holiday weekend with highs climbing into the low 90s for some on Sunday and Monday.
A chance of some showers and storms will enter the forecast late on Labor Day with a frontal boundary that will dive in from the north. This front will stall out overhead as we head into Tuesday and will protect us from a tropical system that will form in the Atlantic. The easterly flow will keep moisture in the area and will keep us in the clouds for most of Tuesday, but should dry out on Wednesday and Thursday as another nice ridge of high pressure settles into control of the forecast. | https://www.wboc.com/weather/forecast-summary/a-very-nice-start-to-september-with-lower-humidity-levels/article_bd52303e-29c8-11ed-b82c-139dbf05719f.html | 2022-09-01T09:31:01Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/weather/forecast-summary/a-very-nice-start-to-september-with-lower-humidity-levels/article_bd52303e-29c8-11ed-b82c-139dbf05719f.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Atlantic Ocean:
Thursday: W 5-10 knots. Seas: 2-3 feet.
Friday: E 5-15 knots. Seas: 2-3 feet.
Chesapeake Bay:
Thursday: W 5-10 knots. Waves: 1 foot.
Friday: NE 5-10 knots. Waves: 1 foot.
Delaware Bay:
Thursday: W 5-15 knots. Seas: 1-2 feet.
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Euro area unemployment keeps steady at record lows in July, matching estimates. The energy crisis is still the main problem and with recession risks looming, we'll have to see how that impacts employment conditions in the months ahead.
Euro area unemployment keeps steady at record lows in July, matching estimates. The energy crisis is still the main problem and with recession risks looming, we'll have to see how that impacts employment conditions in the months ahead.
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A light revision higher but it reaffirms that the Italian economy performed rather decently in Q2, much like most of the region. However, the real challenge will be in the second-half of the year with domestic politics also being an issue for the economy.
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With the second round of the US Open in full swing, here are the key numbers and statistics from Day 3.
US Open Day 3: Serena Williams takes out Anett Kontaveit | Bianca Andreescu advances | Coco Gauff to play Madison Keys | Liudmila Samsonova ousts Leylah Fernandez | Wang Xiyu upsets Maria Sakkari
Scores | Order of play | Draw
128mph - The fastest serve of the tournament so far, struck by Coco Gauff during her 6-2, 7-6(4) win over Elena-Gabriela Ruse. It is also the third-fastest recorded at the US Open, behind only the joint top record of 129mph held by Venus Williams and Alycia Parks; and the sixth-fastest recorded in WTA history.
It also came on an important point for the American. Serving at 3-1 up in the first set, she had just fended off a first break-back point with a 120mph ace down the tee. The 128mph bomb, a body serve that Ruse could not control, saved a second break point, and Gauff went on to hold for 4-1.
just found out I clocked a serve at 128mph today… yo WHAT🫣?
— Coco Gauff (@CocoGauff) September 1, 2022
12 - Washington and Cleveland champion Liudmila Samsonova extended her career-best winning streak to 12 with a career-best Grand Slam win, taking out last year's runner-up Leylah Fernandez 6-3, 7-6(3). The defeat of the No.14 seed marked Samsonova's ninth Top 20 win and third of 2022, but first ever on the major stage. Samsonova has also won 16 sets in a row since losing the first set of the Washington final to Kaia Kanepi.
3:10 - The length of the longest match of Day 3, No.29 seed Alison Riske-Amritraj's gripping 6-4, 6-7(5), 7-6[5] win over Camila Osorio. The two longest rallies of the day, a pair of 25-shot lungbusters won by each player in the first set, also featured in this match. Indeed, Riske-Amritraj and Osorio contested four of the eight longest rallies of the tournament so far.
The result puts Riske-Amritraj into her first US Open third round since 2013, when she made the second week of a major for the first time. In the intervening years, the American had won just two matches at her home Slam.
0 - The number of times Serena Williams has failed to reach the US Open third round in 25 appearances. The six-time champion made that stage again with a 7-6(4), 2-6, 6-2 defeat of No.2 seed Anett Kontaveit -- her first Top 3 win since beating Simona Halep 6-3, 6-3 in the 2021 Australian Open quarterfinals.
Williams has now won 23 of her past 25 matches against players ranked No.1 or No.2. Since losing to Svetlana Kuznetsova in the 2007 Stuttgart quarterfinals, her only such losses have both come to Victoria Azarenka, in the 2013 Doha and Cincinnati finals.
Williams also now owns Top 5 wins over a span of 25 years. Her first defeat of a Top 5 opponent was over Monica Seles 4-6, 6-1, 6-1 in the 1997 Chicago quarterfinals.
10 - #SerenaWilliams has won her last 10 Grand Slam meeting against a top-2 seeded opponent. The last time she lost such a match was at the US Open 2007 v Justine Henin. Queen.@WTA @WTA_insider #USOpen #USOpen2022 #Serena pic.twitter.com/PU4gl97Wp1
— OptaAce (@OptaAce) September 1, 2022
59 - Minutes needed by Dalma Galfi to dispatch Harriet Dart 6-4, 6-0. The Hungarian struck 18 winners to seal the shortest match of the tournament so far.
2 - Former US Open junior champions making their debuts in the third round of a Grand Slam. 2015 girls' winner Galfi joined 2018 titlist Wang Xiyu, who upset No.3 seed Maria Sakkari 3-6, 7-5, 7-5 for her first career Top 10 win.
11 - Years since Rebecca Marino last made the third round of a major. The 31-year-old Canadian, already a quarterfinalist in Washington and Granby this summer, defeated qualifier Daria Snigur 6-3, 7-6(5) to reach that stage for the second time in her career. Marino made the last 32 on her Roland Garros debut in 2011, but was sidelined between 2013 and 2018 as she tackled depression.
4 - Wins over seeded players at the US Open by Aleksandra Krunic. The Serb, who has never been seeded at a major herself, defeated No.23 Barbora Krejcikova 2-6, 6-4, 6-2 to extend her head-to-head lead over the former Roland Garros champion to 3-1. Previously, Krunic beat No.27 Madison Keys and No.3 Petra Kvitova to reach the 2014 fourth round, and also upset No.7 Johanna Konta in the 2017 first round. The 29-year-old's win over Krejcikova was her first Top 30 victory since beating Elina Svitolina in the first round of Beijing 2018.
4 - Times Madison Keys was two points from defeat serving at 5-6 in the third set against Camila Giorgi, before coming through 6-4, 5-7, 7-6[4] in the match-tiebreak. Keys had also overturned a 5-2 deficit in the third set.
5 - Top 20 wins this season by Bianca Andreescu, a number the Canadian added to with her 6-2, 6-4 defeat of No.15 seed Beatriz Haddad Maia. The 2019 champion has yet to lose before the second week of the US Open in two previous appearances. | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2773368/us-open-day-3-by-the-numbers-gauff-s-speed-samsonova-s-streak-and-more | 2022-09-01T09:36:01Z | wtatennis.com | control | https://www.wtatennis.com/news/2773368/us-open-day-3-by-the-numbers-gauff-s-speed-samsonova-s-streak-and-more | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Tropical Depression #5 forms in North Atlantic
Published: Sep. 1, 2022 at 5:28 AM EDT|Updated: 9 minutes ago
GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - The National Hurricane Center began issuing advisories Thursday morning on a new tropical depression, the fifth this hurricane season.
The NHC puts its movement at ENE with maximum sustainedw winds of 35 mph.
If the depression develops into a named storm, it will be named Danielle.
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WILSON — A plan to take the Wilson wastewater treatment plant offline and send wastewater to Newfane is in jeopardy after the village board’s second refusal to authorize borrowing that may be needed to complete the project.
During a special meeting on Tuesday, the authorizing resolution went down to defeat on a 3-2 vote. Supermajority approval, or at least four votes in favor, was required.
“It’s just a bad day,” Mayor Arthur Lawson said of the outcome, adding that he believes a majority of village residents would agree with him.
Lawson called the special meeting after the borrowing resolution was voted down in the board’s Aug. 18 meeting.
According to Lawson, the Wastewater Treatment Plant Consolidation & Force Grant Resolution provides the “language” for the village to apply for three grants that would help bridge the $2.4 million gap between the project tab and the $4.5 million the village received through the Lake Ontario Resiliency and Economic Development Initiative (REDI) in 2019.
At the time of the REDI award, the cost to shut down the village treatment plant and contract with Newfane for treatment service was $4.6 million. The cost has increased to about $6.8 million due to global supply issues, Lawson said.
The resolution would give Lawson the authority to borrow up to $3.5 million to complete consolidation, thereby demonstrating to the state that the village is able to bridge the gap itself if no other grant funding is obtained. It’s an administrative formality, Lawson said, and without the language the village can’t apply for the grants.
Lawson said he believes the worst case scenario has the village borrowing $430,000 — at 0% interest and payable over a 30- to 40-year period.
The consequence of the board rejecting his request is that the village will have to abandon the project, unless other funding is found, Lawson said. If the project is abandoned, the village would have to return the REDI grant to the state, including the $500,000 it already spent on engineering. To pay it back would not be an easy thing to do, he said.
Since the resolution was voted down first on Aug. 18, village trustee Gary Darnell changed his mind and this week voted to approve it. Trustees Mike McAvoy and Greg Martin did not change their minds.
McAvoy said the way the resolution is written, it’s not about applying for grants, it’s about spending more money and he’s not in favor.
“The resolution was to vote on an amended bond resolution. The vote was to enable the village to bond $3.5 million if need be,” he said. “I could’ve gone either way, but I listened to the community.”
About 40 residents attended the Tuesday meeting and according to Lawson, many of them said they’re opposed to borrowing money for a project whose price tag keeps increasing.
Trustee Brad Simpson, who voted in favor of the authorizing resolution, said the state is at least partly to blame for Wilson’s dilemma.
“I hope the state sees our position and realizes it’s not entirely on us,” he said. “What we’d originally applied for was a $5.5 million project and they said they’d give $4.6 million, and it was take it or leave it. I wish they’d realize some of it was on them.” | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/wilson-board-votes-down-bonding-funds/article_63992358-2974-11ed-b9af-37fe75092a3b.html | 2022-09-01T09:42:33Z | lockportjournal.com | control | https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/wilson-board-votes-down-bonding-funds/article_63992358-2974-11ed-b9af-37fe75092a3b.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kochi: The recent remarks by the Kerala High Court on divorces and marital relationships in the state has created controversy.
The court observed that consumer culture of 'use and throw' has taken a toll on marital relationships and that the new generation perceives marriage as a hindrance to enjoy life.
The High Court division bench of Justice Muhammed Mustaque and Justice Sophy Thomas made the controversial remark, while dismissing a petition by a man seeking divorce.
"Kerala, which is known as God's own country, was once renowned for its strong family bonds. But the current trend is to break marital relationships over flimsy or selfish matters, and extra-marital affairs. If the divorcees and deserted children form the majority of the population, it will affect the tranquility of the society and stunt its growth. The new generation sees marriage as an evil that prevents them from enjoying a life without any obligations,” the HC observed.
"A wife is considered a cause of 'constant trouble' nowadays. The consumer culture of ‘use and throw’ has affected marital relationships. Live-in relationships, wherein couples say goodbye and part ways at any point, is on the rise,” the HC further remarked.
"Marriage is not a mere ritual or an empty ceremony for licensing the sexual urge of the parties," it added.
Denying the husband's plea for divorce, the high court said that "courts cannot come to the aid of an erring person to legalise his activities, which are per se illegal".
The HC was dismissing a divorce plea of a man who abandoned his wife and three daughters after nine years of marriage subsequent to an alleged affair with another woman.
The bench said if the husband, who was having an affair, wanted to avoid his wife and children, he cannot seek the assistance of the courts to get his "unholy alliance" or present relationship legalised.
"Law and religion consider marriage as an institution by itself and parties to the marriage are not permitted to walk away from that relationship unilaterally, unless and until they satisfy the legal requirements to dissolve their marriage through a court of law or in accordance with the personal law which governs them," the high court said.
The husband, whose plea for divorce was rejected by a Family Court, had moved the high court in appeal claiming cruelty on the part of his wife.
He had said in his plea that their marital relationship from 2009, when they got married, to 2018 was smooth, but thereafter, the wife developed behavioural abnormalities and quarreled with him alleging that he was having an affair.
The high court rejected his contentions saying that when a "wife had reasonable grounds to suspect the chastity or fidelity of her husband, and if she questions him, or expresses her deep pain and sorrow before him, it cannot be termed as a behavioural abnormality, as it is the natural human conduct of a normal wife".
"The normal human reactions or responses from a wife, on knowing that her husband was having illicit connection with another lady, cannot be termed as behavioural abnormality or cruelty from the part of the wife, so as to dissolve their marriage," the bench said.
It further said that mere quarrels, ordinary wear and tear of matrimonial relationships or casual outburst of some emotional feelings cannot be treated as cruelties warranting a divorce.
The wife was also supported by her mother-in-law and her husband's relatives all of whom said that she was a good natured lady who loved her spouse and family, the high court noted in its order.
The high court also noted the mother-in-law's contention that her son was unhappy with her and did not even hesitate to question her chastity for supporting her daughter-in-law.
"The available facts and circumstances clearly point to the fact that in the year 2017 the appellant developed some illicit intimacy with another lady and he wanted to avoid his wife and children from his life, so as to live with that lady.
"Since, no act of cruelties, able to cause a reasonable apprehension in the mind of the appellant that it would be harmful or injurious for him to live with the respondent was proved by the appellant, he is not entitled to get a decree of divorce on the ground of matrimonial cruelties...In the result, the appeal is dismissed," the high court said.
It also noted that the wife was ready to accept the husband if he was ready to return to her and their children and therefore, "there was nothing to show that the chances of an amicable reunion is foreclosed forever".
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The University Laws (Amendment) Bill, which would virtually strip the Governor of his say in appointing a vice chancellor, was passed in the Assembly on Thursday. The Opposition UDF, after participating in the debate, boycotted the passage of the Bill saying it was an attempt to appoint government puppets as vice chancellors.
The Bill is widely seen as the LDF government's preemptive strike against the BJP's designs to foist its men at the helm of universities. Former higher education minister K T Jaleel alleged that that there was a serious attempt to anoint an RSS person as the Vice Chancellor of the Calicut University. "This was resisted with great effort. But there is no guarantee that such resistance could be mounted in future," Jaleel said during the discussion on the Bill.
However, the Governor's reaction to the Bill is not clear at the moment. It is nearly certain that he would not give his approval. There is a high probability that he would send the Bill to the President for her assent.
The Amendment will ring in four major changes. One, it will change the number and composition of the search-cum-selection committee the law has envisaged to identify suitable vice chancellor candidates. There will be five members in the committee; it was three originally.
In the original Act, which is sought to be superseded, the search-cum-selection committee had a nominee of the Governor/Chancellor, a person elected by the University Senate and a member of the chairman of the University Grants Commission.
The Bill that will now go the Governor for his approval has added two members affiliated with the state government; nominees of the government and the vice chairman of the Kerala State Higher Education Council (KSHEC).
When the Bill was first tabled in the Assembly last week, one of the new members in the expanded committee was the KSHEC vice chairman himself. Since the UGC Regulations 2018 prohibits the presence of anyone linked to the University in the search-cum-selection committee, higher education minister R Bindu introduced an amendment on Thursday that changed it to a nominee of the KSHEC vice chairman.
This will give the government a majority of three in a committee of five. Even as it stands, the government has the upper hand as the Governor's nominee was traditionally chosen by the government. But with Governor Arif Mohammed Khan becoming increasingly combative, the government anticipates that he could insist on his own nominee. If this happens, it was felt that the Governor's nominee and the UGC chairman's nominee together could give Khan a decisive say in the selection of the vice-chancellor.
The change in number and the composition of the search-cum-selection committee proposed in the Bill would effectively undermine the Governor's, and by extension, the BJP-ruled Centre's, sway over the VC appointment.
Two, the Chancellor/Governor will have to pick from a list of three names submitted by a majority of the committee members. In effect, only a government nominee could adorn the VC post.
In the existing Act, the three-member committee has to recommend a name unanimously. If they are unable to come to a consensus, the three members can submit three separate panels and the Governor can choose a candidate from any of the three panels. This offers the Governor a wide choice.
Former Opposition Leader Ramesh Chennithala questioned this change. "If the Governor can choose only from the names recommended by the majority of the search committee members, what is the need for the other two members. Why are they being included as mere scarecrows," he asked. Higher Education minister Bindu asked what made Chennithala think that the committee could not come up with a unanimous choice.
Three, the committee has to submit its panel only in four months. As it stands, the deadline is three months.
Four, the maximum age for a VC has been raised to 65 from 60. This change was effected early this year through an ordinance to facilitate the reappointment of Gopinath Ravindran as Kannur University VC. However, Chennithala supported this change.
The two Muslim League members, Abid Hussain Thangal and T V Ibrahim, who officially recorded their dissent against the Bill said the expansion of the search-cum-selection committee was an attempt by the LDF government to appoint persons of their choice as vice chancellors. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/01/university-law-amendment-appointment-vc.amp.html | 2022-09-01T09:44:22Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/01/university-law-amendment-appointment-vc.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The University Laws (Amendment) Bill, which would virtually strip the Governor of his say in appointing a vice chancellor, was passed in the Assembly on Thursday. The Opposition UDF, after participating in the debate, boycotted the passage of the Bill saying it was an attempt to appoint government puppets as vice chancellors.
The Bill is widely seen as the LDF government's preemptive strike against the BJP's designs to foist its men at the helm of universities. Former higher education minister K T Jaleel alleged that that there was a serious attempt to anoint an RSS person as the Vice Chancellor of the Calicut University. "This was resisted with great effort. But there is no guarantee that such resistance could be mounted in future," Jaleel said during the discussion on the Bill.
However, the Governor's reaction to the Bill is not clear at the moment. It is nearly certain that he would not give his approval. There is a high probability that he would send the Bill to the President for her assent.
The Amendment will ring in four major changes. One, it will change the number and composition of the search-cum-selection committee the law has envisaged to identify suitable vice chancellor candidates. There will be five members in the committee; it was three originally.
In the original Act, which is sought to be superseded, the search-cum-selection committee had a nominee of the Governor/Chancellor, a person elected by the University Senate and a member of the chairman of the University Grants Commission.
The Bill that will now go the Governor for his approval has added two members affiliated with the state government; nominees of the government and the vice chairman of the Kerala State Higher Education Council (KSHEC).
When the Bill was first tabled in the Assembly last week, one of the new members in the expanded committee was the KSHEC vice chairman himself. Since the UGC Regulations 2018 prohibits the presence of anyone linked to the University in the search-cum-selection committee, higher education minister R Bindu introduced an amendment on Thursday that changed it to a nominee of the KSHEC vice chairman.
This will give the government a majority of three in a committee of five. Even as it stands, the government has the upper hand as the Governor's nominee was traditionally chosen by the government. But with Governor Arif Mohammed Khan becoming increasingly combative, the government anticipates that he could insist on his own nominee. If this happens, it was felt that the Governor's nominee and the UGC chairman's nominee together could give Khan a decisive say in the selection of the vice-chancellor.
The change in number and the composition of the search-cum-selection committee proposed in the Bill would effectively undermine the Governor's, and by extension, the BJP-ruled Centre's, sway over the VC appointment.
Two, the Chancellor/Governor will have to pick from a list of three names submitted by a majority of the committee members. In effect, only a government nominee could adorn the VC post.
In the existing Act, the three-member committee has to recommend a name unanimously. If they are unable to come to a consensus, the three members can submit three separate panels and the Governor can choose a candidate from any of the three panels. This offers the Governor a wide choice.
Former Opposition Leader Ramesh Chennithala questioned this change. "If the Governor can choose only from the names recommended by the majority of the search committee members, what is the need for the other two members. Why are they being included as mere scarecrows," he asked. Higher Education minister Bindu asked what made Chennithala think that the committee could not come up with a unanimous choice.
Three, the committee has to submit its panel only in four months. As it stands, the deadline is three months.
Four, the maximum age for a VC has been raised to 65 from 60. This change was effected early this year through an ordinance to facilitate the reappointment of Gopinath Ravindran as Kannur University VC. However, Chennithala supported this change.
The two Muslim League members, Abid Hussain Thangal and T V Ibrahim, who officially recorded their dissent against the Bill said the expansion of the search-cum-selection committee was an attempt by the LDF government to appoint persons of their choice as vice chancellors. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/01/university-law-amendment-appointment-vc.html | 2022-09-01T09:44:28Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/01/university-law-amendment-appointment-vc.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A devastated Susanna Reid has paid tribute to fellow presenter and journalist Bill Turnbull, who has died at the age of 66. She spoke out after his family made the tragic announcement after he lost the fight against prostate cancer.
Former BBC Breakfast colleague and co-presenter Susanna described him as "the kindest, funniest, most generous man in the business". She tweeted: "I feel lucky to have worked with him and he taught me everything. But above all, he was devoted to his family and I am heartbroken for them. RIP Bill. We will miss you so much."
A statement from his family said: "Following a challenging and committed fight against prostate cancer, Bill passed away peacefully at his home in Suffolk surrounded by his family on Wednesday, 31st August. Bill was diagnosed in 2017 and has had outstanding medical care from the Royal Marsden and Ipswich Hospitals, St Elizabeth Hospice and his GP.
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"He was resolutely positive and was hugely buoyed by the support he received from friends, colleagues, and messages from people wishing him luck. It was a great comfort to Bill that so many more men are now testing earlier for this disease. Bill will be remembered by many as a remarkable broadcaster who brought warmth and humour into people's homes on BBC Breakfast and Classic FM.
"He was also a devoted Wycombe Wanderers fan and an ever-aspiring beekeeper. Bill was a wonderful husband and father to his three children; his family and friends will miss how he always made them laugh, and the generosity and love he shared with those around him."
BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty said she was "in shock" as she recalled her first ever show on the red sofa sat alongside Bill. Munchetty, paying tribute to her former co-host live on air this morning, said: "I can only say as a team we are in shock this morning, we know what he meant to so many of you viewers. I can honestly say after having worked with Bill so closely, as Mike you did, Charlie, we all did, he cared so much about this programme and the audience."
She added: "I did my first ever presenting shift with him on Breakfast. He drove this programme and that's what great presenters do and great journalists do, and we are all sending our thoughts and condolences as well to Sesi and Bill's family. We will miss him very much."
Munchetty was joined by BBC Breakfast's sports presenter Mike Bushell, who told viewers how Turnbull "could change the mood brilliantly between the hard news and the lighter stuff". "We developed this banter and he was instrumental in getting me more regularly on BBC Breakfast, he became a mentor so I owe him so much," Mr Bushell said.
The BBC One show will run a special programme in honour of Turnbull on Friday. Prostate Cancer UK tweeted: "Our friend and ambassador Bill Turnbull has died.
"Bill worked tirelessly to raise awareness of prostate cancer following his diagnosis in 2017, and it was our privilege to work alongside him. Our thoughts are with Bill's loved ones today."
Former BBC presenter Dan Walker remembered Bill, saying it was an "honour to sit on his sofa". He tweeted: "Bill Turnbull was so kind and generous when I took over from him on BBC Breakfast.
"He was full of brilliant advice and it was clear just how loved he was by his colleagues and the audience. It was an honour to sit on his sofa. My thoughts are with his family and friends."
BBC Breakfast paid tribute in a tweet, saying: "Former BBC Breakfast presenter Bill Turnbull has died. He was 66.
"He was loved by our viewers. He was loved by his colleagues. Bill will always be remembered for his warmth, humour and being a brilliant journalist."
Bill, who appeared on BBC Breakfast from 2001 until 2016, had been diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2017. The presenter revealed his prostate cancer diagnosis in March 2018, saying he was diagnosed the previous November, and he detailed his treatment in a Channel 4 documentary called Staying Alive.
In October last year, he announced he was taking a leave of absence from his show on Classic FM for health reasons. Announcing the news on social media, Bill said he was taking "a leave of absence" from his weekend programme, which he had fronted for five years.
He started his broadcast career at Scotland's Radio Clyde in 1978, joining the BBC as a reporter for the Today programme in 1986 before becoming a reporter for BBC's Breakfast Time two years later. In 1990, Bill became a correspondent for BBC News and reported from more than 30 countries, with notable stories he covered including the Monica Lewinsky scandal and the OJ Simpson trial.
After moving back to the UK, he became one of the main presenters on BBC News 24, as it was called back then. Bill also worked for BBC Radio 5 Live, including presenting Weekend Breakfast.
He joined BBC Breakfast in 2001 as a presenter alongside Sian Williams and they worked together until 2012 when she departed after the programme moved from London to Salford. The presenter co-anchored alongside Susanna, with the pair presenting together until 2014, when she left the show to join ITV, and Bill's other co-hosts included Louise Minchin.
Recalling his most memorable moments from his breakfast career as he signed off from the red sofa in February 2016, he said "nearly getting into a fight with a ventriloquist's dummy called Bob" and wearing a jumper made of dog hair. "It was all right, it was just very warm and I couldn't get the stuff off me for weeks," he said.
He made numerous television appearances outside of BBC Breakfast, including as the presenter on BBC One's Songs Of Praise. In 2005, he competed as a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing partnered with Karen Hardy, and was the seventh celebrity voted off the show.
Other TV appearances include ITV's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and Through The Keyhole; the BBC's Celebrity Mastermind, Would I Lie To You?, Pointless Celebrities and Room 101, and he appeared in the dictionary corner for Channel 4's Countdown. In 2011 he appeared in the Doctor Who episode The Wedding Of River Song in which he played himself.
His passion for beekeeping led to the 2011 publication of his book The Bad Beekeepers Club, a humorous account of the ups and downs of an apiarist.
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Grandparents across the UK could be eligible to claim up to £3,000 for looking after their grandchildren. The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has a scheme that allows working age grandparents to be compensated for their childcare.
Grandparents under the state pension age (66) can apply for a national insurance perk known as specified adult childcare credits. Claiming these credits, worth £275 a year, can add value to your state pension.
The grandparent must care for a child under 12, under 17 if the child is disabled, and the parent of the child must receive child benefit payments. There is no minimum requirement on the number of hours spent as a carer.
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The scheme works by parents on child benefits transferring national insurance (NI) credits to a grandparent who is caring for the children. These credits can then help grandparents to qualify for a state pension as you need at least 10 years of NI credits to qualify for the pension, and 35 years worth to receive the pension in full.
According to The Sun, HMRC statistics show that fewer than 16,000 grandparents have claimed from the scheme. Former pensions minister, Steve Webb, said: "Many grandparents are working hard all year round looking after their grandchildren, and it is important that they do not damage their own state pension rights as a result.
"Such grandparents are contributing to society just as much as someone in a paid job and should therefore be entitled to the same protection for their state pension as if they were in work.
"The new system of transferable National Insurance credits means that grandparents need no longer lose out on building up a full state pension just because they are caring for a grandchild."
Grandparents can backdate their claims as far back as 2011, so any carer who has looked after a child since then could claim up to £3,000 for their pension. You can also claim if you looked after the child remotely during lockdown.
NI credits can also be transferred to other family members and can be claimed on the Government website. Both the parent and grandparent must sign the claim. You do not need to claim if you are a grandparent and working as you will not need the NI credits.
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Eurostar has issued a warning to holidaymakers looking to travel to the Netherlands this year. The high-speed train operator has revealed it is not currently selling any tickets between London and the Netherlands over a number of weekends between September and December.
The announcement will come as a blow for Brits planning to travel to the popular destination, with more than two million visiting the Netherlands each year. Half of these tourists visit Amsterdam, the country's capital.
Posting the announcement on its website, Eurostar explained they won't be selling tickets between St Pancras International, London, Rotterdam Centraal and Amsterdam Centraal on the following dates until the timetables have been confirmed.
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The dates are as follows:
- Saturday 24 to Sunday 25 September 2022
- Saturday 08 to Sunday 09 October 2022
- Saturday 15 to Sunday 16 October 2022
- Saturday 22 to Sunday 23 October 2022
- Saturday 29 to Sunday 30 October 2022
- Saturday 05 to Sunday 06 November 2022
- Friday 11 to Sunday 13 November 2022
- Saturday 19 to Sunday 20 November 2022
- Saturday 03 to Sunday 04 December 2022
- Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 December 2022
It comes as nearly the entire Dutch rail network was shut down as workers went on strike to demand better pay and working conditions. Staff at the railway company NS stopped work for the day on Tuesday (August 30) in the central Netherlands region that acts as a hub for nearly all train lines, stopping trains across the country.
An exception was the line linking Amsterdam with the busy Schiphol Airport that returned to service after a strike shut it down on Monday. Eurostar warned its customers at the time its trains wouldn't be able to run in the Netherlands on Monday (August 29), due to the industrial action.
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People are being urged to find any old £20 and £50 notes they may have sitting in piggy banks or stuck down the back of the sofa and use them before the end of the month. The Bank of England (BoE) has a countdown on its website advising that these old paper notes will no longer be legal tender from September 30.
The BoE says: "If you have any paper £20 or £50 notes, we encourage you to use them or deposit them with your bank or Post Office before 30 September 2022. As paper notes are returned to the Bank of England, they are being replaced with the new polymer £20 notes featuring JMW Turner, and polymer £50 notes featuring Alan Turing.
"After 30 September, only our polymer notes will have legal tender status." In March, the bank said there were around £7 billion worth of old £20 notes and £10.5 billion worth of old £50 notes still in circulation. Following the deadline people will no longer be able to use the notes in shops or to pay businesses.
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What to do if you still have paper notes after September 30?
After the September 30 deadline has passed, many UK banks will still accept withdrawn notes as deposits and some Post Offices may also accept them. The Bank of England will always exchange any withdrawn notes, including paper notes withdrawn in the past.
The BoE's Chief Cashier Sarah John said: "Over the past few years we have been changing our banknotes from paper to polymer, because these designs are more difficult to counterfeit, whilst also being more durable.
"A large number of these paper notes have now been returned to us, and replaced with the polymer £20 featuring the artist J.M.W. Turner, and the polymer £50 featuring the scientist Alan Turing. However if members of the public still have any of these paper notes in their possession, they should deposit or spend them whilst they can."
Old Bank of England notes can be exchanged either in person at the BoE's premises in London, or sent by post (at the sender's risk) to: Dept NEX, Bank of England, Threadneedle Street, London, EC2R 8AH.
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A critically-acclaimed spoken word artist is bringing his innovative brand of musical poetry to Tunbridge Wells. George Mpanga, better known by his stage name The Poet, is an advocate and an activist who speaks to young people, showing how art can align with education and politics, and be a tool to empower those who are serious about change.
The 31-year old, who will be performing at the Assembly Hall Theatre on October 5, grew up in London before attending Cambridge University. In 2018, he opened the Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle with his poem ‘The Beauty of Union’ and the following year he won a Peabody Award for Have You Heard George’s Podcast? which delivers “a fresh take on inner city life through a mix of storytelling music and fiction”.
The podcast was described by BBC R4 as “a story that could change the world". By telling his own stories, George hopes to inspire those around him while bringing attention to division and marginalisation.
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“Never shy about shining a light on the topics we need to speak about, George is an insightful and brilliant international star, not to be missed under any circumstances,” it reads on the Assembly Hall Theatre’s website.
Tickets for under 25’s are just £10 and GO holders can go free of charge. The GO Membership scheme is for those living in the borough of Tunbridge Wells and who are on low income and in receipt of benefits. Early booking is being advised.
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Broadcaster Bill Turnbull dies aged 66 - tributes to former BBC Breakfast presenter
The former BBC Breakfast presenter and Classic FM host was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2017
TV presenter Bill Turnbull has died aged 66, his family has confirmed.
The former BBC Breakfast host was living with terminal prostate cancer, and died surrounded by family on Wednesday, 31 August.
He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2017, and took a leave of absence from his radio show at Classic FM in October 2021, in order to focus on his health.
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A statement from his family said: “Following a challenging and committed fight against prostate cancer, Bill passed away peacefully at his home in Suffolk surrounded by his family on Wednesday, 31st August.
“Bill was diagnosed in 2017 and has had outstanding medical care from the Royal Marsden and Ipswich Hospitals, St Elizabeth Hospice and his GP.
“He was resolutely positive and was hugely buoyed by the support he received from friends, colleagues, and messages from people wishing him luck. It was a great comfort to Bill that so many more men are now testing earlier for this disease.
“Bill will be remembered by many as a remarkable broadcaster who brought warmth and humour into people’s homes on BBC Breakfast and Classic FM.
“He was also a devoted Wycombe Wanderers fan and an ever-aspiring beekeeper. Bill was a wonderful husband and father to his three children; his family and friends will miss how he always made them laugh, and the generosity and love he shared with those around him.”
Despite most recently working on Classic FM, Turnbull was most known for his role on BBC Breakfast from 2001 until 2016.
He revealed his prostate cancer diagnosis in March 2018, and confirmed he was diagnosed the previous November.
He detailed his journey and treatment with the terminal illness in a documentary called ‘Staying Alive’ which aired on Channel 4.
Turnbull’s career started back in 1978, at Radio Clyde in Scotland, before moving to the BBC in the mid 80s.
Some of his most notable work was covering the OJ Simpson trial and the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
BBC Breakfast shared a tribute to Bill on the official Twitter account, it said: “Former BBC Breakfast presenter Bill Turnbull has died. He was 66. He was loved by our viewers. He was loved by his colleagues.
Bill will always be remembered for his warmth, humour and being a brilliant journalist.”
Former BBC Technology Correspondent, Rory Cellan-Jones, said: “Very sad to hear about Bill Turnbull. Great broadcaster, nice man.”
Broadcaster John Simpson said: “Very sorry to hear of the death of my former colleague Bill Turnbull. He was charming and relaxed, and managed to combine being a clever, sharp reporter with sympathetic understanding as an interviewer. And he faced a vicious disease with great courage.”
BBC General director, Tim Davie said: “Bill was a much loved and respected broadcaster and journalist - not just by viewers but by all those lucky enough to have worked with him.
He always struck the right tone, no matter what the story. Warm, wise, professional and caring, he will be much missed by us all.
“Our thoughts go out to his family and friends.”
Former BBC Breakfast presenter, Dan Walker, said: “Bill Turnbull was so kind and generous when I took over from him on BBC Breakfast. He was full of brilliant advice and it was clear just how loved he was by his colleagues and the audience. It was an honour to sit on his sofa.
My thoughts are with his family and friends.” | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/read-this/broadcaster-bill-turnbull-dies-aged-66-tributes-to-former-bbc-breakfast-presenter-3826828 | 2022-09-01T09:48:58Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/read-this/broadcaster-bill-turnbull-dies-aged-66-tributes-to-former-bbc-breakfast-presenter-3826828 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The 300-mile EV is finally becoming a mainstream commodity, with no fewer than 14 vehicles achieving that benchmark for the 2022 model year, according to the EPA.
As the United States Department of Energy points out, in model year 2016 there was a single model—the Tesla Model S—that achieved a 300-mile range.
Back then a 300-mile range was a holy grail for EV adoption—with half of car buyers in 2016 claiming that an electric car must have 300 miles of range. A 2017 survey suggested that less than 15% of general car shoppers thought 200 miles was enough in an EV.
Range can be a red herring. Those who have owned an EV understand that often, fitting one easily into a lifestyle is more about charging rate, infrastructure, and interface. Going for the biggest possible battery if its whole capacity is rarely used takes time, money, and natural resources.
Regardless, car shoppers are finally getting their wish. The list of model year 2022 EVs offering at least 300 miles of range is diverse, encompassing the BMW i4 and iX, Ford Mustang Mach-E, Hyundai Ioniq 5, Kia EV6, and Lucid Air—which is the current range champ at 516 miles.
No all-electric pickup trucks or off-roaders were on sale in 2016, but now the Ford F-150 Lightning, as well as Rivian’s R1T pickup and R1S SUV, qualify for the 300-mile club.
The Model S is of course still around—now with a maximum range of 405 miles. The Tesla Model 3, Model X, and Model Y also achieve over 300 miles of range in at least one configuration.
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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus on Wednesday lifted the obligatory use of face masks in all indoor areas after the island nation’s top health official said epidemiological data amid the coronavirus pandemic have “significantly improved.”
Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela told reporters after a Cabinet meeting that the mask rule still applies to hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, pharmacies and public transport.
It’s recommended that those with chronic ailments continue using face coverings.
All capacity limitations were also lifted as of Wednesday for restaurants, nightclubs, retail stores, shopping malls, casinos, sports stadiums and churches.
Primary school pupils will be supplied with five self-tests each on their return to classes on Sept. 12. Authorities recommend that teachers and students get either self-tested or undergo a rapid test before the start of classes.
The COVID-19 infection rate receded to 3.54%, with nine of 57 people receiving hospital treatment diagnosed as being in serious condition, for the week of Aug. 19-25, according to Health Ministry statistics.
About 16 people, ranging in age from 66 to 99, died from COVID-19 for the same week, bringing the overall total in Cyprus since the pandemic began to 1,168. | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/ap-cyprus-lifts-covid-19-mask-rule-indoor-capacity-limits/ | 2022-09-01T09:56:59Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/ap-cyprus-lifts-covid-19-mask-rule-indoor-capacity-limits/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Bird flu has returned to the Midwest earlier than authorities expected after a lull of several months, with the highly pathogenic disease being detected in two commercial turkey flocks in western Minnesota and a hobby flock in Indiana, officials said Wednesday.
The disease was detected after a farm in Meeker County reported an increase in mortality last weekend, the Minnesota Board of Animal Health said. The flock was euthanized to stop the spread. The board later reported that a second flock in the county tested positive Tuesday evening.
They were the first detections of avian influenza in Minnesota since May 31, when a backyard flock was struck in Becker County. Indiana’s case was its first since a backyard flock there tested positive June 8, which had been the last detection in the Midwest before this week.
However, there have been several detections in western states in July and August, including California, where a half-dozen commercial farms have had to kill more than 425,000 chickens and turkeys since last week. There have also been cases in Washington, Oregon and Utah, plus a few in some eastern states.
“While the timing of this detection is a bit sooner than we anticipated, we have been preparing for a resurgence of the avian influenza we dealt with this spring,” said Dr. Shauna Voss, the board’s senior veterinarian. “HPAI is here and biosecurity is the first line of defense to protect your birds.”
The Indiana State Board of Animal Health reported that a small hobby flock of chickens, ducks and geese in northern Indiana’s Elkhart County tested presumptively positive on Tuesday, though final confirmation from a federal lab was pending.
Across the country, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 414 flocks in 39 states have been affected since February, costing producers over 40 million birds, mostly commercial turkeys and chickens. The disease has struck 81 Minnesota flocks this year, requiring the killing of nearly 2.7 million birds.
Minnesota produces more turkeys annually than any other state.
This year’s outbreak contributed to a spike in egg and meat prices, and killed an alarming number of bald eagles and other wild birds. It also affected some zoos. It appeared to be waning in June, but officials warned then that another surge could take hold this fall.
The disease is typically carried by migrating birds. It only occasionally affects humans, such as farm workers, and the USDA keeps poultry from infected flocks out of the food supply. A widespread outbreak in 2015 killed 50 million birds across 15 states and cost the federal government nearly $1 billion. | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/ap-deadly-bird-flu-returns-to-midwest-earlier-than-expected/ | 2022-09-01T09:57:06Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/business/ap-business/ap-deadly-bird-flu-returns-to-midwest-earlier-than-expected/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PARIS (AP) — France’s Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne warned that a worst-case scenario this winter could lead to rolling two-hour power cuts in French homes, amid a broad energy crisis aggravated by the war in Ukraine.
Borne’s comments to the TMC television channel Tuesday night came ahead of a special government meeting Wednesday focusing on energy and climate-related issues.
Borne told TMC that the situation is partly due to the consequences of the war in Ukraine and also to the planned shutdown of about half of France’s 56 nuclear reactors for maintenance notably to repair corrosion problems. France relies on nuclear energy for about 67% of its electricity — more than any other country — and on gas for about 7%.
“It means that we’re producing less electricity, and there may be moments, if it’s very cold, where we can have a problem to supply electricity,” Borne said. “In such case … we’d cut off, via rotations, neighborhood by neighborhood, for no more than two hours,” she said.
However, Borne ensure that gas wouldn’t be cut off in French homes, as people use it mostly for heating.
Gas could potentially be rationed for businesses which are the largest consumers, she said.
She explained such decision would be prompted by a combination of bad circumstances, including Russia cutting off its gas supplies, restrictions of liquified natural gas imports and a very cold winter.
Russia’s state-controlled energy company Gazprom said it would suspend all gas deliveries to the French company Engie, starting from Thursday, over a financial dispute. Engie said it has already secured enough gas to meet its commitments to customers.
French minister for energy transition, Agnes Pannier-Runacher, said Tuesday the country’s strategic energy reserves were 90% full. France rolled out an “energy sobriety” plan in June, targeting a 10% reduction in energy use by 2024.
In addition, Gazprom stopped the flow of natural gas through a major pipeline from Russia to Europe early Wednesday, a temporary move to it announced in advance. Gazprom had planned to cut the flow of gas through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline until Saturday for what it says is a three-day pause for routine maintenance at a compressor station. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/ap-french-pm-warns-of-potential-winter-power-cuts-in-homes/ | 2022-09-01T09:59:43Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/ap-french-pm-warns-of-potential-winter-power-cuts-in-homes/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MOSCOW (AP) — Call it a slice of life. The television commercial that Mikhail Gorbachev did for Pizza Hut 25 years ago might be seen as a 60-second gloss of his career, both cheerful and glum.
In the 1997 advertisement, Gorbachev is portrayed as eating at one of the chain’s outlets in Moscow, where he’s spotted by diners at another table who then argue about his accomplishments as the Soviet Union’s last leader.
He brought us freedom and opportunity, one says; he brought us economic troubles and political instability, another shouts.
A woman says: “Because of him we have many things, like Pizza Hut.” The Gorbachev detractor at the table then stands and toasts him.
Through a rose-colored filter, it is a story of Russia’s advances and increasing consumer comforts even amid troubles. More darkly, it shows a once-towering world figure and Nobel Peace Laureate reduced to shilling for a Western interloper.
Pizza Hut opened in Moscow in 1990, one of the first in a wave of Western businesses taking advantage of the joint-venture arrangements that were one of Gorbachev’s signature reforms. It wasn’t Russians’ first chance to get pizza, but as with the opening of McDonald’s a few months earlier, the presence of a major Western brand was heartening to those who wanted the Soviet Union to be more integrated into the world.
That wasn’t a universal view. Even today, some Russians complain that the rush of Western businesses into the country water down its culture and exploit consumers.
Gorbachev died Tuesday at age 91, and Pizza Hut’s time in Russia is growing short — the corporation that owns the Pizza Hut brand has announced it has transferred its franchise assets to a Russian operator that will rebrand as part of its efforts to exit Russia altogether in the wake of Russia sending troops into Ukraine.
By the time Gorbachev made the commercial to raise money for his charitable foundation, he was a marginal figure at home. In presidential elections the previous year, he notched only 1% of the vote. Even some people once on his side regarded the Pizza Hut ad with disdain.
“In the ad, he should take a pizza, divide it into 15 slices like he divided up our country, and then show how to put it back together again,” quipped Anatoly Lukyanov, a one-time Gorbachev supporter. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/ap-slice-of-life-gorbachevs-pizza-hut-ad-a-time-capsule/ | 2022-09-01T10:00:33Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/ap-slice-of-life-gorbachevs-pizza-hut-ad-a-time-capsule/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Israel launched a missile attack on Wednesday targeting the airport in the Syrian city of Aleppo, Syrian state media said, citing a military source.
The Syrian government did not report any casualties.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a U.K.-based opposition war monitor, said in a statement that Israel fired four missiles targeting a runway at the Aleppo International Airport and warehouses surrounding it. The group claimed that the warehouses likely contained a shipment of Iranian rockets.
Meanwhile, Syrian state media reported air defense systems in Damascus firing at what it said were Israeli missiles targeting positions south of the Syrian capital. The opposition war monitor says the Israeli airstrikes targeted military positions. No casualties were reported.
Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes on targets inside government-controlled parts of Syria over recent past years, but rarely acknowledges or discusses such operations. The Israeli military declined to comment on the airstrike targeting Aleppo’s airport.
Israel has acknowledged, however, that it targets bases of Iran-allied militant groups, such as Lebanon’s Hezbollah, which has sent thousands of fighters to support Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces.
On Sunday, Israel launched an airstrike targeting a military facility in western Syrian. Satellite imagery showed widespread destruction in the depot which the opposition war-monitor said stored hundreds of middle-range missiles for Iran-backed fighters.
In June, Israeli airstrikes temporarily put Damascus International Airport out of commission. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/ap-syria-israel-strikes-aleppo-airport/ | 2022-09-01T10:00:41Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-international-news/ap-syria-israel-strikes-aleppo-airport/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
LA PORTE, Texas (AP) — It’s the only surviving battleship that served in both world wars, having fought in Europe during World War I and against the Nazis and the Japanese Army during World War II. But the greatest challenge in recent years for the USS Texas has been a leaky, rusty hull that at times forced workers to pump out about 2,000 gallons (7,570 liters) of water per minute from the 110-year-old ship.
To ensure the historic vessel, commonly known to Texas residents as the Battleship Texas, doesn’t sink and can continue hosting visitors, the foundation in charge of its care successfully towed the ship on Wednesday from its longtime home along the Houston Ship Channel to a shipyard in Galveston for repairs.
Tony Gregory, president of the Battleship Texas Foundation, said the process of pulling the ship by tugboats and getting it on its way went perfectly. He said any problems would have happened in the first 15 minutes and there were no issues.
“It went smoother than we thought and quicker than we thought … and she’s gone, down the channel,” he said Wednesday morning.
About nine hours later at around 4 p.m., the ship arrived in Galveston to cheering crowds of spectators. Four tugboats had pulled the vessel at a pace of about 5 knots.
Travis Davis, the foundation’s vice president of ship operations and who was aboard the vessel during its trip, said Battleship Texas did really well during its journey and the organization never had to implement any of its emergency plans.
“She’s been a champ the whole time,” Davis said in a video from the ship just before it arrived in Galveston.
The 40-mile (64 kilometer) journey from its longtime berth at the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site in the Houston suburb of La Porte is part of a $35 million project to repair the hull and ultimately restore the ship to its former glory.
The foundation plans to eventually resettle it in a new location in Texas, possibly in one of three nearby cities, including Galveston, to attract more visitors and increase revenue.
Moving the vessel is “the major step in getting the ship back to tiptop shape,” Gregory said Tuesday as he stood aboard it while workers made final preparations.
Since 1948, the USS Texas has been at the state historic site where the decisive battle in the Texas Revolution was fought. There, it’s served as a museum and tourist attraction. The battleship was previously taken to the same shipyard in Galveston for repairs in 1988.
For the last three years, the ship has been closed to the public as the foundation has been preparing for the repairs. In 2019, the Texas Legislature approved the funds to fix the hull. The foundation plans to make other fixes that it’s paying for. All the repairs are expected to take up to a year to complete.
Tricia Thomas, 50, who was one of the people invited to watch as the ship was unmoored early Wednesday morning, said she became emotional and teared up as she saw it begin its journey and heard its whistle sound. As the ship started moving, Thomas said, people clapped and cheered.
“It’s amazing to see a ship that’s 100 years old out on the water again, moving like she did for so many years. It was exciting,” said Thomas, who lives in the Houston suburb of Kingwood.
Thomas said it’s important to preserve the ship so future generations can learn its history and it can remind people how they can come together for a common cause that’s greater than them.
“I think that’s probably the biggest story she can tell,” Thomas said.
At the Texas City Dike, a 5-mile-long (8-kilometer-long) levee that stretches into Galveston Bay, several hundred people gathered on Wednesday for a chance to see the ship go by.
Members of the Texas history group Lone Star Volunteers fired blanks from a cannon five times in salute of the ship as it floated by. Many of the Texas flags that flew in the state during its history, including the Texas Navy flag, were planted in ground near the cannon, nicknamed “Rolling Thunder.”
“We’re not going to shoot a projectile,” said Lone Star Volunteers member Mike Wilson, who wore a loose-fitting red shirt, white linen-type pants and black riding boots, designed to be an approximation of what volunteers in the Texas Army might have worn. “They might turn the guns of the USS Texas back on us.”
“The USS Texas, it represents freedom,” Wilson said.
Todd Homman, another member of Lone Star Volunteers, said the ship’s journey brought back fond memories of visiting the vessel with friends as a teenager and hiding and staying aboard after hours.
“We didn’t do the teenage stuff,” he said. “We cleaned, picked up, polished the brass. We beautified her and cleaned her up.”
Homman said the ship inspired his brother to join the Navy.
Chris Fleming, 67, from nearby Dickinson, waited four hours in hot, humid weather to watch the ship float by the Texas City Dike.
“It’s history in the making… I just wanted to see it float. I just wanted to see it go by. It was neat. I enjoyed it,” Fleming said.
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“Don’t Worry Darling” has been in the spotlight since the beginning. And this was long before Harry Styles got involved.
It was a film everyone wanted to make — some 18 studios and streaming services were courting Wilde for the chance to partner with her on her sophomore feature as a director: A mid-century psychological thriller about a housewife, Alice (Florence Pugh), who starts to question her picture-perfect life and the mysterious company that her husband Jack (Styles) works for.
But it hasn’t stopped making headlines in two years, from Shia LaBeouf’s abrupt departure (he was replaced by Styles) to the paparazzi-stoked intrigue around Wilde and Styles’ off-camera relationship. Then there was the bizarre moment earlier this year when Wilde was served custody papers, from ex Jason Sudeikis with whom she shares two children, in the middle of a presentation to thousands of exhibitors in Las Vegas.
Even this past week, LaBeouf, who is heading to court next year on abuse allegations from hi ex, FKA twigs, decided to contest the two-year-old narrative that he’d been fired. He gave the entertainment trade Variety emails and texts to prove his case that he quit. It’s resulted in buzz you can’t buy, but also incessant tabloid and TikTok gossip — all for a film that isn’t even out yet.
But soon the conversation will go back to the film itself: “Don’t Worry Darling” will have a glamorous debut at the Venice International Film Festival on Sept. 5 before opening in theaters nationwide on Sept. 23. Besides, Wilde doesn’t care what gets people into the theater — as long as they go.
Wilde spoke to The Associated Press recently about her vision, her disagreement with the ratings board and why Alice is the heroine we need right now. Remarks have been edited for clarity and brevity.
AP: What were some of the big ideas you wanted to explore?
WILDE: I wanted to make what (screenwriter) Katie (Silberman) and I always describe as a Trojan Horse movie: Something that on the outside is beautiful and entertaining but once you crawl inside, it is actually much more complex and potentially really interesting and challenging. I also just really understood that this would be an opportunity for an actress to really flex. It was a heroine I wanted to see on screen. I wanted to create a character with an actress that would represent the kind of woman that I feel like our society needs.
AP: You had originally intended to play the part of Alice. Were you glad about that decision to step back and take a supporting role?
WILDE: Oh yeah. There’s no part of me that would want it any other way. I think what Florence did with this role is singularly brilliant. This character is a heroine for the ages. And she, as an actress, is this rare combination of dramatically skillful, comedically brilliant and an action hero who can run like Tom Cruise. Like what actress can do stunts and pull off these incredible emotional acrobatics and do it so effortlessly in an accent that’s not even theirs? Like, come on. It’s like juggling upside down on the wing of an airplane.
AP: You’ve spoken about some of your stylistic influences, from the photography of Slim Aarons to the erotic thrillers of Adrian Lyne. What were some other touchstones?
WILDE: I am a big fan of the iconography of the 1950s and a lot of the art, architecture, cars, music. This was an opportunity to just really play in that world. The architectural influence of (Richard) Neutra is all over the film.(Cinematographer) Matty Libatique and I were really inspired by Alex Prager and her photography and the idea of creating anxiety through framing and this artificial world that would be incredibly alluring until you look very closely.
And I always make endless playlists and watch lists and reading lists. It was a really funny assortment of material. People were like, what is this movie? You want me to watch “Requiem for a Dream” and “The Truman Show” and “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” and you want me to read “The Feminine Mystique,” but also Jordan Peterson?
AP: “Booksmart” dealt with female sexuality in a very frank way and “Don’t Worry Darling” is already provoking conversations around some of the sex acts shown in the trailer. Was that a fight to even include that?
WILDE: Oh, yeah. There’s a lot that had to be taken out of the trailer. The MPA came down hard on me and the trailer at the last second and I had to cut some shots, which I was upset about because I thought they it took it up another notch. But of course we still live in a really puritanical society. I do think the lack of eroticism in American film is kind of new. Then when it comes to female pleasure, it’s something that we just don’t see very often unless you’re talking about queer cinema. You know, it’s interesting because in a lot of queer films, the female characters are allowed to have more pleasure. Audiences aren’t as puritanical as corporations think they are. And yet people get upset. I mean, people are upset with me already over this. I think it’s a testament to the film. We want to be provocative. The idea is not to make you feel safe.
AP: This is also a film that has had a spotlight on it from the beginning, resulting in both buzz and gossip. What has that been like for you as a filmmaker?
WILDE: Every filmmaker longs for people to see their film. That’s all you want is for people to see it. If people are excited about a film, for whatever reason, what you hope is that it gets them in the door. Whether you are a 1950s car fanatic and that’s what’s going to get you into this movie, or if you are simply going because you’re a fan of our incredible cast, all I care about is that you have the chance to see it, and I hope that people then have the instinct to share it. What I really hope is that people see it again. I think that it’s a real second watch film. There’s a lot of Easter eggs in there.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea may conduct a public survey to help determine whether to grant exemptions to mandatory military service to members of the K-pop boyband BTS, officials said Wednesday.
The issue of active military service for the band’s seven members has been a hot-button topic in South Korea because its oldest member, Jin, faces enlistment in December, when he turns 30.
Defense Minister Lee Jong-sup told lawmakers that he ordered officials to implement a survey quickly. He said his ministry will also look into various other factors such as BTS’s economic impact, the importance of military service and overall national interest.
After his comments created a stir, his ministry clarified in a statement that Lee ordered officials to examine whether such a survey is needed, rather than launch it immediately.
It said officials were asked to study details including which agency would be responsible for a survey, how long would it take and who exactly would be surveyed. The statement said if the survey is carried out, it will be done by a third organization, not by the ministry or related authorities, to ensure fairness.
The ministry said the results would be only one of the many factors determining BTS members’ military status.
By law, all able-bodied men in South Korea must serve 18-21 months in the military under a conscription system established to deal with threats from rival North Korea. But the country gives exemption to athletes, classical and traditional musicians, and ballet and other dancers who win top places in certain competitions because they are considered to have enhanced national prestige.
Those exempted are released from the military after taking three weeks of basic training. But they are required to perform 544 hours of volunteer work and serve in their respective professional fields for 34 months.
Some politicians and others have called for expanding the scope of exemptions to include K-pop stars such as BTS because they have elevated South Korea’s international image significantly as well.
A private survey earlier this year showed about 60% of respondents supported military exemption for BTS members. But another private survey in 2020 showed 46% backed exemptions while 48% opposed them. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/entertainment/ap-entertainment/ap-s-korea-may-conduct-survey-on-bts-members-military-duty/ | 2022-09-01T10:03:21Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/entertainment/ap-entertainment/ap-s-korea-may-conduct-survey-on-bts-members-military-duty/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California won’t allow teens age 15 and up to be vaccinated against the coronavirus without their parents’ consent.
State Sen. Scott Wiener, the bill’s author, announced Wednesday he won’t put the measure up for a vote in the state Assembly because it doesn’t have enough support to pass.
Minors age 12 to 17 in California already can receive vaccinations for hepatitis B and HPV, which prevent sexually transmitted diseases, without permission from their parents or guardians. The bill would have allowed teens 15 and older to receive any vaccine that has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, even if their parents objected.
Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, blamed the lack of support on “months of harassment and misinformation” by “a small but highly vocal and organized minority of anti-vaxxers.”
“The anti-vaxxers may have prevailed in this particular fight, but the broader fight for science and health continues,” he said in a statement.
A coalition of groups opposed to vaccine mandates called it a “blatant, dangerous trampling of California parents’ and guardians’ ability to protect and care for their children.”
A Voice for Choice Advocacy said minors may not know their full medical history and the potential risks. And if they don’t tell their parents that they obtained the vaccine on their own, the group said parents may not know what’s wrong if their child has an adverse reaction.
Vaccine consent ages vary across the country. Alabama allows children to consent to vaccines starting at age 14, Oregon at 15 and Rhode Island and South Carolina at 16. Cities including Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., allow children age 11 and up to consent to COVID-19 vaccines, and in San Francisco the age is 12 and older.
The teen consent bill was one several coronavirus-related bills that faced heavy opposition.
Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic Sen. Richard Pan both delayed until next year measures relating to school vaccinations, while Democratic Assemblymember Buffy Wicks withdrew her bill that would have forced all California businesses to require coronavirus vaccines for their employees.
Another Pan bill still moving forward would require schools create COVID-19 testing plans.
Also still under consideration are a bill by Democratic Assemblymember Evan Low that would make doctors spreading coronavirus misinformation or disinformation subject to discipline for professional misconduct, and one by Democratic Assemblymember Akilah Weber that would require health care providers, schools, child care facilities and others to disclose certain patient information to the California Department of Public Health and local health officials. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/health/ap-health/ap-california-wont-expand-teen-vaccines-without-parental-ok/ | 2022-09-01T10:03:35Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/health/ap-health/ap-california-wont-expand-teen-vaccines-without-parental-ok/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Reports of sexual assaults across the U.S. military jumped by 13% last year, driven by significant increases in the Army and the Navy as bases began to move out of pandemic restrictions and public venues reopened, The Associated Press has learned.
Mirroring the increase in those reports is the disclosure that close to 36,000 service members said in a confidential survey that they had experienced unwanted sexual contact — a dramatic increase over the roughly 20,000 who said that in a similar 2018 survey, U.S. defense and military officials said.
The latest numbers are certain to anger lawmakers on Capitol Hill who have been critical of the Pentagon’s efforts to get a handle on sexual crimes and misconduct.
According to officials, the overall increase is largely fueled by a nearly 26% jump in reports involving Army soldiers. It’s the largest increase for that service since 2013, when such reports went up by 51%.
The increase in Navy reports was about 9%, the Air Force was a bit more than 2% and the Marine Corps was less than 2%, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the reporting has not yet been made public.
The big increase is especially troublesome for the Army, which is struggling to meet its recruiting goals and is expected to miss the target by at least 10,000 — or by anywhere from 18% to 25% — at the end of September. Army leaders have acknowledged that it is important for parents and others who influence recruits to feel comfortable that their son or daughter is safe and will be taken care of in the service.
Army officials said the numbers are alarming and that they certainly could have an impact on recruting, if parents believe their youth are at risk of assaults. They said Army leaders saw the growing numbers last year and began trying to implement new programs. Already, they said, some programs are working and the sexual harassment and assault numbers have been coming down this year.
COVID-19 and the pandemic restrictions make year-to-year comparisons complicated. Officials said they do not have enough data to determine if — or how much — the pandemic played a role in the higher reporting and survey numbers.
The Pentagon and the military services have long struggled to come up with programs to prevent sexual assaults and to encourage reporting. While the military has made inroads in making it easier and safer for service members to come forward, it has had far less success reducing the assaults, which have increased nearly every year since 2006.
Army leaders said they’ve seen some results with a training program that soldiers get when they report to their first duty station. It is rolled out right away, and has soldiers acting out dangerous situations and emphasizes training on how to respond. They also said they are improving evaluation programs that grade unit leaders, including randomly picking peers and others to do the assessments.
The double-digit overall increase comes after two years of relatively small increases in reports filed by or involving service members. In the budget year ending September 2020, reports of sexual assault and unwanted sexual contact edged up by 1%, as much of the world largely shut down due to the pandemic. The previous year, reports went up by about 3% — a substantial improvement over 2018, which also saw a 13% increase.
The widespread restrictions on travel and movement for the military continued during fall 2020 and the early part of 2021, and many businesses, restaurants and bars were shut down or had limited service. Things began to open up as more people were vaccinated in the summer and fall, but it’s also not clear whether that greater freedom contributed to the increase in assault reports.
The Pentagon releases a report every year on the number of sexual assaults reported by or about troops. But because sexual assault is a highly underreported crime, the department began to do a confidential survey every two years to get a clearer picture of the problem. The 2018 survey found that more than 20,000 service members said they experienced some type of sexual assault, but only one-third of them filed a formal report.
The latest report, expected to be publicly released Thursday, estimates that about 35,800 service members experienced some type of sexual assault in the previous year, based on the confidential survey. That means that only about one in every five service members reported an incident that happened in the previous year.
Every year as many as 10% of the assaults that service members reported happened before they joined the military.
Officials familiar with the findings said survey respondents also reported increases in hostility in the workplace, as well as more sexual harassment, which can sometimes lead to other sexual assaults or misconduct. They said the survey revealed that about 8% of all women and 1.5% of men in the service said they had experienced some form of unwanted sexual contact.
Officials said the survey suggested that, based on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a woman’s chance of being sexually assaulted in the military was about the same as a woman in the general population. But for men, the risk for those in the military is much lower than in U.S. society.
Defense officials have argued that an increase in reported assaults is a positive trend because so many people are reluctant to report it, both in the military and in society as a whole. Greater reporting, they say, shows there is more confidence in the reporting system and greater comfort with the support for victims.
It’s unclear, however, whether the increased reports last year actually represent a growing problem or whether those who say they were assaulted were just more willing to come forward.
The Pentagon has been under persistent pressure from Congress to improve prevention and prosecutions. Lawmakers acted late last year to take some prosecution authority out of the hands of commanders and instead use independent prosecutors.
Victims rights advocates and others have argued that service members don’t trust the system and are often unwilling to go to their commanders with a complaint for fear of retribution. They also worry that commanders may not press ahead with some cases if they know the accused. Members of Congress argued that using independent prosecutors would make the process more fair, and make victims more comfortable coming forward. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/ap-reported-sexual-assaults-across-us-military-increase-by-13/ | 2022-09-01T10:03:56Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/political-news/ap-politics/ap-reported-sexual-assaults-across-us-military-increase-by-13/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (WPRI) — Students and teachers head back to the classroom Thursday in New Bedford, and while virtual learning is mostly behind them, the district continues to invest in technology upgrades.
“We’re always trying to upgrade, do better, be better,” New Bedford Superintendent Thomas Anderson told 12 News ahead of the first day of school.
Over the summer, the I.T. department at New Bedford Public Schools worked to get thousands of new devices — computers, Chromebooks, touchscreens and internet hot spots — ready for students upon their return.
The districtwide upgrade represents an investment of more than $3.8 million in technology, according to the district. About half of that went toward improving Wi-Fi infrastructure.
School leaders said the tech upgrades are critical for students to grow and thrive, not just academically, but socially and emotionally as well.
“Students at the high school, there are 900 laptops that they’re getting. All the middle school students, we have about 3,000 middle school students. They’re all going to have access to new Chromebooks and those types of things,” Anderson said. “We’re really excited about the year, and being able to continue working with our families, that’s the most exciting part.”
Some of the upgrades are focused on making sure students feel safe in the classroom. Those improvements include installing more security cameras and surveillance systems, as well as improving locks and doors.
Anderson said this adds to the safety investments the district has made over the past few years, like creating a two-layer vestibule entry system in elementary schools, for example.
“We’re doing this, not in a response but being proactive, but also knowing that it’s a very sensitive topic for a lot of people,” Anderson said. “Parents are sending us their best and their brightest. This is their most prized possessions, and we want to make sure that they know that we feel the same way about all the children who come to us.”
More safety improvements could be on the way. Last week, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker proposed allocating $40 million in legislative funding to go toward security upgrades in K-12 schools, colleges and childcare providers, an anonymous tip line, and a new statewide school safety website. | https://www.wpri.com/back-to-school/new-tech-security-upgrades-at-new-bedford-schools-this-year/ | 2022-09-01T10:04:00Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/back-to-school/new-tech-security-upgrades-at-new-bedford-schools-this-year/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
California fast-food bill marks pivotal moment for low-wage workers
The California Senate this week passed a bill that could raise wages for fast food workers to as high as $22 per hour — and has the potential to revitalize the U.S. labor movement. Business groups are mounting fierce opposition.
Why it matters: The Fast Food Accountability and Standards Recovery Act signals a re-emergence of "sectoral bargaining," a once-popular and powerful union tactic in which workers from different companies in the same industry negotiate for pay together.
- The strategy, still used in a few corners in the U.S., like for TV writers, is re-emerging in Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
- The key difference in the new bill is that government also gets a seat at the negotiating table — labor advocates are calling it "groundbreaking."
State of play: If signed by Democratic governor Gavin Newsom — and industry is pushing him hard not to — the legislation could become a model for other states; already activists are looking to replicate it in New York and Illinois, the WSJ reports.
- Nail salon workers in New York are currently seeking similar legislation for their industry.
Details: The bill would create a 10-person council, comprised of business, labor and government representatives, to establish an industry-wide minimum wage, as well as health and safety standards.
- Pay could go as as high as $22 per hour, with annual raises of either 3.5% or the rate of inflation, whichever is less.
- The bill would cover as many as 550,000 fast food workers in the state. They're already among the highest-paid in the country at $15.61 per hour on average (a little more than the state's minimum wage), per 2021 government data.
Zoom out: The council established by the bill is different from a worker union — it would bring together four representatives from the ranks of workers and four from business. Any decisions will require at least six votes.
- "In theory, it will be equally representative of both sides," says Matt Haller, president of trade group International Franchise Association (IFA).
Advocates have tried to organize fast food workers for years — mostly unsuccessfully in an industry with high turnover and workers spread out at individual stores.
- So, the government's role here is pivotal, says David Madland, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. "The workers could never force the employers to the table without the government bringing them there."
How it happened: The bill, which was pushed by union activists in the state, reads as a harsh rebuke to the fast food industry and highlights how the pandemic made these long simmering issues more apparent.
- The "pandemic has illustrated the implications for workers and the public when a disempowered workforce faces a crisis in a sector with a poor history of compliance with workplace health and safety regulations."
The other side: Singling out the fast food sector is "totally arbitrary," the IFA's Haller tells Axios.
- IFA argues that the bill could have devastating consequences for individual franchise owners — effectively small business owners — and set a dangerous precedent for other states.
- The industry was able to get some provisions removed ahead of passage — including those that would have let the council establish sick leave standards or hold big brands accountable for health and safety in their franchises (a long simmering point of contention).
Labor advocates cheered the legislation: "It's a groundbreaking bill, likely to lead to more empowered workers," says Madland, author of a book about labor reform called "Reunion."
- "Workers have won a seat at the table," said Mary Kay Henry, the president of the Service Employees International Union, which pushed for the legislation, on a call earlier this week. | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/01/california-fast-food-bill-marks-pivotal-moment-for-low-wage-workers | 2022-09-01T10:04:00Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/01/california-fast-food-bill-marks-pivotal-moment-for-low-wage-workers | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Pandemic telehealth reforms increased access to opioid-use disorder meds
Pandemic-era reforms allowed more Medicare beneficiaries to use telehealth to obtain opioid-use disorder drugs, stay in treatment and avoid overdoses, a new JAMA Psychiatry study found.
Why it matters: The vast majority of people who need treatment for a substance-use disorder don't get it, and the researchers fear the addiction crisis could worsen if COVID-19 allowances on telehealth and prescribing aren't made permanent.
What they found: Researchers compared two cohorts of Medicare beneficiaries before and during the pandemic and found that more people during the pandemic had access to treatments like methadone, buprenorphine and extended-release naltrexone and had lower odds of having to be treated for overdoses.
- But very few people were still receiving treatment 80 days after initiating it.
- About one in eight Medicare patients studied received telehealth services for their opioid-use disorder during the pandemic, compared to one in 800 pre-pandemic.
- Black people had lower odds of getting telehealth treatment for their opioid-use disorder and staying in treatment, and overdose rates were higher among Black people, Native Americans, Asian people and Pacific Islanders.
Go deeper: Treatment for opioid-use disorder and other substance-use disorders was heavily regulated prior to the pandemic, from in-person prescribing requirements to limited treatment center locations.
- Some researchers fear that the expiration of pandemic reforms with the end of the public health emergency will reverse progress and are advocating for telehealth and take-home dosing to continue.
- "This study adds to the evidence showing that expanded access to these services could have a longer-term positive impact if continued," Wilson Compton, deputy director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and study author, said in a news release. | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/01/pandemic-telehealth-reforms-increased-access-to-opioid-use-disorder-meds | 2022-09-01T10:04:12Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/01/pandemic-telehealth-reforms-increased-access-to-opioid-use-disorder-meds | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Stoked by the largest surplus in state history, Missouri’s Republican-led Legislature devised a $500 million plan to send one-time tax refunds to millions of households. In a shock to some, GOP Gov. Mike Parson vetoed it.
Parson’s objection: He wanted a bigger, longer-lasting tax cut.
“Now is the time for the largest income tax cut in our state’s history,” Parson declared as he called lawmakers back for a September special session to consider a $700 million permanent tax reduction.
Upon its likely approval, Missouri will join at least 32 states that already have enacted some type of tax cut or rebate this year — an astounding outpouring of billions of tax dollars back to the people. Idaho lawmakers are convening Thursday to consider more tax breaks, and Montana lawmakers also are weighing a special session for tax relief.
Flush with federal pandemic aid and their own surging tax revenue, states have cut income tax rates for individuals and businesses, expanded tax deductions for families and retirees, pared back property taxes, waived sales taxes on groceries and suspended motor fuel taxes to offset inflationary price spikes. Many also have provided immediate tax rebates.
Republicans and Democrats alike have joined the tax-cutting trend during a midterm election year.
Yet divisions have emerged about how far to go. While Democrats generally have favored targeted tax breaks and one-time rebates, some Republicans have pressed for permanent income tax rate reductions that could lower tax bills — and state revenue — for years to come. Parson describes it as “real, lasting relief.”
Some budget analysts warn that permanent tax cuts could strain states during a future recession. The U.S. economy has shrunk for two straight quarters this year, meeting one informal sign of a recession.
“Quite simply, relying on the current surplus to fund permanent tax changes isn’t fiscally sustainable, or responsible, and will ultimately require cuts to state services,” said Amy Blouin, president and CEO of the Missouri Budget Project, a nonprofit that analyzes fiscal policies.
For some states, the current surpluses are unlike anything they’ve previously seen.
The 2022 fiscal year, which ended June 30 for most states, marked the second straight year of large growth in tax collections after economic shutdowns triggered declines early in the coronavirus pandemic. Many states reported their largest-ever surpluses, according to the National Association of State Budget Officers.
“I don’t think there’s been a time in history where states are better equipped to ride out a potential recession,” said Timothy Vermeer, senior state tax policy analyst at the Tax Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. “A majority, if not all, of the rainy day funds are in a really healthy position.”
Income tax rate cuts have passed in 13 states this year, already equaling last year’s historic total, according to the Tax Foundation. Republicans control the legislatures in all of those states except New York, where Democrats who wield power accelerated the timetable for a previously approved tax rate reduction.
Republican-led Arkansas was the most recent to take action during an August special session. A new law will speed up a gradual income tax rate reduction enacted last year and provide a one-time inflationary tax credit. Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson described the $500 million package as “a transfer of wealth from the government to the taxpayer” that “could not have come at a more important time.”
Nationwide, inflation is at a 40-year-high, raising prices on most good and services and squeezing incomes.
At least 15 states have approved one-time rebates from their surpluses, including 10 led by Democratic governors and legislatures, four by Republicans and one — Virginia — with split partisan control.
Democratic-led California, which posted a record $97 billion surplus, is sending rebates of between $200 and $1,050 to individuals earning less than $250,000 annually and households earning less than $500,000.
All four GOP-controlled states providing rebates — Georgia, Indiana, Idaho and South Carolina — also made permanent income tax rate cuts.
Though often popular, tax rebates do little to fight inflation and “may actually be counterproductive” by enabling additional consumer spending on items in scarce supply and thus contributing to higher prices, said Hernan Moscoso Boedo, an economist at the University of Cincinnati.
Still, big surpluses coupled with inflation make rebates a tempting option for politicians, especially during an election year.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican facing a re-election challenge from Democrat Stacey Abrams, has been among the most aggressive tax-cutters. He signed legislation gradually reducing the income tax rate from 5.75% to 4.99%. He also signed a measure providing a $1.1 billion tax rebate, with up to $250 for individuals and $500 for couples. He has proposed an additional $2 billion in income and property tax rebates. And after a law temporarily suspending the state’s gas tax expired in May, Kemp extended the gas tax break through mid-September.
“We’re trying to help Georgians fight through this tough time,” Kemp said.
In Colorado, legislative staff estimate it will cost $2.7 million to carry out legislation expediting an income tax refund of $750 for individuals and $1,500 for couples. The constitutionally mandated refund of surplus revenue was originally due to be paid next year but is being distributed now — along with a letter from Democratic Gov. Jared Polis touting it as inflation relief.
Polis, who is up for re-election in November, had been a previous critic of the automatic refund provision. His Republican challenger, Heidi Ganahl, is accusing him of “hypocrisy.”
Idaho Gov. Brad Little, a Republican, has called the Legislature back for a special session starting Thursday to consider more tax breaks.
He’s proposing to use part of the state’s projected $2 billion budget surplus for a $500 million income tax rebate this year. He also wants to cut more than $150 million annually by creating a flat 5.8% income tax rate starting next year. That comes after the state reduced the top tax rate each of the last two years.
“Folks, this is conservative governing in action,” Little said while asserting the tax cuts still would leave enough money to boost education funding by hundreds of millions of dollars.
Montana lawmakers are weighing whether to convene a special session later in September to provide tax breaks from a budget surplus. A proposal calls for giving $1,000 rebates to homeowners who paid property taxes during the past two years. It also would provide income tax rebates of $1,250 for individuals and $2,500 for couples.
Montana’s Republican House and Senate majority leaders said in a joint statement that the rebates would offer help “as soon as possible with expenses such as gas, groceries, school supplies and so much more.” But some lawmakers, including term-limited GOP Rep. Frank Garner, have expressed reluctance.
“My first concern is if this proposal is driven by an imminent emergency or by those wanting to write checks to voters because their emergency is merely an imminent election,” Garner wrote in an opinion column.
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A pivotal moment for labor in America
Labor Day is just around the corner, and unions haven't been this popular in 50 years. Almost 71% of Americans now say they approve of unions. That's up almost 10% from pre-pandemic levels. And this week, the California Senate passed a bill that could raise wages for fast food workers to as high as $22 per hour. It has the potential to revitalize the way unions work in the US.
- Plus, players in The Sims are bringing abortion to their virtual world.
- And, Serena’s last twirl.
Guests: Axios' Emily Peck and Stephen Totilo.
Credits: Axios Today is produced by Niala Boodhoo, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Alexandra Botti, Lydia McMullen-Laird, Robin Linn, Alex Sugiura, and Ben O'Brien. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at [email protected]. You can text questions, comments and story ideas to Niala as a text or voice memo to 202-918-4893.
Go deeper:
- California fast-food bill marks pivotal moment for low-wage workers
- Popular game mods add abortion to The Sims
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Good morning! Welcome to Axios Today!
It’s Thursday - the first of September.
I’m Niala Boodhoo.
Here’s what we’re covering today: how a popular video game is handling real-life political issues. Plus, Serena’s last twirl.
But first, a pivotal moment for labor in America. That’s today’s one big thing.
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NIALA: Labor Day is just around the corner. And this year, the low unemployment rate has shifted the balance of power between workers and employers. That's laid the groundwork for recent union formations at corporate giants like Starbucks and Amazon. In fact, unions haven't been this popular in 50 years. Almost 71% of Americans now say they approve of unions. That's up almost 10% from pre-pandemic levels. And this week, the California Senate passed a bill that could raise wages for fast food workers to as high as $22 per hour. That has the potential to revitalize the way unions work in the US. Axios markets correspondent, and sometimes Axios Today guest host Emily Peck has been reporting on all of this. Hey Emily!
EMILY PECK: Hi Niala!
NIALA: Emily, how did the pandemic contribute first of all, to not just this shift in the labor market, but this rise in support for unions?
EMILY: Yeah, so I think we all know about this actually, if you take a moment to step back, right? The pandemic hit. So many people were thrown out of work. And so many people weren't thrown out of work. There were all these essential workers, fast food workers. Yes. But all kinds of hourly workers that we came in contact with every day that we saw working through the pandemic in some really kind of horrific conditions. Everyone kind of felt this mistreatment or saw this mistreatment or knew someone who was mistreated. And then coming out of that period, there's a labor shortage. Unemployment is really low and people feel empowered to get what they want from their bosses and their managers. And I think this whole kind of swirl contributed to this increase in support for unions.
NIALA: So in California, there's this movement towards something called sectoral bargaining unions, push for this. It's where workers from different companies in the same industry negotiate for pay and other benefits together. How does that fit into all of this?
EMILY: Yeah. So unions have been trying to organize fast food workers in California for a long time. Mostly unsuccessfully because they're spread out, in restaurants and fast food stores throughout the state. And because turnover is very high in that industry. So they've been pushing for this bill, which would essentially bring together union members and advocates along with fast food industry representatives onto what's called a council. And they would then sort of set wage standards for the fast food industry. Those wages could be as high, according to this bill as $22 an hour. And this is, it's not the same thing as a union obviously, but, advocates, labor unions are really, really excited about this bill. And the industry is really vehemently opposed.
NIALA: We also saw news yesterday of different layoff announcements from companies, and we're starting to see more of those. We know that the federal reserve is trying to decrease inflation and slow down the economy. All of this is like signs of maybe a recession. How would that impact the balance of power between workers and employers and union popularity? Yeah, I mean what the federal reserve is doing could increase unemployment. That means workers have less leverage, true. Would that mean that support for unions would necessarily go down? Union support was very low during the great recession in 2009. And that makes me think like, oh, maybe when unemployment is high people don't support labor as much. But I know that support in the US for labor unions during the great depression was high, that's when there was tons of organizing. So I'm not sure what lesson to take away from those two examples. I think it's too soon to say that a rise in unemployment would take away some of this leverage. People saw what workers went through in the pandemic and that's a lesson that's gonna be hard to shake.
NIALA: Emily Peck is an Axios markets correspondent. Thank you, Emily.
EMILY: Thank you.
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In a moment, how the abortion debate is playing out in the popular videogame The Sims.
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Republican candidates across the country are trying to soften the hardline anti-abortion messages they took up during the primaries, as we get closer to the midterms. We’ll talk more about this tomorrow. But in the meantime, the abortion debate continues in the virtual world, too.
Add-ons to the popular video game The Sims allow players to get an abortion, among its other real life simulations like getting married and having a baby – and it’s got players, as well as Axios Gaming’s Stephen Totilo, thinking about how this all connects to the real world.
Hi Stephen!
Stephen: Hi Niala
Niala: Steven, you were last here to talk about how Wordle is so popular in part, because it's apolitical. I'm guessing this is the opposite.
Stephen: Yeah, so the remember Wordle did I think have to make a statement when they put the word fetus in there, because that got people talking as well. But we have a game series in this, which has been around for over 20 years. And they've largely tried to stay away from, I guess, making active political statements. But some of it just does come through, regardless. For example, when they created the game, they didn't code a difference between gender in terms of who can get married. So men and women could get married to each other. Women could marry women, Men can marry men. They've never allowed players who play this virtual dollhouse of a game to terminate a pregnancy. And as you noted, some fans have decided, no, we want that to be possible when we play these scenarios,
Niala: From a practical matter, I think we should back up because it's actually hard to have an unplanned pregnancy in the Sims world when you're playing the game, right?
Stephen: That's right. You have what's called Woohoo in the game, and again, developers make rules. So Woohoo in the game is consequences free. You can't get an STD. You won't have a baby unless you go a different route. if you choose to try for a baby, there's an 80% fertility rate and then you can have a baby.
Niala: So how many people have added this option and why?
Stephen: Well, this option, as you mentioned, was not created or supported by the developers of the game. There's never been a way officially to terminate a pregnancy. But you have modders. These are, this is a subset of the player base, and this is exists for all games basically. And there are some players who they know just enough about coding or they learn how to code. So that they can modify the game that they're playing. Maybe they wanna change how the main character looks. They want to add a piece of furniture or clothing. And so a lot of players do this for the Sims. Various modders have introduced this idea of the virtual abortion.
Part of what fascinated me was they then have to decide how it works. What are the rules for a virtual abortion? One motto I spoke to said, well, I wanted to make sure people just didn't, uh, handle this irresponsibly. So she makes it cost in-game money. She makes it so that you can't have a virtual abortion in the third trimester, by the way, pregnancies are only three virtual days long.
Another modder I spoke to said, I want there to be a wider range of emotional reactions amongst the virtual people iIf they have an abortion – sadness, but maybe relief for some, depending on where they are in their virtual. Guilt, wistfulness about what could have been the work of a game developer and even the work of a model is about creating the rules of how a virtual world could work. And when you do that kind of work, you're really thinking about what matters, what doesn't, what systems you believe in and maybe how you think things should function.
Niala: And what kind of response have these modders gotten?
Stephen: This has been a perennial request. Players have asked for this. One of the mods that has abortion and miscarriages has been downloaded 250,000 times in the past year. Some players have asked the makers of the game to officially add it into the game. Uh, I don't think they're gonna do that anytime soon, though.
Niala: Steven to is the author of Axios gaming newsletter. Thanks, Steven.
Stephen: Thank you. My pleasure.
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Before we go — a quick update from the US OPEN last night where Serena Williams beat world number 2 Anett Kontaveit [[CON-tah-vitt]] to win her second round singles match.
Of course fans have all been preparing for the star to, as she put it, “evolve away” from tennis. But when she was asked about it after the incredible tennis she played last night –
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So we have at least a little time left with Serena yet. She now advances to the US Open third round. As always, I’ll be watching.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI investigation into top-secret government information discovered at Mar-a-Lago is zeroing in on the question of whether former President Donald Trump’s team criminally obstructed the probe. A new document alleges that government records had been concealed and removed and that law enforcement officials were misled about what was still there.
The allegation does not necessarily mean that Trump or anyone else will ultimately face charges. But it could pose the most direct legal threat to Trump or those in his orbit, in part because the Justice Department has historically viewed obstruction as an aggravating factor that tilts in favor of bringing charges in investigations involving the mishandling of classified information.
“It goes to the heart of trying to suborn the very integrity of our criminal justice system,” said David Laufman, who once oversaw the same Justice Department counterintelligence section now responsible for the Mar-a-Lago investigation.
The latest Justice Department motion in the case is focused less on the removal last year of classified information from the White House to Mar-a-Lago and more on the events of this past spring. That’s when law enforcement officials tried — unsuccessfully — to get all documents back and were assured, falsely, that everything had been accounted for after a “diligent search.”
The Justice Department issued a grand jury subpoena in May for the records, and officials visited Mar-a-Lago on June 3 to collect them. When they got there, Tuesday’s department document says, they were handed by a Trump lawyer a “single Redweld envelope, double-wrapped in tape” containing documents.
A custodian for the records presented a sworn certification to the officials saying that “any and all responsive documents” to the subpoena had been located and produced. A Trump lawyer said that all records that had come from the White House had been held in one location — a storage room — and that there were none in any private space or other spot at the house.
But the FBI came to doubt the truth of those statements and obtained a search warrant to return on Aug. 8.
Officials had “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,” the new Justice Department filing says.
In their August search, agents found classified documents not only in the storage room but also in the former president’s office, including three classified documents in an office desk, according to the Justice Department. In some instances, the agents and attorneys conducting the review of seized documents required additional clearances since the material was so highly classified.
“That the FBI, in a matter of hours, recovered twice as many documents with classification markings as the ‘diligent search’ that the former president’s counsel and other representatives had weeks to perform calls into serious question the representations made in the June 3 certification and casts doubt on the extent of cooperation in this matter,” the document states.
In its own filing Wednesday night, Trump’s lawyers decried the search as having taken place in “the midst of the standard give-and-take” between a former president and the National Archives and Records Administration over presidential records. It said the department had “gratuitously” made public certain information, including a photograph of classified documents taken from the home.
The Justice Department has stated in court filings that, besides investigating crimes related to the mishandling of national defense information and other documents, it is also looking into whether anyone committed obstruction.
It is not clear from Tuesday’s filing how much of that inquiry might center on Trump, who has repeatedly insisted that his team was cooperative with the FBI, as opposed to any of his lawyers or representatives who were directly involved in making the representations to the department. It’s also unclear what role Trump himself had in those representations.
Obstruction matters because it’s one of the factors investigators look for in weighing whether to bring charges. For instance, in his July 2016 announcement that the FBI would not be recommending criminal charges against Hillary Clinton in an investigation involving handling of her emails, FBI Director James Comey cited the absence of obstruction as one of the reasons.
When the Justice Department charged former CIA Director David Petraeus in 2015 with sharing classified information with his biographer, it made a point of including in court documents details about false statements prosecutors said he made during an FBI interview.
It is also not the first time that an obstruction investigation has surfaced in connection with Trump. Special Counsel Robert Mueller investigated whether Trump had obstructed an inquiry into whether his 2016 presidential campaign had colluded with Russia, and though Mueller did not recommend charges against the then-sitting president, he also pointedly declined to exonerate him.
In the current case, federal investigators are likely evaluating why Trump representatives provided statements about the status of classified information at Mar-a-Lago that proved easily contradicted by the evidence, as well as which individuals were involved in removing boxes and why.
Sarah Krissoff, a New York lawyer and former federal prosecutor, said the detailed information in this week’s filing tells its own tale.
“Reading between the lines of what they were saying here, it suggests that they had very direct information from a source regarding the location of classified documents within Mar-a-Lago and essentially the concealment of, or lack of cooperation with, the prior efforts to recover those documents,” she said.
The purpose of the Tuesday night filing was to oppose a request from the Trump legal team for a special master to review the documents seized during this month’s search and to return to him certain seized property. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon is to hear arguments on the matter Thursday.
Trump’s lawyers responded Wednesday night by saying that a special master was needed for the sake of fairness, asserting that “left unchecked, the DOJ will impugn, leak, and publicize selective aspects of their investigation.”
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.” It said Tuesday that a special master was therefore unnecessary and that the presidential records that were taken from the home do not belong to Trump.
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What makes a car seat unsafe?
When you use a car seat, you trust that product to save your child’s life in an accident. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), when compared with seat belt use alone, a car seat can reduce the risk of injury in a crash by up to 82% for children. That is why you take extra precautions when shopping for a new car seat. You want to make sure you’re buying a car seat that meets federal safety standards, isn’t counterfeit, hasn’t suffered damage due to shipping or stocking and hasn’t been involved in a recall.
But even a car seat you have used for years without incident and initially satisfied all safety requirements when purchased might not be suitable for your younger child. This is because car seats do not last forever.
In this article: Britax Grow with You Clicktight Harness Booster Car Seat, Chicco KeyFit 30 Infant Car Seat and Base and Graco Tranzitions 3-in-1 Harness Booster Seat
How long does a child need to use a car seat?
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a child should be in a rear-facing car seat for as long as possible. Once they reach the top height or weight limit allowed by the car seat manufacturer, they should move to a forward-facing car seat. This is usually around age three, but height and weight actually determine when it is time to switch, not age.
Similarly, your child should stay in a forward-facing car seat (with harness and tether) until they reach the top height or weight limit allowed by the car seat manufacturer. This will be roughly around age 7. Your child should then use a booster seat until the seat belt fits properly with the lap belt across the upper thighs and the shoulder belt across the shoulder and chest. This may be as late as age 12.
Why do car seats expire?
When a car seat is manufactured, it is not designed to restrain a child older than 12 years. For this reason, adequate testing isn’t performed to determine if a car seat is safe after 10 to 12 years. Typically, this only becomes a problem when you have multiple children using the same car seat throughout the years. It is safer to buy a new car seat for each child. Additionally, car seats may become unusable due to wear and tear, updated regulations and recalls.
How long do car seats last?
If there is no visible damage and the car seat has not been involved in a moderate or severe accident, it should last around six to seven years. However, you should be aware that misuse and lack of care can shorten the lifespan of a car seat. It is important to understand that the seven years start when the car seat was manufactured, not when you purchased it. For this reason, most car seat manufacturers place an expiration date on the car seats they sell. This way, you know for certain when your car seat will expire.
Where can I find a car seat’s expiration date?
Car seat manufacturers want to be sure you know when your car seat expires. While each company may do this slightly differently, the two most popular places to look for an expiration date are on the bottom of the car seat or in the owner’s manual. Some companies merely provide the date when the car seat was manufactured (and you must do the math), while others will actually put an expiration date on the car seat.
How do I dispose of an expired car seat?
When you get rid of a car seat, you have a responsibility to make sure no one comes along and uses that car seat after it has expired. If someone is tight on finances and sees a car seat out with the trash, they may take it just to have one and unknowingly put their child’s life at risk.
Before throwing out or recycling your expired car seat, cut through the straps so they cannot be used and write “Do not use – expired” in large letters on the seat in permanent marker. Another option is to ask a local big box store if they have a car seat recycling program.
Best car seats to buy
Britax Grow with You Clicktight Harness Booster Car Seat
This two-in-one car seat grows with your child from forward-facing harness mode to a belt-positioning booster. The comfort pads keep your child’s neck from rubbing against the harness.
Britax Allegiance 3-Stage Convertible Car Seat
The Britax Allegiance is a rear-facing and forward-facing car seat with a quick-adjust 10-position harness. The push-button latch connectors and built-in lock-offs facilitate installation. This model has a steel frame with side-impact protection for added safety.
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Chicco KeyFit 30 Infant Car Seat and Base
This rear-facing car seat features two bubble-level indicators and spring-loaded leveling foot to ensure fast yet proper and secure installation every time. It is compatible with Chicco strollers and has an adjustable canopy for protection from the sun.
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Graco Tranzitions Three-In-One Harness Booster Seat
Graco Tranzitions is a three-in-one car seat that takes your child from a forward-facing harness to a highback booster to a backless booster. The no-rethread harness system adjusts the headrest and harness in one motion for convenience.
Sold by Amazon, Buy Buy Baby and Kohl’s
Chicco KidFit Two-In-One Belt Positioning Booster Car Seat
This forward-facing car seat has 10 positions to accommodate your growing child. The two cup holders fold away when not in use, and the double-foam padding and contoured seat provide additional support and comfort.
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ROME (AP) — The New York Yankees have purchased a minority stake in Italian soccer champion AC Milan, which announced the closing of its latest ownership change Wednesday.
RedBird Capital Partners completed the deal to purchase a controlling interest in the seven-time European champion for 1.2 billion euros ($1.2 billion).
It’s the second soccer team the Yankees partially own after MLS’s New York City.
Gerry Cardinale, who founded RedBird in 2014 and is the managing partner, announced a preliminary agreement in June to buy Milan from fellow American firm Elliott Management.
Yankees Global Enterprises, the baseball team’s parent company led by the Steinbrenner family, will take a stake of about 10%, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press on Tuesday, speaking on condition of anonymity before the final deal had been announced.
Details of the Yankees’ involvement were not divulged in the announcement.
The Yankees agreed in 2013 to purchase a 20% stake in the New York City Major League Soccer team that launched in 2015. City Football Group, Manchester City’s parent company, is the controlling owner.
“We have a multi-decade relationship with the New York Yankees and the Steinbrenner family that has resulted in the creation of some of the most successful businesses in sports, entertainment and hospitality,” Cardinale said in a statement on Milan’s website.
“We are very pleased to continue our partnership with them and will look to explore opportunities together to broaden our fan reach and expand commercial opportunities that are only available to franchises that operate at the highest levels of sports globally.”
The closing comes just in time for Cardinale to make his debut as Milan’s new president at Saturday’s derby against city rival Inter Milan.
“Our vision for Milan is clear: we will support our talented players, coaches and staff to deliver success on the pitch and allow our fans to share in the extraordinary experiences of this historic club,” Cardinale said.
“We will look to leverage our global sports and media network, our analytics expertise, our track record in sports stadium developments and hospitality to deliver one goal — maintaining Milan’s place at the summit of European and world football.”
The Yankees, 27-time World Series champions, are signing a separate marketing agreement with Milan, a 19-time Italian champion, that will include broadcasting replays of games on the YES Network, as Manchester City does. There also will be cross-merchandising between the pinstripes and the Rossoneri.
Milan is coming off its first Italian title in 11 years.
The Financial Times reported Tuesday that Main Street Advisors, the Los Angeles-based fund supported by LeBron James, is also investing in Milan.
RedBird also has a stake in Fenway Sports Group, the parent company of Liverpool and the Boston Red Sox. Champions League rules prohibit two clubs in the competition from being under the same ownership to protect the integrity of games on the field. UEFA likely will have to make a judgment on the extent of RedBird’s influence on decision-making at Liverpool.
RedBird is Milan’s fourth owner in five years.
Milan was owned from 1986 to 2017 by a former Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, who sold to a company controlled by Sino-Europe Sports Investment Management Changxing Co. The American hedge fund Elliott provided financing and took control of the team in 2018 when loan payments were not made.
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