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Beer has been produced by humans for longer than many people may know. Barley beer researchers have to traced beer production to present-day Iran in the fifth millennium B.C. The making and drinking of beer also is noted in the written history of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.
Beer is one of the most popular alcoholic beverages available today and is an important sector of the beverage industry. According to the Brewers Association, beer sales continue to grow, hitting $100.8 billion in the U.S. in 2021.
All beers are either lagers or ales, which are distinguished by the type of yeast used during the fermentation process (bottom- or top-fermenting, respectively). These beers are further labeled to describe the brew’s overall character, and oftentimes its place of origin, according to BeerAdvocate.
The following are some of the most popular types of beers on the market:
• Bocks: BeerAdvocate says a German Bock is a lager that is stronger than your typical lager, with a more robust malt character. The hue of these beers ranges from dark amber to brown. Bocks were once brewed by Bavarian monks and were consumed at the end of Lent.
• Brown ales: These beers feature toasty flavors with malty overtones. They have a mid-range alcohol content and boast a hoppy bitterness. Brown ales are full-bodied beers that pair well with heavier foods like red meats and stews.
• Dark lagers: Many dark lagers have malty, smooth, caramel flavors. They tend to have a mid-range alcohol level and relatively low bitterness profiles.
• India pale ales: IPAs boast strong hop bitterness and piney, floral flavors. They are especially popular among craft beer enthusiasts and brewers. IPAs tend to have a higher alcohol content than other pale ales. Imperial or double IPAs have even more pronounced flavors and higher ABVs.
• Pale ales: These beers are hoppy, but generally light, drinkable beers. Many easily pair with fish, poultry and cheeses.
• Pilsners and pale lagers: These similar, golden-colored beers are light in flavor and lower in alcohol content than other styles of beer. This style of beer was made popular in Germany, but many American brands like Coors and Budweiser have made pale lagers a favorite of the masses.
• Porters: Porters were developed in London in the early 18th century. These beers are well-hopped and dark in appearance due to the use of brown malt. The name grew from the popularity of the beer among street and river porters.
• Stouts: Stouts tend to be dark in color and are often mistaken as being heavy and strong. This isn’t always the case. Many stouts are complex and low in alcohol, according to All About Beer magazine. Dry stouts are well-known in Ireland. A distinguishing characteristic of a dry stout is its black, essentially opaque appearance.
Beer is a complex beverage that comes in many unique styles. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/magazine/name-your-poison-how-to-find-the-beer-style-that-suits-your-taste/article_d31a498a-21d8-11ed-96da-7786f8b3df01.html | 2022-09-02T08:12:18Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/magazine/name-your-poison-how-to-find-the-beer-style-that-suits-your-taste/article_d31a498a-21d8-11ed-96da-7786f8b3df01.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Used to be, you’d walk into a tavern, pull up a bar stool and order a beer.
Not an IPA. Not an amber. Not a porter. Not even any specific brand.
You got whatever they had on tap — it was just beer. No questions about hoppiness, ABV or IBU, and if you’d have asked for a sample, they’d likely have given you a mean look for a minute and then ordered you out of the place.
Beer — the theme of this month’s issue — has come a long way in the past 30 years or so.
Sure, the endless range of choices we have now makes ordering another round a lot more complicated than it used to be, but it’s worth it when you consider how much better the beer tastes.
It’s not just the beer, though. A refreshing new culture has emerged around beer drinking.
Now while you’re sipping a cool Kölsch or a nice, light lager, you can probably bring along your kids — most brewpubs try to be family-friendly. Even pet-friendly.
And we’ll take a cheery brewpub with flavorful local beers over a dark, brooding bar with a bunch of ragged posters of long-retired athletes hanging by the dart board any day.
We’ll also take the creativity and community-mindedness that we see in so many of the people driving the brewing business around here. You’ll see some of it for yourself as you browse through the stories on the next few pages:
• A number of Yakima Valley brewers are giving back to the community through fundraising events and special brews that highlight and benefit important causes. Christine Corbett Conklin didn’t have to look too hard to find several great examples.
• Shannon Mahre, meantime, tapped into the creativity that drives the industry. Specifically, she found a couple of groundbreaking new offerings from Bale Breaker Brewing Co., including the state’s first brew that offers cannabis in a can.
• And our history expert, Ellen Allmendinger, reminds us that without hops, there’s no beer. Her article on some of the area’s early visionaries helps explain how the Valley has ended up producing roughly three-quarters of the country’s hops crop.
We suspect those long-ago hop growers would be pleased — probably downright astonished — to see what’s come of the seeds they planted so long ago.
After all, some of us are still getting used to the idea that you no longer have to settle for whatever the barkeep happens to have on tap.
— John Taylor | https://www.yakimaherald.com/magazine/note-who-knew-they-could-make-beer-even-better/article_96c24d36-21c7-11ed-ad1b-071f2423ff1d.html | 2022-09-02T08:12:24Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/magazine/note-who-knew-they-could-make-beer-even-better/article_96c24d36-21c7-11ed-ad1b-071f2423ff1d.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Growing up in working-class Black Los Angeles, Desiree Cormier Smith was the brainy Catholic school kid who knew she wanted a career in public service, “but I didn’t know what was possible,” she said.
Now Smith is in the process of finding out, in a very high-profile way: she’s the nation’s new “Special Representative for Racial Equity and Justice,” leading the Biden administration’s State Department campaign to make human rights for marginalized groups a foreign policy priority.
The initiative grew out of an executive order issued by President Joe Biden on his first day in office, requiring every federal agency to “recognize and work to redress inequities in their policies and programs that serve as barriers to equal opportunity.”
For the State Department, that means addressing the plight of racial and ethnic minorities in regions where they’ve been persistently oppressed, and evaluating whether U.S. policies contribute to that.
What it does not mean is imposing our judgments on other countries, or grabbing the mic when we should be listening.
Smith understands the tensions inherent in that. “We have to talk to people about what they need and how our embassies in their countries can uplift and support them,” she said.
“It can’t be us trying to apply the American lens on racism to what is a global problem.”
I was relieved to hear Smith acknowledge that, because our American lens has been disfigured for centuries; cloudy, cracked and blurred beyond recognition by poisonous race and class distinctions.
Smith is realistic about the challenges she faces. She may not have the typical diplomat’s pedigree, but her social conscience developed naturally.
She hails from one of Black L.A’.s most notable clans, an extended family of public servants, artists and activists. Her late grandfather, family patriarch Larry Aubry, left such a legacy of civic activism — on education, job training, fair housing and police accountability — that he was known as the “Godfather of South Los Angeles” and the “Conscience of Black L.A.”
As a child, Smith spent summers with a half-dozen cousins at her paternal grandmother’s home in South Los Angeles, where love was abundant but the budget was so tight that lunch was sometimes mustard sandwiches.
The rest of the year, she lived with her single mother and maternal grandparents in an Inglewood home busy with relatives coming and going, and lively with music and rip-roaring talk about civil rights.
Smith credits that upbringing with shaping her big-tent thinking. “Growing up in the care of such a large and close-knit family taught me that I was inherently part of a collective,” she told me.
Smith was tapped to head the State Department’s racial justice program in June, after several years with the department and advising international human rights groups.
I was curious about what led her to foreign diplomacy, so she walked me along her serendipitous career path.
Her first trip overseas — a summer visit to France with her high school French teacher and a group of students — “really changed my life,” Smith said. “It made me realize there was a huge world out there,” and that even international tourism had racial dimensions.
“It was the first time people asked me where I was from,” Smith recalled. “When I said ‘America,’ they said, ‘Where are you really from?’” She was bothered by that. “Why can’t I be just American? Because I’m not a white American?”
Smith left L.A. for Stanford the next year, with a full scholarship but no idea where her studies might lead. She was juggling part-time jobs to pay for her books when a friend told her about a foreign affairs fellowship that would cover all her school expenses and could open the door to a State Department career.
Smith was awarded the fellowship, earned a bachelor’s from Stanford, with a double major in psychology and political science, then a master’s from Harvard in public policy. Her first foreign service post, in 2009, was a two-year stint in Mexico, followed by a posting to South Africa.
“My family was really excited for me — except for my grandfather,” Smith recalled ruefully. He had strong misgivings about her foreign service commitment. “Why would you go overseas,” he’d ask, “when there are so many problems here?”
Why indeed? Given our own long-standing racial inequities — in housing, health care, education, income and more — who are we to be schooling others about racial justice and equity?
We do it because our fates are interconnected, Smith told me. As we work on racial issues around the world, we gain insight into our own shortcomings. “We know that racism and anti-Blackness is an international phenomenon. I see the same problems in Inglewood and Ghana.”
And part of her mission is to address the systemic racism embedded in our own policies and programs. “To be credible champions for human rights abroad, we have to be credible at home.”
The initiative on race and ethnicity isn’t the State Department’s only equity project. In fact, it took a while to get going.
The department had already dedicated officials to deal specifically with LGBTQ concerns, international disability rights, global women’s issues, religious freedom and antisemitism. “There was a gap that needed closing,” Smith said.
Not everything on her agenda has headline potential. Her team is also addressing basic changes that promote inclusion abroad and at home — things as simple as adding a non-binary option to gender choices on U.S. passport applications and as complicated as developing sophisticated “social inclusion analysis tools” that can identify problems and measure progress.
They are also planning for the future by helping disadvantaged college students in the U.S. access opportunities to study abroad, and they are partnering with South American countries to encourage Afro-Latino and Indigenous students to consider foreign service careers.
Because Smith hasn’t forgotten what made her own career possible: the school trip that opened her eyes to the world beyond our borders, and the fellowship that prepared an Inglewood kid to make an international difference. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/column-from-south-los-angeles-to-the-state-department-fighting-for-social-justice/article_ba64b518-2978-11ed-af6d-37b659bd4331.html | 2022-09-02T08:12:42Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/column-from-south-los-angeles-to-the-state-department-fighting-for-social-justice/article_ba64b518-2978-11ed-af6d-37b659bd4331.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
One unfortunate result of the relentless 24-hour American news cycle is that it encourages instant conclusions from both journalists and politicians about the long-term meaning of dramatic news events.
That sometimes proves dangerous. After all, breaking news stories don’t always initially provide sufficient details to explain what really happened, increasing the possibility that initial conclusions may ultimately prove wrong.
That has been evident in the controversy stemming from the Aug. 8 FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in what turned out to be the climax of a long-running dispute over his alleged improper removal of classified documents from the White House — and his refusal to return them.
As time has passed, and more information has become public, some initial conclusions have proven to be premature at best and probably wrong.
The initial reaction from most Republicans was that Americans would be outraged by the idea of government agents intruding unannounced into the home of a former president. GOP strategists saw a political plus for the party as a whole and for Trump in particular. And they weren’t the only ones; columnist David Brooks of the New York Times wrote it may have ensured Trump’s return to the presidency two years hence.
In the immediate aftermath, polls showed Trump’s support among Republicans went up as many top party figures joined his strongest adherents in decrying the raid and demanding an explanation.
But even then, there was a notable contrast between the outraged exclamations by his most fervent supporters and the more restrained comments of party leaders.
For example, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell initially dodged a news conference question about the raid. A day later, amid GOP criticism of his silence, he issued a measured statement, saying, “Attorney General (Merrick) Garland and the Department of Justice should already have provided answers to the American people and must do so immediately.”
Garland told reporters in a brief press availability that he took full responsibility for the raid but provided little insight. However, the redacted search warrant affidavit made public last Friday indicated why the FBI felt the search was necessary and the extent to which Trump has kept classified material that the 1978 Presidential Records Act says belongs to the government, not the president.
“There is probable cause to believe that additional documents that contain classified NDI (national defense information) or that are presidential records subject to record retention requirements currently remain at the premises,” the affidavit said. “There is also probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found at the premises.”
It detailed the extent of classified material in documents that Trump turned over to the National Archives and Records Administration earlier this year, including highly sensitive information about human intelligence sources.
Though Trump had urged release of the affidavit, his adherents seized on the fact that significant portions were kept secret — to protect intelligence sources and procedures, including informants — and reiterated their criticism of the raid itself.
“This is a grave travesty, and what is unredacted only further supports President Trump’s position, there was NO reason for a raid — it is all politics!” said spokesman Taylor Budowich.
Notably, the outrage came mainly from close Trump allies. There was even less reaction this time from party leaders who have learned over the years that, with Trump, the initial version often isn’t the complete one.
Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt, appearing on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, mainly questioned the timing of the raid and why congressional intelligence panels weren’t apprised. But the veteran lawmaker avoided any defense of Trump, noting the former president had turned over some of the documents in question but twice adding, “He should have turned over all of them.”
An underlying problem when it comes to any question involving Trump and government documents is that, by many press accounts, his White House’s handling of all official material, classified or not, has been sloppy at best and possibly illegal at worst, including reports of document destruction. That apparently worsened in the administration’s chaotic closing days, as aides rushed to throw materials into boxes for shipment to Mar-a-Lago.
There is also the cavalier attitude that Trump displayed throughout his tenure and after toward the powers of the presidency.
“I have the right to do whatever I want as president,” he said in a 2019 speech, echoing Richard Nixon’s infamous comment, in a post-presidential interview with David Frost, that, “when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.”
Finally, and most seriously, there is the question of whether Trump deliberately kept any of the documents — and, if so, why.
Initially, Trump adviser Kash Patel sought to blame the General Services Administration for sending the classified documents to Mar-a-Lago; in fact, Trump aides packed them, and GSA shipped them.
And Patel, among others, claimed, without providing any evidence, that Trump had declassified all of the top-secret materials he retained. But that does not change the requirements of the Presidential Records Act that he surrender possession of them.
In any case, the story has changed dramatically since Aug. 8.
At the outset, Trump’s allies were able to portray the raid as an outrageous intrusion into the former president’s home. Now, with the benefit of three weeks of additional information, the story has become one of yet more potential illegality by the former president.
No wonder most Republicans have clammed up. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/column-trump-search-story-has-changed-dramatically-in-a-few-weeks/article_f57f1c14-2983-11ed-b7f7-ebf078570fb4.html | 2022-09-02T08:12:48Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/column-trump-search-story-has-changed-dramatically-in-a-few-weeks/article_f57f1c14-2983-11ed-b7f7-ebf078570fb4.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
To the editor — We should all be deeply concerned about some so-called Christian movements that align themselves with the ideologies of Donald Trump and MAGA. Making America Great Again means making it great for white Christian extremists and marginalizing all others.
Some claiming to be “Christian” need to research what Trump and MAGA promote. There is nothing more antithetic to the teachings of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism or Hinduism than Trump’s promotion of white Christian nationalism and xenophobia. Christianity is but one faith teaching love of one’s neighbor, tolerance and peace.
In some Texas school districts, radical school boards are now removing books from library shelves — even The Diary of Anne Frank!
Leaders who present themselves as interpreters of God’s will yet are intolerant of the beliefs of others, perpetuate lies and deny rights guaranteed by the Constitution are hypocrites and wolves in sheep’s clothing.
The United States Census predicts that by 2035, 40% of America will be comprised of minorities. Trump’s xenophobia and fear-mongering will not change this. We are many faiths, white, people of color and LGBTQ. Native Americans are the true original Americans but now we are all Americans!
We are children of a loving God. Stop enabling Trump’s fear-mongering, hate and promotion of violence! To do otherwise is truly un-American.
ANNE ANNA
Yakima | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/letter-theres-nothing-christian-about-hate-xenophobia/article_dc70d2b2-2645-11ed-b56c-07c55e711a0c.html | 2022-09-02T08:12:54Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/letter-theres-nothing-christian-about-hate-xenophobia/article_dc70d2b2-2645-11ed-b56c-07c55e711a0c.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
To the editor — Every region of the country I’ve lived in has its unwritten cultural rules. Newcomers learn to go along with those rules if they want to feel welcome.
One deeply religious Southern town I lived in was also a sundown town. The main rule for the religious part was “Be in your pew on Sunday morning.” The rule for the sundown part was “If you’re Black, be out of town by sundown.” People who lived there long enough no longer could see the contradiction.
After a few years in Yakima, I have learned the major rule is that “Agriculture reigns.” But I still see the contradictions.
When harvesting sunlight on a few thousand acres of solar farms threatens to diversify the Yakima Valley, county commissioners and environmental groups alike band together to “Save the fruit trees!”
Never mind that Yakima County has around 100,000 acres in fruit trees already. That equals tens of millions of fruit trees.
Never mind that water shortages are already threatening farmers in a number of Western states. We plan to keep planting, demanding more dams for more water, and using more chemicals.
Just don’t try to harvest renewable energy.
The emperor sure looks naked.
John Frost
Yakima | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/letter-theyll-argue-for-agriculture-no-matter-what/article_99503a1c-297f-11ed-a95c-63418691b97a.html | 2022-09-02T08:13:00Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/letter-theyll-argue-for-agriculture-no-matter-what/article_99503a1c-297f-11ed-a95c-63418691b97a.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
For everyday Russians, the lens into the war in Ukraine is through a camera operated by Vladimir Putin.
Through propagandized content on state-controlled broadcast and print media outlets, Russians are told the falsehood that the war’s mission is to free Ukrainians from the West-allied Nazified regime in Kyiv, and that, by the way, Ukraine really shouldn’t exist as its own country because it has always belonged to Russia. They’re told that Ukrainians actually want to be liberated by Russia so they can be welcomed into the fold.
And mothers, fathers, siblings and children of Russian soldiers are told lies about the fate of their men, or not told at all.
“I know that families don’t know what is happening with their sons,” U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield told us at an editorial board session with her last Thursday. “They are not getting the message that their sons have been killed in battle. So that will have an impact on people, when they really, truly learn the cost that they’ve had to pay for Putin’s little operation.”
In the West’s quest to bring an end to the grinding war in Ukraine that has reached the six-month mark, U.S. and European leaders have relied in part on a raft of sanctions aimed at pressuring Putin to acquiesce and stop the carnage he has wrought. Sanctions are a necessary and critical component of the U.S. and NATO’s policy toward Kremlin belligerence, and they’ve had a measurable impact on the Russian economy.
But there’s another source of pressure that may be able to cut much deeper into Putin’s obstinacy. Pressure at home, from the Russian people.
Putin has eluded massive blowback from everyday Russians principally because his Kremlin controls all levers of media. The version of the war in Ukraine that Russians get is the version Putin shapes, or more precisely, fabricates. Truth is hard to come by on Russian airwaves, in most Russian print media and even on the internet. Anyone or any entity that dares to swim against the tide risks the Kremlin’s wrath.
Demonstrations in Russia against the war have waned only because Russians have already seen the Kremlin’s terrifying response to anti-war protests. Shortly after Russian troops invaded Ukraine in late February, large-scale demonstrations broke out in Moscow and other cities — and were brutally put down. Legions of Russians were arrested. Many younger Russians have fled the country.
Putin’s crackdown on dissent reflects arguably his biggest fear — his vulnerability to forces from within.
“When Putin starts to feel the pressure inside,” Thomas-Greenfield told us, “pressure from the oligarchs, pressure from the elites, and pressure from ordinary people on the streets, he won’t be able to ignore that message.”
Alongside sanctions, a concerted push to get the truth to everyday Russians about the war in Ukraine should be a bulwark to the West’s efforts to support Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Ukrainian people. When we asked Thomas-Greenfield how the Biden administration can bring the war’s realities to a population so deeply firewalled from outside information, the ambassador replied, “Everything’s on the table.”
Russians have access to social media, she added, “and they find ways around the restrictions that Putin has put on their access.”
What’s sure to move Russians to question their president’s actions in Ukraine is the truth about the fate of loved ones on the battlefield. Thomas-Greenfield acknowledged that even the U.S. doesn’t have a clear picture of the number of dead and injured Russian soldiers. But in the invasion’s early weeks, hints of the toll on Russian battalions came with images of Ukrainian soldiers moving untold numbers of dead Russian troops off of streets and onto roadsides.
“When their soldiers don’t come home,” Thomas-Greenfield said, “families are going to start asking questions.”
On Thursday, Putin announced a significant buildup in Russian military forces — an additional 137,000 troops to bring the country’s overall troop strength to 1.15 million. The Russian leader found himself having to replenish his forces after suffering heavy losses during the war’s first six months.
Eventually, however, when more of those soldiers come back to Russia in coffins, he’ll find himself having to explain to grieving families how and why their sons had to die. And if he continues to hide the truth, then the West should — and must — find a way to get that truth to those families.
When Russians learn the true, painful cost they’ve paid for their leader’s reckless war, they’ll want him to answer for his actions. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/other-views-the-most-potent-pressure-putin-faces-won-t-come-from-the-west-it/article_6de273b4-2983-11ed-9c45-6729d59b221b.html | 2022-09-02T08:13:07Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/other-views-the-most-potent-pressure-putin-faces-won-t-come-from-the-west-it/article_6de273b4-2983-11ed-9c45-6729d59b221b.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
HONOLULU (CN) — Starting in late 2021, a jet fuel leak at a U.S. Navy facility on Oahu has compromised the drinking water and risked the health and lives of thousands of residents in the Red Hill neighborhood; those most affected were military families living on the Navy’s own water system. Now, affected families are bringing charges against the United States for medical negligence, failure to treat, delayed care and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in federal court, details the myriad of medical issues four families have faced since drinking and bathing with the tainted water, encompassing everything from gastrointestinal issues to skin conditions and neurological conditions. The lawsuit also alleges that government doctors continually refused to test or diagnose the families as they came in, begging for help.
The lawsuit claims, “When the plaintiff families presented to emergency rooms or 'exposure tents' that were set up by the Army and Navy, most were denied any tests or labs. Families have even been told that testing is 'impossible' and that the toxicologist at Walter Reade advised against ordering labs or other tests for fear of the implications of the care that would be required thereafter.”
The previously healthy families began to experience a barrage of various symptoms, ranging from nausea and fevers, to skin lesions and rashes and even cysts and tumors. Although the families have sought treatment off-island with surgeries, biopsies, brain scans and other procedures, they continue to experience symptoms, according to the lawsuit, nearly an entire year since they were first exposed to the contaminated water, with seemingly no remedy to their suffering.
Health risks to each of the family’s young children were especially severe. The children have experienced developmental delays and behavioral problems that were not present before the contamination crisis. The complaint details the Wyatt family’s suffering after continual exposure to the tainted water.
“Their daughter, I.W., began suffering from abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, headaches, irritation of the skin and eyes, mouth sores, heart palpitations, bladder incontinence, and substantial hair loss, all before the age of four,” the complaint states.
All four of the plaintiff families have since moved away from Hawaii, for the most part at their own expense, to get away from the contaminated water and to receive medical treatment.
“As a general rule, Captain McGinnis has maintained that no one still has symptoms because of the exposure, and that is wrong. It’s one thing to cause the contamination, but another thing to tell the families that you made sick, that they’re not actually sick. And then offer no medical help for them,” said attorney Kristin Baehr of Texas-based law firm Just Well Law, who is representing the families in collaboration with Honolulu attorney Lyle Hosoda.
Prior lawsuits regarding the Red Hill contamination have been filed against landlords by civilians or against the Navy by environmental agencies, making this lawsuit the first from military families in federal court addressing medical concerns. Baehr hopes to add more plaintiffs to the suit as they work through the administrative process.
“Every single person on the water line has a claim,” Baehr said. “They’re going to be timed out if they don’t bring a claim now. Even if they aren’t sick right now, this is something that disrupted their life, it caused trauma and fear, and it put them at risk of future harm."
The claim is filed under the Federal Torts Claims Act, which allows private parties to sue for injuries committed by individuals in the official scope of the government. The lawsuit seeks compensation for medical expenses, as well as physical and mental suffering. Only family members are covered in the lawsuit as active-duty military members are barred from pursuing claims under the Federal Torts Claims Act.
The Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility, built by the Navy during World War II, holds up to 250 million gallons of fuel, and supplies planes and ships at nearby Pearl Harbor. The fuel, named in the suit specifically as Jet Propellant-5 and Jet Propellant-8, contains chemicals like benzene that have been identified by the Environmental Protection Agency as potentially toxic if ingested.
Leaks in May and November of 2021, attributed by the Navy to operator error, released thousands of gallons of fuel into wells in the Navy’s own water system. The system supplies drinking water to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, where a majority of military community locations and housing are located.
According to the lawsuit, the military failed to take appropriate action to warn JBPHH residents of the leak, initially downplaying the Nov. 20 incident. Many families soon began to report that water from their taps had an odd sheen and distinct odor.
Confirmation of the leak was not announced until Dec. 2, nearly two weeks after the incident. Within the two weeks, afflicted residents relied on Hawaii’s Department of Health to provide advisories for the unsafe drinking water.
The Navy response to the contamination was wildly condemned from every direction, including military families themselves, as well as the wider island community, particularly by environmental protection groups and Native Hawaiian activists and even Hawaii state representatives.
“For too long, it was the Navy’s narrative that dominated that basically it was over. It’s just important that these families’ experiences get shared, because the Navy’s account of how this went down is not accurate,” said Baehr.
Although military families at JBPHH were most directly affected, Oahu’s local civilian populations have been warned by the Board of Water Supply to conserve water as much as possible, and to keep an eye out for possible contamination in their own water. Oahu’s main aquifer, which serves most of the island, is located 100 feet below the Red Hill Facility.
Collaborative reports released by the Navy and the Hawaii DOH say that the water is currently safe to drink as of early August, although reports of illness have continued. The Navy has been ordered to defuel the facility and have recently submitted plans for the process. The Navy did not respond immediately for comment.
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NEW YORK — Serena and Venus Williams traded fist bumps or palm slaps and chatted between points. They smiled while conversing in their seats at changeovers.
When their first doubles match together in 4 1/2 years ended with a loss at the U.S Open on Thursday night, the siblings hugged each other, then left the court to a standing ovation.
The Williams sisters were eliminated by the Czech pair of Lucie Hradecka and Linda Noskova 7-6 (5), 6-4 at Flushing Meadows.
"I was speechless when I found out I'm going to face these two. I mean, they're legends. And I was always such a big fan of them, especially Serena. She has been my idol since ever, probably," said Noskova, a 17-year-old making her Grand Slam debut in doubles. "So I was really happy, excited, but kind of scared, to face them."
Arthur Ashe Stadium had never hosted a first-round doubles match — for women or men, during the night or day — until this one featuring two members of one family who have combined to claim 14 Grand Slam titles in doubles.
"It's something incredible, because playing first round in a huge stadium, with 23,000 people, is something amazing," said the 37-year-old Hradecka, who won major doubles trophies with Andrea Hlavackova at the 2013 U.S. Open and 2011 French Open. "I don't think (when) we played the final here, it was packed like this."
The Williams sisters, who did not do interviews after the match, were partnering up for the first time since the 2018 French Open.
"I'm still in shock that we won," Hradecka said in an on-court interview right after the match's conclusion.
Speaking to the sellout crowd of 23,859, she said: "I'm so sorry for you that we beat them, but we are so happy that we did it."
The fans were not nearly as boisterous as they were for each of the two victories in singles this week for Serena, who has hinted that this will be the final event of her career.
Serena plays Ajla Tomljanovic on Friday night in the third round of singles; Venus was bounced from that bracket in the first round.
After a rather subdued entrance from the locker room by Hradecka and Noskova, who were competing as a team for the first time, a video tribute to the Williams-Williams pairing played on the Ashe videoboards, with a narrator introducing "two of the greatest athletes on Planet Earth" and, in a reference to Serena's looming retirement, saying, "It's not too late to change your mind."
There was footage of them through the years, including as kids with white beads in their hair (like Serena's daughter, Olympia, wore on opening night) and, later, winning titles.
Olympia, who turned 5 on Thursday, was not there for this one, Serena's husband, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian was, as were the sisters' mother, Oracene Price, and their sister, Isha.
During the pre-match warmup, the announcer noted that the sisters are 14-0 in Grand Slam doubles finals and declared: "They've transformed and elevated the sport as we know it."
The spectators saved their biggest cheers for some of Serena's best efforts, whether aces or putaways or an on-the-run forehand winner. The sisters went up 5-4 early and held two set points there on Noskova's serve, but could not convert either.
The loudest moment probably arrived after a 19-stroke point won by the sisters during the first-set tiebreaker, featuring three swinging volleys by Serena. That put them ahead 4-3, and soon it was 5-3.
But Hradecka and Noskova grabbed the next four points to claim that set. They then jumped ahead 3-0 in the second, and after the Williams sisters made it 4-all, the Czech team pulled away.
The Williams siblings received a wild-card entry into this year's doubles field. Serena, who turns 41 next month, and Venus, who turned 42 in June, won doubles trophies at the U.S. Open in 1999 — the year Serena won her first major singles trophy at age 17 in New York — and 2009.
They have a total of 30 major trophies in singles: 23 for Serena, seven for Venus.
"Playing against the Williams sisters," Noskova said, "is a special moment for everybody."
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STOCKHOLM, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sandvik has completed the previously announced acquisition of the Portugal-based company Frezite. Frezite's offering primarily consists of made-to-order polycrystalline diamond (PCD) tools for metal and wood applications, with exposure to the automotive, general engineering and aerospace segments. The company will be reported within Walter, a division within Sandvik Manufacturing and Machining Solutions.
In 2021, the company had revenues of approximately SEK 450 million and an EBITA margin that is slightly dilutive to Sandvik Manufacturing and Machining Solutions. Impact on Sandvik's earnings per share will be limited, yet positive.
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SHANGHAI, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shanghai Electric announced that Phase B of the 900-MW fifth phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park has entered operation. As part of the world's largest photovoltaic (PV) plant under construction, the project will aid Dubai's push to upgrade and transform its energy mix by providing 2.268 billion kWh of power supply per year upon completion, enough to serve up over 240,000 homes and capable of reducing 1.1 million tonnes of carbon emission annually.
"We are so proud to see the solar park hit another historical milestone after Phase A was connected to the grid in 2021. Now, work on Phase C is well underway and is expected to complete in 2023, " said Meng Chuanmin, Project Manager of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park Phase V.
"The construction process of the fifth phase of MBR Solar Park is marked by a series of challenges, culminating in the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic that severely disrupted global supply chains. The team overcame the difficulties and ensured the procurement and delivery of the raw materials for the project were timely implemented to avoid any delay to the overall progress," Meng added.
Shanghai Electric has also made great efforts to control the costs. Compared to the pre-pandemic period, container shipment has become widely unavailable, with transportation prices for cables having generally increased by a factor of ten. To ensure the project can be completed on schedule, the team decided to ship cables via bulk carriers, despite the new solution driving up the workload.
In addition, due to the natural movement and fluidity of sand dunes, the team later discovered that the construction site was elevated by hundreds of thousands of cubic meters compared to the previously surveyed value, translating to an addition of $3 million to the overall cost. After a thorough investigation and research, Shanghai Electric came up with a plan that helped the team solve the issue while guaranteeing no interruption was caused to the construction progress.
Acwa Power, owner, developer and operator of the fifth phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Solar Park, appointed Shanghai Electric as the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor for the project in 2020. Starting in July 2020, the project consisted of Phrase A, B and C, with a total installed capacity of 1050 MW.
With the international team of the project employing over 2,500 workers during the peak period, Shanghai Electric's effort to unite the best global workforces, resources and supplies to build one of the most advanced solar complexes in the country has been recognized by the project owner and its partners. In addition, the project also created over 4,000 direct and 10,000 indirect work opportunities, playing a key role in promoting local employment and economic development.
Shanghai Electric has also participated in the construction of the 950MW fourth phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, which includes a 700MW concentrated solar power (CSP) plant and a 250MW photovoltaic (PV) plant. The CSP is able to store the thermal energy during the daytime, which can later be used for electricity generation at night, offering a clean, stable and reliable energy supply around the clock.
Since it commenced in 2018, the project has hired over 8,500 workers during the peak period, with the 100 MW CSP tower plant and the 200MW parabolic trough plant-II scheduled to be connected to the grid at the end of 2022. It features the world's most advanced solar technologies that will provide clean energy for around 320,000 households and abate 1.6 million tonnes of carbon emissions every year, going a long way to helping Dubai achieve its 2050 renewable vision.
About Shanghai Electric
Shanghai Electric Group Company Limited (SEHK: 2727, SSE: 601727) is a world-class high-end equipment manufacturer, focusing on smart energy, intelligent manufacturing and smart infrastructure to provide green and intelligent industrial-grade system solutions. It has a global presence in industries such as new energy, efficient clean energy, industrial automation, medical devices, and environmental protection.
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The increase to the energy price cap coming next month is expected to create a financial shortfall for many of those who are in receipt of DWP benefits such as Universal Credit, Employment and Support Allowance and Jobseeker's Allowance. As it stands, the current annual cap of £1,971 is set to rise to £3,549 in October - an uplift of around 80 per cent.
With energy regulator Ofgem advising that further increases are on the way - both in December and into 2023 - BirminghamLive has calculated how soaring bills will particularly impact those in receipt of the above benefits. Government support is available for lower income households, pensioners and those with disabilities, though the scale of the crisis has prompted calls for more help.
Among those spearheading these efforts is consumer expert Martin Lewis, who has warned that "people will die" this winter without more financial support. This warning aligns with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's recent prediction that the cost of living crisis is set to get even worse.
READ MORE: Martin Lewis explains everything you need to know ahead of energy price hike
The foundation's latest analysis predicts that by 2023/2024, some people will see their finances "wiped out by stratospheric energy bills that make up almost 120 per cent of their income after housing costs, leaving many destitute." The comparison below looks at how those in receipt of the above benefits will be impacted this autumn, specifically how much they will have left over from their entitlement after paying their energy bill.
The figures are for standard allowances of the three benefits compared to the expected average energy bill. Those entitled to top-ups are set to fare better, while certain claimants could face a shortfall of almost £52.
Universal Credit
Universal Credit is paid monthly, on the same date, depending on when a claimant received their first amount. The amounts given below are standard allowances. Some people may receive top-ups if they have children, disabled children, childcare costs, disabilities, or care for a severely disabled person.
Single and under 25
Universal Credit standard allowance: £265.31 a month
Annual energy bill rise in October 2022: £3,549 a year or £295.75 a month
Remaining income: Shortfall of -£30.44 a month
Single and aged 25 or over
Universal Credit standard allowance: £334.91 a month
Energy bill rise in October 2022: £3,549 a year or £295.75 a month
Remaining income: £39.16 a month
Couple with both under 25
Universal Credit standard allowance: £416.45 a month
Energy bill rise in October 2022: £3,549 a year or £295.75 a month
Remaining income: £120.70 a month
Couple with one or both 25 or over
Universal Credit standard allowance: £525.72 a month
Energy bill rise in October 2022: £3,549 or £295.75 a month
Remaining income: £229.97 a month
Employment & Support Allowance (ESA)
Under 25 and in the work-related activity group
ESA personal allowance: £61.05 a week (=£244.20 a month)
Energy bill rise in October 2022: £3,549 or £295.75 a month
Remaining income: Shortfall of -£51.55 a month
25 or over and in the work-related activity group
ESA personal allowance: £77 a week (=£308 a month)
Energy bill rise in October 2022: £3,549 or £295.75 a month
Remaining income: £12.25 a month
Others on ESA who aren't able to work get a higher amount and should be entitled to additional top-ups such as Enhanced Disability Premium. They may also qualify for the Severe Disability Premium.
ESA is listed in weekly amounts but is actually paid out every two weeks. We've also shown it as a monthly sum to compare with Universal Credit.
Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA)
Under 25
JSA personal allowance: £61.05 a week (=£244.20 a month)
Energy bill rise in October 2022: £3,549 or £295.75 a month
Remaining income: Shortfall of -£51.55 a month
25 or over
JSA personal allowance: £77 a week (=£308 a month)
Energy bill rise in October 2022: £3,549 or £295.75 a month
Remaining income: £12.25 a month
JSA is listed in weekly amounts but is actually paid out every two weeks. We've also shown it as a monthly sum to compare with Universal Credit.
What the Joseph Rowntree Foundation said
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) is warning energy may become a luxury only the wealthy can afford, as it reveals low-income families will endure "unthinkable bills that take a bigger bite out of their household budgets than those of the better off."
It says that things will get so bad that by 2023/2024 the poorest fifth of families, forecast to have an average income of £11,600 after taxes and paying for housing, will pay out on average almost half (46 per cent) of their income on energy bills. However, middle-income families, with average incomes of £31,400, will spend less than half that share – a still historically large 19 per cent – paying the same bills.
Many households will be put in impossible situations. The energy bill for a low-income single adult household is forecast to exceed the entirety (up to 120 per cent) of their income after housing costs., leaving them no money left over for food or other essentials. That means in order to pay energy bills alone, they would have to use their entire income and find even more money. They would almost certainly become destitute as a result.
Couples without children and lone parents on low incomes will hand over almost two-thirds of their income just to keep the lights on or cook dinner every day. For pensioners in the same financial situation, energy will make up around 40 per cent of their disposable income.
Peter Matejic, Chief Analyst at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, said: "The government devised its support package based on a previous energy price forecast made obsolete by [Friday's] extraordinary announcement. With the price cap very likely to increase significantly and forecast to remain high well throughout next year, our analysis shows it is a sheer fantasy to think struggling families can pay these stratospheric energy bills without further Government intervention on a significant scale.
"It is impossible to think a care worker or a shop assistant will have to scramble to find hundreds more pounds to pay for their heating or that the entirety of someone’s income for a whole year will be less than their energy bill. But that's what these figures suggest will be the case unless significant further steps are taken quickly."
He added: "Ministers have a choice about who shoulders most of the burden – families, businesses or the public finances. Whoever occupies number 10 next will be remembered for who they protect - they must make sure energy doesn’t become a luxury only the wealthy can afford.
"The government must immediately respond with a comprehensive emergency package to cover the period of these extreme price rises, just as they did so creatively and quickly with furlough during the early stages of the pandemic."
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KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany – Just a few weeks ago, the hazardous material management program team received a call from Ramstein Air Base. The Air Force there had some containers of fuel additive they no longer needed, and they wanted to know if the HMMP team could help. The team called an Army aviation unit in Ansbach, Germany, and sure enough – the unit said yes – and the fuel additive containers, which were otherwise earmarked for HAZMAT disposal, were transferred.
While only a cost saving of about $2,000, it’s another example of the 405th Army Field Support Brigade’s HMMP team exercising its extensive HAZMAT contact list, coordinating the transfer of HAZMAT from one command to another and saving the government money. In fact – the HMMP team, which is assigned to the 405th AFSB’s Installation Logistics Directorate, has saved the Army a total of about a $520,000 since 2021.
There are lots of good news cost savings stories to tell, according to Juliet Batalon, an HMMP team member at the 405th AFSB. Using their hazardous material reuse centers, or HMRCs – one in Wiesbaden, one in Stuttgart and two in Bavaria – they receive hundreds of different types of HAZMAT items from units that no longer need the items and issue them back to other units who do, for free.
“A good example is toner cartridges,” Batalon said. “When offices get new life-cycle replacement printers, and their old printers are turned in but they still have toner cartridges left – they have to go somewhere. So the HMRCs take them, and for the units who still have those types of printers on hand they can grab the free issue toner cartridges.”
Although toner cartridges aren’t considered as hazardous as items such as fuel, oil, solvents and chemicals, “they’re a big ticket item because those toner cartridges can cost $200 a piece,” said Batalon.
The overall mission of the HMMP is comprehensive and multifaceted. In addition to the reduction of costs to acquire and dispose of HAZMAT, the 405th AFSB program is responsible for decreasing the logistics footprint associated with HAZMAT, reducing risk to personnel, property and the environment, and cradle-to-grave tracking of all HAZMAT.
“We started this program in 2002 with three installations in Europe, and it grew to our current state now, which is all the garrisons and all the installations,” Batalon said. “By regulation we are required to track all HAZMAT that enters our installations, and because we are in Europe there are stricter regulations and laws concerning chemicals and other HAZMAT items that must be followed.”
Batalon said the HMMP team is responsible for conducting or coordinating inspections at all the sites that have HAZMAT within the 405th AFSB’s area of responsibility. The team makes sure each of the locations are in compliance with safety, environmental and occupational health requirements.
The HMMP team uses the Enterprise Environmental, Safety and Occupational Health – Management Information System, referred to as EESOH-MIS, to help control and track HAZMAT throughout its life cycle, commonly known as cradle-to-grave management. The system has resulted in extremely accurate HAZMAT inventories, less hazardous waste, increased safety, and cost and time savings.
Pauline Mahieu is a HAZMAT supply technician at Logistics Readiness Center Benelux, 405th AFSB. She said she updates EESOH-MIS on a day-to-day basis to track the process and track all approved HAZMAT. She also said her team has a specially designed HAZMAT storage building they manage.
“My colleagues and I make sure that all HAZMAT is approved before coming onto the installations within the U.S. Army Garrison Benelux area of responsibility,” Mahieu said, “and we do all the coordination between the customers and the HAZMAT program committee.”
“The committee consists of the environmental office, safety office, industrial hygienist and the fire department, and they need to approve the HAZMAT products before any purchases are made,” said Mahieu. “We assist with this approval process and work with the customers to get the HAZMAT products.”
According to Army regulation, the purpose of the HMMP is to integrate accountability for HAZMAT into day-to-day decision making, planning, operations and compliance across all Army missions, activities and functions at all Army installations.
The 405th AFSB is assigned to U.S. Army Sustainment Command and under the operational control of the 21st Theater Sustainment Command, U.S. Army Europe and Africa. The brigade is headquartered in Kaiserslautern, Germany, and provides materiel enterprise support to U.S. Forces throughout Europe and Africa – providing theater sustainment logistics; synchronizing acquisition, logistics and technology; and leveraging U.S. Army Materiel Command’s materiel enterprise to support joint forces. For more information on the 405th AFSB, visit the official website at www.afsbeurope.army.mil and the official Facebook site at www.facebook.com/405thAFSB.
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Bitcoin remains firmly anchored to the psychologically significant $20K round level, changing by only fractions of a per cent for almost a week. Ethereum continues to draw green candles, but this is more than nominal growth, also within fractions of a per cent, while the price is still hovering around $1580. Of the top altcoins, Polygon stands out, adding 5% in a day and 8.3% in seven days. The others are down over the last seven days.
Total crypto market capitalisation, according to CoinMarketCap, added 0.9% overnight to $984bn.
BTC has been hovering near the circular $20,000 level for almost a week, despite recent stock indicators' notable drop. The last time there was such a prolonged lull was in June 2020, when it stretched out for almost a month. Current trends indicate that bitcoin is a leading indicator for the stocks rather than following them. If this connection persists, the resilience of the most crowded with institutions, BTC and ETH, indicates that risk appetite continues, which gives an encouraging signal for the stock market.
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According to Bank of America, Crypto investors are switching to Stablecoin as they wait for the market crisis to continue.
The Attorney General of Washington has filed a lawsuit against Michael Saylor and the MicroStrategy company he used to run for $25 million in tax evasion.
Dogecoin co-founder Billy Marcus ridiculed former Microstrategy CEO Michael Saylor for being overly enthusiastic about the first cryptocurrency. Saylor called bitcoin "a miracle happening right before people's eyes".
Finally, South Korean tech giant LG Electronics is preparing to launch a cryptocurrency wallet, Wallypto, based on the Hedera Hashgraph network in the third quarter of 2022.
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On the balance of things, the downside bias is still holding but sellers will have to keep below parity to ensure a stronger momentum. In a time when the dollar is still the cleanest shirt among the dirty laundry, it is hard to see the pair move significantly higher - especially since the euro outlook is rather grim heading into the winter months.
The only plausible tailwind for the single currency now is that the ECB may start to move aggressively and frontload rate hikes. A 75 bps move in September is pretty much a given now and they will have to rush to do more before their window to tighten completely closes.
For now, EUR/USD is still hugging the parity level and is yet to find a firm break below that. Sure, price did track lower towards 0.9900 but so far those attempts have been contained as seen below:
There are large expiries today as seen here that could come into play but the key risk to the pair is the US jobs report at 1230 GMT. That will be a major determining factor for dollar sentiment before the long weekend.
As for any potential upside push, there is some decent resistance at 1.0075-90 before the euro is able to come up for air. But in any case if it does, I'd be looking for more shorts again as the path of least resistance remains for a move lower; all else being equal. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/eurusd-holds-near-parity-awaits-us-jobs-report-20220902/ | 2022-09-02T08:59:08Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/eurusd-holds-near-parity-awaits-us-jobs-report-20220902/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
James Bond: Here are the 10 best 007 films as rated by the critics according to Rotten Tomatoes - from Goldfinger to Goldeneye
He’s the world’s most famous spy, but James Bond films haven’t always been a hit with the critics.
There have been a total of 27 films featuring agent 007, with seven actors taking on the dream role so far – Sean Connery, David Niven, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig.
An eighth is expected to be announced soon, with a number of famous faces in the frame, after Daniel Craig confirmed ‘No Time To Die’ would be his swansong.
Craig has proven to be a successful Bond, both commercially and critically, as this list of the top-rate movies shows – with three of his performances in the top 10.
But he can’t beat the man who for many will always be the ultimate 007 – Scotland’s Sean Connery has a mighty four entries.
In fact five of the Bonds make an appearance, with only Timothy Dalton (License to Kill just misses out in 11th place) and David Niven (who starred in an ill-advised spoof Casino Royale) failing to make the cut.
So, here are the 10 films that Bond newbies should start with, according to review agreggator website Rotten Tomatoes.
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Miriam M. Burbes
Miriam M. Burbes, 91, of Moore Township, peacefully passed away surrounded by love and family on Friday, Aug. 26, 2022, at The Gardens for Memory Care at Easton. She was the wife of the late Henry L. Burbes, with whom she shared 34 years of marriage prior to his passing in 2007. Born in East Allen Township, she was a daughter of the late George M. and Helen L. (Keller) Miltenberger. Miriam was a member of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union and worked as a presser at various blouse mills in the region for more than 30 years, until retiring in 1993 from the former Sportet Fashions in Moore Township. She loved the outdoors and simply enjoyed working outside. In earlier years, Miriam enjoyed bowling. She was a member of Hope Lutheran Church of Cherryville.
Survivors: Miriam will be lovingly remembered and dearly missed by her daughters, Charlene Mast with whom she resided, and Linda Whitehouse and husband, Richard, of Elgin, South Carolina; sons, Wayne Derhammer and wife, Sue, of Danielsville, and Terry Derhammer and wife, Debra, of Palmerton; nine grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; along with numerous nieces and nephews. In addition to her husband, Henry, she was predeceased by a son, Keith E. Derhammer; a granddaughter, Melissa A. Mast; two brothers, William and George Miltenberger; and five sisters, Shirley Smith, Mildred Hill, Marie Heckman, Dora Flyte Weiss, and Evelyn Heckman.
Services: A funeral service will be held on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022, at noon in Hope Lutheran Church, 4131 Lehigh Drive, Cherryville, PA 18035. Friends and relatives are invited to call on Thursday morning from 10:30 a.m. to noon in the church. Interment will follow in Indianland Cemetery, Cherryville. Arrangements are under the care and direction of the George G. Bensing Funeral Home, LLC, in the Village of Moorestown – Bath.
Contributions: Memorial contributions may be offered to Hope Lutheran Church of Cherryville.
Betty M. Reph
Betty M. Reph, 87, formerly of Palm Coast, Florida, was stricken at her home in Bushkill Township and passed away suddenly on Monday, Aug. 29, 2022, at Lehigh Valley Hospital – Hecktown Oaks in Lower Nazareth Township. She was the wife of the late Donald F. Reph, with whom she shared 61 years of marriage prior to his passing in 2018. Born in Plainfield Township, she was a daughter of the late Floyd and Elsie (Getz) Dorshimer. A member of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, Betty was a seamstress at various blouse mills in the region for more than 40 years, before retiring from the former Sportet Fashions in Moore Township. Betty loved flowers and gardening, and she enjoyed going out for dinner. She was a member of Hope Lutheran Church of Cherryville.
Survivors: Betty will be lovingly remembered and dearly missed by her sons, Timothy J. Reph, with whom she resided, and Kevin L. Reph and wife, Joy, both of Bushkill Township; a grandson, Jason Reph of Bushkill Township; along with nieces and nephews. In addition to her husband, Donald, she was predeceased by a sister, Esther Irene Gondek.
Services: A funeral service will be held on Friday, Sept. 2, 2022, at 11 a.m. in the George G. Bensing Funeral Home, LLC, 2165 Community Drive, Route 946, in the Village of Moorestown – Bath, PA 18014. Friends and relatives are invited to call on Friday morning from 10 to 11 a.m. in the funeral home. Entombment will follow in the mausoleum at Cedar Hill Memorial Park Cemetery, Allentown.
Contributions: Memorial contributions may be offered to Hope Lutheran Church, 4131 Lehigh Drive, Cherryville, PA 18035 and/or Bushkill Township Volunteer Fire Co. EMS, 155 Firehouse Drive, Nazareth, PA 18064. | https://homenewspa.com/2022/08/31/obituaries-week-of-sept-1/ | 2022-09-02T09:07:45Z | wspa.com | control | https://homenewspa.com/2022/08/31/obituaries-week-of-sept-1/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The least reliable used cars: Range Rover tops list with BMW, Porsche and Audi among most unreliable models
Previous generation of luxury 4x4 tops table of least dependable models, with one owner hit with £24,000 repair bill
The previous generation Range Rover has been named the country’s least reliable used car by a major warranty group.
The luxury SUV has a reputation for unrivalled comfort and refinement but also for a lack of dependability, according to WarrantyWise’s annual Reliability Index.
The famous 4x4 scored a lowly 20.2 out of 100 in the index, which measures the frequency and cost of repairs across more than 131,000 extended warranties.
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The study only looks at cars up to 10 years old and that are out of manufacturer warranty but suggests that high-ticket, high-tech luxury models are not the best choice for drivers looking for dependability.
Two models from the premium British brand are in the list of 10 least reliable models, along with cars from BMW, Porsche, Audi and Bentley.
The Range Rover’s average repair cost was actually relatively low compared to other models in the top 10, at £1,607, but the frequency of breakdowns badly hurt its standing. It also represented the single highest repair cost of any car last year, with one bill coming in at £23,890 - more than the price of a brand new Ford Focus.
Unfortunately for Range Rover, its products also represented the second-highest single bill, with one Range Rover Sport owner facing repair costs of £22,358. The Range Rover Sport was third place in the list, with a reliability score of just 23.1 according to Warrantywise’s measurements.
Between the two Range Rover products, the high-performance BMW M3 was the first of three models from the German marque to feature on the list, with a rating of 21.4. The index covers two generations of the famous machine - the twin-turbo straight six F80 generation and the previous V8-powered E90/E92/E93. Such high performance comes at a high price for some, with the most expensive repair running north of £12,000.
The M3’s larger stablemate, the M5, also made it onto the list, with the current F90 and previous F10 generations of the super saloon covered by the index. Its rating of 30.8 put it in 10th place on the list, while the X6 SUV-coupe was ranked the fifth least reliable used car, with a rating of 23.6.
Either side of the X6 were models from Porsche, with the Panamera saloon and Cayenne SUV in fourth and sixth place with ratings of 23.4 and 24.9 respectively.
The Audi Q7 SUV’s rating of 25.7 put it in seventh place, while the second generation Bentley Continental GT was in eighth, with a score of 29.1. The Mazda CX-5 was the only mainstream model to make it into the bottom 10 in the reliability index, with a score of 29.6. The date shows that even such a relatively inexpensive model can come with massive bills, with the single biggest repair for a CX-5 coming in at almost £6,000.
Lawrence Whittaker, CEO of Warrantywise said: “The Reliability Index is extremely revealing of how luxury cars, which may seem like they would be reliable because of the costly price tags, aren’t always so. The opinion that they should be very reliable, for the price that customers pay for them, is quite a popular one, and this evaluation of our data is helpful for us to guide customers the right way when wanting to make a large purchase on a luxury car, like a Porsche.”
Mr Whittaker warned that repair costs are likely to soar this year as the price of parts and labour rise across the industry, leaving owners facing potentially even bigger bills if something goes wrong.
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Scottish fire service chief Martin Blunden steps down
Martin Blunden, the chief officer of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service has stepped down following allegations over his conduct.
Martin Blunden was the subject of a probe by the service after being suspended in March after complaints emerged which sparked a a bullying investigation six months ago.
It has since been confirmed that Blunded, who was named chief officer in 2019, has now stepped down from the SFRS board.
Scottish Fire and Rescue Service chairwoman, Dr Kirsty Darwent said: “I can confirm that Martin Blunden has stepped down as chief officer of the SFRS.
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"As has been previously reported, Mr Blunden was subject to a formal investigation into conduct allegations. Due to confidentiality, I am unable to comment any further.
“We expect the highest standards of our staff and take any allegation regarding their conduct extremely seriously.
“We have robust procedures in place to ensure complaints are investigated in line with our clear policies and procedures.”
Ross Haggart will continue as interim chief officer. | https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/scottish-fire-service-chief-martin-blunden-steps-down-3828505 | 2022-09-02T09:08:07Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/scottish-fire-service-chief-martin-blunden-steps-down-3828505 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Search for man in dinghy missing for two days
Rescuers are searching for a man in a inflatable tender who has not been seen for two days.
The last sighting of the man was when a member of the public saw him going from his yacht into his inflatable tender off Kinloch on the Isle of Rum at around midnight on Tuesday, the coastguard said.
The member of the public raised the alarm at around 10pm on Thursday night when they realised the man had not moved his yacht to another location as expected.
Extensive searches have been carried out but nobody has been found on the yacht and no trace has yet been found of the man or tender.
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A coastguard spokeswoman said they are carrying out an “extensive search” around the Isle of Rum, south of Skye and the other Small Isles.
Mallaig RNLI lifeboat, Tobermory RNLI lifeboat and Mallaig Coastguard Rescue team are involved in the search, while a coastguard helicopter helped on Thursday night. | https://www.scotsman.com/news/search-for-man-in-dinghy-missing-for-two-days-3828608 | 2022-09-02T09:08:20Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.scotsman.com/news/search-for-man-in-dinghy-missing-for-two-days-3828608 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Unpaid Labor Takes a Toll on Employed Women’s Mental Health, Shows Study
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Employed women are in a double bind: they engage with paid work in the form of jobs while also shouldering the responsibility of unpaid labor, in the form of housework and childcare. The two forms of unrecognized labor extract a heavy mental toll on women whose access to healthcare is already restricted, according to a recent analysis.
Balancing work and family obligations is thought to be the moral imperative for women. The review, published in Lancet Public Health, “confirms persistent inequities in the division of unpaid work,” and these inequities “expose women to greater risk of poorer mental health than men.” This is the first analysis of its kind to contextualize the impact of unpaid labor on mental health, especially for women who already face the stressors of the modern workforce. Importantly, it highlights how women’s participation in the paid workforce is laden with obstacles that constantly undermine it — and how the battle doesn’t end there. Unpaid labor remains an echo of inequality, one that is yet to be concretely addressed in terms of normative, policy, or structural changes.
Researchers from the University of Melbourne looked at 19 studies, encompassing almost 70,000 participants globally. The researchers defined unpaid labor as including “all responsibilities and tasks done to maintain a household and its family members without any explicit monetary compensation.” Some case studies were specific to the impact of caregiving on mental health, some to aspects of housework, and others looked at childcare. Globally, we know women — employed or otherwise — spend more hours during unpaid labor, a trend that only increased during the pandemic. In 2020, women spent 173 additional hours doing unpaid labor caring for children, three times as much as men’s labor.
This tracked with what researchers of the present study analyzed too. “We found substantial gender differences in exposure to unpaid labor, with women uniformly doing more in every geographical and time setting – in more than 35 countries – around the world,” research lead Jen Ervin said.
“This double burden of paid and unpaid work exposures women to greater risk for overload, time poverty, and poorer mental health,” Ervin added. The pandemic is a telling case study of this: there are numerous anecdotal and even statistical instances of women balancing professional responsibilities while also being responsible for cooking, cleaning, and caregiving. The additional chores at home also made work from home undesirable for many. This creates a “time poverty” of sorts, referring to a scarcity of time for women to spend on any form of leisure, rest, or recovery of any form.
The mental health burden of doing disproportionate labor, and never having access to recovery, compound to create a scenario where their mental health is severely impacted. The narrative is one of physical and emotional exploitation.
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This insight is even more worrying in the context of the fractured relationship women have with mental healthcare. There is stigma and lack of infrastructural support surrounding mental health, but for women, this is worsened due to patriarchy, gender roles, and systemic challenges such as affordability and access distancing women from support.
Beyond mental health, unpaid labor for employed women is also leading to more instances of them paying economic penalties. “Crucially, women are also routinely trading off paid work hours to meet their disproportionally high unpaid labor responsibilities,” the researchers noted. Think of this imagery: a woman working from home sitting on a dining table where they can see their children/take care of them; as opposed to a man working in a shut office, as Caitlin Harrington pointed out in Wired.
“Because of gender norms, women do a large chunk of the housework and childcare in heterosexual relationships. So they aren’t able to exploit themselves as much in the labor market, but they are expected to—and do—exploit themselves at home. This means that working from home is used to expand childcare or housework hours,” sociologist Heejung Chung wrote.
During the pandemic, for instance, limited job opportunities, healthcare crises, and lack of child care meant more women had to sacrifice their jobs to take care of families. This was more pronounced for working mothers, those undertaking low-wage work.
Women were leaving jobs or reducing their hours at work to keep up with the demands of unpaid labor, further resulting in economic disenfranchisement. Numbers here tell a stark take: one out of four women who became unemployed during the pandemic cited lack of childcare as a reason for the job loss. Between February and August 2020, mothers of children below the age of 12 had lost 2.2 million jobs — as compared to 870,000 jobs lost among fathers.
There is by no means any novelty to this pattern: household chores have always been seen as the “second shift” for working women, as articulated by American sociologist Arlie Hochschild. Even in 2017, women with children in the U.S. were doing twice as much child care as men. Globally, data showed that while women spent an average of three to six hours on child care, men spent somewhere between 30 minutes and two hours.
The new review in many ways points us to a social malaise we are deeply familiar with. Unpaid labor is deeply gendered, and has for decades, if not centuries, kept women chained to systems of oppression. Ervin suggests a way forward: “Reducing the disproportionate unpaid labor burden on women, by enabling men to take on their equal share, has the potential to improve women’s mental health.” This, coupled with more policy-oriented changes such as prioritizing universal childcare could be tangible ways to alleviate the emotional and mental burden of two shifts of doing labor.
Even normalizing flexible working arrangements for men, in particular, can also help salaried women negotiate with the demands a patriarchal and capitalistic system makes. | https://theswaddle.com/unpaid-labor-takes-a-toll-on-employed-womens-mental-health-shows-study/ | 2022-09-02T09:12:07Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/unpaid-labor-takes-a-toll-on-employed-womens-mental-health-shows-study/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
What It’s Like to Live With: Chronic Sleeplessness
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What It’s Like to Live With explores the stories of people who see and experience every day a little differently.
The article below mentions suicidal thoughts.
I’m 29 now, and I have had sleep issues for as far back as I can recall. Throughout my life, I’ve never once slept soundly. Even the sound of a pin hitting the floor would be enough to wake me up. Things started to get particularly bad, though, while I was pursuing my undergraduate degree in 2011. Either I couldn’t get myself to fall asleep, or I would keep waking up — sometimes, more than 10 times a night. Then, there would be nights — many, many of them — when I would stay awake till 3 a.m. and wake up by 7 a.m. But I never took it seriously, then, you know?
My sleeplessness kept getting worse as time passed, though. With my ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) still undiagnosed, I was extremely hyperactive as well. I was also unaware that I was living with OCD (Obsessive-compulsive Disorder) and BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder), too. At the time, I didn’t know much about any form of mental health issues. I had heard people casually call themselves insomniacs — much like many like to say “I have OCD” — simply because they like to keep their surroundings clean.
By the time I took up my first job in 2016 after completing my master’s, I was unable to sleep at all. My roommates in Pune, where I was working, started to worry about my wellbeing. They saw me wide awake around the clock. One of them, my best friend, started switching off all the lights in my room and taking away my phone, laptop, and iPad.
But it didn’t work — hours later, she would still find me reading a book.
My sleeplessness also made me gravitate toward cigarettes and alcohol. While I was awake, I felt the need to indulge myself. Since I’m not someone who’s hungry all the time, I fell back to smoking. Because I was very anxious while being awake and cigarettes made me dizzy, which calmed me down, in a way. Before I knew it, I had become a chain smoker. But neither cigarettes nor alcohol could make me fall asleep.
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Not being able to sleep at night impacted both my education and career. Because I wasn’t rested, I would be really tired in the morning; I was still wide awake, of course, but I would have these yawning episodes. At times, my eyelids would feel heavy, and resisting the urge to close my eyes would be a task. But my body doesn’t allow me to sleep — so I couldn’t take afternoon naps either to freshen up. I couldn’t really ask for any form of accommodations at the workplace either because I already sensed hostility from my colleagues toward people struggling with mental health issues. Once I accidentally overheard a senior colleague advising a new recruit to stay away from me, because she thought I had too many mental health issues that might impact those around me.
I’ve tried to be honest with my immediate managers about my struggles, though. But a former manager of mine had exploited my hyperactivity — because I never slept, he would overburden me with work. At one point, I had to draw a boundary and tell him that I’m available for work only during my scheduled working hours.
Just because I wasn’t sleeping, doesn’t mean I want to work 24*7; I had a personal life, too.
My ex-husband, who I’m currently in the process of getting divorced from, wasn’t very supportive of my struggles. He would constantly taunt me for not sleeping. I still don’t get why — it’s not like I was keeping him up. I’d stay up by myself — reading, researching, writing. I guess, he missed being close to me in bed? He also complained that since I never get any sleep, I’m tired and irritable in the mornings. Being a very sound sleeper himself, what he didn’t understand was that I just couldn’t get myself to sleep.
My family and friends have been supportive through this. My best friend, who I mentioned before, would suggest different kinds of tea she has that help her fall asleep. That doesn’t work for me, but I think it’s sweet that she tries.
Initially, my parents didn’t understand the extent of the mental health issues I was experiencing — they weren’t very informed about mental health in general. My mother used to say that if I just shut my eyes, I’d be able to fall asleep. Of course, I couldn’t — just like tiring myself to sleep didn’t work either. Eventually, when things started to spiral out of control — my undiagnosed BPD was making me suicidal, and the lack of sleep, as you can imagine, makes everything that much worse — my parents began giving me space and helping me in my mental health journey. Now, they even help me take care of my medicine times.
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The first time I went to a therapist, she immediately recommended that I see a psychiatrist because things were too far out of hand, by that point. The psychiatrist finally diagnosed me with the spectrum of mental health conditions I live with. Turns out, I have parasomnia, too — even when I’m asleep, I’m aware of everything that’s going on in my surroundings. It’s kind of like an out-of-body experience where I’m half-asleep and half-awake. It also causes me to lucid dream a lot, and as a result, whatever sleep I get, doesn’t end up being very restful. I also experience sleep paralysis.
I was prescribed sleeping pills after my diagnosis. My psychiatrist started me off with mild ones, but they didn’t work on my body. Soon, the dosage was upped. My sleeping pills are different from the ones people usually know of, too, because most medicines don’t work for me. But even so, if I take the medicine I’m on at 10:30 p.m., I’m mostly able to get sleep around 2:30 a.m., and by 6-7 a.m., I’m wide awake again. Without the medicines, of course, I can’t sleep at all.
Meditation — which was recommended to me by someone — is something I just can’t do. I am putting in more effort from my end, and I keep my phone and books away. I’ve also tried listening to calming nature music; the best sound for me in the world is the sound of the rain or ocean waves, but even that doesn’t really help me.
I wish I could say that I’m better these days, but really, I’m not. Even if I’m starting to feel better, the slightest bit of turbulence in my life just undoes the progress. And, right now, with my divorce proceedings going on, things are quite bad. Towards the end of last year, I was actually doing well. But soon after, my sleep went for a toss. Every time that happens, I’m put on heavy medicines again.
What really bothers me is that people think an insomniac can’t sleep because they’re not trying hard enough. It’s like they want to give advice without having any understanding of what they’re talking about. If trying helped, I wouldn’t be here. Nobody likes being tired all the time, nobody wants to be ill.
This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity. As told to Devrupa Rakshit by Rupsha Bose. | https://theswaddle.com/what-its-like-to-live-with-chronic-sleeplessness/ | 2022-09-02T09:12:15Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/what-its-like-to-live-with-chronic-sleeplessness/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Electronic music fills the air at Agnes Arts, a studio and gallery complex just east of downtown Kansas City, Missouri. Musician Camry Ivory is painting at an easel, and with each stroke of her brush she plays another note.
Ivory is creating music using the prototype of a new instrument. She calls it Coloratura.
“I just thought it would be cool to have a musical paintbrush to be able to create both music and art simultaneously,” Ivory says.
Ivory started developing Coloratura in 2015 as a one-time performance piece for downtown Kansas City's Art in the Loop Series. She's been refining the instrument ever since.
After seven years of tinkering with the invention, carting it to arts events around the city, and seeing firsthand the benefits it can bring to those who use it, Ivory is ready to share Coloratura with the world.
The instrument features an easel with a metal canvas, twelve brushes and pots of paint. Long wires connect the brushes to a circuit board. Each brush creates a different sound when it touches the metal canvas.
Before picking up a paintbrush, Ivory's main instrument was the piano.
"I've been playing the piano since I was 8 years old, and I just was looking for something different," Ivory remembers. "Music is definitely a beautiful art form, but it felt one-dimensional at times. I was just communicating, you know, sonically, but I wanted to add the visual elements to my work."
To get Ivory out of her musical rut, a friend suggested she learn a new instrument.
"So I took her advice to the extreme and just created an entirely new instrument," Ivory says.
But Ivory never planned on inventing anything. When she settled on composing music with paint, she says she was certain someone had come up with the idea before her.
When she started looking for other artists combining art and music, and using technology as a connector, she couldn't find anyone else working in the way she'd envisioned.
"I'm a big old nerd, basically," Ivory says. "I've always been interested in technology, and I did coding and websites when I was a kid."
Ivory is also a singer, songwriter and composer. She’s known for her work in the local music scene, where she performs with groups like Talking Heads tribute band Found a Job. She says painting takes her music down a different path.
"It totally changed the way I approach music, and makes me play in a really interesting way that I wouldn't normally play if I were just sitting at a piano," she says.
Evolution and experimentation
Once Ivory came up with a rough prototype, she was able to get the project funded with an Inspiration Grant from ArtsKC. The $2,500 grant is intended for ambitious artistic projects that make a positive impact on the community.
Ivory's husband, Justin Skinner, jumped in to help too. Skinner, a drummer, percussionist, and sound engineer, figured out how to hollow out paintbrushes so they could be wired to a circuit board. He also helped make the device more rugged, so Ivory can take them on the road.
“So once the brush touches the canvas it sends a signal to my computer, which is running music production software, and that creates the sound,” Ivory says.
Lately, Ivory has been experimenting with the pentatonic scale, comprised of the black keys on a piano. For Ivory, C-sharp is green, E-flat is blue, F-sharp is magenta, A-flat is orange and B-flat is yellow.
“I play often in this particular chord structure because the pentatonic scale is really harmonious, and so every note kind of plays well with each other,” Ivory explains.
After using Coloratura for several years, and having worked with people who have synesthesia, Ivory says she sees her work and the world differently now.
Synesthesia is a condition in which stimulation of one sense, like sight, produces experiences in a completely different sense, like sound. People with synesthesia often report being able to hear color or see sound.
"It has kind of turned me into a quasi-synesthete," Ivory says. "So now when I listen to music, I think, 'What would that look like if I were going to paint it?'"
The practice has also changed Ivory's perspective on embracing the unexpected while creating new art.
“I think with Coloratura, it teaches you that it’s OK to make mistakes. And sometimes the mistakes that I make are, if I can quote Bob Ross, ‘happy little accidents,’ right?” Ivory says with a laugh. “They take me in a different direction, either musically or visually, that I normally wouldn't have gone. So, yeah, I play a sour note, but it makes a really cool, weird chord that takes me in a completely different direction.”
Ivory says the swirling colors of paint stimulate a second layer of creative energy for her.
“I really get into a meditative flow, and I stop thinking about everything else,” Ivory says. “I’m just in this kind of Zen state of creation, and I really can't think about anything else because I'm getting this multisensory explosion of color and sound.”
Children are often the first to pick up a brush and give Coloratura a try. Ivory thinks there may be something about the mix of art, music and technology that could have therapeutic benefits.
She remembers the time a little girl approached her after about 15 minutes of painting.
“She says, 'This is so soothing, this really helps my anxiety.' And I just wanted to hug her — oh, my God. Like, 'I'm sorry that you have anxiety when you're so young, but I'm glad that you found something that you connect with,'" Ivory says.
For the past few months, Ivory’s been demonstrating Coloratura around town at maker fairs and pop-up events, and she's actively looking for other opportunities to showcase her invention.
"Even though I initially designed it for myself, I really want to share it with other people," Ivory says. "I think it's a different way to think about music, to think about art and just to think about yourself as a creative person." | https://www.kcur.org/arts-life/2022-09-02/this-kansas-city-musician-invented-an-instrument-that-conjures-sound-from-painting | 2022-09-02T09:20:50Z | kcur.org | control | https://www.kcur.org/arts-life/2022-09-02/this-kansas-city-musician-invented-an-instrument-that-conjures-sound-from-painting | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Local musician Camry Ivory wondered what it would be like to paint a picture and compose a song at the same time. With that in mind, she created the Coloratura: a device that plays a note with every brushstroke, allowing artists to create paintings and music simultaneously. KCUR's Julie Denesha reports.
The number of caddie programs is dwindling in Kansas City. Coupled with a lack of diversity, it looks like the profession is quickly fading. KCUR's Greg Echlin reports on one caddie's mission to reignite interest while paving the way for a more diverse community.
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Kansas City Today is hosted by Nomin Ujiyediin. It is produced by Byron Love, Trevor Grandin and KCUR Studios, and edited by Gabe Rosenberg and Lisa Rodriguez.
You can support Kansas City Today by becoming a KCUR member: kcur.org/donate | https://www.kcur.org/podcast/kansas-city-today/2022-09-02/a-kansas-city-musician-who-conjures-sounds-from-painting | 2022-09-02T09:20:56Z | kcur.org | control | https://www.kcur.org/podcast/kansas-city-today/2022-09-02/a-kansas-city-musician-who-conjures-sounds-from-painting | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Republican gubernatorial nominee Derek Schmidt pledged Thursday to sign legislation targeting transgender persons by mandating athletic teams sponsored by public schools and colleges in Kansas align participation with an individual’s gender at birth.
Schmidt and former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines appeared together at Johnson County Republican Party headquarters to denounce Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s two vetoes of a ban. The Kansas Legislature fell short of overriding the governor’s veto of a measure applicable to interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural or club teams or sports sponsored by public educational institutions in Kansas.
The political objective of advocates would be to block transgender people from taking part in athletic teams designated for girls or women.
“It is apparent why this is such an important issue for so many people all around our state,” Schmidt said. “It’s an issue that Republicans, Democrats, independent voters all talk with me about and overwhelmingly share the view that it’s just a common-sense matter.”
Schmidt asked the Legislature to forward to him, if elected governor in November, the same sweeping bill dispatched by Kelly. He urged the Legislature to act within 100 days of being sworn into office. In addition, Schmidt said he was convinced this type of prohibition would be deemed constitutional by the courts.
Kelly’s veto message said the legislation vetoed in the 2022 session sent a “devastating message that Kansas is not welcoming to all children and their families, including those who are transgender, who are already at a higher risk of bullying, discrimination and suicide.”
She said Kansans ought to focus on figuring out how to include more students in extracurricular activities rather than create new ways of excluding “those who may be different than us. Kansas is an inclusive state and our laws should reflect our values.”
Gaines, who swam competitively at Kentucky for four years, was a five-time SEC champion, 12-time NCAA All-American and two-time Olympic qualifier. She said she was disturbed by unfair competition at NCAA events from athletes born male and by attitudes of the association’s regulators who declined to forbid transgender athletes from shifting from male to female sports teams.
She swam against Lia Thomas, the first openly transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I national championship in swimming. She finished first in the 500 freestyle race at the championships.
Thomas, formerly known as Will, competed from 2017 to 2020 as a member of the University of Pennsylvania’s men’s team before moving to the women’s program from 2021 to 2022.
“I thought that come March there was no way the NCAA would allow Thomas to compete with us, but I was obviously proven very wrong,” Gaines said. “I got to personally witness the effects that this had on the competition and on myself and the other female athletes at that meet.”
In the 200 freestyle final at the NCAA championships, Thomas and Gaines tied for fifth place. She complained the NCAA gave the lone fifth-place trophy to Thomas and promised to send hers by mail.
“We cannot continue to ignore the biological and anatomical differences between males and females that are blatantly obvious and scientifically proven,” Gaines said to applause from about a dozen elderly men and women invited to the GOP headquarters. “If a change isn’t made, it’s only a matter of time before one transgender athlete winning a national title turns into three and then 10 and so on.”
Gaines, who directly criticized Kelly’s policy position, said the NCAA was making a “mockery of women’s sports” and she promised to keep advocating “to keep female sports female.”
In 2022, the Kansas Senate voted to override Kelly’s veto of Senate Bill 160. The Kansas House secured only 81 of 84 votes necessary to reach the required two-thirds margin to reverse the governor.
Republicans seeking adoption of the bill have argued accommodating transgender athletes injected unfairness into sports competition and distorted “rules of nature.”
Opponents of the bill, mostly Democrats, said the measure would intensify bullying of transgender people and fuel high rates of suicide and suicide ideation among boys and girls in Kansas.
State Rep. Brandon Woodard, who is gay and a Lenexa Democrat, said Schmidt and others seeking enactment of the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act should recognize trans women were indeed women.
“We’ve defeated this hateful legislation twice, and we are going to do it again,” Woodard said.
Thomas Witt, an LGBTQ activist in Kansas, said the position taken by Schmidt ignored the welfare of marginalized children. During the news conference, Schmidt declined to address the prospect of children being the target of bullies.
“I remember when you were a decent human being. Now? Look at yourself,” Witt said. “You spend your time beating up on, and further marginalizing, already marginalized children. These are kids you should be protecting. Shame on you.”
This story was originally published on the Kansas Reflector. | https://www.kcur.org/politics-elections-and-government/2022-09-02/if-elected-kansas-governor-derek-schmidt-says-hell-quickly-sign-bill-banning-transgender-athletes | 2022-09-02T09:21:02Z | kcur.org | control | https://www.kcur.org/politics-elections-and-government/2022-09-02/if-elected-kansas-governor-derek-schmidt-says-hell-quickly-sign-bill-banning-transgender-athletes | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Todd Wilkerson, assistant teaching professor and undergraduate program director for the KU Sport Management department, has died at 39.
Wilkerson joined the University’s faculty back in April 2022. Before joining, he completed his Ph.D. at the University of Arkansas and graduated with honors.
Since April, Wilkerson had connected with countless students, professors and faculty on campus. Wilkerson’s colleague and friend Steve Dittmore, the associate dean at Baldwin Wallace University’s school of natural sciences, said in a Twitter post he had learned of his friend’s passing.
“He worked hard and was kind to everyone with whom he came in contact," Dittmore said. "We spoke often, even a few days ago. He was so happy to be on faculty at [the KU Sport Management department]. Condolences to his family and his students.”
I am absolutely devastated to learn my friend, Dr. Todd Wilkerson, passed away. He worked hard and was kind to everyone with whom he came in contact. We spoke often, even a few days ago. He was so happy to be on faculty at @KUSportMgt. Condolences to his family and his students. https://t.co/Ap0o3HNF6b pic.twitter.com/uoyYLAFIRY
— Steve Dittmore, PhD (@stevedittmore) August 31, 2022
While Wilkerson attended the University of Arkansas, he contributed to a project called The Battle of First Generation Student-Athletes. This program seeks to help first-generation student-athletes acclimate to the college campus setting and advance their careers. He continued to contribute to this program up until his death. | https://www.kansan.com/news/ku-sport-management-undergraduate-program-director-todd-wilkerson-dies/article_f3f95bba-2a33-11ed-b500-6fb88f84b30d.html | 2022-09-02T09:21:12Z | kansan.com | control | https://www.kansan.com/news/ku-sport-management-undergraduate-program-director-todd-wilkerson-dies/article_f3f95bba-2a33-11ed-b500-6fb88f84b30d.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Paper Plains Zine Fest will hold its first event on Saturday, Sept. 3 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., with no cost for attendance. This one-day-only celebration will be held at Van Go at 715 New Jersey St. in Lawrence. Over 70 local and regional artists will be selling and trading zines.
Additionally, there will be workshops where anyone can make a zine and use the Xerox machine to create duplicates. There are also opportunities to sit in on lectures and panels that discuss how to use zines for positive actions, provide personal anecdotes of zine-creators and what it means to them, and show how zines bring us closer together.
Megan Williams, co-organizer of the festival and Assistant Director of the Emily Taylor Center for Women Gender and Equity, said she was inspired by the Paper Plains Literary Festival and KC Zine Con.
“Paper Plains Zine Fest is primarily about community building and knowledge sharing,” Williams said. “Co-organizing the fest with Wonder Fair has afforded me the opportunity to create a bridge between KU zinesters and Lawrence/KC zinesters.”
Zines, derived from the word fanzine (i.e. fan magazine), are self-published booklets. The medium allows women, gender minorities and other marginalized people to use it to communicate with others.
“Zine-making allows people to critique, question, resist, and re-appropriate the patriarchal, racist and capitalist mass media by taking the means of production into their own hands,” Williams said.
This instrument of artistry began during the 1930’s with sci-fi fanzines and remained popular throughout the 70’s. During this time, zines became a method of creation, free from those who silence the creators. It helped shaped the feminist movement and became a symbol of rebellion against mass control.
“I love that zines are at once personal and political,” Williams said. “Zines foster a gift economy of sharing and exchange.” | https://www.kansan.com/news/paper-plains-zine-fest-to-celebrate-zine-making-liberation-on-sept-3/article_4743adee-2a3d-11ed-9a8f-e34665d6068e.html | 2022-09-02T09:21:18Z | kansan.com | control | https://www.kansan.com/news/paper-plains-zine-fest-to-celebrate-zine-making-liberation-on-sept-3/article_4743adee-2a3d-11ed-9a8f-e34665d6068e.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Marcus Tullius Cicero loved life and the fulfillment which came from learning.
Remembered for his excellence in the arts of prose, oration and translation, the work and zeal of Cicero helped establish the Rome of public memory. Though legions of Roman soldiers no longer traverse the south of Europe, and the grand old art of oration is seldom heard in the modern halls of government, the legacy of Cicero lives on in the Studia Humanitatis.
The culmination of Cicero’s interest in translating the best of Grecian philosophy into Latin for the enrichment of his Roman countrymen, the Studia Humanitatis became a curriculum of grammar, poetry, history, rhetoric and moral philosophy which, if studied by an individual, would lead to the flourishing of the interior life — an affirmation of the potential each individual carries within.
Over the past year, the University of Kansas has canned three fraternities, and the entirety of the Humanities department. Cursorily unrelated, I believe the two events are different symptoms of the same disease.
What began as an effort on Cicero’s part to quell the machoism and excess of Roman masculinity through the soft arts, over the course of the next 1,500 years, would evolve into one of the greatest accomplishments of the West, the liberal arts education.
The University of Kansas was erected upon a limestone foundation of liberal arts education.
Of the first three faculty hired for the newly created institution, two taught the art of language, literature and Les Belles Lettres.
Shortly after the creation of the University of Kansas, the first fraternities arrived on Mt. Oread. Fulfilling a dual purpose, the earliest fraternities at the University offered housing accommodation for a yet dormless student body and, as a little platoon, worked to instill the values of the liberal arts within their members — a Ciceronian redemption of masculinity.
In their earliest stages, the life of the University fed off the school spirit propagated within the Greek system. Likewise, the Greek system benefited from the University’s emphasis on holistic education, which focused on self-restraint, moral enrichment and academic fulfillment. Bountiful harvest requires fertile fields.
From the fight song to the May Fete, many of the University’s earliest traditions sprang from the presence of Greek life at KU.
Both the Greek system and the Humanities are inefficient, nuanced and resolutely anti-utilitarian. Both systems, at their best, focus on the cultivation of the individual as a community member, not a sheer acquisition of information.
It would be much easier to have the young men, scattered about central Lawrence, living in varying degrees of grand old houses, live under the watchful eye of an RA. Under the state-subsidized, prefabricated roofs of Daisy Hill, students are less likely to die of alcohol poising, yes, but dorms are also less likely to be the centers of community and brotherhood fraternities are.
Although safety is important and reasonable, precaution must be taken to prevent needless tragedy. The well-being of a maturing student includes more than an appropriate BAC level and a prohibition on candles. Ideally, college is for the holistic flourishing of the individual.
Who am I more likely to remember in fifty years – the guy I saw in the stairwell twice a week or the brother whose brain is etched with the lyrics to the serenades mine is?
The humanities presently suffer the same problem as the Greek system: an increasingly uphill fight against the rising tide of techno-utilitarianism.
Every student studying business increases the bottom line of the University. A student with a degree in business administration is more likely to contribute to the construction of a new alumn center or student rec center or whatever the governing bodies believe will attract more potential customers, students.
A liberal arts and sciences degree will not deepen the coffers of the alumn fund, but it will ensure the U.S. continues for another generation through the concerted effort of an educated populous.
A liberal arts education will not afford to renovate and rename Memorial stadium at the small cost of snubbing KU’s war dead, but it will allow students to understand the power of preserving community.
A liberal arts education will not be able to produce the $400,000 needed a year to fund the deceased humanities department, but it will teach students it is likely in poor taste for a chancellor to continue to make $653,269 amid the piercing of our University’s heart, a snuffing of our founder’s vision.
What a liberal arts degree lacks in estimated material return, the curriculum makes up for in the intangibles of life: an education in love, friendship, religion, learning and life.
I will note that I am not an unabashed supporter of the Greek system. Though both of my grandfathers were Beta Theta Pi alumni, I myself am a geed.
I support Greek life at the University for the same reason I support the banishment of Air Pods in public spaces or why I am an English major – I support anything which fights against the forced sterilization of communal life.
Fraternities at the University stand as one of the final testaments to the vibrant and storied life of "Snob Hill", a KU sure of itself and its mission – a KU unafraid of fun, tradition and innocent shenanigans. Like Cicero, though, the shortcoming of KU’s fraternities are not above reform.
When my grandfather was a KU Beta, out of his 25 pledge brothers, eight were humanities majors, one of whom won a Fulbright Scholarship.
Today, that number is zero.
Finding the machoism and toxicity of Republican Roman culture destructive, Cicero invented the humanities. Admittedly less skilled, all I can offer as a tonic to the bro-centric machoism of the modern fraternity is a nudge towards the humanities.
We are standing on a precipice; either we rediscover the power of self-regulation through the life and writings of those who affirmed life, song, sex and all, or we concede to the powers at be and let KU turn into a glorified Zoom session accreditation agency.
We all want to have fun – a silver bullet and a dart with your friends are such simple pleasures. Yet, it seems as though the University administration is hell-bent on exterminating all the remaining vestiges of the thriving, messy, complicated, exciting life which makes KU what it is – the place where the child of the single mother can study Latin and French Literature on the State’s dime – after all, is that not who we are at our best?
If we want to maintain our tradition of excellence at the University of Kansas, if we want to continue to affirm the entirety of life as unsystematic, nuanced and beautiful, the next time you’re enrolling in classes, consider pushing the finance class off another semester and take the poetry course.
For a cultivated self makes for a cultivated University, and a cultivated KU has more fun. | https://www.kansan.com/opinion/for-the-love-of-beer-save-the-humanities/article_cd85079c-2a13-11ed-a8a3-837fc295dbbd.html | 2022-09-02T09:21:24Z | kansan.com | control | https://www.kansan.com/opinion/for-the-love-of-beer-save-the-humanities/article_cd85079c-2a13-11ed-a8a3-837fc295dbbd.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
In 2014, Cleveland Cavaliers first-round pick and former Jayhawk Andrew Wiggins was involved in a preseason trade before ever playing a regular season game for the team.
Déjà vu: In 2022, guard Ochai Agbaji has now been traded from the Cavaliers to the Utah Jazz before playing a regular season game for the team.
The deal was announced Thursday afternoon:
Agbaji was selected 14th overall in the 2022 NBA Draft, picked in the same round as teammate Christian Braun.
Agbaji was just one of the pieces in Thursday’s blockbuster deal, with the Jazz also acquiring forward Lauri Markkanen, guard Collin Sexton, three unprotected first-round picks (2025, 2027, and 2029), and two pick swaps in 2026 and 2028 for three-time All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell.
In a sign-and-trade, Sexton then signed a four-year, $72 million deal with the Jazz.
Though Agbaji’s time as a Cavalier was incredibly short-lived, he’ll at least have one familiar face with his new team, former teammate center Udoka Azubuike. Agbaji played alongside the former Jayhawk for the 2018-19 and 2019-20 seasons.
In his final year at Kansas, Agbaji put up historic numbers in the crimson and blue, averaging 18.8 points per game while shooting 47.5-percent from the field with 40.9-percent in three-point range. As he wrapped up his time as a Jayhawk, he was named the unanimous Big 12 Conference Player of the Year and earned both the Danny Manning Award and consensus All-America First Team Honors. In the midst of the team’s 2022 national championship run, Agbaji was also named the Final Four Most Outstanding Player. | https://www.kansan.com/sports/jayhawks-in-the-nba-ochai-agbaji-dealt-to-utah-jazz/article_f0600a76-2a60-11ed-90a7-139d0f69ce6d.html | 2022-09-02T09:21:30Z | kansan.com | control | https://www.kansan.com/sports/jayhawks-in-the-nba-ochai-agbaji-dealt-to-utah-jazz/article_f0600a76-2a60-11ed-90a7-139d0f69ce6d.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kansas football announced on Thursday that head coach Lance Leipold has been given a one-year extension, with his contract now lasting through the 2027 season.
This is a statement about our exceptional confidence in Lance, his outstanding staff and the unlimited potential of KU Football. Need you there tomorrow night and every step along this journey, Jayhawks!https://t.co/wXSxyVmSIc
— Travis Goff (@tgoff11) September 1, 2022
Leipold, now heading into his second season as head coach, maintains the full support of Kansas athletics.
“This is a statement about our exceptional confidence in Lance, his outstanding staff and the unlimited potential of Kansas football," Director of Athletics Travis Goff said in a statement on Thursday.
Goff went on to consider Leipold’s first year as head coach “year 0”, citing Leipold’s arrival to the program in May 2021 following former head coach Les Miles’s departure. This resulted in Leipold not having a full off-season with the team.
Despite a 2-10 record, Leipold’s first year showed mass improvements through the program. Early in Big 12 play, the Jayhawks found themselves leading No. 3 Oklahoma through the third quarter, although Kansas would still go on to lose.
Leipold also led the Jayhawks to their first Big 12 Conference win on the road since 2008, in a thrilling 57-56 overtime finish against Texas. Leipold also had the Jayhawks competitive in multiple conference games against TCU and West Virginia. Both ended as one-possession games.
Leipold’s second season will start on Friday as Kansas hosts Tennessee Tech. Kickoff will be at 7 p.m. | https://www.kansan.com/sports/kansas-football-extends-head-coach-lance-leipold-through-2027-season/article_a2ecb324-2a66-11ed-a9a4-6f85d476c7d1.html | 2022-09-02T09:21:36Z | kansan.com | control | https://www.kansan.com/sports/kansas-football-extends-head-coach-lance-leipold-through-2027-season/article_a2ecb324-2a66-11ed-a9a4-6f85d476c7d1.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Uncloaking the Hidden Force of Whiteness
Our antiracism work on campuses often fails to examine how such pervasive, systemic whiteness protects itself, writes Michael H. Gavin.
A recent study on higher education’s capacity to be antiracist asserts that “higher education systems are a complex web of practices, policies and procedures steeped in White normativity.” My own work, including a recent book, The New White Nationalism in Politics and Higher Education, identifies “whiteness as a flexible system of control that changes over time, always ensuring that institutions, policies and practices benefit, at minimum, white heterosexual, patriarchal elites.”
Indeed, whiteness is so baked into our norms that it is easy to overlook the ways in which it exerts itself, even as we implement initiatives aimed at antiracism. To manifest a liberative educational system, though, we must grapple with the uncomfortable truth that in our work on antiracism, we have generally focused our lens on only the effects of systemic racism and often overlooked the cause.
One of the effects of whiteness is marginalization. While we must eliminate marginalization, we often focus our efforts on doing so without working to disrupt the normative and powerful center of whiteness upon which systemic oppressions are built. We must, therefore, look at both whiteness as a cause and marginalization as an effect in our antiracist work.
The common practice of antibias training in hiring, promotion/tenure and evaluation provides an example of why we need to adopt new lenses toward whiteness in our antiracism work in higher education.
Antibias training efforts often function to ensure that those who have the authority to hire, evaluate or make decisions check any biases they have against marginalized groups of people they are evaluating by avoiding:
- negative judgements about people based on their identity;
- presupposing their background based on their name;
- focusing on the institutions from which they have graduated or worked at previously; or
- relying on the amorphous fit characteristic in the evaluation process.
Underpinning that approach is an assumption that by addressing biases against minoritized candidates, any skewed judgements of candidate pools, promotion/tenure packets or evaluations will be eradicated. Yet, more likely, there is a simultaneity of bias stemming from whiteness in the stance evaluating others takes. That simultaneity consists of marginalization of nonwhites, on the one hand, and the potential privileging of already privileged identities, on the other. Current antibias training generally works to ensure marginalized candidates are not devalued as a result of biases stemming from whiteness. But antibias training should also work to avoid majority candidates from being overvalued at the same time.
Indeed, one reason for the slow pace of progress regarding the diversification of the professoriate may be that inclusion and diversity initiatives do not require introspection of how whiteness protects its own power in implicit and powerful ways. For the very notion of inclusion is itself laden with power. Inclusion accepts that there is a group that already decides who and how to bring others into the space they inhabit and have already set the norms for.
More explicitly, when there is a focus on eradicating implicit biases that marginalize, there is another implicit belief yet unchallenged: that those included (often whites) have always been objectively evaluated. The assumption, therefore, is that by focusing on bias against minorities, all evaluations of people will be objective and fair. But there is likely a phenomena whereby certain scores of applications, promotion/tenure candidates or faculty/staff for annual reviews are inflated because of whiteness. As a result, antibias training is but one example of our current paradigm where we work toward antiracism but at times neglect to confront whiteness holistically.
By way of looking at numbers, the National Center for Education Statistics notes that 3 percent of full-time professors are Black men and 4 percent are Black women. In contrast, nearly 79 percent of full-time professors are white men and women—this against a United States population of 12 percent African American people and 60 percent white people. To be sure, the underrepresentation of Black professors is a product of systemic racism outside as well as inside the academy stemming from whiteness. But we must acknowledge that the overrepresentation of whites is a result of whiteness where candidates may be being evaluated in an inflationary capacity in the application or promotion/tenure process.
Confronting whiteness is crucial for student success initiatives, as well. In the context of academic integrity and grading, Shaun R. Harper’s and Charles H. F. Davis’s “Eight Actions to Reduce Racism in College Classrooms” and Davis’ “Hence, This Is Racist” do an excellent job of underscoring why and how professors must become racially literate of their own biases to avoid penalizing students unfairly. I would add to their analysis that just as minoritized students are often policed unfairly, students in the majority are often ushered successfully through their education without so much as a side-eye.
For example, Antar Tichavakunda identifies the different experiences that students in the majority have when it comes to testing integrity and the potential for cheating. According to Tichavakunda, the historic privileges of being white run along a spectrum of access. Tichavakunda writes that many whites have access to “test banks” housed in traditionally white fraternities and also escape being unfairly surveilled by test-proctoring software or the white gaze.
As evidence, Tichavakunda writes about an incident where an African American woman scholar moves from her seat during a test because a non-Black student is peeking at her test answer: “She moved because she was worried the professor would accuse her of cheating off the other student’s test.” To be sure, the surveillance of minoritized students must be acknowledged and eradicated. In this case, however, the student who was actually cheating seems to have gotten away with the act. (One has to imagine that the student knew he would not be so much as suspected.)
Further, the scenario above mirrors academic integrity data collected at institutions where I have worked. Those data show a significant overrepresentation of African American and Hispanic/Latinx students involved in academic integrity cases compared to institutional demographics. Indeed, in another, more recent article, Tichavakunda underscores an anti-Black and anti-Latin bent in academic integrity cases nationally. However, such data do not demonstrate one group of students cheats more than another.
Rather, they imply that two kinds of biases are at work, but only one focused on: that of the bias against marginalized students. But opportunity gaps often reveal not only a marginalization of minoritized students but also a presupposition of white innocence or excellence.
Is it therefore possible that majority students’ grades have been inflationary and are part of the reason for opportunity gaps in student success data collection? If so, what further nuance can be delivered to the excellent thinking behind opportunity gap data collection spearheaded by the Center for Urban Education? My argument here is not to suggest greater surveillance of any student, faculty or staff member. Rather it, is to advocate for having a more disruptive perspective on higher education’s whiteness than we currently practice.
I cite these two examples of antibias training and academic integrity to offer a lens regarding power and how it exerts itself racially on our campuses. I do so to demonstrate that application of theory requires a nuanced understanding and approach. As we as an academy continue work on using education for liberative potential, there are some beginning points for us to apply disruption of whiteness in our practices.
- The interpretation of data. In Weapons of Math Destruction, Cathy O’Neil teaches us that data and “math-powered” information are developed based “on choices made by fallible human beings … [and can be] encoded with human prejudice, misunderstanding and bias [in ways] that tend to punish the poor and oppressed in society.” Given that, how can we consider data that we are using as informed by whiteness? Can data be used as a compass rather than destination in our work toward antiracist campuses?
- A lens on whiteness and inclusion. We need to consider our policies, procedures and mechanisms of justice on campus in what I would call a racially holistic fashion—a simultaneous commitment to intersectionality, how whiteness marginalizes and how whiteness protects its own power by often presenting itself as an invisible force.
- Deep introspection. Most of us do not like to consider that we are fallible, and many are deeply sensitive to the term “whiteness.” Yet focusing on whiteness as a systemic force that affects our very perceptions is a way to focus on the larger goal—that of justice—rather than guilt or accusation. This positioning of whiteness still requires each of us to work on our own deficits, but the entry point can be that of a systemic force causing those deficits.
- Expert advice. We have race experts on our campuses and should heed their advice. At Delta College, we have created a new governance system with an equity review board that was trained by our scholars who do theory and practice in intersectionality. Their work will help us more effectively consider how policies and procedures can marginalize or privilege.
In the context in which we live, higher education is one of the sectors that the public is questioning. Yet it is also one of the few institutions that has the potential to empower citizens intellectually, socially, economically and culturally. Committing to antiracism philosophically is a significant step as an institution. However, it is in the application of work, and through the lenses we use to do that work, that we will either succeed or fail in living up to the philosophies and values we embrace.
Michael H. Gavin (@MichaelHGavin) is president of Delta College. His most recent book is The New White Nationalism in Politics and Higher Education (Lexington Books, 2021).
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Confessions of a Community College Dean
In which a veteran of cultural studies seminars in the 1990s moves into academic administration and finds himself a married suburban father of two. Foucault, plus lawn care.
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Friday Fragments
An unusual September; a survey crashes and burns; the 'community college wage penalty' is discredited; and the uses of "notwithstanding."
This is the first September in a very long time that I haven’t been on a campus. It feels a little strange. Sending good vibes to everyone who’s there.
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I’m not usually a fan of apathy, but in this case, I’ll make an exception.
Kudos to the students, faculty, and staff of Florida colleges and universities who responded to the state’s ideology survey by channeling Melville’s Bartleby: “I would prefer not to.”
Apparently, response rates were shockingly low, and to the extent that they existed at all, they proved the opposite of what the survey was intended to prove. For example, more respondents identified as conservatives than as liberals.
Well done. Demagoguery works by provoking strong emotional responses. When those emotional responses don’t happen, it’s flummoxed. I don’t know the precise mix of genuine apathy and rage-driven boycott in this case, to be fair, but in this particular case either one works.
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Hat-tip to Lexa Logue for highlighting this study. Yu April Chen, Ran Li, and Linda Serra Hagedorn published a study examining whether students who went to community college before earning the bachelor’s degree suffered a wage penalty as opposed to students who started at the four-year school.
As the study noted, “results of the regression analyses indicated no community college penalty in postbaccalaureate salaries.” The findings were statistically significant both one year and four years after graduation.
I hope that policymakers take notice. If we’re suddenly concerned about the ROI of college attendance, supporting community colleges is an easy, accessible way to get started.
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Over the past two weeks, I’ve read a few hundred bills that have been introduced in my state’s legislature.
Until doing that, I hadn’t realized how often the word “notwithstanding” pops up in bills. It’s typically in a sentence that starts with “notwithstanding existing language to the contrary…”
I don’t plan on adopting that usage myself – it seems a bit imperious – but I can see the appeal. It’s a way of delegating the details and ripple effects to other people to figure out.
To understand administration, imagine being those other people.
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In Texas, an Independent University Weighs Joining a System
Four of Texas’ seven university systems want Stephen F. Austin University to join their ranks. For the unaffiliated institution, the vetting process has just begun.
Stephen F. Austin State University, one of the last Texas public universities to remain independent, might finally shed its unaffiliated status—a step that highlights the increasing complexities involved with running a college or university.
“It’s becoming more difficult to be a stand-alone institution,” interim Stephen F. Austin president Steve Westbrook said. “You’ve got all of the costs of complying with federal and state regulations. You have the unfunded mandates that we’re dealing with. We’ve got all sorts of tuition waivers and exemptions that we’re required to give. And then the increasing cost of deploying technology and all the cybersecurity costs and staffing that comes along with that. Pretty soon those things begin to snowball.”
Joining a system could help the university reduce costs by sharing services and resources, he said. Additionally, Texas university systems tend to have more representatives in Austin and at the federal level, which benefit the university.
So far, four of the seven systems in Texas are interested in adding Stephen F. Austin State to their ranks, but the university’s process of vetting potential partners is just beginning. The university’s Board of Regents will make the final decision on which, if any, system to join, and state lawmakers ultimately will have to sign off.
Questions about whether Stephen F. Austin should join a system are not new, Westbrook said. For years, the rural-serving institution with nearly 12,000 students has fielded informal invitations from several systems to discuss affiliation. But it wasn’t until this summer that the Board of Regents decided to act on those invitations before it undertakes a search for a new president.
“If we decide not to affiliate, well, then, we will proceed with the presidential search,” Westbrook said. “But if we decide to accept an invitation for affiliation, then that would impact the way that next president would be selected, because eventually that president would be reporting to the chancellor of a system rather than this board.”
Power in the Network
Given the myriad challenges facing higher education, it’s not surprising that some universities and colleges across the country have sought to merge, even while others seek to break from existing systems to secure greater autonomy.
Thomas Harnisch, vice president for governmental relations at the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, said being part of a system allows universities to share resources, save money and secure more political clout.
“There’s a power to having a network of colleges and universities that isn’t available as a stand-alone, so collaboration matters,” he said. “Higher education leaders in recent years have talked about the notion of ‘system-ness’—that the whole can be greater through the sum of its parts through those networks and collaboration.”
Alisa Hicklin Fryar, a professor of political science at the University of Oklahoma, said Stephen F. Austin’s potential move to join a system makes sense.
“It almost feels like joining a system at some point is inevitable [for the university],” said Fryar, who also is the data director for the Alliance for Research on Regional Colleges. “The more interesting phenomenon is that it hasn’t so far.”
Thirty-five of Texas’ 37 public universities are part of a system, according to Stephen F. Austin.
Nationally, it’s difficult to determine how many unaffiliated regional public universities exist because higher ed governance structures vary by state, Fryar said.
“There’s been lots of talk about mergers and consolidations, but what has been missed are these conversations about multi-institutional systems that are trying to strengthen and grow and find better ways to be more effective, more efficient and get more resources,” Fryar said.
Adding Stephen F. Austin could give some Texas systems more credibility and legitimacy as they expand their statewide footprint, she said.
For the university, being in a system would bring additional resources and expertise regarding governmental affairs and contract negotiations with third-party providers such as Zoom and Canvas, she said.
“There’s no reason to expect that presidents are just going to know everything they need to know going into these negotiations and picking [third-party] partners,” Fryar said. “At regional colleges, they don’t always have the capacity to do kind of high-level perspective analysis.”
‘A Rather Exhausting Process’
So far, the University of Texas, Texas A&M University, Texas State University and Texas Tech University systems have expressed interest in Stephen F. Austin.
To determine which system might be the best fit for the East Texas institution, administrators aim to have a “wide-open and transparent” process, Westbrook said. Several campus councils and stakeholder groups will submit questions to the interested systems, which will be asked to respond by Oct. 6. The stakeholder groups will vet their responses and also develop their own reports on the strengths and weaknesses of each system. Those reports will be presented at the regents’ Oct. 30 meeting and will include suggested criteria for the board to consider as it weighs whether to join a system.
Westbrook said he hopes to better quantify the advantages of affiliating with each system as part of the process. There’s no front-runner yet.
To Fryar, the Texas State system, which has seven campuses and no true flagship, feels like the most natural fit.
“Stephen F. Austin is a strong regional college, and it has strong roots in its community,” she said. “It would be joining kind of a group of equals in a lot of ways in the Texas State University system. [But] the resource difference that could be available on the other systems might be compelling. It’s hard to know for sure.”
Westbrook said that through the questions from campus groups, the board will learn what’s most important to the community. He expects the system evaluation process to be complex but productive.
“This is a rather exciting process, even though it is a rather exhausting process,” he said.
According to a faculty survey conducted in January, a majority of university faculty members support joining a system, said senate chair Chris McKenna, an associate professor in the department of business communication and legal studies.
“The number of potential advantages cited by respondents … included factors like the potential for improved state funding, availability for additional research and program collaborations, more support for faculty research, ability to achieve infrastructural cost savings, general cost sharing, and improved institutional leadership,” McKenna wrote in an email.
The board wants to decide whether to join a system and which one by the end of the fall semester, before the state Legislature convenes. That would give state lawmakers time to adopt a bill allowing Stephen F. Austin to join a system. Last year, Midwestern State University joined the Texas Tech system, which Westbrook said gives lawmakers a playbook.
Westbrook said some stakeholders are worried about whether the university will be able to keep its name and identity.
“That’s not surprising to me,” he said. “We will be 99 years old in a couple of days and getting ready to celebrate our centennial year, so the name and the identity of the university is paramount.”
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Temple to Rank Off-Campus Housing for Safety
The Philadelphia university is creating a database to rank rental properties near campus based on safety features. The effort, launching next month, is part of a response to crime near campus.
Concerned with violence near campus, Temple University has rolled out a variety of safety measures. Its latest effort, set to launch next month, is a database ranking nearby properties that scores rental units on a variety of safety measures.
The idea has been in the works since spring and is part of a multipronged approach to public safety for the Philadelphia campus, which has seen a number of violent incidents in nearby neighborhoods—including a student killed in a botched robbery last fall.
The idea, university officials say, is to help students identify and choose safe housing facilities, featuring licensed landlords and properties that show a clear commitment to public safety, while excluding unlicensed landlords.
Ranking Properties
Temple already has a website that helps students find off-campus housing, but that’s strictly a database of area housing facilities. Now the university will add a rankings component.
“Across the nation and in the city of Philadelphia violent crime is an issue, so we were thinking of ways that we could address that specifically in the community in which our students live,” said Ken Kaiser, senior vice president and chief operating officer of Temple University. “We looked across the country and saw some other schools that were doing something similar and decided that this looks like it is something we might be able to use and tailor to the needs of Temple.”
The program, which hasn’t been officially named yet, will have a tiered system rather than numeric rankings. Only properties near campus with licensed landlords will be listed, which Temple officials hope will spur unlicensed landlords in the area to acquire the proper paperwork.
“This is about making the community around Temple a cleaner, safer place for our students and for the community. If you’re not willing to do these things, good luck getting tenants,” Kaiser said.
The tiered system will be broken down at a premium and basic level, meaning the more safety features a property has, the better it will do in Temple’s ranking, which will also consider license and inspection violations. Properties also have to be within Temple’s patrol zone near campus to be in the rankings.
The tiers will likely be represented by a cherry emblem at the basic level and a diamond at the premium level, according to preliminary designs shared with Inside Higher Ed.
“We want it to be a tool for students and their families,” Kaiser said.
He anticipates some pushback from landlords but believes the bottom line—potentially lost revenue—will drive property owners to make improvements.
But landlords near campus who are excluded for not being licensed can be added if they acquire the proper paperwork and meet Temple’s standards for security features, Kaiser said. The university also offers help to the landlords who are trying to meet those standards in the form of $2,500 grants that can be used to add security features such as lights and cameras.
So far, between 20 and 25 property owners have taken Temple up on such grants. Kaiser suspects that number would be higher if more landlords in the area were properly licensed.
In launching the rankings database, Temple is drawing inspiration from the Niner Choice Program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, which has a similar approach.
The Niner Choice Program at UNC Charlotte is broken down into green and gold levels. To qualify for the lower green tier, landlords must meet 17 safety factors, including front doors with peepholes, working locks, sufficient lighting and commitments from owners or property managers to attend crime-prevention and safety meetings. The gold-level designation requires the same 17 safety factors but adds 11 more, of which landlords must meet at least five. Additional safety features include blue light emergency phones, surveillance systems and the employment of a licensed and insured security company, to name a few examples.
The program has been in place since 2014, according to the UNC Charlotte website, which describes it as “a safety initiative designed to help students and parents make informed decisions about off-campus living options.” Still, the website notes “it is not a stamp approval or endorsement” from the university or local police and not “a guarantee of student safety.”
Off-Campus Safety
For Temple, the rankings database is just one of many measures that officials hope will keep students safe. Some estimates put the number of students living near Temple’s campus at around 10,000. Many live in adjacent neighborhoods where shootings and other violent crimes occur with some regularity, despite expanded patrol efforts by Temple’s police force.
Such concerns have even driven parents to hire private security to patrol areas near campus.
Despite parental concerns, some students have suggested that fears are overblown.
“Because Temple is such a large landmark, a lot of things are reported as being in Temple’s surrounding area. It’s by far a very safe school to attend,” Gianni Quattrocchi, Temple’s student body president, told Inside Higher Ed in June. Many other students echoed a similar sentiment in a university safety survey, reporting that they felt safe on campus, though less so outside Temple.
But to placate worried parents, Temple has taken several key steps, including creating and filling the new position of vice president of public safety; conducting an audit of campus safety services; launching a Task Force on Violence Reduction, which includes faculty, staff, students, parents and community members; and deploying the RAVE Temple Guardian personal safety app, which allows students to contact campus police and offers “virtual” safe walks, among other features. The university has also embarked on an effort to hire more police officers, which is moving slowly.
Michael Rein, director of organizational management at Margolis Healy, a campus security firm, said that while colleges have much more control over their own housing facilities, they aren’t powerless when it comes to securing off-campus properties. Colleges can provide security tips to students and work with local landlords and law enforcement on common safety goals.
Rein added that students also must make efforts to keep themselves safe.
“I think it’s important for students to recognize that off-campus housing is not a utopia, meaning that the same safety precautions they would take at their home or in on-campus housing would still be appropriate in that context,” Rein said. “That means working collectively with their housemates, their landlords, their neighbors, to provide for the safest environment they can.”
At Temple, Kaiser calls student safety “the No. 1 priority.” He’s optimistic about the overall changes made and the potential the rankings database has not only to improve safety near campus but also to build a better community around Temple as neighbors come together.
“I really do believe [the rankings database] will have a very positive effect on the safety and the quality of the units in the community, as well as help with community relations,” Kaiser said.
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Who Will Teach?
Coconino Community College freezes its automotive technology program after only a year because of an unsuccessful search for an instructor, an increasingly common plight for career and technical education fields.
A new automotive technology program at Coconino Community College, launched last fall, is on pause as campus leaders struggle to hire a full-time faculty member to keep it afloat.
Administrators say the lure of better-paying industry jobs coupled with the high cost of living in Flagstaff, Ariz., an increasingly popular tourist destination near the Grand Canyon, has repeatedly scared off faculty candidates for this position and others.
Nate Southerland, provost of Coconino Community College, said the college started the automotive technology program in response to local workforce needs. The college offered four automotive technology classes last fall and five courses in the spring, serving 46 students. A local Honda dealership let the program use its facilities at night.
“There’s been a demand for automotive techs in our area for a long time,” he said. “The dealerships and local service shops have a hard time hiring and retaining people because it’s expensive to live in our area, so their techs often leave for other parts of the state where it’s cheaper to live … If we can train people who already live here, they will stay here because they’re already in their housing and so on. This is a program really targeted at growing up a local workforce.”
The faculty member hired to lead the program decided to leave for another job in February, and administrators have struggled to fill the position ever since. An initial search yielded four candidates, who all declined the job, Southerland said. Someone accepted the position after a second search this summer but reversed course after he said he couldn’t find affordable housing in the area. Campus leaders then reached out to local dealerships in hopes of finding part-time instructors, with no luck. As the beginning of the new academic year approached, they canceled the five auto technology courses slated for this fall.
For some of the 26 students enrolled, “it was pretty traumatic,” Southerland said. “Several of them had made housing commitments here in Flagstaff and were in contracts that they were not going to be let out of. They were receiving financial aid, and with their reduced course load, it would impact their financial aid.”
Still, administrators haven’t given up. The automotive technology program is on the course schedule for spring. They plan to advertise the position as a 12-month contract with higher pay, rather than a nine-month faculty position. They also plan to reach out to local auto dealerships about a potential partnership in which the faculty member could work at a dealership over the summers to supplement his or her income.
Mainline service technicians in local auto shops can make more than $100,000 per year, but the college can’t offer that kind of money without causing tensions among its faculty members who generally make lower salaries, Southerland said. Arizona is among the states with the lowest appropriations to community colleges, and state funding only makes up about 10 percent of Coconino’s total budget. The last candidate for the automotive technology faculty job was offered approximately $80,000 for a nine-month contract.
Christal Albrecht, president of the college, said meeting the industry standard for pay just isn’t feasible.
“We do have some faculty members we pay a little bit more because they are hard to hire, but we would never be able to get near that,” she said. Meanwhile, second homes and Airbnb have made available housing expensive and scarce, “displacing people who would like to live and work here.”
Other career and technical education programs at Coconino have struggled to attract faculty candidates for the same reasons. For example, the college has been trying to launch a marine maintenance technology program to train students to maintain and repair boats for more than two years but hasn’t had a single faculty applicant. It also took three rounds of unsuccessful searches to find a faculty member for the construction technology program.
Southerland believes Coconino is experiencing a heightened version of a challenge facing community colleges nationwide, and the rise of remote work, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, isn’t helping.
“You have folks, particularly in the tech sector, choosing to live in beautiful, desirable, inexpensive areas and work from their home office for a company that’s located somewhere else,” he said. “Not only are we competing with local businesses for some of that talent, we’re competing against a global market who can hire that talent and let them stay home and work.”
A National Challenge
Coconino isn’t the only campus struggling to fill faculty openings. Community colleges across the country are having similar issues recruiting professors, particularly in career and technical education fields such as nursing, computer programming and automotive technology, where potential instructors can often find better pay outside academia.
“It’s something I hear about from almost every community college president I talk to as a problem one way or another right now,” said Nate Johnson, founder and principal consultant at Postsecondary Analytics, a firm that advises states, foundations and businesses on education and workforce policy. To attract and retain instructors in “high-wage, high-demand” fields, “they have to pay people at least the same amount that they could earn by doing the thing that they’re teaching.”
Johnson said in certain fields like nursing, faculty shortages are a perennial issue, while in other fields, faculty recruitment struggles rise and fall depending on the strength of the economy.
In general, the number of community college faculty members, full-time and part-time, dropped during the pandemic, according to an annual report by the American Association of University Professors. The report found that the number of community college professors fell from 308,567 in fall 2019 to 281,932 in fall 2020, an 8.6 percent drop. No other type of institution had such a steep overall decline, though it’s unclear how many professors left their positions for other jobs and how many retired or were let go.
Wendy Brill-Wynkoop, president of the Faculty Association of the California Community Colleges, said institutions also sometimes struggle to find career and technical education instructors because of outdated minimum degree requirements that are higher than industry standards. She also finds technical fields have less of a “consistent pipeline” to professor roles, unlike liberal arts programs that have pools of graduate students waiting to fill teaching positions.
Similar to Coconino, some California campuses have problems attracting faculty members because of high costs of living in their surrounding areas, as well.
For “many, many professions,” including community college instruction, “the cost of living in California, even in more rural areas or less desirable areas, is cost prohibitive compared to the salaries that are paid,” Brill-Wynkoop said.
These unfilled positions have ramifications for campuses. She noted that faculty shortages make it harder to launch new programs and keep existing ones afloat.
Community colleges can and do rely on part-time instructors, “but when it comes to building a program on a campus, you really need a full-time faculty member,” she said. “Not only do they have to be skilled in the discipline, but they also have to understand how to write curriculum and how to navigate a college governance system … and how to schedule classes and how to connect with four-years or possibly other employers. It becomes pretty complex to find a faculty member who can really spearhead a career technical education program.”
Meanwhile, students suffer the consequences when faculty vacancies force programs to pause.
“If they’re in the middle of a program and we have a staffing issue, then it could be detrimental to them even completing a program,” which in turn delays students starting to earn higher wages, Brill-Wynkoop said. “Often our career education programs are one or two years, and then it will place them into a job where they’ll be making good money, or at least money they can survive off of.”
Johnson noted that industry leaders and state lawmakers are currently relying on community colleges to train students to fill growing workforce shortages. But the abundance of job openings with decent pay, while positive news, makes it harder to find instructors to teach future workers, causing a “vicious cycle.” He worries community colleges struggling to start or continue programs that state lawmakers are demanding can lead to lower state funding and even more difficulty offering competitive salaries.
“That’s kind of the paradox for community colleges, because their mission, or what we’d hope they’d be able to do, is to give people the opportunity to fill high-wage jobs in those fields and help their communities and employers in their communities … but they themselves are subject to the same talent shortage.”
Meanwhile, community colleges are underfunded relative to four-year universities despite the fact that “we’re asking them to do more,” he added. “We’re asking them to change people’s socioeconomic trajectories. We’re asking for them to work in applied, high-tech, high-equipment-needs fields.”
Campus leaders at Coconino plan to launch a new partnership with other community colleges in Northern Arizona this October, in part to alleviate some of the stress of faculty shortages. Administrators are exploring ways colleges with understaffed programs could virtually connect students to programs at other campuses.
The partnership isn’t the solution for programs like automotive technology, which require an on-site instructor, but Southerland hopes the effort could at least help programs with an online component.
“We know our community needs these programs,” he said. “We want to provide these programs. We have built the structure to provide these programs. And we are deeply committed to being successful at serving our community with what they need. So, we’re going to do what it takes.”
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Why Did Allegheny Cut Its Chinese Program?
With little other information, the program’s lone tenured—now terminated—professor wonders if it’s about anti-Asian bias.
Citing a structural deficit and the need to cut at least $1.5 million in faculty salaries while increasing its student-faculty ratio, Allegheny College in Pennsylvania charged a task force with reviewing its academic programs. The task force evaluated all programs for sustainability based on criteria such as enrollment, ultimately dividing them into four categories last year: strategically invest, maintain, challenged and reconfigure.
In the task force’s final report, Allegheny’s Chinese program was listed under “maintain,” not the latter two at-risk categories. Yet earlier this year, when it came time to cut tenured faculty positions, Allegheny’s administration cut the Chinese minor and terminated the college’s lone tenured professor of Chinese. The only other laid-off professor—not counting professors who were planning to retire or who resigned—taught film studies, which had been flagged for reconfiguration.
Unanswered Questions
So why was Chinese targeted? That’s what the terminated professor, Xiaoling Shi, and some of her colleagues and students want to know. But they haven’t gotten any answers thus far: Shi’s appeal to Allegheny’s Board of Trustees was rejected, with no reason given, other than that the trustees had voted “consistently with their views.”
“Our minor had 12 students, more than 21 other minors on campus, including five ethnic studies minors,” Shi said this week. “Why was Chinese language and culture cut? The numbers don’t support the decision.”
Shi continued, “I wasn’t interviewed or consulted by the president or the provost throughout [the] process, or ever, actually. In the past 12 years when I was overseeing the Chinese program, I never had the opportunity to talk to the chief academic officer about Chinese.”
Concerned that racial animus motivated Allegheny to act as it did, Shi—who has been outspoken on campus about anti-Asian hate—filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. That is still pending.
Also concerned that Allegheny violated its own tenure policies, as well as the American Association of University Professors’ widely followed tenure policies, Shi reached out to her campus AAUP chapter and the national association. Both AAUP bodies have expressed concerns about Allegheny’s process.
Joe Tompkins, associate professor of communication and media at Allegheny and president of the local AAUP chapter, told Inside Higher Ed that “what’s happening here is a pretty dangerous development, and it’s not just happening at Allegheny: these kinds of unilateral decisions to close programs from the top down. They represent a pretty major transfer of power from faculty to administration over curricular matters.” He continued, “It’s also a violation of the principles of academic governance, and it has implications for the integrity of the institution.”
Allegheny said in a written statement that its program and staffing plan “involves the elimination of faculty and staff positions around the institution. At the same time, Allegheny is investing in faculty lines in programs experiencing enrollment growth and is maintaining faculty lines in existing programs with robust enrollments. These staffing determinations were made following a thorough process and were not motivated by any discriminatory reason.”
The college said its plan also “calls for Allegheny to have a student-to-faculty ratio that is aligned with other national liberal arts colleges. Allegheny remains committed to delivering breadth in its interdisciplinary liberal arts curriculum and is strategically managing resources through our shared governance processes for a sustainable future.” That is, Allegheny is seeking to increase its student-to-faculty ratio so that it doesn’t have as many professors for its student population, which has shrunk over the last decade to about 1,500. This is the new target enrollment for the institution, which is a departure from the 1,600 to 1,700 students to which Allegheny aspired before the pandemic.
Last year, Allegheny had 154 full-time faculty members. Its realignment plan cut that number to 129, which allowed the college to increase its student to faculty ratio to 11 or 12 to one.
Chinese Cut
Shi helped establish the Chinese studies minor at Allegheny starting in 2010. In 2021, amid COVID-19, the college said that it was experiencing a structural deficit and needed to cut at least $1.5 million in faculty salaries over several years, in the interest of sustainability. Crucially, however, the college did not declare financial exigency.
A faculty task force was appointed, and it delivered its recommendations to the college later last year. Prefacing its findings, the task force wrote, of programs already down to one or fewer full-time faculty members, “Our sense is that some departments and programs have been pared down so much (or, if they are relatively new, have never been staffed or given enough resources) that diminished student interest is self-fulfilling. Students cannot be interested in and take courses that do not exist.”
While small, Chinese studies made the cut. The task force listed challenged programs as those in classical studies, energy and society, French, geology, and journalism in the public interest. Recommended for reconfiguration were two combined programs: communication, film and theater, and, separately, philosophy and religious studies. All other programs—including Chinese—were to be maintained. Departments and programs recommended for strategic investment, meanwhile, were Black studies, community and justice studies, computer science, education studies, environmental science, and political science.
In early 2022, Ron Cole, then Allegheny’s provost, released a staffing and academic programs plan that differed significantly from the task force report. This plan called for changes—including the termination of faculty lines—in more than a dozen departments and programs, and for the full elimination of four programs: the film and digital storytelling major, the geology major, the religious studies major, and the Chinese minor.
All told, Cole’s plan called for the elimination of 29 faculty lines and the addition of four lines in investment areas, for a net reduction of 25 faculty lines. But after accounting for numerous faculty retirements and certain other voluntary departures, Allegheny terminated just two tenured professors to achieve its goal. Shi was one of them.
Shocked at the news, Shi prepared a lengthy appeal. This included notes from past students and current colleagues, including her department chair, Briana Lewis, head of world languages and cultures. Lewis wrote in her letter to Allegheny’s board that Shi “has been a supremely dedicated teacher-scholar in our department over the past 12 years, and the Chinese language program has been central to the global reach of our department. The loss of this colleague and the program she has developed would leave us, and Allegheny, truly diminished.”
Shi engaged extensively with students, including Asian and Asian American students; used innovative technology in the classroom; mentored early-career Chinese instructors; did National Endowment for the Humanities–recognized work in the digital humanities; and was a “superb colleague who has continued, even after being awarded tenure, to actively seek to develop as a professional,” Lewis also said.
On Enrollments and Bias
A statement from the Chinese Language Teachers Association included in Shi’s appeal also cautioned against cutting Chinese for good. While program closures “may result from complex and very unfortunate factors,” the group said, “we urge the decision makers to resist the cutbacks and recognize the importance of learning languages—and learning Chinese in particular—in today’s world. As Chinese language teachers ourselves, we at the CLTA know that building a language program takes a tremendous amount of time and work, and that language enrollments fluctuate naturally. Premature terminations not only erase what has already been invested into these oftentimes young programs, they can also create other consequences for the institution’s future development in many regards, such as recruitment of students with global aspirations, diversity and inclusion, and securing relevant funding for designated ‘critical languages’ such as Chinese.”
Nationally, the Modern Language Association has reported that Chinese language enrollments increased from 1960 onward, peaked in 2013 at more than 60,000, and decreased somewhat (as they did in many other languages) in 2016, the last period studied. Chinese majors awarded increased from 514 across 60 institutions in 2009 to 706 across 75 institutions in 2013, and then declined again in 2016, to 648 across 84 institutions.
At Allegheny, based on an analysis Shi included in her appeal, Chinese had an average yearly enrollment decrease of about 2 percent over the last decade, from 73 to 61 students total. Both the world languages department and the college over all saw steeper annual enrollment declines over the same period, of about 4 percent and 3 percent, respectively. For reference, Allegheny enrolled 2,123 students in 2011 and 1,575 in 2021; Cole’s realignment plan cites a looming demographic cliff of graduating high schoolers in detailing the new enrollment target of 1,500.
Allegheny rejected Shi’s appeal. As of this week, she’s no longer an Allegheny employee, though she did receive a standard severance package of one year’s salary and benefits, plus an additional semester’s pay to account for the sabbatical she already had planned.
She continues to wonder why Allegheny ended Chinese and her appointment. The lack of answers has led her to believe that she was targeted for her activism against hate directed at Asians on and around campus, she said. She recalled a vigil she organized for faculty, staff and students last year following the Atlanta spa shootings, in which eight people were killed, six of them women of Asian descent. Following that vigil, Shi read a letter at a Faculty Council meeting that criticized Allegheny’s administration for the tenor of its public message about the shooting and other apparent anti-Asian hate crimes.
Shi’s speech, which she said was prepared with the input of other concerned parties, was entered into the minutes of the Faculty Council. It said, in part, “We are dismayed by the lack of personal message from the president, a humanist; we are appalled by the institution’s lack of action on the national event. With an event of this magnitude, there should have been college-wide institutional efforts to create a space addressing issues such as sexism, racism, hate crime, gun violence and the complexities going into it. Instead, the institution relied on students, faculty and staff helping out each other. Please do not think we are overreacting: Asian and Asian American community members are invisibilized and traumatized, the second time, by our own institution.”
Shi said she later met with Allegheny’s president, Hilary Link, to discuss the matter. In that meeting, Shi said, Link referred to Faculty Council meetings as “not fun” and otherwise suggested to Shi that she’d misunderstood the point of her letter. (Shi’s email records confirm that she scheduled a meeting with Link in early April, but the college did not respond to questions about Link’s alleged comments, beyond its statement that Shi hadn’t been laid off for any discriminatory reason.)
Questions About Process
Beyond the lack of answers as to why Chinese was cut, Shi has lingering concerns about the process. Based on AAUP standards, tenured faculty appointments may be terminated other than for cause in cases of financial exigency, which Allegheny never declared. (Elsewhere, the AAUP has identified and objected to a trend of institutions laying off faculty members without declaring financial exigency during the pandemic.) The only other circumstance in which tenured professors may be terminated, other than for cause, is for educational reasons, as determined by the faculty, according to the AAUP. Allegheny’s Faculty Handbook mirrors this policy, saying that “termination of tenured positions, because the faculty voted to discontinue departments or programs for reasons other than financial exigency, shall be based primarily on educational considerations as determined by the president after consultation with the appropriate college committees and with the approval of the Board of Trustees.”
Cole’s written plan says that he consulted with various faculty bodies, but there was never a faculty vote to terminate Chinese.
Tompkins, president of Allegheny’s AAUP chapter, said that “both AAUP guidelines and our own Faculty Handbook are pretty clear that in the absence of financial exigency, if you’re going to terminate a tenured position through program discontinuation, it can’t be for economic reasons. It has to be for educational reasons.” Allegheny declared early in the program re-evaluation process that the college’s bylaws override the Faculty Handbook, Tompkins said, though that remains an open, hairy “legal question” from his point of view.
Anita Levy, associate secretary at the AAUP’s Washington, D.C., office, wrote to Link last month, saying, “We are especially concerned with the extent of the faculty’s involvement in the decision to terminate this tenured appointment on stated grounds of program discontinuance.”
AAUP holds that professors who protest their termination due to program discontinuance have a right to a full hearing before a faculty committee, as well. Allegheny’s Faculty Handbook is less clear about this right, saying only that professors in this situation may appeal in writing to the board within 20 days, and that the “decision of the Board of Trustees on the appeal shall be final.” In any case, Shi doesn’t have the answers she wants.
In its written statement, Allegheny said that it’s not able to comment on any individual personnel matters. More generally, it said, the college’s governing board unanimously approved the faculty staffing and academic programs plan in February.
“Shared governance is foundational for decision-making at Allegheny, and the plan was created through that process as outlined in our faculty handbook,” the college said. “The process included a faculty task force that made recommendations regarding program eliminations and growth opportunities.”
Allegheny “is also aligning its faculty size to correlate with its student enrollment,” the college said. “In 2017, the college undertook a data-driven strategic planning effort to respond to the predicted enrollment decline in higher education across the country. Allegheny proactively made a decision to reduce its enrollment size and corresponding staffing over a 10-year period, but the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated this timeframe.”
Allison Connell Pensky, a former associate professor of psychology at Allegheny who resigned this year, and current research science associate at another institution, said, “The impression I had throughout the whole program evaluation process was that upper administration knew a priori what their decisions would be and we the faculty were led through a farce masquerading as shared governance that broke our handbook procedures. I did not have trust in the decisions of upper administration for the past couple of years I was a faculty at Allegheny.”
In the “small, rural town” of Meadville, Penn., where Allegheny is located, “our minoritized students, especially our Asian students and students of Asian heritage, will feel the pain of this administrative decision for a long time,” Pensky also said. Shi supported Asian student groups on campus, among others, she continued, recalling how at a student-led protest against Shi’s termination, students spoke about how “this decision feels personal, like a message that people who are not in the majority just don’t belong at Allegheny.”
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Today on the Academic Minute, a Student Spotlight: Caitlin Clark, instructor and Ph.D. student in the department of food science and human nutrition at Colorado State University, discusses an unexpected dietary favorite that, like alcohol, makes use of fermentation. Learn more about the Academic Minute here.
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U of North Dakota Will Return Native American Remains
The University of North Dakota has found Native American “human remains … believed to be partial skeletal remains from dozens of individuals.”
That’s what President Andrew P. Armacost told the campus Wednesday.
“When the federal law known as the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act was approved in 1990, the university had a responsibility to return ancestors and sacred objects to their tribal lands. Although this effort inexplicably fell short at UND, we are fully committed to righting this wrong,” Armacost said.
He first learned of the issue in March, when some faculty and staff members said they “found on campus sacred objects from Indigenous communities.” The university informed federal agencies and tribes right away.
But “to conduct this process in a dignified and respectful manner, UND made no public statements during the initial contact phase with tribal authorities and the appropriate state and federal agencies. This decision was made in accordance with the guidance and wishes provided by the tribal representatives. During the early stages of this process, we have observed Indigenous customs and traditions in the handling of the ancestors and sacred objects, to the very best of our abilities,” Armacost added.
He said the process would take time. “Repatriation will take time and hard work, perhaps several years. UND will hire the appropriate cultural resource consultants to help with this process. The remaining collection at UND is significant, with dozens of ancestors and several hundred containers of objects taken from Indigenous land and communities, requiring painstaking labor for identification and placement,” he said.
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U of Portland Loses Students to Summer Melt
September 2, 2022
The University of Portland received deposits from almost 1,100 new students, indicating their intent to enroll in the fall. But as The Oregonian reported, it’s now expecting only 860 to show up. The lost students will cost the university $8.9 million.
Most of the students who withdrew cited financial reasons.
“We optimistically were looking at the trends and the indicators and it all pointed upward,” said Michael Lewellen, vice president of marketing and communications. “We planned accordingly and things changed.”
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Yale in Houston
Houston represents America’s future, and higher ed is not stepping up to meet it, Ryan Craig writes.
Houston, we have a problem.
—American proverb, Book of Apollo
Down in Houston, a city of extremes, there’s something called Chamber of Commerce Weather. It’s the one to two weeks each year the weather’s perfect. Not so scorching hot and humid it feels like swimming in soup. No spring rains, which, on Houston’s nonabsorbent floodplain, increasingly mean disaster. Not while the city’s encased in winter fog. And hurricane season is a definite no-go. None of the above helps convince a business owner to relocate to Houston. So, if you’re trying to recruit someone to the City With No Limits (and no zoning), bring them to town in this narrow window.
Weather aside, lots of companies have been opening doors in Houston, and lots of people have been moving there, with both population and economic growth well exceeding national averages. Between 2010 and 2020, the Houston metro area added 1.2 million new residents, a 20.3 percent growth rate. Job growth has increased over the last decade by 19 percent, compared to 13 percent nationally. And it’s not just the energy industry: the rate of new business creation in Houston has exceeded the norm in almost every sector.
Houston’s growth has been driven by diversity. It’s America’s most diverse city, ahead of New York and Los Angeles. Nearly a quarter of residents are foreign-born, and there’s no ethnic majority: the county is 42 percent Hispanic, 31 percent non-Hispanic white, 19 percent Black and 8 percent Asian. It’s also a product of youth. With a median age under 35, Houston is the second-youngest major city in the country, behind only Salt Lake City.
Houston represents America’s future (and, unfortunately, its future weather). Dynamism driven by diversity of every kind: race, ethnicity and national origin; religion; age; industry; and what goes where (mansions next to McDonald’s, strip clubs next to skyscrapers). And like so much of diverse America, it’s encircled by monochrome voters who continue to elect unfathomable characters to state office.
The one area where Houston lags behind? Education. Houston has fewer educational institutions per capita than the state or national average. The postsecondary landscape is dominated by the University of Houston, with 38,000 undergraduates. But UH enrollment growth accounts for a fraction of Houston’s population growth. When I recently heard about the new Houston University of Science and Technology, I thought progress was being made. But then I learned the closest building to the “university’s” listed address was actually Harris County Juvenile Court, and the website was an attempt to scam prospective international students out of $399. That’s also very Houston.
Why hasn’t higher education kept up? The University of Texas—likely now the world’s wealthiest university (ahead of Harvard)—wanted to open a Houston campus and went so far as to purchase a huge tract of land. But plans were scuttled in 2017 due to state politics and resistance from UH, prompting this reaction from the UH System’s Board Chairman: “The University of Houston is pleased that UT is not expanding in Houston. This was a group effort by elected leaders, our board of regents, our administration and supporters to stand our ground against an unnecessary duplication of resources that didn’t align with the state’s plan for higher education.”
It’s hard to imagine a sadder example of parochial interest outweighing public interest or a better example of why higher ed revolution is nigh. As the Lumina Foundation’s Jamie Merisotis noted last week in Inside Higher Ed, colleges have lost the public’s confidence: recent polling by Public Agenda–USA Today found that about two-thirds of Americans say colleges are stuck in the past and not meeting the needs of today’s students. With record dissatisfaction now translating to record enrollment decline, it’s clearly no longer business as usual. And this could all be but a prelude to a kiss (off). Robert Ubell points out that the political right continues to call for ever deeper cuts to higher education. The next time Republicans control all levers of the federal government, we can expect a (not-so) Great Defunding Event.
So as Merisotis says, it’s indisputable that “colleges must build a stronger case for the value of higher education.” And especially in Houston. Between 2013 and 2017, the percentage of Houstonians agreeing with the phrase “education beyond high school is necessary for success” fell from 73 percent to 54 percent.
While dozens of colleges and universities around the country take steps every day to try to build this case with one initiative or another, I’m not confident universities like the University of Houston are capable of it. Nothing against UH in particular—other than their board and lobbying—but while the current model works for some students, many drop out (41 percent of UH students fail to complete within six years) or graduate into underemployment (about 40 percent of the fortunate 59 percent, if in line with the national average for underemployment of recent graduates), resulting in negative outcomes for about 60 percent of students.
More pertinent, I question whether it’s possible for a nonselective, non-brand-name university (or even the community of nonselective, non-brand-name colleges) to capture the attention of distracted Americans and change the conversation. Brand college is damaged (see, e.g., mass loan forgiveness, which, if upheld, will help tens of millions of young Americans who graduated high school in the last 15 years, but will raise hella questions among tens of millions of young Americans who’ll graduate in the next 15). As David Sacks of PayPal Mafia fame noted last week, “the need for wide-scale student loan forgiveness is confirmation that universities have a negative ROI in a huge number of cases.” I hope I’m wrong and I’m sure Arizona State would beg to differ—although how many Mike Crows are out there, right, Mike?—but it’s likely we’re too far down the path for nonselective colleges to change minds.
But that’s not true of all colleges. While nonselective colleges experience steep enrollment declines, the most famous colleges are seeing record interest. As amply demonstrated by application and enrollment numbers, the toppermost of the poppermost continue to command attention, engaging and inspiring students. And for those who win the admissions lottery, elite colleges and universities provide by far the clearest pathway to socioeconomic mobility due to need-blind financial aid and lemminglike employers who continue to dole out the best entry-level jobs to graduates of these institutions. Most Americans who still feel positively about higher education are thinking of these universities.
And that’s remarkable, because the top 20 brands enroll fewer than 1 percent of undergraduates. The stubborn refusal of our most selective universities to scale enrollment to meet demand is the scandal undergirding higher education’s headline-grabbing scandals. And it’s what prompted Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona to attack them at a conference last month for chasing rankings that “xerox privilege”: “You compete for the most affluent students by luring them with generous aid because the most well-prepared students have the best SAT scores and graduate on time,” he said. “You seek favor from your peers from other elite schools with expensive dinners and lavish events because their opinions carry clout in surveys. And you invest in the most amazing campus experiences that money can buy, because the more graduates who become donors, the more points you score.”
I get why Harvard hasn’t figured out how to double or triple enrollment without fundamentally altering its undergraduate experience. The campus footprint is fixed. (But I still don’t get why Harvard enrollment hasn’t moved an inch since the 1980s. That’s sadistic, and also very Harvard.) My favorite recent National Bureau of Economic Research paper is one titled “Why Don’t Elite Colleges Expand Supply,” which begins, “In 1979, the incoming class of Yale College freshmen stood at 1,346 students. In 2015, the size of the incoming class of Yale College freshmen stood at 1,360 students, an increase of just 14 students. Over the same period, the number of applications to Yale College increased by over 300 percent, from 9,331 students in 1979 to 30,932 in 2015.” (To be fair, in 2017, after spending $500 million on two new residential colleges, Yale expanded its incoming class by 200 students.) And I get why Houston’s one selective university—Rice—has only committed to grow enrollment from 4,000 to 4,800 over four years. (By the way, only 37 percent of Rice’s first-year students are from Texas. And Rice doesn’t publish the percentage of students from Houston, leading to a strong suspicion that Rice isn’t elevating thousands of Houstonians.)
But you know where the weather’s a lot like a Houston summer? Singapore, where Yale’s ending up in a sling. In 2011, following a meeting between the presidents of Yale and the National University of Singapore in—fittingly—Davos, Yale announced a partnership with NUS to open a campus in Singapore. Called Yale–NUS College, the new campus aimed to “develop a novel curriculum spanning Western and Asian cultures” and prepare students for “an interconnected, interdependent global environment.” The unspoken objective was to demonstrate the value of a liberal arts education in a nation that Freedom House ranks 48th out of 100 (“partly free”) due to limited political rights and civil liberties.
All worthy goals and leagues better than top U.S. universities that opened campuses or centers in the United Arab Emirates (New York University, Harvard Medical School) and Qatar (Cornell’s medical school, Carnegie Mellon, Georgetown and Northwestern Universities)—which were more about profit (sorry, “surplus”) seeking, relying on $1.3 billion in petroleum-fueled dictatorship beneficence, than anything relating to public good. But while Yale’s goals have certainly gone global—and perhaps beyond, given the pretensions of the current $7 billion For Humanity capital campaign, leaving only the outer space or interspecies themes for New Haven’s next fundraising push—Yale’s alumni song, “Bright College Years,” concludes with what dictionaries cite as the premier example of anticlimax: “For God, for country, and for Yale.”
So what about country? “If Yale can open a campus in Singapore,” the University of California, Berkeley’s David L. Kirp asked last year, “why can’t it start one in Houston?” And by so doing, commit to enrolling about as many talented and ambitious Houstonians as Yale-NUS does Singaporeans (60 percent of Yale-NUS enrollment). With NUS’s decision to shut Yale-NUS College in 2025, Yale will be down a campus. So why not Houston? After all, despite conservative attacks on free speech, it’s still unlikely Texas will enact the kinds of Singapore-style restrictions that gave Yale fits.
Houston wouldn’t be Yale’s first rodeo. And it’s not like Yale can’t afford it. Our most selective universities are also the wealthiest (not a coincidence). Last year, Yale’s endowment grew by $11 billion—much more than it would cost to launch in Houston. Plus, thanks to UH, there’s a large tract of land available.
If elite universities like Yale need additional incentive, how about surviving as more than a pile of money? In France, following the gilets jaunes protests against elites, President Emmanuel Macron needed to show his bona fides as a man of the people, and he announced the closure of the Ecole Nationale d’Administration, the elite institution that had trained most of France’s political and business leaders since the end of World War II. It may not be a long road from a scolding by the secretary to expropriation. The way things are going, it could happen here soon under a left- or right-wing administration.
A $40 billion endowment ought to give Yale some sense of security: it won’t be penalized and lumped in with the hoi polloi. If that doesn’t work, how about some good old-fashioned collusion? The aforementioned NBER working paper claims to prove both that elite colleges value prestige above all else in limiting enrollment and “that a concern for prestige is socially inefficient.” The obvious solution? A pact for growth, allowing elite colleges “to coordinate their admissions policies.” (It wouldn’t be the first time for these antitrust scofflaws.)
So what if they all leaped together? Yale in Houston, Stanford in Stockton, Brown in Baltimore, Columbia in Cleveland, MIT in Milwaukee, NYU in Newark, Princeton in Fresno, Harvard in Detroit (Harvard could spend its money in the Motor City rather than on hiring Bill de Blasio), Penn in Philadelphia (wait, scratch that one). If the 20 top universities opened campuses in the 20 largest cities in greatest need of socioeconomic mobility, Americans would stand up and salute, and American higher education would have a legitimate shot at the break it desperately needs.
If you’re on the side of college, pray something like this happens in the next decade. If it does, I hope Yale gets Houston in the draft. Because I’ve always wondered what a gothic college would look like sandwiched between a gas station and a 7-Eleven. And I know which week to visit.
Ryan Craig is the author of College Disrupted: The Great Unbundling of Higher Education (Macmillan, 2015) and A New U: Faster + Cheaper Alternatives to College (BenBella Books, 2018). He is managing director at Achieve Partners. Follow Ryan on Twitter: @ryancraigap.
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Espionage! (Not)
Scott McLemee reviews Ralph Engelman and Carey Shenkman’s A Century of Repression: The Espionage Act and Freedom of the Press.
An old proverb warns against judging a book by its cover. Ralph Engelman and Carey Shenkman play a significant variation on that theme with A Century of Repression: The Espionage Act and Freedom of the Press, published by University of Illinois Press. (Engelman is professor emeritus of journalism and communication studies at Long Island University in Brooklyn, while Shenkman is a constitutional lawyer who serves on the panel of experts for Columbia University’s Global Freedom of Expression Program.)
Just to be clear, the cover of the book itself is not at all misleading. Its pencil sketches of nine faces, arranged in no particular order, are a test of the reader’s familiarity with pertinent historical figures, from Eugene Debs to Chelsea Manning. Each was prosecuted under the Espionage Act of 1917, which remains in force now in amended form. For the paperback edition, a little portrait of Donald J. Trump might be in order.
The authors maintain that the act has had, in practice, little to do with preventing or punishing spying. It serves rather as a means of protecting the national security state from various irritations arising from the First Amendment. “Its fundamental flaw,” they write, “consists of associating, in a single law, the act of espionage on behalf of a foreign power with all other disclosures of information deemed secret by the federal government.” The alarming word “espionage” on its cover gives a distorted sense of the law itself.
Pushed through Congress over fierce opposition shortly after the U.S. entered World War I, the Espionage Act targeted anyone obtaining national defense information with, in its words, “intent or reason to believe that the information … is to be used to the injury of the U.S., or to the advantage of any foreign nation.” That all sounds spy-related enough. But the act also prohibited sending by mail any material “advocating or urging treason, insurrection, or forcible resistance to any law of the United States.” The broad array of activities potentially subject to prosecution under the law was backed up by punishments ranging from a revocation of second-class mailing privileges to the death sentence.
A civil libertarian at the time warned that the right to discuss “the conduct of the war, the causes that led up to it, and the methods by which it can be terminated” would be endangered by the act. And indeed it was. Widespread opposition to American involvement in the conflict in Europe had been an important factor in public life for almost three years. It was throttled while a sophisticated program of war propaganda was put in place, generating not just posters and newspaper copy but cartoons and Hollywood films.
The authors emphasize how effectively the Espionage Act served to suppress radical critics of capitalism, including members of the Socialist Party (especially leading figures such as Debs and Kate O’Hare) and the militant labor organizers in the Industrial Workers of the World (not, as the text repeatedly has it, the International Workers of the World). And in the wake of that wartime repression, two counterposed influences on public life emerge, neatly framed by the authors through biographical accounts of J. Edgar Hoover and Roger Baldwin, at the helms of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the American Civil Liberties Union, respectively. In effect, Hoover carried forward the Espionage Act’s propensity to “conflate actions necessary in a democratic society—dissent, whistleblowing, and investigative reporting—with disloyalty,” as Engelman and Shenkman put it. Baldwin’s role was to resist that tendency. They were not evenly matched. Baldwin early on formed an impression of Hoover as both charming and scrupulous, putting him at a disadvantage; in time, the FBI had moles inside the ACLU leadership.
A Century of Repression divides the numerous episodes of the Espionage Act’s use and curtailment into three broad periods, each defined by new factors emerging from a war. It’s worth noting that World War II did not have much of an impact on the uses of the act as sketched above. Franklin Delano Roosevelt toyed with using it against African American newspapers that reported on racist incidents in the military, and a ragtag group of editors and writers was prosecuted as forming a conspiracy to support the Axis. The case fell apart on trial.
Rather, the second phase of the Espionage Act took shape during the Cold War. Aspects of the 1917 law were incorporated into the Internal Security Act of 1950, which effectively criminalized membership in the Communist Party. The Espionage Act itself found new uses. By seizing “upon sections of the act that broadly proscribed communication of NDI [national defense information] to persons unauthorized to receive it,” the authors write, the act became a “tool to control access to government information by journalists and the public” and for “punishing whistleblowers.”
This second period culminated in the Pentagon Papers crisis but did not end with it. The Espionage Act was repeatedly challenged on the grounds that it served to shield powerful state institutions from public scrutiny. Reporters looking into scandal and malfeasance in the defense establishment ran the risk of having their sources, or themselves, charged with espionage.
The authors identify the third period of the act’s history, subsuming the past 20 years, as a response to the Global War on Terror proclaimed in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. And in doing so, I think, the linkage made between geopolitical conflict and legal usage seems more a narrative convenience than a necessary context. Arguably the third phase really began in 1984 with the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which the authors themselves say “extended sections of the Espionage Act into the new frontiers of cyberspace.” Applicable to fraud and hacking, it also made criminal the use of a computer “without authorization or exceeding authorized access,” in the CFAA’s pioneering but vague language, which also incorporated passages from the 1917 law.
Many of the developments that make the final chapters of the book such an intense flashback to recent years—the cases of Julian Assange, Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, in particular—all unfolded amid, and in response to, U.S. actions in Iraq and Afghanistan. But more to the point, this third phase is defined by the pressure of new means of sharing and disseminating information on military forces and intelligence agencies. The ambiguities and overreach of a law passed more than a century ago stand out less as anachronistic than as a menace to whatever may remain of a democratic polity.
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WEST MICHIGAN — The forecast from FOX 17 Meteorologist Candace Monacelli: Partly cloudy to mostly cloudy skies develop today, with high temperatures soaring to the middle to upper 80s and a touch of humidity working back in. This evening looks perfect for a bonfire! While most of your Labor Day weekend will be dry, there are a few chances for pop-up showers. A weak cold front slides across the state on Saturday, providing a few hit-or-miss showers late in the day on Saturday. As the front lingers into Sunday morning, a few additional stray showers are possible. Labor Day looks to be mainly dry with a mix of sun and clouds, although a pop-up shower can't be ruled out. Temperatures become comfortable in the upper 70s for Sunday and Monday after the cold front passes. Stay up to date with the latest forecast by downloading our FOX 17 Weather App!
TODAY: Partly cloudy to partly sunny. Highs in the middle to upper 80s. A bit more humid. Winds south-southwest at 5 to 15 mph.
TONIGHT: Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. South winds around 5 mph.
SATURDAY: Partly sunny in the morning. The chance for spotty showers develops late in the afternoon and evening, lasting overnight. Highs in the middle 80s.
SUNDAY: Partly cloudy. A stray shower possible near I-94. Highs in the upper 70s.
LABOR DAY: Partly cloudy. A stray, pop-up shower possible. Highs in the upper 70s.
TUESDAY: Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s.
WEDNESDAY: Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s.
THURSDAY: Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower to mid 80s.
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The current Supreme Court could be the most pro-business yet By Adrian Ma Published September 2, 2022 at 2:40 AM PDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email The current Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, may be the most business-friendly high court of the past century, according to a new study. Copyright 2022 NPR | https://www.klcc.org/2022-09-02/the-current-supreme-court-could-be-the-most-pro-business-yet | 2022-09-02T09:54:43Z | klcc.org | control | https://www.klcc.org/2022-09-02/the-current-supreme-court-could-be-the-most-pro-business-yet | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
With Labor Day weekend forecasts in the 80’s for much of the region, many folks will be looking to recreate in the water. Whether boating or swimming, there are some important safety tips to keep in mind.
The single most important item to protect you in a natural body of water like a river or a lake, is a well-fitting, Coast Guard approved life jacket. Dawn Johnson is with the Red Cross Cascades Region. She said even strong swimmers can run into trouble.
“The thing about open water is that you don’t know what’s underneath,” she told KLCC. “And it’s always, constantly changing. You may have a medical emergency which makes you not able to swim.”
Johnson said people should know that drownings are usually silent. Unlike what is often depicted in the movies, a drowning person most often sinks below the water without making a lot of splashing or noise. When swimming, there should always be a designated “water watcher”- especially when kids are around. She added- if you come across someone who is struggling in the water- the best practice to save them and not go under yourself is “Reach, throw, don’t go.”
Reaching assist is a method of helping someone out of the water by reaching out to that person with your hand, leg or an object. A throwing assist is a method of helping someone out of the water by throwing a floating object with a line attached. The best way to keep children safe around open water is to teach them to swim. Starting swimming lessons early gives kids an understanding of what they are capable of in open water and also teaches them safety tactics.
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Steve Inskeep talks with NPR's Nina Totenberg about her upcoming book, "Dinners with Ruth," and her decades-long friendship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg and others in positions of power.
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As the new school year begins, teachers at many schools across the country are adding a new component to their routines: a mental health check-in with their students. The idea is to open up conversations around how kids are feeling emotionally, and to connect them to help before issues escalate to a crisis.
"I've been really impressed with the proactive position that school systems have taken," says Dr. Tami Benton, psychiatrist-in-chief at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and the president-elect of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Many schools that Benton works with are spending less time focusing on academics in the first few weeks of the school year, and more time checking in on kids' mental health and school readiness. "They're actually starting to develop their own approaches to assessing the social-emotional development status of kids," she says.
The new approach comes after two and a half rocky years of pandemic, with kids' lives disrupted by bouts of remote schooling and many families in economic stress, which worsened the already shaky state of children's mental health in the U.S.
In 2020, the CDC reported a greater proportion of kids showing up at emergency rooms in a mental health crises: serious suicide attempts, eating disorders, aggressive behaviors.
"The thing that's most concerned us was really the number of significant self-harm and suicidal ideation that we've seen in an emergency room," says Dr. Smriti Khare, pediatrician and the chief mental and behavioral health office at Children's Wisconsin, in Milwaukee, which saw a 40% rise in visits to the ER after the start of the pandemic in 2020 compared to the year before.
In the fall of 2020, three professional organizations including the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry declared the state of children's mental health a national emergency.
And last fall, when kids returned to classrooms after a year of virtual learning, schools had hoped the return to in-person teaching would ease kids' emotional troubles, but they saw the opposite.
"We had a lot of kids with elevated levels of anxiety and stress, and we were seeing students manifesting mental health symptoms that had not existed prior to the pandemic," Robert Mullaney, superintendent of Millis Public Schools in Massachusetts. "We had an increase in suicidal ideation."
These experiences primed educators to be proactive at the start of school this year.
Fallout from a national crisis
In the 2021-22 academic year, 76% of public schools in the country reported increased concerns around students showing symptoms of anxiety, depression and trauma, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. And only about half the schools said they were equipped to address students' mental health needs.
Life may be starting to get back to normal but many kids are struggling to feel motivated – a result of the trauma and chronic stress they have experienced in the past two years, says Dr. Vera Feuer, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Cohen's Children's Medical Center in Long Island, who oversees the hospital's emergency psychiatry, urgent care and school mental health services.
"So, really having this after-effect, where there is numbness, lack of motivation, not feeling like we can get back into those routines. It might still be a lingering effect from that initial stress and trauma," she says.
Many American families are still under financial strain, creating parental stress which has a big impact on children, says Kendall Roach, a therapist in Jefferson City, Missouri, who works with kids through the telehealth company, Babylon Health. Others have lost homes, adds Roach.
"I have kids that I see who are technically homeless," she says. "They're living in tents. They're waking up and going maybe to a family's house to get their shower, and hopefully a hot breakfast and then going to school."
Schools take a proactive approach
The U.S. Surgeon General's advisory on youth mental health last year helped raise national awareness and more open conversations about kids' mental health, says Benton. And educators have realized that unless they addressed student mental health, students would struggle academically.
In fact, new data shows a stark decline in test scores among school kids during the pandemic, the largest drop in reading scores in 30 years.
"I have a third grader who has to be reading to learn," says Elisa Villanueva Beard, the CEO of Teach for America, which primarily serves marginalized communities. "But I also know that my son cannot be reading unless he is happy, in a state where his brain allows access to learning. And that means that we've got to tend to our kids, and meet them where they are."
That realization has pushed schools to be better prepared to pay attention to student mental health. And many have worked closely with health care providers to educate staff on ways to incorporate mental health discussions into their daily routines.
"We've spent a lot of time through the year as well as through the summer trying to be available for teachers, administrators as well as parents to figure out how to help them, give them tools to help [students] cope," says Khare.
"We have to actually equip our teachers to be able to approach classrooms in a trauma-informed way," says Villanueva Beard. "What that would mean is that a student walks into a classroom and the teacher has set up a system where they're able to get on a device and right away share how they're feeling."
That's exactly what psychologist Janice Beal advised teachers in schools in Houston that she works closely with.
"Every morning, [for] 5 minutes, check in with the students and have everybody share how they're feeling for that particular day," she says.
It's not that she thinks teachers – who've already stepped up and done more than ever before during the pandemic – should now become mental health professionals, explains Beal.
"We want you to be able to understand what mental health concerns may be in your classroom and to be able to recognize them, so that you can refer them for help."
Schools in New York have integrated mental health discussions and healthy habits as "sort of a fabric of the day," says Feuer
"For example, in a classroom, allowing time for kids to take a moment, to focus, to recognize, to have the space where they can express concerns," she explains.
Schools are also helping students, especially younger ones learn to label emotions and talk about emotions. And teachers "listen to them with an empathic ear," she adds.
"Unfortunately, there have been so many other things that have shaken kids' sense of safety when it comes to being in schools, including, gun violence at the end of the year," she adds.
So, having more of these open conversations around mental health will help kids cope better.
Tapping into new funding
But schools also need additional resources to connect kids who are struggling to mental health care.
"We've just heard from more and more teachers that they're really struggling to meet the mental health needs of kids in the school setting," says Benton.
The recent influx of federal dollars to provide school based mental health care has certainly helped, she adds.
Mullaney says he was able to hire more behavioral and mental health professionals in the past year to address growing needs of his students. But he knows many school districts who are still struggling to attract new staff.
Today, the US Department of Health and Human Services announced additional $87 million in grant funding to address youth mental health, including for school-based mental health.
However, school districts around the country are just starting to tap into some of these recent funding. "I think it's going to take a while before we see implementation and change related to those things," says Benton.
But she is hopeful that this national attention, the bipartisan support in Congress in addressing youth mental health, and the more open conversations on the topic will start to help kids most in need.
"People are involved, people are engaged, new projects are happening," says Benton. "People are experimenting with new methods for providing care. More young people have become involved as advocates in their own mental health care. So I think all of the activity has really made a difference in supporting children's mental health."
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Jazz may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of The Juilliard School, but perhaps this series of Tiny Desks will change that. Tiny Desk and Jazz Night in America celebrate the 20th anniversary of Juilliard Jazz with three Tiny Desk concerts featuring performances by current students and alumni of the prestigious institution.
When the starry-eyed students of the Juilliard Jazz Ensemble first saw the Tiny Desk, they stopped short, exuding awe and wonderment. After all, several of their favorite artists had performed in this very space — and now here they were, ready to prove themselves and carry on the legacy of both the Tiny Desk and jazz.
The Juilliard Jazz Ensemble performed at the Tiny Desk in celebration of the jazz studies program's 20th anniversary. Made up of current students, the ensemble embodies the spirit of community and collaboration that is an essential part of the students' learning experience.
The ensemble opens with "June" a hypnotic composition by alto saxophonist Coby Petricone-Berg. We understand immediately despite the members' relative youth, this ensemble is not to be trifled with. A shout-out to the rhythm section is absolutely necessary, as drummer John Sturino, bassist Nico Martinez and pianist Esteban Castro lay back in the cut while ensuring the path ahead for the horns, with Jasim Perales giving us soulful trombone, is smooth like whipped shea butter. This is grade-A musicianship — everyone listening and unselfishly supporting each other.
For the final selection, Ekep Nkwelle presents her arrangement of Geri Allen's "Timeless Portraits and Dreams." Her voice soars in this contemplative ballad, a perfect closer that allows each member of the ensemble to shine as they share the hope that, "In tomorrow's world, let joy and love run free / Let's hold on to our dreams."
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A global insurance company is taking heat for staging a battery fire during a crash test of a Tesla sedan.
The insurance firm Axa was claiming to demonstrate how electric cars can quickly erupt into a dangerous blaze after an accident.
But it wasn't the Tesla's battery that caught fire. In fact, Axa had removed the vehicle's battery ahead of the late August demo, the Paris-based company later said.
A video of the crash test posted by the Swiss Auto Trade Association shows a yellow Tesla hurtle toward an obstacle and then flip over, landing upside down on its roof. Moments later, a pop erupts from the engine and the front half of the car bursts into flames as the crowd in attendance claps.
On Thursday, Axa Switzerland said in a statement that it regretted the crash test gave a "false impression" and created "confusion."
The company said it had to take steps to protect spectators during the demonstration of a battery-powered car going up in flames. The car's battery was removed and the fire was put out "under controlled conditions," the firm said.
"In addition, the Crash Test with a Tesla vehicle did not cause the type of damage to the undercarriage that would be likely to spark a battery fire as the images would appear to suggest," Axa added.
The company admitted in a statement to the German website 24auto.de that it used pyrotechnics to ignite the fire.
Axa, which conducts crash tests to raise issues of road safety, said its own data shows that electric vehicles don't catch fire at a higher rate than combustion-engine automobiles.
Axa Switzerland's statement also noted its support for the electric car industry: "We firmly believe that e-vehicles will play a key role in the automotive future. This is why we see it as important to take an in-depth look at electromobility and its safety."
Experts estimate that electric cars may actually catch fire less often than their gasoline-fueled peers, but the fierce blazes can be harder to put out.
Still, there is a risk that electric vehicle batteries can ignite, and several automakers have issued recalls in recent years over concerns that their batteries could catch fire.
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Democrats have picked up some momentum this election cycle with wins in multiple special elections, following the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade.
And the FBI search of former President Trump's Florida home has thrust Trump back into the spotlight, front and center. Lots of his candidates have won contentious primaries; he's consolidated his base; and his renewed presence has threatened to make the November elections a choice rather than a referendum on President Biden.
Biden and the White House leaned into that Thursday night with an unusual prime-time address that broke no news or made any big announcements. Instead, Biden took the opportunity to elevate Trump and make it a choice between what Biden and Democrats stand for and MAGA Republican extremism, as he sees it, and their rising influence in positions of power throughout the country.
"I believe America is at an inflection point," the president said in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, the same city, where he launched his 2020 presidential campaign, "one of those moments that determine the shape of everything that's to come after. And now America must choose to move forward or to move backwards."
On the eve of Labor Day weekend, the traditional pivot to the final sprint of general elections across the country, here are three takeaways from Biden's speech:
1. Biden tried to reinforce the idea that this election is a choice, not a referendum... on him
Elections, especially midterm elections, are traditionally a check on the president. Inflation is high, Biden is unpopular and people are pessimistic about the direction of the country. That usually would mean a wipeout in a president's first midterm.
So this gave Biden an opportunity to deflect from that – and lay out a choice.
"MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards," Biden said, "backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love."
He highlighted threats to democracy as being urgent and instigated by Trump. Biden doesn't often use Trump's name, but he name-checked him three times in this speech. And when you do that, it's going to look and sound political. And that was obviously intentional.
With Trump back in the news, it offered Biden a way to elevate him, hold him up as the standard-bearer of the GOP, what it stands for, and draw a line in the sand.
"It's pretty clear they want to amplify the MAGA message," said Democratic strategist Joel Payne. "Almost feels like a pre-argument against what a Republican House might be pushing for the next two years, setting up a broader narrative about how he is fighting to stop Republicans from anti-democratic moves."
2. This may have been a political speech, but that doesn't mean there aren't real threats
You'd be forgiven if you confused Biden's address for a convention speech, because that's where you draw contrasts with your opponent and lay out a vision for the country.
But that's not to say there aren't real or urgent threats. Election deniers are closer to controlling elections in key places, and as we've said many times watching the Jan. 6 hearings, the institutions of democracy may have held in 2020, but only because of the people who were running them.
Now many of those structures are run by people who support Trump and his election lies all the way.
We've seen political violence, the FBI is facing threats, as are poll workers and local election officials. There is no doubt that conspiratorial elements of Trumpism are more potentially operational now than they were before the 2020 presidential election.
"Democracy cannot survive when one side believes there are only two outcomes to an election – either they win or they were cheated," Biden said.
And with the election two months away, the White House would argue highlighting that threat is key.
3. There is a degree of risk in Biden's strategy
Democrats' recent momentum in multiple special elections has largely been due to abortion rights, not necessarily about threats ts to democracy.
Yes, a recent NBC poll showed threats to democracy rising to the No. 1 issue, and that is significant, as it overtook cost of living, which was second. But it was only with 21% of respondents. Economic-related items when combined – cost of living and jobs and the economy – were 30%, higher than threats to democracy.
What's more, when you break down those who said threats to democracy were their top issue, 53% were Democrats, while 32% of Republicans and 11% of independents did. And Democrats and Republicans certainly view the "threats to democracy" very differently. Democrats obviously see Trump and "MAGA extremism" as the threat, while many Republicans, who have believed Trump's election lies, believe Democrats and (not) rigged elections are the problems.
So the White House might be overreading polls here.
Republicans, many of whom are now aligned with Trump, are incensed.
House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy gave a speech before Biden spoke and said the president needed to apologize for what he saw as insulting the millions of Americans who voted for Trump.
It certainly shows the 180-degree shift McCarthy has made since after Jan. 6 in his quest to become House speaker. But it also highlights the high bar Biden has in trying to make clear he is talking about Republican elected officials and not voters.
"Not even a majority of Republicans are MAGA Republicans," Biden said. "Not every Republican embraces their extreme ideology. I know because I've been able to work with these mainstream Republicans. But there's no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven, intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans. And that is a threat to this country."
That is a very fine line for a president, who isn't always artful with his words, to walk and stick to. The GOP will obviously use this to fire up their base against Democrats and Biden in these midterms, but the White House is gambling that conservatives who dislike him are already fired up – and Democrats need to keep their base engaged.
"There is a risk of overreaching on this," Payne said, "especially at a point when Republicans are on their heels trying to protect some anticipated gains in the '22 midterms."
But, he added, "I think it also helps juice the base [with] moral clarity on saving the democracy."
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NEW YORK — As the first week of the U.S. Open Championships draws to a close, the tennis world, in fact the sports world, is enthralled with Serena Williams like never before in her 20-plus years of dominance.
Why? Because she's turning a moment that was supposed to be about her legacy, into a moment about her tennis.
She set the stage for this special Open by writing last month that likely it would be her last. New York responded as only New York could, feting her with video tributes by Queen Latifah and Oprah Winfrey. The big screens around Arthur Ashe stadium projected a steady stream of famous faces who came to pay their respects. And, admit it famous faces, to be seen, right?
The biggest to-do happened the night of Williams' first round match against Danka Kovinic of Montenegro – of course it was respectful to get in all the messages of "we love you, you're the GOAT Serena" on the tournament's first night. But truth be told, the way Williams had been playing since she returned from a year-long injury absence, there was a chance she might not be around long enough to receive all the love.
But then she beat Kovinic in straight sets. Two nights later, the tributes were there again, albeit toned down, while Williams' game continued to rev up. She beat number-two seed Anett Kontaveit in three sets. And suddenly, the evolution (Williams' preferred word) from legacy to tennis, was in full swing. Questions of "is this in fact your last tournament?" became "can you win this tournament?"
After the Kontaveit win, Williams said she's tried to navigate both realities.
"I think I've mostly been kind of blocking everything out," she said, "but then at the same time I've been embracing a little bit of it [because] I also want to enjoy the moment. I think these moments are clearly fleeting so for me it's really about having a little embrace but also understanding that I'm here to focus, and do the best that I can this time."
For those of us in the stadium seats for both matches, it's been almost disorienting watching the video screen of Williams highlights, and then seeing her nearly 41-year-old self play with the same power and nuance and athleticism. And with each rocket serve or thunderclap return against Kovinic and Kontaveit, the adoration has been unanimous – strangers high-fiving a Williams winner or an ace, people hugging and standing in celebration. And roaring. Always roaring.
For an opponent, it's all been a bit overwhelming.
"I mean I expected it," Kontaveit said after the match, "but it was really hard. You can expect something and I saw it from [Williams' previous match], but when you're on the court, it was hard. I knew it was coming, but yeah, I guess you can't learn from anyone else's mistakes. Feeling it was just, something I never experienced before."
Kontaveit left the press conference in tears.
Today, Australian Ajla Tomljanovic plays the role of "next?" in what fans are starting to say is another, and probably final Williams run to glory. If, like the others, Tomljanovic goes down, don't be surprised to hear murmurs of Jimmy Connors' memorable 1991 U.S. Open, when at 39 and apparently "over the hill" he went on a fist-pumping tear and got to the semifinals.
Williams says in the run-up to this Open she'd been practicing really well and now it's satisfying to turn that into solid play during matches. Can she win it all?
"I cannot think that far [ahead]," she said. "I'm having fun and I'm enjoying it. Honestly I've had so many tough matches the last, I don't know how long, that I just feel like, just being prepared for everyone that I play is just going to be really, really difficult and...get through those moments."
Even if one of those moments ends in defeat, Williams already can claim a victory of sorts – in a week's time, she has turned her tournament run from a loving farewell, into a passionate guessing game of how long will she stick around.
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The high jump in producer prices for July was largely contributed by surging energy prices (+9.0%) but there were broad gains in other categories as well. Looking at the details, there was an increase of 1.2% for non-durable consumer goods, 0.9% for durable consumer goods, 0.8% for capital goods and 0.1% for intermediate goods. Prices in total industry excluding energy increased by 0.6%. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/eurozone-july-ppi-40-vs-37-mm-expected-20220902/ | 2022-09-02T09:55:42Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/eurozone-july-ppi-40-vs-37-mm-expected-20220902/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Men are ‘special beings’ that are wired differently. Their needs are usually hidden as much as they can, but it takes a sensitive lady to figure them out.
There are various things that turn a man off suddenly, even when you are unaware. This is because most men don’t push things too far in relationships like women do. They believe it is an insult to their ego.
This is one of the reasons you need to be aware of things that you should avoid as much as you can when in a relationship as a woman. This information can also be useful while dealing with your brother, a male friend or your colleague at work.
This article will give you some insight on things you should avoid doing to your partner in a relationship.
1. Disrespect
One of the most important things every man desires is respect. You will be amazed that even a 10-year-old boy demands respect from his female classmates, younger or older sister.
Disrespecting him makes him feel less. The disrespect might be in the following ways:
- Interrupting him in a conversation
- Not including him in a decision
- Demeaning him in public
- Playing on his emotions
Every man dislikes a woman who doesn’t have much respect. To him, it means he is of no value to the woman.
2. Nagging
Repeating the same thing consistently frustrates a man. Men hate ladies that nag too much. Telling them what to do and repeating it to their ears is one of the things you should avoid.
3. Emotional immaturity
Men hate women that are emotionally unstable or immature. Crying while discussing with him or trying to prove a point puts him off totally. Bottling up your emotions in a relationship is a sign of emotional immaturity.
- Lack of appreciation
- Being emotionally immature
- Comparison
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FACTS emerged on Thursday that Nigeria’s debt profile as of March 2022 stood at N41.60 trillion.
Director General of Debt Management Office, Ms. Patience Oniha confirmed this during the ongoing engagement on the 2023- 2025 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Policy Paper (FSP), held at the instance of the House Committee on Finance, chaired by Hon. Abiodun James Faleke.
According to her, as at December, 2020 the debt stock stood at 32.92 per cent and rose to 39.55 percent as at 31st December, 2021.
She said: “as at December 2020, the debt stock of Nigeria which includes the federal government, state governments and the federal capital territory was N32.92 trillion. By December 2021, it was N39.556 trillion. As at March of this year, it was N41.6triilion.
“On the average, Federal Government debt stood at about 85 percent of the total. Technically, the bulk of our debt is owed by the federal government.
“Debt has grown and that has come from the annual budget. There are 3 levels where those borrowings have increased. We have been running deficit budget for many, many years.
“So, each time you approve a budget with a deficit, you approve it giving us a mandate, an authority to borrow and it will reflect in the debt stock, so debt stock will increase. Also remember that States are also borrowing, so we add their own. They also have laws governing their borrowings.
“The second leg to that really is that as debt stock increases, debt service will also increase. So, the clear message is for us to go through the budget because we have been having deficit budget for many years and have been borrowing significantly. While responding to question on the actual debt stock for the federal and subnational governments, she disclosed that 85 percent of the total debt stock is owed by Federal Government while about 15 percent are owed by the State Governments and Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
“From the COVID period in 2020, the level of borrowing had increased significantly as you know. Those budgets pass through this House. The issue is how do we reduce that debt. One of it is revenues which we have talked about.
“So, if revenue is high, your deficit will be lower and new borrowing will be lower and then your new borrowing will be less and your debt stock will be lower and debt service to revenue will now be so high.
“So, the challenge is, we have been borrowing because of shortfalls. The other thing to do is to look at our expenditure profile. What can we do to reduce it because you are asking me what is the remedy? It is coming from the budget.
“There is revenue, there is expenditure listed in various categories, personnel, overhead and capital. So, those are what bring out the deficit we borrow for. It is those things that should be interrogated in addition to increasing revenue significantly. “Let me say that a World Bank report just show that in terms of debt to GDP ratio, Nigeria is low but for debt service to revenue ration, we are very high. So, if you look at tax to GDP ratio of these other countries, they are in multiples of Nigeria.
“The World Bank did a survey of about 197 countries and Nigeria is listed as number 195. That mean we beat only two countries and these countries are Yemen and Afghanistan and I don’t think we want to be at those places.
“We can’t talk about borrowing without talking about revenues and we can’t say why is the debt stock growing? It’s growing because we are running deficit budget and some of you may be aware that we are also issuing promissory note to refinance arrears of government which also comes to the National Assembly for approvals.”
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Nuclear facilities, like the one Russia controls in Ukraine, should be off limits to warring parties. Russia's seizure of the nuclear plant sets a dangerous precedent.
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Nuclear facilities, like the one Russia controls in Ukraine, should be off limits to warring parties. Russia's seizure of the nuclear plant sets a dangerous precedent.
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Popular Nigerian rapper, Panshak Henry Zamani, better known as Ice Prince Zamani or simply ‘Ice Prince’, has been arrested by the men of the Nigeria Police Force in Lagos for assaulting and abducting a police officer in the early hours of Friday.
This was disclosed on Twitter by the Police public relation officer (PPRO), Lagos command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin.
According to him, the ‘Aboki’ crooner who was initially stopped by men of the Nigerian Police for driving without a licence plate decided to abduct, assault and threaten to throw the police officer in his car into the river.
SP Hudenyin disclosed further that the Nigerian rapper has been arrested and will be arraigned before the court today.
“At 3 am today, @Iceprincezamani was stopped for driving without licence plates. He agreed to be taken to the station. He, thereafter, abducted the police officer in his car, assaulted him and threatened to throw him in the river. He has been arrested and would be arraigned today.” | https://tribuneonlineng.com/rapper-ice-prince-arrested-for-allegedly-abducting-assaulting-police-officer-in-lagos/ | 2022-09-02T09:56:09Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/rapper-ice-prince-arrested-for-allegedly-abducting-assaulting-police-officer-in-lagos/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Economists believe the US job market remained tight in August, with unemployment hovering around 3.5 percent. NPR's Scott Horsley reports on the latest.
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Economists believe the US job market remained tight in August, with unemployment hovering around 3.5 percent. NPR's Scott Horsley reports on the latest.
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Wike replies Ayu: Children made you chairman, will also teach you a lesson
Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike has insisted on the resignation of Senator Iyorchia as the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP saying that the recent show of arrogance, insincerity, lack of integrity and dishonesty by Ayu could jeopardise the electoral fortunes of the party in the 2023 general elections.
The Governor made his position known at the inauguration of Omerelu internal roads in Ikwerre Local Government Area performed by Chief Olabode George, former South-West Deputy National Chairman of PDP on Thursday.
He explained that he had expected Senator Ayu, as chairman of the party, to unite all aggrieved members and galvanise them for the 2023 elections without division, so that PDP could clinch electoral victory. But instead of doing that, Senator Ayu has shown ingratitude by describing elected governors of States, who supported his quest as party chairman, as children.
Wike said; “Dr. Ayu said we are children. Yes, the children brought you to be chairman of the party. The children brought you from the gutter and made you chairman. Ayu, you were impeached as Senate president. Ayu, were sacked by Obasanjo in his administration two times. Arrogance cannot take you to anywhere. Now, we have seen that you don’t want the party to win election, we’ll help you.”
He dismissed the claim by Senator Ayu, who had said that is one of the founding members of the PDP. He emphasised that Senator Ayu abandoned the PDP at one time, moved to another party and therefore cannot have equal stakes with those who had stayed back to rebuild the party.
He stated that Senator Ayu had, by self volition, promised to relinquish his chairmanship as a northerner if an aspirant from the north eventually emerged as the presidential candidate of the PDP. The governor told Senator Ayu to be a man of honour and keep his promise by relinquishing that position pointing out that if Senator Ayu carries on with his arrogance, the PDP governors he had described as children will make him know that he is a prodigal father.
“A man who is inconsistent and ran away from the party, telling those of us who spent our time, sleepless night to make sure this party does not go down we are children. Now, you have the temerity, the audacity to tell us we are children. We will tell you that you are the prodigal father,” Wike stressed.
He said Nigerians are watching the unfolding events and eventually be told how to be more careful with their votes with somebody with such character like Senator Ayu.
“Nigerians have seen how ungrateful some of you can be, and that’s why also Nigerians must be careful. If we give this man power , if we give these people power, are you sure they will also be grateful to Nigerians? As you make your bed, so you will lie on it. I’ve been quiet thinking that we will reconcile. Now that you have brought in arrogance to say you were elected, where did you campaign? Show me where your poster was, anywhere in this state.”
Commenting on the project, governor Wike said he is sure that Omerelu people are better witnesses that his administration had promised to execute development project for them and has fulfilled the promise.
Performing the inauguration of the project, former South-West Deputy National Chairman of PDP, Chief Olabode George ,declared that the issue of the National Chairman of PDP must be addressed before the commencement of the campaign for 2023 general election.
He said it is an antithesis and against the norm and culture of PDP for the positions of the Presidential candidate, National Chairman and the Chairman of the Board of Trustees to be occupied by persons from one section of the country.
“Party members from the south are already feeling alienated. PDP if not a private company. So, before we start the presidential campaign at the end of this month, the National Chairman must go to the south. That is what Governor Wike is saying and as a life member of the Board of Trustees of our party, I support this position 100 percent.
“Statutorily, it is the National Chairman who hands over the party’s flag to our presidential candidate. How will party members from the South feel when they see that at all political rallies Southerners have no public political representation.”
Chief George maintained that this constitutes a fundamental flaw and lack of inclusiveness which will be diametrically opposed to the original thinking of the founding fathers of the PDP.
He urged party members to be united in their determination to ensure that the PDP returns to the Presidential villa in Abuja by May 29, 2023.
“But we can only go back to Aso Rock if we are united and not divided. Some people are abusing Governor Wike, he is a trouble shooter. Those abusing him, as an elder and as a father in this party, I am directing them, they must stop immediately.
“Because Governor Wike is only fighting for injustice, for equity, for fairness in our party. He is not only a strong pillar in this party, but a mobiliser, a financier and an actualizer.
“Since he joined the PDP, he has not left this party. Am also in a founding father of the party and since 1998 I have not left this party.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Raging inflation has so scrambled the economy that it’s come to this: If Friday’s jobs report for August were to show a significant hiring slowdown, the Federal Reserve — and even the White House — would likely welcome it.
The government is expected to report that employers added 300,000 jobs last month, according to a survey of economists by the data provider FactSet. That would be down from a blockbuster gain of 528,000 in July and an average of about 440,000 over the past three months. The unemployment rate is expected to remain at 3.5%, FactSet says, matching a half-century low.
The August jobs report will be issued at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time.
A weaker pace of hiring should help moderate wage increases and lift hopes that inflation pressures are starting to ease. That, in turn, would help the Fed make progress toward its goal of conquering high inflation, which is near a four-decade high.
Many companies pass along their higher labor costs to customers through price increases. Conversely, when wages rise more slowly, businesses have less need to raise prices.
Chair Jerome Powell and other Fed officials have increasingly stressed their determination to tame inflation even at the cost of damaging the economy. In a major speech in Jackson Hole, Wyoming last week, Powell underscored the Fed’s tight focus on curbing inflation and said he was prepared to continue raising short-term interest rates and keep them elevated to achieve that goal. He warned that the Fed’s inflation fight would likely cause pain for Americans in the form of a weaker economy and job losses.
The stock market has fallen every day since that speech as fears that the Fed may cause a recession have escalated.
Powell also said the job market is “clearly out of balance,” with demand for workers “substantially exceeding” the available supply. Indeed, the government reported this week that the number of available jobs rose in July to a near-record high, after three months of declines. There are roughly two open jobs for every unemployed worker, a sign that many companies are still desperate to hire and may keep raising wages to do so.
“I don’t think the Fed is rooting for a poor jobs report, but they are certainly not rooting for a repeat of July,” when hiring accelerated and wage increases were strong, said Gregory Daco, chief economist at Parthenon-EY. “They are going to want to see some moderation.”
The central bank has raised its short-term rate to a range of 2.25% to 2.5% this year, after the fastest series of increases since it began using its short-term rate to influence the economy in the early 1990s. It has projected that its key rate will reach a range of 3.25% to 3.5% by year’s end. Those rate hikes have made borrowing and spending steadily more expensive for individuals and businesses. The housing market, in particular, has been weakened by higher loan rates.
If Friday’s jobs report is another strong one, with substantial hiring and rapid wage growth, the Fed could opt to announce another sizable three-quarter-point hike when it meets later this month, after similar rate increases in June and July.
The jobs figures will also help fill out the economic backdrop as this fall’s congressional elections intensify. Republicans have pointed to high inflation to try to pummel Democrats in midterm campaigns. The Biden administration has pushed back and claimed credit for a robust pace of job growth.
Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, told reporters this week that “we’re expecting job numbers to cool off a bit.” The administration has been saying for months that it expects the economy to move to slower but still-steady growth after a swift economic rebound from the pandemic that came with a burst of inflation.
Wages are rising at the fastest pace in decades as employers scramble to fill jobs at a time when fewer Americans are working or seeking work in the aftermath of the pandemic. Average hourly pay jumped 5.2% in July from a year earlier. Still, that was less than the 5.6% year-over-year in March, which was the largest annual increase in 15 years of records outside of the spring of 2020, when the pandemic struck.
Higher wages aren’t necessarily inflationary if they are accompanied by greater efficiencies — if, for example, workers use machines or technology to produce more output. But worker efficiency, or productivity, has tumbled in the past year.
Loretta Mester, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, said Wednesday that “current wage increases are not consistent with inflation returning to our 2% goal” and that she thought with worker productivity so low, wage growth would have to slow to 3.5% or so to reduce inflation.
Yet some skeptics warn that the Fed may be focusing excessively on the strength of the job market when other indicators indicate that the economy is noticeably weakening. Consumer spending, for example, and manufacturing have slowed. The central bank might raise rates too far as a result, to the point where it causes a deeper recession than might be needed to conquer inflation.
“They run a risk of not realizing how much those rate hikes are restraining economic growth, if they’re just looking at the really strong employment gains,” said Jonathan Pingle, chief U.S. economist at Swiss bank UBS. “You could end up risking over tightening or moving too fast, too soon.”
The economic picture is highly uncertain, with the healthy pace of hiring and low unemployment at odds with the government’s estimate that the economy shrank in the first six months of this year, which is one informal definition of a recession.
Yet a related measure of the economy’s growth, which focuses on incomes, shows that it is still expanding, if at a weak pace.
So far, the Fed’s rate hikes have severely dented the housing market. With the average rate on a thirty-year mortgage reaching 5.66% last week — double the level of a year ago — sales of existing homes have fallen for six straight months.
Consumers have moderated their spending in the face of much higher prices, though they spent more in July even after adjusting for inflation. But companies’ investment in new equipment has slowed, indicating they have an increasingly cautious outlook on the economy.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Raging inflation has so scrambled the economy that it’s come to this: If Friday’s jobs report for August were to show a significant hiring slowdown, the Federal Reserve — and even the White House — would likely welcome it.
The government is expected to report that employers added 300,000 jobs last month, according to a survey of economists by the data provider FactSet. That would be down from a blockbuster gain of 528,000 in July and an average of about 440,000 over the past three months. The unemployment rate is expected to remain at 3.5%, FactSet says, matching a half-century low.
The August jobs report will be issued at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time.
A weaker pace of hiring should help moderate wage increases and lift hopes that inflation pressures are starting to ease. That, in turn, would help the Fed make progress toward its goal of conquering high inflation, which is near a four-decade high.
Many companies pass along their higher labor costs to customers through price increases. Conversely, when wages rise more slowly, businesses have less need to raise prices.
Chair Jerome Powell and other Fed officials have increasingly stressed their determination to tame inflation even at the cost of damaging the economy. In a major speech in Jackson Hole, Wyoming last week, Powell underscored the Fed’s tight focus on curbing inflation and said he was prepared to continue raising short-term interest rates and keep them elevated to achieve that goal. He warned that the Fed’s inflation fight would likely cause pain for Americans in the form of a weaker economy and job losses.
The stock market has fallen every day since that speech as fears that the Fed may cause a recession have escalated.
Powell also said the job market is “clearly out of balance,” with demand for workers “substantially exceeding” the available supply. Indeed, the government reported this week that the number of available jobs rose in July to a near-record high, after three months of declines. There are roughly two open jobs for every unemployed worker, a sign that many companies are still desperate to hire and may keep raising wages to do so.
“I don’t think the Fed is rooting for a poor jobs report, but they are certainly not rooting for a repeat of July,” when hiring accelerated and wage increases were strong, said Gregory Daco, chief economist at Parthenon-EY. “They are going to want to see some moderation.”
The central bank has raised its short-term rate to a range of 2.25% to 2.5% this year, after the fastest series of increases since it began using its short-term rate to influence the economy in the early 1990s. It has projected that its key rate will reach a range of 3.25% to 3.5% by year’s end. Those rate hikes have made borrowing and spending steadily more expensive for individuals and businesses. The housing market, in particular, has been weakened by higher loan rates.
If Friday’s jobs report is another strong one, with substantial hiring and rapid wage growth, the Fed could opt to announce another sizable three-quarter-point hike when it meets later this month, after similar rate increases in June and July.
The jobs figures will also help fill out the economic backdrop as this fall’s congressional elections intensify. Republicans have pointed to high inflation to try to pummel Democrats in midterm campaigns. The Biden administration has pushed back and claimed credit for a robust pace of job growth.
Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, told reporters this week that “we’re expecting job numbers to cool off a bit.” The administration has been saying for months that it expects the economy to move to slower but still-steady growth after a swift economic rebound from the pandemic that came with a burst of inflation.
Wages are rising at the fastest pace in decades as employers scramble to fill jobs at a time when fewer Americans are working or seeking work in the aftermath of the pandemic. Average hourly pay jumped 5.2% in July from a year earlier. Still, that was less than the 5.6% year-over-year in March, which was the largest annual increase in 15 years of records outside of the spring of 2020, when the pandemic struck.
Higher wages aren’t necessarily inflationary if they are accompanied by greater efficiencies — if, for example, workers use machines or technology to produce more output. But worker efficiency, or productivity, has tumbled in the past year.
Loretta Mester, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, said Wednesday that “current wage increases are not consistent with inflation returning to our 2% goal” and that she thought with worker productivity so low, wage growth would have to slow to 3.5% or so to reduce inflation.
Yet some skeptics warn that the Fed may be focusing excessively on the strength of the job market when other indicators indicate that the economy is noticeably weakening. Consumer spending, for example, and manufacturing have slowed. The central bank might raise rates too far as a result, to the point where it causes a deeper recession than might be needed to conquer inflation.
“They run a risk of not realizing how much those rate hikes are restraining economic growth, if they’re just looking at the really strong employment gains,” said Jonathan Pingle, chief U.S. economist at Swiss bank UBS. “You could end up risking over tightening or moving too fast, too soon.”
The economic picture is highly uncertain, with the healthy pace of hiring and low unemployment at odds with the government’s estimate that the economy shrank in the first six months of this year, which is one informal definition of a recession.
Yet a related measure of the economy’s growth, which focuses on incomes, shows that it is still expanding, if at a weak pace.
So far, the Fed’s rate hikes have severely dented the housing market. With the average rate on a thirty-year mortgage reaching 5.66% last week — double the level of a year ago — sales of existing homes have fallen for six straight months.
Consumers have moderated their spending in the face of much higher prices, though they spent more in July even after adjusting for inflation. But companies’ investment in new equipment has slowed, indicating they have an increasingly cautious outlook on the economy.
____
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EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) — A Texas pecan farm nearly the size of Disneyland has become entangled in a turf war between the Biden administration and Republican Gov. Greg Abbott over immigration enforcement on the southern border.
Hugo and Magali Urbina, who bought Heavenly Farms in April 2021, at first welcomed the state footing the bill for a new chain-link fence through their property earlier this year as part of Abbott’s multibillion-dollar crackdown on border crossings along the Rio Grande. But then, one day, they found the fence’s main gate unexpectedly locked.
The lock was put there, the couple says, by Texas authorities who have spent months arresting thousands of migrants on trespassing charges on private land. But the Urbinas didn’t want the lock and neither did the U.S. Border Patrol, which found it impeded with the agency’s own immigration enforcement and had it removed.
Now a single gate on the 1,200-mile Texas border has swung open a new dust-up over how to address near-record levels of migration on America’s southern doorstep, a fight the Urbinas say they want no part of.
“Unbelievable,” Abbott lashed out on social media last month after the lock was removed. “While Texas secures the border, the federal government is enabling illegal immigration.”
The dispute is the latest example of how Texas’ unprecedented challenge to the federal government’s authority on the border has created a clash among agencies working at cross purposes.
The Border Patrol’s Del Rio sector, which includes Eagle Pass where most of the nearly 470-acre farm is located, is fast becoming the busiest corridor for illegal crossings, with thousands passing each week onto the farm alone. The sector may soon surpass Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, which has been the focus for the last decade.
The Urbinas do not oppose Abbott’s massive border mission. But in the case of the lock, they say it went too far. They blamed what they see as a lack of single command in an area saturated with state troopers, Texas National Guard members, U.S. Border Patrol agents and local authorities, all of whom constantly cross paths and often work in tandem.
“They are all doing what they are being told,” Magali Urbina said. “It is really not their fault, but there is nobody running or telling them. There is no boss.”
It isn’t an isolated case.
In September 2021, Texas troopers told Border Patrol agents on horseback to block migrants from crossing the river to a camp of nearly 16,000 predominantly Haitians in Del Rio, about an hour’s drive north of Eagle Pass. Images of Border Patrol agents twirling reins at overpowered migrants sparked widespread criticism, including from President Joe Biden.
The internal investigation found that agents acted against Border Patrol objectives and “resulted in the unnecessary use of force against migrants who were attempting to reenter the United States with food.” The agents had been “instructed to help where needed” and not told anything more specific about how to respond to requests from another agency.
Abbott, who is seeking a third term, launched his multibillion-dollar “Operation Lone Star” last year, creating an overwhelming presence on the border. The size and cost of the mission has grown in defiance of the Democratic administration in Washington:
— Since July, the state has picked up 5,600 migrants who have entered the country illegally in Texas and returned them to ports of entry on the border, a role that has been reserved for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
In Eagle Pass, state buses drop off migrants throughout the day at a border crossing with Piedras Negras, Mexico, as far as they can go. CBP releases them, creating a circular flow.
Since April, Texas has bused more than 7,000 migrants to Washington and New York on free, voluntary trips, attempting to call attention to what it considers Biden’s failed policies. This week, Abbott began sending buses to Chicago, with the first arriving Thursday at Union Station. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has called the move a “political ploy.”
— Since last year, the state has charged more than 4,800 migrants with trespassing, a misdemeanor that carries a maximum penalty of a year in jail.
The Urbinas’ farm, which winds along the river, includes an old house that the couple is restoring for visitors to sample pecans, coffee and wine. They were inspired by Fredericksburg, a town of German heritage near Austin that draws tourists.
The farm of neatly manicured rows of trees had long drawn migrants but was relatively peaceful before the lifelong Eagle Pass resident couple bought it. It is located at the end of a stretch of new border fencing that was built on Abbott’s orders, on the edge of the 30,000-resident town that is dotted with warehouses, decaying houses and chain stores.
Agents stopped migrants nearly 50,000 times in the Del Rio sector in July, with Rio Grande Valley a distant second at about 35,000. About 6 of 10 stops in the Del Rio sector were migrants from Venezuela, Cuba or Nicaragua, who are likely to be released to pursue their immigration cases because poor diplomatic relations with those countries means the U.S. can’t send them home.
Migrants cross the river and climb a few feet uphill amidst overgrown Carrizo cane and concertina wire to surrender on the farm’s edge, expecting they will be released. U.S. Border Patrol agents, state troopers and journalists are a regular presence.
Border Patrol unlocked the gate and took migrants in for processing, a regular procedure for the federal officials in any situation involving a lock within 25 miles of the border, said Jon Anfinsen, president of the National Border Patrol Council union chapter that includes agents in Eagle Pass.
“The governor is telling everyone, ‘Secure the border.’ I have no doubt that is the intent but the reality of it is that it’s just not that simple,” Anfinsen said. “We’ve been doing this forever and it hasn’t been fixed yet. So it’s a noble attempt, I suppose, but we’re going to have to take these people into custody.”
Border Patrol officials declined comment.
Ericka Miller, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, said the agency is accommodating the Urbina’s request to have the gate unlocked. She said DPS is also working to have carrizo cane on the property removed but said the Urbinas are allowing concertina wiring to stay on the property.
“All landowner agreements are voluntary and can be eliminated at any time. Again, DPS is there to assist the landowner,” Miller said in an email.
The chain-link fence, which rises over the cane intertwined with the razor wire, makes it easier for the Urbinas to pursue trespassing charges against people crossing into their farm. However, they haven’t, although they know cattle ranchers who have.
The state and federal governments are each “wanting to pull all the levers” and not working together, Hugo Urbina said. The couple regrets what they see as a disconnect.
“The president is not here, the governor is not here, but this is our land,” Magali Urbina said.
___
Associated Press writers Elliot Spagat in San Diego and Paul Weber in Austin, Texas, contributed. | https://www.wspa.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-pecan-farmers-get-caught-in-power-vacuum-on-texas-border/ | 2022-09-02T09:57:06Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-pecan-farmers-get-caught-in-power-vacuum-on-texas-border/ | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 39 |
EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) — A Texas pecan farm nearly the size of Disneyland has become entangled in a turf war between the Biden administration and Republican Gov. Greg Abbott over immigration enforcement on the southern border.
Hugo and Magali Urbina, who bought Heavenly Farms in April 2021, at first welcomed the state footing the bill for a new chain-link fence through their property earlier this year as part of Abbott’s multibillion-dollar crackdown on border crossings along the Rio Grande. But then, one day, they found the fence’s main gate unexpectedly locked.
The lock was put there, the couple says, by Texas authorities who have spent months arresting thousands of migrants on trespassing charges on private land. But the Urbinas didn’t want the lock and neither did the U.S. Border Patrol, which found it impeded with the agency’s own immigration enforcement and had it removed.
Now a single gate on the 1,200-mile Texas border has swung open a new dust-up over how to address near-record levels of migration on America’s southern doorstep, a fight the Urbinas say they want no part of.
“Unbelievable,” Abbott lashed out on social media last month after the lock was removed. “While Texas secures the border, the federal government is enabling illegal immigration.”
The dispute is the latest example of how Texas’ unprecedented challenge to the federal government’s authority on the border has created a clash among agencies working at cross purposes.
The Border Patrol’s Del Rio sector, which includes Eagle Pass where most of the nearly 470-acre farm is located, is fast becoming the busiest corridor for illegal crossings, with thousands passing each week onto the farm alone. The sector may soon surpass Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, which has been the focus for the last decade.
The Urbinas do not oppose Abbott’s massive border mission. But in the case of the lock, they say it went too far. They blamed what they see as a lack of single command in an area saturated with state troopers, Texas National Guard members, U.S. Border Patrol agents and local authorities, all of whom constantly cross paths and often work in tandem.
“They are all doing what they are being told,” Magali Urbina said. “It is really not their fault, but there is nobody running or telling them. There is no boss.”
It isn’t an isolated case.
In September 2021, Texas troopers told Border Patrol agents on horseback to block migrants from crossing the river to a camp of nearly 16,000 predominantly Haitians in Del Rio, about an hour’s drive north of Eagle Pass. Images of Border Patrol agents twirling reins at overpowered migrants sparked widespread criticism, including from President Joe Biden.
The internal investigation found that agents acted against Border Patrol objectives and “resulted in the unnecessary use of force against migrants who were attempting to reenter the United States with food.” The agents had been “instructed to help where needed” and not told anything more specific about how to respond to requests from another agency.
Abbott, who is seeking a third term, launched his multibillion-dollar “Operation Lone Star” last year, creating an overwhelming presence on the border. The size and cost of the mission has grown in defiance of the Democratic administration in Washington:
— Since July, the state has picked up 5,600 migrants who have entered the country illegally in Texas and returned them to ports of entry on the border, a role that has been reserved for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
In Eagle Pass, state buses drop off migrants throughout the day at a border crossing with Piedras Negras, Mexico, as far as they can go. CBP releases them, creating a circular flow.
Since April, Texas has bused more than 7,000 migrants to Washington and New York on free, voluntary trips, attempting to call attention to what it considers Biden’s failed policies. This week, Abbott began sending buses to Chicago, with the first arriving Thursday at Union Station. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has called the move a “political ploy.”
— Since last year, the state has charged more than 4,800 migrants with trespassing, a misdemeanor that carries a maximum penalty of a year in jail.
The Urbinas’ farm, which winds along the river, includes an old house that the couple is restoring for visitors to sample pecans, coffee and wine. They were inspired by Fredericksburg, a town of German heritage near Austin that draws tourists.
The farm of neatly manicured rows of trees had long drawn migrants but was relatively peaceful before the lifelong Eagle Pass resident couple bought it. It is located at the end of a stretch of new border fencing that was built on Abbott’s orders, on the edge of the 30,000-resident town that is dotted with warehouses, decaying houses and chain stores.
Agents stopped migrants nearly 50,000 times in the Del Rio sector in July, with Rio Grande Valley a distant second at about 35,000. About 6 of 10 stops in the Del Rio sector were migrants from Venezuela, Cuba or Nicaragua, who are likely to be released to pursue their immigration cases because poor diplomatic relations with those countries means the U.S. can’t send them home.
Migrants cross the river and climb a few feet uphill amidst overgrown Carrizo cane and concertina wire to surrender on the farm’s edge, expecting they will be released. U.S. Border Patrol agents, state troopers and journalists are a regular presence.
Border Patrol unlocked the gate and took migrants in for processing, a regular procedure for the federal officials in any situation involving a lock within 25 miles of the border, said Jon Anfinsen, president of the National Border Patrol Council union chapter that includes agents in Eagle Pass.
“The governor is telling everyone, ‘Secure the border.’ I have no doubt that is the intent but the reality of it is that it’s just not that simple,” Anfinsen said. “We’ve been doing this forever and it hasn’t been fixed yet. So it’s a noble attempt, I suppose, but we’re going to have to take these people into custody.”
Border Patrol officials declined comment.
Ericka Miller, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, said the agency is accommodating the Urbina’s request to have the gate unlocked. She said DPS is also working to have carrizo cane on the property removed but said the Urbinas are allowing concertina wiring to stay on the property.
“All landowner agreements are voluntary and can be eliminated at any time. Again, DPS is there to assist the landowner,” Miller said in an email.
The chain-link fence, which rises over the cane intertwined with the razor wire, makes it easier for the Urbinas to pursue trespassing charges against people crossing into their farm. However, they haven’t, although they know cattle ranchers who have.
The state and federal governments are each “wanting to pull all the levers” and not working together, Hugo Urbina said. The couple regrets what they see as a disconnect.
“The president is not here, the governor is not here, but this is our land,” Magali Urbina said.
___
Associated Press writers Elliot Spagat in San Diego and Paul Weber in Austin, Texas, contributed. | https://www.wspa.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-pecan-farmers-get-caught-in-power-vacuum-on-texas-border/ | 2022-09-02T09:57:06Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-pecan-farmers-get-caught-in-power-vacuum-on-texas-border/ | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 39 |
BEIJING (AP) — European stocks opened higher Friday while Asian markets mostly declined ahead of U.S. jobs data that might reinforce U.S. Federal Reserve plans for more interest rate hikes to cool inflation.
London, Frankfurt and Shanghai rose. Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney declined. Wall Street futures were nearly flat. Oil prices surged $2.50 per barrel.
Investors awaited figures on August hiring for an update on how the economy is responding to four earlier hikes to cool inflation that is at a four-decade high. A strong reading would give ammunition to Fed officials who say higher interest rates are needed to slow economic activity and reduce upward pressure on consumer prices.
If more than 300,000 jobs were added, it “could likely reinforce further lean towards” a rate hike as big as 0.75 percentage points at this month’s Fed meeting, Yeap Jun Rong of IG said in a report. That would be three times the Fed’s usual margin of change.
In early trading, the FTSE 100 in London rose 0.7% to 7,196.06 and the DAX in Frankfurt advanced 1.3% to 12,796.34. The CAC 40 in Paris added 0.8% to 6,080.35.
On Wall Street, the benchmark S&P 500 index was up less than 0.1%. That for the Dow Jones Industrial Average was off less than 0.1%.
On Thursday, the S&P 500 rose 0.3%, rebounding from a four-day string of declines.
The benchmark ended August with a 4.2% loss after surging the previous month on expectations the Fed might ease off rate hikes due to signs U.S. economic activity was cooling and inflation might be leveling off.
Those hopes were dashed last week when chair Jerome Powell said the Fed needs to keep rates elevated enough “for some time” to slow the economy. The only question for many investors is how much and when the next hike will be.
On Thursday, the Labor Department reported unemployment claims fell last week in another sign of a strong job market. It said earlier this week there were two jobs for every unemployed person in July.
The Dow finished up 0.5% while the Nasdaq slid 0.3%.
In Asia, the Shanghai Composite Index added added less than 0.1% to 3,186.48 while the Nikkei 225 in Tokyo lost less than 0.1% to 27,650.84. The Hang Seng in Hong Kong sank 0.7% to 19,452.09.
China on Thursday ordered most residents of Chengdu, a western city of 21 million people, to stay home following a virus outbreak. The area is recovering from power rationing after a drought depleted reservoirs for hydroelectric dams, but economists said earlier that the national economic impact should be limited because the region’s industrial output is a small part of China’s total.
The Kospi in Seoul fell 0.3% to 2,409.41 and Sydney’s S&P-ASX 200 declined 0.3% to 6,828.70.
India’s Sensex declined 0.5% to 59,032.82. New Zealand and Jakarta gained while Singapore and Bangkok declined.
In energy markets, benchmark U.S. crude rose $2.56 to $98.17 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract tumbled $2.94 to $86.61 on Thursday. Brent crude, the price basis for international oil trading, gained $2.62 to $94.98 per barrel in London. It plunged $3.28 the previous session to $92.36 a barrel.
The dollar rose to 140.32 yen from Thursday’s 140.23 yen. The euro gained to 99.77 cents from 99.45 cents. | https://www.wspa.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-asian-stock-markets-lower-ahead-of-latest-us-jobs-reading/ | 2022-09-02T09:57:13Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-asian-stock-markets-lower-ahead-of-latest-us-jobs-reading/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
BERLIN (AP) — Two earthquakes hit Liechtenstein just as lawmakers in the tiny Alpine principality were debating the pros and cons of quake insurance.
Lawmaker Bettina Petzold-Maehr had just warned that the chances of all Liechtenstein citizens being affected by an earthquake striking the country was high when the first small temblor hit shortly before 2 p.m. (1200GMT) Thursday.
Petzold-Maehr laughed and continued until the second quake struck, visibly shaking the room.
“This is getting a bit much, you never know if there’ll be aftershocks,” speaker Albert Frick said, announcing a 15-minute recess.
Records by the German Research Centre for Geosciences showed a magnitude 4 earthquake hit Liechtenstein, which is sandwiched between Switzerland and Austria, Thursday afternoon.
Liechtenstein police said no injuries or damage were reported, and gave a magnitude of 3.9 for the quake.
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TOKYO (AP) — The head of the U.S. Environment Protection Agency said Friday that advanced nuclear technology will be “critical” for both the United States and Japan as they step up cooperation to meet decarbonization goals.
Michael Regan, after holding talks with his Japanese counterpart Akihiro Nishimura in Tokyo, told a joint news conference that nuclear energy in their countries plays a role and “the opportunities for advanced nuclear technology will be critical if we’re going to meet our climate goals.”
“I think the science tells us that we have to respond to the climate crisis with a sense of urgency and nuclear energy and nuclear technology has and can have a role in continuing with a zero emissions contribution to the climate,” he said, showing support for Japan’s recent shift toward returning to nuclear energy.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said last week he instructed his government to consider developing safer, smaller nuclear reactors, in a renewed emphasis on nuclear energy years after many of the country’s plants were shut down.
Kishida said Japan needs to consider all options of energy mix, including nuclear, to bolster its “green transformation” effort to curb emissions of greenhouse gases and to secure stable energy supply. Japan has pledged to reach carbon neutrality by 2050.
Anti-nuclear sentiment and safety concerns rose sharply in Japan after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant meltdowns, but the government has been pushing for a return to nuclear energy amid worries of power shortage following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and a global push to reduce greenhouse gases. Japan has faced criticism for saying it will phase out fossil fuel use by 2050 without showing clearer timeline.
While maintaining a 20%-22% target for nuclear energy as part of its energy mix for 2030, Japan’s government had previously insisted it was not considering building new plants or replacing aged reactors, apparently to avoid stoking criticism from a wary public. Kishida’s recent comment represents a sharp change from that stance.
Kishida asked a government panel to decide by the end of the year on its proposal for the development and construction of “new innovative reactors,” such as small modular reactors, while also considering extending operational lifespan of aging reactors.
President Joe Biden also believes that it is an “all hands on deck approach,” Regan said, adding that investments in nuclear technology and carbon capture will complement the big potential for renewable energy.
U.S. and Japanese environment heads also agreed to cooperate to speed up global effort to achieve decarbonization as well as curb ocean plastic pollution, chemicals and other environmental issues.
Biden last month signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act that includes energy provisions aimed at creating savings by providing tax credit for new purchases of some electric vehicles and for home owners who invest in energy-efficient equipment.
While costs of wind, solar and battery storage are coming down and will dominate the future market, existing technology will remain important for the zero emissions goal “if we want to respond to the climate crisis in a timely manner,” Regan said. | https://www.wspa.com/technology/ap-technology/ap-epa-head-advanced-nuke-tech-key-to-mitigate-climate-change/ | 2022-09-02T09:59:18Z | wspa.com | control | https://www.wspa.com/technology/ap-technology/ap-epa-head-advanced-nuke-tech-key-to-mitigate-climate-change/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Griot Museum of Black History will introduce the inaugural class of St. Louis-area women honored during the “Black Herstory Initiative” [BHI] Queens’ Tea at 1 p.m. Sunday, September 4, 2022, at 2505 St. Louis Ave.
The Tea is modeled after the traditional English afternoon tea, but with an Afro-centric twist in décor, refreshments, and entertainment.
The “Black Herstory Initiative” is a community-driven project that honors the life and legacy of St. Louis women whose contributions span political, social, community, and cultural spheres.
The honorees include Barbara Bowman, Vice President & Controller, Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis; Adelia Parker-Castro, multi-media artist and arts educator; Anne-Marie Clarke, family court commissioner (retired); Bonita Cornute, broadcast journalist and media specialist.
Also, Etta Daniels, historic preservationist; Kendra Holmes, chief operating officer and incoming president of at Affinia Healthcare; St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones; Traci Berry-McGhee, mentoring coach and motivational speaker; Sandra Moore, community development and human services executive; Edna Hanks Pipes, educator; and Jamala Rogers, social activist, and St. Louis American columnist; and Ollie Stewart senior citizens’ advocate.
The Black Herstory Initiative will continue in 2023 as this cohort, along with Black women ancestors, are memorialized in memory-making, public art installations on the Museum grounds and throughout the community.
The ancestors who will be honored include Fontella Bass, Loretta Hall, Annie Malone, Betty Thompson, Edna Thompson, Matilda Tyler, Shirley LeFlore, Alice Windom, and others.
A series of community engagement activities, oral history interviews, and intergenerational storytelling will complement the public art installations.
Only the second of its kind in the country, The Griot Museum of Black History opened as The Black World History Wax Museum in February 1997.
“In 2009, we hit upon what seems to be the perfect name, which more accurately reflects what we do -- collect, preserve, interpret, and share the stories, culture, and history of Black people - particularly highlighting their regional connection to American history,” according to Lois Conley, founder and executive director.
The core galleries of The Griot include life-size wax figures, other art, artifacts, and memorabilia to help interpret the stories of Black people who have contributed to our country’s development.
Visitors can “meet” and learn about Carter G. Woodson, Josephine Baker, Dred and Harriet Scott, Elizabeth Keckley, William Wells Brown, James Milton Turner, Clark Terry, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Rev. Earl. E. Nance Sr., Miles Davis, Madame C.J. Walker, York, Percy Green, Macler Shepard, Chief Sherman George, and others.
The event is sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit public art and history studio that collaborates with artists, students, educators, activists, municipal agencies, and cultural institutions on participatory approaches to public engagement and collective memory.
Tickets for the “Black Herstory Tea” are $65 per person. Seating is limited. Reservations may be made on The Griot’s website thegriotmuseum.com. For more information, call 314-241-7057 or email info@thegriotmuseum.com. | https://www.stlamerican.com/news/local_news/tea-time/article_7cc3329c-2a69-11ed-af31-63cc4b8a8649.html | 2022-09-02T10:03:12Z | stlamerican.com | control | https://www.stlamerican.com/news/local_news/tea-time/article_7cc3329c-2a69-11ed-af31-63cc4b8a8649.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK, Sept. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Unity Software Inc. (NYSE: U).
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More than a million households will get the first half of the £650 cost of living payment from today. The first instalment is worth £326 and will be paid between September 2 and 7 this month.
Around 1.1million people on Tax Credits are eligible for the payment. The money is being awarded to households who are eligible for a Tax Credits payment between April 26, 2022 and May 25, 2022, The Mirror reports.
You might also be eligible if you were later found to be entitled for a payment for this timeframe. Your benefit payment or annual award must have been worth at least £26 to get the cost of living cash.
Read more: DWP: Thousands on these benefits will be protected from energy price cap
For joint claimants, where one person receives Working Tax Credit and the other receives Child Tax Credit, payments will be made into the same bank account as the Child Tax Credit benefit. The payment will contain the reference “CL” followed by your National Insurance number followed by “0001AX”.
The second half of the £650 payment for those claiming Tax Credits - worth £324 - will arrive in the winter,although no set date has been announced. Tax Credit households are receiving their cost of living payment slightly later than other benefit claimants.
Those who claim Universal Credit, income-related Employment Support Allowance, income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance, Income Support and Pension Credit started to receive £326 from July 14. The second payment for these households - worth £324 - will be issued in the autumn.
Who is eligible for the £650 cost of living payment?
The £650 payment is only being awarded to those who claim means-tested benefits - so where your income and savings are taken into account.
This includes:
- Child Tax Credit
- Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
- Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
- Income Support
- Pension Credit
- Universal Credit
- Working Tax Credit
You must have been entitled, or later found to be entitled to a benefit payment, between April 26, 2022 and May 25, 2022 to get the cash.
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Shares of Uni-Select (TSE:UNS) have grown nearly 100% over the past 12 months, and the stock may have more steam left in it. Here’s what makes UNS the hottest stock this week.
Uni-Select Has an Extensive Presence
UNS distributes automotive refinish and industrial coatings in North America. Its unit of automotive aftermarket parts caters to Canada and the U.K. Founded in 1968, the company has 14 distribution centers and more than 400 stores.
UNS’ U.S. subsidiary, Finishmaster, operates its namesake brand and serves over 30,000 customers every year. Its U.K. subsidiary, GSF Car Parts, caters to more than 20,000 customers at its 180 stores. In the U.S. the company’s shares are traded over-the-counter under the ticker (UNIEF).
Accelerating Fundamentals
Revenues of the company have increased from $1.47 billion in 2020 to $1.61 billion in 2021. During this period, UNS posted an impressive turnaround — from a net loss per share of $0.74 in 2020 to a net profit per share of $0.02 in 2021.
Importantly, this operational performance has continued with the company’s 10.8% organic growth in the recent second quarter, aided by price increases.
Further, its adjusted EBITDA increased 11.5% over the prior year to $51.3 million in the second quarter of 2022. Moreover, better margins and lower interest payments have helped cash flow generation remain robust. The total net debt to adjusted EBITDA multiple for UNS was 1.7 in the recent quarter, compared to 2.8 in the year-ago period.
The top line of the company is expected to rise to $1.73 billion in 2022.
Additionally, while supply chain bottlenecks and rising costs remain a challenge, UNS is focused on organic growth, making operational gains, and reinvesting for growth.
Earlier this year, the company expanded its footprint in Ontario, with the acquisition of Maslack Supply Ltd. This strategic move added 13 locations to UNS’ portfolio.
Street Sees More Upside in UNS Stock
Last Month, TD Securities analyst Daryl Young reiterated a Buy rating on the stock while increasing the price target to C$44 from C$43.
Overall, the Street has a Strong Buy consensus rating on UNS with an average price target of C$43.90. This indicates 19.23% potential upside. Additionally, a TipRanks Smart Score of “Perfect 10” means the stock is likely to outperform the broader market.
What’s more, insiders seem to be bullish on UNS and have bought the company’s shares worth C$1.1 million in the past three months. This implies a very positive insider confidence signal for UNS.
Closing Thoughts
At current levels, UNS shares are not exactly cheap, owing to a price-to-earnings multiple of 24.7. Nonetheless, this turnaround stock deserves investors’ attention due to its focus on organic growth and efforts to expand its footprint significantly.
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Following the recent announcement that BrewDog will be closing several of its pubs across the UK, the craft brewer has confirmed that their upcoming Kent branch will be unaffected by the closures. Earlier in the week, BrewDog boss James Watt confirmed the closure of six branches of the popular pub chain across the nation.
These closures have largely been blamed on soaring energy costs and a ‘zombie government’, with Watt saying it would “be simply impossible to get these bars even close to financial viability” in the foreseeable future. Closures have been confirmed for the Hop and Anchor in Aberdeen , Smithfield Market Arms in London , Hop Hub in Motherwell and its BrewDog bars in Dalston, east London; Old Street, east London; and Peterhead .
However, there is some good news for punters here in Kent. BrewDog has confirmed that despite the closures, the international chain will still be operating in Canterbury as part of the new Riverside Complex.
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With the Curzon cinema recently opening its doors as part of the £115m mixed use development , BrewDog is set to be another flagship franchise for the site. In a post on their website confirming the new Canterbury branch, BrewDog wrote: “Craft beer is coming to Canterbury!
“We're bringing you one of our iconic bars where incredible craft beer meets amazing atmosphere. Our taps will be flowing with the very best beer from us and our favourite guest breweries alongside cocktails, wines & spirits and our popular alcohol-free range.”
This will be the first ever BrewDog branch to come to Kent and is expected to open later this year. The announcement of these closures comes just weeks after the craft brewer opened their biggest venue yet in Waterloo Station last month.
In a Linkedin post made earlier this week discussing the six closures, Mr Watt said: “Last night we confirmed we were to close six bars around the UK and it is heart-breaking to lose these locations.
“Reality in the hospitality space is starting to bite and bite hard. And the Government needs to get a grip, now.
“If nothing happens, the UK looks set to lose half of its pubs and bars and all the millions of jobs these locations provide, as well as the vital role they play in local communities.”
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One man has died and three more people have been injured after a horror crash on the A2 in Dover in the early hours of this morning (September 2). Jubilee Way has been shut since around 1am after two cars collided near the port.
Police closed the road between the A20 and the A258 while they carried out accident investigation work. The eastbound carriageway reopened around 10am but the westbound carriageway remains shut.
Kent Police have issued an appeal for information and witnesses. A spokesman for the confirmed the fatality, injuries and arrest.
They said: "Just before 1am on Friday 2 September 2022, a black Seat taxi was travelling on Jubilee Way, away from the port, when it was involved in a collision with a grey Range Rover, travelling in the opposite direction.
"A man in his 50s sustained serious injuries and was confirmed deceased at the scene. A further three people were taken to a local hospital with minor injuries.
"A 20-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and taken into custody. Can you help?
"Officers from the Serious Collision Investigation Unit (SCIU) are appealing for witnesses or any motorists with dashcam footage to come forward.
"Witnesses should call the SCIU appeal line on 01622 798538 or email sciu.td@kent.pnn.police.uk quoting MM/VS/96/22."
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Microsoft’s (MSFT) plan to acquire videogame developer Activision Blizzard (ATVI) has raised antitrust concerns in the UK. The company has only a few days to offer remedies to address the concerns or face a more in-depth review of the deal. MSFT stock could take a hit if the Activision buyout deal collapses, in part because of the expensive breakup fee.
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has questions for Microsoft in relation to the Activision takeover. The regulator worries that a merger between Microsoft and Activision could damage competition in the UK’s videogame market.
The CMA noted that Microsoft is among the top-three gaming console companies, alongside Sony (SONY) and Nintendo (NTDOY). It also noted that Activision has some of the best-selling gaming titles.
The regulator is concerned that if Microsoft combines with Activision, it could harm rivals, particularly newcomers to the gaming industry. The CMA’s concerns are that Microsoft could damage competition by denying rivals access to Activision’s games or granting them access on unfair terms.
CMA’s Concerns Are Bad News for Microsoft
The regulator has given Microsoft and Activision five business days, or until September 8, to address its concerns. If the CMA is not satisfied with the remedies offered by the companies, then it might escalate the deal’s review.
An in-depth review comes with many risks. For example, the regulator could impose certain conditions to approve the transaction or block the deal altogether. Moreover, a full merger review can delay the deal’s closing because it may take months to conclude. Aside from the UK, the Microsoft-Activision merger deal is also subject to regulatory approval in the U.S., EU, and China before it can close. Regulators in those jurisdictions may also raise issues like the UK’s CMA.
Microsoft hopes to close the Activision acquisition by June 2023. It counts on the deal to not only bolster its gaming and cloud businesses but also provide it with metaverse building blocks. Microsoft has said that it is ready to work with the CMA to address its concerns. The company would need to pay $3 billion in breakup fee to Activision if the deal fails, according to a Reuters report.
What Is a Good Buy Price for MSFT?
Microsoft shares have dropped about 20% year-to-date. However, Wall Street remains highly bullish on MSFT stock. According to TipRanks’ analyst rating consensus, MSFT stock is a Strong Buy based on 28 Buys and two Holds. The average Microsoft price target of $325.77 implies over 25% upside potential.
MSFT stock scores a “Perfect 10” from TipRanks’ Smart Score rating system, indicating that the stock has strong potential to outperform market expectations.
Moreover, Microsoft is a favorite of both Wall Street elites and retail investors. TipRanks’ Hedge Fund Trading Activity tool shows that confidence in MSFT stock is currently Very Positive. Some 147 hedge funds increased their cumulative holdings of the stock by 10.4 million shares in the last quarter.
Furthermore, TipRanks’ Stock Investors tool shows that retail investor sentiment is currently Positive toward Microsoft. In the past seven days, 0.9% of retail portfolios tracked by TipRanks increased their exposure to MSFT stock.
Final Thoughts
Microsoft has many reasons to want to complete the Activision acquisition deal. However, the development in the UK indicates that Microsoft may be required to make certain concessions in order for the purchase to be approved by the antitrust authority. MSFT stock may come under pressure if the deal fails or investors feel that the company is giving up too much to save the deal.
Read the full Disclosure | https://www.tipranks.com/news/microsoft-nasdaqmsft-stock-activision-deal-at-risk-in-the-uk | 2022-09-02T10:23:54Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/microsoft-nasdaqmsft-stock-activision-deal-at-risk-in-the-uk | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
American coffee chain Starbucks (SBUX) has found its new CEO in Laxman Narasimhan, an expert in consumer goods. Narasimhan will join Starbucks on October 1, and assume the full responsibility of CEO and join the company’s board on April 1, 2023. Until April 2023, Narasimhan will gain in-depth knowledge about the coffee giant’s business operations and master the trade under the current interim CEO Howard Schultz.
Narasimhan is based in London and currently heads U.K.-based consumer goods company Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC (GB:RKT). He also announced his departure from Reckitt yesterday but will continue to serve until September 30. Narasimhan also has prior experience at the food and beverage giant PepsiCo Inc. (PEP).
Meanwhile, Schultz, who has headed Starbucks before and has a long-standing relationship with the company, will continue to play a “special role” at the coffee house, a WSJ report stated. Starbucks board chairwoman Mellody Hobson said about Schultz, “He certainly has a special voice, a deep knowledge of the business in ways none of us has and we want that.”
And about Narasimhan’s appointment, Hobson stated, “We really do believe that we have found an exceptional individual to be our next CEO. He’s a tested leader.” In a regulatory filing yesterday, Starbucks notified shareholders of Narasimhan’s annual package.
As per the filing, Narasimhan will receive an initial base salary of $1.3 million. Plus, he will receive an opportunity to earn an annual cash incentive target of 200% of the base salary upon performance. Moreover, in 2023, Narasimhan will be eligible for annual equity awards to the tune of $13.6 million, subject to shareholder-approved terms. Furthermore, he will receive a cash signing bonus of $1.6 million concerning the forfeited compensation from his current employment.
What is the Target Price for SBUX Stock?
On TipRanks, SBUX stock has a Moderate Buy consensus rating. This is based on nine Buys versus ten Holds. The average Starbucks price target of $92.89 implies 8.8% upside potential to current levels. Meanwhile, the stock has lost 25.5% so far this year.
Takeaway – New CEO to Solve Starbucks’ Issues
Starbucks has been facing multiple challenges at both the macro and micro levels. The pandemic-triggered lockdowns had forced the coffee shop to shut down its stores. Later in 2021, takeaway orders amped up its business. However, the current inflationary pressures have shrunk the company’s margins and forced the coffee house to increase the prices of its offerings.
On the other hand, continued unionization efforts by baristas at several of its locations have turned up the heat at the company. Negotiations for higher pay as well as employee resignations are adding to Starbucks’s already chaotic situation. Amid the chaos, Starbucks’ board hopes that Narasimhan will be able to strategically turn around the company with his years-long experience in the consumer goods industry. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/starbucks-nasdaqsbux-hires-reckitts-narasimhan-as-new-ceo | 2022-09-02T10:24:00Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/starbucks-nasdaqsbux-hires-reckitts-narasimhan-as-new-ceo | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
U.S. stock futures were muted early Friday morning as investors remain weighed down by the Fed’s comments last week.
Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) inched 0.01% higher, while those on the S&P 500 (SPX) gained 0.01%, as of 5.48 a.m. EST, Friday. Meanwhile, the Nasdaq 100 (NDX) futures dipped 0.08%.
Futures movements were also influenced by a 10% surge in the shares of retailer Lululemon (LULU) during the extended trading session Thursday. Lululemon posted upbeat quarterly results that beat consensus estimates.
Stock and bond prices have been under pressure ever since Fed Chair Jerome Powell took any chance of a pivot off the table.
At the end of the regular trading hours of Thursday, the S&P 500, the Dow, and the Nasdaq 100 inched 0.3%, 0.46%, and 0.02% higher, respectively, breaking a 4-day losing streak. Nonetheless, the major indexes are largely expected to be on track to close the third straight week of losses.
Key Economic Data on the Way
Moreover, investors are also looking forward to some good news in August’s jobs report that is on deck to be released later on Friday. This data will be critical as it is one of the key reports that will be considered by the Fed to determine its policy path for the September round.
Experts expect job growth to have remained strong despite the likelihood that it slowed in August compared with July. However, investors remain uneasy with a nagging possibility that the Fed will maintain its hawkishness even if the jobs growth in August reveals a sharp drop.
Nonetheless, the most important economic data of all, the August consumer price index, is due out on September 13. Market movements are expected to remain uncertain till then. | https://www.tipranks.com/news/stock-market-today-friday-september-2-what-you-need-to-know | 2022-09-02T10:24:06Z | tipranks.com | control | https://www.tipranks.com/news/stock-market-today-friday-september-2-what-you-need-to-know | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Country music star Aaron Lewis returning to Zanesville
Eddie Montgomery performing Sept. 23
ZANESVILLE — Aaron Lewis is returning to Secrest Auditorium.
Lewis will make his second appearance in downtown, via Dusty Guitar Promotions, when his "Frayed At Both Ends, The Acoustic Tour" makes a stop on Nov. 2.
The Zanesville show kicks off a stretch in which Lewis will perform five times in six days, which includes three dates in Michigan and two in Indiana. The tour is set to begin today in Hyannis, Massachusetts.
Lewis, the founder and lead singer of multi-platinum rock group Staind, grew up in Springfield, Vermont, where he spent his younger years listening to his grandparents' 8-track tapes.
It was that background that led him from the rock-n-roll scene to a return to his country roots, where his debut country album "Town Line" reached No. 1 on the Billboard country chart. His single "Am I The Only One" also reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Song list.
In addition to being one of the most popular rock singers of his time, Lewis has since recorded with country music legends George Jones, Willie Nelson, Charlie Daniels, Alison Krauss and Vince Gill.
It was Jones who sang background, with Daniels also contributing, in his smash hit "Country Boy," that was released on the Town Line album in 2010.
The "Frayed At Both Ends" acoustic album has sold more than 15 million copies. It is reputed as his most personal and unplugged album to date, although he has played acoustic shows across the country throughout the past decade.
Tickets for the Secrest show range from $39 to $125, with doors opening at 5:30 p.m., and the show starting at 7. The Zanesville Jaycees Bud Light Basement Pre-Party will be held prior to the concert, with The River Rats, from Zanesville, providing the entertainment.
Tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. on Sept. 9 and can be purchased online at dustyguitar.com or at the Secrest ticket office.
Eddie Montgomery coming to Secrest
Montgomery formed half of the widely popular country group Montgomery Gentry before Troy Gentry died following a 2017 helicopter crash that ended an impressive 18-year run of performing.
Five years later, Montgomery has kept his career — and their songs — alive as a solo act with his band, The Wild Bunch. They are coming to Secrest at 7 p.m. on Sept. 23, with special guest Ray Scott. Scott has been touring the country music scene since 2005 with his debut album "My Kind Of Music."
An Eastern Kentucky native, Montgomery was part of a band that produced five No. 1 hits in "If You Ever Stop Loving Me," "Something To Be Proud Of," "Lucky Man" and "Roll With Me." They also produced charting crowd pleasers such as "Hell Yeah," "My Town" and "Hillbilly Shoes."
Montgomery said Gentry is still with him in spirit and feels that he would be happy he is still performing, according to his biography from TNT Promotions.
"Ain't a day that goes by that I don't think of him," Montgomery said. "We made a promise, a deal, way back when. It was over Jim Beam. It was: If one of us goes down, we want Montgomery Gentry to go on. Keep the music going. We were a honky-tonk band, and he's with me, and he's always going to be with me."
Tickets can be purchased online at secrestauditorium.com or at the ticket office. | https://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/story/news/local/2022/09/02/country-music-star-aaron-lewis-returning-to-zanesville/65463250007/ | 2022-09-02T10:29:28Z | zanesvilletimesrecorder.com | control | https://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/story/news/local/2022/09/02/country-music-star-aaron-lewis-returning-to-zanesville/65463250007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Public Records: Muskingum County Real Estate Transfers
Property Transfers
Aug. 15
1372 Corri E. Wilson to Terry II and Jessika Shifflet, 286 Washington St., Roseville, $1,000
1373 William F. Graham to Devon J. Snyder and Emilee E. Neff, 1950 Norwich Valley Road, Norwich, $175,000
1374 SM Development Company LLC to Tuff Michael Zemba, 13090 McCall's Lane, New Concord, $185,000
1375 Willie C. and Dawn Brooks to Rayne&Quinn Ltd., 574 Pine St., Zanesville, $6,500
1376 Marian I. Dingess to Chase Delong and Lelana Staszak, 1039 Sunset Ave., Zanesville, $109,000
1377 SF Investments Properties LLC to Matthew D. and Michelle L. Bergum, 519 Moxahala Ave., Zanesville, $76,666.66
1378 Quality Business Investments LLC to Matthew D. and Michelle L. Bergum, 707 Indiana St., Zanesville, $76,666.66
1379 Spartan Forge Fitness LLC to Matthew D. and Michelle L. Bergum, 634 Schaum Ave., Zanesville, $76,666.66
Aug. 16
1380 William A. Shaffer to Joshua T. Greenwalt and Kalya Wolford, 12490 2nd Ave., Trinway, $105,000
1381 Kelscon Enterprises Ltd. to Charity and Scott Johnson, 3140 3rd St., Trinway, $125,000
1382 Randolph A. McInerney to Mariah F. Kinn, 113 James St., Roseville, $49,700
1383 Ronald L. and Kimberly B. Madden to John M. and Abbey Alford, 6.0 acre split, Norfield Road, Adamsville, $20,000
1384 Robert John Mack IV to Jacob D. Kinsey, 315 Mead St., Zanesville, $6,000
1385 Christopher M. Miller to Chad J. Mumaw, 2106 Maple Hill, Zanesville, $110,000
1386 Bradley S. Kaufman to Quality Business Investments LLC, 730 Wabash Ave., Zanesville, $130,000
Aug. 17
1387 Donald J. Urban to Claire L. and Phyllis M. Reed 1170 Walter Drive, Zanesville, $215,000
1388 Delroy D., Donald E. and Jack J. Hindel to Jacob D. and Danielle Hindel, 4.856 acre split, Mt. Zion Road, Frazeysburg, $7,000
1389 Jaren Matthew Prater to CCD Developments LLC, 1135 Brandywine Blvd., Zanesville, $122,000
1390 Dru L Lamay #1 to TATR LLC, 632 Main St., Zanesville, $58,000
1391 Beverly J. Goodman to Goodman Brothers Realty LLC, 2453 Linden Ave., Zanesville, $154,124.44
Aug. 18
1392 Teresa M. and Brian K. Muschott to Christian and Kernisity Switzer, 9675 Blue Rock Road, Blue Rock, $186,000
1393 John H. Beall Sr. to Joshua L. Dobbins, Lots 86-87, Hamilton Moore's Subdivision and 0.81 acre, Axline Avenue and Tignor Road, Roseville, $4,000
1394 Stacy L. Green to Aaron R. Gray, 7835 Center St., Adamsville, $30,000
Aug. 19
1395 Benjamin T. Belden to Thomas and Patricia Stephens, 5313 W. Sheffield Circle, Zanesville, $280,000
1396 Jimmy and Rebecca Kern to Clayton Lannan, 5475 Hoover Ave., Roseville, $160,000
1397 Lisa Stewart Koney and Charles Chadwick Stewart to Mohannad Al Saghir and Heba Al Zuraiqi, 1112 Rankin Drive, Zanesville, $355,000
1398 Tad D. Sowers to Luis and Raquel Franco, 1202 Ridge Ave., Zanesville, $10,500
1399 John H. Alford to Tyler Scott Middleton and Ashley Nacole Mahaffey, 445 Knox Road, Zanesville, $142,000
1400 Edith M. Donelson to Sasha Newton, 6055 Fultonrose Road, Roseville, $120,000
1401 Bryan Schley to Keith P. and Melissa Mills, 460 South Samuel Drive, Zanesville, $270,000
1402 Cottonwood Property Management LLC to Frank E. and Kenya N. Ransom-Paynter, 1116 Putnam Ave., Zanesville, $132,000
1403 Travis A. and Jenna A. Scott to Robert John and Danielle Jaye Weaver, 365 Mel Kay Way, Zanesville, $220,000
1404 Charles and Elizabeth Osborn to Brooke and John Lugar, 11040 Yingling Lane, Frazeysburg, $225,000
1405 James Lipinski Jr. to Mya Neff and Sean Cunningham, 1607 Bluff St., Zanesville, $190,000
1406 Jonathon T. Campbell to Larry W. and Janice S. Chapman, Part Lot 2, Plow Share Acres, 2.610 acre split, Winter Wood Drive, Nashport, $50,000
1407 Lois A. and John R. Wood Sr. to Rocky D. Yahn, 2640 Orchard Park, Zanesville, $175,000
1408 Rocky D. Yahn to Amanda D. and Benjamin R. Smith, 1205 Hickory Creek Drive, Zanesville, $400,000
1409 James P. Hardcastle to Hardcastle Taylor LLC, 850 Taylor St., Zanesville, $85,000
Property Transfers Exempt from Conveyance Fees
Aug. 15
E1044 Julie K. Hinds to Mark Hinds, 2415 Arch Hill Road, Zanesville
E1045 Arnold R. Dingess to Marian I. Dingess, 1033 Charles St., Zanesville
E1046 Margaret E. Bruner to Muskingum County Land Reutilization Corporation, Lot 156, Werner Heights Addition, Downard Road, Zanesville
E1047 Mae Matthews to Muskingum County Land Reutilization Corporation, 0.31 acre, E. King Street, Zanesville
E1048 Muskingum County Land Reutilization Corporation to Jerry Lee and Janice Daniels, 1237 Swingle St., Zanesville
E1049 James L. Watkins to James L. Watkins and Wendy L. Horlacher, 4400 Airyview Drive, Dresden
E1050 George W. Jewell to Muskingum County Land Reutilization Corporation, 1110 Sharon Ave., Zanesville
Aug. 16
E1051 Dennie Beardsley to Gary Wayne Beardsley, 327 Market St., Philo
E1052 Terri Beardsley to Gary Wayne Beardsley, 327 Market St., Philo
E1053 Zeeshan Lahuti to Farhan Lahuti, 2770 East Ray Drive, Zanesville
E1054 Zanesville Community Improvement Corp. to MCM Group LLC, 0.183 acre, Muskingum Avenue, Zanesville
E1055 Joan G. Stemm to Donald M. Stemm, 704 Brown St., Zanesville
Aug. 17
E1056 Steven R. Lattimer to Steven R. and Caryl K. Lattimer, 4801 Narrows Road, Frazeysburg
E1057 Nancy L. Swigeart to Harold E. Swigeart, 13950-13970 West Carlisle Road, Frazeysburg
E1058 Michele R. and Aaron W. Taylor to Michele R. Taylor, 5715 Old Coopermill Road, Zanesville
E1058 Justin M. Hare and Jessica L. Ash to Jessica L. Ash, 5085 Pine Valley Drive, Zanesville
E1060 Kelly Thomas Boyers to 3521 Laurel Valley Dr. LLC, 3521 Laurel Valley Drive, Zanesville
E1061 Kelly Thomas Boyers to Spring Well LLC, 908 Adair Ave., Zanesville
E1062 Linda L. Hummel to Dru L. Lamay, 632 Main St., Zanesville
Aug. 18
E1063 Edna M. Craven to John R. Craven, 106 Van Sant St., Zanesville
E1064 William H. Metcalf Jr. to Karen L. and William H. Metcalf Jr., 6970 McGlade School Road, Dresden
E1065 Patrick E. Hemmer to Tamara S. Hemmer, 325 Galena Ave., Zanesville
E1066 Kimberly A. Maxwell to Kimberly A. Maxwell and Kelly L. Patterson, 2880 Barkers Run Road, Zanesville
E1067 Edna Harlan to Shannon Tracey, 5475 Harlan Road, Roseville
E1068 Selma Rockwell to William Rockwell, 1212 Woodlawn Ave., Zanesville
Aug. 19
E1069 Randall A. and Daniel T. Horst to DR Aspire Properties LLC, 1629 Penn St., Zanesville
E1070 Kenneth N. Fariall Jr. to KFBTE LLC, 3125 Creamery Road, Nashport
E1071 Dennis W. and Joanna M. Baldwin to Dennis W. and Joanna M. Baldwin, 1206 Selsam Ave., Zanesville
E1072 Willard S. Kildow to Amanda Marie Kildow, 1033 Clay St., Zanesville
E1073 Ferne L. Blackstone Life Estate to Steven D. and Dixie L. Cox, 11300 Norwich Drive, New Concord | https://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/story/news/local/2022/09/02/public-records-muskingum-county-real-estate-transfers/65418615007/ | 2022-09-02T10:29:34Z | zanesvilletimesrecorder.com | control | https://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/story/news/local/2022/09/02/public-records-muskingum-county-real-estate-transfers/65418615007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The pipeline is under maintenance at the moment but is slated to be back up and running tomorrow. That said, capacity has dwindled down to 20% and the above remarks by Russia is hardly encouraging for how things might continue to keep up in the coming months.
For some context, the only working turbine at the key compressor station for the pipeline is said to need technical maintenance every 1,000 hours. That means we are likely to see another brief shutdown again in mid-October. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/russia-says-nord-stream-1-reliability-is-under-threat-20220902/ | 2022-09-02T10:30:35Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/russia-says-nord-stream-1-reliability-is-under-threat-20220902/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TODAY: Beautiful. Sunny, seasonable and dry, highs around 79 inland, mid 70s at the coast. Northeast winds turning southeast at 5-10 mph.
Hour by Hour // A look at the next hours’ conditions »
Ocean, Bay & Beach // A look at the conditions by the coast »
TONIGHT: Clear, dry and cool, 60s during the evening…..lows in the 50s late night
LABOR DAY WEEKEND: Pleasant Saturday; Showers Late Sunday into Monday
SATURDAY: Mostly sunny and pleasant. Dry with highs near 80 inland, mid 70s at the coast. South-southeast winds 5-10 mph
SATURDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy, dry and not as cool. Lows in the low 60s
SUNDAY: Partly sunny, warmer and more humid… mid 80s. A chance of a very late day or early evening shower/thunderstorm. At this point most of the daylight hours look dry. Shower chances increase by evening and night. Check back for updates as the exact arrival time of a cold front will determine shower chances.
LABOR DAY MONDAY: Partly to mostly cloudy and much cooler with scattered showers. Highs in the mid 70s | https://www.wpri.com/weather/weather-now/weather-now-beautiful-start-to-labor-day-weekend/ | 2022-09-02T10:33:34Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/weather/weather-now/weather-now-beautiful-start-to-labor-day-weekend/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kozhikode: Rejecting the claims of Health Minister and the Health Department, the Kerala Medical Services Corporation Limited (KMSCL) said anti-rabies vaccine was brought to the state without subjecting it to quality check.
In its report submitted to the Kerala Human Rights Commission, the Corporation conceded that the vaccine was brought to the state without subjecting it to the quality tests of the Kasauli Central Drugs Laboratory (CDL) to avoid delay. The KMSCL Managing Director, Dr S Chitra, who claimed the checks were bypassed not to cause delay during Covid-19, was, however, silent on the lapses of her organisation.
The Human Rights Commission sought a report following the ‘Malayala Manorama’ report that the anti-rabies vaccine was brought to the state without conducting a quality inspection at the Kasauli CDL. The KMSCL MD submitted the report at the Commission's sitting on Wednesday. The Corporation representatives also explained the circumstances leading to an increase in rabies cases in recent times.
The Corporation MD’s report rejected the Government’s contention that quality checks were conducted.
The MD made it clear that the CDL Certificate was a special condition set by the KMSCL as part of its security preparedness. The Equine Anti-Rabies Vaccine by Vins Bio Products hasn’t so far failed the quality tests. Kerala, meanwhile, faced an emergency situation.
The Kasauli CDL is the only centre that undertakes the quality check of vaccines in India. Due to Covid-19, the reports from the laboratory used to get delayed. The report prepared by the Quality Control Manager of KMSCL and signed by the MD says: “With the use of vaccine increasing amid its shortage and a delay in getting the quality check report, the Corporation proceeded without securing the CDL report.”
Report will be examined
"We are examining in detail the report submitted by the KMSCL.
The Corporation explains the circumstances of bringing the vaccine without obtaining the CDL quality check report. The Corporation authorities explained in person the circumstances leading to the death of the people" – K Byjunath (Commission Judicial Member). | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/02/anti-rabies-vaccine-checks-health-minister-kmscl.amp.html | 2022-09-02T10:33:50Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/02/anti-rabies-vaccine-checks-health-minister-kmscl.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Alakode (Kannur): Within a month, Gopika Govindan, a youngster belonging to a village in Kannur district of Kerala, will see her life’s ambition to become an air hostess come true.
Along with realizing her dream, Gopika is all set to earn the honour of being the first air hostess from the Scheduled Tribe communities in the state.
Gopika is the daughter of Chappili Govindan and Biji of Darappankunnu Colony in Alakode panchayat in Kannur, who belong to the ‘Karimbalan’ scheduled tribe.
She is now undergoing training with Air India in Mumbai. Residents of Darappankunnu are overjoyed that a person from the colony would soon be flying as an air hostess.
Childhood dream
Gopika dreamed of becoming an air hostess since her schooldays.
After earning a degree in Chemistry from S N College, Kannur, Gopika searched for ways to realize her ambition.
Even though many private institutions offered training courses for youngsters aspiring to become an air hostess, Gopika’s parents could not afford the fees as they were daily wagers.
Still, Gopika stuck to her dream. Two years later, Gopika learnt from the ST (scheduled tribe) promoter in her area that she could pursue a customer service course under IATA (International Air Transport Association) with a state government scholarship.
Without any further delay, Gopika sent an application and was selected for the scholarship. She subsequently joined the Dream Sky Aviation Training Academy at Wayanad for its air hostess course.
After the course, Gopika faced an interview conducted by Air India for air hostesses and was selected. She soon started training with the airline and would be ready for regular duty in less than a month. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/02/gopika-govindan-air-hostess-scheduled-tribe.amp.html | 2022-09-02T10:34:03Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/02/gopika-govindan-air-hostess-scheduled-tribe.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kochi: The High Court on Friday refused to stay proceedings in the Assembly ruyckus case. The court also denied permission to accused in the case to stay away from appearing in the court.
Now, all the six, including minister V Sivankutty, K T Jaleel, and EP Jayarajan, have to appear before the court on September 14.
In 2021, the accused in the 2015 Assembly ruckus case, filed a revision petition before the High Court against the dismissal of their discharge petition by a lower court in Thiruvananthapuram.
The trial court in September 2020 had rejected the LDF government's plea to withdraw a case related to the ruckus in the state assembly, saying allowing it would send a wrong message to society.
The petition was filed by the government, seeking withdrawal of the case registered under sections 447 (criminal trespass), 427 (mischief causing damage), read with section 34 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Sec 3(1) of the Prevention of Damage to Public Property (PDPP) Act by the previous Oommen Chandy-led UDF government.
Subsequently on July 28, the Supreme Court dismissed the Kerala government's plea for withdrawal of the case against the six LDF leaders, saying privileges and immunities "are not gateways" to claim exemptions from criminal law which governs the action of every citizen.
The apex court had also said that committing acts of destruction of public property cannot be equated with either freedom of speech in the legislature or with forms of protest legitimately available to the members of the Opposition.
The assembly had witnessed unprecedented scenes on March 13, 2015 as the LDF members, then in the opposition, tried to prevent Finance Minister K M Mani, who was facing charges in the bar bribery scam, from presenting the state budget.
Besides flinging the Speaker's chair from the podium, electronic equipment like computers, keyboards and mikes on the desk of the presiding officer were also allegedly damaged by the then LDF members, causing a loss of Rs 2.20 lakh. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/02/high-court-refuses-stay-proceedings-assembly.amp.html | 2022-09-02T10:34:15Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/02/high-court-refuses-stay-proceedings-assembly.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kochi: The High Court on Friday refused to stay proceedings in the Assembly ruyckus case. The court also denied permission to accused in the case to stay away from appearing in the court.
Now, all the six, including minister V Sivankutty, K T Jaleel, and EP Jayarajan, have to appear before the court on September 14.
In 2021, the accused in the 2015 Assembly ruckus case, filed a revision petition before the High Court against the dismissal of their discharge petition by a lower court in Thiruvananthapuram.
The trial court in September 2020 had rejected the LDF government's plea to withdraw a case related to the ruckus in the state assembly, saying allowing it would send a wrong message to society.
The petition was filed by the government, seeking withdrawal of the case registered under sections 447 (criminal trespass), 427 (mischief causing damage), read with section 34 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Sec 3(1) of the Prevention of Damage to Public Property (PDPP) Act by the previous Oommen Chandy-led UDF government.
Subsequently on July 28, the Supreme Court dismissed the Kerala government's plea for withdrawal of the case against the six LDF leaders, saying privileges and immunities "are not gateways" to claim exemptions from criminal law which governs the action of every citizen.
The apex court had also said that committing acts of destruction of public property cannot be equated with either freedom of speech in the legislature or with forms of protest legitimately available to the members of the Opposition.
The assembly had witnessed unprecedented scenes on March 13, 2015 as the LDF members, then in the opposition, tried to prevent Finance Minister K M Mani, who was facing charges in the bar bribery scam, from presenting the state budget.
Besides flinging the Speaker's chair from the podium, electronic equipment like computers, keyboards and mikes on the desk of the presiding officer were also allegedly damaged by the then LDF members, causing a loss of Rs 2.20 lakh. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/02/high-court-refuses-stay-proceedings-assembly.html | 2022-09-02T10:34:21Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/02/high-court-refuses-stay-proceedings-assembly.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Mary Roy, who passed away on Thursday, was a revolutionary in her day-to-day life. Her name stands out in the records of the Supreme Court as the first woman in India who successfully fought against personal laws of succession, demanding equality before the law, equal protection of the law, and non-discrimination based on sex.
The Travancore Christian Succession Act (TSA) mandated that a daughter would get a maximum of Rs 5,000 from her deceased father and the rest of the estate would go to the male successors. But Mary only discovered this after she had a broken marriage and returned to Kottayam to her ancestral home along with two children seeking shelter with the natal family.
She settled down in a little cottage in Ootty which belonged to her father, with her two children. It was then that she was told that she had to leave the house because it was not part of her inheritance. When her family tried to evict her, she called her local lawyer for advice. They gave her the one piece of advice which was about to change her life.
They told her that they knew nothing about personal laws and could not advise her on her rights to succession. But one thing they knew – that no person can be evicted from being in settled possession without due process of law.
That was enough to protect Mary and her two children. When the police knocked on her door, she told them that she would refuse to leave and that if they wanted to evict her they had to approach a court of law. Mary was let alone by the police.
It was then that Mary became aware of the TCA. Determined to fight for equality and as a matter of survival, she moved the Supreme Court with a petition arguing that the law was not constitutional as it discriminated against her on the ground of sex. Hers was the first case ever to frontally challenge personal laws on the ground of equality before the law and equal protection of laws granted under articles 14 and 15 of the Constitution of India.
I was privileged to represent her: for me, too, it was the first case in which I rose to challenge laws governing succession in that they discriminated against women. However, the Supreme Court dodged the question of equality but gave the relief to Mary that she expected. The Court held that the TCA stood repealed with the coming to force of the Part-B States Act (1951) and that Syrian Christian women would now be governed by the Indian Succession Act which gave equal widows, sons, and daughters.
Although the case was won in 1986, it was not until 2006 that Mary got physical possession of the agricultural land from her brother who resisted her every step on the way. Mary’s mother supported her son and not her. But for Mary, equality was not negotiable.
Sadly, however, the law did not change much for the women of the Syrian Christian community because she was up against a misogynist state and the church began to advise the flock from the pulpit that they should promptly make wills disinheriting daughters.
Fortunately, however, attempts to reverse the judgment were thwarted. No doubt, a few wealthy women exceedingly rich Syrian Christian community, endowed with coffee estates did manage to get their share in ancestral property. But those who could not fight for their rights were confined to be denied their rights. Mary taught me that property is the bottom line where misogyny, patriarchy, and religion come together to show their ugly face.
Mary was an educationalist till the end of her life. She lived in a simple household made of bricks, designed by Laurie Baker merging with the local environment, which was the heart of what she founded – Corpus Christy.
The rich and the powerful who otherwise hated her fight for justice sent their children for the excellence that she provided in education. Mary evolved her educational pattern, teaching in the local language before introducing the children to the English medium of education.
Later she changed the name of the school to a more secular name, Pallikoodam. The local establishment continued to battle her when she decided to stage the play, Jesus Christ – Super Star. The district collector went to the extent of banning the play though it has been played all over the world and faced no opposition from the state or the Church. Once again Mary approached the Sup Court and based on an interim order she staged the play in the school giving her a sense of peace for having achieved what she wanted for the children.
Distinguished students have passed through the corridors of her school. She enjoyed the love and affection of her students She never allowed them to refer to her or the teachers as ‘Madam’. Hierarchy was not something she encouraged. She knew every child in school by name, she knew the children of the employees of the school, without any class distinction.
There was a time when I used to say that the ghost of Narasu Appa, a judgment of the High Court of Bombay stalks the Supreme Court. The High Court had held that personal laws of marriage and succession could not violate Fundamental Rights because they did not qualify for the meaning of ‘law’ under Article 13 of the Constitution of India.
To date, the Supreme Court has never struck down any personal law on the ground that it violated the Fundamental Right of women to equality. In Mary’s case, the Court had a golden opportunity to do so. But they missed it. Mary demonstrated through her life that the loss was of the Supreme Court and not hers.
I will now have to say that the friendly ghost of Mary Roy will stalk the Supreme Court until it declares that all personal laws - whether it is Hindu or Muslim or Christian or Parsis – which violate the Fundamental Rights of women are unconstitutional.
Mary lived a difficult life. But it was a life of good cheer and she fought a good fight. She fought the patriarchal system, she fought her brother and mother who refused to understand that she was the lawful inheritor of her father, as much as her brother was. Mary was a woman of means who could fight for her inheritance. But she also fought for the working class women and widows who were disinherited by their families. She lived for her passion and lived a good life. Her life had meaning only when she fought the good fight.
In her passing, not only Kerala but the whole country has lost something very precious, namely, a person who embodied the spirit of equality. One can only hope that her legacy will be inherited by other women who will continue the fight. Hers was an inheritance of equality and justice for women.
Another woman from Kerala I represented come to mind. That is Bindu, the first woman to make a pilgrimage to Sabarimala after the Supreme Court’s historic judgment permitting women to enter the temple. Though the two women never met, they shared much in common. I pray that may there be many Mary to come. She inspired me to go further and further in my quest for justice through law.
(The author represented Mary Roy in her legendary legal battle in the Supreme Court) | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/02/mary-roy-revolutionary-equality-indira-jaising.amp.html | 2022-09-02T10:34:27Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/02/mary-roy-revolutionary-equality-indira-jaising.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Mary Roy, who passed away on Thursday, was a revolutionary in her day-to-day life. Her name stands out in the records of the Supreme Court as the first woman in India who successfully fought against personal laws of succession, demanding equality before the law, equal protection of the law, and non-discrimination based on sex.
The Travancore Christian Succession Act (TSA) mandated that a daughter would get a maximum of Rs 5,000 from her deceased father and the rest of the estate would go to the male successors. But Mary only discovered this after she had a broken marriage and returned to Kottayam to her ancestral home along with two children seeking shelter with the natal family.
She settled down in a little cottage in Ootty which belonged to her father, with her two children. It was then that she was told that she had to leave the house because it was not part of her inheritance. When her family tried to evict her, she called her local lawyer for advice. They gave her the one piece of advice which was about to change her life.
They told her that they knew nothing about personal laws and could not advise her on her rights to succession. But one thing they knew – that no person can be evicted from being in settled possession without due process of law.
That was enough to protect Mary and her two children. When the police knocked on her door, she told them that she would refuse to leave and that if they wanted to evict her they had to approach a court of law. Mary was let alone by the police.
It was then that Mary became aware of the TCA. Determined to fight for equality and as a matter of survival, she moved the Supreme Court with a petition arguing that the law was not constitutional as it discriminated against her on the ground of sex. Hers was the first case ever to frontally challenge personal laws on the ground of equality before the law and equal protection of laws granted under articles 14 and 15 of the Constitution of India.
I was privileged to represent her: for me, too, it was the first case in which I rose to challenge laws governing succession in that they discriminated against women. However, the Supreme Court dodged the question of equality but gave the relief to Mary that she expected. The Court held that the TCA stood repealed with the coming to force of the Part-B States Act (1951) and that Syrian Christian women would now be governed by the Indian Succession Act which gave equal widows, sons, and daughters.
Although the case was won in 1986, it was not until 2006 that Mary got physical possession of the agricultural land from her brother who resisted her every step on the way. Mary’s mother supported her son and not her. But for Mary, equality was not negotiable.
Sadly, however, the law did not change much for the women of the Syrian Christian community because she was up against a misogynist state and the church began to advise the flock from the pulpit that they should promptly make wills disinheriting daughters.
Fortunately, however, attempts to reverse the judgment were thwarted. No doubt, a few wealthy women exceedingly rich Syrian Christian community, endowed with coffee estates did manage to get their share in ancestral property. But those who could not fight for their rights were confined to be denied their rights. Mary taught me that property is the bottom line where misogyny, patriarchy, and religion come together to show their ugly face.
Mary was an educationalist till the end of her life. She lived in a simple household made of bricks, designed by Laurie Baker merging with the local environment, which was the heart of what she founded – Corpus Christy.
The rich and the powerful who otherwise hated her fight for justice sent their children for the excellence that she provided in education. Mary evolved her educational pattern, teaching in the local language before introducing the children to the English medium of education.
Later she changed the name of the school to a more secular name, Pallikoodam. The local establishment continued to battle her when she decided to stage the play, Jesus Christ – Super Star. The district collector went to the extent of banning the play though it has been played all over the world and faced no opposition from the state or the Church. Once again Mary approached the Sup Court and based on an interim order she staged the play in the school giving her a sense of peace for having achieved what she wanted for the children.
Mary lived a difficult life. But it was a life of good cheer and she fought a good fight. She lived for her passion and lived a good life.
Indira Jaising
Distinguished students have passed through the corridors of her school. She enjoyed the love and affection of her students She never allowed them to refer to her or the teachers as ‘Madam’. Hierarchy was not something she encouraged. She knew every child in school by name, she knew the children of the employees of the school, without any class distinction.
There was a time when I used to say that the ghost of Narasu Appa, a judgment of the High Court of Bombay stalks the Supreme Court. The High Court had held that personal laws of marriage and succession could not violate Fundamental Rights because they did not qualify for the meaning of ‘law’ under Article 13 of the Constitution of India.
To date, the Supreme Court has never struck down any personal law on the ground that it violated the Fundamental Right of women to equality. In Mary’s case, the Court had a golden opportunity to do so. But they missed it. Mary demonstrated through her life that the loss was of the Supreme Court and not hers.
I will now have to say that the friendly ghost of Mary Roy will stalk the Supreme Court until it declares that all personal laws - whether it is Hindu or Muslim or Christian or Parsis – which violate the Fundamental Rights of women are unconstitutional.
Mary lived a difficult life. But it was a life of good cheer and she fought a good fight. She fought the patriarchal system, she fought her brother and mother who refused to understand that she was the lawful inheritor of her father, as much as her brother was. Mary was a woman of means who could fight for her inheritance. But she also fought for the working class women and widows who were disinherited by their families. She lived for her passion and lived a good life. Her life had meaning only when she fought the good fight.
In her passing, not only Kerala but the whole country has lost something very precious, namely, a person who embodied the spirit of equality. One can only hope that her legacy will be inherited by other women who will continue the fight. Hers was an inheritance of equality and justice for women.
Another woman from Kerala I represented come to mind. That is Bindu, the first woman to make a pilgrimage to Sabarimala after the Supreme Court’s historic judgment permitting women to enter the temple. Though the two women never met, they shared much in common. I pray that may there be many Mary to come. She inspired me to go further and further in my quest for justice through law.
(The author represented Mary Roy in her legendary legal battle in the Supreme Court) | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/02/mary-roy-revolutionary-equality-indira-jaising.html | 2022-09-02T10:34:34Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/02/mary-roy-revolutionary-equality-indira-jaising.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Thiruvananthapuram: BJP president K Surendran is being accused of nepotism after his son allegedly managed to get a posting at Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB) based in Thiruvananthapuram.
The new controversy amid the vehement opposition against the appointment of Dr Priya Varghese, wife of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's Secretary KKRagesh, to the Kannur University.
The Congress and the CPI-M have demanded a probe into the appointment of Surendran's son KS Harikrishnan as Technical Officer at RGCB. RGCB is an autonomous Institute of the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India.
Harikrishnan has a BTech in Mechanical engineering.
It is alleged that the entire process of selecting one person out of 48 who took the test, was on fast track as the three-phased testing process took place in a flash. Harikrishnan was appointed to the post in June this year after the completion of the process.
Kannur CPI-M district secretary MV Jayarajan alleged that BJP activists are able to wriggle in various Central institutions and that a probe was needed for the same.
Youth Congress president and three-time legislator Shafi Parambil said: "What's happening in Kerala is when the Left sympathisers, especially wives and kin of top CPI-M leaders are given jobs on the sly in Universities and state-run organisation, the BJP matches up by filling up their people in Central institutions."
RGCB officials said that the appointment was made a few months back and Harikrishnan is undergoing training and all the mandatory procedures and that protocols have been followed in the appointment. The family history of the candidate is not at all looked into, they said.
(With IANS inputs.) | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/02/nepotism-allegations-k-surendran-son-job.amp.html | 2022-09-02T10:34:40Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/02/nepotism-allegations-k-surendran-son-job.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Thiruvananthapuram: BJP president K Surendran is being accused of nepotism after his son allegedly managed to get a posting at Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB) based in Thiruvananthapuram.
The new controversy amid the vehement opposition against the appointment of Dr Priya Varghese, wife of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's Secretary KKRagesh, to the Kannur University.
The Congress and the CPI-M have demanded a probe into the appointment of Surendran's son KS Harikrishnan as Technical Officer at RGCB. RGCB is an autonomous Institute of the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India.
Harikrishnan has a BTech in Mechanical engineering.
It is alleged that the entire process of selecting one person out of 48 who took the test, was on fast track as the three-phased testing process took place in a flash. Harikrishnan was appointed to the post in June this year after the completion of the process.
Kannur CPI-M district secretary MV Jayarajan alleged that BJP activists are able to wriggle in various Central institutions and that a probe was needed for the same.
Youth Congress president and three-time legislator Shafi Parambil said: "What's happening in Kerala is when the Left sympathisers, especially wives and kin of top CPI-M leaders are given jobs on the sly in Universities and state-run organisation, the BJP matches up by filling up their people in Central institutions."
RGCB officials said that the appointment was made a few months back and Harikrishnan is undergoing training and all the mandatory procedures and that protocols have been followed in the appointment. The family history of the candidate is not at all looked into, they said.
(With IANS inputs.) | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/02/nepotism-allegations-k-surendran-son-job.html | 2022-09-02T10:34:46Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/02/nepotism-allegations-k-surendran-son-job.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
What to know about Michigan football vs. Colorado State: TV info, betting odds and more
Michigan football in the Big House.
A top-10 ranked team. A College Football Playoff foe. Nearly 110,000 fans in the stadium.
A network national TV broadcast with a Heisman Trophy winner (Robert Griffin III) on the broadcast.
It's hard to think of a venue and matchup in which the Colorado State football team could have any more eyes on it than Saturday's game against Michigan to open the 2022 season for both teams.
The 10 a.m. Mountain time kickoff will be broadcast on ABC. Here's what to know about the game and how to watch and listen online.
When/where: 10 a.m. MT Saturday at Michigan Stadium on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor.
How to find ABC:
- Comcast/Xfinity: Channel 7
- DirecTV: Channel 7
- Dish Network: Channel 7
- Fort Collins Connexion: Channel 7
- The broadcast can also be livestreamed through ESPN+ on ESPN.com or the ESPN app.
The broadcast team on ABC is Mark Jones (play-by-play), Robert Griffin III (analyst) and Quint Kessenich (sideline).
How to listen on the radio:
- The CSU broadcast is available on KUAD 99.1 FM, SiriusXM channel 971/381 and the TuneIn app.
- CSU's radio team will be Brian Roth (play-by-play), Ricky Brewer (analyst) and Marty Cesario (reporter)
Betting line: Michigan is a 30.5-point favorite, according to Tipico Sportsbook.
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Saturday's weather in Ann Arbor: Temperature at kickoff in Ann Arbor is projected to be 83 degrees with minimal winds (5 mph) and 51% humidity.
Attendance/tickets: Michigan Stadium, also known as the Big House, has a capacity of 107,601. It is the largest stadium in the United States and third-largest in the world. It will be the biggest crowd a Colorado State football team has ever faced.
Coaches: CSU is coached by Jay Norvell, who is entering his first year leading the Rams. He's 33-26 in five seasons as a head coach (all at Nevada). Michigan is led by Jim Harbaugh, who is 85-61 in eight years as Michigan's head coach. He's 90-45 in 12 seasons overall as a college head coach.
Team records: Both are 0-0, with this the first game of the season for each squad.
Rankings: Michigan is ranked No. 6 in the coaches poll and No. 8 in the AP poll. CSU is unranked.
Series: Teams have met once, with Michigan beating CSU 24-14 in the 1994 Holiday Bowl.
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Follow sports reporter Kevin Lytle on Twitter and Instagram @Kevin_Lytle. | https://www.coloradoan.com/story/sports/csu/football/2022/09/02/what-know-michigan-football-vs-colorado-state-football-on-abc/65466263007/ | 2022-09-02T10:42:32Z | coloradoan.com | control | https://www.coloradoan.com/story/sports/csu/football/2022/09/02/what-know-michigan-football-vs-colorado-state-football-on-abc/65466263007/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Jay‑Z Doesn’t Like “Eat the Rich” Slogans. How Can Critique of Billionaires Account for Race, Identity?
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“Y’all locked us out. Y’all created a system that, you know, doesn’t include us. We said fine. We went our alternate route. We created this music. We did our thing, you know, we hustle, we fucking killed ourselves to get to this space. And, you know, now it’s like, you know, you know, ‘Eat the rich,’ and, man, we’re not stopping, so that evolution is, you know, from us.”
These were rapper Jay-Z’s words in a Twitter space on Wednesday, where he addressed criticism of his billionaire status. The rapper took issue with being called a capitalist, even going so far as to compare it with being called racial slurs. It’s a stretch and one that shakes off accountability for the ultra-wealthy. But it also points to a tension between mainstream anti-capitalist critique, and identity politics.
Jay-Z’s comments then point to an issue that “eat the rich” slogans haven’t addressed: they paint an uncritical, ahistorical picture of wealth that doesn’t account for the intersection of class with race, gender, or other identities. In a way, they caricature the wealthy in a way that turns critique of capitalism into one centered around individuals, rather than the system itself.
Billionaires do indeed pose an urgent threat to human wellbeing: their wealth can alleviate the pain and suffering of thousands, if not millions, or other people. The criticism against billionaires is that it’s unethical to hoard resources that can instead be used to save and improve other lives — moreover, no single individual realistically needs that much for themselves. There’s then an easy crop of billionaires to hate: Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and even Bill Gates, all represent the type of billionaires who hoard despite being born into and inheriting privilege on nearly every axis of identity. They’re all white, cis men — already at the top of the social hierarchy, and subject to very little structural oppression even before their acquisition of untold riches.
Then, there are those who don’t fit these identity markers, but who helm corporations that are destructive and inherently exploitative of people, land, resources, and the environment. The rise of Gautam Adani to the position of the third-richest man in the world is an example of this.
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But then, there are those who have risen to the status ostensibly without exploiting others in quite the same way: Rihanna, Jay-Z, and LeBron James are all individuals whose wealth is a result of their art and sport. “We’re not gonna be tricked out of our position,” Jay-Z added. These individuals are much harder to hate — they don’t seem as bad; in fact, some, like Rihanna, have been called “good billionaires.” It’s with this class of billionaires that existing mainstream critique falls short: it ties an overall critique of wealth with the qualities of an individual. This turns what should have been a structural conversation into a personalized one — and “eat the rich” becomes a slogan that comes with caveats about which rich people, exactly, we’d like to eat.
When Jay-Z is able to draw on experiences of marginalization by race as a defense against the criticism of his wealth, it points to a shortcoming in the criticism itself. When we’re too focused on demonizing people (however satisfying that can feel), we lose out on understanding just how and why they came to be the way they are. And the idea of the “good” or even “decent” billionaire then doesn’t allow us to ask questions of the economic order at large: why are some people able to have so much while others starve? The easy answer would be to blame individual greed, but this allows room for the notion of unproblematic billionaires like Rihanna — a notion that, arguably, shouldn’t exist.
Scholars have, moreover, addressed the intersection of other forms of identities with class, which makes Jay-Z’s impassioned defense of himself weaker. Philosophers like Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò have called it “elite capture” — about how identity-based politics have been usurped by elite interests to keep the status quo intact. In simpler terms — there’s a model of racial capitalism at play that makes it seem liberatory for a few black (or otherwise systemically marginalized) people to enter rooms of power, than to abolish the rooms themselves.
Billionaires should not exist. Fixating on the morality of individual billionaires may undermine this larger ideological commitment. It asks for good conduct and intention of people with staggering wealth, without questioning the ethics of all that wealth being concentrated in the hands of one person. Popular slogans like “eat the rich” then don’t allow for nuance in thinking about wealth inequality — instead, they’re undermined by their own insistence on fixating on a few people within a fundamentally broken system. | https://theswaddle.com/jay-z-doesnt-like-eat-the-rich-slogans-how-can-critique-of-billionaires-account-for-race-identity/ | 2022-09-02T10:43:41Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/jay-z-doesnt-like-eat-the-rich-slogans-how-can-critique-of-billionaires-account-for-race-identity/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Pakistan’s Floods Stir Debate on ‘De‑growing’ the Economy To Address Climate Change
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Pakistan is reeling under unprecedented floods since June. Though floods are not uncommon in the region, the current wave is exceptionally severe and has led to the loss of over 1,100 human lives and 7,50,000 livestock. Close to a million houses have been damaged, with several of them being destroyed completely. 33 million people have been affected so far, and one-third of the country lies submerged.
Ahsan Iqbal, a minister in Pakistan’s national cabinet, told Reuters that the floods, triggered by melting glaciers and an eight-fold increase in rainfall, caused damages upwards of $10 billion. He additionally called upon richer countries to aid Pakistan in this moment of crisis, placing the blame of the catastrophe on climate change. “Our carbon footprint is (the) lowest in the world,” Iqbal said. “The international community has a responsibility to help us, upgrade our infrastructure, to make our infrastructure more climate resilient, so that we don’t have such losses every three, four, five years.”
Listed in a joint report by the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank as being in one of the most climate vulnerable zones in the world, Pakistan is dealing with the disproportionate brunt of the ongoing global climate crisis. It didn’t have to be this way, and critics are pointing to a school of thought that explains how this happened.
Anthropologist Jason Hickel, a key proponent of the degrowth movement, highlighted its emphasis on redistribution and accountability by tweeting about the Pakistan floods: “Pakistan is a climate creditor, and the government should issue an official call for reparations for loss and damage from the overshooting countries, in proportion to their share of overshoot.”
This highlights the global disparity between rich nations that have historically been the most responsible for driving climate change, and poorer countries like Pakistan which bear the consequences of it despite contributing very little to it themselves. Geographically, the economies of the world are divided into the global north and the global south — referring to patterns of wealth and resource distribution. One way in which environmentalists have attempted to address this disparity is through proposing a radical social and economic movement: “de-growing” the economy, and “decoupling” economic growth from the use of natural resources.
Economic degrowth as a theory argues that the current growth-centric model of economics is unsustainable for the planet, and suggests an alternative model of development. It suggests that instead of singularly focusing on the growth of the economy, the world should now instead try to shrink economies to sustain the planet and halt climate change. In practice, it means that the world should move away from the use of Gross Domestic Product as a marker of development or progress since it only focuses on the exchange of resources and products and does not focus on other aspects of development and growth in terms of human and environmental well-being.
Centered around the principles of humanism, equitable distribution of wealth and resources, and Buddhist Economics, economic degrowth emphasizes living sustainably without waste and cutting down on consumption for consumption’s sake. It suggests a series of changes in both individual lifestyles and existing political and economic systems to support a model of living that can halt the earth’s current rate of warming and depletion of natural resources. This would require completely shifting the way we think about a country’s progress: if we measure it in terms of money and resources now, degrowth asks us to consider that they don’t translate into progress for everyone.
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For instance, supporters of the degrowth movement suggest people could substitute some amount of meat in their diet with vegetarian alternatives or stop relying on fast fashion and instead opt for clothes that last much longer. They also point out how industries are designed to be unsustainable. One example that degrowth supporters cite in this regard is the planned obsolescence of technological and electronic products. In a 2021 interview, Hickel told Vox, “If our washing machines, fridges, and phones lasted twice as long, we would consume half as many (thus the output of those industries would decline), but with zero reduction in our access to those goods.”
But most importantly, proponents of degrowth also emphasize the redistribution of resources on an international scale. They highlight how large economies like developed first-world countries are responsible for a large part of the world’s waste, while low-income countries do not even have enough to live respectably. Degrowth supporters propose that there must be a limit to economic growth, and suggest that higher-income countries that have already crossed that threshold shrink back to the limit while low-income countries can simultaneously grow to the same level. They maintain that people from all across the globe should have access to a living wage and a minimum standard of living.
Critics of degrowth have called the movement too romantic, too utopian, and too late. They point out that while the GDP may not be the most accurate tool to assess human development, usually more economically developed countries also perform better on human development markers such as education and healthcare. Finally, they question the movement’s authority to pass on value judgments on people’s consumption patterns: what might seem a frivolous luxury to someone could be an essential need to someone else.
Those opposed to the idea of degrowth highlight that there isn’t enough time to restructure the global economic order, hence what has to be done to address the climate crisis must be done while remaining within the capitalist system. In an Op-ed criticizing, economist Andrew McAfee noted that “rich countries have reduced their air pollution not by embracing degrowth or offshoring, but instead by enacting and enforcing smart regulation.”
Technological solutions like solar panels, wind energy, and electric vehicles can help reduce global emissions if backed by enough political will, goes the argument against degrowth. However, those in support of degrowth point out how even these recourses that came as alternatives to dominant modes of energy consumption, have seeped back into the capitalist economy and have largely been inadequate in addressing the root cause of inequality and climate change.
Degrowth emphasizes how the concentration of capital and resources in the global north due to inequitable distribution impacts lower-income countries severely. The movement may be utopian in its vision, but it is significant in highlighting how countries in the global south are disproportionately disadvantaged in the climate crisis, mostly due to the consumption of the global north. | https://theswaddle.com/pakistans-floods-stir-debate-on-de-growing-the-economy-to-address-climate-change/ | 2022-09-02T10:43:48Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/pakistans-floods-stir-debate-on-de-growing-the-economy-to-address-climate-change/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Honda on Wednesday revealed that the 2023 Honda Civic Type R will have 315 hp, making it the most powerful Honda-badged vehicle ever sold in the U.S.
Honda also detailed what upgrades led to the power increase, along with what tweaks were made to the transmission and suspension for the next-generation Type R.
More power, more cooling
To start, the Civic Type R’s 2.0-liter turbo-4 has been massaged to produce 315 hp and 310 lb-ft of torque. The power increase over the outgoing Type R’s 306 hp and 295 lb-ft of torque comes via three updates: a redesigned turbocharger, an increased air intake flow rate, and a new, more efficient exhaust system.
The turbocharger features an optimized shape, size, and number of turbine wheel blades, Honda explained. That together with a redesigned path for the air intake allows the turbo to more efficiently generate pressure in a wider range.
The larger grille opening on the 2023 Type R feeds a new, larger radiator and larger diameter fan aimed at improving engine cooling while ensuring sustained performance.
An active valve in the new exhaust system’s center pipe opens at a higher rpm than before, but Honda didn’t note at what rpm that magic door opens.
A lighter flywheel and newly optimized shift pattern for the 6-speed manual transmission round out the upgrades. Honda’s also installed a rev-matching system in the 2023 Type R like the one in the 2022 Civic Si.
Tweaked suspension, upgraded brakes
Based on the 11th-generation Civic, the new Type R is longer and wider than before. The 107.7-inch wheelbase has grown 1.4 inches versus the last Type R, and the track is 1.0 wider in the front and 0.75 inches in the rear.
To accommodate the longer and wider Type R Honda engineers retuned the front strut and rear multi-link suspension to improve straight-line stability. Honda said steering feel has improved.
Hauling the Type R down from speed are two-piece Brembo brake rotors up front, hooked to a retuned brake booster that enhances feel and controllability, according to Honda.
Honda hasn’t said how much the 2023 Civic Type R will cost when it goes on sale this fall, but it will be built at the automaker’s Yorii Plant in Japan.
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BLADES, Del. -- A potbelly pig that was on the loose in Blades, Delaware for four days was found Thursday night.
The pig's owner Cortny Griner reached out to WBOC via Facebook around 10p.m. and said someone found and caught the pig.
Nine month-old Piglet broke loose from her leash after being spooked by a truck during a walk with her owners. Cortny Griner is one of them, and says the family had only had Piglet for a week before she escaped. Griner posted a message on Facebook immediately.
"I posted in the Seaford Happenings page, the Seaford Blades page, and Project Blades and Seaford pages," Griner says. "It's been shared that I've seen over 500 times."
The post led dozens of people to go searching for Piglet. Griner and others in the town say they spotted the pig in the Our Lady of Lourdes Cemetery, near Café Milano, the Blades school, and even inside a Dollar General -- twice.
"I took my dog out for a ride, and I spotted him down to the graveyard," says David Gibbons, a neighbor of Griner and her family. "I turned around and came back and tried to catch him, and he ran across the road into the other people's yard."
That yard was 91 year-old Virginia Mason's. She spotted Piglet in the cemetery a number of times from her window right across the street.
"He was fast. I mean them little old legs could go," Mason says.
Mason says she noticed Piglet in her yard and carefully made her way outside to get a closer look. Apparently, the two even exchanged a few words.
"I talked real low as I walked up to him and he [grunts] as if he was answering me back," Mason says.
Still, no one was able to capture Piglet without her running away - until someone finally did.
Griner did not specify who caught Piglet or where the pig was caught, but said she and her family were tracking that person down to retrieve their pet. | https://www.wboc.com/news/missing-potbelly-pig-recovered-in-sussex-county/article_8005d6d0-2a91-11ed-8586-d3deb77b22ed.html | 2022-09-02T10:57:03Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/missing-potbelly-pig-recovered-in-sussex-county/article_8005d6d0-2a91-11ed-8586-d3deb77b22ed.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK (AP) - Serena and Venus Williams traded fist bumps or palm slaps and chatted between points. They smiled while conversing in their seats at changeovers.
When their first doubles match together in 4 1/2 years ended with a loss at the U.S Open on Thursday night, the siblings hugged each other, then left the court to a standing ovation.
The Williams sisters were eliminated by the Czech pair of Lucie Hradecka and Linda Noskova 7-6 (5), 6-4 at Flushing Meadows.
“I was speechless when I found out I'm going to face these two. I mean, they're legends. And I was always such a big fan of them, especially Serena. She has been my idol since ever, probably," said Noskova, a 17-year-old making her Grand Slam debut in doubles. “So I was really happy, excited, but kind of scared, to face them.”
Arthur Ashe Stadium had never hosted a first-round doubles match - for women or men, during the night or day - until this one featuring two members of one family who have combined to claim 14 Grand Slam titles in doubles.
“It's something incredible, because playing first round in a huge stadium, with 23,000 people, is something amazing,” said the 37-year-old Hradecka, who won major doubles trophies with Andrea Hlavackova at the 2013 U.S. Open and 2011 French Open. "I don't think (when) we played the final here, it was packed like this."
The Williams sisters, who did not do interviews after the match, were partnering up for the first time since the 2018 French Open.
“I’m still in shock that we won,” Hradecka said in an on-court interview right after the match’s conclusion.
Speaking to the sellout crowd of 23,859, she said: “I’m so sorry for you that we beat them, but we are so happy that we did it.”
The fans were not nearly as boisterous as they were for each of the two victories in singles this week for Serena, who has hinted that this will be the final event of her career.
Serena plays Ajla Tomljanovic on Friday night in the third round of singles; Venus was bounced from that bracket in the first round.
After a rather subdued entrance from the locker room by Hradecka and Noskova, who were competing as a team for the first time, a video tribute to the Williams-Williams pairing played on the Ashe videoboards, with a narrator introducing “two of the greatest athletes on Planet Earth” and, in a reference to Serena's looming retirement, saying, “It's not too late to change your mind.”
There was footage of them through the years, including as kids with white beads in their hair (like Serena's daughter, Olympia, wore on opening night) and, later, winning titles.
Olympia, who turned 5 on Thursday, was not there for this one, Serena's husband, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian was, as were the sisters' mother, Oracene Price, and their sister, Isha.
During the pre-match warmup, the announcer noted that the sisters are 14-0 in Grand Slam doubles finals and declared: “They've transformed and elevated the sport as we know it.”
The spectators saved their biggest cheers for some of Serena’s best efforts, whether aces or putaways or an on-the-run forehand winner. The sisters went up 5-4 early and held two set points there on Noskova’s serve, but could not convert either.
The loudest moment probably arrived after a 19-stroke point won by the sisters during the first-set tiebreaker, featuring three swinging volleys by Serena. That put them ahead 4-3, and soon it was 5-3.
But Hradecka and Noskova grabbed the next four points to claim that set. They then jumped ahead 3-0 in the second, and after the Williams sisters made it 4-all, the Czech team pulled away.
The Williams siblings received a wild-card entry into this year’s doubles field. Serena, who turns 41 next month, and Venus, who turned 42 in June, won doubles trophies at the U.S. Open in 1999 -- the year Serena won her first major singles trophy at age 17 in New York -- and 2009.
They have a total of 30 major trophies in singles: 23 for Serena, seven for Venus.
“Playing against the Williams sisters,” Noskova said, “is a special moment for everybody.” | https://www.wboc.com/news/serena-venus-williams-lose-in-1st-round-of-us-open-doubles/article_d30ad0f4-2a8e-11ed-a07a-b72f73ff191c.html | 2022-09-02T10:57:09Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/serena-venus-williams-lose-in-1st-round-of-us-open-doubles/article_d30ad0f4-2a8e-11ed-a07a-b72f73ff191c.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Forecast Updated on Friday, September 2, 2022, at 3:35am by WBOC Meteorologist Mike Lichniak
Today: Sunny. Highs: 84-89. Winds: NE 5-15 mph.
Tonight: Clear. Lows: 64-71. Winds: E-SE 5-10 mph.
Saturday: Mostly sunny. Highs: 86-90. Winds: SE 5-10 mph.
Saturday Night: Mostly clear. Lows: 66-72. Winds: SE-S 5-10 mph.
Sunday: Partly to mostly sunny. Highs: 84-89. Winds: S 5-15 mph.
Monday: Partly to mostly cloudy with scattered showers and a few storms possible by the late afternoon and evening. Highs: 83-88. Winds: SE 5-15 mph.
As the high continues off the coast this morning, the wind has started to turn more out of the northeast and east. Due to this wind shift, the humidity has started to go up across the region. The higher humidity levels will lead to a few extra high clouds mixing in with the sunshine and will lead to temperatures in the 80s across the area. At the beaches today, the wind will keep high temperatures in the 70s and low 80s. The high continues to slide off the coast for the Labor Day holiday weekend with highs climbing to near 90 degrees for some on Sunday.
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 and a chance of showers will linger on and off during the day. The good news is that things 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/most-of-holiday-weekend-will-be-dry-rain-chances-by-monday-evening/article_91fd5e8a-2a91-11ed-898c-6730c7c34c8e.html | 2022-09-02T10:57:16Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/weather/forecast-summary/most-of-holiday-weekend-will-be-dry-rain-chances-by-monday-evening/article_91fd5e8a-2a91-11ed-898c-6730c7c34c8e.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Atlantic Ocean:
Friday: NE 10-15 knots. Seas: 2-3 feet.
Saturday: E 5-10 knots. Seas: 2-3 feet.
Chesapeake Bay:
Friday: E 5-10 knots. Waves: 1 foot.
Saturday: SE 5-10 knots. Waves: 1 foot.
Delaware Bay:
Friday: E 5-10 knots. Seas: 1-2 feet.
Saturday: E 5-10 knots. Seas: 1-2 feet. | https://www.wboc.com/weather/on-the-waters/marine-forecast-for-friday-september-2-2022/article_aecb3640-2a91-11ed-816e-83c180e26fc1.html | 2022-09-02T10:57:22Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/weather/on-the-waters/marine-forecast-for-friday-september-2-2022/article_aecb3640-2a91-11ed-816e-83c180e26fc1.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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