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President, Trustees in Standoff at Michigan State
Michigan State trustees are trying to push the president out for reasons that remain unclear. Meanwhile, the president and trustees are trading accusations on alleged Title IX missteps.
As the former workplace of convicted sexual predator Larry Nassar, Michigan State University was home to one of the most egregious Title IX cases in higher education in recent years, a sprawling scandal that toppled two presidents. Now Title IX issues are again roiling MSU, with accusations flying in all directions and a third presidency potentially on the line.
News first broke Sunday that some members of MSU’s elected Board of Trustees were seeking to force out the university’s president, Dr. Samuel Stanley Jr., and had engaged him in contract talks on early retirement. With little information flowing from trustees, conflicting reports have divided the MSU community. Now claims have emerged that MSU failed to properly comply with Title IX procedures, with board members blaming the president and Dr. Stanley claiming the missteps came from the board. The president and trustees are locked in a standoff that has bewildered the MSU community.
MSU officials have disputed the claim that the board demanded Dr. Stanley’s resignation by Tuesday, but trustees have confirmed that they asked him to retire early, before his contract expires in 2024. The board itself appears divided, with Chairwoman Dianne Byrum condemning the effort to remove Dr. Stanley and most trustees staying silent as the rift grows increasingly public. However, one board member has claimed that a majority of trustees want Dr. Stanley out of office.
Title IX Certification Issues
Nassar sexually abused hundreds of women and girls while employed at Michigan State and as a doctor for the U.S. national gymnastics team, resulting in his lifetime imprisonment and various consequences for the university, including steep financial penalties and a leadership shake-up.
Another consequence for MSU, imposed by state lawmakers, is that presidents are required to file Title IX compliance certificates. State law requires that Michigan State’s president and a board member review all Title IX reports. Now Trustee Pat O’Keefe is alleging “that the university may have filed a false and misleading Title IX compliance certificate for 2021 signed by the president” and submitted to the state, according to a statement he provided to The Detroit News. (O’Keefe did not respond to a request for comment from Inside Higher Ed.)
O’Keefe told the newspaper that the board first learned of the alleged impropriety in June.
But at a special meeting of the Faculty Senate held Tuesday night, which the president and at least two trustees attended virtually, Dr. Stanley pushed back on the notion of Title IX missteps.
“I faithfully complied with the state of Michigan certification process the last two years and reviewed all of the Title IX reports that were required,” Dr. Stanley said in a prepared statement at the meeting. “Contrary to information previously provided to me in June of this year, I was notified that some of our board members may not have actually complied with their part of the state requirement in 2021. We asked for an internal audit and review of the situation which raised questions about our compliance and made it clear that we can improve the processes by which the reviews were taking place. External consultants are now helping us improve the process and keep us in compliance. We have been taking this issue very seriously.”
Dr. Stanley added that Michigan State requested “an internal audit and review on the situation, which showed that we had not been out of compliance but certainly could improve the processes by which the reviews were taking place.” He noted that MSU has also engaged an external consultant to probe Title IX issues.
Contacted individually, trustees did not respond to requests for comment from Inside Higher Ed.
The Gupta Fallout
Though Title IX certification has emerged as the new issue driving calls for Dr. Stanley to retire early, another incident has also loomed large in conversations about the board drama: the recent resignation of Sanjay Gupta, a popular dean at Michigan State’s Broad School of Business. Gupta, who led the business school from 2015 until last month, resigned amid concerns that he failed to report incidents of sexual misconduct that occurred under his leadership.
Officials made it clear at Tuesday’s meeting that Gupta was pushed out, with MSU provost Teresa Woodruff asking for his resignation.
“Dr. Gupta failed in his mandatory reporting responsibility,” Woodruff said in a statement at the meeting. “Additionally, he failed to act in a timely and reasonable manner to protect students and uphold our values. The culture that we seek is one in which the well-being and safety of everyone is managed in an immediate, cooperative and trauma informed way.”
Details emerged in a local news report Monday that allege Gupta witnessed an intoxicated business school employee inappropriately touch a student at a university event in April and did not report it. Michigan State’s Office of Institutional Equity allegedly learned of the incident in April but did not investigate until July 28.
The Board of Trustees has since retained outside counsel to review Woodruff’s decision to ask for Gupta’s resignation.
Tuesday’s Faculty Senate meeting was at times contentious, in part because Gupta’s supporters argued that the dean was unfairly forced out of his post with little transparency regarding the circumstances. Shawnee Vickery, a professor in MSU’s Broad School, said in the meeting that “a serious wrong was committed against our dean” and that there are “conflicting stories” about Gupta’s alleged transgressions, which he denied in a statement following his resignation.
“The board was asked by a group of senior professors in the Broad College to investigate, and we are very thankful to the board for taking that action. Because we in the Broad College feel that transparency is incredibly important and that is something we want to see happen as well,” Vickery said.
But several commenters felt the Board of Trustees overstepped its bounds in probing the ouster of the dean, noting that asking him to resign is well within the authority of Woodruff’s position.
“I think that what we’re seeing here is an issue relating to the board overstepping its responsibilities,” said Jack Lipton, a neuroscience professor. “This is an administrative management action. The board is really there for policy purposes, and it’s inappropriate for the board to be meddling that far into the organization.”
Lack of Transparency
One clear theme that emerged from Tuesday’s meeting is that faculty members are tired of being kept in the dark as controversy swirls around university leadership and the Board of Trustees. Many complained about the board’s lack of transparency.
Lipton pushed for a Faculty Senate resolution denouncing the board and calling for both a no-confidence vote and the resignation of board members—measures that ultimately were not adopted. Even so, a number of faculty members expressed an overall lack of faith in the board, with many disturbed by the trustees’ silence.
Ultimately, the Faculty Senate approved two resolutions. One called out the Board of Trustees for a lack of transparency and urged an investigation into the board by MSU’s Office of Audit, Risk and Compliance. The other asked board members to hire a professional governance firm within the next 60 days to lead them through professional development, a process that would also include the president. Both resolutions passed with strong support from voting members.
Two trustees also participated in the meeting, offering comments on the current situation. Trustee Renee Knake-Jefferson acknowledged the faculty’s frustrations about the lack of transparency and its concerns about alleged board intrusions into academic governance, stating, “It’s not our job to get involved in the day-to-day management of what’s happening in the university.”
The most illuminating comments came from Trustee Rema Vassar, who said that an outside investigation into Title IX issues began before Gupta was asked to resign, contradicting the notion that the board is trying to push the president out because of the Gupta matter. Vassar said that investigation is happening at the same time the board probes Gupta’s resignation.
Vassar also said at the meeting that the board is unified in its desire to push Dr. Stanley out, despite Chairwoman Byrum previously calling the move a rogue effort.
“If we’re thinking about holding people accountable to discussing retirement with President Stanley, that would be the whole board. The only person who fundamentally was opposed to that but still met with them would be Chair Byrum. The rest of the board thought this was the best idea,” Vassar said, noting that one member later changed their position on ousting Dr. Stanley.
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Pro-LGBTQ Clergy Unwelcome at Samford University
The Baptist university uninvited churches that support LGBTQ rights from participating in a campus ministry event.
A group of Samford University alumni are calling out their alma mater after the Alabama institution’s administrators excluded two local churches from its annual campus ministry fair because of their support of same-sex marriage. Leaders of the alumni organization, which supports and advocates for LGBTQ students at Samford, say the recent actions by the university indicate that it is becoming more conservative.
“If Samford doesn’t turn back to the way it was before, this will have signaled a very far right turn à la a Liberty University type of college, which is not what Samford has been for decades,” said Brit Blalock, a 2008 graduate and founder of SAFE Samford. “It’s been much more of a middle-of-the-road, very liberal arts college. This would be a vast departure from that.”
Samford’s vice president of student affairs, Philip Kimrey, wrote in a campuswide email sent Wednesday that “we are welcoming of all denominations and have no policy or plan to restrict any denominations from our campus.” But he added that university leaders “have a responsibility to formally partner with ministry organizations that share our beliefs.
“I recognize that the university’s choices about with whom we partner in student ministry may disappoint some,” Kimrey wrote. “Please know that those decisions are made prayerfully and with the university’s theological commitments in mind.”
No university administrators were made available for an interview. A Samford spokesperson said Kimrey’s letter served as the university’s statement.
The university’s decision was first reported by Al.com. The two churches excluded from the campus ministry fair were the Episcopal Church and the Presbyterian Church (USA).
Samford, a Baptist university in Birmingham with nearly 6,000 students, doesn’t have an official LGBTQ student group on campus; a former president declined to recognize the organization in 2017. Its nondiscrimination policy also does not include sexual orientation and gender identity, putting the institution in the minority of Christian colleges and universities in the United States, said Jonathan Coley, an assistant professor of sociology at Oklahoma State University.
“This latest move of kicking the Episcopal Church and PCUSA off campus definitely seems to be a fairly dramatic step backward, because even though Samford has never allowed an LGBTQ student group, those denominations, like the Episcopal Church, have had a long presence on Samford’s campus,” said Coley, who graduated from Samford in 2010 and now serves on SAFE Samford’s Board of Directors.
Coley tracks LGBTQ policies at Christian colleges and universities and has seen an overall shift toward more inclusive policies, but some institutions with discriminatory policies toward LGBTQ students are expanding limitations on student advocacy for LGBTQ rights. Some institutions even outline these limitations in detail in one to two pages in student handbooks, he said.
“While on the one hand, a lot of schools have become more inclusive, schools that are discriminatory have largely doubled down,” Coley said. “Samford still doesn’t have the two pages in the student handbook, but this move seems to be putting it more in league with the Liberty Universities of the world.”
Coley, Blalock and others expected President Beck Taylor, who took over last year, to be more moderate than the previous administration. A New Yorker profile of a gay faculty member at Taylor’s former institution, Whitworth University, suggested he would be more supportive of LGBTQ students.
“I had a really wonderful conversation with him in which he made it very clear that he sought to do no harm to LGBTQ students, and that he knew that a lot of us had felt very harmed in the past,” Blalock said. “I was really caught off guard by this, because it was not at all in keeping with the conversation that he and I had at the beginning of his time at Samford.”
A controversy ahead of Taylor’s inauguration as president in November 2021 was an indication that he would have to negotiate the university’s conservative culture during his tenure. Historian Jon Meacham’s invitation to speak was withdrawn after some students raised concerns about his support for Planned Parenthood. Meacham was eventually brought back to campus to speak as part of a separate event in spring 2022, called Love Thy Neighbor, which focused on respectful civil discourse.
“I want Samford to be a community that embraces conviction and curiosity,” Taylor said at the event. “We want students at Samford to hold to their beliefs strongly. No one is asking you to let go of your convictions. At the same time, I want you to remain curious. I want you to seek out people with different ideas and convictions so you can put your beliefs to the test.”
Blalock said she learned shortly after the campus ministry fair on Aug. 31 that college chaplains for the two churches were turned away from the event because of the denominations’ LGBTQ-affirming stances.
She talked with those involved to piece together what happened. She said Bobby Gatlin, the Samford campus pastor, uninvited the Episcopal Church’s campus ministry organization after a chaplain agreed to share her table with the ministry representing the Presbyterian Church. He told the Episcopalian minister that she couldn’t participate because of her denomination’s LGBTQ-affirming stance, Blalock said.
Kimrey said in the campuswide email that the university was following its Guidelines for Guest Ministry Organizations, which aren’t new and align with the university’s mission, vision and core values.
“Perhaps this policy existed in the background, but it had never been flexed as a reason to exclude groups before, so that’s why it’s all very new to everyone,” Blalock said.
The guidelines outline the process organizations have to follow to get approval to minister on campus. The campus pastor oversees that process and approves applications.
“A Guest Ministry should have and observe a statement of faith and theological perspective that is consistent with the Mission, Vision and Core Values of Samford,” the guidelines say. “As a condition for campus access, a Guest Ministry shall fully and clearly disclose in writing to the Campus Pastor all of its affiliations, foundational theological tenets, means and institutional sources of support, and sponsoring organizations.”
The Reverend Kelley Hudlow, a spokeswoman for the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama, told Al.com that the church has had a presence at Samford for more than 30 years.
“We have regularly participated in the ministry fairs,” Hudlow told the outlet. “We are not allowed to do ministry on campus currently. We learned that Samford is revising and revamping some of its policies related to guest ministries. We have expressed to Samford that we are very interested in continuing this over 30-year relationship we’ve had with the university.”
Gatlin became the campus pastor in 2019, and guest ministry on campus was suspended during the pandemic, according to Al.com. The PCUSA and Episcopal Church’s stances on LGBTQ rights predate the pandemic.
Blalock said Samford has historically been ecumenically diverse, and she wants to see the university return to that status. SAFE Samford has launched a public letter-writing campaign to advocate for a change in policy. In the first day of the campaign, the organization received more than a dozen letters of support, and Blalock is expecting more along with advocacy by student and faculty groups.
“There’s a lot in process right now, and I expect to see a whole lot more come of the issue,” she said.
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A Georgia State Patrol cadet who dreamt of becoming a state trooper died while training for the job last week, a report said.
Cadet Patrick Dupree, 36, collapsed after performing an exercise with other cadets at the Georgia Public Safety Training Center Thursday, Fox5 Atlanta reported, citing the Georgia Department of Public Safety.
Dupree, a married father of three, reportedly suffered a medical emergency and was rushed to an area hospital, but couldn’t be saved,
His wife, Shanna Dupree, told Fox5 that her husband spent his last breath doing what he loved and if still alive, he wouldn’t have it any other way.
“Last month, he told me, ‘If I go out, I want to go out doing what I love,'” she said. “He was at that trooper training, doing what he loved, reaching for his goals. I’m proud of him.”
Dupree hoped to complete the trooper training and eventually work in the aviation unit, according to his family.
He began his career in law enforcement at the Cave Spring Police Department and then joined the Euharlee Police Department for six years, according to Fox5.
Before working as an officer, Dupree played semi-pro football after standing out on his high school team. He continued to play the game after taking on the responsibilities of the badge.
“He said enforcement reminds me of a football team, that’s what he said,” Shanna Dupree said. “He felt like, when we’re a team, we gotta go out there and help and save the community.”
The father deeply loved his family and was always there for his daughter and two sons, she added.
“He was an honorable, admirable, inspirational, motivational man, very caring. He made you feel safe and secure,” Shanna Dupree said.
Their daughter said she knows her father would want them all to stay strong and use their faith as a guide through the dark time.
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Student Debt Relief Taxed—for Now
Forgiven debt will be taxed in Arkansas, California, Indiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Carolina and Wisconsin unless lawmakers in those states change the laws.
Some of the 43 million Americans who could see some—if not all—of their student loans forgiven this year might need to start saving for a tax bill.
Forgiven debt will be taxed in Arkansas, California, Indiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Carolina and Wisconsin unless lawmakers in those states change laws, said Jared Walczak, vice president of state projects for the Tax Foundation. Historically, state and federal governments have taxed debt forgiveness, but Congress added an exemption for student loans discharged through 2025 in the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act. Not all states have since changed their tax laws to align with federal policy, leading to a variety of approaches in how to handle student loan relief.
President Biden unveiled a plan last month to cancel up to $10,000 in student loans for Americans earning less than $125,000 per year or couples who make less $250,000. Pell Grant recipients will receive up to $20,000 in relief.
How much a person could owe in state taxes depends on total income, their state’s tax rates and other factors. Experts expect the loans to result in a couple hundred dollars more in taxes for affected borrowers.
But advocates are optimistic that the money ultimately won’t be taxed in many states.
“The story’s not written yet about which states will or will not,” said Cody Hounanian, executive director of the Student Debt Crisis Center. “We’re very optimistic that many states will take action to make sure that cancellation is not taxed. Because obviously it undermines the value of a policy designed to help working- and middle-class families. I know there’s a lot of fear out there, but we still have many unanswered questions.”
He encouraged borrowers in any of the seven states to speak up and advocate for lawmakers to make debt relief tax-exempt.
Since Biden’s announcement, several states without clear laws on the books about taxing debt forgiveness have said the relief won’t be taxed. Lawmakers in California are pledging to change policies to ensure it is exempt, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Walczak said those lawmakers have a narrow window in which to act, because taxpayers can start filing tax returns early next year. If state officials wait until closer to the April 15 filing deadline, the potential for issuing refunds or requiring filers to file amended returns is greater, he said.
“That’s a headache that everyone would prefer to avoid if they’re going to make this change, so there’s some urgency in changing it if policy makers wish to do so,” he said.
If some states end up taxing the forgiven debt, Walczak said there will be “significant confusion” for taxpayers, and enforcement will be difficult. The Biden administration has directed loan servicers not to issue a 1099-C—the tax form used to declare canceled debt—to individuals who have their debt discharged. Without that form, states won’t be able to easily determine who owes taxes, but taxpayers are still obligated to report the debt as income.
“This is an area where we can expect significant tax underpayments that would require correction but probably don’t make sense to think of in terms of tax fraud,” he said. “These will be, in many cases, honest mistakes. States still pursue honest mistakes.”
He hopes tax-preparation software and tax preparers make the necessary adjustments to ensure that individuals are reporting all their taxable income.
The U.S. Department of Education, which is administering the debt-relief program, has said borrowers will be able to apply for relief in October.
As states began confirming that the canceled loans would be taxed, Hounanian with the debt crisis center said he saw fear and misinformation spreading online, with some suggesting that debt relief was “just another scam to take tax money.”
“This isn’t some sort of bait and switch,” he said. “The president has done his part in canceling student debt at the federal level. Lawmakers in Congress, including Senate Majority Leader [Chuck] Schumer, made sure that federal taxes would not apply here, and now we’ve got to do the work to make sure that states do the same … This is just an issue of complex policy that needs to be straightened out.”
Hounanian said that even if the states don’t change their laws, many of the affected borrowers won’t have a large tax burden. About 90 percent of the borrowers included in Biden’s debt cancellation plan make less than $75,000 a year.
“This is not necessarily going to mean a tax bomb for millions of Americans,” he said. “This is more of a policy discussion right now. We’re going to straighten it out so that no one has to worry about this. This plan is going to reach people who need it most.”
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Explosion at Northeastern Is Being Investigated
A bomb exploded in a package that had been delivered to Northeastern University Tuesday night, The New York Times reported. One employee, a 45-year-old man, was hospitalized with a minor hand injury.
The university canceled classes in six buildings near the explosion Tuesday night.
At 11:28 Tuesday night, the university said, “The Boston Police Department’s Bomb Squad, Boston Emergency Management Services, and other law enforcement agencies are at the scene investigating. The building was evacuated and evening classes in nearby buildings were canceled on the Boston campus. Several notifications were sent to the campus community urging people to avoid the area. The scene is currently contained and the campus is secured. NUPD is increasing patrols and security across the campus. At this time, we expect the campus to be open and fully operational tomorrow.”
But the Associated Press reported Wednesday that federal officials “are examining whether the employee who reported an explosion at Northeastern University may have lied to investigators and staged the incident.” The AP added that “investigators identified inconsistencies in the employee’s statement and became skeptical because his injuries did not match wounds typically consistent with an explosion.”
This year has seen numerous bomb threats against historically Black colleges and other institutions.
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Florida System Hires DeSantis Ally as Chancellor
The Florida Board of Governors unanimously voted to appoint Ray Rodrigues as the chancellor of the State University System of Florida. The move means a political ally of Republican governor Ron DeSantis is now at the helm of the public system comprised of 12 universities.
The hire, made official by a board vote Wednesday, elevates Rodrigues to the top of the state system after a career split between the corporate world and higher education. Rodrigues spent 16 years at Florida Gulf Coast University, most recently as director of interagency partnerships.
Rodrigues, a Republican, also spent 10 years in the Florida House and Senate, where he sponsored legislation to require surveys about intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity, and to reshape tenure in the state. Those plans, though hailed by DeSantis, have been controversial among Florida academics.
Rodrigues will replace the retiring chancellor, Marshall Criser.
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International Graduate Applications Rise
September 15, 2022
Between fall 2020 and fall 2021, the total number of international graduate applications received by U.S. degree-granting institutions increased by 12 percent, according to a report from the Council of Graduate Schools International Graduate Admissions Survey. That marks the third year in a row that international applications increased.
There were large increases in international applications for public administration and services (43 percent), education (25 percent), health sciences (22 percent), and business (17 percent).
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Stress and Procrastination: Academic Minute
September 15, 2022
Today on the Academic Minute: Alicia Walf, senior lecturer in cognitive science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, explores whether stress drives procrastination, or is it the reverse? Learn more about the Academic Minute here.
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Supreme Court Rejects Stay for Yeshiva U
The Supreme Court lifted a stay of an order that Yeshiva University had to recognize an LGBTQ student group, the YU Pride Alliance. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Friday granted the stay but referred the case to the full Supreme Court. A New York judge had ruled that Yeshiva had to recognize the group last year.
The full Supreme Court said that Yeshiva had not used its other legal options, such as asking the New York appeals court for an expedited review. “If applicants seek and receive neither expedited review nor interim relief from the New York courts, they may return to this court,” the Supreme Court said.
Four justices dissented from the ruling. Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the dissenting justices, “The First Amendment guarantees the right to the free expression of religion, and if that provision means anything, it prohibits a state from enforcing its own preferred interpretation of Holy Scripture. Yet that is exactly what New York has done in this case.”
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Meeting Student Expectations That Align With Customer-Centric Industries
Institutions must develop a student-centric model of customer service, which is now key to student success, writes Emily A. Messa, a certified auxiliary service professional.
Students who are filling classrooms—in person or virtually—this fall have modern expectations about how their institution can and should be delivering on customer service.
Chat bots, apps and other digital solutions are among the tools that can improve a student’s experience, according to the July 2022 Student Voice survey on students as customers, which focused on nonacademic departments. Conducted by Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse with support from Kaplan, the survey of 2,239 college students from four-year and two-year institutions provides telling information about how higher education leaders should prepare our staff and our departments to best support students in this evolving environment.
The survey’s findings connect directly with Nancy Schlossberg’s Transition Theory, as described in the Journal of Employment Counseling, and her long-term focus on planned and unplanned transitions in life and individual differences that impact how a person responds to the transition. Schlossberg found four common characteristics involved in any transition—situation, self, strategies and supports.
Student Voice explores higher education from the perspective of students, providing unique insights on their attitudes and opinions. Kaplan provides funding and insights to support Inside Higher Ed’s coverage of student polling data from College Pulse. Inside Higher Ed maintains editorial independence and full discretion over its coverage.
There is no question that the evolution of an individual from high school student, parent or employee to college student is a change in life roles. Furthermore, we must recognize that our students are always in some phase of the transition cycle during their journey with us through college. Institutions of higher learning must embrace their support role in this cycle, which may mean building or reinforcing infrastructure that helps all students navigate the transition. To do so effectively, we must understand our students’ needs, as well as new expectations that align more and more with a host of other customer-centric industries.
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to complicate the transitions our students may be experiencing, resulting in additional and ongoing transitions, such as taking classes in new modalities and experiencing a reconnect or disconnect with their roles and lives on campus. For our first-generation college students, who represent about one-third of students enrolled in postsecondary institutions, according to 2018 data from the National Center for Education Statistics, there are additional steps in navigating their transition to college. In this vortex of change, how can we and our institutions be best positioned to deliver the important supports highlighted by Schlossberg?
In the Student Voice survey, students underscore the services and technologies that institutions of higher education could implement or improve upon. Perhaps not surprisingly, most are technologies widely used in customer service for other industries but more slowly adopted in higher education. Students want chat bots on department websites that answer questions after hours, and chat bots or pop-up messages on webpages that remind them of important deadlines. Student respondents say colleges could improve by making documents available in digital form with e-signing capabilities, plus they could make better use of student engagement apps and virtual appointment scheduling.
In looking at the open-ended comments from student responses, we also learn that students prefer in-person interactions when resolving complex issues. More than 70 percent of respondents report they would like to see more one-stop shops, where they can transact multiple components of campus business in one location.
Retooling Service
At the University of Houston, we were monitoring these trends even before the pandemic and have retooled customer service to meet student needs in this “new normal” environment. Using technology to support routine student business transactions has enabled student-facing departments to be more available to support students in person—providing a holistic support infrastructure where students in transition can more seamlessly transact campus business and keep their energies and focus on being a student.
We have embraced the one-stop shop approach both digitally and in the built environment. Access UH, an online portal that houses all of the role-based software resources that students, faculty and staff use at the university, allows routine business transactions to occur 24-7. The UH Go app helps students navigate life on campus: find and pay for meals, view grades, access Blackboard, add and drop classes, track shuttles in real time, and explore upcoming events.
UH opened its welcome center in 2007. Uncommon for universities at the time, the mixed-use development combines parking, retail and university space serves as the hub for key student services. In the most recent academic year, 15,778 walk-in visitors came through the building for admissions, scholarships and financial aid, the university registrar, and student business services. Additionally, 21,144 identification cards were printed and distributed by the campus identification card office, also housed in the center.
Having the right tools in place enables the best possible experience. Website chat bots have been implemented to answer routine questions on key services, such as parking and transportation, campus ID cards, and dining. During the 2021–22 academic year, bots answered nearly 2,000 questions for these services alone.
Last year, more than 32,000 campus customers made use of CougarQ, a service that enables students to make appointments or wait in a virtual line for parking, an identification card, the cashier’s office and mail service. Other mobile-enabled tools allow students to pay for visitor parking, order food for pickup and request on-demand campus rides after hours. Last year, we recorded more than 122,000 mobile transactions for visitor parking, nearly 50,000 mobile food orders and 3,976 requests for after-hours rides. While many of these technologies to improve the campus experience were implemented well in advance of the pandemic, we are now more available to support students and their ever-evolving needs as a result.
The pandemic was not only about overcoming challenges. It provided an opportunity for experimentation. At the University of Houston, virtual town halls on our key services have become a mainstay and an unexpected but valuable tool in customer relations. In the past, physical town hall attendance was minimal. In the new virtual environment, the university hosted service-related town halls with more than 200 in attendance. A series of leadership town halls drew as many as 700 per session.
We have also added an opt-in text service for parking and transportation, where community members can choose the topic of interest and opt in for real-time updates. Currently, the university has about 2,000 participants in this service.
Key findings from the Student Voice survey can be used as a conversation starter with students. Institutions should find out what enhancements their students prioritize and learn more about the overall campus experience of students and how it can be improved. Then, we should ask students to be key partners with us as we implement enhancements and monitor the effectiveness and value of these improvements, continuing to adjust and evolve as needed.
As Schlossberg noted, a transition—even a planned transition—can be a time when an individual’s life feels chaotic. One of our key responsibilities as institutions of higher education is to provide supports to students for these transitions, and efficient and consistent customer service, delivered as requested by students, is key to their success. Each year, as members of the higher education community, we hope that our students are ready for college—but are our colleges and universities ready for them?
Emily A. Messa serves as senior associate vice chancellor for the University of Houston system and senior associate vice president for administration at University of Houston. Messa has served on the Board of Directors at NACAS, the national organization supporting campus services professionals, for many years. | https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2022/09/15/understanding-college-student-customer-opinion | 2022-09-15T07:54:37Z | insidehighered.com | control | https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2022/09/15/understanding-college-student-customer-opinion | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
FG orders buyers of seized drug-linked properties to pay N31m extra
THE Federal Executive Council (FEC) has ordered the buyers of two seized real estate properties in Lagos to pay government more money to meet the cost of prevailing cost in 2001 when they were valued. This followed a memo presented to the council by the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, which explained that government did not get the proper amount for the transaction.
The FEC meeting was presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Wednesday. Fashola said the properties, a four-bedroom bungalow on Adeniyi Jones Avenue Lagos, and five-bedroom duplex on Amadasun Street in GRA, Ikoyi, Lagos were seized by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in the course of narcotic prosecution.
The minister noted that the properties were sold for N2 million and N5 million respectively in 2001. He said government now wants the buyers to pay the sum of N18 million for the bungalow and N21 million for the duplex, bringing the total extra amount to be paid to N31 million.
The minister could not, however, disclose the identities of the buyers as he said they were not contained in the memo to FEC.
He said, “At that time, the valuation we got was that if they were properly valued, they should have been sold for N18 million and N20 million respectively.”
He noted that the NDLEA Act of the time gave precedence to the directives from the Ministry of Justice and regulations were made according to powers under the Act.
“But they did not take cognisance of the procurement law and the financial regulations of the time.
“We are now saying that going forward, the financial regulations must take precedence. Those are all proposals that will come as a new law when the Ministry of Finance finishes with them, so that you cannot have different regulations for disposal of assets that have been forfeited to the government. They must be subject to one superior procedure,” he added.
The minister also revealed that the government approved a policy recommendation to extend the usage life of government assets such as plants, equipment, land, property and machinery.
According to him, the new recommendation will ensure proper disposal while saving government expenditure.
Fashola said to ensure proper accountability, Ministers will now be fully involved in the procurement process as they must now sign off requests for valuation of properties of their respective ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs).
He further said: “We also proposed that heads of the ministry as accounting officers must sign off now on request for valuation of properties, especially when agencies are trying to buy properties. “We’ve seen that sometimes, ministers are not even aware that proposals are being made for acquisition of some type of assets. Essentially, the council approved all of the policy recommendations. They should go to the Ministry of Finance, which is in charge of making the financial regulations in order to effect the necessary regulation.”
Meanwhile, the former Lagos State governor described Tuesday’s disruption of vehicular movement around the Sagamu Interchange of the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway as a violation of the law. Responding to a question, he appealed for the understanding of the public over the inconveniences being faced around the yet-to-becompleted segment of the busy road.
Fashola said, “We’re still on course. You might have heard that I had to call in to a programme yesterday just to provide some clarification. It’s a combination of the work that is being done and also the traffic and the behaviour of drivers and commuters, as well as elements; heavy rainfall recently, that is causing the discomfort.
“Once again, I use this medium to apologise and to empathise with citizens and commuters who need that place to get on with their lives.
“It’s the place we left to the last really because it’s the most built-up area, the last six kilometres into Lagos, very densely populated and occupied and there’s very little room for alternative routes for people, so they just have to bear with us.
“I also heard that some aggrieved students, under the aegis of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) are also going on to the road in order to protest. My respectful view is that that is not helpful at all to the citizens. The right to protest is a very well protected right in our constitution, but it does not include the right to inflict pain and inconvenience on other people.
“So, whilst their protests can go on, they should refrain from blocking the road in order to do their protest; that in itself is a violation of law, if they are well advised.”
Meanwhile, FEC also approved partnership for the production of local vaccines on Wednesday. The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, disclosed that Nigeria will start the construction of an inoculation plant by end of the year after signing a contract manufacturing agreement with Serum Institute of India for local production of the jabs.
In his presentation at the briefing, he said, “The approval has been given and then with this partnership now, they will now break the ground and start building right away.
“Local production of inoculations has become imperative for Nigeria as vaccine subsidies from international community are expected to end within the next six years, which means that the country will have to come up with $300 million to buy its jabs.
“By 2028, the support we used to get from GAVI to subsidise our vaccines will expire. And by that time, we should be producing our own vaccine domestically.” FEC also approved a N28.4 billion augmentation in the contract for engineering infrastructure development in the Wasa Affordable Housing District of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The contract was initially awarded to Gilmor Nigeria Limited in 2014 at the cost of about N56.9 billion with the augmentation bringing the total cost to about N85.04 billion. The Minister of the FCT, Mohammed Bello, disclosed this while briefing correspondents at the end of the FEC meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Wednesday. FEC also approved N2.044 billion for the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) in respect of a contract for the construction of internal roads and drainages to the Polaku Gas Hub in Bayelsa State.
Also speaking at the briefing, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, who disclosed this said that the gas hub is targeted at encouraging development of gas processing companies. He stated: “Council today approved a contract to Messrs Black Springs limited to construct internal roads and drainages in NCDMB gas hub located at Polaku in Bayelsa State.
“The gas hub is to encourage the development of companies that will process and develop our gas, to deepen the use of gas internally, to be able to process gas for export and to also construct cylinder.” Sylva assured that the Old Port Harcourt Refinery will become operational by December this year even as he said the development of the compressed natural gas (CNG) is still in progress. According to him, one of the two refineries, the old one with 60,000 barrels-perday capacity, will be functional by the end of 2022, just as works are also progressing on both the Warri and Kaduna refineries. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/fg-orders-buyers-of-seized-drug-linked-properties-to-pay-n31m-extra/ | 2022-09-15T08:04:02Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/fg-orders-buyers-of-seized-drug-linked-properties-to-pay-n31m-extra/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Motorists, travellers stranded as Ado-Ilawe-Ekiti road collapses
MANY travellers and motorists on Wednesday were left stranded following the collapse of the Ado-Ekiti-Ilawe-Ekiti road, which connects the state to Ondo State.
Nigerian Tribune observed that the road, before the collapse, served as an alternative route to people travelling between Ekiti and Ondo states.
The other road between the two states, the AdoAkure expressway, is in deplorable condition. It was gathered that the Ado-Ekiti-Ilawe-Ekiti road collapsed in the early hours of Wednesday following persistent torrential rain experienced of late in the state.
The development made motorists and other travellers coming into Ekiti and going outside the state to make a detour and ply other routes connecting their destinations.
Some of them who spoke with the Nigerian Tribune lamented the deplorable condition of roads in the state, just as they called on the state and federal governments to urgently work on the road in the interest of the citizens.
A motorist coming into Ado-Ekiti from Akure, Johnson Olaoluwa, stated that he spent four hours on the road before he made a detour to pass Ilawe-Igede-Iyin road to connect the Ekiti State capital.
He said: “This is what we have been clamouring for in the last few years that these roads are in bad shape, but they did not listen.
“I have been here over four hours ago hoping that we will see how to pass and as you can see, it is not possible.
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“I will have to make a detour down to Igede to Iyin and connect Ado-Ekiti; you can see the stress and number of minutes it will take. Government should quickly come here and work on this section which collapsed now.”
Speaking, the Alawe of Ilawe-Ekiti, Oba Adebanji Alabi, who visited the scene, commended the state government for its responsiveness, adding that quality work should be done to make the road accessible to the people.
Oba Alabi said: “We need immediate revamping of that place by the state government and thank God they have responded because I saw their officials at the place. They are mobilising to the site now.
“It must be urgent work because as it stands, it is not passable at the moment; the community has been cutoff.”
Special Adviser to the Governor on Roads and Infrastructure, Sunday Adunmo, told the Nigerian Tribune that he led a team to the scene, saying it was a natural occurrence as a result of the water flowing from the rock in the area.
He promised that the state government would fix the affected portion in no distant time, noting that the place had been barricaded to avoid any casualty on the part of motorists, especially at night.
He said, “It was a natural thing; just a run-off from the rock. You cannot stop movement of water from the rock.
“It is not the collapse of bridge but the road. We are in the rainy season and don’t forget buildings are springing up from the other side of the hill too. “I think it started before now, nobody knows, it was the culmination of what has been happening there over the years; that was what led to the collapse of the road.
“We are moving in immediately; we have blocked the road, making way for the alternative. We are looking at Igede-Ekiti, making that place motorable as link road, then we move back to fix the place as soon as possible.”
Meanwhile, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Ekiti State has issued a travel advisory to motorists following the collapse of the road, just as it stated that officials of the corps were already on ground diverting traffic from the area.
The Public Education Officer of Ekiti command, Taiwo Ojo, said, “FRSC officials are on ground for traffic diversion. This will continue until the needful is done as appropriate authorities have been contacted. “Motorists are advised to use the following alternative routes; Ado – Iyin – Igede – Ilawe – Igbaraodo – Igbaraoke – Akure and Ado – Iju/Itaogbolu – Akure roads.” | https://tribuneonlineng.com/motorists-travellers-stranded-as-ado-ilawe-ekiti-road-collapses/ | 2022-09-15T08:04:03Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/motorists-travellers-stranded-as-ado-ilawe-ekiti-road-collapses/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Market picture
Bitcoin has lost 1.2% in the last 24 hours, trading at $20.1K. The plunge below a meaningful round level late Wednesday afternoon did not last long. Ethereum pulled down 0.3% to $1610 while the crypto community awaits the market's reaction to The Merge (move to PoS algorithm). We can describe sentiment across the crypto market as a cautious wait-and-see.
Short-term Bitcoin momentum indicates that sellers wanted to swing the market at the end of the day yesterday and snap stop orders, taking advantage of a period of reduced liquidity on Wednesday.
As we see, it failed, and BTCUSD returned precisely to where it started its local decline. However, the balance of power is now on the bears' side, as the global risk demand is suppressed, and critical technical levels (50- and 200-day MA, 200-week MA) are above the price.
News background
Major US companies Charles Schwab, Citadel and Fidelity have announced the launch of digital asset exchange EDX Markets (EDXM), which will be available to retail and institutional investors.
Another recalculation resulted in a 3.45% increase in bitcoin mining complexity to 32.05 trillion hashes, the highest in the network's history.
Network service provider Cloudflare announced that its gateways support the upcoming transition of the Ethereum network to the Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus algorithm on September 15.
Bloomberg Intelligence expert Mike McGlone believes the crypto market will begin a bullish trend after The Merge update. In his opinion, ETH's move to PoS will have a revolutionary impact on cryptocurrencies and the entire financial system.
Changpeng Zhao, chief executive of cryptocurrency exchange Binance, said the EU's crypto-asset regulation principles could become the global standard for the entire industry.
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Gen. Hee Hyun Shin, Commander of Republic of Korea Army 2nd Operations Command, visited the 2nd Combat Aviation Brigade on July 22, 2022 to receive a capabilities brief on the AH-64E v6 and the MQ-1C Gray Eagle. Brig. Gen. Nam Hoon Kim, Deputy Commanding General of Korean Forces in the 2nd Infantry Division ROK/U.S. Combined Division, greets Gen. Shin as he arrives to Desiderio Army Airfield.
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Life for a Chiefs fan living in Kansas City is easy: You find out which local station is broadcasting that week's game, flip it on, mute the sound and turn up Mitch Holthus on the radio (optional), then just kick back and enjoy the game.
But what if you're part of the growing Chiefs Kingdom living outside the range of Kansas City TV signals? Well, there it gets complicated. And it's getting more complicated by the year, thanks to streaming rights and the NFL's desire to get into the mobile app space.
Before we get to that, though, may we suggest that before Thursday night's kickoff against the Chargers, local Chiefs fans take a moment to raise a beverage of their choice in tribute to the late Lamar Hunt?
TV rights are why the NFL prints money
The team's founder, and co-founder of the American Football League in 1959, Hunt came up with revenue sharing, and this is the idea that made the NFL the world-beater it is today.
Hunt convinced his fellow AFL owners that in order for their upstart league to survive, they would have to split all broadcast-rights revenue evenly. The first TV contract with ABC netted each AFL team $800,000 — enough for the Jets to outbid its NFL rivals and sign Alabama QB Joe Namath. Hunt's insight was so visionary that after the AFL-NFL merger in 1970 (which Hunt negotiated), the NFL signed onto revenue sharing too.
The New York Yankees have a valuation of nearly six times that of the Royals, and can carry payrolls two to three times that of Kansas City, because their YES Network makes piles of money on Yankee games and they get to keep all the revenue, other than a small luxury tax paid to MLB.
Instead of haves and have-nots, the NFL's revenue-sharing scheme has created a league of haves, all the way down to the country's 69th-largest TV market, Green Bay-Appleton.
That kind of parity has raised the league's overall competitiveness. A high stakes matchup between two small-market clubs rarely happens in baseball. In the NFL it happens all the time—last season's AFC championship game, pitting Cincinnati (the 36th-largest market) vs. Kansas City (34th), for example.
And that's why revenues are skyrocketing for NFL video rights — especially with streaming channels now demanding a piece of the action.
How the NFL carves up TV rights
To understand how streaming can affect how you'll watch the Chiefs, it's helpful to understand the difference between local, regional and national NFL game telecasts.
National telecasts
Starting with ABC's "Monday Night Football" in the 1970s, the NFL has assigned the rights to certain games in prime time. This strategy proved so effective — it was one of the most popular shows on TV and gave the NFL a huge regular-season stage it never had before — that ESPN paid billions to the NFL to carve out another prime-time game, "Sunday Night Football."
NBC grabbed those rights in 2006, the same season that the NFL rolled out a third national telecast, "Thursday Night Football." As of this season, Amazon Prime Video is the exclusive home for "Thursday Night Football."
Regional telecasts
Daytime NFL games air on local TV, as they have since the 1950s. Games are assigned to either Fox or CBS affiliates, depending on what conference the away team belongs to.
The NFC package rights belong to Fox, while the package rights for the AFC — the Chiefs' conference — belong to CBS. When the Chiefs are playing on Sunday afternoon, the game is usually on CBS unless they are hosting an NFC team, in which case it's carried by Fox.
The list of stations carrying the "Chiefs Insider" TV show defines the team's regional base.
Local telecasts
Every Chiefs game is carried by a free, over-the-air TV station in Kansas City for the local fans. So even if Prime Video has the "exclusive" rights to "Thursday Night Football," the game is still carried on local TV stations in the markets where the teams are based. Thursday's Chiefs-Chargers game will be carried on KSHB-TV, the NBC affiliate.
Local will always be free
This point may be confusing to Chiefs fans who have been bombarded for days by Amazon's promotion touting its new Prime Video NFL package. One would be forgiven for thinking that an Amazon Prime membership might be required to watch Patrick Mahomes do his thing this week and whenever his game is carried on streaming.
It's worth noting here that the NFL is one of the most privileged businesses in America. It is exempt from antitrust law, enjoys a specialized tax status and gets taxpayers to underwrite their stadiums.
These privileges could be wiped out very quickly were the NFL to start withholding local TV coverage of games. In 2015, under pressure from the federal government, the league finally agreed to drop its 42-year-old “blackout rule” that allowed it to ban the coverage of poorly-attended contests.
In other words, Chiefs games will always be carried in Kansas City for free on local TV. Always.
So how exactly are the new streaming-rights deals going to change fans' viewing habits?
What streaming services are getting
In 2021, the NFL signed a new round of long-term television deals — and this time streaming TV was in the mix.
Since the last round of deals, all of the league's broadcast partners had launched streaming services: Paramount, which owns CBS, launched Paramount+. Disney, which owns ABC, bought up most of Hulu. And NBC Universal launched Peacock.
What's more, Amazon made it clear that it was in the hunt for NFL rights to make its Prime Video streamer more alluring.
Under the new deal, regional broadcast rights will remain in place through 2033: NFC games on Fox, AFC games on CBS. "Sunday Night Football" remains on NBC and "Monday Night Football" stays at ESPN.
Now, however, all CBS games will also stream on its sister streamer Paramount+. If you subscribe to Paramount+ at either its ad-supported or mostly-ad-free tier, you can watch CBS coverage of regional Chiefs games on Paramount+, and that goes whether you are in Kansas City or not.
Yes, cord-cutters, you don't need an antenna on your roof to watch CBS telecasts of Chiefs games any longer. (Fox is a different story. Fox hasn't announced any plans to stream games from the NFC package on Tubi, its free streaming service.)
As mentioned before, Amazon grabbed the rights to "Thursday Night Football."
And although ESPN owns the rights to Monday Night Football, it will not be streaming those games to ESPN+, a service so limited it doesn't even offer the cable network's flagship show SportsCenter.
Only cable or satellite subscribers to ESPN can stream the games through their computers or the ESPN app.
The one great thing about the new NFL+ app
Earlier this summer the NFL created some confusion when it announced a new app, NFL+, replacing its old NFL Game Day app.
The app will stream all live local and national games at an attractive price of $29.99 a year. But read that again: all live local and national games.
If you use other sports streaming apps, you may have noticed the NFL is doing the exact opposite of the NBA or MLB. Those leagues make only out-of-market games available to their app users. But if the NFL tried that, it would undermine its lucrative regional deals with CBS ($2.1 billion per year) and Fox ($2.2 billion).
The NFL+ app isn’t doing local stations any favors by poaching their potential viewers, it would seem — but the NFL doesn’t have to answer to them.
If you want to watch those games on demand, you'll have to upgrade to the NFL+ Premium tier on the app, which costs $79.99 per year.
The NFL+ app is only available on mobile devices. But wait! Was that a dude watching NFL+ on his big screen TV in an official NFL+ TV commercial? It was!
NFL+ subscribers say you can't screencast live games from your mobile phone, but you can watch replays on a big screen, though that requires the premium upgrade.
So what is the one good thing about the new NFL+ app? With it, you can listen to the live audio feeds of any NFL game, from either the home broadcast team or the away. No restrictions. That means no matter where you are, Mitch Holthus's legendary play-by-play call of the Chiefs game is just a click away. | https://www.kcur.org/sports/2022-09-15/watch-kansas-city-chiefs-nfl-football-game-streaming | 2022-09-15T08:25:50Z | kcur.org | control | https://www.kcur.org/sports/2022-09-15/watch-kansas-city-chiefs-nfl-football-game-streaming | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Burnout Among Doctors Is Not Only Impacting Their Health, but Also Patient Safety, Finds Study
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Some two years ago, burnout emerged as a “silent crisis in global health.” A state of exhaustion and disillusionment has since unsparingly worsened the emotional and physical well-being of millions of people. For doctors, the silent crisis is turning deafening: burnout is not only sapping thousands of these frontline workers of energy and motivation in their careers, but also hampering the quality of care provided to patients.
The large systemic review, published in the British Medical Journal, was a meta-analysis of 170 observational studies published in countries like the U.S., U.K., Asia, Africa, and other parts. The rich literature documented experiences of as many as 2,39,246 physicians.
The pattern among doctors with burnout was such: people were four times more likely than others to express dissatisfaction with their jobs, three times as likely to have thought about quitting, and three times as likely to “regret” being a doctor in the first place. This shaped their engagement with patients too, with them showing “low professionalism” and receiving low satisfaction ratings from patients. They were twice as likely as others to be involved in incidents where they offer “suboptimal care” to patients or in safety incidents such as medication errors, according to a new review.
The findings reinforce the idea that healthcare workers’ poor mental health is a structural issue that demands structural solutions, for exhaustion, anxiety, overwork, and poor pay are all reflections of the health infrastructure’s inadequacies. “Tired, undervalued, and understrength doctors cannot work to the best of their abilities and these figures throw into disturbing relief what that means for patient care,” said Dr. Latifa Patel, the chair of the British Medical Association’s representative body, who was not part of the study.
The researchers defined burnout as emotional exhaustion (feeling overextended and depleted of emotional and physical resources), depersonalization (“a dimension of burnout and refers to a negative, callous, or excessively detached response”), and a reduced sense of accomplishment that impacts productivity. Medics working in intensive and emergency responses, between the ages of 31 and 50, were most likely to have burnout. The sweeping trends tied together physicians’ mental health, their professional engagement, and the care patients receive.
The global pandemic spotlighted physicians’ burnout in stark display. According to an annual survey published in July this year, 44% of the physicians regularly felt “exhausted in the morning at the thought of another day at work,” and more than 66% of participants “always” or “often” felt worn out at the end of their working day. A survey based in India found more than half of the respondents had pandemic-related burnout due to overworking, fear of infection, abuse, poor working conditions — and this was back in August 2020, before the rise and fall of several infection waves. This was more so among young professionals and women, who were less likely to receive support or have support systems to reach out to.
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The health crisis imposed uncertainty and urgency on an already depleting job: healthcare providers report regularly going without food breaks, sleep deprivation, distress, and mental health issues. “There is a huge possibility of depression, anxiety among junior doctors. The number of doctors who will suffer PTSD after this will be staggering,” Pune-based psychiatrist Dr. Dayal Mirchandani told The Swaddle in 2020.
In June that year, a 28-year-old anesthetist working in the OR of a government hospital in Mumbai articulated the emotional and physical weariness that comes with living in a chronic state of loss and helplessness. “Today, the patient just kept crashing. In the end, he was conscious enough to understand what was happening. I reassured him he’d make it. In two hours, he was gone,” her first diary entry noted.
And arguably, burnout among healthcare providers far predates the pandemic: 79% of healthcare providers surveyed said their burnout started much before Covid19, according to the Medscape National Physician Burnout & Suicide Report 2021. They were always overworked, always underpaid, and constantly dealing with issues woven into the fabric of the health system.
Earlier this year, Sam Schotland, Agnes Arnold‑Forster, and Jacob D. Moses at the University of Michigan Medical School wrote this year about the historical obstacles. The endemic nature of burnout is calcified due to three deep-seated social reasons that govern medicine. One is “medical exceptionalism,” where the collective consciousness regards medicine as a “self-sacrificing profession.” One doctor laments: “The amount of hours of work, mental exhaustion, the tremendous patient load we have to cater to is beyond what most people can comprehend.”
Healthcare providers were called “Covid19 warriors,” showered with platitudes, with dolls in their figures and medals to their name. But in this pedestalization, their personhood was sidelined, what Viraj Nevrekar, M.D., called “hero fatigue.” The Mumbai-based anesthetist also wrote: “please, cut us some slack sometimes. We are not God.”
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Two is the aspect of “medicalization,” where mental health issues among physicians themselves are stigmatized. And lastly, socially we expect healthcare providers to be personally responsible — even obliged — to maintain their health and wellness.
We look at burnout as an inertia that is contained in its impact on the individual. But as Dr. Patel pointed out: “burnout is not just a question of personal wellbeing or career satisfaction – it is a matter of patient safety.” Long work hours, stretched healthcare infrastructures, and sleep deprivation may lead to instances of wrong diagnosis, dismissal, and unconscious projections of bias. Dr. Mirchandani too feared that with anxiety and PTSD, “what will end up happening is people might not be able to do their best for their patients.”
The mental health of providers becomes the core of what holds healthcare together. This demands an immediate rethink of how our institutions have so far addressed burnout, and a more radical reimagining of how mental health support can be weaved into the occupational fiber of these systems. “These types of interventions hold the power to shift responsibility from individual physicians to institutions,” as Schotland, Arnold‑Forster, and Moses wrote this year.
“At the end of the day, physicians are workers, who absolutely deserve the same basic rights and adequate working conditions as other professions. By finally reckoning with massive structural problems, policies within health care may finally change. And this can lead to an overall better future for us all.” | https://theswaddle.com/burnout-among-doctors-is-not-only-impacting-their-health-but-also-patient-safety-finds-study/ | 2022-09-15T08:25:50Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/burnout-among-doctors-is-not-only-impacting-their-health-but-also-patient-safety-finds-study/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Ticket sales for Kerala Blasters' opening Indian Super League (ISL) Season 9 is now open. Marking a return to their home ground after two years of action in a bio-bubble due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Blasters take on East Bengal FC in the inaugural match on October 7 (Friday) at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Kochi.
One97 Communications Limited is Blasters' official ticketing partner.
Fans can purchase tickets for the opening match on Paytm and Insider.in website and mobile application. The ticket prices range from Rs 299 (galleries) to Rs 1,999 (VIP).
Online ticket links
Insider.in: https://insider.in/hero-indian-super-league-2022-23-kerala-blasters-fc-vs-east-bengal/event and on Paytm.
The entry for all online tickets will be paperless. All a fan has to do is scan his/her e-ticket QR code at the stadium’s entry gates. However, for security reasons, it is mandatory for every fan to carry a valid ID card of the person who booked the ticket.
Tickets categories and prices
North Gallery Rs 299
South Gallery Rs 299
East Gallery Rs 399
West Gallery Rs 399
Block B Rs 499
Block D Rs 499
Block C Rs 899
Block A Rs 899
Block E Rs 999
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Ticket sales for Kerala Blasters' opening Indian Super League (ISL) Season 9 is now open. Marking a return to their home ground after two years of action in a bio-bubble due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Blasters take on East Bengal FC in the inaugural match on October 7 (Friday) at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Kochi.
One97 Communications Limited is Blasters' official ticketing partner.
Fans can purchase tickets for the opening match on Paytm and Insider.in website and mobile application. The ticket prices range from Rs 299 (galleries) to Rs 1,999 (VIP).
Online ticket links
Insider.in: https://insider.in/hero-indian-super-league-2022-23-kerala-blasters-fc-vs-east-bengal/event and on Paytm.
The entry for all online tickets will be paperless. All a fan has to do is scan his/her e-ticket QR code at the stadium’s entry gates. However, for security reasons, it is mandatory for every fan to carry a valid ID card of the person who booked the ticket.
Tickets categories and prices
North Gallery Rs 299
South Gallery Rs 299
East Gallery Rs 399
West Gallery Rs 399
Block B Rs 499
Block D Rs 499
Block C Rs 899
Block A Rs 899
Block E Rs 999
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To hardly anyone’s surprise, disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly faces decades in prison after being found guilty in his state trial in Chicago.
Robert Sylvester Kelly, 55, was convicted on six of the 13 counts he was indicted on related to sexual assault of minor females. According to WGN-TV, Kelly was acquitted on seven counts that included: one child pornography count, one count of sexual exploitation of a child, one count of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, as well as four conspiracy counts.
“It had to be the way R. Kelly wanted,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeannice Appenteng said Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. “And, ladies and gentlemen, what R. Kelly wanted was to have sex with young girls.”
Kelly has already been sentenced to 30 years in prison in June 2022 after being convicted in his federal trial in New York on a litany of similar charges.
“R. Kelly used his fame, fortune and enablers to prey on the young, the vulnerable and the voiceless for his own sexual gratification, while many turned a blind eye,” Breon Pace, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. “Through his actions, Kelly exhibited a callous disregard for the devastation his crimes had on his victims and has shown no remorse for his conduct.”
Kelly notified the media through his attorneys that he plans to appeal his conviction and sentence from the federal trial in New York. Legal pundits expect Kelly to do the same after this state trial in Chicago. | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/15/r-kelly-found-guilty-in-the-state-case-in-chicago/ | 2022-09-15T08:44:01Z | rollingout.com | control | https://rollingout.com/2022/09/15/r-kelly-found-guilty-in-the-state-case-in-chicago/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TAIPEI, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Axiomtek - a world-renowned leader relentlessly devoted in the research, development, and manufacturing of innovative and reliable industrial computer products of high efficiency – is proud to introduce the IPC972, its new industrial edge AI system with dual GPU support. The highly expandable edge computer supports the Intel® Xeon® or 10th gen Intel® CoreTM i7/i5/i3 processor (code name: Comet Lake S) with the Intel® W480E chipset. With the ability to support two NVIDIA® GeForce RTX 3090 GPU cards, the IPC972 enables to facilitate image processing, real-time control, data analysis, deep learning, AOI, data acquisition, and more automation tasks.
Axiomtek's IPC972 continues the IPC970 series design, offering flexible expansion options with one I/O module slot, four PCIe slots. In addition, it has one M.2 Key B 3042/3050 slot with SIM slot for 5G wireless connection, one M.2 Key E 2234 slot for Wi-Fi/Bluetooth modules, and one full-size PCIe Mini Card slot with SIM slot for Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/LTE modules. With the compact and front-facing I/O design, the IPC972 provides the advantages of fast set-up and easy access and deployment. For stable operation in mission-critical environments, the IPC972 has a wide operating temperature range of -10°C to +60°C and a power input of 24V DC (uMin=19V/uMax=30V) with power-on delay function, over-voltage protection, over current protection, and reverse voltage protection.
"The IPC972 is designed to support dual NVIDIA® GeForce RTX 3090 GPU cards to accelerate tremendous graphics performance for growing AI applications at the edge. A single modular I/O slot can be flexibly expanded with the integration of different I/O modules – AX93511, AX93512, AX93516, and AX93519 – to make the IPC972 ideal and scalable for multi-application requests," said Ivy Lee, the product manager of AIoT Product PM Division at Axiomtek.
The IPC972 comes with four DDR4-2933 ECC/non ECC U-DIMM sockets with a maximum of 128GB system memory. This edge AI computer is equipped with two swappable 2.5-inch SSDs/HDDs, an optional internal 2.5-inch SSD/HDD with the support of Intel® RAID 0,1 and one M.2 Key M 2280 socket for NVMe SDD. In addition, the intelligent computing system supports rich I/O options including one 2.5GbE LAN port, one GbE LAN port, eight USB 3.2 ports, one internal USB 2.0 port, one VGA, one HDMI, one 4-pin terminal block, one audio (line-out), and one AT/ATX selectable switch. The IPC972 supports wall mounting for making installation easier. Moreover, the system runs Linux or Windows 10, and support TPM 2.0 for enhancing data and network security.
Axiomtek's edge computer with dual GPU expansion, the IPC972, is available now. For more product information or customization services, please visit our global website at www.axiomtek.com or contact one of our sales representatives at info@axiomtek.com.tw.
Advanced Features of IPC972
- LGA1200 Intel® Xeon® or 10th gen Core™ i7/i5/i3 processor, up to 80W (codename: Comet Lake S)
- Intel® W480E chipset
- Supports dual NVIDIA® GeForce RTX 3090 GPU cards
- M.2 Key B slot for 5G wireless connection
- M.2 Key E slot for Wi-Fi connection
- Supports RAID 0, 1, 5
- Supports power-on delay function
- Supports TPM 2.0
About Axiomtek Co., Ltd
Axiomtek has experienced extraordinary growth in the past 30 years because of our people, our years of learning which resulted in our tremendous industry experience, and our desire to deliver well-rounded, easy-to-integrate solutions to our customers. These factors have influenced us to invest in a growing team of engineers including software, hardware, firmware, and application engineers. For the next few decades, our success will be determined by our ability to lead with unique technologies for AIoT and serve our key markets with innovatively-designed solution packages of hardware and software – coupled with unmatched engineering and value-added services that will help lessen the challenges faced by our systems integrator, OEM and ODM customers and prospects alike. We will continue to enlist more technology partners and increase collaborations with our growing ecosystem who are leaders in their fields. With such alliances, we will create synergy and better deliver solutions, value, and the expertise our customers need.
As an associate member of the Intel® Internet of Things Solutions Alliance, Axiomtek continuously develops and delivers cutting edge solutions based on the latest Intel® platforms.
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Moody's has announced to upgrade ratings of Southeast Asia Commercial Joint Stock Bank (SeABank, stock code SSB) to Ba3 from B1. Simultaneously, the Bank ranks among "Top 1000 World Banks" by The Banker, reflecting SeABank's strong growth and success in international integration.
HANOI, Vietnam, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Moody's Investors Service (Moody's) - one of the world's big three credit rating agencies has recently upgraded ratings for few reputable Vietnamese banks, SeABank is included. Accordingly, SeABank's long-term local (LC) and foreign currency (FC) deposit and issuer ratings has been upgraded to Ba3 after 4 consecutive years at B1, one notch below Vietnam's sovereign ratings. This is inline with Moody's upgrade of SeABank's Baseline Credit Assessment (BCA) to B1 from B2 with a Positive outlook in April 2022.
The rating actions follows the earlier upgrade of Vietnam's sovereign rating to Ba2 from Ba3 with stable outlook, and in the context of SeABank's outstanding business results in the first half of 2022, implying positive outlook of SeABank's increasing financials growth, market's liquidity, the resilience against unexpected events such as Covid-19.
Moreover, SeABank's strong growth and success in international market penetration are also recognized by reputable global organizations like The Banker. Particularly, in August, this leading Financial Times' publication has listed SeABank in "Top 1000 World Banks" based on 2021's remarkable growth in terms of Pre-Tax Profits, Tier 1 capital, Total Assets, Profits-to-Tier 1 capital ratio, Capital-to-Assets ratio, Return on Assets, etc. SeABank has also increased charter capital to 19.8 trillion VND (US$853.4 million) and is on its way to complete the target of 22.69 trillion VND by the end of 2022.
Additionally, SeABank is recognized internationally for its achievements in different aspects, proved by various awards and honors such as Best Companies to Work for (HR Asia), Most Innovative Bank for Women Award Vietnam 2022 (Global Business Magazine Awards), Top 50 Most Innovative Companies to Watch 2022 (The CEO Views), etc. These are the results of SeABank's clear, effective strategies and its attempts to adhere to global standards.
In recent years, SeABank has made several breakthroughs as a result of a long-term strategy focusing on 5 core pillars: Risk Management, Technology, Customer Development, Human Resource and Corporate Culture. Currently, SeABank is intensively promoting "Digital Convergence" strategy, focusing on digitizing products and services, integrating modern technology into the system, thus improving daily procedures and better serving the customer demands.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Members of one union rejected a tentative deal with the largest U.S. freight railroads Wednesday, while two ratified agreements and three others remained at the bargaining table just days ahead of a strike deadline, threatening to intensify snarls in the nation's supply chain that have contributed to rising prices.
About 4,900 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 19 voted to reject the tentative agreement negotiated by IAM leadership with the railroads, the union said Wednesday. But the IAM agreed to delay any strike by its members until Sept. 29 to allow more time for negotiations and to allow other unions to vote.
Railroads are trying to reach an agreement with all their other unions to avert a strike before Friday’s deadline. The unions aren't allowed to strike before Friday under the federal law that governs railroad contract talks, which include BNSF, Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern, CSX, Kansas City Southern and the U.S. operations of Canadian National.
Government officials and a variety of businesses are bracing for the possibility of a nationwide rail strike that would paralyze shipments of everything from crude and clothing to cars, a potential calamity for businesses that have struggled for more than two years due to COVID-19 related supply chain breakdowns.
There are 12 unions - one with two separate divisions - representing 115,000 workers that must agree to the tentative deals and then have members vote on whether to approve them. So far, nine had agreed to tentative deals and three others are still at the bargaining table.
Of the nine that agreed to the deals, two - the Transportation Communications Union and the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen unions - voted to ratify their contracts Wednesday. But IAM members voted to reject their deal. Votes by the other six unions that approved tentative deals are pending.
All the tentative deals are based closely on the recommendations of a Presidential Emergency Board Joe Biden appointed this summer that called for 24% raises and $5,000 in bonuses in a five-year deal that’s retroactive to 2020. Those recommendations also includes one additional paid leave day a year and higher health insurance costs.
The key unions that represent the conductors and engineers who drive trains are holding out in the hope that railroads will agree to go beyond those recommendations and address some of their concerns about unpredictable schedules and strict attendance policies that they say make it difficult to take any time off. They say the job cuts major railroads have made over the past six years - eliminating nearly one-third of their workers - have made a difficult job even harder although the railroads maintain their operations have just become more efficient as they rely on fewer, longer trains.
The unions want the railroads to provide unpaid leave time that workers could use to attend doctors appointments or attend to other personal business without being penalized.
Ron Kaminkow, general secretary of the Railroad Workers United labor group that includes workers from all the rail unions, said he left the freight industry for an Amtrak engineer job in Nevada years ago because of the grueling working conditions that have only gotten worse in recent years. He's seen many other workers make that switch even though it often comes with lower pay and means giving up seniority.
“Everyone knows you can get more money in the freight industry. But it’s what we would call blood money,” Kaminkow said. “It’s almost impossible to predict when you are going to be off and when you can attend to various life issues like family, like children, like an appointment.”
Contract talks continued Wednesday with Labor Secretary Marty Walsh participating again to put pressure on both sides to reach a deal before Friday's deadline.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told reporters at the Detroit auto show Wednesday that the Biden administration remains focused on preventing a strike. Biden himself made calls earlier this week, but the administration is preparing to respond if a walkout does happen.
“We’ve been engaging with the parties, and our message continues to be that the labor unions and railroads need to find the deal space to avoid any kind of disruption,” he said. “The most important thing is to try to prevent that from happening in the first place.”
If the two sides can't agree, Congress could step in to block a strike and impose terms on the railroads and unions, but it wasn't clear Wednesday how quickly they could or would act because Democrats and Republicans can't readily agree on a solution. A number of business groups have written letters to lawmakers over the past week urging them to be prepared to step in because of their concerns that a rail strike would be what the Business Roundtable called an “economic catastrophe."
With the midterm elections just weeks away, politics will play a role if Congress has to settle this dispute. Democrats are wary of becoming crosswise with their allies in organized labor, as unions tend to be strong supporters in elections. At the same time, Republicans see an opportunity to put pressure on Biden and his party if the railroads teeter toward a strike. But it's entirely possible that all sides would be blamed for a rail shutdown.
The many businesses that rely on railroads to deliver their raw materials and finished products say a rail strike would cause significant problems particularly for oil refineries, chemical businesses, auto makers, retailers and agricultural groups. The Association of American Railroads trade group estimated that a strike would cost the economy more than $2 billion a day.
Businesses would likely try to turn to trucks and other modes of shipping if the railroads do shut down, but there isn't enough trucking capacity to take up all the slack. The railroad trade group estimated that 467,000 additional trucks a day would be required to deliver everything railroads handle now.
A freight rail strike would also disrupt passenger traffic because Amtrak and many commuter railroads operate on tracks owned by the freight railroads. Amtrak has already canceled a number of its long-distance trains this week, and it said the rest of its long-distance trains would stop Thursday ahead of the strike deadline. | https://www.wboc.com/news/1-rail-union-rejects-deal-2-accept-ahead-of-strike-deadline/article_d13598f4-34c5-11ed-931c-7311139c25ee.html | 2022-09-15T08:58:36Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/news/1-rail-union-rejects-deal-2-accept-ahead-of-strike-deadline/article_d13598f4-34c5-11ed-931c-7311139c25ee.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Forecast Updated on Thursday, September 15, 2022, at 3:35am by WBOC Meteorologist Mike Lichniak
Today: Sunny. Highs: 77-83. Winds: N 5-10 mph.
Tonight: Clear. Lows: 50-64. Winds: N-NE 5-10 mph.
Friday: Sunny. Highs: 78-84. Winds: NE 5-10 mph.
Friday Night: Clear. Lows: 58-68. Winds: NE-E 5-10 mph.
Saturday: Mostly sunny. Highs: 80-85. Winds: SE 5-15 mph.
Sunday: Mostly sunny. Highs: 82-88. Winds: SE-S 5-15 mph.
A very quiet weather pattern sets up across Delmarva as high pressure takes control for the rest of the workweek and for the weekend. We will have very comfortable conditions for most of bike week with temperatures in the 70s and low 80s Thursday through Saturday with morning temperatures in the 50s through tomorrow morning. In fact, I will even go out on a limb and say that our coolest communities wake up in the 40s on Friday morning. It will be a nice touch of fall to the air through the start of the weekend.
As the high eventually starts to slide off the coast, the wind will eventually start to turn out of the southeast and south over the weekend. This will lead to warming temperatures with highs in the mid and upper 80s by Sunday and Monday. This will also begin to drive up the humidity and make things start to feel a bit more uncomfortable by the weekend as well.
There are indications that this ridge of high pressure may break down enough that a weak front could bring a chance of a shower or storm into the forecast early next week. At this point, I am going to keep things on the dry side for now with indications that the heat will really build back with highs near 90 degrees by the middle of next week. A chance of a few showers and storms do actually enter the forecast by next Thursday afternoon and evening. | https://www.wboc.com/weather/forecast-summary/quiet-weather-through-the-weekend/article_ed93f312-34c8-11ed-af02-83b45848bf28.html | 2022-09-15T08:58:42Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/weather/forecast-summary/quiet-weather-through-the-weekend/article_ed93f312-34c8-11ed-af02-83b45848bf28.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Atlantic Ocean:
Thursday: N 10-15 knots. Seas: 2-3 feet.
Friday: N 5-15 knots. Seas: 2-3 feet.
Chesapeake Bay:
Thursday: Small Craft Advisory until Noon. N 10-20 knots. Waves: 1-2 feet.
Friday: NE 5-10 knots. Waves: 1 foot.
Delaware Bay:
Thursday: N 10-15 knots. Seas: 1-2 feet.
Friday: N 5-10 knots. Seas: 1-2 feet. | https://www.wboc.com/weather/on-the-waters/marine-forecast-for-thursday-september-15-2022/article_03ee0efe-34c9-11ed-a283-7362363348b5.html | 2022-09-15T08:58:49Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/weather/on-the-waters/marine-forecast-for-thursday-september-15-2022/article_03ee0efe-34c9-11ed-a283-7362363348b5.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
VANCOUVER, BC, September 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - B2Gold Corp. (TSX: BTO) (NYSE: BTG) (NSX: B2G) ("B2Gold" or the "Company") is pleased to announce additional positive exploration drilling results from the Anaconda Area, located approximately 25 kilometers north of the Fekola Mine, confirming continuity of the Mamba Main Zone, which remains open down plunge.
The Anaconda Area, comprised of the Menankoto and Bantako North permits, forms part of the Fekola complex (the "Fekola Complex"), which also includes the Fekola Mine and the adjacent Cardinal Zone, the Bakolobi permit, and the Dandoko permit (subject to completion of the Oklo Resources Ltd. transaction).
Exploration Highlights
- High grade results from the Mamba Main Zone, including hole BND_108 with 5.89 grams per tonne ("g/t") gold over 28.70 meters ("m") from 455.45 m, hole BND_101 with 3.76 g/t gold over 32.08 m from 299.00 m, and hole BND_104 with 3.33 g/t gold over 14.30 m from 362.70 m, which collectively confirm and extend the continuity of the high grade sulphide mineralization of the sulphide shoot to over 700 m down plunge, providing a strong indication of the potential for Fekola-style bodies of sulphide mineralization, which remain open at depth.
- Strong initial results from the Cobra Zone, located 2 kilometers east of the Mamba Zone, including hole MSD_227 with 2.02 g/t gold over 25.30 m from 201.70 m, and 6.75 g/t gold over 13.80 m from 244.40 m, confirming the potential for economic grade and width combinations in the sulphide mineralization. The Company believes that the Cobra Zone may extend onto the Bakolobi permit and are currently drilling this extension target.
- Ongoing drilling by the Company on the Anaconda Area to infill and extend the saprolite Mineral Resource area and to follow up on the sulphide mineralization, including the Mamba and Adder zones as well as several other targets below the saprolite mineralization, continues to generate positive drill results in both saprolite and sulphide domains and demonstrates strong potential to further increase the updated March 2022 Anaconda Area Mineral Resource estimate.
In 2022, B2Gold is conducting an approximately 161,000 m drill program on the Fekola Complex with a budget of approximately $35 million, including drill programs on the Fekola North deposit to further test the underground mineralization potential, and on the Anaconda Area, including the Mamba, Adder, Anaconda, Cascabel, Viper, and Cobra zones. To date in 2022, B2Gold has completed approximately 116,000 m of combined diamond, reverse circulation and aircore drilling on targets near the Fekola Mine and the Anaconda Area. In addition, approximately 9,000 m of drilling has been completed to date on the newly acquired Bakolobi permit.
Click here to view Figure 1. Fekola Complex Overview
Mamba Zone
Ongoing exploration in the Anaconda Area continues to generate positive drill results in both saprolite and sulphide domains and demonstrates upside potential to the updated Anaconda Area Mineral Resource estimate, constrained within a conceptual pit shell at a gold price of $1,800 per ounce, which included an initial Indicated Mineral Resource estimate of 32,400,000 tonnes at 1.08 g/t gold for a total 1,130,000 ounces of gold, and an Inferred Mineral Resource estimate of 63,700,000 tonnes at 1.12 g/t gold for 2,280,000 ounces of gold.
Drilling targeting the deeper portions of the Mamba Main sulphide shoot has been particularly successful, as demonstrated by the results of holes BND_108, BND_101, and BND_104, confirming the continuity of the high grade sulphide mineralization and extending the Mamba Main sulphide shoot to over 700 m down plunge. The results from holes MSD_228 and MSD_226 suggest that multiple high grade sulphide shoots may be present in the Mamba Zone. Ongoing drilling will continue to test the potential for Fekola-style, south plunging bodies of sulphide mineralization, which remain open down plunge.
Click here to view Figure 2. Mamba Long Section
Approximately 1.2 kilometers north of the Mamba Main sulphide shoot, hole BND_093 returned 2.06 g/t gold over 22.75 m from 199.55 m, demonstrating additional sulphide potential at Mamba NE which is hosted in a separate northeast-trending structure from the Mamba Main mineralization.
Three drill rigs are currently drilling the Mamba Zone, with approximately 16,000 m to be completed during the remainder of 2022.
Select results from the Mamba Zone exploration drilling include:
Note: Saprolite composites are reported above a 0.2 g/t gold cutoff and sulphide composites above 0.6 g/t gold cutoff, applying a maximum internal dilution of 5 m.
Cobra Zone (2 kilometers east of the Mamba Zone)
The Cobra Zone has over 8 kilometers of known strike extent, from Menankoto South to the southern end of the Bakolobi permit. The Cobra Zone is being targeted as a source of additional sulphide mineralization within the Anaconda Area. Recent drilling highlights include hole MSD_227, which intersected 2.02 g/t gold over 25.30 m (approximately 20 m true width) from 201.70 m, and 6.75 g/t gold over 13.80 m from 244.40 m, confirming the potential for economic grade and width combinations in the sulphide mineralization. Closer to surface, hole MSR_959 intersected 3.33 g/t gold over 12.00 m from 107.00 m in saprolite mineralization. The Company believes that the Cobra Zone may extend onto the Bakolobi permit and are currently drilling this extension target.
Click here to view Figure 3 - Menankoto - Bakolobi Drill Targets
Select results from the Cobra Zone exploration drilling include:
Note: Saprolite composites are reported above a 0.2 g/t gold cutoff and sulphide composites above 0.6 g/t gold cutoff, applying a maximum internal dilution of 5 m.
Three drill rigs are currently drilling the Cobra Zone, with approximately 18,000 m to be completed during the remainder of 2022.
For the remainder of 2022, the Company will focus on follow up drilling to extend the known sulphide mineralization at the Anaconda Area, including the Mamba, Cobra and Adder zones, and several other targets below the saprolite mineralization, with approximately 45,000 m to be completed overall.
In April 2022, the Company acquired the Bakolobi permit, which is located between the Menankoto South permit and the Medinandi permit, covering an area of 100 km2 and providing approximately 25 kilometers of contiguous exploration potential along the prolific Senegal-Mali Shear Zone. An initial 9,000 m of aircore drilling and reverse circulation drilling has been completed since the acquisition. Drilling is focused on the southward extension of known resources in the Adder Zone and will also test the southward extension of sulphide mineralization on the Cobra Zone. The Company believes that the Bakolobi permit is a highly prospective area that has the potential to provide for the near-term addition of both saprolite and sulphide hosted gold deposits.
B2Gold's acquisition of Oklo Resources Limited and its flagship Dandoko project, which is anticipated to be completed on September 19, 2022, will extend the footprint of B2Gold's exploration in Mali to over 1,700 km2 and add the Dandoko project's JORC 2012 compliant Measured and Indicated Mineral Resource estimate of 8.70 million tonnes at 1.88 g/t gold for 528,000 ounces of gold and an Inferred Mineral Resource estimate of 2.63 million tonnes at 1.67 g/t gold for 141,000 ounces of gold, to B2Gold's rapidly growing Mineral Resource inventory in the region. The Company believes there is strong potential to extend the mineralization at the Dandoko project. Initial drilling on the Dandoko project is expected to commence in the fourth quarter of 2022.
In 2022, the Company budgeted $33 million for development of infrastructure for Phase I saprolite mining at the Anaconda Area, including road construction. Based on the updated Mineral Resource estimate and B2Gold's preliminary planning, the Company has demonstrated that a pit situated on the Anaconda Area could provide selective higher grade saprolite material (average grade of 2.2 g/t gold) to be trucked to and fed into the Fekola mill at a rate of 1.5 million tonnes per annum. With the anticipated closing of the acquisition of Oklo and its flagship Dandoko project on September 19, 2022, the Company is currently evaluating its options for the timing and sourcing of material on a regional basis from all deposits within the Fekola Complex area (including Fekola, Cardinal, Dandoko, Bakalobi and the Anaconda Area). This updated evaluation is expected to be completed by the end of 2022, with first saprolite production now anticipated in the second quarter of 2023. Subject to obtaining all necessary permits and completion of a final development plan, the Company intends to commence its planned Phase I infrastructure development in the fourth quarter of 2022. Trucking of selective higher grade saprolite material to the Fekola mill would increase the ore processed and annual gold production from the Fekola mill, with the potential to add an average of approximately 80,000 to 100,000 ounces of gold per year to the Fekola mill's annual production.
Based on the updated Mineral Resource estimate and the 2022 exploration drilling results, the Company has commenced a Phase II scoping study to review the project economics of constructing a stand-alone mill near the Anaconda Area. Subject to receipt of a positive Phase II scoping study, the Company expects that the saprolite material would continue to be trucked to and fed into the Fekola mill during the construction period for the Anaconda Area stand-alone mill.
The primary laboratories for Fekola are SGS Laboratories in Bamako, Mali and Bureau Veritas Laboratories in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. Periodically, exploration samples will be analyzed at the Fekola Mine laboratory. At each laboratory, samples are prepared and analyzed using 50-gram fire assay with atomic absorption finish and/or gravimetric finish. Umpire assays are used to monitor lab performance monthly.
Quality assurance and quality control procedures include the systematic insertion of blanks, standards and duplicates into the core, reverse circulation and aircore drilling sample strings. The results of the control samples are evaluated on a regular basis with batches re-analyzed and/or resubmitted as needed. All results stated in this announcement have passed B2Gold's quality assurance and quality control protocols.
B2Gold is a low-cost international senior gold producer headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. Founded in 2007, today, B2Gold has operating gold mines in Mali, Namibia and the Philippines and numerous exploration and development projects in various countries including Mali, Colombia, Finland and Uzbekistan. B2Gold forecasts total consolidated gold production of between 990,000 and 1,050,000 ounces in 2022.
Qualified Persons
Tom Garagan, Senior Vice President of Exploration at B2Gold, a qualified person under NI 43-101, has reviewed and approved the information contained in this news release.
ON BEHALF OF B2GOLD CORP.
"Clive T. Johnson"
President and Chief Executive Officer
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The Toronto Stock Exchange and NYSE American LLC neither approve nor disapprove the information contained in this news release.
Production guidance presented in this news release reflect total production at the mines B2Gold operates on a 100% project basis. Please see our Annual Information Form dated March 30, 2022 for a discussion of our ownership interest in the mines B2Gold operates.
This news release includes certain "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" (collectively "forward-looking statement") within the meaning of applicable Canadian and United States securities legislation, including: projections; outlook; guidance; forecasts; estimates; statements regarding future or estimated financial and operational performance, gold production and sales, revenues and cash flows, and capital costs (sustaining and non-sustaining) and operating costs, and including, without limitation: statements regarding the Transaction, including, without limitation, the completion of the Oklo transaction, including receipt of all necessary regulatory approvals, including from the TSX and NYSE MKT, and the satisfaction of conditions; total consolidated gold production of between 990,000 and 1,050,000 ounces in 2022. All statements in this news release that address events or developments that we expect to occur in the future are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical facts and are generally, although not always, identified by words such as "expect", "plan", "anticipate", "project", "target", "potential", "schedule", "forecast", "budget", "estimate", "intend" or "believe" and similar expressions or their negative connotations, or that events or conditions "will", "would", "may", "could", "should" or "might" occur. All such forward-looking statements are based on the opinions and estimates of management as of the date such statements are made.
Forward-looking statements necessarily involve assumptions, risks and uncertainties, certain of which are beyond B2Gold's control, including risks associated with or related to: the duration and extent of the COVID-19 pandemic, the effectiveness of preventative measures and contingency plans put in place by the Company to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, including, but not limited to, social distancing, a non-essential travel ban, business continuity plans, and efforts to mitigate supply chain disruptions; escalation of travel restrictions on people or products and reductions in the ability of the Company to transport and refine doré; the volatility of metal prices and B2Gold's common shares; changes in tax laws; the dangers inherent in exploration, development and mining activities; the uncertainty of reserve and resource estimates; not achieving production, cost or other estimates; actual production, development plans and costs differing materially from the estimates in B2Gold's feasibility and other studies; the ability to obtain and maintain any necessary permits, consents or authorizations required for mining activities; environmental regulations or hazards and compliance with complex regulations associated with mining activities; climate change and climate change regulations; the ability to replace mineral reserves and identify acquisition opportunities; the unknown liabilities of companies acquired by B2Gold; the ability to successfully integrate new acquisitions; fluctuations in exchange rates; the availability of financing; financing and debt activities, including potential restrictions imposed on B2Gold's operations as a result thereof and the ability to generate sufficient cash flows; operations in foreign and developing countries and the compliance with foreign laws, including those associated with operations in Mali, Namibia, the Philippines and Colombia and including risks related to changes in foreign laws and changing policies related to mining and local ownership requirements or resource nationalization generally, including in response to the COVID-19 outbreak; remote operations and the availability of adequate infrastructure; fluctuations in price and availability of energy and other inputs necessary for mining operations; shortages or cost increases in necessary equipment, supplies and labour; regulatory, political and country risks, including local instability or acts of terrorism and the effects thereof; the reliance upon contractors, third parties and joint venture partners; the lack of sole decision-making authority related to Filminera Resources Corporation, which owns the Masbate Project; challenges to title or surface rights; the dependence on key personnel and the ability to attract and retain skilled personnel; the risk of an uninsurable or uninsured loss; adverse climate and weather conditions; litigation risk; competition with other mining companies; community support for B2Gold's operations, including risks related to strikes and the halting of such operations from time to time; conflicts with small scale miners; failures of information systems or information security threats; the ability to maintain adequate internal controls over financial reporting as required by law, including Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act; compliance with anti-corruption laws, and sanctions or other similar measures; social media and B2Gold's reputation; risks affecting Calibre having an impact on the value of the Company's investment in Calibre, and potential dilution of our equity interest in Calibre; as well as other factors identified and as described in more detail under the heading "Risk Factors" in B2Gold's most recent Annual Information Form, B2Gold's current Form 40-F Annual Report and B2Gold's other filings with Canadian securities regulators and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), which may be viewed at www.sedar.com and www.sec.gov, respectively (the "Websites"). The list is not exhaustive of the factors that may affect B2Gold's forward-looking statements
B2Gold's forward-looking statements are based on the applicable assumptions and factors management considers reasonable as of the date hereof, based on the information available to management at such time. These assumptions and factors include, but are not limited to, assumptions and factors related to B2Gold's ability to carry on current and future operations, including: the duration and effects of COVID-19 on our operations and workforce; development and exploration activities; the timing, extent, duration and economic viability of such operations, including any mineral resources or reserves identified thereby; the accuracy and reliability of estimates, projections, forecasts, studies and assessments; B2Gold's ability to meet or achieve estimates, projections and forecasts; the availability and cost of inputs; the price and market for outputs, including gold; foreign exchange rates; taxation levels; the timely receipt of necessary approvals or permits; the ability to meet current and future obligations; the ability to obtain timely financing on reasonable terms when required; the current and future social, economic and political conditions; and other assumptions and factors generally associated with the mining industry.
B2Gold's forward-looking statements are based on the opinions and estimates of management and reflect their current expectations regarding future events and operating performance and speak only as of the date hereof. B2Gold does not assume any obligation to update forward-looking statements if circumstances or management's beliefs, expectations or opinions should change other than as required by applicable law. There can be no assurance that forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate, and actual results, performance or achievements could differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, these forward-looking statements. Accordingly, no assurance can be given that any events anticipated by the forward-looking statements will transpire or occur, or if any of them do, what benefits or liabilities B2Gold will derive therefrom. For the reasons set forth above, undue reliance should not be placed on forward-looking statements.
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After taking X-rays, veterinarians discovered the one-year-old dog 'Nakoa', had been shot twice with real bullets. One of the wounds was old, while the other was fresh.
"It fully severed his spine, just shattering the vertebrae," explained Ku'ulei Durand, Executive Director of PAWS of Hawaii. "They said if the bullet had missed his spine, we would've been able to save him. But, because it severed his spine he has severe damage to all of his body, and he's going to be a paraplegic dog for the rest of his life."
Veterinarian assessments also showed Nakoa's leg would have to be amputated.
Due to the poor quality of life he would live, the difficult decision was made to put him down.
Vets also performed a CT scan, which they hope can help bring some justice to the situation.
"It's actually very important to do his CT scan because not only will this tell us what's wrong with him, the CT scan would be able to be used in prosecuting whoever it is that did this to him," explained Durand. "The veterinarians are going to be pulling out the bullets and sending them over to authorities to try and figure out who did this to this dog."
This comes amid a reported uptick in recent animal cruelty cases, according to local animal organizations.
Durand said PAWS of Hawaii is grateful to the public for their generous donations in helping pay for Nakoa's roughly $4,000 worth of medical bills on Wednesday.
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Kauai animal shelter at-capacity, adoption fees waived September 16-18 KITV4 Web Staff Sep 14, 2022 Sep 14, 2022 Updated 17 min ago 0 Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save All adoptions will be free at the Kauai Humane Society this weekend, because the shelter is bursting at the seams.KITV4 spoke with Kauai Humane Society's Executive Director Nicole Schafer Crane on the state of the animals at the shelter. As of September 13 -- there were 110 dogs as well as 248 cats and kittens. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save More From KITV 4 Island News News Hawaii Supreme Court ruling on serious felony cases causing chaos in criminal justice system Updated Sep 9, 2022 Business Liliha Bakery hosting job fair July 8 & 9 to hire staff for new Pearl City location Updated Jul 8, 2022 Crime & Courts Jury finds Erik Willis guilty of attempted murder in brutal 2020 stabbing attack at Kahala Beach Updated Jul 14, 2022 Local Honolulu beats Texas in Little League World Series, moves on to US semifinals Updated Aug 24, 2022 Local Thursday Weather: Trade winds with stable conditions Updated Jun 16, 2022 Local ICYMI: 4 stories you Need to Know from KITV4, May 25, 2022 Updated Aug 21, 2022 Recommended for you
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For nearly 50 years, those of us who favor legal protection for children in the womb have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow abortion policy to be set through democratic debate. Now we’re having that debate, and strategists in both parties say we’re losing it.
We should be clear-eyed about the accumulating political evidence of public discontent with anti-abortion policies. Polling has shown an uptick in support for legal abortion since the court overturned Roe v. Wade. Democrats tell pollsters the issue is motivating their votes more than Republicans do. Republicans’ poll numbers have fallen overall. And voters in Kansas overwhelmingly defeated a referendum to let the Legislature increase restrictions on abortion.
Midterm elections typically go poorly for the party that holds the White House, likely in part because its supporters are complacent and its opponents aggrieved. The abortion decision, and the flurry of restrictions and proposed restrictions that followed it, have at least blunted the Republican advantage this year. On abortion, it’s the party out of power that is making controversial changes.
The debate has also focused on the issues where the public most favors legal abortion: on abortions early in pregnancy, on cases of threats to the mother’s life, on rape and incest. It’s not dwelling on the aspects of abortion that incline most people toward restrictions: whether it should be government funded, used for sex selection or allowed late in pregnancy.
Pro-lifers and Republicans should do what they can to change this focus, even before the elections are over. But that will require adjustments from two different groups. Passionate pro-lifers, in their impatience at what they recognize to be a grave injustice, are forgetting the need for patient persuasion of the public. Republicans who consider themselves pragmatists, on the other hand, are making a practical mistake in assuming that by not talking about their view of abortion, they can make the issue go away.
Both groups should converge on an approach that has served them well in the past: pro-life incrementalism.
Republicans should acknowledge that sustaining legal protections for unborn children requires a public consensus. They should declare that they will act to extend that protection where a consensus exists and try to build one where it doesn’t. In all but the bluest and reddest states, that should mean working in the near term to prohibit abortions late in pregnancy.
That’s not an abandonment of the goal of broader protections. It’s a step toward it — one that acknowledges the public isn’t there yet. The successful campaign for the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, a federal law, should be a model. Pro-lifers convinced many Americans who do not agree with us about abortion in general to prohibit one method of abortion that seemed particularly inhumane. But we did not stop thinking and saying that other methods of abortion should be restricted as well.
Pro-life Republicans can and should do more to reassure ambivalent voters. One is worth doing in its own right, apart from any electoral considerations: State governments that have enacted bans on abortion at various stages of pregnancy ought to be much more active in offering legal guidance to doctors and hospitals, clarifying that they can exercise their best judgment in protecting pregnant women from harms to their physical health.
Pro-lifers should also refrain from self-defeating rhetoric. Some pro-lifers have made a point of claiming that abortion is never medically necessary. That’s because they don’t consider ending an ectopic pregnancy, for example, as a “direct abortion” — an intentional taking of human life. That’s needlessly confusing, and pro-lifers should simply say they’re for an exception in such cases.
They should also broaden their agenda to include measures to aid parents of small children — such as the proposals of various Republican senators to expand the child tax credit and to finance paid leave. Promoting a culture of life includes fostering the economic conditions that help it thrive.
As they correct course, though, Republicans need to maintain some perspective about the political challenge they face. The end of Roe was worth losing some congressional races. It is enabling an expansion of legal protection for unborn children this year, and will enable more in the future — especially if Republicans take the House, even narrowly, and so prevent Democrats from enacting a statutory version of Roe in the next Congress. Republican governors who have signed laws against abortion in battleground states such as Florida, Georgia, and Ohio are on track to win reelection.
For pro-lifers, the post-Roe debate is not going as well as it could. But it’s also just beginning. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/column-the-pro-life-movement-needs-to-be-more-realistic/article_c343b4ee-3392-11ed-bfaf-53d67af9282b.html | 2022-09-15T09:24:42Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/column-the-pro-life-movement-needs-to-be-more-realistic/article_c343b4ee-3392-11ed-bfaf-53d67af9282b.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
To the editor — Everyone praising Joe Biden for canceling some student loan debt must stop. His action proves that he can erase all student debt by executive order if he wanted to. Biden is deliberately offering a worthless pittance and is placing Kafka-esque barriers, known as "means testing," to get relief.
Everyone complaining about Biden canceling student debt is arguing in bad faith. Education is a human right that should be free and available to everyone. The act of demanding people apply for predatory loans, that cannot be discharged in bankruptcy, for a basic service is not choice; it's extortion.
Those whining that people "pay their debts" are, at best, hypocritical scumbags who lived during an era when school was free or heavily subsidized. At worst, they're broken, tortured, louts who've accepted the horror of our system. Both of them deserve scorn.
To cancel all student debt and end this exploitative, financialized horror show that worships money as God, everyone must continue to harass, scream and demand Biden and the worthless Congress do more. Organizations like the Debt Collective need members to help fight the good fight. United, we will end the era of precarity and shame.
ELIAS HANSEN
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The so-called fastest-growing sport in America is playable by all ages and easy to learn. No wonder some people love it. The more interesting question is why do others hate it so much?
From the frivolous name to the loud popping sound made by its paddles, pickleball has the power to divide Americans. Its advocates say it also can unite us and that the contrary opinions typify the state of the nation in 2022.
While we see both sides of the pickleball divide, we come down in favor of this pastime. We’re rooting for pickleball to win over skeptics and expand its following. If it helps to bring together an increasingly clannish country, so much the better.
Pickleball is a racket sport emphasizing finesse over power, in the mold of badminton or table tennis. It’s played with a plastic perforated ball and solid paddles made of wood, graphite or composite materials. The basic equipment is inexpensive and the concept is simple: You hit the ball over the net and hope your opponent can’t hit it back.
Custom courts are becoming more common, but a lot of pickleball is being played on tennis courts marked with bespoke boundary lines to show where the pickleball stops. By square footage, a tennis court is three times larger, so “picklers” have much less ground to cover.
No actual pickles are used in the normal course of play. Legend has it that a West Coast family credited with inventing the game in the 1960s named it after a “pickle boat,” said to be a rowing term for a boat crewed by athletes of different abilities. Another legend says the name honors their dog, Pickles. We prefer the dog story, but the family long ago disputed it.
Pickleball grew slowly. It received some attention in the 1970s, including an article in Tennis magazine about “America’s newest racquet sport.” By 1990, pickleball was being played, albeit not much, in all 50 states, according to USA Pickleball, the sport’s national governing body. The group published an official tournament rule book in 2008 and held its first national tournament a year later.
The milestones started to pile up about a decade ago as places to play multiplied as the pandemic drove people to interact outdoors (at a safe distance) and media attention brought new converts, and controversy.
While tennis can be noisy, the sound of cloth-covered balls on racket strings generally is gentler than hard plastic popping off the face of a paddle, which has led to complaints from nearby neighbors and parkgoers. Yes, lawsuits have been filed about pickleball noise.
New, quieter paddles and balls might help silence critics in the future, but some picklers say the game wouldn’t be as dynamic without the “pop, pop, pop” sound.
The economical step of painting pickleball boundaries on existing tennis courts has also caused friction from tennis players who find the extra lines on the court confusing.
And, let’s face it, some resent being displaced as the picklers take over.
Another reason why some hate the sport is their view of it as more of a social activity than a workout. Pickleball can be played at a high level, as in the Chicago Open tournament that wrapped up in Highland Park this month. But it also can be played with minimal exertion and maximum conversation, which for its fans is part of the appeal. It’s certainly a game you can enjoy comfortably in retirement.
Cities and towns across the country are under pressure to build more dedicated pickleball courts. It’s happening all across the Chicago area. And its impact certainly has grown in Washington, where Gov. Jay Inslee in April signed a proclamation making it the state’s official sport.
But what business do cities have spending money on frills such as pickleball courts? Picklers have a ready answer.
The sport traditionally welcomes everybody, of different ages, skill levels and socioeconomic backgrounds. New Yorker magazine published a story this summer asking in the headline, “Can pickleball save America?” One enthusiast told the author: “A lot of people think we’re going to have a civil war if this election is close. We’ve got to get people out there playing pickleball with people who will vote the other way, so they don’t want to kill each other.”
A recent column in The Washington Post similarly lauded pickleball for building community ties at a time of social isolation and polarization. “When we fail to meaningfully connect with one another, we can’t reap the benefits of trust, reciprocity and cooperation,” the column noted.
The solution? Pickleball, of course.
Maybe what the country needs is a Trump-Biden match on the pickleball court to put hard feelings to rest once and for all. Then again, if Trump lost, he’d probably claim Biden cheated and call on his followers to attack the referee. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/other-views-can-pickleball-save-democracy-we-ve-heard-worse-ideas/article_946cd92a-33b5-11ed-92c7-7b6a448eaf9f.html | 2022-09-15T09:25:00Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/other-views-can-pickleball-save-democracy-we-ve-heard-worse-ideas/article_946cd92a-33b5-11ed-92c7-7b6a448eaf9f.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CHEYENNE – The State Loan and Investment Board approved three charter school applications Wednesday afternoon, despite pushback.
Cheyenne Classical Academy in Cheyenne, Prairie View Community School in Chugwater and Wyoming Classical Academy in Mills are authorized for five years. They can negotiate with the Office of State Lands and Investments and the Wyoming Department of Education for a contract. All three are expected to open in fall of 2023. SLIB members acted at the second such special meeting.
There was a "very complete and compelling discussion,” said Gov. Mark Gordon, the panel's chairman. Other members are outgoing Secretary of State Ed Buchanan, State Treasurer Curt Meier, State Auditor Kristi Racines and outgoing Superintendent of Public Instruction Brian Schroeder.
Gordon directed the Office of State Lands and Investments to seek comments from school districts that will be impacted by the new charters. He wanted an opportunity to their experiences, because sometimes “the devil we don’t know is really scary.”
The schools are in Laramie County School District 1, Platte County School District 1 and Natrona County School District 1. Cheyenne has public charter PODER Academy.
Cheyenne
Cheyenne Classical Academy was the only presentation now. The other two applicants previously spoke.
Nathan Winters, director of Family Policy Alliance of Wyoming, and Rep. Jared Olsen, R-Cheyenne, were CCA board members who made the case.
Olsen hoped SLIB members would see why Laramie County would benefit from the academy.
“Cheyenne Classical Academy supports our public schools. We will not disparage our partners who work to provide the greatest education we can for our children here in Wyoming,” he said. “The CCA board has nothing but good things to say about our traditional public schools and our partners.”
He hoped that when the school opens, “you will be hard pressed to find a single trustee of our local school board who is not as passionate about this school as we are.” Olsen said the application package has letters of support from two LCSD1 trustees.
The school lacks a headmaster or facility. Winters said the school will use the Hillsdale College K-12 core knowledge curriculum. The Christian liberal arts school has been criticized.
Olsen said the local academy is unique. He said CCA will foster a school culture of moral virtue, decorum, respect, discipline and studiousness, and it will introduce pedagogy under the Socratic method.
“Citizenry making" is what he called it. The students "will be engaged to become productive, responsible citizens who enjoy lifelong learning and involvement in our community.”
School choice
Parents arguing for choice spoke in support of all three charter schools.
“Having more choices, it would just increase the other schools in the district to perform better,” said Kathy Scigliano, an LCSD1 parent. “The test scores for WY-TOPP just recently came out, and we’re seeing these terribly low scores for our children.”
Jessica Brown was another parent in the Capital City district to support charter schools. She said she is seeing increasing class sizes, teacher burnout and residents leaving. Brown said the state has to think outside of the box, and consider that the public system is being outgrown.
Amber Willoughby said she has lived in states with more opportunities, and this supported her children better. Her son attends a private school here, and he is thriving with smaller classes.
Political indoctrination allegations came up. Brandy Bailey said there are books featuring LGBTQ+ relationships, while pictures of LGBTQ+ rallies are depicted in school.
“I just want it to be neutral. I don't want these social ideologies being pushed on my students, and they are right here” in LCSD1, she said. “I'm very grateful for this option and this choice for parents if we don't want that indoctrination.”
Opposition
Experts, candidates for public office and community members shared their reservations. Some were concerned the logistics of funding the schools weren’t being closely examined. Others sought secularism.
“We do need religion in our lives,” said Kris Korfanta, a parent and former educator. “I just do not want my public tax dollars being spent on it. It’s a slippery slope of the separation of church and state.”
Government Relations Director Tate Mullen shared a statement on behalf of Wyoming Education Association raising concerns about public school resources. He criticized the Hillsdale curriculum.
“The president of Hillsdale College is a vehement anti-public education individual, and has acknowledged that Hillsdale curriculum has been criticized for its glossy spin on American history, as well as its ideological tilt on topics like affirmative action,” he said. “Educators and historians have also raised questions about other instructions at Hillsdale charter schools setting the negative take on the New Deal, and the Great Society, and cursory presentation of global warming.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/in_our_schools/state-loan-and-investment-board-approves-three-charter-applications/article_5009f3ec-348e-11ed-8dba-4308da4a6df1.html | 2022-09-15T09:38:25Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/in_our_schools/state-loan-and-investment-board-approves-three-charter-applications/article_5009f3ec-348e-11ed-8dba-4308da4a6df1.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Texas Progressive Alliance hummed a few bars of “God Save The Queen” as we compiled this week’s roundup.
Off the Kuff analyzes the latest poll of Texas and Harris County.
SocraticGadfly said Beto O’Rourke needs to fire himself as chief campaign strategist.
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And here are some posts of interest from other Texas blogs.
Texas 2036 warns that the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, could happen here.
The Texas Living Waters Project released a study showing how much water we lose in this state due to old infrastructure.
Texas Monthly gives a fond final farewell to Paul Burka.
The Texas Signal reports on the first day of school in Uvalde.
The TSTA Blog argues that it’s the disrespect for democracy that disqualifies so many Texas Republicans from holding office.
The Dallas Observer notes the Cards Against Humanity protest against anti-abortion laws. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106952 | 2022-09-15T09:42:25Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106952 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
2/ The last few hundred yards before we reach base… a sudden shift into cold snow with just a meter and a quarter and another brief sunbounce on rock for another fi rst… and it is on for this line 3.317! Soaked on rocks at all specially, 4/ So when I saw what seemed an outplacement, for that was an airfield behind our side we didn´t dare venturer forward but instead kept our DETROIT (WXYZ) — On Wednesday, Ford unveiled the new seventh generation Mustang at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.
The car includes two new engines with improved fuel efficiency and an all-new updated interior.
The global debut was held in Hart Plaza in front of more than 1,000 Mustang enthusiasts.
“Oh my God, we've been waiting for this for a long time,” said David Madeira, CEO of America's Automotive Trust.
Madeira is from Tacoma, Washington where he runs an automotive museum and where seven generations of Mustangs began a cross-country road trip to drive the new car to its debut.
“One guy drove 300 miles out of his way to join," Madeira said. "It’s just that kind of enthusiasm for a Mustang.”
“It's a hell of a car and I think the customer is going to be really excited about it,” said Marty Mosakowski, Ford Product Development Launch leader for the S650.
Mosakowski is from Farmington Hills and had the honor of driving the New mustang to Detroit from Tacoma.
“It means a lot to me," Mosakowski said of his role on the project. "It’s really the capstone of my career. I've got a couple more years to go and as you can see, I've got a few goosebumps here talking about it with you.”
The group was joined at Hart Plaza by more than 1,000 Mustang owners who drove in a massive convoy from Ford Motor Company World Headquarters. That convoy included Rino Fabilli of Macomb and his 40-year-old beauty.
"All original. Original paint and everything,” Fabiilli said while showing off his car of 39 years "A 1983 Foxbody I drove just out of high school, brand new.”
No matter the generation, Mustang owners love their cars. And if you ask them, the cars return it tenfold.
“My whole family is all Ford, so the Mustang means a lot to me,” Fabilli said.
“Freedom," said Brian Howes from Canton when asked what the Mustang meant to him. "Especially with my top down. No matter what the weather is, it’s down.”
The all-new Mustang will go on sale in the U.S. starting summer of 2023. It’s all assemble in metro Detroit at the Flat Rock Assembly Plant.
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VIDEO: Chevrolet introduces 2023 Chevy Tahoe RST Performance Edition | https://www.fox17online.com/news/mustang-owners-descend-on-downtown-detroit-for-global-debut-of-7th-generation | 2022-09-15T09:46:36Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/news/mustang-owners-descend-on-downtown-detroit-for-global-debut-of-7th-generation | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Betting favorites for the first time since 2020, the Lions have authentic fan support to go with potential.
Dan Campbell said capitalizing on fan support is vital.
"Getting close doesn't count. We gotta close these games out," he said.
WATCH MORE IN THE VIDEO PLAYER ABOVE | https://www.fox17online.com/sports/dan-campbell-doesnt-care-that-the-lions-are-betting-favorites-he-knows-team-needs-to-close-games | 2022-09-15T09:46:48Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/sports/dan-campbell-doesnt-care-that-the-lions-are-betting-favorites-he-knows-team-needs-to-close-games | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Went a bargin in Sale yesterday morning @ $ 9 (DVD $8), I like Tinky\nVoT June June\nLynn Harrop June June. But will probably rent or at least have a Netlrfy queue? TBA and probably NetFLIEX because this way with time we both get to pick it up, although a biggie, you get first chance.\nJust bought this today on Etsy and looks awesome!! ALLEN PARK, Mich. — The Lions have more injury updates on their offensive line. Guard Halapoulivaati Vaitai had back surgery, while Taylor Decker and Frank Ragnow didn't practice.
D'Andre Swift sat out too, with an ankle injury. But he told Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press it's "not at all" an issue.
Brad Galli has more in the video player above | https://www.fox17online.com/sports/lions-injury-updates-vaitai-has-back-surgery-swift-misses-practice | 2022-09-15T09:46:54Z | fox17online.com | control | https://www.fox17online.com/sports/lions-injury-updates-vaitai-has-back-surgery-swift-misses-practice | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Bank of England/Ipsos Inflation Attitudes Survey - August 2022
UK Public Inflation Expectations For Coming Year 4.9%
UK Public Inflation Expectations For 12 Months After That 3.2%
UK Public Inflation Expectations For 5 Years' Time 3.1%
Not much to sink our teeth into, and it comes as no surprise to inflation expectations soften over time. | https://www.forexlive.com/news/bank-of-englandipsos-inflation-attitudes-survey-august-2022-20220915/ | 2022-09-15T09:48:49Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/news/bank-of-englandipsos-inflation-attitudes-survey-august-2022-20220915/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ECB Deputy Governor Guindos: The Euro Area Is Now Facing A Challenging Outlook
Some highlights:
- Very High Inflation Is Dampening Spending And Production
- Period Of Heightened Uncertainty 'Here To Stay'
- Price Pressures Have Continued To Strengthen And Broaden
- Monetary Policy Needs To Walk A Fine Line To Get It Right
- Depreciation Of The Euro Also Adds To These Inflationary Pressures
- Growth To Slow 'Substantially'
All very sober, as one would expect given the current environment... How long until the ECB start cutting into the hikes?? | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/ecb-deputy-governor-guindos-the-euro-area-is-now-facing-a-challenging-outlook-20220915/ | 2022-09-15T09:53:02Z | forexlive.com | control | https://www.forexlive.com/centralbank/ecb-deputy-governor-guindos-the-euro-area-is-now-facing-a-challenging-outlook-20220915/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Anti‑Caste Activists Propose Bill to End “Honor Killings”
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A coalition of anti-caste activists and organizations under the Dalit Human Rights Defenders Network (DHDRN) proposed a draft Bill to criminalize honor killings — the act of killing family members or their spouses for “committing the crime of” intercaste or interfaith marriage to “preserve community honor” — The News Minute reported on Wednesday. The Bill is intended to nudge the legislative to institute nationwide protections against the crime, and act as a guiding framework for the same. This is in stark contrast with the increasing prevalence of “love-jihad” narratives, as multiple state governments promise to institute legislations that make it increasingly difficult for Hindu women to marry Muslim men.
The draft Freedom of Marriage and Association and Prohibition of Crimes in the Name of Honour Act 2022, framed in consultation with the Centre for Law and Policy Research, seeks to “provide justice, compensation and rehabilitation in crimes committed in the name of honour vis a vis caste, faith, age, gender, sexual orientation, language, class, race, status, and tradition.”
Honor killing is a serious issue that grips India. In a statement in the Parliament last year, the Minister of State for Home Affairs declared that Between 2017 and 2019, the country saw 145 cases of Honor killing registered across the country. The National Crime Records Bureau’s 2020 report mentions that 25 cases of honor killing were registered in the country that year. In May this year, a Dalit man in Hyderabad was beaten to death by his upper-caste Muslim wife’s brothers in an incident recorded on camera. It is important here to remember that official figures, especially on honor crimes, remain grossly underreported and actual figures may reflect an even higher incidence of such crimes.
The Bill’s provisions offer a wider understanding of honor killing and recognizes the various ways in which communities victimize intercaste and interfaith couples. At the outset, it emphasizes the right of individuals to choose their partners irrespective of their religion, caste, tribe, or clan; and their right to not seek the consent of their families and communities for the same. It also directs the police to not take any action against any couple based on complaints by their families, religious communities, caste communities, tribes, or clans.
Activist A Kathir, who heads DHRDN, explained to TheNewsMinute the significance of the Bill and how patriarchy centers a community’s honor on its women. “A marriage ought to be a woman’s choice. But here, it goes beyond that to become a family’s choice, dictated by caste, religion and patriarchy…The number of women who die by suicide because they are not able to be with a partner of their choice is also distressingly high in the country.”
It is significant here to note that the Bill identifies even forms of companionship other than marriage as valid, and asks the state and police to provide protection to unmarried couples as well. Further, the Bill asks that the police also should extend protection to couples of individuals coming from gender or sexual minorities. It recognizes the many forms, other than murder, in which honor crimes against interfaith and intercaste couples manifest in society, including intimidations and threats, physical and sexual violence, or ostracization of such couples from their residences. Among its recommendations are that honor killings be designated non-bailable offences; that the burden of proof of innocence is on the accused; that the state institute of fast-track courts to conduct trials; and that victims are provided ample compensation.
The draft Bill thus understands and identifies honor killing as a distinct, specific form of human rights violation, that is more than just the violent forms in which it manifests. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in a 2010 Handbook on Crimes Against Women recognizes honor crimes as “one of history’s oldest forms of gender-based violence. It assumes that a woman’s behavior casts a reflection on the family and the community… a father, brother, or cousin will publicly take pride in a murder committed to preserving the ‘honor’ of a family. In some such cases, local justice officials may side with the family and take no formal action to prevent similar deaths.”
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Why India Needs a Separate Law for Honor Killings
Despite its seriousness, there has been little action in this regard by governments. The Swaddle in 2020 had reported how the Union Government cites underreported NCRB statistics to justify that there is no need for special legislation to deal with honor crimes, and that existing sections of the Indian Penal Code are enough to deal with this specific menace.
However, others point out a deeper reason behind government inaction. “Social groups like the Khap Panchayats have considerable sway on political outcomes and that’s what politicians are afraid of upsetting if they back such a Bill. The groups that have the most to gain from the perpetuation of the caste system are the ones who hold the most power in the existing system,” Kathir had explained to The Swaddle. The Draft Bill framed by the DHRDN, then, takes into account the special role that khap panchayats play in carrying out honor crimes, and calls for legal action against such bodies.
In 2019, Rajasthan became the first (and so far, only) Indian state to introduce a law against honor killing. The The Rajasthan Prohibition of Interference with the Freedom of Matrimonial Alliances in the Name of Honour and Tradition Bill, 2019, recognizes honor crimes as a distinct category, and prescribes death penalty for those found guilty of Honor Killing. However, there are some loopholes in the Rajasthan legislation. In a consultation organized by CLPR to discuss the present draft bill, Kavita Srivastava, a member of People’s Union of Civil Liberties, critiqued the existing Rajasthan bill “for excluding the hierarchies present within Scheduled Caste communities, Muslims and for lacking better definitions and penalties for honor-based crimes.” Further, legal researcher Ishwarya S pointed out in the same event how “capital punishment is disproportionately targeted at the minorities”, hence it should be avoided as much as possible.
It is important here to note that under present circumstances, the draft Bill and its goals face multiple other challenges, not just from society but from the state itself. Beyond the jingoism around love jihad, there are also challenges posed by the state’s own attempts at facilitating interfaith and intercaste marriages. Under the Special Marriage Act, 1954, which grants legal recognition to intercaste and interfaith marriages, the state requires both partners to file a notice with their marriage registrar 30 days prior to their wedding.
This notice is posted publicly in the office of the registrar, making their private details open to public scrutiny, endangering interfaith couples to harassment and violence by their religious groups. Last month, the Supreme Court rejected a petition that sought to discontinue this notice period. As R K Ayodaya, a retired district court judge, noted during the discussion on the draft Bill, “society and law influence each other”, at times standing in the way of meaningful implementation of even well-intentioned laws such as the Special Marriage Act.
The draft Bill, if acted upon by the government, offers both a promise as well as a concrete framework for providing protection to those who choose to love outside the boundaries set by their communities. It offers a progressive understanding of love and companionship, while also proposing stringent punishment to those who challenge it. | https://theswaddle.com/anti-caste-activists-propose-bill-to-end-honor-killings/ | 2022-09-15T09:57:24Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/anti-caste-activists-propose-bill-to-end-honor-killings/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A pregnant Redondo Beach police K-9 handler alleges in a lawsuit she was illegally removed from her position after the agency claimed it didn’t have maternity uniforms and a union official offered to push her down the stairs or kick her in the stomach so she could keep her job.
Daryn Glenn, who joined the Redondo Beach Police Department in 2017 and became its first Black female canine officer four years later, is suing the city for discrimination and harassment.
Glenn, who could not be reached for comment, is seeking unspecified monetary damages for physical, mental and emotional injuries and loss of wages, according to the civil complaint filed last week in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
The Redondo Beach Police Department is taking Glenn’s allegations seriously and has launched an investigation, Chief Joe Hoffman said Tuesday, Sept. 13, in an email. He declined to elaborate.
In October 2021, Glenn notified her supervisors that she was pregnant and was immediately pulled from her K-9 patrol assignment, reportedly for safety reasons, according to the lawsuit.
“Plaintiff was also informed that she would have to be removed from her patrol assignment because the department allegedly does not have maternity uniforms for pregnant officers,” the complaint states.
As a result, Glenn was assigned to a light-duty desk position within the Police Department’s dispatch center, where she remained until taking maternity leave in June 2022, according to the suit.
The Redondo Beach Police Department’s policy of temporary modified duty reassignment to avoid potentially hazardous environments or activities was developed with the help of an outside consultant, Hoffman said.
“It is similar to what other law enforcement agencies in the area employ, and since it affects terms and conditions of employment, has been the subject of negotiations with the union representing Officer Glenn,” he said.
In early November 2021, Glenn reported to Redondo Beach Police Officers Association President Robert Carlborg that the department was discriminating against her on the basis of sex, gender and pregnancy, the lawsuit says.
In response, Carlborg allegedly told Glenn, “If you want to stay in (the) canine unit, I can push you down the stairs or kick you in the stomach.”
Carlborg did not respond to a request for comment.
Glenn reported Carlborg’s remarks to her supervisor, Lt. Cory King, who told her to ignore it and did not investigate the complaint, the suit alleges.
Further discrimination and harassment allegedly occurred when the Police Department took away Glenn’s patrol car, forcing her to transport her canine to and from work daily in her personal vehicle.
In another incident during a training exercise on Nov. 10, King tried to persuade Glenn to voluntarily leave the K-9 unit since it would be difficult for her to work as a handler as a new single mother, according to the suit.
That same day, Glenn allegedly was informed she would not be allowed to participate in further canine training with her dog, which is required for an officer to remain working as a handler.
The lawsuit also states that King told Glenn the department was considering selling her dog back to the agency from where it was purchased. “The reasoning for such a drastic move was that the department was allegedly worried for plaintiff’s safety, since she was pregnant,” says the complaint.
On Nov. 16, Glenn requested that she be permitted to attend training and have another handler walk her dog through exercises while she watched. “After this request, Lt. King told plaintiff that neither she nor her dog were permitted to attend canine trainings,” the suit states.
Then on Dec. 31, Glenn was informed that the Police Department had decided to sell her canine, forcing her to turn the dog over three days later.
“Plaintiff’s career has been materially and adversely affected, and irreparably harmed and damaged by the conduct of the defendants,” the suit says. “The improper conduct was allowed, permitted, condoned, ratified, and enabled by the City of Redondo Beach, the Redondo Beach Police Department, Lt. Cory King, Police Officers Association President Robert Carlborg, and other Redondo Beach Police Department supervisors and command staff.”
Of the Redondo Beach Police Department’s 92 sworn officers, only 11 are women. Glenn is the only Black female officer.
Glenn’s position with the Police Department has been kept open and she will be scheduled to resume training with the K-9 unit upon her return to duty following maternity leave, Hoffman said.
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Physical, Sexual Abuse Can Lead To Worse Menopause Symptoms in Women: Study
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There may be a silent epidemic of menopause-related problems playing out, one that demands attention as a public health issue. A recent study found that psychosocial stressors — such as physical or sexual abuse, or financial instability — experienced early in life led to worse menopause symptoms in individuals later.
The research, published this week in the journal Menopause, assessed a cohort of 600 women over the course of two decades. Those who reported physical or sexual abuse observed worse menopause symptoms across all fronts — somatic and psychological. They were also twice as likely to experience worse overall well-being later in life — including experiencing symptoms of anxiety and depression.
Symptoms of menopause include hot flashes, changes in sleep cycles, sex drive, mood changes, and more. The impact of menopause on decreased quality of life is well-documented. As per a 2013 study, menopausal women reported lower health-related quality of life, higher work impairments, depression, anxiety, and joint stiffness than pre-menopausal women. Some studies have even found that menopause changes women’s brain structures.
With menopause already being a life-altering phase, the experience of violence exacerbating symptoms speaks to a crisis of well-being among untold numbers of women.
The link between violence and menopause is biological as well as cultural. Any kind of violence or trauma earlier in life leads to dysregulation in the body’s stress response, as previous studies analyzing the link between violence and menopause observed. Further, according to a 2019 longitudinal study, symptoms of PTSD, intimate partner violence, and sexual assault were associated with a greater risk of “potentially disruptive menopause symptoms” — pointing to the “need for greater recognition of these exposures by clinicians caring for midlife and older women.” There’s also been a link between people experiencing gender-based violence and entering menopause earlier than usual — and this risk spans across generations. “Addressing this issue will require involvement of multiple sectors and necessitate social change, as well as updated policies and education,” noted Dr. Stephanie Faubion, medical director of the North American Menopause Society, about that finding.
A significant limitation of the study is that most of the women involved were White — limiting the findings’ general applicability. But statistics on the levels of abuse that marginalized women go through paint a worrying picture.
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Work Harassment, Sexual Assault Linked to High Blood Pressure in Women: Study
Here are some worrying stats to put an unrecognized public health crisis into perspective. According to the World Health Organization, one in four women has been assaulted by a partner. In India, sexual assault is among the most common crimes against Dalit women, according to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). Further, one in three Indian women are likely to have been subject to intimate partner violence of a physical, sexual, or emotional nature, and between 2001 and 2018, domestic violence cases have risen by 53%. And of all the people who suffer gender-based violence, more than 98% never seek medical help, according to the National Health and Family Survey
“The uptake of medical care is essential as sexual violence and intimate partner violence have well-documented, long-term physical and psychological consequences. Women, exposed to sexual and physical violence, need immediate medical care to prevent pregnancy, HIV, and sexually transmitted diseases, and mental health support to reduce psychological distress and restore dignity,” said Dr. Himanshu M., Medical Coordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières.
The focus on healthcare in the aftermath of gender-based violence remains limited — even within this, much of the conversation pertains to the immediate aftermath. The long-term impacts are rarely acknowledged or studied, leading to a public inequity in well-being due to systemic neglect.
As things stand, menopause remains a relatively neglected aspect of healthcare that compromises the health of many who go through it as an inevitable part of life. The impact of changing hormone cycles, reproductive functioning, and overall changes in the body that come with menopause aren’t well understood even to date. More research pointing to the link between adverse menopause outcomes due to systemic violence can highlight the healthcare system’s complicity in contributing to an enforced lower quality of life. | https://theswaddle.com/physical-sexual-abuse-can-lead-to-worse-menopause-symptoms-in-women-study/ | 2022-09-15T09:57:31Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/physical-sexual-abuse-can-lead-to-worse-menopause-symptoms-in-women-study/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Biden: Tentative railway labor deal reached, averting strike
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden believes unions built the middle class, but he also knew a rail worker strike could damage the economy ahead of midterm elections.
That left him in the awkward position of espousing the virtues of unionization in Detroit, a stalwart of the labor movement, while members of his administration went all-out to keep talks going in Washington between the railroads and unionized workers in hopes of averting a shutdown.
But after a long night, the talks succeeded and Biden announced Thursday that the parties had reached a tentative agreement to avoid a shutdown that would go to union members for a vote. The Democratic president hailed the deal in a statement for avoiding a shutdown and as a win for all sides.
“These rail workers will get better pay, improved working conditions, and peace of mind around their health care costs: all hard-earned,” Biden said. “The agreement is also a victory for railway companies who will be able to retain and recruit more workers for an industry that will continue to be part of the backbone of the American economy for decades to come.”
It looked far more tenuous for the president just a day earlier.
United Auto Workers Local 598 member Ryan Buchalski introduced Biden at the Detroit auto show on Wednesday as “the most union- and labor-friendly president in American history” and someone who was “kickin’ ass for the working class.” Buchalski harked back to the pivotal sitdown strikes by autoworkers in the 1930s.
In the speech that followed, Biden recognized that he wouldn’t be in the White House without the support of unions such as the UAW and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, saying autoworkers “brung me to the dance.”
But back in Washington, officials in his administration at the Labor Department were in tense negotiations to prevent a strike — one of the most powerful sources of leverage that unions have to bring about change and improve working conditions.
Without the deal that was reached among the 12 unions, a stoppage could have begun as early as Friday that could halt shipments of food and fuel at a cost of $2 billion a day.
Far more was at stake than sick leave and salary bumps for 115,000 unionized railroad workers. The ramifications could extend to control of Congress and to the shipping network that keeps factories rolling, stocks the shelves of stores and stitches the U.S. together as an economic power.
That’s why White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, speaking aboard Air Force One as it jetted to Detroit on Wednesday, said a rail worker strike was “an unacceptable outcome for our economy and the American people.” The rail lines and their workers’ representatives “need to stay at the table, bargain in good faith to resolve outstanding issues, and come to an agreement,” she said.
Biden faced the same kind of predicament faced by Theodore Roosevelt in 1902 with coal and Harry Truman in 1952 with steel — how do you balance the needs of labor and business in doing what’s best for the nation? Railways were so important during World War I that Woodrow Wilson temporarily nationalized the industry to keep goods flowing and prevent strikes.
Inside the White House, aides don’t see a contradiction between Biden’s devotion to unions and his desire to avoid a strike. Union activism has surged under Biden, as seen in a 56% increase in petitions for union representation with the National Labor Relations Board so far this fiscal year.
One person familiar with the situation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss White House deliberations on the matter, said Biden’s mindset in approaching the debate was that he’s the president of the entire country, not just for organized labor.
With the economy still recovering from the supply chain disruptions of the pandemic, the president’s goal is to keep all parties so a deal could be finalized. The person said the White House saw a commitment to keep negotiating in good faith as the best way to avoid a shutdown while exercising the principles of collective bargaining that Biden holds dear.
Biden also knew a stoppage could worsen the dynamics that have contributed to soaring inflation and created a political headache for the party in power.
Eddie Vale, a Democratic political consultant and former AFL-CIO communications aide, said the White House pursued the correct approach at a perilous moment.
“No one wants a railroad strike, not the companies, not the workers, not the White House,” he said. “No one wants it this close to the election.”
Vale added that the sticking point in the talks was about “respect basically — sick leave and bereavement leave,” issues Biden has supported in speeches and with his policy proposals.
Sensing political opportunity, Senate Republicans moved Wednesday to pass a law to impose contract terms on the unions and railroad companies to avoid a shutdown. Democrats, who control both chambers in Congress, blocked it.
“If a strike occurs and paralyzes food, fertilizer and energy shipments nationwide, it will be because Democrats blocked this bill,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
The economic impact of a potential strike was not lost on members of the Business Roundtable, a Washington-based group that represents CEOs. It issued its quarterly outlook for the economy Wednesday.
“We’ve been experiencing a lot of headwinds from supply chain problems since the pandemic started and those problems would be geometrically magnified,” Josh Bolten, the group’s CEO, told reporters. “There are manufacturing plants around the country that likely have to shut down. ... There are critical products to keep our water clean.”
The roundtable also had a meeting of its board of directors Wednesday. But Bolten said Lance Fritz, chair of the board’s international committee and the CEO of Union Pacific railroad, would miss it “because he’s working hard trying to bring the strike to a resolution.”
Back at the Labor Department, negotiators ordered Italian food as talks dragged into Wednesday night and the White House announced the agreement at 5:05 a.m. on Thursday.
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Best in the Land: Oil City Running Back Ethen Knox Leads the Country in Rushing Yards Per Game Heading Into Clash Against Rival Franklin
OIL CITY, Pa. (EYT) — A little more than a year ago, Ethen Knox was without a position.
Playing running back was certainly not on his radar.
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He was a wide receiver. That’s where the 6-foot-1, 175-pounder played most of his life, including as a freshman on the Oil City junior varsity football team in 2020.
Knox didn’t have the classic build of a ballcarrier.
Looks can be deceiving. About 14 months later, Knox is statistically one of the best running backs in the nation.
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Knox moved to the backfield two weeks before the start of last season. The sudden change even surprised him.
Turned out to be a pretty good switch. All Knox did in his debut season in a brand new position was break the Oil City single-game rushing record with 492 yards against Franklin on the way to 1,825 yards and 14 touchdowns.
He’s even better this season.
A lot better.
After gashing the North East defense last week for 445 yards on 44 carries and scoring five more touchdowns, Knox has already piled up a staggering 1,151 yards on the ground and 16 TDs this season.
His 383.7 yards per game leads the country, according to statistics compiled by Maxpreps.
Mind-boggling stuff, right?
Not to Knox.
“No, honestly,” he said. “I think that when you have the line that I do, it’s not hard to believe putting up numbers like that.”
Like any running back, Knox heaps praise upon that physical and dominant offensive line that is as big as they come in District 10 with two guys weighing more than 300 pounds and a converted tight end from last season, Cam Crocker, who tips the scales at 285.
Knox is often standing in the end zone untouched.
He shows his appreciation any way he can.
“I definitely try to give credit where it’s due,” Knox said. “I try to help them out as much as they can for all that they do for me. They make me look like a superstar when they’re doing all the work.”
Knox does his part to take advantage of those holes with a blend of speed, quickness and vision.
It’s something he’s worked diligently on since moving to running back.
He also worked on getting stronger to absorb some of the punishment he takes. He already has 101 rushing attempts in three games.
“Last year, I would come home after games and be a lot more sore,” Knox said. “I’m stronger so getting all those carries now isn’t as bad. I worked a lot over the summer, too, on just being a lot faster and quicker making cuts so that I could be doing this.”
Knox has already made history this season.
In Week 2 against Corry, he tied the school record with seven touchdowns. He also gained 402 yards in the win.
With two 400-yard rushing games this year, he’s one away from tying the single-season PIAA record, which is held by Dominic Bragalone of South Williamsport. Bragalone had three 400-yard performances in 2014.
That could come this week against struggling Franklin when Oil City hosts the Knights.
Knox, though, isn’t getting ahead of himself. He knows how strange football can be. Nothing can be taken for granted.
“I’m definitely not underestimating them,” Knox said.
Knox also doesn’t want to think about other Pennsylvania rushing records that could be within his reach.
Former Meadville star Journey Brown holds the PIAA single-game record with 722 yards. That came in the insane 107-90 win over DuBois in 2015. The state single-season record is 4,704 yards set Bragalone in 2014. Bragalone averaged 313 yards per game that year for the Mountaineers.
The only numbers Knox really cares about, though, is 3-0.
That’s Oil City’s record out of the gate in 2022.
“Last year we won only three games, so this feels pretty good,” Knox said. “We were super young last year and we’re all a little older now, so that helps. The bar was already set pretty high for us this year, but now that we’ve scored over 150 points in three game, I think it makes us want to aim higher. Last year people were like, ‘meh,’ when they talked about us.”
Not anymore.
Thanks to Knox.
Knox, though, knows there will be a bigger target on his back going forward.
The word is out, not just locally, but across the state and country.
“It was kind of exciting when I first heard (I was leading the nation),” Knox said. “I just have to keep going. Honestly, it just makes me have to work more to stay there.”
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The first Battle of Pageland Lane ended in favor of landowners, but both sides will regroup before the final decisive battle.
Early Thursday morning, the Prince William County Planning Commission voted 4-3-1 to recommend approval of the first application for the controversial PW Digital Gateway.
Commissioners Cynthia Moses-Nedd (Woodbridge), Qwendolyn Brown (Neabsco), Juan McPhail (Potomac) and Patty Kuntz (At-Large) voted in favor of the project. Commissioners Joseph Fontanella Jr. (Coles), Richard Berry (Gainesville) and Tom Gordy (Brentsville) opposed it.
Commissioner Robert Perry Jr. (Occoquan) abstained from the vote.
The vote came after a nearly 7-hour marathon public hearing, easily among the longest in county history. It started at 10 p.m. Wednesday and didn’t wrap up until 4:34 a.m. Thursday. The commission did not cast a vote until after 5 a.m.
The raucous Wednesday/Thursday hearing was on the request from dozens of landowners to designate 2,139 acres in western Prince William County for data centers. Specifically, it was to change the land in the Comprehensive Plan currently designated as agricultural/estate and environmental resource to technology/flex, parks and open space, county registered historic site and environmental resource overlay.
Supporters ended the night with an edge in speakers with 84 in favor compared to 67 opponents.
Of those in favor, at least 57 were landowners who are part of the PW Digital Gateway application, and five were representing companies associated with the project.
More than 220 people signed up to speak, but 85 dropped off before their slot as the hearing stretched well into the morning. By 2:30 a.m., only a small but dedicated core of supporters and opponents remained to watch the proceedings.
Berry first made a motion to only approve the northern portion of the proposal but did not get a second. He then made a motion to recommend denial and still did not get a second.
Brown then made the motion to recommend approval of the application. The motion included recommendations for unspecified noise and environmental regulations to be added to the proposal.
Brown said the project “presents an opportunity to transform Prince William County’s future in a profound way.”
Gordy and Fontanella made an unsuccessful bid to table the proposal for county staff to get more information. “We need more time to get this right,” Gordy said.
The proposed change would target 1,321 acres as technology/flex, 807 acres as parks and open space, 439.8 acres as environmental resource protection overlay and 9.6 acres as county historic registered site.
The project, which proposes 27.6 million square feet of data centers along Pageland Lane, has quickly become the most controversial and contentious local land-use proposal in decades. Opponents and proponents have launched personal attacks against each other, and it has spawned recall efforts against Gainesville Supervisor Pete Candland and Board Chair Ann Wheeler and a federal lawsuit against Candland.
County planner David McGettigan said it was important to restrict development to data centers because they have less employees and generate less traffic.
“We don’t want rezonings for any industrial use. We want to limit it to data centers,” he said. “There’s less demand on infrastructure from data centers.”
The original application was submitted last summer by landowners along Pageland Lane who wanted to change the land designation on about 800 acres for the project. The Board of County Supervisors later expanded the request to cover 2,100 acres.
Supporters say the project will provide a huge economic boon to the county in an area that’s no longer rural.
Opponents say such large developments would decimate the character of the county’s rural area; they have raised concerns about the availability of power, effects on water quality and the potential that the buildings could quickly become obsolete as technology continues to improve.
The staff report says if the Comprehensive Plan amendment is approved, the potential data center usage would range from 13.2 million to 27 million square feet and support 1,471 to 5,048 jobs.
The low end is more in line with rezoning requests filed by Compass Datacenters and QTS Realty Trust Inc. rather than the 27.6 million square feet touted by the proposal’s supporters. The combined Compass and QTS projects cover 1,636 acres and 18.42 million square feet.
The hearing was only for the Comprehensive Plan amendment, not the two rezonings. However, if the Comprehensive Plan update is approved, it will weigh heavily in favor of the rezonings.
“It’s only a guide. It’s not regulatory in nature,” McGettigan said. “When the planning office reviews a rezoning application, we’re going to look at consistency with the Comprehensive Plan.”
Those on both sides of the project have shown up to nearly every Board of County Supervisors and Planning Commission meeting for the past year to plead their case. Everyone was out in full force Wednesday, with 88 people in line to sign-up for the hearing when registration opened at 5:30 p.m.
Opponents held a rally and press conference outside the building before the meeting started, with similar talking points that have been raised over the past 12 months.
Gordy said the proposal might not be necessary because land exists in currently targeted areas.
“What we have heard is the data center market remains extremely strong in Northern Virginia,” said Deputy Planning Director Meika Daus. “We’ve not heard that there is a cooling of the data center market.”
Gordy said the county needs an estimate of how much it will cost the county to support the project through infrastructure upgrades.
“The county’s going to bear some of that burden, and the main rationale for supporting this is the benefit financially to the county, but we haven’t accounted for cost,” he said.
County staff were criticized for bringing the project forward before completing a study of the noise ordinance, impact on the watershed, cost of associated infrastructure and review of the existing Data Center Opportunity Zone overlay district.
Fontanella Jr. was concerned that county staff didn’t have concrete answers to some of the panel’s questions.
“I’m hearing a lot of ‘to be determined’ or ‘we’re studying that,’ and it sort of begs the question of whether we’re ready for prime time without solid answers,” he said. “I would like to have a much better, deeper understanding of the impacts on not just the Occoquan Reservoir but our drinking sources that include the Potomac River.”
McGettigan presented the staff report to the commission. Those in the atrium frequently criticized his hesitation on answers and called him a “dummy” and “idiot.”
As McGettigan said the recommendation of staff was for approval, the atrium erupted in a chorus of boos.
No one presented on behalf of the applicants, as it was billed as a county-initiated project, although dozens of applicants spoke at the hearing. Representatives of the companies planning construction also provided input.
Those in the atrium would cheer when commissioners or speakers asked questions or made statements they agreed with and jeer during speakers or staff answers they did not support. At one point, Potomac Commissioner Juan McPhail, who was serving as chair for the meeting, told those in the atrium to cut down on their outbursts and was greeted with yells of “no.”
Bruce Ridgeway, an applicant, was booed from the atrium. He responded, "Boo to you out there ... Where were you guys at when I was fighting for my home 8 years ago? Don’t tell me what I can do to my home now.”
As Ridgeway left the board chambers and entered the atrium, which was mostly full of opponents, he shouted “woo” and held up a pro data center sign before heading home.
Supporters claimed those in opposition primarily lived in Heritage Hunt, didn’t support progressive change and accused them of intimidation.
Rhonda Reese said opponents should not be dismissed because their concerns are valid.
“How dare you guys assume that all of us that are against this are against change?” she said. “You don’t know me”
Two men almost came to blows in the atrium after one supporter was upset because he said opponents had parked outside Candland's house to "intimidate" him. He was confronted when he came into the atrium, but security and police stepped in to separate the men.
Elena Schlossberg said the supporters only favored the project because they were selling their land.
“If you remove the millions of dollars that each of these applicants are making, they would be with me,” she said.
Ali Iman, one of the applicants, said the proposal is “the most studied single project in the history of Prince William County.”
“For over a year now we have been consistently presenting facts about how the PW Digital Gateway is the greatest economic development in Prince William County’s history,” he said.
Melanie Williams, one of the applicants, said Pageland Lane is “a very, very small piece” of the county’s rural area and has been “ completely destroyed by huge power lines.”
“Nobody wants to leave their property, trust me,” she said. “But we feel like there’s no alternative.”
At about 3:20 a.m., Mary Ann Ghadban, one of the lead applicants, called out county Supervisor Jeanine Lawson, R-Brentsville, who has been adamantly opposed to the project. She said Lawson voted in favor of the nearby Gainesville Crossing data center that started Pageland landowners down the path toward the PW Digital Gateway.
Lawson, who was attending the meeting, spoke during the public hearing to counter Ghadban’s point. She did vote in favor of the project, but noted that it was not for a data center in the rural area, only outside of the overlay district.
“It is not and never was in the rural area,” she said. “They have a hard time forgetting that. We have borders for a reason. The rural crescent is nearby, I will give her that.”
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Below are the conference lineups for the 2022 fall regular season of the Northern Virginia Senior Softball League.
Game are played at various venues throughout Northern Virginia. Standings will updated every week or so at https://sungazette.news.
For information about the league, call Dave at (703) 663-7881.
American Conference: Springfield Silver, Alexandria Red, Oakton Green, Arlington Gold, Alexandria Dark Green, Fairfax Light Blue, Alexandria Black, Alexandria Maroon, Springfield Navy Blue, Fairfax Royal Blue.
National Conference: Reston Green, Fairfax Red, Fairfax Royal Blue, Springfield Maroon, Gainesville Silver.
Continental Conference: Haymarket Royal Blue, Springfield Orange, Reston Maroon, Fairfax Navy Blue, Reston Silver, Lake Ridge Green, Vienna Gold, Great Falls Red. | https://www.insidenova.com/sports/conferences-set-for-fall-senior-softball-season/article_16c53a98-348d-11ed-bbb3-dbfc7d1a0467.html | 2022-09-15T10:07:22Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/sports/conferences-set-for-fall-senior-softball-season/article_16c53a98-348d-11ed-bbb3-dbfc7d1a0467.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Marshall High School recently hired Marijke Landon as its new head girls and boys swimming coach.
Landon set school records and achieved All-American status in high school and later in college as a member of the Colorado State University women’s team.
In addition to her swimming background, Landon brings a vast amount of coaching knowledge. She has been a head coach or private coaching instructor since 2006. Landon has coached more than 1,000 swimmers, who ranged from developmental to those swimming on the national (Olympic) level.
A mother of four, her children swam, or will swim competitively, at the college level.
“She understands the importance of setting individual goals, but stressed the importance of being part of a team when maximizing the development of student athletes,” Marshall director of student activities Joe Swarm said.
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Biden: Tentative railway labor deal reached, averting strike
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden said Thursday that a tentative railway labor agreement has been reached, averting a potentially devastating strike before the pivotal midterm elections.
Railroads and union representatives had been in negotiations for 20 hours at the Labor Department on Wednesday to hammer out a deal, as there was a risk of a strike starting on Friday that could have shut down rail lines across the country. Biden made a key phone call to Labor Secretary Marty Walsh at 9 p.m. as the talks were ongoing after Italian dinner had been brought in, according to a White House official insisting on anonymity.
What resulted from the back and forth was a tentative agreement that will go to union members for a vote after a post-ratification cooling off period of several weeks.
“These rail workers will get better pay, improved working conditions, and peace of mind around their health care costs: all hard-earned,” Biden said. “The agreement is also a victory for railway companies who will be able to retain and recruit more workers for an industry that will continue to be part of the backbone of the American economy for decades to come.”
The threat of a shutdown had put Biden in a delicate spot politically. The Democratic president believes unions built the middle class, but he also knew a rail worker strike could damage the economy ahead of the midterms
That left him in the awkward position on Wednesday. He flew to Detroit, a stalwart of the labor movement, to espouse the virtues of unionization, while members of his administration went all-out to keep talks going in Washington between the railroads and unionized workers.
As the administration was trying to forge peace, United Auto Workers Local 598 member Ryan Buchalski introduced Biden at the Detroit auto show on Wednesday as “the most union- and labor-friendly president in American history” and someone who was “kickin’ ass for the working class.” Buchalski harked back to the pivotal sitdown strikes by autoworkers in the 1930s.
In the speech that followed, Biden recognized that he wouldn’t be in the White House without the support of unions such as the UAW and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, saying autoworkers “brung me to the dance.”
But without a deal among the 12 unions in talks back in Washington, Biden also knew that a stoppage might have begun as early as Friday that could halt shipments of food and fuel at a cost of $2 billion a day.
Far more was at stake than sick leave and salary bumps for 115,000 unionized railroad workers. The ramifications could have extended to control of Congress and to the shipping network that keeps factories rolling, stocks the shelves of stores and stitches the U.S. together as an economic power.
That’s why White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, speaking aboard Air Force One as it jetted to Detroit on Wednesday, said a rail worker strike was “an unacceptable outcome for our economy and the American people.” The rail lines and their workers’ representatives “need to stay at the table, bargain in good faith to resolve outstanding issues, and come to an agreement,” she said.
Biden faced the same kind of predicament faced by Theodore Roosevelt in 1902 with coal and Harry Truman in 1952 with steel — how do you balance the needs of labor and business in doing what’s best for the nation? Railways were so important during World War I that Woodrow Wilson temporarily nationalized the industry to keep goods flowing and prevent strikes.
Inside the White House, aides don’t see a contradiction between Biden’s devotion to unions and his desire to avoid a strike. Union activism has surged under Biden, as seen in a 56% increase in petitions for union representation with the National Labor Relations Board so far this fiscal year.
One person familiar with the situation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss White House deliberations on the matter, said Biden’s mindset in approaching the debate was that he’s the president of the entire country, not just for organized labor.
With the economy still recovering from the supply chain disruptions of the pandemic, the president’s goal is to keep all parties so a deal could be finalized. The person said the White House saw a commitment to keep negotiating in good faith as the best way to avoid a shutdown while exercising the principles of collective bargaining that Biden holds dear.
Biden also knew a stoppage could worsen the dynamics that have contributed to soaring inflation and created a political headache for the party in power.
Eddie Vale, a Democratic political consultant and former AFL-CIO communications aide, said the White House pursued the correct approach at a perilous moment.
“No one wants a railroad strike, not the companies, not the workers, not the White House,” he said. “No one wants it this close to the election.”
Vale added that the sticking point in the talks was about “respect basically — sick leave and bereavement leave,” issues Biden has supported in speeches and with his policy proposals.
Sensing political opportunity, Senate Republicans moved Wednesday to pass a law to impose contract terms on the unions and railroad companies to avoid a shutdown. Democrats, who control both chambers in Congress, blocked it.
“If a strike occurs and paralyzes food, fertilizer and energy shipments nationwide, it will be because Democrats blocked this bill,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
The economic impact of a potential strike was not lost on members of the Business Roundtable, a Washington-based group that represents CEOs. It issued its quarterly outlook for the economy Wednesday.
“We’ve been experiencing a lot of headwinds from supply chain problems since the pandemic started and those problems would be geometrically magnified,” Josh Bolten, the group’s CEO, told reporters. “There are manufacturing plants around the country that likely have to shut down. ... There are critical products to keep our water clean.”
The roundtable also had a meeting of its board of directors Wednesday. But Bolten said Lance Fritz, chair of the board’s international committee and the CEO of Union Pacific railroad, would miss it “because he’s working hard trying to bring the strike to a resolution.”
By 5:05 a.m. Thursday, it was clear that the hard work across the government, unions and railway companied had paid off as Biden announced the deal, calling it “an important win for our economy and the American people.”
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Biden: Tentative railway labor deal reached, averting strike
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden says a tentative railway labor agreement has been reached, averting a potentially devastating strike before the pivotal midterm elections.
Biden said in a statement Thursday morning the tentative deal “will keep our critical rail system working and avoid disruption of our economy.”
The president says the agreement is “an important win for our economy and the American people” and calls it “a win for tens of thousands of rail workers.” Biden says the rail workers will get better pay, improved working conditions and “peace of mind around their health care costs.”
He also calls the agreement “a victory for railway companies.”
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NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Ampio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Ampio" or the "Company") (NYSE: AMPE) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Ampio investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons or entities that purchased or otherwise acquired Ampio common stock between December 29, 2020 and August 3, 2022, inclusive. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
AMPE investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (i) defendants had inflated the Company's true ability to successfully file a Biologics License Application ("BLA") for Ampion; (ii) defendants had inflated the results of the AP-013 study and the timing of unblinding the data from the AP-013 study; and (iii) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Ampio during the relevant time frame, you have until October 17, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Ampio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Ampio" or the "Company") (NYSE: AMPE) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Ampio investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons or entities that purchased or otherwise acquired Ampio common stock between December 29, 2020 and August 3, 2022, inclusive. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
AMPE investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (i) defendants had inflated the Company's true ability to successfully file a Biologics License Application ("BLA") for Ampion; (ii) defendants had inflated the results of the AP-013 study and the timing of unblinding the data from the AP-013 study; and (iii) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Ampio during the relevant time frame, you have until October 17, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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Joseph E. Levi, Esq.
Ed Korsinsky, Esq.
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Resumen de noticias de la guerra de Rusia en Ucrania del 14 de septiembre Juan Pablo Elverdin Sep 14, 2022 Sep 14, 2022 Updated 17 min ago Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Este seguimiento terminó. Puedes ver las últimas noticias de la guerra aquí.The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Recommended for you ON AIR Trending Now UPDATE: Active shooting investigation shuts down portion of Gunbarrel Rd near Erlanger East DEFYING ODDS: Soddy Daisy Woman dies twice, and lives to tell the tale UPDATE: Moon River organizers cancel Sunday show due to flooding, now issuing refunds Man killed in dog attack Sunday morning WHAT THE TECH? A look at Apple's iOS 16 & if you should install it Catoosa Man pleads guilty to molesting female relative NTSB releases preliminary report of deadly helicopter crash in Marion County Residents concerned after shooting on Gunbarrel Collegedale PD K-9 officer catches escaped felon from Georgia during first day on the job Chattanooga City Council candidate cited in traffic stop, accuses officers of racial profiling Must See Video Alison Pryor's Thursday weather Chattanooga's Chief of Police addresses rise in violent crime Chattanooga City Council candidate cited in traffic stop, accuses officers of racial profiling | https://www.local3news.com/regional-national/en-espanol/resumen-de-noticias-de-la-guerra-de-rusia-en-ucrania-del-14-de-septiembre/article_bcf667d2-3dcf-54bd-946a-eb7907c06eb7.html | 2022-09-15T10:20:12Z | local3news.com | control | https://www.local3news.com/regional-national/en-espanol/resumen-de-noticias-de-la-guerra-de-rusia-en-ucrania-del-14-de-septiembre/article_bcf667d2-3dcf-54bd-946a-eb7907c06eb7.html | 0 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | 2 |
Resumen de noticias de la guerra de Rusia en Ucrania del 14 de septiembre Juan Pablo Elverdin Sep 14, 2022 Sep 14, 2022 Updated 17 min ago Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Este seguimiento terminó. Puedes ver las últimas noticias de la guerra aquí.The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Recommended for you ON AIR Trending Now UPDATE: Active shooting investigation shuts down portion of Gunbarrel Rd near Erlanger East DEFYING ODDS: Soddy Daisy Woman dies twice, and lives to tell the tale UPDATE: Moon River organizers cancel Sunday show due to flooding, now issuing refunds Man killed in dog attack Sunday morning WHAT THE TECH? A look at Apple's iOS 16 & if you should install it Catoosa Man pleads guilty to molesting female relative NTSB releases preliminary report of deadly helicopter crash in Marion County Residents concerned after shooting on Gunbarrel Collegedale PD K-9 officer catches escaped felon from Georgia during first day on the job Chattanooga City Council candidate cited in traffic stop, accuses officers of racial profiling Must See Video Alison Pryor's Thursday weather Chattanooga's Chief of Police addresses rise in violent crime Chattanooga City Council candidate cited in traffic stop, accuses officers of racial profiling | https://www.local3news.com/regional-national/en-espanol/resumen-de-noticias-de-la-guerra-de-rusia-en-ucrania-del-14-de-septiembre/article_bcf667d2-3dcf-54bd-946a-eb7907c06eb7.html | 2022-09-15T10:20:12Z | local3news.com | control | https://www.local3news.com/regional-national/en-espanol/resumen-de-noticias-de-la-guerra-de-rusia-en-ucrania-del-14-de-septiembre/article_bcf667d2-3dcf-54bd-946a-eb7907c06eb7.html | 1 | 0 | green-iguana-35 | 2 |
Last week, Janet Stickler was forced to evacuate the trailer she lived in as the Mosquito Fire -- a raging blaze that has become California's biggest this year -- was inching closer to the community of Garden Valley.
She found shelter in the home of her niece's friend, who offered a room in her home in the small community of Dutch Flat, about an hour north.
This week, deja vu: Stickler, 74, had to leave again after a separate blaze, the Dutch Fire, came dangerously close Tuesday.
"It was absolutely the most intense, horrible situation," Stickler, who is retired, told CNN. "It was just like, 'I can't believe it.' I don't have a lot of strength or resilience and I'm an anxious kind of person. So, it's just stressful."
The quickly expanding Mosquito Fire had burned through 63,776 acres and was roughly 20% contained as of Wednesday night, according to Cal Fire. Since sparking on September 6, it has become the largest fire in California this year, surpassing the McKinney Fire, which was previously the largest at 60,100 acres.
Cindy Goldman, who was hosting Stickler in her home, said as the Dutch Fire grew nearby, she helped Stickler gather her things and her dog to flee flames once again. Goldman then began driving around the town -- one she said feels very much like family -- to make sure everyone was okay and aware of the fire threat.
"Everybody called everybody," Goldman said. "Everybody went around before we even got any evacuation orders, (the fire) was so close that people were hitching up their trailers and packing their cars."
Authorities began evacuating residents in the area shortly after the blaze began, according to a Twitter post from the Placer County Sheriff's Office. Evacuation orders were lifted later Tuesday. The fire was 50% contained Wednesday night, according to Cal Fire.
The Dutch Fire, which started Tuesday afternoon, has burned about 48 acres in northern California and narrowly missed the town, which is just off Interstate 80, and has fewer than 200 permanent residents.
Evacuation warnings remain for Garden Valley as the Mosquito Fire rages and Stickler said she hasn't been able to go back to the trailer. She returned to Goldman's house Wednesday morning.
Thousands of buildings are under threat
The Mosquito Fire was continuing to threaten more than 9,000 homes, businesses and outbuildings across El Dorado and Placer counties Wednesday evening, authorities said. The blaze has already destroyed 64 structures and damaged another 10, according to Cal Fire.
The fire was moving east and northeast, the Placer County Sheriff's Office said in a Facebook post Wednesday. The blaze reached the southern edge of the communities of Foresthill and Todd Valley early Wednesday, and those areas were still deemed threatened later in the day, authorities said.
"This area remains very dangerous," Placer County Sheriff's Lt. Josh Barnhart said in a virtual briefing Wednesday evening. "I understand that people are eager to repopulate Todd Valley but at this time it's too dangerous to do so."
Evacuation orders and warnings remained in place Wednesday for multiple communities across the two counties.
In El Dorado County alone, more than 5,400 people were affected by evacuation orders and more than 11,500 were affected by evacuation warnings, according to data posted by the county.
But below average temperatures in the forecast could help firefighters battling the blaze in Northern California over the coming days. There will likely be no rain for the next couple of days, but temperatures are expected to be cooler than normal and winds -- which have so far helped fuel fire growth -- are expected to be minimal, CNN meteorologist Robert Shackelford said.
The fire is one of many burning across the western US as much of the region baked in triple-digit temperatures last week. Roughly 91 active large blazes and fire complexes have burned more than 854,500 acres in the region, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.
And so far this year, more than 50,600 wildfires have charred through more than 6.7 million acres in the US, according to the center.
"This is the most wildfires-to-date in the past 10 years. More than 87% of these wildfires were caused by people," it added.
And the fires are causing dangerous smoke conditions. A wall of smoke from the Mosquito Fire in the Sierra Nevada mountains created hazardous air quality conditions earlier this week. Air quality advisories remained in effect Wednesday over most of the northwestern US, according to the center.
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UPDATE: Unions and management reached a tentative deal early Thursday that averts a freight railroad strike that had threatened to cripple US supply chains and push prices higher for many goods.
The deal with unions representing more than 50,000 engineers and conductors was announced just after 5 a.m. ET in a statement from the White House, which called it "an important win for our economy and the American people."
It came after an all-night bargaining session hosted by Labor Secretary Marty Walsh between the unions' leadership and the railroads' labor negotiators. They had met with the clock ticking down to a strike that had been set to start at 12:01 am ET on Friday.
The agreement does not mean the threat of a strike has gone away entirely. The deal needs to be ratified by union members. But it's good news for a wide range of businesses that depend upon the freight railroads to continue to operate, and for the wider US economy. About 30% of the nation's freight moves by rail.
PREVIOUS STORY: Railroad and union officials are currently meeting with Labor Secretary Marty Walsh at the Labor Department in Washington, according to the White House, as the Biden administration tries to help avoid a freight rail strike that could cause massive supply chain disruptions and have significant repercussions on the economy.
The two main unions that have disputes with the railroads -- the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen and SMART Transportation Division -- were expected to send their union chiefs to the meeting with Walsh.
The meeting comes with just days remaining until a federally mandated cooling off period expires and the strike could begin. It serves as a major test for President Joe Biden and his White House, which has positioned itself as one of the most pro-labor administrations in decades but also wants to avoid any potential shocks to the economy with the midterm elections just months away.
Members of the Machinists union on Friday voted to reject a tentative labor deal reached with the nation's freight railroads. There are about 5,000 members of the union at the railroads working as locomotive machinists, track equipment mechanics and facility maintenance personnel. They make up less than 5% of the more than 100,000 union members at the railroads.
The rejection is not an immediate setback in efforts to avoid the potentially devastating rail strike. The union said it will give an extension until the end of the month to try to reach a change in the tentative agreement that could make it acceptable to its membership. But it is a sign of the difficulty that the railroads will have reaching deals with a dozen different unions that will also be acceptable to their rank-and-file membership.
A Labor Department spokesperson said Wednesday that the unions and railroad officials are "negotiating in good faith" and "committed to staying at the table" as the discussions remained ongoing.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Wednesday morning aboard Air Force One: "All parties need to stay at the table, bargain in good faith to resolve outstanding issues and come to an agreement. A shutdown of our freight rail system is unacceptable outcome for our economy and the American people and all parties must work to avoid just that."
About 60,000 union members working for railroads are set to go on strike after midnight on Friday. These members include the engineers and conductors who make up the two-person crews on each train. Forty-five thousand other workers belong to unions that have reached tentative deals with the railroads, but a strike by engineers and conductors would bring the freight rail system to a grinding halt.
Such a shutdown could have massive effects across the supply chain and also for the nation's passenger rail system. About 30% of the nation's freight moves by rail, and gas, food, consumer goods and cars and trucks could all increase in price or become more scarce if freight trains are shutdown. Amtrak is also warning of huge effects to its service as it runs on tracks that are owned by freight rail companies. Service has already been canceled along key long-haul routes across the country in anticipation of a possible strike.
Officials have grown increasingly concerned about a shutdown, and the White House has been discussing contingency plans as labor talks remain at an impasse and agencies across the federal government are working through options available to keep critical supply chains operational.
Biden personally called rail unions and companies earlier this week when he visited Boston in an attempt to avoid a strike, according to Jean-Pierre. Biden continues to receive regular updates on the high-stakes negotiations.
A White House official previously told CNN the Biden administration is working with shippers, truckers and air freight to see how these other modes of transportation could keep goods moving if there is a rail shutdown. One area of key concern is how to transport hazardous materials.
One official said interagency meetings with the departments of Transportation, Defense, Agriculture, Health and Human Services, and Energy and the Federal Emergency Management Agency were happening daily.
Disputes on Capitol Hill
Congress has the authority to impose a settlement between the railroads and unions, but Democrats have been wary of undercutting the unions amid the ongoing negotiations.
Republican Sens. Roger Wicker of Mississippi and Richard Burr of North Carolina asked for unanimous consent in the Senate to impose a slate of non-binding emergency board recommendations, which would forestall a strike. The Presidential Emergency Board was established by the Biden administration in July and issued the recommendations last month.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, objected to the Republicans' effort.
And while nine of the 12 unions involved in the ongoing labor negotiations have reached tentative agreements with carriers based on the emergency board's recommendations, the two largest unions have rejected the proposals.
This story has been updated with additional details on Wednesday.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Carvana Co. ("Carvana" or the "Company") (NYSE: CVNA) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Carvana investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between May 6, 2020 and June 24, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
CVNA investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (1) Carvana faced serious, ongoing issues with documentation, registration, and title with many of its vehicles; (2) as a result, Carvana was issuing unusually frequent temporary plates; (3) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana was violating laws and regulations in many existing markets; (4) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana risked its ability to continue business and/or expand its business in existing markets; (5) as a result of the foregoing, Carvana was at an increased risk of governmental investigation and action; (6) Carvana was in discussion with state and local authorities regarding the above-stated business tactics and issues; (7) Carvana was facing imminent and ongoing regulatory actions including license suspensions, business cessation, and probation in several states and counties including in Arizona, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and North Carolina; and (8) as a result, Defendants' statements about Carvana's business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Carvana during the relevant time frame, you have until October 3, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in LifeStance Health Group, Inc. ("LifeStance" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: LFST) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of LifeStance investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of all purchasers of LifeStance common stock pursuant and/or traceable to the documents issued in connection with LifeStance's June 10, 2021 initial public stock offering. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
LFST investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (i) the number of virtual visits clients were undertaking utilizing LifeStance Health was decreasing as the COVID-19 lockdowns were being lifted, thereby flatlining LifeStance Health's out-patient/virtual revenue growth; (ii) the percentage of in-person visits clients were undertaking utilizing LifeStance Health was increasing as the COVID-19 lockdowns were being lifted, thereby causing LifeStance Health's operating expenses to increase substantially; (iii) LifeStance Health had lost a large number of physicians due to burn-out and, as a result, its physician retention rate had fallen significantly below the 87% highlighted in the initial public offering's registration statement, and LifeStance Health had been expending additional costs to onboard new physicians who were less productive than the outgoing physicians they were replacing; and (iv) as a result, LifeStance Health's business metrics and financial prospects were not as strong as the initial public offering's registration statement represented.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in LifeStance during the relevant time frame, you have until October 11, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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The Alex Manfull Fund is presenting the conference to help physicians and mental health practitioners recognize and treat immune-mediated psychiatric disorders PANDAS/PANS
PORTSMOUTH, N.H., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rapid onset of OCD, anxiety, and tics in children and young adults can be triggered by a strep (streptococcal) infection, however, the underlying cause is not widely recognized or treated, according to researchers and physicians who specialize in post-infectious neuropsychiatric disorders called PANDAS (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Streptococcus) and PANS (Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome).
The symposium, entitled PANDAS/PANS: Recognizing, Understanding and Treating Immune-Mediated Neuropsychiatric Disorders, will share new advances and provide an opportunity for clinicians to discuss improving early detection and treatment. The event, hosted by The Alex Manfull Fund, takes place on Saturday, October 1, 2022 from 8:30am-6pm at Portsmouth Historical Society, 10 Middle Street, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The cost is $85. To register visit https://thealexmanfullfund.org/symposium/
Attendance is limited to physicians, psychologists, nurses, mental health professionals, researchers, policymakers, and others involved in the treatment, education, research, or funding related to such disorders. Attendees will learn from world-renowned experts how to distinguish immune-mediated mental health disorders from primary psychiatric disorders; the symptoms are similar but the cause is different and requires treatment of the underlying infection (e.g.: strep, mycoplasma, lyme), inflammation, and immunological issues. In addition, the latest research on the role of genetics, the microbiome, and cytokines will also be presented. Speakers include top clinicians and researchers from across the US and Europe.
Dr. Juliette Madan, Director of the Psychiatry Immunology and Neurology Group at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, is a presenter at the symposium. She says, "This is an exciting opportunity for physicians and physician scientists to connect in person and share clinical and translational research about this challenging condition. We are working collaboratively to better understand the mechanisms behind PANDAS/PANS in order to identify diagnostic biomarkers and clarify individualized treatment protocols to diagnose and treat young people more readily. Ongoing research is bringing us closer to achieving our goal of quickly identifying post infectious neuropsychiatric illnesses and finding a cure."
Dr. Kyle Williams, Director of Pediatric Neuropsychiatry and Immunology at Massachusetts General Hospital, has evaluated approximately 1200 children in the last decade for PANDAS/PANS and says about a quarter meet the criteria for the disorder. Dr. Williams attended the 2019 symposium hosted by The Alex Manfull Fund and is encouraging other doctors and mental health workers to attend: "This symposium does a fantastic job of including emerging science that will have a clinical impact both now and in the future. We are learning a great deal about how the immune system impacts the brain. There's no question we need to improve access to care for families who are frustrated by the lack of a standardized approach and challenges with insurance coverage."
Susan Manfull, PhD, is organizing the symposium; "We know common infections can set in motion a misdirected immune response that can trigger inflammation in the brain leading to serious deterioration in psychological functioning for some children, as was the case with our daughter, Alex, who passed away as a result of PANDAS. This research is critical to early recognition of PANDAS/PANS as effective treatment can dramatically improve outcomes."
The nonprofit Alex Manfull Fund was established in 2018 to build awareness of PANDAS/PANS so young people will have improved treatment outcomes. Alex Manfull was 26 when she died from the effects of PANDAS. Her parents started the nonprofit to honor their daughter's legacy; TheAlexManfullFund.org
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SHANGHAI, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Asieris Pharmaceuticals (688176.SH), a global biopharma company specializing in discovering, developing and commercializing innovative drugs for the treatment of genitourinary tumors and other related diseases, announced today that Hexvix®, a drug used for bladder cancer diagnosis, has been included in the 2022 edition of the Lecheng Global Specialty Drug Insurance Specialty Drug List.
Lecheng Global Specialty Drug Insurance is an inclusive supplementary commercial medical insurance policy jointly underwritten by a number of well-known domestic insurance companies and supervised by the Hainan Office of China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission under the guidance of the Bo'ao Lecheng International Medical Tourism Pilot Zone Administration and the Medical Security Bureau of Hainan Province. With a drug list covering 40 specialty drugs on the market in China and 60 overseas specialty drugs, the policy is designed to boost the development of a multi-tiered medical security system in Hainan by strengthening its efficient combination and coordination with basic medical insurance, critical illness insurance and medical aid policies, so as to effectively lighten the burden of medical care for the insured and further address people's diverse medical and health care needs on different levels.
Hexvix® has been approved in the United States and many European countries. The combined use of Hexvix® and blue light cystoscopy (BLC) for the management of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) has been included in the global expert consensus guidelines and Chinese Urological Association Guideline.
In January 2021, Asieris entered into a license agreement with Photocure ASA (Photocure, OSE:PHO), a bladder cancer specialty company based in Oslo, Norway, to obtain the exclusive registration and commercialization rights of Hexvix® in mainland China and Taiwan.
In December 2021, Hexvix® was put into pilot use in the Boao Lecheng International Medical Tourism Pilot Zone in Hainan Province and the first prescription in China was issued at Hainan General Hospital, with the first patient operated successfully. It received approval from the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for phase III clinical trials in the first quarter of 2022 and was included in the real-world clinical data pilot program.
"The inclusion of Hexvix® in Lecheng Global Specialty Drug Insurance is a positive attempt by Asieris Pharmaceuticals to explore an innovative payment model, aiming to allow Chinese bladder cancer patients earlier access to cutting-edge international diagnosis and treatment methods, and reduce the pressure of out-of-pocket payment. This payment model serves as a strong supplement to the company's commitment to building an integrated closed-loop ecosystem for bladder cancer diagnosis and treatment. And we will continue to promote the launch of and access to advanced and innovative drugs and medical devices for the greatest benefit of bladder cancer patients in China," said Mr. Xinming Jiang, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Asieris.
About Asieris
Asieris Pharmaceuticals(688176.SH), founded in March 2010, is a global biopharma company specializing in discovering, developing and commercializing innovative drugs for the treatment of genitourinary tumors and other related diseases. We strive to improve human health and help people live a more dignified life. We aim to become a global pharma leader that integrates R&D, manufacturing and commercialization in our areas of focus, as we provide best-in-class integrated diagnosis and treatment solutions for patients in China and worldwide.
The company has been developing its proprietary R&D platform and core technologies, exploring new mechanisms of action, and efficiently screening and evaluating drug candidates. With a well-established in-house R&D system and expertise in global drug development, Asieris is committed to launching first-in-class drugs and other innovative products to address huge unmet needs in its areas of focus.
Asieris is also enhancing its pipeline for genitourinary diseases via proprietary R&D and strategic partnerships, while closely following cutting-edge technologies and therapeutics. The company strives to discover and identify unmet clinical needs, and adopts a forward-looking approach in product planning and life-cycle management. We aim to establish an outstanding portfolio that covers diagnosis and treatment in a bid to benefit more patients in China and globally.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Weber Inc. ("Weber" or the "Company") (NYSE: WEBR) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Weber investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired Weber Class A common stock pursuant and/or traceable to the registration statement and prospectus issued in connection with the Company's August 2021 initial public offering. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
WEBR investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (1) Weber was reasonably likely to implement price increases; (2) as a result, consumer demand for Weber's products was reasonably likely to decrease; (3) due to the resulting inventory buildup, Weber was reasonably likely to run promotions to "enhance retail sell through"; (4) the foregoing would adversely impact Weber's financial results; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects, were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
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U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Celestine Gonzales, 51st Force Support Squadron shelter management team member, performs a post-attack reconnaissance (PAR) sweep during a base-wide training event at Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Sept. 14, 2022. PAR sweeps are conducted after an attack has occurred to assess facility damage, account for casualties and to report any possible unexploded ordnance that could pose a danger to personnel. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Skyler Combs)
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A simulated unexploded ordnance (UXO) is discovered in a bush during a base-wide training event at Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Sept. 14, 2022. Simulated UXOs are used in training scenarios to train post-attack reconnaissance teams on proper procedures for removal and disposal of highly dangerous materials. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Skyler Combs)
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Dubai: The ICC T20 World Cup clash between India and Pakistan has been sold out with just over a month left for the mega event in Australia, the International Cricket Council (ICC) informed on Thursday.
Tickets for the Super 12 clash between India and Pakistan at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on October 23 were sold out, "with additional standing room tickets snapped up within minutes of going on sale," the ICC said in a statement.
Fans from 82 different countries have purchased tickets to watch the world's best players from 16 teams, marking the return of full stadiums at ICC events for the first time since the Women's T20 World Cup in 2020, which culminated with 86,174 fans for the final at the MCG, the ICC informed.
A key reason for this enthusiasm for purchasing tickets, according to the ICC, is the accessible pricing for families that has seen over 85,000 children's tickets sold. Tickets for kids are priced at just $5 for all first round and Super 12 matches while those for adults start from $20.
The ICC said many other matches too have been sold out for the marquee event that will kick off with the qualifiers from October 16.
"Current ticket allocations are also all sold for the double-header at the SCG on October 27 featuring South Africa vs Bangladesh and India vs Group A runner-up. Fans are encouraged to join the waitlist in the event of additional tickets becoming available," the ICC said.
It said an official re-sale platform will be launched closer to the event, where fans can exchange tickets at face value.
Only a very limited number of tickets remain for Australia's opening Super 12 fixture against New Zealand at the the Sydney Cricket Ground on October 22, the double-header featuring Pakistan vs Group A runner-up and India vs South Africa at Perth Stadium on October 30, and Pakistan vs South Africa at the SCG on November 3.
Tickets are still available for most matches, the ICC said asking fans to act now to secure their seats at t20worldcup.com.
ICC Head of Events, Chris Tetley said: "We are delighted by the uptake of tickets for the ICC Men's T20 World Cup with over 500,000 already being snapped up. The excitement is really building with just over a month to go and this World Cup is set to be an unmissable event. There are still some tickets available to buy, so fans should make sure they secure theirs while they are still available." | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/09/15/t20-world-cup-tickets-sold-out-for-india-pakistan-match.amp.html | 2022-09-15T10:24:44Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/09/15/t20-world-cup-tickets-sold-out-for-india-pakistan-match.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Dubai: The ICC T20 World Cup clash between India and Pakistan has been sold out with just over a month left for the mega event in Australia, the International Cricket Council (ICC) informed on Thursday.
Tickets for the Super 12 clash between India and Pakistan at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on October 23 were sold out, "with additional standing room tickets snapped up within minutes of going on sale," the ICC said in a statement.
Fans from 82 different countries have purchased tickets to watch the world's best players from 16 teams, marking the return of full stadiums at ICC events for the first time since the Women's T20 World Cup in 2020, which culminated with 86,174 fans for the final at the MCG, the ICC informed.
A key reason for this enthusiasm for purchasing tickets, according to the ICC, is the accessible pricing for families that has seen over 85,000 children's tickets sold. Tickets for kids are priced at just $5 for all first round and Super 12 matches while those for adults start from $20.
The ICC said many other matches too have been sold out for the marquee event that will kick off with the qualifiers from October 16.
"Current ticket allocations are also all sold for the double-header at the SCG on October 27 featuring South Africa vs Bangladesh and India vs Group A runner-up. Fans are encouraged to join the waitlist in the event of additional tickets becoming available," the ICC said.
It said an official re-sale platform will be launched closer to the event, where fans can exchange tickets at face value.
Only a very limited number of tickets remain for Australia's opening Super 12 fixture against New Zealand at the the Sydney Cricket Ground on October 22, the double-header featuring Pakistan vs Group A runner-up and India vs South Africa at Perth Stadium on October 30, and Pakistan vs South Africa at the SCG on November 3.
Tickets are still available for most matches, the ICC said asking fans to act now to secure their seats at t20worldcup.com.
ICC Head of Events, Chris Tetley said: "We are delighted by the uptake of tickets for the ICC Men's T20 World Cup with over 500,000 already being snapped up. The excitement is really building with just over a month to go and this World Cup is set to be an unmissable event. There are still some tickets available to buy, so fans should make sure they secure theirs while they are still available." | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/09/15/t20-world-cup-tickets-sold-out-for-india-pakistan-match.html | 2022-09-15T10:24:50Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/09/15/t20-world-cup-tickets-sold-out-for-india-pakistan-match.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
West Indies recalled opener Evin Lewis on Wednesday for the Twenty20 World Cup in Australia but excluded all-rounder Andre Russell and spinner Sunil Narine from their 15-man squad.
The left-handed Lewis last played for the team in the 2021 T20 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates while veterans Russell and Narine have been overlooked by selectors in recent months.
West Indies included uncapped all-rounders Yannic Cariah and Raymon Reifer in the squad, which will be led by Nicholas Pooran with Rovman Powell as his deputy.
A hard-hitting batter down the order and a useful seamer, Russell is one of the world's most sought-after players in domestic T20 leagues but chief selector Desmond Haynes said he was not convinced by the 34-year-old's form.
"We had a meeting with Andre Russell earlier in the year," Haynes said on the sidelines of a Caribbean Premier League (CPL) match on Wednesday.
"We're still not convinced, he's not performing as well as we would like to see him in the competition (CPL). I think in the situation with Andre Russell, we've decided to just move on, and look for someone who's in form, and doing well in the T20 format."
Haynes said skipper Pooran had reached out to Narine but added, "... I'm not too sure he wants to play."
Narine, who also plies his trade in T20 leagues around the world, last played for the West Indies in 2019.
There was also no place for all-rounder Fabian Allen.
"We have selected a mixture of youth and experience to represent the West Indies," said Haynes.
"In the selection process, we have been cognizant of the ongoing Caribbean Premier League and we have been looking at the players who have been playing very well."
Twice champions West Indies play Australia in a two-match series in the run-up to the World Cup before taking on Scotland in their opener on October 17.
Squad: Nicholas Pooran (capt), Rovman Powell, Yannic Cariah, Johnson Charles, Sheldon Cottrell, Shimron Hetmyer, Jason Holder, Akeal Hosein, Alzarri Joseph, Brandon King, Evin Lewis, Kyle Mayers, Obed McCoy, Raymon Reifer, Odean Smith. | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/09/15/t20-world-cup-west-indies-recall-lewis-russell-narine-overlooked.html | 2022-09-15T10:25:03Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/sports/cricket/2022/09/15/t20-world-cup-west-indies-recall-lewis-russell-narine-overlooked.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Many say rising political division and ideological violence threaten democracy but there are risks with Biden addressing it directly. President Biden and Vice President Harris will give remarks.
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Many say rising political division and ideological violence threaten democracy but there are risks with Biden addressing it directly. President Biden and Vice President Harris will give remarks.
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden believes unions built the middle class, but he also knew a rail worker strike could damage the economy ahead of midterm elections.
That left him in the awkward position of espousing the virtues of unionization in Detroit, a stalwart of the labor movement, while members of his administration went all-out to keep talks going in Washington between the railroads and unionized workers in hopes of averting a shutdown.
But after a long night, the talks succeeded and Biden announced Thursday that the parties had reached a tentative agreement to avoid a shutdown that would go to union members for a vote. The Democratic president hailed the deal in a statement for avoiding a shutdown and as a win for all sides.
"These rail workers will get better pay, improved working conditions, and peace of mind around their health care costs: all hard-earned," Biden said. "The agreement is also a victory for railway companies who will be able to retain and recruit more workers for an industry that will continue to be part of the backbone of the American economy for decades to come."
It looked far more tenuous for the president just a day earlier.
United Auto Workers Local 598 member Ryan Buchalski introduced Biden at the Detroit auto show on Wednesday as "the most union- and labor-friendly president in American history" and someone who was "kickin' ass for the working class." Buchalski harked back to the pivotal sitdown strikes by autoworkers in the 1930s.
In the speech that followed, Biden recognized that he wouldn't be in the White House without the support of unions such as the UAW and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, saying autoworkers "brung me to the dance."
But back in Washington, officials in his administration at the Labor Department were in tense negotiations to prevent a strike — one of the most powerful sources of leverage that unions have to bring about change and improve working conditions.
Without the deal that was reached among the 12 unions, a stoppage could have begun as early as Friday that could halt shipments of food and fuel at a cost of $2 billion a day.
Far more was at stake than sick leave and salary bumps for 115,000 unionized railroad workers. The ramifications could extend to control of Congress and to the shipping network that keeps factories rolling, stocks the shelves of stores and stitches the U.S. together as an economic power.
That's why White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, speaking aboard Air Force One as it jetted to Detroit on Wednesday, said a rail worker strike was "an unacceptable outcome for our economy and the American people." The rail lines and their workers' representatives "need to stay at the table, bargain in good faith to resolve outstanding issues, and come to an agreement," she said.
Biden faced the same kind of predicament faced by Theodore Roosevelt in 1902 with coal and Harry Truman in 1952 with steel — how do you balance the needs of labor and business in doing what's best for the nation? Railways were so important during World War I that Woodrow Wilson temporarily nationalized the industry to keep goods flowing and prevent strikes.
Inside the White House, aides don't see a contradiction between Biden's devotion to unions and his desire to avoid a strike. Union activism has surged under Biden, as seen in a 56% increase in petitions for union representation with the National Labor Relations Board so far this fiscal year.
One person familiar with the situation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss White House deliberations on the matter, said Biden's mindset in approaching the debate was that he's the president of the entire country, not just for organized labor.
With the economy still recovering from the supply chain disruptions of the pandemic, the president's goal is to keep all parties so a deal could be finalized. The person said the White House saw a commitment to keep negotiating in good faith as the best way to avoid a shutdown while exercising the principles of collective bargaining that Biden holds dear.
Biden also knew a stoppage could worsen the dynamics that have contributed to soaring inflation and created a political headache for the party in power.
Eddie Vale, a Democratic political consultant and former AFL-CIO communications aide, said the White House pursued the correct approach at a perilous moment.
"No one wants a railroad strike, not the companies, not the workers, not the White House," he said. "No one wants it this close to the election."
Vale added that the sticking point in the talks was about "respect basically — sick leave and bereavement leave," issues Biden has supported in speeches and with his policy proposals.
Sensing political opportunity, Senate Republicans moved Wednesday to pass a law to impose contract terms on the unions and railroad companies to avoid a shutdown. Democrats, who control both chambers in Congress, blocked it.
"If a strike occurs and paralyzes food, fertilizer and energy shipments nationwide, it will be because Democrats blocked this bill," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
The economic impact of a potential strike was not lost on members of the Business Roundtable, a Washington-based group that represents CEOs. It issued its quarterly outlook for the economy Wednesday.
"We've been experiencing a lot of headwinds from supply chain problems since the pandemic started and those problems would be geometrically magnified," Josh Bolten, the group's CEO, told reporters. "There are manufacturing plants around the country that likely have to shut down. ... There are critical products to keep our water clean."
The roundtable also had a meeting of its board of directors Wednesday. But Bolten said Lance Fritz, chair of the board's international committee and the CEO of Union Pacific railroad, would miss it "because he's working hard trying to bring the strike to a resolution."
Back at the Labor Department, negotiators ordered Italian food as talks dragged into Wednesday night and the White House announced the agreement at 5:05 a.m. on Thursday.
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In Massachusetts, the residents of Martha's Vineyard are scrambling to care for 50 immigrants, mostly from Venezuela, who arrived without warning yesterday at the local airport.
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In Massachusetts, the residents of Martha's Vineyard are scrambling to care for 50 immigrants, mostly from Venezuela, who arrived without warning yesterday at the local airport.
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Kelly Moller, a Democratic state representative in Minnesota, is conflicted. Like every other state, hers is preparing to receive new federal funding for crisis intervention. But with a wide slate of options for using the funds, and relatively vague federal guidance, she isn’t exactly sure where the state should start.
The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which President Joe Biden signed in June, gives states $750 million over five years to implement or improve a range of crisis intervention programs. The possibilities are broad: Available funding could cover Extreme Risk Protection Order laws, more commonly known as red flag laws, which allow courts to temporarily seize firearms from people who pose an immediate danger to themselves or others. Initiatives like mental health courts, veterans courts, and drug courts may also qualify.
But the federal government hasn’t yet specified exactly how it will distribute the funding this fall, nor exactly what states should use it for, making it hard for states to prioritize their options. And the broad eligibility raises questions about whether the bulk of the funding will specifically address gun violence.
In Minnesota, Moller is a longtime prosecutor in addition to her statehouse position. She’s seen the benefits of court diversion programs, which offer long-term treatment with court supervision as an alternative to incarceration, typically with the goal of reducing reoffending. These kinds of programs are eligible for the new federal funding and could be a way for Minnesota to apply them in the hopes of improving public safety.
The Minnesota state Legislature, split between a Republican-controlled Senate and a Democratic-controlled House, hasn’t approved a red flag law. In 2020, Moller co-sponsored red flag legislation that passed the House, but died in the Senate. And during the last legislative session, Moller was the main sponsor of another red flag bill, which didn’t make it out of committee.
The federal law, Moller said, puts Minnesota between a rock and a hard place. Ultimately, it provides a finite amount of funding, and if the state uses it for diversion programs, it may not be there to support a red flag law if the Legislature eventually passes one. But if the state doesn’t use it for the court diversion programs and doesn’t pass a red flag law, it could miss out on the extra funding altogether.
“In the grand scheme of things, those [diversion] courts are extremely helpful,” Moller said. “But they don’t deal with the immediate problem of someone who’s threatening to harm themselves or others and can easily access guns.”
Moller’s internal struggle over what to do with the money reflects a larger debate that began during this summer’s Senate negotiations over the Safer Communities Act. After a week of intense negotiations, the bipartisan group of U.S. senators working on the bill reached an impasse over the degree to which the federal government should be prescribing, or incentivizing, red flag laws. Democrats wanted to make funding specifically available to states that already had, or those that would pass, such statutes. But Republicans, some of whom have opposed red flag laws, didn’t want to exclude states that don’t want them.
Eventually, the group came to an agreement: They allowed every state to qualify for the funding, and instead of creating discrete incentives for passing or improving red flag laws, they bolstered a variety of crisis intervention and diversion programs, some of which aren’t necessarily equipped or intended to specifically address gun violence. States that choose not to implement red flag laws won’t get less money.
The Senate ultimately passed the bill in June, followed by the House. Biden signed it into law on June 25. The first tranche of funding — $135 million — will be distributed through the DOJ’s new Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program. The Bureau of Justice Assistance, the DOJ office administering the program, hasn’t yet posted solicitations for the formula funding, though it’s expected to do so in the next couple months.
At least 19 states already have red flag laws in place. These states are likely to use the funding, in whole or in part, to bolster their existing red flag processes. States without such laws now have multiple options for using the funding regardless of whether they pass red flag legislation, including mental health courts, drug courts, and veterans courts.
“It does matter to states to have a law that explicitly says they can use the funding [for red flag laws],” said Lindsay Nichols, federal policy director at Giffords, the gun reform advocacy group. “Regardless of whether the effect ends up being to incentivize states to pass laws, this law will help reduce gun violence because it will encourage states that have these laws to make them effective.”
Several governors, attorneys general, and state lawmakers contacted by The Trace said that, until the DOJ releases specifics about distributing the funding, it is too early to know exactly how they’ll use it.
In Florida, which already has a red flag law, every county has its own procedures for handling a risk protection order, from filing petitions to arguing for the order in court. That makes distributing the new funding even harder.
“A lot of the money that you need for a red flag law is in the implementation phase,” said Florida state Senator Lori Berman, a Democrat who represents Palm Beach County. “They have attorneys who to go to court, who have to know how to fill out the risk protection order, how to present it to the judge. They have people who have to be trained.”
Only law enforcement can file for risk protection orders under current Florida law. Berman, who first sponsored a version of the state’s red flag law in the Legislature before the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting prompted lawmakers to pass one, said she wants to expand the law to allow family members to file for risk protection orders, as well as to increase public awareness.
“Because they can’t file directly, it’s harder to make the community aware and let them know there is this resource,” Berman said.
The new funding could be used to educate the general public about the laws, and to put procedures in place to train law enforcement officers, court personnel, health care professionals, and lawyers on how to pursue protection orders.
“All of those things need to happen for an extreme risk protection law to actually work,” Nichols said.
While Democrats at the federal level have embraced red flag laws more than Republicans, the measure’s future will depend on buy-in from state leaders of both parties. Currently, six states with Republican governors, including Florida and Maryland, have red flag laws on the books. While some proponents hope the federal funding will encourage others to pass new laws, many are taking a wait-and-see approach.
“Until we know with more specificity what types of programs could qualify for funding, we cannot speculate on potential funding uses,” Dan Tierney, press secretary for Ohio’s Republican governor, Mike Dewine, said. Ohio doesn’t have a red flag law, though a Republican state lawmaker recently introduced one.
In New Hampshire, another Republican-led state, officials are doing a similar calculus to Moller in Minnesota. Every state has at least one drug court, according to the National Drug Court Resource Center, and similarly most states have mental health courts. But these diversion programs are typically operated by local courts, and they aren’t always present in every jurisdiction in a state. On top of that, a person typically needs to be charged with a crime before a diversion program becomes an option.
While some of those programs may ultimately result in a person being prohibited from possessing firearms, they don’t necessarily provide family or law enforcement means to quickly and directly petition a court for their removal. But they can still help reduce gun violence.
“We may be able to save people through a great program like drug court, veterans court, mental health court, before they get to the point where they are contemplating using a firearm to end all of it,” said Debra Altschiller, a Democratic state representative in New Hampshire who was the prime sponsor of a red flag law that was vetoed by the state’s Republican governor, Chris Sununu, in 2020. “There’s no reason we can’t help from both angles.”
Sununu’s office did not respond to an interview request.
New Hampshire, like 45 other states, will hold legislative elections in November, which will factor into how states use the funding. Altschiller said she is hopeful that the election will result in candidates getting elected who will support a red flag law in her state.
“I would love for us to be able to use some of that federal funding. I would love to be able to do education outreach. I would love to be able to do more critical incident training with our law enforcement,” Altschiller said. “There is a lot hinging on this election.” | https://www.thetrace.org/2022/09/safer-communities-act-red-flag-laws/ | 2022-09-15T10:38:16Z | thetrace.org | control | https://www.thetrace.org/2022/09/safer-communities-act-red-flag-laws/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday a tentative railway labor agreement has been reached, averting a potentially devastating strike before the pivotal midterm elections.
He said the tentative deal “will keep our critical rail system working and avoid disruption of our economy.”
The Democratic president believes unions built the middle class, but he also knew a rail worker strike could have badly damaged the nation’s economy. That left him in the awkward position of espousing the virtues of unionization in Detroit, a stalwart of the labor movement, while members of his administration went all-out to keep talks going in Washington between the railroads and unionized workers in hopes of averting a shutdown.
But after a long night, the talks succeeded and Biden announced Thursday that the parties had reached a tentative agreement to avoid a shutdown that would go to union members for a vote. He hailed the deal in a statement for avoiding a shutdown and as a win for all sides.
“These rail workers will get better pay, improved working conditions, and peace of mind around their health care costs: all hard-earned,” Biden said. “The agreement is also a victory for railway companies who will be able to retain and recruit more workers for an industry that will continue to be part of the backbone of the American economy for decades to come.”
It looked far more tenuous for the president just a day earlier.
United Auto Workers Local 598 member Ryan Buchalski introduced Biden at the Detroit auto show on Wednesday as “the most union- and labor-friendly president in American history” and someone who was “kickin’ ass for the working class.” Buchalski harked back to the pivotal sitdown strikes by autoworkers in the 1930s.
In the speech that followed, Biden recognized that he wouldn’t be in the White House without the support of unions such as the UAW and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, saying autoworkers “brung me to the dance.”
But back in Washington, officials in his administration at the Labor Department were in tense negotiations to prevent a strike — one of the most powerful sources of leverage that unions have to bring about change and improve working conditions.
Without the deal that was reached among the 12 unions, a stoppage could have begun as early as Friday that could halt shipments of food and fuel at a cost of $2 billion a day.
Far more was at stake than sick leave and salary bumps for 115,000 unionized railroad workers. The ramifications could extend to control of Congress and to the shipping network that keeps factories rolling, stocks the shelves of stores and stitches the U.S. together as an economic power.
That’s why White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, speaking aboard Air Force One as it jetted to Detroit on Wednesday, said a rail worker strike was “an unacceptable outcome for our economy and the American people.” The rail lines and their workers’ representatives “need to stay at the table, bargain in good faith to resolve outstanding issues, and come to an agreement,” she said.
Biden faced the same kind of predicament faced by Theodore Roosevelt in 1902 with coal and Harry Truman in 1952 with steel — how do you balance the needs of labor and business in doing what’s best for the nation? Railways were so important during World War I that Woodrow Wilson temporarily nationalized the industry to keep goods flowing and prevent strikes.
Inside the White House, aides don’t see a contradiction between Biden’s devotion to unions and his desire to avoid a strike. Union activism has surged under Biden, as seen in a 56% increase in petitions for union representation with the National Labor Relations Board so far this fiscal year.
One person familiar with the situation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss White House deliberations on the matter, said Biden’s mindset in approaching the debate was that he’s the president of the entire country, not just for organized labor.
With the economy still recovering from the supply chain disruptions of the pandemic, the president’s goal is to keep all parties so a deal could be finalized. The person said the White House saw a commitment to keep negotiating in good faith as the best way to avoid a shutdown while exercising the principles of collective bargaining that Biden holds dear.
Biden also knew a stoppage could worsen the dynamics that have contributed to soaring inflation and created a political headache for the party in power.
Eddie Vale, a Democratic political consultant and former AFL-CIO communications aide, said the White House pursued the correct approach at a perilous moment.
“No one wants a railroad strike, not the companies, not the workers, not the White House,” he said. “No one wants it this close to the election.”
Vale added that the sticking point in the talks was about “respect basically — sick leave and bereavement leave,” issues Biden has supported in speeches and with his policy proposals.
Sensing political opportunity, Senate Republicans moved Wednesday to pass a law to impose contract terms on the unions and railroad companies to avoid a shutdown. Democrats, who control both chambers in Congress, blocked it.
“If a strike occurs and paralyzes food, fertilizer and energy shipments nationwide, it will be because Democrats blocked this bill,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
The economic impact of a potential strike was not lost on members of the Business Roundtable, a Washington-based group that represents CEOs. It issued its quarterly outlook for the economy Wednesday.
“We’ve been experiencing a lot of headwinds from supply chain problems since the pandemic started and those problems would be geometrically magnified,” Josh Bolten, the group’s CEO, told reporters. “There are manufacturing plants around the country that likely have to shut down. … There are critical products to keep our water clean.”
The roundtable also had a meeting of its board of directors Wednesday. But Bolten said Lance Fritz, chair of the board’s international committee and the CEO of Union Pacific railroad, would miss it “because he’s working hard trying to bring the strike to a resolution.”
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Tech media charges back to the future
As the era of giant social networks begins to fade, media outlets that cover tech are looking to their past to navigate a complicated future, reviving formats and features that they'd long ceded to larger platforms.
Driving the news: This week Vox Media's The Verge redesigned its home page around a Twitter-like feed. Earlier this year, The Information began offering its subscribers a private social network.
- Both moves come on top of a longer-term trend toward for-pay email newsletters.
The big picture: Since the web began, sites devoted to tech coverage have led the way in pushing innovations in the aggregation and distribution of news online — from Slashdot in the late '90s to the blog wars between Gizmodo and Engadget in the mid 2000s to the popular embrace of Reddit and Hacker News in the 2010s.
These sites and services all understood that tech news devotees wanted their information fast, with the newest stories highlighted. They wanted it linked, so they could compare different versions from different outlets. And they wanted to be able to connect with the journalists covering their favorite topic.
- Blogs took off in the 2000s part because they allowed writers to connect with audiences directly whenever news broke.
- The arrival of Big Tech platforms like Twitter and Facebook muddled those relationships right at the moment when they were becoming more commercially valuable.
Now, though, Facebook is de-emphasizing news and Twitter's future has grown cloudy, leading tech news outlets to try to reclaim their direct relationships with readers.
The Verge's new home page offers a Twitter-style feed of news tidbits curated by the site's editors and reporters, mixed in with the usual links to its own stories.
- The idea, Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel explained to Axios, is that the feed will make The Verge's own scoops and reporting more relevant to its audiences by highlighting conversations happening around them. It will also help build readers' trust by elevating original reporting from other outlets or creators.
- "I 100% think we can revolutionize the media with blog posts," Patel said. "We're kind of in a going back to basics moment" of building communities around writers.
The Information earlier this year launched a series of networking features on its site, including a Reddit-like news feed (with up- and down-ranking for articles), direct messaging and a directory.
- Jessica Lessin, The Information's CEO and founder, told Axios that internet platforms meant for networking, like Facebook and LinkedIn, have become so big and focused on engagement that they've lost the ability to help users create meaningful connections.
Between the lines: The outlets that cover tech and the audience that follows them are at home with a decentralized culture of linkage and aggregation that goes back to the early days of blogging and RSS.
- Other communities of interest that came online later — like beauty and fashion media — remain more reliant on intermediary platforms like Instagram and TikTok.
Yes, but: The innovators of tech journalism were always better at coming up with faster tools for surfacing and sharing links than at figuring out how to turn a profit.
- In this latest wave, they're hoping to reclaim direct connections with readers in order to monetize them better.
What to watch: Aggregators operated by actual newsrooms offer professional audiences something they can’t get on Twitter — professional curation.
- Techmeme now charges consumers extra to pay to unlock its curated list of top reporters and outlets covering very niche topics, like digital heath tech and smart speakers.
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"Atlanta" returns home for one more season
FX's and Donald Glover's hit show "Atlanta" returns Thursday for its fourth and final season.
State of play: Since it premiered in 2016, the show has deftly represented the city it's named for.
- Over the first three seasons we've seen a Michael Vick cameo, a creepy story about Lake Lanier, an episode set in Helen and an uncomfortable fraternity scene at Georgia Southern University.
Yes, but: Season three took viewers on a detour through Europe with plenty of commentary on the racial happenings in America.
Go deeper: The top moments of "Atlanta's" third season
Ross' thought bubble: I hope Atlanta's final run returns to its roots. Season three was unique (and important) but it missed the feeling that I was watching a show filmed in my hometown.
- Bring back the episodes that featured easter eggs around the city like Mrs. Winner's, J.R. Crickets and tales about Florida man.
- Considering the trailer opens with the waterboys, it looks like we are headed that way.
1 fun thing: It's been fun seeing members of the cast hold down some roles in major movies since Atlanta premiered.
- Zazie Beetz and Bryan Tyree Henry each played in "Joker" and "Bullet Train."
- And Laketih Stanfield has starred in several films, including "Judas and the Black Messiah," which led to an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
How to watch: The first two episodes of season four premiere Thursday on FX at 10pm.
- Or stream on Hulu.
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Violent crime creeps up in Boston
Violent crime in Boston was up slightly the first half of this year compared with the first six months of last year, while instances of homicide, rape and robbery dropped, according to an annual midyear survey of major metro police departments.
Details: The 1.6% increase in the overall violent crime rate was driven by a slight uptick in aggravated assaults, from 1,138 by the middle of last year to 1,207 by June 2022.
The homicide rate in Boston was down 38% from last year, with 13 reported through June, compared with 21 in the same time frame last year. Instances of rape were also down from 98 in last year's survey to 86 this year, a 12% drop.
- Robberies were down 6.4% from 357 to 334 this year.
Why it matters: While rape and homicide rates may be falling in some cities like Boston, violent crime rates in U.S. cities haven't returned to pre-pandemic levels, Axios' Russell Contreras reports.
- Nationally, violent crime spiked 4.2% in the first six months of 2022, compared with 2021, according to the survey of 70 cities.
- Robberies were up by nearly 12% nationally, and aggravated assaults increased by around 3%.
- Homicides decreased by 2.4% and rapes fell by 5%, "offering hope that some of the most violent crimes might be leveling off from significant increases in 2020, as reported to the FBI," Contreras writes.
Yes, but: Things weren't much safer nationally before the pandemic in 2019.
- Some cities reported 50% fewer homicides and roughly 36% fewer aggravated assaults, but Boston reported more homicides, robberies and rapes pre-pandemic.
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Mourners from Maidstone have been brought to tears as they said goodbye to The Queen during her lying in state at Westminster Hall in London. Members of the public were paying their respects to the late monarch from 5pm on Wednesday (September 14) after her coffin was taken to the hall from Buckingham Palace.
Thousands from across the UK and the world queued up for hours to see the coffin, some arriving as early as Monday (September 12) to get in line on Albert Embankment. The largely black-clad crowd were solemn and pensive as they began to flow into the ancient hall where chandeliers and spotlights illuminated the scene beneath the mediaeval timber roof.
As hundreds of ordinary people of all ages filed past the coffin of the long-reigning monarch, many wiped their eyes with tissues. Some bowed, some curtsied and some simply took a moment to look at the extraordinary scene.
Read more: 17C highs and sunny weather forecast in Kent for Queen's funeral
Valerie Prebble, 68, and her partner Neil Emberley, 67, from near Maidstone, Kent, said the queue was sociable and they met several people including Moya O’Shea, from Westminster. Mr Emberley, dressed in his Scout uniform, said it was “very emotional for someone that we’ve known all our lives and also she’s a patron of the Scouts, so I had to come and pay my respects”.
The trio all said they cried, but Ms O’Shea added: “There’s also not just tears. I mean there’s also a loss, of course, for a nation and a loss for a family in mourning, but it’s also just such a significant part of history, and that makes you very emotional as well.
“We will never see anything like this again in our lifetimes, and certainly not with the person who served as a sovereign for so long and did it so well.”
Penny Purnell, aged over 65, from Littlehampton, West Sussex, said seeing the Queen lying in state drove home that she “really has gone”, adding: “That was quite hard to take.” Ms Purnell and her friend Jill Scudamore, also aged over 65, joined the queue at about 11am on Wednesday and waited six hours to pay their respects.
Ms Purnell described the “grandeur” of the hall and the atmosphere as “very moving” as she spoke to the PA news agency afterwards. On whether the pair said a silent farewell, Ms Purnell said: “It was just the thoughts in our head of appreciating her really. I didn’t really want to say goodbye, so I didn’t.”
Ms Scudamore said: “If anyone is willing to take the time to join the queue it is well worth the wait.” Amma, in her 50s, from south London, said she broke down in tears as she paid her respects to the Queen.
Speaking to PA, she said she had been a fan of the Queen since she was six and waited for hours to say goodbye. “If I had had to wait until tomorrow morning or Friday, so be it,” she said, adding that she came prepared with a change of clothes, food and an umbrella.
“I’m still shocked that our Queen has sadly passed on,” she added. “As I went closer to where Her Majesty was lying there, I did curtsy, I said thank you in my mind. I broke down in tears as I walked away from her.”
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Householder who? And other poll takeaways from Ohioans
J.D. Vance and Tim Ryan are not only tied in their U.S. Senate race, they're running away from each party's standard-bearer this fall.
Driving the news: Those are among the takeaways of a Suffolk University/USA Today Network poll of 500 likely Ohio voters released this week.
- Other insights include:
Top of voters' minds
Inflation/the economy is the most important issue in 2022, 28% of respondents said.
- This was followed by "threats to democracy" and abortion as voters' most pressing issues.
Biden and Trump impacting Senate race messaging
Most Ohioans view former President Donald Trump unfavorably, just as a majority disapprove of President Joe Biden.
Why it matters: Both Senate candidates are adjusting accordingly.
For Vance, that means burying Trump's support below that of 81 Ohio officials and organizations on his campaign website's endorsements page.
- Previously, the website displayed the Trump endorsement with a front page pop-up.
Meanwhile, Ryan has publicly aligned himself with Trump's trade policies while distancing himself from the current president.
- While other Democrats celebrated last week's Intel groundbreaking as a Biden achievement, Ryan suggested at the event that the president shouldn't run for reelection.
State of play: Ryan's rightward tack appears to be working.
- Forecasters like the Cook Political Report and FiveThirtyEight say the race leans Republican, but the latest poll has the two candidates tied as they begin flooding the airwaves.
Most think Ohio's corrupt
Ohioans are split on if the state is headed in the right direction.
Yes, but: There's no question they think Ohio is corrupt.
- More than two-thirds of respondents say the state is extremely, very or somewhat corrupt.
Context: This is likely driven by the House Bill 6 scandal, in which FirstEnergy has admitted to paying bribes in exchange for nuclear bailout legislation that passed in 2019.
- Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder faces trial next year for his alleged involvement in the scheme.
The intrigue: Two years after his high-profile arrest, nearly half of poll respondents have never heard of Householder. Another 25% know of him but have no opinion.
DeWine cruising, Supreme Court in play
Gov. Mike DeWine continues to lead former Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley by 15 points in his re-election effort.
- DeWine even garnered 12% from Democratic voters, a vestige of his rise in public support from early in the pandemic.
- Half of all voters say they haven't heard of Whaley or have no opinion of her. She is currently running biographical ads in an effort to make up ground.
Separately, a trio of Ohio Supreme Court elections are polling as toss-ups, including a key race for chief justice.
- Republicans want to maintain their narrow majority amid the state's ongoing redistricting battles.
- A change in state law means all Supreme Court candidates will be listed by party on the general election ballot for the first time.
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Best Day Ever: Jennyfer Crawford
Jennyfer Crawford is Swiss Army Knife for small businesses — she handles branding advice, hosts showcase events and generally finds ways to help other entrepreneurs thrive.
Catch up fast: Crawford's signature event is All Things Detroit, a biannual trade show for local small businesses.
- The next showcase, featuring a new emphasis on Detroit artists, is Nov. 13 at Eastern Market.
- Crawford is also modeling at an art-to-wear, flash mob-style event called The FET!SH Project on Thursday at 8pm as part of Eastern Market After Dark.
What's happening: We caught up with Crawford, 42, to find out how she would spend her perfect day in Detroit.
🍴 Breakfast: "My favorite breakfast spot is the Jagged Fork in Grosse Pointe … After special events, I love to celebrate with breakfast there."
📔 Morning activity: "I enjoy a cup of coffee on my patio and journal. When I journal and set my intentions, the day seems to run more smoothly."
🍔 Lunch: "My favorite lunch spot is Gratiot Grill … they have some of the best burgers in the city. It's one of Detroit's best kept secrets."
🚴♀️ Afternoon activity: "When I am not working, my favorite afternoon activity lately is riding my Peloton bike."
🌯 Dinner: "My favorite dinner spot is Mexican Village. I actually have dinner there at least twice a week."
- Crawford says she usually orders nachos, while her husband goes for beef burritos.
🎥 Evening activity: "Because of my busy schedule, my favorite evening or late night activity is to relax and watch a movie with my husband. I just got married in August! Being an entrepreneur, it can be hard to get quality time in — so a quiet night at home is perfect."
- "The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey" starring Samuel L. Jackson was a recent favorite.
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Big Bo's is Campus Martius' best food truck
👋 Hey, it's Sam. I just discovered Big Bo's Grill is the best food truck at Campus Martius' weekly Wednesday food truck rally.
The intrigue: I refused to eat inside the Huntington Center during the auto show yesterday, so I walked up Woodward and found one food truck still open: Big Bo's. There was a big line, but it didn't take long — the cashier told me they are a favorite among downtown employees.
- Sandwiches, chicken tenders, salmon bites (that were sold out or I would've gotten some) and burgers round out the restaurant's menu.
What I ate: The chicken sandwich had a wonderfully spicy secret sauce that Chef Bo refused to reveal when I asked.
- The chicken was crispy and the bun was warm and grill-charred.
Of note: Big Bo's also serves corned beef egg rolls, which Chef Bo says are the best around because he uses fresh meat instead of the deli meat typically offered by competitors.
If you go: Big Bo's Grill brick-and-mortar location: 27872 John R, in Madison Heights.
- It does not advertise consistent hours.
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NFT of Celia Cruz's iconic wig up for sale
The Boca Raton-based company formerly known as Hair Club for Men — now just HairClub — is commissioning a replica of one of Celia Cruz's iconic wigs, creating an NFT of it, and auctioning it off.
What's happening: Archetype-IO, a Miami-based Web3 interactive tech company, has been working with Cruz's estate to create an NFT collection honoring the Queen of Salsa's legacy and extravagant style with never-before-seen footage and memorabilia.
- As part of the project commissioned by HairClub, Archetype-IO will conduct a 3D scan of a replica of the bright orange wig Cruz wore in the music video for her global hit "La Negra Tiene Tumbao."
- From the scan, they'll create a digital image for the NFT.
Details: HairClub will auction off the replica and NFT in New York the week of Oct. 21, Cruz's birthday.
- The starting bid is $2,500.
- HairClub is also donating $40,000 to the Celia Cruz Foundation for kids' music and arts programs, including the Celia Cruz School of Music in the Bronx.
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Abortion is top of mind for some North Carolina's Trump-Biden voters
Protecting abortion rights was the top issue for North Carolina's swing voters who participated in our latest Engagious/Schlesinger focus group.
- Getting inflation under control was a close second.
Yes, but: Whether their feelings on those issues will drive them to the polls in the November midterms was less clear, especially considering many participants couldn’t name North Carolina's U.S. Senate candidates, Cheri Beasley and Rep. Ted Budd.
Why it matters: Democrats hope that falling gas prices and voters energized by abortion restrictions will help them win congressional races in North Carolina and several other states in a year that's expected to be more favorable to Republicans.
- “Several North Carolina swing voters indicated that when the Court overturned Roe, it inserted a major new consideration into their political decision-making,” said Rich Thau, president of Engagious, who moderated the focus groups. “What remains to be seen is whether all their talk will be backed up by action at the ballot box.”
Driving the news: About halfway between the U.S. Supreme Court's June decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and the November midterms, Axios partner Engagious/Schlesinger conducted two online focus groups on Monday with 11 North Carolinians who voted for Donald Trump in 2016 then Joe Biden in 2020.
- They ranged in location from Carteret County on the coast to Davie County near the foothills.
- Eight participants are registered unaffiliated — two are Democrats, one is a Republican.
Of note: While a focus group is not a statistically significant sample like a poll, the responses show how some voters are thinking and talking about current events. Schlesinger recruits from a national panel of people willing to participate in qualitative research.
- The participants also gave a snapshot of unaffiliated North Carolina voters, who now outnumber both Democrats and Republicans in the state.
The big picture: Most were passionate about abortion and gas prices, while offering mixed views on gun control and student loan forgiveness, and ambivalence over the state of healthcare in N.C.
- "I was registered as a Republican and I'm switching to Democrat. It's something that has upset me greatly," Alana P. of Carteret County said of the Supreme Court’s June decision in the abortion case.
Voter Russell T. of Forsyth County listed protecting a woman's right to abortion as his top issue, then protecting the Second Amendment and fighting for racial equity. He said he believes the Republican Party has historically been about keeping "less government in your life," but that changed after the Dobbs ruling.
Reality check: Few participants were engaged in North Carolina's U.S. Senate race. In fact:
- 8 of 11 saw a picture of Democratic candidate Cheri Beasley and said they could name her, while only 4 of 11 said they could name Republican Rep. Ted Budd after seeing a picture of him.
- 8 of the 11 said they were very likely to vote in the midterms.
- 0 said they'd vote for Budd.
- Also, 0 of 11 could name the person Beasley and Budd are vying to replace, Sen. Richard Burr, who's served as one of this state's two U.S. Senators for nearly 18 years.
Between the lines: Unlike in recent focus groups in Florida and Wisconsin, none of the North Carolina swing voters said they regretted voting for Biden. Most said Biden lost their support early in the presidency but has gained some of it back in the past few months.
- "We're starting to see what he promised us, a little bit at least," participant Kayla L. from Davie County said.
When asked if their opinions on Biden would sway their vote in the Senate race, nobody said yes. But when asked if their opinions on former President Trump would sway their vote in the Senate race, however, several said yes.
- Kayla L. said she saw that Trump was backing Budd: "I wouldn't vote for him just because of that."
- Alana P. from Carteret County said she's still mad about Trump's pass-through visit to eastern N.C. after Hurricane Florence in 2018. "He didn't care and didn't want to help us at all. … But I also don’t like Budd for his slander. I think it should be an honest campaign."
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Richmond’s Lee Bridge renaming, take 2
Richmond City Council members are taking another shot at renaming the Robert E. Lee Bridge after their first attempt yielded no action.
What's happening: The council already voted to rename the bridge two years ago, but the Confederate general's name was never actually removed.
- That's because the resolution tasked the mayor's History and Culture Commission with recommending a new name, City Councilwoman Stephanie Lynch tells Axios.
- But that commission never held required public meetings, nor does it appear to have met since 2019, according to its website.
What's next: Lynch, who spearheaded the first renaming effort and is once again reviving it, tells Axios her new proposal eliminates the need for any commission meetings.
- Instead, the resolution, which goes up for a vote later this month, picks a straightforward new name: Belvidere Bridge.
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Sarasota-based Eco-$mart is building a sustainable future
Sarasota-based Eco-$mart president Matt Ross has heard the same refrain for 30 years as he has tried to convince builders to use more sustainable, earth-friendly, energy-efficient products.
- "Pioneers get arrows in the back."
In other words: Even if a greener product makes financial sense, builders are slow to switch. Nobody wants to go first.
Yes, but: COVID might've changed all that.
What's happening: The spike in the cost of construction materials and the rising cost of labor has opened the door for a new type of house built out of insulated panels that takes a five-person team one week to assemble, Ross tells Axios.
- Secure-Lock Structural Insulated Panels are high-performance building panels that use expanded polystyrene foam insulation sandwiched between steel skins.
- And builders are catching on. Ross points to a townhome project going up now at 1261 Park Street in Clearwater that's using them.
Details: Eco-$mart can build an energy-efficient home safe from hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, pests and mold for a fraction of the cost of conventional new construction.
The big picture: Ross will showcase the panels and other cutting-edge sustainable housing technology at the Environmental Design Conference Sept. 22-23, hosted by New College of Florida and the Sarasota chapter of the Interior Design Society.
- The conference, featuring 11 experts in green building, will talk about things like environmental landscape design and solar electricity.
If you go: Starts at 9am both days at the Harry Sudakoff Center at New College of Florida in Sarasota. Tickets: $5-$25; students are free.
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Instant Genius Podcast: Dung Beetles, with Sally-Ann Spence
Published: 15th September, 2022 at 09:00
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Naps: A user's guide
You snooze, you win. Research shows that napping can have a powerful effect on health and cognition. This is the art of a scientific siesta…
Keep this to yourself but I am, quite literally, sleeping on the job. I’m sitting on my desk chair and should be writing this article that you’re reading, but my eyes are closed and my forearms are relaxed on the arm rests, palms facing up. There’s an apple in my left hand (I’ll explain why in a second).
It’s a peculiar scene, I’ll grant you, but not one of abject laziness, whatever my wife tells you. I’m napping in the name of science, art and productivity. Some of history’s greatest thinkers swore by the idea of a power nap, and scientific literature is beginning to suggest they were right to.
In recent years, researchers have found that a short doze can improve everything from memory and creativity to cardiovascular health and immune function. Napping is a superpower, it would seem, capable of restoring body and mind. Some have even described it as a public health intervention waiting to happen – not least because we’re all so very tired.
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As we know, adults need seven to nine hours of sleep a night. And as we also know, we’re not getting it. Screen time, stress, caffeine habits and shift work are all to blame, but according to a YouGov poll earlier this year, one in eight Brits gets less than six hours of shuteye a night and a quarter of us use sleeping pills. Plus, if you believe marketing surveys from mattress companies, we build up more than 30 hours of sleep debt a month.
In turn, the British economy loses £30bn a year because of sleep loss. More importantly, chronic sleep disorders can increase a person’s risk of high blood pressure and heart problems, as well as immune system dysfunction and obesity. No wonder sleep has become an obsession, something we track, hack and optimise.
Which brings me back to my desk chair experiment, and that apple I’m holding. Here’s the theory, posited by Thomas Edison no less and tested recently by researchers at the Paris Brain Institute: micro naps have the power to energise your mind, improve your alertness and supercharge your creativity – but it’s got to be quick, otherwise you slip into the wrong phase of sleep and wake up groggy instead.
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It takes a while but I eventually begin to doze off, apple in hand, thoughts and images dancing about my subconscious. Then as the lights go out and I fully lose consciousness, the apple falls from my hand, waking me up with a jolt. It’s a weird feeling, but it works, I think. I soon feel more alert than I did before the nap and more lucid; the words come a little more freely.
What happens to your body during a nap?
Mostly the same things that happen when you sleep at night, just in a single cycle (usually) and over a shorter period of time. First you doze in that hinterland between wakefulness and sleep, which usually lasts around five minutes. Then, as you lose consciousness, you enter stage 2 sleep where your breathing slows, your muscles relax and your core body temperature falls. Brain activity slows down, too.
“Stage 2 sleep is really great for alertness and that pushing-the-reset-button kind of power nap,” says Prof Sara Mednick, a sleep researcher at the University of California, Irvine.
Some 10 to 25 minutes later, deep sleep (stage 3) begins, characterised by a particular type of brain activity called delta waves. Researchers believe this stage of sleep, which can last up to 40 minutes, is vital recovery time for the body: a biological restoration during which your immune system and other bodily systems get a kind of MOT, and your memories are consolidated.
Lastly there is stage 4 or REM sleep. At this point, you’re 60 to 90 minutes into your siesta. This is the point when dreams will be most vivid and your body will enter a sort of paralysis with muscles freezing up. The exception is your eyes, which move quickly beneath the eyelids.
“Rapid eye movement (or REM) sleep is good for creativity and perceptual processing and also semantic associations,” says Mednick, author of The Power Of The Downstate. “You learn new information and encode it and memorise it in slow-wave sleep, but you then integrate that new information into your semantic network during REM.”
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Can napping make up for lost sleep?
The reason most of us want to grab a nap is not to hack our creativity so we can write a symphony before 5pm. Mostly, we’re just exhausted. Does a nap genuinely let you ‘catch up’ on sleep lost to late nights, insomnia or teething babies? Absolutely, says neuroscientist Dr Brice Faraut, author of Saved By The Siesta.
“The power of the siesta lies precisely in its capacity to produce certain effects of a night-time sleep, but in record time,” he says.
Sleep is sleep, is the point. It doesn’t really matter if you only grab five hours at night, if you make up for it with another two after lunch. You’re still putting the time in. One full sleep cycle lasts around 90 minutes, during which time your body passes through every stage of sleep and all the effects that come with them.
If you wake up from stage 2 sleep, you will likely feel more alert and less fatigued but, says neurologist Prof Guy Leschziner, it’s the deeper sleep cycles that are truly restorative on a physiological level.
“We think it’s the deep sleep, the slow-wave sleep, that is the most important in terms of restoration of function and its impact on blood pressure and various other things,” says Leschziner, author of The Nocturnal Brain.
“So in deep sleep, channels in the brain called the glymphatic system open up and there is an increased removal of metabolites or chemicals from the brain that have been built up during waking hours.”
One thing: don’t nap for too long or too late in the day because it will likely impact your night-time sleep. It might satisfy your homeostatic drive, which is your body’s internal need or pressure for sleep, but “if you take a long nap in the late afternoon, it’s highly likely that you’ll have a harder time getting sleep at night.”
Can napping make you more creative?
If you believe the likes of Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein and Salvador Dali, naps absolutely make you more creative. Many famous scientists and artists have relied on naps to sharpen their minds, solve problems or generate ideas. And modern research validates them, with papers showing improvements in a range of cognitive skills from creativity to motor learning after a nap.
Inspired by Edison’s method of micronapping described at the beginning of the article, Dr Delphine Oudiette of the Paris Brain Institute devised a study to test it. She presented study participants with a mathematical problem and, if they couldn’t solve it, they were asked to recline on a chair and rest.
After the break, those people who drifted into stage 1 sleep – that hazy, half-awake state before the shutters come down – were three times more likely to solve the problem than people who didn’t nap. “It seems we have a creative switch there when you doze,” Oudiette says.
Other areas of cognition seem better served by other phases of sleep. Attention and alertness come from stage 2 sleep.
“And we need slow-wave sleep [stage 3] to improve memory,” says Oudiette. “You need at least 40 minutes to get a good amount of slow-wave sleep – but that also increases the chance of sleep inertia and feeling groggy.”
She says there’s also evidence to suggest that naps can help with emotional response (something that toddlers’ parents may verify). “Short sleep may help us digest and regulate our emotions. So if you get an angry email, it might be a good idea to take a nap before you respond.”
Is there an evolutionary explanation for naps?
“All of our rhythms, sleep included, are due to evolution, due to living on a planet that has a Sun and a Moon. And all animals and plants and bacteria have these cycles of rest and activity,” says Mednick. Some of the processes that underpin our need for sleep, such as circadian rhythms and homeostatic drive, are thought to have evolutionary roots.
“All animals outside of humans are nappers,” Mednick adds. “It’s almost like, you know, the nappers are the ones that are more naturalistic and the non-nappers somehow have evolved out of napping.”
Culture plays a part, too. Siestas are an ingrained part of the Mediterranean lifestyle. In China, it’s normal for people to take naps in high school or during the working day. When Mednick studied the napping habits of secondary-age pupils in China, she found that those who don’t nap were more likely to have lower academic performance and misconduct. “It’s an interesting thought that where napping is a culturally embedded practice, nappers do better.”
How can a nap improve your health?
It’s hard to overstate the importance of sleep for healthy functioning of your body and mind. “The consequences of non-optimal sleep reverberate over time,” says Faraut.
“On a short timescale of a few days, it decreases several aspects of cognition, reducing attention, memory formation and the ability to generate ideas. If sleep quality remains poor for an extended period of time, the consequences spread further beyond cognitive functions into the realm of physiology, such as metabolism, neuroendocrine stress, immune and inflammatory systems.”
Research has often linked poor sleep to a higher risk of heart disease, obesity and other conditions. It also increases the dangers of co-morbidities like high blood pressure or diabetes, with a number of meta studies showing a link between poor sleep and the risk of an early death.
If naps improve your overall sleep, they have the potential to counteract all of the above. “Studies conducted all over the world show that napping is an adjustable, all-purpose remedy for sleep deficit, a ‘medicine’ for the future, many of whose virtues are now known to us,” says Brice.
“A nap provides all the benefits to be had from the physiological functions of a night’s sleep, only on a smaller scale. There is growing scientific evidence that napping not only boosts alertness and cognitive performance, but also reduces the activity of the stress systems and normalises the immune dysfunctions reported as a risk of sleep debt.”
So the next time your boss asks why you fell asleep in the mid-afternoon meeting, remember: you’re not just resting your eyes; you’re giving your entire body a science-backed reset.
Why do some people feel worse after a nap?
Some people don’t wake up from a nap feeling restored, they feel drugged. They’re lethargic, they can’t focus and various cognitive abilities are impaired. The feeling is known as ‘sleep inertia’, describing the zombie-like state between sleep and wakefulness. If you wake from a nap feeling like that, it could be one of two things: bad timing or possibly bad genes.
For most people, waking up from deep sleep (stage 3) is harder. This may be something to do with the delta waves that characterise your brain activity at this stage, or it could be something to do with lower blood flow around your body.
One way to counteract this when you’re napping is to set an alarm that goes off not during stage 3, but stage 2: around 20 to 30 minutes after you drop off. This means less sleep, but more energy on waking.
It’s also possible that you’re just not a napper. “We tried to train non-nappers to gain benefits from a nap and found that over a month of nap training there was zero change,” says Mednick. “They didn’t gain any cognitive benefits and their sleep didn’t change. So there could be something fundamentally different between nappers and non-nappers.”
Mednick believes that just as people can have what’s known as different chronotypes – being a morning person or an evening person – it may be that we’re split into nappers and non-nappers. “It seems that there is something biological going on, but we need more research on that.”
Can too much napping be a problem?
Potentially. It’s not fully understood, but it seems you can have too much of a good thing. For all the benefits of some strategic shuteye, there are also a number of studies that have shown a link between naps and poor health, especially in older adults.
In 2020, a study presented at the European Society of Cardiology examined data from 20 papers. It found that people who often napped for more than an hour had a 30 per cent higher risk of (all-cause) death and a 34 per cent higher risk of cardiovascular disease compared to non-nappers.
One theory is that longer naps lead to inflammation in the body, which can increase the risk of heart disease over time. However, the same research suggested a protective effect from naps that could last for 30 to 45 minutes.
Meanwhile, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, have linked excessive napping with neurodegeneration in older adults.
They found that those who napped for more than an hour a day had a 40 per cent increased risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. But cause and effect isn’t clear here, says lead author Dr Yue Leng.
“It’s a vicious circle,” says Leng. “If you have an increased risk of dementia, you need more naps. And, if you take more naps in this age group, the risk of dementia increases.”
- This article first appeared in issue 381 of BBC Science Focus – find out how to subscribe here
What’s the best way to take a nap?
Like any kind of sleep, we’ll all have things that work and things that don’t when it comes to napping. Here are some soporific tips from our experts
Time it right
“The best times to nap are during the morning, between 9am and noon, to recoup some of the REM sleep lost by interrupting your night sleep too early,” says neuroscientist Dr Brice Faraut. “The other time to try is during the early afternoon – for a siesta.”Make it a habit
“Humans are driven by consistencies,” says sleep researcher Prof Sara Mednick. “If you want to try establishing naps as part of your routine, try to find a time that you can consistently devote to napping. Make that the time when you just shut off.”Lie back
“The ideal napping position is lying flat on a bed or sofa,” says Faraut. “If these aren’t available, sleep seated in an armchair and tilt the backrest by at least 40°. Use a neck cushion to support your neck.” He also says it’s best to banish blue light from screens.Have a coffee first
It sounds counterintuitive, but if you want a restorative nap and to wake up feeling alert, you can try a coffee, says neuroscientist Dr Delphine Oudiette. “The caffeine will take maybe 40 minutes to kick in, so you can boost the effect of waking up feeling alert.”Make sure you wake up
For a brief power-boost, hold an object in your hand when you nap. “When it falls, you should feel better rested with great ideas,” says Oudiette. “Put an alarm on for 20 minutes for a longer nap. And wake up rested, without the sleep inertia effects.Authors
A former deputy editor at Science Focus, Ian once undertook a scientific ranking of the UK's best rollercoasters on behalf of the magazine. He is now a freelance writer, which is frankly a lot less fun.
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PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Adhera Health, makers of the Adhera® Precision Digital Companion™ platform, today announced that Luis Fernández Luque, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer of Adhera Health, is presenting preliminary data on supporting the mental wellbeing of caregivers of children undergoing treatment for growth hormone deficiency from the first sub-study of the Adhera® Caring program, the Company's novel digital health solution for supporting adaptive self-management of caregivers. The data will be presented today at the European Society of Pediatric Endocrinology (ESPE 2022) in Rome, Italy.
The Adhera® Caring study (ClinicalTrial.gov: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04812665) is an investigator-sponsored study supported by Merck Healthcare KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. It was executed in close collaboration with clinical co-investigators from the pediatric endocrinology unit at the University Hospital of Miguel Servet (Zaragoza, Spain). The study followed a mixed-methods approach and included two sub-studies that enrolled caregivers of children showing sub-optimal growth hormone adherence as measured with the Easypod® connected injection device (Merck Healthcare KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany).
"The results of the Adhera® Caring study show that improving lifestyle and mental health coping skills for caregivers of children with long-term conditions using digital health tools can have a direct impact on a caregiver and their child's quality of life," stated Antonio de Arriba, MD, Ph.D., a pediatric endocrinologist from the University Hospital of Miguel Servet, who led the clinical interpretation of the data presented in the poster. Dr. de Arriba added that "Soon results of the completed second sub-study will give us quantitative insights on the health impact of the program."
The Adhera Caring program is built on top of the Adhera® Precision Digital Companion™ Platform that includes two major components: adaptive self-management content powered by a health recommender system. The personalized subject matter is delivered via a mobile app and includes psycho-educational content, cognitive behavioral therapy activities for mental wellbeing, and personalized motivational messages. The health recommender system is built using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to select and personalize motivational messages, making them more relevant and effective.
"We are excited about these promising outcomes, which show that emerging digital therapeutic solutions like Adhera® Caring are a much-needed tool in a pharma company or clinician toolbox," said Ricardo C. Berrios, CEO of Adhera Health. "Caregivers, who are often forgotten in the healthcare ecosystem, struggle with their emotional wellbeing and need support. The Adhera® Caring program moves us closer to our goal of addressing unmet needs across multiple chronic conditions and impacting millions of lives."
Antonio de Arriba, Luis Fernandez-Luque, et. al. "Supporting the mental wellbeing of caregivers of children under growth hormone treatment: mix-methods evaluation of the Adhera® Caring Program". European Society of Pediatry Endocrinology 2022 Annual Conference, September, 2022ESPE Abstracts (2022) 95 P1-98 - https://abstracts.eurospe.org/hrp/0095/hrp0095p1-98
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An independent commission tasked with compiling a list of Defense Department items bearing the names of Confederate troops or sympathizers is due to report its final recommendations to Congress by the end of the month, including the rebranding of two active Navy ships.
The cruiser Chancellorsville, memorializing a Confederate Civil War victory, and the oceanographic survey ship Maury, named for a Confederate navy officer, should be renamed per Navy tradition, according to the commission, with new names coming at the discretion of Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro.
“The secretary of the Navy has almost always … been responsible for the naming of U.S. Navy ships, and we thought it was appropriate in this case as well,” retired Army Brig. Gen. Ty Seidule, the commission’s vice chair, told reporters Tuesday.
The decision on the Navy ships was made early, Seidule said, in order to free up their limited time and budget to spend traveling around to Army posts to get input from soldiers, families and the local community about how to rename them.
“We felt, after going through this, that that was where we needed to put our focus and our energy,” Seidule said, as some of the nine posts recommended for renaming had carried some of those names for more than 100 years.
There was also a consideration that these posts are landmarks in their neighborhoods, while Navy ships are more transient, even shifting home ports from time to time.
“The secretary of the Navy routinely makes decisions on the names of ships, whereas the secretary of the Army, this is not something that they usually do,” Seidule added.
Since kicking off in early 2021, the Naming Commission was given until the end of fiscal 2022 ― Oct. 1 of this year ― to compile a list of items to be changed, making recommendations for new names and what to do with removed artifacts.
All told, according to commission member Lawrence Romo, the list topped out at 1,100 items, from posts and ships to monuments, building names and streets.
Among the monuments recommended for removal in part 3 of the report is a Confederate memorial at Arlington National Cemetery.
“The statue atop of the monument should be removed. All bronze elements on the monument should be deconstructed and removed, preferably leaving the granite base and foundation in place to minimize risk of inadvertent disturbance of graves,” according to a Wednesday release, leaving the Army in charge of disposal.
The commission is also recommending that the Air Force rename Fort Fisher Recreation Area, at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina, as it was originally named for a Confederate installation.
The renaming effort was mandated by the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, with a requirement to complete all rebranding by Jan. 1, 2024.
Congress budgeted $2.3 million for the commission’s time and efforts, according to the release, but the commission kept expenses down to a little over $600,000.
The commission estimates that the cost of removing monuments, changing signage and other renaming efforts will cost roughly $62 million.
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In our current global political climate, nation states’ cyber attacks on governments have become just as probable as data breaches from individual hackers. At this point, federal leaders are acutely aware that we don’t have the cybersecurity personnel in place to combat these types of threats – but what’s really to blame for the shortage?
For years, experts have lasered in on the cybersecurity talent gaps that exist in federal and state governments; there simply aren’t enough highly-skilled cybersecurity experts to combat modern threats. To address these deficits, agency leaders must focus on reskilling and upskilling a workforce that represents the comprehensive viewpoints required to combat the various threats the U.S. is facing. And then, they must ensure the working environment is well-positioned to accommodate—read: retain—these individuals.
Today’s cybersecurity assailants—and the risks they pose—are diverse, agile, and more often than not, unpredictable. They’re anything but homogeneous, and the federal government requires a cyber workforce that’s as diverse as our adversaries.
Recruiting a diverse workforce enables cognitive diversity
To develop a cybersecurity response primed for modern threats, cyber teams must represent a multitude of thought processes, educational backgrounds, and perspectives. This creates cognitive diversity which can benefit a team of cybersecurity professionals substantially, encouraging expedited innovation, and better problem-solving.
When a team of cybersecurity professionals is diverse in every sense of the word—in their perspectives, education, life experiences, and skill sets–innovation flourishes. And to develop new approaches to emerging threats, we need new points of view on the cybersecurity problems at hand.
The increased prevalence and magnitude of cyber attacks are making the consequences of not addressing these talent gaps all the more imminent. A contributing factor to this predicament is that the intelligent and capable individuals who originally developed the framework for the cybersecurity industry are now working independently to find solutions to these talent gap issues, while addressing pressing cybersecurity threats. External input, openness to transformation, and an eventually enriched workforce will instill the variety of thoughts necessary to illuminate what the future workforce could look like.
Another important consideration to be mindful of is focusing on quality over quantity. This diversification process should not be centered around numbers or quotas, and in fact, there are technologies like AI or automation that can help empower the resources we have. The purpose of this workforce transformation is to enhance and elevate cybersecurity teams.
A diverse workforce requires a more inclusive cybersecurity culture
The problem at hand in security does not strictly stem from people, processes, or technology. These factors culminate to form the culture of the profession, which is where the flaws that have created the aforementioned limitations lie.
For federal agencies to create a diverse cybersecurity workforce, and to then reap the benefits of their perspectives, they must first create a culture that is inviting and appeals to a broader group of personnel. One way this can be accomplished is by eliminating the exclusivity of cybersecurity skill mastery, and instead further educating and training the existing workforce to become highly-skilled experts in the field. Through reskilling and upskilling existing agency personnel, an organization can leverage these individuals’ institutional knowledge and gain new insights into the problems at hand.
This newfound openness could alter the culture of the cyber landscape in the federal sector. It would create a space that nurtures those with varying backgrounds and bridge the gaps between the security function and other organizational structures to ensure measures are implemented at all levels.
What’s upskilling got to do with it?
Another important facet of this cultural transformation is prioritizing the ongoing education and training efforts for the existing workforce. This standard of life-long learning will create space for new ideas and encourage a culture that appeals to a broader group of people and a strengthened, more comprehensive pool of experts
There has been recent emphasis on cybersecurity training in the public sector, as evidenced by the Cybersecurity Training Bill passed by Congress this March. The Bill states that guidelines and curriculum developed by the DHS should be shared with any federal, state, tribal or local government entity and embedded in all levels of training and regulations to secure the country’s critical infrastructure.
For new security tools or models to take shape, they need to be accessible and easily understood by a diverse group of people. However, there are risks to simplifying our tools as well, and we need to ensure that our precautionary and proactive measures are not made less effective.
With the proper diversification of talent and the federal cybersecurity workforce, training will be provided to the individuals who can most effectively help it become reality in the face of evolving threats.
Mandy Andress is the chief information security officer at Elastic, an enterprise search company.
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The following are questions submitted by Federal Times readers about retirement and other issues facing the federal workforce. They are answered by Reg Jones, a charter member of the senior executive service and a Federal Times columnist since 1995.
Question: I plan on retiring in December. I current receive an annuity as I retired from the federal government 25 years ago. I went back to work for the federal government in 2005 and have continued receiving my annuity and it is reducing my salary dollar for dollar. When I retire the end of December 2022 my annuity will be redetermined using my high three years. Will the COLA be applied to this in January 2023 as I have never stopped receiving an annuity?
Reg Answers: Yes, you will receive the annual cost-of-living adjustment in your January annuity payment. However, because you are retiring at the end of December, that January 1 COLA will be applied to your current annuity not the annuity you will be receiving after it is redetermined.
How do I calculate my Service Computation Date?
Question: Is there a form or worksheet one can use to calculate the Service Computation Date for retirement if I use the dates on my SF-50? Thank you in advance for having an excellent information tool for federal employees.
Reg Answers: For most employees, the Service Computation Date (Leave) located on line 31 of their Standard Form 50 will be the same as their service computation date. However, if you have periods of creditable service, e.g., active duty service, the SCD won’t tell you your total length of service. To find that out, you’ll need to check with your servicing personnel office. They can review your Official Personnel Folder (OPF), identify all periods of creditable service, and provide you with an accurate SCD. Be aware that there may be some periods of service for which a deposit would need to be made to get credit for that time.
Am I entitled to the FERS Annuity Supplement?
Question: I retired under a VERA in July 2021 with 30 years and 1 month of service at age 55 and 3 months (YOB was 1966). As I understand, I should be entitled to the FERS Annuity Supplement at my MRA, which is 56 yrs. 4 months - in my case that would be 08/04/22. My question is: when should I receive my first FERS Annuity Supplement payment if it is/were paid timely? I have contacted OPM by phone, but the customer service representative was unfortunately not knowledgeable regarding this question for my particular circumstance. I appreciate any information you can provide.
Reg Answers: You would be eligible for the FERS annuity supplement at the beginning of the first full month after you reach your MRA. In your case that would be September 1, 2022. However, when you actually receive it will depend on both processing times at OPM and the Department of the Treasury’s payment schedule. If it isn’t included in your September annuity payment, it will be included in a later one and be retroactive to the date on which it was first due.
Can I get credit for LEO service?
Question: I served for 10.3 years in a federal LEO position then transferred to a non-LEO position within a different agency. I now have 35 years of service and am retiring. Will I still receive the LEO retirement for my 10.3 years of service that were withheld at a higher rate for retirement. If not, what regulation prevents that and why would I not get back at least the amount of additional retirement that was withheld during that time period?
Reg Answers: No, you will not receive LEO retirement benefits for your 10.3 years of LEO service. Only those law enforcement officers who meet the age and service requirements to retire as an LEO are entitled to that enhanced benefit. Further, you will not be entitled to a refund of your excess contributions to the retirement fund. As a rule, laws and regulations only specify what an employee is entitled to, not what they aren’t. There is no provision in either of them that would entitle you to a refund.
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TALLAHASSEE — Temperatures remain warm through the afternoon hours for our end-of-the-week forecast.
Chances of rain and storms remains minimal through Friday evening.
Saturday brings another round of moisture to our forecast.
Rain and storm chances will increase during the mid-morning through late-afternoon hours.
A few thunderstorms may make you head indoors while storms pass Sunday, too.
Coverage will be slightly less widespread Sunday afternoon.
Drier air returns early next week as highs jump back into the low 90s with sunshine in store for most of next work week.
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Ear Problems in Dogs: These are the 10 breeds of adorable dog most likely to suffer ear infections - including the loving Labrador 🐕
Prospective dog owners should be aware that their beloved pet may be predisposed to developing ear infections if they are one of these dog breeds.
A huge number of us decided to welcome new puppies into our homes over the last two years – according to Kennel Club figures dog ownership soared and post-lockdown demand for four-legged friends remains high.
There are a whopping 221 different breeds of pedigree dog to choose from, alongside numerous crossbreeds, so there’s plenty of thinking to do before you select your family’s latest addition.
There’s even academic guidance to seek out, with Psychologist Stanley Coren’s book ‘The Intelligence of Dogs’ ranking breeds by instincts, obedience, and the ability to adapt.
Another thing to take into consideration is that some breeds are prone to particular health issues.
An estimated 20 per cent of dogs have some kind of ear infection – ranging from the barely-noticable to the severe – but some breeds far more likely to be affected than others.
Here are the 10 least breeds of dog genetically predisposed to developing ear infections, what to look out for, and how to treat the problem.
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The Book of Mormon Edinburgh: How to get tickets and when to see Edinburgh Playhouse show
From the creators of South Park, The Book Of Mormon is a bona fide Broadway sensation that’s guaranteed to be the hottest ticket in town during its run at the Edinburgh Playhouse.
Here’s everything we know about the smash-hit production as opens at the Greenside Place venue, where it plays from now until October 8.
What is the Book Of Mormon about?
Written by South Park pair Trey Parker and Matt Stone, along with Bobby Lopez, co-writer of Avenue Q who co-wrote the songs for Disney’s Frozen, The Book of Mormon follows a pair of Mormon boys sent on a mission to a place that’s a long way from their home in Salt Lake City.
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During their travels, the pair visit Uganda where they are faced with robbery, famine, poverty and AIDS.
Parker explains: “It’s really two kids coming out of high school, basically, going out into the world, and thinking they’ve kind of got it and they know it all.”
Our hapless heroes end up, Parker adds, “getting their asses handed to them ... I think anyone around the world can relate to that a little bit.”
How long is The Book Of Mormon?
The show is two hours and 35 minutes long, which includes a 15-minute interval.
What are the Book Of Mormon songs?
The show features a host of catchy numbers including Spooky Mormon Hell Dream, Turn It Off, I Am Africa, Baptize Me, All American Prophet and Tomorrow Is A Latter Day, amongst others.
What have the critics said?
Since making its world premiere in March 2011 at New York’s Eugene O’Neill Theatre, where it won nine Tony Awards, including Best Musical, The Book of Mormon has been performed on three continents and scooped over 30 international awards.
The West End production opened in February 2013, winning four Olivier Awards – including Best New Musical – and smashing the record for the highest single day of sales in West End history.
The New York Times called it ‘the best musical of the century’, and The Guardian dubbed it ‘a work of genius’.
In another gushing review, Entertaiment Weekly said it is ‘the kind of evening that restores your faith in musicals’, while The Washington Post dubbed it ‘the funniest musical of all time’.
How to get tickets
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Best multi tools for camping: leatherman or a swiss army knife? Expert reviews, from the Wave+ to Victorianox
Headed off camping, or odd jobs around the house? An excellent multi tool can help with a host of tasks - here are the best of the current bunch
Best leatherman and multi tools for camping and everyday tasks
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When out in the wild, you never know when a situation calls for a tool that you wouldn’t pack by default.
Whether it’s opening packets of food, carrying out a repair, attending to a medical emergency or something altogether far less serious, a good multitool, if used properly, can in many situations be your best friend when out and about.
Carrying separate knives, pliers, screwdrivers and other handy tools with you when you go camping or on an adventure can be tedious and a hassle at best and at its worst a bit of a liability.
They need to be stored, carried and looked after properly, and for many of us we simply don’t have space to fit them all in when we go out into the wild.
This is where a multitool comes in - they tend to feature a number of different tools in one handy package, and offer a great deal of versatility to allow you to carry out a number of different tasks seamlessly.
Best leatherman and multi tools at a glance
- Best for everyday use: Victorinox Trailmaster Swiss Army Pocket Knife
- Best for saving weight in your pack: Leatherman Bond
- Best for size: Leatherman Free T2
- Best for rugged ability: SOG PowerAccess Multi-Tool Pliers with 2.4 inch Folding Knife
- Best for price: Victorianox Hiker Swiss Army Knife
- Best multi tool overall: Leatherman Wave+
- Best budget buy: Mountain Warehouse 12-in-1 Multitool
What to look for in a multi tool
Useful they may be, but there are a few things to think about. Firstly, the size and weight of the tool needs to be small enough to carry around in your pocket or on your belt.
Secondly, think about what you need the tools for and make sure you pick the right combinations and amount of tools available.
Thirdly, think about ergonomics - there are some great multi tools out there that don’t quite measure up to standards as they can feature confusing layouts and tricky opening procedures. Do a little research, and you can be sure of a multitool for life.
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Here are the best multitools we’ve tested on the market at the moment.
Victorianox Trailmaster
Featuring 12 functions, including a screwdriver, a can opener and even tweezers, the Trailmaster is an excellent options amongst Victorinox’s wide range of original Swiss Army knives.
Almost any of their trail knives and tools guarantee good performance and durability, with well built handles, good grips and a sturdy, confidence inspiring feel in the hand.
We liked this one for its size as well as its versatility - it can easily slip into the pocket and is lightweight enough to carry around with you.
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With the DNA of the original Leatherman, the bond is a great multi-use tool that is just as at home with everyday tasks as it is with arduous work out in the field.
We liked the rounded grips that make it comfortable and usable, particularly with the pliers extended, which are also helpfully pointed so you can get a good hold on smaller items.
At a shade over 160g, we also think they’re a great lightweight option and we’d have no hesitation adding them to the tool belt.
Leatherman Free T2
The Leatherman Free option is a great tool for the space conscious among us. It’s made from 420HC, which is a high-carbon stainless steel that is corrosion resistant and can be easily maintained.
Additionally, for such a small package, the range of tools on offer is impressive, and we especially liked the pry tool which is designed to gain leverage between two items.
Largely due to its size, we also liked the fact that every tool can easily be operated with one hand.
SOG Knives PowerAccess MultiTool
With SOG’s patented gear-driven compound leverage mechanism, the PowerAccess can greatly enhance the torque applied with the pliers and makes light work of small items like nuts and bolts.
We liked the fact that tools that open outwards are available quickly when the tool is closed up, and that little details like the hex screwdriver features a magnetic tip.
With SOG’s pedigree making hardy, sturdy and durable multitools, we’d recommend this for the more arduous of tasks.
Victorianox Hiker Swiss Army Knife
Arguably the Hiker Swiss Army Knife is amongst the best value on this list, providing the build-quality and usefulness of the Victorianox range with a lightweight and portable option for days spent on the trail.
Billed as the perfect companion for a weekend outdoors, for less than £25 you can’t go wrong, with 13 functions and the brand’s customary life assurance against defects in material and workmanship.
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Although it’s one of the more premium options available, there’s little to dislike about Leatheman’s Wave+ tool, and for many that need their multitool for work, you may never have to buy another one.
There’s no surprise that it’s the best-selling multitool worldwide, and with a bewildering 18 different locking tools there’s something available to get you out of most situations.
We liked the addition of the replaceable wire cutters in this model, and as with all Leatherman tools, they come in an attractive carry case with good instructions on care.
In most situations, the Wave+ is a tool that will last you a lifetime.
Mountain Warehouse 12-in-1 Multitool
On the other end of the spectrum, and if the budget’s tight, the 12-in-1 tool from Mountain Warehouse will suit most people well in a pinch.
Its stainless-steel construction feels strong and durable, and its light enough to keep in your backpack ‘just in case.’
The design and build-quality feels a little flimsier than others on this list, but for the price we were impressed by the tool’s functions that feature perfectly operable saws, screwdrivers, knives and a plier system. | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/recommended/best-leatherman-multi-tools-uk-2022-3843977 | 2022-09-15T10:58:02Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/recommended/best-leatherman-multi-tools-uk-2022-3843977 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
SWPL1: Hibs suffer nightmare start as Hearts maintain good form
Hibs were made to pay for a nightmare first half last night as Glasgow City won 4-0 at Meadowbank in SWPL 1.
Across the city at Oriam, Hearts Women beat Dundee United 2-0 thanks to goals from Georgia Timms and Katie Rood.
Hearts remain in fourth spot, on nine points, with Hibs three points behind, dropping to sixth behind Hamilton on goal difference.
After a stop-start opening to the campaign, the Hibees were looking to lay down a marker against a City side that, until last season, had dominated the league for more than a decade.
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But City were two up within six minutes. Kinga Kozak’s effort was flicked onto the bar by Benne Haaland inside the opening minute and Lauren Davidson smashed home the rebound from the edge of the area. Five minutes later, a Hayley Lauder corner was deflected in by a combination of Hibs players.
It was three just after the half hour when Emily Whelan glanced home Megan Foley’s cross from the right, and City got the icing on the cake for a devastating display when Kozak smashed home a volley from the penalty spot in first-half stoppage time.
Hibs were given hope when Nor Mustafa was tripped inside the area, but Erin Clachers produced a super save, diving to her right to divert the ball away, while at the other end, Kozak was felled as City got a penalty of their own. Again, the keeper came out on top, as Haaland produced an identical save to deny Mairead Fulton.
Across the city at Oriam, Hearts substitute Timms stepped off the bench to score within two minutes of the interval for her sixth goal of the season. Rood grabbed her first goal in maroon from the penalty spot to seal victory. | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/sport/football/swpl1-hibs-suffer-nightmare-start-as-hearts-maintain-good-form-3844174 | 2022-09-15T10:58:34Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/sport/football/swpl1-hibs-suffer-nightmare-start-as-hearts-maintain-good-form-3844174 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Thiruvananthapuram: At a time when the state is fighting the stray dog menace, Kerala Police is inducting five Jack Russell Terrier canines from England into its K-9 squad, impressed by the breed’s tracking and attacking abilities. Jack Russells make great police dogs, thanks to their bomb detecting and drug sniffing abilities.
The dogs are currently part of the Israeli army and the US Police and are extensively deployed at many foreign airports. The tiny but intelligent breed is being procured for the first time in the country by any police force.
A pint-sized Jack Russell Terrier was credited with sniffing out the maximum number of land mines during Ukraine’s ongoing war with Russia and even received a Medal of Honour from President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The canines, which weigh around 5 kg, are the best in the sniffer dog category and can jump up to heights of five feet. Israel's army had earlier showcased the capabilities of the breed during a training programme of the National Security Guard (NSG) held in Delhi.
Dr Lawrence, assistant director of the Kerala Police Veterinary wing, was impressed by the breed and recommended recruiting a batch to then DGP Loknath Behera.
The five Jack Russell canines joining the K-9 squad next week will undergo training for six months. The squad has a strength of 160 canines, including 25 Belgian Malinois dogs and the Chippippara breed, native to Tamil Nadu. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/15/five-jack-russel-terriers-to-join-k-9-squad.html | 2022-09-15T10:59:24Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/15/five-jack-russel-terriers-to-join-k-9-squad.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Poochakkal (Alappuzha): The demolition of the Kapico Resort at Panavalli Nediyathuruth, which was ordered to be demolished by the Supreme Court for violating the Coastal Management Act, began on Thursday.
Demolition costs are borne by the resort owners. They have contracted for the removal of the debris.
Authorities have warned that building debris should not fall into the lake and cause pollution.
Meanwhile, journalists who went to the site to report the demolition were assaulted by the resort staff.
On Wednesday, the Panavalli panchayat secretary and the district collector approved the master plan prepared by the resort owners for the phased demolition.
The building complex, spread over 5,900 square feet, has 54 villas and related facilities including swimming pools.
Two of the villas will be demolished first. The plan is to complete the demolition in six months.
In January 2020, the Supreme Court ordered the demolition of the resort built in violation of the Coastal Management Act. Demolition was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/15/kapico-resort-demolition-begins.amp.html | 2022-09-15T10:59:31Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/15/kapico-resort-demolition-begins.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Kottayam: Hinting his unwillingness to approve the Ordinances, Governor Arif Mohammed Khan on Thursday said he was not a rubber stamp to sign on dotted lines.
He questioned the contents of the University Act Amendment and Lokayukta Act Amendment bills without naming them.
"The Assembly has every right to pass and adopt any measure. But I have a duty to perform, an obligation to see that whatever is recommended to me and asked to sign is exactly in accordance with the constitution, with law, its spirit, and well-established conventions, not just in India, but all over the world," Khan told reporters in Kottayam after attending a function at MG university.
He alleged the bills were intended to legalise all illegal activities taken place so far.
"I have not seen the bill, but whatever I read from the newspaper, one thing I can make clear. I shall not allow the autonomy of the university to be diluted. I shall not allow executive interference in the university - which means, the government trying to take the power of university appointments into its own hands. This is not possible. It will result in an erosion of autonomy," Khan said.
"Autonomy is sacrosanct. I cannot allow a mechanism to be adopted whereby it can be used to appoint underqualified and unqualified relatives of those in power, or relatives of personnel staff of those in power. I will only take a constitutional decision," Khan added.
He also indicated that the basic principle of jurisprudence does not allow anyone to be the judge of their own cause.
With several accusations levelled against the government, these bills are an attempt to "legalise all the illegalities", Khan said. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/15/kerala-governor-on-university-act-amendment.amp.html | 2022-09-15T10:59:44Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/15/kerala-governor-on-university-act-amendment.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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