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Kozhikode: Babila Ummer Khan, the Supreme Court lawyer representing the security guard, who was brutally assaulted by workers of the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) at Kozhikode Medical College recently, said she received death threats from unknown persons.
The incident allegedly happened on September 13 when the lawyer reached the Kozhikode District Court to file a private petition in the assault case.
According to Babila, the threat was that her hands and legs would be severed for appearing in the case.
The following day, while the court was considering the bail application of the DYFI workers, Babila submitted to the court that if the accused were released, it would be a threat to her life.
It has been stated in the private petition that the shoe which was used to assault the guard should be considered a weapon under Section 326. The petition also mentioned as the evidence from the CCTV camera might be destroyed, the medical college superintendent should hand over the footage directly to the court.
The court will consider the private petition after pronouncing its verdict on the bail plea of the DYFI workers accused in the incident. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/16/lawyer-of-security-guard-beaten-by-dyfi-workers-gets-death-threat.html | 2022-09-16T09:57:00Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/16/lawyer-of-security-guard-beaten-by-dyfi-workers-gets-death-threat.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Thiruvananthapuram: The city corporation on Friday demolished the Sreekaryam bus waiting area outside the College of Engineering where students had protested sitting on each other's laps to oppose miscreants who damaged the shed in an apparent attempt to stop boys and girls from hanging out there.
Mayor Arya Rajendran said a new gender-neutral bus waiting centre would be built at the same place.
The students held the sit-on-lap protest on July 2. The students had alleged that the miscreants damaged the waiting shed as part of moral policing.
To stop students from hanging out there, miscreants had cut short the long steel bench in the waiting shed, making it almost impossible for two people to sit side by side.
The seating was also reduced to three chairs kept at a distance. Students used to regularly face opposition and even abuse from locals when male and female students sat there; therefore, they weren't shocked by the hostile act.
The students' protest went viral on social media forcing Mayor Arya Rajandran to announce the construction of a new waiting shed. | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/16/trivandrum-corporation-razes-waiting-shed-cet.amp.html | 2022-09-16T09:57:06Z | onmanorama.com | control | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2022/09/16/trivandrum-corporation-razes-waiting-shed-cet.amp.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
East Lothian nurseries: Desperate parents left 'scrambling' after funded places withdrawn by council
Desperate parents left “scrambling” for childcare up to 45 minutes’ drive from their homes after council funding was withdrawn from East Lothian nurseries have demanded an independent review.
It comes after parents were told by the council on Tuesday (September 13) that three Pear Tree Nurseries in Haddington – which were temporarily closed last month after an E-Coli outbreak and cases of sickness – will no longer be able to offer free spaces to parents from October 7.
A fourth nursery, Pumpkin Patch in North Berwick, which is run by the same owners Bright Stars Nursery Group, has also lost its funding.
In an updated letter to parents on Thursday (September 15), the council confirmed that the decision not to continue the 1140 contract with the company was not connected to the
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outbreak of e-coli at the nurseries, which remain open for private use.
East Lothian Council said the decision had been taken ‘after ‘several months of talks' following concerns raised about the group's "overall approach to inclusion".
The council's head of education Nicola McDowell said in the second letter to parents that the decision will not be reviewed for at least 12 months.
It has been claimed concerns were raised about one of the nurseries over alleged exclusion of children with additional support needs.
Parents have accused the council of stonewalling them over what sparked the decision and argue there’s no evidence to support the withdrawal of funded places from three of the nurseries.
Some have written an open letter to the council and are seeking support from MSPs to campaign against the move which they have branded “petty”.
Meghan Macguire, whose 3-year-old son attends Church Street nursery, says she can’t find an alternative that is less than a near two hour round trip from their home town of Garvald.
She said: “We’re screwed. I’ve put our son back on the waiting list for his school nursery but they can’t take him just now.
"Me and my husband both work full-time and this makes it impossible. Even if we can get into a funded place for a different nursery there’s nothing available less than a 25 minute
drive away, so we’d have a two hour round trip twice a day for drop off and pick up.
"What employer can accommodate that? And how are people expected to afford the fuel for that, in a cost of living crisis? We are left scrambling and our son is being uprooted from
a place he’s happy and thriving to a place with random kids he’d likely not see again after nursery.
"It's unbelievably unfair on families. It was enough of a struggle before with the childcare crunch, now it’s unreal.”
She said: "The school nurseries already don't have enough places for kids in the area. Where’s the evidence that they are unfit to care for our kids? This couldn’t be further from the truth and it’s unbelievably unfair.
"We have not been given a decent reason for the decision and the council are stonewalling on it. We don’t get responses to emails and if you call the dedicated line, even if you
get an answer it's all about how the policy is not to get into the reasons.”
Mrs Macguire added: “This petty revocation of funds from all four nurseries punishes children who are happy and settled in those settings and their desperate parents.”
Mum-of-two Chiara Brand is anxious about the loss of funding and has called for an independent review of the handling of the issue.
The 35-year-old said: “We’re very concerned. I’m not working so completely rely on these funded hours. We can’t afford to top it up.
"We have no choice to look at moving our kids to another nursery but it could be 30 or 45 minutes away. This is not just about childcare, it’s their pre-school education.
”I feel anxious about the future now, I was hoping to go back to work next year when my eldest goes to school but this will make that extremely difficult. I feel we have been
deliberately misled. The council told us it was due to an issue with standards but we are hearing that is not the reason. They need to be transparent. We want to see an
independent review on this and funding restored immediately.”
East Lothian council said claims that nurseries are full and that the county does not have capacity to deal with the number of children seeking places are a “rumour”.
A spokesperson said: “Following careful consideration, the Council’s view is that the Bright Stars Nursery Group has not been meeting the National Standards of Early Learning
and Childcare as set by the Scottish Government in its four East Lothian-based settings.
"We have been engaging with Bright Stars Nursery Group for some months on this issue to find a suitable resolution. However, unfortunately we have been unable to enter into a
new contract with them and 1140hours funding will not be available from 7 October 2022.
“We understand that parents will have many questions about their next steps and our team is available to offer information and support.” | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/education/east-lothian-nurseries-desperate-parents-left-scrambling-after-funded-places-withdrawn-by-council-3845403 | 2022-09-16T10:00:30Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/education/east-lothian-nurseries-desperate-parents-left-scrambling-after-funded-places-withdrawn-by-council-3845403 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NTA Awards 2022: shortlist revealed including Charithra Chandran - how to vote and full shortlist
To reflect the period of national mourning folllowing the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the NTA’s will no longer take place in September.
The full list of nominees for the 27th National Television Awards have been revealed.
The glamorous awards show is a staple in British culture and something television fanatics look forward to.
This year the show will once again be hosted by comedian Joel Dommett.
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While no Edinburgh locals made the cut for the nominations this year, one Scottish actress has been nominated at the iconic awards.
So, what Scottish shows and actors have been recognised at the National Television Awards? Here’s a full breakdown of the show.
When are the National Television Awards?
The NTA’s were originally set to take place on Thursday 15 September 2022, once again showcasing the best of British television.
However, to reflect the period of national mourning folllowing the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the show will now take place on Thursday 13 October 2022.
The show will be televised live on ITV from 7:30pm.
What Scottish actors and shows have been nominated?
Bridgerton star, Charithra Chandran has been nominated for the sought after Rising star award at this year’s show.
Charithra Chandran was born in Perth, and played Edwina Sharma in season two of Netflix’s record-breaking show, Bridgerton.
How can you vote?
You can vote for your favourite shows and actors on the official National Television Awards website.
The voting closed at 12pm on Thursday 15 September, just hours before the originally scheduled show was set to commence. However, due to the rescheduling the voting will reopen to the public vote will resume on Tuesday 20th September at 9am and remain open until the day of the ceremony.
How to get tickets
There are a number of packages available for TV fanatics wishing to attend the award show.
The available packages are the following:
- Red Carpet Experience - you can watch the stars arrive in person for £130
- Gold Star VIP Experience - SOLD OUT
- NTA Ticket - attend the award show alongside the stars. Ticket prices from £40
- Premium VIP Experience - SOLD OUT
- VIP Experience - includes pre-show champagne reception, pampering, premium seats, goodie bags and more. This package costs £250
- Exclusive Club Seats - get front row seats and in-seat waiter delivery via the venue app. Prices range from £90-165
The prices listed do not include additional booking fees.
Tickets are still available and can be purchased via the National Television Awards Website.
NTAs 2022 full shortlist
New Drama
- Heartstopper
- Time
- Trigger Point
- This Is Going To Hurt
Talent Show
- Strictly Come Dancing
- Britain’s Got Talent
- The Masked Singer
- Ru Paul’s Drag Race
Authored Documentary
- Paddy and Christine McGuiness: Our Family and Autism
- Tom Parker: Inside My Head
- Kate Garraway: Caring For Derek
- Katie Price: What Harvey Did Next
- Julia Bradbury: Breast Cancer and Me
Returning Drama
- Bridgerton
- The Split
- Peaky Blinders
- Call The Midwife
TV Presenter
- Alison Hammon
- Ant & Dec
- Graham Norton
- Bradley Walsh
Factual Entertainment
- Clarkson’s Farm
- Paul O’Grady: For The Love of Dogs
- The Great British Bake Off
- Gogglebox
Drama Performance
- Jonathan Bailey - Anthony Bridgerton - Bridgerton
- Vicky McClure - Lana Washington - Trigger Point
- Cillian Murphy - Thomas Shelby - Peaky Blinders
- Nicola Walker - Hannah - The Split
The Bruce Forsyth Entertainment Award
- Taskmaster
- Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night
- The Graham Norton Show
- I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!
Serial Drama
- Neighbours
- Emmerdale
- Coronation Street
- EastEnders
Expert
- Sir David Attenborough - The Green Planet
- Martin Lewis - The Martin Lewis Money Show
- Kaleb Cooper - Clarkson’s Farm
- Jay Blades - The Repair Shop
Serial Drama Performance
- Rose Ayling-Ellis - Frankie Lewis - EastEnders
- Mark Charnock - Marlon Dingle - Emmerdale
- Gillian Wright - Jean Slater - EastEnders
- Paige Sandhu - Meena Jutla - Emmerdale
Quiz Game Show
- Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel
- Beat the Chasers
- The 1% Club
- In for a Penny
Rising Star
- Charithra Chandran - Edwina Sharma - Bridgerton
- Joe Locke - Charlie Spring - Heartstopper
- Kit Connor - Nick Nelson - Heartstopper
- Paddy Bever - Max Turner - Coronation Street
Daytime
- This Morning
- The Chase
- Loose Women
- The Repair Shop
Comedy
- Derry Girls
- After Life
- Not Going Out
- Sex Education
Talent Show Judge
- Mo Gilligan - The Masked Singer
- David Walliams - Britain’s Got Talent
- RuPaul - RuPaul’s Drag Race UK
- Anton Du Beke - Strictly Come Dancing | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/lifestyle/nta-awards-2022-shortlist-revealed-including-charithra-chandran-how-to-vote-and-full-shortlist-3816690 | 2022-09-16T10:00:50Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/lifestyle/nta-awards-2022-shortlist-revealed-including-charithra-chandran-how-to-vote-and-full-shortlist-3816690 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Support for school uniform charity
A group which supports older people has itself raised funds to support a charity which works with families with children at school who are experiencing financial hardship.
Chair of the West Lothian 50+ Network Anne Webster and committee member Sue Bedford-Visser went to meet Collette Moran, project manager for local charity, The School Bank West Lothian.
They presented the charity with a cheque for £200 that was raised by members of the 50+ Network through ‘coin jar’ donations.
Anne Webster explained why her group decided to support The School Bank West Lothian.
She said: “It’s a well-established tradition that each year, at the Network’s Annual General Meeting in May, our members vote for a charity they would like to support during the course of the coming year.
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"The School Bank West Lothian was supported in this way through loose change donations during 2021-2022.”
“Our Network receives funding form a variety of different sources for which we are very grateful, so it’s good for our members to give back to other deserving causes.”
The School Bank is a volunteer-led group aiming to improve the lives of children in local families experiencing financial hardship by providing them with a brand-new school uniform and other clothing and equipment required for the school day.
The Network first became involved with The School Bank in October 2019 when members embraced the charity’s ‘SOCKtober’ appeal by donating many pairs of new socks suitable for school wear.
Collette Moran, speaking for The School Bank, welcomed the kind donation from the group.
She said: “This £200 donation will be very helpful for us here at the School Bank during this difficult economic time and rising numbers of referrals.”
The West Lothian 50+ Network is also supporting The School Bank’s “Winter Warmer” appeal this year by taking donations at their Hub in Bathgate of new socks, gloves and scarves suitable for pupils from P1 to S6.
You can find out more about The School Bank on their website, go to: https://schoolbank-westlothian.org/ | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/people/support-for-school-uniform-charity-3845472 | 2022-09-16T10:01:15Z | scotsman.com | control | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/people/support-for-school-uniform-charity-3845472 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
To the editor — When is less than perfect good enough?
I sometimes worry about millennials who constantly seek perfection in all facets of their lives. Is this a result of coming of age when everyone got a trophy?
Do they really need the top model of that new vehicle purchase, or must they be adored by both bosses and subordinates while making top-dollar salaries in order to reach total personal fulfillment?
While I DON’T advocate sloppiness in word nor deed, wisdom has taught me that only disappointment follows an obsession with being perfect. After 31 consecutive months of having my letters to the editor published without question, I found that I developed a chip on my shoulder when summarily denied by YHR editors for erroneously referring to a former employee’s title. The writer no longer uses a certain byline when providing feature article submissions to the paper.
Being the larger man, I will not hold any bitterness. Not even for the copywriters. Well, not much. (Implied humor) “Success is a journey and not a destination” so with that firmly in mind, I now begin a new and perfect quest of witty, insightful, revelations of life around me.
Maybe I should act my age!
RON LIVINGSTON
Yakima | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/letter-a-perfect-string-is-broken-but-no-grudges/article_19c63a0c-3394-11ed-ad24-63f92c58c164.html | 2022-09-16T10:03:17Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/letter-a-perfect-string-is-broken-but-no-grudges/article_19c63a0c-3394-11ed-ad24-63f92c58c164.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Precise as they are, numbers can’t tell the whole story. They might show cause, but they don’t show effect.
Take this week’s Consumer Price Index report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, which indicates inflation crept up 0.1% in August.
It’s a modest-sounding rise, yet that unassuming little number packs a wallop. Word of the increase sent the stock market into a nosedive, washing away millions in investments and retirement funds in a matter of hours.
But Wall Street’s pain is one thing. The suffering in places like Euclid Avenue in Grandview is another.
The YH-R’s Jasper Kenzo Sundeen talked with Reyna Mendoza Lopez as she pushed a stroller full of food along Euclid from a free distribution center at Immanuel Lutheran Church and talked about how higher prices have affected her family.
“We have enough because my husband is working right now,” she told Sundeen, “but in the winter when the snow falls and no one works, times are more difficult.”
How do you put a number on that?
Mendoza Lopez and her family are nowhere near alone. Up and down the Yakima Valley, people are hurting.
The soaring inflation of the past year — currently 8.3% year over year — means many simply have less to eat. They’re cutting down on certain foods, maybe even skipping meals, sending their kids off to school hungry.
Yes, gas prices were down 10.6% in August, but a number of other consumer goods — most notably groceries and housing — have continued their merciless climb. As of Tuesday, food alone is 13.5% more expensive than it was a year ago.
In a county where more than 20% of households receive food stamps or supplemental nutrition assistance — nearly twice the statewide rate — those are stark statistics. Still, you can’t quantify pain.
Empty as some people’s pantries are, blame is cheap and plentiful.
Some politicians, for instance, seem to relish bad economic news these days. They clamor for contributions and votes by to blaming the president, the other party or even some failed policy from years past.
Don’t be fooled. Partisan finger-pointing won’t put food on anybody’s table.
This problem is less about politics than it is about the basic financial principles of a global economy: supply and demand. The fact is, the world is still recovering from COVID’s economic effects, which include lingering supply-chain issues and labor shortages. Russia’s decision to invade Ukraine hasn’t helped, either.
So as summer fades, and the more difficult days that Mendoza Lopez and her family dread draw nearer, we’d urge you to look beyond the numbers and consider the local families those numbers represent. Think of how you can help, not who you can blame.
Yakima Valley’s food banks and shelters are entering their most demanding season, and they could use all the support they can get. Especially in the coming months, keep an eye out for your neighbors. Watch for ways to contribute to your community.
No, statistics can’t tell the whole story, but there truly is strength in numbers. | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/opinion-inflation-numbers-add-up-to-pain-for-local-families/article_5f6339c6-33b1-11ed-9107-478b70c18673.html | 2022-09-16T10:03:29Z | yakimaherald.com | control | https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/opinion-inflation-numbers-add-up-to-pain-for-local-families/article_5f6339c6-33b1-11ed-9107-478b70c18673.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
It's only September.
But for people burned by empty shelves last year, Christmas shopping is already underway.
Remember when holiday shopping season started in October or November?
Not anymore: Stores are now rolling out their Christmas items in September, and shoppers are already buying.
Jackie Miles is among them. She isn't waiting this year to buy gifts for her big family.
"I had trouble getting toys, clothes, everything. It was very stressful, last year," she said, looking at girl's dolls. "I was worried about getting things on time and getting them wrapped before Christmas."
"So this year, I am doing it early, so I'm ready and prepared."
Stores ordering earlier than ever this year
Anticipating early shoppers like Miles, we found holiday items like Lego Advent sets are already on the shelves at some stores.
Rob Kearney, a buyer at King Arthur's Court Toys, responded to last year's shortages by ordering earlier than ever this year.
"With the uncertain shipping conditions and stuff going on in the world right now," he said, "I am going to be shopping early, and we are stocking the store up as well too."
This year, store managers and parents don't want to deal with the product shortages they faced a year ago.
A new Bankrate.com survey finds that more than half of holiday shoppers plan to start shopping before Halloween.
But will retailers have the hot items that everyone will want?
Jonathan Gold of the National Retail Federation said, "retailers have been planning for months and months in advance about when they're bringing in their cargo for the fall holiday season."
He says that the holiday shipping season used to run from July through November.
But this year, he says, shipments started as early as May.
Early ordering doesn't mean we're in the clear this year, however.
Trucking delays, labor disputes, and uncertainty overseas could all hold up the supply chain.
But should you shop now or wait?
But do you need to finish your holiday shopping before Halloween? Not for everything.
Bankrate's Ted Rossman says "if you're looking for a hot video game system or video game itself, or you know, some toy that's in really hot demand, then sometimes it does make sense to grab it early."
But if you are just buying sweaters and stocking stuffers, you'll probably find lower prices closer to Christmas.
That way, you don't waste your money.
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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has declared that out of every four drug abuse persons in the country, one is a female.
The NDLEA/chief executive officer, Brigadier General Buba Marwa (rtd), made the disclosure in Benin City, capital of Edo State, on Thursday, at the second edition of Betsy Obaseki Women Football Tournament (BOWFT) with the theme: “Say No to Drugs”.
Marwa, who was represented by his special adviser, Otunba Lanre Ipinmisho, noted that focus on the girl-child and young women was strategic in the effort to curb the rising trend of drug abuse among Nigerians.
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According to him, a national survey currently carried out had shown that 14.3 million Nigerians, most of them overwhelmingly youths, abused drugs, adding that the country had an exceptionally high drug prevalence of 14.4 per cent.
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, while declaring the programme open, noted that the ongoing industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) had heightened the cases of drug abuse in the state.
The governor noted that a study conducted in the state had shown that drug abuse had assumed a new dimension and, second to kidnapping in the rating of social vices.
According to him, drug abuse is a crisis that the state has taken upon to make the call for collective action to tackle.
“It is a crisis, not only here, but also globally. This is why we have taken it upon ourselves to make the call for collective action among different stakeholders to forge a common font to tackle the issue of drug abuse.
“The adverse effects of drug abuse have robbed many youths of their lives, condemning them to a life dependent on drugs.
“This limits their abilities to properly function in our society and deprives the society of the much-needed human capital to drive productivity and economic growth.
“In sports, drug abuse has remained a course for concern with athletes losing individual and group medals and honours as a result of drug-related offences.
“It is a global issue that has continued to play into our sporting competition.”
He, however, advocated more support for the NDLEA to tackle the incidence of drug abuse in the state, just as he assured that the state was willing, ready and prepare to work with the agency and deploy as many resources as required to combat the menace.
Given the severity of the situation, he said Nigeria needed to move away from old ways of tackling drug issues and adopt new measures that were effective and would deliver lasting gains.
In a goodwill message, Mrs Bisi Fayemi, who spoke on behalf of the Nigerian Governors’ Wives Forum lauded the organiser for the initiative.
Speaking earlier, Mrs Betsy Obaseki, chairman of the organising committee and First Lady of Edo said the tournament was conceived to discourage women and girls from embarking on illegal migration.
The platform, she said was to prove that women could earn their dollars at home if building a career in football. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/1-out-of-every-4-drug-users-in-nigeria-is-female-%E2%80%95-ndlea/ | 2022-09-16T10:13:43Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/1-out-of-every-4-drug-users-in-nigeria-is-female-%E2%80%95-ndlea/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Migration Study centre has said that in 2020, Nigeria received about 17 per cent of both legal and illegal migrants from West Africa, which makes the country the second recipient of migrants after Côte d’Ivoire which has 34 per cent.
The centre further stated that West Africa hosted 7.64 million migrants in mid-year 2020, with Nigeria hosting 1.3 million migrants and Côte d’Ivoire having 2.6 million.
This was disclosed during the 3rd migration roundtable on human trafficking and smuggling of migrants and contraband in West Africa: Patterns, Trends and Consequences on Regional Integration organised by Migration Study Centre, Abuja.
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The chairman of Migration Study Centre, Professor Sam Smah during his presentation, said that most migrants from Western African countries stay in the region, with 2 out of 3 living in another Western African country in 2020.
He said, however, that migration destinations have diversified in recent years.
“There are several different sub-regional patterns of trafficking and smuggling and the crimes are continuously changing as the traffickers and smugglers exploit the factors that make countries and persons vulnerable to the crimes.
Most migrants from Western African countries stay in the region, with 2 out of 3 living in another Western African country in 2020. However, migration destinations have diversified in recent years.
He said according to the UN DESA, 2020 report, the share of Western African migrants residing in North America rose from 3 per cent of all emigrants from Western Africa in 1990 to 10 per cent in mid-year 2020, and the share in Europe rose from 12 per cent to almost 19 per cent during the same period.
“The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)’s fifth global report on trafficking in persons to stakeholders from the government of Nigeria, civil society organisations, and international partners shows that children represent more than 75% of trafficked victims detected in West Africa.
“The report covers 148 countries and more than 95 per cent of the world’s population, using primarily official statistics on trafficking cases between 2016 and 2019. Countries in West Africa tend to detect more victims than other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, mainly children, and forced labour. Out of 4799 victims detected in 26 Sub-Saharan African countries, 3336 were in West Africa including 2553 children.
Also in his presentation, Reverend Fr Emeka Obiezu, coordinator of Migration Network, said West Africa experiences trafficking in the three migration dynamics of origin, transit and destination.
He said conviction rates of migrants in the region remain lower than in other parts of the world despite an increasing number of sub-Saharan countries introducing a specific offence against trafficking in persons in line with the United Nations definition (38 in 2020 compared to 2 in 2003). | https://tribuneonlineng.com/17-of-migrants-from-west-africa-live-in-nigeria-%E2%80%95-study-centre/ | 2022-09-16T10:13:45Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/17-of-migrants-from-west-africa-live-in-nigeria-%E2%80%95-study-centre/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Owner of Always Petroleum and Energy Service Limited, Alhaji Mohammed Jamiu has been released by kidnappers after spending over two months in captivity.
Jamiu was kidnapped on July 9, 2022, at his residence located at Idare quarters in Okene Local Government Area of Kogi State.
The kidnappers, numbering four, entered the house posing as business associates shortly after Jamiu returned from Eid praying ground in Okene town.
A family source, who wanted to remain anonymous, said the oil mogul was released, on Thursday night.
According to the source, the family paid a ransom before they could secure the release of their brother.
“They just released our brother, Alhaji Mohammed Jamiu Idris. We have been praying for over two months to see this come to pass. Even though we paid the ransom for his release, we thank Almighty Allah that he came back alive,” the source said.
Recalls that this is not the first time that the oil mogul has been kidnapped.
Jamiu was also abducted in 2019 at one of his fuel stations in Okene but was rescued by military officials after a few days in captivity.
The military lost one of their officers while one of the kidnappers was also killed during the rescue operation.
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The uncertainty is over, Opera in the Heights is staying home.
After months of not knowing what the future for the neighborhood staple might hold, a consortium including a longtime Houston singing club and two donors have purchased the property including Lambert Hall and will let Opera in the Heights remain as a tenant at the historic performing arts venue, according to Eiki Isomura, the opera’s artistic and general director.
“This is a big moment of joy and relief right now,” he said. “We’re very excited.”
Just a few months ago, members of Opera in the Heights had wondered if their days performing in the historic Lambert Hall might be numbered.
Leaders with Heights Christian Church, the church that leased space to Opera in the Heights for the last quarter century, earlier this year decided to sell their 42,600-square foot property on the west side of Heights Boulevard between West 17th and West 18th streets because of dwindling membership and financial resources.
Realtors for the church opened competitive bidding for the property and a consortium comprising Houston Saengerbund and two of Opera in the Heights’ most generous patrons emerged with the winning bid, Isomura said.
The deal for purchasing the property closed last Friday, Isomura said.
See here and here for the background. I’d never heard of the Houston Saengerbund before, but they’ve been around since 1883 and are Houston’s oldest musical society. They sponsor an annual award to support young singers, which is cool. I’m just delighted that this story has a happy ending, both for OITH and Lambert Hall itself. It’s very much not all the time that Houston cultural and architectural landmarks get preserved, but this is one of them and it’s worth celebrating. Kudos all around. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106965 | 2022-09-16T10:14:17Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106965 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PDP names Wike as member of presidential campaign council
• Tambuwal heads 326-member organisation as DG
Despite the yet-to-resolved disagreement between Nyesom Wike and the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, the Rivers State governor has been named a member of the presidential campaign council of the party.
A document dated September 16, 2022, and signed by Umar Bature, the National Organizing secretary of the party, seen by the Tribune Online, on Thursday night, showed that the governor who is insisting on the ouster of the national chairman of the party, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, will join other governors of the party including Seyi Makinde (Oyo), Sam Ortom (Benue), Okezie (Abia) and Ifeanyi Uguanyi (Enugu) in the council.
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The Presidential Campaign Organisation (PCO), the umbrella body of the campaign, is headed by Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State as chairman, while Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State and Makinde are vice chairman north and south, respectively.
The document also contains the rest of the organogram of the organisation, including the National Campaign Management Committee (NCMC) headed by Governor Aminu Tambuwal as director-general; Liyel Imoke, deputy director-general (Operation); Prof Adewale Oladipo, deputy director-general (Administration); Chief Raymond Dokpesi, deputy director-general (Technical & Systems) and Okwesilieze Nwodo, deputy director-general (Research & Strategy).
The directorate of administration has under it the directorate of finance and directorate of legal affairs.
The technical & systems will oversee the directorate of technology, directorate of situation room, directorate of election management, and the directorate of training.
The directorate of field operations & logistics also has charge of the directorate of strategic communications, directorate of security and directorate of support groups.
The research and strategy has the directorate of research, directorate of intelligence & strategy,
directorate of monitoring and evaluation, and directorate of international affairs. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/pdp-names-wike-as-member-of-presidential-campaign-council-2/ | 2022-09-16T10:14:24Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/pdp-names-wike-as-member-of-presidential-campaign-council-2/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Grit your teeth, here it comes.
A University of Texas at Austin professor has sued Texas A&M University claiming a new faculty fellowship program designed to increase diversity at the flagship university in College Station discriminates against white and Asian male candidates.
Richard Lowery, a finance professor at UT-Austin who is white, filed the federal class-action lawsuit on Saturday against the Texas A&M University System and its board of regents, Annie McGowan, Texas A&M’s vice president and associate provost for diversity, and N.K. Anand, Texas A&M’s vice president for faculty affairs.
Lowery is represented by America First Legal, a group created by Stephen Miller, a policy advisor for former President Donald Trump, and Jonathan Mitchell, a former solicitor general for Texas and the legal architect of Texas’ six-week abortion ban.
In the lawsuit, Lowery claims that a new fellowship program announced this summer within Texas A&M’s faculty hiring program called the Accountability, Climate, Equity and Scholarship Faculty Fellows program, or ACES, violates Title VI and Title IX, of the federal Civil Rights Act as well as the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause.
While the ACES program focuses on hiring recently graduated PhD students who want to enter academia, the new ACES Plus Program focuses on “mid-career and senior tenure-track hires from underrepresented minority groups, that contribute to moving the structural composition of our faculty towards parity with that of the State of Texas.” It sets aside $2 million over the next two fiscal years to help match a fellow’s base salary and benefits, up to a maximum of $100,000.
According to Texas A&M’s announcement of the new fellowship program on July 8, the university identified under-represented minority groups as African Americans, Hispanic/Latino Americans, Native Americans, Alaskan Natives, and Native Hawaiians.
“Texas A&M’s proclaimed goal of establishing a faculty whose racial composition attains “parity with that of the state of Texas” seeks to achieve racial balancing, which is flatly illegal under Title VI and the binding precedent of the Supreme Court,” the lawsuit argues.
And that was as far as I got in the article before my monitor spontaneously combusted in a heroic but ultimately futile effort to preserve my sanity. I would like for there to be some new main characters in the Texas news now. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106990 | 2022-09-16T10:14:25Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=106990 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
UK-based pro-democracy Nigerians rally support for Tinubu
Twelve days to the takeoff of campaign for the 2023 elections, some Nigerians resident in the United Kingdom have resolved to rally other pro-democracy organisations to support the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Senator Bola Tinubu, in next year’s poll.
Acting under the umbrella of the Nigerian Democratic Movement (NDM), they are members of six groups that belong to the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO Forum abroad,), which led the struggle against the annulled June 12, 1993 election results.
Members of the groups, who are also pushing for free and fair elections, rise from a meeting in London and agreed to participate in further deepening democracy in Nigeria.
The meeting attracted representatives of the June 12 Movement, the Nigerian Democratic Movement (NDM). Democratic League, National Conscience Party, Oduduwa Movement UK, Nigerian Project (UK), among others.
The compatriots, in a statement, decried the current whimsical approach to political discourse, coupled with the high level of intolerance on display on social media by supporters of presidential candidates, warning that the lack of tolerance could trigger crisis during the elections.
The convener, Bimbo Folayan of the June 12 Movement); the chairman, Dr John Olumuyiwa Filani; General Secretary, Babajide Aminu, Ashama and Director of Mobilisation (North): Alhaji Shehu Tifin (Nigerian Project) signed the statement.
They also reviewed the precarious state of insecurity, unemployment, partisan hostility and threats to supporters of rival presidential candidates who they claimed had fouled the politicsl space.
The NDM, one of the pro-democracy organisations in the Diaspora that fought against the annulment of the June 12 poll, was the largest organisation in the UK that hosted meetings of NADECO abroad and worked with others, resulting into the exit of the military from political power in May 29, 1999.
They promised to protect the rights of every Nigerian to free expression and choice as long as it does not infringe on the rights of other citizens.
They plan to lead a sustained campaign against incitement, defamation and political threats.
Part of the statement read: “NDM will mobilise locally and internationally for a presidential candidate chosen and supported by the group and defend the rights of other Nigerians to choose their own candidates without harassment or intimidation.
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“After reviewing the experience and chances of each of the m candidates, we have resolved to put our collective weight and support behind Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Kashim Shetima ticket.
“Apart from being a former pro-democracy colleague in the fight for democracy, we consider the knowledge, pedigree and experience of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as very crucial to take Nigeria to the next level.
“We agreed to mobilise other former pro-democracy reformers, eminent statesmen and experienced political scientists around the world to come up with programmes that will bring Nigeria out of the woods behind Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
“These plans and programmes will be presented to the Asiwaju Tinubu and Shettima, presidential team of APC at the appropriate time.” | https://tribuneonlineng.com/uk-based-pro-democracy-nigerians-rally-support-for-tinubu/ | 2022-09-16T10:14:31Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/uk-based-pro-democracy-nigerians-rally-support-for-tinubu/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Sorry, didn’t get to it, other things to do, you know.
Texas health officials have missed a key window to complete the state’s first major updated count of pregnancy related deaths in nearly a decade, saying the findings will now be released next summer, most likely after the Legislature’s biennial session.
The delay, disclosed earlier this month by the Department of State Health Services, means lawmakers won’t likely be able to use the analysis, covering deaths from 2019, until the 2025 legislative cycle. The most recent state-level data available is nine years old.
In a hearing this month with the state’s Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee, DSHS commissioner Dr. John Hellerstedt said the agency wanted to better align its methodology with that of other states, and that there hadn’t been enough staff and money to finish the review for a scheduled Sept. 1 release.
“The information we provide is not easily understood, and not easily and readily comparable to what goes on in other states,” Hellerstedt told the committee. “And the fact it isn’t easily understood or easily comparable in my mind leaves room for a great deal of misunderstanding about what the data really means.”
In a statement, DSHS spokesman Chris Van Deusen said the agency is reviewing its “internal processes” to try to develop more timely data.
“I expect we’ll be having conversations with legislators about what could be done to speed up the lengthy review process,” he said.
The setback comes four months before the start of the legislative session and two months before the midterm election, which has been dominated in part by the state’s new Republican-led abortion ban. Those restrictions have placed more scrutiny on the state’s maternal mortality rate, which is among the 10 highest in the country, according to national estimates that track pregnancy-related complications while pregnant or within a year of giving birth.
“There are a lot of us that want to know whether or not pregnancy in Texas is a death sentence,” said state Rep. Ann Johnson, a Houston Democrat and member of the Texas Women’s Health Caucus. “If we’ve got a higher rate of maternal mortality, we sure want to figure it out. You can’t figure it out if somebody’s sitting on the numbers, and that’s my worry.”
Like in other states, maternal outcomes in Texas are worse for Black women, who have died at about three times the rate of non-black women. This year’s findings were expected to drill further into the causes behind those disparities.
Rep. Shawn Thierry, a Houston Democrat who has described going through her own dangerous birthing experience, said the data is critical for understanding the role cesarean sections play in maternal deaths and whether implicit bias is playing a factor in the quality of maternal care for Black women.
“There is so much to unpack from the data,” Thierry said, adding that “no woman who chooses life should have to do so in exchange for their own.”
Members of the state’s maternal mortality committee, which compiles the official report, said they were disappointed by the decision to hold the preliminary findings.
“(We) do the work to honor the lives of women who lost their lives, and families that are forever impacted by the loss of a mother,” said Dr. Carla Ortique, the committee chair. “So there’s disappointment on both fronts: that we’re not honoring those women and families, and that we may be negatively impacting efforts to improve maternal health outcomes in our state.”
Pathetic. And typical. But don’t worry, even if the Lege has no current data on maternal mortality to take action on in the next session, they will be fully prepared to make abortion more illegal, because that’s what they care about. Daily Kos has more. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=107015 | 2022-09-16T10:14:33Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=107015 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The United Nations has urged Nigerians to play their role in fostering peace and combat racism in order to help the country develop more rapidly as it commenced the commemoration of 2022 International Peace Day.
The theme for the 2022 International Day of Peace is “End racism. Build peace. The day is devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, through observing 24 hours of non-violence, cease-fire and tackling racism.
The International Peace Day, which is observed annually on September 21, began with a peace walk at the United Nations House in Abuja, on Wednesday, as part of the events planned to commemorate the occasion.
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Speaking with the journalists, the peace and development advisor office of the resident coordinator of UN House, Kimairis Toogood said the day seeks to address inclusion and tolerance, which will help to end racism and build peace.
Toogood explained that security is a major concern in Nigeria, and, therefore, stressed the need for the relevant UN bodies to work in synergy with the electoral body INEC and various stakeholders to provide electoral support that will ensure a peaceful, equitable and inclusive government for all, come 2023.
Similarly, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) protection associate, Bemsen Ugo while explaining the theme of the 2022 commemoration said racism has actually been one of those things which have brought the dichotomy amongst people.
Ugo, however, encouraged people to go beyond racism and we should see ourselves as one beyond black, white, red, and brown, and we should be able to accept ourselves as one who is willing to and able to forge a space for togetherness.
Also, the travel assistant of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Francisca Joseph Ogbuitepu said United Nations see peace to mean dignity, the well-being of all and not just in the absence of war.
“In a peaceful environment, there’s cultural exchange and also when there’s peace, people are free to go to any country of their choice free from the absence of war, and the likes.” She stated. | https://tribuneonlineng.com/un-urges-nigerians-to-foster-peace-combat-racism-for-rapid-development/ | 2022-09-16T10:14:37Z | tribuneonlineng.com | control | https://tribuneonlineng.com/un-urges-nigerians-to-foster-peace-combat-racism-for-rapid-development/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Harris County’s two Republican commissioners skipped Tuesday’s Commissioners Court meeting, preventing county leaders from passing a property tax rate and proposed budget for the next fiscal year beginning on Oct. 1.
State law requires four members of the court be present to set the tax rate. With only the court’s three Democrats present, the county was forced to adopt what is known as the no new revenue rate, a levy that brings in the same amount of property tax revenue as last year.
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County Judge Lina Hidalgo said the two Republican commissioners “don’t have a plan, they have a campaign ad.”
Hidalgo added that Ramsey and Cagle’s decision to skip the budget vote defunds law enforcement by millions of dollars.
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With the adoption of the no new revenue rate instead of the proposed rate, the Harris County District Attorney’s Office will lose out on $5.3 million in proposed increases. The Sheriff’s Office will lose $16.6 million for patrol and administration, plus another $23.6 million for detention.
In response to that funding difference, Dane Schiller, spokesperson for the Harris County District Attorney’s Office, said in a statement: “It is crucial that our criminal-justice system be properly funded – the right number of deputies, courthouse staff and prosecutors – and it is up to our elected leaders to set funding priorities.”
Overall, the $2.1 billion budget will be $108 million less than the county had proposed.
The loss of the proposed increases for law enforcement comes after efforts by Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar that briefly blocked the county from considering its $2.2 billion budget proposal.
The court had moved forward last week with the budgeting process after a lawyer for the state acknowledged in a Travis County courtroom that the comptroller had no authority to block the county from approving its budget. Hegar can take action only after the budget is approved and if it violates a new state law that bars local governments from reducing spending on law enforcement.
See here for the background. Yes, the Republican Commissioners have done this before. The Constitution allows for this form of minority rule. That doesn’t mean I have to respect it. The main thing I will say here is that I never want to hear any Republican whine about “defunding the police” again, not after the ridiculous bullshit we’ve had to endure from the Comptroller and now from these two clowns, who will be fully responsible for cutting the Sheriff and District Attorney’s budgets. Move on to something else, this has lost all meaning. | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=107017 | 2022-09-16T10:14:41Z | offthekuff.com | control | http://www.offthekuff.com/wp/?p=107017 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A ‘Digital Mask’ Could Help Protect Patients’ Medical Records
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A group of scientists has proposed a new piece of artificial intelligence technology to protect and encrypt patients’ medical data. This could be vital to preventing misuse of data in several other spheres — as health information comprises some of the most sensitive details of a person’s life.
Originally intended as an authentication measure to ensure that only users could access their own data, the widespread universal use of biometric information, such as unique fingerprints and facial identity, as a password to personal information — especially within healthcare — has interlinked different, disparate details of people together. All of these can be — and have been — easily compromised by breaching just one network. To combat this, a group of software scientists and ophthalmologists have designed software to protect valuable user data from such breaches and compromises.
The scientists who published their experiment and its findings in Nature Medicine yesterday, acknowledge the risks that come with the storage of biometric information on medical databases. However, at the same time, they are also aware that facial images are often crucial for pathologizing certain ocular — relating to eyesight — disorders and diseases from facial data, and thus opposed some existing suggested methods of privacy protection such as blurring facial details or cropping some identifiable features.
Hence, they designed software that would capture and then artificially reconstruct people’s faces digitally, but in the process would “digitally mask” biometric information — such as the iris and periocular area (the area surrounding the eyeball, such as forehead wrinkles) — removing them from the final reconstruction. This way, patients’ biometric information and privacy can be protected without withholding vital medical information from medical practitioners.
One factor driving the urgency of developing such software was also the Covid19 pandemic and the dependence on technology it brought along with itself. “During the COVID-19 pandemic, we had to turn to consultations over the phone or by video link rather than in person. Remote healthcare for eye diseases requires patients to share a large amount of digital facial information. Patients want to know that their potentially sensitive information is secure and that their privacy is protected,” Haotian Lin, one of the ophthalmologists in the group that devised the new software, explained to ScienceDaily.
To check the efficiency of their software, the scientists also ran clinical trials, where they conducted ocular diagnoses of the patients based on their original facial records and the software-reconstructed videos, and then examined the consistency in the two diagnoses. The scientists further write in their study that “identity removal validation was also used to show whether the Digital Mask (DM) could effectively remove personal biometric attributes.” The scientists also “conducted an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered reidentification validation to evaluate the performance of the DM in evading recognition systems.”
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The results of the trial indicated that diagnoses on artificially reconstructed, digitally masked faces were largely consistent with diagnoses done on patients’ original faces, indicating the feasibility of using reconstructions for clinical purposes. Further, the researchers observed that facial recognition algorithms, while effective at identifying patients from their original images, and somewhat efficient at identifying them from cropped images too, were largely unsuccessful in identifying patients based on their digitally masked faces. “When using the DM, the performance of face recognition was significantly degraded,” the scientists write. Professor Patrick Yu-Wai-Man, a contributing author to the study, told Metro, “Digital masking offers a pragmatic approach to safeguarding patient privacy while still allowing the information to be useful to clinicians.”
In the 21st century, data has become a precious commodity, with many even calling it “the new oil” to signify its value as a resource. Businesses with access to precise personal data, for instance, can reach a dedicated customer base through hyper-targeted ads on the internet. Websites may offer their services for free, and then mine user information that they can sell to businesses to help them reach potential customers. There can also be graver consequences, like personal information falling into the hands of stalkers and other potentially harmful persons through a data black market, or being used by the police and state for surveillance without the consent and acknowledgment of the people being watched, as a means to discourage and curb dissent.
In recent times, with more awareness around personal data, people have demanded more accountability from technological companies and databases, that hold their data. In some cases, people have also consciously tried to guard their identity and personal information, by using anonymous profiles, virtual private networks, and other safeguards. However, healthcare is one sphere where people still have to enter very specific, accurate, and at times highly private, personal information into a larger database. A significant part of modern medicine depends also on intricate details about people’s lifestyles and daily routines, through which one can also determine their consumption patterns and other sensitive information.
This makes medical data a goldmine of personal information — and glaringly vulnerable to exploitation. Currently, there exist no robust safeguards against the extraction and use of private data for other purposes. But with the digitization of healthcare only increasing, the gaps in privacy only emerge as more urgent than ever. The Indian government, for instance, charted out a National Digital Health Mission (NDHM) in the near future to digitally maintain records of every patient. This raised concerns about the use of medical data for intensive surveillance by the state itself. In absence of privacy concerns, even health data is prone to leaks and theft. One such breach involved data of Delhi’s Covid patients being revealed on the state government’s websites in early 2021, with a report stating “both private hospitals and diagnostic centers were treating medical records with shocking disregard for patient privacy or confidentiality.”
Sidra Jawed, a lawyer who deals with worker safety, inclusion, and privacy, pointed out how there is no legal framework to guide the government on obtaining consent and protecting patient data that will prevent the misuse of data drawn in from the scheme. “…the voluntary deployment of digital health ID without a strong legal framework to protect health data has created a regulatory vacuum, making it difficult to implement NDHM’s health data management, which includes data exchange, privacy, and strategic control,” she explained. Notably, the NDHM in its formulation relied upon the then-pending approval of the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019. As of 2022, that bill was withdrawn by the government.
The use of digital masks thus could be vital at a time when there is increasing global insecurity about data protection and privacy, and the use of facial recognition technologies. Digitally masking can also prevent patient data from falling under the wrong hands and is remarkable in devising a method where biometric information is edited in the process itself, thus lowering patients’ and databases’ reliance on biometric codes, and reducing the vulnerability of such unique and sensitive information. The software’s success on clinical trials indicates that if implemented large-scale, it can be a useful tool for privacy protection. | https://theswaddle.com/a-digital-mask-could-help-protect-patients-medical-records/ | 2022-09-16T10:22:26Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/a-digital-mask-could-help-protect-patients-medical-records/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Is This Normal? “New Places Make Me Anxious”
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In this series, we dig into our strange phobias, fixations, and neuroses, and ask ourselves — Is This Normal?
It’s not like I’m totally against the idea of exploring new places. But the prospect of visiting unfamiliar territories induces dreadful bouts of anxiety in me. To familiarize myself with a new restaurant before a visit, then, I rely on the internet to see how it appears on the street and what its interiors look like, while frantically going through its menu. At times — albeit rarely — before setting foot into new homes of friends, I also end up looking up the floor plan of their building to calm myself down a tad. While the advent of the internet has certainly helped me, it hasn’t entirely eased my anxiety — not even close, in fact.
Turns out, not only do most people not obsessively study floor plans and interiors of new places they’re about to visit, but they’re not nearly as anxious as I am about being in unfamiliar places either. This forced me to question my behavior: is this normal?
Recently, I came across a relevant, relatable experience on an online thread. “I get scared of going to new places… Mainly [the] fear is because [I] don’t know what to expect from this new environment, where there are new people and surroundings… What helps me sometimes is to make sure I have someone I trust coming with me to the new place for the first time,” wrote a Quora user who admitted to living with acute anxiety. Indeed, having someone I know accompany me helps me too — especially if I’m going somewhere for the absolute first time. On subsequent visits, I fare just fine.
An anxiety disorder appears to be at the root of this “fear” of new places. It has a name too: agoraphobia. The fear triggered by the disorder can present in the form of symptoms akin to those of panic attacks — including trouble focusing, chest pain, fear-induced shivers, excessive sweating, hyperventilation, dizziness, nausea, and an upset stomach. Having experienced most of these when confronted with the prospect of visiting an unknown place, I can attest to them.
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It appears, though, that my experience of the disorder is rather mild compared to those who can’t even leave their homes due to inordinate apprehensions about anything that lies outside the borders of their safe haven.
Research suggests that agoraphobia isn’t an extremely common experience — with only about 1.3% of adults living with it. However, the disorder is more common among women, compared to men — its prevalence among people outside the gender binary remains under-researched. What we do know about agoraphobia is that it’s among the most common forms of anxiety disorders that autistic people experience — although its experience is certainly not restricted to autistic populations.
As an autistic person, then, agoraphobia is, perhaps, an unavoidable experience for me. Especially so, since like many autistic people, my sensory processing issues make it important for me to have a handle on my sensory atmosphere to ensure I’m not so overwhelmed that I find myself on the verge of a meltdown. And unfamiliar environments, naturally, mean lesser control over said sensory atmosphere. That, in turn, translates into a greater — and not completely irrational — fear of new spaces.
But autism and agoraphobia aside, too, human beings are, in general, scared of the unknown — making uncertainty a core element of most anxiety-triggered experiences. “Uncertainty can intensify how threatening a situation feels,” Ema Tanovic, a psychologist, told BBC Worklife last year. It is uncertainty that induces anxiety while we wait to hear from the office we just interviewed for a position at, the broker we communicated our offer to, or the person we had a great first date with.
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Much the same way, the prospect of going to a new place, too, presents a host of uncertainties — how many bathrooms are there? Will it be too warm in the clothes one is wearing? What if there’s no mineral water available? Are there going to be plants that can trigger one’s allergies? Will the people there be nice?
At the root of the anxiety is a feeling that more people, perhaps, share in common: comfort in the familiar. The contours of home, which are innately forged into one’s muscle memory and daily routine, can reduce the cognitive load of having to deal with the uncertainties of learning an entirely new space from scratch.
While trying to find answers to as many of the worrisome questions as possible might be able to mitigate one’s fears of new places, it doesn’t do away with the anxiety. “When we worry, we think about the possible outcomes of an uncertain situation in an attempt to somehow prepare. In reality, worrying does not reduce the uncertainty we face and instead sets us up to feel more anxious,” notes Tanovic.
Instead, accepting that we can’t control everything might be more helpful, Tanovic believes. But the acceptance — especially in the face of debilitating anxiety obstructing clear thinking — can be hard to come by. However, a combination of therapy and medication might help people achieve that, experts say.
But before I look up a therapist who can help me overcome my anxiety about unfamiliar places, perhaps, I will Google the restaurant where I’m supposed to meet my friends this weekend. Then, of course, I’ll research therapists — and, unsurprisingly, what the interiors of their clinics look like. | https://theswaddle.com/is-this-normal-new-places-make-me-anxious/ | 2022-09-16T10:22:34Z | theswaddle.com | control | https://theswaddle.com/is-this-normal-new-places-make-me-anxious/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Commitment, Community and Curriculum
Kavitha Chintam and Alexis Prybutok describe in some detail how their STEM department’s committee on diversity, equity and inclusion is actualizing real change.
At the close of the past academic year, we sat down around some chocolate chess pie and reflected on the journey our department of chemical and biological engineering at Northwestern University has taken over the past two years. Along with Jonathan Chan and Carolyn Ramirez, we are graduate student co-founders of the Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (ARDEI) Committee in the department.
In the midst of pandemic anxieties and the growing visibility of the Black Lives Matter movement, we spent the summer of 2020 in meetings with our department’s faculty members, passionately discussing the need for extensive DEI efforts beyond those involving recruitment. We’ve all grown since the committee’s inception, which admittedly began with fraught tension and difficult conversations between faculty members and students but has since blossomed into a safe, productive space.
Our committee has engaged in many successful initiatives, including implementing new course content, assessing and revising department policies, deploying climate surveys, hosting events, and developing a website to share initiative details and resources. Throughout our work, we’ve learned that the success of actualized change in DEI derives from focusing on three points: commitment, community and curriculum.
Commitment
Sustained commitment to this work is crucial for lasting improvements as students graduate, external factors arise and priorities change. For us, such a commitment has required a specific focus on the committee’s attitude, structure and focus.
Committee attitude. As in any working group, disagreements will arise about what directions or actions to take. We faced particular hurdles due to the range of backgrounds and perceived power dynamics within our committee, as well the politicization that can be attached to antiracist topics. However, we overcame those challenges through open, honest and empathetic communication and collective group learning. Faculty members, students and staff members alike all reckoned with how our own experiences and perspectives shaped our desired committee goals and areas of personal improvement.
In particular, we found that we needed to strike a healthy balance between realism and idealism. In our experience, realism spans a spectrum from productive realism—or recognizing the hurdles that need to be overcome and having the patience and persistence to do so—to paralyzing realism, where the fear of those obstacles prevents fighting for change. Meanwhile, idealism spans a spectrum from obstinate idealism, where lack of regard for hurdles hinders progress despite goodwill, to inspired idealism, where one seeks to challenge assumed impossibilities and find motivation to achieve progress.
We as graduate students approached this committee’s work leaning toward obstinate idealism. In contrast, most faculty members tended toward paralyzing realism. In the early days, for example, we were determining how best to acknowledge Black Lives Matter protests occurring on campus, particularly targeted against the police departments of the university and our town of Evanston, Ill. Graduate students did not feel we could truly show full support for Black students in the movement and people harmed during the protests without openly condemning the police, while faculty members were hesitant to take such an explicit stance for fear of repercussions. As tensions on campus escalated and protests began to directly involve other minoritized groups and the university president, tensions also rose between graduate student and faculty committee members, each fearing inadvertent harm but grasping for an agreed-upon way to support department members.
It took considerable time, effort, transparency and trust to leverage both productive realism and inspired idealism for our committee to create lasting, radical change. We want to stress that such a collaborative attitude does not mean you need to settle for lesser standards; rather, it means you should confront systemic issues head-on by fully recognizing apparent boundaries and determining how to strategically circumvent them.
In the case of a statement of support for Black students, we reached an agreement to focus the statement on the students themselves as well as the tangible antiracist actions our department had previously lacked but would now take. That culminated in a statement that was ultimately less performative and set us on a path of action.
Committee structure. Our current achievements have required a grassroots approach to committee structure, rather than the hierarchical system traditionally found in academe. First and foremost, all department members—including faculty members, graduate and undergraduate students, staff members, and postdocs—are welcome and have an equal footing and voice.
We have also explicitly addressed power dynamics, such as those between tenured or tenure-track and nontenured faculty members and those between faculty and students, postdocs, and staff members. Typically, tenured faculty members are significantly less likely to face repercussions for acting on what administrators might view as radical opinions, while other professors must balance their desire to make change with fear of endangering their careers. Similarly, students who want to participate in committees may not feel the agency to do so because of inherent power structures.
In our case, students with a desire to improve our own learning spaces came up with and implemented most of the committee’s ideas, and strong faculty allies in the department then supported those ideas. We found that such relationships require faculty groups, particularly when they are predominantly white, to trust students. Establishing trust requires a willingness from all parties, regardless of identity or department status, to grow and admit where problems exist. That involves critical reflection, opportunities for sincere apology after causing harm and mitigating performative action.
For example, our committee initially planned to send “breaking news” emails—for example, messages of support for communities affected by hate-induced incidents—until a student of color on the committee commented on the potential harm of retraumatization and the performative nature of those emails. By stepping back and asking, “What are we hoping to accomplish?” we’ve been able to redirect resources and time to initiatives that don’t merely show that we’re plugged into the world’s injustices but are also directly addressing those injustices. Now, we send monthly emails that provide a deep dive on a topic—such as the challenges, accomplishments and journeys of Black chemical engineers, historical and current, during Black History Month, with information on local events and resources already available through affinity groups on campus.
Additionally, committees must always incorporate the voices of marginalized individuals while simultaneously minimizing the burden they often carry in this work. For instance, the committee adviser role was created to allow only people of color or other marginalized individuals to attend general meetings and give input without the need to join a specific initiative, a requirement for those on the committee with no marginalized identities.
Finally, while DEI committees need and deserve adequate funding, it’s important to realize that significant funding isn’t necessary to make lasting change. Compensation should absolutely be a priority—in hindsight, committee members, including students, should have been paid for their work from the beginning, and we hope to rectify that.
In terms of initiatives, however, while funding opens doors for certain ideas, such as providing scholarships for affinity conference attendance, active allyship is more important for making lasting change. We completed most of our projects with little to no money, including developing and implementing course curricula and content, hosting thought-provoking workshops, and creating our website. We strongly advise departments to adequately provide both compensation and program expenditures, but to not let lack of funding foster paralyzing realism and hinder or thwart change.
Community
In striving to improve our community’s climate, we recognized that equity in the culture brings about inclusion, which in turn brings about diversity as marginalized individuals recognize they are in a safe space. That process cannot happen in reverse; the simple presence of diverse populations does not make a space equitable.
To that end, our committee has focused on retention and climate improvement for current members—rather than recruitment—through climate assessments, valuing service work, policy evaluation and community-enhancing resources and engagement.
For instance, one of our first actions was to design and deploy a climate survey. After carefully developing the survey, we hired outside consultants, for anonymity and objectivity, to analyze the responses. The consultants summarized the findings collectively and comparatively across many cross-sectional identities, such as ethnicity and disability status. We then distributed an honest report of the results to highlight the areas that needed improvement and to provide evidence to those who may be resistant or blinded to injustice.
That process helped the committee identify new initiatives; notably, we have a team that is working to respond to gaps in accessibility and ableism by, for example, creating clear directions and advice on how to receive mental health resources from the university. We plan to reassess our efforts periodically to gauge our progress and the changing climate.
Fostering commitment to this work and codifying it in the culture also requires integrating DEI-focused service activities into the department’s core values. We count DEI work toward faculty service and implemented a student/trainee service award. Eventually, we hope to integrate DEI work into tenure/promotion requirements, properly track and recognize minoritized faculty service, and compensate student service work through payment or course/research credit.
Curriculum
Of the core parts of an academic department, the curriculum is perhaps the most obvious, and modifying it is a priority to ensure codified change. Integrating antiracism, diversity, equity and inclusion principles into traditional engineering curriculum, like thermodynamics, makes such content a natural consideration rather than an “other” topic. Our goal for educational changes is to instill the value of those principles throughout our department, fostering a consciousness of injustice and ultimately training engineers and scientists who actively consider social justice in their future careers.
We surmised that one low-cost, low-barrier-to-entry path to immediately integrate antiracist and DEI concepts into students’ learning is through their course problems. For instance, in chemical engineering, those problems often lack societal context and fail to connect classroom studies with the tangible, real-world impacts of engineering on diverse groups. Adding that context to problems encourages critical thinking through an equity lens—such as considering the impact of leaked feed streams on communities of often minoritized groups located near chemical plants.
Since most faculty members aren’t trained in antiracism, diversity, equity and inclusion work, we developed a workshop on how to include it and social justice in course problems and projects. Through an IRB-approved study, we found that faculty left the workshop with drafted contextualized problems and students gained awareness of engineering context and motivation from the questions. We then created a public website to share the workshop with other faculty members.
Perhaps the initiative with the most lasting influence thus far is the development of a mandatory graduate course dedicated to contextualizing antiracism and DEI concepts within science, engineering and research. Our key goals are to ensure that students share a common vocabulary and inspire consideration of learned principles in students’ careers and lives. Hence, we successfully incorporated our designed coursework into a pre-existing M.S. and Ph.D. program requirement, the professional development course, which previously solely focused on topics like fellowship writing and research safety. We hope new students see that content as part of their professional development and incorporate such values into their work.
Currently, one of us has graduated, and the other is the only remaining student co-founder of the committee. We are proud of our own tangible contributions to the department as well as those of the whole committee and recognize the need for constant vigilance for continued progress. By focusing on commitment, community and curriculum, our department took significant strides that serve as evidence that change in academe is possible—it just requires a willingness to challenge the system and the humility to grow. We strongly encourage departments at other institutions to consider this approach as well.
Kavitha Chintam is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of chemical and biological engineering at Northwestern University. Alexis Prybutok is an assistant teaching professor in the department of chemical engineering at the University of Washington and a recent Ph.D. graduate from department of chemical and biological engineering at Northwestern.
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Confessions of a Community College Dean
In which a veteran of cultural studies seminars in the 1990s moves into academic administration and finds himself a married suburban father of two. Foucault, plus lawn care.
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Friday Fragments
College rankings and reader responses.
It’s college ranking season again. It’s the time of year when I manage to believe two things at once: the U.S. News rankings are ridiculous, and Williams beating Amherst is right and proper.
Tim Burke’s reflections on college rankings are well worth the read, if you haven’t seen them.
Washington Monthly has issued its annual rankings, which are based much more on social mobility than on wealth and prestige. Public institutions do much better in the Washington Monthly version. And yes, even there, Williams outranks Amherst.
The entire concept of ranking is tricky, given that it suggests an unambiguous set of criteria. But different readers rely on different criteria, and it’s fully appropriate that they do. The U.S. News rankings are a consumer guide for parents who want to maximize the chances of their kids getting high-paid jobs. The Washington Monthly rankings are aimed more at policy makers, in service of an agenda (with which I substantially agree) of egalitarianism and improved social mobility. Other rankings (“Best Party Schools!”) assume other audiences.
Having recently gone through college selection with The Boy and The Girl—both of whom are in the target demographic for the U.S. News rankings, as high achievers who hoped to cross state lines—I’ll add epistemological humility to my list of misgivings about rankings. That’s because so much of what makes a college a good or bad experience is unknowable in advance.
Will you like your roommate(s)? Will you have good chemistry with a professor (or even a TA) who opens your eyes to a new field? Will you have the one office-hour conversation that changes your life? Will you meet your future spouse? Will you discover passions you had no idea existed? All of those matter, but none of them can be known in advance. And they certainly won’t show up in a ranking.
Instead, and having learned from the experience with TB, I encouraged TG to think of college as a place of happy accidents. Where are you most likely to be accident-prone? Given her interests, proximity to Washington, D.C., seemed much more relevant than some school getting a higher ranking to the third decimal point. For students with other interests, proximity to D.C. might be irrelevant or even negative. Her goals are not the same as her brother’s; the school that made the most sense for her wasn’t the one that made the most sense for him. Each had their own ranking. As they should.
As Burke notes, rankings can offer certain kinds of information. They aren’t entirely useless. But the level of false precision suggests that deep skepticism is in order, even when they manage to get the Williams-Amherst order right.
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A few notable responses to recent posts came in this week. In response to the post about developing a love of reading, Gretchen Schaefer tweeted a picture of the whiteboard on her office door on which she puts a sticky note with the title of the book she’s reading at the time. The idea is to show students that reading isn’t only assigned; it’s something that people do of their own volition. It was one of those simple-but-brilliant ideas that immediately made me wonder why more people don’t do it.
In response to the piece on public transportation as a student success issue, my erstwhile co-author Kate Drezek McConnell coined the phrase “no gas, no class.” That has “grant proposal” written all over it. I had to tip my cap.
The piece about one small nugget of information changing an entire conversation elicited a note from Jane Jarrow indicating that the original 1970s language about students with disabilities recording lectures as an accommodation referred to “tape recorders,” and at the time, it was assumed that mass distribution of recordings was effectively impossible. Now that we have cellphone cameras and social media, it’s much easier to record a class clandestinely, edit the recording and distribute it widely and quickly. Older language and current technology don’t match, and the disconnect allows for all manner of mischief. I hadn’t connected the dots that way, so, yes, it certainly qualified as a game-changing nugget for me.
Finally, in answer to a post a few weeks back about terrible job interview experiences, one reader wrote to say that at an interview at an early and vulnerable stage of their career, someone on the committee asked point-blank how they could help the college skirt federal regulations. That was a new one for me. I hope it was new for most of us …
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‘Administratively Adrift’
Author discusses his new book on “institutional barriers for college student success.”
The title of Administratively Adrift: Overcoming Institutional Barriers for College Student Success (Cambridge University Press) sounds a bit like that of Academically Adrift, a 2011 book that said students were not learning enough in college. Scott A. Bass, the provost emeritus at American University, who is also director of the Center for University Excellence there, is the author of the new book. He agrees that students aren’t learning as much, and he believes administrators share the blame with faculty members (as well as praise for the successes). He responded via email to questions about the book.
Q: The title of your book sounds like Academically Adrift, and your book is very much about student learning (or not learning enough). Why focus on administrators?
A: Learning extends well beyond the classroom. A well-managed, integrated and holistic administrative support system creates an environment that facilitates learning. A fragmented, sclerotic and unresponsive administrative system impedes it. Much attention has been paid to the role of faculty and what happens in class, but much less to the critical role of the administrative structure and those who work within it.
That underlying administrative structure, commonplace in nearly every college and university in America, with distinct loosely coupled semi-independent divisions, offices and units of specialization, makes an integrated and supportive educational experience difficult to achieve. Instead, its fragmented array of policies, practices and services forces students to navigate a dizzying array of offices in search of a solution to an academic, administrative, financial or personal issue. Such a cumbersome set of exchanges aggravates an already stressful situation and ultimately interferes with the learning experience, as case studies in my book demonstrate.
We have a problem: fewer than half of those who start a nonprofit four-year college graduate in four years. Even more disconcerting are graduation rates for low-income and students of color. Rather than pointing to failures among individual students for their lack of persistence, I argue that at least part of the failure is due to the structural inability of existing administrative and service structures to meet the needs and expectations of a more diverse, more wired and more stressed generation of students.
Q: You note in the book that at least 36 national professional organizations have been formed in higher education. Are there too many associations?
A: Professional staff members are immersed in an academic culture that highly values specialization and expertise. Staff, in such a competitive culture, understandably seek respect and stature for their own specialized expertise. To that end, they tend to emulate the faculty, establishing national professional associations, sponsoring journals and convening at national conferences. National professional associations provide for the transfer of new ideas and best practices and enable staff to build their professional networks. But in doing so, they also foster a level of uniformity across different campuses. This is further reinforced as specialists move among campuses for career advancement. The result is the intensification of institutional isomorphism, where powerful organizational forces push settings to become more similar to one another.
The number of associations is less of a concern than the degree of their members’ normative professional standards, supported by the association, that can restrict the expert flow of timely information to only those with the same specialized authorization. This segmentation by specialists of actionable data can undermine any effort to provide a comprehensive assessment and resolution of a multifaceted student problem.
Efforts have been undertaken to collaborate or merge different relevant associations, but over the years, they have failed. As early as 1937, the American Council on Education published the “Student Personnel Point of View,” which explicitly stated that higher education had an “obligation to consider the student as a whole.” The document specifically identified the areas of intellectual life, mental health, physical health, socialization, career trajectory, moral and spiritual values, financial condition, and aesthetic considerations as the elements of a holistic framework from which to successfully educate a college student. However, the reality is too often incongruent with these broader goals. A challenge for campus leadership is to focus on the entire student experience and reimagine how a more holistic approach that embraces all student encounters, whether curricular or beyond, can be undertaken. The emphasis on the whole person should remain an “obligation” in fostering a successful pathway for an educated graduate.
Q: How are Gen Zers different from prior generations of students?
A: Generation Zers have grown up in a world where technology is ubiquitous. The remarkable convergence of function and simplicity of acquisition enabled by the smartphone has become a norm they expect as a service recipient—and this includes their encounters with higher education. No other generation has experienced such an immersion with technology.
This diverse and multicultural “digital generation” has encountered a barrage of crucible events in the 2020s, the impact of which is still being assessed. They include a public health crisis, a racial reckoning and social justice movement, the enablement of the far right and the threat to democratic institutions, an environmental crisis, a volatile economy, and an unprovoked war in Europe initiated by a nuclear-armed nation—all accessed in granular detail through their smartphone.
The state of their mental health even before the COVID-19 pandemic was of concern but since has become ever more dire. Many have lost loved ones, know what it is to be doxxed or harassed online, and a shocking number feel that life is hopeless to the extent of suicidal ideation. They worry about their sexuality and body image, experience political polarization and conflict, and are forced to cope with extreme and unprecedented weather events—fires, floods and droughts that they did not cause. They are more anxious and stressed than any previous generation.
Their cultural assimilation, encompassing digital lifestyle, crucible experiences, frame of mind and access to information, goods and services, reflects a distinct difference in their perspective and worldview compared to previous generations of college students. It further emphasizes the mismatch between their needs and expectations and the current modus operandi of colleges and universities. We need to meet our current and future students where they are.
Q: What changes can be made—administratively—so more students learn more?
A: I identify 15 different ways to promote a more holistic and supportive educational experience leading to improved learning and graduation rates in the book. Some are much easier to accomplish than others. Two of the most difficult changes involve the modernization of the administrative structure designed to enhance student academic success and personal well-being.
By applying a combination of high tech and high touch, higher education can look to many institutions that have changed a siloed bureaucratic setting into one more cross-functional and end user–focused. One common approach is the creation of a case management system, designating a person to which actionable information flows and with whom the end user initially interacts. The case manager may make a timely referral to a specialist as needed. In a higher education setting, at any point in the student experience, a faculty member or any specialist with direct student contact could send an alert to the case manager and the student about an issue that needs attention. The specialist may maintain a more detailed file, but the case manager is the point of coordination for the end user and the agent for potential problem solving. The case manager through their reporting line has the authority to intervene in thorny areas of cross-jurisdictional administrative problems. For the case management system to function efficiently, it requires timely alerts and the flow of actionable data to both the case manager and student. A difficult front-end task is creating a user-friendly data system that provides summary student information for a case manager and student and is accessible on a smartphone.
A second approach that helps ensure an institutionwide focus on the end user is the establishment of the office of the chief experience officer (CXO). It is also a likely office in which to place an ombudsperson. The CXO reports directly to the president, and their responsibility cuts across the entire president’s cabinet to ensure that broader institutional priorities, such as achieving student academic success and well-being, are carried out in every division and every unit in the organization. An administrative unit with less contact with the end user may focus on their immediate priorities and find later that it has had an unintended adverse effect on an end user. For higher education, this includes those units that have less direct contact with students but whose decisions on financial expenditures, investments, facilities, development, marketing, legal guidance, public safety, IT and communications all have an eventual impact on the student experience. It also includes those units with direct student contact. With line authority distributed among the vice presidents, the CXO needs to be a diplomatically skilled individual to effectively carry out the president’s educational priorities while respecting the authority of each vice president. A setting concerned about appearances of “administrative bloat” needs to be reassured that the role of the CXO can assist in the effective and efficient use of existing campus resources. The primary purpose of the CXO is to ensure that the specific functions of a unit are consistently aligned with the broader priority of the institution—in this case, student success.
Q: What needs to change in the faculty role?
A: Faculty members remain pivotal in rethinking the student experience, both academic and beyond. They are the captains of the cognitive domain. The academic program should remain vital and contemporized for the current generation. In these times of extremist perspectives, the faculty can guide students to better assess truth from fiction. And there is a need for increased vigilance in preparing a generation for the complex challenges they will face, including public responsibility in a pluralistic democratic society. Nevertheless, they confront students in their classes who arrive glassy-eyed, or in tears, and who seem to have difficulty with the readings and assignments that were routine for students before the pandemic. Students’ problems extend beyond academic matters, but nonacademic problems have real academic consequences, impeding a student’s ability to learn.
Faculty have an obvious interest in student well-being. They want students to arrive in class ready and able to learn. There are faculty who want to play a more significant role in improving student success and well-being. In national surveys, faculty have indicated that they are unprepared for the mental health challenges they observe and would like to be more helpful. The establishment of a standing subcommittee of the Faculty Senate on the student experience could routinely examine the effectiveness of the student support and administrative system from the perspective of how well it facilitates student learning. They could work with the campus institutional research officer to examine data from campus climate surveys and NSSE and gather additional information on attrition, including student exit surveys. The subcommittee could engage student focus groups to better understand the institutional challenges they face and make recommendations to improve those administrative or academic areas that are most frustrating for students. Through their fact-finding role, they can become allies for more systematic system changes and recognition that the classic bifurcation between faculty and owners of other student experiences is inefficient and at times counterproductive.
Faculty need to understand how the student administrative and support system operates and how it can be improved. Their vigilance for taking a holistic view of the curriculum remains, ensuring it is constantly updated and enriched while simultaneously acknowledging that their responsibility is not limited to the classroom and the curriculum. They, too, are essential in contributing to student well-being—not by trying to provide support services for which they are not trained, but by assuring that students get connected to a well-managed system of professionals who can provide it.
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Jewel of King University Retires After 70 Years
The longtime employee worked her way up from a temporary maid to executive assistant in the president’s office.
For decades, Jewel Bell was a staple of King University, a small Christian college in Bristol, Tenn. She was a confidante for students and later a gatekeeper to the president’s office.
She was also a living witness to events big and small at King and the larger world: from the desegregation of Bristol and King and the broader civil rights movement to an expansion of student enrollment and programs at King and the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We’re talking about a person who, more than anyone else, is the thread that runs through the history of King since the middle of the last century,” President Alexander Whitaker said. “Then, it blows one’s mind even more to think that her institutional history is not just her own but what she absorbed from people who’ve been there decades before. So through Jewel, we’re really connected with the school well into the early 20th century, which is amazing.”
Bell retired from the university this month on her 70th work anniversary and a week before her 93rd birthday. King administrators think she’s one of the longest-serving employees in higher education—she’s certainly the university’s longest—and Bell’s tenure surprised even her.
“If anyone had told me I was going to spend 70 years on that campus, I would’ve said, ‘Absolutely not,’ but the kids were so good to me,” she said.
Bell, a Bristol native, had never visited King’s campus before 1952, when she started working as a temporary maid in the women’s dorm. At the time, she was the university’s only Black employee, and the campus was still segregated. Her temporary position eventually became permanent, and she was promoted in 1961 to run the campus telephone switchboard and supervise the new women’s residence hall. She later moved to the president’s office, where she worked as an executive assistant. She’s worked under 10 different presidents during her 70 years.
“The fact that anyone works anywhere, but particularly at a college, for 70 years is quite amazing,” Whitaker said, adding that there are few King alumni alive today who can remember the university without Bell.
Through her roles as the switchboard operator and executive assistant to the president, Whitaker said, Bell was the face and voice of King for decades.
“To have that history about the people, institutions and events right outside my door was phenomenal,” he said. “She was also a help to anyone who walked through that office. She was the person you first saw when you came to visit and the person everyone wanted to see when they returned.”
Bell’s husband was a veteran of World War II and worked three jobs to take care of the family, she said. But she didn’t want to sit at home all day, so she took a job at King.
“I’m not a typical lady,” she said.
She initially earned 60 cents an hour—“not enough to buy a hot dog,” she said. Her salary increased during her early years at King, and she eventually earned higher wages.
“When I got to a dollar and a quarter, I thought I died and gone to heaven,” she said.
During her time at King, the university started accepting Black students, and her son was one of the first Black students to attend King.
Whitaker said integration at King was treated as “not a big deal,” which he attributes to Bell’s role at the university.
“Her presence on the campus not only affected that era but continues to affect King’s character as a welcoming place, irrespective of race,” Whitaker said. “Jewel was very much a central part of that. Not only by being there and being so visible but also by all she did, accomplished and how loved she was.”
Bell said she was often the only Black woman in a group of white students or employees, but she didn’t experience harassment and heard the N-word used only once—and she handled it.
“If they did say something, they would’ve been taken care of by the dean and president,” Bell said. “They constantly let people know that Jewel is part of the college.”
Pat Flanagan, former chair of the music department at King, met Bell while he was a student.
“She served as a hostess of the college, especially the women’s dorm,” he recalled.
When he returned to King as a professor, Flanagan said he would walk by Bell’s desk daily to talk with her.
“Jewel represents everything that’s good and positive about King,” he said. “I have a Ph.D. in musicology. She has a Ph.D. in life … She helped me grow up and become an adult. There’s no doubt about it.”
Bell’s time at King has included a myriad of honors, from awards for distinguished service to a campus street and scholarship bearing her name. Former Tennessee governor Bill Haslem declared her a colonel aide-de-camp in 2017, which recognizes Tennessee citizens for outstanding achievement. Last Christmas, she was the grand marshal of Bristol’s Christmas parade.
“The real legacy she has is not going to be street names and awards,” Whitaker said. “It’s really going to be the fact that thousands of students that [have] come through our doors since 1952 have been touched by this remarkable woman.”
Bell, who is referred to as the “Queen of King” and called “Mamma Bell” by some students, said students always treated her like a mother. When she was working in the dorms, some students would call her home at night for help with emergencies such as when a peer was drunk and vomiting.
Intoxicated students risked expulsion, Bell said. She would offer advice over the phone to students on how to take care of an intoxicated classmate and clean up the related mess.
Now that Bell is retired, she said she has simple plans: to clean her house and get back involved with the YWCA of Bristol. She served on the organization’s Board of Directors for several years.
“I’m going to miss this place,” she said. “It was my second home.”
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‘Spaces Matter’
Limited access to active learning spaces may disproportionately hurt historically excluded groups, and institutions should build more of these spaces in the name of equity, according to a new study. Where does higher ed stand on next-generation learning spaces?
Active learning, or instructional methods that actively engage students in their own learning, is on the rise. So, too, are physical spaces dedicated to this kind of teaching. These are positive developments from the perspective of groups such as the Association of American Universities and the American Association of Colleges and Universities, which promote high-impact practices that increase student engagement and deep learning. Yet the growth of active learning spaces remains incremental. And while instructors can and do use active learning when teaching in traditional classrooms, dedicated active learning spaces certainly afford more opportunities for innovation: polling students on answers to biology questions via their laptops or phones can work in a fixed-seat lecture hall, but asking them to do work in groups of five probably won’t.
A new study is therefore concerning—it found that limited access to active learning classrooms forced students to self-sort based on their social networks or their attitudes toward learning. The authors warn that limited access to active learning spaces may create a marginalizing force that pushes women, in particular, out of the sciences.
The solution? Invest in active learning spaces.
“These findings lead to a very concrete policy recommendation: increase access to active learning spaces,” says the study, led by Michael C. Ralph, a Ph.D. candidate in educational psychology at the University of Kansas and a lead researcher at Multistudio, a Kansas City, Mo.–based architectural design firm. “Active learning classroom access provides a concrete mechanism for addressing the societal debt owed to women students, which institutions should include as part of a more comprehensive effort to dismantling barriers to success for women.”
The Active Learning Spacescape
Ralph and his team are far from the first group of academics to call for more active learning spaces. Physics and engineering have long experimented with studio and collaborative design space concepts that have much in common with general purpose active learning classrooms. Redesigning learning spaces has been part of the AAU’s Undergraduate STEM Education Initiative, which launched in 2011, and active learning classrooms on some campuses predate that effort. Researchers at the University of Minnesota found by 2010, for instance, that students in new, technology-enhanced learning spaces exceeded final grade expectations relative to their ACT scores. The same researchers found that active learning spaces influenced how instructors taught, even when this wasn’t intentional.
In 2017, Educause identified active learning spaces as the year’s No. 1 strategic technology, with the group predicting that the then “experimental” trend would be “mainstream” by 2022.
Emily Miller, deputy vice president for institutional policy at the AAU, said that today, all AAU institutions have “invested in the redesign of learning spaces, and some have built entirely new buildings with an emphasis on active learning spaces.”
Still, the vast majority of college and university classrooms are not dedicated active learning spaces. There’s no national database tracking the development of such spaces, but it’s probably fair to say they’re not yet mainstream across academe.
Whether there are enough active learning classrooms is not only about how many students want to learn in them, but also about how many professors want to teach in them. And instructor demand for active learning spaces is inseparable from instructor buy-in to active learning pedagogies.
Derek Bruff, outgoing director of Vanderbilt University’s Center for Teaching and author of the book Intentional Tech: Principles to Guide the Use of Educational Technology in College Teaching (West Virginia University Press, 2019), said, “Sometimes you have a really great classroom, but there are faculty in there who have no interest in adopting active learning strategies. And it’s actually more frustrating in that case for them, because it can be hard to lecture in some of these places, because there’s no middle of the room, or front.”
Bruff continued, “Part of this is matching [and] making the most of it. I’ve been doing faculty development around teaching for almost two decades, and most faculty benefit from having someone help them think through their teaching choices, particularly as they’re adopting new pedagogy. In part because we often teach as we were taught, we often don’t observe each other’s classrooms and get new ideas and new approaches. We can be a little insular.”
At the same time, nearly everyone has some basic familiarity with the active learning classroom, “though the last time you may have been in one was kindergarten.”
Anecdotally, some institutions report that they are keeping pace with instructor demand. Dave Wyrtzen, associate director of digital classroom services at Rutgers University at New Brunswick, said that the institution’s six general purpose active learning classrooms and three interactive lecture halls are usually enough to accommodate professors who want to use them. In cases of conflict, such as two professors requesting the same classroom at the same time, he said, “there is a bit of a screening process where we ask them for information about their use of active learning. And many of these people we know, because we’ve already worked with them, so priority would be given to the course that is using active learning effectively or has a plan to use active learning effectively.”
In general, however, Wyrtzen added, “if someone’s interested in doing it, we’re pretty eager to get them in the room, because we find that once you get in the room, you get inspired to try new things and develop your course in a positive way.”
Some institutions require participation in active learning workshops or pedagogical communities in order to teach in active learning spaces, though this isn’t the case at Rutgers. Required or not, virtually all experts say that instructor training and support are pieces of teaching in active learning spaces.
What Is an Active Learning Space, Anyway?
Active learning spaces vary in design. Within Rutgers’s classrooms, which accommodate 36 to 90 students, for instance, tables for nine are fixed in place around the room, but students are encouraged to move around with their chairs (the chair base has room for storage). Whiteboards wrap around the space. There’s an instructor station in the middle, allowing the professor to address the class as a whole and to visit with different groups around the room. Technology enables students to share images of their work with the class.
Miller, of the AAU, said active learning classrooms “often have very flexible designs that allow for a whole host of configurations,” while some even incorporate laboratory spaces. All “very much encourage student interaction and the ability to transition between the instructor providing some amount of instruction to smaller group discussions to working in groups or teams.”
In terms of size, Miller said she’s seen active learning spaces ranging from 45 student seats or fewer to up to 270 seats.
Much of the research on active learning and active learning spaces involves STEM courses. Experts say that active learning is beneficial across disciplines, however.
Bruff—who has taken photos of active learning spaces during his campus visits over the years—said his shorthand definition is that active learning spaces incorporate “vertical and horizontal collaboration spaces” and polycentric design. Translation: chairs and tables (horizontal) and whiteboards and screens (vertical), and a layout that doesn’t center the instructor.
Technology is a key feature of active learning classrooms, and students certainly need power and Wi-Fi for their devices. But extensive technological affordances aren’t always necessary. One 2017 study compared student performance in two introductory biology course sections—one taught in a “high-tech” classroom with screens at every table and one taught with just tables and whiteboards—and found no difference in student outcomes.
This finding has potential implications for institutions that may want to create active learning spaces but are put off by the costs of advanced audiovisual equipment. Bruff said that extensive technology may be necessary in some teaching contexts, but not in others, and that it can be helpful for institutions to think about active learning classroom development in “tiers,” from low tech to high tech.
An AAU-related pilot program at the University of Arizona, for example, involved converting pre-existing campus spaces—such as library rooms—into collaborative, active learning environments for students in large STEM courses. Furniture was rented or borrowed. Both students and faculty members reported being enthusiastic about these changes at the pilot’s end, even as initial costs were low.
Lisa K. Elfring, associate vice provost of instruction and assessment at Arizona, said recently that she and others involved in the pilot have since “capitalized on positive instructor and student feedback to continue building out active learning spaces across our campus.” This includes large, permanent spaces in the Albert B. Weaver Science-Engineering Library, in a previously underused gym and in the main library. (The university refers to this area of campus as the Student Success District.) A major collaborative learning and research facility, called the Commons, is underway, and a special committee now regularly assesses smaller classrooms for teaching needs and conversion opportunities.
Ralph, lead author the new paper on access to active learning spaces, said that institutions “can be thoughtful and creative in finding ways to make these supportive environments that don’t require exorbitant investments but instead are really thoughtful about how to afford autonomy and agency to instructors and students—so they can all get the most out of the time to spend together.”
On Equity
For their study, Ralph and his co-authors defined active learning by a consensus definition included in a widely read 2014 paper, one that linked active learning to increased student performance in science, engineering and math: “Active learning engages students in the process of learning through activities and/or discussion in class, as opposed to passively listening to an expert. It emphasizes higher-order thinking and often involves group work.” Ralph and his team also identified active learning spaces based on a pre-existing framework in which the physical learning space, technology and pedagogy all work together to enhance student learning.
The study design involved following a cohort of undergraduate students at an unspecified university through two back-to-back semesters of undergraduate organic chemistry, in 2018–19. The authors surveyed students about their decision-making priorities each semester as they selected between otherwise similar sections offered in a) a conventional lecture hall and b) active learning spaces. The authors also tracked students’ attitudes toward chemistry over time.
Researchers observed marked differences in how students self-sorted into active learning sections over time: during initial enrollment, students balanced practical concerns about course time and campus location with peer influence and their own attitudes about learning chemistry. In the second semester, practicality still mattered. But the importance of peer recommendations shifted.
This shift coincided with an apparent interaction between section enrollment and students’ attitudes toward learning chemistry. More specifically, the students who moved into the more active learning space in the second semester demonstrated more expert-like attitudes about learning chemistry, and those attitudes increased over time. (The measure of expertness here was a pre-existing survey tool that asked students about the underlying connections between chemistry concepts.)
Crucially, relatively more women than men wanted to enroll in the active learning spaces in both semesters. The vast majority of students who wanted to enroll in the active learning space but couldn’t due to space limitations were also women.
Ultimately, Ralph said, “some students want to be in the group that showed growing attitudes toward learning, and the lack of access has the greatest impact on women in our sample.”
Ralph’s new paper is a follow-up to an earlier study in which he and colleagues found that women and honors students tended to prefer active learning spaces. While Ralph’s analyses didn’t include race, due to sample size issues and related concerns about student privacy, other research has found that active learning narrows achievement gaps for underrepresented students in STEM. Emerging research also suggests that there are nuances to the idea that active learning benefits everyone, and that space may play an important role in maximizing the positive effects of active learning across student groups.
“Our study and the larger body of literature that’s developing around active learning shows that students are finding value in active learning methods and spaces that support those active learning methods,” Ralph said. “We see that students’ attitudes develop toward expertise, we see higher learning gains and, broadly, we see opportunities to create a sense of community and belonging for students.”
Kelly Hogan, associate dean of instructional innovation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s College of Arts and Sciences, who called her own active learning classroom for 150 students a “game-changer,” said Ralph’s study “suggests that classroom design is one piece of the puzzle in systemically changing education to better include all learners and diversify our disciplines.”
As the research on intentionally designed active learning spaces continues to evolve, she said, “I would hope all administrators are raising funds to bring more of these spaces to their campuses.”
Re-Engaging Students
In addition to implications for equity, learning and collaborating with peers in active learning spaces may be key to increasing student engagement, which has taken a hit during COVID-19.
Miller, of the AAU, said it’s time to think about “how intentional and transparent we need to be with students about the curriculum and the pathway, to understand its purpose and for it to have meaning. Because for students to spend time on campus, they really want to understand the purpose and the meaning behind the courses that they are taking and the sequence of courses. So addressing that is important, and the engagement of students is important. How are you using that in-person time engaging them, having them working in a team environment with their peers and helping them deeply learn?”
Wyrtzen, of Rutgers, said there remains “a lot of suspicion that students are disengaged, or at least concern that they don’t want to be in the classroom. And active learning would certainly be good a good antidote to that. Because if you’re doing what you were doing when you were just lecturing the students online, students are really going to question why they’re even there.”
While the pandemic has challenged student engagement, Miller noted that it made many more faculty members familiar with recording lectures. This presents an opportunity for professors to “repurpose” their classroom time, including via the long-standing flipped-classroom model, in which lectures may be prerecorded and class time is spent on active learning.
Lynn Pasquerella, president of the AAC&U, said that her organization continues to promote active learning strategies regardless of space and across modalities, “which was more critical than ever as campuses were forced to transition from face-to-face to remote learning.”
Yet there’s “no doubt that spaces matter when it comes to face-to-face active learning,” she continued. “Small group discussion, interactive learning, group projects and hands-on experiences can be facilitated by certain spaces.”
There is therefore “no question that more active learning spaces are needed across higher education. And these spaces must be accompanied by faculty training to leverage the attributes of those spaces.”
The trade-off could be the availability of seats, with active learning spaces generally serving a smaller number of students, Pasquerella said. “However, the research question regarding active versus passive learning has long been answered in favor of active learning as the best means of promoting student success in work, citizenship and life. Sometimes this means moving beyond the gates of the academy and applying learning in real-world settings in the community. Other times it involves working on diverse teams in the classroom on problems that matter to both the individual and society.”
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‘Living in the Language’
The University of Minnesota is offering student housing for residents who want to immerse themselves in learning Ojibwe or Dakota, two Native languages at risk of extinction.
Dustin Morrow, a student earning his master’s degree in linguistics at the University of Minnesota, remembers the first time he heard someone casually speaking Ojibwe. He was 25 years old and attending an Ojibwe tribal ceremony in Bemidji, Minn.
“I must’ve looked just like a huge creep, because I just kept staring at this old lady, kind of awestruck,” he said.
He was eager to become as fluent as she was. Morrow’s grandmother, who passed away when he was 3 years old, was the last Ojibwe speaker in his family. More than 10 years later after that first encounter, he’s living at the Ojibwewigamig, student housing at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities where residents only converse in Ojibwe on the premises.
It’s one of two Native-language housing options offered to students in a local, university-owned apartment building. The Ojibwe immersion house, now home to eight students, was founded as a pilot program by faculty members in the Ojibwe language program in fall 2020. Faculty members in the Dakota language program launched a similar student housing initiative this fall. While the first two students at the Dakota language house aren’t required to speak Dakota yet, they’re encouraged to use the language in their day-to-day interactions.
The goal of the housing communities is to enhance the university’s educational offerings in the two languages and give students ample opportunity to use Ojibwe and Dakota in everyday situations. In doing so, the hope is to create fluent speakers and revitalize these languages, which are separate from one another and linked to different spiritual beliefs and cultural traditions but share long histories in Minnesota. Both languages have few remaining speakers.
Tribal colleges have long offered Indigenous language programs, but efforts to revitalize these languages have recently proliferated at nontribal colleges and universities across the country. These initiatives are one facet of a larger movement among scholars and administrators to right historic wrongs against Indigenous communities and foster a sense of belonging among their students, which research shows can improve their academic outcomes. Several institutions, including the University of Minnesota, offered tuition waivers to local Indigenous students this year, and land acknowledgments have become increasingly common on class syllabi and at campus events.
“I think this is part of more recent efforts at the universities to try to recognize local Indigenous communities, and language is one way they’ve tried to do that,” said Justin Spence, director of the Native American Language Center at the University of California, Davis.
He noted that there were once at least 250 Native American languages spoken in the United States and that an estimated 150 to 175 are still spoken today. He believes teaching these languages not only helps Indigenous students connect to their identities but can open up broader educational conversations on campuses about Indigenous histories and cultures and the “histories of the regions where universities are located.”
“Language becomes then an opening for a conversation about history and sometimes the disparities between what kinds of knowledge are valued by universities, at least historically, and other kinds of knowledge that are starting to be valued in different ways,” he added.
Living in Newly Learned Languages
Zoe Brown, a teaching specialist and co-coordinator of the Ojibwewigamig, said immersion housing allows students to learn languages in more depth than 50-minute class sessions.
“One of the things we know about language learning in general is that language in the home is a really important aspect in terms of really being able to speak and talk about every single aspect of life,” Brown said. “What the students are able to do is really live together and take the language home and … learn how to talk about all kinds of different things, like emotional things that come up, everyday kinds of things, cooking together, doing laundry—just living in the language, which is the real goal of all of our language instruction.”
The University of Minnesota enrolled 1,416 students who identified as American Indian in fall 2021, making up 2.1 percent of the student body, according to university data. Of those students, 729 were on the Twin Cities campus. The number of Native American students in this year’s incoming class has grown 25 percent compared to last year, an increase likely driven by the tuition waiver offered to local Indigenous students this fall. Minnesota is home to four Dakota reservations and seven Ojibwe reservations.
Recent American Community Survey data from the U.S. Census Bureau show there are more than 37,000 people on Ojibwe tribal lands in Minnesota, but there are fewer than 1,000 Ojibwe speakers in the country, according to research by University of Minnesota professors.
Šišóka Dúta, a language instructor in American Indian studies at the university, said as far as he knows, there’s only one fluent Dakota speaker left out of the couple thousand Dakota people he estimates are in Minnesota. He described the Dakota language house as part of a multipronged effort to revive the Dakota language. The new housing coincides with the launch of a new Dakota language major this semester. He hopes a master’s program will follow in the future.
He and his colleagues are also in the process of starting a Dakota-language daycare center on campus, called the Dakota Language Nest, that will teach children to speak Dakota. He noted that there’s a shortage of teachers who know the language, so he hopes some of the students studying Dakota learn teaching skills through volunteer opportunities at the daycare center and go on to become educators.
“We’ll have created this cycle where people start off in the daycare and go all the way through college learning our language, and they become teachers themselves and then they teach the next generation of teachers,” he said. “It’s kind of a long-term vision of how to create a sustainable language movement.”
Morrow moved into the Ojibwe immersion house in his senior year and just started his third year living there. He said it was initially hard for him and his housemates to communicate in a language they were still learning.
“There were so many times where we would start speaking, and we would completely blank on how to say what we wanted to talk about,” he said.
But speaking Ojibwe with others has gotten easier with time, and he’s seen a noticeable improvement in his housemates’ language skills. He’s also become a go-to source among friends and family for questions about the language.
“My biggest takeaway from this is identifying weak spots in my language, like, things you wouldn’t normally think of when you’re in the classroom studying,” he said. “Like, how do you say, ‘sweep it into the dustpan’ … or how to talk about what the washing machine is doing or something like that.”
Those might seem like small victories, but it’s those mundane interactions that bring the language to life for Morrow and his housemates and make them feel more deeply connected to their communities.
Deacon DeBoer, who’s earning a master’s degree in heritage studies and public history, moved into the Dakota language house last month. He started studying Dakota as an undergraduate, first at Minnesota State University and then at the University of Minnesota, and found it gave him a better sense of self and a deeper understanding of his history and his people, which led him to his current educational and career path. He wants a job focused on historical preservation work in tribal communities after he graduates.
He can now pray in the language his ancestors used and talk with tribal elders about traditions and recipes. He’s eager to get a better grasp on the language, as are his sister, his mother and his 6-year-old nephew, all of whom are learning to speak Dakota.
“This seemed like an opportunity for me to dive into … Dakota ways of life and my own identity as a Dakota person.”
Potential for Growth
Spence said while tribal colleges may have similar immersion opportunities, he’s never heard of Native language housing at other types of colleges and universities.
“I think one of the issues that sometimes comes up for tribal members who come to a university campus that may be far away from where the language is still commonly spoken is that takes away opportunities for them to interact with elders, maybe members of their family who are considered fluent speakers who they’d be able to learn from,” he said.
Jurgita Antoine, Native language research director at the American Indian Higher Education Consortium, said in an email that tribal colleges and universities currently teach 29 different American Indian and Alaska Native languages. The consortium held its first Tribal College and University Native Languages Summit this spring to bring educators together to learn best practices.
While most of these institutions lack student housing, it’s not uncommon for them to offer immersion programs for students and community members or K-12 immersion schools on their premises, she added.
For example, Diné College in Arizona holds three-week Navajo language immersion camp programs for students and community members every summer.
Charles M. Roessel, president of Diné College, said campus leaders are considering creating a Navajo-immersion dormitory. But for now, they’re constructing an immersion language campus on a nearby mesa where the camps, seminars for Navajo language teachers and other immersion programming can take place throughout the year, starting next summer. The programs will take place in hogans, traditional Navajo dwellings made of logs.
“Rather than be in a classroom with four walls … sometimes it’s better to be in that environment that can better reflect and reinforce the teaching that’s happening,” he said.
Spence believes the University of Minnesota’s Ojibwe and Dakota housing could serve as an example for colleges that lack these kinds of immersion opportunities.
“I really do think they might be developing something that could be a model to be replicated in other places,” he said.
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Co-author Christiane Spitzmüller, vice provost for academic affairs and strategy at the University of California, Merced, told Science that existing research suggests that the h-index metric favors men in many ways, and that her own study therefore probably underestimates gendered differences in pay. “You probably have an even starker effect for women who … do more on dimensions that are not rewarded with a high h-index,” such as mentoring and other service work, she said.
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Emporia State President May Now Dismiss Any Employee
The president of Emporia State University has gained the authority from the Kansas Board of Regents to “suspend, dismiss, terminate” any university employee, KSNT News reported.
Ken Hush, the president, still wants the Faculty Senate to approve a document outlining the new authority.
The university is not facing financial exigency, the document acknowledged. That is the standard by which the American Association of University Professors says tenured faculty jobs may be eliminated.
But the document said that Emporia State is suffering from “extreme financial pressures placed on universities due to the COVID-19 pandemic [and] decreased program and university enrollment.” From 2017 through 2021, Emporia State’s enrollment has declined by 24 percent.
Students held a protest against possible cuts on Wednesday, chanting, “Stop the cuts.”
Michael Morales, an associate professor and Faculty Senate member at the university, said he understood the students’ concerns. “If the president says it’s for the students’ benefit, that’s not correct … The current students now, some of them, will suffer a lot,” Morales said. “Their programs will be cut, their majors will be cut, their departments will be subsumed with other departments.”
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Ex-USC Dean Admits She Arranged Bribery Payment
September 16, 2022
Marilyn Flynn, who was dean of the University of Southern California School of Social Work from 1997 to 2018, agreed on Thursday to plead plead guilty to bribery, admitting that she arranged a $100,000 payment for Mark Ridley-Thomas when he was on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors in return for a USC contract with the county, The Los Angeles Times reported.
Ridley-Thomas is scheduled to go on trial in November. He has denied guilt in the case.
The charge to which Flynn, 83, has agreed to plead guilty carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison. But prosecutors agreed to recommend that she be confined to her home and fined no more than $150,000.
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Gates Foundation Gives $100M to Transform Colleges
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation plans to give $100 million over the next five years to six nonprofit organizations, or “transformation intermediaries.” The group will be tasked with helping at least 250 higher ed institutions to boost student success and close equity gaps, foundation officials said in a press call Thursday.
The organizations selected were the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, the American Indian Higher Education Consortium, Complete College America, Excelencia in Education, Growing Inland Achievement, and the United Negro College Fund.
Intermediaries are expected to help colleges and universities that they select to overhaul their structures and business models in order to significantly improve student outcomes and ensure race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status are not predictors of success in college.
The Gates Foundation in 2020 began its Intermediaries for Scale initiative, which issued grants to organizations to help colleges form partnerships in order to make fundamental changes to bolster student success.
“I think we are going to learn as much from these intermediaries as they do from each other during the process,” Patrick Methvin, director of postsecondary success at the Gates Foundation, said.
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Georgia System Cuts 215 Defunct Programs
The University System of Georgia is axing 215 inactive academic programs across 18 institutions, citing a continued lack of enrollment, The Athens Banner-Herald reported.
The programs—a mix of degrees, certificates and majors—are being discontinued because none have enrolled a student in two years and are therefore inactive. Of the 18 institutions in the system, some saw more programs discontinued than others, with the highest number of cuts at the University of Georgia, with 43, followed by 32 at Georgia Southern University and 26 at Augusta University. By contrast, some colleges only saw program cuts in the single digits.
A system official described the discontinuation of initiative programs as a “clean-up.” The University System of Georgia’s Board of Regents approved the program terminations last week.
Various specialties in teacher education undergraduate programs are highly represented in the 215 cuts. Certificate programs, across disciplines, also make up many of the programs cut.
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Growing Public Concerns About Higher Ed’s Value: Key Podcast
Americans don’t seem to doubt the importance of higher education, but they are increasingly asking hard questions about whether it’s worth the time and money.
This week’s episode of The Key, Inside Higher Ed’s news and analysis podcast, the first in a three-part series on the “value” of higher education, looks at several recent surveys of public attitudes about higher education and their implications for colleges, students and policy makers.
Participants include Sophie Nguyen, senior policy analyst with New America’s education program, which publishes “Varying Degrees” and numerous other surveys about higher education; David Schleifer, vice president and director of research at Public Agenda, a national research organization; and Natasha Quadlin, an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and co-author of Who Should Pay? Higher Education, Responsibility, and the Public.
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Why International Peacekeeping Is So Hard: Academic Minute
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Today on the Academic Minute: Dennis Jett, professor and founding faculty member at the School of International Affairs at Pennsylvania State University, explains why international peacekeeping is so difficult. Learn more about the Academic Minute here.
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The ‘Safe Enough’ Campus, 2022
Environments conducive to learning are not risk-free, whether we’re talking about COVID or risks of an intellectual variety, Michael S. Roth writes.
It’s the beginning of the semester, and here on campus, faculty have begun distributing syllabi to students imagining the challenges they will be facing in the coming academic year. Everyone is wondering about the threat of COVID-19. Some want to ignore it completely, thinking it’s just one of the many health risks that we all navigate. Others (especially those who don’t like commuting) want to have as little unprotected contact with other people as possible: all Zoom, all the time. For me, as professor and college president, I’m somewhere in the middle. I want a “safe enough” campus on which we are open to serendipitous and spontaneous encounters; I also want a campus on which we protect people from getting really sick.
Like many universities, Wesleyan University sent most of its students home when the pandemic first emerged in the spring of 2020, and then over the following summer we allowed most of our students back if they were willing to take serious precautions to protect themselves and the most vulnerable members of the community. That meant mandatory testing, of course, but it also meant required masking, social distancing and hybrid classes. I taught in person in the fall of 2020, and it wasn’t much fun. The students were delighted to be back together, but our ability to connect with one another—an essential part of learning—was compromised by the precautionary measures we felt were necessary to maintain a safe environment. I was enormously relieved that our prudent measures made for a healthier campus; I also wrote a song called “The Isolation Blues.”
In 2021 things were better, and once vaccinations became available that spring and summer, we were able to ease up on campus restrictions. Sure, we had some people with COVID, but we were able to take care of those with symptoms, and we did not see transmission in our classrooms. Now, in September 2022, we face more contagious variants, but with booster mandates and basic precautions, we are confident that our students can have a safe enough and deeply rewarding college experience.
A safe enough campus, though, isn’t just about prudent COVID policies—not just about balancing protection and freedom vis-à-vis the virus. “Safe enough” also means balancing protection and freedom with respect to living and learning with others. No students should have to fend off racist remarks, nor should they have to defend themselves against sexual violence. Everyone at a college should be free from intimidation and harassment. That’s not coddling or “safetyism”; it’s cultivating an environment conducive to learning.
But environments conducive to learning are not risk-free. They ask us to take chances, to entertain ideas that we may find troubling and to open ourselves to the possibility that some of our beliefs might be wrong. In a safe enough classroom, nobody has the right to not be offended, but everyone has the right to not be harassed. In a safe enough classroom, you might wear a mask to filter out airborne particles that might harm you, but you don’t wear a mental mask to filter out ideas that might disturb your worldview.
In safe enough classrooms, professors are attentive to opening their students and themselves to new facts, ideas and perspectives. A few years ago, just before the pandemic, I wrote a little book entitled Safe Enough Spaces (Yale University Press). There, it was intellectual life, not contagion and masking, I was thinking about. Today, the dangers that concerned me then have become even more virulent. The forces pushing people to shelter in protective bubbles have gotten even stronger. Being grouped with others in a bubble may feel safe and friendly, but the siloing-off of perspectives is extremely unhealthy for students and for the country as a whole. From social media to economic segregation, forces push us into groups of sameness. A safe enough classroom pushes us instead to encounter difference.
Colleges and universities have an obligation to protect students from disease, and they also have an obligation to build an ethos of inclusion that is the foundation for freedom of inquiry. With such an ethos, students will be less inclined to retreat into self-censorship and more inclined to encounter real intellectual diversity with care and curiosity.
What should a safe enough campus look like in 2022? As part of a broad education, students will be learning prudence and courage, openness and resilience. When that happens, “safe enough” will be a springboard for a transformative college experience.
Michael S. Roth is president of Wesleyan University and the author, most recently, of Safe Enough Spaces: A Pragmatist’s Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech, and Political Correctness on College Campuses (Yale University Press) and Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters (Yale University Press).
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SUPERIOR, Ariz., Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Boyce Thompson Arboretum will implement a new admissions fee to help with the rising costs of maintaining 372 acres, including 105 acres of gardens and historic structures, and help meet the growing expectations and demands of visitors, as well. The new increased fee allows the Arboretum to keep pace with the rising costs associated with the maintenance of its impressive gardens, historic buildings, and visitor experience.
Beginning Saturday, October 1st, 2022, the new admission prices will be $19 for individuals 13 and older, $9 for children ages 5-12, and children under five years of age are free. As a private 501c3 nonprofit organization, the Arboretum relies heavily on admissions fees, membership dues, gift shop sales, and donations to cover the cost of operations.
"Increasing the cost of admission allows us to ensure that we properly care for and help preserve our gardens and historic buildings for generations to come," said Lynne Nemeth, Executive Director of Boyce Thompson Arboretum. "The decision to increase fees is never easy, and we thank our supporters for their understanding through this transition."
The last admissions increase was in September 2018 in anticipation of the Wallace Desert Garden opening, which added 13 acres and 1.5 miles of new walking trails and loops and over 5,000 plants.
Accessibility is of great importance to the Arboretum. On the first Tuesday of every month from October through May, the Arboretum will now offer free admission. Tickets are limited, online pre-registration is highly encouraged. Visit btarboretum.org to learn more about free admission days.
Boyce Thompson Arboretum, Arizona's oldest and largest botanical garden, is managed by the nonprofit Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum 501(c)(3). The 372-acre facility has nearly five miles of paths and trails through plant exhibits from 11 of the world's deserts, a native riparian habitat, and colorful specialty gardens. Find more information at btarboretum.org.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of TG Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: TGTX).
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According to a filed complaint, TG Therapeutics, Inc. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) clinical trials revealed significant concerns related to the benefit-risk ratio and overall survival data of the Company's therapeutic product candidates, Ublituximab and Umbralisib; (ii) accordingly, it was unlikely that the Company would be able to obtain approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of the Umbralisib marginal zone lymphoma and follicular lymphoma New Drug Application, the Biologics License Application for Ublituximab in combination with Umbralisib, the supplemental New Drug Application for Ublituximab in combination with Umbralisib, or the Ublituximab relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis Biologics License Application in their current forms; (iii) as a result, the Company had significantly overstated Ublituximab and Umbralisib's clinical and/or commercial prospects; and (iv) therefore, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
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New updates have been made to the Child Passenger Safety laws, and car seat technicians are holding FREE events to ensure your child’s car seat is installed correctly.
Sergeant Thomas Billins (HPD Traffic Division) explained some of the changes made in recent years. “...Any child under 10 years of age is required to be in a booster seat. Those children that are two years of age or under are required to be in a rear-facing child seat, and those that are from two to four years of age need to be in either a rear-facing child seat or a child seat with a harness.”
Stephanie Capllonch (Child Passenger Safety Technician) shared, “About 80% of children are in the car seat incorrectly, whether it’s how the child seat is installed or how the baby’s harnesses on them.” As a new parent, there can be lots to learn, and new items to buy. “The single most important thing you can do is purchase a safe car seat for your child and learn how to install it properly.”
The Child Safety Laws are put in place to ensure a child’s safety and there are some consequences for not following them. Sgt. Billins shared, “Some of the consequences are fines for not following the child restraint laws or that you would have to go to court --and that’s one thing about the citations, it’s not just a fine...” As a police officer and prior vehicle and homicide section investigator, Sgt. Billins understands the importance of a child being in a properly restrained child seat. “Those that are not properly secured...they’ll tend to get a lot more injured and that’s something that is completely preventable.”
As a mother of four, Stephanie was concerned about the safety of her own children while driving. “When I started working here at Castle, I saw the need that it was a great opportunity to become a car seat technician.” To help parents ensure their car seats are properly placed, “We’re having...a big community event at Waimanalo Health Center.” At this event, “People can expect...that there’s going to be car seat technicians there to help them find out if their car seat is installed correctly...if their child is harnessed properly. We want to make sure that their car seat is in a safe location for the rest of the passengers in the car as well.”
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KAPOLEI (KITV4) -- A town hall hosted by 1st district councilmember Andria Tupola brought public safety in the spotlight at Kapolei Hale. Residents called for expanded operations at the Waianae substation, which has not been active.
Chief Arthur Logan discussed operations in HPD precinct 8, the second busiest police district on Oahu, and addressed the current officer shortage at HPD.
"So there's 350 vacancies. There's a fluctuating number that's gonna change over the next 6 to 8 months," Logan said.
Residents in West Oahu say they would also like to see the Weed and Seed program expanded.
First Deputy Prosecutor Thomas Brady says there has been an issue with "weeding" out repeat criminals from returning to areas where they commit crimes. The effort hasn't been backed by judicial decisions in the courts.
"So over 200 and something requests that we have made as prosecutors to the judge , please as part of your pre-trial bail, or as part of your sentence, restrict this individual he has no right to be in this area. Please restrict him so he's not here," Brady told the crowd, "The court has granted it around 10 per cent of the time. That means 90 per cent of the time the court has said NO, we're not going to do that."
Residents are hopeful the program will endure.
"I know they're just starting the program again and getting it back on its feet. So I just hope that it's gonna be a positive impact enough where they're able to fund it and see it through into our community," Tiana Wilbur told KITV.
Residents also told KITV more coordination between law enforcement and community organizations is called for; what's more, oversight with programs that have put demands on officer resources, according to West Oahu resident Austin Salcedo.
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NPR's A Martinez talks to associate professor Natasha Lightfoot of Columbia University about several countries moving to break ties with the Commonwealth now that Queen Elizabeth II has died
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Ukraine's battlefield victories are a reason for celebration. But could it also usher in another dangerous phase, with Russia's President Vladimir Putin lashing out in other ways?
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Susan Morrison knew something was wrong when she bought a new tub of cottage cheese.
"I had an old one in the refrigerator," Morrison recalls. "I went to put the new one in and it was like, 'Wait a minute. This is two-thirds of the size. There's a third missing.'"
Many people feel as though something is missing in the U.S. economy, finding they're paying more and getting less.
Despite a strong job market and near record-low unemployment, 37 % of Americans say their personal finances have gotten worse in the last year, according to a new NPR/PBS Newshour/Marist poll. That's an 8-point jump since February. Twice as many people now say their economic situation has worsened as say it has improved.
Most blame the worst inflation the United States has seen in four decades. Consumer prices across the board rose 8.3% in August from a year earlier, according to government data released this week. Price increases in some areas were even steeper.
Thanks inflation: almost everyone says they're cutting back and staying in
For Morrison, who lives in Thousand Oaks, Calif., the curdling of confidence goes beyond cottage cheese. She and her husband are both retired. They've watched a falling stock market erode their savings, while prices at the supermarket have jumped more than 13% in the last 12 months.
"We're seniors. It's not like we're eating huge meals," Morrison says. "But we have noticed that our grocery bill over just the last two years, we've watched it go up and up and up."
Nearly three out of four people surveyed say they've cut back on spending in the last six months in response to economic conditions. More than a quarter say they'd had to rely on savings in order to make ends meet.
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Morrison used to volunteer weekly with at a senior center in Simi Valley, but now goes only every other week to save on gasoline. She and her husband have also cut back on travel.
"We love to vacation in our motor home," Morrison says. "But we have not gone anywhere in our motor home at all this year because of the cost of diesel."
Both diesel and gasoline prices have dropped sharply, since hitting record highs in June. But fuel remains significantly more expensive than it was a year ago. The average price of diesel is still nearly $5 a gallon.
As with many issues, people's attitudes about the economy are shaped in part by partisan politics. Republicans, like Morrison, are almost four times as likely as Democrats to say their financial situation has worsened in the last year, just as Democrats were more likely to grumble when President Trump was in office.
Even among Democrats, though, attitudes have deteriorated somewhat. Fifteen percent of Democrats now say their family finances have worsened in the last year — up from 12% who said so in February.
One of the biggest complaints is high inflation.
"I mean, when you try to buy a steak, for Chrissakes," says Craig Barnes, an energy broker in Plano, Texas. "It has a big impact, especially in my business. When I'm taking people out and stuff like that, we're not going to steakhouses any more. We're dialing it back big time."
More than half the people surveyed say they're eating out less now than they were six months ago. Four in ten say they're driving less or carpooling in order to save on gas.
Some of the reported spending cuts may be exaggerated. According to the Commerce Department, for example, actual spending at restaurants is up nearly 7% over the last six months.
Lavender Justice, who works as a pizza delivery driver in suburban Atlanta, suffered a drop in income earlier this summer when gas prices soared. Although gas prices have since fallen, the delivery business hasn't fully recovered. Fewer people are ordering pizza some nights. And even when it's busy, tips are down.
"People are struggling. It's kind of tragic," Justice says. "Even on Fridays and Saturdays, I've been making only 75% of what I was a year ago."
As a result, Justice has scaled back spending on favorite hobbies, such as costumed camping trips.
"A lot of my friends are either having to cut down on activities that they enjoy, " Justice says, or "pick up more hours, [or] figure out second jobs."
Skipping doctor visits and other signs of economic distress
Just over a third of those surveyed say they canceled or scaled back vacations over the last six months, while 18% say they skipped a doctor's visit or a purchase of prescription drugs. In general, families making less than $50,000 a year were more likely to say they'd cut spending than those with higher incomes.
Missing a rent or mortgage payment can be a sign of more serious economic distress. Less than 10% of those surveyed said they'd skipped or delayed such a payment in the last six months.
But missed housing payments were more than twice as common among families making less than $25,000 a year.
"I had to be late on rent this month, and probably going to have to figure something out for this coming payment as well," says Connor Slaten, who works at a KFC in Kansas City, Mo.
Slaten was recently promoted to shift manager, and his wages climbed to $14 an hour. Still, he says, that's not keeping pace with the rising cost of living.
"I don't think there's anywhere in America where $14 an hour can adequately pay for a one-bedroom apartment and everything else that you need," he says.
Some of those surveyed are pessimistic that economic fortunes will improve any time soon. Others have their sights set on a political change in Washington. And some are banking on growing sense of empowerment among workers.
"There's more people quitting jobs that aren't treating them well," says Justice, the pizza delivery driver. "That gives me a lot of hope. Because if enough people quit jobs that aren't treating them well, they'll have to start treating people better and have to start paying people what they're worth."
Justice hopes to start a new job — working with a wilderness therapy program — this fall.
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Democrat Mary Peltola was sworn in this week, making her the first Alaskan Native in Congress. Before taking office, she went back to rural southwest Alaska, where she was welcomed by the community.
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LONDON — A country's collective grief at the death of Queen Elizabeth II has taken a peculiarly British form over the course of the past couple of days. In a nation known for its orderly lines, or queues, thousands of people have waited for hours at a time to pay their respects to the late monarch in a coffin, lying in state at the heart of the country's parliamentary democracy.
Citizens from across the U.K. have traveled to London ahead of Elizabeth's state funeral on Monday to pay their respects in person to Britain's longest-serving monarch. For the vast majority of her former subjects, she is the only ruler they have known in their lifetimes, after her seven decades on the throne came to a close last week.
The public outpouring has been so great that by Friday morning the queues had been paused after Southwark Park — the start of the queue — reached capacity, the BBC reported.
Her body rests inside Westminster Hall, a cavernous space with a soaring arched roof that has served for more than nine centuries — sometimes simultaneously, sometimes separately — as the center of Britain's royal, legal, administrative and now parliamentary system.
Members of the public, with no more than one bag permitted on their person, are scanned by airport security workers. They then descend the ancient stone steps of the hall, roughly half the length of a football field, that was built just a generation after the Norman Conquest of Britain by an ancestor of Elizabeth.
As they file past her oak coffin, draped in the mostly yellow royal standard flag and flanked by four tall candles, they are permitted to pause for several seconds in a moment of reflection, before continuing.
Uniformed policemen and velvet rope lines help guide the crowds through the space, some of the mourners visibly moved. An NPR reporter saw one woman with her arms wrapped around a friend, who was weeping and shaking after passing the coffin, raised up on the carpeted platform. A middle-aged man held the hand of his partner, a knapsack slung over one shoulder and a tissue in his hand dabbing at his eye.
Officers from a British Army regiment known as the household cavalry division — named for the royal household — and veterans belonging to a yeoman of the guard group that dates back more than 500 years, stand watch around the coffin, spears and swords pointed downwards and rested on the ground, their heads bowed. The various plumed helmets, bearskin hats and crimson, blue and black uniforms familiar from Buckingham Palace and the Tower of London add an air of medieval pomp and pageantry.
Alongside sections of the slow-moving River Thames, this torrent of humanity now runs past a veritable tour route of London's historic landmarks.
At times this week, the line of those wishing to pay their respects started as far away as the Globe Theater, where the works of England's greatest-ever poet, William Shakespeare, were first performed in the late 16th Century.
It passed Lambeth Palace, built at a time when kings of England still held the same title in France, and the longtime London home of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Church of England's most senior cleric. The line has snaked across Westminster Bridge and past Big Ben and the gothic splendor of the 19th Century Palace of Westminster, before arriving at the entrance to the more ancient Westminster Hall.
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President Biden's administration is pushing for more regulations on digital assets such as cryptocurrencies, and it's advocating for tougher oversight at a time when the popularity of virtual money continues to grow.
In a series of new reports released Friday that lay out recommendations, the White House pointed to the volatility of virtual currencies and a recent slump that has led to trouble across the crypto landscape.
"Digital assets pose meaningful risks for consumers, investors, and businesses," the Biden administration said, noting there are "frequent instances of operational failures, market manipulation, frauds, thefts, and scams."
U.S. regulators, along with their global counterparts, have long been wary of cryptocurrencies, even as they have acknowledged the potential of virtual currencies, saying, "Digital assets present potential opportunities to reinforce U.S. leadership in the global financial system and remain at the technological frontier."
This year, cryptocurrencies TerraUSD and Luna collapsed as part of a broader rout, and today, bitcoin's value is about a third of what it was last November.
Among other directives, the new reports call on financial regulators to crack down on unlawful practices and to "address current and emergent risks."
Congress is looking at new regulations
In recent years, the Securities and Exchange Commission has brought enforcement actions against crypto companies. The White House wants that to continue.
"The reports encourage regulators, as they deem appropriate, to scale up investigations into digital asset market misconduct, redouble their enforcement efforts, and strengthen interagency coordination," said national security adviser Jake Sullivan and Brian Deese, director of the National Economic Council, in a statement.
The administration also suggests that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission "redouble their efforts to monitor consumer complaints and to enforce against unfair, deceptive, or abusive practices."
At the same time, the administration has urged Congress to give regulators more concrete guidance.
That is starting to happen. In June, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., introduced a proposal to create a regulatory framework for digital assets.
The reports out on Friday stem from an executive order that Biden signed in March to ensure the "responsible development of digital assets." It was intended to streamline the federal government's approach to digital assets.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Thursday announced plans to develop floating platforms in the deep ocean for wind towers that could power millions of homes and vastly expand offshore wind in the United States.
The plan would target sites in the Pacific Ocean off the California and Oregon coasts, as well as in the Atlantic in the Gulf of Maine.
President Joe Biden hopes to deploy up to 15 gigawatts of electricity through floating sites by 2035, enough to power 5 million homes. The administration has previously set a goal of 30 GW of offshore wind by 2030 using traditional technology that secures wind turbines to the ocean floor.
There are only a handful of floating offshore platforms in the world — all in Europe — but officials said the technology is developing and could soon establish the United States as a global leader in offshore wind.
The push for offshore wind is part of Biden’s effort to promote clean energy and address global warming. Biden has pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030. A climate-and-tax bill he signed last month would spend about $375 billion over 10 years to boost electric vehicles, jump-start renewable energy such as solar and wind power and develop alternative energy sources like hydrogen.
“Today we’re launching efforts to seize a new opportunity — floating offshore wind — which will let us build in deep water areas where turbines can’t be secured directly to the sea floor, but where there are strong winds that we can now harness,” White House climate adviser Gina McCarthy said at a news conference Thursday.
Deepwater areas in the Pacific especially have potential to vastly expand offshore wind energy in the U.S., McCarthy and other officials said.
McCarthy acknowledged that the floating technology is at an early stage. But she said “coordinated actions” by federal and state officials, working with the private sector, can position the U.S. “to lead the world on floating offshore wind and bring offshore wind jobs to more parts of our country, including the West Coast.”
Two pilot projects are planned off the north and central California coast, and a third is planned in southern Oregon, officials said.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said her state and California have some of the best wind resources in the world, but called floating platforms crucial to develop them due to the depth of the ocean floor along the West Coast.
Heather Zichal, CEO of the American Clean Power Association, an industry group, called the announcement a “game changer” that will spark investment in a new domestic supply chain and allow the U.S. to lead in this emerging technology. Along with incentives in the sweeping climate-and-tax bill, Zichal said she expects costs for offshore wind development to dramatically decrease, allowing deployment of clean energy at the scale needed to take action to address climate change.
The Energy Department announced nearly $50 million, including funding from the bipartisan infrastructure law Biden signed last year, for research, development and demonstration work to support floating offshore wind platforms. Officials aim to cut the cost of floating offshore wind energy 70% by 2035, to $45 per megawatt hour, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said.
“We think the private sector is going to quickly see the real opportunity here not only to triple the country’s accessible offshore wind resources but to make the U.S. a global leader in manufacturing and deploying offshore wind,” she said.
Emerging technology for floating platforms “means there’s real opportunity for greater energy security,” affordability “and course tens of thousands of good-paying in-demand jobs,” such as electricians, engineers, ship builders and stevedores, Granholm said.
The Biden administration “is all-in on making floating offshore wind a real part of our of our energy mix and winning the global race to lead in this space,” Granholm said. ”And that’s why we set this big, hairy audacious goal” of 15 gigawatts of floating offshore wind by 2035.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said her department has approved the nation’s first two major offshore wind projects in federal waters and has begun reviewing at least 10 more. An offshore wind lease sale off the New York and New Jersey coast set new records, she said, and a lease sale also was held in North Carolina. Seven lease sales for offshore wind projects are planned by 2025.
More than half of the nation’s offshore wind resources are in deep waters where traditional offshore wind foundations are not economically feasible, Haaland said, adding that “floating wind will help us reach areas once not attainable. And this is critical because floating wind will help us build on the administration’s goal of 30 gigawatts of offshore wind by 2030.”
The world’s first floating wind farm has been operating off Scotland’s coast since 2017. Norway-based Equinor, which operates the 30-megawatt Hywind Scotland project, is currently building a huge, floating offshore wind farm off Norway to provide electricity for offshore oil and gas fields.
Lauren Shane, a spokeswoman for Equinor in the United States, said the company is upbeat about floating offshore wind and will evaluate possible opportunities in the U.S. “We’re excited about the development of offshore wind in the U.S.,” she said.
Another offshore wind developer with projects in the United States, Denmark-based Ørsted, also applauded the administration’s efforts.
“The administration’s innovation priority is well-placed, and with the right investment and public-private partnerships,” floating platforms “can expand deployment, drive down costs and bring more clean energy to millions of Americans,” said Bryan Stockton, head of regulatory affairs for Ørsted North America.
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White House opens applications for $1B in cybersecurity funds
The Biden administration will start accepting applications today from state governments for a sliver of a new $1 billion cybersecurity grant program.
The big picture: The four-year grant program aims to provide state and local governments with both starter funds and the momentum to craft ongoing cybersecurity strategies. It was created in last fall's $1.2 trillion infrastructure package.
- For the first year, only $185 million of the $1 billion pool will be available, with applications due on Nov. 15.
Details: A senior Department of Homeland Security official told reporters before today's announcement that the first year of funding will be awarded to states looking to establish a cybersecurity strategic plan, and outlined what conditions officials need to meet to get these dollars and what kinds of projects can receive funding.
- The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will run the program and plan to allot funding by the end of the year, according to the senior official.
- Each state is eligible to receive a minimum of $2 million, Mitch Landrieu, the White House infrastructure coordinator, told reporters.
- States are required to dedicate 80% of their grant funding to local and rural areas, and at least 3% to tribal governments.
- Recipient states will receive only a portion of their award at first to do the necessary research to create their plans. The rest of their award will be released once their plan is approved by CISA and FEMA.
Between the lines: State and local governments often lack the financial resources to properly secure public goods like water infrastructure and schools as lawmakers prioritize other issues over cybersecurity.
- One estimate suggests only 35% of states have a line item for cybersecurity in their budgets.
- The program requires governments to match between 10% and 40% of the awards over the course of the four-year grant program. The idea is to get state and local governments in the habit of funding cybersecurity after the grant runs out.
What they're saying: "It's designed to help cities and states and counties and small communities organize themselves and get their heads wrapped around the need for cybersecurity," Landrieu said. "It was never designed to be 100% of every project in America, it was designed to be a kick start."
What's next: CISA and FEMA will accept applications for another round of funding dedicated to tribal governments later in the fall, according to a press release.
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What Elon Musk's friends thought about his Twitter offer
Several of Elon Musk's friends privately counseled him against acquiring Twitter, once they realized that he wasn't joking around, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: Musk didn't take the advice. He's now is trying to back out of his $44 billion agreement, with a trial set for next month in Delaware.
- Some sources close to Musk say that they don't doubt, or disagree with, his sincerity about removing content restrictions on the platform. They also think he has the ability to improve Twitter's products.
- But they worried that he underestimated the headaches unique to Twitter, and how that could distract from efforts at SpaceX and Tesla that they believe are more important to him.
Other Musk confidants first learned about Musk's offer via his tweets. LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, part of the so-called "PayPal Mafia" with Musk, spoke to Axios for its new season of "How It Happened." The podcast series explores the collision between the world's richest man, and one of its most influential social media platforms:
- "I think I had the reaction of most people, it was like, 'oh my God, another huge problem. He's already dealing with a large number,'" Hoffman told Axios in an exclusive interview.
- His venture capital firm, Greylock, declined Musk's offer to invest alongside him in Twitter, although remains confident in his friend's entrepreneurial prowess, he added. “I was one of the people who thought you couldn’t do both Tesla and SpaceX and clearly was wrong ... Elon’s right that Twitter needs innovation.”
- It's also worth noting that other venture capital firms did agree to invest alongside Musk. This includes Sequoia Capital, where PayPal alum Roelof Botha is a longtime partner.
🎧 Go deeper: Episode 1 of How It Happened: Elon Musk vs. Twitter
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U.S. voter energy in the lead up to the midterms
We’re 53 days from the November election, and some wildcard voters are feeling "meh" about their options. But the bases are fired up. Axios' Josh Kraushaar on what we know, and how the week in Washington could affect the upcoming election.
- Plus, the Saudi-funded circuit changing the game for men’s golf.
Guests: Axios' Josh Kraushaar and Jeff Tracy.
Credits: Axios Today is produced by Niala Boodhoo, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Alexandra Botti, Lydia McMullen-Laird, Robin Linn, Fonda Mwangi, Alex Sugiura, and Ben O'Brien. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at [email protected]. You can text questions, comments and story ideas to Niala as a text or voice memo to 202-918-4893.
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- MAGA’s New Hampshire sweep
- Republicans' rocky attempt to change the abortion narrative
- Everything you need to know about the Saudi-backed LIV Golf series
NIALA: Good morning! Welcome to Axios Today!
It’s Friday, September 16.
I’m Niala Boodhoo.
Here’s what we’re covering today: the Saudi-funded circuit changing the game for men’s golf.
But first - how this week in Washington could affect the upcoming election.That’s today’s one big thing.
We're 53 days from the November election. This week, we've been asking you what's motivating you to vote, or not.
SUSIE: Hi Niala. My name is Susie. I currently live in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I do plan on voting this November just from a harm reduction standpoint, which is the same exact standpoint that I have always voted with because we've got Dr. Oz running in Pennsylvania, and I don't want him to be elected, even though I also am not stoked about John Fetterman. I'm gonna keep participating for now until there's a better option.
NIALA: Thanks Susie from Pennsylvania for sharing that. Axios Senior Political Correspondent, Josh Kraushaar has been traveling to Pennsylvania and in New Hampshire to cover the midterms and is here to talk Friday politics with us. Hey Josh.
JOSH KRAUSHAAR: Hi Niala.
NIALA: So Susie clearly was not enthused about her options. What were you hearing as you traveled around Pennsylvania?
JOSH: Well, it sounds pretty common in politics these days, sort of the meh voter – the voters that aren't following the day to day campaigns as closely as we are folks who are dealing with hardships on a regular basis, especially economic hardships and don't like either candidate. So that is the electorate that's up for grabs. And what's really hard when you look at the polling data, when you're trying to assess what's going on in all these big races, how many of these voters actually show up to the polls?
Because the bases right now, we can look at the data, my own experience on the campaign trail demonstrated this, the bases are very fired up. Republicans are gonna show up in big numbers, it's a midterm election they're out of power, that always happens. And Democrats, because of the abortion issue, that they're as fired up as they've been in some time as well, but these independent voters or these low propensity voters, those are the folks that are wild cards.
NIALA: So let's talk about the Republican base. You were also most recently in New Hampshire where MAGA candidates swept that state's Republican congressional primary. What is that saying to you?
JOSH: What's interesting about New Hampshire, Niala, is that Donald Trump did not endorse in any of these primaries, but the MAGA spirit was alive and well. The Republican nominee for the Senate race, a big battleground state in New Hampshire is a retired general named Don Bolduc. And he told me he's never talked to Donald Trump and didn't really even mention Trump that much. But the anti-establishment populist sentiment was alive and well, he said he didn't trust the FBI, didn't trust the IRS, didn't even trust the Pentagon. I talked to a lot of Republican voters who just thought Washington was corrupt that they, there was a divide between the elites and, and, and the average New Hampshire voter. So this guy Bolduc used this grassroots populist energy to win the primary and now he's the nominee against Senator Maggie Hassan.
NIALA: One thing that has been happening this week in Washington is Republican Senator Lindsay Graham introduced a federal ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Can you tell us about the rollout and response?
JOSH: Uh, not very favorable on both sides. Democrats are now using this standard the 15 week ban that, that Graham proposed with exceptions, for rape incest and life of the mother. And using that as a cudgel against Republicans in many big battleground Senate and, and house races.
NIALA: And then the other big story of the week was president Biden's announcement that his administration had brokered an agreement between the railroad unions and companies avoiding a strike that could have crippled the economy. What are the political implications of this?
JOSH: I think, I know you're hearing a big sigh of relief at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. This is a relief that there wasn't a major crisis that took place that could have crippled the economy, not to mention the political prospects of Democrats. When we hear the details of what was agreed to in this big landmark deal, there may be some political hits that Republicans use, but by and large, the voters care about not having a crisis, at a very economically fragile time.
NIALA: Josh Kraushaar is Axios’ Senior Political Correspondent. Thanks Josh.
JOSH: Thanks.
In a moment, how the Saudi government is spending hundreds of millions to lure professional golfers to a rival circuit.
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The Saudi-funded circuit changing the game for men’s golf
NIALA: Welcome back to Axios Today!
There's been a major controversy brewing in the world of golf this season, which got bigger this week with Arizona state college player, David Puig announcing he'll make his start as a professional player, not on the PGA tour, but in the LIV league, the upstart rival circuit funded by the Saudi government is changing how men's professional golf has played. Axios’ Jeff Tracy is here to explain how much change this means for sports and politics. Hey Jeff.
JEFF TRACY: Hey Niala, how's it going?
NIALA: Jeff. So I mentioned, this is funded by the Saudi government. What else do we need to know about the origins of this new league?
JEFF: Yeah. So, it started earlier this year and the first big name to join it was Phil Mickelson. Obviously that's one of the great golfers of all time and that sort of shook the golf world. The Saudi government is paying exorbitant sums of money to players that are sort of defecting from the PGA tour over to this new breakaway league. 25 million dollars every tournament, guaranteed money even for last place, and that has compelled quite a few players after Mickelson to join alongside.
NIALA: And so what has the PGA's response been to all of this?
JEFF: It's created a pretty enormous schism in the professional golf world. It’s actually sort of been a bit of an iron sharpens iron in some way. The PGA tour has actually recently announced some big changes going forward, starting next season, that are pretty much a direct result of trying to make sure that no more golfers do defect over to LIV.
NIALA: So Tiger woods has stayed with the PGA tour. Who's left?
Jeff: There's one of the top 18 players in the world Cameron Smith did go over to LIV. He won the British Open this year. The remaining 17 of those top 18 players are all still in the PGA tour, but there are quite a few top players who have gone over to LIV, Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau, pretty big names, major winners who are now in this new breakaway Saudi tour.
NIALA: So one term that comes up when people are talking about the LIV league is sports washing. Can you explain what that means and why that matters here?
JEFF: Yeah. So that's pretty much the biggest controversy of this whole thing is where the money is coming from for this league. Everyone knows the numbers. Phil Mickelson was paid 200 million just to join the Saudi Arabian government, which does not have a very good record on human rights. And sports washing is something that they've done in the past, which is essentially distracting from what's going on in the country by hosting these big popular sporting events, trying to tell the world, you know, look, we're hosting this really big league everyone loves sports. How bad can we possibly be? But, everyone who thinks about it for more than a second, obviously sees where this money is coming from and it's definitely one of the biggest issues among those who don't agree with the LIV defectors.
NIALA: Jeff, professional sports, I feel like has increasingly separated into the have and have nots. And if you think about the recently failed European Super League for club soccer, should we expect to see more deep pocketed startups across professional sports?
JEFF: We're actually seeing similar things in college sports right now. The absolute best college football teams are sort of getting themselves into even smaller groupings of just the best teams. There could definitely be a breakaway within the college ranks of only say the 30 or 40 best football teams sometime down the line. So, there is definitely a trend towards the best wanting to get a bigger piece of the pie that they feel they are sort of creating.
NIALA: Axios’ Sports Jeff Tracy. Thanks Jeff.
JEFF: Thank you.
NIALA: Before we go today – the new season of How It Happened: Elon Musk vs. Twitter launches today. The first episode is all about Musk — his meteoric rise, his Twitter use, and his vision for the future — and hosted by a familiar voice to you all -- Axios Business Reporter Erica Pandey! Find How It Happened wherever you get your podcasts.
That’s all for this week. Axios Today is produced by Fonda Mwangi and Robin Lin. Our sound engineer is Alex Sugiura and Ben O'Brien. Alexandra Botti is our supervising producer. Sara Kehaulani Goo is Axios’ editor in chief. And special thanks as always to Axios co-founder Mike Allen.
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The state of abortion in Ohio
A judge temporarily blocked Ohio's six-week abortion ban on Wednesday, making procedures legal up to 20 weeks for the next 14 days.
Why it matters: After the 14-day block is lifted, the future for abortion facilities, the medical community and those needing abortion services in Ohio is uncertain, creating confusion for those seeking care and clinic employees.
Zoom in: Dayton’s only surgical abortion clinic was set to close Wednesday night, but the Dayton Daily News reported it will reopen early next week.
By the numbers: A Suffolk University/USA Today Network survey of likely Ohio voters released this week found:
- Almost 68% oppose a six-week abortion ban.
- 84% are in favor of exceptions for victims of rape or incest.
- 62% support an exception for those under 16 years old, the age of consent in Ohio.
State of play: This is the latest development in an uncertain, years-long saga regarding abortion access in Ohio.
- In 2019, Gov Mike DeWine signed a “Heartbeat Bill,” banning abortions once embryonic cardiac activity is detected via ultrasound, typically around six weeks of pregnancy.
- Within an hour after Roe v. Wade being overturned, that law was enacted, effectively banning abortions after six weeks. But exceptions to this law were unclear, and remain so after Wednesday's ruling.
What they’re saying: "I wish instead of 14 days [the restraining order] was six weeks so we'd actually feel how short six weeks is," Dan Skinner, associate professor of health policy at Ohio University, tells Axios. "This is just whiplash policy and the first crack in the anti-abortion veneer."
Michael Gonidakis, Ohio Right to Life President, in a statement: "... We are more than confident that the heartbeat law will go back into effect relatively soon. Further, we can assure pro-life Ohio that in the near future Ohio will become abortion free ...”
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I-375 gets a Buttigieg boost
A $105 million federal grant will help finance a long-planned project to replace milelong I-375 with a more pedestrian-friendly street-level boulevard.
Why it matters: The hard-to-traverse sunken interstate divides downtown from Lafayette Park and other areas to the east. It was built in the early 1960s by bulldozing over what were previously thriving Black neighborhoods and businesses.
Driving the news: U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Mayor Mike Duggan and other leaders announced the funding yesterday alongside the downtown North American International Auto Show.
- Movement toward the highway overhaul was slow, but it got a federal stamp of approval in March.
- Work is now expected to start in 2025, two years sooner than previously expected.
What they're saying: "It's amazing how complicated it is to remove a federal freeway," Duggan said.
- "When you have state leadership that understands the importance of investing in transportation infrastructure, and working with local leaders and local communities, that makes it that much easier for us at the federal level to be a good partner," Buttigieg said.
By the numbers: The $105 million grant comes out of the $1.5 billion Infrastructure for Rebuilding America program. Michigan asked for $180 million originally, out of a total project cost of $300 million, Crain's Detroit Business reports.
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IN Nigeria, it is safe to say that kidnapping has grown into a flourishing multi-billion naira industry. Kidnappers, often labeled ‘bandits,’ are increasing by the day and claiming wider territories. Nigeria is now among the countries with the highest rate of kidnap-for-ransom cases. Other countries high up on the list include Venezuela, Mexico, Yemen, Syria, the Philippines, Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia. These are largely failed states and it is a big shame that Nigeria finds itself in this very wrong company. According to a report conducted by SBM Intelligence titled: ‘The Economics of Nigeria’s Kidnap Industry’, which captured a period of one year – from July 2021 to June 2022 – over 500 incidents of kidnapping were recorded with no fewer than 3,420 Nigerians and some foreign citizens abducted across the country. This is even without the addition of unreported cases that are still unknown due to the poor quality of data and documentation in the country. The report added that about N653.7 million was paid by Nigerians to free victims of kidnapping and abduction from July 2021 to June 2022. In July 2022 alone, eight abducted persons exchanged N800 million for their lives while a kidnapped Pakistani national handed over the sum of N200 million to kidnappers as ransom.
It is essential to realise that paying ransom to these devilish terror groups turns their crime into a fruitful business. The possibility of kidnapping has now become a threat to us all in Nigeria because kidnappers are paid and are hardly ever arrested and made to face the wrath of the law. Continuous payment of ransom is an incentive; it boosts more kidnap incidents and encourages other criminal groups to take to the lucrative trade. Nowhere in Nigeria is safe now. Nobody can move freely or travel from one place to another without the fear of being attacked or kidnapped, and this is alarming and unsettling. These ‘businessmen’ are having the best time of their lives in Nigeria because the government has failed to stay true to their promise and constitutional responsibility of protecting lives and property. Are the kidnappers and bandits terrorising Nigeria more powerful than the Nigerian government? Why then does it seem like the present government lacks the political will to deal decisively with the perpetrators of kidnapping and banditry and put an end to the menace? The government and security agencies whom everybody looks up to to address the issue have also failed to come up with a plan to totally eradicate the kidnappers, aside from occasional strikes on kidnappers’ den which are neither far-reaching nor sustained.
There are even allegations of connivance with kidnappers by highly placed people in authority and security agencies. That is why the first place any serious government should have started from was to weed out the bad eggs in the security services. Nigerians can testify to the fact that majority of our security men and women are patriots who are toiling day and night to protect us while putting their own lives on the line. But with the insider traitors giving information to criminals and aiding them, how can the fight against insecurity succeed? As part of efforts to deal with the issue of connivance by highly placed Nigerians, Tukur Mamu, the Abuja-Kaduna train hostage negotiator, who is also the spokesperson of the Kaduna-based cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, was arrested by security operatives in Cairo, Egypt recently. The arrest was at the instance of the Department of State Services (DSS) as he is being accused of being in bed with the train abductors for financial gain. While I will allow the ongoing investigation to run its course without interference, I hope the foremost secret service agency in the country is not doing window dressing or chasing shadows or simply diverting the attention of Nigerians from the real mess. This is because the issue of official connivance in kidnapping and banditry is deeper than Mamu. The issue is as big as the menace of terrorism itself as it has developed a life of it’s own.
If not for connivance, how come our security agencies are not able to pinpoint the exact location of these criminals and use technology to launch precision attacks and save our people from their den? It is beyond belief that bandits will kidnap victims and hold them hostage for months and even have the audacity to show video clips of how the kidnapped people are being tortured. If the Nigerian government does not find this embarrassing enough, then nothing can ever be shameful! This kidnapping business has made for these perpetrators billions of naira, which leaves us with the question of what these wretched-looking monsters do with the monies? Do they use the money to buy weapons? Do they give the money to their elite backers who stay in the background and sponsor them? Where does the money go? Ordinarily, Nigeria should never have gotten to this level. Kidnapping activities persist because the benefit that the kidnappers derive from their crimes exceed the cost and the risks. So the obvious solution is to get these criminals to face the cost of their actions.
The Federal Government should urgently identify, dismiss and punish the bad eggs, that is, the highly placed officers who are conspiring with kidnappers and other criminal gangs in unleashing terror on hapless Nigerians. Bandits and their backers need to be adequately punished by the government in order to remove incentives for future attacks and to demonstrate that criminality doesn’t pay. Section 14 (2b) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as amended, says security and welfare of the people is the primary business of government. Government must therefore stop paying lip service to this issue and do the needful.
- Farida is a Mass Communication student at Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Kaduna State.
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How South Florida cities use COVID money to fund police
Several South Florida cities are among the local governments nationwide using federal COVID recovery funding to shore up their police departments and other law enforcement efforts.
Driving the news: Through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), President Joe Biden gave U.S. cities and counties $350 billion to recover from the pandemic.
- Few limitations were put on how local governments could spend ARPA funds.
The Marshall Project found that around $52.6 billion has been categorized as "revenue replacement," a vague catch-all category, while nearly half of that went to projects that mentioned police, law enforcement, courts, jails and prisons.
- Less than 10% went to "public health."
Of note: Biden has pointed to ARPA to show that Democrats don't want to "defund the police," the Marshall Project reports.
Zoom in: Florida got $8.8 billion in ARPA funding. Through a partnership with The Marshall Project, Axios found that:
- Hollywood spent $4 million to upgrade its police and fire rescue radio system, and $700,000 on premium pay for police and firefighters as "essential workers."
- Aventura received $1.3 million to pay for a new BearCat Armored Response Vehicle, police tasers, license-plate readers and radio system upgrades.
- Coral Springs received $43,000 for ballistic rifle plates — a type of body armor — for fire and EMS workers.
Yes, but: Cities also used the federal COVID funds for projects like sewer repairs and housing.
- Hollywood, which got $29 million, said it's using $500,000 for an affordable housing project and $300,000 for its small-business assistance program.
- Aventura, which got $18 million, budgeted $5.4 million to upgrade city parks with artificial turf, new lighting, and tennis and pickleball courts, according to city data. Another $1.75 million will pay for stormwater pipe replacement.
What they're saying: "Aventura is using ARPA funds to invest in the things that are most important to our residents — our parks, infrastructure, and public safety," said city spokesperson Evan Ross.
- "Public safety expenditures were highlighted as part of the funding program, so in Hollywood that was our focus," said Hollywood spokesperson Joann Hussey.
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The headline inflation rate in August 2022 rose to 20.52 per cent, data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Monday in Abuja has shown.
This new rate is 3.52 per cent rate higher than the rate recorded in August 2021 – 17.01 per cent.
According to the NBS, this shows that the headline inflation rate increased in the month of August 2022 when compared to the same month in the preceding year.
“The percentage change in the average CPI for the 12 months period ending August 2022 over the average of the CPI for the previous 12 months period was 17.07 per cent, showing a 0.47 per cent increase compared to 16.60 per cent recorded in August 2021”, the NBS stated.
The NBS said, “the likely factors responsible for the increase in the annual inflation rate (Year-on-Year basis) are: disruption in the supply of food products; increase in import cost due to the persistent currency depreciation, and a general increase in the cost of production”.
On a year-on-year basis, the NBS said the urban inflation rate in August 2022 was 20.95 per cent; this was 3.36 per cent higher compared to the 17.59 per cent recorded in August 2021.
According to the NBS report, on a month-on-month basis, the urban inflation rate was 1.79 per cent in August 2022; this shows a 0.03 per cent decline compared to July 2022, 1.82 per cent.
The corresponding 12-month average for the urban inflation rate was 17.59 per cent in August 2022. This was 0.4 per cent higher compared to 17.19 per cent reported in August 2021.
The rural inflation rate in August 2022 was 20.12 per cent on a year-on-year basis; this was 3.69 per cent higher compared to 16.43 per cent recorded in August 2021.
However, on a month-on-month basis, the rural inflation rate in August 2022 was 1.75 per cent, down by 0.06 per cent compared to July 2022 of 1.81 per cent.
The corresponding 12-month average for the rural inflation rate in August 2022 was 16.58 per cent; this was 0.55 per cent higher compared to the 16.03 per cent recorded in August 2021.
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Raleigh is one of the most popular cities for Gen Z
Raleigh was one of the big winners of the last decade thanks to the tens of thousands of millennials who moved to the Triangle for its jobs and relative affordability.
- Now, it's also attracting Generation Z, the oldest of which are just turning 26.
Driving the news: Raleigh ranks fifth among the best cities for Gen Zers, according to real estate listing service Commercial Cafe.
Why it matters: Cities that have seen tremendous growth over the last ten years have done so primarily through being a magnet for millennials — the largest generation group in the U.S., whose ages range from 26 to 41.
Yes, but: Unlike their older peers, Gen Z is entering the workforce at a moment when remote work is more available — potentially making them even pickier on where they live.
- "We're always looking at the future pipeline and asking, 'How are we preparing for tomorrow?'" Kyle Touchstone, director of Raleigh Economic Development told Axios.
Touchstone said he believes outdoor spaces and more entertainment options will remain important for Gen Zers going forward thanks to the pandemic.
- "I really think that what we've been through [the last 24 months] has created more opportunities for us to elevate outdoor recreation, parks and trails,” he said. But at the same time "these are kids who've had multiple years disrupted in school … so I think we'll see a shift to people who are interested in being together and socializing more."
Details: The Commercial Cafe analysis compared cities by affordability, Gen Z population share, unemployment rate, internet speed, recreational and dining establishments, green commuting options, number of parks and school enrollment.
- Raleigh stood out primarily due to the number of Gen Zers enrolled at universities like N.C. State and for the city's affordability relative to other cities on the list.
- It was weakest in green commuting options — a fact that hurts it with a generation that is least likely to own a drivers license.
What they're saying: Minu Lee, a Gen Z grad student at N.C. State running for Raleigh City Council, told Axios his generation cares strongly about the environment and using greener transportation. But Raleigh can be difficult to walk and bicycle and transit options can be frustrating.
- "Younger generations view dense, walkable neighborhoods as the future, and they’re right in doing so," Lee told Axios.
Here are the top 10 cities for Gen Z:
- Atlanta
- Minneapolis
- Boston
- Tucson, Ariz.
- Raleigh
- Columbus, Ohio
- Seattle
- Austin, Texas
- El Paso
- New York
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Why Virginians pay more for liquor
Since 2018, Tito’s Handmade Vodka has been the top-selling spirit in Virginia. But here in the Old Dominion, drinkers appear to pay more for a bottle than in nearly any other state in the nation, according to an informal survey of liquor prices by Axios Local correspondents.
What's happening: Virginians pay $39.99 for a 1.75 liter bottle, or a handle, of Tito’s, the sixth-highest price in the country, according to our survey.
- Our findings suggest Indiana pays the least: A handle of Tito’s can be found at Total Wine there for $19.69.
- Oregon, where the state operates liquor store monopolies just as in Virginia, pays the most at $49.95.
Why it matters: Booze is big business in Virginia. Revenue from liquor sales fills the state coffers.
What we did: We and our Axios Local colleagues checked prices in a major city in 49 states to see how much a handle costs in state-run vs. privately operated liquor markets.
Zoom in: Virginia's high prices extend beyond Tito's, per our informal survey.
- For Jack Daniel’s No. 7 — the third top seller in the Old Dominion — we pay $51.99, the third-highest price in the country, even among other states with state-run stores.
- Among state-run liquor markets, only Alabama is more expensive: $52.49.
Yes, but: While mass-produced, popular liquors tend to be priced higher here than in states with private stores, limited-edition spirits, like Pappy Van Winkle, tend to be priced far lower because Virginia ABC has to stick to one pricing formula for everything.
How it works: “The [Virginia ABC] board has responsibility for markups,” Virginia ABC CEO Travis Hill tells Axios.
- And Virginia ABC hasn’t changed the markup since 2015, which means Virginians have been paying the same price for a bottle of Jack or Tito’s for nearly a decade.
For pricing Virginia spirits, ABC starts with the case cost from the producer. From there, markups are set by:
- Size (the bigger the bottle, the less the markup, generally).
- Proof (one price for 125% or less, higher for over).
- State tax based on type (20% added for distilled spirits, 4% for low alcohol).
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Tampa city workers trash homeless resident's belongings
Joseph Gilmore was reading his Bible under a bridge Thursday morning when a bunch of city workers jumped out of a pickup truck and started tossing his stuff into a trash trailer.
- He didn't say anything as the workers loaded up bags of clothes, hygiene products and a shopping cart full of aluminum cans that his friend spent a week collecting to earn five or six bucks.
- What's the use? "Florida sucks with this kinda s--t," he told Axios.
Driving the news: I witnessed the city of Tampa take a good chunk of the meager possessions belonging to two homeless men who have been sleeping under the I-275 bridge at Sligh Avenue.
Why it matters: They had so little to begin with that such a loss can be devastating in a way few people ever experience.
- City spokesperson Adam Smith says the city regularly clears trash out of the area under the bridge, and others that draw residents' complaints. "But our employees know to treat houseless residents — and every resident — with dignity and respect."
- He said employees should always give people the option of taking what they want before trashing things.
Flashback: Gilmore, 56, used to mess with homeless guys, he tells Axios. Before the pandemic, he lived by the water in Hudson, owned a remodeling business, and drove a Dodge Ram with tools in the back.
- He'd dangle cash out the window at panhandlers. When they came closer he'd say, "Jump in the truck and let's go work."
- Few ever did. He now knows a lot of them can't.
What's happening: The pandemic killed his remodeling business. Then he did seven months in Pasco County Jail for pawning another man's kayak to feed some hungry kids, for which he's not ashamed.
- When he got out, he had next to nothing. He's been sleeping under the bridge for the last week and has lost 15 pounds.
The math: He can make about $100 a day using JobStack, an app that lines up daily construction work, he says. But those budget rooms on Nebraska Avenue — the cheapest in the area — cost $85 a night.
- The pandemic, Gilmore guesses, pushed so many people into the streets that even seedy motel rooms are high.
So he walks to job sites in the rain, eats ravioli out of cans, looks after his friend whose feet are covered with sores, and sleeps on a dirty couch cushion under a bridge — all to save money for a Greyhound ticket to London, Kentucky, where he hears there are factory jobs that start at $20 an hour and land for sale for $1,500 an acre.
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PDP names Wike as member of presidential campaign council
Tambuwal heads 326-member organisation as DG
DESPITE the yet-to-resolved disagreement between Nyesom Wike and the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, the Rivers State governor has been named into the presidential campaign council of the party.
A document dated September 16, 2022 and signed by Umar Bature, the National Organising Secretary of the party, seen by the Nigerian Tribune on Thursday night, showed that the governor, who is insisting on the ouster of the national chairman of the party, Dr Iyorchia Ayu, will join other governors of the party, including Seyi Makinde (Oyo), Sam Ortom (Benue), Okezie (Abia) and Ifeanyi Uguanyi (Enugu), in the council.
The campaign organisation is headed by Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State as chairman, while Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State and Makinde are vice chairman North and South, respectively.
The document also contains the rest of the organogram of the organisation, including the National Campaign Management Committee (NCMC) headed by Governor Aminu Tambuwal as Director-General; Liyel Imoke, Deputy Director-General (Operation); Professor Adewale Oladipo, Deputy Director-General (Administration); Chief Raymond Dokpesi, Deputy Director-General (Technical and Systems) and Okwesilieze Nwodo, Deputy Director-General (Research and Strategy).
The Directorate of Administration has under it the Directorate of Finance and Directorate of Legal Affairs.
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The Technical and Systems will oversee the Directorate of Technology, Directorate of Situation Room, Directorate of Election Management and the Directorate of Training.
The Directorate of Field Operations and Logistics also has charge of the Directorate of Strategic Communications, Directorate of Security and Directorate of Support Groups.
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TikTok star is out to set a world record for VHS tapes of "Titanic"
Jack Dawson didn't die at the end of the movie "Titanic." He swam down to Tampa Bay.
- That's what you would think, walking into the home of @titanicfan97.
What's happening: The 30-year-old Largo resident, who's known only by his username, has gathered a cult following of nearly 50,000 social media users, mostly through TikTok, as he builds the self-proclaimed world's largest collection of "Titanic" on VHS.
- He gave Axios an exclusive look at the collection that's now surpassed 500 copies.
Once he collects 500 more, @titanicfan97, who asked to remain anonymous, told Axios he'll reveal his face to his fans.
- "I think the mystery is good," he said. "I just love making content and having fun, and I love 'Titanic' on VHS."
Why it matters: The VHS format has been dead for nearly 20 years, piling up in thrift stores. But our "Titanic" fan has turned those rejected piles into a scavenger hunt for people around the world as they help build his collection.
- He's received tapes mailed from as far away as Australia, and he's drained Tampa Bay of all its copies. If you're looking for one, you'll need to drive at least an hour away.
How it happened: In 2012, he noticed 12 VHS tapes of "Titanic" at a Suncoast Hospice Resale Shop in Clearwater. They became the start of his collection.
- "I knew that was gonna be the start of something magical," he said.
This is not just a hobby. When I stopped by his home, three televisions were playing VHS copies of the movie non-stop, while a family of five Jack Dawson dummies watched over the collection.
- Most recently, he built a Jack Dawson out of the tapes to mark 500 copies and had Lowes create paint in the exact shade of blue as the VHS cover's spine for the door of his home office-turned-"Titanic" temple.
- Followers will also send him obscure gifts, like one fan who put all of his TikToks on a VHS tape.
Yes, but: He's got competition. Another TikToker who collects "Shrek" on VHS is out to foil his plan and collect all the copies of "Titanic" on VHS he can find and destroy them.
- But our "Titanic" fan isn't too worried. "I think the competition is good," he said.
The end goal: He wants to own as many as he can of the 25 million VHS copies of the movie that were sold, but he'll settle somewhere between 1,997 (the year it was released) and 1 million.
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The Alluvium University, Ekiti State centre has graduated its first set of tech engineers and programmers.
The graduates will work with the United Kingdom-based parent company, Alluvium international, in its delivery of computer programming solutions for companies and organisations across the world.
Speaking during the ceremony for the eight graduates in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, the principal founder of the university, Jaytee Ojo noted that the training was necessary in order for the graduates to tap into the over $1 billion global market for remote tech engineers and programmers.
He explained that organisations across the world, especially in Europe are lacking software engineers, which they source from other continents, adding that the graduates would be sourced and work from Nigeria and earn their financial rewards.
Ojo who is the founder of Jaytee Ojo Foundation said: “Alluvium University is committed to training graduates in becoming skilled and valued professionals and to offer opportunities for young promising Africans to pursue a career in the tech industry as engineers or consultants. “
On the choice of Ekiti for location of the university, the founder revealed that the decision was to get a balance between city life and country-side serenity.
He disclosed that the graduates who were selected among the over 200 applicants had been exposed to the required education and skills with needed material support running into millions at no cost.
The Faculty Consultant, Mobolaji Tenibiaje said the vision of the founders was necessitated by the deficit of Nigerian tech engineers and professionals on the global tech market.
While commending the founder and his partner, Wale Olojo for their commitment and dedication at providing global opportunities for young tech engineers, Tenibiaje pointed out that that young citizens of the state would now have the chance to change their unemployment story.
Some of the graduates commended the institution for providing them the opportunity to acquire the skill at no cost, expressed readiness to work in providing technology solutions to the problems confronting mankind across the world.
Some of the graduates who spoke commended the institution for providing them the chance to learn and acquire skills at no cost, expressed readiness to work in providing technology solutions to the problems confronting mankind across the world.
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THE Empire wrote back this week as the world mourned the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. Uju Anya, a Nigerian-American linguist, sparked off a global fire-storm when she tweeted, typically avoiding commas: “The chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dead. May her pain be excruciating.” Millions around the world were aghast. Her employers, Carnegie Mellon University, quickly issued a rebuttal, saying: “The views she shared absolutely do not represent the values of the institution, nor the standards of discourse we seek to foster.” But Anya stuck to her guns, saying that “Queen Elizabeth was representative of the cult of white womanhood” and that even “the crowns she wore were looted and plundered from the lands they exploited and extracted from.” She then added for good measure: “The entire treasury is a legacy of thievery that was achieved by murder, by enslavement, and it didn’t stop after independence.”
And she was not alone in deriding the British monarchy. In Oxford, a man shouted: “Who elected him?” at the new King. And in Edinburgh, there were people calling him “a sick old man” and demanding the abolition of the monarchy, perhaps because the royals cost taxpayers $100 million per year, and King Charles will inherit the Queen’s $500 million fortune without paying inheritance tax. The King used to be friends with Jeffrey Epstein, the late American business mogul who allegedly provided pubescent girls as sex toys to wealthy friends, including His Majesty, who had to make a donation to an alleged victim’s charity. In South Africa (with the non-conformist Julius Malema) and other parts of the Commonwealth, ex-victims of British brutality railed at Her Majesty’s memory. And, what is more, critics home and abroad had an ally in mediums such as Aljazeera, which reported Her Majesty’s proceedings with the same sneering, dismissive tone that CNN, BBBC, New York Times and co normally greet the passing of African leaders, except of course benevolent ones like Nelson Mandela.
Anya, panned by thousands of enraged Westerners, was irreverent but the charges thrown at Britain, which at the height of its power ruled a fifth of the world’s population and a quarter of its total land area, are legitimate. During the Second Boer War (1899-1902), British soldiers rounded up a sixth of the Boer population in camps, causing the deaths of 27,927 souls out of the estimated 107,000 people interned in the camps. On April 13, 1919, hundreds of demonstrators against British colonial rule in Amritsar, India, were cut down in the most brutal fashion, as were thousands of Kenyans who were raped and tortured during the Mau Mau Uprising (1951-1960). Between 1952 and 1960, the British hanged over 1,090 suspected Mau Mau rebels. Electric shock, cigarettes, fire, broken bottles, gun barrels, knives, snakes, vermin, and hot eggs were thrust up men and women’s privates. Ngugi Wa Thiong’O’s Weep not, child comes in handy here. In 1943, up to four million Bengalis starved to death as Winston Churchill sent food to British soldiers and countries such as Greece while a deadly famine brought Bengal to its knees. Said Sir Churchill: “I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. The famine was their own fault for breeding like rabbits.” The list of atrocities is long, and Kenyan victims of bodily torture only got a favourable judgment in a British court in 2011: the court granted them right to pursue compensation. Some Kenyan tribes even sued the Crown last month. The British were widely implicated in the genocide that attended the Nigerian Civil War.
Anya’s post, perhaps inevitably, was widely seen through the lenses of colour in the United States and elsewhere. Her post, said the critics, was clearly anti-White, and so people in the United States who would ordinarily set no store by the monarchy saw Anya’s bile as being directed at whitedom. Ethnicity is no light matter: when the Soviet Union collapsed, it was into ethnic rather than political/ideological cocoons. But the fire-breathing, extensively travelled citizen of the world who has “slept with enough women to know that a natural, normal, achievable condition for women is easily 10-15 orgasms per sexual session”, who cannot seem to get over her troubled childhood, and who has in pursuit of “freedom” had to dump Catholicism, which she charged with being anti-woman and patriarchal, for African traditional religion, couldn’t be bothered. A woman who described her father as a “philanderer, an absolute whoremonger” who abandoned her mum for a mistress when she was only 10, and had to experience marriage to the man by whom she had two children to discover that she was not bisexual but a lesbian, is not one to be bothered by such niceties as civil discourse.
Yet the question of basic civility cannot be avoided. Anya fired shots of war at a time of peace. Wishing anyone “excruciating death” is venomous, an anathema in polite company. The wish is made even more absurd when it is realised that all human beings die whether good or bad, and that the death of an oppressor is often of no moment: Adolf Hitler is dead but his murderous ideology is not. A much more profitable line of discourse is the present ways Britain carries on the project of hegemony, not what it did (not) in the past. Besides, from a cultural perspective at least, holding Anya aloft as a defender of Black rights may be rather incautious: she is like the Black Lives Matter activists who claim to be against indiscriminate killing of black people by the racist white police but then stage violent displays when the Supreme Court gives a pro-life judgment. If black lives truly matter, why not black pregnancies? Africa is not helped by Anya’s lesbianism and, in any case, of all African countries, her native Nigeria, in an opinion poll, had the highest level of opposition to LGBTQIA advocacy, and for good reason.
Anya’s posts are not just those of a social critic and irreverent writer; they give the impression of oddity even if the author is extensively credentialled as a professor (lecturer) in a US university. Take this one on Igbo men, for example: “Well, if anyone knows anything about sucking the life out of somebody, it is an Igbo man.” This generalisation is puerile at least. Exactly how do Igbo men as a group suck life out of their women? When the admittedly controversial Pastor T.B Joshua of the Synagogue Church of Nations passed on, here’s what Anya wrote: “Celebrating the well deserved death of lying thieving charlatan TB Joshua, who cheated millions out of people in their most desperate days with fake prophecies and cruel promises from which he couldn’t save his sorry self.” She then added: “I don’t owe the family or people who loved TB Joshua my respect or silence about all the harm he caused. Just because they’re mourning a monster doesn’t mean I should.” The impression is given here that T. B Joshua would have been able to save himself from death if he weren’t fake.
The African past, at least as we learn from history, was not all about glory; it had (wo)men guilty of the same charges levelled at the departed Queen. On September 15, 2009, the late Chief Gani Fawehinmi’s elder brother, Justice Rasheed Fawehinmi (rtd), told the Nigerian Tribune of Lisa Alujannu of Ondo Kingdom, who died in 1908: “During his lifetime, he was so powerful that he even usurped the power of the Osemawe. Lisa Alujannu, noted for doing extraordinary things, once buried a pregnant woman alive at the height of his power.” Literary works such as Wole Soyinka’s A Dance of the Forests show the futility of uncritical veneration of the African past. The converse, which is Achebe’s project in Things Fall Apart, is equally true: pre-colonial Africa was not one era of darkness from which colonialism rescued Africa. Like all histories, the story of Africa is a mixture of the good, the bad and the ugly, and there’s the key issue avoided by Anya but salient nonetheless: how do we want to approach the future? And that question then throws up another: Can we move forward by constantly looking back?
Beyond the question of colonialism and genocide, there are questions of underdevelopment touched on by Walter Rodney in his epochal How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. And thrown into the mix is the United States’ ongoing role in political interference around the world. What have African leaders been doing to rescue Africa from neocolonialism? Which African country can be held up as a model of democracy and good governance?
Besides, for some time now, there has been renewed interest in the African economy by the world powers, fuelling fears that the scramble for Africa, which took place between 1881 and 1914 and through which European nations divided and colonised the continent, may be here again on an economic plane. During the Prime Ministership of Theresa May, a British tabloid, The Spectator, accused the EU of protectionist policies that did so much to worsen poverty in Africa by placing tariffs on basic farm produce and keeping much African-produced food out of Europe through quotas and punitive tariffs. It said that climate change-related aid projects were often designed to keep Africans in a state of noble poverty, leading lives of environmental purity in order to allow European countries to carry on polluting for a little longer. It cited the UK aid project, Green Africa Power, which spent £9.4 million trying to bring solar and hydro power to nine million Africans, yet failed to provide a single gigawatt of electricity in five years of operation. Those are the kinds of conversation that matter today, not vitriol over the past.
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Each day thousands of Kansas City commuters drive over the Missouri River, but few have ever taken a boat ride on its waters. Local sculptor and artist Roger MacBride wants to change that.
“This my river.” MacBride says. “I share it with others but it's my river, and if you haven't been on the Missouri River I highly recommend you come out here — we'll take any and everybody out. We just want you to come fall in love with it and take an active part in its stewardship."
MacBride's passion for this river comes from a very instinctive place.
"It is where we get our coffee, it's where we wash our grandchildren — it is the water of life," he says. "We should all be a lot more mindful of it.”
MacBride owns the The Kansas City Lady with his friend Wes Grimm, a prominent tattoo artist in town. From the first warm spring days until late October, the two cruise up and down the Missouri from Riverfront Park. During the summer months last year, they took more than 600 passengers onboard: friends, artists, musicians and just about anyone hanging around onshore.
MacBride says it’s all part of his plan.
“The more people get on this river, they start being a part of it, they start taking care of it,” MacBride explains.
Catching a ride on The Kansas City Lady is a pretty informal process. If there's room for a few more people when MacBride is preparing to launch from the Riverfront Park boat ramp he’ll recruit just about anyone he sees to spend a couple hours floating on the Missouri.
Occasionally, the cruise turns into informal concerts. MacBride knows many Kansas City musicians through his outdoor concert series in the Historic Northeast neighborhood. Called the Raj Ma Hall, MacBride opened up his backyard when local musicians faced months of lost gigs during the pandemic. The socially distanced concerts proved to be a safe way for musicians to play and for their fans to enjoy music.
On a recent, blustery Saturday afternoon, Clarke Wyatt and Betse Ellis hopped aboard The Kansas City Lady for an upstream excursion that took them past the River Market and beneath bridges packed with cars.
“We need to be more mindful of the river,” Wyatt says. “It’s the lifeblood of the city and people don't engage with it. We've turned our back on it. You can barely see it from anywhere in town, even though you drive across it every day.”
Ellis says the leisurely pace of traveling by pontoon boat is soothing. She says it’s nice to take your time and enjoy things moving in slow motion.
“As a method of transportation it's so much more easygoing than being on the highway and being on the roads, especially these days.” Ellis says. “So much travel we do is based on speed, isn't it? How fast can we get there? And this is not about speed.”
As the duo Betse and Clarke, with Ellis on violin and Wyatt on banjo, the two play old-time tunes and sing traditional songs from the Ozarks. After hunkering down during the pandemic, they’ve started performing in concerts and teaching at music camps more regularly. Ellis says after a long pause, it feels good to get back in touch with live audiences.
“It’s invigorating, to say the least, to get back to making music with other people besides the other person in your household,” Ellis says.
Last month they opened with a string band for The Rainmakers. Ellis says it was thrilling to be back on her favorite outdoor stage at Knuckleheads.
“It's a little bit of a departure of styles to have an old-time string band to open up for revered rock 'n' roll band,” Ellis says. “But for a band that's not a household name like the Rainmakers, there were people coming up, dancing and really enjoying it.”
As the trip gets underway, Ellis pulls out her violin and strikes up “Boatin’ Down the River,” an old Missouri tune, she says. Meanwhile, Wyatt takes the wheel and pilots the boat. Every now and again MacBride leans over to give him some friendly advice.
“See the ripples? ” MacBride asks Wyatt. “You can read it in the water. Just little shimmer lets you know it's shallower here.”
As a former Navy hospital corpsman,safety is the most important thing for MacBride.
“It is truly it is a very safe river to be on it as long as you're not being a knucklehead,” MacBride says. “You do have to be responsible and respectful. No, you can't dominate the river. That's not going to happen.”
On their touring concert circuit Wyatt and Ellis have traveled alongside the Missouri River in many different states and regions. Many of the cities it bypasses are filled with river traffic and people out on all sorts of crafts. Wyatt says he's surprised there aren't more recreational boats around here.
Ellis says their encounters with other boaters in Kansas City are quite rare, but, when Ellis does see an occasional fisherman or kayaker, she likes to connect with them.
“One of my favorite things is seeing other people on the river and doing the big wave,” Ellis says. “You're far away, you're not going to talk, but you're acknowledging each other in this setting that is just unlike anything else you can experience.”
For MacBride, sharing time with friends on the river is the best part of his day.
“Almost every day, every other day at a minimum, we'll come out here at sunset. It's the best Zen," MacBride says. "You can go to happy hour (and) spend 50 bucks, or we can spend 25 bucks and come out on the boat. This is the best front porch, hands down.” | https://www.kcur.org/arts-life/2022-09-16/a-kansas-city-pontoon-boat-has-turned-into-the-best-front-porch-for-artists-on-the-missouri-river | 2022-09-16T11:10:24Z | kcur.org | control | https://www.kcur.org/arts-life/2022-09-16/a-kansas-city-pontoon-boat-has-turned-into-the-best-front-porch-for-artists-on-the-missouri-river | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Hospitals across Missouri are facing a “crisis” caring for patients in acute care settings who can’t find long-term care through the Department of Mental Health due to the agency’s chronic shortage of workers.
Patty Morrow, vice president of behavioral health services for Mercy Health, testified during a legislative hearing Wednesday that “the problem is pervasive and systemic” as residents languish on waitlists for services.
“We are seeing a growing crisis of vulnerable youth and adults being left really at the doorstep of our hospitals without the necessary resources…” Morrow said. “We are not doing well by citizens of our state in terms of serving their needs.”
Between 12 and 20 individuals are housed in Mercy hospital settings each day that are awaiting placement either within the Department of Social Services or the Department of Mental Health, Morrow said. One patient is currently going on 290 days in Mercy’s care, with a 10-bed unit closed in order to devote resources to him, Morrow said.
“We’re really approaching two Christmases that he will be in our facility,” Morrow said, later adding: “At the end of the day there’s not a lot of light at the end of the tunnel, we are expecting that he will be with us for a much more protracted period of time.”
To date, Mercy Health has been paid $21,000 for his care, Morrow said. Overall, the system estimates his care has cost more than $1 million when also assessing lost revenue, like the 10-beds being offline.
Mercy Health was not alone at Wednesday’s hearing, with representatives for SSM Health, BJC HealthCare and Research Psychiatric Center sharing similar experiences of housing patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities long-term.
Justin Alferman, a former lawmaker and director of advocacy for SSM health, said patients’ mental health often declines as they live in a hospital for months on end. Across SSM’s eight hospitals, 25 patients are awaiting placement that have been holding for more than 1,800 days altogether. Last year alone, 106 adults awaited placement for a total of 7,242 days.
“Simply put,” Alferman said, “there is just not enough workforce.”
Dirk Deaton, R-Noel and chair of the House Subcommittee on Appropriations – Health, Mental Health, and Social Services, said delays in placements are extending to hospitals, which in these instances aren’t the appropriate place for long-term care.
“I wonder, 150 years from now, what people will think about us with this sort of a problem,” Deaton said, later adding: “We can and should do better.”
Over the last year, the Department of Mental Health has continued to grapple with steep vacancies among staff, causing access to care across its state-run mental health facilities to decline as wings are shut down due to a lack of sufficient employees to staff available beds.
There are currently 210 individuals waiting in jail for admission to a Department of Mental Health psychiatric hospital. An additional 266 people have yet to meet with a forensic examiner to determine if they are competent to stand trial, and it’s estimated about 50% of those individuals will be found incompetent to stand trial and be referred to DMH, Valerie Huhn, the department’s director, told lawmakers Wednesday.
Within the department’s Division of Developmental Disabilities, Huhn said 652 people are currently on an open referral list for placement with a residential provider.
A graph shared with lawmakers shows that figure is projected to potentially increase to over 1,400 individuals in fiscal year 2023. There are 20 people who are currently in a hospital due to a lack of a residential provider, with the average hospital stay while waiting for a provider at 116 days. Currently, 127 people have been waiting for a residential provider for over a year.
“Our challenge is actually getting individuals into placement,” Huhn said.
Across the Department of Mental Health’s divisions of behavioral health and developmental disabilities, 1,743 full-time positions are vacant. While there has been improvement in turnover, like for support care assistants, vacancy rates for clinical staff range from 26% to 50%.
“It’s very difficult once we get somebody in to get them restored to competency if we don’t have that treatment aspect,” Huhn said.
Contracted staff are currently being used to maintain operations, with 213 being used across habilitation centers and psychiatric hospitals. The bulk of those, Huhn said, are at Fulton State Hospital.
Huhn said the goal is to move away from contracted staff, who are paid more than their state counterparts.
Rates for certified nursing assistants paid to the staffing company were $78 an hour for certified nursing assistants and $195 an hour for behavioral health registered nurses. That’s compared to non-contracted support care staff who start at $15.31 an hour, Huhn said.
“It costs us four times as much for contracted people, and if we paid more we might not need the contracted people,” said Rep. Peter Merideth, D-St. Louis.
In order to deal with staffing shortages, Missouri entered into a no-bid, emergency contract with a Texas-based construction company called SLSCO last year.
The Independent previously reported the contract was marked by no-shows and high costs.
DMH is continuing to pay for temporary staff through the contract, said Debra Walker, a spokeswoman for the department.
In fiscal years 2022 and 2023, SLSCO has been paid over $73 million, according to the state’s accountability portal.
In a competitive labor market, the department has struggled to remain competitive, despite salary increases lawmakers approved earlier this year, Huhn said. Increasing pay for tenured employees and workers taking evening shifts are strategies Huhn said could help address the problem.
“We’re not going to be asking for additional beds next year. I won’t get them staffed,” Huhn said, later adding: “There’s no history on a labor market like this.”
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A federal grand jury indicted former Kansas City, Kansas, police detective Roger Golubski on Thursday on charges of sexual assault, kidnapping and attempted kidnapping. Golubski worked for the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department for 35 years, retiring as a captain in 2010.
For years, he has been the subject of allegations that he terrorized Black residents of the city, sexually assaulted women and exchanged drugs for information in order to clear cases. KCUR's Peggy Lowe shares the details of Golubski's arrest and what's in his six-count indictment.
Contact the show at news@kcur.org. Follow KCUR on Twitter and Facebook for the latest news.
Kansas City Today is hosted by Nomin Ujiyediin. It is produced by Byron Love, Trevor Grandin, and KCUR Studios and edited by Gabe Rosenberg and Lisa Rodriguez.
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U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Matthew Chance, 90th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron F-22 avionics specialist, waits to attach the tail hook pin to safe an F-22 Raptor after its flight at Łask Air Base, Poland, Sept. 5, 2022. The 90th EFS forward deployed to support NATO’s Air Shielding mission. The 90th’s presence in the region strengthens U.S. and NATO’s unity each day as forces come together to train and deter in an ever-evolving threat environment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Danielle Sukhlall)
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U.S. Air Force Technical Sergeant Zachary Walters, 90th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron crew chief, conducts post flight inspections at Łask Air Base, Poland, Sept. 5, 2022. The 90th EFS forward deployed to support NATO’s Air Shielding mission. The 90th’s presence in the region strengthens U.S. and NATO’s unity each day as forces come together to train and deter in an ever-evolving threat environment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Danielle Sukhlall)
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U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Caroline Truemper, left, crew chief, Airman 1st Class Isaac Defillipo, middle, crew chief and Senior Airman Morgan Sanders, F-22 Avionics specialist, all assigned to the 90th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron conduct post flight aircraft recovery at Łask Air Base, Poland, Sept. 5, 2022. The 90th EFS forward deployed to support NATO’s Air Shielding mission. The 90th’s presence in the region strengthens U.S. and NATO’s unity each day as forces come together to train and deter in an ever-evolving threat environment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Danielle Sukhlall)
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People on disability benefits could see a £150 Cost of Living Payment in the coming weeks, but some may have to wait until October. The Department for Work and Pensions confirmed that those eligible for the payment will start getting their handout from September 20.
The £150 is a one-off payment and is designed to help six million people on certain disability benefits tackle the cost of living crisis. It was announced by the then chancellor Rishi Sunak earlier this year as part of a roster of handouts for struggling low-income families.
The £150 is in addition to the £400 energy rebate payable in six instalments from next month, which nearly every household will receive. If you’re on certain means-tested benefits as well as disability benefits, you may also get a further £325 payment later this year, in addition to the first £325 paid in the summer, Chronicle Live reports.
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You may get the lump sum payment if you get one of the following benefits:
- Attendance Allowance
- Constant Attendance Allowance
- Disability Living Allowance for adults
- Disability Living Allowance for children
- Personal Independence Payment
- Adult Disability Payment
- Child Disability Payment
- Armed Forces Independence Payment
- War Pension Mobility Supplement
But to be eligible for the one-off payment, you must have received a payment (or later receive a payment) of one of these qualifying benefits for May 25, 2022. The DWP has advised that those awaiting confirmation of their disability benefits on May 25 - or those waiting to be assessed for eligibility - may find the payment process takes a little longer, although they will still get it if they are eligible.
The payment is paid per claim, meaning that if two people in a home are applying for the benefit payment, they will each receive separate payments of £150. Chloe Smith, Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work, said: "This £150 disability payment is on top of the £1,200 most low-income benefit claimants will also receive and alongside wider support targeted at disabled people, including help with transport and prescription costs."
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Universal Credit Credit claimants could save up to £144 a month on internet bills with this one simple hack. People on benefits could be entitled to a discount on their broadband without even realising.
Many internet suppliers provide customers with broadband contracts if you claim things such as Universal Credit. There are six broadband providers offering discounts ranging from £10 to £20 a month for broadband with speeds of 10Mbit/s to 67Mbit/s including BT and Virgin Media.
Ofcom is calling on other broadband firms to arrange their own social tariffs to support Britons on low incomes who are struggling with the cost of living crisis, Birmingham Live reports.
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The group said on its website: “We also want to see all companies promote these deals more widely, and make sure it’s swift and simple for customers to sign up.”
An Ofcom report found 1.1 million households are struggling to afford their home broadband, which rises to one in 10 among those on the lowest incomes. The group said: “Affordability problems are likely to worsen in 2022 due to retail price increases and the wider squeeze on household finances, putting further pressure on those who can least afford it.
“But switching onto a social tariff could provide some financial relief for eligible households.” A standard commercial package costs an unemployed person on Universal Credit around £27 a month, taking up 8.3 per cent of their disposable income.
If they had a £15 social tariff, this would almost halve their broadband costs, using up 4.6 per cent of their income. Yet take-up of the special deals is extremely low, with 84 per cent of those surveyed by Ofcom unaware of the social tariffs.
The new chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng will also announce a new budget on September 23. There could be a roster of new help and handouts for people struggling to live at the moment.
Mr Kwarteng is also set to give more details about tax cuts, including reversing April's increase in national insurance. Mr Kwarteng came under fire for considering scrapping the cap on bankers’ bonuses, as millions struggle during the cost-of-living crisis.
Sources close to Mr Kwarteng said no final decisions had been made, but suggested such a move as part of a wider post-Brexit overhaul of City regulations would make London a more attractive place for global banks. The 'fiscal event' comes as Downing Street is actively looking to curb the time Members will spend away from the Commons over the coming weeks.
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Arkansas football vs Missouri State, Bobby Petrino: Scouting report, score prediction
FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas football's matchup with Missouri State has plenty of off-field intrigue with the return of former coach Bobby Petrino. But as far as on-field performance goes, the Bears represent one of the tougher teams in FCS.
The No. 11 Razorbacks (2-0) take on Missouri State (2-0), ranked No. 5 in FCS, on Saturday at Razorback Stadium (6 p.m. CT, SECN+). The Bears have made the playoffs each of the last two seasons under Petrino. Last season, Missouri State threatened eventual Big 12 runner-up Oklahoma State in the season opener but lost after a botched final drive.
Here's what to know about Missouri State — and our final score prediction — before Saturday's game.
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Star quarterback Jason Shelley
Missouri State quarterback Jason Shelley is back for a second season with the Bears. The senior spent time at both Utah and Utah State before landing in Springfield, and he has quickly become one of the best passers the Bears have ever had. He set a school record with 3,347 passing yards in 2021 and was a finalist for the Walter Payton Award, which honors the best offensive player in FCS football.
With safety Jalen Catalon out for the season and nickelback Myles Slusher questionable, Arkansas' secondary is having to shuffle players around in the defensive backfield. Shelley and the Missouri State passing game will be a good test for players taking on varying roles.
Offensive line struggles
The Missouri State offensive line is one of its biggest weaknesses. Last season, Missouri State allowed 47 sacks. Through two games in 2022, the Bears have given up nine.
Missouri State has offensive talent in Shelley, running back Jacardia Wright and receiver Ty Scott. But if the offensive line can't open things up for them, the Bears can only go so far. Arkansas' defensive front is bigger, stronger and faster than any Missouri State will face in FCS. The Razorbacks have rotated a number of talented linemen in on defense, and they present a key mismatch for the Bears.
Transfers galore
Part of Missouri State's success under Petrino has come thanks to his work in the transfer portal. More than two dozen of his players have FBS playing experience, and his 2022 roster includes 10 first-year players from FBS programs.
One of those is Wright, a running back from Kansas State. The sophomore put up 120 rushing yards on 23 carries last week against UT Martin, plus 42 receiving yards and a touchdown.
Arkansas fans might recognize receiver Jordan Jones, who spent three seasons with the Razorbacks and started six games. He transferred to Cincinnati after the 2019 season, where he played 15 games in two seasons. Jones is one of three Arkansas natives on the Bears' roster.
Score prediction
Arkansas 45, Missouri State 20: Although Missouri State is a strong contender in FCS, Arkansas shouldn't have too much trouble against the Bears. The Razorbacks' defense will overpower a struggling Missouri State offensive line, and quarterback KJ Jefferson will lead the offense against an undersized opponent.
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How to watch Arkansas football vs. Missouri State on live stream plus game time
The Arkansas Razorbacks football team is scheduled to host the Missouri State Bears on Saturday, Sept. 17.
The game is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. CT at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium.
Arkansas, ranked No. 11 in the USA Today Sports AFCA Coaches Poll, is 2-0 on the season. The Razorbacks beat South Carolina 44-30 last Saturday.
Missouri State is 2-0 on the season after beating UT Martin 35-30 last Thursday.
Here's how you can watch Saturday's game.
How to watch Arkansas football vs. Missouri State on live stream
Start time: 6 p.m. CT on Saturday, Sept. 17
Location: Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville, Arkansas
Online live stream: ESPN+ / SEC Network+
ESPN+ and SEC Network+ are online streaming platforms that require a subscription.
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She-Hulk: Attorney at Law Episode 5 – What Did You Think?!
Warning: There are spoilers ahead for She-Hulk: Attorney at Law episode 5! She-Hulk Episode 3.
If the teaser from the end of this week’s episode is any indication, everyone’s favorite Marvel lawyer will soon appear. The fifth episode of She-Hulk has premiered, and we want to know what the Superhero Hype community thinks about it! This post is a place for all of you to leave your own reviews, thoughts, or anything else you want to say about She-Hulk: Attorney at Law episode 5.
As revealed in the closing moments of last week’s episode, Titania is out of jail and she’s co-opted Jen’s She-Hulk name for herself. Titania not only trademarked the name, she’s using it for her beauty products and suing Jen for infringement. At first, Jen just lets it go despite her clear discomfort with Titania’s actions. However, she is finally forced to take action at the insistence of her boss, Holden Holliway. And despite Jen’s desire to represent herself and countersue Titania, Holliway convinces her to use Mallory Book, one of the firm’s top lawyers.
Meanwhile, Augustus “Pug” Pugliese approaches Jen’s friend and paralegal, Nikki Ramos, with a request for a favor. In exchange for helping him secure some collectible sneakers, Pug agrees to help Nikki find someone who can create clothing for Jen’s green alter ego. After buying knockoff Avengers shirts and merchandise to get a lead, Pug and Nikki actually manage to find the eccentric designer, Luke Jacobson. He’s the man who creates superhero outfits for a wide array of clients. Regardless, Luke isn’t initially impressed by Jen when she gets her consultation. But he eventually relents and agrees to make clothes for her.
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In court, Mallory proves to be a very effective litigator, but Jen’s previous attempts to distance herself from the She-Hulk moniker hurt her case. So much so that the judge leans towards summary judgment against Jen since she didn’t establish a pattern of using the name for herself. After a chance meeting with one of her recent dates, Todd, Jen realizes that she can win the case. She just has to parade everyone she went out with as She-Hulk and totally humiliate herself.
For the most part, that’s exactly what happens. Although She-Hulk’s one-time dates testify on her behalf, most of them are not complimentary towards her. Even Arthur, the guy she slept with, admits that he wouldn’t date Jen. He only wanted She-Hulk. However, this display is enough to convince the judge that Jen is the rightful owner of the name and rules against Titania. Predictably, Titania promises Jen that it isn’t over between them. In the aftermath, Jen thinks she’s found a new friend in Mallory. That’s why it stings so much when Mallory makes it clear that they are not friends.
The one thing that makes Jen feel better is that she’s excited to see what Luke made for her. Off-screen, Jen tries on the new outfits including one that can keep up with her change from Jen to She-Hulk. Away from Jen’s sight, Luke berates one of his employees for a potential breach of confidentiality…before covering up Daredevil’s yellow mask. So that’s why Matt Murdock’s coming to Los Angeles…
We still want to know what you think. So make sure to leave your reviews for She-Hulk: Attorney at Law episode 5 in the comment section below!
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A Tennessee state veterinarian has ordered a state-wide ban on poultry sales, shows exhibits and of poultry after a strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) sickened a poultry flock in West Tennessee.
The affected backyard flock in Obion County consists of chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, pheasants, and pigeons.
Veterinarian Dr. Samantha Beaty said “We appreciate the flock owner for contacting us immediately when unexpected deaths occurred. We have protocols in place for instances like this and we are working closely with our state and federal partners to get this situation under control.”
Any events where poultry can co-mingle are prohibited. That includes poultry shows, exhibitions, livestock sales, flea markets, and swap meets.
“Issuing an order like this is never an easy decision, especially during fair season,” Agriculture Commissioner Charlie Hatcher, D.V.M. said. “From backyard flock owners to the large commercial companies—the poultry industry touches a lot of lives in Tennessee. This is an effort to protect all domesticated poultry in our state.”
The affected farm is under quarantine and the flock is being depopulated to stop potential spread of the illness, according to the state.
Animal health officials have established a 12.4 mile surveillance zone surrounding the site.
Within that zone, other flocks will be tested and monitored for illness and poultry movement is restricted, which also includes a portion of Kentucky. The Tennessee Department of Agriculture is partnering with the Kentucky Department of Agriculture to coordinate response.
HPAI does not pose a food safety risk, but no infected poultry will be allowed to enter the food supply. Poultry and eggs are safe to eat when handled and cooked properly. The risk of human infection with avian influenza during poultry outbreaks is very low. In fact, no transmission to humans was reported during the outbreak that affected commercial poultry farms in Tennessee in 2017.
Owners of backyard and commercial poultry flocks are encouraged to:
• Closely observe domesticated birds and report a sudden increase in the number of sick birds or bird deaths to the Tennessee State Veterinarian’s office at 615- 837-5120. Or, in Tennessee or Kentucky, you can report to USDA at 1-866-536-7593.
• Prevent contact with wild birds.
• Practice good biosecurity with your poultry. More information can be found online at http://healthybirds.aphis.usda.gov/.
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Scientists and activists are pushing for the monkeypox virus to be renamed amid worries that stigma could steer people away from getting tested and vaccinated. Many health experts are also trying to clear up confusion and explain that monkeypox probably didn't start in monkeys and its origin remains unknown.
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1. Mar-a-Lago
A "special master" -- or third party attorney -- was appointed by a federal judge in Florida Thursday to review documents from the FBI's search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence. The special master will be Senior Judge Raymond Dearie, who was put forward as a possible candidate for the role by Trump, who had sued in court to obtain the review. The Justice Department also endorsed Dearie's appointment. US District Judge Aileen Cannon also rejected the DOJ's bid to resume its criminal investigation into classified documents seized at Mar-a-Lago last month. The denial sets the stage for the department's dispute with Trump over the search to move quickly to an appeals court and potentially the Supreme Court.
2. Alaska storm
Alaska is bracing for what has been described by forecasters as the strongest storm to impact the state in more than a decade. The system -- the remnants of Typhoon Merbok -- is expected to bring hurricane-force winds, torrential rain and enormous waves to Alaska's west coast today and this weekend. The National Weather Service in Fairbanks urged coastal residents to complete preparations for the storm by this morning, as conditions will begin to rapidly deteriorate later today. Forecasts show the impacts of the storm will likely rival what was seen in 2011 from what's referred to as the Bering Sea Superstorm, a meteorologist in the region told CNN. That storm, with wind gusts over 90 mph, left behind a wide swath of destruction.
3. Ukraine
Ukrainian authorities have found 440 graves at a mass burial site in Izium, an eastern city recently recaptured from Russian forces, Ukraine's Defense Ministry said in a Twitter post today. "We want the world to know what is really happening and what the Russian occupation has led to," Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said, adding that Ukrainian and international journalists will be shown the site to see what had been uncovered. Izium was subject to intense Russian artillery attacks in April and was taken back by Ukrainian forces on Saturday, delivering a strategic blow to Russia's military assault in the east. Separately, the White House announced a $600 million security package for Ukraine on Thursday, providing its military with another round of assistance during its ongoing counteroffensive against Russia.
4. Same-sex marriage
The Senate will not vote on same-sex marriage legislation until after the November midterm elections -- a move that could make it more likely the bill will ultimately pass the chamber. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, a leading Democratic negotiator on the bill that would codify same-sex marriage nationwide, said Thursday that more time is needed to negotiate the issue with Republicans. "We're very confident that the bill will pass, but we will need a little more time," Baldwin told CNN. Democrats have pushed for the vote after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, sparking fears that the court could take aim at same-sex marriage in the future.
5. Mars
NASA's Perseverance rover has collected some of the most important samples yet on its mission to determine if life ever existed on Mars, scientists said. A few of the recently collected samples include organic matter, indicating a crater likely once held a lake that was potentially habitable 3.5 billion years ago. The rover's mission, which began on the red planet 18 months ago, includes looking for signs of ancient microbial life and collecting rock samples that could have preserved telltale signs of a formerly water-filled environments. The rover contains 12 rock samples and will eventually take more collections back to Earth in the 2030s. NASA's Perseverance and Curiosity rovers have found organic matter before on Mars. But this time, the detection occurred in an area where life may have once existed.
HAPPENING LATER
President Biden to personally meet with Griner and Whelan families
President Biden will meet with the families of Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan at the White House today, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN. This is the first time he will meet with them in person. Griner was detained in Russia in February for carrying vape cartridges containing cannabis oil in her luggage. The two-time US Olympic basketball gold medalist pleaded guilty to drug charges and said she accidentally packed the cartridges while in a hurry. She was convicted in August and sentenced to nine years in jail. Whelan has been imprisoned in Russia for more than three years after being convicted on espionage charges that he vehemently denies.
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Social media erupts after 'Jeopardy!' contestant allowed to change answer
Fans of "Jeopardy!" are in a frenzy after the show's host Ken Jennings allowed a contestant to change his answer... but later denied a second contestant from doing the same. Watch the video here.
Michael Jordan's 'Last Dance' jersey fetches a record $10.1 million
The record sale price now makes it the most expensive basketball jersey ever to sell at auction.
Husky enjoys playing on the roof of a two-story house
Most dogs like to relax on couches... this one prefers to hang out on the roof. Listen to the owner's reaction to this paws-itively outrageous behavior.
Nick Cannon welcomes his ninth child
"The Masked Singer" host also has two more on the way.
France unveils high-speed trains of the future
This swanky new train, operating at a maximum speed of nearly 220 mph, will premiere on the Paris rail network next year.
QUIZ TIME
Rising inflation has driven food prices in the US far higher than they were a year ago. Which of the following grocery items has seen the biggest increase?
A. Milk
B. Eggs
C. Cheese
D. Tomatoes
Take CNN's weekly news quiz to see if you're correct!
TODAY'S NUMBER
40
That's the number of days that residents in Jackson, Mississippi, were under a boil water notice due to poor water quality. The advisory was lifted on Thursday after heavy rains last month and issues at a failing water plant ultimately led to residents being unable to use or drink water for weeks. While samples now show clean water has been restored, officials say it is possible that there will be further interruptions to the city's water system. Jackson's issues with water go back years, with boil water advisories becoming almost a fact of life in the city.
TODAY'S QUOTE
"I've come to the conclusion, and I want to be definitive on this: The election was not stolen."
-- New Hampshire GOP Senate candidate Don Bolduc, stating Thursday on Fox News that he believes President Biden is the legitimate president of the US. His remarks, however, come shortly after Bolduc won the Republican nomination this week -- and after months of campaigning on false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump. Bolduc is now gearing up to take on Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan in November. Her seat represents a top pickup opportunity for Republicans, who are trying to erase Democrats' slim Senate majority this fall.
TODAY'S WEATHER
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AND FINALLY
Delicate patterns carefully carved into fruits and vegetables
This artist pulls inspiration from traditional Japanese patterns to create masterpieces out of fruits and vegetables. (Click here to view)
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In the hours after roughly 50 migrants touched down on Martha's Vineyard in two planes sent by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the island's community -- still jarred by the unexpected arrival -- rushed to help the newcomers.
"We received food, we received clothes, we received ... different things, so much so that we've had to relocated that donation drop-off spot to the fire department," Edgartown, Massachusetts, town administrator James Hagerty told CNN Wednesday.
Town officials even had to post on social media that they didn't need more donations, Hagerty added, as items continued to pour in.
"I think that's a testament to the community of the island and it's a testament to the citizens of Edgartown, it's a testament to everything that's going on now," he said.
"We've been through Covid, we've been through hurricanes, we've been through this, we've been through a lot of things imaginable for a small community and every one of those we've risen up as the Vineyard, cause we're resilient," Hagerty said. "We take care of our own, we take care of the community, we help people out."
The town is no stranger to large population influxes. Located off the coast of Massachusetts, the island of Martha's Vineyard -- home to Edgartown and several other municipalities -- is known as a posh summer destination for wealthy vacationers.
While the town's winter population is a couple hundred people, it jumps up to several thousand during the hotter months when they welcome summer tourists, Hagerty said.
An estimated year-round island population of around 20,000 can balloon to more than 100,000 during peak tourism season.
But the challenge with this week's arrival of migrants was that they were unexpected, the town administrator said, and that it all happened so "last minute."
In addition to the donations, the towns on the island as well as community-based and nonprofit groups are helping in the effort to care for the migrants and offer them shelter, food and care, according to a Facebook post from the Dukes County government.
"We are grateful to the many local and neighboring community members who have reached out with offers of support," county officials wrote in the post.
Now, Hagerty said, the biggest help that town officials need is financial: the migrants have a variety of needs, including relocating to a different city in the US and getting the transportation to make it there.
"We're trying to handle it as best as we can," Hagerty said. "The needs are diverse and financial support would best facilitate a lot of those diversities."
The arrival is the latest move in a series of actions by Republican governors to transport migrants to northern liberal cities and states in order to protest the Biden administration's policies at the southern border.
Also this week, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he sent two buses of migrants to Vice President Kamala Harris' residence in the nation's capital, and the Thursday arrival surprised unsuspecting volunteers. Democratic leaders denounced the moves and the White House press secretary called the actions "cruel, premeditated political" stunts.
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Senior US officials tell CNN they are disappointed US-led sanctions haven't had a bigger impact so far on the Russian economy and are now predicting that the harshest effects probably won't materialize until early next year at the earliest.
The hope had been that the sanctions would quickly choke off Russia's war machine in Ukraine, making it difficult for the Kremlin to sustain its efforts on the battlefield — and perhaps even turn public opinion against the invasion when day-to-day life in Russian society became uncomfortable.
But the Russian economy has proven far more resilient than many top Biden administration officials had expected when they set out to punish the country in February, thanks largely to record-setting revenues it has reaped in the spring and summer from soaring energy prices. In the first 100 days of the war, Russia earned a record 93 billion euros in revenue by exporting oil, gas and coal, according to the Finnish Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air.
Russia's economy still shrunk by about 4% between April and June as compared to the same period last year. But that's nowhere near the 15% decline that some had expected earlier in the year.
"We were expecting that things like SWIFT and all the blocking sanctions on Russia's banks would totally crater the Russian economy and that basically, by now going into September, we'd be dealing with an economically much more weakened Russia than the one that we are dealing with," said one senior US official, referring to the US and European decision to cut some Russian banks off from the SWIFT international banking system.
Another senior US official echoed that, telling CNN that many in the administration had hoped to see the Russian economy suffering more by now, given the unprecedented severity of the coordinated western sanctions.
A separate senior administration official cautioned CNN, however, that the officials crafting the sanctions in the months leading up to the war always believed that the steepest impacts would not necessarily be immediate.
"I think we've had, from the beginning, a view that when Russia invaded Ukraine and we imposed the sanctions, they were going to be, in all likelihood, a mid-to-long term sanctions regime," the official said. "That is because we wanted to keep pressure on Russia over the long term as it waged war on Ukraine, and we wanted to degrade Russia's economic and industrial capabilities. So we've always seen this as a long term game."
The official acknowledged that while there were some "up-front shocks" to the Russian economy, like when the ruble plunged, Russia was able to rally quickly thanks to its energy revenues. Still, this official and western intelligence officials told CNN that they assess that in the long-term, Russia's economy will suffer enormously — both from the cost of the war itself and from western efforts to cut it off from global trade.
"There's going to be long-term damage done to the Russian economy and to generations of Russians as a result of this," CIA Director Bill Burns told a cybersecurity conference last week. "Russia is going to pay a very heavy price, I think, over a long period of time."
Slow to target Russian energy
The disconnect between early expectations and reality appears to stem from the fact that many US and western officials underestimated the sky-high revenues Russia would initially reap from rising oil prices, and the willingness of countries like China and India to continue buying Russian oil.
And despite being one of the largest oil producers in the world, Saudi Arabia has also begun buying Russian crude — albeit at a discount — for use in its power plants, freeing up its own oil to sell to other countries, an administration official confirmed to CNN.
"The United States underestimated it, and we were slow in actually starting to think about deploying sanctions against Russia energy interests," said Jason Blazakis, a sanctions expert who served as the State Department's Director of the Counterterrorism Finance and Designations Office from 2008-2018.
"I think they made that calculation that these sanctions would have heat and hurt the Russian economy very quickly, in ways they clearly misunderstood and overestimated," Blazakis said. "The sanctions certainly have made the Russian economy smaller, but not to the extent people had hoped. And certainly not to the point where the Russians were brought to the bargaining table."
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February, Europe's continued dependence on Russian oil and gas imports meant the west was unwilling to immediately sanction Russian energy interests. The US sanctioned executives from major Russian banks, like Gazprombank, but waived sanctions on the bank itself and allowed energy payments to the Russians to continue.
"We had been warning Europe for years before the invasion about the need to get away from Russian energy, and they just weren't willing to do it until it was too late," said one of the senior US officials.
Russia has now weaponized its gas supplies, shutting off flows through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline — and Europe is bracing for a potential recession as a result of the energy crisis.
As one response to the energy revenues problem, the European Union agreed over the summer to ban all imports of Russian crude coming in by sea. US officials — concerned that such a ban could cause oil prices to skyrocket even more and bolster Russian revenue for the supplies it does continue to sell — have lobbied for the imposition of a cap on the price of Russian oil.
The EU agreed to a cap in principle earlier this month, but it is still unclear how the measure will be enforced.
Signs of strain
Despite those concerns, US and European officials seem to broadly agree that the boon to the Russian economy stemming from high oil prices is not sustainable in the medium-to-long term, and that the Russian economy could start feeling the worst effects of the sanctions in the first half of 2023.
Some believe the downturn could come sooner, by the end of this year. Export controls have also largely choked off Russia's ability to manufacture new technology and weapons, and Russia has recently turned to Iran and North Korea for equipment like drones and ammunition.
"We expected the decline might be a little harsher, but they're masking it," said a source familiar with western intelligence, explaining that western officials believe the Russians are manipulating statistics and being "held up for now" by high energy prices.
"They can hold on and maintain current government spending levels for probably the next two years," the source added. "They'll be running a deficit. But it's really going to hit society towards the end of the year when it's not possible to pay people working for companies that have shut down and don't have stockpiled reserves."
Another European official echoed that sentiment, telling CNN that intelligence suggests that Russian officials are concerned about how they will sustain the labor market as companies begin going bankrupt.
"This is we always thought that there would be an upfront shock to the Russian economy, Russia would then work to mitigate that, but then there would then be these ongoing drags on the economy and on industrial production, which we are now very much seeing," the senior administration official told CNN.
"I think with the price cap, we have a very effective path forward to address, you know, the one area where they were kind of able to get some excess benefit because of the higher oil prices," the official added.
Limited options
Putin spent years amassing hundreds of billions in foreign currency reserves, and Russia's Central Bank has benefited from a talented central banker who has managed to implement workarounds to keep the ruble afloat, officials say.
But all that is doing is creating the appearance of stability, officials said, as western sanctions degrade key sectors of Russia's economy — particularly the technological sector — and GDP continues to shrink. Much of the money Russia holds in foreign banks, moreover, has been frozen since Russia's invasion.
"There is an argument out there that says sanctions failed because they are making cash from oil," said one senior administration official. "But they're making a lot less than they would have a year ago, and Russian oil now makes up nearly the entirety of the Russian economy because of the sanctions imposed already on the other sectors, which are working."
The European official agreed. "The main thing that has kept Putin's regime floating is the high oil price," the official said. "Everything else is freezing or frozen already."
As time goes on, Russian oil production will also decline, the US official predicted, largely because of increased foreign divestiture. Foreign companies have for decades helped maintain Russian oil fields and keep the energy sector efficient — something that Russian companies will struggle to replicate, the US believes.
Russia may turn to China for additional economic assistance in counteracting sanctions. Putin met with his counterpart, President Xi Jinping, at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Uzbekistan this week.
But although China has made legal purchases and offered rhetorical support for Russia, it has so far done nothing to run afoul of western sanctions. And there is no evidence that it is covertly providing any kind of direct assistance to Russia's war efforts.
There are also practical limits to the short-term assistance China can provide. The natural gas pipelines to Asia "can't carry nearly the volume" needed to make up for cutting off sales to Europe for another five years, according to the source familiar with western intelligence.
Export controls choking Russian weapons manufacturing
US and western officials have also sought to use targeted sanctions and export controls as a way to cut Russia off from the technological components it needs to build weapons — items like semiconductors, microchips, aircraft parts and lithium-type batteries.
It is "definitely" working, said the source familiar with western intelligence. US and western officials told CNN that Russia in recent months has been forced to rely on much older weapons and equipment stocks as it has continued to suffer losses on the battlefield that it appears unable to replace.
In one striking example, Russia has been observed using T-64 tanks, a Soviet-era battle tank first introduced in the 1960s.
According to an August report from British defense think tank RUSI, more than 450 foreign-made components had been found in Russian weapons systems recovered in Ukraine, emphasizing the depth of the Russian military's dependence on western technology — and hinting at a potential weakness.
"Since the controls were put in place, global exports of semiconductors to Russia from all sources have declined by almost 90 percent, leaving Russian companies without the chips they need for a wide variety of goods, including weapons like precision guided missiles and tanks," US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said on June 29.
Raimondo has also said that US-led sanctions have forced Russia to use chips from dishwashers and other domestic appliances in some of their military equipment.
The export controls have not stopped Russia from purchasing weapons and equipment from pariah countries like Iran and North Korea, however. As CNN has previously reported, Russia purchased weapons-capable drones from Iran over the summer, and is also in the process of purchasing millions of rockets and artillery shells from North Korea for use on the battlefield in Ukraine.
Label of last resort
There is also one potentially powerful tool to further degrade Russia's economy that the US has decided to leave on the table: designating Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism. Biden said "no" earlier this month when asked whether his administration would do so.
"To me, that's the thing we are missing," Blazakis said. He noted that the label would broaden the aperture of countries subject to secondary sanctions for doing business with Russia, and lead to more companies de-risking, or terminating, their operations inside Russia.
"Ukraine is one thing," Blazakis said, "but doing business and having your actual brick and mortar operation in a country that is a state sponsor of terror — that invites reputational risks that go beyond I think what we're seeing right now."
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Woman opens fire on Chicago police on Northwest Side
CHICAGO - A woman fired multiple shots at Chicago police who were on a call on the Northwest Side Friday morning.
No one was hit or injured, and the officers did not return fire, police say.
The incident happened in the 4200 block of West North Avenue while officers were on a call for shots fired around 2 a.m.
Police say a woman in the passenger seat of a white Jeep began shooting at police. The vehicle then drove southbound on Cicero Avenue and officers followed.
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The woman fired more shots while units pursued.
The Jeep turned onto the Eisenhower Expressway headed eastbound and the chase stopped.
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It's only September.
But for people burned by empty shelves last year, Christmas shopping is already underway.
Remember when holiday shopping season started in October or November?
Not anymore: Stores are now rolling out their Christmas items in September, and shoppers are already buying.
Jackie Miles is among them. She isn't waiting this year to buy gifts for her big family.
"I had trouble getting toys, clothes, everything. It was very stressful, last year," she said, looking at girl's dolls. "I was worried about getting things on time and getting them wrapped before Christmas."
"So this year, I am doing it early, so I'm ready and prepared."
Stores ordering earlier than ever this year
Anticipating early shoppers like Miles, we found holiday items like Lego Advent sets are already on the shelves at some stores.
Rob Kearney, a buyer at King Arthur's Court Toys, responded to last year's shortages by ordering earlier than ever this year.
"With the uncertain shipping conditions and stuff going on in the world right now," he said, "I am going to be shopping early, and we are stocking the store up as well too."
This year, store managers and parents don't want to deal with the product shortages they faced a year ago.
A new Bankrate.com survey finds that more than half of holiday shoppers plan to start shopping before Halloween.
But will retailers have the hot items that everyone will want?
Jonathan Gold of the National Retail Federation said, "retailers have been planning for months and months in advance about when they're bringing in their cargo for the fall holiday season."
He says that the holiday shipping season used to run from July through November.
But this year, he says, shipments started as early as May.
Early ordering doesn't mean we're in the clear this year, however.
Trucking delays, labor disputes, and uncertainty overseas could all hold up the supply chain.
But should you shop now or wait?
But do you need to finish your holiday shopping before Halloween? Not for everything.
Bankrate's Ted Rossman says "if you're looking for a hot video game system or video game itself, or you know, some toy that's in really hot demand, then sometimes it does make sense to grab it early."
But if you are just buying sweaters and stocking stuffers, you'll probably find lower prices closer to Christmas.
That way, you don't waste your money.
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Treasury recommends exploring creation of a digital dollar
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is moving one step closer to developing a central bank digital currency, known as the digital dollar, saying it would help reinforce the U.S. role as a leader in the world financial system.
The White House said on Friday that after President Joe Biden issued an executive order in March calling on a variety of agencies to look at ways to regulate digital assets, the agencies came up with nine reports, covering cryptocurrency impacts on financial markets, the environment, innovation and other elements of the economic system.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said one Treasury recommendation is that the U.S. “advance policy and technical work on a potential central bank digital currency, or CBDC, so that the United States is prepared if CBDC is determined to be in the national interest.”
“Right now, some aspects of our current payment system are too slow or too expensive,” Yellen said on a Thursday call with reporters laying out some of the findings of the reports.
Central bank digital currencies differ from existing digital money available to the general public, such as the balance in a bank account, because they would be a direct liability of the Federal Reserve, not a commercial bank.
According to the Atlantic Council nonpartisan think tank, 105 countries representing more than 95% of global gross domestic product already are exploring or have created a central bank digital currency. The council found that the U.S. and the U.K. are far behind in creating a digital dollar or its equivalent.
Treasury, the Justice Department, the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, the Securities and Exchange Commission and other agencies were tasked with contributing to reports that would address various concerns about the risks, development and usage of digital assets. Several reports will come out in the next weeks and months.
On Capitol Hill, lawmakers have submitted various pieces of legislation to regulate cryptocurrency and other digital assets.
The director of the National Economic Council, Brian Deese, told reporters that “we’ve seen in recent months substantial turmoil in cryptocurrency markets and these events really highlight how, without proper oversight, cryptocurrencies risk harming everyday Americans’ financial stability and our national security.”
“It is why this administration believes that now more than ever,” he said, “prudent regulation of cryptocurrencies is needed.”
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Yakima County Commissioners will have a public hearing on proposed language changes to the county’s code that establishes its water utility.
During a regular business meeting Tuesday, commissioners scheduled the public hearing for 10 a.m. on Oct. 4. The hearing will be held in the commissioners’ chambers, room 133B of the basement of the Yakima County Courthouse at 128 N. Second St.
The water utility took effect in January 2018 and requires rural development from that date forward to acquire a water permit and be subject to metering and usage fees. Wells on the Yakama Reservation are exempt from the county’s utility but are under the authority of the Yakama Nation.
Previously rural domestic wells — those that draw less than 5,000 gallons a day — were not required to obtain a water right permit and were not subject to usage fees.
Most of the proposed changes to the county’s code are clerical, with some clarifying that it’s based on the county’s comprehensive plan rather than any state water code.
The proposal also clearly identifies criteria that defines properties that are not subject to the water code, such as those with wells before the water code took effect as well as preexisting structures that may have been destroyed and need to be replaced.
Commissioners devised the water code to assure enough water for everyone, farmers, rural development and fish. It’s no secret that the Yakima Basin has long been over allocated.
A federal geological study showed a connection between groundwater and surface water, which farmers divert to irrigate crops. There’s been contention between farmers and developers, with farmers claiming development has impacted their water rights.
In 2016, the state Supreme Court found that Whatcom County failed to protect water resources as required under the state Growth Management Act in a ruling known as the Hirst decision.
The ruling requires counties to assure an adequate water supply and a legal right to tap it before issuing building permits in rural areas.
The ruling has led to county and private water banks across the state.
Since its inception, Yakima County’s water utility has drawn controversy from developers and well drillers who say the utility amounted to “paper water,” has more to do with government control over resources and property rights than anything else.
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The Great British Bake Off 2022: what is the theme for week two of Channel 4 show
Channel 4’s The Great British Bake Off will see 11 bakers return to the tent with hopes of impressing the judges.
The 13th series of The Great British Bake Off is back with 11 bakers all hoping to be crowned Star Baker.
The Channel 4 show is known for its great challenges, creativity and fabulous themes that change every week.
Each week the bakers will complete three challenges in line with the theme - a signature, a technical, and a showstopper.
The judges, Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood and hosts Matt Lucas and Noel Fielding will return to show for another year. All of whom will be keeping an eye out for any mistakes or not on theme bakes.
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So, what is this weeks theme for the bakers? Here’s everything you need to know about this weeks episode of The Great British Bake Off.
When is the Great British Bake Off on?
The Great British Bake Off twitter account confirmed earlier this year that the show would be returning on Tuesday 13 September. Fans will be able to cathc a new episode every Tuesday.
The tweet read: “In knead of some good news? Here’s a little something…The Great British Bake Off is back on your screens on Tuesday, 13 September at 8pm!”
What is this week’s Great British Bake Off theme?
The second week of the show will be Biscuit Week.
The signature challenge is for each baker to produce ilusion macarons - they will be judged not only on how well baked they are but on the similarity in appearance and size of each mini cake.
The second technical of series 13 the bakers will be given ingredients and a vague method hidden under a shroud of gingham, they’ll be left to work out the recipe for “a fruity favourite”.
For the showstopper, the bakers will be tasked with making a 3D mask made entirely from biscuits.
How to watch The Great British Bake-off
The show will once again be shown on Channel 4, and fans can tune in at 8pm to get a first look at the latest episodes.
If viewers happen to miss an episode of the show you can catch up on the All 4 website and app which can be accessed on a phone, laptop and some TV’s.
The Great British Bake-off 2022 line-up
Channel 4 released the full list of baking hopefuls who will take to the tent this autumn earlier this year.
They include:
- Abdul, 29, electronic engineer from London - Raised in Saudi Arabia to Pakistani parents, Abdul is the middle of three children – and the one who got into trouble for pulling apart the electronic devices around the house.
- Carole, 59, supermarket cashier from Dorset - Born and bred in the West Country, Carole lives on a Dorset hillside with her husband, Michael. Her segment on a local radio show is called ‘Compost Carole’; during which she shares her gardening know-how with listeners.
- Dawn, 60, IT manager from Bedfordshire - The eldest of three children, Dawn lives with her partner Trevor (the self-styled person who tidies up the kitchen after her!) and is mother to three, step-mother to two, and gran/step-gran to four.
- James, 25, nuclear scientist from Cumbria - Proud kilt-wearer James grew up in the east-end of Glasgow and moved to England after university. He is a self-proclaimed board game geek and loves horror films from the 70s and 80s.
- Janusz, 34, personal assistant to head teacher from Lancashire - Janusz grew up in Poland and moved to the UK 10 years ago. He is now living on the southeast coast with his boyfriend, Simon, and their sausage dog, Nigel.
- Kevin, 33, music teacher from East Sussex - Surrounded by family and much-loved animals, Kevin is devoted to his nearest and dearest and spends as much time as possible with his wife, Rachel, and his sisters and their partners, laughing, eating and playing board games.
- Maisam, 18, student and sales assistant from Greater Manchester - Originally from Libya, Maisam has lived in the UK since she was nine. She speaks five languages (English, Arabic, Amazigh, Spanish and Turkish) aims to make that seven by the time she turns 20.
- Maxy, 29, architectural assistant from London - Swedish-born Maxy studied fine art and went on to achieve a Masters degree in Architecture, pausing her final qualifications to raise her two daughters, Tyra and Talia. She has DIY-ed every corner of her flat – from laying the flooring and resurfacing the balcony to painting the walls and hanging her own artwork.
- Rebs, 23, Masters student from County Atrim - Rebs spent her childhood in the countryside in Northern Ireland and loves everything to do with Irish culture – she can Irish dance and play the tin whistle.
- Sandro, 30, nanny from London - Sandro was born in Angola, but fled the Angolan war with his mum when he was two, settling then in London. Passionate about fitness, Sandro is a keen boxer and has a background in ballet and breakdance too! When Sandro was 21 his father passed away and he turned to baking as a form of therapy.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Nike released the United States' World Cup jerseys Thursday, including a mostly white design for home matches that was criticized in advance by a pair of American players and some fans.
The home jerseys have red and blue stripes on each sleeve, somewhat similar to the stripes down each side of the Americans' 2002 World Cup uniforms.
“We just as angry as y’all !!!” forward Tim Weah wrote last month after a version of the home jersey was posted online.
“Tried to tell them,” midfielder Weston McKennie wrote.
The bright blue away jersey has an ice-dying technique somewhat akin to a tie-dye pattern.
More than 100 people signed a change.org online petition calling for different designs.
“I rate it in the middle,” American midfielder Yunus Musah said during an Aug. 25 conference call. putting his right thumb sideways. “It’s not there,” he said with a thumbs up, then flipping to a thumbs down, “or there. It’s the middle.”
Donald Wine, a national board member of the American Outlaws supporters group, said he likely will purchase one of the new jerseys but hoped Nike and the U.S. Soccer Federation would take criticism into account in future designs. Wine said fans prefer a more distinctive look the team could become known for, such as Croatia's adoption of a checkerboard pattern.
As an example, Wine cited the red and white horizontal stripes of the 2012-13 U.S. jersey that became known as Waldo, after the character's attire in a children's book.
“The outcry is not necessarily over the design of the jersey, or at least lack of design on the home, but it's about the fact that I think a lot of people are looking for a jersey identity to call their own,” Wine said. “I am one of those people who have been long in the team Waldo camp for it being a permanent national team jersey. I think in the end people just want a jersey identity and these don't do that. ”
Aaron Barnett, senior product director of Nike global football apparel, said Rolando Cruz, the apparel product line manager, coordinated with the USSF on the design.
“We know that our products always will elicit response,” Barnett said. “We’ve been doing products for multiple sports, not just soccer. And so we’re going to have some athletes that are super-excited about it and some they’re not excited about. And that’s just the balance that you always have in the process.”
The U.S. is back in the World Cup for this year's tournament in Qatar after failing to qualify for 2018. The Americans open Nov. 21 against Wales
Barnett said most of the jersey manufacturing takes place in Asia. He said he did not know whether the workers who manufactured the kits were unionized.
Nike took over as the USSF equipment supplier in 1995 from Adidas, which had provided uniforms since 1973. The USSF announced a longterm extension with Nike last November without specifying a length.
Nike released the jerseys of 12 of its 13 World Cup teams Thursday: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, France, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and South Korea. The company delayed announcing England's designs until Sept. 21 following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
Adidas supplies seven — Argentina, Belgium, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Spain and Wales — and Puma six — Ghana, Morocco, Senegal, Serbia, Switzerland and Uruguay.
New Balance has Costa Rica and Panama, while four brands have one each Errea (Iceland), Hummel (Denmark), Marathon (Ecuador) and Majid (Iran).
Defending champion France has jerseys inspired by Toile de Jouy fabric that includes subtle prints of famous landmarks, such as the Arc de Triomphe, the Old Mill of Vernon, a Romanesque tower
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Animal architects: Meet the most incredible engineers in the animal kingdom
We think we’re pretty clever by building the Gherkin and the Shard, but these enterprising animals can create some smart structures of their own... some of which even have built-in air conditioning.
Living bridges
Army ants in huge raiding columns will deploy their own bodies to form living bridges so fellow workers can cross gaps quickly. A bridge consists of up to 50 ants and a colony may have 40 or 50 bridges in use at any time. Myrmecologists (people who study ants) at the New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Swarm Lab have worked out a simple rule governing this behaviour.
Ants only stay in a bridge if they feel sufficient numbers of other ants scurrying over their backs. To justify investing that much labour, the shortcut has to be popular. If fewer ants cross, forming a bridge isn’t worth the effort – it’s better for the colony if these ants go around the obstacle the long way.
It’s a wrap
In 2010, countless trees were left shrouded in swathes of silk in Pakistan following monsoon rains. It’s thought that the flood waters forced millions of spiders to take refuge in the trees, where they spun these veil-like webs. Though the identity of the spiders in this image is not known, some species will congregate in composite webs, often resembling huge hammocks or sheets.
Spiders live alone as a rule, but some – most of which are small and occur in the tropics – exhibit varying degrees of social behaviour. Communal webs enable them to catch much bigger prey and share the energy-sapping tasks of spinning the webs and maintaining their structure. Occasionally, enormous megawebs appear, covering several hundred square metres in silk, perhaps because a superabundance of prey caused an explosion in the local spider population.
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When first discovered in 1995 near the Japanese island of Amami, these submarine ‘crop circles’ were a mystery. Were they created by animals, currents or something else? Over 15 years later, divers spotted the seabed sculptor: a tiny pufferfish (Torquigener albomaculosus) new to science.
The male takes around a week to fashion a two-metre-wide nest that dwarfs his 12cm frame. He ploughs through the sediment with his fins and tail whirring to produce symmetrical peaks and troughs. He then sweeps the sandy amphitheatre clean of debris, moving scraps of seaweed or coral to the perimeter.
If his labours lure a female, the pair spawn in the middle – but the moment the eggs hatch, he abandons the nest to start all over again. In her book Eye Of The Shoal, marine biologist Dr Helen Scales suggests the sculpture may make an ideal soft spot for the developing eggs, with the furrows channelling oxygenated water to the centre.
Snug as a bug
Caddisflies could potentially be the first animal architects. Fossils of the elegant little cases built by their aquatic larvae have been dated to the Early Jurassic (and possibly earlier), well before social insects or birds appeared on Earth. Caddisfly larvae are like weird underwater caterpillars that frequent the bottom of streams and ponds, and many fabricate tubes no thicker than a pencil in which to live.
Assembled from grains of sand, fragments of twig or leaf, snail shells and any other debris to hand, the cases protect the soft-bodied larvae from the turbulence of the water current and from predators such as fish. The larvae wriggle out and build new cases as they grow – most will make five in one or two years – before finally leaving the water as short-lived winged adults. French artist Hubert Duprat famously gave larvae gold leaf and pieces of gemstone, with which they created beautiful gilded tubes.
Pole position
Weavers are finch-like birds celebrated for their exquisite nests made from knotted strands of dry grass. Most weave spherical or orb-shaped nests, sometimes with a tubular entrance to keep out predators. But sociable weavers, which live in southern Africa, build a giant communal nest that ends up swamping its tree (or telegraph pole, like the one pictured).
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Some of these sprawling avian high-rises last for up to 100 years and can grow to more than 10 cubic metres in size, making a cosy home for between 200 and 300 breeding pairs of sociable weavers. The spectacular structure protects the residents from extremes of temperature, with every pair housed in a separate flask-like chamber.
A 2016 study by researchers at the University of Miami found that ‘selfish’ birds that lavish time on repairing their own internal living quarters are likely to be on the receiving end of aggression from nest-mates working on the shared exterior thatch. After being apprehended, the selfish birds switched to more community-minded tasks for the good of the colony.
What lies beneath
Withouta doubt, ants are the greatest farmers after humans. Dependent on the species, they might tend crops (fungi) or herds of livestock (small insects called aphids) in massive subterranean nests. Yet these metropolises and the farming operations that sustain them are largely invisible, leading scientists to find innovative ways of revealing their hidden architecture. One technique is to excavate an abandoned nest and pour concrete into the maze of tunnels and chambers to produce an enormous cast.
The labyrinthine nest pictured here was found in Cerrado, which is the largest savannah in South America. It was made by a species of grass-cutting ant that harvests grass, carrying it underground to use as fertiliser for the precious fungi on which the colony feeds. Around 40 tonnes of earth, maybe more, would have been shifted in the nest’s construction. In addition to its chambers that act as fungus gardens, the underground city has ‘rubbish dumps’ where the ants dispose of waste. There is even an air-conditioning system: tunnels dug to maximise the flow of fresh air from the surface.
All together now
We now know that magnetoreception, the ability to detect Earth’s magnetic field, is quite common in nature. Everything from sea turtles to songbirds, bats, lobsters, snails, ants, bees and moths have been shown to navigate using it. It’s all the more impressive when you consider that our planet’s magnetic field is actually extremely weak.
There is one species of termite, unique to Australia’s Northern Territory, that appears to use this magnetic sense in the construction of its nest mounds. Known as the magnetic termite, its mounds are aligned with the thin edge oriented north-south. One theory is that this ensures the widest edges, and therefore greatest possible surface area, faces east and west to receive the welcome warmth of the morning and evening sunlight, while avoiding the scorching heat of the middle of the day. Seen from the air, the regularly spaced termite mounds form a grid, like some kind of weird cemetery, as you can see in the image above.
Birdy boudoir
In the bird world, males impress would-be partners with extravagant songs, dance moves or nest-building skills, but Australia’s great bowerbirds go the extra mile. They spend days constructing elaborate stick-structures whose sole function is to stage their display. The male great bowerbird weaves two thick panels to form a stately thatched avenue one-metre high, then arranges a host of eye-catching objects at either end.
His eclectic collection can include everything from leaves to bits of rubbish – plastic (a sign of the times) is especially popular – and individuals have curatorial preferences, with many of this species favouring red or white items such as berries, flowers or shells.
Here’s the clever bit: objects are displayed in size order, with the smallest ones near the bower, to set up a forced perspective that gives the illusion the bird is larger than he actually is. It’s a technique youngsters take years to perfect, and the mental gymnastics involved might explain why the family has bigger brains than other similar-sized birds.
- This article first appeared in issue 381 of BBC Science Focus – find out how to subscribe here
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6 digital photo frames for instant image sharing
Send your latest snaps to family and friends or just relive your own memories with one of these smart digital photo frames.
When digital photo frames first gained popularity several years ago, families across the world enjoyed uploading their holiday snaps and admiring a ready-made slideshow from the comfort of their sofa. Today, these gadgets have evolved to incorporate motion sensors, apps and real-time photo uploads.
WiFi-enabled digital photo frames make fun gifts for friends and family; just send across your latest snaps and they can instantly enjoy them in their own homes. We’ve rounded up some of the best digital photo frames on the market to save you the research time.
The best digital photo frames to buy today
Nixplay Smart Digital Photo Frame
According to Nixplay, over 2.5 million people already have this digital photo frame. You can place it on a table or fix it to the wall, in either portrait or landscape format - it’ll rotate your images automatically to fit the frame.
This Nixplay model comes with all the latest technology you’d want in a digital photo frame. The smart sensor automatically turns on the screen when you walk into the room, and switches it off when there’s no movement.
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The frame also uses clever software to position people in the middle of the frame and avoid awkward crops.
You’ll be able to send your photos and videos across from social media sites, emails or the Nixplay app.
Lenovo Smart Digital Picture Frame
Thanks to its impressive 21.5-inch screen, this smart gadget from Lenovo looks more like a TV than a photo frame. In fact, it’s not unlike the Samsung Frame TV, which disguises itself as a beautiful framed artwork when not in use (find out everything you need to know here).
As well as showing off your holiday snaps, you’ll be able to choose between hundreds of famous paintings completely free of charge in the app. The colours always look vibrant and natural, as the screen has an anti-glare layer and automatically adjusts to mirror the level of brightness in the room.
Either mount it on the wall or prop it up on a sideboard or easel in either portrait or landscape mode. Then, you’ll be able to skip through the images by swiping left and right.
- Buy now from Amazon ($344.99), Lenovo
Meural Photo Frame
Like all the best digital photo frames, Meural’s model can offer automatic library updates, brightness adjustment and sleep mode when it’s dark. But it goes one better than others on the market by displaying the time and location of your snaps when you swipe the screen.
Also, you won’t get smeary fingerprints on the display, as you can control it using gestures.
Images always look smart, thanks to the anti-glare technology and the automatic cropping feature, which makes sure the pictures fill the frame.
Plus, you can enjoy 100 famous artworks on your frame and browse 30,000 prints in the Meural app.
Aura Mason Luxe Digital Picture Frame
For a stylish gadget with the look of a traditional frame, try this option from Aura. It comes with a textured border in a white or grey tone.
Buy this digital photo frame for its in-built speaker, which can play out the audio from your videos. You’ll also get enough storage space for over 10,000 photos, and you can switch up the orientation between portrait and landscape whenever you want. The frame will automatically rotate your images for you.
Simply Smart Home PhotoShare Smart Frame
With room for over 1,000 photos, this digital smart frame may not have as much memory as other options on our list - but it does have an integrated speaker, as well as a clock and weather report.
You can mount it on the wall or place it on its black and white mat to protect your table.
If you’ve stored photos on a memory card, this could be the frame for you, as it supports SD cards. As you’d expect, you can also send images and videos from your phone, email and social media accounts using the companion app.
- Buy now from Bed, Bath & Beyond ($114.99)
Pix Star Digital Photo Frame
With its sleek black border, this digital photo frame has the look of a slimline tablet. It comes with a remote control, so you won’t have to worry about leaving annoying fingerprints on the screen, and there’s an anti-reflective coating to eliminate glare.
The frame also has a motion sensor to light up as you walk past.
Plus, there’s unlimited storage space, and you can add images, videos and audio messages to your album, straight from your email, social media or the Pix Star SNAP app.
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Thinking positively can be good for your body too, not just your brain
Studies have shown looking for positives in any given situation can improve everything from our immune systems to our heart health.
Positive thinking sometimes gets a bad reputation. Why? Well, because a lot of people think it is steeped in a denial of reality and can negatively impact our wellbeing as it does not allow us to process difficult emotions or feelings.
However, positive thinking is not about ignoring reality, but rather choosing to try and reframe and focus on potential solutions, being open to new ways of thinking, and finding something to be hopeful for. It can be a useful strategy for mentally and emotionally dealing with the many uncertainties and challenges of life. There is now a growing number of scientific studies that show positive thinking can benefit our physical health and wellbeing too.
Our ability to reframe and look for the positives in a situation appears to have benefits for many organ systems within our bodies. This known as ‘cognitive reframing’ and trains us to use techniques to challenge and change our perspective and views on a situation or experience. This doesn’t just have benefits for how we feel or for our emotional wellbeing, but also has actual tangible and measurable scientific outcomes and organ-specific end points.
Our brains benefit from developing the habit of positive thinking. Researchers from Northwestern University in the States have discovered that individuals who have positive attitudes are less likely to experience memory decline as they get older. In part of a national study, the team monitored adults at certain time periods over a decade, each time surveying their mood in the previous 30 days and their memory recall. They concluded that having positive attitude was associated with a less steep decline in memory.
It is not just our brains that benefit from positive thinking but also our hearts and cardiovascular health. Another study, carried out at the University of Illinois, found that adults who were more optimistic were more likely to have better cardiovascular health and improved cholesterol and blood sugar levels. Whilst another study showed that having a positive attitude could reduce the risk of developing heart disease by 30 per cent.
The thinking behind this is based on the acute stress response that we experience when we have negative, fearful or pessimistic emotions. We have naturally evolved to release stress hormones like cortisol when we feel negative emotions and these chemicals raise our blood pressure and heart rate, causing damage if chronic and long term.
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It is not all bad news if you have got into a habit of negative thinking, though. We can learn and practise cognitive reframing by understanding our thinking patterns, noticing when they arise and challenging them.
Stress and low mood can also have an impact on the ability of our immune system to function at its optimum level. Researchers at Wisconsin University concluded that activation of certain brain regions associated with negative emotions appears to weaken people’s immune response to the flu vaccine, in the level of antibodies present six months later.
So, science is beginning to add weight to the importance and impact of positive thinking on many of our different physiological systems, which all combine to add even more benefit to our health, resulting in positive thinking being studied in relation to increasing our lifespan.
Thinking positively about getting older and a constructive attitude to ageing has been shown to increase the chances of actually living longer too. A lot of our thinking is the result of habitual, repetitive processes.
We can start to improve our attitude to ageing by recognising that it is inevitable and so we are simply wasting our time by being negative about it, and instead focus this energy on the benefits of ageing, for example more life experience, discernment, and wisdom, and also by cultivating gratitude for a long life and a determination to remain as fit and healthy as we can.
How ,you may ask? Is it just down to the choices we make which contribute to a healthier lifestyle because we are feeling more positive? Possibly, but there also may be a biological mechanism underlying this too. When we have negative beliefs about ageing, this causes us stress which in turn causes inflammation.
A study carried out at Yale School of Public Health found that a marker in the blood called C-reactive protein (CRP) increased in response to cumulative stress. The researchers concluded that positive self-perceptions of ageing and longer survival were partially mediated by CRP and therefore an inflammatory mechanism.
It appears that positive thinking and trying to reframe our thoughts with a positive mindset doesn’t only mediate health benefits through us making ‘better’ healthier choices because we are feeling good and hopeful and motivated, but also because of actual biological mechanisms.
If we know something is harmful for us then we can train ourselves, through habit loop mechanisms in our brain of thought, action, reward. When we notice a negative thought, we can create space to then be able to step back and to see it as harmful but not judge it, and then take an active decision to choose a different and more positive thought instead.
Knowing this, maybe there is even more reason to try every single day, especially when we are faced with life challenges and uncertainties, to develop positive thinking strategies. This isn’t going to happen overnight, and can be difficult sometimes to do, but ultimately it is a habit that we can develop and cement, that will serve us day in day out.
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It might sound overly simple, but getting excited to work out is half the battle. We’ll take whatever tips and tricks we can find to make our days more active, which can, in turn, help us live healthier and happier lives.
One easy way to boost your motivation? Get a new pair of sneakers.
We were delighted to see there’s a sleek pair of New Balance women’s sneakers ranked as Amazon’s No. 1 Best Seller in Women’s Cross Training Shoes. These will bring some pep to your step and add style to your fitness wardrobe.
New Balance Women’s FuelCore Nergize Sneakers offer a light yet supportive foam midsole to deliver comfort with each step and include a memory foam insert for extra cushioning. The upper consists of mesh and synthetic materials for a chic, supportive fit that hugs the foot in a bootie style. The sole is made of rubber.
These New Balance FuelCore sneakers are built for a performance fit. The company recommends ordering a half-size bigger than your typical New Balance size. Prices range from $43.70-$135.95 depending on size and which of the 12 available styles you choose.
These shoes are practical, but they also look good enough to wear anywhere. Take your New Balance FuelCore shoes to the gym, run errands around town, or put them on for an outing with your family. With an average rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon from more than 54,900 reviewers, a majority of customers have said they loved the shoes. Many have purchased more than one pair and highly recommend them to others.
“I was super surprised at how light and airy the shoes felt,” said reviewer KWag9, who claims to have worn only flip-flops for the past decade except for exercising. “I put them on and even went for walks around the neighborhood to see if they were comfortable. I immediately fell in love with the fit of the shoe.”
Another reviewer named Marjorie sought these shoes specifically to make her time at a Disney park more comfortable. When she tested them out with a 3-mile walk around the zoo and found they held up, she trusted them enough to take on her big trip.
“No blisters, no pain,” the customer reported afterward. “Best shoe ever!!! I’ll buy another pair as a backup bc I love them so much! Highly, highly recommended!!”
Other reviewers have mentioned that these shoes work well for those with bunions, perhaps because of the stretchy mesh on the upper.
Cross-training shoes like these New Balance FuelCore sneakers are best for short runs, gym workouts, exercise classes and weight lifting. They come in regular and wide sizes between 5-12 for women.
Do these kicks inspire you to shift your workout into high gear?
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KENTWOOD, Mich. — It's time for the September Food Truck Festival -- Just one more way to make the most of the remaining summer season.
Over 30 vendors and small businesses will be at the Kent District Library — Kentwood Branch from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, September 17th.
The Kentwood Parks and Recreation Department promises you'll see everything from Caribbean Cuisine to ice cream and anything in between, plus live music, and a beer and wine tent!
El Caribe joined us live Friday morning with a taste of what you can expect for the festival and it was amazing!
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BRIGHTON, Mich. (WXYZ) — A Brighton family wants answers. They want to know why John Griswold died while being held inside the Livingston County Jail. He was only there for 13 hours.
John had no prior criminal history. But when the father of two got into an argument with some of his relatives, they called the police. By the next morning, John was dead.
“The whole family misses him now and I wish things could have been different,” said Tim Griswold, John’s brother.
Now Tim wants someone to be held accountable.
“There needs to be change,” said Tim.
Tim says his family’s nightmare started back in 2018 at the family’s home in Brighton.
That’s when John was working in the yard with his elderly mom and other siblings. Tim says John had been prescribed anti-anxiety medications and anti-depressants that made him irritable. The siblings started arguing about the yard work, and say John suddenly got aggressive, so they called the police.
“He was standing in the house, and they just arrested him and took him to jail,” said Tim.
Family members say there were pills on the kitchen counter near John when he was taken into custody.
John told officers he took at least 10 of the pills, but paramedics said the meds were for ulcers, and cleared the 54-year-old to leave with police. But his family says they later learned there were high levels of an anti-depressant in John’s system.
Video from inside the jail shows that it takes several minutes to get John up and out of the police car. Deputies say he would not respond verbally during booking.
So a nurse evaluates him.
Police reports show the nurse noticed he had “pinpoint pupils” and an “elevated heart rate,” so she told jail staff that John needed to go to the hospital.
“An EKG was done, which showed something called a prolonged QT interval. A prolonged interval can be a consequence of a drug reaction, it’s a very dangerous thing because it can precipitate a fatal arrhythmia,” said attorney Brian McKeen.
McKeen is now suing the Livingston County Sheriff and the hospital where John was taken: St. Joseph Mercy Livingston.
“What should have been flagged is that he's a candidate for having an overdose. He should have been kept until all lab tests were back,” McKeen told 7 Investigator Heather Catallo. “The testing later showed a toxic level of a drug called Trazodone, and Trazodone is known to precipitate abnormal heart rhythms.”
But after three hours at the hospital, John is brought back to the jail.
Internal jail security footage shows John Griswold seems to have a hard time standing on his own while sheriff’s deputies try to book him.
Once he’s sitting in a cell, John doesn’t really move -- even when he later vomits.
Forty minutes later, two deputies check on him. But according to the lawsuit, they don’t seek medical attention despite the obvious vomit.
For the next 11 hours, deputies do cell checks throughout the night, but John barely moves.
“I think it's outrageous. I think it shows a deliberate indifference to his safety and his welfare. It's unimaginable to me that someone could be so callous to simply walk by a person's jail cell 23 times over a period of hours and see that they have a decreased level of responsiveness. See that they vomited,” said McKeen.
McKeen says security cameras show John’s last movement shortly after 7am. He says deputies don’t realize he’s not breathing until 7:42am when they try CPR.
But it was too late.
“It was devastating. I still struggle with it,” said Tim Griswold.
Deaths inside locally controlled jails are on the rise.
The most recent Department of Justice data from 2019 shows there were 1200 deaths in local jails across the country, up 5% from 2018.
Also in 2019, there were 167 deaths per 100,000 inmates, up 11% from 2000.
The 7 Investigators asked local sheriffs for the number of deaths inside their lockups during the last 10 years.
Since 2012, the Oakland County Jail has had 20 deaths, Macomb County had 28, Wayne County had 68 deaths, and the Livingston County Jail had one: John Griswold.
“Sheriffs have a governmental obligation to keep the people in their custody safe and secure, and that includes providing for health care,” said Loyola University New Orleans Law Professor Andrea Armstrong. Armstrong is national expert on prison and jail conditions.
“Forty percent of deaths that we see nationally in a jail occur within the first seven days. So that period of time is really critical for quick and rapid response in terms of medical and mental health distress,” said Armstrong.
That’s why John Griswold’s family wants to make sure this doesn’t happen to anyone else.
“I think we've grown so callous to the needs of people in a jail situation,” McKeen. “But he wasn't a criminal. He didn't really belong in jail. And he certainly didn't need to be staying in a jail cell when he needed to be in a hospital.”
The Livingston County Sheriff was not able to do an interview with us due to the pending lawsuit, but he did release this statement:
“It can be traumatic and emotional whenever there is the loss of a life. It is further magnified when the persons whose life expired, did so while in a correctional facility. We mourn for the loss of life and the family left behind, and as unfortunate as this is, I stand behind my men and women and am confident once this lawsuit comes to a final conclusion it will show there was no wrongdoing on our behalf”.
A spokesman for the hospital declined to comment due to the lawsuit, but in court filings have denied the allegations they discharged Griswold too soon, and said medical staff “appropriately recognized this was a potential drug overdose patient and treated him as such.”
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When someone is a complete idiot on here like say, John S, all you need is like, five responses about it for someone in control at Word Wide to ban said baffler of the human thought-making complex! He wouldn' do all day with him there either\nAny idiotic comments could/woulc put in Banned Category\nThat does happen to folxs like I-dub, a well as it appears do you Mr. Spy's Ukrainian authorities were expected to begin recovering bodies Friday from a mass burial site in a forest recaptured from Russian forces, a delicate task that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said would help show the world "what the Russian occupation has led to.”
The site, containing hundreds of graves, was discovered close to Izium after a rapid counteroffensive by Ukrainian forces retook the northeastern city and much of the Kharkiv region, breaking what had largely become a stalemate in the nearly seven-month war.
To bolster the offensive, the Biden administration announced another $600 million package of military aid Thursday for Ukraine, including more of the weaponry that has helped its troops seize the momentum.
Associated Press journalists who visited the burial site Thursday saw graves amid the pine trees, marked with simple wooden crosses. Most were numbered — and the count went into the 400s.
It was not clear who was buried in many of the plots or how all of them died, though witnesses and a Ukrainian investigator said some were shot and others were killed by artillery fire, mines or airstrikes.
There was at least one mass grave, with a marker saying it contained the bodies of 17 Ukrainian soldiers.
In his nightly televised address on Thursday, Zelenskyy said “more information — clear, verifiable information” about the burial site was expected Friday.
“The necessary procedural actions have already begun there,” he said. "We want the world to know what is really happening and what the Russian occupation has led to.”
Zelenskyy invoked the names of other Ukrainian cities where authorities said retreating Russian troops left behind mass graves of civilians.
“Bucha, Mariupol, now, unfortunately, Izium," he said. “Russia leaves death everywhere. And it must be held accountable for it."
The marking of individual graves with wooden crosses differed from some other burial sites discovered earlier in the war and seen by AP reporters — including some around Kyiv that are being investigated as sites of possible war crimes. Bodies found outside the capital in the town of Bucha and elsewhere after Russian forces withdrew had been dumped together and buried without markers.
Izium resident Sergei Gorodko said that among the hundreds buried in individual graves were dozens of adults and children killed in a Russian airstrike on an apartment building.
He said he pulled some of them out of the rubble “with my own hands.”
Sergei Bolvinov, a senior investigator for Ukrainian police, told British TV broadcaster Sky News that some of the people buried were shot, while others died from artillery fire, mines or airstrikes.
The mass grave of Ukrainian soldiers could contain more than the 17 bodies mentioned on its marker, said Oleg Kotenko, an official with the Ukrainian ministry tasked with reintegrating occupied territories.
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3:07 a.m – You awaker suddenly aware and alert after another unfortunate disturbance wakened you and kept awaking. The previous disturbances have you distrained mentally while physily feeling as good now. Your head throbs your eye burn; an odon, familiar and now disdain for sleep’ll have another 25+ minute, nap now that would bring your dream to recall only as memry now afterward? Or (WXYZ) — Smoke from wildfires out in the Western United States is creating hazy skies and beautiful sunrises and sunsets in Michigan.
According to AccuWeather, the smoke is from dozens of wildfires out West including ones in Idaho, Montana and Western Washington and Oregon.
The high-level smoke has traveled through the atmosphere and is now in Michigan and other states in the Midwest.
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Street in Havelock closed for repairs Friday morning
Published: Sep. 16, 2022 at 7:46 AM EDT|Updated: 25 minutes ago
HAVELOCK, N.C. (WITN) - A street in Havelock will be closed for part of morning on Friday.
A portion of Miller Boulevard will be shut down for paving repairs from 7:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
That same closure will be repeated Saturday morning at the same time.
Drivers can take Park Lane and Trader Avenue to get around the work.
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Execs from Meta, ByteDance, Spotify, Bose, Sony, LinkedIn, PwC, and more will participate in sessions focusing on the Metaverse, and other top real-time engagement trends
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Agora, Inc. (NASDAQ: API), a pioneer and leading platform for real-time engagement APIs, today announced the full lineup of speakers for its flagship RTE2022 conference, which is set to take place from October 10 to October 12, 2022. RTE2022 – the world's largest conference exploring real-time engagement (RTE) technologies – will bring together the most influential and innovative leaders in the space to explore the future of interactive live streaming, the Metaverse and XR, social gaming, entertainment and commerce, virtual learning and collaboration, and more.
The conference – which is free and held virtually with a one-day live program in San Francisco – is expected to host approximately 400 in-person participants including exhibits, networking receptions, as well as thousands of attendees from around the world.
"Real-time engagement technology is the most authentic way to stay connected in-person, in digital worlds, and across the metaverse," said Tony Zhao, Agora's CEO and Founder, who will give the keynote speech at RTE2022. "For RTE2022, the theme is Out of This World, and we look forward to bringing together visionaries and experts from all over the globe to tell us how technology has inspired them and how they are reimagining the future of human interaction without boundaries."
This year's RTE2022 conference boasts an impressive and diverse lineup of speakers over its three days, including:
- Meta – Tolu Arogunmati, Product Manager and Tiantian Xu, Product Designer: Tolu will speak at the session Reimagining Sports Fan Engagement with New Real-Time Experiences, while Tiantian will conduct the session UX Design in Metaverse - Best Practices for Designing Virtual Experience.
- ByteDance – Xiaoyu Chen, Director of AI Solutions: Panelist at The Next Generation of Video Engagement Experiences in Social Environments and Platforms session.
- Spotify – Matt Ao, Senior Engineering Manager: Panelist at From Content Creation to Social Engagement: The Intersection of Technology Platforms and Digital Economy session.
- Bose – Marko Stamenovic, Principal Machine Learning Engineer: Panelist at Seeing is Believing, But Is Hearing session.
- Sony Corporation – Akira Tsukahara, Business Producer: Panelist at Seeing is Believing, But Is Hearing session.
- LinkedIn – Shiva Kumar Balakrishnan, Partnerships Lead, Live Events: Panelist at From Content Creation to Social Engagement: The Intersection of Technology Platforms and Digital Economy session.
- PwC – Jason Lovell, Metaverse Strategy: Panelist at Embracing the Core Technology of the Future: Real-Time Engagement as the Frontier of the Next Generation session.
- HTC – Shen Ye, Global Head of Products: Panelist at The Emergence of New Hardware Technologies: Creating Immersive Experiences in a Virtual World session.
- Magic Leap – Lisa Watts, VP Product Marketing & Developer Programs: Panelist at The Emergence of New Hardware Technologies: Creating Immersive Experiences in a Virtual World session.
- Makers Fund – Yohei Ishii, Venture Capitalist: Panelist at A Sense of Place: How RTE Enables Spatial Interactivity Beyond Our Physical World session.
- Andreessen Horowitz – Connie Chan, General Partner: Panelist at The Retail Revolution: Experiential E-Commerce in the Physical and Digital World session.
To see the full list of speakers set for RTE2022, please visit https://rte2022.agora.io/page/2201120/speakers.
About Agora
Agora is the leading Real-time Engagement Platform as a Service (RTE PaaS) company. Agora's mission is to make real-time engagement ubiquitous, allowing everyone to interact with anyone, in any application, anytime and anywhere. Agora's platform provides developers with simple, flexible and powerful application programming interfaces, or APIs, to embed real-time video and voice engagement experiences into their applications.
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WASHINGTON, DC, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - The founders of the District Cup are pleased to announce the 102nd District Cup presented by Truist will be played on the National Mall on Sunday, September 25.
The 2022 District Cup benefits: Nats4Good, Georgetown University Hospital - Capital Breast Cancer Center, Boys and Girls Club of Greater Washington, and The Jamaur Law Foundation.
Games are played at West Potomac Park: 4592 Ohio Drive SW, Washington, DC 20418
- 12:30 PM - Cultural Polo Cup Final
- 2:00 PM - The District Cup Final
- 4:00 PM - Trophy & Award Presentations
Admission is by ticket only or for press with pre-cleared credentials. Contact Christian Bentley: christian.bentley@thedistrictcup.com to obtain credentials to cover the event.
On-camera interviews and video opportunities with polo ponies are available at Twilight Polo on Saturday, September 17 between 6-8:30 pm at Great Meadow in The Plains, Virginia. Additional advanced coverage opportunities include the preliminary matches of the District Cup being played from 1- 4 pm on Friday, September 23 at Great Meadow Sheila C. Johnson Polo Field in The Plains, Virginia.
"We are delighted to celebrate 102 years of polo on the National Mall with this year's District Cup. We can't wait to host members of the Diplomatic Corps in addition to the local DC community in what promises to be a fantastic celebration of sports, international friendship, and our beautiful capital city" said Nico Baca, co-founder of the District Cup.
Co-chairs of the 2022 District Cup are: Scotty Greenwood, Tamon George, Jocelyn Moore, Sandy Thurman, Linda Moore, Charlie Muldoon, and founders Nico Baca and Dario Sotomayor.
Since 1920, the District Cup has been played at West Potomac Park. District Cup organizers work closely with the National Park Service and various polo clubs across the country and several international federations to actively recruit players, horses, and polo experts to keep our beloved horses, riders, and guests safe. The District Cup is an inclusive event intended to provide access to polo and encourage participation in the sport.
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CARLSBAD, N.M., Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NextMart, Inc. (the "Company" or "NXMR" - Pink Sheets Alternative Reporting Pink: NXMR) – NXMR would like to announce that the Company's plans on lowering its authorized Common Stock down to 250,000,000 shares of Common Stock in a two-step corporate action process.
The Company currently has 500,000,000 shares of Common Stock authorized (Par Value $0.01). The Company will immediately lower its authorized Common Stock to 300,000,000 shares. The Company is currently in the process of cancelling approximately 68,000,000 shares of Common Stock. Upon these shares of Common Stock being officially cancelled, the Company will lower its authorized Common Stock to 250,000,000.
Kathryn Gavin (CEO of the Company), states…" The corporate actions described in this release will lower our authorized common stock from 500,000,000 to 250,000,000 shares of Common Stock. Again, as previously stated on the last lowering of the authorized Common Stock of the Company, these corporate actions are part of our ongoing efforts to restructure the capitalization of the Company to mainly benefit current shareholders and to become attractive to future company acquisitions. These two planned corporate actions will put in place an anti-dilutive, pro market investor common stock structure. It is important to note that when current management took over this Company last year, it had 750,000,000 shares of Common Stock authorized. The net effect of the two proposed corporate actions described in this release will result in the authorized Common Stock of the Company being one-third of what it was less than a year ago."
Certain statements that we make may constitute forward-looking statements under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The statements contained herein may contain certain forward-looking statements relating to NXMR that are based on the beliefs of NXMR's management as well as assumptions made by and information currently available to NXMR's management. These forward-looking statements are, by their nature, subject to significant risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements include, without limitation, statements relating to the NXMR's business prospects, future developments, trends and conditions in the industry and geographical markets in which NXMR operates, its strategies, plans, objectives and goals, its ability to control costs, statements relating to prices, volumes, operations, margins, overall market trends, risk management and exchange rates.
NextMart, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, is a public quoted Pink Sheet issuer under the ticker symbol "NXMR". Currently, NXMR currently is a shell company with a new management team with plans to become a current alternative reporting issuer with OTC Markets. The Company is currently looking for an appropriate business acquisition.
CONTACT:
4602 West Pierce Street
Carlsbad, New Mexico 88220
Company Web Site: https://nextmartcorporation.com/
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LEAD PLAINTIFF DEADLINE IS NOVEMBER 7, 2022
NEW YORK, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP reminds investors that a federal securities class action lawsuit has been filed in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut on behalf of investors who purchased or acquired the securities of Sema4 Holdings Corp. ("Sema4" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: SMFR) between March 14, 2022 and August 15, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period").
All investors who purchased the shares of Sema4 Holdings Corp. and incurred losses are advised to contact the firm immediately at classmember@whafh.com or (800) 575-0735 or (212) 545-4774. You may obtain additional information concerning the action or join the case on our website, www.whafh.com.
If you have incurred losses in Sema4 Holdings Corp. you may, no later than November 7, 2022, request that the Court appoint you lead plaintiff of the proposed class. Please contact Wolf Haldenstein to learn more about your rights as an investor in Sema4 Holdings Corp.
PLEASE CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE CASE
Sema4 is a health company that uses artificial intelligence to enable personalized medicine. The Company's platform leverages longitudinal patient data, AI-driven predictive modeling, and genomics in combination with other data to deliver better outcomes for patients. Sema4 derives the majority of its revenue from Women's Health and Oncology diagnostic solutions.
The filed complaint alleges that Defendants made materially false and misleading statements throughout the Class Period. Specifically, Plaintiff alleges that Defendants failed to disclose:
- that there was a significant risk that Sema4 would reverse a material amount of previously recognized revenue that it could not recoup from third party payors;
- that the Company was experiencing declining selling prices for its reproductive health segment; and
- that, as a result of the foregoing, Sema4's financial results would be adversely affected.
On August 15, 2022, after the market closed, Sema4 announced changes to its research and development leadership team, including that Defendant Eric Schadt was stepping down from his roles as President and Chief R&D Officer. The Company also disclosed that it was eliminating approximately 13% of its workforce as part of a series of restructuring and corporate realignments.
During a conference call, Sema4 revealed that it had "reversed $30.1 million of revenue this quarter related to prior periods" in connection with negotiations with "one of [Sema4's] larger commercial payors regarding the potential recoupment of payments for Sema4 carrier screening services rendered from 2018 to early 2022."
On this news, Sema4's stock fell $0.80, or 33.3%, to close at $1.60 per share on August 16, 2022.
Wolf Haldenstein has extensive experience in the prosecution of securities class actions and derivative litigation in state and federal trial and appellate courts across the country. The firm has attorneys in various practice areas; and offices in New York, Chicago and San Diego. The reputation and expertise of this firm in shareholder and other class litigation has been repeatedly recognized by the courts, which have appointed it to major positions in complex securities multi-district and consolidated litigation.
If you wish to discuss this action or have any questions regarding your rights and interests in this case, please immediately contact Wolf Haldenstein by telephone at (800) 575-0735 or via e-mail at classmember@whafh.com
Contact:
Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP
Patrick Donovan, Esq.
Gregory Stone, Director of Case and Financial Analysis
Email: gstone@whafh.com, donovan@whafh.com or classmember@whafh.com
Tel: (800) 575-0735 or (212) 545-4774
This press release may be considered Attorney Advertising in some jurisdictions under the applicable law and ethical rules.
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A roundup of the week's most newsworthy technology industry press releases from PR Newswire
NEW YORK, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists covering the business technology industry stay on top of the week's most newsworthy and popular releases, here's a roundup of stories from the week that shouldn't be missed.
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- Twitter Stockholders Approve Acquisition by Elon Musk
Based on a preliminary tabulation of the stockholder vote, approximately 98.6% of the votes cast at the Special Meeting approved the proposal to adopt the Merger Agreement. - Carrier Ventures Invests in Next-Generation Sustainable Technology Startups
"Our partnerships with Archilogic, Butlr and Transaera will help to accelerate the commercialization of next-generation technology, contributing to a more sustainable world," says Jennifer Anderson, Senior Vice President, Strategy, Business Development & Chief Sustainability Officer. - Oracle Announces MySQL HeatWave on AWS
AWS users can now run transaction processing, analytics, and machine learning workloads in one service, without requiring time-consuming ETL duplication between separate databases. - Verkada raises $205M to build the operating system for the physical world
Verkada, a leader in cloud-managed enterprise building security and management, will use the investment to enhance its existing offerings, develop new product lines, hire across all functions, and continue its geographic expansion. - Google Completes Acquisition of Mandiant
With this acquisition, Google Cloud and Mandiant will deliver an end-to-end security operations suite with even greater capabilities to support customers across their cloud and on-premise environments. - Peloton Announces Changes to Leadership Team
The company has accepted the resignations of John Foley as Executive Chair and Hisao Kushi as Chief Legal Officer, effective September 12, 2022, and October 3, 2022, respectively. - OpenText Zeroes-In on Ambitious ESG Targets and Programs
Mark J. Barrenechea, OpenText CEO and CTO, says, "OpenText is in a unique position to enable our customers to be climate innovators through digital transformation, as well as by leading by example. And we intend to do just that." - Latinas in Tech Partners With Korbel® California Champagne to Celebrate Influential Hispanic Women in STEM with Luminarias NFT Collection and Metaverse Art Exhibition
The program toasts the achievements of Latinas revolutionizing the tech industry and uplifting their communities in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month. - New Personal Security App, "Never Walk Alone - NYC ," Helps Protect City Walkers
People who want to feel safe by walking with a partner can order a companion by using a phone with the same format as used to order an Uber.
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