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220330-M-AU949-0322 NAVAL SUPPORT ACTIVITY BAHRAIN (March 30, 2022) – Royal Marines with 42 Commando assigned to the Royal Marine Boat Team (RMBT) and U.S. Marines with Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Team Central Command (FASTCENT) conduct visit, board, search, and seizure bilateral training onboard Naval Support Activity Bahrain, March 30. FASTCENT provides expeditionary anti-terrorism and security forces to embassies, consulates, and other vital national assets throughout the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Victor A. Mancilla)
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220331-M-AU949-0358 NAVAL SUPPORT ACTIVITY BAHRAIN (March 31, 2022) – Royal Marines with 42 Commando assigned to the Royal Marine Boat Team (RMBT) and U.S. Marines assigned to Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Team Central Command (FASTCENT) conduct visit, board, search, and seizure bilateral training onboard Naval Support Activity Bahrain, March 31. FASTCENT provides expeditionary anti-terrorism and security forces to embassies, consulates, and other vital national assets throughout the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Victor A. Mancilla)
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220330-M-AU949-0330 NAVAL SUPPORT ACTIVITY BAHRAIN (March 30, 2022) – U.S. Marines with Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Team Central Command (FASTCENT) and Royal Marines with 42 Commando assigned to the Royal Marine Boat Team (RMBT) conduct visit, board, search, and seizure bilateral training onboard Naval Support Activity Bahrain, March 30. FASTCENT provides expeditionary anti-terrorism and security forces to embassies, consulates, and other vital national assets throughout the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Victor A. Mancilla)
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220331-M-AU949-0367 NAVAL SUPPORT ACTIVITY BAHRAIN (March 31, 2022) – A U.S. Marine assigned to Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Team Central Command (FASTCENT) conducts a search on a Marine during visit, board, search, and seizure bilateral training with Royal Marines assigned to 42 Commando, Royal Marine Boat Team (RMBT) onboard Naval Support Activity Bahrain, March 31. FASTCENT provides expeditionary anti-terrorism and security forces to embassies, consulates, and other vital national assets throughout the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Victor A. Mancilla)
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GRANT COUNTY, WA - Grant County Health District is telling people to be aware of increasing influenza and influenza-like illnesses.
GCHD is currently monitoring an influenza outbreak among residents in an assisted living facility. GCHD has provided outbreak mitigation recommendations to staff.
Disease investigators from Grant County Health District are reporting an increased number of influenza cases among school-aged children, as well as children under the age of five.
The health district is asking healthcare providers to consider testing and maintaining a high level of clinical suspicion. GCHD suggests anti-viral therapy should be considered for individuals on a case-by-case basis.
GCHD is also urging all residents 6 months and older to get their flu shot as soon as possible.
People who have not been vaccinated against the flu still have time to get the vaccine before the season is over. According to Grant County Health District, The influenza vaccine is the best measure to prevent flu and complications, especially for children, older people, and people with chronic health conditions.
People can find a flu vaccine clinic by calling the Family Health Hotline at 1-800-322-2588 or GCHD at 509-766-7960.
Influenza resources for Long Term Care Facilities:
Recommendations for Prevention & Control of Influenza Outbreaks in Long Term Care Facilities
CDC interim guidance for influenza outbreak management in LTCFs I CDC
Influenza information for healthcare: https://www.doh.wa.gov/ForPublicHealthandHealthcareProviders/PublicHealthSystemResourcesandServices/Immunization/InfluenzaFluInformation
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WHITE PASS -
US 12 over White Pass was closed around 10 p.m. on April 4 due to whiteout conditions and poor visibility.
Westbound lanes are closed near the SR 410 Junction, at milepost 183.
Eastbound lanes are closed near Packwood, at milepost 135.
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US 12 over White Pass was closed around 10 p.m. on April 4 due to whiteout conditions and poor visibility.
Westbound lanes are closed near the SR 410 Junction, at milepost 183.
Eastbound lanes are closed near Packwood, at milepost 135.
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YAKIMA, WA - YAKIMA, WA - A semi-truck driver was nearly blown off the Fred G. Redmon Bridge around 2 p.m. on I-82 East. The driver was lucky he only had minor injuries, said Washington State Patrol (WSP) trooper Derrick Jacobs.
The high winds rolled the semi from the right lane to the left said, Jacobs.
"Luckily no one was next to him when that did happen, so don't just hangout next to trucks," said Jacobs.
Light-weight semi-trucks, travel trailers, and fifth-wheels can easily roll over in high winds, said Jacobs.
"[Light-weight vehicles] could really get out of control or tip over in just an instance," said Jacobs, "and if you're next to them, you're going to be involved before you even know it."
Pass with purpose, keep both hands on the wheel and stay under the speed limit in high winds, said Jacobs.
"It could be the difference in you being able to regain control before something bad does happen," said Jacobs.
Drivers need to keep their headlights on said, Jacobs. He said blowing dirt and dust can cause poor visibility on roads.
'On the road, off the phone,' signs light up the night highways.
"And with the winds, it's just one more added thing, so put the distractions down," said Jacobs.
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From shortage of food, fuel and medicine to long daily power cuts to cancellation of exams due to lack of ink and paper, the problems affecting India's neighbouring country Sri Lanka are myriad.
Sri Lanka is struggling to tide over the massive shortage of essential items brought about by an unprecedented economic crisis.
Huge piles of foreign debt, soaring inflation, depleting foreign currency reserves, devalued currency – Sri Lanka is the living, breathing example of everything that could ever go wrong with a nation's economy and there's nothing the current administration can do to salvage this situation.
The Finance Minister has been sacked, Cabinet Ministers have resigned, and the clarion call for the President’s resignation is growing. As protests mount, the rest of the world is left to wonder at the root cause of this crisis.
How bad is the economic crisis?
Sri Lanka is going through its worst economic crisis since 1948 when the country gained independence. The prices of essential items like food, fuel and medicines have sky-rocketed.
A kilogram of rice costs 500 Sri Lankan rupees and sugar 290 rupees. When converted, this is approximately Rs 126 and 73, respectively in Indian Rupees.
Citizens have to stand in queues for hours even to get essential commodities. Troops are deployed at state-run fuel stations to help in distribution. The people have to endure daily power cuts of more than seven hours in the scorching heat.
The administration recently had to cancel the school examinations due to a shortage of ink and paper. The inflation in the country surged to 15.1 per cent in February, and its debt-to-GDP ratio hit 119 per cent in 2021.
How did the country come to this stage?
The main reason for the island nation’s plight is the depletion of its forex reserves. The heavily import-dependent country is left with just $2 billion in reserves, leaving Sri Lanka unable to import even basic essential commodities.
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa admitted that the country has a trade deficit of $10 billion, which is the root cause of the drop in its forex reserves.
The country also has foreign debt obligations of $7 billion, including $1 billion worth of sovereign bonds to be repaid by July this year.
Compounding the problems the country has had its fair share of tragedies too.
The country broke free of the civil war between the LTTE and the government in 2009, but was jolted by the 2019 Easter bombings which claimed many lives.
The pandemic, coupled with bombings, led to a fall in tourism revenues from $7.5 billion in 2019 to $2.8 billion last year. This when the tourism industry was contributing nearly 10 per cent of the of country's GDP.
But fate was not the only thing that drove the economy down.
A blanket ban on chemical fertilisers by the administration last year crippled the agriculture sector, which contributed around 8 per cent to the GDP. Tea cultivation and its exports were, in turn, severely hit by the blanket ban on chemical fertilisers.
Has the Ukraine crisis complicated matters for the island nation?
Many tourists who travel to Sri Lanka are from Russia and Ukraine, and the war has dented their arrivals.
Sri Lanka exports its tea to these two nations and imports almost half of its wheat and sunflower oil from them.
The war has caused oil prices to spike, exacerbating its forex crisis.
How has the country responded to the crisis so far?
In September last year, Sri Lanka declared an economic emergency to control food supply amid soaring inflation.
The country had devalued its currency and imposed import curbs on many items to prevent further depletion of its forex reserves. It had also partially revoked the fertiliser ban.
The island nation has approached the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for debt restructuring and a possible bailout. The IMF said on Tuesday that its monitoring the situation in Sri Lanka 'very closely' and that it is looking forward for a discussion with Finance Minister later in April.
The country needs at least $20 billion for essential imports such as fuel, food and intermediate goods for exports.
Rating agency Fitch estimates Sri Lanka will also need to arrange for $2.4 billion to help state-owned and private firms in the country honour 2022 debt obligations; these will be over and above the $4.5 billion central government debt.
Some experts believe Sri Lanka should establish a more extended repayment structure for debts to lessen the burden on citizens. They argue that instead of being unreasonably committed to repaying debt it is more prudent to press pause on debt repayment and take care of critical economic needs.
Will the crisis affect India? How has India helped its southern neighbour?
On March 22, 16 Sri Lankan Tamils refugees landed on the Tamil Nadu coast. With the worsening situation, more Lankan refugees are expected to reach the Indian shores.
To help its neighbour, India last month offered a billion-dollar line of credit to import food and medicines. It had also extended a $500 million credit line to help Sri Lanka purchase petroleum products.
A few days ago, Sri Lanka sought an additional $1.5 billion credit line to India for importing essentials.
India's island neighbour has brought upon itself a severe burden. It remains to be seen whether the desperate political measures like a new cabinet, resignation of lawmakers and changing the central bank chief will help Lanka salvage the economy that's neck-deep in crisis.
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- Should the Honolulu Police Department (HPD) create a new patrol district specifically for the Waianae coast?
A resolution urges that to happen. The Senate Ways and Means Committee is set to decide on Tuesday whether to move SR78/SCR88 forward.
Currently, the Waianae coast is part of what's known as District 8, which also includes Ewa and Kapolei.
The resolution urges HPD to create a new police district to service the Waianae coast, from Nanakuli to Kaena Point, and to allocate more resources to increase the police presence in those areas.
"Now that we see this growth of the second city and the Leeward side it's really overdue to create District 9 police station, and that's what we've been begging for years and years now," said Sen. Maile Shimabukuro, (D) Ko Olina, Waianae, Makaha.
In previous testimony for this resolution, the State of Hawaii Organization of Police Officers said it strongly supports the creation of a new district, however, it's concerned about how HPD will be able to fill the new district when the department can't fill the districts, sectors and beats that already exist.
Marisa Yamane joined KITV4 in January 2022 as an anchor and executive producer. She is an award-winning veteran journalist, who’s spent most of her career in Hawaii. She’s a proud graduate of Iolani School and UCLA.
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- A Hawaiian musician is thanking the community, and a social media tip for helping her find a valuable instrument that was stolen in Waikiki.
Krystal Mokuahi of music group Ke'olu said her bass was stolen from her car sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning at the Waikiki Banyan Hotel.
Mokuahi said the five-string bass holds special meaning to her family, as it was passed down from her grandfather, to her father, to her.
"It means so much because it's such a priceless item within our family," Mokuahi explained. 'It holds so much stories, and so much mana within it."
After realizing it was gone, Mokuahi put out a post on social media.
She said the response was overwhelming.
"It started circling and everyone started reposting it," she explained. "It was amazing how much eyes was able to see it and how much people was helping me and trying to get the word out."
Mokuahi said she received an anonymous message from someone who believed they spotted the bass near a Makiki apartment.
With the help of police, she was able to recover the special instrument.
"They opened up the unit and it was indeed in there. They allowed me to come down and pick it up," she said. "I got to identify it and had pictures showing that this is mine, and I was able to bring it back home this morning."
Mokuahi said whoever lived at the apartment had moved out the day before, but regardless, she's happy they left the bass behind.
She said her main take away from all of this is not to leave valuables inside your car, and thanks the community for all of their support.
Do you have a story idea? Email news tips to news@kitv.com
Mika is the co-anchor for KITV4 Island News at 5, 6, and 10 p.m.
Since joining KITV4 in 2016, Mika has also served as a multimedia journalist, weather, and traffic anchor.
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Owen D. V. Sholes shares the insights he gained through the many vicissitudes of trying to get his book published.
I wrote a book! Yes, I was excited about it, and once I had a draft completed, I began searching for a publisher. This is my story about that search, with hopes my experience can be of some use to others interested in publishing their own work.
It was definitely a journey. I submitted a proposal to 21 publishers, received rejections from 16 of them and had one acceptance. I heard nothing from four of them—three of which were university publishers—and have no idea why. How tough is it to send an email?
The median response time was 38 days but varied widely—from nine days to as long as 415. Yes, I had expected nothing from that longest one, but they finally tidied up their outbox and sent me a rejection. It was even polite. Their reason was the most common one given among all the rejections: “It doesn’t fit with our list.” It is a perfectly logical reason—no publisher can print everything—but it shouldn’t take more than a year to figure that out. Still, they were so polite, I almost believed that it took them that long to decide.
In my defense, I was careful to check not only the submission guidelines but also the book lists of all the publishers to whom I sent a proposal. When they said, “It doesn’t fit with our list,” perhaps they were being aspirational (what we want our list to become), being very precise (and therefore unknowable) or just blowing me off. They know you can’t argue with that reason, and since you’re not standing conveniently over a trapdoor, it’s an easy way to end the discussion.
Most of the rejections were polite, often flattering and even encouraging, which was thoughtful of those sending the rejections. Yet only once did a rejection include a suggestion for a specific alternate publisher. The general approach was, “We wish you well in your search for a publisher, but we dare not breathe the name of any of our potential competitors.” Even polite publishers have their limits.
Some of the responses came from underlings whose job was to relay the bad news, tersely. I’m sure that they get a lot of proposals, so I understand completely that they want to process them quickly, focus on the ones they like and dispense with the rest. Why inflate someone’s hopes? Time to move on. So I did.
The least polite response was from a press that had published the books of other faculty members I knew. Those authors were enthusiastic about their experience with this publisher, a university press, and encouraged me to send a proposal. The response was quick—three weeks—but startling. They seemed to be offended that I had bothered them. Didn’t I understand that they could handle only a few titles a year? They were a small press and greatly pressed for time, they told me.
Another editor responded almost immediately with a request for a hard copy of the manuscript. Wow! I printed out a nice copy, went to a shipping store to get a manuscript box and mailed it right from there. Feeling a sense of elation, I drove back to my office. Awaiting me was another message from the editor telling me that, on the recommendation of another editor, I should not send the manuscript. I asked for an explanation, and he told me that I needed to submit a revised proposal that better matched their expectations for books on literature. Then he would let me know whether he would proceed.
A few months later, rejections from other publishers and consultation from some friends had prompted me to make major revisions to my manuscript, putting me in line with his recommendation. So I submitted a new proposal to the same editor, reminding him of our previous communication. After six months, I hadn’t heard anything. I sent a polite inquiry asking whether he had any questions or needed any additional material. His response: “It doesn’t fit with our list.” I was impressed that it had taken him only six months to come up with that.
Two other publishers expressed interest pretty quickly. One of the editors explained that they produce very few books each year but that mine just might make the cut—the editorial board would decide in an upcoming meeting. As that meeting approached, the editor said that I should keep my options open with other publishers. (Uh-oh.) And then, as expected, the board decided against my book. I do give the editor credit for being forthright.
An editor at the other publisher seemed quite excited about my proposal and asked that I not submit it to other publishers. She asked for a few chapters, and I sent those. She sent them out for reviews, one of which was positive and one of which wondered why I hadn’t written a different book. Then it was time to submit the whole manuscript and get full readings. That took months. Just over a year after I had submitted the original proposal, I got the rejection.
I asked the editor for suggestions for other publishers, pointing out that their press had had exclusive consideration of my manuscript for a year. I got two suggestions, one of which was not appropriate for my book (yes, I checked their list), and one to which I submitted a proposal and heard nothing.
In retrospect, I should have tried to work with that editor to turn my book into something acceptable. The reviewers had concluded rightly that I wasn’t adding significantly to the literary interpretation of the poet at the center of my book. But I had made a connection between that poet’s writing and the environmental history of the landscape in which he had lived, worked and written. Wasn’t that worth pursuing further?
The editor never asked that question, but two wonderful colleagues, both professors of literature, did. They pushed me to examine what it was that I was best qualified and prepared to say. They helped me face that tried but true aphorism: write what you know. What I know is ecology, natural history and environmental history. What I had discovered was a narrative of environmental history running through the poetry of Robert Frost. Once I realized all that, my proposal crystallized, and it wasn’t too long before I got a positive response.
Gleaning Insights From No
I now understand why I received so many rejections: the proposal wasn’t as good as it needed to be. I had to figure out how I was best equipped to tackle the project in front of me and then how to convey that to an audience through the publishing process. It is the author’s responsibility to create a gripping proposal—to make it as persuasive, informative, concise and seductive as possible.
Many authors can figure that out on their own, but many others need help, and I was fortunate to have generous colleagues. So if you want to convince a publisher, first ask others to read your proposal before you submit it. If you have a writing group, start there. If not, ask some other thoughtful professional peers. Are they persuaded? Are they convinced that your book is different from all other books? Listen to their suggestions and incorporate those that you find most convincing.
Second, carefully read the instructions for submission from the publisher and review their list of publications. Each publisher is at least a little different from the others. Tailor your proposal to each one. It’s generally permissible to submit to more than one publisher at one time, but if you do, don’t claim that you have not. Editors talk to each other and will find out.
Third, be prepared to wait, often for an unspecified amount of time. If a publisher does specify a time, wait at least that long before contacting them if you haven’t received a response. Otherwise, it is reasonable to contact a publisher after two or three months.
Finally, steel yourself for rejection. It will happen. And if you never hear anything, that’s their way of saying no. Indeed, whatever process you use, rejection is probably inevitable. Even John McPhee had his book The Founding Fish rejected by The New Yorker, where he is a staff writer.
But know there are lots of publishers, and you’ll have many opportunities to convince one that you have something worthwhile to say. So don’t give up. Rejections can be discouraging, infuriating, baffling and insulting, but they can sometimes even be enlightening. Most rejections tell you very little, but glean whatever useful information you can from the responses. Just get whatever you can from them and keep trying.
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Owen D. V. Sholes is a retired professor of biology at Assumption University in Massachusetts and the author of Stopping by Woods: Robert Frost as New England Naturalist.
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Colombo: The parliamentary majority of Sri Lanka's ruling coalition headed by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has come under threat with dissident lawmakers, led by former president Maithripala Sirisena, planning to break away from the government against the backdrop of nationwide protests over the country's worst economic crisis.
Sri Lanka is currently experiencing its worst economic crisis in history. With long lines for fuel, cooking gas, essentials in short supply and long hours of power cuts, the public has been suffering for months.
The 225-member Parliament will convene on Tuesday in its first session since a state of emergency was declared by President Rajapaksa last week.
The dissidents, led by former president Sirisena's Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), would leave the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) coalition with its 14 Members of Parliament, party sources said after their meeting with the President on Monday.
The coalition, which commanded 157 votes out of 225 at the last vote held on the government budget, is bound to lose between 50-60 members, Udaya Gammanpila, a dissident lawmaker told reporters on Monday.
As a result, the government would not only be denied its two-thirds but even the simple majority of 113 members, he said.
However, Rohitha Abeygunawardena, a SLPP lawmaker, said that the government was rock solid with 138 members backing it.
The dissidents said that in addition to 14 members of Sirisena, 16 more from the other 11 members of the coalition would defect to be an independent group. They expect at least 20 from the SLPP to join their ranks.
On Monday, there were storming of houses of many government politicians, including Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa's country house deep southern province, by angry demonstrators.
Prasanna Ranatunga, who is a fierce Rajapaksa loyalist, said, President won't resign due to protests, but he is willing to hand over the government to anyone who could prove 113.
The President on Monday fired his brother and Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa from his post and invited the Opposition parties to join a unity Cabinet to tackle the raging public anger against the hardships caused by the economic crisis.
Opposition parties have rejected the offer.
The President, who named just four members to his new Cabinet, would be forced to appoint his own SLPP Cabinet on Tuesday, analysts said.
Despite the declaration of the state of emergency and a weekend curfew, people joined the protests calling for the resignation of Rajapaksa.
It appeared that Rajapaksa's unity Cabinet plea had no resonance with the public as they were out in larger numbers, calling for the resignation of the entire Rajapaksa family from politics.
Following the 2019 Sri Lankan elections, the Rajapaksa family has kept several portfolios in the current government under their control.
While President Rajapaksa holds the all-powerful executive presidency, his elder brother Mahinda, who is a former president, is the current prime minister.
Basil held the finance ministry portfolio until his sacking on Monday.
Mahinda's son Namal, the heir apparent, is the minister of youth and sports.
India recently announced to extend a USD 1 billion line of credit to Sri Lanka as part of its financial assistance to the country to deal with the economic crisis following a previous USD 500 billion line of credit in February to help it purchase petroleum products.
During his recently-concluded visit to Colombo, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar had assured India's continued support in Sri Lanka's economic recovery process.
President Rajapaksa has defended his government's actions, saying the foreign exchange crisis was not his making and the economic downturn was largely pandemic driven with the island nation's tourism revenue and inward remittances waning.
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With a young team that includes only three seniors in the starting lineup, highs and lows were expected for the Marshall Statesmen this season.
An early up note for the high-school baseball team was a recent 10-0 victory over the Washington-Liberty Generals in a Liberty District contest.
“We are very young, but our players are fighting and that’s what we expect,” Marshall coach Mike Noyes said. “We have expected what has been happening so far.”
In that win over W-L, the Statesmen had 13 hits. Ben Jones led the way with four hits (two doubles) and two RBI, Nick Robinson had three hits, Noah Grossman had two hits and two RBI and Aiden Han, Owen Growney and Loudin Rodriguez each had a hit and one RBI. Jack Emory also had a hit.
Robinson threw all five innings to get the win, allowing three hits, striking out four and walking one.
In a recent 10-9 loss to South Lakes, Jones and Growney each had two hits, Han had a hit and three RBI, and Thomas Smith had a double and an RBI. Vincent Salvo struck out 11 batters in five innings of relief.
In an April 1 home contest, Marshall lost to the Herndon Hornets, 9-3, after leading 3-0. The Statesmen built the lead behind the pitching of freshman lefty Nathan Lake. He struck out eight in five innings, walked one, gave up four hits and two earned runs.
Marshall allowed five runs in the sixth inning and four in the seventh.
Jones and Han doubled in the loss and Growney homered.
* The Flint Hill Huskies (7-2, 1-2) gritted out a 3-1 home victory over Georgetown Day on April 2 in a Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference game. Steve Milman pitched six innings, allowed four hits and no earned runs with three strikeouts to get the win. Brian Bogle pitched the hitless and scoreless seventh inning to earn the save.
Flint Hill had five hits, with Jason Mendler and J.T. Landwehr having doubles, Jackson Emery an RBI single and Ben Weeks had an RBI groundout. Alex Freel added two hits.
Landwehr at shortstop, Stuart Morrison in right field and Sandro Dussek at second base made good defensive plays.
“Steve gutted it out on the mound and did a good job pitching to contact and we battled, we found a way to produce some runs, and found a way to win,” Flint Hill coach Mitch Mendler said. “We have 12 seniors, so the maturity level of this team is very high. They play with grit.”
* The Oakton Cougars (4-1) have been scoring runs in bunches with recent victories over Nicholas County, 18-3, Langley, 17-9, and West Springfield, 15-1.
Will Dornbusch, Ryan Sleight, Liam Andrews, Thomas Huitema, Noah Toole, Nick Toole, Ethan Jones, Robbie Lavey and Zach Danielczyk have been among the top hitters in those victories. Lavey and Sleight hit home runs, Jones had a four-hit game and Lavey and Danielczyk had three-hit contests.
Oakton scored nine runs in the first two innings in a game against West Potomac that was not finished because of weather.
* The McLean Highlanders (3-3, 3-0) defeated the host Yorktown Patriots, 7-5, to improve to 3-0 in the Liberty District in a recent game.
Senior right-hander Griffin Stieg started and pitched five scoreless innings of one-hit ball with 12 strikeouts to get the win. He walked one.
McLean used four relievers to finish the game.
Gavin Bartlett had three hits and two RBI for McLean, A.J. Poole had a hit and three RBI and Jakkob Luu had a hit and one RBI. Ethan Ball had a sacrifice fly.
* The Potomac School Panthers (5-3) routed St. James in a doubleheader, winning 17-3 and 11-1 in the Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference games.
Kelly Crittenberger, Owen Peterson, Paul Witkop and Jason Seeber were the top hitters in the wins for the Panthers.
* The McLean Highlanders (4-1) defeated the Yorktown Patriots, 8-4, in Liberty District girls softball action. Abby Hart, Taylor Staats and Madeline Staats were the top hitters for McLean. Gabby Colder threw a complete game with six strikeouts.
* The Madison Warhawks (2-0) defeated Marshall, 8-3, and Langley, 6-5, in their first two girls softball games of the season. Graciela Dominguez, Ayla Condill and Katrina Swan were the big hitters in the wins for Madison.
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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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What's Revealed in Playing 3 Truths and a Lie
Almost nobody got it right
Every year, we do a “meet the administration” gathering for new employees. It’s one part of their new employee orientation; the idea is that being able to put faces to names will make it easier to navigate the institution.
Each year the session has some sort of hook or gimmick. This year we broke into smaller groups and played “3 truths and a lie,” in which everyone else had to guess which one was the lie.
Almost nobody got mine right.
I offered:
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I’ve discussed Miles Davis with the punk rocker Henry Rollins.
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I once caught a foul ball at Fenway Park.
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I once tracked a lost dog for weeks in two states.
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I worked in an ice factory before college.
Longtime readers can probably figure it out by process of elimination. Although I’ve been to games in Fenway Park, I’ve never caught a foul ball there.
The most popular guess was the ice factory. I don’t know how much of that was due to how I come across, how much was due to the unfamiliar concept of an ice factory, and how much was due to the plausibility of the other options. But yes, I worked for $3.50 an hour – about $9 per hour in today’s money – stacking bags of ice on pallets in a freezer in 1986. Going almost directly from the ice factory to Williams College led to a sociocultural case of the bends. “Jarring” doesn’t begin to cover it.
Working in an ice factory gave people time to think. One coworker had developed an elaborate theory to the effect that the musician Phil Collins was a space alien. He expounded on his theory at length in the break room. (“Abacab? What is that? Space code! Sussudio? Space code!”) Another used to give disturbingly detailed play-by-play descriptions of his favorite scenes in the Brian DePalma movie Body Double.
In my first week at Williams, we did a poll in my “entry” (or what most places call a hallway). 8 out of the 23 guys there never had to work a day in their lives if they didn’t want to. (Obviously, I was one of the other 15.) If you’ve seen 80’s movies with James Spader, you get the idea.
Having lived in those realities consecutively, I learned that economic class is real.
The advantage of having worked in the ice factory is that my worst day on most subsequent jobs beats my best day there. It offers perspective. As grim as grad school got sometimes, at least it was usually at room temperature.
I don’t know how folks at the session interpreted the ice factory, or if they even paid it any mind. I offer it as partial explanation for my sustained focus on – some might say minor obsession with – fairness. People are just people, with all of the beauty and flaws that implies. Working in an ice factory is hard, and the people who do it should be able to have decent lives. Community colleges are all about helping folks build decent lives; they’re the bridge between the ice factory and the indoor career. That matters.
Someday, though, I still hope to catch a foul ball.
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Lviv: The United States and Europe were planning new sanctions on Tuesday to punish Moscow over civilian killings in Ukraine, and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned more deaths were likely to be uncovered in areas seized from Russian invaders.
Russian forces withdrew from towns north of the capital Kyiv last week as it turns its assault to Ukraine's south and east. Ukrainian troops recaptured towns devastated by nearly six weeks of war, including Bucha, where dead civilians lined the streets.
Searing images of a mass grave in Bucha and the bound bodies of people shot at close range drew an international outcry on Monday.
US President Joe Biden called for a war crimes trial against Russia's President Vladimir Putin and the United States will ask the UN General Assembly to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council.
Russia denied any accusations related to the murder of civilians and said it would present "empirical evidence" to a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday proving its forces were not involved.
In an early morning video address, Zelenskiy said he would also address the Security Council on Tuesday as he builds support for an investigation into the killings in Bucha.
"And this is only one town. One of many Ukrainian communities which the Russian forces managed to capture," Zelenskiy said. "Now, there is information that in Borodyanka and some other liberated Ukrainian towns, the number of casualties of the occupiers may be even much higher," he added, referring to a town 25 km (16 miles) west of Bucha.
Reuters saw several bodies apparently shot at close range, along with makeshift burials and a mass grave in Bucha, but could not independently verify the number of dead or who was responsible.
Ukraine's foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, said he spoke with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres about Bucha and stressed "that Ukraine will use all available UN mechanisms to collect evidence and hold Russian war criminals to account."
'Feel the consequences'
Russia launched what it calls a "special military operation" in Ukraine on Feb. 24, aiming to demilitarise and "denazify" Ukraine. Ukraine and the West say the invasion was illegal and unjustified.
Russian forces pulled back from the capital Kyiv in the face of unexpectedly lethal and mobile Ukrainian resistance using Western anti-tank weaponry.
Moscow painted the withdrawal as a goodwill gesture at peace talks, which last convened on Friday. Negotiators had been due to convene on Monday, but neither side has given an update on the talks.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Monday that Putin and his supporters would "feel the consequences" of events in Bucha and that Western allies would agree further sanctions against Moscow in the coming days.
Biden's national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said new US sanctions against Moscow would be announced this week. The US State Department said it was supporting an international team of prosecutors and experts to collect and analyse evidence of atrocities.
France and Germany said they would expel Russian diplomats.
Russia would respond in kind and "slam shut the door on Western embassies", Russian ex-president and deputy head of security council Dmitry Medvedev said.
"It will be cheaper for everyone. And then we will end up just looking at each other in no other way than through gunsights."
German Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht said the European Union must discuss banning Russian gas, though other officials urged caution around measures that could touch off a European energy crisis.
Russia supplies about a third of Europe's gas, and Putin has tried to use energy as a lever to fight back against Western sanctions. But Moscow has maintained gas flows through key pipeline routes into Europe, despite uncertainty over Putin's demands for payments in roubles.
Russia's latest sovereign bond coupon payments have been stopped, a source familiar with the matter and a spokeswoman for the US Treasury said, putting it closer to a historic default.
Battles in the east
Ukraine said it was preparing for about 60,000 Russian reservists to be called in to reinforce Moscow's offensive in the east, where Russia's main targets have included the port of Mariupol and Kharkiv, the country's second-largest city.
In Mariupol, a southeastern town on the Azov Sea that has been under siege for weeks, Reuters images showed three bodies in civilian clothes lying in the street, one against a wall sprayed with blood.
Ukraine says it has evacuated thousands of civilians in the past few days from Mariupol, which is surrounded by areas held by Russian-backed separatists in the eastern Donbas region.
A team from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was stopped during an attempt to reach Mariupol to evacuate civilians, and is now being held in a nearby town, a spokesperson said on Monday.
West of Mariupol, in the town of Mykolaiv, shelling on Monday killed 10 people, including a child, and injured 46 others, regional administration head Oleksandr Senkevich said. Reuters was not immediately able to verify the report.
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Just Explain It to Me!
Breaking down notoriously confusing, perplexing and annoying systems and practices in higher education
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Demystifying Board of Trustees Meetings
Plus bonus material.
There’s a palpable tension in the air at seemingly random times during the year. Weeding, pruning, mowing and edging the grounds around certain buildings occurs with a seldom-seen urgency and fury. Worn and dirty surfaces, ill-closing doors, flickering lights, and other long-complained-about items are finally addressed. (Everyone thinks, “They finally listened to me!”) Cabinet members cancel meetings and answer queries sharply.
And early on a misty Friday morning, a campus catering truck parks outside the administration building. At about 8 a.m., unfamiliar individuals in business attire walk through campus—some with purposeful gaits, others looking at their cellphones and bumping into students. A few poor, confused souls ask for directions. Now everything makes sense—it is time for a Board of Trustees meeting.
Although there are numerous variations, the following outlines the flow and content of many board meetings. At the end, there’s bonus material—things that may or may not have happened at a board meeting.
Board meetings take place on one day or over two that often curiously coincide with athletic events featuring major rivals (quelle surprise!).
For each session, board members receive materials in advance, including the meeting agenda, drafts of documents to be discussed or voted upon, background materials to support critical discussions, and reports from the president and cabinet members. While what happens behind (mostly) closed doors may seem mysterious, board meetings are primarily proscribed in format and content, dictated by official bylaws or by state code, and conducted according to Robert’s Rules of Order.
At private institutions, meetings are attended by board members, the president, selected cabinet members and occasionally guests who may be providing a special presentation. At public institutions, the meeting is open to the public. Still, members of the public may only speak to the board at a particular point in the agenda, for a specific duration of time and by formal request, dependent on official rules varying by state.
The agenda’s format does not vary from meeting to meeting. The board chair decides the topics in concert with the board’s executive committee and the institution’s president or chancellor. The board’s bylaws or state code dictate the inclusion of some items, such as voting on new members and budgets at certain times of the year.
The board’s chair facilitates each meeting by following the agenda without change or amendment unless by vote. Although board meeting protocols may vary by institution and state, the order of business typically includes:
- A welcome, acknowledgment of guests (if applicable) and approval of the minutes from the previous meeting.
- For public institutions, a period of public comment. Issues brought to the fore tend to focus on student conduct (overwhelmingly bad and on weekends), requests to allow more students to live off campus so that private companies can build rental properties, parking, crime, plans for expanding campus, campus construction, cost to attend the institution and other matters citizens wish the board to address. The tenor unpredictably ranges from civil and cordial to furious and unhinged.
- New business, including:
- Board committee reports (as necessary)
- Cabinet member presentations (The focus is primarily on finance, enrollment, fundraising, facilities and academics. Sometimes reports on marketing, information technology, athletics, government relations and diversity initiatives are provided.)
- The introduction of drafted policies, plans, budgets, goals and other items requiring board approval dictated by bylaws, policy or code.
- Reports or presentations requested by the board. Topics might include issues related to compensation, student health, the curriculum, new programs and noteworthy achievements.
- President’s Report
Each president has their own style and preferences for reporting, but typically presentations take one of three approaches—
The Tony Robbins: A high-level, inspirational report providing concrete examples of the institution’s mission and direction.
The Jedi Mind Trick: It’s all fine; nothing to see. All the problems the institution faces are due to external factors, and it’s nothing to do with the president.
The Great and Powerful Oz: The president is so in control, they’re out of control. The report contains officious explanations, endless lists and overwhelming details. No one can tell what’s going on.
- Old business, including:
- Follow-up reports on board questions and requests for information from previous meetings.
- Reports regarding ongoing projects, plans and initiatives.
- Voting on policies, budgets, plans and other items requiring board approval dictated by bylaws, policy or code.
- Executive session
Not every meeting has an executive session. The need for an executive session is often identified in advance of the meeting. Suppose there are confidential or sensitive items to be discussed. In that case, the board chair will call for a motion to temporarily pause the meeting to adjourn for a confidential conference with board members, called an executive session. Once the motion is made and seconded, the chair calls for a vote. The board meeting is closed to the public, guests and employees if accepted. The president and selected cabinet members may be invited to join the executive session if their input is necessary for the board’s discussion.
Topics may include high-level personnel matters (such as the president’s hiring, evaluation, contract or termination), issues involving law enforcement, issues that may become litigious, pending or current litigation or investigations, or other matters that require confidentiality by law and best practice.
- Other business
- Adjournment and notice of next meeting.
The chair asks the trustees if there is any other business. If there is no additional business, the chair calls for the meeting to end by seeking a motion, a second and a vote. The chair formally calls for adjournment and notifies the members of the next meeting’s date, time and location.
“Civil,” “uneventful” and “routine” typically describe the tenor of many, but not all, Board of Trustees meetings. Very heated and emotional discussions sometimes ensue during meetings and often occur during executive sessions. Issues that spark contentious conversation include satisfaction with the administration’s transparency, preparations and attention to important matters; the institution’s stature, budget and enrollment status; and risk management. Also, board members really don’t like when they get complaints from their friends and alumni peers, and they loathe bad press.
10 Things That May or May Not Have Happened at a Board Meeting
- The board chair demands an enormous American flag be projected on a boardroom wall and requires members to stand, place their right hand on their heart and recite the Pledge of Allegiance at the beginning of each meeting.
- A board member vocally, repeatedly and without irony insists Bojangles sausage biscuits be included in the breakfast buffet for every meeting.
- During a presentation, the vice president of administration and finance announces that she has 37 indoor cats at home and notes the care of an untold number of feral cats outdoors.
- A board member asks the vice president of enrollment why he learned about declining enrollment in the student newspaper alongside an article titled “The ugly truth about dining hall coleslaw” rather than from her report.
- The internal auditor reports that after investigation, she can confirm that items purchased from dragqueenshoes.com and Priscilla’s: Where Fun and Fantasy Meet were legitimate expenses for dramatic productions.
- Board members text each other “37 cats!!!” repeatedly after the VPAF’s disclosure and at subsequent meetings when the VPAF makes a presentation.
- At each board meeting, the president ends her PowerPoint presentation with a slide titled “accolades” that lists her own accomplishments.
- The provost hovers over the shrimp cocktail bowl at the evening reception and nervously gobbles down plate after plate of said shrimp (clocked time: 45 minutes).
- Board members whisper about who brought the Blanton’s bourbon and who will pick up some food from In-N-Out Burger to take it back to the campus-run B&B (cites offending shrimp cocktail situation).
- Following a board meeting, housekeeping personnel report that an item of a personal and intimate nature (speculated to have been purchased at Priscilla’s) was left in a bed at the campus-run B&B. After discussion, it is determined the item should not be returned nor its discovery mentioned to the board member–owner.
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Hudson County Community College, in New Jersey
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Florida’s faculty union is urging students, faculty and staff members to ignore a state-mandated survey on the climate for college viewpoint diversity.
Florida deployed a controversial survey on campus ideological diversity to public college and university students, faculty and staff members this week, after a federal judge refused to grant an emergency injunction against it.
Faculty groups, in particular, have criticized the survey as a political litmus test since it was first proposed in broader, Republican-backed “intellectual freedom” legislation, in 2019. Florida’s statewide faculty union continued to oppose the survey even after it became part of the law last year, ultimately seeking an injunction on the grounds that it violated respondents’ First Amendment rights, and that survey data could be used to target certain academic programs for funding cuts. This latter argument is bolstered by Florida Republican governor Ron DeSantis’s public comments about the bill, specifically about how institutions that are “indoctrinating” students aren’t worth tax dollars.
The union and other survey opponents further argued in court that the questionnaire—while anonymous—would ask for enough demographic information as to be traceable back to individuals, especially nonwhite respondents at small colleges. Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker was unconvinced by these objections, however, and on Friday green-lighted the State University System of Florida to release the first annual survey. It did so early Monday.
What the Survey Asks
The faculty and staff version of the survey asks respondents to what extent they agree or disagree with statements such as, “I have felt intimidated to share my ideas or political opinions because they were different from those of my colleagues,” “Students at my institution are not shielded from ideas and opinions they find unwelcome, disagreeable or even deeply offensive,” and (for instructors only), “I rarely inject my own political ideas and beliefs into my classes.”
“Where would you place yourself on the following scale: Conservative/Moderate/Liberal/None of the Above,” the survey asks.
Employees who say there is a poor climate for viewpoint diversity are also asked whether liberal or conservative ideas and beliefs are more prevalent. The survey is anonymous but asks respondents to identify themselves as faculty members with or without tenure, administrators or staff members, as well as by race, gender and one of nine broad subject areas (liberal arts and humanities, business, education, STEM, et cetera).
The student version of the survey includes similar prompts, from a student perspective, plus questions like this: “My professors or course instructors are generally more: Conservative/Liberal/Other/Don’t know.” Students are asked to identify themselves as studying at a public college or university, full-time or part-time, and online or in person.
Urging Nonparticipation
Now that the survey is live, the United Faculty of Florida union is urging professors, staff members and even students not to complete it.
“Florida’s government has no right to know the thoughts, feelings, or political or religious beliefs of anyone, including the higher education community. Privacy is the bedrock of democracy and a safeguard against autocratic control,” Andrew Gothard, union president, said in a statement. “Ignoring this survey is an act that protects individuals of all political persuasions, now and into the future. This survey would not pass ‘validity tests’ in any institutional review process, as there is no way to ensure that responses will reflect the demographics of the institution. It is not worthy of time away from our teaching and research.”
Repeating other arguments that the union made in court, Gothard called the survey instrument a form of “surveillance” and said that the “specificity of the survey’s demographic questions allows for targeting of faculty, particularly minority faculty, and can be used to attack tenure.” Moreover, he said, “Many of the survey’s questions are leading in nature and imply that there is a problem of viewpoint fairness on our campuses already—this is a conclusion searching for evidence, rather than the other way around.”
Florida State University’s Institute of Politics was involved in the survey project early on, but the institute referred questions about the instrument Monday to the university, which in turn referred questions to the state university system.
Seeking Meaningful Data
Asked if the survey had been approved by an institutional review board, Renee Fargason, system spokesperson, said via email, “This is an opinion survey, not an academic research study.” Fargason said the system had no comment on the faculty union’s guidance against completing the survey.
Spencer Roach, a Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives who co-sponsored the original intellectual freedom bill, said Monday that he was surprised by some of the backlash to the survey, as he’d expected more opposition to other elements of the bill (now law), including a provision that allows students to record faculty members while they are teaching, without their knowledge, in order to file free speech complaints against them.
On what he wants to learn from the survey, Roach said that he and colleagues in the Legislature had heard “anecdotal reports from constituents going back a number of years, and this is on both sides of the aisle [of campus viewpoint discrimination]. But those are anecdotal reports, and we wanted to do a little bit of a deeper dive to see if we could gather some empirical data to look into this.”
Any further action will be based on what the surveys reveal, he continued. “I have no prediction on how it will turn out. But I just think that it’s important that we ask that question and see what the data shows.”
Regarding faculty concerns that the survey is part of a larger attack on tenure, Roach said he favors ending tenure in Florida as a way to promote a “more industrious, more meritorious workforce,” but that he hasn’t studied the issue in depth and has no concrete plans to introduce any such legislation in any future term in the state House.
Asked how he’ll interpret the survey results should a major share of respondents ignore it, as the union urges they do, Roach said that numbers of respondents don’t matter as much as the representativeness of respondents. Asked how he’ll assess the representativeness of respondents, given that those who ignore it may be more likely than those who do complete it to believe that there is no viewpoint-diversity problem on campus, Roach said surveys of all kinds commonly encounter selection-bias issues.
“I suspect that if and when we get those results in, we can contact some kind of professional analysis group or have someone that we work with tell us if in fact we’ve got a large enough sample size to draw any kind of meaningful conclusion from,” he said. “I would encourage people to fill it out. I know that college students routinely fill out and I think they’re actually required to fill out a survey after every class that they take. But again, I would just stress that this survey is voluntary, it’s nonpartisan, and I would hope people would help the Florida Legislature here determine whether our campus is truly a marketplace of ideas, because that’s the goal.”
Not ‘Necessarily Comparable’
Roach and other supporters of this survey have noted that similar surveys have been fielded elsewhere, including in North Carolina.
Several faculty members at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill did publish a survey report on free expression and constructive dialogue on campus in 2020. Among other findings, the report says that 31 percent of students felt they’d become more liberal during their college years, 16 percent said they’d become more conservative and 48 percent said they hadn’t changed their views. Students also said that politics rarely comes up in most classes and that they generally perceived course instructors to be open-minded and encouraging of participation from both liberals and conservatives. At the same time, both liberal and conservative students said they worried about how others would respond to their views.
Timothy J. Ryan, an associate professor of political science at Chapel Hill who co-wrote that report, said that while he only had a “vague” sense of what was happening in Florida, it appears to be very different from his own survey project.
“The Florida work appears to be mostly driven by the Legislature and administration, where ours was faculty-initiated and -led,” Ryan said. “So I don’t think the work is necessarily comparable.”
Asked about how the Florida faculty union’s nonparticipation guidance could affect the survey results, Ryan said this “would indeed be concerning from a validity standpoint. It seems likely to make some groups and constituencies less likely to respond to the survey, which would give the remaining groups outsized influence in the eventual results.”
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Waterboarding allegations at Norwich University came the same week Bowling Green State expelled a sorority for hazing. Experts say women are hazed as often as men, but in less violent ways.
Allegations of waterboarding and branding at Norwich University are among the latest, and perhaps most shocking, hazing incidents of the school year. And despite increased efforts by colleges and states to crack down on hazing, experts say the practice remains prevalent.
At Norwich University, a 22-year-old student and member of the women’s rugby team was recently found intoxicated and covered in urine. According to local media reports, the student was also “branded” with pliers and a lighter. In investigating the incident, local law enforcement uncovered a video showing three women involved in what officers described as a form of waterboarding.
Though a Norwich University spokesperson said the military college has “fully cooperated” with law enforcement, local officials suggest otherwise. Rory Thibault, state attorney for Washington County, told VT Digger there’s “a difference … between being cooperative and being helpful.”
The jarring headlines out of Norwich University come around the same time that Bowling Green State University made news by permanently banning the Sigma Gamma Rho sorority for “severe hazing activity” that dates back to the fall of 2020 but wasn’t uncovered until late last year.
At Bowling Green, Sigma Gamma Rho was found to have engaged in hazing that included forced alcohol and cannabis consumption, pressure to steal, and physical violence. The sanctions come a little over a year after a Bowling Green student died in a fraternity hazing incident. The fraternity involved in that incident, Pi Kappa Alpha, was permanently banned in April 2021.
“Hazing has no place at BGSU,” spokesperson Alex Solis said in an emailed statement Monday. “We are grateful for the individuals who leveraged reporting systems already in place to ensure a tragedy like the death of student Stone Foltz never happens again. Our campus community is stronger when we work together to eradicate this dangerous and concerning behavior.”
While hazing may conjure up scenes from frat house movies, experts—and recent events—suggest that such activities are hardly limited to men on campus. And recent trends show that women are increasingly using alcohol in the hazing process, which often leads to more dangerous incidents.
Women Hazing Women
There’s no central database for tracking incidents, but researchers note that hazing has been fairly consistent on college campuses over the years. And while men typically grab most of the headlines, women experience hazing, too, though often in different ways.
“Most of the research around hazing tends to suggest that fraternities are more likely to be involved,” said Pietro Sasso, a professor of educational leadership at Stephen F. Austin State University and a faculty research fellow at the Piazza Center at Pennsylvania State University.
But hazing still frequently occurs in sororities, he said. And how women haze their female peers seems to be changing, according to data from the Piazza Center, which provides research on Greek life to enhance the safety of such organizations. (The Piazza Center is named for Timothy Piazza, a Penn State sophomore who died in 2017 after being hazed while pledging a fraternity.)
“We’re seeing more alcohol use in women’s hazing practices, which is not something we saw before,” Sasso said. “And then with men, we’re seeing more violent forms of hazing.”
Men and women often have different reasons for participating in hazing, he said.
“Our research at the Piazza Center suggests that women are more likely to engage in hazing for conformity and for identity, and men are more likely to participate in hazing to prove masculinity,” Sasso said. “But the overall theme is that they want group affiliation and a sense of belonging.”
Gentry McCreary conducts research on Greek life as part of his role as CEO of Dyad Strategies, a higher education consulting firm. In his observations, sororities and fraternities haze at roughly the same rates, but women are less likely to engage in dangerous behavior.
“With fraternities, you definitely see more high-risk, more dangerous type behavior. You’re more likely to see forced consumption of alcohol, for example, more likely to see physical abuse than females,” McCreary said. “But when you look at the prevalence of hazing, broadly, females are still engaged in the behavior; they just tend to do it in ways that are less likely to get the group in trouble or make headlines. You hear less about it because there tend to be fewer incidents—it’s more emotional, more psychological and less often results in arrests or injuries or death.”
The Pandemic Effect
Hank Nuwer, a recently retired journalism professor, has tracked hazing deaths since 1975. In the absence of a centralized database, there’s Nuwer’s Unofficial Hazing Clearinghouse.
Nuwer’s website shows hazing deaths stretching back all the way to 1838. From 1959 to 2019, there were hazing deaths at colleges every year—a streak that finally ended in 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic largely closed campuses, forcing students into online classes.
“In terms of fatalities, one consistent trackable fact is that there was a hazing death every year from 1959 to 2019,” Nuwer told Inside Higher Ed by email. “There were none in 2020 but students largely were learning by Zoom. Deaths occurred again in 2021, and with several violent and alcohol-related hazings of late, I worry we’ll see more deaths in fall 2022.”
Just because there were no deaths during the pandemic doesn’t mean hazing stopped; like everything else, it just shifted. Experts note that hazing moved largely online, taking the form of cyberbullying. Some fraternities and sororities also moved their activities off campus, where there was less oversight.
“It didn’t necessarily reduce hazing as much as students found new ways to engage in hazing,” Sasso said.
Sasso, who co-authored an opinion piece for Inside Higher Ed last year on the likelihood of increased drinking and hazing when colleges reopened, said it’s too soon to tell what effect the pandemic has had now that students are back on campus and returning to normal life.
McCreary noted that students who joined Greek life and other organizations during the pandemic may have skipped hazing rituals, so now members will likely go through those rites of passage. Additionally, with the coronavirus pushing higher education into a world of constant change, students may see hazing as a way to assert more control over their organizations.
“For whatever reason, COVID and the shutdowns and everything that’s happened over the last couple of years really changed student attitudes around the importance of a new member process that’s designed to reinforce a hierarchy, and that you have to earn your way in by being subservient at the bottom end of that hierarchy as you become acclimated to the organization,” McCreary said.
Consequences of Hazing
Drawing on his research, Nuwer suggests “hazing has always been around” at Norwich. He points to violent hazing incidents there in 2008 and a “toxic culture” that’s still in place.
“If you have a culture where manliness and female toughness are going to be rewarded and veterans say, ‘We’ve got a good one,’ hazing is going to flourish,” Nuwer said.
He and others also note the prevalence of alcohol in such incidents. In the most severe hazing cases, particularly those that end in injury or death, alcohol is often a factor.
“The more we can reduce alcohol use, the less likely they are to engage in hazing with alcohol,” Sasso said. “So it won’t stop hazing, but it’ll reduce the alcohol use in the hazing process, which is how most students die or get injured during the hazing process. If you look at all of the hazing cases where there has been a student death, almost all of them involve alcohol in some way.”
Despite increased parental activism, hazing remains a staple of college life, popping up in fraternities and sororities, in athletic teams, and in various other student organizations. Oftentimes, the consequences vary according to state law, meaning there is no standard for punishing hazing.
Some states—such as Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia—have introduced laws to crack down on hazing. But Nuwer notes that universities also have a responsibility to act, just as Bowling Green did in expelling a fraternity and a sorority for hazing. He also pointed to the University of Vermont, which canceled an entire hockey season after its men’s team was caught up in a hazing scandal years ago.
Experts say such consequences, along with continuing education, are important. And as state laws and concerned parents take a stronger stand against hazing, universities are taking notice.
“What I’ve seen in recent years is that there’s less and less tolerance,” McCreary said. “Things that 10 years ago may have warranted a slap on the wrist or a mild sanction are now being taken much more seriously. Chapters are much more likely to be closed or have recognition withdrawn for seemingly minor or less serious hazing cases than they were a decade ago.”
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New report suggests a microgrant program at Georgia State helps students complete their degrees faster and with less debt.
When Georgia State University administrators realized they were barring about 1,000 students from enrollment every semester because they owed the university money, the university leaders knew they needed to come up with a plan that addressed financial obstacles to completion.
In 2011 they launched the Panther Retention Grant program, which covers students’ unpaid balances. The program is targeted at students in good academic standing, with a GPA of 2.0 or higher, who are at risk of being dropped from enrollment rolls because of outstanding debts of $2,500 or less. Eligible students, who have unmet financial needs after exhausting all other forms of aid, automatically receive the grant without having to apply.
“That was the impetus for the program, to try to address the attrition of really good students that were leaving us for really bad reasons—not because they didn’t want to be there and not because they couldn’t be there academically but because they didn’t have the money,” said Timothy Renick, executive director of the National Institute for Student Success at Georgia State.
Grants originally went to first-year students when the program first started, but now the majority go to seniors. Administrators made this change in 2014, hoping to maximize the impact of the program by getting more students to the finish line so they can complete their studies and graduate in less time. In its first year, the program awarded 214 grants; more than 10,000 grants have since been awarded.
A recent report by the research firm Ithaka S+R suggests the microgrant program helps students graduate in less time and with less debt on average.
“A program that helps students clear that last final obstacle and helps them get their degrees is important—and it’s the right thing to do,” said Daniel Rossman, a senior researcher at Ithaka S+R and a co-author of the report.
Rossman and the other authors of the report conducted two analyses to assess the outcomes of the program. One analysis compared students who received the grants to students who did not. The other compared students with outstanding balances, who may or may not have received the grants, to students without these debts to substantiate the first set of findings.
The analyses found that grants did help recipients graduate more quickly. Students who received a grant had significantly higher graduation rates than their peers within one term and three terms of getting the funds, though the difference in graduation rates between recipients and nonrecipients diminished over time.
Students who received the grants were enrolled for 0.44 fewer terms than their peers on average. Grant recipients also accumulated $3,700 less debt on average, including, federal, state and institutional student loan debt. The report suggests this is likely because they had to make fewer tuition payments. When examined separately, Pell Grant recipients and students from underrepresented backgrounds had similar outcomes.
However, the findings didn’t definitively show whether the grants helped students graduate who otherwise would not have. In the second analysis of the report, there was no difference in graduation rates within six terms among students with balances and without balances.
Even so, a speedier path to graduation has major benefits for students, Rossman said. He noted that students not only incur less debt but can enter the labor market earlier and begin paying off student loan debt faster.
Research shows even small outstanding debts to colleges can have lasting consequences. A previous Ithaka S+R report from 2020 estimated that about 8.3 million students nationwide had unpaid balances in the 2018 fiscal year, and over 1.4 million wound up with accounts in collections. Meanwhile, some institutions withhold the transcripts of students with unpaid balances, which prevents them from enrolling for classes or transferring to other institutions. An estimated 6.6 million students have stranded credits they earned but can’t access because of these debts, which can prevent them from continuing their education or securing jobs.
A wave of colleges—especially community colleges and historically Black colleges and universities—recently used federal COVID-19 relief funds to pay off students’ outstanding balances The colleges acted in response to the job losses and financial hardships students experienced during the pandemic, which led to droves of students stopping out.
Enrollment at Georgia State’s main campus in Atlanta, where the retention grant program was first implemented, has risen fairly steadily for over a decade, a trend that’s continued in spite of the pandemic. Enrollment increased from 35,052 students in fall 2019 to 36,304 in fall 2020. However, Renick said the sustained growth can likely be attributed to a range of factors, including federal COVID-19 relief funds, successful academic counseling and the use of chat bots to engage students, among other factors.
Rossman believes the study findings about Panther Retention Grants have broader implications for other colleges and universities looking to develop or fine-tune similar programs.
“I think the big takeaway is that retention or completion grants offer a promising solution to the problem of affordability in higher education,” Rossman said. “The right design and strategic implementation in these types of programs can play an important role in helping students remain enrolled through graduation, especially in a post-pandemic world with huge financial obstacles. I think it’s something that can be part of an institution’s tool kit to help students succeed.”
Not everyone is so sure. Completion and retention grants, which offer students small sums to help keep them enrolled, have become increasingly popular in recent years. However, some higher ed experts have raised concerns that completion grants may not be reaching the students who need them most.
The Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice at Temple University published the results of a randomized-control trial in December 2021, which examined outcomes of 11 university grant programs, not including Georgia State’s. The report found “no evidence of positive impacts on academic outcomes.”
Sara Goldrick-Rab, founder and president of the Hope Center, said Georgia State’s program jump-started a trend in higher ed, but she worries “completion grants might be going to the kinds of students who, despite financial challenges, have persisted towards the end and who would finish with or without the completion grants.” The report’s findings about Georgia State’s program have not convinced her otherwise.
She believes grant dollars would generally be better spent on first-year students and sophomores, in part because low-income students from underrepresented backgrounds drop out at higher rates before their senior year compared to white students from wealthier households.
Renick said it’s important to rigorously assess completion grant programs, and he’s grateful for studies like the Hope Center’s, but he pointed out that not all programs are alike. For example, he said some require onerous application processes. He believes the latest research on Panther Retention Grants demonstrates that these programs can save low-income students time and money if carefully designed. He also noted that supports for students earlier in their studies are crucial, but so are programs that serve students near the end of their college careers, particularly in Georgia. The state’s HOPE scholarships, which are merit based, only assist students for four years, so working students who may take longer to graduate can find themselves short on cash.
“You’ve got to test these things and figure out what works and what doesn’t work,” he said of retention and completion grant programs. “That’s how we improve, and that’s how we make any gains in science and gains in technology, and that’s what higher education and student success needs to do more of.”
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Amid a surge in gun violence near campus, the Temple University Police Association disputes as “factually untrue” the hiring and patrol numbers the administration has reported.
When Temple University administrators pledged in November to hire more police officers and double neighborhood patrols around the university, it came as welcome news to campus law enforcement. But now the Temple University Police Association claims the administration hasn’t delivered on those promises.
The Temple University Police Association (TUPA), a new union representing campus law enforcement, has been vocal about its recent differences with administrators, accusing leadership of presenting “factually untrue” information on hiring and increased patrol numbers.
This disagreement comes amid active negotiations between the university and the union, set against a backdrop of recent gun violence that has alarmed students and parents. In November 2021, Temple student Samuel Collington was killed in a botched robbery in a neighborhood near campus. A string of recent shootings in neighborhoods heavily populated with students has exacerbated fear in Philadelphia, which counted more than 120 homicides in 2021.
Temple’s executive director of public safety stepped down last month after nearly 40 years at the university.
What Officers Want
Temple president Jason Wingard announced plans last winter to increase the “Campus Safety force” by 50 percent. But that effort has been slow going, said Alec Shaffer, president of TUPA. While the university plans to add more police officers to bring the total number to over 100, Shaffer said the current number stands at approximately 60.
Last month Ken Kaiser, Temple’s senior vice president and chief operating officer, said, “The university has invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in overtime to ensure patrols meet or exceed all historic norms. Through the new officers that have been hired as well as the increased Philadelphia Police Department supplemental patrols, the university has more than doubled the number of officers actively patrolling the patrol zone at any given time.”
But Shaffer said the numbers just don’t add up. Given that several officers have left since November and the hiring process is crawling along, he questions Kaiser’s claim.
“I don’t know where he's getting that number from when, since November, we’re negative five police officers,” Shaffer said. “So I don’t know how they’re doubling patrols.”
Just how many officers Temple has is a matter of dispute. A statement from the university suggests that Shaffer is essentially stretching the truth amid ongoing negotiations.
“Temple University police and security officers provide outstanding service to the university and our community,” the statement from Temple said. “Their professionalism and dedication, under some of the most trying circumstances, cannot be overstated. However, the statement from their new union representative regarding patrol coverage creates unnecessary confusion.”
Temple counts “83 filled officer positions” and a vacancy rate of 23 percent. The university notes the count is up from 75 officers at the start of the school year, when the force had a vacancy rate of 31 percent.
“We previously budgeted for 108 officer positions, but as we have noted, we are hoping to greatly exceed that number, provided that we are able to find the right candidates for the positions,” the university said in a statement shared by Temple spokesperson Stephen Orbanek.
Shaffer suggests there are “60 active patrol officers” spread across three locations: the main campus in north Philadelphia, the Health Sciences campus and a site outside the city. Additionally, he said the department is currently operating at about 60 percent capacity.
“I think there is a lack of communication between the police department administration and the [public relations] side of the university,” Shaffer said. “But when you look at the numbers, I’m not sure where they’re getting those from. I’m not sure if they’re trying to include private security.”
Temple shed some light on the calculation in an email to Inside Higher Ed, noting that it draws from other law enforcement agencies to supplement safety efforts, which has allowed it to double patrol hours.
“Temple pays for patrol coverage beyond the tireless efforts of Temple’s police and security officers, including the Philadelphia Police Department, security officers from Allied Universal, and Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement officers,” the email read. “Because the safety of our students and our community is our highest priority, Temple has dramatically increased its spending on these areas to increase the number of patrols. The university’s annual spending for 2022 is projected to be well over double that of last year which translates into more professional law enforcement and public safety presence in and around Temple. The university has also paid Philadelphia Police for additional officers, who together have increased the weekly patrol hours from 96 to 208, and we are already working with the city on further patrols to secure the safety of our community.”
Though he disagrees with Temple’s math, Shaffer welcomes the prospect of hiring more police officers. He said about 100 total are needed and that current officers have logged more than 20,000 hours of overtime—often mandated—since the start of the fiscal year in July. When counting other police staff, such as dispatchers, the overtime hours stretch to almost 30,000.
“There’s only so many 16-hour shifts you can work,” Shaffer said. “It drains morale.”
Hiring Challenges
Temple has stressed that it is actively recruiting police officers, but challenges persist.
“It is true that Temple’s Department of Public Safety, like most law enforcement employers, is facing challenges to fill open positions. That is an unfortunate reality of a workforce marketplace that has been impacted by increased violence, public perception of police, and the pandemic,” Orbanek said. “But to be clear, the number of patrols on and around campus has increased.”
However, Shaffer contends that Temple needs to make certain investments if it wants to meet its staffing goals—namely, improving pay and benefits as well as making more resources available to officers.
“It’s difficult to attract qualified candidates, because we just aren’t competitive when it comes to pay, working conditions or equipment when you try to compare that to other police departments or even other university police departments, unfortunately,” Shaffer said.
He added that Temple police officers need equipment such as load-bearing vests, which help evenly distribute the weight of their gear, and upgraded communications systems.
Temple isn’t alone in its struggles to attract qualified candidates to the campus police force. Recruiting challenges have hit law enforcement broadly in recent years, said Lewis Eakins, vice president for public safety and emergency preparedness at Ivy Tech Community College and a board member of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators.
Eakins, who has conducted research on recruitment and retention challenges, notes the challenges are related not just to pay and benefits but also to a recent cultural shift.
“Times have changed,” Eakins said. “Based upon the shootings of African American males and the anti–law enforcement sentiment that is very prevalent right now, it’s not a career that people want to go into as much as they used to. Therefore, there is a shortage not just on college campuses, but in city police agencies, sheriff’s departments and even state police agencies.”
But when it comes to pay and benefits, colleges often can’t keep up with other police forces.
“What I’ve seen is that institutions of higher ed tend to pay less than municipalities where they are located, especially if it is an institution of higher ed in a major metropolitan area,” he said.
However, colleges do have one recruiting and retention advantage over other agencies: tuition benefits. Given the ever-increasing cost of higher education, Eakins suggests that free or reduced tuition—which Temple does offer employees—is one way that colleges can attract candidates who wish to earn a degree. Extending those benefits to spouses and dependents can also help with staffing, he said.
In his own experience managing campus police forces at multiple colleges, Eakins said he’s been able to retain employees for longer periods of time when free or reduced tuition is available to officers or their families.
Temple’s Public Safety Experts
Beyond its effort to hire more officers, Temple is addressing campus safety through a variety of new approaches.
The university announced in March that it would provide grants of up to $2,500 to landlords near campus to upgrade security at rental units. Funds can be used to install lighting or cameras. At the same time, Temple said it was exploring the formation of a neighborhood watch program.
Ongoing efforts to address gun violence include an audit of campus safety services; a nascent Task Force on Violence Reduction comprised of faculty, staff, students, parents and community members; and the introduction of the RAVE Temple Guardian personal safety app, which allows students to contact campus police and offers virtual safe walks, among other features.
Beyond Temple’s efforts, parents have also hired private security to patrol neighborhoods near campus where as many as 10,000 students live, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Understanding Violence in Philadelphia
Dubbed the City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia hasn’t lived up to its name in recent years, considering the rates of gun violence. City data for 2022 count “407 nonfatal and 108 fatal shooting victims” as of April 3, and a homicide rate on par with 2021.
Looking at data from January 2017 to June 2021, Caterina Roman, a criminal justice professor at Temple, and doctoral student Nicole J. Johnson found an uptick in gun violence in Philadelphia. And they noted one key but perhaps unsurprising takeaway: that gun violence occurred with more frequency in neighborhoods where illicit narcotics were easily bought and sold.
Another finding was that highly disadvantaged neighborhoods—those more likely to experience poverty and related challenges—did not see increased rates of gun violence during the COVID-19 pandemic. Those spikes were largely in neighborhoods that had open-air drug markets. And while neighborhoods around Temple are disadvantaged, there are no open-air drug markets, Roman emphasized.
“We can’t overgeneralize—‘oh, Temple is in a disadvantaged section of North Philadelphia, so it’s really bad there.’ I would say as a criminologist and scholar that those kinds of generalizations are not fully supported,” Roman said. “We did not find, post-pandemic, that neighborhoods with a high concentrated disadvantage had a quick uptick in gun violence.”
Ultimately, the two researchers suggest that solving gun violence in Philadelphia isn’t something the police can do but rather will require a community effort with broad buy-in and engagement.
“We need local government to partner with lots of different stakeholders and community residents to really think about how to tackle these complex problems,” Roman said. “And those problems in the drug-market neighborhoods might be a bit different than the problems along other places or corridors where there have been a few shootings around campus.”
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The College of the Holy Cross, in Worcester, Mass., announced Monday it will rename its Integrated Science Complex for renowned alumnus Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Dr. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a top infectious diseases expert who guided the country through the COVID-19 pandemic, earned his undergraduate degree from the College of the Holy Cross in 1962, majoring in classics with a premedical concentration. He received an honorary degree from Holy Cross in 1987.
The Integrated Science Complex will be renamed the Anthony S. Fauci Integrated Science Complex on June 11, during Dr. Fauci’s 60th class reunion weekend. Holy Cross president Vincent D. Rougeau said in a statement the science complex is a place where students actively engage in research and debate and “embrace a commitment to social justice and our Jesuit values to be people for and with others.”
“Dr. Fauci vividly personifies the distinctive characteristics of a Holy Cross education, and we know his life and work are already inspiring the next generation of empathetic servant leaders,” Rougeau said.
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The Association of American Law Schools wanted to know how law deans are different now, after the COVID-19 pandemic. So they organized a survey by NORC at the University of Chicago.
The percentage of deans who reported spending some or a lot of their time on crisis management increased from 11 percent in 2019 to 88 percent in 2020. Deans reporting some or a lot of time dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion efforts increased from 16 percent in 2019 to 79 percent in 2020. Student life and student conduct issues were also major foci of law school deans, with 8 percent reporting they spent some or a lot of time on the issue in 2019 compared to 44 percent in 2020. But so were budget and financial management: 49 percent before COVID-19 and 74 percent after.
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Today on the Academic Minute: Danae Schulz, assistant professor of biology at Harvey Mudd College, describes how to stop one deadly parasite. Learn more about the Academic Minute here.
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Some Tennessee community colleges have laid off employees and cut positions in response to steep enrollment declines, Axios Nashville reported.
Flora W. Tydings, chancellor of the Tennessee Board of Regents system, said in a meeting last week that enrollment at the state’s 13 community colleges is now the lowest it’s been since 2001. Enrollment at the community colleges was 74,543 students in fall 2021, down from 88,946 in fall 2019, a loss of more than 14,000 students since the pandemic started.
Volunteer State Community College fired 20 staff members and removed 13 open positions. Jackson State Community College also plans to eliminate more than 20 positions by June. The college is merging its nursing and health science departments, and the business department will take over the computer information technology program, according to WBBJ 7. Walters State and Cleveland State already reduced their staffs in 2021, Tennessee Board of Regents spokesperson Rick Locker told Axios.
“We’ve had dips before,” Tydings said at the meeting. “We manage it to the best of our ability. But at some point, you do have to step in and make some drastic decisions, and that’s kind of the point where we are at this moment in time.”
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Science papers are the right place to talk about the supremacist history of science, Clara del Junco writes.
Academics and institutions have increasingly been discussing the racist histories of their disciplines in blog posts and press releases since the uprising for Black lives in summer 2020. I welcome these acknowledgments, often spurred by student and community organizing, but I argue that these discussions must be central to our work and therefore should appear in the main products of research—namely, in papers.
Unfortunately, as I recently learned, even footnoting these racist histories in an academic journal can be a nonstarter. In mid-December, the peer-review process at a respected physics society journal was wrapping up for a paper that I had co-authored. The paper builds off an equation originally proposed by three Soviet scientists (Andrey Kolmogorov, Ivan Georgievich Petrovsky and Nikolai Piskunov) and separately by Ronald Fisher, a British statistician.
As noted on his Wikipedia page, Fisher has been described as “a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science” and as “the single most important figure in 20th century statistics.” He was also a eugenicist, and he explicitly developed his research program to support the project of eugenics. The equation that we worked with was originally published with the title “The wave of advance of advantageous genes” in the Annals of Eugenics, which he edited from 1934 to 1954.
The equation is quite general, and we used it to model an abstracted chemical process. Still, I struggled with how to handle its provenance; while a citation was clearly appropriate, I did not want to endorse Fisher’s ideology, so closely tied to his work. Ultimately, I chose to refer to the equation as the KPP equation, and added a footnote: “We choose not to further promote Ronald Fisher’s name due to the racist, ableist, and otherwise supremacist and discriminatory views that he championed in his life and work. He published this equation in the journal Annals of Eugenics (now Annals of Human Genetics). We acknowledge that apart from this equation, many of the tools that we use in this paper—even concepts as common as the standard deviation—were developed by Fisher and colleagues of his with similar views, such as Karl Pearson, with the aim of advancing their ideologies.” The footnote also directed readers to several popular and scholarly sources where they could read further discussions of this topic.
The three anonymous reviewers made no mention of the footnote, and our paper was accepted with minor revisions, but a few weeks later I received an email from the managing editor of the journal saying that they were removing the footnote, on the grounds that it “does not belong in a paper since it is a personal statement, not a scientific result.”
First, let’s consider the distinction made here between the scientific and personal. Any scientific result is the product of a person or group deciding to invest time, money and intellectual resources in a particular research direction. Our whole paper is already a personal statement that its topic is worth investigating and the result worth sharing. Fisher’s work in eugenics, to which he devoted his life, is a case in point. The collective implications of these choices are significant: consider, for instance, the vast disparities between the volume of research on women’s versus men’s health. More generally, decades of research, from groundbreaking science studies scholar Donna Haraway, among others, have argued that the identity, values and milieu of a scientist shape what they see in the world—and what they publish in their papers. In order for the reader to effectively assess the limitations and implications of a scientific result, they need to understand that milieu. A footnote seemed like a perfectly appropriate way to include relevant contextual information about the background of our scientific approach. Clearly, our editor did not agree.
I wonder if they thought through the implications of their decision. Ronald Fisher is dead, but the hierarchies of race, class and ability that he championed live on in the world and in our scientific communities. What does it mean for a professional society to say it is “committed to the inclusion of underrepresented minorities” when research articles in its journals can’t mention that many of the statistical tools that its members use every day were developed to support a racist scientific project by someone with overtly racist views?
I am an able-bodied white woman of European descent. I was upset that the journal removed the footnote because, in the absence of an explicit statement to the contrary, my paper implicitly endorses the uncontextualized citation of Fisher’s ideas. I’ll survive. But the pre-eminence of the “scientific” over the “personal” sends a clear message to underrepresented minorities (and overrepresented majorities) in the field: ableism, classism and white supremacy don’t matter if the science is right.
To their credit, the editor conceded that “this kind of information can be valuable in creating awareness and recognition of a historical context,” but they nonetheless maintained that “a scientific research paper is not the right place for this.” Presumably, the right place is a forum like this one, or perhaps a diversity, equity and inclusion seminar. That is all very well for people like you and me, who read academia-adjacent blogs and websites; attend diversity, equity and inclusion seminars; and may have a deeper intellectual and political commitment that leads us to read scholarship on the history of science where these discussions have long been held. But what about for the people who don’t, or perhaps would rather not, engage with these other sources of information and perspectives? I believe it behooves us as a scientific community to foreground the historical role of science in maintaining and—as in Fisher’s case—reifying oppressive systems. That means putting the information where the scientists are: in conference talks, in classes and in papers.
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Mumbai: Royal Challengers Bangalore's (RCB) Director of Cricket Operations Mike Hesson put a lid on the rumours surrounding the availability of Australian limited-overs specialist Glenn Maxwell, saying that he will not be available for the crucial game against the Rajasthan Royals (RR) at the Wankhede Stadium later on Tuesday.
Maxwell has missed the first couple of matches for RCB and will also miss the third game against RR as he is contracted to Cricket Australia (CA). The 33-year-old, will however be available for selection for RCB's fourth match gainst Mumbai Indians on Saturday.
"From a Cricket Australia point of view, no contracted players are available before the 6th of April. So, regardless of when they arrive over here, no one can play until the 6th. We've been well aware of that as any other side, we've planned for that. Maxi will be with us and available from the 9th (of April)."
Australia are playing a limited-over series against Pakistan in Lahore, and irrespective of whether a Cricket Australia-contracted player is in the squad or not, he cannot play anywhere else unless his team's engagements for that particular series are over.
RCB will be back on the field after a gap of five days, and looking ahead to the clash against the Royals, Hesson told RCB Bold Diaries on Tuesday that his side will have to adapt quickly in their first game at the Wankhede after having played the last two matches at the D Y Patil Stadium.
"Both our games have been at DY (Patil Stadium) which is quite a different surface and different surroundings, different boundary dimensions. So our first challenge at Wankhede -- we have to adapt to different sizes of the boundaries, whether on a used surface or a new one. We know there's going to be dew, so that's not an excuse for anybody. We're just going to have to deal with that," Hesson opined.
With three former RCB players -- Devdutt Padikkal, Yuzvendra Chahal, and Navdeep Saini -- now in the RR camp, Hesson felt that it won't give an advantage to his side.
"It probably helps both parties. They know a lot about us, and we know a lot about them. So, once again it's probably just down to how well people deal with pressure on the day. All good players that you mentioned, all have done well at times for RCB in the past. We're looking forward to taking them on, but we're obviously looking to get one over on them as well," he said.
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At a party of liberal activists to mark the end of the Senate confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, and her likely confirmation as the first Black female justice, the mood in the downtown Washington club this week was upbeat even before funk star Chaka Khan took the stage.
I’m glad they enjoyed it, because this crowd has little else to celebrate in the months and years ahead.
Even amid the partying, folks lamented the likelihood that the Supreme Court, by the end of its term in June, will effectively strike down the half-century-old constitutional right to abortion established by Roe v. Wade. They also know that Jackson’s expected replacement of retiring Justice Stephen G. Breyer after this term — a swap of one liberal for another — won’t change the conservatives’ 6-3 stranglehold on the court.
And that means more defeats ahead at the court’s hands, and on social issues that have majority support nationwide.
As emboldened Republicans made clear during the week of Jackson’s hearing, at the Senate Judiciary Committee and elsewhere, conservatives are playing a long game that doesn’t stop with curbing abortion rights. Republicans are now openly questioning other familiar court precedents on reproductive, racial and LGBTQ rights that go to Americans’ most intimate decisions about whom they marry and whether they have children.
Perhaps the only person more unnerved than supporters of these rights is the court’s chief justice, John G. Roberts Jr.
Roberts is a strong conservative who opposes abortion and same-sex marriage. Yet he’s also protective of the institution of the Supreme Court and its public image, which was scuffed even before the biggest furor yet involving right-wing power couple Clarence and Virginia “Ginni” Thomas left many Americans (further) questioning Justice Thomas’ impartiality.
So Roberts is less likely than Thomas and the four other conservatives to chuck the court’s precedents, especially widely popular ones, as they take the front lines of Republicans’ culture wars. Proposals on the left to enlarge the court to restore some balance — ideas that President Biden and most congressional Democrats are resisting — could well gain traction if the court is seen as lurching too far right. Worse, Roberts knows, the court could lose the mainstream support essential to its legitimacy.
Contrary to Roberts’ prudence, however, other conservatives on the court and off are barreling ahead in hopes that the right’s lopsided majority can brake, even reverse, the rights won in past decades.
That explains the otherwise inexplicable three-minute video that Tennessee’s Sen. Marsha Blackburn released before Jackson’s hearing, previewing a theme she’d return to — with saccharine snark in her best “Bless your heart” style — as she interrogated the nominee.
The Republican senator singled out as wrongly decided a 1965 ruling, Griswold v. Connecticut, that is little known to most Americans but enjoyed by countless: It established a right to use contraceptives.
Last month in a debate, three Republicans running to be Michigan’s attorney general also condemned Griswold. It’s not that conservatives are opposed to the pill and its alternatives, though some are. Rather, they consider Griswold a sort of judicial original sin: By creating a constitutional right to privacy, the court 57 years ago (by a 7-2 vote, by the way) laid the foundation for later rulings on abortion rights, interracial and same-sex marriage, and more.
Which brings us to Republican Sen. Mike Braun of Indiana and his attack last week not only against Griswold and Roe, but also Loving v. Virginia. That wonderfully named 1967 ruling struck down state laws against interracial marriage — making the Thomases’ marriage possible, and Jackson’s, and so many millions more over 55 years.
While Braun soon retreated after facing blowback, the video of his session with Indiana reporters made clear that he meant what he said, and his remarks were in fact philosophically consistent: If, as he argued, the Constitution doesn’t establish a right to privacy — it’s not explicitly mentioned — then Loving was just as wrongly decided as Roe and others based on that privacy right; it’s up to the states to decide whether their residents can get abortions and marry someone of a different race or the same sex.
A reporter twice asked Braun whether his reasoning extended to Loving. “Yes,” he said without a pause. “If you’re not wanting the Supreme Court to weigh in on issues like that, you’re not going to be able to have your cake and eat it too. I think that’s hypocritical.”
Unlike Braun, fellow Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas isn’t retreating from his criticism of Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 ruling establishing a right to same-sex marriage. That decision, he told Jackson during his questioning of her, created “a conflict between what people may believe as a matter of their religious doctrine or faith and what the federal government says is the law of the land.”
“Now don’t get me wrong,” Cornyn added. “I’m not arguing the merits or lack of merits of same-sex marriage. I believe the states and the voters can choose what they will.”
There we have it: Republicans are not only anticipating the end of a nationally recognized right to abortion, but also looking to build on that victory to target other rights we thought were “settled law” — as Republican nominees to the Supreme Court call Roe while they’re seeking Senate confirmation. We’d be back to a patchwork of state laws, where we once had fundamental rights.
We won’t be partying then.
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To the editor -- Did not those who we elected to Congress and those who work for us as federal bureaucrats take an oath of office that says, "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same ..."?
Maybe what the comic strip Pogo said applies to these times were living in: "We have met the enemy and he is us."
Maybe better said in these times is, "We have met the enemy and his name is President Biden."
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To the editor -- Some people hoard bullets, beans and booze, while others of more recent stressful times accumulate toilet paper and cleaning wipes.
Now I too accumulate stuff, and a few of the aforementioned products can be found stored in my abode. It seems that once I find something I enjoy, I get a little obsessive and it’s hard to throw things away.
Our adult son was pleasantly surprised recently when he inquired whether his mother and I had kept his “Pokeman” cards from his childhood. It was his parents who were surprised when he told us that his online sale of that shoebox of cardboard had garnered well over $1,000. (Where’s my 1956 Mickey Mantle card?)
Someone out there is wondering, “Where’s he going with this story?” My current dilemma is that as I pontificate on whatever current topic interests me, I’ve begun to write and hoard “letters to the editor.” There, I often express my exceptional expert opinion. (Kidding!)
Unfortunately, the YH-R limits publishing my submissions to a measly one offering per calendar month. At current tally, I have now composed and prepared enough submissions to reach January of 2023. Did I tell you I was a little obsessive?
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U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn seems to have finally struck a nerve with his party.
Since he first emerged on the political stage just a couple of years ago, the first-term congressman from western North Carolina has made a name for himself as a far-right extremist and overall embarrassment to the state.
And, for the most part, Republicans have said and done very little to distance themselves from him. Until now.
His most recent indiscretion — and the one that has most drawn the ire of his fellow Republicans — occurred during a podcast appearance last week where he spoke of “sexual perversion” among politicians in Washington, the kind you’d see on a political TV drama like “House of Cards,” Cawthorn said.
In the interview, Cawthorn alleged that some of his older colleagues have invited him to orgies at their homes. He also claimed that “some of the people who are leading on the movement to try and remove addiction in our country” have done “a key bump of cocaine” right in front of him.
Needless to say, Republicans were not happy.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy met with Cawthorn on Wednesday to discuss the situation, as he has done in the past with other members who mire themselves in scandal, such as Paul Gosar and Marjorie Taylor Greene. McCarthy told reporters after the meeting that Cawthorn, who apparently admitted the allegations were exaggerated, has lost his trust and warned there could be consequences if he doesn’t “turn himself around.”
North Carolina politicians were similarly displeased.
“I thought it was a silly statement and it’s not the first one,” U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis told CNN.
Said U.S. Sen. Richard Burr: “On any given day, he’s an embarrassment.”
Just a few weeks ago, comments by Cawthorn drew similar criticism from his colleagues after a video surfaced in which he called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “thug.” At the time, it was one of the few instances in which Republicans had condemned any of Cawthorn’s transgressions. Now, it seems like it may have been approaching the last straw.
It is, of course, refreshing to see Republicans taking a stand at last against their party’s worst. But it’s hard to overlook all the times they didn’t.
There have been plenty of opportunities. A string of sexual harassment allegations surfaced shortly after his inauguration. There have been reports of him bringing weapons to school board meetings and airports. He may or may not have played an outsize role in the U.S. Capitol insurrection, and he’s threatened and incited violence more than once.
After all that, these salacious but rather immaterial allegations about cocaine and orgies are what finally pushed the GOP over the edge. Only now that his apparently active imagination has threatened the rest of his party do his colleagues seem willing to speak up. Moore, for example, has seemed more inclined to criticize him ever since Cawthorn decided, briefly, to run for reelection in the district that was widely believed to have been drawn specifically for the speaker.
Cawthorn, while ostentatious, is hardly an anomaly. Republicans have been equally reluctant to take on other extremists in their party, including Marjorie Taylor Greene. They cower when former President Donald Trump and others spread election falsehoods that chip away at democracy. But now that the fantastical stories involve them, they’re suddenly speaking up? It’s hypocritical. And it’s about time.
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New Delhi: India's antitrust watchdog has ordered an investigation of food delivery companies Zomato Ltd and Swiggy over the companies' apps being "neutral" platforms, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) said on Monday.
The order comes months after the National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI) asked the CCI to investigate the companies for breaching platform neutrality by providing priority to exclusive contractors.
"A conflict of interest situation has arisen in the present case, both with regard to Swiggy as well as Zomato ... which may come in the way of them acting as neutral platforms," the CCI said in an order.
The NRAI, which represents more than 500,000 restaurants across India, also alleged Zomato and Swiggy were misusing consumer data, charged exorbitant commissions and provided massive discounting.
"The Commission observes that it has already found merit in investigating the issue pertaining to platform neutrality," the CCI said, but added that it did not see merits in allegations of delayed payments, "one-sided clauses" and "exorbitant commission etc" being linked to competition.
Swiggy and Zomato did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment.
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Kochi: Plunging Indian households into deep crisis, fuel prices were hiked for the 13th time since March 22 on Tuesday.
While petrol prices were increased by 87 paise, diesel rates went up by 84 paise in Kerala. In the last 11 days, price of petrol has increased by Rs 10.02 and diesel by Rs 9.41.
Currently, petrol costs Rs 116.32 and diesel Rs 103.13 in Thiruvananthapuram. Petrol price rose to Rs 114.33 in Kochi and diesel price increased to Rs 101.24. It is Rs 114.49 and Rs 101.42 respectively in Kozhikode.
Petrol in Delhi will now cost Rs 104.61 per litre as against Rs 103.81 previously, while diesel rates have gone up from Rs 95.07 per litre to Rs 95.87, according to a price notification of state fuel retailers.
Rates have been increased across the country and vary from state to state depending upon the incidence of local taxation.
This is the 13th increase in prices since the ending of a four-and-half-month long hiatus in rate revision on March 22.
Meanwhile, Kerala Finance Minister KN Balagopal clarified that the State will not reduce the petrol and diesel taxes. He added that there was a considerable dip in tax allocation by the Centre.
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NEW CASTLE, Del. (AP) - Two women have died after a fire that heavily damaged a Delaware home over the weekend, state fire officials announced Monday.
Firefighters arrived at the New Castle home early Saturday to find flames shooting from the one-story dwelling and two people trapped inside, the Delaware Office of the State Fire Marshal said in a news release.
Two women were rescued from the burning house and taken to Christiana Hospital in critical condition. One woman, aged 72, died on Saturday and the other, aged 90, died on Sunday, officials said.
The fire remains under investigation. So far this year, 14 people have died in fires in Delaware, compared to 10 fire deaths in the state in all of 2021, officials said.
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Anyone in New York with a pending application for federal aid is protected from court-ordered eviction. But some landlords are trying to force tenants out illegally.
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Anyone in New York with a pending application for federal aid is protected from court-ordered eviction. But some landlords are trying to force tenants out illegally.
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Before audio playlists, before cassette tapes and even before records, there were wax cylinders — the earliest, mass-produced way people could both listen to commercial music and record themselves.
In the 1890s, they were a revolution. People slid blank cylinders onto their Edison phonographs (or shaved down the wax on commercial cylinders) and recorded their families, their environments, themselves.
"When I first started here, it was a format I didn't know much about," said Jessica Wood, assistant curator for music and recorded sound at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. "But it became my favorite format, because there's so many unknowns and it's possible to discover things that haven't been heard since they were recorded."
They haven't been heard because the wax is so fragile. The earliest, putty-colored cylinders deteriorate after only a few dozen listens if played on the Edison machines; they crack if you hold them too long in your hand. And because the wax tubes themselves were unlabeled, many of them remain mysteries.
"They could be people's birthday parties," Wood said, recordings that could tell us more about the social history of the time. "Or they could be "The Star-Spangled Banner" or something incredibly common," she laughed. "I really hope for people's birthday parties."
She's particularly curious about a box of unlabeled cylinders she found on a storage shelf in 2016. All she knows about them is what was on the inside of the box: Gift of Mary Dana to the New York Public Library in 1935.
Enter the Endpoint Cylinder and Dictabelt Machine, invented by Californian Nicholas Bergh, which recently was acquired by the library. Thanks to the combination of its laser and needle, it can digitize even broken or cracked wax cylinders — and there are a lot of those. But Bergh said, the design of the cylinder, which makes it fragile, is also its strength.
"Edison thought of this format as a recording format, almost like like a cassette machine," Bergh said. "That's why the format is a [cylinder]. It's very, very hard to do on a disc. And that's also why there's so much great material on wax cylinder that doesn't exist on disc, like field recorded cylinders, ethnographic material, home recordings, things like that."
One of those important collections owned by the library is the "Mapleson Cylinders," a collection recorded by Lionel Mapleson, the Metropolitan Opera's librarian at the turn of the last century. Mapleson recorded rehearsals and performances — it's the only way listeners can hear pre-World War I opera singers with a full orchestra. Bob Kosovsky, a librarian in the music and recorded sound division, said the Mapleson Cylinders "represent the first extensive live recordings in recorded history."
He said that some of the stars sing in ways no contemporary opera singer would sing. "And that gives us a sort of a keyhole into what things were like then. Not necessarily to do it that way today, but just to know what options are available and how singers and performers and audiences conceived of these things, which is so different from our own conception. It's a way of opening our minds to hear what other possibilities exist."
It will take the library a couple years to digitize all its cylinders. But when they're through, listeners all over the country should be able to access them from their home computers, opening a window to what people sounded like and thought about over 100 years ago.
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CANBERRA, Australia — Australia has accelerated plans to buy long-range strike missiles years ahead of schedule because of growing threats posed by Russia and China.
Defense Minister Peter Dutton said Tuesday the accelerated rearming of fighter jets and warships would cost 3.5 billion Australian dollars ($2.6 billion) and increase Australia's deterrence to potential adversaries.
"There was a working assumption that an act of aggression by China toward Taiwan might take place in the 2040s. I think that timeline now has been dramatically compressed," Dutton told Seven Network television.
"When we look at what's happened in the Ukraine, there is the prospect of Russian going into Poland or somewhere else in Europe. That would be a repeat of the 1930s and that's not something that we should allow to happen," Dutton added, referring to the beginning of World War II.
Under a revised timetable, FA-18F Super Hornet fighter jets would be armed with improved U.S.-manufactured air-to-surface missiles by 2024, three years earlier than planned.
The JASSM-ER missiles would enable fighters to engaged targets at a range of 900 kilometers (560 miles).
Australia's ANZAC Class frigates and Hobart Class destroyers would be equipped with Norwegian-made Kongsberg NSM missiles by 2024, five years ahead of schedule.
The missiles would more than double the warships' strike range.
The new rearmament timetable comes after the Solomon Islands announced a draft security pact with China. Under its terms, China could send military personnel to the South Pacific islands to help maintain order and for other reasons. It could also send warships to the Solomons for stopovers and to replenish supplies, which had led to speculation about the possibility of a Chinese naval base there.
China has denied seeking a military foothold in the islands and accused others of raising tensions.
U.S. Pacific Fleet Commander Samuel Paparo told reporters in Washington on Monday the Solomons-China pact was "very concerning."
"I'm undoubtedly concerned ... and it's a concern for all of our partners throughout the western Pacific and notably Australia and New Zealand," Paparo told Australian Broadcasting Corp.
Anne-Marie Brady, global fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington and professor in politics at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand said a hostile power in control of the Solomons would have a direct impact on sea lanes linking South Pacific states.
"There is no justification for China establishing a military presence in the Solomon Islands," Brady said.
"It is meant to cut off Australia and New Zealand from U.S. military support. ... It is both an immediate and long-term threat," she added.
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Mandy King laid back on a large, brown couch at Shiphrah Birth Services in Vinton, Iowa, as soft piano music streamed from a TV in the background. Her three young children — ages 3, 5 and 7 — played next to her as her midwife, Bethany Gates, examined her pregnant belly, applying pressure with her hands on different parts to identify the baby's position.
On this early spring day, King was 38 weeks pregnant.
"Her head's not really moving a lot," Gates said. "She's kind of settling into the pelvis a little bit, but that's good. That's what we want her to do."
King is planning her first home birth. As a self-described homebody, King said she disliked giving birth at a hospital, away from the comfort of her home and children.
"The experience of being at home is going to be amazing for my mental health," she said. "[In previous births] there was just a lot of crying, a lot of 'I miss my other kiddos. I want to be together as a family.' So I'm really excited for that aspect."
King said she found Gates through a Facebook group.
Gates is one of about 12 certified professional midwives in Iowa. These are non-nurse midwives who specialize in home births and are certified through programs approved by the North American Registry of Midwives.
Iowa is one of more than a dozen states where midwives like Gates operate in a legal gray area. Current legislation is in the works to change that by creating a licensure board for certified professional midwives.
More people — like King — are choosing to give birth at home instead of in a hospital in recent years. In 2019-20, the number of home births in the U.S. rose 22% — to more than 40,000. Home births now make up 1.3% of all births in the U.S., following a steady rise since 2004, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The increase in home births comes as obstetric facilities in rural America continue to shutter. In Iowa, eight hospitals closed their labor and delivery units in 2020-21, according to data from the state's Department of Public Health.
Midwives like Gates say gaining licensure in Iowa would help to address the growing demand for home births and address the growing maternity care deserts. But home birth advocates and hospital administrators are at odds about the issue.
High demand, little oversight
Gates has overseen about 100 home births over the past five years. She said prior to the pandemic, she never had to turn away clients due to high demand. But last year, she said requests for her center's home birth services surged.
"We had, like, 120 inquiries from prospective clients, and we were not even able to take half of them," Gates said.
Following nationwide trends, home births in Iowa increased more than 30% in recent years — from 512 in 2019 to 674 in 2021, according to state health data.
Gates said unlike nurse midwives who work primarily in hospitals, certified professional midwives like herself focus on home births for low-risk pregnancies.
"We are the experts in out-of-hospital, normal, low-risk birth," Gates said. "We get to know normal really well, so that anytime anything moves outside of that normal, we know it's time to bring in someone else with a different skill set."
Fifteen states, including Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas, don't license certified professional midwives. Gates said without licensure, midwives are unable to obtain the medications and lab tests they need to practice.
"I'm not illegal to practice, because there is no state law prohibiting my practice," she said. "However, there's also no law saying I can, and that is where we get into the issue of midwives being charged."
This is driving skilled midwives underground, she said, and even out of unlicensed states like Iowa.
At a recent legislative hearing, Melanie Peterson, a certified professional midwife who has worked in Iowa for more than 30 years, said she was charged in 2006 for practicing medicine without a license.
Peterson said she took a plea agreement, and the charge was expunged from her record.
"I've done hundreds of births, specifically in Cedar County, where there are no gynecological, no obstetrics, no hospitals," she said. "So it's rural women who are having home births. They have no access to care out there."
The need for labor and delivery services in some parts of the U.S. is greater than ever. Nationwide, between 2004 and 2014, nearly 1 in 10 rural counties experienced the loss of all hospital obstetric services — and another 45% of rural U.S. counties had no hospital obstetric services at all, according to a 2017 study published in the journal Health Affairs.
"We're not going to make OB units open, but we're going to be extra manpower to help," Gates said. "If an OB unit closes in a county where there's a midwife, that midwife's automatically going to be a lot busier. So licensure allows more midwives to come into the state to help fill that void."
Disagreement on the path to licensure
In early March, Iowa lawmakers echoed Gates' sentiment when the Iowa House passed a bill that would establish a licensing board for midwives. It received bipartisan support.
"It's that rural access to health care that so many young families need," said Rep. Mary Mascher, a Democrat from Iowa City. "And one of the most important parts of this bill is the fact that we've had so many birthing centers close in hospitals across the state, and so this opens up access for them."
If this measure passes, Iowa would join 35 other states, plus Washington, D.C., that have already passed legislation licensing certified professional midwives.
But the state's major hospitals and health care providers have objected to the bill, saying it doesn't require strong enough transfer agreements and coordination between midwives and hospitals. They argue that this could result in medical liability issues for hospitals and poor outcomes for moms and babies.
"We're setting up a scenario here where, if there is a complication occurring, we're going to be dropping women in the emergency department with no warm handoff, and that is not a scenario that we are comfortable with," said Dennis Tibben, a lobbyist for the Iowa Medical Association, at an Iowa Senate subcommittee hearing in March. "We believe that that is a very dangerous situation."
Professional organizations like the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, or ACOG, have a more nuanced view.
Lindsey Jenkins, an OB-GYN in Des Moines and the Iowa legislative chair for the ACOG, said the organization would like to see the bill restrict midwives' scope of practice to carefully defined low-risk pregnancies before supporting it.
"The problem with obstetrics is everything goes really well until all of a sudden it doesn't," Jenkins said.
A hospital or accredited birth center is always the safest place to give birth, she said. But if a woman wants to have a home birth, it should be carefully planned with a trained professional.
"It's having a midwife who has met the minimum required standards of training to be able to provide care in and out of hospital birth. Somebody who's willing to accept limitations on their scope of practice," she said.
ACOG's latest statement on birth settings, published in 2020, cautions against home birth, stating that while planned home birth is associated with fewer maternal interventions than planned hospital birth, "it also is associated with a more than twofold increased risk of perinatal death (1–2 in 1,000) and a threefold increased risk of neonatal seizures or serious neurologic dysfunction (0.4–0.6 in 1,000)."
Research suggests that limiting planned home birth to low-risk individuals could make it a safer option. A 2021 peer-reviewed study in ACOG's journal, Obstetrics & Gynecology, found low-risk mothers with planned home births had a low rate of adverse outcomes in Washington state, which has a well-established practice of community midwifery.
Compromise on licensure can be difficult
To address hospitals and health providers' concerns, some states, such as Indiana, have put additional restrictions on midwives. Indiana passed its licensure legislation in 2013, and has 17 actively licensed certified professional midwives, according to state data.
The law requires midwives to carry medical liability insurance and have a written collaboration with a physician.
That has created new challenges for licensed midwives like Mary Helen Ayres, in Bloomington, Ind. She said few insurance companies cover home birth midwives, and it's difficult to find a physician who will sign off on the collaboration.
"Doctors are very, very conscious of their liability and do not want to expand it, so I don't blame them," she said. "In exchange for legality, we have been burdened with a requirement for liability insurance; we have been burdened by the requirement for collaboration."
Ayers said these additional restrictions have only made it more difficult for midwives to practice in her state.
This story comes from a partnership between Iowa Public Radio and Side Effects Public Media — a public health news collaborative based at WFYI. Follow Natalie on Twitter @natalie_krebs.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to address the United Nations Security Council Tuesday and likely discuss allegations of war crimes committed by Russia following the discovery of executions and mass graves.
World leaders expressed increasing outrage after seeing reports of dead Ukrainian civilians — many of whom appear to have been executed — strewn about in Bucha, a city northwest of Kyiv. Photos of bodies lining the streets and satellite images of mass graves first surfaced Saturday after Russian forces withdrew from positions outside Ukraine's capital. Having seen the atrocities firsthand, Zelenskyy will address the Security Council Tuesday morning.
Barbara Woodward, the British ambassador to the U.N., told reporters Monday that Tuesday's meeting will require council members to face "the true reality" of the Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
"What's important about this meeting is it will be the first opportunity the security council has had to discuss the images that we've seen in Bucha, which you've heard widely over the weekend described both as war crimes and as genocide," Woodward said.
The UK will call a #UNSC meeting tomorrow on #Ukraine. We will discuss the mounting evidence of war crimes, including from #Bucha.
— Ambassador Barbara Woodward (@BWoodward_UN) April 4, 2022
We'll use our Presidency of the Security Council to ensure there is transparency, accountability and that justice is done. pic.twitter.com/eyQoDne7tX
She also said the U.K. "strongly supports" U.S. efforts to suspend Russia's voting rights on the U.N.'s Human Rights Council, championed by Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N.
"Russia should not have a position of authority in that body, nor should we allow Russia to use their role on the Council as a tool of propaganda to suggest they have a legitimate concern about human rights. In fact, we see every day, including yesterday, heartbreaking reports about how little they care about human rights," Thomas-Greenfield said at a press conference in Romania Monday. "Russia's participation on the Human Rights Council is a farce. It hurts the credibility of the Council and the U.N. writ large. And it is simply wrong. Which is why we believe it is time for the U.N. General Assembly to suspend them."
Despite what seems to be overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Russian officials continue to deny any wrongdoing and have called the photos and reports propaganda staged by the west, NPR previously reported. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Monday that the images have been manipulated, while Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called the events in Bucha "staged."
Despite its best efforts, leaders across the globe aren't buying into the Russian narrative. U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson swore to do everything within his power to "starve Putin's war machine," promising increased sanctions against Russia and additional humanitarian support for Ukraine.
Prime Minister @BorisJohnson's statement on Russia’s despicable attacks against innocent civilians in Irpin and Bucha.https://t.co/Rikh4DCXMy pic.twitter.com/RUZ8t82DOH
— UK Prime Minister (@10DowningStreet) April 3, 2022
President Joe Biden also doubled down on his position Monday, calling for additional sanctions and once again branding Putin a war criminal. "This guy is brutal," the president said. "And what's happening in Bucha is outrageous, and everyone's seen it."
In an address made earlier on Tuesday, Zelenskyy said he will push for a thorough accounting of Russian military forces' behavior. He also said that he believes the number of civilians tortured and killed allegedly at the hands of the Russians is far greater than what has been reported. "The occupiers did things that the locals had not seen even during the Nazi occupation 80 years ago," he said.
"The time will come when every Russian will learn the whole truth about who of their fellow citizens killed. Who gave orders. Who turned a blind eye to the murders," Zelenskyy said. "We will establish all this. And make it globally known."
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It can be challenging to combine artfully unrefined, hand-crafted elements with more mechanical, structured ones. Yet La Libertad design studio flawlessly balances these essences with their branding for Spanish ceramics company Manifiesto.
The accompanying identity system highlights the strong craftsmanship, vibrant shapes, and earth-toned colors of each object. The “M” logomark’s organic, yet architecturally rigid look further underscores Manifiesto’s ability to blend two conflicting aesthetics.
Combining tradition and vanguard.
Design and craftsmanship. Enhancing art.
Making visible the manual work of great artisans around Spain.
This project consisted of developing the branding for Manifiesto, a brand that worships decorative objects and the nobility of manual work.
Just like the brand’s central idea, as a studio, we decided to create an identity that combines opposite worlds, or at least distant ones. On one side, everything that relates to a mechanical, exact, linear aspect. On the other side, we deal with organic, hand-crafted, and inexact elements.
This brand is a “pause” in a hyper-industrialised world.It emphasizes the revaluation of craftsmanship, respect for the handmade and the importance of personal creation. And seeks to combine this with the demands of today’s world.
Project Credits
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Good morning, today and tomorrow will be Storm Alert Weather Days. Today’s alert is based more on disruptive travel and widespread rain, whereas tomorrow’s activity has a bigger severe weather threat.
TODAY: Rain/storms will move across our area from about 9am to 3pm ET from west to east. Rain will be heavy at times. Once the widespread rain ends, a few additional scattered showers/storms will be possible this evening. The main severe weather threat for today is well to our south in southern AL and GA. However, there is a very low-end risk for an isolated severe storm for our Georgia communities. Total rainfall at 0.25-1.5”, lower totals north, higher totals south. Highs today will be cooler in the low to mid-60s.
WEDNESDAY: It’ll mainly be dry during the morning through mid-afternoon with the exception of a spotty, light shower with a mostly cloudy sky. Wednesday will be warm with highs in the upper 70s. Then, from about 5-11pm ET, a broken line of storms will pass from west to east associated with a cold front. Our area is under an ENHANCED risk for numerous severe storms possible during this period. The primary risk will be damaging wind gusts, but isolated tornadoes and hail will be on the table, too. Please, know your severe weather safety plan and stay alert for weather updates.
Thursday will be nice and mostly sunny with highs near 65. Friday will be cooler, only in the mid-50s with scattered showers. Then, Friday night into Saturday morning will drop into the low to mid-30s.
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State highway officials held fast to their plans for rebuilding Interstate 45 in Houston on Thursday, offering a litany of benefits the project will bring and pressing federal officials to lift a 12-month-and-counting pause on development.
Members of the Texas Transportation Commission, however, stopped short of imposing a deadline or considering shelving the project, as they have in the past when removing the $9 billion plan from the state’s short-range plan was a possibility.
Instead, commissioners complained Thursday that the lack of progress is having undue effects on their ability to remedy what almost everyone in Houston agrees is an outdated, congested, dangerous freeway corridor.
“We have had their lives in limbo for a year,” Commissioner Laura Ryan said of Houston-area drivers.
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Opponents argue the project’s design further divides communities it crosses, exacerbating decades of freeway expansion that has worsened air quality and safe street access for those neighborhoods in order to deliver faster car and truck trips for suburban commuters.
Those against the project often note it will result in the demolition of more than 1,000 residences, nearly 350 businesses and a handful of schools and churches.
While remaining supportive of parts of the project, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and city staff have suggested several changes to the project to eliminate some frontage road lanes, re-stitch neighborhoods divided by the freeway with better bike and pedestrian access, and increase commitments to community housing and flood control.
Turner sent a proposed agreement, in the form of a memorandum of understanding, to Bugg last August.
TxDOT officials and supporters of the project, however, counter that benefits are built into the project that will mitigate the losses and leave many communities better off.
In Independence Heights, the first city incorporated by Black residents in Texas, the project proposes drainage improvements to alleviate persistent flooding in the area. That, coupled with $27 million in affordable housing assistance TxDOT must provide to make up for lost apartments and homes, will allow many residents to stay in the area despite risk of gentrification, said Tanya DeBose, executive director of the Independence Heights Redevelopment Council, in a video about the project produced by TxDOT.
As the project has lingered, and faced opposition, some have argued it is forcing TxDOT to take a harder line, jeopardizing some of the gains. That has led some community leaders, such as activist and urban planner Abdul Muhammad, to urge federal officials and local opponents to work to find solutions and not reasons to stop the project.
“Somebody has to be in the kitchen, or else we’re all on the menu,” he said during a Dec. 8 panel discussion with federal highway officials and local opponents.
Just to review the timeline a bit, the federal order to halt I-45 construction did indeed come one year ago, a couple of weeks after Harris County sued TxDOT over many of the previously expressed concerns about the project. (That lawsuit is now on hold as negotiations continue.) The feds later asked TxDOT to pause other work on the project as well. The Texas Transportation Commission kept I-45 in its funding plans a few months ago, and some design work was allowed to continue, but now there’s another federal complaint filed against the project by various opponents. I don’t see a quick path to a resolution here.
What would I like to see happen at this point? I’d like to see enough of the concerns raised by the plan opponents be addressed in a way that they’re willing to let the project move forward. I’d like to see a whole lot more money spent on non-highway expansion – transit, sidewalks and bike trails, flood mitigation, that sort of thing – and a whole lot more effort and resources put into designing and building urban and suburban environments where people can live closer to where the work and shop and eat and go to school so that highway driving is less necessary. I really don’t think that’s too much to ask.
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However, the portion of the letter that detailed the lawyer’s allegations of political taint was redacted by the AG’s office, which provided the letter to us under the Public Information Act.
We still hope to see that.— Chuck Lindell (@chucklindell) 7:26 AM – 1 April 2022
I doubt anyone would be surprised by this accusation, but just because Ken Paxton is a terrible human being doesn’t mean he gets to be a terrible boss as well. And while our entire state government has taken a swan dive into the deep end lately, I’d bet that even this office wasn’t that bad a place for an LGBTQ person to work as of a few years ago. If you’re wondering why any LGBTQ person would want to work at the Attorney General’s office, remember that it’s a big place that does a lot of non-political work, with child support enforcement being one of their main tasks.
The article is paywalled, but Ed Sills included this bit in his daily AFL-CIO newsletter on Friday:
Speaking of justice or the lack thereof, Attorney General Ken Paxton stands accused of creating a “hostile work environment” for LGBTQ employees in the Criminal Prosecutions division of his agency, the Austin American-Statesman reports.
A departing lawyer made the accusation in a letter to the human resources department, reporter Chuck Lindell writes. The letter, redacted in part by the agency, mentions Paxton’s legal opinion concerning gender-affirming health care for transgender children. It also states that Paxton’s office has generally become more politicized (not that it ever wasn’t).
The Texas AFL-CIO COPE has endorsed Joe Jaworski in the May 24 Democratic runoff for Attorney General. Paxton himself is locked in a runoff as more and more Republicans are on to him:
The letter from lawyer Jason Scully-Clemmons, sent March 3 on his last day as an assistant attorney general, said the departure of two top supervisors appeared to leave employees of the Criminal Prosecutions Division vulnerable to Attorney General Ken Paxton’s “personal anti-LGBTQIA+ ideology.”
The letter also complained that the Criminal Prosecutions Division had become overly political after the departures of Mark Penley — who was fired as deputy attorney general for criminal justice in November 2020 after joining several other high-ranking agency officials in accusing Paxton of bribery and official misconduct — and Lisa Tanner, the division chief who left the agency Aug. 31.
The last two paragraphs are from the story. That’s all I know right now, but this sort of thing could well be the first shot in a lawsuit, so we’ll keep an eye on it. And remember to vote in the Democratic primary runoff, where either Rochelle Garza or Joe Jaworski would be a billion times better as AG than the human stain we have in there now.
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Carlos Beltrán, the venerated designated hitter painted by Major League Baseball as a ringleader of Houston’s electronic sign-stealing scheme during the 2017 season, said this week he “wished somebody would’ve said something” and stopped the trashcan banging scheme.
In an interview with YES Network broadcaster Michael Kay, who doubles as the television voice of the New York Yankees, Beltrán said the Astros’ World Series championship has a stain and tried to direct blame to Houston’s front office for a scheme the league deemed “player driven.”
“Nobody said anything to us, you know, nobody said anything,” Beltran said. “I wish somebody would’ve said something. A lot of people always ask me why you didn’t stop it? And my answer is, I didn’t stop it the same way no one stopped it.”
“This is working for us. Why you gonna stop something that is working for you? So, if the organization would’ve said something to us, we would’ve stopped it for sure.”
Beltrán said Astros players never received commissioner Rob Manfred’s edict in mid-2017 that cracked down on electronic sign-stealing and promised harsh punishments for teams that broke rules.
Beltrán was the only player cited by name in Manfred’s report detailing the league’s findings into the Astros’ scheme. He took issue with the distinction in his remarks with Kay, which will be aired in full on Monday at 3 p.m. CT on the YES Network. Excerpts of the interview were released on Sunday morning.
“The part that bothered me about that is that, you know, when I sit down to cooperate with them (MLB), they said to me, “We’re not going against the players. We’re going against …field personnel, front office and organization,’” Beltrán said. “And the fact that I’m the only player named in that report? So how … that happen? Like, that’s the part that I don’t understand. Everyone gets immunity except Carlos Beltrán? I don’t get it.”
On the one hand, it makes sense for Beltrán to put blame on the Astros’ front office for not stepping in to stop the banging scheme. MLB put the blame on the manager and coaches and the front office as well, which is why Jeff Luhnow is an ex-GM. On the other hand, Beltrán was a full-grown adult who certainly should have known that what they were doing was against the rules, and that whether it worked or not it would reflect poorly on them all. You can say it didn’t help much – others have made that claim, but Beltrán is contradicting them – and you can say the Astros would have won the World Series in 2017 regardless – I for one believe that to be true, whatever Yankees GM Brian Cashman may say. But that almost makes it worse. You were the best team on the field, you knew you were the best team on the field, so why put all that energy into something shady? Just go out there and beat ’em.
The main thing I take away from this is that it’s going to be a long time before we’re done with the banging scheme. It’s such a shame, because the 2017 Astros were a great team, and it was a huge boost for the city a couple of months after Hurricane Harvey. We’d all be so much better off if they’d never done this, whatever the effect might have been. Sean Pendergast has more.
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New aerial pictures have captured the aftermath of the fire on an industrial estate in Strood. The fire at the commercial garage in Cedar Road raged as acrid smoke turned the skyline black yesterday (Monday, April 4).
Eight fire engines and other firefighting vehicles were at the scene as crews battled the fire. Residents watched from a safe distance as the skyline was filled with flames and dense smoke billowing skywards.
Those living and working nearby had been warned by Kent Fire and Rescue Service to keep their windows shut and to stay away to stay away from the scene. The fire service was alerted to the fire at 1.47pm and crews were still there more than seven hours later, damping down the final hot spots.
Read more: Emergency services descend on Strood as huge fire breaks out
One person suffering burns was treated by South East Coast Ambulance Service. Photos taken during the fire yesterday show how close the fire was to other homes and businesses.
KentLive has contacted Kent Fire and Rescue Service to see if a probable cause has been established. Yesterday, it was not known how the fire had started.
Fire crews yesterday used main jets and hose reel jets to tackle the flames. At 9pm the service published this final update. "Crews continued damping down the final hot spots to make sure the fire was fully extinguished.
Firefighting operations have now been completed, however crews will remain on scene to observe the site to make sure the fire is completely out. The garage was destroyed by the fire."
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The Met Office has forecast 15C temperatures across Kent for Tuesday (April 5). While this doesn't compare too much to the incredible mini-heatwave the county experienced in the last full week of March, it will certainly be welcomed after a brisk weekend.
On Saturday (April 2) the UK experienced its coldest April night in 70 years over the weekend, with snow falling in parts of Scotland and northern England. Weather will remain cloudy today in most parts of Kent, although some areas will enjoy sunny intervals throughout the afternoon.
However, these milder temperatures are not expected to remain, with the mercury peaking at 11C between Thursday and Sunday. Heavy rain has been forecast tomorrow in Dartford and Medway, although the rest of the week is expected to remain relatively dry.
READ MORE: EastEnders star June Brown and her quiet life in 'beautiful' Kent
Met Office forecaster Alex Deakin said these conditions are expected across England. "Much of the south sunny and bright, yes a fair bit of cloud but where we see some sunshine across South Wales, southern parts of England, eastern England, temperatures will really jump up," he said.
"That’s where the mild air is still in place, 14C, 15C, 16C is possible."
London & South East England weather forecast
Today:
A cloudy start, but sunny spells developing through the morning as the cloud breaks. A bright, mild and dry afternoon with some long sunny spells. A gentle breeze to start, perhaps increasing a little this afternoon. Maximum temperature 17 °C.
Tonight:
A breezy evening, with sunny spells continuing until dusk. Clear skies initially after dark, but becoming cloudy overnight as a band of patchy rain arrives from the west. Minimum temperature 6 °C.
Wednesday:
A dry but windy start. Outbreaks of heavy showery rain moving southeast from late morning, clearing the south coast by evening. Likely cloudy with further rain or showers overnight. Maximum temperature 13 °C.
Outlook for Thursday to Saturday:
Winds gradually easing Thursday, with further rain or showers and sunny intervals. Drier and brighter with lighter winds Friday and Saturday, with occasional light showers. Cool.
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BUCHA, Kyiv Oblast — Russian forces on Tuesday were preparing for an offensive in Ukraine’s southeast, the Ukrainian military said, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy prepared to talk to the U.N. Security Council amid outrage over evidence Moscow’s soldiers deliberately killed civilians.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government is pouring soldiers into Ukraine’s east to gain control of the industrial heartland known as the Donbas. That follows a Russian withdrawal from towns around the capital, Kyiv, which led to the discovery of corpses, prompting accusations of war crimes and demands for tougher sanctions on Moscow.
Russian forces are focused on seizing the cities of Popasna and Rubizhne in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and the Black Sea port of Mariupol, the General Staff said on its Facebook page. Donetsk and Luhansk are controlled by Russian-backed separatists and recognized by Moscow as independent states. The General Staff said access to Kharkiv in the east, Ukraine’s second-largest city, was blocked.
“The enemy is regrouping troops and concentrating its efforts on preparing an offensive operation in the east of our country," the statement said. “The goal is to establish full control over the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions."
Zelenskyy, speaking from Ukraine, planned to address Security Council diplomats Tuesday amid demands for an investigation of possible war crimes.
Germany and France reacted by expelling dozens of Russian diplomats, suggesting they were spies. President Joe Biden said Putin should be tried for war crimes.
“This guy is brutal, and what’s happening in Bucha is outrageous,” Biden said, referring to the town northwest of the capital that was the scene of some of the horrors.
In another show of support, European Union Commission President Ursula von der Leyen plans to travel to Kyiv to meet with Zelenskyy this week, her spokesman Eric Mamer announced.
Before Zelenskyy speaks, the most powerful U.N. body is due to be briefed by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres; his political chief, Rosemary DiCarlo; and U.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths, who is trying to arrange a cease-fire. Griffiths met with Russian officials in Moscow on Monday and is due to visit Ukraine.
Associated Press journalists in Bucha counted dozens of corpses in civilian clothes and apparently without weapons, many shot at close range, and some with their hands bound or their flesh burned.
After touring neighborhoods of Bucha and speaking to hungry survivors lining up for bread, Zelenskyy pledged in a video address that Ukraine would work with the European Union and the International Criminal Court to identify Russian fighters involved in any atrocities.
“The time will come when every Russian will learn the whole truth about who among their fellow citizens killed, who gave orders, who turned a blind eye to the murders,” he said.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov dismissed the scenes outside Kyiv as a “stage-managed anti-Russian provocation.” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said the images contained “signs of video forgery and various fakes.”
Russia has rejected previous allegations of atrocities as fabrications by Ukraine.
Ukrainian officials said the bodies of at least 410 civilians have been found in towns around Kyiv that were recaptured from Russian forces.
The Ukrainian prosecutor-general’s office described one room discovered in Bucha as a “torture chamber.” In a statement, it said the bodies of five men with their hands bound were found in the basement of a children’s sanatorium where civilians were tortured and killed.
The bodies seen by AP journalists in Bucha included at least 13 in and around a building that local people said Russian troops used as a base. Three other bodies were found in a stairwell, and a group of six were burned together.
The dead witnessed by the news agency's journalists also included bodies wrapped in black plastic, piled on one end of a mass grave in a Bucha churchyard. Many of those victims had been shot in cars or killed in explosions trying to flee the city. With the morgue full and the cemetery impossible to reach, the churchyard was the only place to keep the dead, Father Andrii Galavin said.
Tanya Nedashkivs’ka said she buried her husband in a garden outside their apartment building after he was detained by Russian troops. His body was one of those left heaped in a stairwell.
“Please, I am begging you, do something!” she said. “It’s me talking, a Ukrainian woman, a Ukrainian woman, a mother of two kids and one grandchild. For all the wives and mothers, make peace on Earth so no one ever grieves again."
Another Bucha resident, Volodymyr Pilhutskyi, said his neighbor Pavlo Vlasenko was taken away by Russian soldiers because the military-style pants he was wearing and the uniforms that Vlasenko said belonged to his security guard son appeared suspicious. When Vlasenko’s body was later found, it had burn marks from a flamethrower, his neighbor said.
Russia's U.N. ambassador, Vassily Nebenzia, insisted Monday at a news conference that during the time that Bucha was under Russian control, “not a single local person has suffered from any violent action.”
However, high-resolution satellite imagery by commercial provider Maxar Technologies showed that many of the bodies have been lying in the open for weeks, during the time that Russian forces were in Bucha. The New York Times first reported on the satellite images showing the dead.
Western and Ukrainian leaders have accused Russia of war crimes before. The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor has already opened an investigation. But the latest reports ratcheted up the condemnation.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said the images from Bucha reveal the “unbelievable brutality of the Russian leadership and those who follow its propaganda.”
French President Emmanuel Macron said there is “clear evidence of war crimes” in Bucha that demand new punitive measures.
“I’m in favor of a new round of sanctions and in particular on coal and gasoline. We need to act,” he said on France-Inter radio.
Though united in outrage, the European allies appeared split on how to respond. While Poland urged Europe to quickly wean itself off Russian energy, Germany said it would stick with a gradual approach of phasing out coal and oil imports over the next several months.
Russia withdrew many of its forces from the area around Kyiv after being thwarted in its bid to swiftly capture the capital. It has instead poured troops into southeastern Ukraine.
About two-thirds of the Russian troops around Kyiv have left and are either in Belarus or on their way there, probably getting more supplies and reinforcements, said a senior U.S. defense official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an intelligence assessment.
More than 1,500 civilians were able to escape Mariupol on Monday, using the dwindling number of private vehicles available to leave, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said. The besieged southern port city has seen some of the heaviest fighting of the war.
But amid the fighting, a Red Cross-accompanied convoy of buses that has been thwarted for days on end in a bid to deliver supplies and evacuate residents was again unable to get inside the city, Vereshchuk said.
Elsewhere, Russian shelling killed 11 people in the southern city of Mykolaiv, regional governor Vitaliy Kim said in a video message on social media.
Zelenskyy appealed for more weaponry as Russia prepares new offensives.
“If we had already got what we needed — all these planes, tanks, artillery, anti-missile and anti-ship weapons — we could have saved thousands of people,” he said.
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Yuras Karmanau in Lviv, Ukraine; Edith Lederer at the United Nations; Lolita Baldor in Washington and Associated Press journalists around the world contributed to this report.
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Annual Forbes list finds billionaire growth slowed in 2021
Forbes’ 36th annual World's Billionaires List, out Tuesday, reveals 2,668 billionaires, including 236 newcomers — down from last year’s record 2,755 billionaires, with 493 newcomers.
The big picture: The total net worth of the world’s billionaires is $12.7 trillion, down from last year’s $13.1 trillion. 329 people dropped off the list this year — the most in one year since the 2009 financial crisis, Forbes said.
What they're saying: "The tumultuous stock market contributed to sharp declines in the fortunes of many of the world’s richest," Kerry Dolan, Forbes' assistant managing editor of wealth, said in a release. "Still, more than 1,000 billionaires got wealthier over the past year."
Elon Musk tops the list for the first time, with an estimated net worth of $219 billion.
- He unseated Jeff Bezos, who drops to No. 2 after spending the past four years as the richest person in the world.
- Bernard Arnault of LVMH (luxury brands Christian Dior, Moët & Chandon, Louis Vuitton) remains No. 3, followed by Bill Gates. Warren Buffett is fifth.
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Putin unlikely to face punishment for any war crimes in Ukraine
President Biden has called Vladimir Putin a "war criminal," and said Monday the Russian leader should face a trial over the alleged atrocities in Ukrainian city of Bucha.
Yes, but: While similar calls have echoed worldwide, Putin is unlikely to be held criminally accountable, at least as long as he remains in power.
The big picture: War crimes have been historically hard to investigate and often even more challenging to prosecute.
- This is especially true when prosecutors seek to hold leaders or former leaders accountable.
For clear cases of war crimes, often the main challenges are determining who is responsible, and what evidence exists that can establish culpability, according to Alex Whiting, a Harvard Law School visiting professor and deputy specialist prosecutor at the Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor’s Office in The Hague.
- High-profile leaders often aren't at the scene of alleged war crimes, making them harder to prosecute.
- In Bucha, for example, where reports have emerged of a mass grave and bodies of civilians strewn in the city's streets, the main challenge for investigators is determining who is responsible and how high up the chain of command the responsibility goes, explains Whiting, who previously served as a prosecutor at the International Criminal Court.
- For its part, the Kremlin has rejected the reports of atrocities in Bucha, and previously called Biden's "war criminal" remarks "unacceptable."
Even if prosecutors can show that high-level officials and/or Putin directed or were aware of orders or actions that may constitute war crimes, a trial at the ICC or a war crimes tribunal cannot be conducted unless the official is in custody.
- Because Russia is not a member of the ICC, which is conducting an investigation into possible war crimes committed in Ukraine, there would be no expectation that Moscow would hand over Putin or any other official if they're charged.
- Many individuals who have gone to trial for war crimes, were either captured during the armed conflict or were handed over after they fell from power — an unlikely scenario for Putin.
The bottom line: Even though it's unlikely Putin will face punishment (outside of sanctions and global condemnation) for any war crimes committed in Ukraine, investigating and possibly bringing forward charges is important, Whiting says.
- It "sends a message to the victims that they're being seen and recognized" and it tells perpetrators that they're being watched."
Go deeper: What counts as a war crime and why they're so hard to prosecute
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Ukraine misinformation is spreading — and not just from Russia
False narratives surrounding Russia's invasion of Ukraine are increasing and extend far beyond the bounds of Russia-controlled state media, according to new research from NewsGuard first shared with Axios.
Why it matters: Though Russian state-media has faced widespread de-platforming, many shady think tanks, anonymous websites and other outlets can easily continue to spread misinformation about the war.
- OneWorld.press, for example, is a website that bills itself as a “Global Think Tank,” but doesn't disclose ownership, funding or control. It continues to regularly publish falsehoods supporting Russian disinformation and NewsGuard notes that the site's internet domain was registered in Moscow.
By the numbers: Misinformation about the invasion is on the rise, both in terms of the number of false claims being spread and the amount of outlets actively posting misinformation.
- NewsGuard has identified 172 distinct sites that continuously spread disinformation about the war, including a number of anonymous websites, foundations and research websites with uncertain funding. That's 48% more than the organization had tracked as of March 3.
- The number of specific myths being tracked by NewsGuard has also risen. It more than doubled to 23 false claims, the organization said.
- Among the sites, English is the most common language. It's used by 61 sites, followed by 33 sites in French, 20 in German and 16 in Italian.
- Spanish-language misinformation related to the conflict has also been surging, AP reported, noting that RT en Español is among the most tweeted Spanish-language sites for Russia-Ukraine news. (Spanish-language misinformation has been on the rise overall.)
Be smart: While most of the misinformation has been pro-Russia, there has also been false information that aims to show Ukrainian armed forces as more successful than they have been, or to make unverified claims about Russian actions.
- Those claims, per NewsGuard, have been occasionally shared by Ukrainian authorities.
- One example includes videos of a Ukrainian fighter pilot alleged to have shot down six Russia military jets. The pilot, nicknamed "The Ghost of Kiev" has been referenced by former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko and other Ukrainian public figures on Twitter.
The big picture: The findings show that Russia's misinformation apparatus extends far beyond its state-backed media to anonymous websites and research bodies that may skirt scrutiny and censorship more easily.
- To that end, 55 of the websites that NewsGuard has so far identified as actively promoting Russian disinformation continue to earn advertising from blue-chip brands through programmatic advertising.
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Police search for man accused of Sunday shooting of Rigoberto Riso Hernandez
Police are searching for Jorge Reyes, who is wanted in connection with the Sunday shooting death of Rigoberto Riso Hernandez, 35.
Reyes, 43, is charged with first-degree murder. He is believed to live in the Couchville Pike area.
Reyes worked in the construction industry in Middle Tennessee. Officials believe Reyes and Hernandez knew each other for a long time, and were friends.
Information about Reyes: Call the Sheriff’s Office dispatch at 615-898-7770
The incident occurred over the weekend, near the Rutherford-Wilson County line, according to the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office. Reyes has been entered into the National Crime Information Center.
“The only other known family members the suspect has are in Texas and Mexico,”Detective Sgt. Steve Craig said. “We feel he may be headed toward those family members.”
Information about Reyes:
Call the Sheriff’s Office dispatch at 615-898-7770
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Somerset County may be getting its first medical marijuana dispensary. Here's where
RARITAN BOROUGH – Somerset County may be getting its first medical marijuana dispensary.
Middle Valley Partners will be appearing before the borough Planning Board on April 27 with a proposal to open a dispensary on Route 202.
The 2,476-square-foot dispensary is proposed to share the building at 405 Route 202 with Uneeda Appliance.
The dispensary is planned for the western portion of the 8,751-square-foot building.
Uneeda, the longtime independent appliance store, would occupy 6,275 square feet of the building. Uneeda used to be located on West Main Street in Somerville.
Middle Valley Partners received approval from the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission in December to open the dispensary.
READ:Raritan Valley Community College to host cannabis info session
Middle Valley Partners received 273.33 points out of a possible 300 points in the commission's ranking of applications.
It was the highest score of the 198 applicants statewide for licenses. Only 30 licenses were granted.
The plan requires a variance for the number of parking spaces the borough's zoning ordinance requires for the .57-acre property.
The ordinance calls for 40 parking spaces, but the plan calls for 23.
Variances are also required for the size of signs and the existing impervious coverage.
The property assessed at $1.2 million is owned by Wykat Realty.
Sarah Trent, the founder and CEO of Middle Valley Partners, has worked for years with borough officials to locate the dispensary in Raritan Borough. An attorney, Trent has been one of the leading advocates for the medical marijuana industry in New Jersey.
Email: mdeak@mycentraljersey.com
Mike Deak is a reporter for mycentraljersey.com. To get unlimited access to his articles on Somerset and Hunterdon counties, please subscribe or activate your digital account today.
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Plainfield Housing Authority pledges quick fixes after feds cite dozens of bad contracts
PLAINFIELD – The Housing Authority of Plainfield is taking remedial actions in response to a federal Department of Housing and Urban Development audit that found it did not follow federal regulations in entering a lease to place cell phone antennae on the roof of Richmond Towers and did not always maintain adequate procurement records.
In response to the audit, Randall M. Wood, executive director of the authority, acknowledged that procedures were not followed and that it will undertake remedial actions.
"We view this as a learning experience that will contribute significantly to the future of the Authority," Wood wrote to HUD.
According to the audit publicly released on Friday, the Housing Authority entered a 50-year lease in November 2014 with a cell company for the rooftop on the East Front Street building without HUD's approval.
The authority received a $1.3 million lump sum payment for the lease, the audit says.
The Housing Authority "improperly believed" that HUD's consent was not necessary because HUD did not hold the lien on the property and the authority's only obligation was to notify HUD of the transaction.
This occurred, the audit states, "because the Authority did not fully understand its legal relationship with HUD."
The audit recommends that the Housing Authority terminate the lease and implement procedures to ensure federal regulations are followed.
Wood told HUD that the Housing Authority will take "immediate action" to terminate the lease.
"The Authority now understands and acknowledges that it did not follow the required processes and procedures to obtain approval for and enter into the long-term lease," Wood wrote. "However, the Authority maintains that its actions were taken in good faith and that any omission or error by the Authority with respect to procedure was not intentional."
The HUD audit also found that the Housing Authority paid nearly $2.9 million in "unsupported costs" and may pay an additional $1.2 million for procurements "not adequately performed and documented" during a five-year period
"These issues occurred because the Authority did not have adequate controls in place, had inexperienced staff due to staff turnover and was not familiar with all requirements," the audit states.
The audit found deficiencies in 43 contracts.
In response, Wood said that the Authority will take steps to correct its procedures.
Wood also wrote that the that the "vast bulk" of the audit findings "have not resulted in any actual negative financial impact."
"We believe our procurement expenditures were reasonable and we are prepared to document that," Wood wrote.
Wood said the Authority would implement a new procurement policy by Oct. 1
Email: mdeak@mycentraljersey.com
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Korra Elliott has tried to avoid seeing a doctor while waiting to get on Medicaid. She worries she can't afford more bills without any insurance coverage. But in early March — five months, she said, after applying and with still no decision about her application — a suspected case of the flu sent her blood pressure soaring and landed her in the emergency room.
The 28-year-old mother of four from Salem, Mo., is among the tens of thousands of uninsured Missourians stuck waiting as the state slogs through a flood of applications for the state-federal health insurance program. Missouri expanded the program last year after a lengthy legal and political battle, and it now covers adults who earn up to 138% of the federal poverty level — about $18,800 annually for an individual.
Missouri had nearly 72,000 pending Medicaid applications at the end of February and was averaging 119 days to process one, more than twice the maximum turnaround time of 45 days allowed by federal rules. Adding people to Medicaid is labor intensive, and the jobs require training and expertise. The program covers many populations — children, people with disabilities, seniors, adults who are pregnant or have children, and some without children. Different rules dictate who qualifies.
Missouri simply doesn't have the workers to keep up. Last fiscal year, 20% of its employees who handled Medicaid applications left their jobs, said Heather Dolce, a spokesperson for the Missouri Department of Social Services. And the average number of job applications received for each opening in the department's Family Support Division — which oversees enrollment — dropped from 47 in March of 2021 to 10 in February of 2022.
Just about every industry is struggling to find workers now, but staffing shortages in state Medicaid agencies around the country come at a challenging time. States will soon need to review the eligibility of tens of millions of people enrolled in the program nationwide — a Herculean effort that will kick off once President Joe Biden's administration lets the covid-19 public health emergency declaration expire. If Missouri's lengthy application backlogs are any indication, the nation is on course for a mass-scale disruption in people's benefits — even for those who still qualify for the insurance.
"If you don't have people actually processing the cases and answering the phone, it doesn't matter what policies you have in place," said Jennifer Wagner, director of Medicaid eligibility and enrollment for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a left-leaning think tank in Washington, D.C.
Federal officials have said they will give states 60 days notice before ending the public health emergency, so it's unlikely to expire before summer. Once it does, enrollees won't be kicked off immediately: States can take up to 14 months to complete renewals, although budget pressures may push many to move faster. A bump in federal Medicaid funds to states, provided by Congress through covid relief legislation in 2020, will end shortly after the emergency's expiration.
Ultimately, workers are needed to answer questions, process information confirming that someone's Medicaid enrollment should be renewed, or see whether the person qualifies for a different health coverage program — all before the benefits lapse and they become uninsured.
State Medicaid officials have said staffing is one of the top challenges they face. In a January meeting of the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission, an outside panel of experts that advises Congress, Jeff Nelson said 15% to 20% of the Utah Department of Health's eligibility workers were new. "We've got a fifth of the workforce that potentially doesn't know what they're doing," said Nelson, who oversees eligibility for Utah's Medicaid program.
Eligibility worker vacancies at the Texas Health and Human Services Commission have quadrupled over roughly two years — 1,031 vacant positions as of late February compared with 260 as of March 31, 2020, according to spokesperson Kelli Weldon.
Medicaid renewals are less labor-intensive than initial applications, but it takes time before an eligibility worker knows the ins and outs of the program, Wagner said.
"It's months before you are fully functional," said Wagner, who previously oversaw the Illinois Department of Human Services offices that determine applicants' eligibility for Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program that provides food stamps, and other assistance programs.
Other social services may be gummed up in the process because many workers also handle applications for other programs. In addition to Medicaid, workers for Kentucky's Department for Community Based Services handle SNAP and child care assistance applications.
Consumer advocates who connect people to safety-net programs worry that an overwhelmed workforce won't be able to keep up.
"It's going to be a lot of work for everyone," said Miranda Brown, who helps people apply for benefits as outreach coordinator for the Kentucky Equal Justice Center, a legal aid group.
Brown said she recently called a state office on behalf of a client toward the end of the day. She waited on hold for an hour only to be told by a caseworker that the agency couldn't process any more cases that day.
"I even have a [phone] line that I get through faster than a consumer calling for themselves," she said. "If it's hard for me, it's very hard for consumers who are trying to call on their lunch break at work."
South Carolina planned to hire "a couple hundred workers" beginning this spring to help manage renewals at the end of the public health emergency, said Nicole Mitchell Threatt, deputy director of eligibility, enrollment and member services at the Department of Health and Human Services. The turnover rate among eligibility workers was about 25% from July 2020 to June 2021, jumping from a 15% rate in the previous 12 months.
In Missouri, Dolce said her department hopes a recently approved pay increase will help recruit more workers and improve staff morale and retention. The department is being sued over delays in enrollments for SNAP benefits, which it also oversees.
Kim Evans, director of the Missouri Department of Social Services' Family Support Division, told the state Medicaid oversight committee in February that her division was offering overtime and even pizza to speed up the processing of applications. But the department is enrolling fewer than 3,000 people per week, leaving tens of thousands waiting and delaying their care.
In the suburbs of Kansas City, M0., Stacey Whitford, 41, applied in December for Medicaid for herself and her 13-year-old son. Her son needs hearing aids that she said cost $2,500 apiece without insurance. She also lined up a support worker for the boy, who has autism, through the Department of Mental Health, but said she was told the worker can begin only once her son is enrolled in Medicaid.
"It's just like hanging a golden ticket right in front of your face and saying, 'Here it is, but you can't touch it,'" she said in early March.
Whitford spent hours on the phone trying to sort out the status of their applications, then on March 31, just shy of four months after applying, they were finally approved.
"I am so excited! We can run with scissors now," she joked.
But Elliott, the mother of four in Salem, is still waiting. She gave up calling the state's Medicaid helpline after growing frustrated from spending hours on hold and being disconnected because of high call volumes. Instead, she checks on her application through the enrollment specialists at the clinic where she applied.
She was sent home from the ER with ibuprofen and Tamiflu and has yet to see a bill. If her Medicaid application is approved, her coverage will be backdated to the month she applied, likely covering her ER trip. But if her application is rejected, that cost will be added to her medical debt, which Elliott estimates is already tens of thousands of dollars.
"It makes me feel like it's a joke," Elliott said of Missouri's expansion of Medicaid. "Like they're just throwing it out there to get all these people to apply for it, but they're not going to really help anybody."
KHN (Kaiser Health News) is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues. It is an editorially independent operating program of KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation).
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LAWRENCE, Kansas — This liberal college town is vote-rich territory for Kansas Democrats.
But a new map of congressional districts lumps it with deep-red western Kansas — all but nullifying the ballots of the blue voters here and proving once again the power of gerrymandering.
But a novel legal challenge hopes to upend the usual response of going to federal court to block the political cartographers — in this case, Kansas Republicans — from squeezing out the influence of the opposition party.
Instead, lawsuits rely on state courts and interpretations of the Kansas Constitution, rather than the U.S. Constitution, to stop political parties from putting their fingers on the scale.
In the meantime, the state’s lone Democratic congressional district hangs in the balance.
The ACLU of Kansas is suing to have the state’s recently drawn congressional redistricting map thrown out. The organization argues Republican lawmakers drew the new districts in an attempt to dilute the ballots cast by voters in the Democratic strongholds of Lawrence and Wyandotte County.
If the map holds up, Republicans would improve their chances to place conservative lawmakers in all four districts that represent the state in the U.S. House. Democratic U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids, who represents the Kansas City area, would be most at risk of losing her seat after seeing part of her base shifted from her district.
Sharon Brett, legal director for ACLU of Kansas, said that would be unfair to voters.
“This is an attempt by politicians to choose their voters,” she said, “rather than have voters choose their politicians.”
But Republican state lawmakers argue the newly drawn districts don’t hurt Davids or any Democratic candidates. They said the changes were needed to account for the growing population in the Kansas City suburbs.
How the courts rule on the case will determine the congressional districts for the next decade, and perhaps the rules for drawing them well beyond that.
Christopher Gunn, a Washburn University law professor who specializes in elections, said legal challenges to gerrymandering have never previously occurred in the state’s judicial system.
“They’ve never had an opportunity to say ‘Yes, the Kansas Constitution does protect individual Kansans from partisan gerrymandering,’” Gunn said. “So we’re going to find out, probably by the end of this year, whether or not that right does exist in Kansas.”
New legal strategy
Historically, legal challenges to redistricting maps occurred under federal law. But lawsuits lately instead make arguments under state constitutions and statutes.
Gunn said that shift in strategy emerged because recent federal court rulings found that political gerrymandering is not an issue they should be deciding. That led to voting rights groups searching elsewhere to make their cases.
The lawsuits in Kansas specifically cite the state constitution as the basis of their challenges. That’s a new legal argument in the state.
“This has never occurred in Kansas before,” Gunn said. “We don’t know what the (Kansas) Supreme Court is going to rule in terms of what the Kansas Constitution does protect in terms of the redistricting process.”
Gunn said the result of the case will be a landmark ruling either way the court decides. It could also set the foundation for prohibiting gerrymandering in Kansas in years to come.
But the case may not end there. If the Kansas courts strike down the maps, it could lead to an appeal in the U.S. Supreme Court.
Similar attempts have been tried in disputes in Pennsylvania and North Carolina. But the Supreme Court chose not to take those cases and their state court decisions stayed intact.
But Michael Li — senior counsel for the Brennan Center for Justice, a national nonprofit focused on election policy and voting rights — said some U.S. Supreme Court justices wanted to hear the Pennsylvania and North Carolina cases. He said Kansas could bring the issue to the nation’s highest court.
“A lot of people’s eyes are going to be on Kansas, both to see whether the state courts are willing to be the police force against gerrymandering but also how Kansas might play into this national argument,” Li said.
But how long the cases take to get through the courts may also play into the issue. Gunn said if the Kansas court system does not come to a final ruling on the issue before the candidate registration deadline in June, the map would likely stay in effect for the 2022 elections.
Shifting districts
Under the proposed map, Wyandotte County’s racially diverse voting population would be split into two separate districts — shifting part from the 3rd Congressional District represented by Davids to the 2nd Congressional District by Republican U.S. Rep. Jake LaTurner.
Meanwhile, Lawrence would shift from the 2nd District, which covers most of eastern Kansas, into the 1st District which primarily covers central and western Kansas. The new version of the 1st District stretches hundreds of miles from the northeast Kansas college town to the Colorado border nearly 400 miles west.
Brett said those changes are meant to negate Democratic strongholds. Some Lawrence residents see it that way, too.
“The move to gerrymander us into the 1st District was definitely an attempt to quiet the strong Democratic leanings of Lawrence,” said Darby Harris.
Lawrence resident Debbie Milks said the Republican majority of the Kansas Legislature created the map to try to get its party’s candidates elected.
“They, without any shame, just want to elect those of their own and not really care about representing the rest of us,” she said.
ACLU of Kansas and others filed lawsuits on behalf of residents in those districts. A trial for those cases began this week.
Republican push for the map
When the new districts were presented on the floor of the Kansas Senate, Republican leaders argued that the map was fair.
Sen. Rick Wilborn, who is the top Republican serving on the redistricting committee, said the committee needed to split Wyandotte County because of the growing population in Kansas City. He also said Davids would not be hurt by the new map.
“(Davids) would have won the new district just as much as she did before,” Wilborn said. “That’s true of all of the other congressional members. So there’s no attempt to eliminate a Democratic district.”
But Democratic lawmakers disagreed and tried repeatedly to offer a different version of the map that kept Wyandotte County mostly in one piece.
Sen. Dinah Sykes, the highest-ranking Democrat on the redistricting committee, said she knows shifting of the districts needed to occur around Wyandotte County. But she said the redistricting committee settled on a partisan plan intended to raise the clout of some voters and diminish the impact of others.
“Do we want a democracy,” Sykes said, “or do we want someone who has complete and ultimate control over everything in our government?”
Dylan Lysen reports on politics for the Kansas News Service. You can follow him on Twitter @DylanLysen or email him at dlysen (at) kcur (dot) org.
The Kansas News Service is a collaboration of KCUR, Kansas Public Radio, KMUW and High Plains Public Radio focused on health, the social determinants of health and their connection to public policy.
Kansas News Service stories and photos may be republished by news media at no cost with proper attribution and a link to ksnewsservice.org.
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About 9,000 fans experienced a roller coaster Monday night inside Phog Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, where the University of Kansas hosted a watch party for the NCAA men's basketball championship game in New Orleans.
Fans poured onto the court when they thought the game had ended, but had to stand in suspended animation, putting the party on hold until the North Carolina Tar Heels missed their final shot with added time.
Kansas staged a 16-point comeback, the largest in NCAA championship history, for its 72–69 victory over North Carolina.
“Insanity. Way too close,” Chris Krogll said. “It’s one of the few games I’ve seen on campus live. The first half was godawful.”
Walking out of the Fieldhouse afterward, Krogll said he planned to “to go run rampant. Go nuts.”
Fans spent the early minutes of the evening elated and loud but slowly quieted when the Tar Heels stormed to a 15-point first half lead.
“We were kind of scared in the first half,” said Chloe Weber, a psychology freshman. “Then in the second half. It was insane.”
“It’s our first year here,” Weber said while walking outside Allen Fieldhouse with a friend. “This is so special for us to be able to have that experience of winning a national championship.”
Early Monday afternoon, KU fans began lining up at bars and restaurants and milling around a blocked-off Massachusetts Street, turning the downtown area into a pedestrian mall.
About a mile away, fans were lining up to fill Allen Fieldhouse.
“We’re national champions, baby!” Zaeem Siddiqui screamed outside the Fieldhouse as fans streamed out of the building, most on their way to Massachusetts Street.
The junior aerospace engineering student transferred to KU from Georgia State but grew up a Jayhawks fan. His father attended KU in the ‘90s.
“I came for one reason only, and that was to win a national championship,” he said. “And it’s the best decision I’ve ever made.”
“I have an exam tomorrow, but we’re partying all night,” he said.
KU officials announced an official celebration Tuesday from 4 to 5 p.m. at Booth Memorial Stadium.
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Fentanyl is driving an overdose crisis in Missouri that’s proving especially deadly for African Americans. Kansas City is starting to see the effects, but health experts say that existing efforts to treat drug addiction aren’t helping the people who need it most. KCUR’s Alex Smith reports.
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 with Trevor Grandin and edited by Gabe Rosenberg and Lisa Rodriguez.
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What's new at the Mu? Contemporary textile artwork show opens
"Threads Moving Backward and Forward: Contemporary Textile Artworks from Ohio" can be viewed through May 18 in the Massillon Museum’s Fred F. Silk Community Room Gallery.
Highlights
Threads Moving Backward and Forward emphasizes textile artwork by women and people of color to establish a conversation between the function of fiber arts across cultures and traditions. It features artwork by Jo Westfall, Canton; Malcolm Dakar!, Lorain; Benedict Scheuer, Columbus; and Katie Mongoven, Cleveland Heights.
The exhibition complements MassMu’s 2022 NEA Big Read book selection, "An American Sunrise," by Muskogee author Joy Harjo, United States poet laureate. The poetry anthology recounts times when traditional craft techniques among her people were forbidden. Artists in this exhibition honor those who have been makers before them, while telling stories for the future, according to exhibition curator Stephen Tornero. “As artists we seek to push these techniques into the future,” Tornero says. “We pull the thread of tradition forward and use it to create.”
An initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest, the NEA Big Read broadens understanding of our world, our communities, and ourselves through the joy of sharing a good book. This project is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts with additional support from One Tiger and Rotary Club of Massillon. MassMu receives operating support from the Ohio Arts Council and ArtsinStark, as well as marketing support from Visit Canton.
Why attend?
Visitors can also enjoy Un-settling: A Story of Land Removal and Resistance; the Immel Circus; Alex Vlasov: I Promise to Make a Fabulous PTG Tomorrow (through April 6); Michael Gill: The Grownups Keep Talking/Nobody Knows Why (beginning April 16)Tiger Legacy: The Story Continues; the Paul Brown/Massillon Tiger Timeline; Collection Spotlight: Faces of Massillon Business; the Local History Gallery; and the Albert E. Hise Fine and Decorative Arts Gallery.
Details
WHAT – "Threads Moving Backward and Forward: Contemporary Textile Artworks from Ohio"
WHEN – Through May 18.
WHERE – Massillon Museum, 121 Lincoln Way East, Massillon
MORE – massillonmuseum.org or 330-833-4061
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Kasey the Fire Dog wows as he promotes fire safety at area schools
TUSCARAWAS TWP. – Kasey the Fire Dog and his friends are making their way through schools in Stark and surrounding counties, spreading their message about fire and life safety.
On Monday morning, Kasey stopped by Tuslaw Elementary School with a visit later to Massillon City Schools' students at Franklin Elementary School. On Tuesday, the group will be at Gorrell and Whittier elementary schools. The program was brought to local schools by the Massillon Fire Department.
The Kasey Program, sponsored by Koorsen Fire & Security, is a philanthropic organization established in 1995 to bring safety skills to children in a fun and memorable way.
Jeff Owens and his dogs travel across the United States, reaching more than 400,000 kids each year during more than 400 appearances.
Six-year-old Kasey was joined by 2-year-old Karmel during Monday's programs. Kasey began training with the Carmel, Indiana, Fire Department as an 8-month-old puppy.
Owens, a firefighter with the Carmel department, said the dogs have four jobs - to be his family dogs, to provide search and rescue, to provide therapy and to know fire and life safety skills.
More:Whittier second grader honored for top fire prevention poster in Ohio contest
Kasey and his pal, Karmel, demonstrated to students how to stop, drop and roll from flames, how to check a door to see if it is hot before exiting and how to crawl below smoke. Owens also explained the importance of having a meeting spot, keeping the bedroom door closed at night and never going back into a burning building.
The dogs playfully showed kids what could happen if they don't follow safety rules. The black labs rolled over on their backs with four paws in the air.
"You could end up a dead dog," Owens told the youngsters to giggles and clapping.
He also talked to them about matches and lighter safety as well as never touching a dog they don't know without permission. After getting permission from the owner, they should approach the dog from the front and put out their hand in a fist to allow a dog to smell them.
Even if the dog owner says yes to petting, Owens reminded kids the dog may say no by growling, barking or walking away.
Third grader Jayce Jovingo was surprised by the talented dogs.
While he knew some things about fire safety, he said he needs to find two ways out of a room in case of a fire.
When he gets home, Jvingo is going to talk to his family about what he learned and ensure they have a safe meeting place if a fire should break out in their home.
"It was really cool," he added.
Kasey also has a number of additional programs planned this week including at North Canton and Sandy Valley as well as schools in Tuscarawas Valley Local Schools in Tuscarawas County and Barberton schools in Summit County.
Reach Amy at 330-775-1135 or amy.knapp@indeonline.com
On Twitter: @aknappINDE
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Massillon Independent writer wins first-place APME award
The Independent
Massillon Independent sports writer Chris Easterling has won a first-place award for best sports enterprise in the annual Ohio Associated Press Media Editors contest.
His stories focused on the issue of competitive balance in high school sports.
The Independent competes in Division I.
Overall, 48 Ohio newspapers submitted 1,302 entries in the journalism contest, which featured news and sports stories, features, editorials, columns, graphics and photos from last year. Entries were judged by editors at newspapers in Michigan.
The Ohio APME awards luncheon was held Sunday at the Villa Milano Banquet & Conference Center in Columbus.
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Stark Scale Modelers Club to host model contest April 9
TUSCARAWAS TWP. – The Stark Scale Modelers Club will hold its ninth annual model contest with vendor and exhibition show from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 9 at Tuslaw Middle School, 1723 Manchester Ave. NW.
The show is a fundraiser for the Tuslaw boys basketball program. Theme for this year's show is "Indianapolis Race Cars and Pace Cars".
Model registration is 9 a.m. to noon. Cost is $5 for the first model and $1 for each additional model.
There will be a junior and adult division, with both Judges and Peoples Choice awards in all 19 model classes.
Judging starts at noon, with awards presented at 3 p.m.
Admission is $4 per person and free for children younger than 12. Free admission for vendors and anyone entering a model.
There will be hourly door prizes, silent auction, concessions, a club build-off, and 50/50 raffle.
Sponsors for the show are Wings/Wheels/Waves Hobby Shop, MCW Automotive & Military Finishes, and MCW Resins, all of which will be at the show.
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- To ban all coal imports from Russia
- To ban export to Russia of semiconductors, high-tech machinery, LNG extraction tech, other equipment
- Export ban represents value of €10 billion per year
- To ban import from Russia of wood, cement, rubber, chemicals; estimated €5 billion per year
- To add dozens of other Russian individuals to sanctions list
The measures are being cited by EU sources via Reuters. The exact details are believed to still be under discussion, especially the coal ban as I reckon there is still some divide over the matter. It is at least a first step by the EU in trying to punish Russian energy, even if it doesn't really specifically touch on oil or gas.
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The CAC 40 index is down 1.3% on the day now with French government bonds also slipping further on the day. 10-year French bond yields are up 9 bps to 1.10% currently as it appears that investors are waking up to looming election risks.
One of the latest opinion polls shows that far-right candidate, Marine Le Pen, captured 48.5% of voter intentions of a likely runoff against Emmanuel Macron - the highest she has ever notched.
Now, a far-right victory is still not the most probable scenario but election risks are always something to consider - even more so these days when political swings can happen at any point in time. But the thing here is that among most polls, we are seeing Macron's lead be cut to just around 3-8 points for the most part (it was almost 15 points in early March).
It's not exactly a major blow for Macron yet but we're certainly in the territory where there might be 'margin for error' when it comes to projecting who will come out on top. So, that's certainly a risk for markets to contend with.
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The use of temporary agriculture workers from Mexico and elsewhere has increased greatly over the past 10-15 years in the Yakima Valley and state of Washington, and that trend is expected to continue in 2022.
While the H-2A program which brings guest workers to local farms remains much debated and criticized by growers and farmworker advocates, both sides say the agriculture industry probably would not function without it.
“If we want to continue having domestic food production, we need (H-2A workers) to fill jobs in agriculture,” Jon DeVaney, president of the Washington State Tree Fruit Association, said last week to the Rotary Club of Yakima.
During the club’s March 31 lunch meeting, DeVaney noted that reliance on H-2A workers for hard-to-fill agricultural jobs has increased, from about 50,000 jobs across the U.S. in 2005 to more than 300,000 H-2A-filled jobs in 2021. He listed the amount of jobs because individual H-2A workers may have more than one work contract.
In Washington, there were about 1,000 H-2A jobs filled in 2009 and close to 30,000 jobs could be filled by those workers in 2022, DeVaney said. He stressed that because it is a long, complex and costly process to bring foreign workers here, the H-2A program is definitely not replacing or eliminating jobs for Americans.
“Very few domestic workers are applying for agricultural jobs. We see less than 100 (domestic workers) apply for these 30,000 (H-2A) jobs,” DeVaney said. “This is a last-resort kind of option.”
Bringing workers to Washington
H-2A is technically the name of the visa that allows a foreign national worker to enter the United States to work in agriculture for a specified amount of time. The “A” stands for agriculture; there are other types of visas for foreign employees in other industries.
Employers are required by federal law to cover H-2A workers’ inbound and outbound transportation, housing and meals, and they are subject to the same wage and workers’ compensation laws as domestic employees, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
Enforcement of these federal rules is often done by state agencies. For example, the Washington Department of Health handles the process of applying for and establishing H-2A worker housing, while agencies such as the state’s Department of Labor and Industries may inspect housing if problems arise.
Applying to bring these workers into the U.S. is a complicated, time-consuming and expensive process, said Dan Fazio, executive director of the Washington State Farm Labor Association.
“The process is too tough,” Fazio said. “The employer must show that there are insufficient U.S. workers, must agree to hire any willing and able U.S. worker who wants the job, and guarantee a wage that is approximately 20% higher than the required wage for farmers who do not use the program.”
Only certain types of work qualify as H-2A jobs, Fazio said.
“This program is only available for seasonal agricultural jobs. Therefore, dairies cannot use the program for milkers, because it is a year-round position,” he added. “Generally speaking, the program is limited to seasonal jobs of two to 10 months in duration. There are many, many restrictions on hours, working conditions, etc. It is highly regulated.”
DeVaney noted that employers are required to continue recruiting domestic workers for H-2A jobs through the first half of an H-2A worker’s contract. If someone is interested, the grower must hire the domestic worker while still paying the H-2A worker according to the agreed-upon contract.
“They must pay three-fourths of the contracted money to H-2A workers, even if they’re sent home,” DeVaney added.
H-2A pay controversies
Wages for H-2A workers are set by a complicated U.S. Department of Labor process that includes a survey of prevailing wages paid by growers in recent years. This process produces the Adverse Effect Wage Rate, or AEWR, which will increase from a 2021 hourly pay rate of $16.34 to $17.41 in 2022.
Several advocacy groups, including Columbia Legal Services and Familias Unidas por la Justicia (FUJ), an independent Washington farmworkers union, believe both domestic and H-2A employees can and should make more.
In a news release issued March 31, Columbia Legal Services attorney Andrea Schmitt argued that bringing in nearly one-third of the Washington farm workforce from economically struggling areas of the world pushes down wages. While the H-2A program is supposed to prevent this by surveying growers to ensure the AEWR is higher than prevailing wages, Schmitt said growers have manipulated the system to reduce what is actually paid to workers.
By stressing the flat, hourly wage instead of a per-piece rate based on each bucket or bin of cherries, pears or apples a worker harvests, the amount H-2A workers can earn is reduced by as much as 50%, Schmitt told the Yakima Herald-Republic.
“They’re offering wages that don’t match up with what workers can earn,” she added.
Schmitt referenced last year’s Torres vs. U.S. Department of Labor case, filed on behalf of longtime Yakima Valley farmworker Ramon Torres Hernandez, a member of FUJ.
In his ruling on the case, U.S. District Court Judge Salvador Mendoza Jr. rejected the U.S. Department of Labor’s decision to ignore farmworker survey data which indicated higher piece-rate wages are the predominant practice in Washington agriculture. Instead, federal officials certified prevailing wage rates based on many Washington apple and cherry growers reporting they paid only the state minimum wage per hour to harvest fruit.
The judge ruled that ignoring the workers’ wage survey results would allow growers to unfairly manipulate the prevailing wage system.
“It cannot be denied: employers have an incentive to lie on the surveys,” Mendoza wrote in the decision. “A lower prevailing wage finding is in their financial interests. Even considering (the Department of Labor’s) reasons for not requiring the worker survey, the Court cannot understate the importance of the survey as a check on employers.”
Had the grower-only survey results been left in place, farmworkers’ wages would have been slashed — by 25% to more than 130%, depending on the crop, union officials said.
“If Mr. Torres Hernandez were paid the minimum wage instead of a piece rate, he would lose over $3,400 each year,” said Ramon Barba Torres, FUJ president, when Mendoza’s decision was issued.
The FUJ president said the farmworkers union has worried for years that growers might be manipulating the survey to lower wages for thousands of H-2A workers, as well as domestic farmworkers.
“Growers can get H-2A workers to work faster without an incentive of more pay because their visa ties them to one employer and they can’t seek better wages or working conditions at a neighboring orchard,” Torres added. “If growers could have hired H-2A workers to pick fruit at a minimum hourly wage, wages for all workers — including local workers — would have been forced down.”
Growers attempt to lessen reliance on H-2A
In 2021, there were 28,727 H-2A positions certified in Washington, an increase of 7% from 2020’s 26,832 positions, noted Fazio, the WAFLA executive director. He said Washington experienced double-digit growth of the H-2A program from 2015-2019, but since that time growth has stabilized.
Nationally, Washington state ranked fourth in number of H-2A positions in 2021, behind Florida, Georgia and California, Fazio added.
Practical ways to reduce a grower’s reliance on H-2A and domestic workers were discussed in February at the Washington wine industry’s annual WineVit meetings in the Tri-Cities.
Dustin Tobin, vineyard manager for Precept Wine Brands in Walla Walla, noted his need for labor increases every spring during the pruning and suckering process, which trims branches and removes weak or sick vine shoots.
“At the end of May, I get 70-80 people in and pay them per plant for suckering, then those 70-80 guys go right into cherries (harvesting),” Tobin said.
Joe Cotta, vineyard manager for Ste. Michelle Wine Estates, just north of Sunnyside, said to reduce the need for H-2A labor, he has increased mechanization and changed the layout and design of vineyard.
“Mechanized pruning, shoot thinning, leafing, suckering have typically cut labor demand costs by 50% in those blocks (of changed layout),” Cotta said. “Mechanization has made our labor needs a little more consistent year round.”
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to address the United Nations Security Council Tuesday and likely discuss allegations of war crimes committed by Russia following the discovery of executions and mass graves.
World leaders expressed increasing outrage after seeing reports of dead Ukrainian civilians — many of whom appear to have been executed — strewn about in Bucha, a city northwest of Kyiv. Photos of bodies lining the streets and satellite images of mass graves first surfaced Saturday after Russian forces withdrew from positions outside Ukraine's capital. Having seen the atrocities firsthand, Zelenskyy will address the Security Council Tuesday morning.
Barbara Woodward, the British ambassador to the U.N., told reporters Monday that Tuesday's meeting will require council members to face "the true reality" of the Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
"What's important about this meeting is it will be the first opportunity the Security Council has had to discuss the images that we've seen in Bucha, which you've heard widely over the weekend described both as war crimes and as genocide," Woodward said.
The UK will call a #UNSC meeting tomorrow on #Ukraine. We will discuss the mounting evidence of war crimes, including from #Bucha.
— Ambassador Barbara Woodward (@BWoodward_UN) April 4, 2022
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She also said the U.K. "strongly supports" U.S. efforts to suspend Russia's voting rights on the U.N.'s Human Rights Council, championed by Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N.
"Russia should not have a position of authority in that body, nor should we allow Russia to use their role on the Council as a tool of propaganda to suggest they have a legitimate concern about human rights. In fact, we see every day, including yesterday, heartbreaking reports about how little they care about human rights," Thomas-Greenfield said at a press conference in Romania Monday. "Russia's participation on the Human Rights Council is a farce. It hurts the credibility of the Council and the U.N. writ large. And it is simply wrong. Which is why we believe it is time for the U.N. General Assembly to suspend them."
The U.K.'s Johnson vows to "starve Putin's war machine"
Despite what seems to be overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Russian officials continue to deny any wrongdoing and have called the photos and reports propaganda staged by the west, NPR previously reported. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Monday that the images have been manipulated, while Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called the events in Bucha "staged."
Despite its best efforts, leaders across the globe aren't buying into the Russian narrative. U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson swore to do everything within his power to "starve Putin's war machine," promising increased sanctions against Russia and additional humanitarian support for Ukraine.
Prime Minister @BorisJohnson's statement on Russia’s despicable attacks against innocent civilians in Irpin and Bucha.https://t.co/Rikh4DCXMy pic.twitter.com/RUZ8t82DOH
— UK Prime Minister (@10DowningStreet) April 3, 2022
President Joe Biden also doubled down on his position Monday, calling for additional sanctions and once again branding Putin a war criminal. "This guy is brutal," the president said. "And what's happening in Bucha is outrageous, and everyone's seen it."
In an address made earlier on Tuesday, Zelenskyy said he will push for a thorough accounting of Russian military forces' behavior. He also said that he believes the number of civilians tortured and killed allegedly at the hands of the Russians is far greater than what has been reported. "The occupiers did things that the locals had not seen even during the Nazi occupation 80 years ago," he said.
"The time will come when every Russian will learn the whole truth about who of their fellow citizens killed. Who gave orders. Who turned a blind eye to the murders," Zelenskyy said. "We will establish all this. And make it globally known."
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Local business owner sues Monroe County Sheriff's Office
A local business owner has accused the Monroe County Sheriff's Office of making false and slanderous accusations against his businesses in an effort to sever contractual relationships between them and the county.
Jacques (Jack) Poli, owner of Rockwood Towing Inc. and Rockwood Auto Parts, has sued the county as well as Monroe County Sheriff Troy Goodnough and Detective Sgt. Mike Preadmore, alleging that the sheriff's office knowingly fabricated an accusation that a boat and vehicles owned by Poli were stolen as pretext for removing Rockwood Auto Parts and Rockwood Towing as county vendors.
Rockwood Auto Parts has been in operation since 1964, and Rockwood Towing has been in business since 1999.
Rockwood Auto Parts began providing automobile repair, service and fleet maintenance for county-owned vehicles in 2013, including the sheriff's office's fleet of vehicles, becoming the county's exclusive auto repair and maintenance provider in 2018. Rockwood Towing has been the exclusive towing service provider for two of the county's six "zones," and shared a third with four other towing providers since the mid-2000s.
"He's (Goodnough) made up some false accusations he's turned me over to the state for investigation, and it's all bulls---," Poli said Monday when reached for comment. "...I did not deserve what's going on. ... I believe the sheriff had this planned months before he was even elected."
The 29-page lawsuit, which was filed March 25 in the Unites States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, alleges that Goodnough initially expressed a desire to replace Rockwood Towing and Rockwood Auto Parts with other vendors for towing and auto repair and maintenance services almost immediately after he was elected sheriff in January 2021.
That same month, Goodnough allegedly contacted Poli to inquire about a scrap 1980s Stingray Center Console boat that Poli says he purchased from Monroe County in 2018.
On Jan. 19, Goodnough and Preadmore allegedly demanded to inspect Rockwood Auto even when told of Poli's absence. The lawsuit says the two officials photographed and took information from multiple vehicles on the property during what it alleges was an unlawful search.
"While inspecting each, Rockwood employees confirmed the purchase information for each vehicle," the lawsuit reads. "Defendant Goodnough asked about a boat trailer during the unlawful search and was advised that the trailer was stored at Mr. Poli's personal residence. Defendant Goodnough followed up multiple times that same day and the next morning demanding access to Mr. Poli's personal residence to inspect the boat trailer to ensure a new boat being purchased by the (sheriff's office) would fit.
"The demand was mere pretext."
Poli reportedly consented to Goodnough's inspection of the trailer, but the lawsuit alleges that the sheriff and Preadmore "unlawfully expanded their search to the entirety of (Poli's) property including taking photographs of the scrap 1980s Stingray boat."
"Defendant Goodnough and Detective Preadmore never measured or even looked at the boat trailer," the suit continues. "Defendant Goodnough was informed the Stingray boat was purchased by Plaintiffs from Monroe County after it was declared unfit for use and listed for public auction per MCSD's Purchasing Policy. Defendant Goodnough nonetheless falsely stated to (sheriff's office deputies) including Detective Preadmore that the Stingray boat was stolen, despite (the sheriff's office) being the record holder of the sale and having cashed the check. Defendant Goodnough then contacted the Michigan State Police (MSP) to further make the false and slanderous allegation that Plaintiffs stole the Stingray boat and Ford Crown Victoria vehicles from Monroe County."
The state police reportedly opened a criminal investigation against Poli and his businesses, but the lawsuit says their investigator was satisfied with the documentation and titles that Poli provided for purchases of the vehicles. It goes on to allege that Goodnough used this "open investigation" as pretext to remove Poli's businesses from the sheriff's office's approved vendor list for towing and auto repair and maintenance services.
"Plaintiff Rockwood was removed from Area Four, additional vendors were added to Areas Five and Six, and Rockwood was stripped from its exclusive, non-emergency towing of (sheriff's department) vehicles, including vehicles and other personal property forfeited in civil cases," it reads. "It was then that Defendant Goodnough began steering repair, maintenance and towing services to its preferred vendors ... Promptly upon being provided a receipt of purchase showing the no-longer sea worthy Stingray boat was sold by the County to Poli at its scrap value, MSP quickly cleared Plaintiffs and advised the investigation would be closed."
The lawsuit goes on to accuse Goodnough of manipulating the bidding process for a new fleet maintenance and mechanic services contract to benefit Rockwood's competitors, specifically companies it alleges were contributors to Goodnough's campaign for sheriff.
"The sham bidding process and improper steering of auto repair, fleet maintenance and tow services by Defendant Goodnough to his preferred vendors and campaign contributors has substantially harmed and continues to substantially harm Plaintiffs as well as the community," the suit reads. "The unlawful search, slanderous allegations of theft, initiation of a malicious prosecution, and targeted enforcement of County policies against Plaintiffs has further resulted in harm to Plaintiffs including reputational damage and emotional distress."
Poli reiterated Monday that the investigations against him and his businesses were all closed and he's been cleared of wrongdoing. He says neither of his businesses had ever previously been accused of misconduct but that both have been severely affected by what he alleges the sheriff has done to him.
"We're going to expose him...," Poli said. "I hope it does go to court, so we can expose him to the public for what he did. I'm not looking for a settlement; I'm looking to expose the sheriff and how corrupt he is.
"All the facts prove it."
In a joint statement to The Monroe News, Goodnough and Monroe County Administrator Michael Bosanac said that "the unsubstantiated allegations will be aggressively defended like any others brought against the County."
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Check out the latest World Cup odds for Qatar 2022 and get our experts’ analysis of the best teams leading the quadrennial tournament.
Brazil (+500) is the favorite to win the World Cup come this December, while 2018 victors France and 2021 European Championship runners-up England follow closely in the odds at +550. Rounding out the top-five on the odds board are Spain (+800) and Copa America winners Argentina (+900).
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Favorites to win the 2022 FIFA World Cup
Although it has been a long time since Brazil won the World Cup, oddsmakers believe the 2021 Copa America finalist received a favorable draw Friday. Switzerland, Serbia and Cameroon round out Group G, where Brazil is a -350 favorite to win the group and -1400 to advance.
England was the other notable favorite that moved down Friday. It will face the United States, Iran and the winner of the UEFA playoff between Wales, Scotland and Ukraine. Just like Brazil, the Three Lions are -350 to win Group B, but are -3000 to advance.
Of the top-six teams on the futures board, only Spain and Germany produced downward moves. That came as a result of both being placed in the same group alongside Pot Three entrant Japan.
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Outside of the favorites tier, a few teams further down the board had notable moves resulting from Friday’s draw.
The biggest positive movers were Croatia and Senegal, who entered Group F and Group A, respectively. Oddsmakers believe in Croatia getting to the knockouts too as the 2018 World Cup finalists are -190 to advance out of a group that also contains Belgium, Morocco and Canada.
Denmark, who placed into Group C with France, Tunisia and a to-be determined playoff winner, also moved down six points to +2200 following the draw.
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As for the downward movers, Mexico and Poland — likely competitors for the second spot in Group C — saw a downshift in odds due to the uncertainty surrounding who will advance. Likewise, Serbia saw a big downward shift after being drawn with Brazil and Switzerland.
But, none other than Qatar proved the biggest mover of teams that entered the draw with odds of +10000 or better as the host nation dropped from +6600 to +10000. It occupies the first spot in Group A alongside the Netherlands, Senegal and Ecuador.
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The latest prices drivers are paying at pumps across Kent have been revealed. Across all forecourts in the county, unleaded petrol is currently being sold from 157p.
The cheapest unleaded petrol is currently being sold just the other side of the Dartford Crossing in Grays for 157.7p. But if you're not planning on travelling over the crossing, you can get unleaded fuel for 158.7p from Asda in Greenhithe.
If it's diesel you're after, the cheapest is currently being sold for 169.9p. You'll find this at Tesco Park Farm in Ashford.
READ MORE: Dramatic photos show extent of M20 traffic chaos as Dover brought to a standstill
To help you find the best price for fuel where you live, we have pulled together the cheapest stations in a number of towns and cities including Ashford, Canterbury, Dover, Folkestone and Tunbridge Wells. For this, we used petrolprices.com.
Please note, all pumps shown in the list below are within five miles of the relevant area. All prices in the list are accurate at the time of writing on Tuesday morning (April 5).
Unleaded
Ashford
Tesco Ashford Park Farm - 158.9p
Tesco Extra Ashford Crooksfoot - 158.9p
Low Prices Always Ashford - 159.8p
Canterbury
Asda Canterbury - 158.7p
Morrisons Canterbury - 158.7p
Tesco Extra Whitstable - 158.9p
Dartford
Morrisons Grays - 157.7p
Asda Greenhithe- 158.7p
Tesco Lakeside Extra - 158.9p
Dover
Tesco Extra Dover - 159.9p
BP Limekiln Street - 162.9p
Shell Dover - 162.9p
Folkestone
Gulf Canterbury Road - 159.7p
BP Seabrook Road - 159.9p
Sainsbury's West Park Farm - 160.9p
Medway
Asda Gillingham Pier - 158.7p
Morrisons Walderslade - 158.7p
Asda Chatham/Rainham High Street - 158.7p
Sevenoaks
BP London Road - 159.9p
Sainsbury's Sevenoaks - 161.9p
Tesco Sevenoaks Riverhead - 161.9p
Thanet
Tesco Ramsgate Manston - 158.9p
Sainsbury's Thanet - 158.9p
Tesco Extra Broadstairs - 158.9p
Tonbridge
Sainsbury's Tonbridge - 163.9p
Esso Paddock Wood - 163.9p
Harvest Energy Hildenborough- 164.9p
Tunbridge Wells
Sainsbury's Tunbridge Wells - 163.9p
BP Hastings Road - 163.9p
Esso Eridge Road - 166.9p
Diesel
Ashford
Tesco Ashford Park Farm - 169.9p
Tesco Extra Ashford Crooksfoot - 169.9p
Sainsbury's Ashford Bybrook - 170.9p
Canterbury
Asda Canterbury - 171.7p
Morrisons Canterbury - 173.7p
Tesco Extra Whitstable - 176.9p
Dartford
Asda Greenhithe - 171.9p
Esso Princes Road - 175.9p
Esso Dartford Road - 176.9p
Dover
Tesco Extra Dover - 171.9p
Shell Dover - 175.9p
BP A2 - 179.9p
Folkestone
Sainsbury's West Park Farm - 174.9p
Tesco Folkestone - 176.9p
Gulf Canterbury Road - 179.9p
Medway
Tesco Extra Gillingham - 169.8p
Sainsbury's Hempstead - 169.9p
Asda Gillingham Pier - 170.7p
Sevenoaks
Sainsbury's Sevenoaks - 174.9p
Tesco Sevenoaks Riverhead - 176.9p
BP London Road - 176.9p
Thanet
Sainsbury's Thanet - 168.9p
Tesco Ramsgate Manston - 168.9p
Tesco Extra Broadstairs - 168.9p
Tonbridge
Sainsbury's Tonbridge - 173.9p
Esso Pembury - 176.9p
Harvest Energy Hildenborough - 177.9p
Tunbridge Wells
Sainsbury's Tunbridge Wells - 172.9p
Sainsbury's Tonbridge - 173.9p
Esso Pembury - 176.9p
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With the Easter holidays just around the corner, many holidaymakers will be booking a much-needed break. A number of countries, such as Iceland, Norway and England, have scrapped all of their travel rules, meaning tourists no longer have to test or be fully vaccinated to be accepted into the country.
But, there are still destinations that have coronavirus rules in place. So, before you pack your bags, it is important to check what rules you must follow before you jet off this spring.
To help you plan your holiday, we've found 18 countries in the EU which still have strict COVID-19 rules in force as it stands. They are as follows.
READ MORE: New travel rules for India and Pakistan as Easter holiday approaches
Spain
Only fully vaccinated Brits or those who can show proof of recovery from coronavirus can enter the country until April 30. The Spanish Ministry of Health also requires all travellers from an EU or European Economic Area risk country to fill out the Health Control Form.
France
If you're fully vaccinated, you can enter France, but you must prove you've been vaccinated. Unvaccinated travellers aged 12 and over need to provide a negative PCR test result taken within 72 hours or an antigen test result taken within 48 hours pre-departure.
Italy
All travellers aged six and over must show either proof of vaccination, evidence of a negative PCR test taken within 72 hours before entering Italy or a negative rapid lateral flow test taken within 48 hours before entering Italy. Alternatively, you can show a certificate stating you have recovered from COVID-19 in the last six months.
If you can't prove any of this, you must self-isolate for five days and take another PCR test at the end of the five days' self-isolation.
Portugal
If you're fully vaccinated, you can enter Portugal without needing to test. If you’re not fully vaccinated, you’ll need to show proof of a negative PCR test (taken no more than 72 hours before entry) or rapid lateral flow test (taken no more than 24 hours before entry) when you check in for your flight to mainland Portugal.
Netherlands
Fully vaccinated Brits who can prove they've had their jabs can enter the Netherlands. If you’re not fully vaccinated or a legal resident of the Netherlands, you are only allowed to enter the Netherlands from the UK if you meet the requirements of an exemption category of the EU entry ban, as established by the Dutch government.
Germany
You can enter Germany from the UK for any travel purpose if you are fully vaccinated. If you are not fully vaccinated, you cannot currently enter Germany unless you are a German citizen; the spouse/partner/child under 18 of a German citizen; a resident of Germany; the spouse/partner/child under 18 of a resident of Germany; serve in an important role; or have an urgent need to travel.
Children between 0 to five-years-old and unvaccinated six to 11-year-olds may enter if accompanied by a fully vaccinated parent.
Greece
You can enter Greece if you can prove you're fully vaccinated, have recovered from COVID-19 or have a negative PCR test that was done within 72 hours before arriving in the country. You can also show a negative rapid antigen test taken within 24 hours before arriving in Greece.
The same rules apply to everyone regardless of their vaccination status.
Cyprus
Vaccinated passengers may enter Cyprus provided they can prove they're vaccinated. If you're not fully vaccinated and you're over 12-years-old, you must show a negative PCR test taken within 72 hours prior to departure or a rapid antigen test within 24 hours prior to departure.
You must also do a PCR laboratory test when you arrive at any Cyprus airport, which will cost between €15 and €19 and must be paid by the passenger.
Croatia
If you’ve been fully vaccinated within the last nine months, you can enter Croatia without needing to test or quarantine. If you’re not fully vaccinated, you’ll need to show proof of a negative PCR test (taken no more than 72 hours before entry) or a rapid antigen test (taken no more than 24 hours before entry) when entering Croatia.
Czech Republic
You can enter the Czech Republic for any reason if you're fully vaccinated and received your last jab less than nine months ago, or have recovered from the deadly bug. If you have not been fully vaccinated or previously had Covid-19, you are only allowed to enter the Czech Republic for essential reasons, such as for medical treatment or to attend a funeral, or if you hold a residency permit issued by the Czech Republic.
A permanent or long term residency permit can also be issued by a EU+ country (EU plus Andorra, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Norway, San Marino, Switzerland and Vatican City).
Malta
If you're fully vaccinated, you can enter Malta. However, if you're unvaccinated you have to show a negative PCR test within 72 hours before your arrival and quarantine for 14 days on arrival at an officially-designated quarantine hotel.
Austria
All travellers must show either proof of full vaccination, recovery from COVID-19 in the past 180 days or a negative test to enter Austria. If you are not fully vaccinated and don’t qualify for exemptions, then you will need to prove recovery or have a negative test.
Belgium
If you're fully vaccinated, you can enter Belgium if you've completed a Passenger Locator Form (PLF), unless you fall under a very limited list of exemptions listed on the Belgian government website. No more than nine months must have passed since your last dose, unless you've received a booster or third dose.
If you are aged 12 or over and aren't fully vaccinated, you can only enter Belgium if you can produce either a recovery or negative test certificate.
Bulgaria
If you’re fully vaccinated, you can enter Bulgaria without needing to test or quarantine as long as your final dose was less than nine months ago, or you've had a booster. If you’re not fully vaccinated, you can enter from the UK with a negative PCR test (taken no more than 72 hours before entry) or rapid lateral flow test (taken no more than 48 hours before entry).
Slovakia
You can now enter Slovakia if you're fully vaccinated. However, if you're not then you are only allowed to enter the country if you're one of the following:
- a resident in Slovakia
- a close relative of a resident or of a Slovak citizen (i.e. spouse, minor child or parent of a minor child)
- commercial transport personnel
- a student studying in Slovakia
- you fall under certain limited exemptions
Finland
If you’re fully vaccinated, you can enter Finland. If you’re not fully vaccinated, you cannot enter Finland unless you can provide evidence of an essential or compassionate reason for travel.
Estonia
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After 15 months and $160 million, the Hawaii State Hospital's psychiatric facility is scheduled to open on April 13.
"It's just taken way too long, none of the excuses really make any sense," said Sen. Jarrett Keohokalole, who represents Kaneohe.
That's after fixing building defects -- including showers that were not constructed properly and door handles and other fixtures that administrators feared patients could use to hurt themselves.
"The cost to the taxpayers right now are there are 144 beds for the most acute patients that are, you know, potentially out on the street in our community, or who are wasting away in jails when they really should be getting treatment," he said.
The Department of Health oversees the hospital that's been criticized for security and safety issues over the years. DOH officials told lawmakers today they've been dealing with preventing a COVID outbreak, staff shortages and having to take care of daily operations.
"We need to take responsibility for that over at DOH as I indicated to you before there were a number of things that we should have started while the building was still being built -- like an operating plan, start drafting out some policies and procedures and we didn't," said Marian Tsuji, deputy director for behavioral health at the DOH.
The delays have frustrated lawmakers scrambling to find solutions to the growing number of homeless people and help for those people suffering from mental illness.
"This facility is important to make sure that the dangerous ones are in a secured facility so they won't harm the staff, they won't harm other people or themselves," Keohokalole said. "But this building is going to open up space and capacity for us to get the homeless off the street. And that's why we want them to hurry up and open this place up and do it the right way."
The 144-bed facility will be opening in phases starting with 48 patients moving into the third floor in mid-April, two weeks later another 48 will move into the second floor and two weeks after that on the first floor.
The Hawai'i State Hospital is also starting other renovations in May to improve safety and security throughout the campus. Those projects are expected to be finished in 2023.
Kristen joined KITV4 in March 2021 after working for the past two decades as a newspaper reporter. Kristen's goal is to produce meaningful journalism that educates, enlightens and inspires to affect positive change in society.
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Top news and notes from around Northern Virginia and beyond.
5. Services reduced
Arlington residents will continue to experience a certain degree of do-it-yourself policing as the Arlington County Police Department struggles with recruitment and retention.
4. Centreville tornado
The National Weather Service has confirmed a second tornado touched down, this one in Centreville, during last week's strong storms.
3. Soaking rain
Showers are likely through this afternoon with a soaking rain spreading over the region this evening and high temperatures near 63 degrees. Click here for a detailed forecast by ZIP code.
2. McLean murders
NBC Washington has obtained video interviews Fairfax County detectives had with a McLean woman recently convicted of killing her own mother and sister before staging the scene to look like a murder-suicide.
1. Leesburg shooting death
A 21-year-old man has been charged with murder in a shooting death in Leesburg early Monday morning.
InsideOut
The comedy-mystery “Art of Murder” by Joe DiPietro will be presented on select dates through April 16 at the Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton. Click here for tickets and details.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — Good Tuesday morning! It's a warm and humid start to the day as southerly winds are bringing in moisture with temperatures in the lower 60's. Highs will climb into the upper 70's and lowers 80's this afternoon as strong to severe storms sink into southern Georgia by this afternoon. A squall line is expected to sink in by the middle part of the afternoon, making it into the Big Bend by the evening. These storms will produce wide swaths of gusty winds, with some damaging gusts exceeding 60 mph, along with a few tornadoes. Scattered activity will reach state line counties with chances for severe storms stretching into the night. The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued an enhanced risk for severe weather today.
Wednesday will feature scattered leftover showers and re-developing thunderstorms, even in the morning hours, with scattered severe-weather occurrences including the threat of large hail. Conditions will settle down later Thursday with a strong front, bringing a clearing trend and unseasonably cold air for the end of the week.
As always, be sure to follow the ABC 27 First To Know Weather Team on Facebook and Twitter. Be sure to download the Storm Shield App to get watches and warnings delivered straight to your phone to stay updated on your forecast through the week. Get the app today: iPhone/iPad | Android.
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With the world in flux, The Museum of 21st Century Design builds a legacy in real time. Its mission is to endorse and discover design that improves climate and society. Rather than a brick and mortar footprint, M21D will manifest in online collections and publications. “We’re serious about not leaving a trace,” explains founding director William Myers about his team’s plans for online communities and pop-up exhibitions in surprising locations. “We’re about conversation, not conservation.”
Myers has been actively pursuing this 21st-century museum concept since earning his MFA in writing, research and criticism at SVA’s Design Criticism program. His specialties are Biodesign and Bioart, two emergent fields of the last 10 years. Myers has long been “energized” that designer and artist collaborations with scientists are multiplying and producing work that is at turns practical and critical. “The criticality is urgent in the art that responds to or uses new biotechnologies,” he says. “When you think about how the digital revolution unfolded over the last 20 years, with all its unintended consequences (like concentration of power in few hands, misinformation, distracted driving, and amplification of biases, to name a few), you have to ask, can the biotechnological revolution do better?”
This is a central question underscoring an exhibition titled Gene Culture that Myers organized with Jacob Montz, set for the new MIT Museum in the fall. His most recent show, Nature Loves Technology (organized with Emma van der Leest), on the future of cities, food and bio-fabrication, opens in April at the Floriade Festival in the Netherlands.
Ultimately, my interest is piqued by a museum that will plant roots and grow. I asked Myers to walk us through his intriguing new venture.
The idea for M21D is both brilliant and logical. How’d you get to this point? What inspired its development?
After three years working at the Guggenheim in New York, 10 at MoMA, and another 10 guest curating at several institutions, I have seen up close how the museum sausage is made, so to speak. I should note: For my time in New York I was working in museum marketing, licensing and product design before I entered the D-Crit program at SVA in 2008 and learned how to curate and research. The first edition of my book Biodesign was printed in 2012 and was ready to become an exhibition, but no one was interested back then. I contacted every museum director or curator I could reach and … crickets! In time I did land a venue, Het Nieuwe Instituut (The New Institute) in Rotterdam in 2013, but the experience taught me: We need more landing pads for innovative exhibitions and unproven curators. Museums are rather stuck in their ways, and distracted by their hamster wheel act of fundraising and expanding their physical footprint. I like to refer to this as the Bilbao Defect, how museums raise millions for buildings while investing little in their people, local community or engaging programs.
Part two of the inspiration was realizing that design museums are full of objects and legacy systems that are out of sync with the priorities of this century: advancing social and environmental justice. Do we really need more shows with precious new objects under glass as our permafrost melts, releasing methane? Do we need more museum starchitecture in cities while we predict the next pandemic or find ways to help people see Black Lives Matter? Don’t get me wrong, I love places like the Cooper Hewitt museum and believe they generate value preserving material, and immaterial heritage, but I don’t see an urgency to build more of them for design of our current century. A focus is needed instead on design’s impact on the planet and society, and what kind of design will really matter when we look back on it in 100 years. We think positive impact is the answer.
I embrace and applaud the forward thinking. What are your plans for what, where and how to exhibit 21st-century design? What technologies now and in the future are being considered?
We seek to pop-up physical exhibitions at host institutions like libraries, schools, parks and museums with free entry. In every show we are careful not to fall into the standard of setting up altars to worship objects in our approach, and instead prioritize engagement in a similar way to the Science Gallery International, where guides invite you to interact. We are trying to reverse the expectations in a museum exhibition that make talking or touching objects forbidden. Contemporary design we’re interested in needs to be handled, discussed and debated. Perhaps at times it even needs to be destroyed; picture an iPhone being smashed while a Fairphone watches and records the performance. Another unusual format we’re experimenting with is to create dialogues between objects as if they were people, having arguments or even going on a date. What would an Eames Lounge Chair and a Tejo Remy Rag Chair talk about over drinks? Would they get along? We think inexpensive prototyping of exhibition formats holds potential.
In another area of research, we are gathering the most creative and effective examples of public space redesigns made during the pandemic, with the intention to recreate some of them in an open-air setting for people to try out. These would include repurposed parking spaces, outdoor gyms, impromptu playgrounds or unofficial bike lanes.
So, is this a physical or virtual museum?
Both. Exhibitions will be physical in spaces that host M21D, such as that planned with the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, at their new depot in Rotterdam. The collection we are building is virtual. We believe the cost and space to warehouse objects would be a waste; after all, with contemporary design you can digitally collect so many elements about it (videos, production drawings, reviews, photography, and material analysis), you do not really need to keep the thing. When we have collection shows, we plan to borrow the actual objects.
Did you ever see The Time Machine with Rod Taylor? There is a scene where he enters a decaying remnant of a museum from the 21st or 22nd century. How do you envision the sustainability (or long-term outcome) of M21D?
That is a great reference to a classic. Imagining this kind of scenario is what we do often—finding a plausible narrative about the remaining eight decades of this century, then projecting into the future how we will look at design today from that perspective. So far, we have not envisioned Morlocks, like in the film, but predictions sometimes run quite dark. Recent publications like The Ministry for the Future help inspire us. The 100-year bookends to the collection are deliberate; whereas most collections are a blend of donated items, along with items that have significant cultural impact or demonstrate emerging technology or aesthetics, we try to keep it simpler. We will exhibit and collect design from 2000–2100 that has positive impact on the environment or society. Beauty is still on the table, so to speak, but it’s not the main dish.
We believe in the influence and authority of museums, and they remain one of the few civic institutions that have broad public trust. The museum is also a typology in transition, like the library and the university; as such we are trying out a new way of serving the public. We hope that via championing design with positive impact, we will encourage the reform of design education and practices over time. We endeavor to learn about the commonalities behind some of the best design of our century. We will publish what we learn about these elements; we may uncover, for example, a novel approach to understand users’ needs, or how one can gauge the efficacy of a protest poster design, or how algae can be used for a new application in design.
In this second decade of the 21 century … still fairly early but filled with existential foreboding and pragmatic optimism (depending on where you sit) … what are your highlights, spotlights and key holdings?
In this early phase, we are assembling a variety of designs to demonstrate our priorities and criteria. A key object for us is the Nokia 1100, that indestructible phone from 2003 that has a battery life of up to 400 hours, designed to be affordable and reliable. Another early design in our study collection is a digital image of breasts developed by the Swedish Cancer Society in 2016 in a campaign to encourage self-exams; in it the breasts and nipples are simplified to squares, so as not to trigger flags for sexual content on Facebook. The fact that such visual design work was necessary is itself a bridge to discussing the design of social media platforms. We have also virtually collected for study the Metrocable system that helped link neighborhoods in Medellín, Colombia.
What you select will have consequences for pedagogy and history. What is top on your bucket list?
High on the list is to continue building our Study Collection. We are interested in several additional designs for study, including DineOut NYC, a free instructional guide designed by the Rockwell Group for building safe and lawful outdoor seating in New York City at restaurants during the pandemic. We also have been researching the design of user applications on text-only phones originating from the global South, a residential building in Hamburg with algae tanks covering its façade, and the Extinction Rebellion logo.
This is not a museum devoted to predictions of the future, but is there any hint of, say, a World’s Fair or Disney-like futurama being considered?
Yes, there is. In developing the exhibition to stage at the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen depot that was mentioned, for example, we are investigating ways to inject surprise, such as training tour guides to act in character as someone from the future. We are finding that a future perspective opens up opportunities for critique and humor. Part of the premise here is that climate catastrophes lead to a loss of knowledge about objects, so the narrative about them might come across as puzzled or will misinterpret the design’s function. In doing so, we hope to expand the stories of the objects by considering their social and environmental impacts in a way that is fun and engaging to a wide audience.
What will the curatorial role(s) entail? And will your curator(s) all be remote in order to record M21D from all over the globe?
We plan to have curatorial teams on a project basis for early exhibitions. As we grow our community of supporters, our goal is to have permanent positions funded for social and environmental design. Given our focus on impact, we are avoiding the expected specializations, like curator for architecture, graphic or industrial design. We have been working in a mixed remote and in-person model, and we seek to enrich our perspective with voices that are underrepresented or outside the cultural sector. To that end, we are in dialogue with schools about hosting paid curatorial or museum fellows, to build a better pipeline to the curatorial working table.
How does graphic design or type and typography have a continued or transformed place in M21D?
[M21D] designers Ingrid Chou and Tony Lee, both former colleagues in the MoMA design department, stepped in to answer this question:
Graphic design and typography are a core part of M21D’s identity, helping express our mission and a vision for the future. The design process began with thinking through our values, cataloguing things we found effective about other museum identities, and evolving those into a dynamic visual expression.
We worked with William and his team to create a visual identity system centered on the idea that we are a literal shift from museums of the past—an unconventional disruptor. Our identity for M21D reflects this—we have both static and animated expressions of that shift and flash between different states, reflecting how we hope to alter museum practice, which we recognize will evolve with us as design in the 21st century continues to grow and transform.
We chose brand typefaces that are open source and publicly available to anyone through Google Fonts: Space Mono (designed by Colophon Foundry and inspired by 1960s typefaces that have since been used in works of science fiction) and Work Sans (designed by Wei Huang and optimized for on-screen usage). The decision to use open-source typefaces reflects an attitude towards design as accessible and collaborative.
Even our color palette hints at how we see M21D as a platform to engage with and learn from 21st-century design. The palette is primarily black and white, with spots of bright colors as accents, which will continue to evolve, adapt and transform.
What are the most important priorities for M21D now?
Our first priorities are fundraising and diversity. We are seeking core support for staff salaries and the development of our programs. In this embryonic moment for us, we are grateful for the visionary support of our advisory board members and the Creative States Prize, and while we’re poised for growth, there is an urgent need for new donors. In terms of diversity, we are working toward enriching our team and boards with different perspectives and experiences of design.
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Another round of extreme weather will hit the South this week, with tornadoes, damaging winds and hail expected today from Louisiana to North Carolina. Once this storm system passes, meteorologists say we're still not in the clear though. Peak season for tornadoes across the entire US began this week and will last through June.
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1. Ukraine
An increasing number of world leaders -- including US President Joe Biden -- are accusing Russian forces of committing "war crimes" in response to the images of mass civilian casualties on the outskirts of Kyiv. This comes as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says the number of civilian casualties may be much higher in other cities liberated from Russian control. Meanwhile, new footage of the city of Mariupol shows the latest devastation, where Ukrainian officials say around 90% of residential buildings have been damaged or destroyed as a result of an intense bombardment. An evacuation convoy heading into the besieged city was also turned back by Russian forces, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said, complicating ongoing humanitarian efforts. Zelensky is set to address the United Nations Security Council later this morning, a spokesperson confirmed.
2. Supreme Court
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is expected to be confirmed as the first Black female Supreme Court justice later this week, after a bipartisan group of senators voted yesterday to advance her nomination. After the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 11-11, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called for a vote to break the deadlock and send her nomination to the floor. Every Democrat and three Republican senators -- Susan Collins of Maine, Mitt Romney of Utah and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska -- voted in support of Jackson. Jackson, 51, sits on DC's federal appellate court and had been considered the front-runner for the vacancy on the high court since Justice Stephen Breyer announced his retirement.
3. Coronavirus
The Senate has reached a bipartisan deal to provide an additional $10 billion in Covid-19 assistance. While this is less than half of what the White House originally had requested, it would allow the Biden administration to purchase more vaccines, maintain testing capacity and continue ongoing research. But it does not include $5 billion for global Covid-19 aid, nor would it replenish the program that pays for testing, treating and vaccinating the uninsured. As for how it will be paid for, the deal would utilize unspent funds from the Democrats' $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, which was enacted in March 2021. Separately, the CDC's director announced a sweeping review of the nation's lead public health agency yesterday to evaluate its structure, systems and processes.
4. Immigration
Three Republican-led states are suing the Biden administration over the decision to end Trump-era pandemic restrictions at the US border. Former US President Donald Trump effectively blocked migrants from entering the US using a public health authority known as Title 42, which cited pandemic concerns to stop many migrants from crossing the border and seeking asylum in the US. The restrictions had been criticized by immigrant advocates, public health experts and even officials within the Trump administration who believed it to be driven by political motivations. On May 23, the Biden administration will lift the policy, teeing up a major battle with Republican lawmakers. In the meantime, the three states that filed the suit Sunday -- Missouri, Arizona and Louisiana -- said ending the Trump-era policies would result in "unmitigated chaos and catastrophe" at the border.
5. Hate crimes
A man who allegedly assaulted seven Asian women in New York City in February has been indicted on multiple hate crime charges, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office announced yesterday. During the attacks, Steven Zajonc, 28, allegedly injured six victims, resulting in bleeding cuts and bruises to their faces, and one victim was knocked unconscious and treated for a concussion, prosecutors said. Hate crimes against Asians increased so much during the Covid-19 pandemic that the New York Police Department created an Asian Hate Crime Task Force. The Manhattan District Attorney's Office says it has 27 open cases related to anti-Asian crimes, while the NYPD has recorded 158 incidents of hate crimes against Asians between March 2020 and December 2021.
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9.2%
That's how much of Twitter's stock Elon Musk recently purchased, according to a filing yesterday, making him the largest shareholder in the company. Musk did not disclose what he paid for the shares, but his stake was worth nearly $3 billion based on Friday's closing price. Musk did not reveal his reasoning behind the purchase or any plans for the company, but he has been a high-profile critic of Twitter policies in the past. The move could signal an effort by Musk to take a more active role in the way Twitter operates.
TODAY'S QUOTE
"For the first time in human history, we're not going to have access to the night sky in the way that we've seen it."
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Special counsel John Durham wants to bring up the infamous Trump-Russia dossier and might even call its author Christopher Steele as a witness at the upcoming criminal trial of Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, according to court papers filed on Monday.
Two late-night filings from Sussmann and Durham provided the first indication that the special counsel plans to introduce Steele and his politically fraught dossier from 2016 into the case.
Sussmann was charged with lying in regard to a September 2016 meeting with a senior FBI official, where he provided a tip about strange cyberactivity between the Trump Organization and a major Russian bank. Prosecutors say Sussmann falsely denied providing the tip on behalf of a client -- and was really working for the Clinton campaign at the time. He has pleaded not guilty.
The new filings on Monday suggest that instead of narrowly focusing on Sussmann's alleged lie and the specific meeting where it allegedly occurred, Durham plans to describe at the trial how the Clinton campaign tried to dig up dirt about then-candidate Donald Trump and his ties to Russia.
Attorneys for Sussmann want the judge to block Durham from introducing evidence about the dossier at trial and to stop prosecutors from calling Steele as a witness at the trial next month.
"The Special Counsel should not be permitted to turn Mr. Sussmann's trial on a narrow false statement charge into a circus full of sideshows that will only fuel partisan fervor," the lawyers wrote, saying Steele's work has "no bearing" on the case and is "inflammatory and irrelevant."
Durham's prosecutors said in their own filing that they expect to bring up at trial an old Steele deposition about a meeting he had with Sussmann where they discussed the Trump-Russia cyber claims. Taken together, the filings indicate Durham may try to call Steele as a witness.
It's ultimately up to Judge Christopher Cooper of the DC District Court to decide how much information about Steele can come up at trial. He is also reviewing a motion from Sussmann to throw out the indictment altogether, citing legal flaws. Durham's team says their case is sound.
The Durham investigation has repeatedly faced criticism for trying to keep alive right-wing grievances about the Russia probe. Durham hasn't brought any cases alleging the widespread abuses by US intelligence or law enforcement agencies that are central to these grievances.
There's no indication in the 27-page indictment against Sussmann that he discussed the Steele dossier during his meeting in September 2016 with then-FBI general counsel James Baker, where Sussmann allegedly uttered the false statement that is the basis of his criminal charge.
However, Sussmann was working at the time for Perkins Coie, the law firm that was retained by the Clinton campaign and indirectly hired Steele to research the Trump-Russia relationship. And Sussmann met with Steele one month before he met Baker, but he didn't know that the dossier existed until after the 2016 election, according to Sussmann's previous testimony to Congress.
The Steele dossier contained explosive and salacious allegations about Trump, including unproven claims that his campaign worked closely with the Kremlin to defeat Clinton in 2016. But in the years since that election, a series of federal investigations and civil lawsuits have discredited many of Steele's central allegations and exposed the unreliability of his sources.
If Durham is allowed to bring up the dossier at trial, it would put a spotlight on the secretive efforts by Clinton allies to push the collusion narrative, which has become a hotly debated political topic. Trump denies wrongdoing and says the Democrats faked his ties to Russia, while many Democrats still believe Trump's dealings with Russia are a grave national security threat.
The FBI investigated Sussman's tip but didn't find any improper cyberlinks between the Trump Organization and the Moscow-based Alfa Bank. But related inquiries found substantial ties between Trump's orbit and Russians who were connected to the Kremlin's pro-Trump meddling efforts. The new filing now indicates that Sussmann's case will likely revisit some of this history.
Special counsel Robert Mueller spent two years investigating potential collusion in the 2016 election. His investigation did not establish a criminal conspiracy between Trump and Russia, but it uncovered dozens of contacts between Trump campaign associates and Russian agents.
For his part, Steele previously testified in a deposition as part of at least one civil lawsuit related to the dossier, met with Mueller's investigators, and gave written testimony to a Senate panel.
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26 of the best AR and VR apps and games for iOS and Android
Virtual reality and augmented reality have hit the mainstream - here are our picks for the best games and apps you can download for iPhone and Android.
The experience of both VR and and VR have never been easier to experience from the comfort of your own home. Through cheap headsets and the use of your smartphone, there are hundreds of apps that can give you a full virtual experience.
Swimming with sharks, hanging out with your friends or simply taking a calming trip in a boat - there are plenty of VR experiences available and we've listed the best android and iOS options below.
Rec Room
Rec Room is a hugely popular VR experience enjoyed by millions of users. Available on iOS, Android, PlayStation, Xbox, Oculus and Steam, you can play it across platforms. You can chat and hang out with millions of people in user-created rooms or build something new. There's customisable avatars, challenging games and more.
Incell
This multi-coloured action-cum-racing game takes place in a unique micro-world, which recreates the anatomy of a human cell in impressive detail, giving it an educational angle, too. Players ride along capillaries and connections as they take in inner space. The depth and scaling of the scenes really makes the experience worthwhile, and it has a rousing soundtrack to boot.
Cartoon Village
Cartoon Village drops you into a colourful medieval cartoon settlement where you’re free to investigate any nook and cranny you fancy. The extreme level of detail gives the rural enclave a real lived-in feel, and you can simply change the season and time of day to see how it affects the habits of its dwellers and the surrounding natural world. Additionally it can run in Daydream mode on devices with Android 4.2 or higher. Cartoon Village has already taken the mantle as cutest CG-rendered app in the world of virtual reality.
Within (formerly VRSE)
Within is a production company specialising in telling stories through live-action VR filmmaking, and this app is the best way to experience their selection of high-quality 360° videos on your smartphone. Collaborations with the likes of The New York Times, the UN, Vice and Saturday Night Live ensure a well-rounded exploration of the medium’s potential. Within also worked with U2 on their ‘Song for Someone’, so viewers could sit with Bono in their living room.
Jaunt VR
Jaunt is another production company that aims to send viewers into story-driven worlds, simply through use of their mobile device. A virtual Nepalese mountain adventure, a front row seat at a Paul McCartney concert and a trip inside North Korea as the country holds military celebrations highlight the breadth of scenarios Jaunt is covering. They also send you into film, like the 360° fashion photoshoot with Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) in Zoolander 2.
The Black Mass Experience
Via Jaunt VR (see above)
Jaunt’s eagerly anticipated immersive horror short certainly isn’t for the faint of heart. What’s more, it comes complete with an interactive sound field mixed in Dolby Atmos to really freak you out. You have been warned.
Relax river
Looking for a relaxing experience from VR? The aptly named Relax River will be a great option for you. You float down a river, able to take in your full surroundings without having to do any work. There's no settings or configurations, just enjoy the journey.
VR Space virtual reality 360
What better way to learn about the Solar System than to fully immerse yourself in it. With this VR app, you can compare planets, get up close to them, play spaceship missions through asteroids and generally enjoy the life of an astronaut in VR.
Fulldive VR
Fulldive VR is a social platform with the incentive of earning cryptocurrencies while you use it. You can follow your friends, watch videos, play games, browse the internet and generally do anything you would do on the internet, but through a VR lense.
Sites in VR
Looking to explore the world from the comfort of your own home? This app uses VR to take you to some of the world's landmarks. This includes the Eiffel tower, Egyptian Pyramids, museums, tombs and even Mars!
Trail World VR
Trail World VR is all about experiencing a wealth of journeys. You can ride a roller coaster, fly in an airplane, go fishing and generally explore a VR world that spans islands, waterfalls, farms, towns and other areas for you to discover.
Hardcore
Hardcore is a third person VR shooter game, complete with multiplayer modes and challenges. Because it's in 3rd person, you don't get the same feeling of being the character in the game, but it is a more immersive experience, especially with the addition of a controller.
YouTube VR
YouTube VR is very much what it says on the tin - a way of viewing the videos on YouTube in a VR format. While all videos are available like this, not all are going to be optimised. Instead, certain videos will be designed in a way to fully enjoy the VR experience.
VR Noir
VR Noir is an Android VR game that pulls you into the life of a detective. You must solve a job presented by a new client without 'crossing the line'. This game focuses on blending a story line with the VR experience - much like the other horror games on this list.
Sketchfab
Sketchfab allows you to explore millions of models in 3D, VR or AR straight from your mobile phone. This could mean teleporting yourself to a foreign city, walking amongst the dinosaurs, or performing surgery. You can follow specific creators on the Sketchfab platform or simply search for something you're interested in seeing.
House of Terror
House of Terror is a VR game that has you searching through intense environments full of traps and even monsters. You have to solve puzzles, search for clues and work out what is going on in this horror house experience.
VR Abyss: Sharks & Sea Worlds
Like the idea of exploring the ocean, but not quite ready for the intensity of it? VR Abyss plunges you down with sharks, coral reefs, whales and other exciting aspects of the sea. Not only can you explore, there is also a game that you can play to try and set a high-score as you dive.
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The puzzling link between city living and schizophrenia
According to the UN, almost two-thirds of us will live in cities by 2050. But as mental health issues gain recognition, is our urban living helping or hindering?
In 1950, 746 million of us lived in urban areas. By 2014, that had increased to 3.9 billion, or 54 per cent of the world’s population. According to the UN, 66 per cent of all humans will live in cities by 2050.
There is much that is good about cities. They are highly efficient ways of focusing human activities such as business, education and research. Managed correctly, they offer substantial environmental advantages.
Cities bring us into closer routine contact with other humans, and most of us seem hardwired to seek out this enhanced level of contact: we like being in cities as much as we like being around people. But while we like cities, do our bodies and brains like them too?
Our beloved cities are associated with increased rates of childhood asthma, heart disease, diabetes and various cancers, as well as childhood psychiatric illnesses and adult mental health conditions such as depression and even schizophrenia.
Research into these disturbing statistics is best explored by looking at schizophrenia – surely the most enduring and mysterious malady in the history of medicine.
Read more about mental health and cities:
- Sleep, drugs and mental health
- Why does depression make you dream more?
- Brain training app helps schizophrenic sufferers
- The changing face of our smart cities
What is schizophrenia?
Schizophrenia affects approximately 1 per cent of the world’s population at some point in life. Its causes are unknown and it is more common in men than women.
Symptoms start with subtle changes in childhood thinking and behaviour, but these are so vague that they are only recognisable in retrospect or in research studies.
The vast majority of such children do not develop psychological or psychiatric problems. Nonetheless, these subtle changes indicate that, for many people with schizophrenia, brain development takes a different pathway from an early stage, possibly even while still in the womb.
The first noticeable symptoms of schizophrenia emerge in the teenage years and include anxiety, low mood, social withdrawal or a preoccupation with odd beliefs. These symptoms are felt by most teenagers (and many adults) at some point so do not necessarily mean that the person is mentally ill.
However, if they are present to a substantial extent they might identify a young adult who is at high risk of psychological or psychiatric problems.
The classical symptoms of schizophrenia, when they eventually emerge, include delusions and hallucinations.
Other features include difficulties with clear thinking and a range of ‘negative’ symptoms similar to depression: low mood, loss of interest, depleted energy and persistent social withdrawal.
What causes schizophrenia?
While there has been much research into the biological underpinnings of schizophrenia, the disorder still remains one of the true enigmas of medicine.
This is partly because ‘schizophrenia’ is really a term used to denote a cluster of symptoms which tend to occur together, rather than a biologically defined entity.
This places schizophrenia in sharp contrast to conditions such as diabetes, which is biologically defined by measurement of blood glucose; or brain tumours, which are diagnosed with brain scans. There are no blood tests or brain scans for definitively diagnosing schizophrenia.
Nonetheless, there is growing evidence that dopamine, a key neurotransmitter in the brain, is abnormally regulated in schizophrenia. Given the highly interconnected nature of the brain, other neurotransmitters are sure to be involved too.
There is also a strong genetic element to schizophrenia, and there are likely to be multiple genes of moderate or small effect, which have yet to be fully understood.
Moreover, it remains stubbornly the case that most people with schizophrenia do not have a family history of the disorder, and most people with a family history do not develop schizophrenia.
Therefore, while family history and genes increase the risk of schizophrenia, environmental factors are critically important too. And this – finally – brings us to cities.
Schizophrenia and the urban effect
Studies of the distribution of schizophrenia around the world have long recognised that the condition is more prevalent in urban areas than rural ones.
Research that took place back in the 1960s and 1970s showed that the most obvious explanation for this turns out to be at least partly true: people who have pre-existing schizophrenia tend to move to urban areas to seek out assistance, accommodation and support, leading to a relative concentration of schizophrenia in cities as a result of the disorder.
It soon transpired, however, that this ‘urban drift’ effect was not of sufficient magnitude to entirely explain the association between schizophrenia and cities. Various other factors were at play.
Studies from the 1970s onwards shed further light by demonstrating repeatedly that, even after taking ‘urban drift’ into account, cities are associated with a substantially increased risk of people developing schizophrenia.
The more methodologically sound and larger the study, the greater the risk associated with cities.
All told, the scientific literature now definitively shows that urban birth, urban upbringing, and urban living are all associated with an increased risk of subsequent schizophrenia.
Just like having a family history of schizophrenia, exposure to urban environments appears neither necessary nor sufficient for developing the disorder, but it does increase the lifetime risk from 1 per cent to approximately 2 per cent, using the best available estimates.
This increase in risk is not nearly enough to advise against living in a city, even among those who have a family history or other risk factors for schizophrenia. So don’t move house – at least not yet.
But the fact that such a small risk is identified so consistently by different research groups, using different methodologies, in different locations, at different times, makes it unlikely that the finding is due to chance alone.
Moreover, in terms of causality, there is not only a strong correlation between cities and schizophrenia, but there is also evidence of a dose-response effect: the greater the degree of urbanicity at birth, the greater the risk of developing schizophrenia.
There is clearly something at work here, some unidentified biological or psychological factor associated with cities that alters brain development or function to increase the risk of schizophrenia. But what is it?
What's the link between schizophrenia and cities?
There are multiple suggested explanations for the link between cities and schizophrenia.
For example, there is long-standing evidence that if a mother becomes unwell during pregnancy, such as coming down with influenza, then it might increase the baby’s risk of developing an illness or disorder as a young adult.
Another theory is that cities are associated with increased exposure to cats and, therefore, the risk of cat-borne infections such as toxoplasmosis.
It now appears that if there is an association between cats and schizophrenia (and that is not yet proven), it is independent of the link between cities and schizophrenia.
Other possible explanations for higher levels of schizophrenia in cities include increased exposure to air pollution and more incidences of vitamin D deficiency. But these, too, remain unproven.
As interest in this field soared during the 1990s, several possible explanations were ruled out. It is now clear that the increase in risk is not closely linked with socioeconomic group in childhood, household overcrowding, parental lower income, parental unemployment, increased cannabis use, or number of older siblings. So what theories are left?
Some of the most compelling schizophrenia research in recent years links increased risk of the disorder with ‘community disorganisation’ and its associated social, psychological and biological effects.
For example, it is known that migrants experience increased rates of many mental disorders, including schizophrenia. Why?
Psychiatrist Dr Jane Boydell and colleagues have shown that the smaller an ethnic minority group is, the greater its increase in risk. In other words, the size of any ethnic minority group operates as a buffer against the increased risk of schizophrenia: the larger the group, the lower the risk.
Are these social risk factors having a greater impact in cities than elsewhere, accounting for the link between urban living and schizophrenia? And, if so, what is the reason for this effect?
The effects of stress
Many psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia, are associated with disturbances of the body’s stress responses. This is reflected in levels of cortisol, which is a steroid hormone that’s produced by the adrenal gland in stressful situations.
Chronic production of high levels of cortisol has a damaging effect on virtually all body systems, including the brain.
It is possible, and even probable, that belonging to a small migrant group is associated with a state of chronic stress, producing increased baseline cortisol and therefore increased risk of schizophrenia.
There are reasons to believe that this kind of ‘stress effect’ is more powerful in urban areas, because city living affects the brain’s response to stress. Baseline levels of crime, social fragmentation and urban decay are also important.
This model, linking community factors with effects on individual brains, receives strong support in a study by Duke University and King’s College London, published in Schizophrenia Bulletin in May in 2016.
The team analysed data from over 2,000 UK-born twins and found that reduced social cohesion and crime victimisation likely explain, at least in part, why children in cities have an increased risk of developing symptoms of disorders such as schizophrenia. It is not the cities themselves, then, but the way we live in them that likely matters most.
This is an exciting finding that is both consistent with previous studies and robust enough to add extra weight to the idea that community disorganisation is closely linked with whatever mysterious biological mechanism connects cities with schizophrenia.
So while research is clearly heading in the right direction, it still remains unclear what any of this will mean for the treatment and prevention of schizophrenia.
Treatments and risk factors
There are many pharmaceutical, psychological and social treatments for schizophrenia, and these help patients and families a great deal. It is critical that these treatments are delivered efficiently, effectively and with compassion, to heal and empower the mentally ill and their families.
But these treatments are deeply imperfect and are not cures for schizophrenia.
The prospects of better treatment would be much improved if we understood precisely what causes schizophrenia in the first place. But we do not.
In the search for answers, it is critical to develop a better understanding of urbanicity and – even more so – its relationship with other risk factors, such as genes, prenatal or birth injury, psychological trauma, cannabis, head trauma, migration, social adversity, chronic stress and others.
All are of these linked with schizophrenia to varying degrees, but none are fully understood.
Ultimately, research is hampered by the fact that schizophrenia is defined by symptoms rather than biological tests. ‘Schizophrenia’, like ‘fever’ or ‘headaches’, is almost certainly an umbrella term that covers a family of different but related ‘sub-disorders’, rather than a single, biologically distinct entity.
These sub-disorders, despite sharing many symptoms, might well have somewhat different origins in different groups or individuals. As a result, schizophrenia retains the ultimate mystery that is intrinsic to all true scientific enigmas: it might not exist as a definable entity.
The undeniable suffering of people diagnosed with schizophrenia may well reflect different combinations of risk factors producing similar – but not identical – collections of symptoms.
In this context, the link between schizophrenia and cities is, perhaps, not so surprising.
Cities are complex, intricate entities, difficult to define, challenging to explain, and yet remarkably enduring throughout recent human history. Cities, in other words, are a lot like schizophrenia.
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Read more about mental health:
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- Hallucinations: the many ways we experience things that are not there
- What are the most successful therapies for depression?
- Even light activity reduces risk of depression in young people, study suggests
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Photos: Swiatek's rise from 17-year-old prospect to World No.1
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5 walking trails near Austin
Warm weather has returned, which means we're ready to get our steps in.
What to do: Here are a few walking trails to add to your rotation.
Shoal Creek Trail
Walk along this trail system that follows Shoal Creek as it flows parallel to North Lamar and meanders through Pease Park toward downtown. The trail drops off at the Ann and Roy Butler Hike-and-Bike Trail at Lady Bird Lake.
Of note: Ongoing construction at the north end of the trail will briefly require you to pop out onto the sidewalk at North Lamar.
- Surface: Paved, gravel, tree tunnels.
- Length: 5.5 miles for an out-and-back stroll.
- Parking: Street parking at 31st Street, downtown or Pease and Duncan parks (the trail crosses through both of these).
Southern Walnut Creek Trail
Hop on this paved, multi-use trail in East Austin for the days when you want a long, leisurely stroll.
- Surface: Paved.
- Length: 7.3 miles.
- Parking: Govalle Park.
Barton Creek Greenbelt
This trail is a little more challenging than your average neighborhood walk, but the views are a little more rewarding.
Pro tip: Begin at the Spyglass entrance and follow the trail down toward The Flats or Campbell's Hole, two popular swimming holes.
- Surface: Dirt.
- Length: 13.8 miles.
- Parking: Zilker Park (2100 Barton Springs Road) or Loop 360 (3755-B Capital of Texas Highway, middle of trail).
Ann and Roy Butler Hike-and-Bike Trail
Also called Lady Bird Lake Trail, this route takes you around Lady Bird Lake, with views of downtown Austin.
Pro tip: There's plenty of free parking along Pleasant Valley. Follow the trail as it runs parallel to East Riverside Drive and turns into a stunning boardwalk with skyline views.
- Surface: Paved and dirt.
- Length: 1o miles.
- Parking: Zilker Metropolitan Park (2100 Barton Springs Road), Shoal Beach Park (707 W. Cesar Chavez St.), Auditorium Shores Park (900 W. Riverside Drive) and Longhorn Shores Park (60 S. Pleasant Valley Road).
McKinney Falls State Park trails
McKinney Falls offers nearly 9 miles of trails, where you can enjoy Onion Creek flowing over limestone ledges.
Pro tip: Take a dip at the Upper Falls before continuing across the rocky moonscape of cratered limestone.
The Onion Creek trail runs nearby — a perfect loop trail for hiking, mountain biking and trail running:
- Surface: Paved.
- Length: 3.7 miles.
- Parking: Smith Visitors Center.
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And the Columbus Madness winner is ... Ohio Stadium!
The votes are in: Ohio Stadium is the winner of our Columbus Madness championship!
- It's only fitting that the home of one of college football's winningest teams secured the victory.
Catch up quick: The 'Shoe bested 15 Columbus landmarks in our four-round voting contest.
- In the final round, it crushed the Ohio Statehouse with 58% of the votes.
Some facts about the historic double-deck stadium, per the university athletic department and library archives:
🎂 It celebrates its 100th birthday on Oct. 7.
🏈 The first team Ohio State faced there: Ohio Wesleyan University, on that date in 1922. The Buckeyes won 5-0!
💰 Cost to build: $1.3 million, or $21.3 million in today's dollars.
- That's a bargain — major renovations at the turn of the century cost $207 million.
🏟️ Circumference: 2,892 feet, more than a half-mile.
🎟️ Record-setting crowd: 110,045, against Michigan on Nov. 26, 2016.
⚽ The Crew played home games at Ohio Stadium for three years, before Columbus Crew Stadium opened in 1999.
🎺 The first "Script Ohio" was performed in 1932 by … the Michigan marching band. We couldn't believe it either.
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Des Moines will launch a free ice skating program
The Principal Group Foundation will donate $300,000 to help cover the costs of free skating programs at Brenton Skating Plaza for underprivileged children and adults.
Driving the news: Des Moines City Council approved an agreement involving the gift on Monday.
- A free skating program will launch this fall.
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U.S. Air Force, Army, and NATO partners practice carrying simulated casualties during a tactical combat casualty care course at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, March 26, 2022. During the course, participants learned to implement medical care under fire, tactical field care and tactical evacuation during combat situations. The course facilitated partnerships with various NATO and joint forces, improved medical readiness, exposed medics to a unique and challenging environment and prepared both medics and non-medics to care for patients in hazardous conditions. The 39th MDG plans to provide these trainings regularly to continue bolstering partnerships and coordination among diverse teams, further expanding participants’ capabilities in the field and understanding of TCCC operations. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jacob Derry)
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Tennessee adoption nonprofit launches
Two state government mainstays are teaming up to lead a new nonprofit focused on improving Tennessee adoption policies.
- The Adoption Project will push for changes that would make Tennessee "the most adoption-friendly state in the country," according to an announcement.
Driving the news: Jeremy Harrell and Jennifer Donnals, both of whom have deep ties to state government, will steer the project.
- Harrell, the CEO, worked on former Gov. Bill Haslam's gubernatorial campaigns and served in his administration.
- Donnals, the COO, served as Haslam's former spokesperson and the former chief of staff for the Department of Children's Services under Gov. Lee.
Between the lines: Harrell and Donnals are both adoptive parents. They tell Axios the cause represents a fusion of their personal passion and professional experience.
- "My whole career has led up to this," Donnals says. "Using my skills and my experience to try to help others is really rewarding."
- "This was, in a lot of ways, a leap of faith for our family," says Harrell, adding that the early response from state leaders had been encouraging.
The bottom line: A goal of the new organization, Harrell says, will be to target those "pieces of the policy that are too cumbersome" while keeping necessary "guardrails" in place.
- For example, Harrell says, Tennessee law required him and his wife Michelle to care for their adopted child in their home for six months before the adoption could be finalized. Harrell says they paid thousands in out-of-pocket medical costs because their insurance required finalization for coverage.
State of play: Haslam and his wife Crissy will serve on committees that guide the organization's work. Members of Lee's administration are also working with the group.
What's next: Harrell says The Adoption Project's goal is to push specific legislative changes starting in 2023.
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Abbott (NYSE: ABT), an American pharmaceutical company, said that it has bagged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval for its Aveir single-chamber (VR) leadless pacemaker to treat slow heart rhythms in patients.
The approval has been received on the back of LEADLESS II phase 2 investigational device exemption study, which concluded that the device met its pre-specified primary endpoints.
Abbott’s pacemaker doesn’t require the traditional process of an incision in the chest. The company said that its “mapping system allows to measure electrical signals within the heart and determine the correct placement of the device before final implantation.”
The Senior Vice-President at Abbott’s Cardiac Rhythm Management unit, Randel Woodgrift, said, “The Aveir VR leadless pacemaker was designed to make the implantation and retrieval processes as seamless as possible for physicians and provide improvements over existing options. Our goal is to continue to build on the success of Aveir to provide more first-of-their-kind products in the future, revolutionizing how abnormal heart rhythms are treated.”
Stock Rating
BTIG analyst Marie Thibault maintained a Buy rating on Abbott with a price target of $138.00, implying 16.1% upside potential from current level.
The Street has a bullish outlook on the stock with a Strong Buy consensus rating based on eight Buys and one Hold. Abbott’s average price forecast of $143.22 implies upside potential of about 20.5% from current levels.
Hedge Fund Trading Activity
TipRanks’ Hedge Fund Trading Activity tool shows that confidence in Abbott is currently Positive, as the cumulative change in holdings across all 27 hedge funds that were active in the last quarter was an increase of 252,100 shares.
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Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMD) has inked a deal to acquire Pensando Systems for around $1.9 billion. Following the news, shares of the semiconductor company closed more than 2% higher on Monday.
According to AMD’s press release, Pensando is a pioneer in distributed computing, which is “designed for the New Edge, powering software-defined cloud, compute, networking, storage, and security services.”
Through the acquisition, AMD’s product portfolio will be expanded by Pensando’s distributed services platform. It includes an advanced vertically integrated processor and software stack, which are currently used by customers like Goldman Sachs (GS), IBM (IBM) Cloud, Microsoft Azure (MSFT), and Oracle Cloud (ORCL).
Benefits of the Acquisition
Pensando’s platform offers enhanced networking, security, storage, and other services for cloud, enterprise, and edge applications. It also has a competitive edge, as its solution shows better performance by the range of eight to 13 times compared to peers.
Executing its product and technology plans, Pensando will expand the customer base broadening AMD’s data center capabilities across markets.
Other Details
AMD’s Data Center Solutions Group will be joined by Pensando CEO Prem Jain and the team, which will be headed by AMD SVP and GM Forrest Norrod.
The acquisition is likely to conclude in the second quarter of 2022, pending approval under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, among other conditions.
Official Comments
Commenting on the deal, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su said, “Today, with our acquisition of Pensando, we add a leading distributed services platform to our high-performance CPU, GPU, FPGA and adaptive SoC portfolio.”
Smart Score
Advanced Micro Devices scores a 9 of 10 from TipRanks’ Smart Score rating system, indicating that the stock has strong potential to outperform market expectations.
Wall Street’s Take
Rosenblatt Securities analyst Hans Mosesmann maintained a Buy rating on Advanced Micro Devices and a price target of $200 (80.95% upside potential).
The rest of the Street is cautiously optimistic about the stock, which has a Moderate Buy consensus rating based on 14 Buys and seven Holds. The average Advanced Micro Devices price target of $150.41 implies 36.08% upside potential. Shares have increased 35.74% over the past year.
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Sistah Seeds, a new Black heirloom seed farm, set to launch
Amirah Mitchell recently packed up her belongings and moved an hour outside of Philadelphia to start a farm business focusing on vegetable seeds important to the African diaspora.
What's happening: The Philly-based farmer has found land to launch her small seed production farm, Sistah Seeds. She's leasing at an incubator space in Emmaus, called The Seed Farm.
- "My general feeling right now is impatience to get on the land and just start doing the work," Mitchell tells Axios.
Why it matters: Black people account for 1.4% of the country's 3.4 million agriculture producers, according to the 2017 U.S. Census of Agriculture, the latest data available.
Catch up fast: Mitchell launched a GoFundMe around six months ago to start her farm, which will also double as an educational site.
- She exceeded her goal, raising more than $33,000 so that she can devote her energy to her first growing season full time.
Fast forward: Mitchell is now doing just that. She's also leading workshops on how to grow and save seed crops.
What she's saying: "The past few months have mostly been a blur," she tells Axios. "There's definitely been times this season so far when I felt nervous about starting my own projects, but ultimately, I'm confident in my ability to do this work."
Mitchell says she's grateful for the emotional and financial support that has allowed her to make her vision a reality.
- She says other farmers and neighbors have shown generosity, from offering labor sharing or land to use.
What's ahead: Mitchell wants to stay on the incubator farm for five years before eventually transitioning to her own land.
- The goal is to one day move to a southern state closer to her grandparents, where a lot of her seeds will thrive more easily.
But for now, she's focused on growing seed crops, like okra, black-eyed peas and collard greens, in Emmaus.
- Mitchell expects to have seeds ready to sell by January.
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Shares of China-based cell therapy company Gracell Biotechnologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: GRCL) jumped 18.3% on Monday to close at $2.65 after BTIG analyst Justin Zelin initiated coverage on the stock with a Buy rating and a price target of $18, which reflects upside potential of 579.3% to current price levels.
Founded in 2017, Gracell is developing a pipeline of cell therapies to treat hematologic and solid tumor cancers. Its technology platform features TruUCAR to create differentiated allogeneic cell therapies and FasTCAR to reduce the manufacturing times of these therapies.
The analyst said that Gracell is “one of the most undervalued cell therapy companies with robust clinical data in high-risk relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma, an experienced management team, and a multi-asset portfolio targeting heme and solid tumor cancers.”
Why is Gracell Undervalued?
The company’s poor performance is primarily due to the overall underperformance of the biotechnology sector, Zelin said. He added that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has strict requirements in place for clinical data of studies carried out in China.
There has also been a lot of uncertainty around the ADR delistings of Chinese companies in the U.S. Further, biotech firms have seen poor IPO (initial public offering) performance in the last two years. All these factors have been pulling down the stock since its listing in January last year, Zelin said.
Meanwhile, the company plans to submit clinical data from a trial conducted in China in its Investigational New Drug (IND) filings to the FDA. If the U.S. regulator rejects the data, it could result in further downside for the stock, the analyst added.
How Well is Gracell Funded?
Gracell ended last year with $288 million in cash and short-term investments.
Commenting on the company’s funding, the analyst said, “We see Gracell in a comfortable and stable financial position with sufficient cash runway through inflection points in both lead clinical programs (GC012F and GC027).”
Basis of Gracell’s Valuation
Zelin has set a price target of $18 for Gracell, as he expects the company to receive regulatory approval for GC012F in the U.S. and China in 2025 and in the European Union (EU) in 2027. He also expects GC027 to get a green light in the U.S., EU, and China in 2025.
The valuation is based on a discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis with a discount rate of 12% and a terminal growth rate of 2%.
Overall, the stock has a Moderate Buy consensus rating based on two Buys. GRCL’s average price target of $21.50 implies 711.3% upside potential.
Apart from Zelin, Joseph Catanzaro of Piper Sandler (NYSE: PIPR) is the only analyst who has provided coverage on the stock. Catanzaro has a Buy rating on GRCL with a price target of $25 (843.4% upside potential).
Positive Investor Stance
TipRanks’ Stock Investors tool shows that investors currently have a Very Positive stance on Gracell, as 21.3% of investors on TipRanks increased their exposure to the stock over the past 30 days.
Conclusion
Zelin thinks Gracell is a key player within China’s biotechnology segment, which has “become a space of next-generation drug development with a robust R&D ecosystem backed by regulatory support.”
“We see companies embracing the rising tide that is China biotech, opening up an untapped market opportunity given the growing incidence of cancers within the Greater China region and supportive regulatory support in terms of development and reimbursement,” he said.
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The pandemic has advanced a push towards many sectors, which helped several people to ease their restriction-driven lives. Compelled to stay at home due to nationwide lockdowns, people engaged in activities that were once considered leisurely.
One such sector propelled by the pandemic was the video gaming industry, which attracted a huge fanbase during the last two years as people were glued to their mobiles, laptops, desktops, and cloud technologies to socialize and play games.
TipRanks Website Traffic Tool tracks the fastest growing websites with a focus on both Top Trending Websites and Websites Losing Traffic. The tool extracts data on the number of unique visits plus total visits to a company’s website, and helps to assess a company’s website traffic trends for the last month, quarter, or even over the last year. The data can be compared sequentially or year-over-year to see whether visitor traffic has increased or declined.
An upward trend in the graph indicates that the total number of visits to the website has increased and therefore, a reasonably good quarterly performance can be expected, and vice versa for a downward sloping graph.
What’s more, the tool gives an added advantage of gauging a company’s performance well before its earnings results. By using the tool, we have chalked down three video gaming companies that have witnessed unprecedented growth during the pandemic, and now are witnessing a downfall in website visits as people prefer to engage in more physical activities and traveling.
Let us see what the tool tells us about these companies’ unreported quarterly performance before their results.
Take Two Interactive Software (TTWO)
Two Take Interactive engages in the development, publishing, and marketing of interactive software games. Its products are designed for console systems, handheld gaming systems, smartphones, and tablets. The products are delivered through physical retail, digital downloads, online platforms, and cloud streaming services.
The company’s popular gaming titles include Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption, and NBA 2K. TTWO currently has a market cap of $17.82 billion. Its shares have lost 13.5% year-to-date amid the broader tech sector sell-off.
TTWO has several catalysts ahead which bode well for the company. Most noteworthy of them is the pending acquisition of Zynga (ZNGA) for $12.7 billion in a cash and stock deal. The acquisition is expected to close in the first quarter of TTWO’s fiscal year 2023, ending June 30, 2022. The deal will boost TTWO’s mobile gaming business with popular titles coming from Zynga’s portfolio like Farmville, Words With Friends, Empires & Puzzles, and Zynga Poker.
The second exciting event for TTWO is the launch of its much-awaited GTA VI series, which is scheduled for release somewhere between 2024 and 2025. With GTA V already declared a hit worldwide (over 160 million units sold with $5 million in sales in Q3) and listed among the five best-selling games, the launch of GTA VI is expected to rock the house too.
Moreover, in Q3, NBA 2K22 sold more than 8 million units and Red Dead Redemption 2 sold almost 43 million units globally.
Notably, Wall Street analysts have awarded the TTWO stock a Strong Buy consensus rating based on 14 Buys and two Holds. The average Take Two Interactive price target of $207.13 implies 34.1% upside potential to current levels.
TTWO’s Website Traffic Tool indicates a fall in the fourth quarter’s total visits. In February, Take Two Interactive’s website traffic recorded a 12,37% year-over-year decrease in monthly visits. Likewise, year-to-date website traffic growth decreased by 30.24% compared to the same period last year. Along similar lines, TTWO has projected a fall in its Q4FY22 revenue to be between $835 million and $885 million, well below its Q3 revenue of $903.25 million.
Electronic Arts (EA)
Based out of California, Electronic Arts develops and delivers games, content, and online services for internet-connected consoles, mobile devices, and personal computers.
EA has a market cap of $36 billion currently. Its shares have lost nearly 5% year-to-date and it even gives out regular quarterly dividends with a current dividend yield of 0.54%. EA hosts several high-quality brands such as EA SPORTS FIFA, Battlefield, Apex Legends, The Sims, Madden NFL, Need for Speed, Titanfall, Plants vs. Zombies, and F1.
Electronic Arts’ foray into sports games makes for a differentiating factor among other game developers, and a probable candidate for big tech firms who want to venture into the industry.
Remarkably, analysts on the Street have awarded the EA stock a Strong Buy consensus rating based on 13 Buys and three Holds. The average Electronic Arts price target of $162.81 implies 27.2% upside potential to current levels.
In its disappointing Q3FY22 results, the company missed both earnings and revenue expectations. Furthermore, as is evident from the Electronic Arts Website Traffic Tool analysis, there is a declining trend in the total number of visits to EA’s website. This is also supported by the company’s dimming Q4FY22 revenue forecast of $1.76 billion, which is marginally below the Q3 number of $1.79 billion.
In February, Electronic Arts’ website traffic recorded a 15.79% year-over-year decrease in monthly visits. Likewise, year-to-date website traffic growth decreased by 10.83% compared to the same period last year.
Roblox Corp. (RBLX)
Roblox Corp., an online entertainment platform offering a wide range of online games for kids, teens, and adults. Roblox’s platform enables users to interact with each other to explore and develop immersive, user-generated, and 3D experiences.
Roblox currently has a market cap of $29.4 billion. Its shares have lost a whopping 49.4% year-to-date amid the rising interest rate scenario, turning away investors from growth stocks.
Undoubtedly, Roblox is one of the best-placed gaming stocks in the metaverse segment and has a lot of potential to capitalize upon, once the metaverse comes to full effect.
Wall Street analysts have awarded RBLX stock a Moderate Buy consensus rating based on nine Buys, three Holds, and one Sell. The average Roblox price target of $69.38 implies 38.7% upside potential to current levels.
In its weak fourth-quarter fiscal 2021 results, Roblox missed both earnings and revenue estimates. For the three months ending December 31, 2021, Roblox boasted of Daily Active Users (DAUs) of 49.5 million, and hours engaged by users stood at 10.8 billion, jumping 28% year-over-year.
In 2022, we see a declining trend in Roblox’s hours engaged by users, although DAUs are on a steady rise. In January 2022, hours engaged fell to 4.2 billion, and that number came down to 3.8 billion in February 2022.
This declining trend is also visible in Roblox’s Website Traffic Tool as studied by TipRanks. In February, Roblox’s website traffic recorded a 9.34% year-over-year decrease in monthly visits. Likewise, year-to-date website traffic growth decreased by 7.66% compared to the same period last year.
Points to Ponder
According to a Mordor Intelligence report, the Gaming Market has an expected Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 8.9% over the 2022-2027 period, projecting the industry to reach $339.95 billion in 2027.
Although the near-term outlook remains fazed by difficult year-over-year comparatives, the long-term potential for the video gaming industry is highly attractive. The advent of the metaverse provides an added advantage to gaming companies, which are already providing virtual social experiences. Further technological advancements in gaming with more interactive game launches will also strengthen the user base for the companies.
With the easing of restrictions, people are venturing out more and this favors positively, especially for the mobile gaming segment. Add to that, improving internet connectivity with high bandwidth networks (5G) coupled with increasing adoption of smartphones by all age demographics, invariably boosts the segment.
The gaming industry is highly fragmented, with leaders such as Nintendo (NTDOF), Sony Corporation (SONY), and Microsoft taking the leads. The recently announced acquisition of Activision Blizzard (ATVI) by Microsoft (MSFT) has furthered the prospects of smaller companies becoming potential buyout targets for big techs, which also makes them attractive stocks to hold on to.
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Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:FB) announced that it would report its Q1 financials after the market closes on April 27. However, given the ongoing headwinds, Q1 results could remain challenged.
For context, the company is struggling to add daily active users amid an increasingly competitive environment. Meanwhile, Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS privacy changes took a toll on its top line. Moreover, the slowdown in e-commerce growth, labor shortages, and supply-chain constraints adversely impacted ad spending and Meta’s financials.
Now What?
Jefferies analyst Brent Thill recently held a call with an ad agency expert. Providing takeaways from the call, Thill stated that the expert sees ongoing supply-chain disruptions and rising inflation negatively impacting ad spending in 2022.
The expert pointed to Meta’s “poor video content offering, slowing audience growth, and large reliance on IDFA (Identifier for Advertisers) retargeting” as weaknesses. However, he added, “Unless AAPL introduces more restrictive privacy measures, our expert believes the worst of the
iOS impacts are behind FB.”
Notably, during the Q4 conference call, Meta’s management stated that Apple’s iOS privacy changes could have a $10 billion impact on its business in 2022.
Further, citing macro headwinds, competition, and iOS changes, the company projected Q1 revenues to be in the range of $27-29 billion, which fell short of the Street’s consensus estimate of $30.15 billion.
Irrespective of near-term challenges, Thill has a Buy recommendation on FB stock. Along with Thill, Monness analyst Brian White is also bullish on Meta Platforms.
In a note to investors, White wrote, “Despite a rough start to 2022, we believe Meta will continue to benefit from the long-term digital ad trend, participate in accelerated digital transformation, and innovate in the metaverse; however, we expect advertising headwinds and regulatory scrutiny to continue.”
Bottom Line
Macro headwinds, increased competition, and Apple’s privacy changes will likely hurt Meta’s near-term financials. Given the challenges, Wall Street is cautiously optimistic about FB stock. On TipRanks, Meta Platforms stock has received 32 Buy and 13 Hold recommendations for a Moderate Buy consensus rating.
FB’s stock price forecast on TipRanks shows decent upside potential. The average Meta Platforms price target of $325.10 implies 39% upside potential to current levels.
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Shoeshiners to stay at Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport
Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport is downsizing its shoeshining program, but won't follow other airports in getting rid of the service altogether.
Driving the news: The Metropolitan Airports Commission voted Monday to authorize a request for proposals that would reduce the number of shoeshine stations from five to three, and contract with a single vendor.
State of play: Currently the five MSP Airport stations are split between DG Express and Royal Zeno, both local companies.
- The MAC surveyed 19 other airports and found that nine of them do not have shoeshiners — three of which have cut the service since 2019.
- Airport spokesperson Patrick Hogan tells Axios that keeping some of the stations "is really more of a customer amenity than it is a moneymaker. The MAC gets very little revenue from this."
The intrigue: We wondered what the shoeshine business is like these days, so we asked Rosemary Zeno, the second generation owner of Royal Zeno. Her dad, Royal, started the business in 1970 and worked at the airport almost up until his death at age 90, in 2009.
- Pre-pandemic, Zeno's shiners might get 12-20 clients on a good day. But now there are days when her employees get none.
- Most of her employees, she said, are on Social Security and shining shoes to supplement their income.
Zoom out: Corporate air travel, which is the main driver of shoe shining clients, was still down 63% early this year, according to lobbying group Airlines for America.
- But Zeno said demand for shoeshining at MSP Airport is stronger than other markets because of the snow, salt and sand people collect on their shoes in the winter.
What's next: Zeno plans to respond to the MAC's request for proposals.
- "It's been really hard. I was born into this business and it's a legacy of my father that I would love to keep alive."
Of note: DG Express could not be reached for comment.
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Technology major Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) recently revealed that it has expanded its strategic alliance with defense major Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) to bring 5G-enabled hardware and software solutions to the Department of Defense (DOD).
Following the news, shares of Intel rose 2.3% on Monday. However, the stock pared its gains slightly to close at $49.12 in the extended trading session.
The expansion of the partnership follows a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed earlier. With this, both the companies stand to benefit from each other’s expertise in their respective fields.
Intel’s prowess in the technological field and 5G capabilities can help Lockheed Martin ensure data-driven decision making across air, sea, land, space and cyber domains in support of national security efforts. Further, Intel is expected to benefit by gaining access to the U.S. military space, including satellites, aircraft, ships and ground vehicles.
Management Commentary
The Corporate Vice-President at Intel, Dan Rodriguez, said, “Together, Intel and Lockheed Martin are utilizing the power of 5G to deliver greater connectivity, faster and more reliable networks, and new data capabilities to the DOD. This shows how cloud, network and edge technologies that are proven in enterprise implementations can also bring significant value to the tactical needs of modern defense systems.”
Stock Rating
Recently, Robert W. Baird analyst Tristan Gerra reiterated a Buy rating on the stock with a price target of $60, which implies upside potential of 21.9% from current levels.
Consensus among analysts is a Hold based on seven Buys, 13 Holds and seven Sells. Intel Corporation’s average price target of $52.85 implies upside potential of 7.4% from current levels. Shares have declined 26.1% over the past year.
Hedge Funds’ Confidence
TipRanks’ Hedge Fund Trading Activity tool shows that hedge fund confidence in Intel is currently Very Negative. Further, the cumulative change in holdings across all 33 hedge funds that were active in the last quarter was a decrease of 9.8 million shares.
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"Exporting air": U.S. lawmakers target empty shipping container backlog
Federal legislation aimed at providing relief to Minnesota companies hamstrung by an international shipping bottleneck is nearing the finish line.
Driving the news: A bill co-sponsored by U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar that seeks to curb the practice of cargo ships prioritizing empty containers over American-made goods at U.S. ports was approved with unanimous support last week.
- Klobuchar tells Axios she expects action soon to square her bill with a similar measure that cleared the House of Representatives last year.
Why it matters: Supply chain woes are leading to long wait times and high costs for companies, including those based here in Minnesota.
- Those costs can stress businesses and be passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices.
The big picture: Increased demand for goods here in the U.S. has created a situation where shippers can make more by prioritizing imports, as Axios' Hope King has reported, even if it means cargo carriers setting sail with empty containers that can be refilled overseas.
- As a result, ocean cargo carriers have been rejecting some U.S. exports since at least the fall of 2020, according to a CNBC investigation.
Zoom in: Joe Smentek, executive director of the Minnesota Soybean Growers Association, tells Axios local producers of specialty soybeans are having "huge issues trying to get on the ships" to make it to food markets in Asian countries.
- One farmer is monitoring a shipment that has been sitting in a container in the Pacific Northwest for 90 days, according to Smentek.
Details: The bill sets new limits around fees, directs the Federal Maritime Commission to draft rules prohibiting shippers from "unreasonably declining" U.S. exports and gives the commission more authority to regulate and investigate business practices.
What they're saying: Klobuchar says the bill will level the playing field by targeting international shipping conglomerates that are "exporting air" while there are "American products that are just left behind."
- "They get delayed and that is really bad for jobs in our state," she says.
The other side: The World Shipping Council, which represents Maersk and other shipping giants, said in a statement that the bill "addresses none of the root causes of the U.S. landside congestion."
- The group has called for port infrastructure investments and other "forward-looking" fixes instead.
The catch: Even if the measure makes it into law, finalizing the new rules will take months.
Yes, but: Klobuchar tells Axios she thinks a strong message from Congress will trigger behavior change from the industry.
- Continuing with "severe overpricing and not shipping things," could trigger more action from lawmakers, she added.
What's next: Klobuchar says while she initially thought an agreement between the two chambers would be included in a broader workforce and economy package, she thinks there's support for passage of a stand-alone compromise bill.
- She says she's confident President Biden would sign the measure if it lands on his desk.
The bottom line: Smentek says while the proposed changes won't be a "silver bullet" to solve the crisis, they will "shed light" on a shipping industry often shrouded in secrecy.
- "It'll make it more fair and transparent of the way they operate. And that's half the battle right now."
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ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, Va. - WBOC received an exclusive tour of the Cross Keys Battlefield near Harrisonburg, Virginia, the new home of the Talbot Boys Confederate monument.
Keven Walker, CEO of the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation says the monument's move from Maryland to Virginia was a success.
"Within the first hour of the work being done, there were already visitors standing at the base of the monument. Literally within the first hour he was attracting visitors," Walker said.
The Talbot County Council voted to move the Talbot Boys from the grounds of the Talbot County Courthouse in Easton in September. That move came in March and on Thursday, the monument was erected in its new home.
Ridgely Ochs with the Move the Monument coalition is glad to see the Talbot Boys gone from the courthouse. Ochs says a confederate battlefield in an appropriate home for the statue.
"I don't want it on a courthouse lawn, but I recognize that people want it somewhere where it will be respected and I thought this was a very smart, brilliant solution," Ochs said.
While Walker says the Foundation will take care of the statue, he wishes it did not have to be this way.
"We hoped that if it couldn't stay where it was originally placed that it could find a home in Talbot County," he said.
"When the trucks rolled away and the field was quiet again, I looked at the monument and thought that he looks fitting here but as I turned to leave, I was struck by how hard it was to leave him there alone. You get a sense that he's very, very far from home," Walker continued.
Walker says members of the Talbot County community will be invited to Cross Keys Battlefield in June for a rededication of the Talbot Boys monument.
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Members of the 123rd Special Tactics Squadron honor a fallen Airman with a flag-folding ceremony during a memorial service at the Kentucky Air National Guard Base in Louisville, Ky., March 1, 2022. The Airman, who died Feb. 16, was a pararescueman with more than 18 years of service to the U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Dale Greer)
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Diversified leading manufacturer of highly engineered critical components and customized technology solutions, ITT (ITT) acquired Habonim, which designs and manufactures valves, valve automation, and actuation for gas distribution, biotech, and harsh application sectors, for $140 million.
Habonim’s differentiated business model enables it to commercialize a large part of its products via distribution while also maintaining relationships with end-users. The company also sells directly to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and integrators.
The all-cash transaction closed in the second quarter of 2022 and is estimated to be accretive to ITT’s consolidated earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) margin. Notably, the move bolsters ITT’s valves business to a ~$140 million platform.
Management Weighs In
Luca Savi, CEO and President of ITT, commented, “The acquisition provides ITT access to new, attractive niche markets, expands IP’s existing specialty valves portfolio, including through its cryogenic and hydrogen ball valves offerings for green energy applications, and builds on an already strong distribution network in North America.”
Ilan Gilboa, the CEO of Habonim, added, “Becoming part of ITT is a very important and exciting step for Habonim on our path to grow and expand our global leadership in the highly performing valves and automated-valves markets.”
Hedge Fund Activity
According to TipRanks data, Wall Street’s top hedge funds have increased holdings in ITT by 71,100 thousand shares in the last quarter, indicating a very positive hedge fund confidence signal in the stock based on activities of 3 hedge funds.
Valuation Speaks
Let us consider some key metrics for ITT and how it fares against the broader industry. The company’s EBITDA margin of 19.9% outperforms the industry median of 13.3%, implying that the company has a better-optimized cost structure.
Further, a return on total assets of 8.9% implies that ITT is more efficient at putting its assets to work than the broader industry, where the median figure is 5.1%.
Finally, the company has a net income per employee of $31,950, which compared to the industry median of $20,500, indicates ITT is better at utilizing its human capital versus its peers.
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Forecast Updated on Tuesday, April 5, 2022, at 3:40am by WBOC Meteorologist Mike Lichniak
Today: Mostly cloudy with on and off showers possible throughout the day. Breezy. Highs: 63-68. Winds: S-SE 10-20+ mph.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy with periods of rain. Some of this rain will be heavy at times. Lows: 52-57. Winds: SE-E 10-20+ mph.
Wednesday: Lingering showers early will give way to a little sunshine by the afternoon hours. Breezy early. Highs: 63-68. Winds: NW-SW 5-20+ mph.
Wednesday Night: Partly to mostly cloudy with a chance of spotty showers by the morning hours. Windy. Lows: 50-55. Winds: SW 10-20+ mph.
Thursday: Partly to mostly cloudy with scattered showers and a few rumbles of thunder possible in the afternoon. Windy. Highs: 67-74. Winds: SW 15-30+ mph.
Friday: Partly to mostly cloudy with a few pop-up showers possible. Most of us will be dry. Windy. Highs: 55-62. Winds: NW 15-30+ mph.
Our unsettled weather pattern is starting to establish itself and will keep rain chances in the forecast of the next few days. The warm front continues to push toward Delmarva this morning and will lead to some scattered showers moving through the area. We should get a break by the afternoon hours to allow for a little sunshine to peek through the clouds. Tonight into tomorrow will bring our best chance for rain this week as an area of low pressure arrives with a shield of rain throughout the night. That rain will be heavy at times and should leave behind 1.00” of rain on average with locally heavier amounts likely. It will all be dependent on where the pockets of heavier rain and possible rumbles of thunder position themselves overnight.
We get a break for the start of Thursday before the pattern breaker arrives with scattered showers and maybe even a few thunderstorms by the afternoon and evening hours of Thursday. An upper-level low will break off to our north and west by Thursday night and will influence our forecast for Friday and Saturday. Expect to have some extra clouds around with temperatures below average throughout the weekend.
High pressure slides into the Bermuda High position early next week leading to sunshine and temperatures well above average!!!!
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Stock futures were largely unchanged in pre-market trading hours on Tuesday after investors showed fresh interest in technology stocks.
Futures contracts tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) were slightly down by 0.06% as of 5:42 a.m. EST., Tuesday. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 (SPX) futures declined marginally by 0.06%, whereas the Nasdaq 100 (NDX) futures inched 0.06% lower.
The movement came after a tech-led rally in the indexes during the regular trading hours of Monday. The Nasdaq 100 closed the day 2.01% higher led by a 27% surge in Twitter (TWTR) shares following Elon Musk’s disclosure of a 9.2% passive stake in the social media stock. The Dow gained 0.3% while the S&P 500 added 0.81% value at market close, Monday.
Market watchers are eagerly awaiting updates from the Fed regarding rate hikes. The Fed is expected to release its March meeting minutes on Wednesday, which will give investors more clarity on the inflation scenario and how aggressive the Fed will be while tightening its policy a few more times this year.
Also, the corporate earnings season begins next week, which investors are closely keeping an eye out for.
Experts are encouraged by the resilience that the U.S. market is showing in the face of Ukraine’s resistance against Russia, sky-high inflation, lower-than-expected jobs added in March, rising oil prices, and an uncertain economic outlook with a possibility of a recession.
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