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letterstohazel · 1 year

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i got invited to a work conference but i just figured that i would be scheduled on the floor during those days so i just ignored the RSVP email they sent me

only to now find out from one of my managers that it’s mandatory so i just quickly RSVP’ed. i also said yes to going to both days so hopefully that’s cool with my store managers

which it’s so weird to think about now how many managers i have. like i have one that my company says i report directly to who i feel more comfortable with and she’s technically a district manager and i’m an ASM, and normally store managers report to the district managers but she is still technically my manager and was my first manager. and then i have the store i work at and my manager there. and now i’m splitting my time between two different stores so there’s that store manager as well. AND THEN i have another district manager who oversees my home store who i see often but don’t interact with too much. and then for the other store i’m splitting my time with, their district manager is my first manager. it’s like a full circle of managers and yet we are currently in our miscommunication arc lmaooo

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Solitaire International is publishing a series of interviews profiling independent US jewellery retailers. Some of the jewellers featured so far in this series include London Jewelers on Long Island, Mayfair Rocks in The Hamptons, and Sydney Garber, the Chicago-based jeweller that donates all profits to charity and non-profits.

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What defines your company?

Marissa Collections is defined by its curated shopping experience that allows staff and guests to create timeless pieces from a wide variety of designers. What started as my mother, Marissa, hand-picking and personally styling pieces for each individual has grown into so much more, while still holding true to its family-owned, personal shopping relationship. Marissa’s original, artistic vision is brought to life using personal stylists and jewelry experts on site, making it a one-of-kind company.

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It was a natural progression to provide head-to-toe styling to our clients so they wouldn’t have the need to go anywhere else.

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We are fortunate to have experienced tremendous growth. Since the beginning of this business, we have consistently invested in smaller, up-and-coming designers. By doing so, we have grown alongside those designers and developed great relationships. Our stylists incorporate our exquisite jewellery with casual clothing, creating even more options for jewellery wear. Our efforts have paid off as we have been able to expand and add an additional shop in Palm Beach, Florida; the shop is doing very well and was just awarded Best New Business in Palm Beach.

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Both online and in-store sales have been doing equally as well. They truly balance each other out and support each other. Our boutiques have consistent loyal fans that love to shop in person, more for the experience and attention to detail from our staff. Although, since the pandemic, our online sales have done exceptionally well. In 2020, e-commerce sales went up 110%.

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We were growing faster than normal online, so we revamped the website and made sure sales associates were easily accessible to online shoppers. We would also go live on Instagram with designers to showcase their collections. These few small measurements paid off by being able to connect virtually with local clientele and with our international buyers. Also offered to our local clientele was same-day delivery in our well-known Marissa Collections pink van. Our jewellery sales increased, as people were spending less going out and more on valuable jewellery and possessions.

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We continuously seek out emerging designers that are new and upcoming. Often, our smaller designers can’t be found everywhere else, and it gives us the chance to shine a spotlight on emerging designers.

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We are consistently growing and reaching new clientele, especially online and across the globe. Locally, we have generational clients who have been with Marissa Collections since we started decades ago. We hold many in-store events, such as our Piercing Party, that bring in waves of younger clients. They can walk right into the boutique for the same personalised, one-on-one shopping experience that their mother or grandmother has had.

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We host a wide variety of price points, including fashion, fine, bespoke and high jewellery.

Do you do business with India? How is your experience?

We do plenty of business with India and have a few direct suppliers that we have a great relationship with.

To know more: https://gjepc.org/solitaire/marissa-collections-focus-only-on-design-driven-labels/

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What Lockdown 2.0 Looks Like: Harsher Rules, Deeper Confusion

By Damien Cave

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Melbourne, Australia’s second-largest city, is becoming a case study in handling a second wave of infections. There are lots of unanswered questions.

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Australia’s second-largest city, Melbourne, is grappling with a spiraling coronavirus outbreak that has led to a lockdown with some of the toughest restrictions in the world — offering a preview of what many urban dwellers elsewhere could confront in coming weeks and months.

The new lockdown is the product of early success; the country thought it had the virus beat in June. But there was a breakdown in the quarantine program for hotels. Returning travelers passed the virus to hotel security guards in Melbourne, who carried the contagion home.

Even after masks became mandatory in the city two weeks ago, the spread continued. And now, as officials try to break the chain of infections, Melbourne is being reshaped by sweeping enforcement and fine print. A confounding matrix of hefty fines for disobedience to the lockdown and minor exceptions for everything from romantic partners to home building has led to silenced streets and endless versions of the question: So, wait, can I ____?

Restaurant owners are wondering about food delivery after an 8 p.m. curfew began on Sunday night. Teenagers are asking if their boyfriends and girlfriends count as essential partners. Can animal shelter volunteers walk dogs at night? Are house cleaners essential for those struggling with their mental health? Can people who have been tested exercise outside?

“This is such a weird, scary, bizarro time that we live in,” said Tessethia Von Tessle Roberts, 25, a student in Melbourne who admits to having hit a breaking point a few days ago, when her washing machine broke.

“Our health care workers are hustling around the clock to keep us alive,” she said. “Our politicians are as scared as we are, but they have to pretend like they have a better idea than we do of what’s going to happen next.”

Pandemic lockdowns, never easy, are getting ever more confusing and contentious as they evolve in the face of second and third rounds of outbreaks that have exhausted both officials and residents. With success against the virus as fleeting as the breeze, the new waves of restrictions feel to many like a bombing raid that just won’t end.

For some places, risk calculations can change overnight. In Hong Kong, officials banned daytime dining in restaurants last month, only to reverse themselves a day later after an outcry. Schools in some cities are opening and closing like screen doors in summer.

In many areas where the virus has retreated and then resurged, the future looks like a long, complicated haul. Leaders are reaching for their own metaphors to try to explain it.

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In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom has compared his opening and shutting of businesses to a

“dimmer switch.”

Dan Andrews, the premier in Victoria, the state of which Melbourne is the capital, has repeatedly referred to “pilot light mode” for industries like construction and meatpacking, which have been ordered to temporarily reduce their work forces.

Whatever the metaphor, the situation is bleak.

In Melbourne, a city of five million that is considered a capital of food and culture, the pandemic has come raging back even after a so-called Stage 3 lockdown began in early July — until recently the highest level of restrictions.

Officials have been flummoxed at every turn by the persistent complacency of just enough people to let the virus thrive and multiply.

Traffic data showed people driving more in July than they had during the first Stage 3 lockdown, in March and April. Even worse, almost nine out of 10 people with Covid-19 had not been tested or isolated when they first felt sick, Mr. Andrews, the state’s top leader, said in late July. And 53 percent had not quarantined while waiting for their test results.

“That means people have felt unwell and just gone about their business,” Mr. Andrews said.

Sounding the alarm, he made face masks mandatory the next day, on July 22.

Still, infections have continued to rise. They peaked at 753 new cases on July 30, and have hovered around 500 a day ever since, with the death toll in Victoria now standing at 147, after 11 deaths were recorded on Monday.

Those figures, while far less troublesome than those in the United States, have paved the way for a Stage 4 lockdown — what officials are calling a “shock and awe” attack on the virus — that will last at least six weeks.

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Overwhelming force, with precision, seems to be the goal. The chief modelers of the pandemic response in Australia have found that the virus can be suppressed only if more than 70 percent of the population abides by social distancing guidelines and other public health rules.

Mr. Andrews said the new restrictions would take 250,000 more people out of their routines, in the hopes of reaching the necessary threshold.

So retail stores will be closed. Schools will return to at-home instruction. Restaurants will be takeout or delivery only. Child-care centers will be available only for permitted workers.

Those restrictions are already well understood. The rules requiring more explanation are tied to the curfew and industries that have to cut back.

Large-scale construction projects of more than three stories, for example, will have to reduce their on-site work force by 75 percent, and workers will not be able to work at more than one location. Small-scale construction cannot have more than five workers.

All of which sounds clear. But does a bathroom renovation, for example, amount to home building in an apartment with one bathroom? And what about fixing things that break, like Ms. Von Tessle Roberts’s washing machine?

Some businesses, like cleaning services, are already emailing customers to say they think they can do some work, for people who pay through welfare or who need help for mental health reasons. But, like many others, they are still seeking official clarification.

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Mr. Andrews, a Labor politician sometimes described as awkward and paternal, has become the dad everyone needs answers from. He now oversees, under the lockdown rules, what may be the country’s most intrusive bureaucracy since its days as a penal colony.

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As of right now, that seems likely, for at least several months. There have been frightening accounts of people suffering what seems to be a second bout of Covid-19. But experts say these patients may have a drawn-out course of infection, with the virus taking a slow toll weeks to months after initial exposure. People infected with the coronavirus typically produce immune molecules called antibodies, which are protective proteins made in response to an infection. These antibodies may last in the body only two to three months, which may seem worrisome, but that’s perfectly normal after an acute infection subsides, said Dr. Michael Mina, an immunologist at Harvard University. It may be possible to get the coronavirus again, but it’s highly unlikely that it would be possible in a short window of time from initial infection or make people sicker the second time.

The stimulus bills enacted in March offer help for the millions of American small businesses. Those eligible for aid are businesses and nonprofit organizations with fewer than 500 workers, including sole proprietorships, independent contractors and freelancers. Some larger companies in some industries are also eligible. The help being offered, which is being managed by the Small Business Administration, includes the Paycheck Protection Program and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program. But lots of folks have not yet seen payouts. Even those who have received help are confused: The rules are draconian, and some are stuck sitting on money they don’t know how to use. Many small-business owners are getting less than they expected or not hearing anything at all.

Employers have to provide a safe workplace with policies that protect everyone equally. And if one of your co-workers tests positive for the coronavirus, the C.D.C. has said that employers should tell their employees -- without giving you the sick employee’s name -- that they may have been exposed to the virus.

It could be a good idea, because mortgage rates have never been lower. Refinancing requests have pushed mortgage applications to some of the highest levels since 2008, so be prepared to get in line. But defaults are also up, so if you’re thinking about buying a home, be aware that some lenders have tightened their standards.

It is unlikely that many schools will return to a normal schedule this fall, requiring the grind of online learning, makeshift child care and stunted workdays to continue. California’s two largest public school districts — Los Angeles and San Diego — said on July 13, that instruction will be remote-only in the fall, citing concerns that surging coronavirus infections in their areas pose too dire a risk for students and teachers. Together, the two districts enroll some 825,000 students. They are the largest in the country so far to abandon plans for even a partial physical return to classrooms when they reopen in August. For other districts, the solution won’t be an all-or-nothing approach. Many systems, including the nation’s largest, New York City, are devising hybrid plans that involve spending some days in classrooms and other days online. There’s no national policy on this yet, so check with your municipal school system regularly to see what is happening in your community.

On Tuesday, he answered questions from reporters about dog-walking (allowed after curfew, sort of, only near home) and other subjects of great confusion at a news conference in Melbourne.

Thanking those who complied with the new rules and scolding those who did not, he announced that no one in self-isolation would now be allowed to exercise outdoors. A door-knocking campaign to check in on 3,000 people who had Covid-19 found that 800 of them were not at home.

All 800 have been referred to the Victoria police for investigation. The fine for violators going forward, he said, will be 4,957 Australian dollars, $3,532.

Working, even legally, will also become trickier. Other than, say, hospital workers with formal identification, everyone traveling for a job deemed essential during the lockdown must carry a formal document — a work permit signed by the employer and employee.

For Cara Devine, who works at a wine store that closes at 8 p.m., that means carrying a government form with her everywhere, and hoping that the police recognize her task as essential when she heads home after the curfew. But she also worried about the Uber drivers who take her back and forth.

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“Even before the newest restrictions, I’ve had two Uber drivers being really late picking up from the shop because they got stopped by the police, taking about an hour out of their work time,” she said.

The police are already confronting opposition. On at least four occasions in the last week, they reported having to smash the windows of cars and pull people out after they refused to provide a name and address at a police checkpoint. The Victoria police commissioner, Shane Patton, said a 38-year-old woman had also been charged with assault after attacking a police officer who had stopped her for not wearing a face mask.

Some criminologists are questioning whether the harsher enforcement will help. Mostly, though, Melburnians are just trying to endure.

Walking to get groceries, Peter Barnes, 56, said he welcomed the stricter rules, though he admitted his city was starting to feel like George Orwell’s “1984,” with the heavy hand of the state around every corner.

Those focused solely on the economics, he said, should remember the obvious: “You can’t hire a corpse. Very bad employment prospects for people who are dead.”

By Monday night, the city seemed to be in listening mode. The streets were emptying out, silent in hibernation.

“It’s like a Sunday in the 1950s,” said Mark Rubbo, the owner of Readings, Melbourne’s largest independent bookstore. He also noted that people were stocking up again on books through online orders, with a memoir called “The Happiest Man on Earth,” about a Holocaust survivor, becoming a runaway hit.

Ms. Von Tessle Roberts has found another solution, perhaps just as likely to grow in popularity: Stand on your front porch and scream. That’s the name she has given to an event she posted on Facebook, set for Friday at 7 p.m. By Tuesday afternoon, 70,000 people had expressed an interest in joining her collective shout in anguish.

“Yelling is great,” she said. “It’s less dehydrating than crying.”

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Besha Rodell and Yan Zhuang contributed reporting from Melbourne, and Livia Albeck-Ripka from Cairns, Australia.

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Streamline Your Political Campaign with the 10 best Political Campaign Softwares

The top 10 best political campaign softwares

Regardless of which country you are living in, a political campaign software is utilized to manage campaigns, donations, and events for elections, fundraisers, etc. Usually, such softwares greatly streamline the entire campaign processes, letting candidates and organizations manage their resources in an effective way. Political campaign softwares can either be used by political action committees (PACs), politicians, or Nonprofit advocacy groups (NAGs).

The various tools of a political campaign software let organizers track constituents, manage fundraising programs, connect with volunteers, and control an online outreach. However, these softwares work best when combined with other software solutions like social media management, web content management, CRM, and eMail marketing.

If you are looking to elevate your existing campaign to a whole new level, then the following list is for you.

NationBuilder

NationBuilder is a highly-sought-after community engagement platform that has been instrumental in working with some of the world’s most important and significant campaigns. It is a single system that uses readymade website templates, a database supporter that allows full integration, efficient donor management, novel fundraising, timely petitioning, as well as powerful field tools, and an advanced email and texting feature that allows you to work with your advocates at any time. Infuse some energy into your community with dynamic profiles that improve with each interaction. NationBuilder has been living up to its name and is trusted by more than 9000 customers across 112 varied nations.

In 2017, Jagmeet Singh became the first colored elected person to lead a national party in Canada. In partnership with cStreet and other effective architects from the NationBuilder ecosystem, the software assisted with the campaign and community managing texts and mobile integrations to engage supporters across the country in an effective way.

CQ Engage

CQ Engage as a tool allows for powerful advocacy, and organizations using it are able to affect a community positively by educating, engaging, mobilizing and growing them at a grassroots level. The software is flexible and allows the user to either build an advocacy site or use their own plugins. You can also educate your supporters to create even more powerful strategies. You can reach the government by phone, email, or even social media networks, such as Facebook and Twitter. CQ Engage allows advocates to make comments on regulations, and enables petition signing, voter registration, and is even a great place to share some powerful personal stories. Save your time as this tool allows you to sync your advocate data to your existing CRM or AMS. In addition, it gives you nonpartisan insights, a great blessing for those who follow, shape, or lead public policy.

ECanvasser

Mobilize your grassroots, and engage your communities effectively using this tool that is designed for advocacy groups, nonprofits, and political campaigns. It uses advanced technology, a community mapping database along with a mobile application and supporter engagement tools. A special feature, known as Walk Application, allows your grassroots team to knock on doors and engage effectively with their community. Used for events and on-street canvassing, this app is versatile enough to handle everything, right from new supporter onboarding to relational organizing.

Muster

Muster, the unique advocacy platform, empowers users with great tools to quickly and effectively engage their advocates at various levels of government, namely local, state, and federal, as well as with other custom targets. Through Muster, you can build your email, bump up your Twitter engagement, apply click-to-call campaigns, and make full use of the analytics suite to measure your performance for consistent improvement. Muster has very interesting action widgets that you may embed on your website. These nifty little widgets inform your advocates regarding legislative updates, using email newsletters, and can even help you grow your supporter base.

Aristotle Campaign Manager

This campaign manager is quite the all-rounder as it allows for effective fundraising, enables compliance testing, and provides you with an accounting platform. This is an award-winning campaign relationship management platform that has been specifically tailored by campaign veterans for treasurers and fundraisers. You can pull up underperforming donors via Donor Insights and check who else they are offering to and how much to ask. The software offers a host of other features like Custom Call Sheets, Seamless Compliance Checks, Powerful Reporting and much more. You will have a team dedicated to provide 24×7 support.

Democracy Direct

This highly-effective political campaign software allows you to oversee, sort, and segment complicated stakeholder data records so you can store your data according to either legislative districts, both state and federal. In addition to that, you can even receive information on the latest grassroots activity, the latest PAC contributions, key contact designations, and much more. Democracy Direct also allows you to build and maintain relationships with lawmakers, helping you solidify your campaign.

Crowdskout

Crowdskout is responsible for both campaigns and advocacy. By using this platform, you can simultaneously operate smarter grassroots campaigns and advocacy efforts, and consolidate your data in one place. This allows for the effective execution of targeted, data-driven outreach. Crowdskout boasts of features, such as allowing users to spin up landing pages, forms to rally supporters, managing hundreds of phone-banking efforts with tailor-made surveys and call scripts and searching and segmenting the data to identify trends in your audience. This versatile platform allows you to form custom data visualizations for simultaneous reporting. Organizations have effectively implemented Crowdskout to take on issues, win campaigns, and mobilize voters. You can connect with supporters both offline and online. Thanks to Crowdskout, data-usage has become democratized, and you can search, segment and visualize your data before acting. Due to this, you may now identify, connect and analyze your audience in an intimate manner. Crowdskout also allows you to push advocacy initiatives, as well as increase community outreach and organize your vote bank.

Trailblazer Campaign Manager

Here’s a one-of-a-kind campaign tool that allows users to club everything that they need for important functions, ranging from FEC compliance to tracking voters, overseeing fieldwork, communications, event management, fundraising, and more. This cloud-based database is an effective way to store all information related to your constituency, such as details of the voters, volunteers, donors, etc. Forms provided by the software integrates with your existing website for email sign-ups, volunteer registration, and online donations. You can track and engage with your supporters, keep an eye on hot-button issues, and even execute GOTV tasks for election day. Their quality live support and free training programmes ensure you stay at the top of your game.

Mobilize

This is a great event management and volunteer recruitment platform that brings together goal-oriented organizations and their supporters. Attested by more than 2000 nonprofits, Mobilize has worked with progressive campaigns, labour unions, advocacy organizations, and an ever-growing network of more than 2 million supporters. There are features like the ability to post your first event in minutes, and making sure volunteers sign up, show up, and bring their friends and come back. You can even convert volunteers to event hosts, and further tap into a vast network spanning millions. And finally, make sound decisions backed by data, and enjoy the ability to integrate this software with your other existing tools. Mobilize offers the perfect platform for organizing your political campaign effectively.

Campaign Sidekick

Campaign Sidekick is built for those who want to know their audience, understand their supporters, and just need a push to win. This software basically lets you track your campaign analytics and lets you run your show. The user interface of the system is effective yet simple to use.

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My ‘Personal Statement’ for my PhD application

Warning: SUPER long post ahead. What follows is the personal statement for my application for NC State’s PhD in Design program, to begin Fall 2017.

I’d love to hear your feedback!

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I’m not an artist. I don’t work in oils on canvas or throw clay into just the right shape. I don’t spend much time thinking about color theory or how to pull together the right elements in the right way to create the most compelling visual effect. I’m not a creative. I don’t have a portfolio of drawings or campaigns from which to pull. I don’t create web interfaces or think about UI. I don’t own expensive pencils or even a subscription to Creative Suite. I’m not a designer. I don’t have a drafting table and rolls of blueprints. I don’t create architectural marvels with CAD and work to raise them from the earth. I don’t have more than a cursory understanding of typesetting and I don’t spend my days sketching or thinking of ways to develop new, beautiful products to be introduced into the marketplace. In many regards, the pursuit of a Ph.D. in Design might seem to be a mismatch. With an undergraduate degree in Business and a Master’s of Education, shouldn’t I pursue education policy? Or at least some kind of doctoral level program in the College of Education? What business do I have in a Design program?

The role of education has always been to get out of its own way. Education is rarely, if ever, for its own sake. Education is the silver bullet not because of what you know, but because of what you can do with what you know. It might, perhaps, be more appropriate to say ‘learning’ instead of ‘education.’ Learning is about changing the way you see the world around you and developing new models from which you develop new opinions. Learning is taking a pinhole camera and creating a panorama. In my work at the Friday Institute, I have been fortunate enough to be able to tinker and explore new ideas. To play and see how things may or may not work. To puzzle and ponder, open my eyes and wonder. To talk with any number of educators from K-12 classroom teachers to building principals to district superintendents to college faculty and experiment with these ideas. Will students have deeper, richer, more meaningful experiences as a result? What are the pain points and how might I reduce the friction? What changes can I make and then try again? Whether you call it the scientific method, design thinking, iterative design, or even trial-and-error, my work puts me in the midst of some of the toughest work in the realm of education: how do we improve our practice, as educators, for the benefit of our students?

In my first year of teaching, I had applied to be an 8th grade math teacher. I had enjoyed math and wanted to see if I could spark the same interest in others. However, after being hired by a small, rural district in east Texas, I was informed that I would be teaching 6th grade math and 8th grade keyboarding. Keyboarding, as it turns out, is categorized as a “business” class and since I had a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, the principal thought it a natural fit. I was not, however, particularly excited about teaching a class that, when I took it in middle school, had stolen all joy from the computer lab, the one place school was supposed to be fun. I resolved, on behalf of my students, that they would enjoy the computer lab and learn something along the way. I went to work creating a new kind of classroom. The first problem I faced was that I had 25 teenagers and, since I had come upon my career nontraditionally, had none of the requisite skills with which to manage my classroom. So I created a business simulation experience, where students would learn to type as well as how to format specific documents by working through a series of required document types, but instead of each student working on an individual packet, I put them in teams of 5. Each team then had a ‘CEO’ that was responsible for overseeing their understanding of correct formatting, typing technique, and even monitoring their team’s overall behavior in class. I, then, worked exclusively with the CEOs, helping them to understand what to look for, how to format the documents themselves, and coaching them through some of the difficult issues that invariably arose in a group of two dozen thirteen and fourteen year-olds. I was praised at the end of the school year by both my principal and my superintendent for my innovative classroom practices, but the truth was that these practices were borne not from any particular pedagogical insight but rather my own naïveté.

In the interview for my second teaching job at a very large, urban school district, the principal mentioned that he wasn’t actually sure what was involved in the open position but that, “they make a lot of posters and the kids seem to like it.” Upon accepting the position teaching Technology Applications at the 8th grade level, I was congratulated and given carte blanche to create the class however I saw fit. And so, as a second-year teacher with essentially no formal training in how to teach, I started writing my own curriculum for a class in which I had no prior experience. I borrowed some of the structures from my business simulation but ultimately landed on a class that was set up much more like a production studio with creative products, open-ended assignments, and rolling deadlines that allowed for multiple attempts based on feedback they received. One year, students worked as travel agents, creating compelling pitches for where to go on your next vacation. Another year, they made short films where they wrote, storyboarded, directed, filmed, and edited their original creations. In my third year, they worked as political consultants, selecting a candidate and then working to get them elected President. In each of these projects, I was far more focused on what was happening between their ears than the raw quality of their work and, as a result, many students felt the freedom to continue developing their skills outside of class, creating websites, learning to write code, learning new video editing techniques, and more, far exceeding what I could have taught them in the constraints of a one-semester, 90-minute block schedule. It was the boundless possibility of technology as experienced by my students that piqued my interest in a Master’s of Education, focused on Educational Technology Leadership. I wanted to grow. I wanted to learn more. I wanted to improve. I wanted to expand my influence and help other teachers discover what had been revealed to me through these four years as a classroom teacher. I had already started presenting at conferences and really enjoyed getting to share my ideas with others as well as continually feeding my own desire to learn and grow.

I would move from the classroom into an instructional coaching role in Austin, Texas to assist with an iPad initiative that would provide a device for every student and teacher in the district. My role was to work with middle school teachers to create new learning opportunities and I found myself again trying to blend a great student experience, strong learning outcomes, and ways for technology to create modalities of learning previously not possible. It was in this role that I really began to expand where I sought input for new ideas. I was fortunate enough to be a part of EdTech Austin, located in a downtown startup coworking space where I could connect with other educators and some entrepreneurs and ask more expansive, generative questions. These opportunities propelled me into a consulting role for a number of education technology startups, helping them to create new products and strategies to better serve teachers.

I was hired at a middle school in Chapel Hill shortly after moving to North Carolina and was given great latitude to design and execute a new vision for what teaching and learning might look like in that school. My thinking would shift again, this time expanding to encompass not just classroom experiences, but organizational structures and methods for systemic change. It was here I caught the attention of the Friday Institute. I was invited to facilitate one of their programs aimed at instructional coaches and not long after this, I was asked to join the team full-time. In this role, I am able to leverage the whole of my experience as well as untried, divergent theories. I am able to work with any variety of education stakeholders and not just hear about what they need, but I’m able to experience it for myself and help create mutually beneficial solutions.

In truth, I am an artist. My media are my learning experiences. My canvas is a room full of educators, wondering what their day holds in store. My muse is a vision for the future where students play substantive roles in creating their own destiny, well-equipped with the skills and dispositions they’ll need to take them there. Instead of color theory, I’m digging into behavioral psychology and organizational politics and neo-constructivist pedagogy. I’m spending a great deal of time pulling together the right elements to create the perfect effect: I’m changing what you believe to be possible. In truth, I am a creative. I have compiled a decade of research and practice into a portfolio that I can pull from at will. I spend a great deal of time in UX design, but instead of wireframes, I rely on sentence stems and metacognitive questioning strategies. At my core, I’m in sales. Will you “buy” with your time and your teaching what I’m trying to sell you? Will my sales pitch resonate through compelling design, meeting a need you felt but had never named? In truth, I am a designer. At my desk are notebooks and Google Drive files full of blueprints for how to facilitate deep, meaningful change personally and organizationally. I spend my days sketching notes about how best to connect you to a future you haven’t seen, a reality unknown. I am trying to design and create much more than a product: I am creating the very capacity you’ll need to create products for yourself.

In this spirit, I pursue my Ph.D. in Design. My strengths lie in my ability to take what has been a heretofore unconventional path and show others how to blaze their own trail. I am not naive to what I lack, particularly in terms of the ‘hard skills’ of design, but have yet to shy away from a learning experience that didn’t also refine and sharpen my understanding and expertise. Further, I look forward to being able to work with trained designers and creatives, perhaps even in a studio setting, to be able to see how we might complement one another to create new opportunities at State, in North Carolina, and even around the country. Through research, through iteration, through design I am privileged to work alongside the best educators our state has to offer, helping to raise a new creative class. But Education cannot afford to remain in its walled garden. Education must reclaim its heritage rooted in learning, one that always excelled when it eschewed the silo in favor of the studio; when it remembers that it is in the diversity of our backgrounds and experiences that we find particularly interesting and nontraditional solutions to the problems we face. NC State offers a world-class College of Design and excels in its ability to bring together elite minds that both think nontraditionally and then do the extraordinary. I seek to continue this longstanding tradition of designing the future for our state, for our country, and for our world.

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With Schools Starting Online, Vaccinations Head for Recess

Dr. Chris Kjolhede is focused on the children of central New York.

As co-director of school-based health centers at Bassett Healthcare Network, the pediatrician oversees about 21 school-based health clinics across the region — a poor, rural area known for manufacturing and crippled by the opioid epidemic.

From ankles sprained during recess to birth control questions, the clinics serve as the primary care provider for many children both in and out of the classroom. High on the to-do list is making sure kids are up to date on required vaccinations, said Kjolhede.

But, in March, COVID upended the arrangement when it forced schools to close.

“It was like, holy smokes,” he said, “what’s going to happen now?”

Schools play a pivotal role in U.S. vaccination efforts. Laws require children to have certain immunizations to enroll and attend classes.

But this academic year, to prevent COVID-19 from spreading, many school districts have opted to start classes online. The decision takes away much of the back-to-school leverage pushing parents to stay current on their children’s shots, said Dr. Nathaniel Beers, member of the Council on School Health for the American Academy of Pediatrics. If schooling is not happening in person, said Beers, who also led multiple roles in the District of Columbia Public Schools system, “it is harder to enforce.”

Public health officials have relied on schools as a means to control vaccine-preventable diseases for over a century. Vaccination laws that require immunizations to enter school first emerged in the 1850s in Massachusetts as a means to control smallpox, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has noted.

Every state requires children to receive certain vaccinations against illnesses like polio, mumps and measles before entering the classroom or a child care center, unless the child has a medical exemption. Some states allow people to opt children out of vaccinations for religious or philosophical reasons, although these exemptions have been associated with outbreaks of otherwise well-controlled diseases like measles.

“If they get behind or they don’t get specific vaccines they need, kindergarten is a real catch point to get them up to speed and make sure they’re up to date,” said Claire Hannan, executive director of the Association of Immunization Managers.

At the local level, the responsibility of tracking whether students are compliant generally falls on the school nurse. If one is not present, a clerical worker or administrator does the job, said Linda Mendonca, president-elect of the National Association of School Nurses. Usually, school systems face a deadline for checking every child’s record and reporting compliance to government health officials, she said.

How districts choose to hold noncompliant children accountable varies, Beers said. Some schools work with parents to set up appointments with a provider. Some isolate children in a classroom, he said, and some are so strict that “you can’t even walk through the door unless you are appropriately immunized.”

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in steep declines in vaccinations. In May, a report from the CDC showed a sharp drop in the number of orders submitted to the Vaccines For Children program, a federal initiative that purchases vaccines for half the children in the U.S. A second release revealed similar trends — vaccination coverage in Michigan declined among all milestone ages, with the exception of immunizations given at birth, which are generally done in a hospital.

Making Backup Plans

In Pennsylvania, for instance, the state health department in July suspended vaccine requirements for two months after the start of the school year. In addition to causing delays in doctors’ offices, the state said, the pandemic may also prevent school and public health nurses from holding in-school “catch-up” vaccination clinics.

“The department cannot stress enough that as soon as children can be vaccinated, they should be,” said Nate Wardle, press secretary for the state’s health department, in a written statement. However, the lockdown order prompted by COVID meant “that there was a several month period in some parts of the state where well-child visits were not occurring.”

Members of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the National Association of School Nurses and the Association of Immunization Managers said the grace periods are a prudent step to account for the pandemic’s effect on pediatric care. The majority of children already have some protection from diseases from previous vaccines, they said.

Additionally, Beers acknowledged that closing schools — among other actions like restricting travel and shuttering large gathering spaces — make children less likely to contract or spread illnesses that typically incubate in classrooms. For example, according to CDC data, measles has essentially disappeared — 12 cases had been reported as of Aug. 19 this year, compared with 1,282 throughout 2019.

However, schooling will eventually resume in person, which will also bring back the risks of illnesses moving through classrooms, Beers said. And school systems may be less forgiving of children who enter the classroom without the needed vaccinations.

“What would be an immense shame is if schools reopen in person and children are back together and we start getting outbreaks of other diseases that are preventable based on immunizations,” he said.

School-based health centers in New York are actively contacting parents about vaccinations. In Cooperstown, Kjolhede reached out to every superintendent soon after the lockdown in March to ask if the clinic could remain open. All but one said no.

The staff then set up telehealth appointments and phoned students who needed in-person care to arrange visits — including those who needed a vaccine before the start of this school year, he said. Luckily, the health center that remained open had a door that allowed patients to enter the clinic without walking through the school.

Several hours away, Dr. Lisa Handwerker is grappling with how to tackle the problem that hundreds of students across her six school-based health clinics in New York City have missed a required vaccine.

The city’s health department gave her a list of students in her care who needed additional immunizations, she said. Over 400 children were missing the second dose to prevent meningococcal meningitis, generally given to teens and young adults ages 16 to 23. Because the department used data from the last academic year to compile the list, Handwerker has no information about new students. Some families left the city because of the lack of income and resources caused by the pandemic.

“We had difficulty with at least half of the kids on our vaccine list,” Handwerker said. “Then when we reached families, they were reluctant to leave their houses.”

A Shot at Normalcy

That wasn’t the case for Tracey Wolf, a mother of two who visited the doctor recently to get her son Jordan vaccinated for measles, mumps, rubella and HPV before starting the seventh grade. He will be attending middle school in Dunedin, Florida, in person, said Wolf, 38.

It seemed nonsensical to keep Jordan, 13, from his classmates when he already plays baseball and hangs out with his friends, she said. His grades also slipped last spring when the COVID threat transformed his classroom into a computer.

She also took her 6-month-old Ethan for his immunizations. When asked whether she was afraid of going into her doctor’s office, she replied, “Not more than going to the grocery store.”

Regardless of whether a child starts school at home or in the classroom, immunization experts stressed the importance of vaccinating a child on time. The schedules factor in a child’s stage of development to maximize the vaccine’s effectiveness. That said, it is preferable that children get their vaccines from their regular doctor to prevent lost immunization records and additional shots, said Beers.

Yet on Aug. 19, the Department of Health and Human Services released a statement allowing pharmacists to provide childhood immunizations for children ages 3 to 18.

Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a national health policy news service. It is an editorially independent program of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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Marissa Collections Focus Only On Design-Driven Labels

One of a handful of family-run businesses in the US to have stayed the course, perhaps their success lies in family teamwork?

Marissa is the creative half of this luxury operation whilst her husband manages the business side of things.

Their son Jay Hartington serves as CEO. The second generation in the family to continue the business, Jay oversees marketing, jewellery and menswear at this multifaceted boutique.

Today, Marissa Collections is located in a 10,000-square-foot property in the Third Street South shopping district of Old Naples in Florida.

Marissa Collections originally operated out of a store front boutique, selling items hand selected by Marissa, including accessories and shoes.

Jay Hartington throws more light on their business.

What defines your company?

What was your route into jewellery?

It was a natural progression to provide head-to-toe styling to our clients so they wouldn’t have the need to go anywhere else.

How is business in the US?

Do you sell more online or in store?

How have you adapted to the pandemic?

What smaller brands do you carry?

Who is your clientele?

How much do they spend?

We host a wide variety of price points, including fashion, fine, bespoke and high jewellery.

Do you do business with India? How is your experience?

We do plenty of business with India and have a few direct suppliers that we have a great relationship with.

To know more: https://gjepc.org/solitaire/marissa-collections-focus-only-on-design-driven-labels/

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With Schools Starting Online, Vaccinations Head for Recess

Dr. Chris Kjolhede is focused on the children of central New York.

But, in March, COVID upended the arrangement when it forced schools to close.

“It was like, holy smokes,” he said, “what’s going to happen now?”

Schools play a pivotal role in U.S. vaccination efforts. Laws require children to have certain immunizations to enroll and attend classes.

Making Backup Plans

“We had difficulty with at least half of the kids on our vaccine list,” Handwerker said. “Then when we reached families, they were reluctant to leave their houses.”

A Shot at Normalcy

She also took her 6-month-old Ethan for his immunizations. When asked whether she was afraid of going into her doctor’s office, she replied, “Not more than going to the grocery store.”

Yet on Aug. 19, the Department of Health and Human Services released a statement allowing pharmacists to provide childhood immunizations for children ages 3 to 18.

Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a national health policy news service. It is an editorially independent program of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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This story can be republished for free (details).

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dinafbrownil · 4 years

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With Schools Starting Online, Vaccinations Head for Recess

Dr. Chris Kjolhede is focused on the children of central New York.

But, in March, COVID upended the arrangement when it forced schools to close.

“It was like, holy smokes,” he said, “what’s going to happen now?”

Schools play a pivotal role in U.S. vaccination efforts. Laws require children to have certain immunizations to enroll and attend classes.

Making Backup Plans

“We had difficulty with at least half of the kids on our vaccine list,” Handwerker said. “Then when we reached families, they were reluctant to leave their houses.”

A Shot at Normalcy

She also took her 6-month-old Ethan for his immunizations. When asked whether she was afraid of going into her doctor’s office, she replied, “Not more than going to the grocery store.”

Yet on Aug. 19, the Department of Health and Human Services released a statement allowing pharmacists to provide childhood immunizations for children ages 3 to 18.

Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a national health policy news service. It is an editorially independent program of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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This story can be republished for free (details).

from Updates By Dina https://khn.org/news/with-schools-starting-online-vaccinations-head-for-recess/

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Coronavirus News in USA: Live Updates

As new hot spots emerge, the pandemic may be entering another phase.

The simplest way to track the progress of any outbreak is by seeing how many new cases and deaths are reported in a given area each day. And in the United States, falling numbers in some of the hardest-hit places have offered glimmers of hope. Totals for the country have been on a downward curve, and in former hot spots like New York and New Jersey, the counts appear to have peaked.

But infections and deaths are rising in more than a dozen states, as they are in countries around the world, an ominous sign that the pandemic may be entering a new phase.

Wisconsin saw its highest single-day increase in confirmed cases and deaths this week, two weeks after the state’s highest court overturned a stay-at-home order. Cases are also on the rise in Alabama, Arkansas, California and North Carolina, which on Thursday reported some of the state’s highest numbers of hospitalizations and reported deaths since the crisis began.

In metropolitan areas like Fayetteville, Ark.; Yuma, Ariz.; and Roanoke and Charlottesville, Va., data show new highs may be only days or weeks away.

Outbreaks have accelerated especially sharply in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Peru, leading the World Health Organization to say on Tuesday that it considered the Americas to be the new center of the pandemic.

And although much of the Middle East seemed to avert early catastrophe even as the virus ravaged Iran, case counts have been swelling in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

Reported cases are not perfect measures to chart the spread of the virus because they depend on how much testing is done. Death counts are less dependent on testing, though official numbers are typically undercounts. Both counts, though, can indicate how the outbreak is evolving, especially in places where lockdown rules are easing or where governments have been ineffective at slowing the spread, and offer early clues about new hot spots.

That is why Wisconsin is being closely monitored. Two weeks ago, the conservative majority on the State Supreme Court overturned that state’s stay-at-home order, effectively removing the most serious restrictions on residents.

It can take several weeks after changes in behavior — like the increased movement and interactions associated with the end of a stay-at-home order — for the effect on transmissions to be reflected in the data. In Wisconsin, there were indications that the virus was still spreading before the order was lifted. But in the weeks since restrictions were overturned, the case numbers have continued to grow.

“It worries us,” said Dr. Nasia Safdar, the medical director for infection prevention at the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison. “We wonder if this is a trend in an unfavorable direction.”

Upon arriving at work, employees should get a temperature and symptom check.

Inside the office, desks should be six feet apart. If that is not possible, employers should consider erecting plastic shields around them.

If followed, the guidelines would lead to a far-reaching remaking of the corporate work experience. They even upend years of advice on commuting, urging people to drive to work by themselves, instead of taking mass transportation or car-pooling, to avoid potential exposure to the virus.

The recommendations run from technical advice on ventilation systems (more open windows are most desirable) to a suggested abolition of communal perks like latte makers and snack bins. And some border on the impractical, if not near impossible: “Limit use and occupancy of elevators to maintain social distancing of at least 6 feet.”

For millions of Americans left out of work by the pandemic, government assistance has been a lifeline preventing a plunge into poverty, hunger and financial ruin.

This summer, that lifeline could snap, reports Ben Casselman.

The $1,200 checks sent to most households are long gone, at least for those who needed them most, with little imminent prospect for a second round. The lending program that helped millions of small businesses keep workers on the payroll will wind down if Congress does not extend it. Eviction moratoriums that kept people in their homes are expiring in many cities.

And the $600 per week in extra unemployment benefits that have allowed tens of millions of laid-off workers to pay rent and buy groceries will expire at the end of July.

The latest sign of the economic strain and the government’s role in easing it came Thursday, when the Labor Department reported that millions more Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week. More than 40 million people have filed for benefits since the crisis began, and some 30 million are receiving them.

The multitrillion-dollar patchwork of federal and state programs hasn’t kept bills from piling up or prevented long lines at food banks, but it has mitigated the damage. Now the expiration of those programs represents a cliff they are hurtling toward, for individuals and for the economy.

“The CARES Act was massive, but it was a very short-term offset to what is likely to be a long-term problem,” said Aneta Markowska, the chief financial economist for the investment bank Jefferies, referring to the legislative centerpiece of the federal rescue. “This economy is clearly going to need more support.”

Even the possibility that the programs will be allowed to expire could have economic consequences, Ms. Markowska said, as consumers and businesses brace for the loss of federal assistance.

President Trump and other Republicans have played down the need for more spending, saying the solution is for states to reopen businesses and allow companies to bring people back to work. So despite pleas from economists across the political spectrum — including Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chairman — any federal action is likely to be limited.

The House voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to give businesses more time to use money borrowed under the Paycheck Protection Program, which offers forgivable loans to small businesses that retain or rehire their workers. The bill’s fate in the Senate is uncertain, but a deal seems likely to be reached.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends wearing cloth face coverings in public settings where it is difficult to maintain social distancing, including grocery stores, pharmacies and gas stations. It also continues to emphasize how critical social distancing is.

But masks have unexpectedly crossed over from public health measures to politically charged symbols, with many shops and restaurants banning customers who do not wear them — and a few others moving to ban customers who do.

In Kentucky, a gas station told customers that no one was allowed inside its convenience store if they had their face covered. In California, a flooring store near Los Angeles has encouraged hugs and handshakes but does not permit face masks or protections. And a bar in Texas taped a poster to its front door this week that said “sorry, no masks allowed.”

In New York, the hardest-hit state, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said on Thursday that he would issue an executive order authorizing businesses to deny entry to people who were not wearing face coverings.

“That store owner has a right to protect themselves,” Mr. Cuomo said. “That store owner has a right to protect the other patrons in that store.”

Dennis Townsend, a Republican supervisor in California’s rural Tulare County, said that as his conservative district reopened for business, masks had become a continuing point of contention.

“People tell me, ‘OK, I’ll go to the stores, but they better be wearing masks in there.’ And then other people tell me, ‘OK, I’ll go to the stores, but they better not make me wear a mask,’” he said.

Mr. Townsend said he was “not real big on wearing masks” himself but had done so when shopping.

“What I tell people is that with every freedom we have comes additional responsibility,” he said. “We’ve had one freedom suppressed for a little while, but now it’s back, and that’s going to require additional personal responsibility on our parts.”

Washington State says it has reclaimed $300 million in fraudulent unemployment claims.

Washington State, which has been battling a deluge of fraudulent unemployment claims, has managed to claw back some $300 million in payments that went out to fraudsters, officials said Thursday.

Suzi LeVine, the commissioner of Washington State’s Employment Security Department, said the recovery came from coordination among law enforcement agencies and financial institutions. She did not reveal exact numbers on recoveries or the total number of fraudulent claims and said that the state was continuing to work on additional collections while blocking more false claims.

“The criminals have not gone away because we continue to see significant highly suspicious traffic,” Ms. LeVine said.

The Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance said in a statement that it had also seen fraudsters trying to file large numbers of illegitimate claims, while the cybersecurity firm Agari said it had seen evidence of the fraudulent claims targeting states all over the country.

Unemployment claims around the country have exceeded 40 million since the start of the pandemic.

Democrats are mobilizing to turn the $2 trillion effort that Mr. Trump is overseeing into a political liability going into his re-election campaign.

The attention has focused on a small business loan program that has been marred by glitches, changing rules and cases of big publicly traded companies receiving funds while smaller shops are left waiting.

Top Democrats, including the party’s presumptive presidential nominee, Mr. Biden have seized on examples of rich executives getting money through the Paycheck Protection Program as indicative of corporate cronyism.

The Democratic National Committee and Democratic state parties in swing states held conference calls last week with reporters and other events highlighting stories of small business owners who did not get approved for loans.

Pacronym, a progressive super PAC that focuses on digital advertising, began running a $1.5 million ad campaign in five swing states — Arizona, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — that focused on struggling small businesses.

Some Republicans are embracing the program. Senator Susan Collins, a Maine Republican facing a tough re-election battle, has spent nearly $500,000 on ads that promote her role in “co-authoring” the program, according to data from Advertising Analytics, an ad tracking firm. And Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, spent $175,000 on an ad featuring small business owners and employees describing jobs and businesses that were “rescued” by Mr. McConnell’s efforts on the stimulus package.

The Trump administration has scrambled to rewrite the rules of the program on the fly as public backlash intensified. The Treasury on Thursday carved out $10 billion of money to be used for loans to underserved communities.

Sports fans can attend games at outdoor venues in Texas.

Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas said that starting Friday, sports fans could attend games at outdoor venues in most counties in Texas, so long as occupancy was limited to 25 percent. Fans cannot attend indoor sporting events.

Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia said amusement parks, traveling carnivals and water parks could open June 12. And in California, more than a dozen Indian casinos, asserting sovereignty, defied Gov. Gavin Newsom and reopened last week. The Viejas Casino and Resort in Alpine, Calif., vowed to impose strict limits on the number of people gambling at once. A majority of Indian casinos in the state have chosen to stay closed and are coordinating their reopening with the governor’s office, which has proposed a date in early June.

A French study found 1 in 10 diabetic patients with Covid-19 died within a week of being hospitalized.

One in 10 diabetic patients with Covid-19, the illness caused by the virus, died within a week of being hospitalized, according to a study published on Thursday by French researchers in Diabetologia, the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes.

Another 20 percent were put on ventilators to assist with breathing by the end of their first week in the hospital. Just 18 percent were discharged within a week.

“I don’t want to scare people, but what is true is we did not expect to see such high mortality, with 10 percent of people admitted dying in the first seven days,” said Dr. Samy Hadjadj, a professor of endocrinology at the University of Nantes in France and one of the authors of the paper.

A majority of patients in the study had Type 2 diabetes. Many people with diabetes also have cardiovascular disease, which raises the risk of death in Covid-19 patients.

But the new study, which included 1,317 patients at 53 French hospitals, found that microvascular injuries — involving tiny blood vessels supplying the eyes, kidneys and peripheral nerves — were also linked to a higher risk of death.

Obstructive sleep apnea also raised the risk of early death in these patients, while obesity and advanced age were linked to a greater likelihood of severe disease, the study found.

“This is serious,” Dr. Hadjadj said. “If you have diabetes and are elderly or have complications, be very careful. Keep away from the virus. Go on with social distancing, wash your hands carefully, keep people away who can bring you the virus.”

Dr. Hadjadj added, “You are not the kind of person who can afford to disregard these rules.”

As more people under 40 test positive in Washington State, researchers fear they will spread the virus.

People under 40 make up an increasing share of those who have tested positive for the virus in Washington State. Researchers in Seattle said that policymakers might need to focus on younger people to limit the spread.

In a new analysis, the researchers said about half of new identified cases were among people under 40, up from one-third of infections earlier in the outbreak.

Younger people may be more likely to work or participate in social activities, especially as restrictions are eased. While they do not face as high a risk of serious complications from infections, they can expose other people they encounter who may be older or who have hazardous underlying conditions, the researchers said.

“Our findings indicate a justifiable concern regarding the phased reopening plan for Washington State in late May in light of the shift in Covid-19 incidence from older to younger age,” the researchers wrote in their report, posted on the preprint server medRvix.

The researchers said government leaders may need to pursue specific advisories for children, teenagers and young adults to warn them of the risks of social interaction.

Pennsylvania House Democrats say Republicans hid a lawmaker’s positive virus test.

Democrats in Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives on Thursday accused Republicans of keeping a lawmaker’s positive virus test a secret to avoid political embarrassment, even at the risk of exposing fellow legislators.

A Republican House member, Andrew Lewis, confirmed on Wednesday that he received a positive test on May 20 and self-isolated. Mr. Lewis said that every lawmaker or staff member he was in contact with who “met the criteria for exposure” was notified.

But Democrats disputed that, saying none of their own members were alerted even though some were near Mr. Lewis in committee meetings.

The House Democratic campaign arm accused Republicans of hiding Mr. Lewis’s positive test “to protect their public talking points against science and facts.” Another Republican representative, Russ Diamond, who said he was notified of possible exposure through contact with Mr. Lewis, had previously spoken at a shutdown protest outside the Capitol and boasted on social media of not wearing a mask while shopping.

In an emotional Facebook video recorded in his office at the Capitol, Representative Brian K. Sims, a Democrat from Philadelphia, said Mr. Diamond had “apparently been quarantining himself for weeks” but “didn’t explain that to any of us when he was in committee, talking with us or walking up and down the aisles or bumping into us or letting us hold the door open for him.”

Mr. Lewis said he had kept his positive diagnosis private “out of respect for my family and those who I may have exposed.”

Representative Ryan Bizzarro, a Democrat, disputed that Mr. Lewis had quarantined himself after his diagnosis. “We have footage of him being here,” he said.

The Trump administration will not issue a midyear update to its economic forecasts this summer, breaking decades of tradition during the uncertainty of a pandemic recession, administration officials confirmed on Thursday.

The decision will spare the administration from having to announce its internal projections for how deeply the recession will damage economic growth and how long the pain of high unemployment will persist.

When the administration last published official projections in February, it forecast economic growth of 3.1 percent from the fourth quarter of 2019 to the fourth quarter of 2021, and growth rates at or around 3 percent for the ensuing decade. It forecast an unemployment rate of 3.5 percent for the year.

The virus has rendered those projections obsolete. Unemployment could hit 20 percent in June, the White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett told CNN this week. The Congressional Budget Office said in April that it expects the economy will contract by 5.6 percent this year and end with unemployment above 11 percent.

The White House is required by law to issue both an annual budget and a midyear update to it, called a “mid-session review.” Updating economic projections in the mid-session review is optional, but it is a practice that administrations — including Mr. Trump’s — have widely followed since the review was mandated by Congress in 1970.

The review is required by law to give at least a partial window into how the administration expects the economy to perform this year and in the future.

The decision not to release updated projections was first reported by The Washington Post.

Trump administration officials have in the past resisted updating their forecasts in the face of evidence that the economy was not growing as fast as they had projected. The budget they released in February officially conceded for the first time that growth in 2018 and 2019 had not reached 3 percent, as they had predicted.

Fears about contracting the virus from contaminated surfaces have prompted many to wipe down groceries, leave packages unopened and stress about elevator buttons.

But what is the real risk? The C.D.C. recently tried to clarify its guidance: “It may be possible that a person can get Covid-19 by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it, and then touching their own mouth, nose or possibly their eyes, but this isn’t thought to be the main way the virus spreads.”

So does this mean we can get the virus from touching a doorknob, catching a Frisbee or sharing a casserole dish? The Times asked the experts.

The best way we can protect ourselves from the virus — whether it is surface transmission or close human contact — is still social distancing, washing our hands, not touching our faces and wearing masks.

Starting Thursday, anyone in Britain who has potential symptoms will be tested and, if positive, asked to list all those with whom they have recently been in close contact for at least 15 minutes. Those people, in turn, will be contacted and asked to isolate themselves for 14 days.

It is the latest national campaign that aims to prevent more infections. The results so far are mixed.

What does it feel like to have Covid-19 and not need hospitalization?

Rest and fluids are essential, but so is knowing when to call a doctor. Give yourself plenty of time to feel better.

Reporting was contributed by Mike Baker, Karen Barrow, Scott Cacciola, Ben Casselman, Emily Cochrane, Patricia Cohen, Michael Cooper, Catie Edmondson, Nicholas Fandos, Thomas Fuller, Trip Gabriel, David Gelles, Erica L. Green, Jenny Gross, Apoorva Mandavilli, Jennifer Medina, Sarah Mervosh, Talya Minsberg, Andy Newman, Nadja Popovich, Roni Caryn Rabin, Alan Rappeport, Dana Rubinstein, Margot Sanger-Katz, Anna Schaverien, Kaly Soto, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Vanessa Swales, Jim Tankersley and Katie Van Syckle.

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National Cheat Sheet: WeWork eyes IPO after SoftBank retreat, Sears avoids liquidation, Trump’s troubles… & more

Clockwise from top left: Congress launching investigation into Trump mansion sale and Trump Organization loans, Sears’ board agrees to consider another offer from the company’s chairman, WeWork announces a new name as SoftBank cuts back on a planned investment and the Chrysler Building hits the market in Manhattan amid increased competition from other office towers.

WeWork mulls IPO, rebrands after SoftBank slashes stake The co-working giant formerly known as WeWork is rebranding itself as The We Company after getting some disappointing investment-related news. A day after the Financial Times reported that Japan’s SoftBank Group only planned to invest $2 billion in the company — a far cry from the $16 billion it was considering — WeWork said it would adopt its new moniker, while also weighing the prospect of an initial public offering, according to the FT. The company’s office space brand, residential business and education-centric arm will be the three main branches of The We Company and will be called WeWork, WeLive and WeGrow, respectively. The We Company will aim to “elevate the world’s consciousness,” wrote co-founder and CEO Adam Neumann in a blog post. [TRD]

Sears board to consider another bid from company’s chairman A week after Sears Holdings chairman Edward Lampert made a $1.8 billion bid for the bankrupt retail giant’s real estate, the company narrowly avoided liquidation by agreeing to consider his offer. Sears was planning to get permission to shutter its store and sell its assets earlier this week, but its bankruptcy lawyers ultimately decided to hold off. ESL Investments, Lampert’s hedge fund, submitted a $4.4 billion takeover bid at the end of December and even offered to scoop up all of Sears’ real estate if its board of directors did not accept that bid. Sears’ board is expected to consider Lampert’s latest offer, as well as bids from two liquidation groups, at a bankruptcy court auction in White Plains next week. [TRD]

Moody’s, CoStar could square off over CRE data A war could be looming in the commercial real estate space. Moody’s Corporation, a financial analytics giant that last summer acquired Reis for $278 million, is now seeing commercial real estate data become a key part of its business. That has long been the bailiwick of CoStar Group, a juggernaut in the real estate information realm, but one whose market capitalization pales in comparison to Moody’s. “Banks tend to be our largest customer segment, and commercial real estate is a very important asset class to them,” said Keith Berry, a veteran Moody’s executive tapped to oversee the company’s expansion into new research technologies. [TRD]

Housing market expert shares gloomy prognosis for 2019 A housing expert who predicted last year’s slowdown has a less than positive forecast for 2019, Bloomberg reported. James Stack, who also predicted the 2008 crash, told the outlet the market “could be heading for its worst year since the last housing crash.” Stack expects “home sales to continue on a downward trend in the next 12-plus months,” Bloomberg reported. Stack told the outlet he couldn’t say yet if the market is in a bubble, as they can “only [be] recognized with 100 percent certainty in 20/20 hindsight.” Stack uses market-centric newspaper articles dating back to 1929 to make his predictions, according to Bloomberg. [TRD]

Congress to probe Trump mansion sale, Trump Org loans A newly-launched House Intelligence Committee investigation is setting its sights on President Donald Trump’s real estate and business transactions. The new Democratic majority plans to probe two transactions: Trump’s sale of a Palm Beach mansion to a Russian billionaire in 2008 and loans that Deutsche Bank extended to the Trump Organization, the New York Times reported. Democrats on the committee believe the mansion sale could have been part of a money laundering scheme. Deutsche Bank, meanwhile, has been embroiled in scandal over separate money laundering allegations. The two probes are among a number of investigations Democrats are expected to launch. As if that wasn’t enough, Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, will testify next month before the House Oversight Committee, while White House senior adviser Ivanka Trump was the subject of a complaint filed by a watchdog group asking the U.S. Department of Justice to look into her family’s investments in Opportunity Zones. Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian lawyer who attended an infamous meeting at Trump Tower, was also charged with obstruction of justice by federal prosecutors. [TRD]

MAJOR MARKET HIGHLIGHTS

Chrysler Building owners list iconic tower amid increased competition, high costs The owners of the Chrysler Building are putting the Manhattan landmark up for sale, the Wall Street Journal reported. The skyscraper is currently owned by Tishman Speyer and an Abu Dhabi government fund, both of whom hope the Art Deco office tower with draw international investors. CBRE will be marketing the building, according to the outlet. The Abu Dhabi Investment Council shelled out $800 million in 2008 for a 90 percent stake in the building. Tishman Speyer, meanwhile, poured $100 million into the tower for various improvements when it took it over in 1997. Their decision to sell comes amid “high costs and stiff competition from new towers,” the outlet reported. [TRD]

Brookfield Asset Management seeks $1B for Florida resort The second-largest resort in South Florida has hit the market, and its owner could sell it for up to $1 billion, Bloomberg reported. Brookfield Asset Management plans to sell the Diplomat Beach Resort in Hollywood, a property only exceeded in size by the Fontainebleau Miami Beach. Brookfield subsidiary Thayer Lodging Group shelled out $460 million for the property — which includes 10 restaurants and 1,000 rooms — in 2014. Newmark Knight Frank and Hodges Ward Elliott are marketing the resort. [TRD]

Malibu rental market sees demand soar after Woolsey Fire The fire that destroyed hundreds of homes in Malibu toward the end of last year has sent the area’s rental market into overdrive. Many of the residents who were displaced by the Woolsey Fire are now looking for temporary homes in the area, and owners are trying hard to meet the demand. In the month after Malibu residents were ordered to evacuate, 106 listings hit the market — a jump from the 18 new listings the month before the evacuation order went out, said Sotheby’s International Realty Malibu agent Mike Gardner, who noted that some owners are specifically opting to lease their properties in light of the demand. [TRD]

Rents dip, incentives surge as Seattle’s apartment inventory rises Approximately 10.5 percent of the apartments in Seattle are currently vacant, compared to the end of 2017, when 9 percent of the city’s apartments were empty, the Seattle Times reported. Though the jump may not seem substantial, it’s indicative of the spate of construction the region has seen recently, according to the outlet. The ballooning bump in inventory has brought rents down and is pushing landlords to offer incentives ranging from Amazon gift cards to free months of rent and free parking. “I’ve been renting in Seattle since 2014, and this is the first time where I felt like I have negotiating power,” one renter told the newspaper. [TRD]

Silicon Valley neighborhood named priciest zip code in US A neighborhood in Silicon Valley that doesn’t have any shops or restaurants topped PropertyShark’s list of the most expensive places in the U.S. to live last year. Atherton, located not far from Google and Facebook’s headquarters, had a median sales price of $6.7 million in 2018, noted the Robb Report. Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison and Stephen Luczo, executive chairman at Seagate Technology, are among Atherton’s current residents. Eighty-two of the 117 zip codes on PropertyShark’s list were in California. [TRD]

Mondelez International moving headquarters to Chicago Food and beverage giant Mondelez International will move its global headquarters from the suburbs of Chicago to the Windy City itself. The company, which makes Chips Ahoy and Oreo cookies, Triscuit and Ritz crackers, Milka chocolate bars and other delicious items, is currently based in Deerfield, Illinois. Mondelez has now signed a long-term lease for 77,100 square feet of office space at a building in Chicago’s Fulton Market district. Uber Technologies, McDonald’s and Google are among several other companies that already have office space in the area. Thor Equities owns the building that Mondelez is moving into at 905 West Fulton Street. [TRD]

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Baker Kurrus wants to be mayor of a town with stronger neighborhoods, closer connections

A song for you.

Baker Kurrus has already been a mayor of sorts, overseeing schools as agencies; administrators, principals and teachers as staff; and children as his constituency. As the appointed superintendent for the Little Rock School District from May 2015 to June 2016, he made a lot of friends among public school supporters unhappy with the state Board of Education's takeover of the LRSD. The board, many influenced by the charter-school supporting Walton Family Foundation, disbanded the LRSD School Board in January 1998 for the slimmest of reasons, that six of its 44 schools were in "academic distress," producing anger among patrons helpless to change things.

Kurrus, 64, who'd served on the school board for 12 years (1998-2010) and as an appointed adviser on district finances in 2015, was an active superintendent, trimming the budget by millions in the face of an upcoming loss of $37 million in state desegregation settlement payments. He visited every school. He started a weekly online newsletter where he openly wrote about both problems and great teaching he saw. He even sang Leon Russell's "A Song for You" at Central High School's graduation. He began to win over people who originally saw him as a business type unsuited to run the district.

He also promoted the acquisition of property in Northwest Little Rock for a middle school as a way, he said, to compete with the drain of more well-to-do kids to private and charter schools.

Kurrus was, in fact, too candid when it came to charter schools and their impact on the LRSD. When he presented data to the state Board of Education that showed charters were harming education in the LRSD, Department of Education Commissioner Johnny Key gave him the boot.

But it was his "chutzpah," she said, that earned him the support of Little Rock City Director Capi Peck. While saying Little Rock was lucky to have a stellar lineup of mayoral candidates this year, she's openly backing Kurrus. (Kurrus has four opponents in the race: Warwick Sabin, 42; Vincent Tolliver, 51; Frank Scott, 34; and Glen Schwarz, 64.)

"Bottom line, I think he is the most qualified to bring the city together in light of what he did with the Little Rock School District," Peck said. She said she didn't know Kurrus before he led the district, but his work there put her "firmly on his team." She described him as "compassionate and intelligent."

"One thing that impresses me is his ability to take a look at a budget and get in there, and financially he understands so much because of his background," Peck said. "He won't be afraid to shake things up, make cuts." As superintendent, she said, Kurrus asked for a key to every building in the district so he could get a feel for what was going on. "He's that kind of CEO."

Kurrus, a corporate lawyer and former executive and West Little Rock residential developer, nevertheless comes across as a guy who, if he weren't running for mayor, would be happy trying to grow organic soybeans in the drained minnow ponds on his farm (though that venture almost got him killed earlier this year).

He's a talker. He can swing from talking about city budgets and what he sees as money poorly spent in one breath to singing Solomon Burke's "None of Us Are Free," a song he and the Asbury Prison Band perform as a prison ministry, in another.

You might expect Kurrus to be a one-note candidate, given his name recognition as a superintendent David to the Goliath of wealthy charter-school backers. But that's not the case. His pitch is restoring Little Rock's blighted neighborhoods, to recreate a missing sense of place that he says is creating a "hollow center" to Little Rock. That comes first if other problems are to be solved: "I want to impact education. I want to impact infrastructure and public safety." Fixing neighborhoods, he said, "transcends every one of those single issues."

Kurrus, a cyclist whose been making dawn runs through Central Little Rock neighborhoods, says that by his count there are 8,000 vacant lots in the city and an untold number of boarded-up or disintegrating houses, and that has to change. "What can we do to make housing more attractive and neighborhoods more attractive and inviting to people who have choices?" is what leaders should be asking, he said. "People who have choices," he explains, are people who might choose to live in a particular area, even help bring back an area with new construction or rehabilitating an area if they could get help from the city.

But today, Kurrus said, if you go to the city seeking a building permit that might help a neighborhood, the city, "instead of asking you if they can get you a cup of coffee, because building in that area is essential, they're going to tell you ... you have to dedicate right-of-way, fix the sidewalks, and the curb will need repairs," issuing what he calls "nastygrams." That sort of response, he said, gives people "the sense that we're not here to help you, we're here to impose on you." Yes, people have to fix curbs and sidewalks and make improvements, but why not look at the positives, thank them for their interest and get to the details later?

Waving lists of city projects funded with sales taxes approved in 2011, Kurrus said the city is not spending its money in a way that addresses weed lots, vacant houses and abandonment of neighborhoods.

"We spend hundreds of thousands of dollars where we don't address the fundamental issue. Right now we're going to pay to improve curbs and gutters at Pine and Cedar [streets]. Curbs and sidewalks. That's nice. But what does that really do?" Why not, he wondered, spend that money in ways that people want: Making neighborhoods attractive, adding amenities such as parks and bike paths, things that bring people together. "We need to somehow reconnect, come closer."

Kurrus said he wasn't blaming code enforcement officers for an off-putting response to development. If that's their response, Kurrus said, it's from a "lack of vision and leadership" at the top. "The purpose of every city employee should be to facilitate the attractiveness and livability of neighborhoods. ... We have to go to these people and say, 'How can I help you?' "

"That 12th Street thing," he said, referring to the police substation at 12th and Pine streets. "I don't want to sound overly critical, but it looks like a fortress. They built commercial space there, but commercial follows rooftops. ... What you should be thinking about is how do we get people to live in the area. You just have to shift your total mindset."

Part of that shift, he said, is away from considering city improvements a "zero sum game," so that when Ward X gets something, it doesn't mean Ward Y doesn't. "Everybody argues about their piece of the pie. [The question should be] how do you make the pie bigger? And part of that is through growth in our real estate tax base." ***

"Baker gets it." That's what Paul Dodds, a developer who lives near Central High School who has often expressed frustration with city regulations that allow houses to fall down but penalize him for using plastic instead of metal on the porch of a house he's rescued, said about Kurrus. He showed Kurrus around the neighborhood recently, at the candidate's request, and complained to him and city directors about a 24-hour store that sells beer at 12th and Woodrow.

If the city would encourage reinvestment in a neighborhood, it could stop folks moving to Cabot and Conway and "refill Little Rock," Dodds said. Dodds said he would be glad to meet with all the candidates for mayor to talk about neighborhood repair.

Given the fact that Kurrus has been involved in real estate development — such as Woodlands Edge in West Little Rock —is his interest in helping developers? Would it be fair to characterize him the real estate candidate? No, Kurrus said, "it's really unfair.

"It's not about making money in real estate, it's about changing people's lives. It's the human interest that compelled me. It's not about bricks and mortar, it's about the people, whether they feel happy, satisfied, safe, that informs every other decision they make. That drives outcomes in schools, it drives crime rates."

It's a stand that has convinced Dodds, who was not particularly happy with Kurrus' acceptance of state Department of Transportation's plan to widen Interstate 30 through downtown Little Rock from six to 10 lanes, to throw his support to Kurrus. "Baker's passion is for the nerdy nuts and bolts of the mayor's job itself — budget line items, morale among school bus drivers, the how and why of how city government is not working as it should."

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Whoever wins the mayoral race will be the head of a city with an unusual hybrid leadership: A "strong" mayor elected by voters and a city manager. Does it work? "I don't think we know yet," Kurrus said, given that the city's had the same mayor, Mark Stodola, and the same city manager, Bruce Moore, since adopting the hybrid form of government. But in his reading of the ordinance that created today's city government, "the mayor can play a more prominent role," Kurrus said: The city manager is the chief administrative officer, but he is to perform other duties "at the direction of the mayor."

"The mayor is the chief executive officer. I know what that means: I've been a CEO. They don't point their finger at anybody else, deflect questions ... . When I was superintendent, I didn't say, 'That's someone else's responsibility.' "

One thing the mayor should be doing, Kurrus believes, is working to support the city's major institutions, like the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and UA Little Rock, neither of which is getting the attention from the legislature that it needs. "The mayor ought to be pounding on the legislature, saying, 'What in the world are y'all doing? You're choking health education' — we're No. 49 in health. I don't want a tax cut. I want adequately funded higher ed, medical education." He said plans to cut more taxes — recently announced by Governor Hutchinson — and thus more services was putting the state in a "race to the bottom."

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The boost that got him in the race, Kurrus said, was attending a fundraiser for AR Kids Read, a literacy initiative, where "they were talking about all these kids that couldn't read." Schools can't teach kids if the kids don't come from healthy neighborhoods, he said: "I would say neighborhoods drive school performance rather than the other way around." He pointed to Stephens Elementary on West 18th Street, built when he was on the school board. The board had promised the school would be built, and it was. But, he said, "it didn't make a tinker's damn" in terms of uplifting the surrounding area.

A speaker at the fundraiser made a speech about community and valuing children. "I thought, if I could help, why wouldn't I? That's what pushed me over."

That and a near-drowning on his farm, when he was nearly sucked underwater by a drainpipe on his minnow pond. His son rescued him by slicing off his waders with a knife. "Dude," Kurrus said he thought to himself, "you're not invincible."

Whether he will win the mayor's race could depend, for one thing, on how strong the flow of public opinion is against interstate widening, which has been Sabin's issue and appeal to the foes of the concrete swath. Or the strength of Scott's argument that as a 34-year-old he offers a youthful vision for change. Or the support for Vincent Tolliver's "People's Campaign." Or, maybe, the pull of Libertarian support for perennial candidate Glen Schwarz.

Kurrus will argue that fighting I-30 is like "howling at the moon," given Mayor Stodola's crucial vote in favor of it, and that instead the mayor should position himself as an "effective advocate" for the city as "critical negotiations" unfold during its construction. As for the youthful vision thing, Kurrus said "to think I have no vision because I'm 64 years old is a complete insult to everybody." He, too, sees himself as a people's mayor, saying, "We've got to say, 'My neighbor is my neighbor no matter where my neighbor lives. I may not be their keeper, but I'm their brother and sister.' "

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