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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>What to Make of John Fetterman’s Struggles at the Pennsylvania Senate Debate</strong> - The cognitive effects of the Democratic candidate’s recent stroke were evident as he faced off against Mehmet Oz. Will his performance imperil his party’s chances? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/what-to-make-of-john-fettermans-struggles-at-the-pennsylvania-senate-debate">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Polls Suggest the Battle for the Senate Is Still a Cliffhanger</strong> - Recent surveys show a shift to Republicans, but in the key battleground states the outcomes remain highly uncertain. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/polls-suggest-the-battle-for-the-senate-is-still-a-cliffhanger">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The G.O.P.’s Big-City Scare Tactics</strong> - Nationwide, Republicans are portraying Democratics as soft on crime. It’s a well-worn strategy, but can a candidate for governor of Illinois win by calling Chicago a “hellhole”? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-gops-big-city-scare-tactics">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Can Rishi Sunak Save the Tories from Total Collapse?</strong> - Britain’s new Prime Minister, the nation’s third in seven weeks, will aim to steer an unpopular party through record inflation and a looming energy emergency. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/can-rishi-sunak-save-the-tories-from-total-collapse">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Mike Davis Could See the Future</strong> - Often misread as a “prophet of doom,” the Marxist historian was actually an optimist and a dreamer. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/postscript/mike-davis-could-see-the-future">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>How logging, a Nike founder, and the alt-right warped the Oregon governor’s race</strong> -
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Republican Christine Drazan is running for governor against Democratic candidate Tina Kotek and an unaffiliated but well-funded candidate, Betsy Johnson. | Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images
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The blue state may elect its first GOP governor since 1982.
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Oregon is a reliably blue state that hasn’t elected a Republican governor since 1982. But due to a divided field — and frustration with the sitting governor — this cycle, Republicans just might eke out a victory.
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On its surface, the Oregon governor’s race seems like a cookie-cutter iteration of Republicans’ <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/10/19/23408788/midterms-2022-polls-republicans-forecast">midterms strategy</a>. Like other GOP candidates across the country, Republican Christine Drazan has attacked her opponent, Democrat Tina Kotek, over the economy and crime, and tied her to sitting Gov. Kate Brown’s performance, which polls poorly.
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But this cycle isn’t just about backlash to the ruling party in Oregon, or fears about crime and the economy. The unusual nature of the race — which has seen unaffiliated candidate Betsy Johnson attract around <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/governor/2022/oregon/">14 percent in polling</a> — is also the culmination of a years-long campaign by a small number of special interests seeking to control the state.
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At the root of that campaign is the state’s partisan divide over climate action. For years, the state has struggled with a conservative minority that has successfully stalled cap-and-trade and conservation policies. Oregon has become a hotbed for alt-right extremists who have set the stage for the election, including one pro-logging grassroots group, Timber Unity, whose leaders have been linked to <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/03/timber-unity-racism/">alt-right militias.</a>
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Perhaps most significantly, the state’s richest man, Nike co-founder Phil Knight, could tip the scales toward Drazan. Despite fashioning himself (and the <a href="https://d3.harvard.edu/platform-rctom/submission/running-to-discover-sustainable-solutions-how-nike-is-fighting-to-win-the-climate-change-game/">company</a>) as a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/24/nike-phil-knight-stanford-university-poverty-climate-change">climate champion</a>, he’s funneled millions to Johnson and Drazan.
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Timber Unity’s influence and Knight’s donations may be just what’s needed to put a Republican in office. And if Drazan wins, Oregon would become the first state in the West to reverse course on its climate goals.
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“Who’s in the governor’s office is really the person who gets to flip the switch off on all of our climate action,” said Steve Pedery of the Oregon Wildlife Conservation Leaders Fund, an environmental PAC.<strong> </strong>
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In October’s polling, according to <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/governor/2022/oregon/">FiveThirtyEight’s calculations</a>, Drazan and Kotek are virtually tied. That suggests Drazan could win. If she does, Pedery said such a win could become a model for Republicans in other traditionally blue states.
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“If this works in Oregon, it can be replicated,” he said.
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Recent battles over climate presaged a tumultuous governor’s race
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Oregon is known nationally for being solidly blue, but its internal politics are more nuanced. The biggest source of friction is in the state’s environmental politics, because outside blue Portland, the eastern area of the state is home to both old-growth forests and a large logging industry.
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“Timber is to Oregon what coal is to West Virginia,” Pedery said. “There’s legacy logging money that funds all of our right-wing causes in the state.”
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The timber industry’s power makes for more unusual politics than the typical left-right divide on climate change. You can find plenty of Democrats who, like Sen. Joe Manchin in West Virginia, are supported by an industry that opposes climate change policies.
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One of these politicians is Johnson, an independent who voted repeatedly against climate bills when she was a Democrat in the state chamber. She’s what environmentalists in the state call a “timbercrat,” a close ally of the logging industry and herself a beneficiary of a logging family fortune.
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The timber-Democratic alliance goes back decades. But a growing number of political extremists in timber-rich areas and an increasingly powerful right-wing PAC that presents itself as the voice of Oregonians connected to logging, trucking, and farming, <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/03/timber-unity-racism/">Timber Unity</a>, have changed longstanding dynamics.
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In 2019, with the vocal support of the newly formed Timber Unity, 11 Republican lawmakers left the state capitol to avoid a vote on a cap-and-trade bill — just enough of them to stall the vote. The walkout ended messily: Democratic Gov. Brown sent state troopers, demanding the Republicans “return and do the jobs they were elected to do.” When the vote finally occurred, the bill failed by <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2019/06/these-are-the-democrats-who-didnt-support-oregons-climate-bill-who-gave-them-money.html">one vote</a> (three Senate Democrats, including Johnson, voted against it).
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When Democrats tried again to pass climate legislation in 2020, Republicans used the same playbook, this time led by Drazan, a newcomer to the state legislature. Kotek, then speaker of the House, tried to usher through the climate bills. Johnson provided the <a href="http://scorecard.olcv.org/2019/bills/hb-2020/">key vote</a> that killed the cap-and-trade legislation when it finally came to a vote in 2019 (it never <a href="https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/cap-and-trade-gop-walkout-oregon-republicans/283-4694be5d-a349-4053-b8e0-3317ed621207">came to a vote</a> in 2020).
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Timber Unity played a key role in all the chaos, egging on opposition to the bill and the GOP’s walkouts. Timber Unity by then had grown quickly to become a legitimized power broker in the state, despite the group founders’ ties to white nationalist militia interests. Its influence helped rally truck drivers at the state capitol in support of the walkouts, and its reach helped create the <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/167405/grassroots-anti-environmentalist-movement-grows-oregon">impression</a> that the GOP’s oppositional tactics represented the will of a large swath of Oregon residents.
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As a result of these ultimately successful walkouts, Drazan’s profile rose while Oregon missed its window to pass climate legislation in 2020, again.
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How fallout from the walkouts is shaping the gubernatorial race
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Each candidate’s climate platform is a logical extension of their role in the walkouts: Kotek promises to continue developing the state’s climate goals; Drazan argues such policies are a drag on the state economy and the limited measures the current governor instituted via executive action should be reversed; Johnson pledges to revoke the governor’s cap-and-trade policies if elected, too.
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Johnson trails far behind both Kotek and Drazan in polling. She’s endured in the race this long because she is also the best-funded candidate, thanks to the state’s richest man, Knight, the co-founder and chair emeritus of footwear giant Nike.
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He has single-handedly flooded Johnson’s campaign with $3.75 million in cash, and another <a href="https://secure.sos.state.or.us/orestar/cneSearch.do?cneSearchButtonName=search&cneSearchFilerCommitteeId=21717&OWASP_CSRFTOKEN=NJRD-0ISN-1N09-C4IU-Z10M-LH1B-DQKV-90RW">$2 million</a> to a PAC dedicated to electing more Republicans to the Oregon legislature. In October, he contributed his first <a href="https://secure.sos.state.or.us/orestar/gotoPublicTransactionDetail.do?tranRsn=4326883&OWASP_CSRFTOKEN=BUCE-S1MP-D3IC-4XDR-DXQ8-3VAZ-Y6UY-Q049">$1 million</a> to Drazan’s campaign.
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A third candidate’s presence, boosted by Knight’s cash, has upended all normal expectations for the race. In a “normal” cycle, John Horvick, senior vice president of the Pacific Northwest research firm DHM Research, said that “Democrats probably have about a 5 percentage point advantage over Republicans and gubernatorial elections.”
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Political strategists note that, as Johnson is a former Democrat,<strong> </strong>her candidacy is pulling away support that might otherwise go to Kotek. “There’s a real attempt to stop Democrats from defecting to Johnson,” said Horvick. If Kotek loses, it could be Knight’s money that’s to blame.
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Some progressive advocates claim Johnson is a poison pill, set up by bigger fish to pull support away from Kotek. Recently, Timber Unity alluded to that exact strategy on Facebook: “God Bless Betsy Johnson! Now for the LOVE OF GOD, can we just all stick together this ONE TIME and Vote DRAZAN!!!!!”
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If Johnson’s presence does manage to tip the race to the Republican, the use of a third candidate to siphon off Democratic support could become a model in reliably blue states to reverse climate action. All Republicans would need is a deep-pocketed backer and a viable moderate or conservative Democrat.
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The result of the 2022 gubernatorial race will have a major impact on regional climate policy
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Beyond political considerations, a Kotek loss would also have major ramifications for West Coast climate policy. Because of the walkouts, Oregon’s most ambitious policy was put in place by a 2020 <a href="https://www.oregon.gov/energy/energy-oregon/Pages/Greenhouse-Gases.aspx#:~:text=In%20March%202020%2C%20Governor%20Brown,below%201990%20levels%20by%202050.">executive order</a> that set a benchmark for cutting the state’s greenhouse gas emissions at least 45 percent below 1990 levels within 15 years; it also requires state agencies to come up with plans that reduce transportation and power emissions, and ensure forests store more carbon.
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Drazan has said reversing Brown’s executive orders is her day-one priority. Should she do so, the biggest and most permanent damage would be allowing unchecked deforestation in favor of agriculture and logging. Oregon is a relatively small economy compared to its neighbors, but considering its forests, its biggest impact on the climate is in land use and carbon sequestration.
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Oregon and its bigger neighbors, Washington and California, have often worked in concert in updating its environmental rules. When California banned hydrofluorocarbons used in air conditioning, Oregon did, too. Going forward, the states will need to work together to expand transmission of renewable energy projects, as they receive federal funds from the Inflation Reduction Act.
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Oregon could become a major obstacle to expanding renewables across the coast, if Drazan appoints pro-gas utility regulators to the state commission. And some conservationists, like Doug Moore, executive director of the Oregon League of Conservation Voters, fear Oregon could becoming a dumping ground for goods like inefficient cars that can’t be sold in California or Washington.
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Climate advocates worry the election is about to undo over a decade of campaigning to move Oregon forward on climate action. This shift wouldn’t be accidental, but the result of methodical, well-funded efforts to give anti-climate candidates a real foothold.
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And the stakes for both democracy and climate policy are high. “Oregon has been driving a national conversation on climate for quite a while,” Moore said. “With one stroke of a pen, Christine Drazan could unwind all.”
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<li><strong>Nobody’s perfect. Here’s how to be a good influence on your kids anyway.</strong> -
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<img alt="An illustration of a parent and child floating in water together on their backs, waves in the background." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/8XgIBbo8Km0xsg9VA5wvoJCNVqA=/600x0:4200x2700/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/71549398/R2_PaigeVickers_Parenting_Vox_10_18.0.jpg"/>
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Paige Vickers for Vox
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Everyone makes mistakes. Here’s how your kids can learn from yours.
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Here’s a secret: Parents make mistakes. Odds are, you’ve probably made a couple today.
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We all want the best for our kids, but parents are often still struggling to learn how to live life as their best selves. We hope our children can avoid the pitfalls we’ve tumbled into in the past — whether it be stints in rehab, arrests, a history of emotional issues or money problems, a general lack of direction until your late twenties, or the time you put a cigarette out on your arm to prove you were a tough guy (I know it can’t just be me!).
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As much as we try to shelter kids from going down the wrong path — paths we may have walked before — the past will always influence your parenting decisions. Eventually, the time will come where you might have to admit that you aren’t, or weren’t always, the great example you strive to be every day. Despite that, you can still be a role model for how to make changes and move forward in life.
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Taking accountability doesn’t equate to you pushing your child down the same slope. “You don’t have to feel like you’re giving your kid a hall pass to go out and use drugs,” says <a href="https://abphd.com/">Allen Berger</a>, a psychologist and the author of <em>12 Essential Insights for Emotional Sobriety</em>. “What you’re doing is sharing your experience that no one’s going to be perfect.” You are modeling growth, and that is a worthwhile and brave thing to do.
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But confronting the past and accepting responsibility can be terrifying. Acknowledging our flaws in front of those we cherish is even more so. I spoke with four experts about productive methods to parent children effectively when your own past is imperfect.
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Before having a conversation about your past with your kids, it’s important to fully process it and understand how it has impacted who you are today. “You want to make sure you really dealt with it yourself first,” says <a href="https://www.sixthstreetwellness.com/team/stacey-younge">Stacey Younge</a>, the owner and lead therapist at Sixth Street Wellness in Manhattan, who has also served as a clinician for people returning home from prison.
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“The act of parenting brings out all the insecurities that we have,” says <a href="https://drgayani.com/">Gayani DeSilva</a>, a psychiatrist and the author of <em>A Psychiatrist’s Guide: Stop Teen Addiction Before It Starts</em>. “Whatever we’ve done, it’s okay to look at it. It’s okay to talk to somebody about it. It’s okay to be transparent in our vulnerability.”
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It’s also important to avoid projecting your shame onto your kids. “The things that we project [on others] are things that are incomplete in us. If I still have some issues about my past that are unresolved, I’m gonna have a tendency to project that onto my children and be afraid that they’re going to be living that,” says Berger. The first step is recognizing the problem is within ourselves so we can do something about it.
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Studies show that <a href="https://nida.nih.gov/publications/drugfacts/genetics-epigenetics-addiction">addiction</a> and <a href="https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/looking-at-my-genes">mental illness</a> can run in families, but that doesn’t have to define our children; it just means they should be aware of it.
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<q>“Our kids might have our features, they might have our personality traits, but that doesn’t always mean that they’re going to make the same choices that we have”</q>
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“Our kids might have our features, they might have our personality traits, but that doesn’t always mean that they’re going to make the same choices that we have,” Younge says.
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We can’t heal from our past in a vacuum. Processing it with help from a therapist, a life coach, a religious mentor, or even a good friend can make a world of difference. Find someone you can be vulnerable with, who can accept your past without judgment, and who wants to help you move forward.
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The goal of this conversation with your kids is to teach them that people can grow, and that’s a lesson you can instill in them no matter their age. You definitely shouldn’t spark a conversation with a 6-year-old about jabbing needles into your arm, but you can go a bit deeper with a teenager. With a young child, you might speak generally about how mommy or daddy made mistakes, too, discussing simple yet fundamental lessons from your past.
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Don’t be afraid to say the words “I’m sorry” if your actions affected your child. Apologizing sets an incredible example for little ones.
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Kids are going to make mistakes, so one of the best gifts you can give them is an example of you letting go of shame. “They’re gonna make some really bad choices, and they’re gonna have to figure it out. So if we are open and transparent with our vulnerability to our children, our children are going to realize that, you know what, my parents were able to take care of whatever happened to them, so whatever happens to me, I’m going to be okay,” DeSilva says.
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When choosing where to hold the conversation, focus on a setting where your child is comfortable to listen and share, whether that be in the kitchen while making dinner, in the car on the way to an activity, or over ice cream at their favorite eatery. It doesn’t have to be stern or serious. When you and your child are in a relaxed environment, a conversation may even just roll out organically.
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Pretending your past didn’t happen helps no one. “Be honest about the lessons that you’ve learned and how it impacted your life — why [what you experienced] was a real challenge and what are some of the things that you really want them to know,” says Younge. Then, invite your child to share their feelings about what you just shared with them. Ask them if they’ve struggled with anything similar. The goal is for them to form their own opinions and know that they have autonomy over their own choices.
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If you are still struggling with the subject of the conversation, it’s okay to say, “This is something that’s just too rough for me right now,” says Younge. “This is maybe where Partner A or Partner B or Grandma can come in and help have some conversations about it.” It’s likely that there are other people in your kid’s life that they can trust — people who are good influences, who will be happy to help you out here.
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Model making mistakes and accepting constructive criticism. “Kids are going to respond to how you live your life more than what you tell them about how they should live their lives,” says Berger. Your actions are what really count, so make sure you empower your kids to know that growth is possible, and that it takes effort and time.
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Don’t do things that you tell your kid not to, unless you have a good explanation as to why, says <a href="https://www.jessicalahey.com/">Jessica Lahey</a>, a former teacher and the author of <em>The Addiction Inoculation</em>. Being specific about certain nuances can make a real difference in how your kids understand boundaries. For example, if your kids aren’t old enough to drink, but you sip wine with dinner, Lahey says, you should explain to them that “adolescent brains are different from adult brains. My brain is done developing, and yours won’t be done developing until your early to mid-20s.” Be clear about why certain rules exist.
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Believing in yourself can be difficult if you feel that you don’t have the power to affect your situation in life, so teach kids how to have a growth mindset, not a fixed one. A growth mindset is the view that talent and intelligence is learned and cultivated with practice and effort; a fixed mindset tells you that there is no use trying to change.
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Research has connected the growth mindset to <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2331186X.2018.1492337">greater motivation and resiliency</a>, leading to <a href="https://web.stanford.edu/~paunesku/articles/claro_2016.pdf">higher academic achievements</a>. A fixed mindset is a negative thinking pattern, and can lead to children who will run from their struggles, never seeking assistance or putting in effort to improve. A growth mindset can give your children the confidence to make mistakes and learn.
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You can push back against a hopeless mentality by teaching self-efficacy, says Lahey, which she defined as “the belief that if you take an action, that it will result in change.”
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Be careful how you speak about your children, and how you speak about yourself. Instead of labeling yourself, your child, or others with static terms such as “brilliant” or “gifted,” which reinforces the idea that people are valued for fixed characteristics and not the work they put in, teach kids to look for the long-term consequences of people’s actions, “showing them the opportunities for growth, showing them the opportunities to break cycles, showing them evidence of their own accomplishments,” says Lahey.
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<a href="https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cdev.13711">Research shows</a> that children as young as 7 believe that seeking help is a sign of incompetence. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2009.12.015">Other studies</a> have shown that potential helpers, including teachers and social workers, underestimate the shame and embarrassment about seeking help felt by their students, so it’s imperative we defuse the stigma by showing the benefits of reaching out. Examples of asking for help as an adult can vary from situation to situation — it could be calling a friend when you don’t know how to handle a situation, or signing up for food stamps.
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Remember to model self-care — not only to teach your children how to help themselves, but also to allow yourself to be more present for your family. “It’s critical that you realize how important you are,” says DeSilva. “Anytime that you spend any effort [caring for] yourself, that translates to how you treat your kids.” Be an example of kindness and forgiveness to others, but especially to yourself.
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Celebrate long-term growth. You are no longer the same person you were in the past. Recognize the work you’ve put in, and do the same for your child, helping them see that struggling with their homework today isn’t representative of where they will be a year from now. Point to their work from last year to show how far they have come. Chances are, you have, too.
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<em>Jay Deitcher is a stay-at-home dad, writer, and former social worker living in Albany, New York. </em>
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<a href="http://www.vox.com/even-better"><em><strong>Even Better</strong></em></a><em> is here to offer deeply sourced, actionable advice for helping you live a better life. Do you have a question on money and work; friends, family, and community; or personal growth and health? Send us your question by filling out this </em><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfiStGSlsWDBmglim7Dh1Y9Hy386rkeKGpfwF6BCjmgnZdqfQ/viewform"><em><strong>form</strong></em></a><em>. We might turn it into a story.</em>
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It’s not just you or your kids: <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/2/6/16978544/cold-versus-flu-chart">Cold-and-flu season</a> is off to a particularly nasty start across the United States.
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With the country stepping down from the pandemic footing of the past few years, the various viruses that cause coughs, runny noses, and sore throats are now on the rebound. Cases of influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a common respiratory bug that can occasionally turn serious for infants and the elderly, <a href="https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/22272237/flu-cases-down-historic-what-does-it-mean">had been held down in 2020 and 2021</a> because people were wearing masks and taking other precautions to avoid Covid-19. But almost all official pandemic policies have lapsed, most Americans have <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/10/12/23400496/remote-work-from-home-office-boss-manager-hypocrisy">returned to some or all of their pre-pandemic activities</a>, and immunity to other common viruses may have waned after two years of largely avoiding them.
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That has brought RSV in particular roaring back; the flu is showing signs of an early surge as well. In 2020, the United States as a whole <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/surveillance/nrevss/images/trend_images/RSV14Num_Nat.htm">was reporting</a> just a handful of confirmed RSV cases in late October; in 2021, about 400. In 2022, the official number is about 600. Those numbers are much lower than the actual number of cases, because an RSV diagnosis is not typically confirmed via a laboratory test. But they show a clear trend.
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Flu is also off to a fast start, particularly in the South. The percentage of outpatient visits that are for respiratory illness, <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm">one of the CDC’s measures of flu activity</a>, is already well above where it was at this time in the last five years. Doctors on the ground also say that they are seeing meaningfully more cases of RSV, flu, and other similar pathogens (such as adenoviruses, parainfluenza, croup, etc.) than they typically would this early in the cold-weather season.
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For hospitals that have spent the past two years <a href="https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-covid19/2021/9/14/22650733/us-covid-19-hospitals-full-texas-alabama">struggling to maintain capacity in the face of surging Covid-19 cases</a>, this year has not brought any relief. The opposite, in fact.
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“We are very busy,” Dr. Kristina Bryant, an epidemiologist at Norton Children’s Hospital in Louisville, told me. “It’s different this year. … It’s not even Halloween, and many children’s hospitals are operating at or above capacity.”
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Bryant’s hospital is already contemplating spilling over into beds in the adult hospital across the street, which is connected by a pedestrian walkway. She said she’s spoken to peers in other hospitals that have already put their emergency command structures into place. Connecticut Children’s Hospital in Hartford <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/3697459-childrens-hospitals-overflowing-with-respiratory-patients-consider-calling-national-guard/">has reportedly held talks</a> with FEMA and the National Guard about setting up a tent outside their building for overflow beds.
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“We used to worry about a twin-demic. Now some people are worried about a tri-demic: influenza, Covid and RSV,” William Schaffner, a Vanderbilt University professor and medical director of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, told me. “Although we worried about this in the past few seasons, people are really anticipating this may be the one where these viruses really gang up on us and together may strain the health care system.”
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The next few months are expected to be rough, with different viruses becoming dominant at different times. Hospitals may continue to be stretched thin. The severity of any <a href="https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/23393321/covid-vaccine-bivalent-booster-pfizer-moderna">winter Covid-19 surge</a> and the possibility of a second wave of flu later in the season are two X-factors that will dictate how bad the situation ultimately becomes.
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But the experts I spoke to offered a small glimmer of hope: This is — probably — not the new normal. The US is suffering a shock after the past two years. The population is more vulnerable to various respiratory illnesses now, but it won’t stay that vulnerable forever. People will get sick and develop immunity, and that will put constraints back on these viruses.
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Several of them said they expected a year, maybe two, of such unusual early and severe cold-and-flu seasons, followed by a return to relative normal. That progress could be sped along by the development of pan-coronavirus and RSV vaccines.
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“I anticipate that as people get infected with these things again, it will settle down to what was around before the Covid pandemic,” said Richard Webby, an influenza expert at the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Tennessee.
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Covid-19 has thrown the viral ecosystem out of whack. Other viruses have been behaving strangely for the past few years. Bryant said her hospital saw an unusual amount of <a href="https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/2022/han00474.asp">enterovirus d68</a>, which generally causes cold-like symptoms but in rare cases can lead to limb weakness similar to polio, over the summer.
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RSV usually shows up in midwinter, but the hospital also saw an early, ferocious spike in RSV cases in August and now, she said, their case volume is substantially higher than they have seen in years.
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“Before the pandemic, we could predict when we were going to have RSV cases,” said Bryant, who also works on infectious disease issues for the American Academy of Pediatrics. “What has happened this year is it’s come early. … The pandemic has created disruptions in previously pretty predictable seasonal patterns.”
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RSV generally starts as a runny nose or a cough. For a small number of children, it may develop into pneumonia or bronchitis, which can require hospitalization. As with Covid, which is also typically milder in children, the sheer number of infections mean hospitals can be overwhelmed even if only a small share of those cases require kids to be admitted to the hospital.
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The flu also started about a month earlier than usual, Schaffner said, particularly in the southern United States. It’s been following the pattern seen in the southern hemisphere this summer (which is winter in that part of the world), when countries including Australia and Chile saw early and busy flu seasons.
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So what explains the early surge? From a biological perspective, these viruses are finding more susceptible hosts in the population. The reasons flu and RSV typically thrive in the winter are that the humidity is lower, temperatures are down, and people are more likely to crowd together indoors.
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After the past two years, people have less robust immunity, or perhaps no immunity at all, making it easier for the virus to spread outside of those ideal conditions.
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Every child will catch RSV multiple times, most before they turn two, and eventually build up immunity to it. But the problem right now is a lot of kids, even 3- or 4-year-olds, have no existing immunity after two years of mitigation measures and are getting infected for the first time.
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“The virus has an even more abundant playing field in which to work,” Schaffner told me. “There are many more susceptible [people] that this virus can infect for the first or second time and cause illness.”
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Kids especially play a critical role in the spread of disease — as Schaffner said, “Children are thought to have the distribution franchise for the influenza virus.”
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First, they spread it among themselves. And, because once infected they shed much more virus than adults and for a longer period of time, they are very efficient at spreading the virus to other people they encounter.
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“They become vectors. They become little transmitters. They come home and give it to their parents, grandparents, Aunt Suzi, the neighbors,” Schaffner said. “With kids in school, with people traveling, visiting friends and relatives, doing that with enthusiasm, returning to a new normal activity, it’s setting us up for the spread of these respiratory viruses.”
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Meanwhile, we are still awaiting <a href="https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/23393321/covid-vaccine-bivalent-booster-pfizer-moderna">the expected Covid-19 winter surge</a>. Case numbers appear to be in a bit of a lull right now — though the rise of at-home testing makes official data much more difficult to follow — but given the pattern of the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-cases.html">past two years</a>, experts expect an increase before long. It shouldn’t get as bad as it did in 2020 or 2021, Schaffner said. But it will still add strain to the health system.
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So the next few months may be rough. A second surge of flu activity in the new year, if another strain emerges and becomes dominant, would make it worse. But the lingering question is whether this is a short-term shock to the system after the pandemic or the start of a new normal.
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The unpredictability of the past two years should disabuse us from being too confident about the future. But the experts I spoke to thought that the former was more likely. This cold-and-flu season will be nasty. Next year may be as well. But, eventually, these viruses will start to settle into their old pattern.
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“I’ve been thinking of this as a transition year, back to the new normal. Or maybe a transitional two years,” Schaffner said. “The viruses are working their way back to a more normal activity.”
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As more people get infected and build their immunity back up (or up for the first time, in the case of kids), the viruses will find it harder to spread outside of their usual sweet spot when the weather is cold and people stay inside, Webby said. We saw the same life cycle with H1N1 during and after the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-h1n1-pandemic.html">2009 outbreak</a>. At first, that virus would emerge at unusual times outside of flu season. But after a couple years, as people gained immunity, it became more predictable.
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“It forces the virus to survive only in its sweet spot for transmission, which happens to be winter,” Webby said.
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New vaccines could also help soften the burden of RSV in the future. Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline <a href="https://www.gsk.com/en-gb/media/press-releases/gsk-s-older-adult-respiratory-syncytial-virus-rsv-vaccine-candidate/">released clinical trial results recently</a> showing a large reduction in severe disease for older adults who were given an RSV vaccine that the company has developed. Development of an RSV vaccine for children had been stagnant, but <a href="https://answers.childrenshospital.org/rsv-vaccine/">a recent uptick in R&D</a> signals a possibility of progress in the coming years.
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We already have effective vaccines for flu and Covid-19, too. They substantially reduce the likelihood of severe illness and death. The challenge is getting people to take them. <a href="https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations_vacc-people-additional-dose-totalpop">Few Americans</a> have gotten the new omicron-targeted Covid-19 vaccine and people’s intentions about getting the flu vaccine <a href="https://www.nfid.org/about-nfid/newsroom/news-conferences/2022-nfid-influenza-pneumococcal-disease-news-conference/2022-national-survey-attitudes-about-influenza-and-pneumococcal-disease-and-the-impacts-of-covid-19/">have also been lagging</a>.
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“We’re concerned the population is so Covid and vaccine fatigued that it’s not taking advantage of these vaccines,” Schaffner said. “I think there are still many people who say ‘I’ve had enough of this.’ The interventions we have are at the moment not being optimally utilized.”
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Biology should help to make cold-and-flu season in the years to come more tolerable. We also have the tools to lighten the burden even more — not only the vaccines, but washing hands, wearing masks, staying home when sick — if only we avail ourselves of them.
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Coach Sachdeva envisions greater progress for Karman</strong> - Karman is now the No. 1 in the country with a World ranking of 217</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Walk in the park for The Men in Blue against the Netherlands</strong> - Rohit, Kohli and Suryakumar hit half-centuries to set a formidable target; bowlers complement batters’ efforts capitalising on the Dutch endeavour to make a chase of it</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How Pro Kabaddi made kabaddi the most-watched sport in India after cricket</strong> - Pro Kabaddi made a hinterland sport the cynosure of primetime television</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Humpy misses chance to go 2-0 up against Anna Muzychuk</strong> - Lei Tingjie leads Maria, Anna’s younger sister, by same margin in the other quarterfinal</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>ICC Twenty20 World Cup 2022 | Wade tests positive for COVID, but likely to play against England</strong> - The International Cricket Council (ICC) rules don't bar a player from taking part in a match if he is COVID positive.</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Thazhathangadi boat race set to begin tomorrow</strong> - The regatta is being conducted under the aegis of the Kottayam West Club</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Approval for Kidwai unit in Mysuru in next Cabinet meet: Sudhakar</strong> -</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ukraine war: Russian tactics on eastern front ‘crazy’, says Zelensky</strong> - Russia has expended huge resources in the town of Bakhmut despite a looming battle in Kherson.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>World facing ‘first truly global energy crisis’, report says</strong> - Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will have long-lasting effects on energy supply, a new report says.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Svalbard: The race to save the fastest-warming place on Earth</strong> - Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago, is thought to be heating at six times the global average.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Chinese ‘police station’ in Dublin ordered to shut</strong> - The Department of Foreign Affairs ordered closure after pressure from a human rights group.</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Today’s best deals: Google Pixel 6a, Apple MacBooks, 4K TVs, and more</strong> - Dealmaster also has discounts on Google smart home, Microsoft Surfaces, and some of our favorite wearables. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1892938">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Meta’s value plunges more than $65 billion amid falling sales, rising costs</strong> - Facebook parent’s earnings add to gloom surrounding Big Tech. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1893205">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Feds open criminal investigation into Tesla Autopilot claims</strong> - DoJ prosecutors want to know if Tesla misled customers, investors, regulators. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1893177">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Biden admin bracing for up to 70K COVID deaths this winter as booster uptake flops</strong> - Nearly every COVID death is preventable, Biden stressed Tuesday. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1893156">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>iCloud web gets a slick and more functional beta redesign</strong> - Apple’s cloud service portal now lets you prioritize the apps you actually use. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1893142">link</a></p></li>
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“I realize it’s terrible weather out there and I have this huge house all to myself, but I’m recently widowed.” she explained. “And I’m afraid the neighbors will talk if I let you stay in my house.”
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It took him a few minutes to figure it out, but he finally determined that it was from the attorney of that attractive widow he had met on the skiing weekend.
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He dropped in on his friend Keith and asked, “Keith, do you remember that good-looking widow from the farm we stayed at on our skiing holiday about 9 months ago?”
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“Yes, I do.” said Keith.
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“Did you, er, happen to get up in the middle of the night, go up to the house and pay her a visit?”
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“Well, um, yes!” Keith said, a little embarrassed about being found out, “I have to admit that I did.”
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“And did you happen to give her my name instead of telling her your name?”
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Keith’s face turned beet red and he said, “Yeah, look, I’m sorry, buddy. I’m afraid I did. Why do you ask?”
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