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Swimming sets ‘strict’ rules for individual Russians to return to competition before Paris Olympics – CNBC
- Swimming sets ‘strict’ rules for individual Russians to return to competition before Paris Olympics CNBC
- Russian and Belarusian swimmers given green light to compete as neutrals The Guardian
- Swimming sets ‘strict’ rules for individual Russians to return to competition before Paris Olympics The Associated Press
- Russians, Belarusians Given Green Light To Compete As Neutrals By World Aquatics Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
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Job Applicant Spent $350 On A New Suit For An Interview But Was Turned Away Because He Was 1 Minute Late—’We Are Very Time Strict Here’ – YourTango
- Job Applicant Spent $350 On A New Suit For An Interview But Was Turned Away Because He Was 1 Minute Late—’We Are Very Time Strict Here’ YourTango
- With #Quittok, Gen Zers are “loud quitting” their jobs CBS News
- A Woman Talked About Quitting Her Job Without Actually Saying She ‘Quit’ Twisted Sifter
- Recruiter Accidentally Sends ‘Judgmental’ Notes On Other Job Applicants To A Candidate YourTango
- ‘When I checked HotSchedules I saw that your last login was 3 days ago’: Boss schedules restaurant worker who doesn’t usually work on Mondays for Monday — but is he wrong? The Daily Dot
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Sheryl Lee Ralph says she’s ‘strict but loving’ as a parent: ‘I’m not your friend … I’m your mother’ – Yahoo Life
- Sheryl Lee Ralph says she’s ‘strict but loving’ as a parent: ‘I’m not your friend … I’m your mother’ Yahoo Life
- ‘Abbott Elementary’ star Sheryl Lee Ralph ready for her Super Bowl spotlight The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Super Nintendo World Mario Kart Ride Has Strict Waistline Limits
Height limitations have always been a challenge for some amusement park guests, as safety features on thrill rides aren’t designed to accommodate every rider. But Mario fans flocking to Universal Studios Hollywood this month for the opening of Super Nintendo World may find themselves unable to enjoy the park’s most exciting attraction, this time because of their waistline.
According to a recent report in the Wall Street Journal, Universal Studios Hollywood has warned that some guests might not be allowed to ride Mario Kart: Bowser’s Challenge, which allows guest to climb aboard a go-kart and experience the popular Nintendo racing game in real life through augmented reality effects and animatronic characters, “if their waistline measures 40-inches or more.” With the average male waist size in America now exceeding 40-inches, that limitation is going to potentially leave many guests very disappointed after enduring what will probably be very long lines at the new attraction.
In recent years, theme parks around the country have become more stringent about safety and the restraints used on ride vehicles, and it’s not just for high-speed attractions like roller coasters that can take riders through inverted loops and steep curves. As indoor rides have become more complex and now provide riders with highly immersive experiences, the technology they employ has also become more complex… and more dangerous.
Trackless vehicles now deftly weave through attractions like Galaxy’s Edge’s Rise of the Resistance with more speed and agility than the ride vehicles used on classic attractions like The Pirates of the Caribbean. As a result, while Pirates doesn’t restrain riders, Mario Kart: Bowser’s Challenge will, as there is a serious risk of injury should a rider exit a vehicle before the ride is finished. On top of that, there’s now even more emphasis on safely securing smaller children in the same seats used by adult riders, which contributes to more limitations for larger guests.
Jeff Polk, the senior vice president of resort operations at Universal Orlando Resort, told the Wall Street Journal that many of its parks’ attractions offer test seats located outside the rides as a result, allowing guests to test restraints and capacity ahead of time to avoid finding themselves turned away after waiting hours in line. But at the same time, some park visitors also told the Wall Street Journal that testing seating ahead of time can be awkward, embarrassing, and not always indicative of the ride’s actual build and design.
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Some attractions, like Universal’s Islands of Adventure’s The Incredible Hulk Coaster in Florida, now offer certain seats specifically designed for larger guests. But as the pandemic-weary population is embracing travelling and vacations again, theme parks are bursting at the seams with hours-long wait lines, and there’s simply less incentive for parks to offer rides with seats they may not be able to fill every time the ride is operated.
Atlus Releases Strict Streaming Guidelines For Persona 3 Portable & Persona 4 Golden
As popular as streaming is nowadays, a number of companies enforce a certain set of rules when it comes to new-release games. The Japanese company Atlus is one that’s done this time and time again with games like 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim and Persona 5 Royal, and now it’s released its guidelines for Persona 3 Portable and Persona 4 Golden. This information comes from the company’s Japanese website, so the rules may be slightly different here in the west.
Despite being enhanced re-releases from 2009 and 2012, it’s still asking streamers to be courteous of viewers by placing spoiler warnings in their stream. One example (as highlighted by Siliconera) is to insert a spoiler alert when streaming Persona 4 Golden’s culprit’s dungeon. Anyone streaming or uploading video footage of these returning games is also asked to make sure they feature the Atlus and Sega copyright.
For anyone who wants to make revenue off the videos, they’ll need to make sure they go through a partnership program, like the YouTube one. Users are also forbidden from streaming or putting video footage of these games behind a paywall, and videos exclusively focused on the background music is not allowed.
And if that wasn’t enough – Atlus doesn’t want to see users uploading videos showing content like mods or cheats for the games, or anything it else deems offensive. And if you’re told to take down a video, you’ve got to do it right away. Yikes!
Right, got all that? We hope you do! Persona 3 Portable and Persona 4 Golden arrive on Switch next week.
Strict Parenting May Hardwire Depression Into a Child’s DNA
The NIH estimates that approximately 21 million adults in the United States had at least one major depressive episode.
The researchers found that strict parenting can affect the way the body reads DNA.
The way the body reads the children’s
She elaborates on her work, “We discovered that perceived harsh parenting, with physical punishment and psychological manipulation, can introduce an additional set of instructions on how a gene is read to become hard-wired into DNA. We have some indications that these changes themselves can predispose the growing child to depression. This does not happen to the same extent if the children have had a supportive upbringing.”
The researchers from the University of Leuven in Belgium chose 21 adolescents who reported good parenting (for example, supportive parents who give their children autonomy) and compared them to 23 adolescents who reported harsh parenting (for example, manipulative behavior, physical punishment, excessive strictness). All of the adolescents were between the ages of 12 and 16, with a mean age of 14 for both groups. Both groups included 11 adolescents who were males, meaning that the two groups were equal in terms of age and gender distribution. Many of those who had been subjected to harsh parenting displayed early, subclinical signs of depression.
The researchers then analyzed the range of methylation at over 450,000 places in each subject’s DNA and discovered that it was significantly increased in those who experienced a harsh upbringing. Methylation is a natural process in which a small chemical molecule is added to the DNA, altering the way the instructions encoded in your DNA are read: for example, methylation may increase or reduce the amount of an enzyme produced by a gene. Increased methylation variation has been linked to depression.
Evelien Van Assche said “We based our approach on prior research with identical twins. Two independent groups found that the twin diagnosed with major depression also had a higher range of DNA methylation for the majority of these hundreds of thousands of data points, as compared to the healthy twin.”
Dr. Van Assche (now working at the University of Munster, Germany) continued, “The DNA remains the same, but these additional chemical groups affect how the instructions from the DNA are read. Those who reported harsher parenting showed a tendency towards depression, and we believe that this tendency has been baked into their DNA through increased variation in methylation. We are now seeing if we can close the loop by linking it to a later diagnosis of depression and perhaps use this increased methylation variation as a marker, to give advance warning of who might be at greater risk of developing depression as a result of their upbringing.”
She adds, “In this study, we investigated the role of harsh parenting, but it’s likely that any significant stress will lead to such changes in DNA methylation; so in general, stresses in childhood may lead to a general tendency to depression in later life by altering the way your DNA is read. However, these results need to be confirmed in a larger sample.”
Commenting, Professor Christiaan Vinkers, Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam University Medical Centre, said: “This is extremely important work to understand the mechanisms of how adverse experiences during childhood have life-long consequences for both mental health and physical health. There is a lot to gain if we can understand who is at risk, but also why there are differing effects of strict parenting.”
Reference: 35th Congress of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP)
Professor Vinkers was not involved in this work, this is an independent comment.
The study was funded by the KU Leuven Research Fund.
Exxon employees are quitting in droves over company’s strict culture, report says
Exxon Mobil is experiencing its highest employee attrition in decades, with disgruntled workers complaining of a strict, fear-based company culture, according to a new report.
In the past two years, even as Exxon reaped record profits, it has lost 12,000 employees globally, less than half of whom were laid off, according to a lengthy report in Bloomberg Businessweek on Thursday.
Citing interviews with more than 40 current and former Exxon employees, the report detailed how many bristled at a culture they describe as stagnant and overbearing.
In one instance, at a virtual town hall last year, Exxon’s global IT vice president Bill Keillor reportedly exploded when workers peppered him with tough questions about compensation and remote working policies in a rare show of defiance.
Keillor snapped and said that anyone who wanted to be a ‘hotshot’ should go work for Amazon, adding ‘good luck to you,’ people in attendance recalled.
Exxon disputed the article’s characterization of its corporate culture as untrue, with a spokeswoman saying that isolated incidents had been blown out of proportion.
Exxon Mobil is experiencing its highest employee attrition in decades, with disgruntled workers complaining of a strict, fear-based company culture
Exxon’s global IT vice president Bill Keillor reportedly exploded when workers peppered him with tough questions about compensation and remote working policies
‘Like nearly every company, attrition increased in the last two years, but we don’t see that as a long-term trend,’ Exxon said in a statement.
‘Importantly, we are seeing good results when hiring top talent for roles throughout the company, at entry-level and for senior executive positions,’ the company said.
A titan in the oil industry with a 140-year history, Exxon does have a reputation for old-school corporate management practices that can seem out of step with the time.
Acronyms and jargon are ubiquitous, and to rise through the ranks, employees must operate under a strict hierarchy with stringent rules, according to Bloomberg.
One such rule requires workers to hold the handrail at all times on staircases. While it was written primarily with oil rigs and refining plants in mind, the rule is strictly enforced, even in corporate offices.
The exterior of the ExxonMobil Houston campus is seen above. Workers at the office are required to hold handrails on stairs, though the rule was intended primarily for oil rigs
The sun sets on an ExxonMobil natural gas rig in the Gulf of Mexico in a file photo
Dar-Lon Chang, a mechanical engineer who left the company in 2019 after nearly two decades, told the magazine: ‘Upper management doesn’t like to hear bad news, so to stay at Exxon long term, you have to drink the Kool-Aid.’
‘This doesn’t sit well with younger people and especially those concerned about the climate crisis,’ said Chang, who said that when he joined Exxon in 2003, he believed it would play a key role in shifting the world away from fossil fuels.
Instead, Chang said he was disappointed, alleging the company repeatedly rejected potential investments in renewables over profitability concerns.
Another incident troubled some Exxon employees of color, when the company issued an edict in April 2020 banning ‘external position flags’ from its main corporate flagpoles, such as Gay Pride and Black Lives Matter.
Former Exxon worker Dar-Lon Chang (above) said: ‘Upper management doesn’t like to hear bad news, so to stay at Exxon long term, you have to drink the Kool-Aid’
Because the rainbow Pride flag had flown on the same poles a year earlier, some black employees were outraged, suspecting the policy targeted the BLM flag specifically.
Exxon insisted in a statement that diversity is ’embedded in our core values.’
‘The idea that ExxonMobil’s culture is what these employees say it is doesn’t hold water for two reasons: how many people join this company each year and how long people stay,’ a company spokeswoman said.
‘No culture is perfect and it’s far too easy to take a few data points and paint with a broad brush, but that doesn’t produce an accurate portrait.’
S.C. Republicans lash out at colleagues over strict abortion bill
“Yes, I’m pro-life,” Shealy said. “I’m also pro-life for the mother, the life she has with her children who are already born. I care about the children who are forced into adulthood that was made up by a legislature full of men so they can take a victory lap and feel good about it.”
“It disgusts me,” she added.
South Carolina senators are considering a near-total ban on abortion starting at fertilization. It would be an even more severe restriction than the one they passed last year that went into effect in late June, which prohibits abortion at about six weeks when doctors can detect a fetal heartbeat. The state Supreme Court voted last month to temporarily block the ban.
Shealy is one of three Republican women in the Senate. All of them said that, without exceptions for rape and incest, they won’t support their colleagues’ bill.
The Senate adjourned Wednesday night without a vote but is scheduled to reconvene Thursday morning. If the bill clears the Senate, it will go back to the House, which last week approved a version that included exceptions for rape and incest until the 12th week of pregnancy.
Shealy is not the only South Carolina Republican typically supportive of antiabortion measures to express doubts about the strict abortion proposals. On Aug. 16, state Rep. Neal Collins said he regretted voting last year to ban abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected.
About two weeks after the six-week ban took effect, Collins said, a doctor called to tell him about a 19-year-old woman who’d recently arrived at the emergency room 15 weeks pregnant. Her water broke, the fetus was nonviable and the standard of care called for an abortion.
But, since there was a heartbeat, the hospital’s lawyers told the doctors they couldn’t approve one. They discharged the woman instead, leaving her with a greater than 50 percent chance of losing her uterus and a 10 percent chance of developing a life-threatening infection.
“That weighs on me,” Collins said. “I voted for that bill. These are affecting people.”
Shealy also voted to ban abortions after six weeks. In fact, she co-sponsored the bill, telling her colleagues during a floor debate last year that the legislation “protects the life of the unborn with a heartbeat.”
On Wednesday — about a year-and-a-half later — she found herself denouncing the new antiabortion legislation and scolding her male colleagues for trying to pass it. In doing so, she told them that women are smart enough to run households and businesses, to take care of children and aging parents.
“The only thing that we are not smart enough to do is take care of our own bodies. We need men in government, not medical professionals, to do that,” she said sarcastically, adding, “The South Carolina legislature — we know best.”
State Sen. Penry Gustafson echoed Shealy from the floor a few minutes later. The Republican said she was against abortion and wished that no one had sex before marriage and that pregnancies were always wanted. But, Gustafson added, she lives in “Realville,” where she acknowledges that’s not reality. She also challenged fellow Republicans to consider mothers’ rights.
Gustafson maligned the bill as “wishful-thinking legislation.”
“This bill does not recognize or even acknowledge another right besides the right of the baby,” Gustafson said. “So, do we women have no autonomy over our own bodies? Are we simply baby machines?”
Then she asked other senators to weigh possible health emergencies. What if a woman is carrying a dead fetus? What if someone has an ectopic pregnancy that could threaten their life? What if an 11-year-old girl gets raped and impregnated?
“Well, that’s just too bad, according to this bill,” Gustafson said.
Sandy Senn, the third Republican woman in the Senate and the only one who voted against the six-week ban passed last year, mocked her male colleagues for calling a special session to address the ban and presuming that “women and families need your guidance because y’all know better than them.”
“You cannot legislate morality, you cannot tell people who to sleep with, you cannot tell people who to marry and you cannot tell women what to do with their own bodies, try as you might.”
Senn warned them that passing the ban could come with consequences in November’s election. “This issue is huge,” she said, adding, “You don’t think that women will vote single-issue on something like this?”
Rabies could return to the US despite strict vaccine regulations, CDC warns
RABIES could sneak back into US despite strict vaccine regulations, CDC warns, after five-month-old rescue puppy that met import requirements from Azerbaijan tests positive for virus
- Rabies was eradicated in the U.S. in 2003, but has been detected five times in animal imports across the previous 15 years
- Last year a puppy tested positive for the virus barely three days after arriving with its foster family in Pennsylvania following a flight from Azerbaijan
- The dog had started biting the air, hypersalivating and had become agitated
- It was later put down after suffering seizures and a cardiac arrest
- Blood tests revealed eight out of 34 animals imported in this shipment were not properly vaccinated against rabies
- CDC officials now say all animal imports from high-risk countries should have their blood tested to confirm they have got the rabies vaccine
Rabies could be re-imported into the U.S. due to improper vaccinations, health officials warned Thursday, after a five-month-old rescue puppy from Azerbaijan tested positive for the virus last year despite meeting import requirements.
The disease — which triggers seizures and frothing at the mouth — was eradicated in the U.S. in 2003, but has re-entered five times over the last 15 years.
Last year’s case where a puppy fell ill just three days after arriving with its adopted family in Pennsylvania was blamed on faulty paperwork.
The animal was certified to have been inoculated against rabies in Azerbaijan, but testing revealed it and seven others out of the 33 dogs and one cat brought across the border had not been fully vaccinated.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials imposed a ban on importing dogs from 109 high-risk countries last year — including four in eastern Europe.
But it is due to expire later this year, with the CDC calling for blood tests to be put in place at ports to confirm all imported animals from high-risk areas are vaccinated.
Rabies is passed on through the bites of infected animals. It is fatal in virtually every case without treatment, with victims symptoms progressing from a fever to seizures in days.
CDC officials are warning that rabies could be re-imported into the United States. There is no suggestion that the above puppy has rabies
The warning was revealed in a scientific paper published in this week’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from the CDC.
Lead author Dr Florence Whitehill, an animal diseases expert at the CDC, and colleagues said: ‘A requirement for rabies vaccination certificates alone will not adequately identify improper vaccination practices or fraudulent paperwork and is insufficient as a stand-alone rabies importation prevention measure.
‘[Blood] testing of animals from high-risk countries and electronic reporting of results directly from prequalified laboratories before arrival in the United States should be considered to mitigate the risk of importing [rabies].’
In the latest case, the puppy arrived at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, on June 10 of last year and was sent to an adoptive family.
Three days later it started biting invisible objects, hypersalivating, and suffering from agitation.
The animal was taken to the vets, where it suffered seizures and experienced a cardiac arrest. It was put down later the same day.
A total of 37 people who were exposed to the animal — including airport workers, vets and its adoptive family — were screened for the virus.
A total of 15 people were given the drug rabies postexposure prophylaxis as a precaution, in case they had been infected.
None later came down with rabies, which has an incubation time of 20 to 60 days.
Blood tests revealed seven other animals on the shipment — all dogs — had not been adequately vaccinated against rabies by the time they arrived.
The unvaccinated animals were moved into strict quarantine for four to six months to ensure they did not have the virus.
The other 25 were put in 45-day at-home quarantine as a precaution in case they were exposed to the virus.
None later developed an infection.
Animals are considered vaccinated against rabies from 28 days after receiving their initial jab.
But in some cases — like with these animals — if a too small initial dose is given the vaccine may not spark immunity.
Rescue workers in Azerbaijan blamed a veterinary intern for the improper vaccinations, who they said was in charge of rabies jabs at the time.
They added that a review revealed ‘numerous’ rabies vials containing a higher than expected residual amount of vaccine.
Last year America reported five deaths from rabies — its highest tally in a decade.
Four of these were down to contact with bats, while one was due to being bitten by an infected dog.
This was more than the last four years combined, when only three deaths from the virus had been reported.
The CDC said the deaths were tragic and the majority of them could have been prevented by a series of quick injections. Three of the infected persons refused the shots.