The changes to the company’s scheduling policies led to an exodus of around a third of its stylists, part- and full-time employees who work from home selecting clothing items for customers. “It was a gut punch,” said Kara Calagera, who used the extra income from Stitch Fix to pay her mortgage and car insurance. Keeping the job “wasn’t feasible without the flexibility.” For years, Stitch Fix has attracted employees who — because they have part-time jobs, stay home with kids, or have a disability — needed flexible, remote work. Until now, the company allowed employees who could provide their own computer and internet to work from home, some for as little as five hours per week, recommending and sending Stitch Fix clothing to customers at any time of day. Source: A Third of Stitch Fix Employees Quit After New CEO Ends Flexible Work Hours – Slashdot
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Curtin University researchers discover Earth has been making diamonds from waste – ABC News
Dr Doucet said the researchers discovered “deep diamonds” formed in the Earth were predominantly made up of organic matter from dead plants and animals. “This research discovered the Earth’s engine actually turns organic carbon into diamonds many hundreds of kilometres below the surface,” he said. “While recycling is becoming a modern-day necessity for our sustainable survival, we were particularly surprised to learn, through this research, that Mother Nature has been showing us how to recycle with style for billions of years.”
Source: Curtin University researchers discover Earth has been making diamonds from waste – ABC News
Rio Hondo College requires mandatory coronavirus vaccinations for students, employees – San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Insurrection Update #12
Lock them up; revoke bonds
My continuing updates of the true “day of Infamy”….the day Americans tried t bring down the pillars of our republic…..and it is not over…..
It seems some of those insurrectionists of 06 January have not learned a lesson from their arrest for their participation…..
Jeffrey Grace, who faces federal charges related to his involvement in the Jan. 6 breach at the US Capitol, appears to have taken part in a confrontation with left-wing counter-protesters in Portland, Ore. over the past weekend while awaiting trial.
Antifascists showed up at Tom McCall Waterfront Park on Aug. 7 to disrupt a prayer and worship service led by Artur Pawlowski, a controversial Canadian pastor who has in the past claimed God’s unhappiness with homosexuals caused a 2013 flood. The Portland Tribune reported that dozens of black-clad antifascists hurled smoke grenades and appeared to dismantle the public-address system for the Aug. 7 religious event…
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Most face masks won’t stop COVID-19 indoors, study warns
In light of these findings study authors recommend that everyone wear a N95 or KN95 mask if possible whenever indoors in the company of others. “A lot of this may seem like common sense,” Prof. Yarusevych comments. “There is a reason, for instance, that medical practitioners wear N95 masks – they work much better. The novelty here is that we have provided solid numbers and rigorous analysis to support that assumption.” It’s also worth mentioning that ventilation tests show even modest ventilation rates provide about the same level of protection as the highest quality masks.
Source: Most face masks won’t stop COVID-19 indoors, study warns
Most U.S. teens, young adults want to get COVID-19 vaccine, survey finds – UPI.com
About 75% of people ages 14 to 24 years in the United States who responded to the survey, conducted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, said they would get the shot, the data showed. Source: Most U.S. teens, young adults want to get COVID-19 vaccine, survey finds – UPI.com
The Taliban’s strategic game of ‘smoke and mirrors’ that helped them seize Afghanistan and shock the world – How the Taliban played Trump and weaved a web of influence across Afghanistan – ABC News
Like the rest of the world, the Taliban was watching Donald Trump’s America and ultimately what they saw was an opportunity, according to counter-terrorism expert Professor Greg Barton…
“When Donald Trump signed a peace agreement with the Taliban back in February last year … they [the US] were sucked in by a smoke and mirrors trick,” he told the ABC.
Dr Barton likened the Taliban’s participation in the peace deal to magicians’ craft.
“You’re so busy looking at what they’re doing with their left hand, you don’t see what they’re doing with their right,” he said.
“This whole peace treaty, largely conducted in Doha, was a deliberate distraction designed to lower the guard and to see what they could get out of Trump’s America.”
The Taliban knew America wanted out, and fast.
What they got was an “audacious” deal that included the release of 5,000 Taliban prisoners.
Crucially, the Afghan government and leader Ashraf Ghani were largely excluded from the peace deal process.
“The deal signaled to regional actors that they needed to hedge their bets and start making provisions for the end of the Ghani regime in Afghanistan,” global security and strategy expert Dr Benjamin Jensen wrote for the Atlantic Council.
The stage was set.
Poor Management of the Eco-System Leads to So Much Distress — FunWritings

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Poor Management of the Eco-System Leads to So Much Distress — FunWritings
A Powerful Voice … The Voice Of The Future
Dear friends …
I haven’t been blogging much this week, and likely won’t for the next few days, for my “little bit under the weather” has worsened and I just don’t feel up to doing much besides sleeping. But no worries … I will bounce back … soon, I hope. Meanwhile young Greta Thunberg is back with a powerful piece that we should all take note of …
This Is the World Being Left to Us by Adults
Greta Thunberg, Adriana Calderón, Farzana Faruk Jhumu and
The authors are youth climate activists from Sweden, Mexico, Bangladesh and Kenya, working with the international youth-led Fridays For Future movement.
Last week, some of the world’s leading climate change scientists confirmed that humans are making irreversible changes to our planet and extreme weather will only become more severe. This news is a “code red for humanity,” said the…
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Rain falls on peak of Greenland ice cap for first time on record | Greenland | The Guardian
Scientists at the US National Science Foundation’s summit station saw rain falling throughout 14 August but had no gauges to measure the fall because the precipitation was so unexpected. Across Greenland, an estimated 7bn tonnes of water was released from the clouds.
The rain fell during an exceptionally hot three days in Greenland when temperatures were 18C higher than average in places. As a result, melting was seen in most of Greenland, across an area about four times the size of the UK.
The recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded it was “unequivocal” that carbon emissions from human activities were heating the planet and causing impacts such as melting ice and rising sea level.
In May, researchers reported that a significant part of the Greenland ice sheet was nearing a tipping point, after which accelerated melting would become inevitable even if global heating was halted.
Source: Rain falls on peak of Greenland ice cap for first time on record | Greenland | The Guardian

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