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Families lose High Court appeal over SEND safety valve deals

Families lose High Court appeal over SEND safety valve deals

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More from this theme Recent articles Families of children with SEND have lost a High Court legal challenge in which they alleged cash-strapped councils had broken the law over controversial “safety valve agreements”. The case centred on families’ concerns that measures introduced under safety valve agreements (SVAs) entered into by Bristol City Council and Devon County Council – aimed to reduce the local authorities’ huge SEND budget deficits – would limit vital support for children with additional needs. Both councils signed multi-million pound SVAs last year, along with 36 other councils with gaping high needs funding deficits. Under the controversial agreements, the 38 local authorities received a total of more than £1bn from the DfE, in exchange for assurances they would slash their high needs deficits over an agreed number of years. At Bristol High Court in January, DCC and BCC were accused by families of three children with SEN, who have not been named, of not fully assessing the long-term implications their agreements would have on SEND provision. All grounds dismissed by judge Passing down …

How to Lose Face Fat Without Surgery or Injections

How to Lose Face Fat Without Surgery or Injections

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“If somebody is looking to remove [buccal] fat before a certain age, I personally think it’s a sin,” says Susca, whose celebrity clientele includes more than one legendary, chart-dominating megastar. (I had to promise not to name them here.) “It’s like your insurance for looking more youthful when you are 40, 50, and 60 years old,” she says. “That’s what is going to keep the skin from wrinkling and having no support system underneath it to hold it taut.” The pros and cons of face exercises You may have seen some influencers praising the slimming effects of various face exercises. Technically, they don’t work—but there’s an asterisk. “​​Facial exercises have sparked a lot of debate recently,” says Dr. Kazlosukaya. “While some say they are useless, others claim they offer many benefits.” The best research we have on this—a small 2018 study, published in the journal JAMA Dermatology—demonstrated that facial exercises may have a positive impact on slowing or even reversing the appearance of aging in the face. “However,” Dr. Kazlosukaya says, “we do not have …

Art Collectors Alice Walton, Jeff Bezos, Bernard Arnault Lose Billions

Art Collectors Alice Walton, Jeff Bezos, Bernard Arnault Lose Billions

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ARTnews Top 200 collectors Jeff Bezos, Bernard Arnault, and Alice Walton lost billions on March 7 and March 10 after stock market sell-offs motivated by investor concerns about the new Trump tariffs and a potential global recession. By the end of the trading day Friday, the major US indices had fallen by more than 2 percent for the week and the S&P 500 fell 3.1 percent, the largest drop since September, according to NPR. On March 10, the Wall Street Journal reported the Nasdaq Composite fell 4 percent. As of end of day Monday, 24 of the 30 Top 200 collectors that are also currently on Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index, saw major losses, according to data analysis by ARTnews. For 11 of those 24 billionaire art collectors, the two days of losses from the stock market lowered their total net worth by 3 percent or more. Related Articles Alice Walton—the founder of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, chairman of the Art Bridges Foundation, and heiress to the Walmart fortune—had the largest 2-day loss at …

Republican districts lose billions as clean energy cancellations surge

Republican districts lose billions as clean energy cancellations surge

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Rendering: FREYR Clean energy investments took a serious hit in January, sinking to their lowest point since the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) supercharged the industry with tax credits and incentives. Growing uncertainty around the future of these policies – especially with the Republican-majority Congress debating potential rollbacks – has led to a sharp drop in new projects and an increase in cancellations, reports E2. Last month, companies announced just $176 million in new clean energy-related factories and projects. That’s the lowest monthly total since August 2022 and only the fourth time investments failed to reach at least $1 billion, according to E2, a nonpartisan group that tracks investments and projects and advocates for policy that’s good for the economy and the environment. Meanwhile, clean energy project cancellations are stacking up. FREYR Battery just scrapped plans for a $2.6 billion battery factory in Georgia (rendering pictured), which would have created 700 jobs. Ford CEO Jim Farley also sounded the alarm this week, warning that tariffs and shifting policies could force the automaker to lay off workers. …

Meta Settles a Million Trump Lawsuit Because It Had More to Lose by Winning

Meta Settles a $25 Million Trump Lawsuit Because It Had More to Lose by Winning

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta will pay roughly $25 million to settle a 2021 lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump, who accused the platform of unlawfully suspending his accounts after the Capitol insurrection. The Wall Street Journal reported that most of the money will fund Trump’s presidential library, with the rest covering legal fees and other plaintiffs. Meta won’t admit wrongdoing, and experts widely agree Trump was unlikely to win: the judge in this case, like the one in a similar failed suit against Twitter, appeared openly skeptical of his arguments. But Meta arguably had more to lose by winning this one. Tech and media companies, eager to avoid conflict with the new administration, have recently settled a string of Trump lawsuits they probably would have won in court. According to the Journal, this settlement, in particular, grew out of Zuckerberg’s efforts to cozy up to Trump last November. The paper’s sources said the then-president-elect signaled during a Mar-a-Lago dinner that the Meta boss would need to resolve the suit before he could ever be allowed “into …

Men lose half their emotional support networks between 30 and 90, decades-long study finds

Men lose half their emotional support networks between 30 and 90, decades-long study finds

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Emotional support networks among men shrink by 50% between the ages of 30 and 90, reflecting an average decrease from two to one emotional support providers, according to research published in Psychology & Aging. Research consistently shows that social networks tend to shrink with age. Emotional support, defined as providing comfort and understanding, is essential for well-being, particularly in older adults, where it predicts better cognitive health, emotional stability, and life expectancy. Past studies demonstrate that general social network contraction occurs globally and across genders. However, whether the decline extends to the most intimate forms of support is debated. Motivated by frameworks like socioemotional selectivity theory, which proposes that older adults strategically prioritize close relationships, and theories emphasizing emotional independence with age, Kate Petrova and colleagues aimed to clarify how emotional support networks evolve and identify early predictors of their size. This study utilized a unique longitudinal dataset drawn from a sample of 235 men who were originally recruited as Harvard University students between 1939 and 1942. These participants were followed for 71 years, with …

It Actually Takes a Lot Longer Than You’d Think to Lose Muscle From Not Working Out

It Actually Takes a Lot Longer Than You’d Think to Lose Muscle From Not Working Out

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If you love to work out, it can be mentally and physically difficult to take time off. I like to strength train four days a week and incorporate cardio by boxing or running, so when I’m too sedentary, my body gets restless, and my focus goes out the window. If I catch a cold or have a jam-packed vacation planned, I feel guilty for allowing my routine to lag for a week or two. But occasionally, dialing down your fitness can be good for you—and unless you really fall out of practice, you’re not going to lose your hard-earned gains. Just like building your base takes time, so does losing it. We gain strength and endurance by a principle called progressive overload, which involves adding a little bit of intensity to workouts over time as your body adjusts to the original level. “The beauty of progressive overload is we can go back and forth as needed to accommodate as we get stronger,” says Andy Stern, a personal trainer and co-founder of Rumble Boxing. Every day, …

What Labor Could Lose | Dan Kaufman

What Labor Could Lose | Dan Kaufman

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When Joe Biden described himself this month as “the most pro-labor President in American history,” he was being overly self-congratulatory. Union density actually fell during his presidency, he signed a bill blocking a railroad workers strike, and he quickly abandoned an effort to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. (It has remained $7.25 since 2009.) Still, he was far more supportive of unions than his recent predecessors. He became the first president to walk a picket line and backed union organizing campaigns at Tesla, Toyota, and Amazon.  Yet his strongest claim to pro-labor bona fides was one he never touted in public. A month into his term he nominated Jennifer Abruzzo, a career labor lawyer, as the National Labor Relations Board’s general counsel—the role that directs enforcement priorities for some 1,200 employees across the agency’s forty-eight field offices and its D.C. headquarters. The NLRB has a bifurcated structure: the general counsel’s office is the agency’s prosecutorial arm, with a field staff that administers union elections and investigates, prosecutes, and settles charges of …

Demi Moore confesses she developed an eating disorder after being told to ‘lose weight’

Demi Moore confesses she developed an eating disorder after being told to ‘lose weight’

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Demi Moore, now 62, has opened up about a personal struggle she faced in her Hollywood career—a time when pressure from producers left her battling an eating disorder and grappling with her self-worth.  In a candid interview with Elle, Demi shared a painful experience where she was told multiple times to “lose weight” for a role, an encounter that would have lasting effects on her life. “One of my producers pulled me aside and said it,” she recalled, admitting how much the comment impacted her. “I internalized it,” she shared. You may also likeHow Demi Moore Is Still Age-Defying In Her 60s  “It took me to a place of such torture and harshness against myself, of real extreme behaviors, and I started to place almost all the value of who I was on my body being a certain way.” Demi has opened up about these experiences before, even sharing parts of her story in her memoir Inside Out. But in this interview, she delved even deeper, remembering a time in 1997 when she finally had …

This Race Is Kamala Harris’s to Lose. Here’s Why.

This Race Is Kamala Harris’s to Lose. Here’s Why.

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In these waning stages of the late Trump era, everything and nothing is a surprise. We’ve become immune. I mean, when you have the nominee of a major political party mentally unplugging during a town hall, stopping answering questions, and swaying along to his own Spotify playlist for 39 interminable minutes—and no one seems to blink—we’re out of surprises. There’s no big last debate. No tentpole events likely to shake up the race in these dwindling days. Yes, a full-on war could break out in the Middle East. Or another hurricane could blow ashore, wreaking havoc—and Category 5 conspiracy theories. But the reality is that if nothing or everything happens between now and November 5, it’s unlikely to change the outcome. This sucker is baked. I’m going to make a bold prediction. Kamala Harris is going to win. Maybe easily. And what does that mean? Well, first of all, there aren’t really any undecided voters. If you haven’t figured this one out by now, chances are you’re sitting it out. In effect, the oldest cliché …