Stuffed Stockings, Suffering Stores
The combination of supply-chain snarls and stepped-up demand for goods is beginning to unwind. That could put prices under pressure.
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Stop touching your face! It could help you stay healthy this holiday
Looking for an easy way to reduce your risk of catching a viral illness? Try to stop touching your face.
NFL Thanksgiving predictions: A trio of Turkey Day player props
Few days are better on the NFL calendar than Thanksgiving Day, and the league is treating us to a trio of intriguing games this year featuring elite skill-position stars.
https://nypost.com/2022/11/24/nfl-thanksgiving-predictions-trio-of-turkey-day-player-props/
Los Angeles school district’s Thanksgiving presentation suggests students’ understanding of holiday is ‘wrong’
The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is under fire for a lesson plan that challenges students to consider that what they know about Thanksgiving is “wrong.”
One of LAUSD’s advisory lessons released in June and available to educators was titled, “Let’s Talk about Thanksgiving.” The presentations were created by its Office of Human Relations, Diversity & Equity.
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“Everything We Know about Thanksgiving is WRONG?” the PowerPoint presentation asks.
“The version we learn in school, starts with the landing of the Mayflower in 1620 in a small bay north of Cape Cod,” the next slide says, before offering a contrast. “In the Native American version [of Thanksgiving], the arrival of the Pilgrims marks the beginning of the end.”
“The Indigenous peoples had a hundred years of contact and trade with the Europeans before the pilgrims arrived in 1621,” the next slide read, with the word “MYTH” outlined in bold. It went on to say that “years earlier British slaving crews introduced smallpox to the native people; over 90% of the local population died.”
Another “myth” the presentation appeared keen to dispel was that “Thanksgiving is a celebration of the unity between the Indigenous Peoples and the European Settlers.”
Typical Thanksgiving lessons have suggested that the pilgrims, fresh off the Mayflower, celebrated the harvest with Native Americans.
“Researchers doubt that there was a celebration or unity between the Indigenous Peoples and the European settlers,” the LAUSD plan read. “European settlers continually pushed the Indigenous Peoples off their land and made them conform to European customs.”
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The presentation also encourages teachers to show students a video from Teen Vogue entitled, “Native American Girls Describe the REAL History Behind Thanksgiving.” The young women in the video say that European settlers “celebrated” the uprooting and killing of several villages and that today’s holiday amounts to celebrating the “deaths of many people.”
The school district’s presentation concludes by recommending students find out “whose land” they are living on and linking to resources where they can learn more.
Parents Defending Education Director of Outreach Erika Sanzi was among those who blasted the lesson plan.
“There is no one right way to teach about Thanksgiving but this is an example of the pendulum swinging to an ideology that seeks to redefine and tear down a centuries old tradition of unity through gratitude,” Sanzi told Fox News Digital.
Fox News Digital has reached out to LAUSD for comment.
Several media pundits have claimed in recent years that Thanksgiving is about “genocide” and “imperialism.” Ahead of last year’s Thanksgiving, for example, Native American activist Gyasi Ross appeared on MSNBC to criticize the holiday.
“Instead of bringing stuffing and biscuits, those settlers brought genocide and violence,” he said.
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“I know several people who call it ‘Colonizer Christmas,’ because they don’t really like the idea of what Thanksgiving represents,” MSNBC regular Jason Johnson similarly said in November 2020.
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Many schools have also advocated for a “rethinking” of the way students learn about Thanksgiving’s origins. “What Kids Are Learning About Thanksgiving Is Changing,” TIME wrote in 2019. The piece noted that many teachers have begun to explore how they can adapt their assignments to become more “culturally sensitive.”
Dolly Parton celebrates Miley Cyrus’s 30th birthday
Dolly Parton paid tribute to her goddaughter Miley Cyrus on her 30th birthday.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/24/entertainment/dolly-parton-miley-cyrus-birthday/index.html
Don’t blame the turkey. Here’s what experts say is really behind your food coma
Do you believe in the holiday food coma?
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/24/health/turkey-sleep-tryptophan-myth-wellness/index.html
Zach Wilson benching irony isn’t lost on Sam Darnold: ‘Crazy business’
Sam Darnold will start this week for the Panthers, while Zach Wilson has now been benched by the Jets.
https://nypost.com/2022/11/24/sam-darnold-on-zach-wilson-benching-crazy-business/
Foxconn Offers Workers $1,400 To Leave China iPhone City After Mass Chaos
Foxconn Offers Workers $1,400 To Leave China iPhone City After Mass Chaos
Apple’s manufacturing partner Foxconn Technology Group has begun distributing 10,000 yuan ($1,400) to newly recruited workers to leave the world’s largest iPhone factory in central China to quell the unrest, reported Bloomberg.
Late Wednesday, Foxconn proposed the payout plan to new hires, pleading with workers to return to their dormitories after days of chaos erupted at the factory in Zhengzhou. By Thursday morning, the move appeared to work as clashes with security guards seemed to have diminished.
A message obtained by CNN and Financial Times advised workers to “please return to your dormitories,” and in return, they would receive 8,000 yuan if they agreed to leave Foxconn. Then another 2,000 yuan would be distributed to workers once they boarded the busses home.
Bloomberg noted one of the significant factors behind the unrest, which began on Tuesday, was that newly recruited workers were highly disappointed with false promises about higher wages. Then Foxconn ‘apologized’ for a “computer glitch” Thursday that led to an “input error” for some staff to get paid less. The Apple supplier said it would honor contractual obligations.
“Foxconn promised big money — up to Rmb15,000 a month — to quickly recruit thousands of new workers, but it doesn’t seem to have materialized. That is why workers were so disappointed.
“The company is known for claiming to provide high wages then breaking their promises,” Jenny Chan, a China labor expert at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, told FT.
Videos went viral of the unrest at the iPhone factory on Wednesday.
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One blue-collar worker told FT, “We’re happy” to take the 10,000 yuan deal to leave the plant over pay disputes but also because of Covid concerns.
China’s strict “zero Covid” policy has already led Apple to warn about delays in iPhone production at the Zhengzhou factory. The latest round of unrest, and the most severe, could worsen the situation.
“We have Apple team members on the ground at our supplier Foxconn’s Zhengzhou facility.
“We are reviewing the situation and working closely with Foxconn to ensure their employees’ concerns are addressed,” the company said in a statement to Bloomberg.
Bloomberg’s breakdown of Apple’s supply chain shows Foxconn (otherwise known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.) is a top supplier. Any manufacturing disruption in China could leave AT&T, Best Buy, and Verizon stores without iPhones.
Analysts estimate about 60% of all iPhones are produced at the Zhengzhou plant, which employs 200,000 workers. Apple has been shifting some production to India. There’s still no official statement on how large the disruption will be.
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Workers protesting over pay dispute at Apple’s Foxconn plant in China beaten by cops
Workers at Foxconn, China’s biggest factory producing Apple’s iPhone, were kicked and clubbed by anti-riot police after staging protests over a pay dispute.
https://nypost.com/2022/11/24/workers-at-apples-foxconn-plant-in-china-beaten-by-cops/
Workers protesting over pay dispute at Apple’s Foxconn plant in China beaten by cops
Workers at Foxconn, China’s biggest factory producing Apple’s iPhone, were kicked and clubbed by anti-riot police after staging protests over a pay dispute.
https://nypost.com/2022/11/24/workers-at-apples-foxconn-plant-in-china-beaten-by-cops/