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Where Kamala Harris Stands on the Issues: Abortion, Immigration and More

She wants to protect the right to abortion nationally. Here’s what else to know about her positions.

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• Published July 21, 2024 Updated July 24, 2024

With Vice President Kamala Harris poised to replace President Biden on the Democratic ticket, her stances on key issues will be scrutinized by both parties and the nation’s voters.

She has a long record in politics: as district attorney of San Francisco, as attorney general of California, as a senator, as a presidential candidate and as vice president.

Here is an overview of where she stands.

Ms. Harris supports legislation that would protect the right to abortion nationally, as Roe v. Wade did before it was overturned in 2022, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

After the Dobbs ruling, she became central to the Biden campaign’s efforts to keep the spotlight on abortion, given that Mr. Biden — with his personal discomfort with abortion and his support for restrictions earlier in his career — was a flawed messenger. In March, she made what was believed to be the first official visit to an abortion clinic by a president or vice president.

She consistently supported abortion rights during her time in the Senate, including cosponsoring legislation that would have banned common state-level restrictions, like requiring doctors to perform specific tests or have hospital admitting privileges in order to provide abortions.

As a presidential candidate in 2019, she argued that states with a history of restricting abortion rights in violation of Roe should be subject to what is known as pre-clearance for new abortion laws — those laws would have to be federally approved before they could take effect. That proposal is not viable now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe.

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Google makes abrupt U-turn by dropping plan to remove ad-tracking cookies on Chrome browser

FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2018 file photo, a woman walks past the logo for Google at the China International Import Expo in Shanghai. Google is dropping plans to eliminate cookies from its Chrome web browser, making a sudden U-turn on four years of work to phase out the technology that tracks users for ad purposes. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

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LONDON (AP) — Google is dropping plans to eliminate cookies from its Chrome web browser, making a sudden U-turn on four years of work to phase out a technology that helps businesses tracks users online.

The company had been working on retiring third-party cookies, which are snippets of code that log user information, as part of an effort to overhaul user privacy options on Chrome. But the proposal, also known as Privacy Sandbox, had instilled fears in the online advertising industry that any replacement technology would leave even less room for online ad rivals.

In a blog post on Monday, Google said it decided to abandon the plan after considering the impact of the changes on publishers, advertisers and “everyone involved in online advertising.”

The U.K.'s primary competition regulator, which has been involved in oversight of the Privacy Sandbox project, said Google will, instead, give users the option to block or allow third-party cookies on the browser.

Google will “introduce a new experience in Chrome that lets people make an informed choice that applies across their web browsing, and they’d be able to adjust that choice at any time,” Anthony Chavez, vice president of Privacy Sandbox, said in the post. “We’re discussing this new path with regulators, and will engage with the industry as we roll this out.”

Advertisers use cookies to target ads to web users but privacy campaigners say they can be used to track users across the internet.

Google first proposed scrapping cookies in 2020 , but the deadline for finishing the work had slipped a few times. Chrome is the world’s dominant web browser, and many others like Microsoft’s Edge are based on the company’s Chromium technology.

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Inside the Project 2025 plan to gut climate regs

By Jean Chemnick | 07/18/2024 06:53 AM EDT

The conservative outline for a second Trump presidency offers detailed steps for weakening EPA.

A paint-by-numbers plan to weaken EPA has been prepared for former President Donald Trump by his past advisers. Francis Chung/POLITICO

There’s a playbook for how a second Trump administration could pull back climate regulations.

The EPA chapter of the much-vaunted Project 2025 blueprint is stocked with ideas for how political appointees could use a second Trump term to remake agency org charts, defang enforcement and disperse Washington-based staff to regional offices. But the document — spearheaded by the conservative Heritage Foundation — also catalogs tactics for relaxing regulation in ways that might reverberate beyond the next four years.

Former President Donald Trump has distanced himself from the initiative — a sprawling guide on how executive branch authorities and agencies could serve a conservative agenda. But many of its authors served in the first Trump administration and are likely candidates for a second one.

Dave Banks, a former Trump climate adviser, said the document would serve more as a wishlist for past and future officials than a reflection of the president’s own priorities.

“I think the big question is, are the people who wrote it going to be back in?” he said. “And I think there’s a strong likelihood that a lot of the folks who worked on Project 2025 will end up in a Trump 2.0, if that happens.”

Mandy Gunasekara, the Trump EPA chief of staff who penned the project’s chapter on EPA, left open the possibility that she might return to the William Jefferson Clinton Building that serves as the agency’s headquarters.

“That’s a question for the president to ask, and an answer for me to give with my husband and family,” she said. “And we’re not there yet.”

Most of the regulatory policies included in her 28-page chapter seem cut from the same cloth as those EPA attempted in the first Trump administration. They were rescinded under President Joe Biden or overturned in court.

But some are new, like a proposal to shrink the pool of industries required to report their greenhouse gas emissions each year to EPA.

Just the fact that the policies are being explored in a widely circulated document marks a departure from 2016. The Trump EPA transition team that formed after his surprise victory eight years ago was famously long on infighting and short on planning. Political appointees were slow to arrive and key components of Trump’s deregulatory agenda were thrown out in court .

Project 2025 would revive some of those rules. For example, the EPA chapter advises the agency to “make public and take comment on all scientific studies and analyses that support regulatory decision-making.” That dovetails with a Trump-era “secret science” rule that was vacated in 2021 .

Gunasekara said an incoming EPA team could avoid similar outcomes by “applying lessons learned” from the first Trump term.

“It’s very different regulating from the inside versus applying oversight from the outside,” said Gunasekara, one of several Trump EPA officials who came to EPA from congressional committees. Gunasekara was a staffer on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee under the late Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), as was Trump’s second EPA Administrator, Andrew Wheeler.

Gunasekara blamed first term policy failures in part on resistance from career staff — something Project 2025 would take pains to root out through extensive structural and workforce changes. She also acknowledged that the Trump administration sometimes cut corners — something she said wouldn’t be repeated.

“The biggest difference is we have a plan from Day One, we’re going to start implementing it, and we won’t be as susceptible to process problems that really sunk a couple of those final regulatory proposals and actions we took at the tail end of the administration,” said Gunasekara, who spoke by phone with POLITICO’s E&E News as she attended the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

Gunasekara said four Trump-era political appointees helped write the chapter: David Harlow, Scott Mason IV, Justin Schwab and Clint Woods. Schwab declined to comment, and the others did not respond to requests for interviews.

The bulk of the chapter is devoted to reshaping EPA — “an agency that has long been amenable to being coopted by the Left for political ends” — into an entity suited to carry out a “conservative vision.”

The sections devoted to regulation ricochet between improbable suggestions and superspecific head-scratchers.

“It does have this kind of spaghetti-against-the-wall approach,” said James Goodwin, policy director at the Center for Progressive Reform. “Literally everything and the kitchen sink is in there.”

For example, the chapter proposes that EPA “update” the 2009 finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health and the environment. That’s the bedrock finding behind all Clean Air Act climate regulations, and has been targeted by some of the conservative groups behind Project 2025 — such as the Heartland Institute — since the finding’s inception.

But reversing it would be a legally tricky — and potentially more complicated after last month’s Supreme Court decision curtailing agency authority .

The Trump administration’s own EPA lawyers rejected a petition by a conservative think tank to reconsider the endangerment finding. They noted in emails obtained by E&E News that it remained consistent with scientific assessments by federal research bodies.

“If they were to revisit the endangerment finding based on the latest science, it is only more dire,” said Rachel Cleetus, climate policy director at the Union of Concerned Scientists.

“If anything, the 2009 endangerment finding is softballing the kind of impacts that are now already clear around us,” she said, referring to the effects of climate change.

But the chapter also provides a menu of wonky-sounding proposals that could narrow the scope of regulations, including for climate pollutants.

“This goes beyond many of the things that they did in the first Trump administration,” said Stan Meiburg, a former EPA acting deputy administrator. “It certainly is a very ambitious document, and incorporates ideas that go all the way back to the Reagan administration.”

Maximizing cost, minimizing benefits

Many of the regulatory proposals target EPA practices around cost-benefit analysis. There’s a reason for that: It’s generally harder for an agency to justify standards if their costs exceed their benefits.

Meiburg said the Reagan-era move to embrace cost-benefit analysis gave cost considerations the upper hand.

“Costs are specific and tend to be more quantifiable, and benefits tend to be more diffuse and less quantifiable, even though, in aggregate, they are larger,” said Meiburg.

Project 2025 proposes that EPA issue a rule to ensure “consistent and transparent consideration of costs.” Gunasekara said this would likely be a “very similar rule” to one introduced by the first Trump EPA , which was later voided by the Biden administration.

The rule promulgated under Wheeler was the first of its kind, and some experts say it could face longer odds now, when courts defer less to agencies on policy.

The EPA chapter also instructs the agency to “use appropriate discount rates, focus on the benefits of reducing the pollutant targeted by Congress, identify ‘co-benefits’ separately, and acknowledge the uncertainties involved in quantifying benefits.”

Discount rates are applied to future benefits that come at a present cost — such as avoided climate risk stemming from near-term emissions reductions.

“Basically, the higher the discount rate, the less argument there is for making investments now, because why would you spend money on this when you could make that money get a higher return doing something else?” said Meiburg.

During the Trump administration, discount rates were high , so the value of avoiding future climate change was low — somewhere between $1 and $7 per ton of carbon dioxide.

Project 2025 urges the agency to “revise guidance documents” for the so-called social cost of carbon, while another chapter proposes ending its use altogether.

Co-benefits — a rule’s health and environmental advantages that aren’t tied directly to reducing a targeted pollutant — have been persona non grata with conservatives for years. But the Trump EPA did count them in its climate rules — which showed minuscule benefits due in part to low social cost values for greenhouse gases.

Jason Schwartz, policy director at the Institute for Policy Integrity, said sidelining benefits could make rules less legally durable.

“I think that the court says have been clear in a number of cases that it would actually be arbitrary for an agency to ignore — or to really treat differently — co-benefits or indirect costs,” he said.

Gunasekara said co-benefits would still be analyzed.

“But it should be very clear, if EPA is going after one pollutant, what are the relative costs and benefit of [reducing] that one pollutant?” she said.

The goal, she said, should be “to ensure that there is increased transparency and understanding to the American public about cost-benefit justifications for the reduction of various pollutants.”

Transparency

Transparency is one of the chapter’s prevailing themes. That’s how the document frames its bid to require the data from all scientific studies underpinning regulation to be made public — effectively barring research that utilizes anonymous datasets.

But critics warn that many of its suggestions would create information gaps that would make it harder for EPA to maintain inventories of the greenhouse gas emissions — and ultimately to regulate them.

“It’s basically like two blades of a scissors,” said Goodwin of the Center for Progressive Reform. “These cost-benefit analysis rules are demanding more information. But the other blade is making it harder for EPA to get that information in the first place. And you can see how they come together.”

EPA currently requires 41 high-emitting sectors to report their greenhouse gas emission each year. About 8,000 facilities within those sectors — chosen because they exceed certain emissions thresholds — is the basis of EPA’s annual greenhouse gas inventory. The data has numerous purposes, including as an input for EPA regulatory decisions.

But Project 2025 would limit reporting to the few sectors currently being regulated for greenhouse gas emissions — such as power plants and oil and gas production. It would exempt major emitters in other sectors, such as municipal landfills, iron, steel and cement manufacturing, and carbon capture and storage.

The chapter said this would eliminate costly requirements borne by small businesses.

“This is either a pointless burden or a sword-of-Damocles threat of future regulation, neither of which is appropriate,” the document states.

But suspending annual greenhouse gas reporting for the four years of a second Trump term could delay regulation of new sectors during a subsequent administration by depriving it of needed data. It would reduce the scope of information available to scientific agencies that track emissions.

It could also make it impossible for the U.S. to fulfill its obligations as a party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which requires an annual accounting of emissions and carbon sinks. The Senate formally ratified the treaty in 1992 and the U.S. remained a party to it under Trump, even as the administration moved to withdraw from the Paris Agreement.

Gunasekara said she’d urge “the next conservative administration” to withdraw from the UNFCCC as well as Paris, which she said required the U.S. to make painful cuts while giving other countries “a free pass.”

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Ex-Secret Service special agents explain why countersniper who saved Trump's life may have lost crucial seconds

• Trump's life was saved by a Secret Service countersniper assigned to Saturday's detail.
• But the shooter still managed to kill one rallygoer and injure two others before he was taken out.
• Experts said heat, staffing, and a focus on a nearby tree line may have cost crucial seconds.

The Secret Service countersniper who narrowly saved the life of former President Donald Trump may have lost crucial seconds because of factors including the extreme heat, a lack of antisniper backup, and a likely focus on a nearby tree line, a former special agent told Business Insider.

"This countersniper made an amazingly quick decision and clearly saved Trump's life," Bill Pickle, the former special agent in charge of Al Gore's vice-presidential Secret Service detail, said.

"Our guys are the best shots in the world. That's what they do," Pickle said.

"And within a second of the moment this kid opened fire, the CS guy shot him," he said, using Secret Service shorthand to refer to the countersniper deployed at Saturday night's rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

"But someone will blame that CS and the spotter and say, 'If only he had been two seconds faster in spotting the shooter,'" the former special agent said.

"The real question may be: If there were more antisniper eyes on that building, could this have all been avoided?" he added.

How did the countersniper team not see the shooting suspect sooner?

Pickle said one area of focus for investigators would be how the shooter managed to get on top of the building without authorities taking notice.

"The other question is: Why wasn't this roof secured, and were there agents or law enforcement in there checking IDs?" he added.

"How did this kid figure out a way to get out on the rooftop and slither across that rooftop?" Pickle said. "He low-crawled across the roof on his hands and knees, and he pushed the weapon ahead of him just like in the military."

But even if they see a shooting suspect quicker, countersnipers may not always have the ability to act immediately when they spot a threat, Anthony Cangelosi, a former special agent who directed the Secret Service's technical-security advances for presidential candidates, said.

"You either have to make a decision: 'Do I take a shot? Or do I not take a shot?'" Cangelosi told BI.

"What if you find out, 'Oh, I just killed a 20-year-old kid who loves the protectee, and he couldn't get in the venue, and he just wanted to get up on that roof?' No one wants to be in that position," Cangelosi said.

Cangelosi said the Secret Service team at the event should have a "site plan" that would include a layout of the area and the surrounding buildings.

The would-be assassin fired at least three rounds from a rooftop 150 yards from where Trump was speaking. He killed one rallygoer and critically injured two others before being shot dead by a yet-to-be-identified Secret Service countersniper who was positioned on another rooftop.

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One bullet grazed Trump's right ear , bloodying his face.

"This kid, at 150 yards, made a great shot," Pickle said Sunday of the would-be assassin, his voice grim. "I don't know the specifics of whether he used optics, meaning a scope on his rifle," he told BI.

"But even with optics, it takes somebody with training to aim at somebody's head from 150 yards away and you actually hit the edge of the head," he said.

"That's not a lucky shot," he added. "That's a guy who actually shot before."

The FBI identified the shooter as Thomas Matthew Crooks , 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. The FBI said it was still investigating a motive.

But for now, it's clear that at least three things may have factored into the several-second delay between when Crooks was seen crawling onto the roof and when the CS team saw and shot him, Pickle said.

The decision on how many antisnipers to deploy may prove the most critical factor, he said.

"Someone made a decision that that number of countersnipers was sufficient," he said. "And obviously, in hindsight, they were wrong because there was a kid who was able to get up there on that rooftop and pull the trigger three times at least."

How many CS teams were deployed?

Staffing decisions would have been made at the Secret Service's headquarters in Washington, DC, based on whatever agency personnel on the ground recommended after a several-day investigation of the site, Pickle said.

"An advance team actually does a lengthy survey, where they look at everything and then recommend what they need," he said.

"But if they're stretched for resources, headquarters can say we can only get you one team out there. And that's not unusual — if you don't have it, you don't have it," Pickle said.

"It always boils down to resources," he said. "And if it's not a resource problem, and the money was there, then it's still an allocation-of-resources problem," he said — meaning someone underestimated the forces needed to keep Trump safe.

Regardless of how many snipers were present, the Secret Service typically has "360-degree coverage" of an event where a sitting or former president is speaking, Cangelosi said.

Another factor is the weather.

"The CS guys would probably say: 'We were up there for four hours in 100-degree heat, and if we had another team up here or drone support, this wouldn't have happened,'" Pickle said.

The team may also have been focusing on a nearby tree line, seeing it as the primary risk.

"You're looking at everything that would hide a potential assassin," Pickle said.

"The first assumption is that if I'm a bad guy, I'm going to hide. Human nature is such that I'm going to be scanning the rooftops to make sure they're empty, but then I'm going to be focusing on that tree line because you think the bad guy is going to be hidden," Pickle said.

"You don't think the bad guy is going to be out in the open," he said.

Interagency squabbles and intense public scrutiny are forthcoming

Once the would-be assassin opened fire, "everything that happened up there was textbook and the way it should have happened," Pickle said. The CS team returned fire, long-gun-toting counterassault agents in black jumpsuits and helmets rushed the stage, and business-suited agents at the rally platform hurried Trump offstage.

"But why wasn't he identified seconds sooner?" Pickle asked of the shooter.

"Was it caused by exhaustion from being on a 100-degree roof for four hours? Was the CS team watching the heavy foliage there, which arguably was the best place to hide?" he said.

"An open roof is not the best place to hide. If he climbed out onto an open rooftop, he was prepared to die," he added.

"The worst nightmare for the Secret Service has always been a lone gunman who hasn't been announcing his views publicly and is ready to die," he said.

Pickle said Saturday's attack would be dissected for years to come and "will be in the training syllabus forever."

"It's going to be a circular firing squad," Pickle said of the interagency finger-pointing and conspiracy theories that will play out as the attempted assassination is scrutinized by the FBI, Congress, and the press and public.

Cangelosi told BI that "a lot of people talk and things just travel" within the agency after an event of this magnitude.

"We all want answers, and we want them as quickly as possible, but it's going to take some time," Cangelosi said. "You know the Secret Service; they're professionals. Mistakes are made. They're going to remedy them."

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Darleen tana's husband's e-bike business in liquidation.

Darleen Tana resigned as a Green MP last week. Photo: Green Party NZ

Former Green MP Darleen Tana's husband's e-bike business is in liquidation, on the same day the executive summary of the report into what she knew about allegations of migrant exploitation at the business was publicly released.

The New Zealand Companies Register shows insolvency, forensic accounting, and consulting firm Khov Jones has been appointed as liquidators of E Cycles NZ Limited.

The register shows Khov Jones was appointed by the company's shareholders by special resolution. Christian Hoff-Nielsen, Tana's husband, is listed as sole director of the business.

The firm's first report is due on 23 July.

According to the New Zealand Herald a notice in the window of Bikes and Beyond in Newmarket said the store was temporarily closed.

A second Bikes and Beyond shop on Waiheke has been advertised on TradeMe since 2 July, with a list price of $0.00.

The Green Party has now publicly released the executive summary of the investigation into what Tana knew about allegations of migrant exploitation at her husband's business, and whether she was up front with the Greens.

The report, which RNZ obtained last week, states Tana likely knew about the allegations, and failed to disclose to the Greens a personal grievance an ex-employee had raised.

Tana disputes aspects of the report, and the manner in which it was conducted and released.

She resigned as a Green MP last week, but the party wants her to resign from Parliament altogether.

"Darleen was given multiple opportunities to be upfront about the serious allegations she was facing but chose to obfuscate instead of answering straightforward questions, prompting the need for an independent investigation," said Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick.

"Now the public can see why Caucus was unanimous in requesting Darleen's resignation from Parliament."

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Darleen Tana’s husband Christian Hoff-Nielsen’s bike business: First liquidators’ report released

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The first liquidator’s report on former Green MP Darleen Tana’s husband Christian Hoff-Nielsen’s bike business shows the company owed Inland Revenue and other creditors more than $400,000 at the time of its liquidation.

E Cycles NZ Limited, trading as Bikes and Beyond, went into liquidation on July 16. Hoff-Nielsen is the director and sole shareholder of the business, according to the Companies Register records.

Bikes and Beyond traded from three locations in Newmarket, on Waiheke Island and in Blenheim.

The liquidators are Kieran Jones and Steven Khov of insolvency, forensic accounting and consulting firm Khov Jones.

The liquidators have attended and secured the three stores.

Their report said the company was no longer profitable or sustainable and was unable to meet its liabilities.

It cited the impact of Covid-19 on Bikes and Beyond’s cashflow and the economic impacts of retail spending as reasons for its liquidation.

Preferential creditors are owed more than $233,000. This includes the IRD which is owed around $132,000 and secured creditors ($100,000).

Employee wages and holiday pay have yet to be determined, the report said.

Unsecured creditors are owed more than $180,000.

Creditors include BNZ, Heartland Bank and Phoenix Cycle Distributors. Joakim Hoff-Nielsen, Jules Hoff-Nielsen and Louie Hoff-Nielsen are also listed as creditors.

Assets included cash, which was valued at $188. The value of plant and equipment, vehicles and stock on hand is yet to be determined.

The Khov Jones accountants called for buyers.

“The liquidators are currently engaging in a sale process for the business and encourage any interested parties to contact them at [email protected] as soon as practicable with indicative offers expected by July 29,” the report said.

The liquidator said further reports would be issued every six months, and a final report will be issued at the conclusion of the liquidation pursuant to section 257 of the Act.

Tana returns to Parliament

The report was issued the same day Darleen Tana returned to Parliament for the first time since resigning from the Green Party.

Tana had been suspended from the Greens in March after allegations of migrant exploitation at her husband’s bike business.

She then resigned from the party after her conduct was reviewed by an independent lawyer and was found to be wanting. The Green Party has called for her to resign from Parliament as well.

Fronting media on Tuesday, Tana said she would remain in Parliament “as long as this place allows me”.

Asked if she was involved in migrant exploitation, she said: “The report that came out was pretty clear, there was no migrant exploitation in that report, let alone that I was involved in it.

“What I can categorically say is we’ve spent so much money wasting tax-payers hard-earned money to find out that I am married to my husband for better or for worse.”

Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick said they would wait to see what happened this week before considering whether to use the waka jumping legislation.

If they did use the waka jumping law, Swarbrick said it would not be without the sign-off of the wider party.

“I’ve always said nothing is off the table here. But the best case scenario for everyone involved in this situation is for Darleen to take accountability and responsibility and to resign.

“But we are in a situation where we have to explore other options, then we will have those sensitive conversations at our AGM this coming weekend.”

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Constructed from high-quality steel, the chain is meticulously crafted to be both durable and sturdy

ADJUSTABLE SIZE

The adjustable locking mechanism allows for easy customization, ensuring a snug and secure fit around your scooter's frame or wheel, leaving no room for potential thieves.

SILICONE PROTECTIVE COVER

The lock's smooth edges ensure a comfortable grip while also preventing any scratches or damage to your scooter's frame.

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Brand	‎SHTALHST
Special Feature	‎Anti theft, Key Lock
Lock Type	‎Key Lock
Item dimensions L x W x H	‎7.05 x 13.07 x 3.7 inches
Material	‎Alloy Steel
Recommended Uses For Product	‎Electric scooter use
Style	‎Modern
Color	‎Black
Number of Pieces	‎1
Controller Type	‎Hand Control
Control Method	‎App
Manufacturer	‎SHTALHST
Item Weight	‎3.41 pounds
Product Dimensions	‎7.05 x 13.07 x 3.7 inches
Special Features	‎Anti theft, Key Lock
Batteries Included?	‎No
Batteries Required?	‎No

Additional Information

ASIN	B0CBRPMGMV
Customer Reviews	4.4 out of 5 stars
Best Sellers Rank	#44,956 in Sports & Outdoors ( ) #69 in
Date First Available	July 13, 2023

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Customers like the sturdiness, quality and performance of the lock. They mention that it's very strong, durable and made of solid steel. Some appreciate the performance, saying that the keys operate flawlessly.

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Customers are satisfied with the sturdiness of the lock. They mention that it is very strong, durable, and made of solid steel. Some say that the lock is beefy well designed handcuffs.

"...is not quite an inch thick and the locking mechanism feels tight and well made with no play. I would be amazing if lock cutters get through this...." Read more

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"... Very good for general purpose locking of bikes and e-scooters." Read more

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" Great lock , super heavy duty. Coating is nice which protects bike." Read more

" Great scooter lock !!..." Read more

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Millennial boss ‘shamed’ for not taking maternity leave: ‘it’s selfish’.

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A Millennial boss who didn’t take maternity leave after the birth of her first child has opened up about her controversial decision.

Jessy Marshall and her husband Michael welcomed their son Leo in March, but six years before their “delicious boy” arrived, Jessy had another baby: her very own business.

The 35-year-old launched  Hive HQ , a boutique PR and events agency based in Sydney, in 2018 – describing the publicity firm as her “first born”.

Jessy has spent thousands of hours pouring her “blood, sweat and tears” into getting the agency off the ground, and now boasts some of Australia’s biggest brands as clients, including the  recently viral tbh Skincare .

However, Hive is still very much a small business, employing just six staff – requiring Jessy to be “very hands on”.

So when she fell pregnant with Leo, it left her with a difficult decision: “Should I take parental leave or keep working?”

She chose the latter, a move that has subsequently left her “judged” by strangers, something the new mom is determined to fight back on.

“After I spoke about working through my maternity leave on social media, I received comments from people stating ‘it’s selfish you are putting your business before your child’ and suggesting that if I ‘can’t handle the mental load of a newborn’, I shouldn’t have become a mom,” she told news.com.au.

“There’s so much judgement placed on mothers as well as taboos about non-traditional ways to raise a child.

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“Even before I had Leo, I’d been met with continuous questions on when I was stopping, how long for, why I wasn’t slowing down,” she said.

“While I am sure the questions were coming from a good place, I’ve found it incredibly hard and at times, it has been difficult to block out the judgment.”

In Australia, parents can take up to 12 months off, and receive up to 22 weeks Parental Leave Pay (PPL), which is paid at the National Minimum Wage.

But Jessy, who is self-employed, opted to continue working for her business, transitioning from her full-time office role into a flexible arrangement that works for her as a mother and a CEO.

“My business is completely bootstrapped, I grew it from absolutely nothing, and I want it to continue to have wins even if I am not physically in the office every day,” she said.

“Regardless of what some people say about balance, that means I needed to be available, working both on and in the business and supporting my team.

“Whilst it is ‘untraditional’, it works for us, but it’s been interesting seeing other mothers be quite vocal, accusing me of doing the wrong thing,” she said.

“I have a great support network as Michael, who also runs his own business, is very hands on. If I am not with Leo, he is.

“Some may criticize us, but I think we’re the lucky ones to not be restricted by a 9-5 job.”

Jessy said her clients, which include popular Aussie beauty brands BondiBoost, Naked Sundays, Bangn Body, as well as  Real Housewives of Sydney  star Sally Obermeder’s wellness brand SWIISH, have supported her decision to remain “on the tools” too.

There have also been many who have reacted positively to Jessy’s decision, with some even stating they “wished they’d had the opportunity” to work flexibly, due to money stresses.

Indeed, the financial burden of taking 12 months off can prove extremely difficult for some families, with data showing around 45 per cent of mothers return to work within the first six months of giving birth.

Even then their earnings are reduced, with women cutting back their hours of paid work by around 35 per cent across the first five years following the arrival of children. The same government  data  shows raising children impacts a mother’s retirement income too, having around 25 per cent less money in their superannuation than men.

One things for sure, Jessy has “no regrets” about jumping straight back into work after welcoming Leo.

“There is definitely a feeling of pressure to parent a certain way, but there is not one way to raise children,” she said.

“I’ve chosen to have Leo fit into our life as much as he can, and we love it this way. Sure there are times where it would be nice to be with Leo and not worry about anything else.

“But I love what I do, and I know for me I couldn’t have handled another way.

“When challenges arise, Michael and I facing them together, I couldn’t think of a better life lesson for our little boy.”

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