The "bikini coffee shop" chain, which already operates six locations in California with female baristas who wear little more than lingerie or swimwear, is drawing criticism from Chico residents, who have already raised concerns with the city manager, the Chico Enterprise-Record is reporting
"There's nothing we can do. It hasn't opened," said City Manager Mark Orme, who told the Enterprise-Record that he's already received numerous phone and email complaints about the business
Another critic of the new Bottoms Up Espresso location is concerned the coffee shop will be opening just down the block from her dance studio, which is "full of impressionable children"
"The concern is that Hype Dance has 300-plus students coming in and out weekly and their exposure to the business is out of the kids' control
This is their home, where they feel safe and comfortable," said Sarah Schneeweis, the owner of Hype Dance
Ms Schneeweis also told Action News Now that she doesn't want her students exposed to the baristas' attire
"My first gut reaction is, 'I don't want our kids to have to be exposed to that'," she told the outlet
"The inappropriate attire of the baristas working at this establishment does not align with what we're trying to teach our kids at this studio
" The founders of the coffee chain, meanwhile, argue that their baristas aren't wearing anything Californians wouldn't see on a beach
"We are a very classy business and pride ourselves on customer service and quality drinks
We have dress codes that expose less than you would see at a pool or beach," Bottoms Up Espresso CEO Nate Wilson tells Fox News
"We're trying to keep it classy, not trashy," Mr Wilson added. "There are no G-strings
We have a handbook and employee policies. Those policies help keep employees presentable
" Ms Schneeweis also took issue with the shop's menu, which features drinks with names such as "Sweet Cheeks" and "The big O
" "What if there's a little girl seeing that and asks what that is?" she said. As for now, Mr Orme says the business has only obtained a license to operate, and as long as it conforms to the use of the property — the building's previous occupants ran a coffee business, too — there's nothing that can be done
That said, the mayor of Chico is making it known that many residents aren't fans of the project
"It's unfortunate someone would come from out of town and put a business like this on one of our busiest intersections," said Chico Mayor Sean Morgan in an email to the Enterprise-Record
"Because the business doesn't violate any City Code — they make money selling coffee — there isn't anything 'immediate' that government can do
"I can't imagine the people of Chico will support such a concept, especially in that location
I expect the business to flame out and do so quickly as Chico already has a number of very successful, tasteful, well-run coffee houses
" Mr Wilson co-founded the first Bottoms Up Espresso location in Modesto, California, in 2011
He told Fox News there were 12 other locations under development in the Sacremento area and more in Arizona
This article originally appeared on Fox News and has been republished here with permission
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California's most vulnerable were already breathing bad air -- wildfires are making things worse - Duration: 6:13.
Carey Poindexter has been checking the air quality before deciding whether it's safe to go outside for much of his life
The 19-year-old has such severe asthma and allergies, doctors predicted that he wouldn't live past the age of 10
His symptoms are usually more serious in the spring and winter, but this year, summer has been worse
With record-breaking heatwaves and wildfires raging nearby, Poindexter spent most of his summer inside
"It really has been pretty rough for people suffering from lung disease," he says
It's been a punishing summer in California. But it's worse for those who live in the most polluted areas, and as a result are already at heightened risk for respiratory diseases like asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
By exacerbating this summer's heat waves and wildfires, climate change is stacking health burdens on communities already breathing bad air
On Monday, California released a Climate Change Assessment detailing the mounting risks the state faces as the planet warms
Among the report's findings: Forests will become even more susceptible to extreme wildfires
By mid-century, heat waves could occur four to 10 times more frequently and last two weeks longer, leading to more heat-related deaths and illnesses
And those findings spell disaster for people who are already struggling to breathe amid this summer's climate-driven calamities
Hot temperatures cause lungs to strain as the body tries to cool itself. Heat speeds up the formation of smog
And forest fires also add pollution to the air. "It's just a snowball effect," says Afif El-Hasan, a pediatrician and a national spokesperson of the American Lung Association
On top of the immediate health effects, climate change can exacerbate inequities that compound health risks, he adds
If someone has limited resources and lives in a polluted area, "for them to open the window because they can't afford air conditioning becomes a health dilemma," El-Hasan points out
Olivia Barbour is a 67-year-old resident of South Los Angeles who lives with COPD
Her home is on Imperial Highway, near the busy 110 and 105 freeways. "I don't know if anybody else notices, but I think it's even hotter closer to the freeways with all that traffic and smog," she says
And she's right — urban areas with lots of pavement and cars are hotter than surrounding areas
"I thought I could help myself by buying a portable air conditioner. However, I can't afford to run the darn thing," Barbour says
She found that it increased her electricity bill by $20 after using it for just one day
The heat is also affecting her ability to work. Barbour sometimes does outreach for green grassroots groups like SCOPE or gathers signatures for political campaigns
But she says she can't door-knock this summer because of the heat. And that in turn has made it harder for her to afford the health care she needs
"I was supposed to be taking five nebulizer treatments every day to manage my COPD," Barbour says
"I just can't afford it. So I stopped." Poindexter lives in one of the counties with the worst air pollution in the nation
This year, Riverside County ranked second for the most ozone pollution and sixth for the most year-round particle pollution
"It's so bad to where if you just look outside, you can see a greyish horizon," he says
The smog he sees is made worse by rising temperatures. Ground-level ozone, the pollutant that makes up a majority of smog, is created by a chemical reaction between pollutants released by vehicles, power plants, and refineries
Those chemical reactions speed up when it's hot out. What effect does increased ozone have on your lungs? "It's kind of like giving a sunburn to the lining of your lungs," says pediatrician El-Hasan
"It's very irritating." Poindexter wasn't just scanning the horizon for smog, but for smoke, too
The Holy and Keller fires came pretty close to Poindexter's home in Temecula. He and his mother decided to take a cruise to Mexico to escape the smoke
Still, Poindexter knows he and others with lung disease can't always get away from poor air quality
He voted for the first time this year, and he voted for clean air. "Whether it's a proposition or an elected official, the first thing I look at is what they're going to do for air quality," Poindexter says
By Justine Calma, Grist
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California College Guidance Initiative - Duration: 7:37.
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- When the college and career readiness stuff
started becoming more prevalent,
we were kind of like, "Yeah, we're doing fine."
We started looking at our A through G rates.
We started looking at our graduation rates.
We started looking at CTE completers.
And we started to hear things from our students,
like, "Hey, I'm not ready for college."
That stuff's really hard to hear,
especially when you think you're doing right by kids.
- Ensuring students have a post-secondary plan
for the future is ensuring that they will be
successful in life after they're out of school.
- The saddest thing, I think, would be
for a child to be discouraged because they don't think
they can meet their goal when they don't
really know how to accomplish that goal.
- So CaliforniaColleges.edu can be used as a bridge to say,
"This is what you need to be looking at
"and exploring while you're in high school,
"so that when you get to the next phase of your life,
"you know where you're going."
Californiacolleges.edu is our primary tool
for students to discover, explore,
see where they want to go in terms of a career path.
- It made us see things that we didn't
even realize that were missing
in what we were doing because we were so focused
on the academic piece and not the whole student.
- I really like the career planning tools
because it offers the students
real-life examples of what's available to them.
- One year, I invited every single sophomore parent
and student in and we went over California Colleges.
The magic that happened when these parents saw
that these kids had interest, these kids had passion,
the conversation that took place to say,
"Oh, do you know that your uncle does that?"
- I found the lessons especially helpful
because we are advocating that every student has college
and career curriculum, and it's already set.
- One of the pieces that I love
about California Colleges is when you're directing them
through the lessons, they see that there's a place for them.
These kids, they're our future.
They're amazing.
- Financial aid on California Colleges is awesome.
The reason it's awesome is that by the time they get
to their senior year, they either have
researched or they know where to go.
And all the links that you need to the Cal Grants,
and FAFSA and Dream Act are right there on that one link.
- So CCGI is a program that not only supports
students' success academically,
but it's a tool for people that are in the trenches.
That's your teachers, that's your counselors,
that's your administrators, to be able to support
the initiatives that you have in your district
to ensure your students are college and career ready.
- On a students' screen, there are categories
across the top which makes it very easy
to explain to students where to navigate.
There's My Plan, where they can click
and get all of their personal information, their saves,
their favorites, and all that for college and career.
But there's also a career tab, and there's
a college tab and there's a financial aid tab.
- With the click of a button, you're able to see a graphic.
You're able to see the numbers
of students who complete lessons,
of students who do the interest profile,
students who apply for the FASFA,
students who apply for community college.
- The support that we received
from the California College Guidance Initiative was
instrumental in the successful implementation
of the program.
- There's a lot of collaboration there
I like being a part of the data team 'cause I learn
a lot about how different pieces
of our Student Information System might aid in that process.
It's fun because I like figuring out those puzzles,
and it's rewarding because I know that it's
supporting this system that I think is a godsend.
- A through G is important because it's an identifier
for college and career, but it also says,
"I'm ready for an apprenticeship,"
or, "I'm ready to go into the workforce because I was
"able to keep my grades at a certain level."
- We work with a lot of students
near the end of their junior or senior year,
and sometimes it's too late for them
to make up some of these requirements,
even though they have that hope of going to that four-year.
And so we have to have that conversation with them
of the reality that they're not qualified,
but that's not the end of the road.
It's not an easy conversation, but it's one that,
based on the requirements, we have to have.
- Students get into their portal
and they're able to see their A-through-G progress.
They're able to see green
if they've completed, red if they haven't.
- it helped me as an administrator because I was looking
at it from my student's side and I'm like, "Wait a minute.
"He took AP World History and it's
"showing that it's not an A-through-G class."
I'm like, "That's an A-through-G class."
And I was like, "Well, what are we doing wrong?"
And so then I got to go back in on the backside
and say, "Oh, the titles were wrong.
"The titles were just not right."
So it helped me look at it really quickly and easily, too,
to say that, "Oh, I need to fix this
"so it doesn't show up this way for other kids."
- Just thinking about my own job,
working with the student on asking the question,
"Are you A-through-G eligible?"
Being able to pull up their information
and visually walk through that with them,
I think is only gonna help students transition.
- We are experiencing a sea change in education,
particularly in the community college system,
but also in the CSU system.
We went from using tests to identify students
who were highly likely and highly prepared
to be successful in college-level work
to using high school performance data
to more or less do the same thing.
And it turns out that using high school performance data
to predict success, we're able to determine
that students are almost universally better off
being placed directly into transfer-level work.
- The CSUs eliminated the remediation model
and eliminated placement tests, and for many faculty,
that was a positive move because they felt
that some of those test scores weren't necessarily
indicative of success when they got here.
- The ability to get the most current data
is really attractive, so that's
why we would place CCGI kind of at the top
of the data pyramid in terms of desirability.
- The reason why our school district is wholeheartedly
into making sure that the work that we do with CCGI
is a success is because, number one,
it's what's best for students.
Number two, everything that CCGI is all about aligns
to our district-wide student learning objectives, outcomes.
- Any time technology can come in
to create a more seamless transition for the student,
I think that's only gonna benefit them.
And I feel like that's actually possible with this system.
- If everybody were using CCGI, we would see
a better ability to evaluate student's
current course-taking in high school,
and to use that information in a timely manner
to maximize their placement in math and English
and increase their probability of being successful
in those important gateway classes.
- In the past, students have fallen through the cracks.
With this program, if you're actually utilizing
all the tools that you should be on an ongoing basis,
you shouldn't have any student falling through the cracks.
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