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“Young people have a tendency to heal very fast,” the doctor told reporters.
Echoing the words of her mother, Missy Cantrell Wilford, Maddy thanked those who supported and prayed as she recovered.
The building where the shooting occurred will remain closed. Armed deputies were on campus and will be on hand when students return to class Wednesday.
History teacher Greg Pittman said where Sunday’s atmosphere on campus was “jubilant” — owing to teachers seeing their students for the first time since the shooting — there was a starkly different vibe Monday.
While there’s no playbook for teachers welcoming students back into the classroom Wednesday, Pittman said there are definitely some guiding principles.
“I think the best thing that all of us as teachers can do is be ourselves, to let our students know we’re there for them, that we love and care for them,” he said.
School officials are working with students who don’t want to return to Stoneman Douglas, arranging for them to transfer.
Superintendent Robert Runcie said officials will be accommodating and take measures like adding counselors and service dogs in classrooms.
Q: Looking ahead, do you feel that torture of suspected terrorists can often be justified, sometimes justified, rarely justified or never justified?
This Washington Post-ABC News poll was conducted by telephone Dec. 11 - 14, 2014, among a random national sample of 1,000 adults, including landline and cell phone-only respondents. Overall results have margin of sampling error of 3.5 percentage points. Sampling, data collection and tabulation by Abt-SRBI of New York. ...
With awards season coming to a close tonight with arguably the best awards show, the Oscars, bringing us out in style, we were wowed by the hair and makeup looks on the red carpet. This entire awards season has brought us a trend of “the classics” with plenty of Old Hollywood side-swept curls and bold red lips walking ...
We rounded up our favorite looks of the night in the slideshow above as well as some insight on who was wearing what (and what products were used to achieve the looks). Let us know if you agree with our picks – and who your favorite of the night was – in the comments below!
The University is planning several improvements to campus facilities, according to Eduardo Aguirre Jr., former chairman of the Board of Regents.
Aguirre, who spoke to an Advanced Newswriting class Tuesday about improvements on campus, ended his term as chairman Sept. 1. He was replaced by former board Vice Chairman Charles E. McMahen.
"We did a survey and found that students are very satisfied with the education they receive here, but do not consider UH a user-friendly environment," Aguirre said.
To counter this, the board has approved an update to a new campus master plan.
Plans call for major improvements to transportation and signage around campus. Under consideration for traffic control are proposals to relocate the stretch of Cullen that runs from the northern edge of campus to MacGregor, eliminating through traffic and freeing space for more student housing.
"We also need to get the city to re-pave a piece of Cullen," said Ronald Shoup, director of Campus Planning and Real Estate.
There are also plans to improve Wheeler Street, although they may not be acted upon for another five years.
"We are beginning the process to work with the city with plans to extend Wheeler all the way to Scott and also to rebuild Wheeler," Shoup said.
The University plans to connect Calhoun to Entrance 16 by the first of the year. It will be re-named "University Street" and will provide more parking space.
The University also intends to rename many streets after financial contributors, an idea that is backed by Mayor Lee Brown and the Houston City Council.
Parking improvement proposals include additional lots near the future State Highway 35 and in areas made available by street rerouting. A parking garage, to be located near Hofheinz Pavilion, is also being discussed but may cost five or six times more per space than lots on the ground.
The University can either provide lots of extra outlying parking at a cheap price or lots of parking close to campus at a higher price, Aguirre said.
Plans to improve the quality and continuity of campus signs are being discussed. Phase one of the proposal began more than two years ago at the suggestion of the Campus Graphics Committee. Minor entrances will be marked with white-on-black metal signs, similar to those already in existence. Some of the new ones, howeve...
Street signs will be replaced with a new white-on-black design and will feature a small red-and-white UH logo.
These improvements are scheduled to be completed by the start of 1999. The project will be funded by $150,000 donated by the Cullen Foundation and money allocated by the UH budget.
Phase two of the signage plan is improvement to building identification signs. While there is no funding at this time to replace building signage, designs exist for these improvements.
Some buildings will feature 2-foot, square, white-on-black signs at side entrances, and there are general plans to use different types of lettering at major entrances - such as Roman typefaces on older buildings, modern typefaces on newer ones and possibly more stone etchings similar to those on the Ezekiel Cullen Buil...
"It is uncertain when this will be completed, but it will be funded, and when it is, the building graphics will come first," Shoup said.
Other campus signs that will be added include Braille accessible signs, improved campus maps and kiosk-style directories.
Design proposals are also being discussed for the new major entrance to campus that will be created by the construction of Highway 35.
Partly cloudy this evening. Showers and a possible thunderstorm developing after midnight. A few storms may be severe. Low 53F. Winds SW at 15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 90%..
Partly cloudy this evening. Showers and a possible thunderstorm developing after midnight. A few storms may be severe. Low 53F. Winds SW at 15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 90%.
Researchers at IBM have developed software that lets mobile users create slimmed-down Web pages that can be viewed more easily on a small device such as a mobile phone.
Called Highlight, the software is an extension to the Firefox browser and was built by researchers at IBM's Almaden Research Center.
Highlight lets users record the steps required to perform a simple task on the Web, say looking up flight arrival information on a Web site. Users can "clip" sections from a Web site and then save them on another Web server, which then serves the slimmed-down pages to the mobile device.
The software lets Web surfers create their own versions of Web sites, free of the clutter that makes them hard to navigate on a small screen.
In addition to acting as a Web server for the mobile user, this second Web server actually runs a copy of the Firefox browser that fetches the data from the Web site being copied and then serves it up to the Highlight user.
Highlight works well for what developer Jeffrey Nichols calls "task-driven things" -- shopping on Amazon.com, for example, or getting local restaurant recommendations from Google Maps.
The fact that Highlight works with a proxy server presents a problem for Highlight's developers, however. Not all Web sites are happy to have their content copied onto other servers.
Nichols isn't sure whether this problem will be solved, but he's hopeful. "IBM or some other company could host a service that hosts these things," he said.
The IBM researcher hasn't publicly released Highlight, but he said that he'd consider doing so if there was enough interest in the project.
Highlight borrows code from another IBM project called CoScripter, which is interesting in its own right. Created two years ago by Nichols' fellow Almaden researchers, the software gives users a way to record repetitive Web tasks and then share them with others on a Web page.
CoScripter developer Allen Cypher says that CoScripter still needs some tuning before it will be ready for widespread use, but by year's end the software should be able to record pretty much anything that can be done in the Firefox browser.
Using a programming technique Cypher calls "sloppy programming," CoScripter turns a series of Web clicks into a script that can then be shared and edited by other CoScripter users. It can turn tricky, repetitive tasks, such as entering data into Web-based intranet applications, into a snap, Cypher said.
The software is useful wherever "you've got this common group of people with the same needs," he said.
As a bonus, the script doesn't look like a computer language and is pretty easy to read and edit, even if you're not a programmer.
IBM employees are already sharing scripts for the company's intranet applications that can do things like forward phone calls to home or reset VPN (virtual private network) clients. On the public CoScripter Web site, you can download scripts that will search for real estate listings in Berkeley, California, or add your...
A new report suggests Cleveland Browns rookie QB Baker Mayfield does not miss his former head coach.
But, as is often the case in the NFL, even (apparently) crappy coaches get jobs. Jackson soon found himself in Cincinnati, acting as a de facto assistant coach to longtime Bengals HC Marvin Lewis.
So on Sunday, Jackson found himself on the sidelines of yet another Browns game, this time wearing Cincinnati colors.
Some of his former players greeted him before and after the game. But Baker Mayfield was not one of those players.
Asked why he snubbed Jackson in such a public display, Baker said: “I didn’t feel like talking,” per Cleveland.com’s Mary Kay Cabot.
The Browns may have ultimately defeated the Bengals 35-20, but that doesn’t make the interaction any less painful to watch. It’s probably better that these two stay separated.
Lisa Marie Simon of Port Washington never got close to the celebrity speakers at the rally where the march to the White House was gathering Saturday, but no matter. It was, she said, a wonderful success, and empowering.
Share VanDervort of Sayville managed to catch the celebrities and got close to the White House with the march. “The camaraderie between men, women and children was fantastic,” said VanDervort, 58.
They were some of many Long Islanders who boarded buses and trains early Saturday morning to join the flood that gridlocked the streets of the nation’s capital in the Women’s March on Washington.
And whatever their experience, the aftermath was a kind of joy.
“I am proud to be a part of history and it was breathtaking to be in the midst of so many people,” said Cheri Mulholland, 63, a full-time grandmother from Hicksville.
“I feel a sense of exhilaration and empowerment and I feel so much better than I did yesterday,” said Mulholland’s cousin Carol Moore, 62, an attorney from Huntington, referring to Inauguration Day. “To see so many young people so engaged and passionate, it gives me hope,” she said.
The crowd was passionate but peaceful, friendly marchers admiring each others’ signs, dogs and babies.
The signs were saucy and defiant: Feminism, backed by popular demand. BLOTUS: Biggest Liar of the United States. And the ever-popular Woman’s Rights are Human Rights.
On a bus at the North Hills parking lot of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Shelter Rock, many congregants and others gathered for a 4:01 a.m. departure. Some were mothers and daughters, one as young as 12. And that meant something to all of them.
Laura Liepa, 52, of Huntington, who teaches elementary school, went to the march with her daughter Chloe, 17.
“I’m here for my daughter. I want to be a role model,” Liepa said, noting that she had been shaped by the protests of the ‘60s that she was far too young to participate in.
The Long Island marchers said they hoped their voices reached the ears of those in Congress on issues of women’s rights, climate, tolerance and democracy.
She said it would be her mission to listen more, and to try to understand as the only way to heal the divide of an increasingly polarized nation.
But, she said, she would continue to protest and raise her voice. “Of course,” she smiled.
BEIJING: US President Donald Trump‘s tirade against Pakistan has appeared to further boost economic and defence ties between Beijing and Islamabad, as China is in talks with Pakistan to build its second overseas military base close to Iran’s Chabahar port, a report by Chinese state-run daily said.
The report says Trump’s January 1 Twitter attack against Pakistan where he accused it of providing safe havens to terrorists appears to be helping boost already close ties between Pakistan and China.
It attributed Islamabad’s decision to allow Chinese currency in bilateral trade and financing transactions as China has stepped up its investments in the $50 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.
The report quotes a ‘Washington Times’ report that China is in talks with Pakistan to build its second overseas military base as part of a push for greater maritime capabilities along strategic sea routes.
China opened its first overseas military base last year in Djibouti in the Horn of Africa, under China’s rapidly modernizing military extends its global reach. However, China officially states that it is only a logistics base to service its naval personnel deployed for anti-piracy operations.
China began construction of a logistics base in Djibouti in 2015. It will be used to resupply navy ships taking part in peacekeeping and humanitarian missions off the coasts of Yemen and Somalia, in particular.
The facility could be built at Jiwani, a port near Iran’s Chabahar close to the border in the Gulf of Oman, and is located a short distance from Gwadar in Balochistan province which is currently being developed b Chabahar port being jointly developed by Iran, India and Afghanistan to ensure a trade corridor for Indian ...
On China establishing a military base at Jiwani, a professor at Fudan University’s Center for South Asian Studies, told the Global Times “both Beijing and Islamabad have the ability to build a joint naval and air facility in Pakistan, but it is unnecessary at this time”.
Gordon Lightfoot's shipwreck song is a boon to history, as well as to popular culture. Everyone, sing along!
Tragedies endure, though mostly in history books.
The fortunate few get a song.
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down/Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee.
So begins “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” Gordon Lightfoot’s tribute to the ship that sank in a Lake Superior gale 40 years ago Nov. 10.
We may listen with a certain resonance, since it happened on “our” lake. But the song does more than entertain. Known worldwide, the ballad keeps the tragedy alive, far longer than anyone likely would have imagined in 1975.
A robot “minirover” sent back this view of the wreckage of the Edmund Fitzgerald from 530 feet below the surface of Lake Superior. The freighter sank Nov. 10, 1975, with a loss of 29 lives.
Ships sink every year around the world — about 10 annually, according to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.
The most recent was the El Faro, a cargo ship that disappeared in October near the Bahamas with 33 crew members, caught in the maelstrom that was Hurricane Joaquin. Will a poignant song honor its loss, its crew?
Hard to say, of course. But thanks to technology, a robot now is searching for the data recorder and human remains. Any mysteries may soon be solved, the need to somberly commit ships and souls to the deep less inevitable.
The El Faro shipwreck, while no less tragic, somehow seems less sentimental.
Then again, maybe it just needs a song.
Lightfoot said that he wrote the ballad after reading about the sinking in Newsweek.
With its haunting guitar line and the lilting, wave train waltz of a sea shanty, the song epitomizes how powerful the junction between history and music can be.
Alex Lubet, a professor of music and adjunct professor of American studies at the University of Minnesota, also noted the marvelous circularity in this song making the shipwreck so widely known.
“Sea shanties are popular all over the world,” he said. “Sailors were major communicators of information, a big way that news was disseminated,” from port to port. Putting an event to song was creative, but also informative.
Lightfoot, a Canadian, also was an avid Great Lakes sailor and so knew whereof he wrote.
That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed/When the gales of November came early.
Singer Gordon Lightfoot, left, wrote his iconic tune about the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, pictured at top on the St. Mary’s River in May 1975.
The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound/When the wave broke over the railing.
There’s a long tradition of honoring real-life events through song, especially in folk music. Lubet noted Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, both of whom influenced Bob Dylan and his songs about social justice. There often was a political undercurrent in many of these songs, he said, opposed to a straightforward recital of...
“Dylan wrote a ton of topical songs about events, some of which would not be remembered at all if he hadn’t written about them,” he said, such as “Hurricane,” the story of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, a boxer wrongfully convicted of murder.
Yes, here’s the story of the Hurricane/The man the authorities came to blame/For somethin’ that he never done.

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