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Monday marked 22 days since a ship called the Ever Forward got stuck in the Chesapeake Bay near Pasadena, Md.
Efforts to get the massive container ship unstuck have failed over the last three weeks, so on Monday the U.S. Coast Guard announced new strategy: removing the cargo.
“The new strategy offers the best chance of successfully re-floating the Ever Forward,” the Coast Guard said in a statement.
Salvage experts determined they wouldn’t be able to overcome the ground force of the more than 1,000-foot Ever Forward, loaded with nearly 5,000 containers, the Coast Guard, Maryland Department of the Environment and Taiwan-based Evergreen Marine Corp., the ship’s operator, said in a news release.
Dredging will continue to a depth of 43 feet, and crews will install crane barges near the vessel. Those will remove the shipping containers during the day and put them on barges, which will then take the cargo back to Baltimore’s Seagirt Marine Terminal.
“Once the containers are removed, tugs and pull barges will attempt another refloat,” the Coast Guard said.
This will take about two weeks, said the guard, which cautioned it could take longer if weather doesn’t cooperate.
A 500-yard “safety zone” will be set up around the Ever Forward for the duration of the process. The shipping channel, though, will remain open to one-way traffic.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Jack contributes to WTOP.com when he's not working as the afternoon/evening radio writer. In a previous life, he helped edit The Dallas Morning News and Chicago Tribune. Reach him at jpointer@wtop.com
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The next meeting of the Arlington Committee of 100 will focus on the county government’s planned changes to its 14-year-old Clarendon Sector Plan, and how the proposals will impact the western Clarendon area.
“The County Board’s actions could have major impacts on an area that affects Arlingtonians for a host of reasons,” Committee of 100 leaders said. “In the mix of changes are a proposed convention hotel, redevelopment of Joyce Motors and St. Charles Catholic Church sites, public park space and a new fire station.”
The meeting will be held online on Wednesday, April 13 at 7 p.m. Speakers from the county government, the Ashton Heights Civic Association and real-estate community will discuss proposals.
The community is invited to view the meeting. For information, see the Website at www.arlingtoncommitteeof100.org.
[Sun Gazette Newspapers provides content to, but otherwise is unaffiliated with, InsideNoVa or Rappahannock Media LLC.]
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A 78-year-old man Alexandria man has died from injuries sustained in a single-vehicle crash that occurred March 30 at 2:01 p.m. in Oakton.
Thomas Peregoy of Alexandria was driving eastbound on Lawyers Road near Kedge Drive when his 2014 Toyota Tacoma drifted off the roadway to the right, striking a tree head-on. Rescue personnel took Peregoy to a hospital, where he later succumbed to his injuries.
Preliminarily, speed and alcohol do not appear to be factors in the crash, police said.
Police ask anyone who has information about this crash to contact the department’s Crash Reconstruction Unit at (703) 280-0543.
[Sun Gazette Newspapers provides content to, but otherwise is unaffiliated with, InsideNoVa or Rappahannock Media LLC.]
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The Vienna town government has begun flushing water mains throughout the community, an effort designed to maintain a high standard of water quality and to ensure the more than 800 fire hydrants within the town’s borders are operating property.
Efforts began March 24, and the initiative will run through May 12 or until all mains have been flushed. Work takes place from 10:30 p.m. to 7 a.m. For more about the initiative, see the Website at https://bit.ly/WaterMainFlushing.
[Sun Gazette Newspapers provides content to, but otherwise is unaffiliated with, InsideNoVa or Rappahannock Media LLC.]
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David Kepley took home Best in Show at the annual 2022 Vienna Photo Show, held March 19-20 at the Vienna Community Center.
Nearly 100 entries were submitted by amateur photographers from ages 12 to adult, with awards presented in a variety of categories.
James Madison High School student Melissa LaRue brought home the People’s Choice Award.
For a list of first- and second-place recipients in the competition, see the Website at www.viennava.gov/photo.
[Sun Gazette Newspapers provides content to, but otherwise is unaffiliated with, InsideNoVa or Rappahannock Media LLC.]
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The Arlington Soccer Association recently announced the hiring of two administrators.
Frank DeMarco has been named the executive director. DeMarco was the former assistant director of coaching with the club since 2003.
Also, Joe Nemzer was selected as the girls academy director.
Serving as the interim executive director since October 2021, DeMarco has been a contributor to the club for nearly two decades. DeMarco previously served as Arlington Soccer’s assistant director of coaching and has experience coaching a variety of teams throughout the organization.
“Equipped with impeccable soccer credentials and a strong business acumen, he has a unique perspective given his technical expertise, but also as a parent seeking the best opportunities for player and personal development of young people in our community on and off the field,” Arlington Soccer board president Brian Plesser said of DeMarco.
DeMarco is a former Division I player at Hofstra.
“I’m grateful for the trust the board has put in me and for the continued support of the Arlington Soccer community,” DeMarco said.
Nemzer brings a wealth of experience, having coached at every level of soccer. In addition to experience as a youth soccer director of coaching, he has been a collegiate head coach and worked with professional soccer athletes in the National Women’s Soccer League.
“I couldn’t be more excited to start this journey at Arlington Soccer and get to work with this incredible coaching staff and talented group of young ladies,” said Nemzer, who currently is a volunteer assistant coach for the University of Maryland women’s soccer team.
Nemzer spent the last three years at Division III Delaware Valley University in Pennsylvania, where he was the first full-time women’s soccer head coach in program history.
Nemzer played collegiately as a goalie for Division III Penn State Abington.
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ACCOMAC, Va.- Authorities say an elderly woman died after she was struck by a pickup truck Wednesday night in Accomack County.
Virginia State Police said that at around 8:40 p.m., a Honda Accord, driven by 74-year-old Linda Love Ferebee, of Parksley, Va., had stopped along the grassy median that separates the north and south lanes of Route 13, due to her vehicle becoming a hazard. An employee of the Shore Stop observed her vehicle in the median, and came to assist Ferebee in moving her car out of the median and into the convenient store parking lot.
Police said that as the employee moved the vehicle to the parking lot, Ferebee, who was wearing all dark clothing, attempted to cross the northbound lanes of Route 13 to the store parking lot, when she was struck by a Dodge Ram pickup truck that was traveling in the northbound lanes.
Police said the driver of the pickup, 20-year-old Robert Sterling Jr., showed no signs of impairment or indication of speeding. All northbound lanes of travel were shut down for the crash investigation, and reopened at around 2 a.m. Tuesday. .
Notification to next of kin has been made for Ferebee, police said. The incident remains under investigation
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WASHINGTON, April 4 – Scientists have observed an enormous planet about nine times the mass of Jupiter at a remarkably early stage of formation – describing it as still in the womb – in a discovery that challenges the current understanding of planetary formation.
The researchers used the Subaru Telescope located near the summit of an inactive Hawaiian volcano and the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope to detect and study the planet, a gas giant orbiting unusually far from its young host star. Gas giants are planets, like our solar system’s largest ones Jupiter and Saturn, composed mostly of hydrogen and helium, with swirling gases surrounding a smaller solid core.
“We think it is still very early on in its ‘birthing’ process,” said astrophysicist Thayne Currie of the Subaru Telescope and the NASA-Ames Research Center, lead author of the study published on Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy. “Evidence suggests that this is the earliest stage of formation ever observed for a gas giant.”
It is embedded in an expansive disk of gas and dust, bearing the material that forms planets, that surrounds a star called AB Aurigae located 508 light years – the distance light travels in a year, 5.9 trillion miles (9.5 trillion km) – from Earth. This star got a fleeting moment of fame when its image appeared in a scene in the 2021 film “Don’t Look Up.”
About 5,000 planets beyond our solar system, or exoplanets, have been identified. This one, called AB Aur b, is among the largest. It is approaching the maximum size to be classified as a planet rather than a brown dwarf, a body intermediate between planet and star. It is heated by gas and dust falling into it.
Planets in the process of formation – called protoplanets – have been observed around only one other star.
Almost all known exoplanets have orbits around their stars within the distance that separates our sun and its most faraway planet Neptune. But this planet orbits three times as far as Neptune from the sun and 93 times Earth’s distance from the sun.
Its birth appears to be following a different process than the standard planetary formation model.
“The conventional thinking is that most – if not all – planets form by slow accretion of solids onto a rocky core, and that gas giants go through this phase before the solid core is massive enough to start accreting gas,” said astronomer and study co-author Olivier Guyon of the Subaru Telescope and the University of Arizona.
In this scenario, protoplanets embedded in the disk surrounding a young star gradually grow out of dust- to boulder-sized solid objects and, if this core reaches several times Earth’s mass, then begin accumulating gas from the disk.
“This process cannot form giant planets at large orbital distance, so this discovery challenges our understanding of planet formation,” Guyon said.
Instead, the researchers believe AB Aur b is forming in a scenario in which the disk around the star cools and gravity causes it to fragment into one or more massive clumps that form into planets.
“There’s more than one way to cook an egg,” Currie said. “And apparently there may be more than one way to form a Jupiter-like planet.”
The star AB Aurigae is about 2.4 times more massive than our sun and almost 60 times brighter. It is about 2 million years old – an infant by stellar standards – compared to about 4.5 billion years for our middle-aged sun. The sun early in its life also was surrounded by a disk that gave rise to Earth and the other planets.
“New astronomical observations continuously challenge our current theories, ultimately improving our understanding of the universe,” Guyon said. “Planet formation is very complex and messy, with many surprises still ahead.”
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The top boss at video game firm Roblox earned a whopping $233 million in total compensation in 2021 – a nine-figure sum that ranked among the most lucrative paydays for any executive.
Roblox CEO and co-founder David Baszucki’s windfall included $136,364 in base pay, down from $500,000 the previous year. But the largest portion of his compensation came in the form of stock options.
More than $232 million in compensation stems from restricted stock units that are tied to Roblox’s long-term performance. Roblox’s proxy filing notes award requires “substantial share price growth over a five-year performance period” to fully vest.
The company noted Baszucki’s salary was adjusted to $0 in March 2021, with the stock plan comprising the entirety of his direct compensation through 2027.
The stock grants are divided into seven tranches from 2023 through 2028. Baszucki will receive awards if Roblox’s average stock price over a 90-day period exceeds specific targets, beginning at $165 in March 2023 and running through $375 through March 2026.
Roblox Corp. shares were trading at roughly $49 as of Tuesday and are down about 30% since the company went public through a direct listing in March 2021.
Roblox said its compensation committee “was intent on establishing an award that would align Mr. Baszucki’s long-term interests with those of stockholders, would require significant and sustained company performance, and discourages short-term risk taking to achieve short-term performance.”
Baszucki also earned an additional $465,027 in other compensation, including more than $120,000 in security expenses and travel expenses totaling nearly $200,000, including chartered flights.
Baszucki’s payday established him as one of the best-compensated executives in the country, with earnings that outstripped some of the tech sector’s most notable names.
For example, Apple CEO Tim Cook took home about $98 million last year – a pay package that drew some criticism from the iPhone maker’s shareholders. And Amazon CEO Andy Jassy earned about $212 million after succeeding Jeff Bezos in the company’s top role.
In both of those cases, the pay packages were largely tied to stock grants.
Roblox’s platform had more than 45 million daily active users in fiscal 2021, according to its proxy filing. The company operates as a free service that hosts user-created games.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. — The “game-time decision’’ has been made: Tiger Woods confirmed on Tuesday that he’ll play in this week’s Masters.
Woods also boldly declared his game in good enough shape to win a record-tying sixth green jacket.
“As of right now, I feel like I am going to play,” Woods said. “I’m going to play nine more holes [Wednesday]. My recovery has been good. I’ve been excited about how I’ve recovered each day. That’s why I came early [last Tuesday] and tested it.”
Woods, who’s fewer than 14 months removed from the grisly car cash he was in outside of Los Angeles in February, revealed that he actually played 27 holes during his reconnaissance visit last Tuesday because his son, Charlie, “couldn’t help himself.”
Woods played the back nine on Sunday afternoon and he played the front nine Monday afternoon with Fred Couples and Justin Thomas. He worked for about 30 minutes in the practice area on Tuesday before his 11 a.m. pre-tournament press conference and plans to play nine more holes with Couples on Wednesday as final preparation for his 24th Masters.
This week is the 25th anniversary of Woods’ first Masters victory, his historic, runaway win in 1997.
He spoke Tuesday like he’s ready to add more iconic memories this week.
Asked if he thinks he can win this week, Woods said, “I do.’’
“I love competing and I feel like if I can still compete at the highest level I’m going to’’ he said. “If feel I can still win, I’ll keep playing. I don’t show up to an event unless I feel like I can win it. There’ll be a day when that can’t happen and I’ll know when that is.
“This week, I don’t have to worry about the ball striking or the game of golf; it’s the walking. I can hit it just fine. I don’t have any qualms about what I can do from a golf standpoint. Walking is the hard part. This is not an easy walk to begin with, and now given the conditions of my leg is in, it’s more difficult.
“Seventy-two holes is a long run. It’s going to be the challenge of a major marathon. It’s going to be a tough challenge and a challenge that I’m up for.”
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Jeremy Tankard‘s latest typeface, Rockhopper, might appear quite polished at first glance. However, a dreamy world of possibilities lurks beneath the soft, unassuming surface of this sans serif font.
While each letter starts with a neutral, simple configuration, a vast character set allows you to add an immense range of flourishes. With Rockhopper, you can add fluid, exploratory “swashes” to any letter or word. Each letter can host more than one swash, and you can pile on several to create a “swash cloud.” Flexible, swelling stems lend a relaxed, approachable feel to this ambitious typeface.
Rockhopper is genuinely distinctive for its charismatic look and expansive range. While this Art Nouveau-inspired font is ideal for bold headlines and copy, its versatility allows for endless possibilities. Tankard’s innovative, user-friendly text is sure to add exceptional potential to a composition, whether you decorate it or not.
Rockhopper will be available for purchase on April 8th.
Two typefaces in one. Firstly, Rockhopper is a rounded sans with a softness designed to function well on the high resolution screens used today. Its extended character set handles all manner of text with ease whether this is on-screen or off. Secondly, it explores the potential of cumulative swashes – from single to overkill. A single swash can be used to enhance a word, or many swashes added to visually push the bounds of legibility and expression. Never boring, Rockhopper presents itself with a subversive glint in its eye.
About the design
Tankard considers the rounded sans letter style to be a result of applied processes; be this wearing the outline of a carving, overpainting a cast letter, or the curve left behind by the routing tool. Observations such as these started the process of Rockhopper. However, with digital type there is no physical degradation to soften the shape. This needed to be drawn into the letter shapes themselves; for example, simpler forms of a and g are used together with more rolling forms in the italic (such as e and v). But technology can help too. Usually a digital font is made on a 1000 em square, but Tankard doubled this for Rockhopper. This increase allowed shallow curves and subtle details to be maintained. There are no straight lines in Rockhopper; all the stems swell a little at their centre and flow smoothly and seamlessly into their terminal details.
The blurring of a letter’s silhouette through various processes, also kickstarted the idea of adding and layering something to change the outline. Swashes, flourishes and the expressive free lines of Art Nouveau developed into the idea of a ‘swash cloud’ that surrounds each letter. From this, one, two, three or more swashes can be applied. Not just to letters, but figures and sorts as well. Clashing is expected and encouraged to create a visually rich texture.
More detailed information about the design of Rockhopper can be read at https://studiotype.com/originals/rockhopper.
The Rockhopper fonts can be viewed, tested and licensed at https://typography.net/fonts/rockhopper. The fonts can also be seen in use on the dedicated Explorer page at https://typography.net/explore-rockhopper. Click on any of the ⨁ icons to discover which weights and features have been used. Explorer is best experienced through a desktop, laptop or tablet. Lastly, new images made with the Rockhopper fonts have been added to the wall of typographic images on the Gallery page at https://typography.net/gallery.
Rockhopper comprises of 14 fonts (7 roman and 7 italic)
Rockhopper ExtraLight
Rockhopper Light
Rockhopper Regular
Rockhopper Medium
Rockhopper Bold
Rockhopper ExtraBold
Rockhopper Black
Rockhopper ExtraLight Italic
Rockhopper Light Italic
Rockhopper Italic
Rockhopper Medium Italic
Rockhopper Bold Italic
Rockhopper ExtraBold Italic
Rockhopper Black Italic
The Rockhopper specimen
The specimen is a 140mm square black folder containing a laser-cut board, several panels and a booklet. Continuing the idea that the typeface is designed for the high resolution screens used today, the specimen develops the idea of ‘printing with light’. Think of it as a computer display in dark mode. The black is the screen and the contents are printed with light, be that pure white light, rich colour, or even the light of a laser used to cut an ampersand – through which liquid colour pours out. In a nod to interactivity you can change the colour behind the ampersand to create different effects. The extra panels feature different aspects of the typeface in use. Finally there is the booklet which lists specific information and unfolds to reveal a banner stretching 700mm.
Printed in full colour with gloss laminate and laser-cut ampersand. The specimen is wrapped in a foil-blocked folder and housed in a translucent envelope.
Printed by https://www.kmslitho.co.uk
140mm × 140mm, unfolding to 700mm
The specimen is free, but postage is applied at checkout
The printed specimen is available from https://typography.net/publications/rockhopper-specimen.
Project Credits
Jeremy Tankard
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Debbie Millman has an ongoing project at PRINT titled “What Matters.” This is an effort to understand the interior life of artists, designers, and creative thinkers. This facet of the project is a request of each invited respondent to answer ten identical questions and submit a nonprofessional photograph.
James Sommerville is an unemployed British street artist turned co-founder of ATTIK. Then, VP Global Design at The Coca-Cola Company. Now, founder of KnownUnknown, a decentralized creative community aiming to rethink the traditional agency model.
What is the thing you like doing most in the world?
Professionally— changing what I see in front of me. Not in a “I must change this” arrogant way, but sometimes it’s the small, unnoticeable, softer things. But overall, making these changes (daily) delivers a sense on progress while holding onto what works.
What is the first memory you have of being creative?
I drew a violinist at junior school (age 7) and my teacher, Mrs. Shagoola, raved about it to everyone. She had a gift of making kids feel special.
What is your biggest regret?
Not buying Bitcoin in 2009 just after I sold my agency and was wondering what to invest in.
How have you gotten over heartbreak?
I have lived in 26 homes / houses. As a kid, constantly moving = constant heartbreak and forces you to find a new street corner.
What makes you cry?
The Lion King.
How long does the pride and joy of accomplishing something last for you?
It’s a delayed reaction. Sometimes maybe 15 or 20 years later. At the time it’s a job, but over time becomes a story.
Do you believe in an afterlife, and if so, what does that look like to you?
I’ll meet you in the Designverse.
What do you hate most about yourself?
I’m a confident introvert.
What do you love most about yourself?
I’m a confident introvert.
What is your absolute favorite meal?
Chicken Tikka, glass of red.
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Confessions of a Community College Dean
In which a veteran of cultural studies seminars in the 1990s moves into academic administration and finds himself a married suburban father of two. Foucault, plus lawn care.
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What’s Revealed in Playing 3 Truths and a Lie
Almost nobody got it right.
Every year, we do a “meet the administration” gathering for new employees. It’s one part of their new employee orientation; the idea is that being able to put faces to names will make it easier to navigate the institution.
Each year the session has some sort of hook or gimmick. This year we broke into smaller groups and played Three Truths and a Lie, in which everyone else had to guess which one was the lie.
Almost nobody got mine right.
I offered:
- I’ve discussed Miles Davis with the punk rocker Henry Rollins.
- I once caught a foul ball at Fenway Park.
- I once tracked a lost dog for weeks in two states.
- I worked in an ice factory before college.
Longtime readers can probably figure it out by process of elimination. Although I’ve been to games in Fenway Park, I’ve never caught a foul ball there.
The most popular guess was the ice factory. I don’t know how much of that was due to how I come across, how much was due to the unfamiliar concept of an ice factory and how much was due to the plausibility of the other options. But yes, I worked for $3.50 an hour—about $9 per hour in today’s money—stacking bags of ice on pallets in a freezer in 1986. Going almost directly from the ice factory to Williams College led to a sociocultural case of the bends. “Jarring” doesn’t begin to cover it.
Working in an ice factory gave people time to think. One co-worker had developed an elaborate theory to the effect that the musician Phil Collins was a space alien. He expounded on his theory at length in the break room. (“Abacab? What is that? Space code! Sussudio? Space code!”) Another used to give disturbingly detailed play-by-play descriptions of his favorite scenes in the Brian DePalma movie Body Double.
In my first week at Williams, we did a poll in my “entry” (or what most places call a hallway). Eight out of the 23 guys there never had to work a day in their lives if they didn’t want to. (Obviously, I was one of the other 15.) If you’ve seen ’80s movies with James Spader, you get the idea.
Having lived in those realities consecutively, I learned that economic class is real.
The advantage of having worked in the ice factory is that my worst day on most subsequent jobs beats my best day there. It offers perspective. As grim as grad school got sometimes, at least it was usually at room temperature.
I don’t know how folks at the session interpreted the ice factory, or if they even paid it any mind. I offer it as partial explanation for my sustained focus on—some might say minor obsession with—fairness. People are just people, with all of the beauty and flaws that implies. Working in an ice factory is hard, and the people who do it should be able to have decent lives. Community colleges are all about helping folks build decent lives; they’re the bridge between the ice factory and the indoor career. That matters.
Someday, though, I still hope to catch a foul ball.
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Practical advice about asking meaningful questions, formulating a compelling thesis, and crafting an engaging and persuasive narrative.
Elementary school students are born scientists, asking Why? Why? Why? College freshmen gravitate toward psychology, as they define their identity, redefine their relationship with their parents, and form more intimate but also more emotionally fraught relations with others.
As for history: It’s often described by undergraduates as boring and irrelevant. Generally, it’s not until middle age that people became natural historians, eager to connect to the past, situate the present in a broader context, and draw lessons from past experience.
What are those lessons? They’re not laws in a Newtonian sense, but rather broadly applicable generalizations. There are, of course, frequently cited adages:
- That “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
- That “Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.”
- That people make history, but “they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.”
Then, there are gross generalizations, for example, that war has uncontrollable and unpredictable consequences, that appeasing dictators inevitably leads to larger conflicts in the future. and that it’s a mistake to believe that today’s problems are far worse than those faced by people in the past.
There are rules that we ignore to our peril, like the law of unintended consequences: that human or governmental actions tend to have unanticipated effects.
A number of recent popular works remind us that irony and unpredictability are historical mainstays:
- In Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb reveals that highly improbable events that have massive impact occur with surprising regularity.
- In This Time is Different, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff demonstrate that whenever experts claim that old rules no longer apply, history proves them wrong.
- In his history of Free Speech, Jacob Mchangama shows us that once in power, history’s strongest proponents of free speech often lapse into censorship.
Those open to a highly idiosyncratic and demanding take on the relationship between storytelling, memory, and history might look at Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo’s Clio’s Laws: On History and Language, which identifies and critiques a series of “laws” that have shaped historical accounts, including the “Universal Law of Historical Injustice” (which questions the assumption that history is a bearer of justice and progress), “The Law of History’s Permanent Secularization” (which challenges the notion that history represents a falling away from religious impulses), and the “General Theorem of Otherness” (the tendency to overemphasize the badness of history’s villains and the goodness of its purported heroes).
So how should we think about history? The great German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, identified three kinds of history and his analysis strikes me as still relevant today:
- Popular histories that consist of tales of “Great Men” and landmark events that offer simplistic lessons to the present, and which is little more than hero worship.
- Antiquarian history, a misguided attempt to recount the past “as it really was,” which makes no effort to understand why history might be significant, relevant, or meaningful.
- “Critical history,” which interrogates, interprets, and judges the past in order to free us from myths, misconceptions, delusions, and false assumptions and to lay bare the historical processes that are reshaping our lives.
What prompts these reflections about history is Zachary M. Schrag’s forthcoming Princeton Guide to Historical Research. The book certainly offers valuable insights into how to undertake archival, library, and digital research and extract insights from primary sources, whether textual, numerical, or audio-visual or derived from interviews and oral histories. His overarching advice about source interpretation: Treat every source as problematic – recognize that every source, even seemingly objective statistical sources or maps, or photographs, are constructs that are subject to bias, omissions, and error.
This volume also offers valuable up-to-date suggestions about notetaking, including the use of spreadsheets, relational databases, notetaking apps, image catalogs, and mapping software.
But this volume’s signal contributions lie elsewhere. Readers will benefit greatly from its author’s discussion of historical ethics and his practical advice about how to define and narrow a research topic, formulate meaningful historical questions, interpret sources, take notes, and present one’s findings in a compelling manner, whether in a book, a scholarly or popular article, or on social media. Even experienced historians will learn from his discussion of publishing in today’s overcrowded scholarly marketplace.
Anything but a dry compendium of thou shalls and thou shants, Schrag’s guide is written in an engaging style and is interspersed with striking examples drawn from recent historical scholarship.
Unlike the seemingly impersonal, omniscient, and seemingly value-free how-to books on historical research that litter library shelves and largely go unread, this volume advances several arguments. Effective historical writing, in Schrag’s view:
- Combines analysis and storytelling, with characters, conflicts, plots, and outcomes.
- Focuses on individuals and their choices and struggles.
- Takes part in ongoing debates or tests an existing theory or interpretation.
- Speaks to the issues of our time.
In his discussion of historical ethics, Schrag offers sage advice about the importance of avoiding confirmation bias, exhibiting historical empathy, even when dealing with individuals we find repellent, the need to refrain from rendering crude and simplistic historical judgments, and the importance of recognizing that historical truth is inevitably provisional.
Students, I suspect, will find Schrag’s counsel about selecting a meaningful research topic and formulating a historical argument especially useful. Dialectics is central to his advice: Refine, refute, or reaffirm an existing interpretation, fill a gap, introduce a fresh perspective, focus on previously ignored historical actors and sources, or extend an existing debate or interpretation into a novel context.
Especially suggestive is Schrag’s discussion about the introduction of words at particular historical moments – for example, words like industry, factory, middle class, working class, capitalism, liberal, conservative, strike, scientists, and ideology between 1789 and 1848, or of influential metaphors, like safety valve, that shaped public discourse.
I consider the book’s single most valuable contribution its advice about how to write better. Schrag discusses how to craft an engaging lede, write powerful topic sentences, sign post an argument, and integrate quotations and non-textual evidence seamlessly. But his most helpful suggestion is to transform an argument and evidence into a story — a narrative with an arc, guiding metaphors, protagonists and antagonists, and witnesses and bystanders, and conflict, competition, or struggle.
History has maintained its readership precisely because it has remained true to its historical roots:
- By speaking to enduring philosophical and ethical issues – about contingency and determinism, inevitability and unpredictability, individual agency, accident, and long-term historical processes – and to the challenges of rendering historical judgment while recognizing that the past is a foreign country, with its own culture, circumstances, and moral frameworks.
- By studying human nature and character not in the abstract but in authentic historical contexts and circumstances.
- By connecting past to present in a nuanced manner.
- By engaging in storytelling, embedding arguments within a narrative framework, and recognizing the importance of writing for the ear and the imagination.
History that fails to do those things, as Nietzsche understood, is nothing more than antiquarianism and its authors no more than pedants.
Historians should not forget that Clio was not only the muse of history but of lyre playing. We are custodians, guardians, preservers, and protectors of our collective past, but our voices will go unheard unless our words are transformed into music.
Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.
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The University of Michigan warned students Friday that COVID-19 cases are increasing, WXYZ News reported.
“These cases are almost always linked to indoor social gatherings,” said Preeti Malani, the university’s chief health officer.
Most of the cases are mild, as they are hitting students who have been vaccinated.
The university’s COVID-19 data center said on Thursday, “The number of COVID-19 cases on campus increased again slightly last week from the previous week with small pockets of cases linked to various social gatherings and other events around the campus community. Cases in Washtenaw County are now increasing after plateauing the previous week. U-M students accounted for 26 percent (119 out of 459) of COVID-19 cases.”
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Julie Bolhuis, director of the Salt & Light Youth Center, makes brownies for an upcoming dessert sale. Starting this week, there will be pop-up lunches every Wednesday as a fundraiser for the Iowa Falls youth center.
Julie Bolhuis, director of Iowa Falls' Salt & Light Youth Center, prepares brownies at the center last week. When it came time to raise money for the center, she turned to what she knows best: food.
When the idea of the Salt & Light Youth Center originally came up, Julie Bolhuis knew she wanted it to be open to every young person in the county – no matter their financial situation.
“I was a kid who moved a lot and came from a broken home. I knew there were things I couldn’t always do as a kid because financially, we couldn’t afford it,” she said. “I did not want finances to come in to play and stopping a kid from participating.”
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Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Mike McCord, Under Secretary of Defense (comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer, provide testimony at a House Armed Services Committee hearing on the fiscal 2023 defense budget request, 2118 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C. April 5, 2022.(DoD Photo by U.S. Air Force TSgt. Jack Sanders)
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The actors, ranging from fourth to eighth grade will present "Comic Book Artist," the story of Stanley Leonardo Sappovitz (Tyne England). Stanley is a janitor at Wonder Comics who desires nothing more than to be a comic book artist. When he gets his chance, he gets more than he bargains for when he draws his characters.
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Goals came in bunches for the Iowa Falls-Alden/AGWSR/SH girls during their season debut Monday afternoon.
Making the short trip north to Hampton, the Cadets completely throttled the Bulldogs by a 10-0 final.
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Goals came in bunches for the Iowa Falls-Alden/AGWSR/SH girls during their season debut Monday afternoon.
Making the short trip north to Hampton, the Cadets completely throttled the Bulldogs by a 10-0 final.
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Iowa Falls-Alden/AGWSR/South Hardin's Jacob Schipper battles for control of the ball during the team's season opener on Monday. Visiting Hampton-Dumont/CAL won the contest, 3-2. Schipper scored one of the Cadets' two goals.
The difference between winning and losing came down to Iowa Falls-Alden/AGWSR/South Hardin's inability to put the clamps on the opposing team's star player during Monday's season opener at Cadet Field.
Hampton-Dumont/CAL's Jonathan Morales recorded a first half hat trick, kicking in three goals to give the visitors a two-score lead at the intermission. That deficit could not be made up in the second 40 minutes, as the Cadets dropped a 3-2 decision to the Bulldogs.
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Elly Wood won her singles match, as did sister Lauren. The two joined forces to win their doubles match as well. That helped Iowa falls-Alden down Hampton-Dumont-CAL 8-1 in Iowa Falls Monday night to open the season.
The Iowa Falls-Alden Cadet girls started the tennis season without their number one in Aubrey Johnson. It didn’t matter.
The Cadets opened the campaign with a solid 8-1 win over Hampton-Dumont-CAL Monday night at Assembly Park in Iowa Falls. Their only loss was in the final match of the night.
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Ninth ranked Kirkwood Community College can club the ball. In 28 games this season, the Eagles have scored 222 runs, tallied 238 hits and 36 homeruns.
The matchup between them and Ellsworth Community College had to be moved from this weekend to Monday and Tuesday in Cedar Rapids and KCC wasted no time running around the bases. In two games, the Eagles defeated the visiting Panthers 21-1 and 13-2 in 10 innings and tallied 33 hits.
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Former Missouri First Lady Sheena Greitens says in a new court filing that she has photos and other evidence to back up her claims that former Gov. Eric Greitens physically abused her and their children as his political career unraveled.
In a statement embedded in a court filing Thursday in Boone County Circuit Court as part of her ongoing child custody battle with the former governor, Sheena Greitens said she tried to resolve differences without a public fight. But she said that Eric Greitens’s attacks on her character, push for records to be sealed and demands that the case be sent to mediation show he cares more about his campaign for U.S. Senate than his sons.
Her attorney, Helen Wade, wrote in the latest filing that Sheena Greitens asked for mediation on eight previous occasions and her ex-husband refused.
The abuse claims, made in an affidavit filed March 21, stated that as he faced criminal charges and possible impeachment in 2018, Eric Greitens repeatedly threatened to commit suicide unless she showed “specific public political support” for him. In one incident of child abuse, that she swore in the affidavit occurred in November 2019, one of their sons came home from a visit his father with a swollen face, bleeding gums and loose tooth and said his father had hit him.
Eric Greitens, both publicly and in court filings, has challenged those statements, noting that prior to their divorce in 2020, Sheena Greitens signed a document stating there were no undisclosed material facts and agreeing to a parenting plan of joint custody. In his first statement issued after the filing, Eric Greitens called his ex-wife “a deranged individual” and said she had “a documented history of mental illness and emotionally-abusive behavior.”
But in last week’s filing, Sheena Greitens said she did report and document the abuse. She only agreed to the parenting plan as the best option to move with their two boys to Texas.
“In fact, they were reported to multiple lawyers, therapists, and our mediator, in 2018 and afterward,” Sheena Greitens said. “I will provide contemporaneous documentation of the relevant communications, as well as photographic evidence of my child’s 2019 injuries, to the court at an appropriate time.”
She also challenged his characterizations of her mental health. The “documented history” is therapy she sought from January 2018 to April 2020, first in an attempt to save their marriage and later to cope with her ex-husband’s behavior.
In the filing, Wade wrote that Eric Greitens “has launched an all-out, calculated, and purposely public attack on (Sheena Greitens) – outside the confines of the courtroom, off the witness stand and notably without being under oath.”
Sheena Greitens is trying to move court control of the child custody case from Missouri to Texas, where she works as an associate professor at the University of Texas. At the time of their divorce, she was employed at the University of Missouri.
The allegations of domestic violence come as Eric Greitens is attempting a political comeback as a candidate for the U.S. Senate in a crowded Republican primary.
Prior to the allegations becoming public, Greitens was leading in polls. Since then, he has slipped into a statistical dead heat with his leading rivals, U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler and Attorney General Eric Schmitt.
The affidavit overshadowed another event, a guilty plea from former FBI agent William Tisaby admitting evidence tampering in the 2018 investigation, that Greitens had hoped would boost his image as a man wronged by political enemies.
Greitens has used right wing media to tie the two events together, accusing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and former presidential advisor Karl Rove as masterminding the affidavit.
In her latest filing, Sheena Greitens denied she had consulted with any of her former husband’s political enemies prior to filing her abuse claims.
“I drafted the previously filed affidavit,” Sheena Greitens said. “Neither Karl Rove, nor Mitch McConnell, nor any other so-called political operatives drafted it for me. The only person I have been ‘victimized’ by is Eric.”
The next hearing in the case is set for May 10, when Associate Circuit Judge Leslie Schneider will hear arguments on whether to order AT&T and Verizon wireless to turn over phone logs and text messages for phones assigned to Sheena Greitens, her sister, Catherine Linkul, Rove and Greitens’ campaign manager for his 2016 run for governor, Austin Chambers.
Rove, Sheena Greitens and Linkul, who works for Pathway Public Affairs, a consulting firm run by a close ally of McConnell, did not respond to messages seeking comment. Chambers said Monday that he had no contact with Sheena Greitens about the affidavit before it was filed.
“I did not talk to her about the contents of the affidavit,” Chambers said. “I learned about the affidavit when it was filed, like everybody else.”
Sheena Greitens’ veracity
Several of the allegations Sheena Greitens made in her March 21 affidavit are familiar to law enforcement and service agencies that deal with domestic abuse. To help victims understand the level of threat in their relationship, a questionnaire called a “Danger Assessment” asks 20 questions about coercive or violent actions.
The allegations of abuse contained in Sheena Greitens’ affidavit would check off seven of the 20 actions included on the assessment, including threats to commit suicide, controlling daily activities and physical violence. That, according to the scoring matrix, would put a person in severe danger as they left the relationship.
In Kansas City, police use the Danger Assessment on domestic violence calls and help victims connect to services, said Lisa Fleming, CEO of the Rose Brooks Center, a domestic violence shelter in Kansas City.
“It lets them know, and that is the really blunt, direct message, that people in your situation that have experienced similar things have been killed and we are worried about your safety,” Fleming said.
The creator of the Danger Assessment, Jacquelyn Campbell, a professor at Johns Hopkins University, conducted research to test its predictive value in cases where women were murdered by partners. Campbell found that more than half of women involved in attempted murder cases had been in the extreme danger category, one step above where Sheena Greitens would have scored based on her affidavit.
The assessment helps victims make choices to keep themselves and their children safe, said MaryAnne Metheny, CEO of Hope House, a shelter in eastern Jackson County.
“That is part of the goal,” she said. “When the police officers ask those questions, they can say, based on how they answer, that research has shown you are at a high risk of being killed if you stay in this relationship.”
A person inside an abusive relationship can feel trapped, underestimate the danger or realize that others have experienced similar abuse, Metheny said.
“People don’t understand how difficult it is to navigate out of that,” she said.
Schneider will be the judge of which side is more credible when Sheena Greitens’ motion to move the proceedings to Texas is heard on May 27.
Eric Greitens, through attorney Gary Stamper, has told the court she is lying.
“Common sense suggests no parent would agree to share joint legal and physical custody with the fictional parent described in the filing leaked to the press before it was accepted by the circuit clerk and available to the court or the inquiring public,” Stamper wrote.
So far, as Wade noted in her filing, Eric Greitens has not been questioned under oath about the allegations in Sheena Greitens’ affidavit. And in the statement included with the filing, Sheena Greitens said the pattern she saw in 2018 to 2020 has begun again.
“Eric’s behavior since 3/21 is consistent with several patterns that I have previously experienced,” she said. “When his public future is at risk, he becomes erratic, unhinged, coercive and threatening. He accuses me of things that are untrue and generates conspiracy theories about me collaborating with his ‘enemies’ when I have done no such thing. He uses words like ‘nasty’ and ‘vicious’ to describe my behavior, and threatens to take my children away.”
Last week, Gov. Mike Parson – who took office when Eric Greitens resigned – noted that swearing to a false affidavit carries the risk of a perjury charge and added that he had a “great deal of respect” for Sheena Greitens.
“I have no reason to doubt Sheena Greitens on what she said,” Parson said.
Going public
In her statement included in the latest court filing, Sheena Greitens warned that she is under immense pressure to tell her story through the media. She is trying to avoid that, she said, but the delay until May 27 will make that difficult.
“I would like to continue to restrict my comments on this to the courtroom, but it will be difficult to do so if we cannot resolve the question of where this case should be decided until May 27, because I expect I will have to go through two months of untrue public attacks on my character, motherhood and professionalism,” she said.
Since her affidavit was filed, Eric Greitens has produced a video attacking her claims, done interviews on friendly conservative media and used press conferences with his attorneys to claim he is the victim of a coordinated political attack.
The affidavit was unnecessary for a case only about jurisdiction, attorney Tim Parlatore said in a Washington, D.C., press conference where he tried to link Sheena Greitens to Rove and McConnell.
“They were filed solely for the purpose of having a statement in the court record that could be used for political purposes,” said Parlatore, who has not entered an appearance in court on Eric Greitens behalf.
The attack campaign uses a few facts and makes many assumptions based on those facts. One fact is that Sheena Greitens was in Washington when she signed the affidavit; the assumption is that she had contacts with Rove and, through her sister, to McConnell.
In the latest filing, she denied that.
“I went to Washington, D.C., to discharge my responsibilities as a paid employee and fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and my conversations there were about American national security and U.S. policy toward China – subjects about which I publish frequently and testified last year to the Senate Armed Services Committee,” she said.
The best place for the case is in Texas, where it would receive much less public attention, Wade wrote in Thursday’s filing.
Eric Greitens wants it in Missouri, Wade wrote, because “this is perhaps the only place in the United States where the respondent believes that he can effectively leverage his influence to punish petitioner for speaking the truth, to intimidate her into retreating into silence once again, and doing so in the name of protecting the children.”
Since the affidavit was filed, Greitens has weathered calls from rivals for the Senate nomination, and others, to withdraw from the race. Some Republican women leaders have also begun to question the party’s official silence on whether Greitens should remain in the field.
He has remained defiant and has only lost a few points in recent polls. Greitens’ success in the Aug. 2 primary could hinge on whether the public believes him or his ex-wife. In her latest statement, Sheena Greitens said her concern is how the political fight bleeds into the court proceedings.
“Because this is so public,” she said, “I am desperately worried about how it could impact the legal process, and feel immense pressure to respond to set the record straight – or else risk my silence, or delay in responding, being construed as an endorsement of the truth of Eric’s false public statements.”
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WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – West Springfield Mayor Reichelt submitted a legislative package to the Town Council.
In the submittal, the Mayor indicates ten proposals for passage including general and zoning ordinances such as marijuana with some outstanding issues from the last six years.
Municipal Light Plant Legislation (2022-01):
The proposal requests to complete the municipal light plant to roll out broadband service to residents in partnership with Westfield Gas & Electric.
Home Rule Petition – 7 additional liquor licenses (2022-02):
The mayor is requesting 7 additional alcohol licenses. As part of the town’s economic development and downtown revitalization efforts, the special legislation proposal includes 5 licenses restricted to the “Economic Opportunity Zone” and the remaining 2 licenses would be restricted to the “Route 20 Business Corridor”.
Establishment of a Special Injury Leave Indemnity Fund (2022-03)
Establish the fund to appropriate monies and in addition to crediting the fund with any insurance or restitution monies received from third parties for injuries to police officers and firefighters (i.e., salary and other compensation, medical bills and replacement services for the injured police officers and firefighters).
If the fund reaches a determined amount that is not needed, a portion of the balance may be released to the General Fund.
Small Cell Wireless Facilities Proposals (2022-04):
Includes several ordinance amendments to address the installation of small cell wireless facilities.
Accessory Structure Setbacks and Property Buffers (2022-05):
A proposal combines two zoning ordinance issues to address the increase in stormwater runoff.
Proposing the language to limit the amount of property that can be paved or hardscaped by impervious surfaces (which increases stormwater runoff).
Amend the ordinance to allow property owners to put sheds and smaller outbuildings closer to the property line and closer to their homes. These changes will allow property owners with more flexibility to use their own property and yards, while still maintaining structures away from the property line.
Electronic Signs at Gas Stations (2022-06):
The current zoning ordinance does not allow pump topper price displays to be electronic. The proposed amendment will clarify that electronic changeable copy is permitted for fuel price displays and also clarify the extent to which price advertisements required by state law are exempt from sign permit.
Property Fencing (2022-07):
Proposal to allow property owners to choose one “front yard” and treat the remainder of the property as back and side yards.
Proposal to require fencing for pools with more than 24” of water depth to address the life-safety issues of soft-sided pools.
Impervious Surface Coverage (2022-08):
Currently, the zoning ordinance only regulates impervious surfaces as it relates to building coverage of a lot and does not include other impervious surfaces (such as hardscape or landscape buffers).
The proposed amendment would address all impervious surfaces on a lot and should help to mitigate stormwater runoff issues to mitigate runoff and drainage issues between private property owners.
Retail Marijuana Facilities (2022-09):
A two-part proposal to lift the Town-wide ban on retail marijuana establishments and to allow additional types of retail marijuana facilities to operate in certain areas.
The amendment would expand the categories of marijuana businesses that are allowed from (currently) medical-only, to permit additional marijuana establishments to operate in the Town, including cultivators, manufacturers, retailers, testing and research facilities and transporters.
Home-based Businesses (2022-10):
The proposal will allow one commercial vehicle per property, provided that it is one ton or less in rated capacity to provide more flexibility for home-based businesses.
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Dillon's new naturalist has a passion for the state park
NASHPORT — Naturalist Michael Durst arrived at Dillon State Park in February, but already had a passion for the park.
"Dillon is an incredible park," he said. The 2,285-acre park and attendant lake has "a mind blowing amount of biodiversity" and an abundance of habitats that provide plenty to see and do for any nature lover.
Durst grew up in the Akron area in an outdoorsy family. He fished with his grandfather on Lake Erie and hiked with his parents. In addition, he worked on his father's farm.
College took Durst to Columbus, where he studied science and zoology before moving into evolutionary biology and plant pathology.
Still a lover of the great outdoors, Durst enjoys hiking, fishing and what he calls "general wildlife enjoying." He lives on a small farm near Lancaster, and he said he does much of what he does at work at home. "I enjoy walking around and seeing what I have on the property, comparing and contrasting between what I see at the park and what I see at home."
Durst is working on creating a nature center in a building near the Dillion Camp Store. The building once housed a nature center decades ago, Durst said, but it had long fallen out of use. The park has scheduled a number of events throughout the year, including cleanups, nature presentations and the annual Christmas in July and Halloween campout. On Friday, Durst will lead a night hike and and longer spring hike on Sunday. More information is available at the park's Facebook page.
The park has great opportunities for hunting, fishing and boating, Durst said, as well as an archery range. The mountain bike trails are among the best he has seen in a state park, he said, and there are extensive bridle and hiking trails as well. The adjacent wildlife area offers even more opportunities for outdoor activities.
"Every day that I am here I feel more connected to the place," he said, "and you really realize what a wonderful place it is."
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Upcoming activities
Friday, April 8
8 p.m. The Park After Dark: one-mile guided night-time hike. Meet at the Naturalist Cabin. Wear sturdy footwear and dress for potentially cooler temperatures and bring water/snacks.
Sunday, April 10
9 a.m. Springing into Hiking: Meet at the ‘B’ trailhead adjacent to the beach parking lot for an approximately 2.5-mile guided hike exploring sections of three different trails and the different habitats present on each. Wear sturdy footwear and bring water/snacks.
Saturday, April 16
10 a.m. Easter Bug-gy Hunt: Search for all kinds of bugs and other similar creatures hiding in the environment around us. We’ll collect probable bug “homes” and take a look at what’s living in there. Meet at the Naturalist Cabin.
11 a.m. Easter Egg Decorating: Show your creative side with wooden Easter egg decorating outside of the Camp Store. All materials will be provided and eggs can be taken home.
1 p.m. Easter Egg Hunt: Meet at the Archery Range for a festive Easter Egg hunt for children.
Saturday, April 23
10 a.m. DIY in the Dirt: Join us at the stage next to the Camp Store for an informative Earth Day weekend presentation and workshop on sustainable home gardening, including making seed starting pots, compost, and more. Information on other eco-friendly resources will also be available.
10:30 a.m. Native Wildflower Workshop: A native Ohio wildflower presentation and seed-sowing workshop at the stage outside of the Camp Store.
Sunday, April 24
9 a.m. Springing into Hiking: Meet at the ‘X’ trailhead for Licking Bend Trail at the marina parking lot for an approximately three-mile guided hike exploring our Licking Bend and Eagle Ridge Loop trails. Wear sturdy footwear and bring water/snacks.
2 p.m. There’s More Than People in the Park: A special teen-led program focusing on the tracks and other signs of our local wildlife with a scavenger hunt and more. Meet at the stage outside of the Camp Store.
Saturday, April 30
11 a.m. Dendrology at Dillon: Arbor Day celebration that will kick off with an approximately one-mile hike focusing on some of the park's trees. Meet at the Naturalist Cabin. Wear sturdy footwear and bring water/snacks.
1 p.m. Arbor Day Tree Planting: Help commemorate this year’s Arbor Day with us as we welcome some new “branches” to the park with a campground tree planting ceremony. Meet outside of the Camp Store.
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Local News Briefs: Road closures set for Thursday
Road closures planned for Thursday
ZANESVILLE — The Muskingum County Engineer's Office has announced several temporary road closures for Thursdays as crews will be performing geotechnical exploration near bridges with drilling rigs.
Lower Kroft Road will be closed from Rocker Road to Bagley Road and Darlington Drive will be closed from Greenhouse Road to East Darlington Drive from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Clay Pike will be closed from Three Towers Road to Spry Road and Rayner Lane will be closed from Cutler Lake Road to Leo Lane from 1 to 7 p.m.
Conservation board to meet
ZANESVILLE — The Muskingum Soil and Water Conservation District Board of Supervisors will meet in regular session at 4 p.m. April 12 at the Rural Services Building, 225 Underwood St.
Easter Bunny at mall
ZANESVILLE — The Easter Bunny can meet with children through April 16 at the Colony Square Mall. He will be available from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday to Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday.
Visits are free. Personal photography is not allowed, but photos may be purchased. Reservations are not required, but encouraged. For more information, visit to colonysquaremall.com.
Maysville BOE to hold special meeting
ZANESVILLE — Maysville Local Schools Board of Education will meet in special session at 5 p.m. Monday at the administrative center, 3715 Panther Drive. Executive session will be held to discuss personnel matters regarding appointment/reemployment of employees.
Rocovery Services board to meet
ZANESVILLE — The Mental Health and Recovery Services Board will meet in regular session at 7 p.m. April 14 at the board office, 1500 Coal Run Road. The finance and audit committee and partners workgroup will meet at 6 p.m.
Meeting set for West M board
ZANESVILLE — The West Muskingum Local Schools Board of Education will meet in regular session at 5 p.m. April 12 in the library of West Muskingum Middle Schools, 100 Kimes Road.
The single auditor report for the district for the period ending June 30, 2021, is available for review from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily at the administrative office.
Romero joins honor society
NEW CONCORD — Ashton Romero of Muskingum University was recently initiated into the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.
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Roundup: Rosecrans baseball snaps Fisher's long streak; Sheridan, RV mount MVL comebacks
LANCASTER — Lancaster Fisher Catholic hadn't lost a game in the Mid-State League-Cardinal Division in 56 games entering Monday.
Weston Hartman and his Rosecrans teammates put an end to it with a 7-5 win at Beavers Field, one of the biggest wins for the Bishops in recent memory.
Hartman, a junior, struck out 10 in a complete game and overcame four errors as the Bishops (3-0 MSL-Cardinal) stayed unbeaten thanks to a four-run seventh inning.
Fisher led 5-3 after scoring twice in the fifth and again in the sixth, but walks from Drew Dollings and Brendan Bernath set up the big final frame. One batter later, after both runners moved up, Dollings took home on a double steal then Bernath scored when Malakai Clark's ground ball to third was misplayed.
Still trailing 5-4, Bernath was thrown out at home on Tommy Bernath's single, but Tommy went to second on the throw home and Clark went to third. Hartman then sent Clark home with the tying run on a fielder's choice.
Tommy Bernath then scored on a one-out wild pitch to give Rosecrans the lead, and Mikey Burkhart's two-out RBI single made it 7-5.
Hartman got the final three outs, navigating through a lead-off single and a walk, to seal the win.
Tommy Bernath had two singles, as Rosecrans had only five hits but drew seven walks and stole nine bases. Brenden Bernath, who walked three times, had three steals.
J.J. Viau took the loss, allowing two earned runs in three innings of relief. Starter Nick Dolci walked five and surrendered five earned runs in four innings.
Sheridan 6, John Glenn 5: The host Generals trailed 4-2 but scored four runs in their final two at-bats to hand the mistake-prone Muskies their first loss in the Muskingum Valley League-Big School Division.
Sheridan took a 5-4 lead after the first three batters reached in the fifth on Caden Sheridan's double and consecutive singles from Coyle Withtow and Blaine Hannan.
Austin Clifton grounded out but an error on the play allowed two runs to score. Another error, on a ground ball to third, allowed the go-ahead run to score.
John Glenn tied the game in the sixth when Noah Wellmeier plated Ayden Thompson with a groundout, which came after two walks and Blade Barclay's sacrifice.
The Generals took the lead for good in the bottom of the inning when Corey Amspaugh reached on an error, stole third and scored on Withtow's groundout to shortstop.
Sam Taylor yielded five hits, hit two batters and issued seven walks in a complete game to get the win.
Caden Sheridan doubled and singled, Withtow and Reid Packer singled twice and Jarrett Thorne doubled to lead Sheridan's 10-hit attack.
Colt Emerson tripled, walked twice and drove in two runs and Wellmeier had two singles and two RBIs for John Glenn. Logan Finley took the loss in relief of Colin Campbell, who allowed four earned runs in five innings.
Tri-Valley 2, Philo 1: Kelynn Drummonds' two-out RBI single in the bottom of the first inning proved to be the difference for the Scotties in a hard-fought MVL-Big School win at Kenny Wolford Park.
Philo (3-2, 2-2 MVL-Big) took a 1-0 lead in the top of inning when Gavin Wells doubled and scored on Owen Smith's 1-out single.
The Scotties (3-2, 2-2 ) wasted little time to respond, scoring twice when Ty Smith singled home Hansel Holmes, stole second with two outs and scored when Drummonds singled to left.
It was all Holmes needed.
The junior right-hander didn't yield a hit the rest of the game, collecting eight strikeouts over the final six innings in a complete game. He walked four.
His counterpart, Seth Vousden, was equally impressive with five shutout innings after the shaky start. He allowed only one hit after the first and struck out three.
Morgan 6, Meadowbrook 2: Three Raider pitchers combined on a five-hitter as the host Raiders upset the previously unbeaten Colts in the MVL-Small School Division.
Owen McCoy singled home a run in the second and Nate Silvus doubled home two in the third to send Morgan (2-3, 2-1 MVL-Small) to a 3-0 lead.
The Colts (3-1 MVL-Small) got on the board with a run in the fifth, but McCoy singled in a run with two outs and Coleman Welsh doubled McCoy home to make it 6-1. Carson Copeland added an RBI double in the sixth for the winners.
Colin Janes allowed three hits and struck out five in four innings to get the win.
Kolton St. Clair doubled and singled and Easton Eibel doubled with two RBIs for Meadowbrook. Tye Griffith allowed three runs in two innings to suffer the loss.
New Lexington 4, Crooksville 2: Hunter Kellogg fired a three-hitter with six strikeouts as the host Panthers (3-2, 1-2 MVL-Small) topped their Perry County rivals in an MVL-Small School game.
Kellogg took a one-hitter into the seventh inning before Austin Love singled and scored on Ethan Sprankle's double to cut the lead to two. Noah Dickerson's flyout ended the game.
Dalton Shriner's two-out RBI single in the first sent New Lex up 1-0, but Crooksville tied it in the fourth when Ethan Sprankle was hit by a pitch and scored when Trinton Cottrell's ground ball was misplayed at first base.
The Ceramics had runners on second and third with no outs in the inning, but Kellogg induced a pop out, strikeout and groundout to escape more damage.
Connor Metzger singled in a run with two outs in the bottom of the inning to send New Lex ahead, 2-1, then doubled in the sixth, which allowed two runs to score after an error in left field.
Dickerson allowed nine hits and four earned runs to suffer the loss.
Coshocton 11, West Muskingum 2: Hudson Wesney struck out nine in five innings and had three hits to lead the Redskins offense in an MVL-Small School win in Falls Township.
All 12 of Coshocton's hits were singles — Zach Jennings and Blake Alexander had three apiece. The Redskins (2-1 MVL-Small) took a 4-0 lead and broke the game open with a five-run fourth that saw three players collect hits and three others draw walks.
Cam Fowler's double paced West, which had only three hits. Nathan Davis suffered the loss.
River View 5, Maysville 4 (8 inn.): Connor Webster singled home Trace Davis with the game-wining run in the bottom of the eighth inning, as the Black Bears rallied from a four-run deficit in the MVL-Big School Division.
Davis started the rally with a one-out walk, then took third when Evan McPeak singled. Webster then drove the second pitch he saw into center field to end it.
The win pulled River View into a tie for the Big School lead with John Glenn, which suffered its first league loss on Monday at Sheridan.
Maysville took a 4-0 lead after scoring twice in the first and second — Nate Harper and Cole Roberts had two-out RBI singles. But Black Bear pitcher Owen Emig, who had nine strikeouts and allowed one earned run, held the Panthers scoreless for six innings to allow his team to claw back and tie the game in the seventh.
Brock Trout allowed one earned run in the 5 2/3 innings before Harper took the loss in relief.
Slater Sampsel doubled and singled, Bryson Fry singled twice with two RBIs and Owen Emig also singled twice for River View, which totaled 11 hits and committed five errors.
Harper and Roberts had two singles for Maysville.
Softball
John Glenn 5, Sheridan 0: Sydney Marshall's dominance in the circle continued for the Muskies in an MVL-Big School shutout on the road.
Marshall piled up 15 strikeouts and didn't yield a walk in a four-hitter as the Muskies improved to 6-0 overall and 4-0 in league play.
The Muskies outhit the Generals, 12-4, as the top four hitters in the lineup — Hannah Bendle, Brynna Wolford, Abby Buchtel and Alivia Boothe — combined for seven hits. Boothe had two doubles.
Bendle's sacrifice fly and Wolford's RBI single with two outs sent John Glenn to a 2-0 lead in the second inning. One inning later, Buchtel singled and Boothe doubled, then scored after an infield error and a sacrifice fly from Sydney Johnson to make it 4-0.
Johnson's sacrifice fly in the seventh capped the scoring.
Cora Hall had two singles and pitched a complete game for Sheridan. Cate Conrad and Avery Mueller also had singles. Hall struck out five and walked two.
Philo 3, Tri-Valley 2: Addie Shearer had the big hit and held one of the MVL's most potent lineups to one earned run, as the Electrics (3-2 MVL-Big) came back to pick up a Big School Division win at Kenny Wolford Park.
Down 2-0 after five innings, Allison Tom led off the top of the sixth with a double and took third when Caitlin Rose reached on an error at shortstop.
After Natalie May singled to send home Tom to trim the lead to 2-1, Shearer hit a ground-ball single through the hole to left field to plate Rose and May and give Philo the lead for good.
Tri-Valley (5-1, 3-1) stranded the tying run on base in the sixth and seventh.
Keyona Murphy hit a solo homer in the first inning and singled twice for Tri-Valley, which had eight hits, drew four walks and didn't strike out, but left 11 on base. Paiton Murphy doubled and singled
Belle Baughman, whose RBI groundout made it 2-0 in the fifth, struck out four and didn't yield a walk in five innings to take the loss. Paiton Murphy struck out the side after entering the sixth in relief to keep the deficit at one run.
Ashley Pletcher doubled and Zoe Dodson and May singled twice, while Tom also had a single. Shearer walked four and allowed seven hits.
Crooksville 10, New Lexington 1: McKenna Headley struck out seven in a complete game to pace the Ceramics (4-1, 2-1 MVL-Small), who scored five times in the first inning in an MVL-Small School win against their Perry County rivals.
The Ceramics held a 10-9 edge in hits and benefited from six Panther errors.
Sonni Nelson and Jaelynn Nelson had RBI doubles in the first inning and Grace Frame plated a run with a sacrifice fly, two more came in on errors.
Khirra Wilson had three singles with two RBIs, Gracie Peck two singles and Brynn Lundell two RBIs for the winners.
Jayden Allen collected three singles and Abby Wilson a double for New Lex, while six others had singles. Lydia Stephens allowed two earned runs to suffer the loss.
Maysville 7, River View 0: Mallori Bradley struck out 13 in a two-hitter to lead the Panthers in an MVL-Big School shutout on the road.
Maysville (4-2, 3-1 MVL-Big) led 2-0 after an inning, then broke it loose with a four-run fourth that saw Emily Paul double home two and Kyrie Kepler and Oliva McPeek send home runs on groundouts.
Hannah Fulkerson added an RBI double in the seventh to cap the scoring. Emma McPeak doubled and singled and Paige Burns doubled for Maysville, which had eight hits.
Darian Garvin allowed eight hits and walked four in a complete game to suffer the loss. Raelee McPeak and Brie Hagans had singles for the Lady Bears (0-4 MVL-Big).
On Saturday, Bradley struck out six in a complete game and Paul doubled as Maysville topped Howard East Knox 10-4 to manage a doubleheader split.
Bradley added two singles and Kepler a double.
West Muskingum 10, Coshocton 3: Freshman Kadie Bare doubled and singled and allowed one run in four innings to get the win for the Tornadoes in an MVL-Small School game in Falls Township.
Gracie Settles had four singles, scored thee times and drove in a run to pace West, while Mariska McCune plated three runs with two singles and also stole two bases. The Tornadoes had 10 hits.
Coshocton pulled within 2-1 after Alison Cox doubled home a run in the third, but she was stranded on second base. West then scored six runs in the next two innings to pull away.
Isabelle Lauvray doubled and singled, Savanna Bartlett had two singles and Cox also singled for Coshocton, while Destiny Frye had a two-run double in the fifth.
Olivia Lee, who pitched 3 2/3 innings, suffered the loss.
Morgan 6, Meadowbrook 2: Malayni Clemens tossed a no-hitter as the Raiders improved to 3-1 with a MVL Small School Division win.
The Lady Colts slipped to 1-4 on the season as the offense failed to get untracked.
Senor Kenzi Combs took the pitching loss for Meadowbrook (1-4). Combs working five innings, allowing three runs on seven hits with three Ks and one walk.
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House Boat Grill
Hop on a small barge-ferry to be whisked out to a larger boat for an unusual dinner on the water. Dine on the covered top deck, if you can snag a table, for an alfresco meal with a glittering night view of Montego Bay’s coast and the Caribbean. The menu is for seafood lovers but has options for everyone. The cozy, warmly lit nautical interior lends a relaxed and intimate vibe. Your fellow diners will most likely be locals, so you can feel like a Jamaica insider—previous passengers on the House Boat have included Steve McQueen, the Duchess of York, and the Beach Boys.
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Skyline Trail
Stretching a formidable 27 miles, Jasper's Skyline Trail is a challenge for all but the most seasoned hikers. The journey is worth undertaking—nearly two-thirds of the route is above the tree line, which means you'll enjoy stunning panoramic views as the rule rather than the exception. The path runs from Maligne Lake back to the town of Jasper at the foot of Signal Mountain, traversing the Maligne Range mountains in the middle. There's a short window during which you can enjoy this trail, typically from late July until mid-September. The classic trip includes two nights of camping at Snowbowl and Tekarra campgrounds, but if you're pressed for time, hike like the locals: Many Jasperites choose to start early and finish late, conquering the entire length in a single day.
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The GBPUSD has moved to a new session low and in the process turned negative on the day. The price move below a upward sloping trendline near 1.3100, and looks to test a lower swing area between 1.3085 and 1.3092. The low price just reached 1.3088 and bounced modestly.
Although the USD has made a move higher in the NY session, the USD is still lower vs. the CAD (-0.22%) and NZD (-0.19%), hello and lower by -0.62% vs the AUD. However, those declines are still well off the highs for the day.
Below is the strongest to weakest of the major currencies currently.
Since the start of the US session, the greenback has seen the GBPUSD reverse earlier declines (from -0.14% to +0.14%). The USDJPY and the EURUSD has seen moves of 0.51% and 0.45% higher. The AUDUSD and the NZDUSD has moved from -1.22% to -0.62% and -0.84% vs -0.19% currently.
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The Nasdaq index has been turned away from its 100 day moving average once again. Recall from last week, the price tested that moving average only to find sellers against the level.
Yesterday and today, the price got close, but still remained a good distance away from the level before sellers came in pushed the price to the downside after Brainard's more hawkish comments.
The price is now trading to a new week low and down about 250 points or -1.72%. Yesterday, the price moved up 1.9% after a gap move higher on the open.
Also of note today from a technical perspective is that the price is back below the 50% of the move down from the November all time high price. That midpoint level comes in at 14383.79. The level is now a close risk level for the seller.
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Curating Hope Through COVID: An Art Initiative and Exhibition with Forsyth County Department of Public Health and Arts Council
Winston-Salem, NC (April 5, 2022) – Curating Hope Through COVID is an Art Initiative and Exhibition with Forsyth County Department of Public Health and Arts Council of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County. The exhibition will be on display April 11 – 30, 2022 in the Annex Gallery of Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts (251 N Spruce Street, Winston-Salem, NC 27101).
Local artists were enlisted by the Forsyth County Department of Public Health and Arts Council to create art works integrating health and safety components in an ongoing effort to raise awareness in historically marginalized populations about COVID-19 and keeping communities safe. Following an artists call, a diverse group of artists were selected to showcase their vision of COVID-19 health and safety precautions through visual arts and multidisciplinary arts on film. Participating artists include Latisha Coleman, Terence Walker, Constance Williams, Duane Cyrus, and Carolina Corona. The entire project is being captured by Tonya Sheffield, local filmmaker and founder of The Dream School, a non-profit focused on mentoring youth and eliminating poverty through technology education.
"The Department of Public Health is very excited about the partnership that we’ve built with Arts Council during the pandemic,” said Public Health Director Joshua Swift. “We appreciate all the partners in the community that have stepped up to help Public Health and help this community during the last two years. I’m very excited about this project that’s showing how our historically marginalized populations have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19, but we realize that these health disparities were there long before COVID-19 and our mission at the Public Health Department is to work to help our community and work with our partners throughout the community to help improve the human condition and really to promote health and improve lives for everyone in Forsyth County."
Currently, Forsyth County has a Low COVID Community Level, during which CDC recommends wearing a mask on your personal preference, get tested if you have symptoms, and stay up-to-date with COVID-19 vaccinations. For more information visit, www.cdc.gov.
Arts Council of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County is the chief advocate of the arts and cultural sector in Winston-Salem and Forsyth County. Arts Council’s goal is to serve as a leader in lifting up, creating awareness and providing support to grow and sustain the arts and cultural offerings throughout our region, ultimately bringing our community together and making it a great place to live, work and play.
Forsyth County Department of Public Health is located at 799 N. Highland Ave. Forsyth Public Health's mission is to prevent disease and promote a healthy community through community engagement, education, regulation, and partnerships.
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Greensboro-High Point Has a Median Rent Estimate of $1,082, Below U.S. Median
Inflation continues to be the major story in the U.S. economy, as households confront rapidly rising prices in nearly every consumer category. Data released in March by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that the Consumer Price Index rose by 7.9% from February 2021 to February 2022. This increase represented a 40-year high and a tenth straight month with year-over-year inflation higher than 5%.
Categories like energy and vehicles have seen the greatest price increases, but perhaps the most consequential increases for many people have been in the cost of housing for both buyers and renters. As the largest regular household expense, increases in housing costs can quickly push household spending higher and leave less available for spending in other categories.
The ultra-competitive residential real estate market has garnered its fair share of attention throughout the pandemic. Greater household savings and low interest rates have brought a flood of buyers into the market, but a lack of supply has led to intense competition and record sales prices. More recently, it has become clear that the rental market has not been spared from these forces either.
While home prices began to accelerate rapidly in the second half of 2020 and have barely slowed, rents were stable throughout 2020 as federal COVID relief dollars and policies like eviction moratoriums helped keep renters in place. But in 2021, rents began to see sharp increases as well, with the median rent increasing from $1,601 at the beginning of the year to $1,856 at the beginning of 2022, according to data from Zillow.
The more recent increases in rent are in part an extension of forces in the real estate market. For both buyers and renters, an inadequate supply of housing nationwide—particularly for single-family homes, which have had higher demand since the pandemic began—is constraining the options available on the market and raising prices. Rising home prices have also started to price many would-be buyers out of the market, which raises demand for rental properties. If interest rates rise this spring as expected, it could keep more renters out of the real estate market and produce greater demand for rentals.
Rising rents will be more challenging for renters in some locations than others. Many states and localities already have unaffordable housing, especially coastal states with high costs like Hawaii, California, Massachusetts, and New York. In these expensive locations, median rents can approach or top $2,000 per month, and the costs of a studio apartment can cost more than a typical 3- or 4-bedroom house in less expensive parts of the country. At the low end, Arkansas is the most affordable state for rent at $881 per month—approximately one-third of the median rent cost in the most expensive state, Hawaii ($2,537).
At the local level, metros in these more expensive states lead the nation in rental costs. Large metros like Boston, Seattle, and New York are particularly expensive, but those in California stand out as having some of the highest rents in the country. California is home to four of the five most expensive large metros for rent in the U.S., including the only location—San Jose—where median rents top $3,000 per month.
The data used in this analysis is from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Census Bureau. To determine the locations with the most expensive rent, researchers at Stessa calculated the median monthly rent across all unit sizes in each location. In the event of a tie, the location with the greater median monthly rent for a one-bedroom unit was ranked higher. Only locations with at least 100,000 residents were included. Additionally, metros were divided into cohorts based on population: small (100,000–349,999), midsize (350,000–999,999), and large (1,000,000 or more).
The analysis found that the Greensboro-High Point metro area has a median rent estimate of $1,082, compared to the national median of $1,435. Here is a summary of the data for the Greensboro-High Point, NC metro area:
- Median rent estimate: $1,082
- Studio: $842
- 1-bedroom: $866
- 2-bedroom: $998
- 3-bedroom: $1,303
- 4-bedroom: $1,492
For reference, here are the statistics for the entire United States:
- Median rent estimate: $1,435
- Studio: $1,015
- 1-bedroom: $1,120
- 2-bedroom: $1,366
- 3-bedroom: $1,796
- 4-bedroom: $2,084
For more information, a detailed methodology, and complete results, you can find the original report on Stessa’s website: https://www.stessa.com/blog/american-cities-with-highest-rents/
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Truliant Foundation Opens Community Grants Submission Period
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (April 5, 2022) – The Truliant Foundation is encouraging nonprofit organizations in cities and counties where its branch network operates to submit applications starting this week for Community Mini Grant funding.
The program, now in its 14th year, provides community-based nonprofit organizations with up to $1,500 in grant funding to support programming needs. This year, completed applications should be submitted by Sunday, May 1, 2022.
Since its inception, the program has awarded more than $350,000 in funding. It gave $45,000 in grants in 2021.
“The Truliant Foundation’s Community Mini Grants make an impact to help local nonprofits with essential programs. We encourage qualifying organizations in our member communities to apply,” said Atticus Simpson, director of the Truliant Foundation.
The grants program provides support for qualifying nonprofit organizations. Applications are available online at www.truliant.org/minigrants. Finalists will be notified in June.
This year, Truliant is committed to supporting nonprofit organizations that improve member communities in one of four unique areas including: Community Development, Economic Mobility, Financial Wellness and Youth and Education.
Winners will be chosen by an internal panel. Qualifying organizations that are interested in applying must have tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and be in existence for at least three years. Truliant Foundation grants are unavailable to individuals, political candidates or groups, religious organizations, churches and organizations that operate outside the identified geographic areas.
For more information on Truliant Foundation Community Mini Grants, please visit Truliant.org or email community@truliantfcu.org.
About The Truliant Foundation
The Truliant Foundation supports Truliant Federal Credit Union’s commitment to community and its social responsibility to give back to the neighbors it serves. Established in 2021, the foundation provides support to nonprofit community partners working to enhance the quality of life in member communities. The donor-advised fund was created by Truliant and is administered by the Carolinas Credit Union Foundation. Donations to the foundation are tax deductible. Learn more at Truliant.org/Foundation.
About Truliant Federal Credit Union
Truliant is a mission-driven, not-for-profit financial institution that improves lives by providing financial guidance and affordable financial services. Chartered in 1952, Truliant now serves 280,000+ members and has more than 30 Member Financial Centers in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.
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YMCA OF GREENSBORO AND NCCJ OF THE PIEDMONT TRIAD ANNOUNCE THE 8:46 SERIES SPRING SESSIONS THAT FOCUSES ON DIVERSITY, INCLUSION AND RACIAL EQUITY
Greensboro, N.C., April 5, 2022— The YMCA of Greensboro and NCCJ of the Piedmont Triad announced today The 8:46 Series* spring dates focused on diversity and inclusivity in education and racial trauma. The 8:46 Series, founded in 2020, is focused on diversity, inclusion and racial equity. The virtual events are free and open to the community with registration required.
Spring Sessions:
- April 27 from Noon – 1:30 p.m.: “The Color of Education” presented by Tinisha Shaw and Jasmine Getrouw-Moore of Freedom Hill.
- May 19 from Noon – 1:30 p.m.: “A Candid Conversation: Our Collective Responsibility on Healing Racial Trauma” presented by Dr. Gigi Hamilton and Dr. Cori’ Corinna Costello
“The vision of the YMCA of Greensboro is to build a stronger and healthier community where equity is the norm,” said Rhonda Anderson, YMCA of Greensboro president/CEO. “We are excited to continue our partnership with NCCJ of the Piedmont to bring two more sessions that are free and open to all. We believe we must work together to advance as a community and for open dialogue.”
The YMCA of Greensboro and NCCJ of the Piedmont Triad originally partnered in August 2020 to launch The 8:46 Series in response to the tragic events that launched a worldwide movement. Since 2020, the series was the host of seven sessions with nearly 2,000 participants and session views.
“Having honest conversations about our past and our present is critical for moving our community forward into a more equitable future for all of us, not just some of us,” says Ivan Canada, executive director of NCCJ of the Piedmont Triad. “NCCJ is dedicated to helping people of all backgrounds find common ground through respectful dialogue. We’re grateful to be working together with the YMCA of Greensboro to make these critical conversations free and accessible to everyone in our community.”
Current sponsors of The 8:46 Series include Liberty Hardware, SJ Edwards Foundation, United Healthcare, Weaver Foundation, Kontoor Brands, American National Bank & Trust, First Bank, Cone Health Foundation, Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro, Women’s Professional Forum Foundation, BB&T (now Truist) and Triad Adult & Pediatric Medicine.
To learn more about the upcoming events and to register, visit ymcagreensboro.org/846.
*Note: In the summer of 2020, The 8:46 Series was named for the eight minutes and forty-six second period when the officer’s knee was on George Floyd’s neck. As we have since learned, the officer’s knee was in fact pressed against Floyd’s neck for more than 9 minutes.
About the YMCA of Greensboro
The YMCA of Greensboro was founded in 1889 with a mission to put Judeo-Christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind, and body for all. Through its seven branches and YMCA Camp Weaver, the YMCA of Greensboro is made up of people of all ages and from every walk of life working side by side to strengthen communities. The Y is committed to working together to ensure that everyone, regardless of ability, age, cultural background, ethnicity, faith, gender, gender identity, ideology, income, national origin, race or sexual orientation has the opportunity to reach their full potential with dignity. For more information on the YMCA of Greensboro, please visit ymcagreensboro.org.
About the NCCJ of the Piedmont Triad
The NCCJ of the Piedmont Triad is a human relations organization that works to build communities free of bias, bigotry and racism by promoting understanding and respect among all cultures, races and religions. For more information on NCCJ of the Piedmont Triad, please visit www.nccjtriad.org
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Guilford County Schools Adjusts Restart Calendar for 2022-23
Start date for students moves to August 15 from August 9
Greensboro, N.C. – Guilford County Schools has made adjustments to the restart calendar for 2022-23, in response to feedback from educators.
The updated calendar reduces the number of mandated teacher workdays from 15 to 9 and requires teachers to report on August 8 instead of August 1, 2022. It also decreases the number of student days from 183 to 181.
For students, the first day of school is now August 15 instead of August 9, and the last day of school is June 9 instead of June 14, which is consistent with schools on the traditional calendar.
Restart schools have calendar flexibility through the state Board of Education. Twenty-three schools follow the restart calendar in GCS: Bessemer Elementary, Bluford STEM Academy, Cone Elementary, Falkener Elementary, Ferndale Middle, Foust Elementary, Frazier Elementary, Gillespie Park Elementary, Hairston Middle, Jackson Middle, Vandalia Elementary, Welborn Middle, Wiley Elementary, Fairview Elementary, Northeast Middle, Washington Elementary, Alderman Elementary, Oak View Elementary, Sedgefield Elementary, Montlieu Academy of Technology, Eastern Middle, Swann Middle and Western Middle.
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The UNC Greensboro School of Theatre Presents "The Spongebob Musical"
The UNC Greensboro School of Theatre is proud to present The Spongebob Musical based on the series by Stephen Hillenburg, book by Kyle Jarrow, and original songs by Yolanda Adams, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Sara Bareilles, Jonathan Coulton, Alex Ebert of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, The Flaming Lips, Lady A, Cyndi Lauper, John Legend, Panic! At the Disco, Plain White T’s, They Might Be Giants, T.I, with additional songs by David Bowie, Tom Kenny & Andy Paley. The production includes additional lyrics by Jonathan Coulton, additional music by Tom Kitt, and the musical production was conceived by Tina Landau. In-person performances will be April 8-9 at 7:30 p.m., April 10 at 2:00 p.m., and April 21-23 at 7:30 p.m. in the UNCG Taylor Theatre.
As described by Concord Theatricals, the stakes are higher than ever in this dynamic stage musical, as SpongeBob and all of Bikini Bottom face the total annihilation of their undersea world. Chaos erupts. Lives hang in the balance. And just when all hope seems lost, a most unexpected hero rises up and takes center stage. The power of optimism really can save the world!
The Spongebob Musical is directed by UNCG Assistant Professor of Theatre, Erin Speer. Erin states, “It's been a hard few years for all of us, and I am so thankful to go to work every day on The Spongebob Musical because it brings me so much joy and laughter at a time when I have needed it the most. It's a gigantic musical in every possible way, and to collaborate with such an incredible creative team, designers, and crew, along with this magnificent cast has been a balm for my spirit. It's easy to look at a musical based on a very popular cartoon and write it off as a piece of fluff, but that's the beauty of Spongebob. I believe that cartoons can say things to us in ways that we will actually hear it - they hold up a mirror to our society, and then make us see our own foolishness and laugh.”
The production has an incredible contemporary score. Spearheading the music side is UNCG Artist In Residence/Coordinator, Dominick Amendum, who is the music director for the show. Dom states that “it's a pleasure to have our students back on stage in an unapologetically big, fun, joyous piece of theatre. After the past two years, audiences want-and deserve-this kind of energy on stage! But while The Spongebob Musical is silly at times, at its heart is an important, honest story about friendship and the power of science over hysteria. So, the piece rings even more true today than when it first premiered. I am so proud of the work our students are doing, and I can't wait for everyone to see the show.”
The Spongebob Musical includes eclectic styles of dance as well. UNCG is proud to have brought on guest artist and choreographer, Jose Rondon, Jr. Rondon expressed that “it has been an amazing time working on SpongeBob the Musical. For my choreographic process I spent a lot of time watching the Broadway show, which I’ve seen 3 times, and re-watching episodes of the show that I grew up on. I attempted to pay homage to the original production by keeping some iconic choreography moments, but I really tried to explore bringing everyone’s personality to the choreography in a new way. This UNCG cast has really gone above and beyond to welcome me, to work extremely hard, and to step out of their comfort zone.”
UNCG BFA Musical Theatre student Molly Oldham is cast in the role of Pearl Krabs. Molly said this about her experience with the show: “I have the honor of bringing Miss Pearl Krabs to the stage, and I couldn’t be more excited to parade her through Taylor Theatre! Spongebob is such an iconic cartoon, and to have the chance to not only be in our stage adaptation, but also show the audience Pearl's passion and sass is such a dream come true. When I started to develop this character, I realized just how likable she is. She’s a lot like most teenage girls I know… opinionated, rebellious, and determined in her own crazy ways!”
Tickets are available online at www.uncgtheatre.com, by phone at 336.334.4392, or in-person at the UNCG Theatre Box Office located at 406 Tate Street., Greensboro, NC 27412. The hours of operation at the UNCG Theatre Box Office are Monday-Friday 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
About the UNC Greensboro School of Theatre
The UNC Greensboro School of Theatre educates and trains students as professional artists in a wide range of theatrical specialties. Our programs include technical production, design, theatre education, performance, theatre for youth, and directing. Our rigorous BA, BFA, and MFA programs produce exemplary theatre artists with the applicable knowledge, skills, and vision to work professionally in the performing arts. With the help of the National Theatre Honors Fraternity, Alpha Psi Omega, students are furthering their experiences for service inside and outside our community. The School of Theatre is committed to creating and nurturing a diverse, engaged, and artistically well-balanced body of future professionals, performers, and teachers. Our mission is to strengthen our students’ goals, enhance their talents, lead them towards success and help them to turn passion into purpose on and off the stage.
About UNC Greensboro
UNC Greensboro, located in the Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina, is one of fifty doctoral institutions recognized by the Carnegie Foundation for both higher research activity and community engagement. Founded in 1891 and one of the original three UNC system institutions, UNC Greensboro is one of the most diverse universities in the state with 20,000+ students and 2,800+ faculty and staff members representing 90+ nationalities. With 17 Division I athletic teams, 85 undergraduate degrees in over 125 areas of study, in addition to 74 master’s and 32 doctoral programs, UNC Greensboro is consistently recognized nationally among the top universities for academic excellence and value, with noted strengths in visual and performing arts, health and wellness, nursing, education and more. For additional information, please visit uncg.edu and follow UNCG on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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The SpongeBob Musical is presented through special arrangement with Concord Theatricals.
All authorized performance materials are also supplied by Concord.
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CHICAGO, Ill. — Last week, a district in Florida said it was forced to cut school bus routes due to the ongoing problem of recruiting and retaining drivers. Thousands of those high school students will lose their bus rides this fall.
From California and Iowa to Virginia and Florida, schools are having to make tough choices about how to keep the wheels on the bus going round and round.
The deepening shortage of bus drivers has districts adjusting which routes to keep and how many students they can bus in.
“You just saw it all over the country, there were districts that had to go remote because they didn't have bus drivers. There were districts that reduced service and increased walk boundaries,” said Joanna McFarland, CEO and founder of HopSkipDrive, a school ride service that operates a fleet of cars and SUVs in ten states.
“We've had a driver shortage in this country for ten plus years. I think the pandemic really exacerbated that,” said McFarland.
Bus driver vacancies remain unfilled across the country as aging drivers are retiring in droves.
According to a newly released survey from HopSkipDrive, 88% of survey respondents said the bus driver shortage is the biggest transportation issue they face – a 10% increase from last year. 67% said they saw a direct link between access to transportation and attendance in their district.
“If you can't get to school, you can't get to learning. And unfortunately, we see that that chronic absenteeism tends to hit our more vulnerable populations,” said McFarland.
“We largely have been using sort of the same one size fits all transit solution of a yellow school bus for over 80 years,” said Emily Anne Gullickson, founder and CEO of A for Arizona.
The nonprofit education advocacy group recently administered a first-in-the-nation state grant program to fund alternative student transportation options.
“The reality is it's been a barrier for many families, especially working-class and low-income families for a long time. We know families with means have had transit options for years. And so, it's also time we finally have that conversation,” said Gullickson.
Recruitment appears to be the top problem. According to the survey low pay, early retirement, and ongoing covid health concerns remain contributing factors.
Districts around the country have raised the hourly pay and even offered signing bonuses in the thousands.
In January, the U.S. Departments of Transportation and Education announced they would allow states to waive some CDL skill requirements to help bolster school bus driver applications.
But that waiver expired in March.
“We can try to recruit more bus drivers, but I think we need to look at other ways of addressing it that may not involve more school bus drivers,” said McFarland.
School transportation insiders say more alternatives to the yellow bus like carpooling, ridesharing and shuttles.
“The fact that you can't get to school because we aren't willing to think outside the box, that's going to haunt us for a very long time,” said Gullickson.
Otherwise, more students may find themselves stranded this fall.
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Police have arrested two suspects in connection with the mass shooting in Sacramento on April 3, 2022. The shooting left six people dead and 12 people wounded.
Dandrae Martin was arrested on April 4, and his brother, Smiley Martin, was taken into custody the following day. Smiley Martin was taken into custody at the scene on the day of the shooting with serious injuries from gunfire. He was taken to a local hospital where police identified him as a person of interest and kept him under police supervision at the hospital.
Dandrae Martin is scheduled to appear in court on April 5, after being booked on assault and illegal firearm possession charges. Once Smiley Martin’s medical care is complete, he will be booked at the Sacramento County Main Jail on charges of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and possession of a machine gun.
During the investigation, there were more than 100 shell casings found, as at least three buildings and three cars had been hit by bullets. Sacramento Police Chief Katherine Lester told KCRA news that there were multiple shooters and that a large fight preceded the gunfire.
The Sacramento County Coroner’s Office identified the six victims as Johntaya Alexander, Melinda Davis, Sergio Harris, Joshu Hoye-Lucchesi, Yamile Martinez-Andrade and De’vazia Turner.
The incident was the second mass shooting in Sacramento in the past five weeks. On Feb. 28, 2022, a man fatally shot his three children and another man at a church. He then shot and killed himself.
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In celebrating women worldwide, rolling out interviewed Shondricka Carter of Carter Capital, PLLC about the company’s Wealth Development Summit, which brings out millionaires and entrepreneurs to learn about obtaining and maintaining wealth.
Please let our audience know what it is that you do and what prompted you to enter this line of business?
I help business owners earn and understand wealth. I’ve always been intrigued by the freedom of entrepreneurship. My love [is] for numbers and my passion [is] for helping others. My journey in the financial services industry began part-time in 2013. Tax preparation has helped me invest in so many other ventures.
How important is it for women to have a voice in your particular field?
It’s important for women to have a voice in finances because it’s the tool used to liberate. The more money a woman makes, not only does it give value but a sense of relief and independence. My goal is always for other women to look at me and say “I can do that, I can be the guru of my industry.”
What are some of your proudest achievements?
My proudest achievements are seeing my business partners, mentees and students reach their goals and see the ROI within their first launch or tax return. I am proud to be the curator of the only wealth development summit, CEO of the only 24-hour wealth development firm and institute as well as winning many awards.
What advice would you give younger women entering your field?
My advice is plan, strategize and execute. Plan what you want your business to be in five years meaning always look forward to what’s next, not what’s now. Strategize how to advertise to your target audience before your launch, leverage business credit and learn to nurture your clients. Execute … work for it, don’t wish for it.
Tell us about Taxes in Tulum and how readers can register to attend.
Taxes in Tulum is our third annual wealth development summit that’s getting bigger and better every year. This year we are going international. We will have a phenomenal panel of speakers, wealth development seminars, vision board parties and fun networking. Our panelists will teach how to invest in real estate/Airbnb, obtain federal government contracts, grant writing, master social media, advertising, branding, marketing, benefits of trademarks/copyrights, the importance of business insurance, managing bookkeeping, obtaining business credit and leveraging life insurance for wealth.
As an attendee of this wealth development summit you’ll have access to business seminars on product development strategies, customer service, business funding, branding, Facebook ads, social media and marketing, live Q&A’s with business and finance experts, photo sessions, networking, business building tips and more.
If interested in being a part of this summit, visit this website for additional information.
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DeKalb County, Georgia, continued its incentivized set of vaccines on April 2, 2022, at Pleasantdale Elementary.
At the event, Clare Schexnyder, DeKalb County Commission Vaccine Response liasion, spoke with rolling out about the county’s continued effort to get residents vaccinated.
With mask restrictions being lifted across the country and the number of COVID hospitalizations decreasing, how important is it to be vaccinated and boosted?
I think it’s important for all of us to get vaccinated because the more of us that are vaccinated, the less likely [the virus] can mutate.
We already know that Asia and Europe have really high cases and our counts are going up. Our hospitalizations always follow that. We’ve got to keep getting people vaccinated, especially our kids because Omicron is more contagious but less viral. It really doesn’t make as bad of an infection, but it can still put you in the hospital and we know people are still dying from it.
It’s really important to be vaccinated, just so that you’re protected against what’s next.
You all at DeKalb County have been doing this work for a long time, and were recently recognized at the Good Trouble Awards. What keeps you all going?
Events like today make my heart happy. It’s just really nice to make sure that we’re getting kids and family members their first vaccination and giving $100 to folks.
They really need it right now, and it makes a difference. It makes it more likely they’ll come out and get their second shot, or a booster.
We are giving out boosters now for second shots for anyone over age 50. I think we’re seeing a lot of those folks coming into now because we want to make sure that we just keep our protection.
Just to clarify, you said second boosters for anybody over the age of 50?
That’s right. Second booster for anyone over the age of 50. It’s really recommended for people over 65. Then, over age 50 for anyone who is immunocompromised [has a weak immune system].
It’s what the nation is doing. I am going to get mine, and I’m also going to get a $100 cash card. So that’s a good thing.
If I don’t live in DeKalb County and I want an incentivized vaccine, can I come in and get one?
DeKalb will vaccinate anyone who comes to us. All you need is you know your vaccine card and an ID. You can totally come and get your vaccination and we will give you $100. We’re doing our part to make metro Atlanta safe.
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An urban explorer who went viral with her discovery of a creepy abandoned aquarium has revealed how her hobby comes with hazards ranging from armed criminals that use the hidden spaces as drug dens through to kinky couples who seek out derelict buildings for sex.
The explorer – identified only as Juliette – scored a viral hit with a gruesome mummified shark found in the once-thriving marine park.
But she says some of the scariest sights she has encountered are the drug dealers, armed crooks and perverts who seek out abandoned buildings for sex.
The 24-year-old woman quit her job to work full-time on her urban explorer social media presence in 2021.
She runs the ‘Juj’ Urbex’ channel on YouTube and also posts on Instagram. She became a massive hit with her aquarium footage showing a ghostly dead shark and a weirdly shriveled squid.
But in new footage, she has revealed she has had other less natural encounters, including dead stray animals and used condoms, which she filmed for her followers.
Juliette, who is from the south-eastern French city of Lyon, in France’s Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region, told Zenger News that she loves “going in search of the history of the place, and the adventure of course”.
She also vowed to keep the venue’s address secret, saying: “When the addresses of abandoned places are revealed, the place becomes known, and ill-intentioned people such as thugs, thieves, and taggers will come and break everything.
“That’s why urban explorers never give the addresses, it’s to preserve the places.”
The footage – which comes with a ‘not for the faint of heart’ warning (“Ames sensibles s’abstenir” in French) – shows Juliette discovering the aquarium and filming its contents, and also an abandoned nightclub she had visited that was closed after a flood left the owners bankrupt.
Juliette, who has more than 83,000 followers on Instagram, has become increasingly involved in urban exploring since finishing her studies in 2018.
She can be seen wearing a beanie with a radioactive symbol, perhaps in tribute to a previous trip she made to Chernobyl, in Ukraine, in November 2021.
She is also filmed taking a sniff from a suspect-looking glass, causing her to immediately start coughing.
The footage ends with Juliette filming what appears to be a used condom next to a wrapper, with her saying that she often comes across “really disgusting things”.
She can be heard saying “yuck” as the footage ends.
She also warned people against becoming urban explorers themselves, saying: “The places are often protected by the authorities, guards, cameras, that’s why it’s a prohibited practice.
“You have to be very careful and discreet.”
She revealed that under French law, urban explorers can face a EUR-15,000 (GBP-12,600; USD-16,500) fine and two years in prison.
Juliette added: “But I also risk hurting myself, meeting bad people like dealers and armed people. It’s dangerous!”
Juliette said she went to the Chernobyl nuclear exclusion zone, in Ukraine, in November 2021 – a few months before Russia invaded the country and allegedly shot at the nuclear plant with a tank – adding that she had made a 90-minute film of her adventures there.
Much of it can be viewed on her YouTube channel, although she did provide Zenger News with these stunning photographs, which also show her wearing her trademark radioactive beanie.
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Ye West has pulled out of performing at the Coachella music festival in the California desert alongside Billie Eilish, Harry Styles, and Swedish House Mafia.
According to Page Six, West — who legally changed his name to Ye in November last year — will be replaced by the Weeknd as it will be “virtually impossible” for him to do a good show, which was supposed to include fellow rapper, Travis Scott.
The source told the outlet: “Kanye has definitely pulled out of Coachella. He hasn’t been rehearsing or putting on a production. Travis Scott was supposed to be joining him onstage.
“Now it would be virtually impossible for him to get it together. Look for The Weeknd to replace him.”
According to the insider, the famous rapper “is backing out” of the festival because he wants to take time away from the spotlight after being embroiled in a series of scandals involving his ex Kim Kardashian, 41, who is also the mother of his four kids North (8), Saint (6), Chicago (4), and Psalm (2). His public battle with Kardashian’s new boyfriend the 28-year-old comic Pete Davidson prompted has also prompted a petition to end the feud which has to date received 50,000 signatures.
“Kanye is backing out because he wants to stay out of the public eye after all the drama with Kim and Pete, he wants to get help,” a source divulged.
His harassment of the “Saturday Night Live” star and fellow comic Trevor Noah, who called out Ye’s behavior on “The Daily Show,” led to the rapper being suspended from Instagram for 24 hours.
“I’m really concerned that SKETE [his nickname for Pete] will get my kids mom hooked on drugs He’s in rehab every 2 months,” one of Ye’s messages read.
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HOLYOKE, Mass. (WWLP) – Two inflatable lifts have been purchased by the Holyoke Fire Department to safely raise injured people from floor to stretcher.
These lifts are useful in tight spots where many incidents can take place such as when someone falls in a bathroom. They also can be used in automobile extractions.
Holyoke firefighters are now undergoing training to use these lifts after they were delivered to the department in March.
The HoverJack Air Patient Lifts have a 1,200-pound weight limit. The lifts have four chambers that are inflated to elevate individuals who have fallen or cannot stand on their own. Some injuries are caused when a person is being lifted from a floor. These lifts prevent injuries like this from occurring.
The lifts were purchased through COVID-19 grants awarded to the fire department to reduce the risk of exposure to COVID-19.
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April is National Autism Awareness Month, and an opportunity to educate and increase awareness of autism while celebrating our differences. Autism is a developmental spectrum disorder where some may have difficulties communicating, repetitive behaviors, or limited interest, but it’s important to remember that each person’s case is unique. Children with autism may struggle to understand their world or feel accepted around others.
Here are some children’s books that shed light on autism awareness and acceptance.
The Boy with Big, Big Feelings follows a boy who experiences intense emotions and empathetic ability. Unsure of what to do with his feelings, he attempts to shove them down, eventually learning that his feelings are to be celebrated. Relatable for any child, doctors and psychologists especially recommend this one for children who have been diagnosed with autism as it navigates how to cope with an array of emotions.
When an unexpected storm alters Laila’s perfectly planned birthday party, it feels as if her whole special day is doomed. With the help of her mom and the comfort of her service dog, Laila must navigate the continuous changes to her delicately planned routine. It Was Supposed to be Sunny by Samantha Cotterill is written for children on the spectrum, and helps them understand how to cope with unexpected changes and stressful social situations.
Holly Robinson Peete tag teams with her daughter, Ryan, to co-write an impactful book based on their personal experiences with Holly’s son and Ryan’s brother, RJ, who has autism. Told through the sister’s perspective, Callie admires her older brother Charlie and how he excels at his many hobbies. My Brother Charlie shares valuable lessons on hope, tolerance, and love.
This book introduces the quirky science hero, Dr. Temple Grandin, one of the most influential voices in modern science. Diagnosed with autism at a young age, many thought she’d never speak. Dr. Grandin’s unique connection with animals aided in her breakthrough improvements for farms across the globe. The Girl Who Thought in Pictures by Julia Finley Mosca contains a complete bio, a vibrant timeline of events, and even a note from Temple herself.
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A Minneapolis television station unearthed a 50-year-old news video where a reporter interviewed music legend Prince when he was just 11 years old.
WCCO news station somehow located the half-century-old videotape taken in 1970 during the apex of the teacher’s strike.
Prince, who was known as Prince Nelson or “Skipper” back then, gave his take on the strike and sided with the teachers.
“Think they should get a better education too ’cause … and I think they should get some more money ’cause they work, they be working extra hours for us and all that stuff.”
Terrance Jackson, one of the legendary musician’s oldest friends excitedly confirmed that the speaker was Prince.
“We go far back as kindergarten at John Hay Elementary in north Minneapolis,” Jackson said.
Jackson went on to explain that he was a neighbor of Prince coming up and played in his first band, Grand Central, as a teenager.
“That is Prince! Standing right there with the hat on, right? That’s Skipper. Oh my God,” Jackson exclaimed.
The station said Jackson stood there with jaws agape, saying “wow.”
As the interview segment came to a close, Jackson said, “I am like blown away. I’m totally blown away.”
Jackson then said that “[Prince] was already playing guitar and keys by then, phenomenally. Music became our sport. Because he was athletic, I was athletic, but we wanted to compete musically.
“That’s Prince, aka Skipper to the Northside.”
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Terease Baker-Bell is the vice president of Salesforce, a customer relationship management platform. Baker-Bell spoke with rolling out about the Black Enterprise Women of Power Summit, and what Black men can do to better support Black women.
What does it mean to be in a room surrounded by other powerful Black women?
It’s just a beautiful feeling and such a unique feeling. It’s very rare. This is the second conference that I have been to that was specifically for Black women. I attended one last week with my employer, which was the first in my 24-year career, so it’s extremely powerful and very inspiring. We are here to help one another, which allows it to feel sisterly. It is a magnificent feeling to be here with all of these beautiful Black women.
What can Black men do in 2020 to better support and protect Black women?
I saw the video of Cory Booker, who was supporting the new Supreme Court Justice [nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson], and it literally brought me to tears. The fact that he stood up for her in public, he gave her her flowers in public, and he confirmed her publicly, there’s nothing like that. That support is crucial. That’s what we’re looking for in our Black men. This is our time right now. Every company and every organization is looking for Black female leaders, and we need our men to have our backs. We need them to put out their hand and help to pull us up and help to support us every step of the way.
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The Weeknd is considering ditching his stage name, but rather than use his full real moniker, Abel Tesfaye, he’s contemplating officially dropping his surname entirely so he is known mononymously. The artist is following on the heels of Kanye West, who legally changed his name to simply Ye last October.
“I feel like I should change my stage name to Abel at this point lol (sic)” he wrote on Twitter.
“Maybe pull a Ye and just legally change my name to Abel. No last name. Like Madonna or Cher or Prince. I don’t know it seems like a lot.(sic),” he wrote in another post:
And speaking of the late Prince – who infamously changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol in the early 1990s and was thereafter referred to as The Artist Formerly Known as Prince – apparently gave The Weeknd another idea.
“Abel formally known as The Weeknd (sic),” he suggested.
Last year, the 32-year-old singer admitted his fans don’t use his stage name, but he wasn’t “done” with using The Weeknd for his work just yet.
Asked if he would release music as Abel, he said: “I feel like I already do. My fans don’t call me The Weeknd. They just call me Abel.
“It’s a tricky thing, but I think the name The Weeknd holds such a legacy right now. The story of that name isn’t done yet.”
The ‘Take My Breath’ hitmaker admitted he doesn’t like his stage name as much as he used to.
“I still like it, but I think now it’s easy to take off that coat. I like that I have that as an option to escape Abel a little bit. I definitely loved it more back then than I do now. I love my name now, though, Abel,” he said.
The Weeknd implied that he’s two different people.
“The lines were blurry at the beginning. And as my career developed – as I developed as a man – it’s become very clear that Abel is someone I go home to every night. And The Weeknd is someone I go to work as,” he said.
“I don’t know. Abel can be badass sometimes, man. But I guess The Weeknd is Hyde. Abel is Dr. Jekyll.”
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A creative British man is wowing fans with these sealed worlds where plants and animals live in harmony in a closed glass container.
They are the work of 26-year-old Bristolian Joe Rees, who runs the website Ome (ome.design), where he sells his beautiful glass terrariums and teaches people how they can create their own self-sustaining ecosystems.
In this video posted on TikTok, where it has 12 million views so far, Joe can be seen showing the process of planting the plants and adding animal life to create a terrarium in a glass container.
Joe told Zenger News he was unhappy with his last job, so he started expressing his creativity by making terrariums, which later resulted in a successful business, as people enjoyed his work.
About the popularity of his business, he said: “I think people like the idea that they can create a piece of nature in their own home. The video is a succinct way of describing something quite amazing.
“A lot of people (as you can see in the comments) don’t believe it’s possible. But, it’s a really fun way to meld science, art, and nature into one creative hobby.”
Joe added that he is neither a botanist nor a horticulturist by training, but learned everything on his own.
He encourages people to start doing what they love, reassuring anyone who thinks they need some sort of qualification by saying: “Unless what you love is surgery, then you do definitely need a qualification.”
Joe advised those who want to add more creatures to their terrariums: “The most popular creatures to add in these sort of terrariums are springtails, isopods, millipedes, worms, and snails.
“These are creatures that can help improve the quality of the soil and feed your plants by breaking down decaying organic matter. If you want to get really clever, you can even add in a predator like a centipede – they will keep the population in check.”
He said the plants are watered with distilled water via a mister, adding: “The terrariums I make can live indefinitely. They require a series of layers, the right sort of substrate, and water, and then they are off!
“Once the equilibrium is established, they need almost no care. You might want to prune your plants when they are really grown, but I like to just let the plants do their thing.”
Joe advised: “To keep your terrarium happy, you want to place it somewhere where it can receive bright, indirect sunlight. If the soil or moss looks like it’s drying, you can give it a gentle spray with distilled water. The biggest mistake people make is that they overwater their ecosystem.”
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Californians rely on skilled firefighters every year to keep them, their families, and homes safe during fire season. So why is California preventing people who want to fight fires, and have experience in fighting fires, from working as firefighters?
Last year, CAL FIRE and the U.S. Forest Service faced an estimated 8,835 fires that swept across nearly 2.6 million acres. Continuing firefighter shortages make it even more dangerous and difficult to put these fires out.
California’s reliance on inmates serving as firefighters has gained national attention in recent years, and Gov. Gavin Newsom supported some progress on post-release inclusion for these formerly incarcerated people when he signed AB 2157 in 2020.
This reform allows people who served in the California Conservation Camp Program or in a county incarcerated individual hand crew to apply for post-conviction relief that – theoretically – would make them eligible to become firefighters.
However, despite the fact that former inmates’ contributions to firefighting is explicitly included as a justification for this reform, a major barrier remains in place. In order for someone to work as California firefighter, they must be licensed as an emergency medical technician (EMT).
California EMT licensing does not present a particularly onerous burden to applicants, at least on paper. Applicants must complete 37 days of education (about two months), pass two exams, and pay $129 in fees before they can work as EMTs.
However, despite California’s recent licensing reforms, individuals with more than one felony on their record are ineligible to become EMTs – effectively barring them from becoming full-time firefighters. California law also prohibits people with two or more misdemeanors involving drugs, theft, or violence from becoming emergency medical technicians (EMTs). Worse, although the California code places a time limit on considering criminal records more than 7 years old in denying a license, the rules for EMTs are much stricter.
There is, of course, no requirement that incarcerated people meet EMT licensing requirements in order to fight alongside CAL FIRE and the U.S. Forest Service. This requirement only exists once these people are released from prison, and when they could be fully compensated for their work fighting fires. They are also not barred from volunteering after their release, highlighting the Gordian knot of California’s firefighter licensing policy.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently considered whether people with more than one felony record could become EMTs, which could boost California’s firefighter workforce ahead of the 2022 fire season. The California state is defending its policy regime using an old mainstay: protecting public health and safety. However, if public health and safety was the real issue, people would not be able to volunteer to fight fires without a license, and the link between all felonies – even those unrelated to fires – does not present a clear danger to the public.
Californians should also be particularly suspicious of blanket bans stopping people with more than one felony from being licensed, not least because of the state’s Three Strikes Law and the broad set of offenses that can be classified as felonies. Although the Three Strikes Law has gone through reforms, its legacy has dragged on for the formerly incarcerated through the years.
California has passed reforms to licensing boards’ ability to bar people with criminal records from work, including ending vague “good moral character” requirements and limiting licensing boards to considering crimes within the last 7 years.
The newly proposed AB 1662 would allow applicants with a criminal record to get a predetermination decision from licensing boards. This would reduce uncertainty on whether they would even be able to get the license if they actually completed the requirements. Occupational regulation for EMTs is another area with spacious room for reform, not least given California’s shortage of full-time firefighters.
Against this regulatory thicket, Californians face an increasingly dangerous wildfire season. CAL FIRE employs about 8,700 full-time and seasonal firefighters, often necessitating calls for help from the U.S. Forest Service and other states.
Our neighbors also have their own fires to deal with as droughts in the West worsen fire conditions and the affordable housing crisis pushes more people into wildfire-prone regions.
Reforming EMT regulations to open a path to well-paying firefighter jobs for workers with experience fighting fires is a sensible policy that lawmakers should support, not oppose.
Darwyyn Deyo is an assistant professor of economics at San José State University and a visiting scholar with the Knee Center for the Study of Occupational Regulation. She is also a senior research fellow with the Institute for Justice. She earned her PhD in Economics from George Mason University in 2017.
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SACRAMENTO — Just as they would be on any other weekend night, they were in downtown Sacramento to have a good time. But the hail of gunfire that occurred around 2 a.m. Sunday — as many bars and clubs were closing up for the night — killed six people and wounded 12 in the deadliest mass shooting in the state capital’s history and one of the worst to happen in Northern California.
Sacramento police said they were still trying to identify those responsible for the bloodshed, which started after a fight broke out near the area of 10th and K Streets, blocks away from the California State Capitol building. Three men and three women were killed in the onslaught that sent clubgoers scattering and transformed the block normally filled with nightlife into a site of blood and terror.
The Sacramento County Coroner’s office confirmed Monday the identities of the victims: 38-year-old North Highlands resident Sergio Harris, 21-year-old Elk Grove resident Johntaya Alexander, 57-year-old Melinda Davis, 32-year-old Salinas resident Joshua Hoye-Lucchesi, 21-year-old Selma resident Yamile Martinez-Andrade and 29-year-old Carmichael resident De’Vazia Turner.
A “related suspect” to the shooting, 26-year-old Dandrae Martin, was arrested and booked on assault and illegal firearm possession charges, according to a Sacramento police news release. Police and detectives also served search warrants at three residences and recovered at least one handgun. The 12 people injured in the shooting were recovering from minor to critical gunshot wounds but were reported in stable condition on Monday.
More than 100 spent shell casings were found at the scene and at least three buildings and three vehicles had been struck by gunfire.
“It’s a lot to process,” said Leia Schenk, a community member helping the family of at least one of the men killed. “And there’s a lot of ‘whys,’ so you don’t even know what you’re even supposed to be processing.”
Here are the stories shared by the family of those who were slain.
Sergio Harris
The 38-year-old father of three went downtown Saturday night to a bar, but Harris wasn’t normally a “party animal,” according to his aunt Mary Fair.
“He didn’t say too much, but his demeanor said a lot. Just his presence,” she said. “He was very fashionable — you see a guy with long dreads, always smelling good, with brand new shoes. He’s just a regular type of guy.”
In his free time, Harris loved sports and weightlifting. Every Thanksgiving, Harris, who hailed from the Del Paso Heights neighborhood, participated in Del Paso Heights’ game of tackle football between the “O.G.s” — or “Old Guys” — and the “Youngsters.”
“It’s gonna be a shame we’re gonna get up there this year and we don’t see him there,” said Fair. “It isn’t gonna be right this year. He played so much that he became the O.G.”
Harris’ mother, Pamela, was at the scene after the shooting and learned that her son had been killed.
“My baby is gone,” she said, gazing over yellow crime scene tape at the scene.
Harris loved spending time with his family, who Fair said had gotten so large that they had their own church in Sacramento, called New Bethel. Harris was self-employed and was working towards his goal of starting businesses of his own.
“He had a legacy. He wasn’t just an ordinary person,” Fair said. “He had dreams and he had goals and he was achieving them, too.”
Johntaya Alexander
Alexander was attending a club event downtown when the shooting happened, according to her cousin Rashea Allen. By the time she was 21, Alexander was attending school, working and had her own business as a cosmetologist styling lace-front wigs for clients. She had her own apartment and was “very well-established” for her age.
“She had a lot of milestones that most of women her age didn’t get to do,” Allen said.
Alexander was the youngest of two sisters and one brother and had a big family.
“She was very loved by her family,” said Allen. “She was very popular in terms of doing hair. She was raised in the area where she was close-knit with her family and her friends. She’s the type of person where she glows up the whole room and everybody was going have a good time. She did everything she was supposed to do as a young woman.”
De’Vazia Turner
Turner, a manager at Wing Stop, could often be found playing basketball and detailing cars, according to friends and family.
A father of four, he began Saturday night at his mother’s house — enjoying dinner and taking a shower before going out to a birthday party at a club, said his mother, Penelope Scott. It was the last time she ever saw him alive.
“People should have the freedom to have fun without this craziness,” Scott said.
On Monday, Scott walked slowly down 10th Street, clutching onto the hands of family members as she stopped at a memorial for those slain. Family members brought bouquets of flowers and posters with photos of him and his children.
“This hurts. You’re taking lives from families,” Scott said, speaking to the perpetrators. “Why can’t people just go out and have fun?”
Melinda Davis
Davis, 57, had lived homeless on the streets of downtown Sacramento for years, and died when caught in the gunfire that erupted early Sunday morning according to friends and a nonprofit that had provided services to her.
Sacramento Loaves & Fishes said Davis had visited the organization on and off for “some time,” seeking “respite from the trauma of living on the streets of our city,” according to a statement from the organization.
On Monday, the nonprofit grieved her death and offered help to others needing support after Sunday’s shooting.
“Together we mourn the loss of her life along with 5 others and hold on to hope that those injured recover quickly,” the nonprofit said.
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Dooly County Schools to have early dismissal due to weather
VIENNA, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Dooly County Schools posted an announcement on social media stating that due to inclement weather, schools would have an early dismissal.
According to the post, the dismissal is set for 1:30 p.m. , which is when car riders will need to be picked up. The post also mentions that Buses will leave the schools to take students home at 1:30 p.m.
Parents are asked to be careful and follow guidance from weather reports.
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Dooly County Schools to have early dismissal due to weather
VIENNA, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Dooly County Schools posted an announcement on social media stating that due to inclement weather, schools would have an early dismissal.
According to the post, the dismissal is set for 1:30 p.m. , which is when car riders will need to be picked up. The post also mentions that Buses will leave the schools to take students home at 1:30 p.m.
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Middle Georgia could see back to back days of severe weather
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A pair of storm systems could bring severe weather to Middle Georgia Tuesday and Wednesday.
Today
Storms began to enter the western counties of Middle Georgia around 9 am this morning. Rain is likely for most of the region in on and off fashion throughout the afternoon. The worst of the storm activity is expected during the lunchtime hours today. The risk level has not changed from yesterday; it is still a Level 3 “Enhanced” risk for the entire region. Several key ingredients are at play, with an abundance of low level wind shear driving up a tornado threat ahead of the afternoon hours. The good news is the clouds will not be able to clear to allow additional warming, so a powerful push of warm air from the south will be needed to really jump start things. If temperatures can get up into the mid 70s for most of the region, there will be plenty of fuel for storms.
The main cold front is still a ways off in Mississippi, however conditions are likely to become favorable for severe weather by lunchtime. Tornado watches are in effect across all of southern Mississippi and Alabama. It is definitely possible that we see one issued before noon that includes much of Georgia south of I-20. Aside from the tornado risk today, there is also concern for powerful straight line winds associated with downbursts. Winds about 1km off the ground will be blowing at or close to hurricane force much of the afternoon. Heavy downbursts of rain can bring those winds down to the surface, likely resulting in straight line wind damage. Small to medium hail will also be possible as storms fire up this afternoon.
Tonight some weaker storms and showers will persist, however today’s severe threat will drop off ahead of the sunset. It will remain very warm overnight as the winds remain out of the southwest despite a cold front passing. Low temperatures rolling into tomorrow morning will be in the mid 60s. Rain totals by tomorrow morning across the regoin will mainly fall between 1″ and 2″.
Tomorrow
Wednesday brings another threat for severe weather, although the setup is a bit different. We will see afternoon storms fire up in Middle Georgia, once again likely during the lunchtime hours. They will likely fire up a little later than they did on Tuesday, however it should still be early enough to limit potential sunlight. As of now, highs are forecast to be in the upper 70s and lower 80s. All of Middle Georgia is under the Level 2 “Slight” risk for tomorrow afternoon. Models at this time have it looking a bit messy as storms roll through the region, however a couple of those storms could be severe. The greater tornado threat remains off to the north, including the Atlanta area.
The afternoon storm activity will taper off a bit during the evening hours, which could potentially allow some clearing. It shouldn’t be an issue, however, as the sun will either already be setting or close to it by that point. A line of cells (and likely just storms by the time it arrives) will push into Middle Georgia after midnight. By the time they arrive, they will likely be much weaker than they were in the Northern Georgia. They will still carry a small risk of severe, but with temperatures dropping towards the upper 50s ahead of Thursday morning the overall potential should be limited.
Thursday and Beyond
There may be a couple of lingering showers to kick the day off, but other than that the rain train will be leaving us as Thursday begins. There will be plenty of cloud cover early, blocking out the view of the sunrise. By lunchtime, however, the clouds will have mostly left Middle Georgia. Forecast highs are in the low to mid 70s for the afternoon with lows dropping back into the mid to upper 40s.
Friday will see plenty of sun early with cloud fields developing in the afternoon. Highs will be in the mid to upper 60s around the region with lows dropping into the upper 30s and lower 40s, bringing on the annual April cold snap.
Saturday will be the coldest day as highs top off in the low to mid 60s. The European model is again calling for isolated showers on Saturday related to the slow departure of the system to the north, however none of the other models see it and it didn’t rain this past weekend when it called for those showers either. Forecast lows overnight are expected to drop into the mid to upper 30s.
Follow Meteorologist Aaron Lowery on Facebook (Aaron Lowery 41NBC) and Twitter (@ALowWX) for weather updates throughout the day. Also, you can watch his forecasts Monday through Friday on 41NBC News at Daybreak (6-7 a.m.) and 41Today (11 a.m).
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MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A pair of storm systems could bring severe weather to Middle Georgia Tuesday and Wednesday.
Today
Storms began to enter the western counties of Middle Georgia around 9 am this morning. Rain is likely for most of the region in on and off fashion throughout the afternoon. The worst of the storm activity is expected during the lunchtime hours today. The risk level has not changed from yesterday; it is still a Level 3 “Enhanced” risk for the entire region. Several key ingredients are at play, with an abundance of low level wind shear driving up a tornado threat ahead of the afternoon hours. The good news is the clouds will not be able to clear to allow additional warming, so a powerful push of warm air from the south will be needed to really jump start things. If temperatures can get up into the mid 70s for most of the region, there will be plenty of fuel for storms.
The main cold front is still a ways off in Mississippi, however conditions are likely to become favorable for severe weather by lunchtime. Tornado watches are in effect across all of southern Mississippi and Alabama. It is definitely possible that we see one issued before noon that includes much of Georgia south of I-20. Aside from the tornado risk today, there is also concern for powerful straight line winds associated with downbursts. Winds about 1km off the ground will be blowing at or close to hurricane force much of the afternoon. Heavy downbursts of rain can bring those winds down to the surface, likely resulting in straight line wind damage. Small to medium hail will also be possible as storms fire up this afternoon.
Tonight some weaker storms and showers will persist, however today’s severe threat will drop off ahead of the sunset. It will remain very warm overnight as the winds remain out of the southwest despite a cold front passing. Low temperatures rolling into tomorrow morning will be in the mid 60s. Rain totals by tomorrow morning across the regoin will mainly fall between 1″ and 2″.
Tomorrow
Wednesday brings another threat for severe weather, although the setup is a bit different. We will see afternoon storms fire up in Middle Georgia, once again likely during the lunchtime hours. They will likely fire up a little later than they did on Tuesday, however it should still be early enough to limit potential sunlight. As of now, highs are forecast to be in the upper 70s and lower 80s. All of Middle Georgia is under the Level 2 “Slight” risk for tomorrow afternoon. Models at this time have it looking a bit messy as storms roll through the region, however a couple of those storms could be severe. The greater tornado threat remains off to the north, including the Atlanta area.
The afternoon storm activity will taper off a bit during the evening hours, which could potentially allow some clearing. It shouldn’t be an issue, however, as the sun will either already be setting or close to it by that point. A line of cells (and likely just storms by the time it arrives) will push into Middle Georgia after midnight. By the time they arrive, they will likely be much weaker than they were in the Northern Georgia. They will still carry a small risk of severe, but with temperatures dropping towards the upper 50s ahead of Thursday morning the overall potential should be limited.
Thursday and Beyond
There may be a couple of lingering showers to kick the day off, but other than that the rain train will be leaving us as Thursday begins. There will be plenty of cloud cover early, blocking out the view of the sunrise. By lunchtime, however, the clouds will have mostly left Middle Georgia. Forecast highs are in the low to mid 70s for the afternoon with lows dropping back into the mid to upper 40s.
Friday will see plenty of sun early with cloud fields developing in the afternoon. Highs will be in the mid to upper 60s around the region with lows dropping into the upper 30s and lower 40s, bringing on the annual April cold snap.
Saturday will be the coldest day as highs top off in the low to mid 60s. The European model is again calling for isolated showers on Saturday related to the slow departure of the system to the north, however none of the other models see it and it didn’t rain this past weekend when it called for those showers either. Forecast lows overnight are expected to drop into the mid to upper 30s.
Follow Meteorologist Aaron Lowery on Facebook (Aaron Lowery 41NBC) and Twitter (@ALowWX) for weather updates throughout the day. Also, you can watch his forecasts Monday through Friday on 41NBC News at Daybreak (6-7 a.m.) and 41Today (11 a.m).
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PENSACOLA, Fla. – Information Warfare Training Command (IWTC) Corry Station reflects on COVID-19 “Then and Now” in response to the regions reduction in COVID-19 mask and medical screening protocols, March 2022.
The Navy Region Southwest All Hands Message, Corona Virus (COVID-19) Update: March 4, 2022 stated, “While COVID-19 is still a significant concern… leadership has implemented some new instructions based on the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force and CDC locality information.”
In March 2022, indoor mask wearing is not required for Department of Defense personnel or visitors. Additionally, the medical screening program is not required for facilities onboard NAS Pensacola, including IWTC Corry Station. This is a significant step toward “post pandemic” normalcy for staff members and students who experienced extreme restrictions and operational challenges during the pandemic.
“I am glad to have the mask restrictions lifted” said U.S. Navy Senior Chief Cryptologic Technician (Collection) Raymond Donato, an IWTC Corry Station Instructor. “It is difficult to project your voice to a classroom while wearing a mask.”
In March 2020, northwest military bases tightened COVID-19 mitigation protocols by implementing Health Protection Condition Charlie (HPCON C), which is the fourth most stringent level on the five-level Department of Defense protocol for handling disease outbreaks.
During HPCON Charlie, most regional bases were placed in an “official business only” posture that only allowed access to base for essential activities, such as medical care and mission essential operations. In addition to limited base access, commands were instructed to use teleworking to the highest extent possible.
All information warfare training courses offered onboard Corry Station were considered essential, and training operations continued. “Even before COVID, we were undermanned,” said U.S. Coast Guard Information Specialist 1st Class Zachary Testa. “During COVID, we had additional restrictions as well as an increase in the number of students and course convenes.”
For the nearly 2,500 students residing onboard Corry Station, HPCON Charlie meant they were not permitted to enter the majority of private businesses for any reason. Furthermore, base resources, such as dining facilities, recreational activities, and morale events were limited due to social distancing protocols.
“Students’ mental health and overall well-being were at an all-time low during the base lockdown,” said U.S. Navy Information Systems Technician 1st Class Savannah Tynes, an instructor at IWTC Corry Station. “Unfortunately, that comes with restrictions that needed to be followed to ensure the health and safety of the staff members, their families, and our students.”
The command’s responsibility to prioritize the health and safety of Sailors onboard Corry Station constituted additional duties for staff members and instructors. Some of those tasks included ensuring that staff and students were medically screened upon entrance to base facilities, daily extensive cleaning of classrooms, and enforcing social distance guidelines base-wide.
“The first positive case we had in the schoolhouse, we had to clean the classroom thoroughly to prevent the spread of infection,” explained Donato. “We wore medical suits, cleaned with bleach and blocked off the space for three days.”
A reduction of mitigations for COVID-19 has allowed IWTC Corry Station staff members to reflect on the pandemic protocols, and many agree that they were challenged, both personally and professionally.
“I had a Sailor re-enlisting for $90K and the day before his reenlistment, he tested positive for COVID-19. I worked with the chain of command and executed the reenlistment via FaceTime and digital signature,” said Chief Navy Career Counselor David Haeffner. “It forced me to think outside the box, still completing the occupational requirements, only from a different angle.”
“I knew this command was going to be challenging but COVID really put a twist on everyone in the Navy, not only Corry Station,” said Tynes. “As a command I think we handled restrictions and precautions effectively and in doing so we were able to still get Sailors to the Fleet.”
While command staff and students hope to see IWTC Corry Station return to normal operation for good, all Department of Defense installations are subject to increased protocols should the COVID-19 community levels rise. Additional information on the Center for Disease Control and Prevention community levels can be found at: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/your-health/covid-by-county.html.
IWTC Corry Station is a part of the Center for Information Warfare Training (CIWT). With four schoolhouse commands, a detachment, and training sites throughout the United States and Japan, CIWT trains over 22,000 students every year, delivering trained information warfare professionals to the Navy and joint services. CIWT also offers more than 200 courses for cryptologic technicians, intelligence specialists, information systems technicians, electronics technicians, and officers in the information warfare community.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Tiger Woods says, for now anyway, he’s planning to play this week in the Masters, a little more than a year after nearly losing a leg in a car crash.
The five-time champion at Augusta National made the announcement Tuesday morning. He will play nine more practice holes on Wednesday before making a final decision, but will be doing so with the intention of playing Thursday.
“As of right now,” Woods said, “I feel like I’m going to play.”
Woods was asked if he believes he can win this week. “I do,” he said.
“I can hit it just fine,” Woods added. “I don’t have any qualms about what I can do physically from a golf standpoint. It’s now, walking’s the hard part. This is not an easy walk to begin with. Now given the condition that my leg is in, it gets a little more difficult. And 72 holes is a long road. It’s going to be a tough challenge and a challenge that I’m up for.”
There had been plenty of signals in recent days that Woods was on the cusp of deciding it was time to play again. He came to Augusta National for a practice round last week, then returned Sunday — saying he’d be “a game-time decision” — and Monday for more. On Tuesday morning, with bad weather in the forecast, he spent plenty of time in the practice areas.
“It’s great to be back,” Woods said.
Woods played in December at the PNC Challenge, a 36-hole scramble on a flat Florida course where he and his son Charlie finished second to John Daly and his son. Woods was allowed to use a cart in that event, and when those rounds were over he flatly dismissed any notion that his game was tour-ready again.
“I can’t compete against these guys right now, no,” Woods said on Dec. 19. “It’s going to take a lot of work to get to where I feel like I can compete at these guys and be at a high level.”
About 3-1/2 months later, Woods apparently feels differently. If he plays, he’ll be in the Masters for the 24th time; he’s finished in the top five 12 times in his previous 23 appearances.
“I love competing,” Woods said. “I feel like if I can still compete at the highest level, I’m going to. And if I feel like I can still win, I’m going to play. But if I feel like I can’t, then you won’t see me out here.”
Thursday’s opening round would mark the first time Woods competes against the world’s best players since Nov. 15, 2020, which was the final round of that year’s pandemic-delayed Masters.
He had his fifth back surgery two months later and was still recovering from that on Feb. 23, 2021 when he crashed his SUV over a median on a suburban coastal road in Los Angeles and down the side of a hill.
Woods’ injuries from that crash were so severe that doctors considered right leg amputation, before reassembling the limb by placing a rod in the tibia and using screws and pins to stabilize additional injuries in the ankle and foot.
“It’s been a tough, tough year … but here we are,” Woods said.
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For more than two decades, the UMSL Trailblazers Award has honored, celebrated and uplifted the achievements of exceptional women who have paved the way for others on campus and beyond. The annual awards are part of the university’s Women’s History Month programming, and this year’s theme was “Womyn’s Lives: Paths to Healing, Hope, and Empowerment.”
This year’s awardees included Sheila Grigsby and Melissa Douglas. Here’s more about them:
Sheila Grigsby received her doctorate from the University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Nursing. In addition to working on her degree and teaching, she has spent much of the last year focusing on a project funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. This study, in collaboration with organizations, seeks to reduce health disparities in the St. Louis region by engaging community members through focus groups and other activities to address asthma and other issues among youth. A longtime member of the UMSL teaching faculty, Dr. Grigsby has worked extensively in the St. Louis region as a community organizer and health coalition builder. She is interested in teen pregnancy prevention, sexual and reproductive health and preventing chronic disease in the African American community using participatory research methods.
Melissa Douglass is a trailblazing social entrepreneur who is known in professional spaces as “The Virtual Clinician.” She is a licensed clinical social worker and the founder/clinical director of Goal Driven Counseling, one of the first Black-owned, virtual mental health counseling practices in the U.S. Her work and passion meet at the intersection of modern tech utilization and trauma-informed wellness strategies, and she serves as a professional development trainer and consultant on mental health literacy topics and trauma-informed systems of care. Douglass values impactful change and enjoys partnering with organizations to guide actionable, solution-focused strategies that center equitable approaches through a person-centered lens. She is equally invested in the development of future social workers as an adjunct professor and has shared mental health and tech-related knowledge on nationwide platforms such as National Public Radio, Blackdoctor.org, KPLR News Channel 11, the National Association of Social Workers Conference as the Plenary speaker, and at conferences, organizations and universities.
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José Andrés: Russia is "totally" using starvation as a weapon of war
Chef José Andrés said Tuesday at the Axios What's Next summit that he would continue his efforts to feed starving Ukrainians despite the dangers caused by Russia's unprovoked invasion of the country.
Driving the news: Since the start of the invasion, Andrés has been working to provide food and meals to people fleeing the war in Ukraine to surrounding countries, as well as those who cannot leave.
What he's saying: "For me, to arrive there and provide food to those people ... as maybe as risky as it was, we did it well, very safe, and quite frankly I would do it again every time," Andrés, founder of the nonprofit World Central Kitchen, said.
- When asked if Russia is using starvation as a weapon of war, Andrés agreed, adding that "food has been used in the history of humanity for very bad things."
State of play: Andrés said that World Central Kitchen is moving operations to northern Ukrainian cities as they are "being liberated" and the Russian military retreats, adding that they are bringing "thousands of meals and bags of food."
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that more than 300 people were killed in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, and the number is expected to grow as more bodies are uncovered.
Between the lines: Last month, the United Nations warned that Ukraine's food supply chain is "falling apart" under stress from Russia's invasion.
- Jakob Kern, a senior manager at the World Food Program, said that the invasion has triggered "a wave of collateral hunger across the globe."
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Climeworks raises $650M for direct air capture
Climeworks, a Swiss carbon removal startup, raised $650m from such backers as Partners Group, Swiss Re and Baillie Gifford, Axios Pro Rata's Dan Primack reports.
Why it matters: There's an emerging consensus that carbon-emissions removal is key to stemming climate change, though not nearly as key as reducing emissions.
- There's little agreement on whether carbon removal can really be done at scale — or, indeed, if the technology fundamentally works as claimed.
- This money, the most ever raised for a carbon removal startup, could help answer that question, as Climeworks currently operates the world's largest direct air capture facility.
Yes, but: The IPCC, in its latest climate report Monday, acknowledged that carbon capture technology such as direct air capture may play a role in mitigating the climate crisis — but placed far more emphasis on sharply reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
The bottom line: "Climeworks’ technology works by moving large quantities of air over a special chemical that is able to filter out CO₂, similar to a magnet attracting iron fillings. The new compound is then heated to high temperatures to release a pure stream of CO₂ which can be injected underground. The entire process is quite energy intensive and only makes sense for the planet if the main source of energy is carbon-free." — Akshat Rathi, Bloomberg
💭 Our thought bubble: Talk to any number of investors, climate scientists and engineers off-the-record, and there remains pronounced skepticism whether direct air capture technologies truly remove more emissions than they generate, even when powered by renewables.
- What you don't want to hear as an investor: Theranos mentioned in the same sentence as direct air capture — which continues to happen regularly in our conversations with sources. Watch this space.
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Remote raises $300 million to manage company payrolls worldwide
Global HR startup Remote, which helps companies manage employee payrolls worldwide, said it raised $300 million at a $3 billion valuation in a round of funding led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2.
- Previous investors Accel, Sequoia, Index Ventures, Two Sigma Ventures, General Catalyst, 9Yards, Adams Street, and Base Growth also participated.
Why it matters: Even as some companies have announced return-to-office plans, the pace of remote hiring has not slowed — and as companies recognize talent is everywhere, hiring and paying employees wherever they are has become more important than ever.
How it works: Remote provides payroll, benefits, taxes, and compliance — including acting as the employer of record — for companies working with contractors and full-time employees in more than 60 countries worldwide.
- Customers include large businesses with global workforces, like GitLab, DoorDash, Hello Fresh, Loom and Paystack.
- While Remote primarily works with clients directly, it expanded its ability to offer services through third-party HR platforms by launching an API last month.
Yes, but: Remote is hardly alone in the global payroll and employee management space, competing with Papaya Global, Oyster and Deel, among others.
- And there’s plenty of activity in the sector — just last week, Papaya Global acquired payments firm Azimo to augment its global payroll services.
Flashback: Last July, Remote raised $150 million in a round that valued the company at just over $1 billion.
- Since being founded in 2019, Remote has raised nearly $500 million altogether.
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Behavioral health M&A in motion: Monte Nido, Embark, Bradford
Private equity sellers are taking three different behavioral health companies to market.
- Centre Partners' Bradford Health Services, Levine Leichtman's Monte Nido & Affiliates and Housatonic Partners' Embark Behavioral Health are all currently exploring sales, sources tell Axios.
Why it matters: As demand for behavioral health services continues to outstrip supply, investors and strategic buyers of all types are deploying capital behind the sector's various subspecialties in a meaningful way. Ideally, more money in the sector means more access to care.
Consider Optum's recent $1.2 billion Refresh Mental Health buy, and the funding of virtual-first mental health startups like Eleos Health, which this morning raised $20 million in Series A funding.
Driving the news: In one of three situations, sources tell Axios that Jefferies is providing financial advice to Chandler, Ariz.-based Embark on a potential sale.
- Embark, formerly known as Calo Programs, provides various treatment programs for teens and young adults struggling with mental health and substance abuse issues.
- The company generates close to $40 million in EBITDA, sources say. That's up from some $5 million of EBITDA when Housatonic invested a minority stake in January 2017, one person adds.
- In other recent adolescent-focused mental health dealmaking, Onex Partners last year invested in Newport Healthcare at a $1.3 billion valuation.
Yes, and: Harris Williams is advising on the potential sale of Bradford Health Services, which sources say generates some $20 million to $30 million of EBITDA.
- Centre Partners’ investment in the Birmingham, Ala.-based business dates to mid-2016.
- Bradford provides drug and alcohol addiction treatment programs, both on an inpatient and outpatient basis, and via detox facilities, in Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, North Carolina and Tennessee.
Finally, initial bids were due March 22 for LLCP’s Monte Nide, one source says.
- Monte Nido, which Sarah first wrote in October had engaged Harris Williams for a sale, treats adults and adolescents with eating disorders.
- Approximately $45 million of EBITDA is marketed for the business, sources say. Since LLCP invested in September 2016, the company has more than doubled its footprint to 40 programs across 13 states.
- Arguably the best comp for Monte Nido is Eating Recovery Center (although it has more recently expanded into mood and anxiety treatment), which Apax Partners and Oak HC/FT joined hands to acquire in an approximately $1.4 billion deal in October, Sarah wrote previously.
- That translated to more than 15x ERC's marketed EBITDA of $91 million, sources said then, or closer to 18.5x when applying pro forma EBITDA, another source said.
The bottom line: Investors are lining up to back behavioral health providers, and that may ultimately help address the category's access program, both by adding new treatment facilities and leveraging virtual capabilities.
LLCP and Harris Williams declined to comment. Centre Partners, Housatonic, Embark, Bradford and Jefferies did not return requests for comment.
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Startup using voice to quantify therapy raises $20M
Eleos Health, a startup using voice technology to analyze behavioral health sessions, raised $20 million in Series A funding, CEO and co-founder Alon Joffe tells Axios exclusively.
Why it matters: A sizzling subsector, behavioral health is attracting unprecedented interest from venture and private equity backers alike. But while most of the vertical's buzziest companies are providers of therapy, Eleos helps quantify that therapy.
- "A big part of behavioral health treatment is the conversation itself," Joffe tells Axios. "So my co-founders and I thought, 'How come we don’t understand the mechanics of these conversations — how do they help improve outcomes?'"
Details: The deal was led by F-Prime Capital and Eight Roads Ventures. Previous backers aMoon Fund, lool ventures and Arkin Holdings also joined the round, bringing Eleos’ total funding to $28 million.
- Joffe notes that Eleos has seen its valuation quadruple in the past nine months.
Context: Joffe launched Eleos in Boston in March 2020 with co-founders Dror Zaide and Alon Rabinovich. What they didn't know at the time was how much demand for behavioral health tools would skyrocket in the coming years.
- "We’re in a vertical with a tsunami of demand and flat supply," Joffe tells Axios.
- Active users of Eleos include Pennsylvania-based addiction treatment center Gaudenzia Home, Massachusetts-based Brookline Center for Community Mental Health and Ohio-based mental health organization Coleman Health Services.
How it works: With consent, Eleos uses artificial intelligence to analyze conversations between behavioral health clinicians and patients. The goal is to reduce clinicians' administrative workloads and quantify the results of therapy.
- The tool overlays mainstream electronic health records and is designed to identify commonly used words or themes and track how those change over time in accordance with a given treatment modality.
- All data is de-identified to protect patient confidentiality, Joffe says.
- Eleos also tracks how much time a clinician spends listening versus talking in a given session, and how frequently they interrupt patients.
- Joffe says the process takes 2-5 minutes and reduces the time clinicians spend documenting sessions by an average of 40%.
Yes, but: The research on how Eleos impacts patient outcomes is still early, and the bulk of that research comes with significant caveats.
- For example, a 2020 paper published in the journal JMIR Mental Health concluded that Eleos "appears to be a feasible, sustainable and effective way to assess behavioral health care," was written by Eleos chief clinical officer Shiri Sadeh-Sharvit.
What they're saying: Industry observers say it will become increasingly important to quantify treatment outcomes with a range of tools and technologies, including voice analysis.
- "Right now, much of the mental health industry relies on self-reported scoring and surveys from patients," says Shivan Bhavnani, a health tech investor and the founder of behavioral health research firm GIMBHI.
- "I imagine Eleos Health can begin to quantify symptoms of certain mental illnesses which can help objectively identify outcome improvement," Bhavnani adds.
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WarnerMedia chief Jason Kilar resigns
WarnerMedia chief Jason Kilar is resigning, he told staff in a note sent Tuesday.
Why it matters: The move comes ahead of WarnerMedia's pending merger with Discovery, which is expected to close this month. Kilar's departure has been anticipated ever since the merger was first announced last year.
- "With the pending transaction with Discovery nearing close, now is the right time to share with each of you that I will be departing this amazing company," he said.
The big picture: Kilar ran WarnerMedia during a pivotal time. He oversaw the launch of the company's streaming service HBO Max, and through an aggressive strategy to release all of Warner Bros. movies on the platform and in theaters at the same time in 2021, HBO Max hit its subscriber goals early.
- He made the ultimate decision to force CNN head Jeff Zucker to resign earlier this year.
- In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Kilar addressed the situation saying, "being a leader is not a popularity contest."
Go deeper: Discovery shareholders approve WarnerMedia merger
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Police in Erie, Pennsylvania, responded to a shooting at Erie High School on Tuesday morning that left one person injured, according to the city.
The person who was shot is in good condition and was transported to the hospital, the city said.
Police have secured the high school and have a heavy presence of police cars and asked people to avoid the area, the city said. "All students are safe," the police said.
Erie Public Schools issued an alert to parents on its Facebook page, saying that there was a shooting at the high school and that the school was locked down.
"The building is secure. Erie Bureau of Police report no active threat," the district said.
Dismissal of the students began after police cleared the school, Erie Public Schools said.
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In 2008, a flight nurse was grounded in her third trimester. Then her colleagues were killed in mid-air.
The tragedy led her to help the medical flight industry change its safety protocols.
NPR’s Laurel Morales reports.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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Francisco González, a founding member of Los Lobos, has died. He was 68.
In the early 1970s, González joined fellow musicians Louie Perez, David Hidalgo, Cesar Rosas and Conrad Lozano to form one of East LA's most eclectic bands.
Los Lobos paid tribute to González on its Instagram page.
"We are deeply saddened by the passing of our brother and founding member, Francisco González. He, along with Cesar, started the group in 1973 for the purpose of 'playing Mexican music for our mothers,' as he always put it. Francisco was a brilliant musician, and after leaving the group in 1976 to follow a different musical path, he went on to master the Veracruz harp, then became the musical director of El Teatro Campesino theatre group—always shining across a lifetime of accomplishments."
González had cancer, according to media outlets citing his son as the source.
Los Lobos created a sound that blended all of the styles they loved: "rock-and-roll and R&B, surf music and soul, mariachi and música norteña, punk rock and country," as self-described on their website. "Chicano hippies playing mariachi music," is what NPR's Felix Contreras thought when he first saw Los Lobos in the mid-1970s.
With his bandito-esque mustache, González sang and played mandolin. After leaving Los Lobos, he mastered the Mexican harp, an instrument he'd loved listening to when he was a little boy. When his album The Gift was released in 2009, González told the Jazz Video Guy he never dreamed he would actually play the harp, an instrument he loved listening to since he was a little boy, "I also wanted to fly like Superman. I knew I couldn't do that either. It was that far away from my reality. But I loved that stuff. I really loved it."
The youngest of seven children, González was raised in a musical family. "My father had been a professional singer, a trained singer," González told Chris Morris for his book Los Lobos: Dream in Blue, "I have posters of him doing some zarzuela [Spanish opera] at theaters in downtown L.A. during the '40s."
González became music director of Teatro Campesino, taught Chicano theater, and helped establish Guadalupe Custom Strings to sell high quality strings for Latin folk instruments. The shop posted on its Instagram, "Rest in peace, Maestro Francisco. East L.A. loves you."
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TUCSON, Ariz. — Looking to camp out on the couch and take down a show that will keep you up too late and help you procrastinate from doing more important tasks? Here are five shows to stream.
MOON KNIGHT
Premise: An everyday guy and the life force of a mercenary inhabit the same body as they investigate mysteries of the Egyptian pantheon.
Stars: Oscar Isaac, Gaspard Ulliel, Ethan Hawke, May Calamawy.
Service: Disney+.
Why it's impossible to stop watching: Not all Marvel shows on Disney+ have been hits, but a solid cast and clever writing crew keep "Moon Knight" near the top of the heap. The series finds buried value in one of Marvel's lesser-known characters, tying them in with flair to the big-picture Marvel Cinematic Universe.
THE DROPOUT
Premise: The expose delves into the life and crimes of Elizabeth Holmes, the sparkplug CEO-turned defendant who fell from grace as a Silicon Valley darling whose blood-testing company was found to be a fraud.
Stars: Amanda Seyfried, Naveen Andrews, Kate McKinnon, William H. Macy.
Service: Hulu.
Why it's impossible to stop watching: Seyfried's Emmy-worth performance fuels the potboiler drama, which remains fascinating even if you've seen and read a ton of content delving into Holmes' story.
HALO
Premise: An adaptation of the beloved Xbox video game franchise about fighting alien soldiers.
Stars: Pablo Schreiber, Jen Taylor, Natasha McElhone, Danny Sapani.
Service: Paramount+.
Why it's impossible to stop watching: Nailing the look and feel of the games while also admirably injecting compelling characters and storylines that the source material is lacking, this is just about as good as a "Halo" adaptation could be.
BEL-AIR
Premise: A twist on the 1990s sitcom "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" is a dramatic take on the concept of a teen from South Philly moving in with wealthy SoCal relatives.
Stars: Jabari Banks, Coco Jones, Olly Sholotan, Jimmy Akingbola.
Service: Peacock.
Why it's impossible to stop watching: A strong cast of actors and incisive writing carry this series, filled with fresh takes on well-established characters that will both please and surprise fans of the old comedy series.
THE GIRL FROM PLAINVILLE
Premise: The drama delves into the 2014 case in which a teen boy committed suicide, and his girlfriend was jailed for encouraging him via text to do so.
Stars: Elle Fanning, Colton Ryan, Chloe Sevigny, Cara Buono.
Service: Hulu.
Why it's impossible to stop watching: Fanning turns in the defining performance of her burgeoning career as the troubled teen in the title role. Sevigny is also striking as the victim's devastated mother. Avoiding cliches and "After School Special"-style tropes, the series digs into befuddling speculation and questions surrounding the case.
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Phil Villarreal is the senior real-time editor for KGUN 9. He is also a digital producer and host of "Phil on Film" seen weekly on Good Morning Tucson, Phil moved to KGUN after 17 years with the Arizona Daily Star, where he was a movie critic, columnist, and reporter. He has penned three books: Secrets of a Stingy Scoundrel, Stormin' Mormon and Zeta Male. A University of Arizona business graduate, he has four children. Share your story ideas and important issues with Phil by emailing phil.villarreal@kgun9.com or by connecting on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Two Harvard University freshmen have launched a website designed to connect people fleeing Ukraine to those in safer countries willing to take them in.
The platform, UkraineTakeShelter.com, is generating offers of help and housing worldwide.
Eighteen-year-old Marco Burstein of Los Angeles and 19-year-old Avi Schiffman of Seattle say they were moved to act by the plight of Ukrainian refugees desperate to escape Russian bombardment.
More than 18,000 prospective hosts have signed up on the site to offer assistance to refugees.
And refugees, in turn, have been registering to find matches with hosts in their locations.
On a recent day, Burstein and Schiffman logged 800,000 users.
One of those who has used the website to help refugees is a man in Sweden, who opened his home to 45-year-old Ukrainian evacuee Oksana Frantseva, her 18-year-old daughter, and their cat, the Associated Press reported.
Schiffman said he felt inspired to do something after attending a pro-Ukrainian rally in California.
According to the United Nations, since the invasion began in late February, more than 4 million Ukrainians have fled the country, half of them children, the AP reported.
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HOUSTON — Sunny is a playful eight-year-old girl. She named herself around the age of four when she decided she identified as a girl. Sunny is now considered a transgender girl. Rebekah and Chet are her parents. We’re not sharing their last name for their protection.
“For us, it wasn't obvious she didn't play with particularly gendered toys to begin with,” Rebekah said. “But then she said to me ‘why did you make me a boy? I wanted to be a girl’. And I just said ‘it wasn't up to me and daddy.’ She said ‘you should have made me a girl. I was meant to be a girl.’”
At first, they thought it was a phase, but she was insistent, so they gradually accepted who she was.
“Our doctor said ‘don’t treat her like she’s special, she’s just a normal kid,’” Sunny said.
At school, Sunny says she’s accepted for who she is.
“I still have lots of friends and no one cares about that,” Sunny said. “No one cares about the differences that I have.”
That may hold true for the kids, but in the state of Texas, Sunny and her mother have been taking regular trips to the Capitol to oppose anti-trans bills from political leaders.
In February, Governor Greg Abbott issued a directive based on Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s declaration that gender-affirming care should be considered child abuse.
However, almost immediately, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg released a statement saying she will not prosecute any parent, facility, or anyone else for providing medically appropriate care to transgender children. Neil Giles is an attorney who has been forced to take an interest in family law to defend his two non-binary children.
“This isn't about protecting kids,” Giles said. “It's about denying the existence of these people and their right to dignity and equality. And Kim Ogg came out and said, ‘That's not who Harris County is, and we're not going to do that. We're not going to enforce this.’”
A prosecutor does have the right to do that. It’s called prosecutorial discretion. Miriam Krinsky, executive director of Fair and Just Prosecution, explains.
“Prosecutors are charged with deciding what should be prosecuted, what should be pursued and what shouldn't,” Krinsky said.
According to Krinsky, prosecutorial discretion gives attorneys the ability to use their expert judgment and maintain a separation of power from the branches that write and pass laws.
“Prosecutors around the country, as well as law enforcement leaders, are having to stand together and stand up on this because this issue does not seem to be limited to Texas alone,” Krinsky said. “Just as we had feared when this amicus brief was filed in Texas, there are other copycat versions of it that seem to be percolating around the country.”
She says district attorneys from coast to coast have come out saying they will not prosecute these cases because they consider criminalization of gender-affirming care as a public safety threat. However, according to Mandy Giles, the founder of Parents of Trans Youth, families are still concerned about the threat of investigations.
“We're here to fight,” Rebekah said. “And that is very true. We are here to fight, but we're not here for the consequences. And the consequences would be losing our child, being jailed as child abusers.”
“That child is a human being and she's just living in her life,” Chet said. “And that's it. That's the long and short of it. And she should be she should have the right to do that.”
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As of April 5, the number of total coronavirus cases reported in Louisiana increased by 246 and there have been 8 new deaths, according to the Louisiana Department of Health.
The total number of cases reported to the state as of Tuesday is 1,233,008. The current total death count is 17,154.
On January 19, LDH, in accordance with CDC, began including total and new reinfections in statewide total and new cases.
Of new COVID cases Tuesday, LDH says 56 are reinfections (defined as a positive viral COVID-19 test in an individual with a previous positive test at least 90 days prior). So far, 64,074 total reinfections have been reported to the state.
LDH reports that not fully vaccinated Louisiana residents accounted for 58 percent of cases and 49 percent of deaths from March 17 to March 23, 2022. Those not fully vaccinated also accounted for 70 percent of current COVID hospitalizations.
LDH is reporting an additional 3,730 COVID-19 vaccinations administered since the last update. The state has now administered 5,031,651 doses, including 2,452,568 completed two-dose series. In LDH Region 4, which includes Acadiana, 317,313 vaccine series have been initiated and 288,030 (47.53% of the population) have been completed. A total of 985,768 "extra doses" have been administered.
Louisiana residents wanting to receive a vaccine can find more information here.
LDH reports that 67 individuals are hospitalized with COVID across the state (down 6 from Monday). Of those patients, 6 were on ventilators (down 1 from Monday).
Across Acadiana, there were 11 new cases and 4 new deaths reported since Monday.
Parishes in Acadiana (probable and confirmed cases and deaths)
- Acadia - 15,858 cases (no change) | 292 deaths (up 1)
- Calcasieu - 54,618 cases (up 1) | 703 deaths (up 1)
- Evangeline - 8,380 cases (up 2) | 156 deaths (no change)
- Iberia - 19,049 cases (up 1) | 264 deaths (no change)
- Jefferson Davis - 6,932 cases (no change) | 157 deaths (up 1)
- Lafayette - 62,302 cases (up 3)| 498 deaths (up 1)
- St. Landry - 22,163 cases (no change) | 414 deaths (no change)
- St. Martin - 12,935 cases (up 2) | 186 deaths (no change)
- St. Mary - 12,467 cases (up 1) | 261 deaths (no change)
- Vermilion - 15,243 (up 1) | 223 deaths (no change)
See the full breakdown from the Louisiana Department of Health, here.
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FROM MONDAY:
As of April 4, the number of total coronavirus cases reported in Louisiana increased by 249 and there have been 8 new deaths, according to the Louisiana Department of Health.
The total number of cases reported to the state as of Monday is 1,232,762. The current total death count is 17,146.
On January 19, LDH, in accordance with CDC, began including total and new reinfections in statewide total and new cases.
Of new COVID cases Monday, LDH says 42 are reinfections (defined as a positive viral COVID-19 test in an individual with a previous positive test at least 90 days prior). So far, 64,018 total reinfections have been reported to the state.
LDH reports that not fully vaccinated Louisiana residents accounted for 58 percent of cases and 49 percent of deaths from March 17 to March 23, 2022. Those not fully vaccinated also accounted for 68 percent of current COVID hospitalizations.
LDH is reporting an additional 3,730 COVID-19 vaccinations administered since the last update. The state has now administered 5,031,651 doses, including 2,452,568 completed two-dose series. In LDH Region 4, which includes Acadiana, 317,313 vaccine series have been initiated and 288,030 (47.53% of the population) have been completed. A total of 985,768 "extra doses" have been administered.
Louisiana residents wanting to receive a vaccine can find more information here.
LDH reports that 73 individuals are hospitalized with COVID across the state (down 6 from Friday). Of those patients, 7 were on ventilators (no change from Friday).
Across Acadiana, there were 33 new cases and 2 new deaths reported since Friday.
Parishes in Acadiana (probable and confirmed cases and deaths)
- Acadia - 15,858 cases (up 4) | 291 deaths (up 1)
- Calcasieu - 54,617 cases (up 7) | 702 deaths (no change)
- Evangeline - 8,378 cases (up 2) | 156 deaths (no change)
- Iberia - 19,048 cases (up 2) | 264 deaths (up 1)
- Jefferson Davis - 6,932 cases (no change) | 156 deaths (no change)
- Lafayette - 62,299 cases (up 12)| 497 deaths (no change)
- St. Landry - 22,163 cases (up 2) | 414 deaths (no change)
- St. Martin - 12,933 cases (up 1) | 186 deaths (no change)
- St. Mary - 12,466 cases (up 1) | 261 deaths (no change)
- Vermilion - 15,242 (up 2) | 223 deaths (no change)
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FROM FRIDAY:
As of April 1, the number of total coronavirus cases reported in Louisiana increased by 91 and there have been 11 new deaths, according to the Louisiana Department of Health.
The total number of cases reported to the state as of Friday is 1,232,513. The current total death count is 17,138.
On January 19, LDH, in accordance with CDC, began including total and new reinfections in statewide total and new cases.
Of new COVID cases Friday, LDH says 18 are reinfections (defined as a positive viral COVID-19 test in an individual with a previous positive test at least 90 days prior). So far, 63,976 total reinfections have been reported to the state.
LDH reports that not fully vaccinated Louisiana residents accounted for 58 percent of cases and 49 percent of deaths from March 17 to March 23, 2022. Those not fully vaccinated also accounted for 70 percent of current COVID hospitalizations.
LDH is reporting an additional 3,093 COVID-19 vaccinations administered since the last update. The state has now administered 5,027,921 doses, including 2,450,557 completed two-dose series. In LDH Region 4, which includes Acadiana, 317,133 vaccine series have been initiated and 287,805 (47.49% of the population) have been completed. A total of 982,609 "extra doses" have been administered.
Louisiana residents wanting to receive a vaccine can find more information here.
LDH reports that 79 individuals are hospitalized with COVID across the state (down 1 from Thursday). Of those patients, 7 were on ventilators (no change from Thursday).
Across Acadiana, there were 10 new cases and 1 new death reported since Thursday.
Parishes in Acadiana (probable and confirmed cases and deaths)
- Acadia - 15,854 cases (up no change) | 290 deaths (no change)
- Calcasieu - 54,610 cases (up 5) | 702 deaths (no change)
- Evangeline - 8,376 cases (no change) | 156 deaths (no change)
- Iberia - 19,046 cases (no change) | 263 deaths (no change)
- Jefferson Davis - 6,932 cases (no change) | 156 deaths (no change)
- Lafayette - 62,287 cases (up 3)| 497 deaths (up 1)
- St. Landry - 22,161 cases (no change) | 414 deaths (no change)
- St. Martin - 12,932 cases (no change) | 186 deaths (no change)
- St. Mary - 12,465 cases (up 1) | 261 deaths (no change)
- Vermilion - 15,240 (up 1) | 223 deaths (no change)
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FROM THURSDAY:
As of March 31, the number of total coronavirus cases reported in Louisiana increased by 165 and there have been 10 new deaths, according to the Louisiana Department of Health.
The total number of cases reported to the state as of Thursday is 1,232,422. The current total death count is 17,127.
On January 19, LDH, in accordance with CDC, began including total and new reinfections in statewide total and new cases.
Of new COVID cases Thursday, LDH says 30 are reinfections (defined as a positive viral COVID-19 test in an individual with a previous positive test at least 90 days prior). So far, 63,958 total reinfections have been reported to the state.
LDH reports that not fully vaccinated Louisiana residents accounted for 58 percent of cases and 49 percent of deaths from March 17 to March 23, 2022. Those not fully vaccinated also accounted for 69 percent of current COVID hospitalizations.
LDH is reporting an additional 3,093 COVID-19 vaccinations administered since the last update. The state has now administered 5,027,921 doses, including 2,450,557 completed two-dose series. In LDH Region 4, which includes Acadiana, 317,133 vaccine series have been initiated and 287,805 (47.49% of the population) have been completed. A total of 982,609 "extra doses" have been administered.
Louisiana residents wanting to receive a vaccine can find more information here.
LDH reports that 80 individuals are hospitalized with COVID across the state (down 4 from Wednesday). Of those patients, 7 were on ventilators (no change from Wednesday).
Across Acadiana, there were 22 new cases and 3 new deaths reported since Wednesday.
Parishes in Acadiana (probable and confirmed cases and deaths)
- Acadia - 15,854 cases (up 11) | 290 deaths (no change)
- Calcasieu - 54,605 cases (up 9) | 702 deaths (no change)
- Evangeline - 8,376 cases (no change) | 156 deaths (no change)
- Iberia - 19,046 cases (no change) | 263 deaths (no change)
- Jefferson Davis - 6,932 cases (no change) | 156 deaths (no change)
- Lafayette - 62,284 cases (up 1)| 496 deaths (up 1)
- St. Landry - 22,161 cases (no change) | 414 deaths (up 1)
- St. Martin - 12,932 cases (no change) | 186 deaths (no change)
- St. Mary - 12,464 cases (up 1) | 261 deaths (up 1)
- Vermilion - 15,239 (no change) | 223 deaths (no change)
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FROM WEDNESDAY:
As of March 30, the number of total coronavirus cases reported in Louisiana increased by 129 and there have been 13 new deaths, according to the Louisiana Department of Health.
The total number of cases reported to the state as of Wednesday is 1,232,257. The current total death count is 17,117.
On January 19, LDH, in accordance with CDC, began including total and new reinfections in statewide total and new cases.
Of new COVID cases Wednesday, LDH says 14 are reinfections (defined as a positive viral COVID-19 test in an individual with a previous positive test at least 90 days prior). So far, 63,928 total reinfections have been reported to the state.
LDH reports that not fully vaccinated Louisiana residents accounted for 58 percent of cases and 49 percent of deaths from March 17 to March 23, 2022. Those not fully vaccinated also accounted for 67 percent of current COVID hospitalizations.
LDH is reporting an additional 3,420 COVID-19 vaccinations administered since the last update. The state has now administered 5,024,828 doses, including 2,448,794 completed two-dose series. In LDH Region 4, which includes Acadiana, 316,969 vaccine series have been initiated and 287,601 (47.45% of the population) have been completed. A total of 980,174 "extra doses" have been administered.
Louisiana residents wanting to receive a vaccine can find more information here.
LDH reports that 84 individuals are hospitalized with COVID across the state (down 7 from Tuesday). Of those patients, 7 were on ventilators (down 2 from Tuesday).
Across Acadiana, there were 11 new cases and 1 new death reported since Tuesday.
Parishes in Acadiana (probable and confirmed cases and deaths)
- Acadia - 15,843 cases (up 2) | 290 deaths (no change)
- Calcasieu - 54,596 cases (up 4) | 702 deaths (no change)
- Evangeline - 8,376 cases (no change) | 156 deaths (no change)
- Iberia - 19,046 cases (no change) | 263 deaths (no change)
- Jefferson Davis - 6,932 cases (up 1) | 156 deaths (no change)
- Lafayette - 62,283 cases (up 3)| 495 deaths (up 1)
- St. Landry - 22,161 cases (no change) | 413 deaths (no change)
- St. Martin - 12,932 cases (no change) | 186 deaths (no change)
- St. Mary - 12,463 cases (up 1) | 260 deaths (no change)
- Vermilion - 15,239 (no change) | 223 deaths (no change)
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FROM TUESDAY:
As of March 29, the number of total coronavirus cases reported in Louisiana increased by 84 and there have been 18 new deaths, according to the Louisiana Department of Health.
The total number of cases reported to the state as of Tuesday is 1,232,128. The current total death count is 17,104.
On January 19, LDH, in accordance with CDC, began including total and new reinfections in statewide total and new cases.
Of new COVID cases Tuesday, LDH says 6 are reinfections (defined as a positive viral COVID-19 test in an individual with a previous positive test at least 90 days prior). So far, 63,914 total reinfections have been reported to the state.
LDH reports that not fully vaccinated Louisiana residents accounted for 58 percent of cases and 60 percent of deaths from March 10 to March 16, 2022. Those not fully vaccinated also accounted for 71 percent of current COVID hospitalizations.
LDH is reporting an additional 3,420 COVID-19 vaccinations administered since the last update. The state has now administered 5,024,828 doses, including 2,448,794 completed two-dose series. In LDH Region 4, which includes Acadiana, 316,969 vaccine series have been initiated and 287,601 (47.45% of the population) have been completed. A total of 980,174 "extra doses" have been administered.
Louisiana residents wanting to receive a vaccine can find more information here.
LDH reports that 91 individuals are hospitalized with COVID across the state (up 2 from Monday). Of those patients, 9 were on ventilators (no change from Monday).
Across Acadiana, there were 16 new cases and 4 new deaths reported since Monday.
Parishes in Acadiana (probable and confirmed cases and deaths)
- Acadia - 15,841 cases (no change) | 290 deaths (no change)
- Calcasieu - 54,592 cases (up 2) | 702 deaths (up 1)
- Evangeline - 8,376 cases (no change) | 156 deaths (no change)
- Iberia - 19,046 cases (no change) | 263 deaths (up 1)
- Jefferson Davis - 6,931 cases (no change) | 156 deaths (no change)
- Lafayette - 62,280 cases (up 10)| 494 deaths (up 1)
- St. Landry - 22,161 cases (up 3) | 413 deaths (no change)
- St. Martin - 12,932 cases (no change) | 186 deaths (up 1)
- St. Mary - 12,462 cases (up 1) | 260 deaths (no change)
- Vermilion - 15,239 (no change) | 223 deaths (no change)
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The Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office is investigating three separate shootings that happened over the weekend.
In the first incident, deputies say one person was hospitalized for an apparent gunshot wound just after midnight Saturday, April 2. LPSO says further details of this shooting are still under investigation.
Hours later, deputies responded to a second, unrelated shooting in the 800 block of Lajaunie Road which happened at around 4:00 a.m. A woman sustained non-life-threatening injuries during the incident. The case is still under investigation.
A third shooting was reported on Sunday, April 3, at around 9:30 p.m. in the 100 block of German Road. One person was shot and transported to a local hospital. The suspect, identified as 35-year-old Casiana Edu, was arrested and charged with Aggravated Battery as a result of the shooting.
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Researchers have identified a new COVID-19 variant in the UK.
More than 600 cases of XE have been reported in the UK.
The new variant is a combination of the original BA.1 omicron variant and its subvariant BA.2.
A recombination of genetic material, like this one, is known as a “recombinant” variant.
Health experts say recombinant variants are common and can disappear on their own.
There have already been other recombinants, including XA, XB, XC and XD, which ended up not posing a threat.
Researchers are still looking at how contagious XE is and the World Health Organization is monitoring it.
However, the CDC has not identified XE as a variant of concern at this time.
It is believed XE could be more infectious than BA.2, but the WHO said more information is needed.
There is no evidence indicating that XE is resistant to vaccines, or that it causes more severe deisease or is more deadly, researchers have said.
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CHICAGO, Ill. — Last week, a district in Florida said it was forced to cut school bus routes due to the ongoing problem of recruiting and retaining drivers. Thousands of those high school students will lose their bus rides this fall.
From California and Iowa to Virginia and Florida, schools are having to make tough choices about how to keep the wheels on the bus going round and round.
The deepening shortage of bus drivers has districts adjusting which routes to keep and how many students they can bus in.
“You just saw it all over the country, there were districts that had to go remote because they didn't have bus drivers. There were districts that reduced service and increased walk boundaries,” said Joanna McFarland, CEO and founder of HopSkipDrive, a school ride service that operates a fleet of cars and SUVs in ten states.
“We've had a driver shortage in this country for ten plus years. I think the pandemic really exacerbated that,” said McFarland.
Bus driver vacancies remain unfilled across the country as aging drivers are retiring in droves.
According to a newly released survey from HopSkipDrive, 88% of survey respondents said the bus driver shortage is the biggest transportation issue they face – a 10% increase from last year. 67% said they saw a direct link between access to transportation and attendance in their district.
“If you can't get to school, you can't get to learning. And unfortunately, we see that that chronic absenteeism tends to hit our more vulnerable populations,” said McFarland.
“We largely have been using sort of the same one size fits all transit solution of a yellow school bus for over 80 years,” said Emily Anne Gullickson, founder and CEO of A for Arizona.
The nonprofit education advocacy group recently administered a first-in-the-nation state grant program to fund alternative student transportation options.
“The reality is it's been a barrier for many families, especially working-class and low-income families for a long time. We know families with means have had transit options for years. And so, it's also time we finally have that conversation,” said Gullickson.
Recruitment appears to be the top problem. According to the survey low pay, early retirement, and ongoing covid health concerns remain contributing factors.
Districts around the country have raised the hourly pay and even offered signing bonuses in the thousands.
In January, the U.S. Departments of Transportation and Education announced they would allow states to waive some CDL skill requirements to help bolster school bus driver applications.
But that waiver expired in March.
“We can try to recruit more bus drivers, but I think we need to look at other ways of addressing it that may not involve more school bus drivers,” said McFarland.
School transportation insiders say more alternatives to the yellow bus like carpooling, ridesharing and shuttles.
“The fact that you can't get to school because we aren't willing to think outside the box, that's going to haunt us for a very long time,” said Gullickson.
Otherwise, more students may find themselves stranded this fall.
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In towns like Bucha, cut off from the world for nearly six weeks, the shocking images of civilian deaths are now out in the open.
In the small suburb of Kyiv, Russian troops terrorized residents. Photographs and video document the scope of Russia’s campaign of killing: a manicured hand and a bright sandal are pieces of Ukrainian life in the mud.
Bodies are wrapped in plastic bags in ditches, people in plain clothes lay on the streets, with their hands and feet bound. From above, satellite images show mass graves.
"We get the impression that the Russian occupiers have got the green light from Putin and Shoigu, the Russian Defense Minister, to have a safari in Ukraine," said Anatoliy Fedoruk, Mayor of Bucha. "They weren't able to take Kyiv, so they vented their frustration on Bucha and the surrounding areas."
Ukrainian officials say Bucha has hundreds of victims — the elderly, women, and children among the civilians killed because of Vladimir Putin’s territorial ambitions.
“You may remember I got criticized for calling Putin a war criminal," President Joe Biden said. "Well, the truth of the matter is you saw what happened in Bucha. This warrants him — he is a war criminal.”
Pres. Biden says he’s seeking more sanctions that will soon be announced. The U.S. has been gathering evidence of war crimes, and the International Criminal Court launched an investigation last month.
“These areas, about which we talk, have been under the occupation, under the control of the aggressor of the Russian troops or they've been bombed by the aggressor, the Russian troops," said Peter Stano, foreign affairs spokesperson of the European Commission. "So of course, there is no one else who could have committed these atrocities."
Russian officials deny committing atrocities in Bucha, calling it a fake attack, but witnesses tell grim stories.
"I saw women killed," said Oleksiy Goncharenko, Ukrainian Parliamentarian. "I saw a body burnt in the vehicle, boy or girl, child, I don't know, maybe 6, 7 years old. It's so awful. It's hard to explain."
"There's one woman from Bucha who spoke with Human Rights Watch, told us about a day in early March where she was gathered with other civilians by the Russian soldiers, and five Ukrainian men in plainclothes were brought into the same roadside," said Aisling Reidy, senior legal adviser at Human Rights Watch. "They were made to kneel down with their hands behind their back, and then the soldiers lifted the T-shirt of one of the men and shot him in the head. They did not proceed to kill the other four who were kneeling, but the women, when they came back to the same area the next day, they saw the body of the man who'd been executed still lying there."
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, visiting Bucha Monday, said the crimes will be recognized by the world as genocide. Current and former U.S. ambassadors to the UN are calling for Russia to be suspended from the UN Human Rights Council.
Meanwhile, on the streets of Bucha, Ukrainians were using cables to move the dead out of fear the Russian forces had hidden explosives under bodies.
With Russian troops retreating in the North and repositioning in the East, there are fears the world will see more devastating scenes of human suffering.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Two Harvard University freshmen have launched a website designed to connect people fleeing Ukraine to those in safer countries willing to take them in.
The platform, UkraineTakeShelter.com, is generating offers of help and housing worldwide.
Eighteen-year-old Marco Burstein of Los Angeles and 19-year-old Avi Schiffman of Seattle say they were moved to act by the plight of Ukrainian refugees desperate to escape Russian bombardment.
More than 18,000 prospective hosts have signed up on the site to offer assistance to refugees.
And refugees, in turn, have been registering to find matches with hosts in their locations.
On a recent day, Burstein and Schiffman logged 800,000 users.
One of those who has used the website to help refugees is a man in Sweden, who opened his home to 45-year-old Ukrainian evacuee Oksana Frantseva, her 18-year-old daughter, and their cat, the Associated Press reported.
Schiffman said he felt inspired to do something after attending a pro-Ukrainian rally in California.
According to the United Nations, since the invasion began in late February, more than 4 million Ukrainians have fled the country, half of them children, the AP reported.
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U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson cleared another procedural hurdle in the Senate on Tuesday.
Jackson's nomination will move forward after a 53-47 vote.
Republican Senators Mitt Romney, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski joined all Democrats in supporting Jackson.
Sen. Chuck Schumer said he wants the final vote to confirm Jackson to take place on Thursday.
Jackson's confirmation is all but assured. With three Republicans supporting Jackson, she is expected to receive more than the 51 votes needed to be confirmed.
Once confirmed, Jackson will be the first Black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
She will replace Justice Stephen Breyer, who is retiring at the end of the term.
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SIOUX FALLS, SD — An analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data shows nearly two out of three people who identify as LGBTQ+ have recently experienced some degree of depression.
In some states, the rate is even more severe.
“I struggled my whole life not feeling complete," said Jack Fonder, who lives in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, "not feeling like I was living the life I was supposed to lead. I’m from South Dakota, born and raised here my whole life. I didn’t know that being transgender was a thing.”
Fonder is 39 years old. Assigned at birth as female, he transitioned two years ago and now identifies as a man.
“It’s a struggle because the Midwest has this atmosphere of community and [the idea that] everybody belongs and everyone loves each other," Fonder said, "but that’s not the same thing that we feel.”
A recent Census survey asked Americans if they had experienced symptoms of depression within the last two weeks. LGBTQ+ Americans were far more likely. In nearly half of the states, at least two-thirds reported depressive symptoms within the last two weeks. At the top— South Dakota, where seven of eight LGBTQ+ residents reported symptoms.
“You’re not just going to walk down the street or log into Facebook or any social media and be like, ‘Oh, there’s a trans person, there’s a gay person, there’s a nonbinary person,'" Fonder said. "That’s not something you’re just going to see unless you’re actively trying to find it.”
There are verbal and physical attacks. There are bills in the state legislature that many trans individuals believe target them. And there is a larger feeling of isolation in a region where isolation is often considered a virtue.
"You are instantly taught that you are the outlier and you need to hide yourself," said Ke Johnson, a transgender student and advocate for the community.
In a place so spread out, silence is too often the response, and alliance is difficult to find. But in Sioux Falls, South Dakota’s largest city, a book co-op downtown displays pride flags and signs. A nearby church houses a group called the Transformation Project, which provides clothes and resources to trans individuals across South Dakota and beyond.
“Five years ago, my son came out as transgender," said Susan Williams, who runs the effort. “I was told that my child had gender dysphoria. My reaction was, ‘What is that? And how do we get rid of it? How do we fix it?’"
Williams said she educated herself and embraced her child. Others often don't.
"We still have people here who are thrown out of their houses when they come out to their parents," Williams said. "We have people who come to us and are homeless, asking for help because they don’t have anyone to support them.”
Johnson added, “It’s just a simple thing: giving trans kids clothes that reaffirm their gender. But it’s huge in the eyes of trans kids. We don’t get that most of the time.”
It’s challenging to find community when you struggle for acceptance. That challenge extends to the Transformation Project, simply by where it sits.
“There are transgender individuals who will not come to a support group at a church," Williams said, "because of the pain they have gone through in their lives related to how people at the church have treated them – not this church, but other churches.”
It’s why Fonder no longer goes to church services, but he’ll walk into First Congregational Church in Sioux Falls because it houses the Transformation Project. At this church, he feels welcome— in a place where too often he doesn’t.
"If I could move, I would," Fonder said. "Everybody wants to belong. Everybody wants to feel that they belong somewhere and that they’re welcome somewhere.”
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AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger Woods says for now he plans to play in the Masters, but he'll make a final decision Wednesday.
"As of right now, I feel like I am going to play," Woods said Tuesday, the Associated Press and CBS Sports reported.
According to the AP, the five-time Masters champion said he'd play nine practice holes Wednesday before making a final decision, but with the intention of playing Thursday.
Woods has only played once since suffering a significant leg injury in a car crash last February.
He tweeted a 3-second video that showed him swinging a golf club in November.
In December, Woods play in the PNC Championship alongside his son, Charlie.
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BOTHELL, Wash. — A 3-year-old Bothell girl at the center of an AMBER Alert was found safe in Snohomish County Tuesday morning.
The AMBER Alert was issued around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday and canceled just before 6:45 a.m. after the girl was found. The girl was reunited with her mother by 7 a.m.
According to the Washington State Patrol, the girl was in a 2001 gold Honda Accord that was stolen on the 9800 block of Northeast 190th Street in Bothell.
Police said the girl’s mother was returning from a friend’s house early Tuesday morning and took her first child into her apartment unit. While she was inside, police said she heard “a screeching sound from tires.” When the mother returned outside, police said she realized her car was gone and that her 3-year-old was still inside the vehicle.
The girl was found in a residential neighborhood a few miles from where the vehicle was stolen. The Honda Accord was also located.
Officers believe that after just a few minutes, the suspect realized the vehicle had a sleeping child inside and abandoned the vehicle.
Cam Johnson with the Bothell Police Department said the mother will not be facing charges.
"I think [parents] know what the message is. Most of us have heard the message about not leaving a running vehicle," she said. "This is a really hard lesson to learn. [The mother] has been through a horrible night. She’s not the criminal here.”
The girl was medically evaluated at the scene before being taken with her mother taken to the Bothell police station to be interviewed by officers.
There's been no word on a suspect description at this time.
Johnson said that the vehicle is being towed away so that it can be analyzed for evidence. Detectives are also hoping that a neighbor will have some exterior surveillance video that may have caught the suspect.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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WASHINGTON — Anti-abortion activists claim the five fetuses discovered at a Capitol Hill home last week were among 115 fetuses they recovered from a medical waste transportation company outside a D.C. clinic.
Activists Terrisa Bukovinac and Lauren Handy, with Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, sat for a one-on-one interview with WUSA9 on Monday ahead of a news conference the following day to discuss the discovery of the fetuses and a federal indictment against Handy and eight others.
According to Bukovinac, the women went to the Washington Surgi-Clinic on F Street on March 25 to perform what they call a “pink rose rescue” when they noticed a Curtis Bay Medical Waste Services truck outside. The women say they confronted the driver of the truck and told him the packages he was transporting might contain fetal remains.
“I said, would you get in trouble if we took one of these boxes?” Bukovinac said. “And he said, ‘Well, what would you do with them if you took one? And Lauren said, ‘Well, we would give them a proper burial and a funeral.’ And he thought about it for a second and he said, ‘OK.’”
The women claim they then took the box back to Handy’s apartment, where they found dozens of plastic containers inside. Those containers, they claim, held 115 aborted fetuses.
Curtis Bay Medical Waste Services says it does not transport fetal remains by company policy and also denied that any package was ever handed over to the anti-abortion group.
“At no time did the Curtis Bay employee hand over any of these packages to the PAAU or other third party, and any allegations made otherwise are false,” the company said in a statement.
Bukovinac said the group has pictures of the truck, but did not take video of the driver or them obtaining the package. At Tuesday's news conference, the group played a portion of a video appearing to show them opening a biohazard bag inside the package. The video cuts from the initial incision in the bag to dozens of containers sitting on a table, and does not show any items being removed from the bag or the box. Upon questioning by WUSA9, the group promised to post a full video of the opening on YouTube.
Also at the news conference, Handy and Bukovinac said they searched for three days for a private pathologist to examine the fetuses, but were unsuccessful. They claim they made the decision to have 110 of the fetuses buried in a private ceremony overseen by a Catholic priest and to turn over five of the fetuses they believed to be at late gestational ages to law enforcement.
Handy and eight others are facing federal charges for invading the Washington Surgi-Clinic two years ago. Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington has accused the group of harassing patients at their clinic as well, and D.C. Superior Court Records show Handy and associated anti-abortion activists have been arrested on multiple occasions – although the majority of those cases resulted in a $50 ticket.
Bukovinac said she and Handy called DC Police to pick up the fetuses last week. Officers did so on the same day federal prosecutors unsealed the indictment against Handy.
While Bukovinac and Handy have called for a full autopsy of the fetuses, the D.C. Medical Examiner’s Office has said the five fetuses recovered from Handy’s home all appear to have been aborted in accordance with D.C. law.
Bukovinac denied to WUSA9 that the group did anything illegal in obtaining the fetuses.
“We were given this box by the whistleblower who worked for the medical waste company,” she said.
The Washington Surgi-Clinic has declined repeated requests to comment, but a WUSA9 review of five years of Department of Health inspection reports determined inspectors have consistently found nothing to cite at the clinic. And Dr. Cesare Santangelo, the abortion doctor at the clinic, has been licensed to practice in D.C. for more than 20 years without any disciplinary issues on his record.
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WINSLOW, Ariz. — A man who was arrested Monday in connection with the Sacramento shooting that killed six people and wounded a dozen others, was also an inmate at an Arizona state prison for over a year, court documents revealed.
Dandre Martin, 26, was booked as a “related suspect" on assault and illegal firearms charges after multiple shooters fired more than 100 rounds and people ran for their lives in California's capitol Sunday.
Court documents showed that Martin spent one year and seven months at the Arizona State Prison Complex in Winslow. He was convicted for separate felonies while violating probation, including attempt to commit aggravated assault in 2016 and a marijuana violation in 2018.
He was released in November 2020.
On Tuesday, officials announced Martin's brother, 27-year-old Smiley Martin as the second suspect in the mass shooting.
The Sacramento Police Department said Smiley Martin was taken to the hospital with serious injuries after the shooting. Police said he was "quickly identified" as a person of interest and will be taken into custody for possession of a firearm by a prohibited person and possession of a machine gun once released from the hospital.
The Sacramento County coroner identified the three women killed as Johntaya Alexander, 21; Melinda Davis, 57; and Yamile Martinez-Andrade, 21. The three men killed were Sergio Harris, 38; Joshua Hoye-Lucchesi, 32; and Devazia Turner, 29.
The burst of rapid-fire gunshots from at least two shooters sent people running in terror. Twelve were wounded in the neighborhood just a few blocks from Golden One Arena, where the NBA's Sacramento Kings held a moment of silence before their game Sunday night.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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A conservative writer and commentator says she was fired from a radio job and accused of being racist after joking that a brown suit worn by Vice President Kamala Harris looked like a UPS uniform.
Amber Athey, the Washington editor for The Spectator magazine’s world edition, claimed she lost her regular spot on DC talk station WMAL after she referenced the delivery giant’s slogan in a tweet about Harris’ attire at the State of the Union address.
“Kamala looks like a UPS employee — what can brown do for you?” Athey’s March 1 tweet read. “Nothing good, apparently.”
According to Athey, who recounted her experience in a Spectator column, the tweet initially made no waves.
A few days later, however, Athey “spoke critically of protests in favor of ‘trans kids’ at the University of North Texas” — and, as she wrote, “a group of maniacal left-wing activists who want to chemically castrate children in the name of ‘gender affirmation’ came after me.”
“All of a sudden, the Kamala tweet was being re-framed as racist and dozens of Twitter accounts were bragging about contacting my employers about my ‘bigotry,'” she said.
Her employers at The Spectator “laughed at and promptly deleted the angry emails” and none of her colleagues at WMAL’s morning “O’Connor & Company” show acted as if anything was “amiss.”
But eight days after the tweet, Athey was contacted “out of the blue” by Jeff Boden, the vice president of station owner Cumulus Washington, and Human Resources VP Kriston Fancellas.
“They told me that the tweet I sent about Kamala was ‘racist’ and that subsequent follow-ups defending myself and making fun of the efforts to cancel me were unacceptable,” she recalled. “I had violated the company’s social media policy, they said, and I was terminated effective immediately.”
Athey insisted that her firing “has destroyed the integrity and reputation of WMAL and Cumulus as hosts of conservative content.”
“We spoke frequently [on the show] about the dangers of censorship and cancel culture on our program, and yet here they are bowing to the mob,” she wrote. “If I can be fired for making fun of the vice president’s outfit, every single host on a Cumulus station is in danger of losing their job at a moment’s notice.”
Athey’s former employer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM MDT WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...West winds 40 to 55 mph with gusts up to 80 mph
expected. Winds may locally exceed 90 MPH near the Sierra
Madre Range in the Upper North Platte River Valley.
* WHERE...Lower elevations of Carbon and Albany Counties
including Muddy Gap, Shirley Basin, Baggs, Rawlins, Saratoga,
and Laramie.
* WHEN...Until 6 AM MDT Wednesday.
* IMPACTS...Mainly to transportation. Strong cross winds will be
hazardous to light weight and high profile vehicles, including
campers and tractor trailers. There will be an extreme risk for
vehicle blowovers! Winds of this magnitude may also lead to
tree, power line, and property damage. Secure loose items.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A High Wind Warning means a hazardous high wind event is expected
or occurring. Sustained wind speeds of at least 40 mph or gusts
of 58 mph or more can lead to property damage.
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Looking east on Interstate 80 at mile marker 280 between Laramie and Rawlins, this screenshot of a Wyoming Department of Transportation webcam shows wet and slick roads at about 8:30 Tuesday morning. The interstate was closed to light, high-profile vehicles between exits 279 and 235 between Laramie and Rawlins because of an extreme blowover risk from high winds. Some sections also report being slick in spots with slush and blowing snow.
High winds, slick pavement and blowing snow have prompted the Wyoming Department of Transportation to close more than 100 miles of Interstate 80 between Cheyenne and Rawlins to some vehicles.
As of 11:20 a.m., the interstate was closed to light, high-profile vehicles from exits 359 (junction with I-25) and 235 (Walcott Junction) because of "extreme blow-over risk," according to the WYDOT online travel information tracker.
Conditions along the stretch of interstate include dangerous winds with some spots reportedly slick with snowfall, slush and blowing snow. The views from WYDOT webcams placed along I-80 show little snowfall, but enough to cause dangerous conditions.
A high wind watch for southern Wyoming remains in effect at least through 6 a.m. Wednesday, the National Weather Service reports. As of the time of this report, it was 35 degrees in Laramie with winds blowing steady at 58 mph with gusts as high as 70 mph.
The forecast is for the temperature to top out at about 35 with winds continuing throughout the day, decreasing to about 25-30 mph after midnight with gusts as high as 60 mph. For Wednesday, expect a high near 37 with winds gusting to about 45 mph.
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An air crew from the Eastern Army National Guard Aviation Training Site operating a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter conducts water bucket training at Memorial Lake State Park near Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa., on April 5, 2022. (U.S. National Guard photo by Brad Rhen)
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Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story Commanding Officer Capt. Michael L. Witherspoon pins retiring Lt. Col. Bryan T. Donohue with the Meritorious Service Medal during his retirement ceremony March 25 and the Carl Brashear Conference Center. Donohue is retiring after more than 24 years of honorable service.
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3 sought in robbery, beating of Chicago Film Office director
CHICAGO - Police are working to track down three people who beat up and robbed the Chicago Film Office director last week in the Heart of Chicago neighborhood.
Chicago police released video of the suspects Monday night.
According to investigators, the trio attacked Kwame Amoaku around 7:46 a.m. Wednesday outside his home in the 2100 block of West 22nd Place then fleeing in a gray Dodge Caravan, only to return and attack him again, police said.
They stole his credit cards and video from police shows the three entering a clothing store in the North Riverside Park Mall and walking out with packages.
Amoaku was taken to a hospital in serious, but stable condition with a head injury and fractured arm.
Amoaku, 51, was appointed to lead the city's film office in July 2019 by Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
Prior to his current role, Amoaku was location manager for "Chicago Fire" and for the Netflix movie based on Chicago’s hip-hop scene, "Beats." He also acted in various locally-filmed TV shows, according to a city's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events Facebook post.
Anyone with information is asked to call Area Four Detectives at (312) 746-8251.
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Today I am sharing a food and wine pairing prepared by David Crowly from the blog Cooking Chat. David created and prepared a delicious lamb ragu rigatoni for a food and wine pairing project for local wineries.
Recipe inspiration
I had a chance to talk with second-generation Dineen Vineyards owner Marissa Dineen while getting ready to write this piece. She gave me an overview of their wines. They all sounded great, but we wound up landing on the Heritage Blend (cabernet sauvignon, cabernet franc and merlot) as the focus for this piece.
My first instinct when thinking about food to go with a cabernet-based blend was a meat-centric dish, maybe something from the grill. But while chatting with Marissa, she mentioned that this wine goes quite well with Italian dishes. She also mentioned herbal notes, which got my wheels turning.
What makes the recipe work
Based on the conversation with Marissa, I decided to make a ragu sauce with some ground lamb. We tend to associate lamb with spring, and we are on the cusp of a new spring season.
Our lamb ragu sauce has the ground lamb simmering with beef broth, some fresh rosemary and a small amount of tomato. We also added some mushrooms, which provided nice flavor and tends to enhance many wine pairings.
Lamb Ragu Pasta
Ingredients
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, divided
1 onion, chopped
1 carrot, peeled and chopped
1 pound ground lamb
5 crimini mushrooms, sliced (or button mushrooms)
1/4 cup red wine
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 cup diced fire-roasted tomatoes
1 1/2 cups low sodium beef broth
pinch of salt
1 sprig rosemary
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
1 teaspoon miso (optional)
1 cup ricotta cheese
6 basil leaves, thinly sliced
Black pepper to taste
1 pound rigatoni or other short pasta
Directions
To sauté onions, heat 1 tablespoon of the olive oil in large sturdy pot. Add the onions and sauté about 5 minutes until they begin to soften. Add the carrots and cook for a few more minutes.
Add the lamb to the pot using a heavy spoon to break it up, and stir it in with the onions. Add mushrooms, stir to combine. Stir in wine to combine with the lamb. Add the garlic and cook for another minute.
Add the tomatoes and broth, stirring to combine. Add the sprigs of rosemary and dried oregano. Stir and bring the pot to a simmer, and uncover. Simmer for at least 20 minutes before starting to cook the pasta.
Begin boiling the water for pasta after the ragu sauce has simmered for at least 20 minutes after adding broth. Cook pasta according to package instructions.
To whip the ricotta, place the 1 cup ricotta cheese in a bowl. Add basic ???????????????????????, spoon the remaining tablespoon of olive oil and a few grinds of black pepper. Stir vigorously to combine. Set aside.
When the pasta has cooked to your liking, drain and toss immediately with the sauce. Stir in the ricotta cheese mixture. Plate the pasta and enjoy with a good glass of wine.
The wine
I opened the Dineen Vineyards Heritage Red Wine. The wine is a blend of 40% cabernet sauvignon, 40% cabernet france and 20% merlot.
I get red berries, nutmeg and spiced oak on the nose. On the palate, black cherry fruit, vanilla, licorice and notes of cinnamon. Moderate, well-integrated tannins. Just enough acidity, enhancing the food-friendliness of the wine.
It's an excellent red wine blend, well-balanced with layers of complexity. As anticipated, it is a great pairing for the Lamb Ragu Rigatoni.
• Barbara Glover is executive director of Wine Yakima Valley, an industry group representing member wineries.
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Chicago offering free legal help to renters facing eviction
CHICAGO - Now that the eviction moratorium is over in Chicago, city hall is taking steps to level the playing field, offering free legal help to low-income renters facing eviction.
The Chicago Department of Housing said it chose two non-profits to lead the program.
Program leaders said they hope to help stabilize tenants who might otherwise be homeless.
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City leaders said the three-year-old pilot program will utilize $8 million in Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) funds.
To qualify, a person must be a tenant of a residential property. They must also need to make less than 80% of the area median income and be a part of a household that has "experienced financial hardship" as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lastly, eligible households will have to be at risk of homelessness.
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Dozens of Alaska Airlines flights had been canceled Tuesday morning, as a wave of cancellations roiling the airline since Friday appeared to ebb.
The airline, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport’s largest carrier, had announced 16 new Tuesday cancellations as of 10 a.m., bringing the total number of flights canceled that day to 26, according to FlightAware.com. Staffing shortages have been largely to blame for hundreds of cancellations that have delayed or stranded tens of thousands of passengers.
While pilots are in short supply across the airline industry, Alaska has been hit harder by the pilot shortage than most of its competitors. The airline, currently in an increasingly bitter standoff with the union representing its pilots over a new contract, has lost dozens of pilots this year to other major carriers.
The cancellations have grounded tens of thousands of passengers, some of whom reported 10-hour wait times on Alaska’s customer service line.
Constance von Muehlen, Alaska’s chief operating officer, said in a statement Saturday that the airline is “doing everything we can” to support affected passengers.
“We know the sudden cancellation of their travel plans is frustrating — we apologize to all of our guests who we let down,” read a statement posted on the airline’s website.
An internal Alaska Air memo indicated an unanticipated shortage of pilots is driving the cancellations.
“Our operational performance today was below the level many of us expect,” Capt. John Ladner, Alaska’s vice president of flight operations, wrote in a Friday email to pilots. “The primary driver for our performance right now is the shortage of pilots we have available to fly versus what was planned when we built our April schedule in January.”
Ladner cited the level of attrition as a major factor, and said Alaska was offering 150% of pay to pilots willing to pick up extra flights. The airline’s management has been locked in contract negotiations with the Air Line Pilots Association union for three years.
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A lake in Chelan County could become Little Wenatchee River. A creek in Okanogan County could become Gooseberry Meadow.
These name changes are part of an effort from the U.S. Department of Interior to rename geographic locations in Washington and other states that include the term “squaw” — which was formally declared derogatory by the secretary of the interior.
The public has until April 25 to vote for one of the six choices for each replacement name.
There are 18 locations in Washington that contain the slur, which is considered racist and sexist to Native and Indigenous women. Experts have said the word, derived from the Algonquin language, may have once meant “woman,” but over time it morphed into a disparaging term, according to The Associated Press.
The new options for names highlight nearby geographic features, according to the Interior Department. For example, Squaw Mesa in Arizona is located near Castle Crew. A candidate for the replacement name is Castle Mesa.
Residents may submit written comments to the Interior Department at regulations.gov or by mail.
Washington has a history of renaming geographic locations. In 2018, the state renamed the Iron Horse State Park Trail and John Wayne Pioneer Trail, which runs through Southwest Washington, to the Palouse to Cascades State Park Trail. The decision aligned the trail with state parks policy that gives preference to names that highlight geographic location, geology, archaeology and history.
King County was originally named for William Rufus de Vane King, who served as vice president under President Franklin Pierce. He was a U.S. representative from North Carolina and a senator from Alabama.
William King also owned a cotton plantation in Alabama, and his family enslaved more than 500 people.
Former Gov. Christine Gregoire signed a state Senate bill in 2005 to dedicate the county’s name in honor of Martin Luther King Jr., an idea initially championed by King County Councilmembers Ron Sims and Bruce Laing in the 1980s.
Recently, some residents have also pushed to change or rededicate the name of the state of Washington.
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General Iron proposes return to Lincoln Park
CHICAGO - General Iron’s owner is proposing to return the junked-car and metal-shredding business to Lincoln Park where it operated for decades before shutting down at the end of 2020.
Last month, city officials formally rejected the plan — submitted through three permit applications in February. A company affiliated with the scrap-metal business’ owner Reserve Management Group recently appealed and is asking for a hearing with a city administrative judge who will review the city’s decision. No hearing date is set.
After RMG built a new shredding operation at East 116th Street along the Calumet River, Chicago Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady denied Reserve Management an operating permit in February citing health and pollution concerns.
Reserve Management is also appealing that decision in hopes of reversing that decision and will face an administrative judge in a hearing on the matter April 21.
Separately, Reserve Management proposed reinstating its permits for three parcels of land at and around 1909 N. Clifton Ave. Those permit applications were filed just days after Arwady, appointed by Mayor Lori Lightfoot, rejected the plan for the Southeast Side operation.
The city said in a reply to the company that its previous permit to operate on the North Side lapsed, the company lacks zoning approval and also said Reserve Management didn’t correctly apply for a permit for big metal-shredding operations under rules that went into effect almost two years ago.
Asked about the possibility of a return to Lincoln Park, Lightfoot noted the many nuisance complaints neighbors had about the facility, adding "I don’t see that as a possibility."
"General Iron has a long, checkered history in Lincoln Park. The people in that neighborhood have expressed themselves quite clearly. So, I don’t see that as a real viable option," Lightfoot said at an unrelated news conference Monday.
General Iron stopped operating in Lincoln Park at the end of 2020 under an agreement with the city. Developers and city officials wanted its longtime owner, the Labkon family, to sell its 20 acres along the Chicago River to make way for a proposed multi-billion-dollar real estate development called Lincoln Yards.
When Reserve Management acquired General Iron in 2019, the Lincoln Park land was not part of the sale. Instead, the Labkon family held on to it. A listing with real estate brokerage Colliers International shows the land for sale and says it can be split into three parcels or purchased as one.
The listing touts "direct access to higher end residential, retail and entertainment opportunities," also noting the land is zoned for heavy industrial use.
Ald. Brian Hopkins (2nd), who represents the area, said in an interview that residents who often complained about pollution and odors from the largely open-air operation would not support its return and added "it’s time to talk about the future of that site and not its industrial past."
Hopkins said the city was right to reject Reserve Management’s application.
"It seems the justification for the denial is both obvious and self-evident. I’m not sure why they would waste their time with a hearing," Hopkins said. "Under no circumstances would the community welcome a return to the toxic polluting history of their recent past."
Through a spokesman, Reserve Management executives declined to comment. A spokesman for Arwady and the health department also declined to comment.
General Iron was the last major piece of an industrial corridor that once thrived on the North Branch of the Chicago River. Over the years, other companies, including Finkl Steel, relocated.
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The proposed move by General Iron from Lincoln Park, an affluent and mostly white community, to a Latino-majority neighborhood on the Southeast Side drew protests and a formal civil rights complaint with federal housing officials. Community organizers asked the Department of Housing and Urban Development to determine whether their rights were violated as defined by the Fair Housing Act. That investigation into the city continues.
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WASHINGTON – Each year, Allied Potato fills thousands of shipping containers at its plant in Pasco with Eastern Washington potatoes destined to become chips and fries in Asia, Latin America and North Africa.
But to reach their destinations, those containers need to find space on ships leaving the ports of Seattle and Tacoma. That’s been a tall order since late 2020, when supply chain disruptions and a jump in U.S. imports from Asia created shipping bottlenecks, said Jason Davenport, the company’s president.
“Pretty much every week we’re just having to guess at when we can go turn in the containers at the port,” said Davenport, whose company also grows potatoes in Southern California. “They just don’t care about exports right now. They’re making too much money on imports to really care that much.”
Because the companies that operate container ships make most of their revenue from importing goods for U.S. retailers like Amazon and Walmart, Davenport said, since the COVID-19 pandemic upended global trade they have increasingly chosen to rush empty containers back to Asian ports instead of letting U.S. exporters like Allied Potato fill them. That unpredictability has driven up costs for exporters and contributed to rising prices around the world.
The Senate took a major step to address that problem March 31, passing the bipartisan Ocean Shipping Reform Act by a unanimous voice vote after the House passed similar legislation in December. Both chambers will need to pass the same bill before President Joe Biden can sign it into law.
Sen. Maria Cantwell, a Washington Democrat who chairs the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, has been a major proponent of the bill.
“Right now, the supply chain isn’t working,” Cantwell said on the Senate floor after the bill’s passage. “Our ports have been clogged, shipping companies have struggled to keep up with demand, and the cost of American exporters – who are trying to get hay, milk, and apples to the global market – have gone through the roof.”
“American exporters and their products are being left on the docks,” she continued, “and that’s why we wanted to act quickly, because the American farmer, with growing season upon us, can’t afford to wait another minute.”
The bill gives greater authority to the Federal Maritime Commission, an agency charged with protecting the interests of U.S. companies that rely on ocean shipping, to prohibit carriers from “unreasonably” denying exporters the chance to load their products onto ships. It also empowers the agency to investigate the shipping giants’ business practices and penalize the companies if they charge exporters late fees that violate federal regulations.
Fifty years ago, Anderson Hay & Grain started shipping hay to Japan, its first overseas market. Today, the Ellensburg-based company exports about 80% of its product to more than 30 countries in Asia and beyond – at least until the supply chain problems started.
“Some of those countries we can’t even get product to right now, because of vessels and changes in schedules and just lack of service,” CEO Mark Anderson said. “Or, in some markets, ocean freight rates that are so high it’s not possible to use.”
The cost of shipping a 40-foot container rose from $1,300 before the pandemic to a high of $11,000 last September, Reuters reported. Part of those rising costs are inevitably passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices, a key factor contributing to inflation, but Anderson said his company’s profit margin has shrunk to minimize the impact on its customers.
Inflation and supply chain problems across the economy mean delays and higher costs to producers for things like tractors and fertilizer, Davenport said.
“We’re constantly faced with increasing prices to us, and we’re having to be more careful than we’ve ever been managing our costs,” he said. “We don’t even know how to navigate these waters. Like, we don’t know what to do other than to make sure that we don’t lose so much money that we’re not farming again next year.”
At the same time, exporters have been forced to play what Davenport called “a game of Whack-a-Mole” at ports like Seattle and Tacoma as loading schedules are shuffled. Whereas they once had four or five days to load a vessel, now they often have just one or two days. To make matters worse, he said, carriers change deadlines for getting containers onto ships.
An informal survey sent to the White House in September by the Agricultural Transportation Coalition, an industry group, estimated U.S. exporters are losing 22% of their sales due to shipping bottlenecks.
When truckers can’t unload their cargo onto a ship, they have to find space in a container yard outside the port to leave the goods until the next ship arrives. Anderson said his drivers used to make the more than 100-mile trip to Seattle or Tacoma twice a day, but now just once a day because of delays at the ports.
“It’s really workplace chaos if you’re a driver, and not to mention if you’re in charge of logistics or production,” Anderson said. “There’s just a lot of frustration.”
Davenport said he hopes the Ocean Shipping Reform Act will level the playing field for importers and exporters and help American farms keep running.
“I know we want to feed people and feed the world, but we need a little more help from government to not get to the point where (everyone in) agriculture just all throw their hands up and say, ‘Why are we working so hard for this? This is crazy,’ ” Davenport said.
“It may slow down their operations a little bit to give exports a little bit more priority, but we kind of need that or else we lose a lot of ground that we’ve gained on a lot of export markets for agriculture,” he added. “That impacts a lot of farms around Eastern Washington and that’s not helpful to anyone.”
Anderson expressed cautious optimism about the bill, even as he said he was skeptical about the federal government taking a more active role in regulating trade.
“Of course, you get concerned anytime the government starts getting in the middle of business and economics,” Anderson said. “But I think it’s a step in the right direction.”
Before the bill can become law, the House and Senate must either pass identical legislation or reconcile their different bills in a conference committee. The House is out of session until April 26.
In the Senate, the bill was led by Sens. Amy Kobuchar, D-Minn., and John Thune, R-S.D., and co-sponsored by 31 senators including Cantwell and Idaho Republicans Mike Crapo and Jim Risch.
The House version is led by Reps. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., and John Garimendi, D-Calif., and co-sponsored by nearly 100 lawmakers including Reps. Dan Newhouse, a Republican who represents the Tri-Cities, and Kim Schrier, a Democrat who represents Ellensburg.
Orion Donovan-Smith's reporting for The Spokesman-Review is funded in part by Report for America and by members of the Spokane community. This story can be republished by other organizations for free under a Creative Commons license. For more information on this, please contact our newspaper’s managing editor.
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Man shot dead in Chicago Lawn
CHICAGO - A man was fatally shot Tuesday morning in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood on the city's South Side.
The man was shot in the face around 9:16 a.m. in the 6200 block of South Campbell Avenue, police said.
He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center where he was pronounced dead, police said. The Cook County medical examiner's office has not yet identified him.
The nature of the shooting was not immediately clear.
No one is in custody as Area One detectives investigate.
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On Gold Star Spouses Day, a time to remember, support military families
Gold Star Spouses Day is Tuesday, April 5. It honors the loved ones of U.S. military members who have lost their lives; it acknowledges and remembers the spouses who have stood behind our military members.
Originally called Gold Star Wives Day when it was founded in 1945, the day of remembrance is known now as Gold Star Spouses Day, though some still use the names interchangeably.
Tamra Sipes, national president of Gold Star Wives of America, a nonprofit service organization, is the surviving spouse of Navy SAR Corpsman Robert Sipes. He died in October 1995 in a house fire at age 34. She was only 28, with three small children, when she was widowed.
"You lose the love of your life, it's hard to put one step in front of another," Sipes told Fox News Digital in a phone interview.
Bob Sipes passed away in 1995. He served for 10 years in the Navy as a search and rescue corpsman, with over 50 missions completed. He left behind a wife and three children. (Tamra Sipes)
"And it's week by week. And the first year. It's like a blur. [But] you just move forward," she added.
Robert Sipes served for 10 years in the Navy as a search and rescue corpsman, with over 50 missions completed. He was stationed at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island (NASWI) in Washington state.
After his death, Tamra Sipes, who is based in Washington state to this day, kept food on the table by working in the hospitality industry, she said.
Sipes was stationed at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island (NASWI) in Washington state, his widow, Tamra Sipes, shared with Fox News Digital. (Tamra Sipes)
Her son Steven Sipes, 35, is today in the Navy Reserves as a Seabee. He joined the military when he was 19; he spent almost a year in Afghanistan in 2010.
Since 2015, Tamra Sipes has been an active member of Gold Star Spouses. She also began volunteering with the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS; taps.org) in 2017.
"Eventually, you start to move through [the grief and the loss] — then you want to help others," she said.
Tamra Sipes (second from right) of Washington state, along with her three children, (from left) Jessica, Steven and David, in a family photo from 2008. (Tamra Sipes)
Sipes said that the Gold Star Wives group "is here for anyone who has lost a loved one, whether it was over in theater, whether it was here as an accident, whether it was during training or in combat, or whether it was a service-connected illness years later."
Among its goals: Gold Star Wives is fighting to enhance and improve the financial benefits for U.S military spouses and families today.
Referring to an earlier period of time, Sipes said of the benefits given to spouses years ago, "I think [people received] a $10,000 check. It was, 'Good luck, God bless, please move out of any base housing, you've got 30 days,'" she added, recounting what spouses were apparently once told.
"This has changed in the last 10 years," she added.
Tamra Sipes (at right) and another Gold Star Wife are shown laying a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery, at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, on Veterans Day in 2021. (Tamra Sipes)
One issue that surfaced in the past was around the Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) and the Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC). Survivors did not receive the full amount from those funds, said Sipes.
Recently, Congress enacted changes; as a result, in 2023, the offset in annuity payments from the SBP for surviving spouses will be eliminated for those who are also receiving DIC benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Sipes credited her organization, as well as supporters such as Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., and Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., for pushing for changes to help surviving family members.
Gold Star Wives of America also advocated for a Gold Star Children's Day, to recognize and acknowledge the sacrifices and the existence of the children of fallen service members. Sens. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., introduced a resolution to designate August 1 as such.
Yet another win was a change to the Remarriage Penalty. The DIC remarriage age has now gone from 57 to 55, which aligns it with other federal survivor programs, as Gold Star Wives notes on its website (goldstarwives.org).
‘New generation coming along’
Many surviving spouses of deceased military are from the Vietnam era of military service, Sipes indicated; many are living on little more than a Social Security check and their DIC payment.
"We’re trying to help this generation," said Sipes.
Tamra Sipes' son, Steven, is shown here in Afghanistan in 2010. (Tamra Sipes)
"Then you have a new generation that's coming [along], which has larger benefits when they lose someone," she said.
She said this group often benefits from orientation and education about how to maintain the benefits for themselves and their families, "to invest or whatever else they need to do" to maintain their family's security, she said.
There is so much more work to be done on behalf of these families, she said. That is why, she emphasized, "every voice counts."
She urged all Americans to contact their elected leaders in Congress.
"It is one letter at a time, one email at a time" that makes a difference, she said. "It takes everybody doing that in order to be heard — a small army."
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