Colleagues Thank Commissioner Little During His Last Meeting - Jersey Shore Online

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Outgoing Ocean County Deputy Director Commissioner Gerry Little served Ocean County for 18 years. (Photo courtesy Ocean County)

  OCEAN COUNTY – News that Ocean County Commissioner Gerry Little’s last meeting would be December 1st caught even his colleagues by surprise.

  “We only learned Gerry wouldn’t be coming back the day of the meeting,” shared Gary Quinn, Director of the Ocean County Board of Commissioners. “We planned to do something special for him at our final meeting of the year.”

  Little announced his decision to forego seeking reelection earlier this year. His replacement, Bobbi Jo Crea, takes office in January. Both are Republicans from southern Ocean County.

  As the Ocean County Health Department liaison, Little provided regular COVID-19 updates since the disease became both a local and national issue. Immediately after he delivered his early December report, Little made his announcement.

  “This will be the last meeting I will be attending as your commissioner,” Little said. “It has been my pleasure to work with all you folks in the audience. I appreciate your support and friendship.”

  “We will begin traveling next week,” continued Little. “We only have one more meeting this month and will be traveling to visit with our son and his wife.”

  Word has it that Little’s decision to leave one meeting short of the last reflected his dislike for fanfare. The outgoing commissioner’s reputation appears premised on his strong faith, sense of family, and humility. His years of public service speak of a man dedicated to the greater good – who did not expect or enjoy recognition.

  Little’s appointment to the then-Freeholder Board came in December 2003 when county officials selected him to replace the late Freeholder James J. Mancini. Little subsequently received voter approval and ultimately served six terms in office.

  A full-time resident of Surf City, Little began his political career in the small Long Beach Island community. He served as a municipal councilman for eight years when the late State Senator Leonard T. Connors Jr. held the dual role as Surf City mayor.

  From 1994 until he joined the Freeholder Board, Little worked with Connors in another capacity. He headed to Trenton to serve as chief of staff to the 9th Legislative District, then represented by State Senator Leonard T. Connors Jr., Assemblyman Christopher J. Connors, and former Assemblyman Jeffrey Moran.

  The voice of Ocean County’s COVID-19 response team, Little showed up at public meetings wearing a mask – even after mandates were lifted. He assumed a compassionate and non-partisan approach in his reports; starting the year with hope and prayers that newly elected President Joe Biden could hasten vaccine distribution.

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  “I’ve known Gerry for not just the last six years we sat together as freeholders and now commissioners,” shared Commissioner Virginia “Ginny” Haines. “I knew him many years before that when we were both in Trenton. It’s been my honor and pleasure to serve with him and see his dedication to the people of Ocean County.”

  Commissioner Joseph “Joe” Vicari offered accolades on Little’s work, saying his service particularly shone when the county experienced “difficult” times.

  “It hasn’t just been COVID-19, but as his work a steady liaison to the health department,” Vicari said. “His expertise and experience during the superstorm (Sandy) were something that couldn’t be replaced.”

  As the entire five-person commissioner board thanked Little, some personal details came to light. For example, the outgoing commissioner recently adopted a six-pound puppy who’s already reached a massive 75 pounds. And, as Little and his wife, Mary Lee, head out to visit their son, they’re making it a road trip in a recreational vehicle.

  “You’ve done an outstanding job the whole time you’ve been here,” Commissioner Jack Kelly told Little, who then went on to joke with his outgoing colleague. “I know you’ve done an upgrade to your camper, but we’re still running the same pool to see how far you get before you break down.”

Ocean County Commissioners at a Veterans Day Service L to R- Virginia Haines, Jack Kelly, Gerry Little and Joseph Vicari. Director Gary Quinn missing from photo. (Photo courtesy Ocean County)

  Everyone laughed softly as they recalled another time Little embarked on a road trip and experienced mechanical difficulties while still in Ocean County.

  Quinn said he would always think of Little as a commissioner even as he moved on to the next chapter in his life. He easily understood the outgoing commissioner’s decision to forego the last meeting to make it in time to spend the holidays with his son.

  “I know how important your family is,” Quinn said to Little. “You’ve always been there as a former freeholder, commissioner, and friend. You’ve done a tremendous amount of work not only for the people of Ocean County but also for the state during your tenure with Lenny Connors back in the day.”

  Little’s life of service began as a member of the United States Marines Corps. In addition to acting as the liaison to the Ocean County Health Department, the retired commissioner advocated for veterans’ programs as liaison to the Ocean County Veterans Service Bureau.

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With little time to get out, hundreds of Colorado residents lose their homes in a ferocious wildfire - CNN

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(CNN)A vicious wildfire that began Thursday morning in Boulder County, Colorado, swallowed about 1,600 acres in a matter of hours, burning hundreds of homes and prompting orders for some 30,000 people in two communities to evacuate.

Amid historically powerful winds and drought-parched land, some 370 homes were destroyed in a single subdivision just west of the town of Superior, while another 210 homes may have been lost in Old Town Superior, the Boulder County sheriff said Thursday. No deaths or missing people were reported immediately.

As quickly as the winds began, they were due to subside overnight and the weather to swing quickly to the other extreme: The fire-ravaged area is under a winter weather warning Friday morning, with 5 to 10 inches of snow expected to fall by Saturday, CNN meteorologist Robert Shackelford said.

Downed power lines appear to have caused the Marshall Fire, Sheriff Joe Pelle said. About 15,000 customers had no power early Friday in Colorado, most of them in Boulder County.

Thursday's event was a "truly historic windstorm," with winds gusting over 100 mph in Jefferson and Boulder Counties and fueling the blazes, the National Weather Service said.

Andy Thorn, a resident of Boulder Heights, Colorado, always worried about wildfires whenever the area saw high winds, he said. That's exactly what he witnessed Thursday as he watched from his home in the Boulder foothills as the flames and smoke spread.

"One minute, there was nothing. Then, plumes of smoke appeared. Then, flames," he told CNN. "Then, the flames jumped around and multiplied. Now, we're just thinking about everyone who lost their home and all the firefighters and first responders who do so much for all of us in times like this."

A home burns Thursday after flames swept through the Centennial Heights neighborhood of Louisville, Colorado.

Chris Smith and his wife, of downtown Superior, got a notification Thursday morning from their daughters' day care in nearby Louisville to "come pick up the girls," he told CNN affiliate KCNC. "Please act quickly," city officials there had urged in their evacuation order.

"I called my wife, and she started collecting valuables and clothes to evacuate," Smith said. He drove through smoke on his way there and on his way back.

Across the fire zone, roads were blocked by smoke and traffic gridlock as people tried to make their way out.

At a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant in Superior, families with young children could see smoke out wide windows and made their way toward an exit, video taken by Jason Fletcher shows.

"Right now," one woman said. "It's OK."

"I'm scared," said a child as another woman leaned hard into the front door to pry it open against blowing wind.

At a Costco store in Superior, shoppers were told to calmly leave their carts and go, said Hunt Frye, who took video from the hazy parking lot. A shopping center and a hotel in Superior also burned Thursday, Pelle said.

The Marshall Fire burns Thursday in Broomfield, Colorado.

From an ICU room at Avista Adventist Hospital in Louisville, white smoke clouded a charcoal sky just across the parking lot and a street, video from Kara Plese shows. The hospital was fully evacuated and patients transferred or discharged, officials there said. Good Samaritan Medical Center in nearby Lafayette also began transferring some of its most critical and fragile patients, according to a news release.

Flames burned right next to roads in Superior and Louisville, and thick smoke made visibility next to impossible, video posted by Broomfield Police shows. Another clip shows homes engulfed in flames.

Downed power lines may be the cause

Deputies confirmed downed power lines in the fire zone, said Pelle, who cited preliminary reports in pointing to those line as the fire's cause, with a final determination expected in the coming days. Also sparked was the Middle Fork Fire, which was quickly "laid down," the sheriff said in a news conference.

Winds had dropped by early Friday to below 20 mph, and the area is under a winter weather warning, with heavy snowfall expected by sunrise in the drought-stricken state, CNN meteorologist Shackelford said.

Wind gusts Thursday pushed the blaze "down a football field in a matter of seconds," Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said.

"There's no way," he said, "to quantify in any financial way, the price of a loss -- of losing the chair that was handed down to you from your grandmother, of losing your childhood yearbooks, of losing your photos, of losing your computer files -- which hundreds of Colorado families have experienced today with no warning."

Friday's anticipated snowfall "comes at a good time," Schakelford said, "since 100% of the state is under some sort of drought, and this snowfall will also help to contain the Marshall Fire."

Much of the western US has been mired in serious drought, with the warmer temperatures and drier conditions consequences of climate change. Denver has seen just over 1 inch of precipitation in last six months -- a record low for the second half of the year. Boulder and its surrounding counties are classified as under a "extreme drought," per the US Drought Monitor.

The Marshall Fire blazes Thursday through Colorado.

Recovery plans are already underway

Though evacuees were not yet allowed to return Thursday night, some already were working to begin the recovery. A search party was scheduled on Facebook for the weekend. On another Facebook page, dozens posted about animals they're looking for or found in and around the burned areas.

One insurance agent in Superior had heard from a client who believed they had lost their home, she told CNN affiliate KMGH.

"It's just something you don't plan on. It's just devastating," she said.

The sheriff would not be surprised if the numbers of casualties or missing people soon change, given the fire's size and intensity, he said Thursday. Already, at least six people were treated for injuries related to one of the fires, a UCHealth spokesperson told CNN Thursday. A law enforcement officer suffered a minor eye injury from blowing debris.

The Marshall Fire burns out of control Thursday in Broomfield, Colorado.

Polis on Thursday declared a state of emergency.

"This area, for those who don't know this area of Boulder County, is right and around suburban subdevelopments, stores. It's like the neighborhood that you live in; it's like the neighborhood that any of us live in," the governor said Thursday.

Evacuation centers were open, including one for evacuees who have Covid-19, Polis said. The Federal Emergency Management Agency also announced late Thursday it had authorized the use of federal funds to help fight the fire.

"We are devastated by the destruction and losses we are experiencing," the town of Superior wrote on Twitter Thursday evening, just hours after announcing its evacuation order.

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'I Will Destroy This Little Whiner' | The Wave - The Wave, Rockaway's Newspaper Since 1893

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There’s no definite date set just yet, but the UFC’s interim Bantamweight title holder Petr Yan is promising to bring the pain to champion Aljamain Sterling whenever their unification match is determined.

Yan and Sterling were supposed to meet for a rematch in October, following the controversial disqualification of Yan and subsequent title award to Sterling at UFC 259 in March. That rematch, however, was postponed due to Sterling not being medically cleared after a neck surgery. Instead, Yan faced off against Cory Sandhagen, securing the interim belt and guaranteeing himself a shot at the bantamweight championship.

“This time I will destroy this little whiner even more impressive” Yan posted to his Twitter account, recalling how Yan had been seemingly dominating Sterling in their last bout, before he threw an illegal knee that cost him the title.

Sterling, for his part, seems just as eager as his Russian nemesis to get back into the cage and defend his title.

“I’m hoping it’s gonna be on that March card, we’ll see what happens. I know Sean (Shelby) said February, March, April … April’s just so far. March would be ideal,” Sterling said in a recent podcast. “I’m already gearing up. I thought COVID was gonna slow me down more but I’m just excited to get back out there and compete. It’s gonna be a good one and the fans are gonna get their money’s worth and that’s all that matters to me. I wanna make money and I wanna shut these clowns up.”

Regardless of who wins the reunification match in 2022, it seems clear that there is plenty of talent waiting in the wings to challenge the newly crowned champion. Both TJ Dilleshaw and Jose Aldo are already lined up for their chance at the belt, as is Cory Sandhagen and several others.

2022, it seems, is going to be quite a year for the 135-lb class. Let’s see how it all plays out!

Who do you think should be next in line for the Bantamweight title? When do you think the rematch will go down? Email rvann@rockawave.com, I’d love to hear from you!

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LPRD to offer Little Dragons for young martial artists - lawrenceks.org

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Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department is holding a winter session of its martial arts class for younger students.

For participants ages five-years old to seven years-old, Little Dragons is designed with the younger student in mind and teaches basic stances while helping develop coordination, control and balance. Participants will gain confidence, improve attention span and learn to respect others in a positive and fun environment.

The class is offered 12-12:40 p.m. Sundays, Jan. 9-March 6, at Sports Pavilion Lawrence^®, 100 Rock Chalk Lane. Cost is $36.

To register online, visit: http://lprd.org/activity?n=117125 or stop by any Parks and Recreation facility including: the Community Building, 115 West 11th St.; Sports Pavilion Lawrence®; East Lawrence Recreation Center, 1245 East 15th St.; Holcom Park Recreation Center, 2700 West 27th St.; Lawrence Indoor Aquatic Center, 4706 Overland Drive; or Prairie Park Nature Center, 2730 Harper St.

Face coverings are encouraged and appreciated for visitors to City facilities. Masks must be worn at all times while visiting LPRD facilities unless actively participating in a class, during which participants 11 years-old and older may remove their face coverings. For detailed mask regulations, please visit Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health’s website at: https://lawks.us/3oUNc0G

For more information, contact Jo Ellis, recreation instruction supervisor, jellis@lawrenceks.org, (785) 330-7355.

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S&P 500 is little changed after fresh record close - CNBC

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The S&P 500 was little changed Thursday after closing at a new record high in the previous session.

The benchmark index traded near the flatline. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added about 14 points. The Nasdaq Composite ticked up 0.3%.

Thursday is the second-to-last trading session of 2021. The end of the year is a historically strong period for stocks, which has been dubbed the "Santa Claus rally."

"The volumes have been low. I'm attributing a lot of this run ... in the last week to seasonality — the proverbial Santa Claus rally," Jason Snipe, Odyssey Capital Advisors founder and chief investment officer, told CNBC's "Halftime Report."

The S&P 500 has risen during the Santa Claus rally period — the last five trading days of the year followed by the first two sessions in January — 78.5% of the time since 1928, according to Bank of America.

"Santa has been good to investors this holiday season, and we look for another year of positive returns in 2022," said Scott Wren, senior global market strategist at Wells Fargo Investment Institute.

Some travel-related stocks rebounded Thursday after seesawing in trading this week as investors monitor developments with the omicron Covid variant. Penn National Gaming gained 4.4%. Wynn Resorts ticked up more than 2%.

However, cruise line stocks took a hit after the CDC recommended Americans avoid cruise travel regardless of vaccination status. Norwegian Cruise Line retreated 1.4%.

Financial stocks ticked up with American Express and JPMorgan Chase among the leaders on the Dow.

Meanwhile, Biogen slid roughly 8% on Thursday after Samsung denied a report in The Korea Economic Daily that it was in talks to buy Biogen. The stock led decliners on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite. Biogen shares had surged 9.5% on Wednesday on the report.

On the data front, jobless claims last week came in lower than expected, the Labor Department reported Thursday. Initial claims totaled 198,000 for the week ended Dec. 25, while economists surveyed by Dow Jones projected 205,000.

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On Wednesday the S&P 500 posted its 70th record close of the year. This year has seen the second-highest number of record closes for the benchmark index during a calendar year, trailing just 1995's 77 record closing highs. The Dow also closed at its first high since November and saw its sixth-straight positive session.

All three major averages are up for the month of December. The S&P and Dow are on pace for a second positive month in the last three, while the Nasdaq Composite is on track for a third straight month of gains.

For the year, the S&P is up more than 27% and the Dow is up more than 19%. The Nasdaq has gained roughly 23%, while the Russell 2000 is up nearly 15%.

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WATCH: A little rain, a little snow, a little warmth; here’s who gets what - WSYR

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The Dirty Little Secret Developers Won't Tell You: Most Tech Is Just a Big Waste - Inc.

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Not too long ago, one of the companies I advise launched a new software product. It was a two-fer product, one that would enhance the capabilities of their current customers while also opening a new line of business to attract new customers. 

I love those.

Once the new product settled in a bit, the team's attention immediately turned to ways to get their customers using the new product more often, more efficiently, and more successfully. New tech always creates new possibilities, so there was a lot to talk about. 

We started with the thorniest customer problems first. The highest priority problem--the one that was the most expensive and time-consuming for their customers--was the one for which the team had spent the most time designing an elegant and effective first new feature for their new product. 

But something about their new feature bugged me.

When I finished for the day, I spent a few hours diving back into the design they had crafted. The feature was indeed efficient and elegant, even cool. I couldn't put my finger on what was bugging me until the next morning, when it hit me like a ton of bricks.

Their new feature solved a problem that could be solved with an email. 

Most Technical Solutions Are Overkill

I work daily with a chief technology officer who wants to build new tech only when the building of new tech is absolutely necessary. On first take, this seems counterintuitive, but it's actually a luxury for me. Good CTOs are always tasked with building new tech, and they know that good new tech is expensive, time consuming, and almost always comes with some amount of technical debt. 

If CTOs could predict the future, their job would be a breeze. Well, maybe not a breeze, but they wouldn't get caught in the technical overkill cycle.

The statement "most technical solutions are overkill" also seems like hyperbole. It is, a little bit. But having slung tech for the better part of three decades, I've learned that solving problems with tech almost always creates new problems. 

Once we techies get going, it's hard to turn off the spark that leads us to expand and extend our solution to be all solutions to all problems. This is what the team I was advising was experiencing--a young, smart, and very recently successful team looking to capitalize on that success. 

Nothing wrong with that. But back to their story, I realized that a simple automated email could solve 80 percent of the problem for less than a percent of the cost of their technical solution. 

Good CTOs know that you start there.

Why Technical Solutions Are Like Whack-a-Mole

You know that carnival game where you hammer a mole and then several more moles immediately pop up? This is what a lot of technical solutions are like. 

When they're first applied, they are elegant, efficient, and solve 100 percent of the problem. But almost immediately, there's degradation. Over time, outliers and business shifts make the solution increasingly less elegant and less efficient. This goes on as the solution solves less and less of the problem, until the tech eventually becomes a problem itself--a problem that requires, you guessed it, another technical solution. 

So before I build any technical solution, I look for the hack. 

The hack can be a technical hack, it can be an operational change, it can even be a temporary hire. Or it could be none of those. But before I sink time and money into permanent technology that is going to become part of my product's DNA and my customer's job, I make a list of all the other ways that same problem could be solved with limited-to-no new technology. 

The list is usually pretty long, so I then spend some time narrowing it down.

Rule of Thumb: How Big Does Your Solution Have to Scale?

The thing about business problems is that there are a lot of them, they happen often, and they cost money. However, they are rarely systemic, frequent, or--and this is the big one --expensive. 

What's more, if a business is experiencing frequent, systemic, expensive problems on a daily basis, there is not enough technology in the world to save that business. 

When I'm told we need technology to solve a business problem, I always ask: "How often does it happen, and how much does it cost when it does happen." The answer is usually "I don't know." So I ask for numbers. Almost without fail, the problem doesn't happen as often as it seems, and it's rarely costly enough to justify a technical solution. 

I only want new tech to solve a problem when the problem will scale quickly, broadly, and expensively enough to knock over all the solutions in the alternative non-technical solution list I made. You'd be surprised how rarely this happens.

This is why my CTO builds new tech only when it's absolutely necessary. It's why most technical solutions are overkill. And it's why you should think about all the reasons you shouldn't build that tech before you build it.

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'I got you': Three little words pack a powerful punch, if you mean them - Global Sisters Report

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One of the philosophies behind a program we use at the Rose and Blum Close to Home Residences in New York City is SELF, which stands for Safety, Emotions, Loss and Future. Each category is important for problem-solving as youth work toward trauma recovery. (Cailleigh Pattisall)

Editor's note: Notes from the Field includes reports from young people volunteering in ministries of Catholic sisters. A partnership with Catholic Volunteer Network, the project began in the summer of 2015. This latest round of the series features volunteers in Orange, California; Nazareth, Kentucky; and New York City. This is Caileigh Pattisall's first blog post. Read more about her.

New York — I believe that empathy is one of humanity's strongest gifts. A person's ability to empathize with another's situation to the point of wanting to change it for the better is what drives service work.

I also believe that empathy is lacking in today's society. We get caught up in our own lives, seemingly too busy to ask anything more than a passing "Hi, how are you?" and not fully listening to the response, or not quite comfortable enough to reply anything other than "fine" or "good." We get wrapped up in the societal game of making others feel comfortable — to the point of becoming numb ourselves.

A few months before I started with Good Shepherd Volunteers, I made a new friend. Maddie was so consistent checking in on others' "emotional batteries." She always wanted to know, on a scale from 1 to 100, what percentage are you emotionally? And you know, I've never felt so seen.

It felt good to check in with someone.

I went to college to study social justice and communication. I became increasingly passionate about incorporating new methods of restorative and therapeutic justice into existing punitive-driven systems that the United States is so accustomed to. Our jails and prisons are flawed, often producing people who are worse off than before incarceration. They perpetuate a cycle of career criminals, providing no tools or support to people that really need help.

Members of the New York City community of Good Shepherd Volunteers, from left: Mo Berry, Caileigh Pattisall, Maria Jose Miranda and Gabby Kasper (Courtesy of Krystle Powell)

I'm spending my year working as a Good Shepherd Volunteer for Rose House and Barbara Blum Residences, which provide long-term residential and supportive services to youth placed there through family court. Our girl juvenile offenders live at Rose House; our boys live at Barbara Blum. These residences, which act as an alternative to incarceration, are run through Good Shepherd Services, a New York-based nonprofit that seeks to help women, adolescents and children affected by violence, poverty and neglect.

Once I started, I was nervous that I wouldn't have the space in my service site to hone in on how I was feeling. I was still in that societal mindset that professionalism and emotional support can't go hand in hand. To my surprise, the residences actually encouraged it! The program focuses on trauma-informed care for kids, which includes regular community meetings, check-ins, therapy and group programming.

During the first week on the job, I participated in my first community meeting with the boys. As part of the program, the boys are expected to check in with one another each morning and again in the afternoon at staff turnover. The participants go around and ask each other a series of questions.

Another activity I got to help out with during my first week on the job: organizing school supplies for our residents and their families (Courtesy of Cailleigh Pattisall)

"How're you feeling today?"

Many would answer "calm," "happy," or "tired." "Good" is not a feeling — and if you choose to use this word, you will have to elaborate. This I experienced when I answered "good," so I went on to say that I was excited to be there and to meet everyone.

"What is your goal for the day?"

Many of the youth's goals were to get through the day or to have a good day. If a youth expected to move to another level in the program, their goal would shift to finishing their "phase-up" project or to be able to get a home pass that weekend.

"Who can help you with that?"

This particular question is important for a few reasons. First, it gives the participants space to ask for help. If they have a certain project to finish, this can be the space where they can say, "My youth development counselors can help me with that" or "Everyone can help me with that."

At this point in the check-in, the other participants reply, "I got you."

It was powerful to be surrounded by so much mutual support. It truly created an environment where these kids can be heard and express their emotional needs. This question also allows the youth to take responsibility for helping themselves.

Another answer I heard was "I can help myself with this today." These kids are able to recognize that they have a big part to play in reaching their goals. The choices they make directly affect whether or not they can have a good day. The response from the group was still "I got you," even when they weren't asking for help, which made that feeling of support even stronger.

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"What commitment will you carry throughout your day?"

We practice seven commitments in the program. These include nonviolence, emotional intelligence, social learning, open communication, shared governance, social responsibility, and growth and change. During check-in, participants can choose what commitment they want to focus on that day.

"What's your safety plan?"

Everyone has a safety plan. This plan consists of things that we all can think about or activities we can do when we begin to feel overwhelmed. It can be as simple as listening to music or looking forward to a phone call with a family member. These are small but significant moments that we can pull from our toolbox to help cope in the dark moments.

I've been at my service site for four months now, and I've already learned so much about trauma-informed care, the juvenile justice system in New York City, and how I can personally be more emotionally in tune within a community. I feel so fortunate to work in a place that promotes all the aspects that go into therapeutic healing.

I'm so excited to bring you all along with me as I continue this journey into next year. In the meantime, don't forget to check in with your own people.

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22-year-old woman shot in 4th recent Little Italy carjacking; teens targeting young women, police say - News 5 Cleveland

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CLEVELAND — A 22-year-old woman was shot twice Monday night during a carjacking in the heart of Cleveland's Little Italy neighborhood.

It happened just before 10 p.m. near Random and Mayfield roads by Tony Brush Park.

According to a Cleveland police report, the woman was standing outside her car preparing to remove some groceries when an unknown male approached her, demanded her keys and brandished a gun.

The woman told police that the man "asked her if she needed anything out of her car before he took off," but she didn't believe he was holding a real gun and tried to grab her keys. The male fired the weapon and she was struck twice—once in the ribs and once in the leg, the report said.

An off-duty Case Western Reserve University police officer administered first aid to the woman. Police didn't say the woman's condition but did indicate that the bullets went "through and through."

After the shooting, the male fled the scene in the woman's 2019 Volkswagen Jetta. Police searched the area but were unable to locate the shooter or the woman's car.

According to police, this was the fourth carjacking reported in Little Italy in recent weeks.

Case Western Reserve University said 3 of the victims were students and in a statement said there is an urgent need to increase public safety efforts in the area of Little Italy. University Circle Police and Case Western Reserve University Police will be increasing patrols in the area, to assist Cleveland Police.

Police said they are looking for teenage boys who are using a black gun with a green laser on it.

All of the victims have been younger females.

Police believe all of the carjackings are connected.

It's shaken up people who live work and play in the area, as it's not one that sees a lot of violent crime.

"There’s the old timers that have lived here their whole lives and there’s the new people that have moved in the last so many years and there’s a mix of students, so there’s a wide range of people living in the area," said Raymond Kristosik, the executive director of Little Italy Redevelopment. "I think we are just the area that these young kids are doing these car jackings. Overall, I think the area in general is very safe."

Ward 6 Councilman Blaine A. Griffin said the community is working together and is confident the perpetrators will be caught. He said the number one priority moving forward is to make sure people know violent acts are not tolerated and criminals will be held accountable.

"A lot of people here are old school and they’re going to have eyes and ears on the ground, the restaurant owners, the stakeholders," he said. Safety is the most important thing that residents have on their mind. In this city, whenever you have these senseless acts of crime it’s a blemish, not just on this neighborhood, but the entire city and I dare to say the entire region."

Anyone with information is asked to call police at 216-623-5318.

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You Don’t Need a Spaceship to Grow ‘Weird Little’ Martian Radishes - The New York Times

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Scientists on this planet have worked out a variety of techniques to simulate the conditions of other worlds that are near and very far.

In the historical imagination, astronomers look through telescopes, and photonic wisdom pours in at the speed of light. Taking what they can get, they passively receive information about far-off stars and planets. These objects are fixed, and their conditions cannot be tweaked.

But that’s not how all astronomy works. Planetary and exoplanetary scientists, for instance, don’t just wait for data to come to them: They also construct miniature versions of other places using convenient geological landscapes, gravel crushers and simulation chambers on Earth. In these simulacra, they see, feel and control worlds — or at least metaphors for them — in an attempt to decipher parts of the universe they’ll likely never visit.

In making the untouchable physical and the abstract concrete, they are creating not just similes but ways to conceive of these planets as actual places.

“Throughout science, we reason by comparison all the time,” said Pascal Lee of the Mars and SETI institutes. “And so there’s something very fundamental to the approach of using analogues.”

Their methods are in keeping with scientific traditions that value both laboratory-based research and direct contact with nature.

“It actually makes a lot of sense why planetary scientists, whose phenomena are removed in time and space, would think that simulation and replication would be how they could still study that which is remote,” said Lisa Messeri, an anthropologist at Yale University and the author of the book “Placing Outer Space,” “because that’s what science has been doing for hundreds of years.”

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The most direct arrow between this world and those beyond is the “terrestrial analogue,” a physical location on Earth that resembles some aspect of another world — usually the moon or Mars. That relevance can take the form of geological formations, like lava tubes or sand dunes, or it can be a whole region with lunar or Martian flair, like the Atacama Desert in Chile or volcanoes in Hawaii.

Dr. Lee runs the Haughton-Mars Project, an analog research facility on Devon Island, an uninhabited, barren Arctic outpost in Nunavut, Canada. “There’s an incredibly wide array of features that are similar to what we see on the moon and on Mars,” he said.

The island is permacold and dry, with valleys and canyons, and boasts a 14-mile-wide crater left from a cosmic impact. That’s about the same size as Shackleton Crater at the lunar South Pole, where NASA plans to send astronauts this decade.

A Haughton-Mars project rover headed toward base camp on the Arctic Canadian Devon Island.Lorenzo Flueckiger/NASA

During dozens of field campaigns, the Haughton research station has provided a permanent place where scientists can pretend to be on the moon or Mars, study similar geology, test equipment for future missions and train humans to take part.

“It’s a bit of a turnkey operation,” Dr. Lee said, although he notes that it’s not like an Airbnb anyone could show up and use. A core habitat facility spokes into a series of tents for geology, astrobiology, medicine and administrative and repair work. A greenhouse stands alone, while ATVs and Humvees support travel and simulate rovers.

Dr. Lee spent 23 straight summers at the facility, eating canned sardines in the cold on day trips away from the main camp. But in 2020 and 2021, the pandemic forced him to skip his annual journeys to that other world on Earth. He missed the simplicity, and isolation.

“When you are there, you are the population of Devon Island,” Dr. Lee said, just like a lonely astronaut.

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There are times, though, when scientists don’t need to go to an analogue: They can bring it home in the form of simulants, or material that resembles the surface of the moon or Mars.

Mars, for instance, is covered in sand and dust that together are called regolith. It makes travel difficult and can also block solar panels, clog filters and seize up moving parts. To determine how robotic rovers, power sources and other hardware will withstand those red-planet rigors, scientists have to test them against something similar before they make the journey.

That’s why, in 1997, NASA developed a dusty substance called JSC-Mars 1, based on data from the Viking and Pathfinder missions. It’s made from material found on the Pu’u Nene cinder cone volcano in Hawaii. There, lava once oozed into water, eventually forming regolith-esque particles.

NASA scientists later improved on this material, while preparing the Mars Phoenix lander, and concocted Mars Mojave Simulant. It is sourced from the lava deposits of the Saddleback volcanic formation in the Mojave Desert in California.

Mars regolith simulant created by the Martian Garden, a Texas company.The Martian Garden

Still, the test process isn’t foolproof: Phoenix collected icy soil samples on Mars in 2008 that were too “sticky,” in NASA’s words, to move from the scoop to an analysis instrument. A year later, the Spirit rover got stuck in sand, forever. Its sibling robot, Opportunity, was lost when a dust storm coated its solar panels, a fate that has also hindered the more recent InSight mission.

Today, private companies use NASA’s data and recipes for private simulant supplies. This “add to cart” version goes into science-fair projects, alien cement and otherworldly gardening soil. Mark Cusimano, the founder of one such company, The Martian Garden, says cultivating a red planet victory garden using Saddleback’s soil is his hobby. It’s satisfying, he says, to grow “a weird little radish or carrot in it.”

Wieger Wamelink, an ecologist at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, has taken such work further with the “Food For Mars and Moon” project, growing crops like peas and potatoes. He’s currently at work on a full agricultural system, including bacteria, earthworms and human excrement. The idea, Dr. Wamelink said, is “to boldly grow where no plant has grown before.” Today, Mars on Earth. Tomorrow, perhaps Mars itself.

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Mimicking more exotic solar-system spots takes some doing, so scientists often turn to simulation chambers — essentially test tubes in which they recreate the conditions of other worlds. The idea goes back to the 1950s, when a military scientist brought to the United States from Nazi Germany pioneered the use of low-pressure chambers sometimes called “Mars Jars” to learn about whether biology might persist in Martian conditions.

Today, researchers like Tom Runčevski of Southern Methodist University in Dallas are looking at a different place: Titan, a moon of Saturn, the only world in the solar system other than Earth that currently has standing bodies of liquid on its surface.

“I always personally go talking about how hostile and terrifying Titan is,” Dr. Runčevski said. Lakes and seas swim with ethane. It snows benzene, and rains methane. But if you look up through the haze, you’ll see the rings of Saturn.

Although a European space probe, Huygens, parachuted to its surface in 2005, Titan’s magnificent hostility is, in its totality, hard to understand from a hospitable planet like this one. “Titan is a world,” says Dr. Runčevski. “It’s very difficult to study a world from Earth.”

An image returned to Earth in 2005 by the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe of Titan’s surface.NASA/JPL/ESA/University of Arizona

But he’s trying, having created in his lab what he calls “Titan in a Jar.”

You won’t see Saturn’s rings from the bottom of Dr. Runčevski’s jars. But you will learn about the organic compounds and crystals occupying its most famous moon. Inside the jars — test tubes, truthfully — Dr. Runčevski will put a drop or two of water, and then freeze it to mimic a tiny version of Titan’s core. He’ll add to that a couple drops of ethane, which will condense straightaway, making mini moon-lakes. After that, he’ll add in other organic compounds of interest, like acetonitrile or benzene. Then, he’ll suck the air out and set the temperature to Titan’s, around minus 292 degrees Fahrenheit.

NASA is planning a return to Titan, launching a nuclear-powered quadcopter called Dragonfly in 2027. By watching the crystals and structures that form in his jars, Dr. Runčevski hopes to help scientists interpret what they see when the robotic explorer arrives in 2034. “We cannot send a full laboratory,” he said, so they have to rely in part on the laboratories of Earth.

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In a lab at Johns Hopkins University, Sarah Hörst does work similar to NASA’s and Dr. Runčevski’s, including simulating Titan. But her test tubes also stretch to simulate hypothetical exoplanets, or worlds that orbit distant stars.

Dr. Hörst initially steered away from exoplanets, because specifics are scant. “I’m spoiled from the solar system,” she recalls thinking. But a colleague convinced her to start mimicking hypothetical worlds. “We put together this matrix of possible planets,” she said. Their fictional atmospheres are dominated by hydrogen, carbon dioxide or water, and they range in temperature from around minus 300 degrees Fahrenheit to 980 degrees Fahrenheit.

Her test tubes start with the major constituents that might make up an atmosphere, set to a given temperature. She flows that mixture into a chamber the size of a soda bottle, and exposes it to energy — UV light or electrons from a plasma — which breaks up the initial molecules. “They run around in the chamber making new molecules, and some of those new molecules also get broken up,” Dr. Hörst said. That cycle repeats until the energy source is cut off. Sometimes, that process produces solid particles: an otherworldly haze.

Sarah Hörst of Johns Hopkins University with her lab’s planetary atmospheric simulation chamber.Justin Tsucalas

Figuring out which potential exoplanets produce smog can help scientists point telescopes at orbs they can actually observe. Plus, haze affects a planet’s surface temperature, making the difference between liquid water and ice or evaporation, and it can shield the surface from high-energy photons — both of which affect a planet’s habitability. Atmospheres can also supply the building blocks of life and energy — or fail to.

Despite her initial hesitations, Dr. Hörst has grown attached to her lab-grown planets. They feel familiar, even if fictional. She can usually tell when she walks into the office what kind of experiment is running, because different plasmas glow different colors. “‘Oh, we must be doing Titan today, because it’s kind of purple,’ or, ‘We’re doing this specific exoplanet, which is kind of blue,’” she said.

Compared with the landscapes of Devon Island, fistfuls of regolith simulant or even a test-tube moon, Dr. Hörst’s lab planets lack physicality. They don’t represent a specific world; they don’t take its shape; they are only ethereal atmosphere, with no ground to stand on. But that makes sense: The farther an astronomer wants to peer from Earth, the fuzzier their creations become. “I think the fact that the exoplanet simulations are more abstract is this stark reminder that these aren’t places you can go,” Dr. Messeri said.

Still, Dr. Hörst recalls days when her lab simulates searing planets: Then, the chamber heats its whole corner of the room. That little world, which doesn’t exactly exist anywhere else, warms this one.

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Stock futures are little changed after S&P 500 hits another record high - CNBC

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Stock futures were calm on Monday evening as Wall Street looked to build on its record highs in the final week of the year.

Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 33 points, while those for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 were down less than 0.1%.

The move in futures comes after stocks rallied in Monday's regular session, with the S&P 500 rising roughly 1.4% to close at a record high. The Nasdaq Composite rose 1.4%, while the Dow climbed about 352 points.

Stocks dipped in late November, in part because of the rise of the omicron variant of Covid 19, but have since rebounded as governments have largely shied away from reinstating strict social distancing measures. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Monday that it was shortening its isolation recommendation for people who test positive to five days from 10, if those people do not have symptoms.

Airline stocks did struggle on Monday, however, as the spread of the virus led to hundreds of flight cancelations around the Christmas holiday. Apple also announced that it was closing its New York City stores to customers due to the spike in Covid cases.

Stocks tend to rise in light trading during the final days of the year, often called the "Santa Clause rally." However, many Wall Street pros predict relative small gains for stocks in 2022 after two strong years.

"If you look around Wall Street, you see very tame expectations, and it's probably a reflection that we're probably pretty late in the cycle," Jim Lacamp, senior vice president at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, said on "Closing Bell."

In addition to the S&P 500's record close, the Dow is within 1% of its intraday all-time high, while the Nasdaq is about 2% below its high-water mark.

For the year, the S&P 500 is up 27.6% for the year and the Nasdaq is up 23.1%. The Dow is the laggard, up 18.6%.

It is a slow week overall for economic data, but investors will get a look at home prices on Tuesday when the October reading for the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index is released before the bell.

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Jean-Marc Vallée, Famed Director of ‘Big Little Lies’ and ‘Dallas Buyers Club,’ Dies at 58 - Vanity Fair

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The filmmaker passed away unexpectedly on Sunday at his home outside Quebec City.

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Mile High Morning: DeBorah Little, wife of Broncos legend Floyd Little, honoring his legacy one year after his passing - DenverBroncos.com

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In the year since DeBorah Little lost her husband, former Broncos great Floyd Little, she has turn the focus of her life to helping others who have lost loved ones to honor his life and legacy.

Floyd, who passed away on Jan. 1, 2021 following a battle with cancer, was a first-round draft pick by the Broncos in 1967 and spent nine seasons with the team. Known as "The Franchise" because he was the Broncos' first first-round pick to play for Denver, Floyd became the team's first superstar and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2010.

Since Floyd's passing, The Denver Post's Sean Keeler learned, DeBorah has devoted herself to honoring Floyd's legacy by helping others as they process their grief.

"This past August, during Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement weekend, DeBorah partnered with LaTresa Doleman and Tara Greene, widows of Hall-of-Fame defenders Chris Doleman and Kevin Greene, to collaborate with the YWCA Canton on a 'Women Empowering Women' panel," Keeler wrote.

DeBorah has also honored Floyd's NFL connection by working directly with other widows of NFL players.

"[DeBorah] started regular Zoom calls with fellow NFL widows, giving advice she had to learn the hard way," Keeler wrote. "Sharing tips she wished she'd known years earlier." 

DeBorah has learned a lot about grief in the year since Floyd passed, and she is channeling that experience into help for other women who have lost husbands.

"DeBorah recently spearheaded a short cruise on Lake Las Vegas for roughly 30 widows such as herself — a chance to get some fresh air, to love, to learn and to listen," Keeler wrote.

 The holidays are still a difficult time for DeBorah, who lost Floyd on New Year's Day 2021. But she told Keeler that she is determined to push through it all and to keep his memory alive in every way possible.

"What I will tell you is that with every fiber of my being, I will be doing everything I can to be keeping the spirit of Floyd alive, his memory alive, his legacy alive," DeBorah said. "I do not want people to forget him easily.

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Opinion | Biden got by with little help from his friends: A Beatles remix - POLITICO

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I was watching the new documentary "The Beatles: Get Back" when I started thinking about how to visually and satirically sum up this year in politics. And it dawned on me: President Joe Biden thought his first year was going to be like a happy Beatles song. The country needed help. It was time to get back and come together … over him. We could get by with a little help from our friends!

OK, boomer.

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Biden thought his many old friends on both sides of the aisle in the Senate, as well as his decades of experience as a D.C. deal-maker, meant he could come into the White House and get stuff done. After all, we were in the midst of a historic global pandemic that had brought the economy to a dead stop. If ever there was a time to come together as a country, this was it, and Biden was the kind of guy who could bridge the partisan divide, bring some civility back to Washington and unify a beleaguered county ... with a little help from his friends. But that song was perhaps a bit too optimistic for the Biden agenda, especially when considering who these "friends" are.

During his first year in office, Biden’s call to our better angels had a hard time cutting through the din. Maybe it’s Covid-19, maybe it’s the algorithms that appear to have permanently polarized our politics, but Biden’s calls for unity and compromise seem like a sweet Beatles tune sung by a nostalgic old guy from a bygone era. And his friends from both sides of the aisle were no help, when he really needed somebody.

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In 2021 — the first year of the Biden presidency — the nation just seemed to want to double down on divisiveness. From our inability to come together to fight the coronavirus, or unify in defense of our basic democratic institutions after Jan. 6, it became clear the nation just wasn’t in a mood to put the unum back in our pluribus.

Picking up where they left off with its eight-year project to stymie the Obama presidency, the GOP has been very disciplined in not letting Biden find the tiniest foothold for any bipartisanship. Like the Blue Meanies in “Yellow Submarine,” they were out to stymie him at every move.

With the Senate tied up at 50-50 and a narrow majority in the House, the president couldn’t even muster much unity within his own party. Aside from success restarting the economy and also the singular triumph of finally starting to fix our broken infrastructure, the Biden agenda remains stalled by gridlock in Congress — and all the while the coronavirus continues to mutate.

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So hey, Joe, it’s a sad song, but we can make it better. After all, it’s a long and winding road. Maybe somehow we might be able to get back and come together. Biden’s magical mystery tour has just begun.

Please enjoy our very Beatles parody of Joe Biden’s hard day’s night and year, 2021.

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