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‘Grey’s Anatomy’ showrunner shares Twitter thread about white privilege – The Loop

Greys Anatomy showrunner Krista Vernoff heads a medical drama that has been applauded for the diversity in its casting. As one of the few primetime shows to feature several Black main cast members, Greys Anatomy has spent 16 seasons depicting Black people as successful surgeons and layered, complicated and fully realized characters, a stark and infrequent reprieve from the typical thugs and criminals or single token character on a major TV show. Now Vernoff is using her platform to show how she as a white person has been treated differently throughout her life because of the colour of her skin.

In a thread posted to Twitter on June 15, Vernoff shares several instances from her youth when her actions could have landed her in jail or dead had she not been white. Starting when she was 15-years-old and was caught shop lifting, Vernoff runs through her list of crimes, or mistakes, that never amounted to more than a few months of probation.

Vernoff shares several stories about instances that occurred in her late teens and early 20s, including a time when she assaulted a man in front of police officers. The writer could have been tried as an adult and faced major repercussions but did not.

Noting that she has no criminal record, Vernoff poses the question to her followers of whether they think she would have deserved to have been shot for any of her crimes. Touching on the recent death of Rayshard Brooks, the 27-year-old Atlanta man who was shot in the back and killed by police after falling asleep drunk in his car at a Wendys parking lot, Vernoff writes, Im asking the white people reading this to think about the crimes youve committed. (Note: You dont call them crimes. You and your parents call them mistakes.) Think of all the mistakes youve made that you were allowed to survive.

Many fans began sharing their own stories of times they committed crimes and were released with no mark on their record and no threat to the life. Director Ava DuVernay shared Vernoffs tweet, calling it one of the best threads on the criminalization of Black people that Ive read lately.

Filmmaker Qasim Basir shared his own thread, recalling all the times that he was harassed, arrested and fined for simply being Black or for petty crimes, like having an expired license.

Terri Kopp, a writer and producer on The Chi, creator of In Contempt and executive producer on Black Mafia Family, responded to Vernoffs tweet with her own story. Koop acknowledges her own racist ideas, noting that oppression can even come from well-meaning liberals.

On Wednesday, it was announced that Garrett Rolfe, the officer who shot and killed Brooks, has been charged with felony murder and 10 additional charges. Prosecutors laid charges against Rolfe after reviewing eight videos taken of Brooks interaction with the police and his death. Second officer Devin Brosman also faces three charges, including aggravated assault, which he is being charged with for standing on Brooks shoulder after he was shot.

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Debbie Allen of ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Honors ‘Dance to the Music’ with a Throwback Photo – AmoMama

Debbie Allen promoted her upcoming digital dance-a-thon, 'Dance to the Music,'and recreated a photo of herself from the 1980s wearing a black top hat.

Debbie Allen has teamed up with celebrity choreographer, Jaquel Knight, for a 12-hour digital dance-a-thon on June 13, 2020. Celebrity guests include Ellen Pompeo, Dolly Parton, Chaka Khan, and Shonda Rhimes.

The event will be live-streamed. It is aimed at helping to raise money for people in the dance communitywho have been affected by the restrictions on businesses amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

As she prepared for the upcoming event, Allen shared a throwback photo of herself from 1986 for the musical "Sweet Charity,"in which she posed in a black top hat.

In the second photo, the "Grey's Anatomy"star shared a modern recreation of the look. One fan recalled watching the show and praised her character over the many encounters they had experienced with the actress.

As she posed in an all-black ensemble to match her top hat, her makeup looked gorgeous. She had on a smokey eye, light blush, and red lip. One commenter added, "stunning then, stunning now."

Allen has many talents as an actress, director, dancer, and choreographer. She made her big break in the 1980s when she starredas a dance teacher named Lydia Grant in "Fame."

Her passion for dance turned in the "Debbie Allen Dance Academy."It is a non-profit organization, which is located in Los Angeles, California.

Amid the global quarantine, Allen came up with the idea for free virtual classes to help keep people active and positive during while quarantined in their homes, she explained:

"A lot of people needed it, and it was a healing experience and a releasing experience and a motivational experience."

Allen's live dance classes have drawn in tens of thousands of viewers each week. The sessions accommodate people of all dance calibers.

In her goal for the "Dance to the Music,"digital dance-a-thon, she intends to not only raise money but also to provide exposure to other dancers in the community.

We at AmoMama do our best to give you the most updated news regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, but the situation is constantly changing. We encourage readers to refer to the online updates from CD, WHO, or Local Health Departments to stay updated. Take care!

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Anatomy

"Fall" TV 2020: The Full Broadcast Schedule – Hollywood Reporter

There is no traditional fall schedule for the 2020-21 broadcast season.

The novel coronavirus pandemic has changed has turned the TV industry, like so many others, on its ear. Production on scripted and unscripted series was shut down in mid-March and a path back to work remains unclear as the guilds continue to hammer out new safety protocols that would allow cameras to roll again. Only it's unclear when that is.

With that in mind, the schedules at the five broadcast networks have been the most heavily affected. Dozens of scripted series, like Grey's Anatomy and Law & Order: SVU, were shut down before wrapping work on their 2019-20 seasons and a timeline for when they can safely return to work remains up in the air. Network executives have had to make new series pickups based almost exclusively on scripts as pilot season was effectively wiped out. Schedulers at ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and The CW have spent the past three months having a series of anxiety attacks as they tried to plan for an uncertain future while having more questions than answers.

As a result, two different scheduling patterns have emerged for whatever becomes of the 2020-21 broadcast season.

Fox and The CW used what would have been their upfront day to release a "corona-proof" schedule that relies heavily on programming that was already completed including such "gently used" programming as Spectrum's L.A.'s Finest and foreign acquisition Devils, starring Patrick Dempsey. Both networks will, in success, aim to have scripted originals back on starting in January 2021 as they hope productions can get back to work and the fight against COVID-19 improves.

ABC, CBS and NBC, meanwhile, are focused on keeping business as usual and are essentially have crossed their fingers that production can resume sooner rather than later and fan favorites like mega-hit NCIS can be back on the schedule sometime in the fourth quarter of 2020.

Executives at all three networks are cautiously optimistic that their programming will all eventually form a coherent schedule. Yet brass at ABC, NBC and CBS all believe that nothing will be ready for Premiere Week, the late September week that has traditionally launched the fall season. Instead, the expectation is that some programs will be ready sooner than others and could return on a cascading basis with comedies, dramas and unscripted fare launching anytime between September and as late as December.

Of course, a potential "second wave" of the global pandemic could force production to shut down a second time despite current greenlights from local governments including L.A.

In terms of the actual schedules, ABC is betting that unscripted series will have an easier path back to work and has sacrificed hours of scripted comedies to make way for The Bachelorette, Supermarket Sweep and more. As for the few new series that have been picked up for next season, those are largely being held for midseason to allow time to actually film a pilot. (Additional series pickups are also expected to come, pending network needs and filming considerations.)

Below is the current best-case scenario schedule for each of the networks. Premiere dates, however, are anyone's guess. (The CW's listings first feature the fall lineup followed by 2021 plan.)

(Guide: New shows in all caps. Asterisks designate new time slots.)

MONDAY

8 p.m.L.A.s Finest(Fox)Whose Line Is It Anyway / All American (The CW)The Neighborhood (CBS)Dancing With the Stars (ABC)The Voice (NBC)

8:30 p.m.Bob Hearts Abishola (CBS)

9 p.m.NEXT (Fox)Penn & Teller: Fool Us / Black Lightning (The CW)All Rise (CBS)

10 p.m.Bull (CBS)The Good Doctor (ABC)Manifest (NBC)

TUESDAY

8 p.m.Cosmos: Possible Worlds (Fox)Swamp Thing / The Flash (The CW)NCIS (CBS)The Bachelorette (ABC)The Voice (NBC)

9 p.m.FILTHY RICH (Fox)Tell Me a Story/ SUPERMAN & LOIS (The CW)FBI (CBS)This Is Us (NBC)

10 p.m.FBI: Most Wanted (CBS)BIG SKY (ABC)New Amsterdam (NBC)

WEDNESDAY

8 p.m.The Masked Singer (Fox)Devils / Riverdale (The CW)Survivor (CBS)The Goldbergs (ABC)Chicago Med (NBC)

8:30 p.m.Devils / Riverdale (The CW)Black-ish* (ABC)

9 p.m.MasterChef Junior(Fox)Coroner / Nancy Drew (The CW)The Amazing Race (CBS)The Conners* (ABC)Chicago Fire (NBC)

9:30 p.m.American Housewife (ABC)

10 p.m.SEAL Team (CBS)Chicago P.D. (NBC)Stumptown (ABC)

THURSDAY

7:30-8 p.m.Fox NFL Thursday (Fox)

8 p.m.Thursday NightFootball (Fox)Supernatural / WALKER (The CW)Young Sheldon (CBS)Station 19 (ABC)Superstore (NBC)

8:30 p.m.B POSITIVE (CBS)Brooklyn Nine-Nine (NBC)

9 p.m.The Outpost / Legacies (The CW)Mom (CBS)Grey's Anatomy (ABC)Law & Order: SVU* (NBC)

9:30 p.m.The Unicorn (CBS)

10 p.m.Evil (CBS)A Million Little Things (ABC)LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME (NBC)

FRIDAY

8 p.m.WWEs Friday Night SmackDown (Fox)World's Funniest Animals / Penn & Teller: Fool Us (The CW)MacGyver (CBS)Shark Tank* (ABC)The Blacklist (NBC)

9 p.m.Penn and Teller: Fool Us / Whose Line Is It Anyway? (The CW)Magnum PI (CBS)20/20 (ABC)Dateline (NBC)

10 p.m.Blue Bloods

SATURDAY

7 p.m.Fox Sports Saturday (Fox)

8 p.m.Crimetime Saturday (CBS)Saturday Night Football (ABC)Dateline (NBC)

9 p.m.Crimetime Saturday (CBS)

10 p.m.48 Hours (CBS)Saturday Night Live encores(NBC)

SUNDAY

7 p.m.NFL on Fox (Fox)60 Minutes (CBS)America's Funniest Home Videos (ABC)Football Night in America (NBC)

7:30 p.m.The OT/Fox Encores (Fox)

8 p.m.The Simpsons (Fox)Masters of Illusion / Batwoman (The CW)THE EQUALIZER(CBS)SUPERMARKET SWEEP (ABC)

8:20 p.m.Sunday Night Football (NBC)

8:30 p.m.Bless the Harts (Fox)

9 p.m.Bobs Burgers (Fox)Pandora / Charmed (The CW)NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS)Who Wants to be a Millionaire* (ABC)

9:30 p.m.Family Guy (Fox)

10 p.m.NCIS: New Orleans (CBS)The Rookie (ABC)

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Human Behavior

Opinion: Canada’s proposed contact-tracing app takes the right approach on privacy – The Globe and Mail

A sign in Toronto advises people to remain a safe distance apart to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus on June 18, 2020.

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Derek Ruths is a professor of computer science at McGill University, where he advances the responsible use of large datasets to measure and model human behavior. He served as an adviser to the federal committee which informed the selection of the Canadian contact tracing app announced by the federal government.

Across Canada, people are taking measures to protect the rest of society: maintaining safe distances while waiting in line for stores, wearing masks and working from home. In a progressive society such as Canada, this abiding sense of social responsibility is our greatest hope for overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic.

Now, as we approach the fourth month of the pandemic, governments around the world have considered launching contact-tracing apps as part of these socially responsible behaviours. In places such as South Korea, Singapore and Germany, theyve already been rolled out. And in a press conference on Thursday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a voluntary nationwide mobile-phone app called COVID Alert, a federally backed project that was unveiled by Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, where it will be piloted.

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The federal and Ontario governments are about to test a smartphone app that can alert users if they've been close to someone who has later tested positive for COVID-19, Justin Trudeau says. The Canadian Press

Much of the debate around these solutions has focused on the issue of privacy and government surveillance. Such contact-tracing apps can help public-health workers act decisively to slow the spread of COVID-19, but they can also give authorities uncomfortable amounts of information about individual and community behaviors. While this debate is worthy and warranted, not every approach being proposed under the broad umbrella of contact-tracing apps has these issues; in fact, some carry virtually no risk of surveillance. Because these apps have huge potential in the fight against COVID-19, widespread confusion about privacy issues threatens to lead us to broadly reject reasonable solutions which include COVID Alert. This must not happen.

First, Canadians must understand that there are two very different kinds of apps that are referred to in this overbroad definition: true contact-tracing apps and exposure-notification apps. While both aim to stop the spread of COVID-19, they work in different ways, and therefore also differ on how they protect privacy and protect public health.

Apps that can be correctly called contact-tracing tend to favour rapid public-health response over privacy. Information shared from individuals phones is stored on a central server in such a way that, should an individual be diagnosed with COVID-19, public-health workers can identify and contact individuals with phones that have been in close proximity to the newly diagnosed person. This approach allows public-health workers to evaluate the risk posed by individual infections and make calculated assessments of whether a particular train station, bus line or store should be disinfected or closed. However, the shared phone data can be used to identify individuals, map their social networks and study their movements. The government and public-health workers have no foreseeable need to delve into this other information, which could potentially be used or misused for other purposes.

The other kind of contact-tracing tool being considered is better called an exposure-notification app. It allows individuals diagnosed with COVID-19 to voluntarily notify anyone who may have been exposed through close physical contact without revealing that persons identity to others. Like the true contact-tracing apps, this notification is done using phone data stored on a central server, with closeness being measured by the proximity of peoples cellphones. However, unlike with true contact-tracing apps, little information is stored or shared with the government or companies, so identifying, tracking or studying people through exposure-notification app data is pretty much impossible. This puts public-health workers in the uncomfortable position of having no knowledge of how a particular exposure affected the broader public, but it does give exposed individuals the knowledge they need in order to make decisions about whether they should self-quarantine. It also puts all responsibility for response squarely on our individual shoulders.

This latter kind of app is what COVID Alert would be, which means that, if developed properly, it poses no risk to Canadians privacy. This is the right choice for one crucial reason: Multiple studies have shown that for either kind of app to be effective, more than 60 per cent of the population needs to adopt it. Removing every possible privacy concern is the best way to achieve this level of adoption, even if we sacrifice some level of public-health visibility in the process.

The COVID Alert app will be released in a few weeks. When this happens, each of us will be presented with the decision to participate or not to install it or not. Thats a personal decision, but one that carries significance for the health and well-being of those around us. The Canadian government is giving us a promising tool in our shared struggle against COVID-19. Its now up to us to use it.

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Estimates show uneven stress on hospitals across the state from COVID-19 – WRAL.com

By Tyler Dukes, WRAL investigative reporter

Raleigh, N.C. A group of public health experts say that although North Carolina hospitals are likely a long way off from running out of beds, a recent rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations has had an uneven impact across the state.

In the fourth of a series of briefs assessing statewide hospital capacity, researchers from Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for the first time detailed how the number of patients has shifted in seven different regions across the state.

Hospitalization trends, the authors wrote, "are somewhat more threatening now than they were a month ago."

The areas of greatest concern include the counties surrounding Greenville, Charlotte and Raleigh, which "are experiencing more substantial tightening of near-term capacity than other regions."

The brief was authored by Mark Holmes, director of the Sheps Center for Health Services Research at UNC-CH; Aaron McKethan, a senior policy fellow at the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy; and Hilary Campbell, aresearch associate at Duke-Margolis.

The state Department of Health and Human Services as of Thursday counted 857 people hospitalized with COVID-19, and the researchers noted the health care system has been under increased pressure overall as the number of patients has grown.

While it's true that fewer hospital beds are available, the brief notes the growth rate of hospitalizations has decreased overall.

But that decrease has not been uniform.

Their analysis examined hospitalization data across Public Health Surveillance Team regions collections of counties that divvy up the state into seven distinct parts.

While statewide, the growth rate of hospitalizations in the week prior to June 12 stood at about 14 percent, that growth was negative for the Fayetteville and Triad areas. But the counties around Greenville saw 43 percent growth in hospitalizations during that period.

In the Triangle, it was about 21 percent.

Researchers project that, at the current statewide growth rate, COVID-19 hospitalizations wouldn't tax the health care system's capacity of normal beds for almost four months. That number varies greatly between regions, from less than two months for the Greenville area to just over three months for the Triangle.

But the study's authors acknowledge that there are plenty of caveats to their projections.

For one, the forecasts are highly dependent on the fluctuating growth rate of hospitalizations, which has seen particularly large changes in recent days.

"What is our best estimate of the growth in COVID-19 hospitalizations over the next month? Is it the growth we have had since May 15? Or is the recently rapidly increasing reported case rate a harbinger of faster growth?" researchers wrote. "This is a key point of uncertainty."

Growth rates in hospitalizations are highly dependent on human behavior, which fuels infection rates. And researchers noted in their brief that policies by federal, state and local officials have appeared to impact that behavior, beginning with responses to dire predictions at the start of the pandemic.

"Policymakers and the public then acted and slowed viral spread. That slowing made forecasts more optimistic, which then led to calls for reopening," researchers wrote. "As population mobility and contact rates have changed and the opportunity for community spread has increased, the number of reported cases has also increased."

Even with a sustained growth in patients, researchers say hospital administrators still have plenty of "relief valves" to ease demand and increase capacity.

Surge beds can allow for more patients. Hospitals can again cut back on elective procedures. And they can take advantage of regional differences to transfer patients where there's more capacity to care for them.

There's also the potential change how the state reopens. But the authors wrote that"any chosen strategy involves complex tradeoffs with profound ethical, social and economic strategies."

"The only true long-term solutions are to fully eradicate the virus and/or develop a broadly effective and safe treatment for the disease it causes."

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Pandemic-fueled Surge in Wild Turkey Hunting Tests Declining Populations – Audubon Magazine

Wild Turkeys. Photo: Adam Bass/Audubon Photography Awards

This spring, as Wild Turkey hunting season kicked off, Louisiana State University turkey biologist Bret Collier started receiving concerning reports from the field. "My graduate students following turkeys were sending me messages saying that they'd never seen this many people around," he says. When Collier checked in with a close colleague, University of Georgia turkey biologist Mike Chamberlain shared similar news. "I'm seeing a lot of people hunting in my own area," Chamberlain says.

When the duo put their heads together, they had a realization: Maybe turkey hunters have more time on their hands because of the coronavirus pandemic and recession. After all, like birding, hunting is a safe and responsible way to enjoy the outdoors in a socially distanced manner. "If they're like me, they have nothing else to do at this point with their spare time, Chamberlain says. If this was the case, the pair wondered whether this seemingly small change in human behavior could have an outsize impact on Wild Turkey populations, which in many areas have been steadily declining in recent years.

So, the two biologists (who both also hunt turkeys) did what biologists do: They gathered information from state wildlife officials to see if their suspicions proved out. In many states early data suggested that the increased hunting they and their students had observed is indeed a real phenomenon. And in some places, that's resulting in more dead turkeys.

In Georgia, during the first 23 days of the season, hunters shot 26 percent more turkeys than they did in 2019. Compared to last year, 34 percent more hunters shot two turkeys, and the number of hunters that killed three turkeys (the state limit) is up by nearly 50 percent. Other states reported similar stats. In Mississippi, turkey harvest on public lands was up by 60 percent compared with 2019. In North Carolina, it was up by a third over the three-year average. Tennessee's harvest was up by half, and in Louisiana it was up by 14 percent in the first week of the season alone.

In order to distribute the information as quickly as possible, Collier and Chamberlain announced their findings online in a white paper in April rather than go through the formal publication process.

These trends aren't evident everywhere. Though Pennsylvania has seen turkey populations decline in recent years, harvest rates through May 16 were around 6 percent lower than last year, says turkey biologist Mary Jo Casalena of the Pennsylvania Game Commission. And while North Carolina turkeys have been subject to an increased harvest this year, officials arent worried because the state hasn't yet seen the population declines that other states have.

Still, the broad picture for the spring 2020 turkey hunting season is one of increased harvest on top of ongoing declines. The reasons for those declines aren't entirely understood, but most biologists agree that theylikely involvea variety of factors: habitat loss, climate change, predator conservation, and more.

"What we've seen this year are extremely non-normal conditions, especially with regard to hunter effort and harvest, Collier says. This is outside the standard that turkey regulatory structures have ever had to address. No one ever planned for this.

Typically, wildlife managers can attempt to control how many turkeys are killed by hunters by changing hunting season length and timing, as well as setting a bag limit dictating howmany turkeys each hunter can legally take home. But these regulations are set several months before the season starts, or longer. The pandemic, recession, and mass unemployment came on quickly and unpredictably. Now, its possible that folks who found time to hunt just one or two days in previous years may now be setting out for the woods every weekend.

"By the time the pandemic came, the states were powerless, Chamberlain says. There was no way they could react.

These unexpected excesses of dead Wild Turkeys are superimposed onto ongoing declines in eastern populations that Chamberlain describes as "far-reaching and widespread." These declines might surprise some people because Wild Turkeys are considered one of the great American conservation successes of the twentieth century. Following centuries of unregulated market hunting, agricultural intensification, and widespread logging, by 1920 Wild Turkeys had disappeared from 18 of 39 states where they once thrived. Their population had declined to some 200,000 birdsa reduction of more than 90 percent. To bring them back, state wildlife agencies limited Wild Turkey harvest while still allowing for some sustainable hunting to occur, and instituted habitat restoration programs. By the late 1990s and early 2000s, the species had recovered to between 6 and 7 million individuals.

Then, over the past decade, parts of the population began declining again. Eastern turkeys, especially in the southeast, have suffered in recent years from "a long-term precipitous decline in production, he says. That's fewer nests hatching, or fewer young turkeys surviving, or both. These variables combine in a measurement called the poult-per-hen ratio. According to a 2015 analysis published by a team including Chamberlain and Collier, that ratio has progressively declined since the 1970s and 80s in 12 of the 13 member states of the Southeast Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies' Wild Turkey Working Group.

What exactly is driving the southeastern populations decline is not fully understood, says North Carolina State University ecologist Chris Moorman. Ongoing habitat loss, in addition to recovery of predators like coyotes, bobcats, and foxes, allows for fewer turkeys on the landscape today than at their peak two decades ago. But habitat loss alone cant explain the trends. "We seem to be in a state of decline even in areas where habitat conditions look to be okay," Chamberlain says. Other factors such as weather, disease, and hunting also likely contribute. Taken individually, each may not have a large impact on the population. But together these factors decrease the number of young turkeys that hatch and survive to adulthood.

Moorman isn't concerned for the future of the species in a broad sense. "Turkeys are a very adaptable species, he says. Still, he admits that the recent hunting data from some states is alarming. Casalena agrees. "You used to always be able to rely on at least one out of every three years having a great reproductive year," she says. "We're not seeing that anymore." When you take the ongoing challenges to turkeys from climate change, development, and predator conservation, even just one abnormaly heavyhunting season could have lasting impacts.

As hunters and as biologists, Chamberlain and Collier want to ensure Wild Turkeys future. "In these extraordinary and challenging times," they wrote in their paper, "the future ability for us to enjoy hunting Wild Turkeys could be negatively impacted by our collective actions during spring 2020."The two stop short of being prescriptive, but they hope their paper will at least challenge other hunters to carefully weigh their decisions this hunting season and aim for a sustainable harvest, pandemic aside.

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Wright Reflects on Primaries in the Home Stretch – New York County Politics

Former Assemblymember and New York County Democrats Leader Keith Wright spoke with New York County Politics to share his thoughts on the imminent primary elections, scheduled for June 23.

From the get-go, he cited such new developments as early voting in the nine days leading up to Election Day as an example of new challenges. Its a whole new world and dynamic in terms of administering elections, how people run for office and how we run our elections, said Wright.

He continued, praising Manhattans district leaders and for their help in conducting voter outreach preparing for the boroughs more challenging voting bloc. We have a sophisticated, very educated electorate, said Wright. And we probably have some of the most passionate people, and they do a fantastic job.

Wright then discussed other challenges related to the current climate, and acknowledged the heroic sacrifice of employees of the city Board of Elections.

Were being assaulted on all sides. We have an economic pandemic, a sociological pandemic, and a health pandemic, and we still have to run elections, he said. They have to brave each and every night. Theyre not getting home till nine, ten oclock every night, they have to be at the board offices at 7:30, 8 oclock in the morning, they have to try and remain safe. I think the Board of Elections had people die from COVID, and these folks are still mailing out ballots and making sure they run as smoothly as possible.

Wright also discussed the importance of senior citizens in elections, due to their reliability as voters and dominant role as poll workers, but expressed concerns that the coronavirus would stunt their turnout. I dont see a lot of them ready to expose themselves to the pandemic thats in front of us right now, so its uncharted territory right now.

When asked about any particular elections that he wanted to observe, Wright insisted that every election is worth observing. Every election is case study in human behavior in terms of what people want and what they want in the future, he said.

Wright also took a neutral tone on the divide between moderate establishment Democrats and the progressive insurgency. He showed appreciation for the youth vote, saying that higher voter turnout is never a bad thing.

Ive always been one to encourage folks to vote. We were trying to make sure that young folks would come out. Well you know whats happening, he said.Im a child of the Sixties. We demonstrated, we marched, we got arrested and such. I believe in the old adage of Frederick Douglass: `agitate, agitate, agitate, and it does my heart good saying these young folks out here each and every day, and hopefully they can turn their activism into voting.

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Temporary Parking Lot In Yellowstone National Park To Be Removed – National Parks Traveler

This temporary parking lot near the Fairy Falls Trailhead in Yellowstone will be removed this fall/NPT file

Altering human behavior is proving harder than providing for humans, at least in the case of a temporary parking area created near the Fairy Falls Trailhead in Yellowstone National Park. And because of that, the parking lot will be removed this fall.

"While the lot has alleviated some traffic congestion, it has not substantially improved traffic flows within the area as originally envisioned," said Yellowstone Superintendent Cam Sholly in an email. "Our data shows that social trailing is actually worse in some areas than previous to the parking lot being installed. And without proper supporting infrastructure, like restrooms and trash cans, litter and human waste have been very prevalent in the area."

Even if the park wanted to install restrooms at the parking area, it couldn't because of the geothermal resources in the area, the superintendent said.

Yellowstone officials back in 2016 broached the idea of building the loton land once traversed by an old stage road. It was needed, they said at the time, because once theexisting 55-spot parking lot at Grand Prismatic Spring filled up, visitors would park on the Loop Road that passed the popular spring. Some even parked in the middle of the road, according to park staff.

This ground near the Fairy Falls Trailhead was turned into the temporary parking area in 2017/NPS file

Ideally, rangers would have been positioned there to manage traffic, but the park didn't have enough personnel to take that approach.

So in 2017 a three-quarters-of-an-acre gravel lot was created near the Fairy Falls Trailhead. While the lot, which could handle about 70 vehicles, was intended for use by only passenger vehicles, buses and RVs frequently used it despite signs that said the lot was off-limit to buses, RVs, and vehicles with trailers.

At the time, a planning document distributed for public comment stated that, "the park would implement monitoring protocols to collect data on transportation capacity, visitor behavior/crowding, and resource impacts, both before and after the opening of the trailhead and parking area. This data would be compared to previous years' data and will assist the park in determining the effectiveness of this parking area and whether more analysis should be done to formalize this into a permanent parking area. If the parking area is not an effective solution to meet the purpose and needs of this project, the park would return the affected area to a natural condition."

The Fairy Falls Trail leads to both Fairy Falls and Imperial Geyser; another major draw, though, is a hill along the route that offers a birds-eye view of the nearby Grand Prismatic Spring in Midway Geyser Basin. Social media and guidebooks started driving so many people to this location that Yellowstone crews constructed an official trail and overlook to replace the many existing social trails on the hill.

The fate of this hardened overlook built in conjunction with the temporary parking lot remains to be determined/NPS file

That trail gradually climbs 105 feet over 0.6 miles from the Fairy Falls Trailhead to an overlook with views of Midway Geyser Basin.At the time, then-Superintendent Dan Wenksaid the trail and overlook provide a different view of Grand Prismatic Spring and minimize the growth of unsightly, unofficial social trails in the process.

The public, however, apparently didn't fully embrace that plan, andsome visitors seemed to gain a sense of entitlement and go where they shouldn't.

"The parking lot has encouraged visitors to get closer to thermal features than previously," Sholly said this week. "While no major resource damage has been documented, that risk exists if the parking lot continues to exist in future years."

A rehabilitation plan to erase the parking area is being developed and will be implemented this fall.

"We will initiate more formal efforts to look at the corridor and determine what options can be developed/evaluated to reduce traffic congestion and maximize the protection of geologic resources in the area," the superintendent said.

What happens to the trail that leads to the overlook of Grand Prismatic Spring will be determined down the road, he said.

The red circle shows where the gravel lot is located/NPS

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Space Archeologists Uncover Past and Project Future – DesignNews

The recent discovery of a 1940s weather balloon radiosonde wreckage has promoted interest in the little-known realm of space archeology. To learn more about this interesting topic and heritage, Design News reached out to two well-known experts in the field: Dr. Beth O'Leary, Anthropology Professor Emeritus at New Mexico State University (NMSU) and, Dr Alice Gorman, Associate Professor, Flinders University, Adelaide SA. What follows is a portion of that interview.

Design News: What is space archeology? What artifacts do you typically seek?

Researcher retrieves instruments from the remains of early V-2 rockets.(Image Source: NASA V2 WSNM)

Beth O'Leary: Archaeology is the study of the relationships between patterns of material culture (e.g., artifacts, sites and features) and patterns of human behavior. We can study material culture at all times and in all places where humans have been. It can be done on the Earth and off the Earth. My work has focused on the archaeological sites on the Moon, especially Tranquility Base, the Apollo 11 first lunar landing site. As archaeologists in this field, our gaze is mostly focused off Earth, looking into space and on other celestial bodies.

Space Archaeology is the study of material cultural that includes all the material culture in the aerospace and aeronautical realms that relate to the development and support of exoatmospheric realms. It is a huge cultural landscape of materials which are on Earth or have originated there and are now off Earth. Examples can be Voyager 1, now in interstellar space; Vanguard a satellite predicted to be in Earth orbit for another 600 years; and Launch Complex 33 at White Sands Missile Range. So it is a huge range or assemblage of mostly technological components including the radiosonde that was found in Cloudcroft.

Alice Gorman: Space archaeologists are interested in all material culture relating to space exploration. Everything in space at the moment - until there is spacecraft made and launched off-Earth - is connected to places on Earth, like launch sites, tracking antennas, research and test facilities. So, there is an enormous amount to be learnt by studying space sites and artifacts on Earth.

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