Since 2009, (click here) at least 177 of America’s schools experienced a shooting. These tragedies are as diverse as our nation, but the depth of trauma is hard to convey. There is no standard definition for what qualifies as a school shooting in the US. Nor is there a universally accepted database. So CNN built our own. We examined 10 years of shootings on K-12 campuses and found two sobering truths: School shootings are increasing, and no type of community is spared....
July 24, 2019
By Celina Tabor
A new piece of legislation will allow Oregon students (click here) to take “mental health days” off from school, in the same way they can take physical sick days. It will expand the definition of excused absences in schools, and the high school students who propelled the bill through the legislature hope it will take steps toward improving mental health in Oregon.
House Bill 2191 was born out of a brainstorming workshop at the Oregon Association of Student Councils. It’s the first legislation of its kind in the United States. Before HB 2191, students could only have an excused absence for their own or a family member’s physical illness, doctor or dentist appointments, or an emergency. Students in Oregon are allowed up to five excused absences within a three-month period.
Hailey Hardcastle, a Sherwood High School graduate and incoming freshman at the University of Oregon, was one of the students who helped transform the idea into a piece of legislation. She told OPB’s “Think Out Loud” she was partly inspired by mental health issues she saw at her own high school and the impact of suicide in Oregon schools.
“There’s not a single one of my peers that I know that haven’t been affected by mental health,” Hardcastle said....
Monday, July 29, 2019
"Good Night, Moon"
26.2 days old
12.1 percent lit
July 28, 2019
Honolulu - Neil Armstrong, (click here) Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins' trip to the moon concluded with a stay in Hawaii.
This week marked the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, but after those historic first steps NASA still had to get the three astronauts safely back to Earth — and the waters off Hawaii are where the cone-shaped spacecraft splashed down.
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Wednesday, the anniversary of the astronaut's return to Earth, that the crew hit the atmosphere at 25,000 mph, creating a fireball that was visible to the crew of the waiting recovery aircraft carrier USS Hornet stationed about 900 miles (1,448 kilometers) southwest of Hawaii.
"It was like a shooting star when it come out of the sky," recalled Vance Hege, who was a 20-year-old Marine on the Hornet 13 miles from the splashdown site.After two sonic booms, three huge parachutes slowed the descent to the Pacific Ocean....
Moon Landing Return to Hawaii
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