John McGinnis students will take audiences down where the seaweed sways under the sea with their April production of The Little Mermaid. The heart-warming Disney tale of Arial, a young mermaid who gives up her exquisite voice to walk with man on land, has been under construction at the junior secondary since the fall, and will be staged from April 9 to 12.
“This is an extra-curricular thing for the students so we could draw from the best talent this school has to offer,” said drama teacher and the show’s director Steve Baker.
“We had over 30 people audition for the part of Arial. We were looking for a really strong voice because the story’s all about a girl who has a magnificent voice and loses it. We couldn’t have an Arial with a weak voice.”
Safety devices disguised as jewelry get you help with the click of a button
Modern panic buttons designed to be discrete, fashionable and effective in alerting someone for help
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However, companies have transformed bulky panic alert buttons into fashionable devices that could save your life.
In just the last few years, companies like Flare, Ripple and Nimb have come out with modern-day panic buttons. They’re designed to be discrete, fashionable and most importantly effective in alerting someone for help.
Most of these companies were inspired by scary encounters the founders experienced.
“It happened by complete accident,” said invisaWear co-founder and CEO Rajia Abdelaziz. “I never meant to start a company.”
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The story of fighter directors is one of the last unknown stories of WW2. The epic of radar development is a familiar one. But less well known is the history of the information systems that made it work and the men who ran them. Innovative radar displays, combat information centers, helped, but, ultimately, it was the Combat Air Patrol quarterbacks, the superstar fighter directors (FDOs), who defended the fast carriers.
In the beginning there were no criteria for selecting those who might be most adept at the job. The Bureau of Medicine and Surgery reviewed British FDO selection tests but did not recommend their use. As time went by it was realized that the most successful FDOs seemed to have come from some occupation that required them to work intensely with other people, and to make themselves well understood. The following were found to do well at fighter direction: salesmen, lawyers, newspaper men, stock brokers, insurance people, and teachers, and they did not se
I’ve run across several excellent critiques of Justice Gorsuch’s majority opinion in
Bostock v. Clayton County (on top, of course, of the compelling dissents by Justices Alito and Kavanaugh). A non-exhaustive list:
1. In this
Law and Liberty essay, law professor John McGinnis, who is very high on, if not at the top of, my list of best constitutional commentators, explains that Gorsuch’s opinion “embraces a desiccated literalism over a common-sense understanding of a text’s public meaning”:
The only way Gorsuch can avoid conceding that Alito’s is a better interpretation is to read the language as a kind of computer code, divorced from the understanding that people would have given to the phrase “discriminate . . . because of the individual’s sex.” …
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