A Chinese Mars spacecraft, Tianwen-1, successfully reached orbit at the Red Planet on Wednesday morning, as the second of three nations Mars missions that launched in July.
Posted February 10, 2021
Danielle Heeney has been named the new director of special education in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Catholic education leaders announced Feb. 10.
The appointment becomes effective April 6.
She will lead the three schools of special education in the archdiocese – Our Lady of Confidence, St. Katherine and St. Lucy School for Children with Visual Impairments – and coordinate such services in the 17 archdiocesan high schools, according to a letter by Irene Horstmann Hannan, CEO of Faith in the Future Foundation, and Immaculate Heart Sister Maureen McDermott, archdiocesan superintendent of secondary schools.
Since 2014 Heeney has served as special education liaison at Penn Treaty School in Philadelphia where she managed the implementation and distribution of special education services for an urban public middle and high school with a high population of students with disabilities.
The Academy of Home Equity In Financial Planning Releases Home Equity Model Language and Guidance for Financial Services Firms
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URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Feb. 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Academy for Home Equity in Financial Planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign believes that certain retirees can have a more secure retirement when home equity is used prudently. The Academy has just released compliance guidance around home equity and financial planning designed to help financial service companies update their language, policies, and procedures, many of which no longer follow best practices in the industry.
Variable weather makes weeds harder to whack
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URBANA From flooded spring fields to summer hailstorms and drought, farmers are well aware the weather is changing. It often means spring planting can’t happen on time or has to happen twice to make up for catastrophic losses of young seedlings.
According to a joint study between University of Illinois and USDA-ARS, it also means common pre-emergence herbicides are less effective. With less weed control at the beginning of the season, farmers are forced to rely more heavily on post-emergence herbicides or risk yield loss.
“We re having more variable precipitation, including conditions where folks aren t able to plant because fields are too wet. In those cases, pre-emergence herbicide applications are getting pushed back into a period that is consistently drier,” says Marty Williams, USDA-ARS ecologist, affiliate professor in the Department of Crop Sciences at Illinois, and corresponding author on the study.
“I’m black and white and Jewish and I’m whole,” Gad, 50, of Los Angeles, said. The award-winning author, speaker and independent writer and film producer shared portions of her story about being biracial and Jewish, during a webinar she conducted Monday evening as part of Black History Month. The Youngstown Area Jewish Federation and Youngstown State University’s Center for Holocaust and Judaic Studies hosted the one-hour virtual discussion, “An Evening with Marra B. Gad.”
Gad, who earned a master’s degree in Jewish history from the Baltimore Hebrew Institute at Towson University, said a white Jewish family in Chicago adopted her when she was three days old after she had been born to an unwed white mother and a black father in New York. Even at such a young age, Gad experienced racism after her new parents’ rabbi saw she was biracial and called her “a mistake,” Gad recalled.