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Black Bear XC ski and snowshoe races scheduled for Feb. 21 Cross country skiers and snowshoers are invited to hit the trails Sunday, Feb. 21 for the annual Black Bear XC ski and snowshoe races on the University of Maine Trails. The event is sponsored by UMaine Campus Recreation, the Maine Bound Adventure Center and the College of Education and Human Development’s Outdoor Leadership program, part of the School of Kinesiology, Physical Education and Athletic Training. Due to COVID-19 restric...

47abc February 15, 2021 DELAWARE – Lawmakers aim to address the lack of drinkable water in under-served communities throughout the state. House Bill 69, also known as the water purification act would provide purification systems for households whose water isn’t drinkable. The bills primary sponsor told 47 ABC, legislation has dealt with many issues involving drinkable water for all Delaware residents, and this just might be the year they’re able to do something about it. “There needs to...

Program/Project Management Consultancy in Kenya about Protection and Human Rights, requiring 5-9 years of experience, from IOM; closing on 24 Feb 2021

Donna Ford’s profile on The Conversation

Coffee may cut heart failure risk But benefits come from caffeinated java, analysis shows By American Heart Association News Published: February 16, 2021, 5:11am Share: Drinking one or more cups of coffee a day may reduce the risk of heart failure, according to new research. But only if it’s caffeinated. The analysis of data from three large, well-known heart disease trials was published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation: Heart Failure. It found the more co...

New surgery may enable better control of prosthetic limbs February 16, 2021MIT MIT researchers have invented a new type of amputation surgery that can help amputees to better control their residual muscles and sense where their “phantom limb” is in space. This restored sense of proprioception should translate to better control of prosthetic limbs, as well as a reduction of limb pain, the researchers say. In most amputations, muscle pairs that control the affected joints, such as elbows or a...

UNION COUNTY — COVID-19 cases in Union County eased down since Feb. 5, according to data from the Oregon Health Authority. But since then the disease claimed its 19th victim

ANTHONY LAKES — While the format of the event is different this year due to COVID-19 safety measures, veterans will “own the mountain” Monday, Feb. 22, according to Anthony Lakes

This is what could have been. If the computer geeks at MIT in 1960 had just held on just a little while longer with the Mississippi freedom riders. If uprisings in Watts, and Detroit, and Newark and Kansas City did not make Black people the computing revolution’s first problem to solve. If Black people had averted the collision between civil rights and computing technology that Willard Wirtz once predicted. If Black people had bothered to seriously engage Roy Wilkins’ admonition to “comp...

Parting Words from Morgan Mooney If you’ve made a gift to CGS in recent years, you may recognize the name Morgan Mooney. Mooney (CGS’08, Wheelock’10) is the student assistant in CGS’s alumni relations office and writes the thank-you notes that go to CGS donors. As Mooney prepares to graduate this spring, we wish to thank her for her dedicated service. We asked her to reflect on her years studying and working at the College: After spending four full years within the hallowed halls of the...