Circumstances still unclear more than a month after college student Samuel Yeager fatally shot by Colorado deputy
Samuel Yeager, 23, was shot and killed by a Douglas County, Colorado sheriff’s deputy on April 3, the day before Easter Sunday. The killing occurred on a freeway exit just outside Castle Pines, south of Denver. It has been justified by the police, who claim that Yeager opened fire on a deputy with an AK-47 rifle.
The still unnamed deputies who were involved in killing the white college student have been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of an official investigation by the 18th Judicial District Critical Incident Response Team from neighboring Arapahoe County.
NATS member Ian Howell earns award for COVID-19 response
posted on 11:00 AM, May 10, 2021
The American Academy of Teachers of Singing presented the inaugural AATS Awards.
National Association of Teachers of Singing member Ian Howell was honored by the American Academy of Teachers of Singing with an AATS Award for his COVID-19 response. The Academy also presented awards to ENO Breathe and the International Coalition Performing Arts Aerosol Study for their contributions.
The Academy created the AATS Awards “to recognize, honor, and nurture outstanding accomplishment in the teaching of singing and in allied professions.” The Academy presented the awards on May 5.
COVID-19 death rates low in pregnant, hospitalized women, study finds
Compared with non-pregnant women hospitalized with COVID-19, pregnant women with COVID-19 had lower in-hospital death rates, according to a research letter in the
Annals of Internal Medicine today.
University of Texas (UTHealth) and University of Maryland researchers looked at 1,062 pregnant and 9,815 non-pregnant patients hospitalized with COVID-19 and viral pneumonia from April to November 2020. All were 15 to 45 years old.
Pregnant women had a 0.8% mortality rate, compared with 3.5% in the non-pregnant group, and this difference was seen across sensitivity analyses looking only at intensive care unit patients (3.5% vs 14.9%) and those needing mechanical ventilation (8.6% vs 31.4%). The median time from admission to death was 18 days in pregnant women and 12 days in non-pregnant women.
Long March rocket s long fall makes case for space solutions
Sustainability Times
10 May 2021, 16:24 GMT+10
The global drama over China s Long March 5B rocket may have ended late Saturday with space debris raining down over the Indian Ocean, but industry experts warn there are decades worth of objects still in the sky and the problem will only grow in the coming years.
Japan s magnetic tethers and the European Union s ADEO drag sails are just two of the proposed technical solutions to reduce space junk. It ranges from more than 100 million tiny yet dangerous fragments, to some 26,000 objects that are at least the size of a softball and capable of destroying a satellite on impact.
How a smoking giant sequoia has burned since 2020
2021-05-10 18:42:19 UTC
On a long, recent trudge through forest burned in California s 2020 Castle Fire, a six-person survey crew peered at a curiosity in the distance. We saw a little tiny smudge of white and wondered if it was snow on a distant slope, said Nate Stephenson, a forest scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey. Upon closer inspection, it wasn t snow. It was smoke, coming from an iconic giant sequoia. It would put out puffs of smoke, recalled Stephenson, of the April 22 sighting.
The remote tree has smoldered (burning without flames) since fires torched sequoia groves in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in September 2020. The rare smolder is representative of the West s intensified modern fire regime: A potent combination of warming climes and vastly overgrown, mismanaged forests, among other factors, has left even the stalwart giants of the Sierra Nevada vulnerable to flames. They re the largest trees on