Anchorage will lift capacity restrictions on businesses starting Monday
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We re making this important information available without a subscription as a public service. But we depend on reader support to do this work. Please consider supporting independent journalism in Alaska, at just $3.69 a week for an online subscription. The Municipality of Anchorage will lift its COVID-19 capacity restrictions on businesses and ease gathering size limits under a new emergency order that takes effect Monday morning. Citing a decline in cases and an increasing share of Anchorage residents who are vaccinated, city officials said Thursday that the order lifting certain restrictions further opens up parts of the city while maintaining key public health protections. They emphasized that continued vigilance this spring will hopefully amount to a more normal summer.
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The organizer: Rob Chalmers
The reason: To fund wishes for young women with terminal cancer
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When Mélanie Chalmers died from breast cancer at the age of 39, her husband Rob was taken aback by how many people were affected by her love of life.
“We saw this wave of support come in,” Mr. Chalmers, 46, said from his home in Toronto. Dozens of people Mr. Chalmers barely knew talked about how they had been inspired by Ms. Chalmers and her refusal to be defined by cancer. “It kind of gave us this realization that there was something here that people connected with and there were other people who wanted to achieve the same type of things that Mel d
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A popular theory that some people learn better visually or aurally keeps getting debunked.
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In the early ’90s, a New Zealand man named Neil Fleming decided to sort through something that had puzzled him during his time monitoring classrooms as a school inspector. In the course of watching 9,000 different classes, he noticed that only some teachers were able to reach each and every one of their students. What were they doing differently?
Fleming zeroed in on how it is that people like to be presented information. For example, when asking for directions, do you prefer to be told where to go or to have a map sketched for you?