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To the list of unlikely musical theater heroes that includes a murderous barber and a rapping secretary of the treasury, you can add "the fun face of environmental destruction." Director Joel Sass is talking about the Minnesota legend who's the title character of world premiere satire "Log Jam! A Paul Bunyan Musical Spectacular." The oversized woodsman is the subject of folk tales, dating back ...
Militant/Tony LaneSteelworkers on strike against ATI and supporters rally May 15. LOUISVILLE, Ohio — Some 150 striking steelworkers, fellow United Steelworkers union members, retirees and other supporters rallied May 15, as 1,300 steelworkers here and in four other states continue their strike against Allegheny Technologies Inc. ATI announced last December they were planning to shut down the Louisville plant. Since then no closure date and no severance package have been set. “The company won’t give us a shutdown date, so do they want to shut it down?” Dave Burgess, one of the ...
Voices revealed for Mental Health Minute 2021 The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will lead the voices taking part in this year’s Mental Health Minute, scheduled for 10.59am Friday. David Beckham, Dame Shirley Bassey, Joanna Lumley and more voice this important message to encourage people to keep the conversation on mental health going. Played out across over 500 stations during Mental Health Awareness Week, the message is in support of Shout 85258 – the UK’s first 24/7 text messaging service, researched and delivered by The Royal Foundation as a legacy of the Heads Together c...
New projects study root causes of inequalities and how to reduce their effects Fifteen projects — from improving doctor-patient communications for high-risk patients, to using data to understand racial differences in how Americans handle civil legal problems, to better understanding the factors that influence success and well-being of Hmong-American students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison — have been chosen for the Understanding and Reducing Inequalities Initiative. The projects were selected from 73 proposals. The initiative is funded by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Re...
Off to a busy start, data institute responds to COVID and seeks director The American Family Insurance Data Science Institute’s first two years have been nothing if not eventful. Last spring, as the campus and state shut down in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, AFIDSI responded to the need for mathematical modeling to guide policy decisions and public health outreach. Within weeks, the institute had convened a team of leaders and experts from across the U.S. The COVID-19 Research Group met daily in the early weeks of the pandemic, creating models and sharing findings as quickly as possibl...