With Thanksgiving quickly upon us, CJMS Photography and the Lemontree Gallery are hosting a food drive. A photo of the result will be posted on the CJMS Facebook page.
To participate, drop off non-perishable items at the Lemontree on Mason Avenue in Cape Charles.
Bloodsport: Are we ready to accept the long-term effects of playing Football?
“The reality is that the game destroys people’s brains. Not everyone, but a substantial number. That’s the fundamental fact of football, and that to me is the biggest story in American sports.” – Bob Costos.
Just a few days after Costas made his comments, Dr. Ann McKee, a neuropathologist who directs research of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, at Boston University presented findings that revealed unprecedented levels of damage in the brain of late New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez.
Hernandez was convicted of murder and hanged himself in April while serving a life sentence in prison. He was 27 years old, and researchers said his brain showed damage typical of someone 20 years older.
Dr. McKee noted that she had never seen such severe damage in a brain younger than 46 years old.
The Hernandez case is problematic for the sport: why did a young man with wealth, fame and a potentially bright athletic career kill a friend and end up sentenced to life in prison?
“We can’t take the pathology and explain the behavior, but we can say collectively that individuals with CTE of this severity have difficulty with impulse control, decision-making, aggression, often emotional volatility, and rage behavior,” said McKee as quoted by the Boston Globe.
The worrisome part of the findings is Hernandez’s young age. Is CTE more prevalent in younger athletes than previously thought, and is this related to earlier exposure to violent sports?
While players will tell you that they understand the risk, the question is do they really? Has the NFL and the NCAA been up front with what the dangers really are?
As America recedes, China pushes into the future
Not sure what the US has been up to lately, aside from watching infrastructure collapse, and whole regions slide into a 3rd World-like abyss, but in China, located in the Binhai Cultural District in Tianjin, a new five-story library which covers 34,000 square metres has just opened. It can hold up to 1.2 million books. Taking just three years to complete, the library features a reading area on the ground floor, lounge areas in the middle sections and offices, meeting spaces, and computer/audio rooms at the top.
According to a newly published ranking, not only is China home to the world’s two fastest supercomputers, it also has 202 of the world’s fastest 500 such devices—more than any other nation. America’s fastest machine is in fifth place in the charts.
The world’s fastest supercomputer is still TaihuLight, housed at the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, China–capable of performing 93 quadrillion calculations per second, it’s almost three times faster than the second-place Tianhe-2. The Department of Energy’s fifth-placed Titan supercomputer, housed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, performs 17.6 quadrillion calculations per second—making it less than a fifth as fast as TaihuLight.
History Notes: This week of November 12th
This happened this week in history:
1533: Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizzaro and his army arrive in the Inca Empire, raiding the Andean’s of their “treasures”, particularly silver. The massive quantity of plunder that fills the coffers of Spain also sets in motion the “Spanish Price Revolution”, an inflationary spiral that wreaks havoc on the economies of Europe, “too many people with too much money chased too few goods.”
1763: Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying the boundary line that now bears their name. The Mason-Dixon line was the English Government’s solution to a border dispute between the colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland. Its primary goal was to finally define the demarcation in the western watershed of the Chesapeake, and to separate out the “south counties” of Pennsylvania that then became the separate colony of Delaware.
1775: American Revolutionary hero and Colonel of New Hampshire’s Green Mountain Boys, Ethan Allen leads a night attack against Montreal. The commander of the British garrison received early word of the attack, and nearly half of the American force fails to cross the St. Lawrence River. Allen, surrounded and outnumbered, was forced to surrender. He was imprisoned through 1778.
1840: Birth of French sculptor August Rodin.
1851: Publication of Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick. [Read more…]
Reductions to Menhaden Fishery on hold for now
Environmentalists such as the Pew Charitable Trusts were hoping the Atlantic Menhaden Management Board would adopt new measures, called Option E, that would possibly leave up to 75 percent of the unfished menhaden biomass in the water as a way to rebuild the stock. The amount of menhaden fished would drop to about 147,000 metric tons a year. The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission currently allows an annual harvest of 200,000 metric tons of menhaden.
The Atlantic Menhaden Management Board, instead opted to reject Option E, and went with Option B, that basically keeps the management approach as is. Virginia’s delegation and all but a handful of the 17 others voted for Option B.
“It’s a good day for Omega,” said Ben Landry, a spokesman for the Houston-based Omega Protein. Omega’s Reedville operations employs more than 300 people.
Environmental and recreational fishing groups continue to argue that menhaden are too important ecologically to wait any longer before implementing an ecosystem-based management plan that accounts for not just menhaden, but the other species that rely on them.
One reason for holding off on any reductions is that a scientific group is currently working on the “reference points” that will be used to create an ecosystem-based management plan. The reference points are expected to be finished in 2019. Consensus was that fishery managers should wait for that before committing to a plan that could pose “a risk to the fleets, a risk to the communities” that depend on them.
Riverside Shore Hospice Thrift Stores to Close
Onancock, VA – Riverside Hospice on the Eastern Shore operates three thrift stores located in Oak Hall, Onancock and Exmore. These three stores were acquired in 2016 when Riverside purchased Hospice and Palliative Care of the Eastern Shore.
When these stores were acquired, their intent was to help provide additional funding for hospice services. Regretfully, the thrift stores have not been able to produce sustainable proceeds, and therefore have not been able to support hospice services as they were intended. Riverside has been in contact with other local and regional charities and thrift store operators, however none of them have expressed interest in acquiring these stores. Because of this, Riverside has made the difficult decision to close all three thrift store locations.
The additional funding needs for hospice services will now be requested through our Riverside Foundation.
Starting November 14th all items in the stores will be marked 50% off.
The last day of operations will be Tuesday Nov. 28. All items remaining will be donated to other local and regional thrift stores.
Onancock Shop Supports Riverside Shore Cancer Center
ONANCOCK, Va.– Because so many of its customers and staff have had personal experiences with cancer, Dawn-A Unique Shop for Women and Home in Onancock decided to make a supporting donation to the Riverside Shore Cancer Center.
Dawn White who owns the shop has made similar donations to many local charities in the past, but this year was special because the cause was so familiar and personal for her customers and employees.
As a quiet mission that touched the hearts of many, the shop collected donations from customers as well as donated a portion of the proceeds of their Sizzlin’ Summer Sale at the end of August. Gifts were made “to honor and continue supporting our amazing survivors and in memory of so many angels we have lost too soon,” and totaled nearly $2400.00.
Eastern Shore Health District and Eastern Shore Rural Health Hold 13th Annual Emergency Preparedness Drill in Onley
(Accomac, Va.) On Tuesday, October 17th, the staffs of the Eastern Shore Health District (ESHD) and Eastern Shore Rural Health (ESRH) exercised emergency preparedness plans at the Onley Community Health Center in Onley, Virginia. Using a scenario endorsed by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 120 workers from both of the organizations, as well as Accomack County Sheriff’s Office, and volunteers from Eastern Shore Community Emergency Response Team (ESCERT) and Eastern Shore Medical Reserve Corp (ESMRC) rehearsed the opening of a Neighborhood Emergency Help Center (NEHC) where they practiced dispensing preventive medications to the exposed.
The Eastern Shore Health District has partnered with Eastern Shore Rural Health since 2004 and exercised mass dispensing annually at community health centers located strategically throughout the Eastern Shore in order to be best prepared to handle a “mass exposure to a biological weapon” type of event that might require a large number of people to seek treatment in a limited window of time. In a real event medication will arrive to the Eastern Shore from the United States Strategic National Stockpile which must be dispensed to all who need it within 48 hours, according to the plan. Evaluators from both organizations provide suggestions for improvement and all participants are encouraged to provide feedback in order to improve the process at each location.
Both organizations are members of the Eastern Shore Disaster Preparedness Coalition (ESDPC). The ESDPC is a multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional emergency preparedness and planning group that works to promote emergency planning, training, exercising and response activities on the Eastern Shore. Any organization or interested citizen may become a member of the ESDPC. For more information on the ESDPC or to become a member, please contact J.J. Justis at JJ.Justis@vdh.virginia.gov or 757-302-4267.
History Notes: This week of November 5th
Here are a few, brief notes about what happened during the week of November 5th.
“Remember, remember, the 5th of November…”
1605: Discovery, with only hours to spare, of The Gunpowder Plot- a conspiracy by leading British Catholics to blow up the Houses of Parliament and King James I himself, in hopes of leading a violent restoration of Catholicism in Great Britain. The thirteen conspirators spent months coordinating (in addition to strategic kidnappings), access to a large basement storeroom located directly beneath the House of Lords and filling it with multiple barrels of gunpowder, which remained hidden behind firewood and coal. On the night of 4-5 November, the point man for the detonation, Guy Fawkes, worked his way toward the storeroom, disguised as a firewood delivery man. He was stopped and questioned by a watchman but was allowed to continue his work. Late into the evening, alerted by concerned (Catholic) Parliamentarians, a renewed search of the Parliament “above and below” the chambers found Fawkes in the room directly below the Lords, carrying a slow match and a pocket-watch, dressed in black and wearing riding spurs. He was arrested on the spot, and when news of the arrest was made public, the Gunpowder conspirators went into hiding. They were systematically arrested, tortured, confessed, were tried and found guilty of treason, and executed by hanging, drawing and quartering, with their limbs sent across the realm, and the rest of their mortal remains burned into ash.
1793: In reaction to centuries of sometimes capricious authority from the Roman Catholic Church, the French Revolutionary government begins a systematic legislative attempt to de-Christianize the country, and implement a society based on pure Reason. They intend to replace it with what supporters call the Cult of Reason, and begin their program by encouraging mobs to strip from public display all crosses or Christian iconography, including on gravesites, to seize all plate and precious stones from cathedrals and churches and to loudly proclaim the triumph of Reason in all things. As a symbol of what people should emulate, the cult’s leaders introduced The Goddess of Reason, not as an icon to worship, but as the ideal to which everyone should strive. After a year Citizen Maximilien Robespierre ordered the Cult of Reason shut down, and founded, the Cult of the Supreme Being, to tame some of the excesses by acknowledging the existence of some kind of a God, whose primary role was to guide mankind to virtue through reason. In 1801, the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte put an end to the program with an executive decree outlawing the cults and restoring the legal authority of the Catholic Church.
1864:Union General William Tecumseh Sherman orders all government and war-related buildings in Atlanta to be burned to the ground. This begins his March to the Sea, ordering his army’s supply trains and casualties to return to Tennessee, while his forces move across a wide swath of Georgia and South Carolina–this march entrenched the Union’s reach and power. Before setting out, he notified the War Department that he would no longer be sending telegraphic updates on his campaign: “I expect the Richmond papers will keep you fully informed.” [Read more…]
Cape Charles B&Bs featured in Cookie Trail
Historic Cape Charles Cookie Trail Featuring B&B’s and private homes
On Sunday, December 10th from 1-5 pm celebrate the holiday with a visit to Cape Charles, Virginia. This years’ trail will feature Cape Charles’ beautiful Bed & Breakfasts along with several private residential homes in the historic district all lovingly decorated to celebrate the season.
Cookie Trail strollers will begin at the Cape Charles Civic Center where they will receive a map and description of the participating properties. Participants will pick up maps of the participating properties and may choose to visit one or all of the B&B’s and homes on the tour, enjoying cookies along the way.
Feed the needy while you stroll the streets of this Norman Rockwell bayside town. Entrance to this event is FREE however a non-perishable donation to the Cape Charles Food Bank is encouraged.
Extend your Cookie Trail experiences and come early and stay late to enjoy the “expanded cookie trail” through participating businesses in the historic district.
To really get the most of the event, plan to stay the weekend by going to Cape Charles Bed and Breakfast Association and book your lodging.
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