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Sherman A1's JournalTwo Waves Of Winter Precipitation To Strike Wednesday and Thursday
ST. LOUIS - National Weather Service in St. Louis Meteorologist Melissa Byrd warned Tuesday morning of two waves of wintery precipitation Wednesday evening through overnight, then again by mid-day Thursday through the evening.
Byrd said the commutes home on Wednesday and Thursday could be dangerous because of ice. The snowfall around the Metro East region should be light. Byrd says the winter precipitation should taper off by early Friday. This weekend, there should not be any precipitation.
The NWS says total accumulations of snow and sleet are not likely to be heavy but will be enough to cause travel disruptions on area roads.
Byrd said the biggest problem for the Metro East area will likely be freezing rain and there could be up to an inch by the time it goes through.
https://www.riverbender.com/articles/details/forecaster-two-waves-of-winter-precipitation-to-strike-wednesday-and-thursday-56944.cfm?utm_source=riverbender&utm_medium=right_trending
Japan Post suspends air deliveries to Ukraine
Japan Post says it is suspending airmail services to Ukraine in light of the increased tensions there. It says the airlines it works with have stopped flying that route, and it is unclear when they will resume.
The company says the suspension applies to all air mail weighing up to 30 kilograms. It is still taking orders for delivery by ship.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20220222_38/
World's largest Jurassic flying reptile fossil discovered in Scotland
The fossil of a giant flying reptile, known as a pterosaur, that was discovered on Scotland's Isle of Skye, has been confirmed as the largest ever found from the Jurassic period.
It was discovered during a National Geographic Society-funded excavation in 2017, and is being added to National Museums Scotland’s collection for further study.
The winged creature, better known as pterodactyls, lived around 170 million years ago.
It had an estimated wingspan of more than 2.5 metres and has been given the Gaelic name Dearc sgiathanach, or 'winged reptile’.
https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2022/0222/1282366-fossil-scotland/
3 million cannabis and cocaine seizure at Belfast port
The PSNI has said organised crime gangs regularly co-operate on a cross-border basis to import and distribute large shipments of drugs.
They were speaking as they put on show £3 million worth of cannabis and cocaine seized at Belfast port at the weekend.
It is one of the biggest single seizures by the authorities in Northern Ireland in recent years.
Detective Inspector Conor Sweeney said while it was too early to be specific about the destination of the seizure - criminals regularly co-operated for profit in similar situations.
https://www.rte.ie/news/regional/2022/0222/1282316-belfast-drugs-seizure/
Illinois State University Took Stand For Equality In Education After Civil War
NORMAL - Illinois State University in Normal has long been known for its beliefs in equality. That is reflected in its recent past and many hirings, including Will Robinson, the first African-American men’s basketball coach in NCAA Division I history, in 1970.
African-American alumni of ISU include luminaries like Donald McHenry, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations in the Carter administration.
The history of Illinois State in educational equality dates back to its earliest years. During the Civil War, the student body opposed slavery and threw their support to President Lincoln.
Many ISU students served the Union in the "Teachers Regiment," the 33rd Illinois, which was raised by the first university president, Charles Hovey.
https://www.riverbender.com/articles/details/illinois-state-university-took-stand-for-equality-in-education-after-civil-war-56919.cfm
St. Louis justice organizations hope town hall on housing leads to tenant-led movement
Two community justice organizations plan to meet today with renters in the St. Louis region to gather input that could help start a tenant-led movement for equitable housing.
ArchCity Defenders and Action St. Louis will hold a 6 p.m. renters town hall at the Harrison Education Center, 3110 Cass Ave., St. Louis. Leaders of the two groups want to hear tenants discuss housing conditions in the region.
During the coronavirus pandemic, many renters have struggled to find stable housing, experienced poor living conditions or been at risk of evictions, and some have lost their homes, said Kennard Williams, lead organizer for Action St. Louis.
The town hall could explore how renters can help spark change, he said.
https://news.stlpublicradio.org/government-politics-issues/2022-02-22/st-louis-justice-organizations-hope-town-hall-on-housing-leads-to-tenant-led-movement
NASA chooses Missouri S&T for moon infrastructure project
Missouri University of Science and Technology is one of three universities NASA chose for a project to develop technologies so scientists can eventually live and work on the moon.
The university will receive up to a $2 million grant to research resource extraction from the moon as part of NASA’s new Artemis project, intended to return astronauts to the moon for longer-term missions.
Each of the three universities is developing infrastructure technology that will help humans form what is basically a research community on the moon.
Missouri S&T is focusing on lunar mining. The Colorado School of Mines will develop autonomous construction technology to build landing pads, and Auburn University will create electronics that can function in extremely cold temperatures, like those working during lunar nights.
https://news.stlpublicradio.org/health-science-environment/2022-02-21/nasa-chooses-missouri-s-t-for-moon-infrastructure-project
A new Cardinals season starts with labor strife and a minor league ownership change
St. Louis Cardinals players are supposed to be in Jupiter, Fla., for spring training. But that is on hold. Major League Baseball owners continue to lock out the players as both try to hammer out a new Collective Bargaining Agreement.
The labor strife comes as a new company has acquired 10 minor league teams, including the Cardinals Triple-A squad, the Memphis Redbirds. St. Louis Public Radio’s Wayne Pratt spoke with STLSportsPage.com Editor Rob Rains about the impact of the new ownership and whether the labor issue will reach into the regular season.
https://news.stlpublicradio.org/sports/2022-02-22/a-new-cardinals-season-starts-with-labor-strife-and-a-minor-league-ownership-change
East St. Louis was home to a pioneering Black construction company. Few know about it today
A group of cousins, known as the Prestons, often text each other with pictures or documents related to their late uncles and fathers.
The family group chat has made the cousins closer since the deaths of the men who raised them, while fostering a deep appreciation for the legacy they left in East St. Louis. The cousins are beginning to understand that a group text isn’t capacious enough to store their family’s history.
But understanding a family’s history is difficult when forced to learn about it on your own instead of hearing from the relatives who lived it.
“They were big family men, and I think I had the best father,” Patrice Preston Rogers, one of the cousins, said. “I think the problem is they were focused on family, so they really didn’t make a big deal out of what they did, so they really didn’t talk about it. It was more of just this is a job, and all of them kind of fell into it because that’s what their dad did, so I don’t know if they had much of a choice.”
https://news.stlpublicradio.org/culture-history/2022-02-22/east-st-louis-was-home-to-a-pioneering-black-construction-company-few-know-about-it-today
Service Academies Report Highest Number of Sexual Assaults Ever
Students at the U.S. service academies filed 131 reports of sexual assault during the 2020-2021 academic year -- the highest number since the Defense Department began closely tracking the problem in 2006.
The reports represent a 7.4% increase from the 2018-2019 academic year, which was the last time students spent a full year in class before the pandemic.
It marks a 43% increase from 2019-2020, when students were sent home in March to protect them from contracting COVID-19.
While the increases are “troubling,” they still only represent a fraction of sexual assaults at the academies, according to data released Thursday by the DoD's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/02/18/service-academies-report-highest-number-of-sexual-assaults-ever.html
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