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2024 olympics Great Britain roster

Archery

Conor Hall (Belfast)

Tom Hall (London)

Alex Wise (Newcastle Upon Tyne)

Megan Havers (Markfield)

Penny Healey (Telford)

Bryony Pitman (Shoreham-By-Sea)

Athletics

Jeremiah Azu (Cardiff)

Louie Hinchliffe (Crosspool)

Zharnel Hughes (The Valley, Anguilla)

Charlie Dobson (Colchester)

Matthew Hudson-Smith (Wolverhampton)

Max Burgin (Halifax)

Elliot Giles (Birmingham)

Ben Pattison (Frimley)

Neil Gourley (Glasgow)

Josh Kerr (Edinburgh)

George Mills (Harrogate)

Sam Atkin (Grimsby)

Patrick Dever (Preston)

Tade Ojora (London)

Alastair Chalmers (Guernsey, Channel Islands)

Richard Kilty (Middlesborough)

Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake (London)

Lewis Davey (Grantham)

Toby Harries (Brighton)

Alex Haydock-Wilson (London)

Sam Reardon (Beckenham)

Emile Cairess (Saltaire)

Mahamed Mahamed (Southampton)

Philip Sesemann (Bromley)

Callum Wilkinson (Moulton)

Jacob Fincham-Dukes (Harrogate)

Scott Lincoln (Northallerton)

Lawrence Okoye (London)

Nick Percy (Glasgow)

Dina Asher-Smith (London)

Imani-Lara Lansiquot (London)

Daryll Neita (London)

Bianca Williams (London)

Amber Anning (Hove)

Laviai Nielsen (London)

Lina Nielsen (London)

Victoria Ohuruogu (London)

Phoebe Gill (St. Albans)

Keely Hodgkinson (Atherton)

Jemma Reekie (Beith)

Georgia Bell (London)

Laura Muir (Milnathort)

Revée Walcott-Nolan (Luton)

Megan Keith (Inverness)

Eilish McColgan (Dundee)

Cynthia Sember (Ypsilanti, Michigan)

Jessie Knight (Epsom)

Lizzie Bird (St. Albans)

Aimee Pratt (Stockport)

Desirèe Henry (London)

Amy Hunt (Nottingham)

Yemi John (London)

Hannah Kelly (Bury)

Jodie Williams (Welwyn Garden City)

Nicole Yeargin (Bowie, Maryland)

Clara Evans (Hereford)

Rose Harvey (London)

Calli Yauger-Thackeray (Flagstaff, Arizona)

Morgan Lake (Reading)

Holly Bradshaw (Preston)

Molly Caudery (Truro)

Katharina Johnson-Thompson (Liverpool)

Jade O'Dowda (Oxford)

Badminton

Ben Lane (Milton Keynes)

Sean Vendy (Milton Keynes)

Kirsty Gilmour (Glasgow)

Boxing

Lewis Richardson (Colchester)

Patrick Brown (Sale)

Delicious Orie (Wolverhampton)

Charley Davison (Lowestoft)

Rosie Eccles (Newport)

Chantelle Reid (Allenton)

Canoeing

Adam Burgess (Stoke-On-Trent)

Joe Clarke (Stoke-On-Trent)

Mallory Franklin (Windsor)

Kimberley Woods (Rugby)

Climbing

Hamish McArthur (York)

Toby Roberts (Elstead)

Erin McNeice (Rodmersham)

Molly Thompson-Smith (London)

Cycling

Tom Pidcock (Leeds)

Josh Tarling (Aberaeron)

Stephen Williams (Aberysthwyth)

Fred Wright (Manchester)

Jack Carlin (Paisley)

Ed Lowe (Stamford)

William Turnbull (Morpeth)

Joe Truman (Petersfield)

Dan Bigham (Newcastle-Under-Lyme)

Ethan Hayter (London)

Ethan Vernon (Bedford)

Oli Wood (Wakefield)

Charlie Tanfield (Great Ayton)

Mark Stewart (Dundee)

Charlie Aldridge (Crieff)

Kieran Reilly (Newcastle Upon Tyne)

Kye Whyte (London)

Ross Cullen (Preston)

Lizzie Deignan (Otley)

Pfeiffer Georgi (Castle Combe)

Anna Henderson (Edlesborough)

Anna Morris (Cardiff)

Sophie Capewell (Lichfield)

Emma Finucane (Carmarthen)

Katy Marchant (Manchester)

Lowri Thomas (Abergavenny)

Elinor Barker (Cardiff)

Neah Evans (Langbank)

Josie Knight (Dingle, Ireland)

Jess Roberts (Carmarthen)

Ella MacLean-Howell (Llantrisant)

Evie Richards (Malvern)

Charlotte Worthington (Chorlton-Cum-Hardy)

Beth Shriever (Braintree)

Emily Hutt (London)

Diving

Jack Laugher (Ripon)

Jordan Houldon (Sheffield)

Noah Williams (London)

Kyle Kothari (London)

Anthony Harding (Ashton-Under-Lyne)

Tom Daley (Plymouth)

Yasmin Harper (Sheffield)

Grace Reid (Edinburgh)

Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix (London)

Lois Toulson (Cleckheaton)

Scarlett Mew-Jensen (London)

Equestrian

Carl Hester (Sark, Channel Islands)

Tom McEwen (London)

Scott Brash (Peebles)

Harry Charles (Alton)

Ben Maher (London)

Lottie Fry (Den Hout, The Netherlands)

Becky Moody (Gunthwaite)

Ros Canter (Louth)

Laura Collett (Royal Leamington Spa)

Field hockey

Tim Nurse (London)

Nick Park (Reading)

Jack Waller (London)

David Ames (Cookstown)

Jacob Draper (Cwmbran)

Zachary Wallace (Kingston-Upon-Thames)

Rupert Shipperley (London)

Sam Ward (Leicester)

James Albery (Cambridge)

Phil Roper (Chester)

David Goodfield (Shrewsbury)

Ollie Payne (Totnes)

Liam Sanford (Wegberg, Germany)

Lee Morton (Glasgow)

Thomas Sorsby (Sheffield)

Conor Williamson (London)

Will Calnan (London)

Gareth Furlong (London)

Laura Unsworth (Sutton Coldfield)

Anna Toman (Derby)

Hannah French (Ipswich)

Sarah Jones (Cardiff)

Amy Costello (Edinburgh)

Sarah Robertson (Melrose)

Charlotte Watson (Dundee)

Tessa Howard (Durham)

Isabelle Petter (Loughborough)

Giselle Ansley (Brixham)

Hollie Pearne-Webb (Duffield)

Fiona Crackles (Kirkby Lonsdale)

Sophie Hamilton (Bruton)

Lily Owsley (Bristol)

Flora Peel (Cheltenham)

Miriam Pritchard (Loughborough)

Golf

Matt Fitzpatrick (Sheffield)

Tommy Fleetwood (Dubai, U.A.E.)

Charley Hull (Kettering)

Georgia Hall (Bournemouth)

Gymnastics

Joe Fraser (Birmingham)

Harry Hepworth (Leeds)

Jake Jarman (Peterborough)

Luke Whitehouse (Halifax)

Max Whitlock (Hemel Hempstead)

Zak Perzamanos (Liverpool)

Becky Downie (Nottingham)

Ruby Evans (Cardiff)

Georgia-Mae Fenton (Gravesend)

Alice Kinsella (Sutton Coldfield)

Abi Martin (Paignton)

Bryony Page (Sheffield)

Isabelle Songhurst (Poole)

Judo

Chelsie Giles (Coventry)

Lele Naire (Weston-Super-Mare)

Lucy Renshall (St. Helens)

Katie-Jemima Yeats-Brown (Pembury)

Emma Reid (Royston)

Pentathlon

Charlie Brown (Kidderminster)

Joe Choong (London)

Kerenza Bryson (Plymouth)

Kate French (Chapmanslade)

Rowing

James Robson (Oundle)

Ollie Wynne-Griffith (Guildford)

Tom George (Cheltenham)

Oli Wilkes (Matlock)

David Ambler (London)

Matt Aldridge (Christchurch)

Freddie Davidson (London)

Tom Barras (Staines-Upon-Thames)

Callum Dixon (London)

Matt Haywood (Burton Upon Trent)

Graeme Thomas (Burton)

Sholto Carnegie (Oxford)

Rory Gibbs (Street)

Morgan Bolding (Weybridge)

Jacob Dawson (Portsmouth)

Charlie Elwes (Radley)

Tom Digby (Henley-On-Thames)

James Rudkin (Northampton)

Tom Ford (Holmes Chapel)

Harry Brightmore (Chester)

Henry Fieldman (Barnes)

Liv Bates (Nottingham)

Chloe Brew (Plymouth)

Rebecca Edwards (Aughnacloy)

Becky Wilde (Taunton)

Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne (London)

Emily Craig (Pembury)

Imogen Grant (Cambridge)

Helen Backshall (Truro)

Esme Booth (Stratford-Apon-Avon)

Samantha Redgrave (Frinton)

Rebecca Shorten (Belfast)

Lauren Henry (Lutterworth)

Hannah Scott (Coleraine)

Lola Anderson (London)

Georgina Brayshaw (Leeds)

Heidi Long (London)

Rowan McKellar (Glasgow)

Holly Dunford (Tadworth)

Emily Ford (Holmes Chapel)

Lauren Irwin (Peterlee)

Eve Stewart (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Harriet Taylor (Chertsey)

Annie Campbell-Orde (Wells)

Lucy Glover (Warrington)

Rugby

Abi Burton (Wakefield)

Kayleigh Powell (Llantrisant)

Amy Wilson-Hardy (Poole)

Ellie Boatman (Camberley)

Ellie KIldunne (Keighley)

Emma Uren (London)

Grace Crompton (Epsom)

Heather Cowell (Isleworth)

Isla Norman-Bell (Gillingham)

Jade Shekells (Hartpury)

Jasmine Joyce-Butchers (St. Davids)

Lauren Torley (Flackwell Heath)

Lisa Thomson (Hawick)

Megan Jones (Cardiff)

Sailing

Connor Bainbridge (Halifax)

James Peters (Tunbridge Wells)

Fynn Sterritt (Inverness)

Sam Sills (Launceston)

Micky Beckett (Solva)

Chris Grube (Chester)

John Grimson (Leicester)

Emma Wilson (Christchurch)

Ellie Aldridge (Parkstone)

Hannah Snellgrove (Lymington)

Freya Black (Redhill)

Saskia Tidey (Dublin, Ireland)

Vita Heathcote (Southampton)

Anna Burnet (London)

Shooting

Mike Bargeron (Bromley)

Matthew Coward-Holley (Chelmsford)

Nathan Hales (Chatham)

Seonaid McIntosh (Edinburgh)

Lucy Hall (York)

Amber Rutter (Windsor)

Skateboarding

Andy Macdonald (Newton, Massachusetts)

Sky Brown (Takanabe, Japan)

Lola Tambling (Saltash)

Swimming

Ben Proud (London)

Alex Cahoon (Fairford)

Matt Richards (Droitwich Spa)

Jacob Whittle (Alfreton)

Duncan Scott (Glasgow)

Kieran Bird (Street)

Daniel Jervis (Resolven)

Oliver Morgan (Bishops Castle)

Jonathon Marshall (Southend-On-Sea)

Luke Greenbank (Crewe)

Adam Peaty (Uttoxeter)

James Wilby (Glasgow)

Jimmy Guy (Timperley)

Tom Dean (Maidenhead)

Max Litchfield (Chesterfield)

Joe Litchfield (Chesterfield)

Jack McMillan (Belfast)

Hector Pardoe (Wrexham)

Toby Robinson (Wolverhampton)

Kate Shortman (Clifton)

Isabelle Thorpe (Clifton)

Anna Hopkin (Chorley)

Kathleen Dawson (Kirkcaldy)

Medi Harris (Porthmadog)

Honey Osrin (Portsmouth)

Katie Shanahan (Glasgow)

Angharad Evans (Cambridge)

Keanna Macinnes (Edinburgh)

Laura Stephens (London)

Abbie Wood (Buxton)

Freya Colbert (Grantham)

Eva Okaro (Sevenoaks)

Lucy Hope (Melrose)

Freya Anderson (Birkenhead)

Leah Crisp (Wakefield)

Table tennis

Liam Pitchford (Chesterfield)

Anna Hursey (Tianjin, China)

Taekwondo

Bradly Sinden (Doncaster)

Caden Cunningham (Huddersfield)

Jade Jones (Bodelwyddan)

Rebecca McGowan (Dumbarton)

Tennis

Jack Draper (London)

Dan Evans (Dubai, U.A.E.)

Joe Salisbury (London)

Neal Skupski (Liverpool)

Sir Andy Murray (Leatherhead)

Katie Boulter (Woodhouse Eaves)

Heather Watson (St. Peter Port, Channel Islands)

Triathlon

Sam Dickinson (York)

Alex Yee (London)

Beth Potter (Bearsden)

Georgia Taylor-Brown (Leeds)

Kate Waugh (Newcastle Upon Tyne)

Weightlifting

Emily Campbell (Bulwell)

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"It is not the first time that I’ve been thinking about this, about communities, about space, and how we understand those connections between them. If you look at the Beth Shalom project in Philadelphia, it was about being able to use the structure of the building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright to address the history of Jewish and African-American diasporas. Another piece I’m working on right now is for the Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut. The Glass House was built by Philip Johnson, who is protested actively by the Johnson Study Group, led by Mitch McEwen, who’s also in the Reconstructions show. While I appreciate and applaud Mitch’s efforts in terms of trying to address the histories of racism and fascism that are entangled within Philip Johnson’s legacy, that doesn’t prevent me from also thinking about the Glass House as a site that can be productive. I’m not however interested in creating a piece that is about Philip Johnson, just as I wasn’t interested in creating a piece about Frank Lloyd Wright, or about Moshe Safdie. To me they’re all proxies that allow me to discuss the authoritarian aspects of modernism, or issues of colonialism, and so on."

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Worship with us this Sunday and hear Beth McEwen, the lay Leader from Douglas Community UMC, preach about “Dis You Taht call From God or Did You Put God on Hold”.  Come early for espresso and scones.

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Reservas habilitadas desde el lunes 02 de mayo

Desde el lunes 02 de mayo, es decir mañana, habilitaremos la posibilidad de reservar avatares y personajes canónicos por un tiempo de 3 días (72 horas) tras la apertura del foro. 

Bolivia: 3:00 PM

Chile: 3:00 PM

España: 9:00 PM

Argentina: 4:00 PM

México: 2:00 PM

Colombia: 2:00 PM

Para realizar reservas, será muy importante tener en cuenta algunos aspectos:

— Se realizaran por medio de ask: aquí. Puede ser en anónimo o con cuenta de tumblr. Deberán dejar el nombre del avatar o personaje canónico a reservar + un nombre con el que quieran ser identificados durante la reserva + una palabra clave que será solo para ustedes hasta el día de la apertura y con el que se les reconocerá la reserva en cuestión. Ejemplo:

En el escenario de reservas de avatares que no pertenezcan a personajes canon: Sam Claflin para Hawks - Automóvil 

En el escenario de reservar un canon y por tanto su avatar predeterminado por la administración, al menos hasta que el usuario realice la ficha: Rick Grimes para Hawks - Policía

Los ask no serán publicados, pero con ellos la lista de avatares y personajes canónicos reservados aparecerá en el tumblr y se mantendrá actualizada.

— Para estas reservas previas a la apertura, permitiremos un máximo de 2 por usuario. En nuestro reglamento manejaremos normas para controlar el nivel de multicuentas, que la administración conozca las multicuentas de cada persona es un requerimiento. Por otro lado, los personajes canónicos deberán tener en cuenta que pedimos una prueba de personaje que será enviada a la administración en un plazo máximo de 3 días tras la apertura del foro.

— A continuación encontraran la lista de avatares seleccionados por la administración para los personajes canónicos del foro y que ustedes podrán reservar desde mañana. Estos pertenecen a las sagas de Resident Evil y The Walking dead. Es muy importante especificar que existen más personajes conocidos de estas historias y probablemente puedan ser tomados incluso sin necesidad de realizar una prueba de rol, pero será necesario consultarlo previamente con la administración, ya que no los estamos buscando y sus avatares no se encuentran reservados.

Andrew Lincoln COMO Rick Grimes

Jon Bernthal COMO Shane Walsh

Sarah Wayne Callies COMO Lori Grimes

Chandler Riggs COMO Carl Grimes

Norman Reedus COMO Daryl Dixon

Michael Rooker COMO Merle Dixon

Steven Yeun COMO Glenn Rhee

Melissa McBride COMO Carol Peletier

Emily Blunt COMO Andrea Harrison

Lauren Cohan COMO Maggie Greene

Emily Kinney COMO Beth Greene

Emily Rudd COMO Rebecca Chambers

Luke Evans COMO Billy Greene

Shawn Roberts COMO Albert Wesker

Robbie Amell COMO Chris Redfield

Juliah Voth COMO Jill Valentine

Davika Hoorne COMO Ada Wong

Jordan Mcewen COMO Claire Redfield

Landon Liboiron COMO Leon S. Kennedy

Freya Allan COMO Sherry Birkin

Kit Harrington COMO Carlos Oliveira

Jaimie Alexander COMO Helena Harper

Liam Hemsworth COMO Piers Nivans

Wenworth Miller COMO Jake Muller

Lyndsy Fonseca COMO Jessica Sherawat

Amelia Zadro COMO Moira Burton

— Por último, las reservas vía tumblr estarán habilitadas solo hasta la apertura del foro.

Tras iniciar con la apertura de las reservas, daremos información sobre los refugios que estarán en el foro como base del principio. Hemos apostado por un número reducido de refugios con el fin de evitar la excesiva dispersión de personajes, por eso, contaremos inicialmente con tan solo 3 grupos, cada uno con distintas características pero que comparten un elemento vital en común: La necesidad de salir al mundo para buscar su supervivencia. Desde luego, existirá también la posibilidad de ser un nómada que no pertenece a ninguno de los refugios oficializados por el foro.

¡Saludos!

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Christmas Town Homecoming: A 10-Book Connected Holiday Romance Collection

Christmas Town Homecoming: A 10-Book Connected Holiday Romance Collection

Christmas Town Homecoming A 10-Book Connected Holiday Romance Collection with stories by Melinda Curtis, Anna J. Stewart, Anna Adams, Cari Lynn Webb, Cheryl Harper, Liz Flaherty, Leigh Riker, Beth Carpenter, LeAnne Bristow, Claire McEwen Welcome back to Christmas Town, Maine! This holiday season works its romantic magic during Christmas Town High School’s ten year class reunion. It’s going to…

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Christmas Town Homecoming

https://animoto.com/play/NcBAs7a88QdfPsxSSGDFGw Christmas Town Homecoming A 10-Book Connected Holiday Romance Collection with stories by Melinda Curtis, Anna J. Stewart, Anna Adams, Cari Lynn Webb, Cheryl Harper, Liz Flaherty, Leigh Riker, Beth Carpenter, LeAnne Bristow, Claire McEwen Welcome back to Christmas Town, Maine!This holiday season works its romantic magic during Christmas Town High…

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Christmas Town Homecoming A 10-Book Connected Holiday Romance Collection with stories by Melinda Curtis, Anna J. Stewart, Anna Adams, Cari Lynn Webb, Cheryl Harper, Liz Flaherty, Leigh Riker, Beth Carpenter, LeAnne Bristow, Claire McEwen Welcome back to Christmas Town, Maine! This holiday season works its romantic magic during Christmas Town High School’s ten year class reunion. It’s going to…

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Welcome back to Christmas Town, Maine!

This holiday season works its romantic magic during Christmas Town High School’s ten year class reunion.

It’s going to be a jam-packed holiday weekend for the returning class, beginning with preparations for the two day event – where a mysterious promise ring has been found in their time capsule – and culminating in a Reunion Ball – where something lost finally finds its home. No one’s expecting to discover love, but this is Christmas Town, where happily-ever-afters are delivered with holiday traditions, glowing twinkle lights, and tinsel.

Consider this your invitation to the reunion where you’ll have a front row seat next to some of the class’s most memorable members – the prom queen, the jock, the mean girl, the drama kid, the teacher’s pet, the bad boy, the math nerd, the girl most likely to succeed, and some of your favorite administrators. From start to finish, this collection of connected, sweet romances from Harlequin Heartwarming authors will warm your heart.

Compare this read to The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Inside, you’ll find stories featuring best friend to lovers, best friend’s older brother, teen crush, enemies to lovers, second chance, reunion, medical, and later in life romances.

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Conservative Leaders Urge Second Coronavirus Task Force to Reopen U.S. as Soon as Possible

Several conservative leaders this week signed a letter, spearheaded by Tea Party Patriots Action, addressed to President Trump, thanking him for his leadership throughout the coronavirus crisis but emphasizing the negative impact of many of the safety precautions, such as statewide shutdown orders, have had on the businesses and workers across the country:

For weeks now, our nation has followed the advice of the medical experts. Like you, Vice President Pence, and the Coronavirus Task Force, we want to help slow the spread of the virus to increase hospital capacity and to reduce the number of lives lost from this deadly disease. We have made sacrifices so that families across this country can avoid the most severe emotional toll, the loss of a loved one. To that end, we have sheltered-in-place, shuttered businesses, closed churches, and thrown millions of our fellow citizens out of their jobs. As an unfortunate result of this deadly disease, we have denied Americans the dignity of their work and caused them and their families another kind of emotional and physical hardship – not knowing from where their next paycheck would come.

At some point, conservative leaders emphasized, “This must end.”

“To that end, we strongly support the immediate establishment of a second coronavirus response panel, with a different mission from the one currently headed and ably run by Vice President Pence – to plan and prepare for the re-launching of the American economy,” the leaders stated.

The second task force would feature leaders with “significant” private sector experience in travel, energy, hospitality, manufacturing, retail, real estate, construction, agriculture, and more. Ideally, it would also include “economists and experts in constitutional law, and would be tasked with examining the many questions surrounding how best to reopen the economy from its current dormant state.”

They continued:

Your instincts are right, Mr. President. As a man who’s actually run a successful business, employing tens of thousands of people and earning billions in profits, you have insights into what entrepreneurs face that government bureaucrats will never have. You know that only businessmen like yourself – not academics, nor bureaucrats – can truly understand what an enormous undertaking this will be.

“Time is of the essence,” the leaders stressed, pinning a date on the reopening of the great American economy.

“If you mean to begin reopening the economy on May 1, as you have indicated, it is already past time to begin the planning and preparation,” they pressed.

“We stand ready with suggestions for how you can stand up such a panel in a matter of days, and look forward to the opportunity to discuss the matter with you and your team at your earliest possible convenience,” the letter concluded.

Signers include Tea Party Patriots Citizen Fund chairperson Jenny Beth Martin; economist Stephen Moore; former U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint; MRC chairman L. Brent Bozell III; CNP Action, Inc. chairman Kelly Shackelford; Liberty Consulting President Ginni Thomas; CNP President William Walton; LFR President Colin Hanna; Foley & Lardner LLP Partner Cleta Mitchell; Leadership Institute President Morton Blackwell; Conservative Action Project chairman Alfred Regnery; CPI ED Ed Corrigan; former U.S. Rep. Bob McEwen; TPPA board member William W. Pascoe, III; FreedomWorks President Adam Brandon; FreedomWorks Vice President Noah Wall; and Senate Conservatives Fund Executive Director Mary Vought.

Additionally, 5,000 grassroots activists signed an accompanying letter, calling for similar action.

“All over America, our fellow citizens are ready to go back to work,” Martin said in a statement.

“We have seen the coronavirus, and we appreciate President Trump’s leadership in protecting us. But it is time to start planning and preparing to reopen the American economy, sooner rather than later,” she continued.

Martin said that 80 percent of their members and supporters know someone who has lost his or her job.

“That’s just too much,” she said.

“Conservative leaders and grassroots activists are ready,” she said. “We want to be ready to go when the time is right. And that means we cannot afford to wait any longer in beginning the planning for the reopening of our economy.”

The push comes as the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) model, initially relied on by the White House Coronavirus Task Force, continues to lose credibility, as it also continues to revise its projections down.

In March, British researchers at Imperial College predicted that deaths in the U.S. could be as high as 2.2 million. The White House task force, including Dr. Deborah Birx, has cast serious doubt on those projections.

“There’s no model right now, no reality on the ground, where we can see that 60-70 percent of Americans are going to get infected in the next 10-12 weeks,” Dr. Birx said last month.

The letters come as members of Congress prepare to battle over the next stage of economic relief. Roughly 6.6 million Americans filed for unemployment for the week ending April 4, Labor Department data released this week showed. That brings total jobless claims to nearly 17 million in three weeks alone.

President Trump has signaled that he is both willing and eager to reopen the economy, telling reporters on Thursday that he hopes to see it reopen “very, very, very, very soon.”

“Hopefully, we’re going to be opening up—you could call it opening—very, very, very, very soon, I hope,” he said.

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Why community matters, especially in times of peril.

Normally I’d bypass any New York Times story that has a religious topic, especially one with the word Apocalypse in the headline – no, we are not facing end times; we are confronting a dreaded disease we will defeat, as we have done repeatedly in the past -- but for some inexplicable reason I was curious about this particular piece, so I opened it, scanning down until I came to this:  

“Jewish leaders realized they needed to survive in the world as they knew it….  The rabbis developed a system where Jews could live anywhere, under any government and live meaningful lives connected to neighbors and to God. 

“That was the Judaism that enabled Jews to live through persecution, plagues, medieval centuries and on through early modernity, which was in some ways the most difficult periods… we have been in difficult circumstances before and we will get beyond them.” 

I am the last person you’d expect to join a synagogue. Unlike New York, where it feels like everyone is Jewish, here it is more of a challenge, so after we relocated to Napa and Roberta expressed interest in joining a congregation – at the time she was Jewish in feeling but not fact – I agreed, supportive spouse that I am. 

In our initial meeting with the congregation’s then Rabbi, Lee Bycel, he responded to my tale of alienation from the faith by observing, “If you think you are the first person to tell me this, you would be wrong.” That made me feel a bit better; I thought I was the only one.   

He then said something that to this day has stayed with me: “I know many people who are religious but not spiritual; I know far fewer who are spiritual but not religious.  You do not need one to be the other.” 

We wound up joining Congregation Beth Shalom; in the three years since, Roberta has converted, joined the choir – she is one of the very few people here who can read music, read Hebrew, and sing (really well, BTW) – and became progressively more engaged in synagogue matters.   

Me?  Not so much (being supportive has its limits). 

There is one thing, though, that does help me forge a connection:  community. By community, I don’t mean insular, orthodox, and closed -- the tribal community of the fanatic -- that I have no time for.  Instead, I mean a community of the welcoming -- one that is accessible and open -- more spiritual than observant.  

Put aside the spiritual part, and it’s the kind of community I see every day as a client service person.   

A sense of community explains in part why Jenny Plant is regularly podcasting tips and advice.  Why Mandy McEwen regularly reaches out to her community.  Why Bob Cargill regularly engages his audience with social media commentary on a wide range of topics.  Why I’ve offered to do free, Zoom-based workshops to anyone who wants to get better at what they do.  Why many of you offer to help clients, colleagues, and yes, even competitors, navigate the hard times we find ourselves in. 

Forget religion, forget ritual; community is what matters.  It’s what those rabbis seem to be saying when they spoke of surviving “in the world as they knew it,” confronting “difficult circumstances,” yet getting beyond them. 

When Rabbi Lee retired, he was succeeded by Niles Goldstein, a black belt-wielding (two black belts, if you must know) author of ten books – not what anyone would call your typical religious leader – who last week said, “Somehow we have to learn how to ethicize the ritual and ritualize the ethical.” 

That stopped me in my tracks; needless to say, I am in violent agreement.   

The ethical thing to do is reach out to the people you know, and to those you do not; friends and family of course, but also acquaintances and strangers.  No, you can’t see or meet them, but yes, you can help them.  Just like Jenny Plant, Mandy McEwen, Bob Cargill, and dozens of other client service people who have answered the call. 

Do it once, then make a habit of it.  Ritualize the ethical. 

All will be grateful -- clients and colleagues, friends and family, those known and unknown -- and your personal community will be better for it.

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Book Fair Week Winners

Congratulations to our winners from the Book Fair Costume Contest and Coloring Contest:

Costume Contest Winners:

PreK: Jack Flannery

Kindergarten: Kai Baldwin, Madelyn Good, Bradford White

First Grade: Schuyler Denney, Kerry Kimbrough, Nathan Taylor

Second Grade: Blake Jackson, Thomas Kennoy

Third Grade: C.J. Davies, Cole Iverson, Lila Mueller

Fourth Grade: Ava Kate Whipple

Fifth Grade: Claire Connor, Laynie Hopper, Ava Stanton

Sixth Grade: Ruby Karls, Faith Valentine

Coloring Contest Winners:

PreK: Gavin Nicholas, Timmy Ratajeski, Charlie Taaffe

Kindergarten: Savannah Parker, Annie McEwen, Adniel Raslau

First Grade: Will Battaille, Ella Guarnieri, Sutton Schornick

Second Grade: Charlie Cunningham, Sam DeLong

Third Grade: Isabel Clark, Ransom Liston, Maggie Ratajeski

Fourth Grade: Lillie Greer

Fifth Grade: Mary Beth Jones

Sixth Grade: Kaylynn Tatchell

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UM public relations students, led by senior lecturer Robin Street (center), have planned It Starts with (Me)ek, five days of campus events celebrating inclusion and rejecting stereotypes. The committee includes (kneeling, from left) Emma Arnold and Brittanee Wallace, and (standing) Kendrick Pittman, Dylan Lewis, Street, Zacchaeus McEwen and Faith Fogarty. Photo by Stan O’Dell

Just pause. Just pause before you assume you know me. Just pause before you stereotype me.

That’s the message of an upcoming series of events April 19-25 called It Starts with (Me)ek, hosted by the University of Mississippi Meek School of Journalism and New Media. Shepard Smith, a UM alumnus and chief news anchor and managing editor for Fox News Network’s Breaking News Division, is among the keynote speakers.

The five-day conference open to all students, faculty, staff and community members is designed to encourage inclusion and respect while rejecting stereotypes. It will feature panelists and guest speakers discussing race, gender, sexual orientation, disability and religion. A diversity fashion show and a festival also are included.

“This campaign is particularly important to our Meek School students because as professional journalists, public relations specialists or integrated marketing communications specialists, students will be dealing with and working with many different kinds of people,” said Robin Street, senior lecturer in public relations.

“We all need to learn the value of waiting before we make assumptions about other people. However, we also hope that everyone on campus and in Oxford will consider joining us for the programs.”

The program, designed to remind participants that one single factor does not define a person’s identity, was created by a 31-member student committee under Street’s direction. Through each panel and lecture, Street hopes all attendees will learn to approach individuals with understanding, dignity, respect and inclusion.

Both alumni and students will participate in panels about their personal experiences on race, sexual orientation, mental health, religion and disabilities. Smith will moderate an alumni panel, as well as provide remarks on April 21.

Other guest speakers include Michele Alexandre, UM professor of law; Katrina Caldwell, vice chancellor for diversity and community engagement; Mary Beth Duty, owner of Soulshine Counseling and Wellness; Jesse Holland, an Associated Press reporter covering race and ethnicity; Shawnboda Mead, director of the UM Center for Inclusion and Cross Cultural Engagement; Sarah Moses, assistant professor of religion; Otis Sanford, political commentator and Hardin Chair of Excellence in Economic and Managerial Journalism at the University of Memphis; Jennifer Stollman, academic director of the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation; and Ryan Whittington, UM assistant director of public relations for social media strategy.

Duty, Holland, Sanford and Whittington are all Ole Miss journalism alumni.

Student committee members enrolled in a course specifically to design the campaign. The group met weekly to plan events, promotional videos, communications, pre-campaign competitions and social media posts surrounding the five-day conference.

Rachel Anderson, a senior broadcast journalism major from Chesapeake, Virginia, is co-chair of events and will moderate one of the panels.

“These events give students the opportunity to understand the experiences of people both similar and different from them,” Anderson said. “Understanding the experiences of others can help you learn more about yourself and the world around you.

“I hope attendees understand that we all have our differences, but at the same time, we also share so much in common. There is much more to people than outside appearances. One trait does not limit someone’s entire identity.”

Dylan Lewis, a senior broadcast journalism major from Mooreville, will serve on the LGBTQ student panel.

“The things we say or think about people affect everyone around us,” Lewis said. “Stereotypes hurt specific people or groups being stereotyped, but in reality it hurts all of us because our friends are part of those marginalized groups. When they hurt, we all hurt.

“While this campaign may not end stereotypes completely, it is a way to start the conversation, hence our campaign name ‘It Starts With (Me)ek.’ I hope students come to just see the perspectives of these individuals and realize that just pausing, our key message, can make a difference when trying to understand someone.”

The conference concludes with a festival April 25 on the front lawn of Farley Hall. Students are encouraged to wear purple to show their support, while faculty and staff will wear 1960s-inspired outfits to celebrate the many activist movements of the decade.

Students wearing purple will get a free treat from Chick-fil-A. If students have attended at least two events throughout the week and have their program stamped, they will receive a free T-shirt.

All events take place in Overby auditorium or in the front lawn of Farley Hall. For more information, visit http://ift.tt/2pidtbc or follow the campaign on social media at http://ift.tt/2pivFSa or https://twitter.com/StartsWithMeek.

The full schedule for the series features:

Wednesday, April 19

10 a.m. – Opening ceremony

11 a.m. – Lecture: “Other Moments: A Class Photography Exercise in Honoring Difference at Ole Miss,” Mark Dolan, associate professor of journalism

1 p.m. – Lecture: “Making a Difference by Engaging with Difference,” Jennifer Stollman, William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation.

2 p.m. – Lecture: “Tell Me a Story: Using Personal Narratives to Navigate Cultural Difference,” Katrina Caldwell, vice chancellor for diversity and community engagement

Thursday, April 20

9:30 a.m. – Panel Discussion: “From James Meredith to Millennials: Race Relations at Ole Miss,” moderated by Shawnboda Mead, director of CICCE

11 a.m. – Panel Discussion: “Red, Blue and Rainbow: An Inside Look at Being LGBT at UM,” moderated by journalism major Rachel Anderson

1 p.m. – Lecture: “Building Trust Within Professional and Personal Communities: A Workshop,” Jennifer Stollman

2:30 p.m. – Panel Discussion: “Sometimes I Feel Invisible: Living with a Disability,” moderated by Kathleen Wickham, professor of journalism

5:30 p.m. – Spoken Word Performance

Friday, April 21

10 a.m. – Lecture: “Race in America: A Journalist’s Perspective,” Jesse Holland, AP reporter

11 a.m. and 1 p.m. – Panel Discussions: “Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow,” black UM journalism alumni discuss their experiences, moderated by Jesse Holland

2 p.m. – Panel Discussion: “Red, Blue and Rainbow Alumni,” LGBT alumni discuss their experiences, moderated by Shepard Smith

3 p.m. – Lecture: “My Journey from Farley Hall to Major News Events Around the World,” Shepard Smith, Fox News chief news anchor

4 p.m. – Reception for speakers and students

Monday, April 24

9 a.m. – Lecture: “Normal Does Not Exist, Mental Illness Does,” Mary Beth Duty, professional counselor

10 a.m. – Lecture: “From the Bible Belt to Baghdad: What Today’s IMC and Journalism Professionals Need to Know About the World’s Major Religions,” Sarah Moses, assistant professor of religion

11 a.m. – Panel Discussion: “Keeping the Faith,” members of the Jewish and Muslim faiths discuss challenges they face, moderated by Dean Will Norton

1 p.m. – Panel Discussion: “Mental Health and Me,” panelists discuss their experiences with mental health, moderated by Debbie Hall, instructor of integrated marketing communications

2 p.m. – Lecture: “Role of Individual and Institutional Accountability in Doing Diversity and Equity,” Michele Alexandre, professor of law

3 p.m. – Lecture: “Keeping it Real on Social Media: Guidelines for Handling Diversity Issues,” Ryan Whittington, assistant director of public relations for social media strategy

4 p.m. – Fashion Show: “Unity in Diversity,” entertainment on Farley Hall lawn

6 p.m. – Lecture: “Racial Politics in Memphis,” Otis Sanford, University of Memphis

Tuesday, April 25

10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. – Farley Festival Day

By Christina Steube

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