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hedgiwithapen · 3 years

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*cracks knuckles* Today is the day Yolanda's world ends.

October opens with a clear blue sky, so bright it hurts to look at it, and Yolanda Montez takes that as a sign. The Homecoming game and dance are coming up quick, and as Student Body President, she knows it’s on her to make certain the committee has everything they need, that the gym’s set up, that everything is ready to go. She beams at her reflection, bouncing on her toes as she checks her hair and the collar of her shirt. There’s a camellia stuck in the vents of her locker at school. She twirls it in her fingers. Henry. Maybe it’s cliche, maybe it’s just puppy love, but it feels wonderful. She always arrives early, which means he had to have arrived even earlier to surprise her. The sun’s only been up an hour and a half and already he’s thought of her at least twice. Yolanda does an impulsive little spin. She carefully avoids where the Janitor is cleaning one of the hallways and drops her homework off at Homeroom. She’ll be in the office for the first few minutes, announcing that votes for Homecoming court close at lunch, and it’s not fair to turn in homework late, even by a few minutes. She won’t let anyone say she’s abusing her position. There are a few posters up, nothing like the SBP election, but a few. Cindy Burman was nominated, of course, and she knows she was. It would be nice to win--and a little mean part of her says it would be nicer to beat Cindy, payback for months of subtle bullying.

“Cindy, give me back my phone,” she hears from back by the lockers. A crash of relief rushes over her, glad that she turned down her boyfriend’s plea for pictures and gladder still that he’d backed down and sent six apologies in rapid succession. Things like that happened, just often enough they might have been red flags. Henry acted differently around others--his father, his teammates-- than he did around her. But it never seemed like he was putting on a mask to make her like him--the other way around. He said it was sometimes like there was a pressure in his head, pushing at him, like his conscience had bowed to peer pressure instead of helping him steer clear. Being around her, he’s said, with clear eyes meeting hers and no hesitation, was different. It was easier to breathe, and he liked who he was with her, he wanted to be that person for her. He didn’t need or want her to change him, he wanted to change for her. That allayed Yolanda’s worries, and his actions seemed to prove it true. Any time he got caught up in things, repeating his father’s arrogance or starting to smile at one’s of Cindy’s veiled cruel jokes, all Yolanda had to do was step in a little closer, and he stopped, seeming startled with himself for having started. The day goes smoothly. She does well on the Social Studies quiz 3rd period, and eats lunch with Henry’s jacket around her shoulders. It’s easy to balance listening to her friends and glancing around the caf. She needs to keep up with everything going on, to better serve her peers, after all. Beth Chapel waves from where she sits in a corner, at a table with Rick… something. Rick… Harris, Yolanda’s pretty sure, though Rick keeps to himself. The new girl, Courtney, is there too, turning her hair around her finger and looking like she wants to be anywhere but at that table. Yolanda winces, hiding the look behind her lunch. She’s been so caught up in planning she hasn’t even thought to reach out. She’ll get on that, Monday. Courtney might like to be invited to a table with people who will talk to her, not just sit in silence or chatter to their parents. The final bell rings, and Yolanda hurries to the gym. There are many, many decorations to put up, and anything she can take care of now will make less work for the committee later. As she arranges streamers along walls and the base of the stage, she feels eyes on her. “Cindy? Don’t you have practice?” Yolanda asks, taking a step towards the doorway. She smiles, though. Politeness always counts, even though she knows that the rest of the Cheer squad is already on the field, doing final run throughs ahead of tonight’s game. “I thought I’d take a minute to help you out,” the other girl says, her smile a touch too wide. “And give you some advice. Break up with Henry King.” “Um,” says Yolanda, taking a step back as Cindy reaches for the streamers. She knows Cindy’s jealous, that much has always been plain. Cindy’s always hanging on Henry’s shoulder, touching his arm, laughing too loud and long at his jokes. Still, this is… direct. Not what Yolanda expects, for sure. “I’m good, thanks. And why is that advice?” “Does it matter?” Cindy shrugs. “ Just leave him. Tonight. “ “No,” Yolanda snaps. She’s nice, she’s not a pushover. “ Cindy, he wants to date me, not you. He chose me and you have to get over it. Even if we did break up--which we’re not going to just because you’re telling me to dump him-- he’s not going to turn around and start dating you.” Cindy examines her long, elegant fingernails. “ Fine,” she sighs. “Just don’t say I didn’t warn you.” Yolanda rolls her eyes as Cindy actually skips away, and goes back to hanging banners. It’s a while before she’s out of streamers and tape, and standing in the center of the gym, it looks good. Not ready yet, of course, and it’ll look better with the fluorescent lights off and the big stage lights and disco ball on, but for one person's afternoon of elbow grease, it’s good. She admires her handiwork, reaching for her phone to text Henry good luck, when she spots the stage. One

of the backdrops, painted by the art class to match the theme of the dance, drips ugly green paint. It’s almost like someone has-- Yolanda freezes. Sabotage. Someone trying to ruin Cameron Mahkent’s art, maybe even pin the blame on her, since she’s been here without supervision. She should go report it right away. But the paint’s still wet. Maybe she can clean it off, fast, before it dries. The art class put so much work into it. Yolanda hoisted herself up onto the stage, a cleaning rag in hand. A glint of light catches her eye from the stage rafters, a flash of metal and a loud cracking snap. And then the light rig, two hundred pounds of metal and glass, comes crashing down. Her scream dies with her.

#dammit hedgi day 2021 #this au has been in my brain for months #stargirl

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coochiequeens · 3 years

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May 16th is Honor your LGBTQ Elders day

so here is something honoring an actual lesbian before the queer community turns this into a day for men with bad hair

July 7, 1940 – April 28, 2021

They called Madeline Davis a lesbian legend.

A longtime activist for gay rights, she blazed a trail for the understanding and acceptance of the LGBTQ community as a teacher, stage performer, author and historian.

She was a founding member and president of the first gay liberation organization in Western New York, the Mattachine Society of the Niagara Frontier.

She delivered a speech at the first gay march on Albany in 1971.

The following year, when Democrats met in Miami Beach, Fla., to nominate George McGovern, she became the first openly gay delegate to a major political party convention and advocated for a gay rights plank in the platform.

She taught the first course on lesbianism in the nation at the University at Buffalo. A founding member of Hag Theater, the first all-lesbian theater company in the United States, she acted in several of its productions.

She and UB professor Dr. Elizabeth L. Kennedy researched and authored a landmark account of the lives of gay working women in Buffalo, “Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community.” Her research became the foundation for what has become the Dr. Madeline Davis LGBTQ Archive of Western New York at SUNY Buffalo State and she served as its director.

Ms. Davis died Wednesday in her Amherst home after suffering a stroke in January. She was 80. Born in Buffalo, Madeline D. Davis was the oldest of three children and grew up the East Side. Her father was an assembly line worker for Ford and her mother, a homemaker, had gone to nursing school. She was a 1958 graduate of Bennett High School, where she was an honor student and worked all four years on the yearbook. While at Bennett, she got a job putting books away in the North Jefferson Branch Library. “I loved it,” she told Buffalo News feature writer Louise Continelli in 1993. “It thrilled me to be able to hold the potential for learning in my hands.”

While she was attended UB on a scholarship, she worked as a page in the college’s Lockwood Library.

After earning a bachelor’s degree in English and a master’s degree in library science, she began working for the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library and became its chief conservator, overseeing the arrival and repair of tens of thousands of books and other materials. She directed a department of about 30 people. During college, she adopted a beatnik style and began folk singing. She performed in coffeehouses here and in New York City, Toronto, Seattle and San Francisco. She went on to be the lead singer in a jazz-rock group, the New Chicago Lunch, and later formed the Madeline Davis Group.

She became aware of her attraction to women in the 1960s, but the first time she got married, it was to a man. He was tolerant of her sexuality, she told Continelli, and broke up for other reasons. “I spent my energies trying to be what I was supposed to be while still being irresistibly drawn to what I was,” she said.

When Ms. Davis married again in 1995, her partner was Wendy Smiley, a telephone company telecommunications technician. They had known each other since Smiley came here from Albany in 1974 and saw Ms. Davis singing in a coffeehouse. The ceremony, the first of its kind in Temple Beth Zion, took place in the main sanctuary.

“It was a big wedding, it was wonderful,” Smiley said, “but it just wasn’t legal in New York State.”

They repeated their vows four more times – in a pagan ceremony in Cherry Creek, in a civil ceremony in Vermont in 1997, in a ceremony legal in Canada at Two Hearts Wedding Chapel in Niagara Falls, Ont., in 2006, and finally back in Temple Beth Zion in 2011 after New York approved same-sex marriages.

“I want to be married in my own country and be legal in my own country,” Smiley said. “After that, five times was enough.” Ms. Davis began concentrated research into local lesbian history in 1978 when she taught a course at UB with Kennedy while she was working on a second master’s degree in American studies. That led to the founding of the Buffalo Women’s Oral History Project and a 14-year-long effort collecting and compiling interviews with 45 older lesbians.

Published in 1994, “Boots of Leather” received the Lambda Literary Award, the Ruth Benedict Award for urban anthropology and the Jessie Bernard Award from the American Sociological Association.

In 2013, the Buffalo History Museum presented her with its Owen Augspurger Award for her work in preserving Erie County heritage. At the time of her death, she was collecting oral histories of the elders in Buffalo's LGBTQ community, accompanied by photos by Keith Gemerek, whose photo of her appears here, in a project sponsored by CEPA Gallery. She also wrote numerous articles on sexuality and women’s history, along with short stories and poetry. Her work as a political activist continued with the Mattachine Society in the 1970s, when she invited political candidates to discuss gay issues for the first time and challenged the Buffalo police over entrapment and raids on gay bars. She organized a Pride workshop in 1973, which evolved into PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), assisting those who support LGBT people. More recently, she was vice president for community liaison for Stonewall Democrats.

In 1971, she recorded the nation’s first gay anthem, “Stonewall Nation,” and composed 45 songs, most with gay or lesbian themes. For many years, she organized benefit concerts for the gay community and performed at them.

In 1994, she co-founded the Black Triangle Women’s Percussion Ensemble and later performed with another percussion group, Drawing Down the Moon. As a member of Buffalo United Artists, she was nominated for an Artie Award in 1993 for her role in a one-woman drama, “Cookin’ with Typhoid Mary.” She also received the David DeMarie Entertainer of the Year Award in 1988. She became a Reiki master, practicing hands-on healing, specializing in animals. She and her wife did rescue work for Keeshond dogs. Concerned about her health, she underwent gastric bypass surgery in 2000, lost 140 pounds and changed her lifestyle. “Every day, she takes her two dogs on long walks,” Buffalo News reporter Deidre Williams wrote in 2008. “She takes tai chi and works out on a stationary bicycle three times a week. As a result, some of her prescriptions have been reduced.”

She also founded a GBS support group that expanded into 13 branches in four counties.

She was the subject of a 2009 documentary film, “Swimming with Lesbians,” and was inducted into The Advocate magazine’s Hall of Fame in 2012.

Then-State Sen. Byron W. Brown arranged for proclamation of Madeline D. Davis Day in New York State on April 25, 2004. She served as grand marshal of Buffalo’s annual Pride Parade in 2009.

She moved from Buffalo to Kenmore in 1990 to care for her ailing mother and had been an Amherst resident since 2006. Her pastimes included gardening and quilting. In addition to her wife, survivors include a sister, Sheila E. Davis. Memorial services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday in Amherst Memorial Chapel, 281 Dodge Road, Getzville.

#May 16 #honor your LGBTQ elders days #Madeline Davis #Lesbian legend

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jewish-privilege · 5 years

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"I cannot be anti-Semitic alone." That's the declaration captured on video of a performer at last month's Conflict Over Gaza conference, an event held at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and co-sponsored by several UNC entities and departments, including the Chancellor's Global Education Fund.

"Let's try it together," rapper Tamer Nafar tells the audience before his performance, inviting them to sing. "I need your help. I cannot be anti-Semitic alone." "Don't think of Rihanna when you sing this, don't think of Beyonce - think of Mel Gibson. I'm in love with a Jew/Oh/I fell in love with a Jew/Oh/Her skin is white and my skin is brown, she was going up up and I was going down." The raw video was taken by filmmaker Ami Horowitz and shared exclusively with the ABC11 I-Team. Horowitz, based in New York, posted that clip and other anti-Semitic exchanges he said he experienced while visiting the campus the weekend of March 22 on his YouTube page. "I heard there was a conference going on about the conflict in Gaza, and my initial assumption was that it was going to be a hate fest against Israel," Horowitz tells ABC11. "When I went there, that is what I found, but what I did not expect was for it to evolve into open anti-Semitism." "You expect these attitudes from Neo-Nazis and white nationalists, but you don't expect these attitudes in the halls of academia and the halls of Congress," he said. The conference, titled Conflict Over Gaza: People, Politics and Possibilities, was officially sponsored by the UNC Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies and the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies. The event's website lists more than 30 co-sponsors ranging from UNC School of Law to the Rotary Club of Raleigh. The three-day event's description explains that the conference "will shed much-needed light on the current realities in the Gaza Strip, giving participants a deeper understanding of the context of these realities and offering concrete options that can better the lives of Gazans. The conference also highlights Gazan culture-music, films, food, and art-to showcase the beauty that goes along with the challenges of life in the Gaza Strip." The Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies, moreover, says on its website that it "supports events that increase awareness of the history and cultures of the Middle East and Muslim civilizations, and values diverse perspectives that promote dialogue and understanding. Events listed here originate from a variety of campus units and community organizations. The listing of an event does not constitute endorsement of or agreement with the views presented therein." ...ABC11 reached out to UNC about the conference. Citing Horowitz's YouTube video, UNC Global sent the following statement: This video was produced by an individual who attended the "Conflict over Gaza" conference and recorded discussions with a number of attendees who were unaware he was taping their statements. The content was heavily edited, and the product as presented does not provide context as to the questions and the full, complete answers given. Moreover, we do not believe this video represents the spirit of scholarship at the event. The conference brought together internationally recognized scholars and professionals from NGOs, think tanks, and academia to address a range of topics about Gaza from different viewpoints. The sponsors supported the event as an educational opportunity, and this video misconstrued the breadth of discourse that took place during the panels. Our University is united by students, faculty, and staff from more than one hundred countries and represented by a diverse range of perspectives, traditions, and faiths. Diversity is an intrinsically vital part of shaping dialogue that can address complex issues, and we uphold a commitment to fostering a welcoming environment to people from all backgrounds. Conferences such as this are organized by scholars who have academic freedom to develop the programming and invite their selected speakers and performers. UNC Global supports faculty in hosting these conferences without endorsing the beliefs of speakers or performers. ABC11 again reached out to UNC Global, sending them the raw, unedited version of the performance. The organization referred ABC11 back to the original statement, with emphasis on the final paragraph. Late Thursday evening, Duke sent a response to ABC11. "We want to be very clear: antisemitism is one of the great scourges of modern life. Its resurgence, as demonstrated by the worldwide increase in hate crimes and incidents, is deeply troubling and should be of great concern to any civil society," said a joint statement from Duke University President Vincent E. Price and Provost Sally Kornbluth. "Whether it occurs on our campus, in our community, through graffiti, rallies or concerts, in conference rooms or courtrooms, we must all speak out forcefully against actions and statements that target and threaten members of our Jewish community. On our campus and beyond, the lines of politics, trust, activism and civility cannot become so blurred that we lose our commitment to mutual respect. We must guard against the danger that our passions obscure our common humanity, and we must remind ourselves that what injures any one of us injures us all." On Friday, UNC Interim Chancellor Kevin M. Guskiewicz issued the following statement: A performance during a recent conference held on our campus contained disturbing and hateful language. Like many members of our community, I am heartbroken and deeply offended that this performance happened. I stand steadfast against Anti-Semitism and hate in all its forms. The Carolina spirit is not about hateful language that divides us, but about civil discourse that advances ideas and knowledge. We must continue to aspire together to that ideal. Several members of the Triangle's Jewish Community sent letters to both UNC and Duke leaders critical of the conference and its roster of speakers. In a letter posted online, Hillel North Carolina writes: "North Carolina Hillel is disappointed that the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies' "Conflict Over Gaza" conference featured speakers who demonized Israel for the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and included too few perspectives from scholars who could have provided balanced context and multiple viewpoints on this challenging subject. Organizers missed the opportunity to convene a rich, educational forum that the UNC and Duke communities deserve." Beth El Synagogue in Durham, meanwhile, wrote to administrators ahead of the event that "Beth El members have been troubled by the recent uptick in antisemitic acts which have occurred at Duke, UNC, and around the Durham-Chapel Hill area. In addition to this, while criticism of Israel is, of course, legitimate and important in a democratic society, portraying Israel only as an oppressor and Palestinians only as victims functions to demonize Israel, and neither leads to constructive dialogue nor advances rigorous academic thought." ...Unrelated to the conference, Guskiewicz on Wednesday alerted students and faculty that "university Libraries officials found several anti-Semitic posters on bookshelves and tables in Davis Library." "I am extremely disappointed and appalled that anyone would write these abhorrent messages and direct them toward members of our Jewish community," Guzkiewicz added. "This behavior conflicts with the University's long-standing commitment to fostering an environment where all students, faculty and staff can be free from harassment." Hillel North Carolina also wrote a letter to students that added more details to the posters: "The fliers include references to 'an evil Jewish plot,' and the missive, 'do everything you can to fight the silent covert Jewish attempt to enslave and kill good Americans.'"

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Robert W. McManus, Sr.

Robert W. McManus, Sr., 83, of South Empire Street, Wilkes-Barre died on July 4, at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center, Plains Twp., surrounded by his loving family.

He was the son of the late Francis and Ruth Russell McManus. He was raised in Luzerne and graduated from Luzerne High School, class of 1957. He served in the U.S. Army and became disabled in the service.

Bob had resided on S. Empire Street, Wilkes-Barre for the past 62 years. He owned and operated his own plumbing business and served the Wyoming Valley. Later he was employed by Fitch Plumbing Co. He and his wife maintained a summer residence at Onawandah Private Campground, Tunkhannock and spent his summers there. He was active at Onawandah, serving as President and served on the Board of Directors, for many years.

He was a 70-year member of Bennett Presbyterian Church, Luzerne. He was also a member of the American Legion and the Lithuanian Club in Wilkes-Barre Twp.

He was a loving husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather. He enjoyed hunting, fishing and the outdoors, with his family and friends.

His brothers John (Jack) McManus, preceded him in death.

Surviving are his wife, Rita Murphy, married 63 years; sons, Robert Jr., and his wife, Jane, Wilkes-Barre, Kevin and his wife, Mary Beth, Virginia , Bryan and his wife, Ann E, Wilkes-Barre, Sean and his wife, Christine, Wilkes-Barre; daughter, Jennifer McManus Smith, Colorado; 9 Grandchildren, 4 great grandchildren; brother, Francis, Jr. and his wife, Linda; sisters, Stella Falkowitz and Candice McManus.

Funeral service will be held on Friday, July 8th at 11 AM from the Bennett Presbyterian Church, Bennett Street, Luzerne, with his Pastor, Rev. James Quinn, officiating. Family and friends are asked to go directly to the church for the service. The interment with Military Honors will be at Chapel Lawn Memorial Park, Dallas.

Family and friends are asked to call on Thursday, July 7, from 4 to 7 PM at the Hugh B. Hughes & Son, Inc., Funeral Home, 1044 Wyoming Avenue, Forty Fort.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions, if desired, can be made to Bennett Presbyterian Church, 501 Bennett St., Luzerne, PA 18709.

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stephenmccull · 3 years

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Tips for Older Adults to Regain Their Game After Being Cooped Up for More Than a Year

Alice Herb, 88, an intrepid New Yorker, is used to walking miles around Manhattan. But after this year of being shut inside, trying to avoid covid-19, she’s noticed a big difference in how she feels.

“Physically, I’m out of shape,” she told me. “The other day I took the subway for the first time, and I was out of breath climbing two flights of stairs to the street. That’s just not me.”

Emotionally, Herb, a retired lawyer and journalist, is unusually hesitant about resuming activities even though she’s fully vaccinated. “You wonder: What if something happens? Maybe I shouldn’t be doing that. Maybe that’s dangerous,” she said.

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Millions of older Americans are similarly struggling with physical, emotional and cognitive challenges following a year of being cooped up inside, stopping usual activities and seeing few, if any, people.

If they don’t address issues that have arisen during the pandemic — muscle weakness, poor nutrition, disrupted sleep, anxiety, social isolation and more — these older adults face the prospect of poorer health and increased frailty, experts warn.

What should people do to address challenges of this kind? Several experts shared advice:

Reconnect with your physician. Large numbers of older adults have delayed medical care for fear of covid. Now that most seniors have been vaccinated, they should schedule visits with primary care physicians and preventive care screenings, such as mammograms, dental cleanings, eye exams and hearing checks, said Dr. Robert MacArthur, chief medical officer of the Commonwealth Care Alliance in Massachusetts.

Have your functioning assessed. Primary care visits should include a basic assessment of how older patients are functioning physically, according to Dr. Jonathan Bean, an expert in geriatric rehabilitation and director of the New England Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center at the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System.

At a minimum, doctors should ask, “Are you having difficulty walking a quarter-mile or climbing a flight of stairs? Have you changed the way you perform ordinary tasks such as getting dressed?” Bean suggested.

Get a referral to therapy. If you’re having trouble moving around or doing things you used to do, get a referral to a physical or occupational therapist.

A physical therapist can work with you on strength, balance, range of motion and stamina. An occupational therapist can help you change the way you perform various tasks, evaluate your home for safety and identify needed improvements, such as installing a second railing on a staircase.

Don’t wait for your doctor to take the initiative; too often this doesn’t happen. “Speak up and say: Please, can you write me a referral? I think a skilled evaluation would be helpful,” said James Nussbaum, clinical and research director at ProHealth & Fitness in New York City, a therapy provider.

Start slow and build steadily. Be realistic about your current abilities. “From my experience, older adults are eager to get out of the house and do what they did a year ago. And guess what. After being inactive for more than a year, they can’t,” said Dr. John Batsis, associate professor of geriatrics at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

“I’m a fan of start low, go slow,” Batsis continued. “Be honest with yourself as to what you feel capable of doing and what you are afraid of doing. Identify your limitations. It’s probably going to take some time and adjustments along the way.”

Nina DePaola, vice president of post-acute services for Northwell Health, the largest health care system in New York, cautioned that getting back in shape may take time. “Pace yourself. Listen to your body. Don’t do anything that causes discomfort or pain. Introduce yourself to new environments in a thoughtful and a measured fashion,” she said.

Be physically active. Engaging regularly in physical activity of some kind — a walk in the park, chair exercises at home, video fitness programs — is the experts’ top recommendation. The Go4Life program, sponsored by the National Institute on Aging, is a valuable resource for those getting started and you can find videos of some sample exercise routines on YouTube. The YMCA has put exercise classes online, as have many senior centers. For veterans, the VA has Gerofit, a virtual group exercise program that’s worth checking out.

Bienvenido Manzano, 70, of Boston, who retired from the Coast Guard after 24 years and has significant lower back pain, attends Gerofit classes three times a week. “This program, it strengthens your muscles and involves every part of your body, and it’s a big help,” he told me.

Have realistic expectations. If you’re afraid of getting started, try a bit of activity and see how you feel. Then try a little bit more and see if that’s OK. “This kind of repeated exposure is a good way to deal with residual fear and hesitation,” said Rachel Botkin, a physical therapist in Columbus, Ohio.

“Understand that this has been a time of psychological trauma for many people and it’s impacted the way we behave,” said Dr. Thomas Cudjoe, a geriatrician and assistant professor at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore. “We’re not going to go back to pre-pandemic activity and engagement like turning on a light switch. We need to respect what people’s limits are.”

Eat well. Make sure you’re eating a well-balanced diet that includes a good amount of protein. Adequate protein consumption is even more important for older adults during times of stress or when they’re sedentary and not getting much activity, noted a recent study on health aging during covid-19. For more information, see my column about how much protein older adults should consume.

Reestablish routines. “Having a structure to the day that involves social interactions, whether virtual or in person, and various activities, including some time outside when the weather is good, is important to older adults,” said Dr. Lauren Beth Gerlach, a geriatric psychiatrist and assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan.

Routines are especially true for older adults with cognitive impairment, who tend to do best when their days have a dependable structure and they know what to expect, she noted.

End-of-day routines are also useful in addressing sleep problems, which have become more common during the pandemic. According to a University of Michigan poll, administered in January, 19% of adults ages 50 to 80 report sleeping worse than they did before the pandemic.

Reconnect socially. Mental health problems have also worsened for a segment of older adults, according to the University of Michigan poll: 19% reported experiencing more sadness or depression while 28% reported being more anxious or worried.

Social isolation and loneliness may be contributing and it’s a good idea to start “shoring up social support” and seeing other people in person if seniors are vaccinated, Gerlach said.

Families have an important role to play in re-engaging loved ones with the world around them, Batsis suggested. “You’ve had 15 months or so of only a few face-to-face interactions: Make it up now by visiting more often. Make the effort.”

Laura Collins, 58, has been spending a lot of time this past month with her mother, Jane Collins, 92, since restrictions on visitation at Jane’s nursing home in Black Mountain, North Carolina, eased and both women were vaccinated. Over the past year, Jane’s dementia progressed rapidly and she became depressed, sobbing often to Laura on the phone.

“She loves getting outside and that has been wonderful,” Laura said. “Her mood immediately shifts when she gets out of the building: She’s just happy, almost childlike, like a kid going out for ice cream. And, in fact, that’s what we do — go out for ice cream.”

We’re eager to hear from readers about questions you’d like answered, problems you’ve been having with your care and advice you need in dealing with the health care system. Visit khn.org/columnists to submit your requests or tips.

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Positive version of the poll... for those who read lots of 80s/90s/early 2ks comics...

Descriptions of plotlines by me, someone who has encountered all of these plotlines in the wild while reading 90s comics but not read any except final night fully:

Legends: the one where Godfrey was slandering the Justice League and Superman got sent to Apokalips, brainwashed to be Darkseid's minion, and then forgot about it.

Millennium: The one with all the manhunter conspiracies that I think was about the Guardians having sex?

Invasion!: The one about the alien invasions. Okay one of the ones about alien invasions. There was an alien alliance, they had a gene bomb that made meta humans.

Armageddon 2001: the one where Waverider pops up in everyone's solo title to view their futures and find out who monarch is. Monarch is the evil ruler of his future who killed all the superheroes.

War of the Gods: the one where Circe was gathering a bunch of artifacts and there was some characters associated with mythology showing up. and punching each other.

Eclipso: the Darkness Within: The one where Eclipso possesses people and Beth Chapel and Yolanda Montez die because nothing is more dangerous than being a C lister in a crossover plotline.

Bloodlines: the one where weird shape shifting vampire aliens drink humans ... spinal fluid? which kills many people but gives some people powers and creates some 90s heroes no one remembers anymore.

Underworld Unleashed: the one where Neron gives a bunch of supervillains powers for shits and giggles. Black Manta is actually-factually manta-ified and Blockbuster is turned into a future impulse and then nightwing villain.

Final Night: the one where the sun goes out due to sun-eaters. Hal Jordan restarts the sun by flying into it.

Genesis: the one where a "godwave" is bouncing around, having created gods on its first pass and creating metahumans or demigods on its second pass and altering with some people's powers and making some people feel depressed

DC One Million: The one where we saw some hypothetical future of what the universe would look like in the one millionth publication of DC, in the year 8000 something. I honestly can't remember what the plot was for this.

Our Worlds At War: Imperiex, some powerful space guy, is a threat to the earth. lex is president during this era and probably yapped at the heroes u are reading about.

#dc comics #tumblr polls #our worlds at war #dc one million #genesis #final night #underworld unleashed #bloodlines #eclipso: the darkness within #war of the gods #armageddon 2001 #invasion!#milennium #legends

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gordonwilliamsweb · 3 years

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Tips for Older Adults to Regain Their Game After Being Cooped Up for More Than a Year

This story also ran on CNN. It can be republished for free.

What should people do to address challenges of this kind? Several experts shared advice:

Get a referral to therapy. If you’re having trouble moving around or doing things you used to do, get a referral to a physical or occupational therapist.

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The Illuminati in the World of Deus Ex

Since it seems that most people here on Tumblr only played the Adam-centric games of the series, I decided to write a little post about the Illuminati, its structure and key-members. This post is more like a little overview for you guys, since HR/MD only offer little info about them, and I won’t go very deep into detail. (Edit to myself: I lied.)

Officially, the Illumanti were founded by Adam Weishaupt in 1776, his goal was to create a new society, a “New Order” that is lead by individuals that are called “The Enlightened” (Illuminati is the plural of the Latin word Illuminatus, meaning “enlightened”). This might be a reference to either Plato’s concept of the “Just State”, a society that is ruled by all knowing “Philosopher Kings” who were born to full-fill this rule and reign over the others. Another possible reference might be Thomas Hobbes’ theory of the Leviathan, a state that is ruled by a chosen “Sovereign” that can be either a single individual or a group of people acting as one where the rest of the citizens have no rights.

Those Individuals are defined as perfect beings, ahead of the rest of humanity and are in harmony with mind and body. To achieve this, there are certain requirements to be chosen as a suitable initiate, and every member has to go through certain ranks involving taking certain classes and undergoing tests. There is not much known about this besides the few references Stanton Dowd makes in Deus Ex 1, saying Bob Page never made it past the rank of “Master of Tyre” since did not participate in mandatory yoga lessons. In additions to this he mentions a special form of meditation that should lift the spirit and mind to a higher level.

Furthermore, although the official foundation is dated to 1776, many patters and structures can be traced back to the Knight Templar during the Crusades (also stated by Dowd). So over the time, the Illuminati also “adopted” several other orders/organizations to their cause, utilizing them for special tasks. Besides the Templars, who function as the Order’s financial arm since they control most of the banks around the world, they also incorporated Majestic 12 in 1969, after the USAF closed down Project Blue Book and the organization was shut down as well. Since then, MJ12 operates as the Illumianti’s scientific and militaristic arm.

In general, you can say that the Illuminati don’t know any restrictions when it comes to achieving their goal, they are all about control, but ultimately they do one thing: They influence, they direct, they never act out directly and they think in very long term plans. They have boxes stacked into boxes, a machinery that works for them while keeping the puppet-masters in the shadows. They are not just a group of “evil rich people wanting to dominate the world”, they do not just simply beat up or kill people just because they want to. Everything they do is for the greater cause, and they don’t like loose ends. When someone is in their way, they make sure to completely destroy this person forever. Either through assassination (and they don’t back off from killing members of the Order for “The Greater Plan” as they wanted to assassinate Taggart to further fuel the Anti-Aug Debate) or through complete destruction of one’s existence. They would never just leave a “warning” or harm someone out of fun or cruelty. The Illuminati are, in their core, completely finalistic and dedicated to their cause.

Now, after the fundamentals are clear, let’s take a short look at the members of the Council of Five, the ruling top with the highest ranked members of the order. The Philosophers Kings or the Sovereigns, if you want to see them that way.

Lucius DeBeers is the head of the Order, the only with the highest rank, the “Supreme Enlightened”. His background and true age are unknown since he keeps himself artificially alive, but it’s known he was already in charge back in the 1960s, as he ordered the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963. So pretty much everything we know about the actions of the Illuminati can be traced back to him. It’s clear that he seems to be obsessed with power, he refuses to give up his position as leader to his protége Morgan Everett and seeks a way to achieve immortality. He seems himself as the perfect being Weishaupt was talking about. In 2052, he is in a somewhat frozen state to halt his ageing, but he is still kept conscious to able to advice Everett who assumed the position of the Leader after Lucius was put into this state.

Morgan Everett is the Second-In-Command and leader of Majestic 12. It is implied that he was born into the Illuminati, as he states he had close ties to the Templars in his childhood, saying “I once knelt in this chapel for communion, with two Rockefellers and a Rothschild. Since the time of the Crusades every leader in finance has prayed for the continued stability of Templar banks, founded on gold.”. During the events of Human Revolution and Mankind Divided, he is the CEO of the Picus Group, and thereby controlling the world’s media and news. He did not found it, it was Sir Martin Darrow (Hugh Darrow’s father) in 1985 - it is unknown how Everett got into this position and what happened to Martin. Furthermore, Everett is in charge of various AI projects involving E.L.I.Z.A. and Morpheus (referred to as “M Initiative” in HR & MD) together with his protégé Bob Page to control and monitor the public. In 2052, he took up the position as the Supreme Enlightened and controls the remnants of the Order after MJ12 nearly destroyed them during the 2030s. Although he is the acting leader, he keeps his former mentor in a state that allows him to still give advice and actively lying about the fact that Lucius could “be brought back to live” and using him as a tool. It is assumed that Morgan grew bitter about Lucius withholding him the possibility of becoming the Supreme Enlightened and now abuses his power over him.

Stanton Dowd is the leader of the Knights Templar in 2029 and in control of most of the Illuminati’s finances and the world’s banks and therefore putting financial pressure on opposing parties. Although the Templar’s base is located in Paris, it is stated that Dowd is unable to leave New York City due to unknown reasons. According to Deus Ex 1, he was also born into the Order as his family had ties for generations. Little is known about the man, but it’s implied that he is a rather traditional man since he is the only one ever talking about the existing ranks and rituals and around the events of Mankind Divided, he led the Templar to a very powerful and controlling position. This concerns Beth DuClare who states she had to leave her home-town Paris because “Dowd’s Templar minions are the reason I stay away from Paris these days. I smell them on everything when I go back to the château. They act like they own the city.” (quote from Black Light) and leading to the suspicion Dowd might try to overthrow Lucius and take over himself. In 2052 Stanton is a poor man after MJ12 taking over the Knight Templars and destroying his finances and he is infected with the Grey Death. Besides his knowledge, he has nothing and is forced into hiding - powerless and defenceless.

Elizabeth DuClare, often only called “Beth”, is millionaire philanthropist and leader of the World Health Organization in 2027 and 2029. Just like the previous members she was born into a very old and wealthy family tied to the Illuminati. This is why she claims it was her birthright to be “Queen of this World.” And again, little is known about the woman besides her public role. In 2027 she controls the distribution of the manipulated TYM chip that would later cause the Aug Incident, and in 2029 she works with DeBeers on several projects. Among them: Black Helix and The D Project. Her exact position/rank is unknown, but it is implied in Black Light that she might be the “true” Second-in-Command since she has a very close relationship with DeBeers and because of their collaborations. In addition to this it is implied that she is a highly skilled manipulator, especially regarding men, and it is implied she uses sex and “love” to achieve her goals. The groomed the carrier of Philip Riley Mead, Florida’s Governor in 2027 and future President of the United States (2052), has a confirmed sexual relationship with Morgan Everett, is rumoured to be the mistress of the President of France Alain Bourges-Maunoury and talks derogatory about emotions like love and affection. She was assassinated by Majestic 12 prior to the events of Deus Ex 1. She has a daughter named Nicolette DuClare whose father is unknown and it is suspected that Nicolette is in fact a cosmetically altered clone.

There is little to say about Volkard Rand, since he is only appears in Mankind Divided and the only thing we know about him is that he is a member of the Council of Five in 2029 and that he puts pressure on the UN council to pass the Human Restoration act. A very popular fan-theory sees him as the elusive Janus, leader of the Juggernaut Collective that was somewhat confirmed by the “Prima Game Guide” by accident. But this is all speculation.

Robert “Bob” Page is not directly a member of Council of Five during the events of HR and MD, but has a high enough position to participate in most of their meetings. He is the protégé of Morgan Everett, who recruited him at some point before 2016 and due to his influence the young man managed to have an unusual career and rise up faster than he should (stated by Stanton Dowd). Page is the CEO of VersaLife (founded 1975), a pharmaceutical giant he acquired in 2016 and a subordinate to his company Page Industries, a venture capital/tech firm. He is the second leader of MJ12 alongside his mentor and is in charge of the Tyrants in Human Revolution (Codename Black, also referred to as “Commander” in The Fall) and overthrows the Illuminati during the 2030s in a Coup d'état, and takes over completely. In 2052, he is the richest and most powerful man in the world while still having an extremely positive public image, as people see him as generous, a philanthropist and he pretends to donate to good causes. He tries to become the “true Supreme Enlightened” by merging with the AI Helios.

All of these character summaries are kept short and only mention the most important things, there is much more to tell but this should be enough to give a general overview about the canon information regarding the Illuminati. If you got any questions of wish that I got deeper into certain things, please let me know.

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GRANGER, IN - Larry Lee Whiteford, 83, of Granger passed away suddenly on January 31, 2019 in his home. Larry was born on August 28, 1935 in Detroit, MI to the Late Naomi (Sprankle) Whiteford and David W. Whiteford, living in the South Bend area most of his life. On July 26, 1958 he married Bonnie L. Fettel. Surviving Larry are his three sons, Douglas Whiteford and Scott Whiteford both of Mishawaka, and Randy (Laura) Whiteford of Fishers, IN; five grandchildren, Holly (Ben) Musick of North Port, FL, Natosha Smith of Chicago, IL, and Beth Whiteford, Joshua Whiteford, and Andrew Whiteford all of Fishers, IN; two great-granddaughters, Lily and Laila Musick of North Port, FL; his brothers, Ron (Flo) Whiteford of Buchanan, MI, David (Sallie) Whiteford of Minneapolis, MN, and Dean (Anne) Whiteford of Miamisburg, OH; sister-in-law, Jeanne Clauser of South Bend; and many cousins, nieces, and nephews. What a celebration it must have been when Larry was reunited with his wife Bonnie and their daughter, Judy L. Smith, who preceded him in death.

Larry graduated from Riley High School and Bob Jones University, Greenville SC, receiving his BA degree from the School of Religion. While at Bob Jones, during his senior year he served as the president of his fraternity, Chi Delta Theta and made the Dean's honor roll. He was named to the “Who's Who” among college students in 1958. After graduation in 1958, Larry became an associate pastor of the Grace Baptist Church in South Bend. He was ordained as a minister in May of 1959. In 1962, he was asked to lead a new church in the Fulkerson Park neighborhood in Niles, MI. He was the founding pastor of the Fulkerson Park Baptist Church. During his 25 years at Fulkerson Park, the church saw substantial growth, starting the Fulkerson Park Baptist School in 1979. During the growth of the church, they were able to purchase a youth ranch in Buchanan, MI. After running it as the Clear Lake Youth Ranch for several years, the Lord led Larry and the church to donate the property to Life Action Ministries which still operates it today.

Larry was a renowned tenor soloist and was known as the Singing Pastor. He recorded nine albums that have been enjoyed nationwide. After retiring from Fulkerson Park Baptist in 1987, he traveled with his wife performing concerts in churches throughout the Midwest. In between concerts he was a hearing aid consultant for 31 years at Acoustic Audio Service in South Bend, IN. Whether it was leading someone to Christ, singing, or helping someone hear again, Larry was a humble, inspiring servant of God. His kindness will be greatly missed by all who knew him.

Funeral Services for Larry will be held at 11:00 a.m. Thursday, February 7 in the Welsheimer Family Funeral North, 17033 Cleveland Rd. with Chaplain David Whiteford officiating. Committal services and burial will follow in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Osceola. The family will receive friends in the funeral home from 4 until 7 p.m. Wednesday, February 6 and from 10:00 a.m. Thursday until the time of the service.

Memorial contributions may be made to National Alliance for Mental Health. Family and friends may leave email condolences at www.welsheimer.com. Published in South Bend Tribune on Feb. 4, 2019

#Larry Lee Whiteford #Bob Jones University #Class of 1958 #Hall of Fame #Obituary #BJu Alumni Association #the singing pastor #Fulkerson Park Baptist Church #Life Action

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Aug. 21, 2019: Obituaries

Sadie Jarvis, 79

Sadie Miller Jarvis, age 79, of North Wilkesboro, passed away Saturday, August 17, 2019 at Westwood Hills Nursing Center. She was born May 11, 1940 in Wilkes County to David Hampton and Laura Etta Barnes Miller. When able Sadie attended Baptist Home Baptist Church. She retired from Wilkes Glove after working for 35 years. Sadie was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, William McKinley Jarvis; her previous husband, James Franklin Jennings; grandson, Cleon Shannon Jennings, four brothers, Issac Miller, Maynard Miller, Phonso Miller and Philo Miller; six sisters, Johnsie Anderson, Elsie Tremble, Mae Combs, Hattie Wolfe, Chessie Bowlin, and Mary Pardue.

Surviving are her son, Steven Jennings and spouse Tasha of North Wilkesboro; daughters, Jean Hamblin and spouse Dennis, Norma Jennings all of Wilkesboro; two grandsons, three granddaughters; and nine great grandchildren; brother, Paul Miller and Mae of North Wilkesboro; and sister, Raydell Meeker of North Wilkesboro.

Funeral service was August 20, at Miller Funeral Chapel with Pastor Brady Hayworth and Rev. Phil Chapman officiating. Burial followed in Mountlawn Memorial Park. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements.

Eleisa Joyner, 62

Mrs. Eleisa Proctor Joyner, age 62 of Ronda, passed away Saturday, August 17, 2019 at her home after a long and courageous battle with cancer.

Funeral services were August 19, at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church with Rev. Dennis Murphy officiating and Mrs. Vicky Shew speaking. Burial was in the church cemetery.

Mrs. Joyner was born June 14, 1957 in Yadkin County to James Porter and Nancy Grette White Proctor. She was a member of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church in Ronda where she served as WMU Director, Children's Choir Pianist, Adult Choir Member and taught Sunday School. Mrs. Joyner retired from Lowes Companies.

She was preceded in death by her parents.

Mrs. Joyner is survived by her husband Darryl Joyner of the home, two daughters; Andrea Younger and husband Andrew of Ronda and Shannon Hall and husband Darrell of Thurmond, four grandchildren; Colton Hall, Callie Hall, Madyson Roten and Andrew (AJ) Roten, a sister; Judy Darnell and husband Bill of Elkin and a brother; Benny Proctor of Winston Salem.

The family would like to give a special thank you to Wake Forest Baptist Health Hospice, Dr. Thomas Grote and Staff and Sara Wiles.

Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to Pleasant Grove WMU, 3982 Clingman Road Ronda, NC 28670.

Doretha Blevins, 87

Mrs. Doretha Miller Blevins, age 87 of Hays passed away Sunday, August 18, 2019 at her home.

Funeral services will be held 2:00 p.m.Wednesday, August 21, 2019 at Mountain View Baptist Church with Pastor Brian Blankenship and Rev. Julius Blevins officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends from 12:30 until 1:30 PM prior to the service at the church

Mrs. Blevins was born October 20, 1931 in Wilkes County to Dewey Hobert and Annie Mae Bryant Miller. Doretha was a wonderful wife, mother and grandmother and was loved by all who knew her. She was a member of Mountain View Baptist Church.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband; William Franklin Blevins, Sr., granddaughter; Angela Dawn Billings, one sister; Sue Miller Cook and two brothers; James D. Miller and Bobby Joe Miller.

She is survived by a daughter; Anita Blevins Billings and husband James of Millers Creek and a son; William Franklin "Bill" Blevins, Jr. and wife Donna of Cary, four grandchildren; Jeremy Williams Billings and wife Samantha of Wilkesboro, Calla B. Godwin and husband Kevin of Benson, Ryan William Blevins and Nicholas Reid Blevins both of Cary, three great grandchildren; Madison Grace Billings and Eli Fisher Billings both of Wilkesboro and Colton Reed Godwin of Benson and one sister; Vicki Miller Nichols and husband Kerry of North Wilkesboro.

A special thank you to Susan Jones and Jimita Foster for the care and love given to our mother and also to Wake Forest Baptist Care At-Home Hospice.

Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to Mountain View Baptist Church Cemetery Fund, c/o Lou Pendry, PO Box 47, Hays, Eddis Griffin, 95

Mrs. Eddis Griffin, age 95 of Boomer passed away Sunday, August 18, 2019 at the Villages of Wilkes.

Funeral services will be held 2:00 p.m. Thursday, August 22, 2019 at Little Rock Baptist Church with Pastor Hal Greene, Rev. Robert Livingston and Mr. Barry Foster officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends from 1:00 until 2:00 PM prior to the service at the church.

Mrs. Griffin was born December 22, 1923 in Wilkes County to James Commodore and Daisy Adams Holder. She was a member of Little Rock Baptist Church.

In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband; Everette Eugene Griffin and three sisters; Shirley Bowman, Ola Byrd and Virginia Lowe, two brothers; Walter Adams and Rev. Earl Adams.

She is survived by two sisters; Gladys Lane and Grace Johnson and husband Bob all of Moravian Falls and several nieces and nephews.

Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to Gideon's International South Camp, PO Box 323, Wilkesboro, NC 28697 or Little Rock Baptist Church Cemetery Fund, 248 Little Rock Church Road, Boomer, NC 28606.

Joseph De Maio 91

Family man, businessman and friend Joseph R. De Maio passed away following an extended illness on August 17 in hospice care at Wilkes Medical Center. He was 91.

Joe was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Nicholas De Maio and Vienna Russo De Maio. He was preceded in death by his beloved wife, Roxine Early De Maio.

He was a graduate of Overbrook High School where he served as student body president, reading the morning Bible verse over the school intercom. Later, while working a forty-hour week, he graduated with a bachelor of science degree in business from Temple University in only three years. He was a member of the accounting honor society.

De Maio Served in the U.S. Army and was stationed in Germany and Japan.

His various business positions included work at the acclaimed Antonelli School of Photography; his own publishing house, De Maio Associates; and award-winning sales position with Jostens Publishing, and instructor of business at Catawba Valley Community College. While teaching college business courses full time, he earned a master's of business degree from Pfeiffer College.

He was a skilled photographer, an avid collector of postcards and an ardent fan of Fox News. He could be counted on to be wherever his family needed him to be.

Survivors include his daughter Lisa De Maio Brewer and son-in-law , Gregory Joseph Brewer, of North Wilkesboro; his son, Dr. Joseph David Nicholas De Maio and daughter-in-law, Dr. Sylvia De Maio of Atlanta, Georgia; and two grandsons, Joseph Zachary Brewer and David Bryan Brewer of North Wilkesboro.

The family wishes to thank his devoted caregiver, Sandy Hutchens as well as the staff and physicians of the ICU and the third floor units at Wilkes Medical Center for their skill and compassion.

Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to the Little Sisters of the Poor Holy Family Home at http://www.littlesistersoft

hepoorphiladelphia.org/donations/, or to the charity of the donor's choice.

`Visitation will be Wednesday, August 21 at 1:30 p.m. at Miller Funeral Service, followed by a service in the chapel there. David Wiles will be speaking. A private family burial with military rites will follow.

`Miller Funeral Service is serving the De Maio family.

Jay Martin Sr, 67

Mr. Jay Gregory "Rocky" Martin Sr, 67, of Millers Creek, passed away on Friday, August 16, 2019.

Jay was born on Tuesday, October 30, 1951 in Wilkes County to Eugene B. Martin and Shirley May Braswell Martin.

Jay is preceded in death by his parents.

Jay is survived by his son, Jay Gregory "Greg" Martin, Jr (Bridget); sisters, Linda Miles (Keith), Paula Smith and grandson, Briton Martin.

A private graveside service will be held at a later date.

In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be given to the Wilkes Humane Society, P.O. Box, 306 North Wilkesboro, NC 28659

Adams Funeral Home of Wilkes has the honor of serving the Martin Family.

Tracy Ballard, 55

Mr. Tracy Ringo Ballard, 55, of Moravian Falls, passed away on Wednesday, August 14, 2019.

Tracy was born on Thursday, March 12, 1964 in Wilkes County to Asberry Cornelius Ballard and Gertie Louise Burchette Ballard.

Tracy enjoyed motorcycles and drawing

Tracy is preceded in death by his parents and brothers, Harvey, Bobby, Tommy and Pete Ballard

Tracy is survived by his son, TraJen Ballard; daughters, Kala, Kara, and Kana Ballard; sisters, Peggy Griffin, Asalee Whisnant; brothers, Freddy Ballard (Jane), Roger Ballard (Cindy), 5 grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.

The family will conduct a Memorial Service at 3 p.m. on Saturday, August 24, 2019 at Highland Park.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be given to St. Jude Children's Hospital 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, TN 38105

Adams Funeral Home of Wilkes has the honor of serving the Ballard Family.

Don Hayes, 87

Don Hayes, 87, of North Wilkesboro, passed away Tuesday, August 13, at Westwood Hills Nursing. He was born November 23, 1931, to Clarence and Emma Lenora Walker Hayes. He was a printer, genealogist, and car enthusiast, and served in the North Carolina National Guard. He was preceded in death by his parents, four brothers, Blake Hayes, Hoover Hayes, Willard Hayes, identical twin, John Hayes and infant brother, Clarence Loyd Hayes; two sisters, Willa Jean Gambill, and Nora Ann Royal, and long-time companion Gayle Atkinson.

He is survived by a sister, Nancy Miller; son, Clarence Hayes, and wife Vicky; daughter, Beth Cook, and husband Tommy; grandchildren, Emma Pruitt (Chancey Yonce), Logan Pruitt (Amber Gentry), Brandon Cook, and Lindsey Church (Brandon); four great-grandchildren; nieces and nephews, and Joseph Atkinson and Family.

Mr. Hayes started his printing career delivering newspapers for Carter-Hubbard Publishing. He continued working for many years at the Journal-Patriot running a linotype side by side with his twin brother, John. In the late 1960's, he started Hayes Printing in the basement of his home. He attended Forsyth Tech, where he learned about offset printing. He later built a building beside his home, where he expanded his business and began making rubber stamps. As business continued to grow, he partnered with his brother, Hoover Hayes, and bought a building in North Wilkesboro. In 1966, friend Ivey Moore came to see Don at the paper office and told him they needed to start a genealogy society. The two, along with Ernest Tedder, formed the Wilkes Genealogical Society. After retiring from Hayes Printing, Mr. Hayes owned and operated the Thunderbird Barn, where he sold vintage Thunderbird parts and used cars. He was a member of various Thunderbird clubs and loved driving Betsey, his 1960 T-Bird.

Funeral service was August 17, at Miller Funeral Chapel with Rev. Glenn Batts officiating. Burial followed in Old Bethany Church. Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to Bethany Baptist Church Cemetery, PO Box 759, Moravian Falls, NC 28654. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements.

Lona Mae Bullis, age 73

Lona Mae Bullis, age 73, of Boomer, passed away Monday, August 12, 2019 at her home. Mrs. Bullis was born July 29, 1946 in Wilkes County to Asa Colin and Sylvia Marie Goforth Wolfe. Lona was a member of the Kingdom Hall of the Jehovah's Witness in Wilkesboro. She loved planting flowers and spending time with her family. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Robert Lee Bullis; brother, David Colin Wolfe; and half sister, Hazel West Wingler.

Surviving are her daughters, Sylvia Mayfield and spouse Michael of Boomer, Cherie Roten and spouse Sammy Glascoe of Thomasville; grandchildren, Harley Hahn, Destiny Mayfield, Isabelle Mayfield, Rebecca Lambert, Robert Woodie, Jr.; and brother, Floyd Daniel "Butch" Wolfe and spouse Nancy of Boomer; and three great grandchildren.

Graveside service will be held 3:00 p.m. Friday, August 16, 2019 at Bullis Tabernacle Cemetery with Elder Karl Kristy officiating. The family will receive friends at Miller Funeral Service from 6:00 until 8:00 Thursday night. Flowers will be accepted. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements. Online condolences may be made to www.millerfuneralservice.com

Michael Clay Church age 67

Mr. Michael Clay Church age 67 of Millers Creek passed away Sunday, August 11, 2019 at his home.

Memorial services will be held 2:00 PM Saturday, August 24, 2019 at Reins Sturdivant Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Steve Laws and Rev. Shane Pardue officiating. The family will receive friends from 12:30 until 1:30 prior to the service at Reins Sturdivant Funeral Home.

Mr. Church was born August 26, 1951 in Forsyth County to Clay Edward and Lucille Hall Church. He was a member of Millers Creek Baptist Church. Mike loved the Blue Ridge Parkway. He was an avid hiker and hunter and loved being part of the outdoors.

He was preceded in death by his father and grandparents; V.M & Celester Church and Robert and Nannie Hall.

Mr. Church is survived by a daughter; Falon Church Speaks and husband Clay of Statesville, his mother; Lucille Hall Church of Millers Creek, a sister; SuAnn Church Shepherd and husband Jerry of Millers Creek, two grandchildren; Harper McKinley Speaks and Hattie Marie Speaks, a niece; JordAnne Shepherd Belcher and husband Jeb and a nephew; Zachary Church Shepherd and wife; Crystal.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Greater Vision Baptist Church c/o Greg and Vicky Harris PO Box 309 Millers Creek, NC 28651.

Online condolences may be made at www.reinssturdivant.com

Tracy Dawn Foster Gilbert, age 30

Tracy Dawn Foster Gilbert, age 30, of Jonesville, passed away Saturday, August 10, 2019 at Old Vineyard Center in Winston Salem. She was born December 11, 1988 in Wilkes County to Chris James and Donna Dillard Foster. Tracy was of the Baptist Faith. She loved spending time with her dogs and enjoyed fishing. She was preceded in death by a sister, Melissa Carrigan.

Surviving are her husband, Cody Gilbert of North Wilkesboro; her father, Chris Foster and spouse Jean of North Wilkesboro; her mother, Donna Pennington of North Wilkesboro; her grandmother; brothers, Aaron Taylor of Hays, Robert Landrum of Wilkesboro; sister, Mary Chapman and spouse Richard of Maryland; several aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins.

Memorial service will be held 2:00 p.m. Sunday, August 18, 2019 at Miller Funeral Chapel with Keith Foster officiating. Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to the Humane Society of Wilkes, PO Box 306, North Wilkesboro, NC 28659. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements. Online condolences may be made to www.millerfuneralservice.com

Alton (Bo) Rayvon Pearson, age 71

Alton (Bo) Rayvon Pearson, age 71, of Boomer, passed away Monday, August 5, 2019 at Woltz Hospice Home in Dobson. Alton was born March 5, 1948 in Wilkes County to Elisha Robert and Colene Jolly Pearson. He was a member of Boomer Advent Christian Church. He loved fishing and old antique cars, Mr. Pearson was preceded in death by his parents; a son, Robert Pearson; sisters, Paula Sue Parsons and Margie May Bradley; and brother, Joe Robert Pearson.

Surviving are his wife, Lilly Triplett Pearson; son, Dennis Ray Pearson of Wilkesboro; grandchildren, Amanda Colene Pearson, Raven Clarae Pearson, Amber Cheyenne Pearson, Colton Ray Pearson and Dallas Clayton Pearson; great grandchildren, Jameson Lee Andrew Parish, Kimberlynn Lori Pearson and Lillian Ray Brittain; and sisters, Francis Blackburn and Lucy Clanton.

Memorial service will be held 2:00 p.m. Saturday, August 17, 2019 at Boomer Advent Christian Church with Rev. David Jones officiating. Memorials may be made to Woltz Hospice Home, 945 Zephyr Road, Dobson, NC 27017. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements. Online condolences may be made to www.millerfuneralservice.com

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This is the fifth post in a series to introduce the participating printmakers and their collaborators for the 2018 edition of the Intersecting Methods Portfolio. Every two weeks, into mid-December, a new profile of a collaborative pair will be posted. This segment profiles Beth Grabowski, Professor of Art at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her collaborator, Bob Goldstein, James L. Peacock III Distinguished Professor in the Biology Department at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Beth Grabowski

Beth Grabowski is an artist, author and educator. She earned her MFA in printmaking from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1985. Grabowski is Professor of Art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she teaches all manner of printmaking, book arts and a Master’s course in studio pedagogy. She has been actively involved with SGC International, a non-profit educational organization for print, paper and book artists, educators, collectors, and enthusiasts, serving as its president from 2012-14.

Grabowski is co-author, with Bill Fick (Duke University), of Printmaking, a Complete Guide to Materials and Processes, (Laurence King, 2009, 2nd edition 2014). The book has been released in two English editions (American and British), Spanish, French, German, Polish, and Chinese. Grabowski is the recipient of three North Carolina Arts Council awards and has been the beneficiary of several artist residencies including those at), Sanbao Ceramics Institute (China), Frans Masereel Centrum (Belgium), Tom Blaess Atelier (Switzerland), and most recently at Proyecto ‘Ace (Argentina).

Other professional activities include curating an international portfolio honoring Käthe Kollwitz, which debuted at the Kollwitz Museum-Berlin in September 2005, and co-organizing Visualizing Human Rights conferences at UNC-Chapel Hill in 2008, 2010 and 2011 and 2012. Grabowski’s work has been shown widely and is included in numerous public and private collections, including the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC and the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris.

Here are some examples of Beth’s printmaking work.

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Approach, offset litho and digital, 22″x30″, 2010

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Bob Goldstein received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1992. He did postdoctoral research at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England and was a Miller Institute Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1999, he joined the faculty of the Biology Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is now the James L. Peacock III Distinguished Professor. His research group combines old methods of microscopy and hand-manipulations of cells with a variety of modern methods, to make discoveries that contribute to revealing how cells function during development. His group is also developing a little-studied microscopic animal—water bears—as a useful model system for understanding how mechanisms in cell and developmental biology evolve, and how biological materials can survive extremes. Goldstein currently serves on the Council of the American Society for Cell Biology. He received a Pew Scholars Award in 2000 and was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2007.

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Notre Dame is temporarily shutting its campus to control an outbreak.

Possibly exposed? Don’t quarantine, keep working, Tennessee school districts tell their teachers.

Pooled testing has become worthless in areas of the U.S., in part because there are simply too many cases.

Deaths in American correctional facilities surpass 1,000, as cases rise to 160,000.

Idaho, facing hundreds of new cases a day, is the state furthest behind its testing target.

N.Y.C. hotels and short-term rentals must make travelers from restricted states fill out health forms, the mayor says.

After a substantial reduction in cases, the virus roars anew in France.

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Students returned to Notre Dame’s campus near South Bend, Ind., this month.Credit…Robert Franklin/South Bend Tribune, via Associated Press

Notre Dame is temporarily shutting its campus to control an outbreak.

The University of Notre Dame announced on Tuesday that it would move to online instruction for at least the next two weeks in an attempt to control a growing coronavirus outbreak and would shut down the campus entirely if those measures failed to stop the spread.

“If these steps are not successful, we will have to send students home, as we did last spring,” Notre Dame’s president, the Rev. John I. Jenkins, said in a video address to students, noting that he had been inclined to take that step before consulting with health officials.

The school will also close public spaces on campus and restrict dormitories to residents. Students who live in off-campus housing must stay off campus and “associate with housemates only,” he said, with a limit on gatherings reduced from 20 to 10 people.

On Tuesday, the school reported that at least 147 people on campus had tested positive since students began returning on Aug. 3 for the start of classes a week later. Eighty of those confirmed cases were added on Tuesday.

“The virus is a formidable foe,” Mr. Jenkins said. “For the past week, it has been winning.”

On Monday, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill became the first large university in the country to shut down classes after students had returned. The school moved all undergraduate courses online after 177 students tested positive and another 349 students were forced to quarantine because of possible exposure.

And on Tuesday, Ithaca College in upstate New York said that it would extend remote learning through the fall semester, despite its plans to bring students back to campus in waves starting this month. In a statement, Shirley M. Collado, the president of the college, called the reversal “an agonizing decision.”

The college had released a fall reopening plan last week, which included an indoor mask mandate and testing for students returning to to campus. But Prof. Collado said Tuesday that “bringing students here, only to send them back home, would cause unnecessary disruption in the continuity of their academic experience.”

U.N.C., with 30,000 students, started classes on Aug. 10, the same day that courses resumed at Notre Dame, a campus of 8,600 students near South Bend, Ind. Notre Dame tested all of its students before they returned to campus, with 33 positive results.

Across the United States, Greek life has come under particular scrutiny amid reports of outbreaks at fraternities and sororities. On Tuesday, health officials in Riley County, Kan., reported a new outbreak of cases associated with the Phi Delta Theta fraternity at Kansas State University — 13 members tested positive — and recommended quarantine for anyone who had been in contact with those infected.

A Notre Dame spokesman said a significant number of its cases were connected to two off-campus parties where students, mostly seniors, did not wear masks or practice social distancing. Most of those who have tested positive live in off-campus housing, the spokesman, Paul Brown, said.

Both North Carolina and Notre Dame said athletic teams were unaffected. Notre Dame is ordinarily an independent in football but is planning to play this fall in the Atlantic Coast Conference, which also counts North Carolina as a member. Unlike the Pac-12 and the Big Ten, the A.C.C. has not yet abandoned its fall season.

Beyond the immediate matter of whether sports like football should be played this autumn, this week’s approach by North Carolina could ultimately factor into debates over players’ rights and whether the hyphen in “student-athlete” might be more properly replaced with “or.”

“The optics aren’t very good, if you take the principle that all college athletes are students first,” said Walter Harrison, a former president of the University of Hartford who once was chairman of the committee that evolved into the N.C.A.A.’s top governing body.

Possibly exposed? Don’t quarantine, keep working, Tennessee school districts tell their teachers.

Teachers in at least six Tennessee public school districts who may have been exposed to coronavirus can be required to go right on teaching in person anyway, under policies approved by their districts.

The districts, located in six counties in eastern and central Tennessee, are adapting C.D.C. guidelines for essential workers, according to Beth Brown, president of the Tennessee Education Association, a teachers’ organization. District officials did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment.

Under C.D.C. guidelines, most people are supposed to go into quarantine for 14 days after possible exposure. But the school districts say teachers may be expected to forego quarantine and keep working as long as they do not show symptoms, provided that “additional precautions are implemented to protect them and the community.”

Researchers have found that people who have caught the virus can spread it before they show symptoms, or without ever developing them.

John C. Bowman, executive director of Professional Educators of Tennessee, another teachers’ organization, said he expected more districts to adopt the same policies, because of a shortage of substitute teachers to cover for any who are quarantined. And he said he expected to see some teachers quit their jobs because of the policies.

“Teachers are afraid,” Mr. Bowman said. “You can open up the school buildings all day long — that’s the easy part. But without healthy educators and staff available. they’re just buildings.”

Some schools in Tennessee have been open for almost three weeks, and a few have seen virus-related disruptions. In Putnam County, at least 80 students have been quarantined because of a potential coronavirus exposure, and a middle school and a high school in Maury County postponed reopening by a few days because teachers were in quarantine.

Gov. Bill Lee said at a news conference Tuesday that the state would soon be providing districts with guidelines on what precautions they must take to designate employees as “critical infrastructure workers.”

Pooled testing has become worthless in areas of the U.S., in part because there are simply too many cases.

A Roche Cobas 8800 System is used for Covid-19 testing at a Quest Diagnostics facility in Teterboro, N.J. In July, Quest became the first commercial lab to receive emergency authorization for pooled testing.Credit…Ryan Christopher Jones for The New York Times

Earlier this summer, Trump administration officials hailed a new strategy for catching coronavirus infections: pooled testing.

The decades-old approach combines samples from multiple people to save time and precious testing supplies. Federal health officials like Dr. Anthony S. Fauci and Adm. Brett Giroir said pooling would allow for constant surveillance of large sectors of the community, and said they hoped it would be up and running nationwide by the time students returned to school.

But now, when the nation desperately needs more tests to get a handle on the virus’s spread, this efficient approach has become worthless in many places, in part because there are simply too many cases to catch.

Pooled testing only works when the vast majority of batches test negative, among other drawbacks with the procedure. If the proportion of positives is too high, more pools come up positive — requiring each individual sample to then be retested, wasting precious chemicals.

Nebraska’s state public health laboratory, for example, was a pooling trailblazer when it began combining five samples a test in mid-March, cutting the number of necessary tests by about half.

But the lab was forced to halt its streak on April 27, when local positivity rates — the proportion of tests that turn up positive — surged past 10 percent. With that many positives, there was little benefit in pooling.

“It’s definitely frustrating,” said Dr. Baha Abdalhamid, the assistant director of the laboratory. In combination with physical distancing and mask-wearing, pooling could have helped keep the virus in check, he added. But the pooling window, for now, has slammed shut.

Still, the strategy has made significant headway in some parts of the country. In New York, where test positivity rates have held at or below 1 percent since June, universities, hospitals, private companies and public health labs are using the technique in a variety of settings, often to catch people who aren’t feeling sick, said Gareth Rhodes, an aide to the governor and a member of his virus response team. Last week, the State University of New York was cleared to start combining up to 25 samples at once.

Key data of the day

Deaths in American correctional facilities surpass 1,000, as cases rise to 160,000.

San Quentin State Prison in California is home to the nation’s largest known coronavirus cluster.Credit…Eric Risberg/Associated Press

The number of known deaths in prisons, jails and other correctional facilities among prisoners and correctional officers has surpassed 1,000, according to a New York Times database tracking deaths in correctional institutions.

The number of deaths in state and federal prisons, local jails and immigration detention centers — which stood at 1,002 on Tuesday morning — has increased by about 40 percent during the past six weeks, according to the database. There have been nearly 160,000 infections among prisoners and guards.

The actual number of deaths is almost certainly higher because jails and prisons perform limited testing on inmates, including many facilities that decline to test prisoners who die after exhibiting symptoms consistent with the coronavirus.

A recent study showed that prisoners are infected at a rate more than five times the nation’s overall rate. The death rate of inmates is also higher than the national rate — 39 deaths per 100,000 compared to 29 deaths per 100,000.

The Times’s database tracks coronavirus infections and deaths among inmates and correctional officers at some 2,500 prisons, jails and immigration detention centers.

The nation’s largest known virus cluster is at San Quentin State Prison in California, where more than 2,600 inmates and guards have been sickened and 25 inmates have died after a botched transfer of inmates in May. “It’s the perfect environment for people to die in — which people are,” said Juan Moreno Haines, an inmate at San Quentin.

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Idaho, facing hundreds of new cases a day, is the state furthest behind its testing target.

A testing site in Moscow, Idaho, in July.Credit…Geoff Crimmins/The Moscow-Pullman Daily News, via Associated Press

Idaho, one of the states where new cases peaked this summer, is doing the least amount of testing in the country necessary to understand and contain the virus across the state, according to a New York Times database. Testing is critical to reducing the spread of the virus.

Harvard researchers developed a formula to determine how many daily tests a specific state should be doing to slow the spread of the virus. The researchers said that, at the very least, there should be enough daily tests to assess anyone with flulike symptoms, plus an additional 10 people for any symptomatic person who tests positive.

The United States is testing only 52 percent of what it should be to slow the spread of the virus, according to the Harvard model, and Idaho is hitting just 16 percent of the daily testing it needs to be doing. The state also has a 16 percent positivity rate, and the World Health Organization has said a positivity rate has to be under 5 percent for at least two weeks to signal that spread is under control. (That figure is based on the assumption that the state or region is meeting their testing target.)

Idaho is also among the states that have reported the highest number of new cases per 100,000 people over the past seven days, even as the number of new cases there has slowed.

The state’s response to the virus, led by Gov. Brad Little, a Republican, came under fire in the earliest days of the pandemic for not doing enough to stop the spread of the virus. In late March, Idaho saw an average of about 16 new cases a day, compared with the current average, over a seven-day period, of more than 400 a day. Idahoans were told on March 25 to stay at home, and the state started reopening in phases on May 1.

But cases started to mount in mid-June, as happened across several states. The amount of testing in Idaho has increased since the onset of the virus, but delays in getting results have hurt efforts to contain the spread.

Elsewhere in the U.S.:

Officials in Kentucky reported 19 new deaths on Tuesday, a single-day record. The previous single-day record was 17 new deaths reported on April 21st.

The S&P 500 closed at a record high on Tuesday, a remarkable display of investor optimism despite an economic decline that has sent unemployment soaring. Technology stocks played a big role in the gains, which were also fueled by the trillions of dollars pumped into financial markets by the Federal Reserve and enormous spending by the government to protect American workers and businesses from the worst of the downturn.

Senate Republicans on Tuesday began circulating text of a narrow coronavirus relief package that would revive extra unemployment benefits at half the original rate, shield businesses from lawsuits related to the virus and provide funding for testing and schools. The draft measure appears to be an effort to break through the political stalemate over providing another round of economic stimulus to Americans during the pandemic. But it is unlikely to alter the debate in Washington, where Democrats have repeatedly rejected previous Republican offers as insufficient. The new bill would spend less money, in fewer areas, than those earlier offers.

Democrats opened an extraordinary presidential nominating convention on Monday night, offering a vivid illustration of how both the pandemic and widespread opposition to President Trump have upended the country’s politics. Perhaps the most searing critique of Mr. Trump came not from an elected official but from Kristin Urquiza, a young woman whose father, a Trump supporter, died after contracting the virus. Speaking briefly and in raw terms about her loss, Ms. Urquiza said of her father, “His only pre-existing condition was trusting Donald Trump, and for that he paid with his life.”

Covid-19 strike teams apply an emergency response model traditionally used in natural disasters like hurricanes and wildfires to combating outbreaks in long-term care facilities. Composed of about eight to 10 members from local emergency management departments, health departments, nonprofits, private businesses — and at times, the National Guard — the teams are designed to bring more resources and personnel to a disaster scene.

New York Roundup

N.Y.C. hotels and short-term rentals must make travelers from restricted states fill out health forms, the mayor says.

The Wythe hotel in Brooklyn in June.Credit…Jeenah Moon for The New York Times

New York City will require that hotels and short-term rental companies make travelers from dozens of states fill out forms with their personal information before they can have access to their rooms, or provide proof they had already done so, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday. Those travelers were already required by the state to quarantine for 14 days and to fill out the state’s health form, but the new measure, which goes into effect Friday, is another attempt at ensuring compliance with the rules that many are flouting in the city.

Both hotels and guests could be subject to fines of up to $2,000 for ignoring the rule, according to a spokeswoman for the mayor. People who had recently traveled to areas outside the city accounted for 15 to 20 percent of cases in the city over the past month, according Dr. Jay Varma, one of the mayor’s health advisers. Mr. de Blasio urged New Yorkers to avoid traveling to places restricted by New York State unless it was necessary.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Tuesday that travelers from Alaska and Delaware will now also be required to quarantine for 14 days, joining a list of 31 other states as well as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

“If you have a choice in travel, don’t go where the problem is,” Mr. de Blasio said, adding that “because, of course, if you go there there’s a chance you bring that disease back.”

New York State’s list changes each week, which has forced some college students to abandon longstanding travel plans and quickly find accommodations to serve out the quarantine. More than 59,000 private-college students in New York come from states on the list as of Tuesday, according to the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities.

Elsewhere in the New York area:

The number of apartments for rent in New York City has soared to the highest rate in more than a decade, a sign that a notable number of residents have left the city because of the outbreak, at least temporarily, potentially creating a new obstacle to reviving the local economy. The surge in supply has driven down rental costs across the city and forced landlords to offer generous concessions, including up to three months’ free rent and paying the expensive fees brokers command.

New York City will not open gyms before Sept. 2, the mayor said Tuesday as the city needs more time to complete the inspections required under new state guidance. The state had said that gyms could open as early as Aug. 24, but the mayor said that city officials have been focused on reopening schools and child care centers. The state’s guidance on gyms also clarified that rules on capacity and mask-wearing applied in apartment building gyms, and said that buffs, bandannas and gaiters could not be used as face coverings in gyms statewide.

The compensation packages of museum directors are drawing scrutiny as their institutions try to fill budget holes with cutbacks that have included layoffs and furloughs of lesser-paid staffers.

Travelers to Connecticut and New Jersey will now be subject to a 14-day quarantine if they are coming from Alaska and Delaware, as well as dozens of other states and two territories, though compliance is voluntary in New Jersey. Connecticut also removed Washington State from its list.

GLOBAL ROUNDUP

After a substantial reduction in cases, the virus roars anew in France.

A recent resurgence of cases in France has made mask wearing mandatory in widening areas of Paris and other cities across the country.Credit…Charles Platiau/Reuters

Faced with a recent resurgence of cases, officials in France have made mask wearing mandatory in business spaces across the country, pleading with people not to let down their guard and jeopardize the hard-won gains made against the virus during a two-month lockdown this spring.

The government on Tuesday announced the mandate for mask wearing in business spaces, building on mask policies that had been in place. France “cannot wait for the health situation to get worse,” Elisabeth Borne, the French labor minister, wrote on Twitter. “With our business partners, we want to take every precaution to avoid the propagation of the virus, to protect workers and guarantee the continuity of economic activity.”

The signs of a new wave of infection emerged over the summer as people began resuming much of their pre-virus lives, traveling across France and socializing in cafes, restaurants and parks. Many, especially the young, have visibly relaxed their vigilance.

In recent days, France has recorded about 3,000 new infections every day, roughly double the figure at the beginning of the month, and the authorities are investigating an increasing number of clusters.

Thirty percent of the new infections are in young adults, ages 15 to 44, according to a recent report. Since they are less likely to develop serious forms of the illness, deaths and the number of patients in intensive care remain at a fraction of what they were at the height of the pandemic. Still, officials are not taking any chances.

“The indicators are bad, the signals are worrying, and the situation is deteriorating,” Jérôme Salomon, the French health ministry director, told the radio station France Inter last week. “The fate of the epidemic is in our hands.”

France has suffered more than 30,400 deaths from the virus — one of the world’s worst tolls — and experienced an economically devastating lockdown from mid-March to mid-May. Thanks to the lockdown, however, France succeeded in stopping the spread of the virus and lifted most restrictions at the start of summer.

The course of the pandemic in Europe has followed a somewhat similar trend, with Spain also reporting new local clusters. But important disparities exist among countries. In the past week, as France reported more than 16,000 new cases, Britain reported 7,000, and Italy 3,000, according to data collected by The Times.

In other developments around the world:

While Hong Kong’s latest outbreak appears to be tapering off generally, testing has revealed a new cluster among the port city’s dock workers, who often live in cramped dormitories. As of Monday, 57 dockside laborers were among 65 cases linked to the city’s Kwai Tsing Container Terminals. On Monday, the Union of Hong Kong Dockers called on container companies to expand their accommodation for employees and to hire workers directly instead of outsourcing recruitment to smaller firms.

Sweden has temporarily recalled its diplomats from North Korea, citing increasing difficulties with travel and diplomatic postings, in part because of the pandemic. The Swedish embassy remains open with local staff, and “Sweden is engaged in dialogue with North Korea on these subjects,” a spokesman for the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs said.

Officials in New Zealand on Tuesday pushed back against Mr. Trump’s assertion that it was “having a big surge.” New Zealand, where the national election has been delayed from September to October because of a growing cluster in Auckland, has reported 22 deaths and fewer than 1,700 cases during the entire pandemic. “I’m not concerned about people misinterpreting our status,” Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said.

After a surge in infections in the past week, South Korea tightened social-distancing rules in the Seoul metropolitan area, banning all gatherings of more than 50 people indoors and more than 100 outdoors and shutting down high-risk facilities such as nightclubs, karaoke rooms and buffet restaurants. Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun also said that churches must switch to online prayer services.

Greece has locked down two facilities for migrants where new infections have been traced, after another overcrowded reception center was put under lockdown last week, the government said. The infections are part of a recent spike in the number of cases in Greece, which has weathered the pandemic relatively well so far, with just over 7,200 confirmed cases and 230 deaths. But the authorities this week introduced new restrictions to address local outbreaks and have warned of more measures if the upward trend continues.

Countries putting their own interests ahead of others in trying to ensure supplies of a possible coronavirus vaccine are making the pandemic worse, the director general of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, Reuters reported. “No one is safe until everyone is safe,” the agency’s leader, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said during a briefing in Geneva. The organization also said the pandemic was now being driven by young people, many of whom were unaware they were infected, posing a danger to vulnerable groups.

A series of photographs and videos posted by Agence France-Presse captured a moment on Saturday night when hundreds of people attended a pool-party rave that would have been unthinkable only months ago. It was in Wuhan, the city in central China where the coronavirus pandemic began late last year. Life appears to be slowly returning to normal in China, even in its hardest-hit city, as other countries struggle with new outbreaks. Shanghai Disneyland reopened in May, while movie theaters reopened across China last month.

A series of new reports clarify susceptibility to Covid-19 and a possible new direction for treatment.

STUDIES ON HIGH-RISK WORK PLACES

Workers in factories, warehouses and building sites are at especially high risk of infection as American businesses reopen, according to a new report from government public health researchers.

The new analysis, published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, helps clarify which economic sectors pose the greatest danger, at a time when states are bracing for a possible new phase of the epidemic in the fall.

The C.D.C. report, along with two other just-published findings — one analyzing Covid-19 hospitalizations, the other deaths — also sheds light on racial disparities in the shape and the impact of the U.S. epidemic.

Black and Latino people were far more likely than non-Hispanic white people to be hospitalized for Covid-19, one study found. But ethnicity was not related to the risk of later dying of the disease, the other study concluded. Both were posted by the medical journal JAMA.

REMDESIVIR

A large federal study that found an experimental antiviral drug, remdesivir, can hasten the recovery of hospitalized Covid-19 patients has begun a new phase of investigation.

Researchers will examine whether adding another drug — beta interferon, which has already been approved to treat multiple sclerosis and mainly kills viruses, but can also tame inflammation — would improve remdesivir’s effects and speed recovery even more.

In a large clinical trial, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, remdesivir was shown to modestly shorten recovery time by four days on average, but it did not reduce deaths.

RARE IMMUNE SYNDROME

Multisystem inflammatory syndrome, the severe illness that strikes some children with the coronavirus, is distinct from both Kawasaki disease and from Covid-19 in adults, according to a new study.

Most children infected with the coronavirus have mild symptoms, if any at all. But on very rare occasions, some develop so-called MIS-C, characterized by widespread inflammation in the heart, lungs, brain, skin and other organs. In the United States, there were 570 confirmed cases of the syndrome and 10 deaths as of Aug. 6.

The study, published Tuesday in Nature Medicine, analyzed immune cells in 15 boys and 10 girls, aged 7 to 14 years, with the syndrome.

When the children were acutely ill with MIS-C, their immune cells behaved differently than they did in adults with Covid-19. The pattern also differs from that seen in Kawasaki disease, a similarly rare inflammatory condition in young children.

As of Aug. 3, children account for 7.3 percent of U.S. coronavirus cases, but make up about 22 percent of the overall population. The actual proportion of infected children is likely to be higher, because testing is still focused primarily on adults with symptoms.

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Reporting was contributed by Alan Blinder, Alexander Burns, Stephen Castle, Choe Sang-Hun, Troy Closson, Nick Corasaniti, Hannah Critchfield, Brendon Derr, Claire Fu, Thomas Fuller, Trip Gabriel, Michael Gold, Rebecca Griesbach, Amy Harmon, Ethan Hauser, Ann Hinga Klein, Jennifer Jett, Niki Kitsantonis, Gina Kolata, Théophile Larcher, Jonathan Martin, Tiffany May, Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio, Constant Méheut, Steven Lee Myers, Norimitsu Onishi, Elian Peltier, Robin Pogrebin, Frances Robles, Eliza Shapiro, Michael D. Shear, Daniel E. Slotnik, Mark Walker, Timothy Williams and Karen Zraick.

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