Archive for April 2020
If it’s Wednesday, it’s Sour Grapes!
by Timothy Jones, contributing cartoonist Tim Jones has created several Sour Grapes compilation and story-coloring books. Tim teaches cartooning and speaks at local schools and libraries. He also appears at various book signings, events and comic conventions. Twitter @sourgrapescomicInstagram @sourgrapes2017www.sourgrapescomic.com https://www.patreon.com/sourgrapescomicwww.sourgrapescomic.com
Read MoreRI Weather Today, Wednesday, 4/15/20
By Jack Donnelly, meteorologist A weak cold front will set up and move through the area triggering light rain overnight and ending by mid-morning. Skies will try to clear out, but some lingering high cloud cover will persist and then thicken towards evening as another front will be forming to our northwest. Expect a wet…
Read MoreRI House & Senate Minority Caucuses concerned about cell phone tracing
RI House and Senate Minority Caucuses express concerns to Governor and Health Department Director on reported practice of cell phone tracing for COVID-19 The letter, below, was sent from the Rhode Island House and Senate Republicans to Governor Gina Raimondo and Rhode Island Department of Health Director Nicole Alexander-Scott, MD regarding cellular phone location tracking…
Read MoreTo be able to ask a question, that is the issue
By Richard Asinof, ConvergenceRI.com, contributing writer, health I began writing this on Thursday evening, April 9, as I was catching up on the incessant, noisy overflow of Twitter chatter in a time of pandemic. I discovered that Steve Ahlquist from UpriseRI had tagged me in a post regarding the evolving policy on how questions were…
Read MoreApril is the Cruelest Month
By Mary T. O’Sulivan, MSOL “The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.” – Mark Twain When Geoffrey Chaucer, in The Canterbury Tales, described the month of April with its “shoures soote/Of which vertú engendred is the flour; (sweet showers/By which power/the flower is…
Read MoreThe Case for Classicism – “the comfort of tradition”
By David Brussat, Architecture Here and There Michael Rouchell is an architect in New Orleans and a founder of the Louisiana chapter, one of 15 regional chapters of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art. On March 30, he posted the following remarks in an online discussion of the proposed executive order on the classicization…
Read MoreCoronavirus Update – Today, April 14, 2020
(photo: a rainbow over NY and NJ, last night, after the storms,posted by the Mayor of NJ. Don’t miss the Dolly Parton smiles at the very end) NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL Disney furloughs 43,000 employees Austria starting to open in stages – small shops, big stores, restaurants in May/June, hotels, schools, public events – but it…
Read MoreRI Weather Today, Tuesday 4/14/20:
By Jack Donnelly, meteorologist After picking up the broken pieces of yesterday, we can recover with a generally wind and rain free day with a good deal of sunshine and a normal temperature range. We’ll wake to a low in the 40’s and enjoy highs in the upper 50’s. A secondary trough will sneak in…
Read MoreNetworking Pick of the Week: Virtual Venture Café!
CYBERSECURITY NIGHT Virtual Venture Café used to be Venture Café – meeting in-person on Thursday nights. For the time being – they’ve gone VIRTUAL! It’s everything you’ve come to love and expect from their in-person Thursday Gatherings, just online using the Zoom meeting platform. Join them this Thursday, April 16th from 3 to 6pm for a new installment of…
Read MoreThe Best Medicine…by Jim Raftus
by Jim Raftus King James Bible Proverb 17:22, “A merry heart doth good like a medicine.” Seems to be a precursor to the modern, “Laughter is the best medicine.” Sitting at my desk on this 17th day of self-quarantine, I face the yawning gap of hours to fill. Based on the biblical advice, I decided…
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