Archive for August 2021
Afghanistan. The swirl of opium, big business, big money, big government, and the Taliban – Richard Asinof
PART One Image courtesy of the National Museum of American History – A British East India Trade Company coin struck in 1835, the firm that declared a monopoly on opium sales and distribution beginning in 1775, and which was very involved in opium production in Afghanistan. PROVIDENCE – Rachel Maddow does not often miss capturing…
Read MoreCVS now requires COVID‑19 vaccinations for clinical and corporate employees
Effective August 23, 2021, CVS Health will require certain employees who interact with patients to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 by October 31, 2021. The company will also require all corporate staff to be fully vaccinated no later than October 31. New hires in the same roles as of September 15 must have received their first…
Read MoreYour RI Weather Today, Aug. 24, 2021 – John Donnelly
by John Donnelly, meteorologist A cloudy start as what’s left of Henri exits stage right. Any leftover showers will have ended by early morning with gradual clearing taking place. A muggy morning low in the low to mid 70’s will warm to the mid and upper 80’s with a light westerly breeze.
Read MoreFDA Fully Approves First COVID-19 Vaccine – Pfizer, now known as Comirnaty
Note: Approx. 30% of those not vaccinated said they would become vaccinated as soon as the vaccine became approved. That just happened. Further approval should be given for Moderna soon. Booster shot approval should also be approved in the near future. Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine…
Read MoreYour RI Weather Today – Aug. 23, 2021 – John Donnelly
by John Donnelly, meteorologist What’s left of Henri will take another stab at us with rain likely all afternoon and into the evening beginning around noontime. High humidity will rule the day with dew points in the low 70’s, so we’re hanging onto the tropical air. Morning lows will floor in the low 70’s with…
Read MoreAfter the storm…
At the height of the storm over 73,000 Rhode Islanders were without power. Today that figure is estimated to be less than 44,000 and they are centered in South County. Most of Rhode Island was surprised to have a more moderate storm – downgraded to a Tropical Storm just before hitting our shores – with…
Read MoreRI Slow Pitch Softball Hall of Fame Golf Outing – John Cardullo
by John Cardullo, sportswriter The Rhode Island Slow Pitch Softball Hall of Fame kicks off its fundraising season on the links, making a stop on the diamond and finishing up with a double induction ceremony in the fall. The Rhode Island Slow Pitch Softball Hall of Fame kicked off their fundraising season on August 14th…
Read MoreAfghanistan: what happened, why, what’s next – Prof. William Burke-White, One Day University
One Day University Special Report on Afghanistan The Taliban is consolidating control of Afghanistan, 20 years after U.S.-led forces ousted it from power. The return of the Islamist fundamentalist group has been brewing for years, but its advance accelerated rapidly after the U.S. set an August deadline to pull out troops and began withdrawing air…
Read MoreHybrid Teams – Burnout is Not the Option – Mary T. O’Sullivan
By Mary T. O’Sullivan, MSOL “The land of burnout is not a place I ever want to go back to”. – Arianna Huffington In a recent article published by Harvard Business Review (HBR), responsibility for employee burnout in the workplace has shifted from employees to the organization itself. This idea may seem shocking to…
Read MoreHurricane Henri turns more towards Rhode Island. Stay vigilant – shelter in place
Photo, 5am: (GOES-16 satellite via Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere – https://rammb-slider.cira.colostate.edu) Expect the hurricane to intensify over the morning hours – with landfall in the greater noontime-2pm hours. The track of the hurricane has moved to the east with more of an impact on Rhode Island. Landfall could now be between Rhode…
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