e-cigarette Disaster Middle High School Users Surge! Progress Erased: Youth Tobacco Use Increases
Increased from 20 percent in 2017 to 28 percent in 2018 among current high school users. million middle and high school students used tobacco products in 2018 “The skyrocketing growth of young people’s e-cigarette use over the past year threatens to erase progress made in reducing youth tobacco use. It’s putting a new generation at risk for nicotine addiction,” said CDC Director Robert R. Redfield, “Despite this troubling trend, we know what works and we must continue to use proven strategies to protect America’s youth from this preventable health risk. Youth use of any tobacco product, including e-cigarettes, is unsafe.” Robert Redfield,…
Historic Disasters – Princeton Strong – Hands Down, Low Wire. Hikers on Cradle Rock Electrocuted
Princeton, NJ: On February 12, 1993, two 19-year-old lifelong friends died tragically by electrocution. Keith J. Combs, and David Hutchinson, a Hopewell Volunteer Firefighter, were hiking up Cradle Rock, when they came across a dangling high voltage wire 7 feet above the ground, which was uncoated and appeared like rope. Combs touched the wire drawing 25,000 volts through his body. Hutchinson tried to push him off the wire. Both died.
Super Science PPPL – Quantum Physics with Heavy Metal
Physicist Philip Moriarty with his electric guitar at PPPL first Science on Saturday lecture of 2019 in Princeton, NJ. (Photo by Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications) When the Uncertainty Principle Goes to or How to Explain Quantum Physics with Heavy Metal Dr. Philip Moriarty, University of Nottingham, UK. Physicist Philip Moriarty with his electric guitar at the first Science on Saturday lecture of 2019. Princeton, NJ: PPPL by Jeanne Jackson DeVoe reports - No physics lecture at PPPL up until recently has included electric guitar riffs by the lecturer, snippets from heavy metal bands, and a video clip from the…
Hundreds in Princeton Safely March for Peace against Hoax Demonstration
Princeton, NJ: Hundreds of peace activists joined on the streets of Princeton to counter a promoted white supremist event. The event, which was a hoax, resulted in a massive police response securing Princeton residents and visitors from harm.
How to get a public activism permit in Princeton
Princeton, NJ: The following link is to the Princeton NJ Gov Public Assemble Permit compliance form that is required to hold a public assemble event in Princeton New Jersey, USA.
Repairing Pittsburgh and beyond
Princeton, NJ: dailyprincetonian opinion - How do we measure who we are through the lens of a national tragedy like the shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh? When these disasters happen, we often signal our solidarity by saying, “We are all Pittsburgh,” or Charlottesville, or Orlando, or others of the too many places where unspeakable hatred and ignorance combine to incite murder and mayhem, and to ignite tragedy and horror. This time, for me, the metaphor is too literally true. The Tree of Life synagogue is one block from the house where I lived as a teenager and where my…
Harvard Law School Professor Appointed to United States Supreme Court
Boston, MA: – Judge Kavanaugh was sworn in as a Supreme Court Judge during a private ceremony in Washington DC. US Supreme Court Washington released the following information – The Honorable Brett M. Kavanaugh will be sworn in as the 102nd Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on October 6, 2018. Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., will administer the Constitutional Oath and retired Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy will administer the Judicial Oath in a private ceremony later today in the Justices’ Conference Room at the Supreme Court. Both oaths will be administered so that he can begin to participate…