Read it in today's NY Times.
How Supreme Court Became More Secretive
Amid calls to increase transparency and revelations about the court’s inner workings, the chief justice imposed nondisclosure agreements on clerks and employees.
Participants report increased self-worth and stability, while communities benefit from cleaner neighborhoods and stronger social connection.
Remarkably, around 70 percent of participants later transitioned into permanent housing, suggesting that opportunity can be as powerful as assistance.This model reframes homelessness as a solvable human condition rather than a permanent label, showing how dignity, trust, and inclusion can restore momentum where survival alone once dominated. #fblifestyle
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From Facebook Post: Saving Grace, Saving Tax Payers' Dollars, Keeping Neighborhoods & Streets Clean (alt. title). Multiple comments for this post state that Portland, OR, is the city, as shown in local news & online.
A note from AI for younger readers who might not have read the pertinent chapter in their history books:
During the Great Depression, WPA* workers built massive amounts of public infrastructure, including roads, bridges, schools, hospitals, parks, airports, post offices, and recreational facilities like swimming pools and playgrounds, while also employing artists, writers, and musicians on cultural projects. These labor-intensive projects created millions of jobs, constructing everything from city halls and dams to community centers and trails, leaving a lasting physical legacy still with us across the nation today.
*Snake Hips Tucker
(1920s-30s dancer)
Worth a Try: Exercise
for Easing Hip & Leg Pain
If you're of a certain age and have spent much of your working life at a desk, chances are you'll eventually experience tight hips, with symptoms of tightness or pain, a change in your gait (the way you walk) or both. And frustration because you don't know know how this happened or how to fix it.
Resolution for hip & leg pain may be less complicated than you think. My recent discovery and practice of targeted exercise videos on youtube (Silver Sneakers & others) has resulted in an apparent complete recovery from what seemed on its way to debilitating pain in legs and hips. I also have an inclination to spread the good word of something that might help.**
Try these exercises, click to view:
4-Min Stretch Routine for Hip Mobility
Lower Body Workout for Active Exercisers**
About Tight Hips (from Healthline.com) What does it mean to have tight hips? A feeling of tightness across the hips comes from tension around the hip flexors. The hip flexors are a group of muscles around the top of the thighs that connect the upper leg to the hip. These muscles allow you to bend at the waist and raise your leg. (Some of the main hip flexors are the Iliopsoas, rectus femoris, tensor fasciae latae, sartorius.)
Many people have tight hips, including both people who spend several hours a day sitting as well as regular gym-goers and professional athletes. Some people are more prone to tightness in that area of their body, too. Tight hips may put you at increased risk for injury due to the increased demands on tissues that aren’t moving properly. Before going to a physical therapist or doctor for treatment, try some of these exercises and see how you respond. Practice slowly and carefully at first, and see your doctor if you feel a need for reassurance.
More advanced stretches**
7 Stretches to loosen up tight hips
*If you've found relief with these moves, look to youtube.com for additional Silver Sneakers' exercise routines for hips, back, legs, etc. If your insurance plan offers Silver Sneakers, take a look & see if you can log in to get started at silversneakers.com.
*Snake Hips Tucker
(1920s-30s dancer)
John Grenham, straight from Dublin, will
tell us about using his website johngrenham.com for Mapping Ireland's
Records. If you've never heard John speak
or visited his website, you're in for a treat.
John has extensive background in Irish genealogy, having worked for and with the Irish Times and the Dublin City Library among other prestigious organizations. With the help of his son Eoin, he now runs his own website which acts as an excellent jumping off point for Irish genealogical research. He also wrote THE book on Irish genealogy, Tracing Your Irish Ancestors. He has that lovely Irish lilt and a wonderfully wry sense of humor. You’ll enjoy his presentation. We're thrilled that he'll be joining us.
Here is his description of his presentation:
The talk explores ways in which visualising the locations of
households of particular surnames in Catholic records, valuations, census
records and records of births, marriages and deaths can help with genealogy and
local history, providing vivid examples of just how local some names are and
how impossibly widespread others can be. All the records covered are free
online and form part the basis of almost all nineteenth-century Irish research.
In addition, some of the focus will be on maps of the geographic areas used to collect the records. The talk will give some of the technical background involved in creating the maps, but will mostly focus on their use and on how they shed light on Irish surnames and Irish families.
A 33% discount on a year's subscription to www.johngrenham.com will be available for three days after the talk.
Please register by 4:00 PM Friday, January 23. The invite will be sent out on that Friday.
Godfrey Premium members can register for free at the following email: zoomregistration@godfrey.org If you are not a Godfrey Premium member and want to attend the presentation, you can pay $10 via PayPal (https://www.paypal.com/us/home) with the payment sent to Godfrey Memorial Library. Then register using the above email.
