Effective May 31, 2021, the state of Pennsylvania will be lifting all COVID-19 mitigation orders, Governor Tom Wolf announced on Tuesday. These mitigation orders include all COVID-19 restrictions related to gatherings, restaurants, and other businesses. These orders do not apply to the masking order, which will be lifted when 70% of Pennsylvania adults are fully vaccinated.Â
As of Wednesday, 51.2% of Pennsylvaniaâs population has received at least one dose of the vaccine, with 34.1% of the population having received both doses. As of the time of publication, Pennsylvania has administered 10,914,558 doses of the vaccine so far.Â
This news comes on top of the CDCâs announcement of new guidelines allowing fully vaccinated people to go outside maskless, provided they are not at a crowded gathering, as well as Bidenâs announcement of his plan to fully vaccinate 70% of US adults by July 4th.
February 19, 2021
On Sunday, Feb. 14, the Lawrence Symphony Orchestra (LSO) Concerto Competition winners’ performances began streaming. The concert still available for viewing on the Lawrence Vimeo account, accessible through the events calendar featured the winners’ final performances as well as discussions of each of their pieces with Associate Professor of Violin Samantha George.
First in the concert’s lineup was freshman pianist Johnathan Bass playing the
allegro con brio movement of Beethoven’s “Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor,” which tied for second place with senior Hung Phi Nguyen’s entry. In his discussion with George, Bass shared that the process of preparation for the competition was challenging but illuminating as he pushed his limits as a musician. Bass confessed he had originally wanted to perform Beethoven’s fourth concerto, which George described as more “dramatic and angular” compared to the serenity of the third, but his teacher, Proess
Unfit magazines use Thinkerbeat Reader to “chart… the authors that we thought
did really well with a story submission.” But these are not stories they bought – six days ago they tweeted out a link to the list of stories they rejected. The page had names, titles, and a rating between one and five stars. One problem: none of the authors had given them permission to do so.
SFWA issued a statement on Facebook warning about the practices in March.
Nine months later, Longshot Press is now trying to discredit SFWA in its post “A Clear Bias at the SFWA”.
Why does the SFWA post fake news? Why do they exhibit so much bias? There are a number of cases, but let’s begin with a solid example.