With the atmosphere well-juiced and energized, approaching fronts could set off flooding downpours late Thursday afternoon and evening, forecasters are warning. The National Weather Service Office in Mount Holly has the entire region is under a flash-flood watch from 3 p.m. until 10 p.m. Thursday. The 5 to 8 p.m. period would be of primary concern, the agency says, because that’s when storms .
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Always Online: How Tech Use Influences our Mood, Productivity, Creativity, and More
Tech is here to stay. Yet embracing it and going entirely online for everything has some very real consequences for us physiologically, psychologically, and socially.
As my alarm blared from next to my bed, I reached over and slapped the snooze button. Nine minutes later, it rudely repeated its screaming. This time, I grabbed my phone, turned the alarm off completely, and went to check my email. After a few minutes of deleting marketing emails, I decided to take a glance at my other notifications.
The GOP has spent years warning against the safety net as a cushy, dependence-inducing hammock and demanding work requirements to obtain benefits. Now some, at least, seem willing to give money directly to families to let them choose how to spend it. Republican Sens. Mitt Romney (Utah), Mike Lee (Utah), Marco Rubio (Fla.) and even Hawley have pitched programs of generous cash benefits for families with children in which the usual maze of tax code and welfare strictures seem conspicuously absent.
Biden and fellow Democrats should take them up on it. The American Families Plan could simply give families money and let them to choose whether to pay for care or allow one or both parents to take time at home. And Democrats should push Republicans to walk their talk and support policies that would make it possible for a family to survive on a single worker’s income, reforms such as a higher minimum wage and a true medical safety net.
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Using mobile phones to navigate has become second nature. Whether you’re heading to a new park, meeting friends at a restaurant, or going to run errands, you just tap the location on your phone and go. Prior to GPS, exploring and wayfinding in new places required preparation. We had to think, consult paper maps, and plan and memorize parts of our route. But in today’s technological world, there is no need to think. Simply follow the turn-by-turn directions on your phone, and you’ll end up where you need to be. But your overall sense of the place suffers. Spatial navigation, which had been a process performed exclusively by the human brain and perceptual system, has now been surrendered to technology.