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GRAYLING, MI History will come alive in Northern Michigan this summer.

Wellington Farm, a 60-acre living history museum in Grayling, will open for the season on Friday, May 27. The complex typically provides visitors the opportunity to experience farm life during the Great Depression, along with hosting events.

One such event, a Civil War reenactment is scheduled to take place June 3-5. During the weekend, an artillery battery, as well as infantry units, will be encamped throughout the farm.

School and home school groups from the surrounding area will be able to experience firsthand what life was like for a Civil War soldier on June 3.

Other historic sites to be explored include the Stittsville Church built in 1878, a Summer Kitchen, an operating grist mill and a sawmill, which arrived in Grayling about 1870.

Other attractions include the Annis Farmstead, which features a house which was ordered out of the Montgomery Ward Catalogue, a livestock barn, and a kitchen garden. Nearby is the Perry Lamkin Broom Handle Factory.

Finally, Crafters Alley includes an operating loom house, broom shop, blacksmith shop and woodworking shop.

Located at 6944 S. Military Road, Wellington Farm is open Friday and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. until mid-June. Beginning on June 22, the farm will be open Wednesday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

For more information about activities and events held at the living history complex visit https://www.wellingtonfarmusa.com

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Civil War reenactment coming to living history museum in Northern Michigan this summer - MLive.com

Why fentanyl is so deadly

Due to its lethal potency, the synthetic opioid named fentanyl has claimed hundreds of Hoosiers' lives in recent years.

Dwight Adams, dwight.adams@indystar.com

Police recovered roughly 11,000 pills of suspected fentanyl and other drugs Tuesday, in what the Eugene Police Department called the largest fentanyl raid in the history of the department.

Two were arrested and arraigned on charges including possession, manufacturing and child neglect, in one of the larger seizures in the history of Lane County, according to department spokeswoman Melinda McLaughlin.

Several members of EPD's street crimes unit first heard in March about significant amounts of drugs and guns being held at a residence in the 2700 block of Royal Avenue, McLaughlin said in a news release Thursday.

After identifying the suspected involved residents as Joe Anthony Harker and Shayla Kay Lawray Bennett, police applied for and served a search warrant on the house, along with members of Oregon State Police, along with EPD's drone team, a SWAT team, and others.

Harker, who was not home, was taken into custody without incident after a traffic stop, McLaughlin said.

During the raid, the street crimes unit recovered more than six pounds of methamphetamine, more than a pound of heroin, approximately 11,000 suspected fentanyl pills McLaughlin said would be tested at a lab due to the dangers of fentanyl. They also recovered more than a pound of cocaine. It's estimated the seized drugs are worth $110,000 in street value, she said.

Some suspected stolen items were also seized including a gun and several loaded magazines for handguns, McLaughlin said.

Harker, 38, was arraigned Wednesday on charges for first-degree child neglect, unlawful meth and cocaine possession, unlawful possession of a controlled substance, and the manufacture or delivery of a controlled substance. Bennett, 27, was charged with child neglect and unlawful meth possession.

The child neglect charges were for Harker and Bennett allegedly allowing a child younger than 16 to stay in a home where controlled substances were being criminally delivered or manufactured for profit, according to court documents.

There was a significant uptick in fentanyl-related overdose deaths in May 2021, with many of the deaths linked to fake prescription drugs that were actually fentanyl. McLaughlin did not want to disclose how many deaths there were. There were 33 calls coded as overdoses in Eugene and Springfield through May 1-18 last year, and 15 calls that turned out to be an overdose that month.

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Fentanyl pill seizure is largest ever in Eugene police history - The Register-Guard

Students experiencing housing insecurity are more likely to miss time in school as they face challenges that often make it difficult to keep up with their education. More than Words is a Massachusetts organization aimed at helping those young people gain critical life skills and work experience.Empowering youth to take charge of their lives by taking charge of the business, two-year employee Luis Carlos Pacheco said. In a nook tucked into a block off the Expressway in Boston's South End, youll find More than Words, where a new chapter for youth who have been homeless or in the court system begins.My mental health was just deteriorating just because of everything that I was going through -- with just being homeless and not knowing where I was going to sleep next, Pacheco said.More than Words is a nonprofit group run by 16- to 24-year-olds who sell books at their retail store that doubles as an event space.The on-site warehouse collects and tracks and catalogs 4 million donated books annually, plus clothing, and sells most of them online. Pacheco's interest in fashion is growing that part of the operation.I feel very proud because it's become such an essential part of the business now, he said.The youths are working on their lives while working for a living.Advocacy Associate Director John DePina has an invaluable role in helping Pacheco and his other young colleagues with court advocacy and housing, where showing up and taking part is a huge piece of finding success for their future.Being able to see young people move forward in their lives and say I have overcome things, now I have a community, now I have a group. I belong. I matter. I know that I can do better. I will do better. It makes me happy to do my job, DePina said. After they helped me with my housing, and they just kept giving me more support with that, More than Words has become an essential part of my life and an essential part of why I am in this spot that I am today, Pacheco said. In the 18 years since More than Words began in Waltham and opened a second location in Boston, they have helped hundreds of young people find their way.WCVB United Way 50 Years Fund: Click here to donateOur 50 Years Fund, powered by The United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley is designed to ensure that youth have the resources to achieve their educational and career goals. Conceived and supported by WCVB employees, the 50 Years Fund will focus on the cause of our generation social and economic justice touching our entire community.Through the generosity of our viewers and your support, we intend to grant at least 5 capacity building gifts of $100,000 each to organizations doing the work in cities and towns in the WCVB viewing area. The 50 Years Fund is committed to making a substantial service impact for the beneficiaries, continuing WCVB Channel 5s legacy as community resource making a positive change in the lives of the people we serve.

Students experiencing housing insecurity are more likely to miss time in school as they face challenges that often make it difficult to keep up with their education.

More than Words is a Massachusetts organization aimed at helping those young people gain critical life skills and work experience.

Empowering youth to take charge of their lives by taking charge of the business, two-year employee Luis Carlos Pacheco said.

In a nook tucked into a block off the Expressway in Boston's South End, youll find More than Words, where a new chapter for youth who have been homeless or in the court system begins.

My mental health was just deteriorating just because of everything that I was going through -- with just being homeless and not knowing where I was going to sleep next, Pacheco said.

More than Words is a nonprofit group run by 16- to 24-year-olds who sell books at their retail store that doubles as an event space.

The on-site warehouse collects and tracks and catalogs 4 million donated books annually, plus clothing, and sells most of them online. Pacheco's interest in fashion is growing that part of the operation.

I feel very proud because it's become such an essential part of the business now, he said.

The youths are working on their lives while working for a living.

Advocacy Associate Director John DePina has an invaluable role in helping Pacheco and his other young colleagues with court advocacy and housing, where showing up and taking part is a huge piece of finding success for their future.

Being able to see young people move forward in their lives and say I have overcome things, now I have a community, now I have a group. I belong. I matter. I know that I can do better. I will do better. It makes me happy to do my job, DePina said.

After they helped me with my housing, and they just kept giving me more support with that, More than Words has become an essential part of my life and an essential part of why I am in this spot that I am today, Pacheco said.

In the 18 years since More than Words began in Waltham and opened a second location in Boston, they have helped hundreds of young people find their way.

WCVB United Way 50 Years Fund: Click here to donate

Our 50 Years Fund, powered by The United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley is designed to ensure that youth have the resources to achieve their educational and career goals. Conceived and supported by WCVB employees, the 50 Years Fund will focus on the cause of our generation social and economic justice touching our entire community.

Through the generosity of our viewers and your support, we intend to grant at least 5 capacity building gifts of $100,000 each to organizations doing the work in cities and towns in the WCVB viewing area. The 50 Years Fund is committed to making a substantial service impact for the beneficiaries, continuing WCVB Channel 5s legacy as community resource making a positive change in the lives of the people we serve.

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Boston and Waltham's More than Words helping kids with history of homelessness, court issues succeed - WCVB Boston

Tenth overall is an eerie spot to pick in the NBA Draft. Historically, most tenth overall picks have gone on to be steady role players. Some have seen their basketball careers flame out quickly, while others went on to enjoy Hall-of-Fame-caliber tenures.

The Washington Wizards got what they expected, if not what they had hoped, in the draft lottery on Tuesday night: the No. 10 overall pick. Its certainly not a bad spot to be in, but the players available at 10 wont be expected to singlehandedly turn a franchise around.

Odds might be in Washingtons favor, though, as from 1969-2017, there was a future All-Star available at No. 10 in all but one of those NBA drafts. Caron Butler will not appear on this list, though, for while he was one of the Wizards best players of the 21st century, he was drafted by the Heat 10th overall in 2002.

With that in mind, lets delve into the history of the No. 10 overall NBA draft pick.

2003: Jarvis Hayes (G/F, Georgia) Fitting into the mold of role players, Washington selected the Georgia product 10th overall in 2003. He had a decent if not inspiring career in D.C., being selected to the All-Rookie Second Team after putting up 9.6 ppg and 3.8 rpg. Injuries would hamper the rest of his career, though, and he would end up playing four of his seven NBA seasons in Washington putting up role player caliber numbers.

1983: Jeff Malone (SG, Mississippi State) Malone, to date, has been the Holy Grail of Wizards No. 10 overall picks and one of the best all-time selections at the spot. He was a lethal shooter during his 15-year NBA career, seven of which he spent with the team that drafted him. As a Bullet, Malone made the All-Rookie first team, two All-Star appearances, and became one of the best players in franchise history. By the end of his stint in D.C., Malone averaged a splendid 20.2 points of 47.7% shooting.

1998: Paul Pierce The Truth is pretty much all you need to know about what a home run Boston hit in 98. Pierce was one of the leagues best players during his prime, earning a whopping 10 All-Stars during his Celtics tenure while leading them to the NBA Championship in 2008, where hed earn Finals MVP. Not for nothing, he also hit one of the biggest shots in Wizards history:

1999: Jason Terry The definition of a sharpshooter, Terrys talents were enjoyed by Atlanta before he spent eight years in Dallas. As a Maverick, Terry would Sixth Man of the Year in 2009 and an NBA Championship ring in 2011. Hes made the leagues seventh-most three-pointers to date.

2008: Brook Lopez Lopez epitomizes the sink or swim mantra of the modern NBA. He couldnt shoot coming out of college but developed an outside shot as a veteran while bolstering his defense. His knack for molding his game to his surroundings was a huge reason for Milwaukees championship last season.

2010: Paul George George is one of the best players in the NBA today, plain and simple. A seven-time All-Star, 2019 All-NBA First Team, and 2013 Most Improved Player go to show that hes a dominant force on both sides of the ball. An elite scorer with three-level ability who can defend 1-4, George is a key piece of what could be a title-contending Clippers squad.

2013: C.J. McCollum Not a lot of players garner buzz coming out of Lehigh. McCollum was the exception and for good reason, as the shooting guard was one-half of a devastating backcourt in Portland before his recent trade to New Orleans. He hasnt been named an All-Star yet (which is unfair considering his production), but hes one of the leagues brightest and most useful players at the two-spot.

2018: Mikal Bridges Every team in the NBA needs a Mikal Bridges type to contend for a title. Hes a young, versatile wing who can shoot efficiently and defend four positions. He was a runner-up for Defensive Player of the Year this year and with Phoenixs lethal rotation, he could be in line for another Championship appearance before too long.

1984: Leon Wood Wood probably wouldnt appear on this list if it werent for John Stockton. Philadelphia selected Wood at No. 10 and he would go on to have a decent career (his best year actually came in Washington, where he would put up 9.7 ppg in 1985-86), but Stocktons selection six picks later makes this a swing-and-a-miss.

1985: Ed Pinckney Again, Pinckney wasnt a total bust and would enjoy some production during his decade-plus career. He was the original Villanova legend leading the Wildcats to their miracle NCAA title in 1985 with the legendary upset of Georgetown. But, the Suns took Pinckney ahead of such luminaries as Karl Malone, Joe Dumars, A.C. Green, Terry Porter, and even Manute Bol. Yikes.

1996: Erick Dampier Dampier played for 15 years in the NBA, which is impressive considering he only put up double-digit scoring numbers twice. He retired in 2012 with a career average of 7.4 ppg, which really isnt bad. But, like most other guys on this list, the men who followed him in the draft make it tough to exclude him: Kobe Bryant, Peja Stojakovic, Steve Nash, Jermaine ONeal, and Zydrunas Ilgauskas.

2006: Mouhamed Sene Easy choice here. Sene was a seven-foot prospect out of Senegal who the then-Seattle Seahawks took a chance on. It didnt workhe played just 47 career games averaging 2.2 points. What makes it tougher for Seattle was that they couldve taken JJ Redick, Rajon Rondo, Kyle Lowry, P.J. Tucker, or Paul Millsap.

2011: Jimmer Fredette Look away, Wizards fans: this was the Jan Vesely draft. Fredette made waves in college with his unreal three-point shooting, but he never amounted to much in the NBA as he put up just six points per game over his career. He was taken ahead of Klay Thompson, both Morris brothers, Kawhi Leonard, Nikola Vucevic, Tobias Harris, Jimmy Butler, and Isaiah Thomas.

2016: Thon Maker Like Sene, Maker was an intriguing prospect because of his size. His career fizzled when he couldnt find the starting lineup, though. Its tough for Bucks fans to hear they couldve had Domantas Sabonis (the very next pick), Malik Beasley, Pascal Siakam, Dejounte Murray, or Malcolm Brogdon to supplement their championship core. They might have multiple titles by now if they'd made a different decision in 2016.

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History of NBA's 10th overall pick: the good, the bad, and the Wizards - NBC Sports Washington

Laurence Tribe, who turned eighty last year, has been one of the most prominent liberal legal scholars of the last half century. A professor to John Roberts, a mentor to Barack Obama, and an advocate who has appeared dozens of times before the Supreme Court, Tribe has also published numerous books about the Constitution and the Courts history. More recently, Tribedespite the reverence with which he initially wrote about the Courthas been highly critical of what he sees as its increasing rightward tilt and politicization by Republican-nominated Justices. Tribe has also established himself as a prolific commenter on current affairs, both on television and Twitter (where he has more than a million followers), specifically by making caustic attacks on former President Donald Trump, whom he has accused of committing multiple crimes.

I recently spoke by phone with Tribe, currently the Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Emeritus, at Harvard, several days after the leak of Justice Samuel Alitos draft opinion that argued for overturning Roe v. Wade. During our conversation, which has been edited for length and clarity, we also discussed his impressions of Justice Roberts throughout the decades, his changing views of the Courts role in American life, and how he looks back on his controversial work for the coal industry.

How has your thinking about the Supreme Court as an institution changed over the past fifty years?

I would say that because I am part of the generation that grew up in the glow of Brown v. Board of Education and of the Warren and Brennan Court, and identified the Court really with making representative government work better through the reapportionment decisions and protecting minorities of various kinds, I saw the Court through rather rose-tinted glasses for a while. As I taught the Court for decades, I came to spend more time on the dark periods of the Courts history, thinking about how the Court really preserved and protected corporate power and wealth more than it protected minorities through much of our history, and how it essentially gutted the efforts at Reconstruction, and I focussed more on cases like Dred Scott and Plessy v. Ferguson and Korematsu.

And in recent years, as the Court has turned back to its characteristic posture of protecting those who dont need much protection from the political process but who already have lots of political power, I became more and more concerned about its anti-democratic and anti-human-rights record. I continued to want to make sense of the Courts doctrines. I wrote a treatise that got very frequently cited around the world and that shaped my teaching about how the Courts ideas in various areas could be pulled together. But then, after I had done the second edition of that treatise, and it became relied on by a lot of people, I decided [after the first volume] of the third edition, basically, to stop that project.

What were you arguing in the first two editions?

The first was the first effort in probably a hundred years to pull together all of constitutional law. And it led to a rebirth, or flowering, of lots of writing about constitutional law, and writing more focussed on methodology, with different forms of interpretation. I was very excited about that project, and [the second edition] continued it. Most of what I did was to see connections among different areas. I would be writing about commercial regulation, and I would see themes that popped up in areas of civil rights and civil liberties. Or Id be writing about separation of powers, and I would see problems that arose elsewhere.

And I was always trying to find coherence, because my background in mathematics had led me to be very interested in the deep structures of things. I was working on a Ph.D. in algebraic topology when I rather abruptly shifted from mathematics to law. And so, in my treatise, I developed what I thought of as seven different models of constitutional law. Im always fascinated by different perspectives and lenses and models. Ive never thought of law and politics as strictly separate, and efforts by people like Steve Breyer to say that we shouldnt concede that constitutional law is largely political have always seemed to me to be misleading. That said, I still saw efforts at consistency and concerns about avoiding hypocrisy from the Court. But those things began getting harder to take seriously.

And then Steve Breyer wrote me a long letter saying, When are you going to finish the third edition of your treatise? And I wrote him a letter back, which then was published in various places, saying, Im not going to keep doing it. And heres why. It was a letter that described how I thought constitutional law had really lost its coherence.

At one level, youre saying something really changed with the Court. But earlier you said that the Court has always had some history of protecting the powerful and not protecting minority rights or the powerless. So did something change, or did the Court just have this brief period, after the Second World War, when you saw it as different before returning to its normal posture?

I think theres always been a powerful ideological stream, but the ascendant ideology in the nineteen-sixties and seventies was one that I could easily identify with. It was the ideology that said the relatively powerless deserve protection, by an independent branch of government, from those who would trample on them.

Right. The Warren Court was also ideological; it just happened to be an ideology that you or I might agree with.

Exactly. No question. It was quite ideological. Justice Brennan had a project whose architecture was really driven by his sense of the purposes of the law, and those purposes were moral and political. No question about it. Im not saying that somehow the liberal take on constitutional law is free of ideology. There was, however, an intellectually coherent effort to connect the ideology with the whole theory of what the Constitution was for and what the Court was for. Mainly, the Court is an anti-majoritarian branch, and its there to protect minorities and make sure that people are fairly represented. I could identify with that ideology. It made sense to me, and I could see elements of it in various areas of doctrine. But as that fell apart, and as the Court reverted to a very different ideology, one in which the Court was essentially there to protect propertied interests and to protect corporations and to keep the masses at baythats an ideology, too, but it was not being elaborated in doctrine in a way that I found even coherent, let alone attractive.

Maybe Im wrong about this, but I see more internal contradiction and inconsistency in the strands of doctrine of the people who came back into power with the Reagan Administration and the Federalist Society. Im not the person to make sense of what theyre doing, because it doesnt hang together for me. Even if I could play the role that I think I did play with a version that I find more morally attractive, its a project that I would regard as somewhat evil and wouldnt want to take part in.

Im not trying to paint the picture that says everything was pure logic and mathematics and apolitical and morally neutral in the good days of the Warren Era, and incoherent and ideologically driven in other times. I think that would be an unfair contrast. So I hope what Ive said to you makes it a little clearer.

You wrote a rather striking piece in The New York Review of Books recently, called Politicians in Robes, where you take issue with Breyer essentially still believing that the Court can be apolitical. How should we view the Court now? I think that there is a tendency to say, These guys are politicians, and they make partisan choices the way anyone else does.

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The Supreme Courts History of Protecting the Powerful - The New Yorker

Arts and entertainment

May 19, 2022

Through public events and exhibitions, connect with the UW community every week!

Gospel Choir

May 23, 7:30 PM | Meany Hall

Phyllis Byrdwell leads the 100-voice gospel choir in songs of praise, jubilation, and other expressions of the Gospel tradition.

$10 | Buy tickets & more info

Astronomy on Tap: Technology in Earth Orbit and Beyond

May 25, 8:00 PM | Bickersons Brewhouse

First, Dr. Meredith Rawls, a research scientist at the UW Department of Astronomy, will talk about her work addressing the growing number of satellites around Earth and how that affects astronomy. Then, Dr. James Davenport, Associate Director of the UW DiRAC Institute will talk about how hes looking for signs of intelligent life on other planets!

Each FREE Astronomy on Tap event features accessible, engaging science presentations on topics ranging from planets to black holes to the beginning of the Universe. Most events have games and prizes to test and reward your new-found knowledge! There is always lots of time to ask questions and interact with the presenters and other scientists who inevitably stick around for the beer.

Free | More info

School of Art + Art History + Design Graduation Exhibitions

May 25 28 | Jacob Lawrence Art Gallery

Join theSchool of Art + Art History + Design for a the Honors Graduation Exhibition for students receiving Bachelor of Arts degrees in Art.

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Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist:Heri Purwanto

May 27, 7:30 PM | Meany Hall

The master Javanese gamelan musician Heri Purwanto from Indonesia performs with his students in this evening of music from central Java, Indonesia in this event sponsored by the School of Music.

2022 MFA + MDes Thesis Exhibition

May 27 June 26 | Henry Art Gallery

The graduation exhibition for students receiving masters degrees from our Division of Art and Division of Design.

The exhibition is organized by Eric Zimmerman, Henry Art Gallery Exhibition Designer and Preparator, and alum Katie Miller, former Henry Art Gallery Assistant Registrar of Exhibitions. They conducted two studio visits and have worked closely with the students to facilitate their projects and prepare them for exhibition.

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