Al Copeland Jr. cooks up a batch of fried chicken at his company’s test kitchen at the top of Copeland Tower in Metairie. 

Simon J. Makin is an auditory perception researcher turned science writer and journalist. Originally from Liverpool in the north of England, he has a bachelor’s in engineering, a master’s in speech and hearing sciences, and a Ph.D. in computational auditory modeling from the University of Sheffield. He spent several years working as a research fellow in the psychology department at the University of Reading before recently branching out and retraining in journalism.

By the spring of 2008, Obama’s candidacy, just as Johnson predicted, had become a lightning rod for white supremacists and other hate groups. As the campaign moved into its final months, law-enforcement agencies intercepted at least two assassination plots against Obama. Other threats and racist posts flooded the internet, where Johnson’s team noticed a sharp increase in membership on Stormfront, the first major white-nationalist website. The site added 32,000 new users within the first three months after Obama’s inauguration, nearly double the number it added in 2008.

“The few people I was banking on came back and told me things like, ‘Shit happens’, ‘Worse things have happened’, and ‘You have to move on’. I think people should stop themselves from piling on the platitudes when someone is grieving. It just helped alienate me further,” she said.

"He’s got a whole lot of trust in me. He lets me just run free. He told me, ‘Just do your thing. I would love to be a part of it.’ He told me, ‘Do I have to be part of it? No, but I really want to be,’" said Paak. "I was like, ‘You’re definitely going to be a part of this, bro.’ And we’ve just been going back and forth with this music for over two years now and just getting the right album that we really feel proud of."

The habitats represent a trend in animal care that has taken root since the zoo’s original animal areas were built in the 1950s.

The chest bursting scene in the 1979 film, Alien, is part of Hollywood legend and may very well be one of cinema’s most celebrated scenes. The alien creature is an endoparasitoid; a parasite that lives inside another animal (in this case a human) and ultimately consumes it. John Hurt, who plays the character Kane, is the first victim in the film.

The report also calls out the Justice Department for its “blind spot” when it comes to domestic terrorism and hate crimes, which Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein conceded earlier in the week. During a conference on Oct. 29, Rosenstein said that according to the latest F.B.I. crime report, “88 percent of agencies that provide hate-crimes data to the F.B.I. reported zero hate crimes in 2016.” The Justice Department was reviewing the accuracy of the reports, he noted. “Simply because hate crimes are not reported does not mean they are not happening.”

A textbook cannot duplicate the current nature of politics and the global economy. As often as three times a week, my students read articles culled from The New York Times and The Washington Post, among other publications. Traditional teaching via a textbook and testing does not engage the student of today with the tools they need to understand the ever-changing world. Students are into the now, and we as teachers must keep up with our charges, who are different learners from the ones we were as kids.

The Tree Genie XXL stand has a 20-inch diameter and is made of a plastic resin. It weighs approximately eighteen pounds without water. The base holds 2.5 gallons and features a water level indicator that tells you when to refill the water. The Tree Genie L has an 18-inch diameter, weighs thirteen pounds, holds a gallon of water, and accommodates trees up to eight feet tall.

It is Anderson’s commitment to going above and beyond — such as applying for grants to fund a new position of health coordinator, which would work across the district to improve student wellness — that made her stand out to Springfield Assistant Superintendent David Cohn, who nominated her for the award this year, which is given out by the Vermont State School Nurses’ Association.

Scott drove baseline and his pocket picked by the long-armed DJ on an unorthodox reacharound from over the left shoulder, but Evans whistled a complaining Johnson for a foul, partly because the steal was so unusual.