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4 days ago | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | D. Hunter Reardon
When you’re working with limited resources, sparse and extreme landscapes can present engineering challenges — a cold, hard reality for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). That’s why, in frozen regions such as the Arctic, ice can be an important construction material, says Emily Asenath-Smith, research materials engineer at the Corps’ Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL).
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4 days ago | 
usatoday.com | D. Hunter Reardon
When you’re working with limited resources, sparse and extreme landscapes can present engineering challenges — a cold, hard reality for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). That’s why, in frozen regions such as the Arctic, ice can be an important construction material, says Emily Asenath-Smith, research materials engineer at the Corps’ Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL).
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2 weeks ago | 
usatoday.com | D. Hunter Reardon
As beach towns go, Dauphin Island, Alabama, is relatively sleepy. Unlike nearby Gulf Shores or Panama City Beach, Florida, it has no water parks or mini-golf courses, and only two high-rise hotels. What it does have is Spanish moss in the trees and white sand and gentle waves on sparsely populated beaches. "If you like to be outside, this is a great place to be," says Mendel Graeber, a marine educator with the Dauphin Island Sea Lab.
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1 month ago | 
richmondmagazine.com | D. Hunter Reardon |A Future
During the seventh century, Alexandrian scholar Paulus Aegineta discovered that it was possible to heal nerves by suturing them together. Surgical techniques have improved since the days of the Byzantine Empire, but in the 21st century, nerve sutures are still an incredibly tricky procedure; only about 50% of operations result in full motor recovery.
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1 month ago | 
richmondmagazine.com | D. Hunter Reardon
When Neal Sims was a junior at Hermitage High School in 1973, he would leave school at 11:30 a.m. and go to work at Half Sink Golf Course.
The start of his 41-year career with the course came as the 268-acre property in northern Henrico was going through a transition. Originally called Ethelwood Golf Course upon opening in 1960, its name changed to The Crossings Golf Club in 1979.
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1 month ago | 
richmondmagazine.com | D. Hunter Reardon
Those who have delayed getting a REAL ID — an upgraded version of a driver’s license required by federal law — may still have their doubts. After all, the requirement that all American citizens have upgraded identity verification was signed by President George W. Bush on May 11, 2005. Nearly 20 years later, it still has not been fully implemented, leaving a slew of lapsed deadlines in its wake.
But according to a U.S. Transportation Security Administration announcement Jan.
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2 months ago | 
catholicvirginian.org | D. Hunter Reardon |Hunter Reardon
Ciertas estadísticas indican que la Iglesia Católica en los Estados Unidos está enfrentando muchas dificultades. Una encuesta hecha recientemente del Pew Research Center indicó que por cada persona que se une a la fe, habrán alrededor de ocho personas que la abandonarán. También indicó que solo el 29% de los católicos asisten a la misa dominical.
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2 months ago | 
catholicvirginian.org | D. Hunter Reardon |Hunter Reardon
Certain metrics suggest that the Catholic Church in the U.S. is struggling. A recent Pew Research Center survey found that 8.4 people leave the Church for every individual who joins, and that only 29% of Catholics attend weekly Mass. Though these statistics are real and troubling, it might be easy to forget that in 2022, the U.S. Religion Census found that the total Catholic population in the U.S. had actually grown by 2 million people in the past 10 years.
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2 months ago | 
catholicvirginian.org | D. Hunter Reardon |Hunter Reardon
Over 4,000 permanent deacons from around the world were at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City Feb. 23 as Archbishop Rino Fisichella, pro-prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, ordained 23 men to the diaconate. It was the spiritual climax of the Jubilee of Deacons, which took place at the Vatican from Feb. 21-23.
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2 months ago | 
catholicvirginian.org | D. Hunter Reardon |Hunter Reardon
En su encíclica “Deus Caritas Est” de 2005, el papa Benedicto XVI escribió: “Para la Iglesia, la caridad […] pertenece de su naturaleza y es manifestación irrenunciable de su propia esencia.”En la Conferencia de SHINE del 1 de marzo Ingrid Delgado, directora asociada de la Oficina de Relaciones Gubernamentales de la Conferencia Episcopal de los Estados Unidos (USCCB, por sus siglas en inglés), citó esta encíclica durante su presentación.
