Current Event " Uneven Tides" 4/1

A drone flying over the melting glacier. 

NASA and other authorities are working on calculating how much time the West Antarctic ice sheet has before collapsing. 

This piece of ice, larger than the country of Mexico, is in risk of melting from the powerful global warming problem all us humans have to worry about. Much is said to happen within the next hundreds of years with more water melting and more showing up on human populated shores. 

“chances of surviving another 400 years in anything like its present form would appear to be remote." New York Times said. "Miami, New Orleans, London, Venice, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Sydney, Australia, are all just as vulnerable as New York, or more so.”

By 2500 the water is said to have risen more than 49 feet. This problem might not affect much of our lives today, but it is a problem that will be left for children born today. 

"The findings from Joughin and his colleagues, appearing in the journal Science, indicate that in some places, Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier is losing tens of feet, or several meters, of ice elevation every year," NBC News said. 

It has not been easy configuring the timeline for when and how this will happen. “These processes were measured against sea-level estimates from the Pliocene and Last Interglacial periods," FOX news said." and applied to future greenhouse gas emission scenarios.”

The cause of most of the melting of ice is the glaciers that are constantly increasing with flow and constantly growing deeper and wider. They are the cause of underground canals and a receding coastline, which is only making the process be more apparent. 

Current Event 3/10 "Bronx, NYC Drug Raids"

     

       The NYPD did their job Wednesday, by conducting raids in multiple drug rings in different areas

of New York and discovering more than they thought.  
   
       After 20 months of investigation, the NYPD made 31 arrests and found nine kilos of cocaine,

two kilos of heroin, two kilos of fetanyl, 889 grams of crack cocaine and $260,000 in cash.  
   
       The items confiscated during the raids all belonged to the members of multiple drug gangs in

NYC: the Eden Boys, Miami Ave., UGZ and RGZ. They have all been linked to public shootings,

robberies and selling of narcotics around the New York area.
   
         Within the 31 arrests, eight where convicted as "major traffickers." These major ring leaders

extended their business into Manhattan and North Jersey as well.
   
         After these arrests Wednesday there have been five more arrests of other expected enforcers in

this illegal gang corporation.

        New York forcers stay on this case as more and more suspects arise each time they bring another

in for  questioning.
 
        The total amount of money recovered, drugs worth included, was around $31 million.

   

Lodging Availability for Double Decker Weekend, 2016 (STORY #2)

View of the Square with the Court House, which is where all festivities focused around, behind the ad for Double Decker weekend.

The lodging scene in Oxford, Miss. is filling up fast due to The Square’s biggest venue coming to town on April 22^nd.

Double- Decker weekend provides the usual 60,000 attendees with a showcase of art, music, food, and history from all around the Mississippi area, which presented by Caterpillar Inc. again.

With such a popular festival many people are needing places to stay and not much is left, not even first-year sponsor for Double- Decker weekend itself: The Graduate. Out of the twelve lodging options visitors usually have to pick from in Oxford, only four remain with available rooms, which rates are increased because the weekend.

“The weekend of Double-Decker is a very demanding weekend,” The Inn at Ole Miss’s Desk Manager Lena Snow said. “Being a hotel on campus we are always a prime spot for visitors.”

Available hotels include the Super 8 with plenty availability, Quality Inn and Suites with eight rooms left and Motel Oxford, which is only down the street from The Square. Rates for these hotels are around $90 per night.

Also, Castle Hill’s Bed and Breakfast, located only six miles from the square, has two of their six rooms left: “Peggy’s Room” and the “Dixie Room”. These room rates vary from $190 to $225 per night.

All other hotels on Jackson Avenue are filled and have been for awhile now.

“Our 80 rooms filled up fully a month ago,” Assistant Manager of the Hampton Inn Jobie Charlie said. “Since then we have been constantly turning down customers.”

The weekend starts on April 21^st with car flyers advertising the weekend and how the music will start at 6 p.m. on the 22^nd. Only to be followed with music from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on the 23^rd. “From an eclectic live music scene to the variety of arts events happening almost daily,” Visit Oxford said. “Oxford’s creative community will make your visit to Oxford inspiring and entertaining.”