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2022 EXCELLENT TIMES MOON STAGE GOOD TIMES

SEPTEMBER A.M. PM AM PM

Su 18 9:18 - 11:18 9:42 - 11:42 Mo 19 10:06 - 12:06 10:30 - 12:30

3:45 - 5:15 4:09 - 5:39 4:33 - 6:03 4:57 - 6:27 Tu 20 NA 12:06 - 2:06 FULL MOON 6:09 - 7:39 6:33 - 8:03 We 21 12:30 - 2:30 12:54 - 2:54 6:57 - 8:27 7:21 - 8:51 Th 22 1:18 - 3:18 1:42 - 3:42 7:45 - 9:15 8:09 - 9:39

Fr 23 2:06 - 4:06 2:30 - 4:30 8:33 - 10:03 8:57 - 10:27 Sa 24 2:54 - 4:54 3:18 - 5:18 9:21 - 10:51 9:45 - 11:15 Su 25 3:42 - 5:42 4:06 - 6:06 10:09 - 11:39 10:33 - 12:03 Mo 26 4:30 - 6:30 4:54 - 6:54 10:57 - 12:27 11:21 - 12:51 Tu 27 5:18 - 7:18 5:42 - 7:42 NA 12:09 - 1:39 We 28 6:06 - 8:06 6:30 - 8:30 12:33 - 2:03 12:57 - 2:27 Th 29 6:54 - 8:54 7:18 - 9:18 1:21 - 2:51 1:45 - 3:15

Fr 30 7:42 - 9:42 8:06 - 10:06 2:09 - 3:39 2:33 - 4:03 OCTOBER A.M. PM AM PM Sa 1 4:30 - 6:30 4:54 - 6:54 10:57 - 12:27 11:21 - 12:51 Su 2 5:18 - 7:18 5:42 - 7:42 NA 12:09 - 1:39 Mo 3 6:06 - 8:06 6:30 - 8:30 12:33 - 2:03 12:57 - 2:27 Tu 4 6:54 - 8:54 7:18 - 9:18 1:21 - 2:51 1:45 - 3:15 We 5 7:42 - 9:42 8:06 - 10:06 2:09 - 3:39 2:33 - 4:03 Th 6 8:30 - 10:30 8:54 - 10:54 2:57 - 4:27 3:21 - 4:51

Fr 7 9:18 - 11:18 9:42 - 11:42 3:45 - 5:15 4:09 - 5:39 Sa 8 10:06 - 12:06 10:30 - 12:30 4:33 - 6:03 4:57 - 6:27 Su 9 NA 12:06 - 2:06 FULL MOON 6:09 - 7:39 6:33 - 8:03

Mo 10 12:30 - 2:30 12:54 - 2:54 Tu 11 1:18 - 3:18 1:42 - 3:42 We 12 2:06 - 4:06 2:30 - 4:30 Th 13 2:54 - 4:54 3:18 - 5:18 Fr 14 3:42 - 5:42 4:06 - 6:06 Sa 15 4:30 - 6:30 4:54 - 6:54 Su 16 5:18 - 7:18 5:42 - 7:42 Mo 17 6:06 - 8:06 6:30 - 8:30 Tu 18 6:54 - 8:54 7:18 - 9:18 We 19 7:42 - 9:42 8:06 - 10:06 Th 20 8:30 - 10:30 8:54 - 10:54 Fr 21 9:18 - 11:18 9:42 - 11:42 Sa 22 10:06 - 12:06 10:30 - 12:30 Su 23 10:54 - 12:54 11:18 - 1:18 Mo 24 11:18 - 1:18 11:42 - 1:42

6:57 - 8:27 7:21 - 8:51 7:45 - 9:15 8:09 - 9:39 8:33 - 10:03 8:57 - 10:27 9:21 - 10:51 9:45 - 11:15 10:09 - 11:39 10:33 - 12:03 10:57 - 12:27 11:21 - 12:51 NA 12:09 - 1:39 12:33 - 2:03 12:57 - 2:27 1:21 - 2:51 1:45 - 3:15 2:09 - 3:39 2:33 - 4:03 2:57 - 4:27 3:21 - 4:51 3:45 - 5:15 4:09 - 5:39 4:33 - 6:03 4:57 - 6:27 5:21 - 6:51 5:45 - 7:15 5:48 - 7:18 6:11 - 7:41 Tu 25 NA 12:06 - 2:06 NEW MOON 6:09 - 7:39 6:33 - 8:03 We 26 12:30 - 2:30 12:54 - 2:54 6:57 - 8:27 7:21 - 8:51 Th 27 1:18 - 3:18 1:42 - 3:42 7:45 - 9:15 8:09 - 9:39 Fr 28 2:06 - 4:06 2:30 - 4:30 8:33 - 10:03 8:57 - 10:27 Sa 29 2:54 - 4:54 3:18 - 5:18 9:21 - 10:51 9:45 - 11:15 Su 30 3:42 - 5:42 4:06 - 6:06 10:09 - 11:39 10:33 - 12:03 Mo 31 4:30 - 6:30 4:54 - 6:54 10:57 - 12:27 11:21 - 12:51

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Bangles and beauty pageants SLOCOMB TEENAGER ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF TRAUMA

Evie Smith wears her heart on her wrist — that’s where she dons the bracelets she makes and sells to benefit children who are survivors of trauma.

Smith, a 16-year-old majorette at Slocomb High School and Miss Baldwin County’s Miss Outstanding Teen, often sports her own designs as a way to start a dialogue about her passion — advocating for children of trauma, or ACT.

ACT

“The main purpose of my social impact initiative, ACT, is to tell people to stand up, step forward and speak out against childhood trauma,” Smith says.

Smith doesn’t mind getting down and dirty and doing whatever is necessary to support the cause. She’s washed dishes and scrubbed toilets to help kids attend Camp Victory in Samson over the summer.

She also enjoys doing behind-thescenes work to support The Exchange Center for Child Abuse Prevention in Dothan. In recent years, she’s helped the center with events like the annual Superhero 5K run and cleanup days.

At the Southeast Alabama Child Advocacy Center in Dothan, Smith volunteers with its annual Tee Off for Kids golf tournament and helps stuff goody bags with T-shirts and other items participants take home from the event.

Although she can’t work directly with the children who use these organizations’ resources due to legal reasons, Smith knows assisting with fundraising and raising awareness will help get resources to the children and families who need them.

Last year, she felt like she could be doing more to spread the word and help worthy organizations in the Wiregrass community through her online Etsy store, ESassDesigns. She started a fundraising campaign making bracelets with the ACT acronym to encourage others to make a difference in a child’s life. She set a goal to raise $1,000 for the Exchange Center, but she didn’t expect the message to reach so many people.

“I put out some videos on social media and my friends and family shared it and it really took off,” Smith says. “So many orders poured in. I was making bracelets pretty much everywhere.

Evie Smith, a Slocomb teenager, shows off one of the bracelets she made and sold for a fundraising initiative benefitting The Exchange Center for Child Abuse Prevention. ACT is an acronym for Advocating for Children of Trauma, Smith’s social impact initiative.

“I’d have movie nights and my friends would help me make them. It was a lot of work, but it was a sacrifice I was willing to make.”

All that hard work paid off and Smith was able to write a check to the Exchange Center for over $4,000. She takes pride in knowing people from all over the country were wearing the bracelets she made and spreading awareness about the prevalence of child trauma.

Personal Mission

The mission to help support society’s youngest and most vulnerable population is special to Smith, who experienced abuse herself as a young girl.

“Thankfully, my family believed me and got me into counseling and got me the resources I needed to be able to heal from that trauma,” Smith says. “I had that support team. Now, I want to be that supporter for someone else. I want to be able to use my story to tell another child that your trauma doesn’t define you. I was traumatized and I came out on the other side of that, and I want to be able to give that support and that hope to other children.”

More than two-thirds of children report at least one traumatic event by age 16, according to data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services — but Smith believes awareness and prevention efforts can help reduce the number of incidents both inside and outside the home.

“In the pageant system I compete in, I get the opportunity to talk about it a lot when I get on-stage questions and when I discuss my community service,” Smith says. “I tell people what they can do to help because it’s a big community effort, and I get to do this all across the state.”

At a recent speaking event at the Under His Wings Girls Home in Baldwin County, Smith was able to talk about her own experiences with childhood trauma. She was thankful for the opportunity to connect with young girls in the audience.

Smith poses with administrators of Under His Wings, a residential home for girls in Baldwin County during a speaking event.

Silent Hero

Smith’s many advocacy efforts earned her the Silent Heroes of the Wiregrass award, a partnership between Wiregrass Electric Cooperative and WTVY. As part of the program that honors local unsung heroes and organizations, Smith was presented with a $1,000 check from WEC’s Operation Round Up Foundation to continue her mission.

“You’re never too young to start getting involved in your community and finding ways to lend a hand,” says Brad Kimbro, WEC’s chief operating officer. “Miss Evie is a model for the youth of the day and absolutely deserves the recognition. My hope is that other young people can look to Evie and her story and her spirit for inspiration and maybe they too will make meaningful positive changes in their communities. We wish her well in her mission.”

Smith was shocked to receive the recognition.

“I’m just so grateful for my community for supporting me with the bracelet sales and nominating me for this award,” Smith says. “It takes a whole community to end childhood trauma, and I’m thankful to have the platform to continue advocating for that with this recognition by Wiregrass Electric and WTVY.”

Smith donated the grant money to the Exchange Center to help young trauma victims in their healing process.

Though she’s not currently actively campaigning, she is still selling her bracelets on her Etsy store, ESassDesigns.

To learn more about The Exchange Center for Child Abuse Prevention, visit exchangecap.org. For more information about the Southeast Child Advocacy Center, visit southeastcac.org. n

Evie Smith visits with children at the Southeast Child Advocacy Center. The stuffed animals the kids are holding were collected during a toy drive Smith helped operate.

Is the science over?

In recent years it has become more common for prominent officials, from former President Barack Obama, to President Joe Biden, to the President’s Chief Medical Advisor, Dr. Anthony Fauci, to use the statement “The Science is Over.” Declaring the science is over is too often offered as evidence to influence policy on Covid vaccines, masking, climate change, natural events and other issues in our lives. If the science is truly over, maybe it is worth exploring what science really is.

A simple definition of science found by a Google search is: “the pursuit and application of knowledge and understanding of the natural and social world following a systematic methodology based on evidence.” The definition goes on to say that “scientific methodology includes the following: Objective observation, measurement and data (possibly although not necessarily using mathematics as a tool).” Professor Richard Feynman, a Noble Laureate in Physics and a widely cited physicist noted for his work from quantum mechanics to the development of the nuclear bomb, provided a reference to the scientific method in his book, The Character of Physical Law (1965), “We compare the result of a theory computation directly with observations to see if it works. If it disagrees with the experiment, it is wrong.”

Simply said, a scientist develops a theory that is compared to actual observations. Whether observations agree with theory is the measure of scientific truth. For example, Sir Isaac Newton is credited with developing the theory of universal gravity, purportedly after an apple fell from a tree and hit him on the head. Gravity is now accepted as a scientific fact, for no reason other than no one has ever observed an apple fall up from a tree.

The scientific method needs to be contrasted with factors referenced by many people in attempts to be more persuasive in regard to their opinions or theories. True scientific knowledge is neither the consensus of any number of scientists nor public majority. Scientific proof is not government opinion, peer review of a theory or its model, computer modeling, or a Presidential declaration from the Rose Garden.

Copernicus was jailed because he disagreed with scientific consensus that the Sun revolved around the Earth. How did that work out? Maybe as well as President Biden’s statements that the science was over about the effectiveness of Covid vaccines and everyone

Gary Smith is President and CEO of PowerSouth Energy Cooperative. needed to get vaccinated to stay safe. (I have been vaccinated, boosted, and still have had Covid three times – I am probably just reckless). Remember Dr. Fauci’s announcements that medical science said masks didn’t protect us against Covid, then they did? Now medical science says maybe masks aren’t so effective after all. None of that is science. It is all just theories or political rhetoric proven to be wrong after comparisons with actual observations and data.

Which brings us to climate change and whether the science is over on the issue. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and its Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) reports are the most commonly cited source of theory that dangerous warming is being caused by carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and the release of other greenhouse gases. The IPCC CMIP reports express a multi-model supported theory that the increase of today’s 415 parts per million (ppm) atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide to 830ppm by the turn of the century will raise temperatures by a disastrous 4 degrees Fahrenheit. But, remember, actual observations are required to satisfy scientific method. Neither the IPCC nor the CMIP reflects or provides any explanation of why no single model of the 102 models used by the IPCC to create its theory accurately reflects the pre-industrial warming period between 1895 and 1946. That span is extremely similar to the most recent warming period between 1957 and 2008, which is prominently cited in support of IPCC theory. Get that – the models used by the IPCC to support the future don’t accurately reflect the past.

Also, Dr. John Christy, PhD. and professor of atmospheric science at The University of Alabama at Huntsville, has recorded actual temperatures since the late 1970’s. The attached table compares those temperature observations with the IPCC CMIP6 modeling. Dr. Christy concludes the consensus of the models (the bold red line in the graphic) “fails the test to match real-world observations (the blue and yellow dots) by a significant margin.”

There are other inaccuracies between the IPCC theory and observations that I don’t have space to detail here.

Congress recently passed a multi-billion dollar bill to save us from the ravages of climate change. McKinsey and Company estimates costs of the Net Zero carbon program will reach $275 trillion by 2050. That is a lot of money to spend on a theory being disproved daily by actual observations. The science of climate change is anything but over.

I hope you have a good month.

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