In Today’s Yellow Sheet:

• Hazardous Weather Outlook – Excessive Heat Warning until 10pm Friday – High of 95 today with Heat Index as high as 110
• A Bit From Beau Dodson About Extreme Heat
• Cooling Center Available at Massac County Courthouse
• Chief Masse Speaks on thinking of pets and energy consumption in Extreme Heat
• Massac Memorial Wellness Wednesday
• COPE Food Pantry Distribution in Metropolis today
• Trinity Tree of Life Food Pantry Open This Evening
• Thursday Evening – 30th Annual American Cancer Society Gospel Benefit
• Friday Evening – 50’s Sock Hop
• Technology Tips for Beginnings
• Help Wanted at Robinson Transport – $1000 Sign On Bonus
• Today is Find Your Inner Nerd Day
• Metropolis PD Felony Stop on a blue Suzuki Dirt Bike Leads to Crash, Foot Chase, Hospital Visit and Charges for 47 Year Old Metropolis Man
• WMOK History
• WMOK Community Event listing
• Woody Woodpecker was once the subject of a $100k lawsuit
• In deadly Maui fires, many had no warning and no way out. Those who dodged barricades survived
• Parade History: When Did We Start Doing This All The Time?
• Technology Tips for Beginners
• As Tropical Storm Hilary shrinks, desert and mountain towns dig themselves out of the mud
• Massac County School and Sports News

MASSAC COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT WILL ESTABLISH COOLING CENTERS FOR RESIDENTS TO BEAT THE HEAT

Metropolis PD Felony Stop on a blue Suzuki Dirt Bike Leads to Crash, Foot Chase, Hospital Visit and Charges for 47 Year Old Metropolis Man

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Woody Woodpecker was once the subject of a $100k lawsuit

“The Woody Woodpecker Song” was brought off the screen and into the courtroom in 1949.

Ho-ho-ho, ho, ho-ho-ho, ho

Oh, that’s the Woody Woodpecker song

Ho-ho-ho, ho, ho-ho-ho, ho

Yeah, he’s a-peckin’ it all day long…

“The Woody Woodpecker Song” is pretty self-explanatory. Written in 1947, it was first used in a Woody Woodpecker short in 1948 and became one of the biggest hit singles of the year. It was the first, and thus far, the only song from an animated short to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song (which it lost to the Bob Hope flick The Paleface song “Buttons and Bows”.)

However, just a year later, the song showed up somewhere even more unexpected — the courtroom.

In 1949, a lawsuit was brought in Akron, Ohio, by George Barrett and his wife. The suit alleged that their landlords had been trying to force out the couple from their apartment by, among other things, blaring “The Woody Woodpecker Song” at top volume for days at a time.

Parade History: When Did We Start Doing This All The Time?

Read more here from HistoryDaily.org

Technology Tips for Beginners

This week we’re working with our Technology Beginners on “Replying to Texts”.  Our first step into this learning adventure was WMOK’s presentation on Wednesday of last week at the Happy Hearts Senior Center in Metropolis.

We invite anyone who wishes to learn follow our lessons here –

We’re going to start our first lesson here in the Yellow Sheet with replying to some of your messages.

Flip Phone

Lesson for the week
practice replying to the text with WMOK

1. Look for the messages or text icon on your screen and navigate to it using the arrow keys on the keypad. When you have selected the correct icon press okay on your keypad – this is often the center circular button near the top.

2. You should now see a column of boxes – each one will either be identified by the phone number of the person who sent it or you may already have their name in your contact list and you will see their name. You will again use the arrow keys on your keypad to navigate up and down to the text with which you would like to start. Let’s start with your text from WMOK! When you have highlighted the WMOK text – select okay – sometimes a circular button near the top.

3. You are now looking at an individual text message. Let’s reply to this text message! Use your arrow keys on the keypad to navigate down to what will appear to be a blank space towards the bottom of the screen. When you have navigated to this blank space you will be ready to type –

Type your message using the letter buttons on your phone – keep in mind – for example if you want to type a b, you will touch the number two key twice to make it appear – if you want to type a c you would touch the number two key three times to make it appear.

If you are looking to put a space between words – that is generally on the zero button – you also might look for this –>  [  only flat on its bottom

Play with it and experiment – we at WMOK are the only ones who will see these messages and it is our goal to help you learn – after you have typed something you are ready to send your message.

4. In the bottom right in corner of your screen you should see the word send – directly beneath that should be a button on your keypad – press that button to send.

5.  Press your “back button” – sometimes a “u-turn looking” arrow to go back to your text message inbox – your text identified with WMOK should now show the first few words (at least) of the message you sent to us.

Smartphone

Lesson for the week
practice replying to the text with WMOK

1. Look for the messages or text icon on your screen – touch it

2. You should now see a column of boxes – each one will either be identified by the phone number of the person who sent it or you may already have their name in your contact list and you will see their name.  You will touch the text with which you would like to start. Let’s start with your text from WMOK ! Touch the WMOK text.

3. You are now looking at an individual text message. Let’s reply to this text message!  At the bottom of the screen you will see what appears to be a blank box.  Touch the inside of that box and wait for your keyboard to appear.

Type your message using the keyboard – keep in mind – If you are looking to put a space between words the space bar is on the bottom of your keyboard.  To back space you will likely look for a left-facing arrow with an “X” in it on the keyboard.

Play with it and experiment – we at WMOK are the only ones who will see these messages and it is our goal to help you learn – after you have typed something out you are ready to send your message.

4.  To send the message touch the icon at the right hand side of where you’ve been typing – it may have the word “Send” or it may look similar to a “paper airplane”

5.  Press your “back button” – on the phone at the bottom of your screen (usually) to return your text message inbox – your text identified with WMOK should now show the first few words (at least) of the message you sent to us.

You can say “hello” to us – request a song – or ask us anything your heart desires.

As you continue to practice this week – work on replying to the text messages in your inbox.

We look forward to planning another technology presentation at the Happy Hearts in September.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy 60 Years After the March on Washington

Americans’ views of progress on racial equality, different forms of protest and what needs to change

On Aug. 28, 1963, about 250,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his historic “I Have a Dream” speech advocating for economic and civil rights for Black Americans.

As the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington approaches, we asked Americans about their views on:

• King’s legacy
• The country’s progress on racial equality
• What needs to change in order to achieve racial equality

For this report, we surveyed 5,073 U.S. adults from April 10 to April 16, 2023, using Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel.¹

Key findings:

• Most Americans say King has had a positive impact on the country, with 47% saying he has had a very positive impact. Fewer (38%) say their own views on racial equality have been influenced by King’s legacy a great deal or a fair amount.
• 60% of Americans say they have heard or read a great deal or a fair amount about King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Black adults are the most likely to say this at 80%, compared with 60% of White adults, 49% of Hispanic adults and 41% of Asian adults.
• 52% of Americans say there has been a great deal or a fair amount of progress on racial equality in the last 60 years. A third say there’s been some progress and 15% say there has been not much or no progress at all. Still, more say efforts to ensure equality for all, regardless of race or ethnicity, haven’t gone far enough (52%) than say they have gone too far (20%) or been about right (27%).
• A majority (58%) of those who say efforts to ensure equality haven’t gone far enough think it’s unlikely that there will be racial equality in their lifetime. Those who say efforts have been about right are more optimistic: Within this group, 39% say racial equality is extremely or very likely in their lifetime, while 36% say it is somewhat likely and 24% say it’s not too or not at all likely.
• Many people who say efforts to ensure racial equality haven’t gone far enough say several systems need to be completely rebuilt to ensure equality. The prison system is at the top of the list, with 44% in this group saying it needs to be completely rebuilt. More than a third say the same about policing (38%) and the political system (37%).
• 70% of Americans say marches and demonstrations that don’t disrupt everyday life are always or often acceptable ways to protest racial inequality. And 59% say the same about boycotts. Fewer than half (39%) see sit-ins as an acceptable form of protest. And much smaller shares say the same about activities that disrupt everyday life, such as shutting down streets or traffic (13%) and actions that result in damage to public or private property (5%).

Read more here from Pew Research