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Yahoo
13-06-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Triad teachers, students preparing for once-in-a-lifetime trip abroad to learn about Holocaust
(WGHP) — By now, most teachers across the country have said goodbye to their students, turned out the lights in their classrooms and started a well-deserved summer vacation. But there are dozens of North Carolina public school teachers from the coast to the mountains preparing for what will likely be a once-in-a-lifetime experience abroad learning about the Holocaust. That includes Damian Adame, who just finished his fourth year teaching World History to ninth-grade and tenth-grade students at Page High School in Greensboro. 'It's a mixed bag. There are a lot of emotions that go into it,' Adame said. 'There's excitement because this is honestly something that I've wanted to do. But, at the same time, it's also a little daunting.' Adame is one of nearly 40 North Carolina public middle and high school educators selected to travel to Poland to learn about the Holocaust in the very places where much of it happened. Led by retired Greensboro Rabbi Fred Guttman, they'll spend eight days visiting death camps, ghettos, communities and museums and eventually bring it all home to their students. 'One of the cool things about this trip is it's not just a tour of the camps. It's not just a tour of these areas where the events occurred,' Adame said. 'It's a walking classroom. We're going to learn and take all these things and implement them in our classroom in a brand-new way.' The trip is funded by many organizations and private donors, including longtime Holocaust education advocates Zev and Bernice Harel of Greensboro. Zev is a Holocaust survivor who was sent to several death camps as a teen, including Auschwitz and Ebensee. He spent decades sharing his story all over the world. 'I felt comfortable doing that because the Holocaust was an experience that not too many survive,' Harel said. 'Each time [I was] speaking about human adaptation and what survivors did in order to make it possible to survive.' 'At some point, the survivors realized that if they didn't start talking, everything that happened and everything they witnessed would disappear with them eventually,' Bernice said. Now, at 95 years old, Zev isn't able to share his story like he used to. So in a lot of ways, this Holocaust education trip is picking up where survivors left off, ensuring stories such as Zev's continue to get told. 'Every person that goes on this trip is hopefully going to have a deeper understanding, but it's also going to give them a deeper connection,' Adame said. 'It's going to make us more motivated to give a better scope of what's going on with this event.' The teachers leave for Poland on Monday, and FOX8's Katie Nordeen and McKenzie Lewis have been invited to join them. You can expect their special stories on Teaching the Holocaust in September. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Newsweek
04-05-2025
- Health
- Newsweek
Waitress Cuts Her Finger on Glass, Three Years Later She Learns the Truth
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. A waitress who got a shard of glass in her finger while cleaning was adamant there was still something in there—and three and a half years later, she got her proof in a wild way. Cristina Adame, from Aurora, Illinois, told Newsweek she was working at a restaurant years ago, when she accidentally got "shards of glass in my index finger while trying to clean broken glass debris that was at our cup and soda station." "My boyfriend had tried to remove whatever was left, and we thought for sure that it was all out," she said—until October 2024, when she "started getting sharp pains in my finger," leaving her incapable of using it properly. At the same time, "a large bump formed on the side of my finger, along with what looked like a small dot of dried internal blood in the middle." A shard of glass had been embedded in Cristina Adame's finger for more than three years. A shard of glass had been embedded in Cristina Adame's finger for more than three years. TikTok @ Concerned, Adame went to a doctor, but was assured her it was not glass, as she "insisted it was," but instead a herpetic whitlow that would heal within a few weeks, though they advised her to get a second opinion if it did not heal. A herpetic whitlow is a contagious skin infection featuring painful blisters on the skin by the fingernail, caused by the herpes simplex virus. It should go away on its own, but may require antivirals, according to Cleveland Clinic. Things appeared to calm down, but in March 2025 the same issue arose, and "an even larger bump" formed in the same spot on Adame's finger, and she sought a second opinion while giving them information on her previous visit. This time, the doctors cut into her finger—not directly into the bump, but into where the speck of dried blood was—and found no glass. Just when it appeared Adame would never get an answer, weeks later she was washing dishes with hot water when she noticed a small hole "open up on the side of my finger." The hole appeared to be bigger the following day, and Adame took matters into her own hands. "I run to my bathroom to use the end of a floss pick to try and open the hole up more. I finally am able to see the hole more clearly—and I bite the excess skin flap covering the hole. "That is when I felt, and heard a loud crunch! I press down on my finger, and lo and behold comes out the glass of three years!" She shared the wild story to her TikTok account @ on April 11, where a video showed the shard of glass sticking out from her finger. Adame told the backstory, before finishing: "Lo and behold y'all, the glass from three years ago... literally popped out. "This is glass from three years ago! How am I still alive?" Pictured: The circled area where doctors cut in to try and locate any glass, and, right, the hole left where the shard emerged. Pictured: The circled area where doctors cut in to try and locate any glass, and, right, the hole left where the shard emerged. TikTok @ There are dangers to leaving glass in the body, including tetanus and other infections such as cellulitis and MRSA. A small splinter of glass may be safe to leave in the skin as the body should naturally get rid of it as it sheds skin, according to a medically-reviewed article from WebMD, however you should consult a doctor if redness is spreading around the area, the area is swelling, or you have not been able to remove the glass for 12 hours—or in Adame's case, three years. TikTok users were shocked by the story, with Adame's video viewed more than 3.6 million times, as many shared their own stories. "Our bodies are so cool," one user wrote. "My dad had shrapnel coming out of his body for my whole childhood after he got back from serving in the army." Another recalled: "I cut my hand while cutting avocado and a year later after it healed my body pushed out a tiny piece of avocado skin." "I sliced my hand on a broken window a couple of years ago and still have little bits of glass pop out," one said—and as one detailed: "I have a piece of pencil lead in my palm that got stuck in elementary school 17 years ago." Adame told Newsweek that since the glass finally emerged, "my finger has healed very nicely and I have no more pain [or] discomfort, finally, after three long years."
Yahoo
21-02-2025
- Yahoo
Arkansas man arrested in West Peoria after ‘terroristic threats'
WEST PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — A man wanted in Arkansas for alleged 'terroristic threats' as well as alleged possession of a stolen U-Haul and illicit drugs was arrested in West Peoria Friday morning. Jeremy Adame, 38, was arrested at the 600 block of North Waverly Avenue just after 9:30 a.m. Friday morning, said Peoria County Sheriff Chris Watkins in a Facebook post. He was staying at the location in West Peoria when he was arrested by Deputy Blaine Duhs with the U.S. Marshals Task Force and detectives with the Peoria County Sheriff's Office. Adame was allegedly also in possession of a stolen U-Haul truck and methamphetamines, according to the post. Adame is set to be extradited to Arkansas, and there is no cause for public concern, Watkins said. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
