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Oh, where to begin...First, let me begin by saying my opinions do not reflect those of my employer, The Weather Channel, or its associates, advertisers, owners, or sister companies. I usually don't talk about where I work on Quora, but it is obviously relevant to this story in a number of ways.Here were the problems I saw with the whole snow issue:•Apparently, not too many officials in the local governments were paying attention to the forecast.The National Weather Service, The Weather Channel, and the local news stations were all forecasting snow across the entire Atlanta area by Monday evening (January 27, 2014), upwards of 16-18 hours before the snow began to fall. The Weather Channel in particular was doing heavy coverage of the storm, named Winter Storm Leon by the network, with segments on how to prepare for a winter storm, how to drive in the snow, etc.Earlier forecast models showed snow only coming up to the southern suburbs of Atlanta, but this was revised as it was clear the snow was going to cover the north areas as well.In fact, because I work at The Weather Channel (in graphics, not meteorology, but that never stops anyone from asking you about the forecast), one of the employees at my gym asked me how bad the snow was going to be on Monday night. My response was "enough for people to act a fool". But not even I expected the magnitude of what happened.Very few preparations were made; the only ones I distinctly remember hearing about involved the roads being salted in Atlanta proper (the city of Atlanta itself) Tuesday morning (January 28, 2014). Make note that when people talk about "Atlanta", they tend to be talking about a large portion of the metro area, which encompasses a minimum of six counties (Fulton, DeKalb, Cobb, Gwinnett, Clayton, and if we're being generous, Cherokee and/or Henry) and dozens of other cities besides Atlanta: Marietta, Sandy Springs, Smyrna, Roswell, Kennesaw, Norcross, Duluth, and then all the places called out on the OutKast records: College Park, East Point, Decatur, etc.) I am not aware of any significant preparations that were made at all in these areas. All businesses were still open and school was in session. Governor Nathan Deal, in fact, called the snow storm "unexpected", which is simply not true.Monday night before I went to bed, I went to the store and bought enough non-perishable portable meal replacement protein shakes and cereal bars to last myself a day, just in case I got stuck at work or something. I'm not clairvoyant, just cautious. And I need to eat a lot, come rain, sleet, or snow.•Six million people all got on the road at once.School, government offices, and most private sector employers released their employees between noon and 2 PM, as the snowfall began to accumulate. Atlanta is already notorious for bad traffic (I think it's the third worst metro area in the US as far as traffic is concerned); you're going to have traffic problems _any_time you put everyone on the road at once, instead of the natural stagger from kids getting out of school at 2PM/3PM, some businesspeople leaving work at 4, most at 5, some at 6, etc. With everyone being sent home all at once without any sort of coordination of this plan, traffic became a horror show very, very quickly.•School should have never been opened.You would have solved so many of the problems by closing school altogether for the entire Atlanta area. Many of the traffic problems were the result of parents racing across the metro area to pick up their kids, and buses called over to the schools early to pick the kids up and take them home. Traffic got so bad that, as you may have read, large numbers of kids had to stay at school overnight, with the teachers and other faculty taking care of them. Even worse, some of the buses that had kids on them ended up stuck on Interstate 285 - overnight. If you've never ridden a regular American public school bus before, they're neither warm nor comfortable.•Atlanta is not built for this. Literally.No, I'm not talking just about the under-built public transit infrastructure, which is a problem too. I'm talking about the terrain. Atlanta falls north of the North American fall line, and the area is in many places notoriously hilly. Most major cities up north where snowfall is commonplace tend not to build streets with the heavily angled drops typical of Atlanta streets, and many of the traffic problems were caused by people trying and failing to get up these snowed and iced-over hills or cars skiing down them and hitting each other. I had a friend who was an unfortunate victim of the latter issue.•After it started, there was nothing anyone could do.When the traffic ground to a halt, so did the hopes of government to try and do anything to stop the issue. There was no room for salt trucks or snow plows on streets crowded over with cars going .01 miles an hour. There wasn't even any room for tow trucks to get wrecked cars off the road in such conditions.Thankfully, the people themselves and several of the local businesses were able to do what they could. People walked the highways handing out free water and snacks to hungry and thirsty trapped commuters. Retail stores such as Home Depot, CVS, and Target let people in from the cold, and allowed them to sleep in the aisles. And an absolutely awesome group of people from a “Snowed Out Atlanta” Facebook Page became the real-life version of the Justice League, using social media to coordinate aid to people trapped and lost in the storm.•My storyEver since the forecast models started showing we might get snow in Atlanta, I told my co-workers there was a strong chance we might have to book hotel rooms and stay at or near work overnight, due to the Atlanta area's reputation when snow fell. This is what happened in January 2011, where the roads were impassible for almost a whole week and I had to spend three days at a hotel near work.When this situation happened this week (in 2014), as I was on a different team that was not part of the on-air broadcast team I was on in 2011, I was allowed to go home at 12:30 PM, just before things started getting really bad. However, by the time I made it to my car at 12:50 (don't judge me; I have a lot of stuff), things were already bad.I sat in the car for nearly 40 minutes, in line in the parking lot to turn onto the road, and moved maybe 40 yards in that time. I pulled out my phone and checked Waze - a free community-based GPS app, for those unfamiliar - and the poor thing practically exploded - every road in the entire metro area was coated in "thou shalt not pass!" red lines and reports of bumper-to-bumper stalling.Realizing I was going absolutely nowhere anytime soon, and seeing Facebook updates from co-workers who'd made it no further than a half-mile away in an hour, I pulled out of line, parked, and went back inside. Not knowing if I was going to be stuck for two days instead of one, I went to the commissary and bought eight (yes, eight) protein shakes - as well as lunch for now. Several of my other friends and co-workers also gave up and came back inside; the critical personnel needed for essential operations had to stay anyway.It took my co-workers an average of nine hours to make it home; luckily most of them weren't taking the interstates, which were virtually impassable. The Weather Channel's headquarters is located right near the intersection of Interstate 285 and Interstate 75, and from our office on one of the upper floors we could see traffic moving at a pace below "snail" (I'll go with "amoeba") all day and all night. It looked like so much of a disaster.Those of us who stayed behind and weren't already working on the storm coverage did extra work, sat and talked, took in strangers who were stranded on Interstate North Parkway and needed a place to sleep, helped push cars up the iced-over hills, etc. The generous folks at the commissary fed us regular meals for two days (I didn't have to dig that deep into my stash of protein shakes). Every hotel within reasonable walking distance (and beyond) was booked solid (some of the talent and crew who had to work on the live broadcast had rooms booked in advance; the rest were filled by stranded commuters), most of us found couches, conference rooms, and chairs to sleep in overnight. I found a conference room, and ended up on the floor with my coat for a makeshift pillow when I found I couldn't fit comfortably anyplace else in there.

The Supreme Court’s official holding in Bostock v. Clayton County is: “An employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender violates Title VII.”I — Facts and Procedural HistoryJustice Gorsuch begins the opinion by describing the facts and the procedural histories of the three cases that the Court reviewed in Bostock. (The Court’s decision resolves three separate appeals.)Two of the underlying cases were brought by gay employees who were terminated from their jobs after the employer discovered they were gay. The third was brought by a transgender employee who was terminated from her job after the employer discovered she was transgender.II — Question Presented and Explanation of the Court’s ReasoningJustice Gorsuch then explains that the legal question the Court must decide is whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employers from discriminating against their employees on the basis of “sex,” necessarily implies that employers are prohibited from discriminating against their employees on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.II AJustice Gorsuch explains some principles of antidiscrimination law. He states that “an employer who intentionally treats a person worse because of sex— such as by firing the person for actions or attributes it would tolerate in an individual of another sex—discriminates against that person in violation of Title VII.”He emphasizes that Title VII protects individuals, not groups of people. Thus, an employer who mistreats even one female employee on the basis of her sex has violated Title VII. The employer cannot raise a valid defense to a charge of discrimination against an aggrieved employee by demonstrating that it did not discriminate against other female employees.II BJustice Gorsuch then concludes that the answer to the Question Presented is “yes.” This subsection contains some language that merits direct quotation.“[I]t is impossible to discriminate against a person for being homosexual or transgender without discriminating against that individual based on sex. Consider, for example, an employer with two employees, both of whom are attracted to men. The two individuals are, to the employer’s mind, materially identical in all respects, except that one is a man and the other a woman. If the employer fires the male employee for no reason other than the fact he is attracted to men, the employer discriminates against him for traits or actions it tolerates in his female colleague. Put differently, the employer intentionally singles out an employee to fire based in part on the employee’s sex, and the affected employee’s sex is a but-for cause of his discharge. Or take an employer who fires a transgender person who was identified as a male at birth but who now identifies as a female. If the employer retains an otherwise identical employee who was identified as female at birth, the employer intentionally penalizes a person identified as male at birth for traits or actions that it tolerates in an employee identified as female at birth. Again, the individual employee’s sex plays an unmistakable and impermissible role in the discharge decision.” (Emphasis added.)II CJustice Gorsuch spends about three pages responding to some possible objections to his analysis of the words “because of sex.”III — Responses to the Employers’ Legal ArgumentsIn the next section, Justice Gorsuch explains why the employers’ remaining legal arguments lack merit.The employers argue that since Title VII doesn’t expressly mention gay or transgender people, the statute doesn’t cover them. Justice Gorsuch says that argument doesn’t hold water, for the reasons cited in Section II B.The employers argue that they didn’t intentionally discriminate against the employees on the basis of their sex. Justice Gorsuch says it doesn’t matter.The employers argue that Congress would not have expected Title VII to cover gay or transgender people in 1964. Justice Gorsuch says times change.The employers argue that prohibiting companies from discriminating against gay or transgender employees could interfere with the First Amendment rights of employers that have religiously based objections to hiring them. Justice Gorsuch says we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.That’s the 32-page opinion in a nutshell.

Barack Obama's father is of Kenyan Barack is American as is Michelle Obama. Her great grand father was born into slavery in the low country of South CarolinaEarly life and ancestryMichelle LaVaughn Robinson was born on January 17, 1964, in Chicago, Illinois, to Fraser Robinson III (1935–1991),[3]a city water plant employee and Democratic precinct captain, and Marian Shields Robinson (b. July 30, 1937), a secretary at Spiegel's catalog store.[4]Her mother was a full-time homemaker until Michelle entered high school.[5]The Robinson and Shields families trace their roots to pre-Civil WarAfrican Americans in the American South.[3]On her father's side, she is descended from the Gullah people of South Carolina's Low Countryregion.[6]Her paternal great-great grandfather, Jim Robinson, was born into slavery in 1850 on Friendfield Plantation, near Georgetown, South Carolina.[7][8]He became a freedmanat age 15 after the war. Some of Obama's paternal family still reside in the Georgetown area.[9][10]Her grandfather Fraser Robinson, Jr. built his own house in South Carolina. He and his wife LaVaughn (née Johnson) returned to the Low Country from Chicago after retirement.[7]Among her maternal ancestors was her great-great-great-grandmother, Melvinia Shields, born into slavery in South Carolina but sold to Henry Walls Shields, who had a 200-acre farm in Clayton County, Georgia near Atlanta. Melvinia's first son, Dolphus T. Shields, was biracial and born into slavery about 1860. Based on DNAand other evidence, in 2012 researchers said his father was likely 20-year-old Charles Marion Shields, son of Melvinia's master. They may have had a continuing relationship, as she had two more mixed-race children and lived near Shields after emancipation, taking his surname. (Later she changed her surname.)[11]As was often the case, Melvinia did not talk to relatives about Dolphus' father.[12]Dolphus Shields with his wife Alice moved to Birmingham, Alabama after the Civil War. They were great-great-grandparents of Michelle Robinson, whose grandparents had moved to Chicago.[12]Other of their children's lines migrated to Cleveland, Ohio in the 20th century.[11]All four of Robinson's grandparents had multiracial ancestors, reflecting the complex history of the U.S. Her extended family has said that people did not talk about the era of slavery when they were growing up.[11]Her distant ancestry includes Irish, English and Native American roots.[13]Among her contemporary extended family is rabbi Capers Funnye; born in Georgetown, South Carolina, he is the son of her grandfather Robinson's sister and her husband, and is about 12 years older than Michelle. Funnye converted to Judaism after college. He is a paternal first cousin once-removed.[14][15]Robinson's childhood home was on the upper floor of 7436 South Euclid Avenue in Chicago's South Shorecommunity area, which her parents rented from her great-aunt, who had the first floor.[4][16][17][18]She was raised in what she describes as a "conventional" home, with "the mother at home, the father works, you have dinner around the table".[19]Her elementary school was down the street. She and her family enjoyed playing games such as Monopoly, reading, and frequently saw extended family on both sides.[20]She played piano,[21]learning from her great-aunt who was a piano teacher.[22]The Robinsons attended services at nearby South Shore United Methodist Church.[16]They used to vacation in a rustic cabin in White Cloud, Michigan.[16]She and her 21-month older brother, Craig, skipped the second grade.[4][23]Her father suffered from multiple sclerosis, which had a profound emotional effect on her as she was growing up. She was determined to stay out of trouble and be a good student, which was what her father wanted for her.[24]By sixth grade, Michelle joined a gifted class at Bryn Mawr Elementary School (later renamed Bouchet Academy).[25]She attended Whitney Young High School,[26]Chicago's first magnet high school, established as a selective enrollment school, where she was a classmate of Jesse Jackson's daughter Santita.[20]The round-trip commute from the Robinsons' South Side home to the Near West Side, where the school was located, took three hours.[27]Michelle recalled being fearful of how others would perceive her, but disregarded any negativity around her and used it "to fuel me, to keep me going".[28][29]She recalled facing gender discrimination growing up, saying, for example, that rather than asking her for her opinion on a given subject, people commonly tended to ask what her older brother thought.[30]She was on the honor roll for four years, took advanced placement classes, was a member of the National Honor Society, and served as student counciltreasurer.[4]She graduated in 1981 as the salutatorian of her class