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Tweet Facebook Mail The suspect police are questioning in the slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is an Ivy League graduate software engineer from a prominent Baltimore family who appears to have favorably reviewed the manifesto of Ted Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, on a book website. Luigi Mangione, 26, was identified by New York police this morning as a "strong person of interest" in the shooting of Thompson last week. This is what we know about him so far. READ MORE: Suspected CEO assassin behind bars after McDonald's arrest Luigi Mangione is seen in a photo posted in 2019. (CNN) What is Luigi Mangione's background? Mangione has ties to at least three states – Hawaii, Pennsylvania, and Maryland – and has no history of arrests in New York City, police said. The suspect is the grandson of Nicholas Mangione, a prominent Baltimore real estate developer , and his wife, Mary C Mangione, a philanthropist who died last year. The Mangione family owns Lorien Health Systems, a nursing home chain in Maryland, and Luigi volunteered there in 2014, according to his LinkedIn page. Where did Luigi Mangione go to school? Mangione graduated from the prestigious Gilman School, an all-boys school that is known as one of Baltimore's toniest private schools and was the high school valedictorian in 2016. In his valedictorian speech, Mangione lauded his classmates for "coming up with new ideas and challenging the world," citing successful fundraisers and accomplishments in sports and academics. "To the class of 2016, a kind of class that only comes around once every 50 years, it's been an incredible journey and I simply can't imagine the last few years with any other group of guys," he said. READ MORE: Riot squad called in as teens run amok on island CNN has obtained footage of the gun used by the shooter who shot and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York. (CNN) Mangione attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 2020 with a master's and bachelor's degree in computer science and a minor in mathematics, a university spokesperson told CNN. Mangione was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, social media photos show. In an interview for a university blog post, Mangione talked about how he had started a video game development club. "In high school, I started playing a lot of independent games and stuff like that, but I wanted to make my own game, and so I learned how to code," Mangione said. "In my freshman and sophomore years of high school, I learned [on my own] how to program, and that's why I'm a computer science major now; that's how I got into it... I just really wanted to make games." READ MORE: Noticed the cicadas are louder this year? There's a few reasons why Police released several photos of a suspect in the shooting before Mangione's arrest. (AP) What was Luigi Mangione's job? After graduating, Mangione worked as a software engineer for the online car sales company TrueCar, according to his LinkedIn page. His most recent address was in Hawaii, NYPD officials said. Mangione is registered to vote at his family's address in Cockeysville, Maryland, a Baltimore suburb, and is registered as unaffiliated with a political party, according to the state's voter registration lookup website. He is the cousin of Maryland State Delegate Nino Mangione, a Republican, the state lawmaker's office confirmed to local media. Private security guards were blocking access to the family's house on a golf club Monday afternoon local time (Tuesday morning AEDT). The shooting was captured on camera. (AP) What was Mangione carrying when he was arrested? Police said that when officers detained Mangione, he was carrying a multipage document that expressed "ill will toward corporate America." The document stated "these parasites had it coming," and "I do apologise for any strife and trauma, but it had to be done," a police official told CNN. It also said that Mangione acted alone and that the attack was self-funded. The shooting has captivated the nation after a man gunned down Thompson on Wednesday morning outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel. Until identifying Mangione Monday afternoon, police had only released a handful of surveillance video screenshots of the man they believed was the shooter. What do we know about Luigi Mangione's digital footprint? A Goodreads profile that appears to belong to Mangione shows that earlier this year, he reported having read the 1995 antitechnology manifesto written by the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, the infamous domestic terrorist and mathematician known for sending deadly bombs through the mail. "It's easy to quickly and thoughtless[ly] write this off as the manifesto of a lunatic, in order to avoid facing some of the uncomfortable problems it identifies. But it's simply impossible to ignore how prescient many of his predictions about modern society turned out," Mangione wrote in a review of the book in January. "He was a violent individual - rightfully imprisoned - who maimed innocent people. While these actions tend to be characterised as those of a crazy luddite, however, they are more accurately seen as those of an extreme political revolutionary." In his review, Mangione also shared thoughts someone else had shared about Kaczynski in a Reddit thread, quoting a commenter who had described his acts as "war and revolution," saying that he "had the balls to recognise that peaceful protest has gotten us absolutely nowhere" and that "'Violence never solved anything' is a statement uttered by cowards and predators." Twitter photos posted by an account appearing to belong to Luigi Mangione. (Supplied) In total, Mangione's Goodreads profile listed him as reading or wanting to read nearly 300 books, including a book about mental illness, a biography of the creator of the atomic bomb and Michael Pollan's popular book on the science of psychedelics. Also on Goodreads, he reported reading or wanting to read a number of books about coping with chronic back pain. An account on the social media platform X that appears to belong to him features a background profile photo of what looks like an X-ray image of a spine with hardware from a surgery. Posts addressed to the X account suggest that some of Mangione's friends have been trying to get in touch with him since earlier this year. In July, one user tweeted at Mangione, "I haven't heard from you in months," urging him to respond to his wedding invitation. Three months later, another user posted, "Hey, are you ok? Nobody has heard from you in months, and apparently your family is looking for you." DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP : Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. Available on the Apple App Store and Google Play .CEO killing and rage over insurance plunges UnitedHealth into crisis
A decent metric to judge when a game has truly hit the mainstream is when Steam's active sex game scene sees fit to make a parody. Congrats Helldivers 2, meet SEXDIVERS 🔞 , an "intense survival shooter" releasing sometime in 2025. Yes, the emoji is in the title—I didn't know you could do that on Steam either. While I wouldn't say anything about Sexdivers looks fun or particularly good, I have to commend developer Octo Games for competently recreating Helldivers 2's look in its action scenes. The Sexdiver suits are a bit too busy-looking to believe they could've come from Arrowhead, but the desert planet, bug faction, and capes look, at a glance, so close to Helldivers that you could briefly mistake it for the genuine article. The trailer even parodies Helldivers 2's launch trailer recruitment ad with triumphant shots of the diver telling viewers to "BECOME THE HERO." That spell would presumably be lifted when your diver steps back onto their ship and the whole sex part of the game begins. You see, in Sexdivers you're not a faceless soldier serving an intergalactic regime. You seem more like a Shepherd-like ship captain leading an expedition across a mysterious planet, an expedition that includes a lot of hot singles in your area. "With each successful mission, your fame grows, and so does your popularity among the women in the expedition and beyond," the Steam page reads. "The more achievements you unlock, the more erotic possibilities become available, turning your journey into something far more than just a fight for survival." I mean, you get it: Go fight bugs with what looks like the most bare-minimum, trashy third-person shooting mechanics that a stock game engine can offer, then get rewarded with interactive sex scenes featuring a "cum" button. I'm sure that's someone's fantasy. You can tell Octo Games is really phoning in the details here. For one, this is the developer's 43rd game in just two and a half years on Steam—a catalog that includes Hot Pussy College, Hentai Survivors, Fap & Cum, and Sex Standing (a play on Death Stranding, but I can confirm from screenshots that other positions are supported). Then there's this half-assed, AI-sounding feature list that, frankly, is hard to pay attention to sandwiched between porn gifs: The biggest gaming news, reviews and hardware deals Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team. Encounter new enemies as you advance through the levels Dynamic controller for immersive gameplay Hot scenes to unlock Use strategic thinking and skills to defeat enemies and reach your goal Dynamic Environments: Immerse yourself in vividly detailed environments that evolve over time Wow, a dynamic controller for immersive gameplay. Sexdivers also has an AI content disclosure that reveals it used "neural networks" to make some of its backgrounds and "help render fine character details faster." I suppose sacrifices in artistic voice must be made to produce an average of 17 games per year.
A majority of the Texas State Board of Education gave final approval Friday to a state-authored curriculum under intense scrutiny in recent months for its heavy inclusion of biblical teachings. Eight of the 15 board members voted to approve Bluebonnet Learning, the elementary school curriculum proposed by the Texas Education Agency earlier this year. The curriculum will become available in the spring, with schools that choose to adopt the materials expected to begin using them at the start of the 2025-26 school year. The curriculum was designed with a cross-disciplinary approach that uses reading and language arts lessons to advance or cement concepts in other disciplines, such as history and social studies. Critics, which included religious studies scholars, say the curriculum’s lessons allude to Christianity more than any other religion, which they say could lead to the bullying and isolation of non-Christian students, undermine church-state separation and grant the state far-reaching control over how children learn about religion. They also questioned the accuracy of some lessons. The curriculum’s defenders say that references to Christianity will provide students with a better understanding of the country’s history. Texas school districts have the freedom to choose their own lesson plans, so the choice to adopt the materials will remain with them. But the state will offer an incentive of $60 per student to districts that adopt the lessons, which could appeal to some as schools struggle financially after several years without a significant raise in state funding. Three Republicans — Evelyn Brooks, Patricia Hardy and Pam Little — joined the board’s four Democrats in opposition to the materials. Leslie Recine — a Republican whom Gov. Greg Abbott appointed to temporarily fill the State Board of Education’s District 13 seat vacated by former member Aicha Davis, a Democrat who ran successfully for a Texas House seat earlier this year — voted for the curriculum. Abbott handpicked Recine, who was the deciding vote on the materials, to fill the seat through the end of the year days before the general election, bypassing Democrat Tiffany Clark. A majority of District 13 residents voted this election for Clark to represent them on the board next year. She ran unopposed. Board members who expressed support for the curriculum said during the week they believed the materials would help students improve their reading and understanding of the world. Members also said politics in no way influenced their vote and that they supported the materials because they believed it would best serve Texas children. “In my view, these stories are on the education side and are establishing cultural literacy,” Houston Republican Will Hickman said. “And there's religious concepts like the Good Samaritan and the Golden Rule and Moses that all students should be exposed to.” The proposed curriculum prompts teachers to relay the story of The Good Samaritan — a parable about loving everyone, including your enemies — to kindergarteners as an example of what it means to follow the Golden Rule. The story comes from the Bible, the lesson explains, and “was told by a man named Jesus” as part of his Sermon on the Mount, which included the phrase, “Do unto others as you would have done unto you.” Many other religions have their own version of the Golden Rule. Brooks, one of the Republicans who opposed the materials, noted this week that the Texas Education Agency is not a textbook publishing company and said treating it like such has created an uneven playing field for companies in the textbook industry. Brooks also said she has yet to see evidence showing the curriculum would improve student learning and that she was opposed to the state using Texas schoolchildren as “experiments.” Hardy, a Fort Worth Republican who also opposed the materials, said she did so without regard for the religious references. She expressed concern about the curriculum’s age appropriateness and her belief that it does not align with state standards on reading and other subjects. Little, a Fairview Republican, expressed concern on Friday that the state would have no way to see its “return on investment” with the materials, considering schools have wide latitude to adopt lessons as they see fit — meaning districts could pair Bluebonnet Learning with other learning materials, making the effectiveness of Bluebonnet as a standalone curriculum unclear. Little said on social media earlier in the week that she supports “the teaching of biblical values in education” but criticized the curriculum for some of its teaching methods, which she said leave “little time for students to practice reading and develop critical skills like fluency and comprehension.” Meanwhile, some of the Democrats who voted against the curriculum said they worried the materials would inappropriately force Christianity on public school children. Others cited concerns about Texas violating the Establishment Clause, which prohibits states from endorsing a particular religion. “If this is the standard for students in Texas, then it needs to be exactly that,” said Staci Childs, a Houston Democrat. “It needs to be high quality, and it needs to be the standard, free of any establishment clause issues, free of any lies, and it needs to be accurate.” The state had until late Wednesday to submit revisions in response to concerns raised by board members and the general public before the official vote took place Friday. Democratic members said Friday, however, that their concerns still remained. Childs, who is also an attorney, said she believes if someone were to sue the state for a violation of the Establishment Clause, they would likely succeed. San Antonio Democrat Marisa B. Pérez-Diaz said she found value in the materials but that the Christian bias kept her from supporting it. Rebecca Bell-Metereau, a San Marcos Democrat, said that although the curriculum attempts to reference faith traditions other than Christianity, she doesn't feel the state did so in a meaningful way. “It seems to me like it is trying to place a Band-Aid on a gaping wound,” Bell-Metereau said. In a statement Friday, Texas Education Agency Commissioner Mike Morath said the approval of Bluebonnet Learning “means that an important, optional new resource will be available for students, teachers and schools.” “These materials were developed using the best evidence on how to teach reading and math with extensive feedback from teachers and parents to construct a product that is effective, engaging and grade-level appropriate,” Morath said. “Bluebonnet Learning provides Texas teachers with textbooks and instructional materials that are of the highest quality, aligned to our state’s standards and foundational for student success.” Abbott called the State Board of Education’s approval of the materials “a critical step forward to bring students back to the basics of education and provide the best education in the nation.” In contrast, the approval drew immediate criticism from both national and local organizations. Americans United for Separation of Church and State said in a statement that “Texas’ new Bible-infused elementary curriculum is part of the nationwide effort by Christian Nationalists to impose their religious beliefs on public school students.” The Texas American Federation of Teachers blasted the state for infusing school lessons with “Bible-based references more appropriate for Sunday Schools than public schools.” “We can anticipate what will come next, whether that’s the erasure of contributions of marginalized populations in social studies or the minimization of climate change in science,” the union said. Meanwhile, conservative organizations like the Texas Public Policy Foundation, which helped develop the materials, applauded education officials for taking “the next big step toward dramatically improving the quality of education in Texas.” “Teachers will be able to spend more of their time doing the critical job of teaching and evaluating students, rather than spending their nights and weekends searching for lesson plans,” said Greg Sindelar, the organization’s CEO. “And parents will get to follow along as their children learn thanks to the online resources that come with the lessons.” More than 100 Texans signed up Monday to speak for and against the state-authored curriculum. Courtnie Bagley, education director for the Texas Public Policy Foundation, told board members that the Texas Education Agency has made every effort to respond to concerns from the public. She said rejecting the lessons would give other materials not owned by the state an unfair advantage. “It would create a double standard, as Bluebonnet Learning has been held to a different and more stringent review process than other materials under consideration,” Bagley said. Opponents argued that revisions did not go far enough, and some questioned whether the state’s intentions with crafting a curriculum that leans heavily on Christianity are political. “I am a Christian, and I do believe that religion is a part of our culture, but our nation does not have a religion. We're unique in that,” said Mary Lowe, co-founder of Families Engaged for an Effective Education. “So I do not think that our school districts should imply or try to overtly impress to young impressionable children that the state does have a state religion.” Education officials say references to Christianity will provide students with a better understanding of the country’s history, while other supporters have stated their belief that the use of religious references does not violate the U.S. Constitution’s Establishment Clause. Legal experts note that recent rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority have eroded decades of precedent and made it unclear what state actions constitute a violation of the Establishment Clause. State leaders also say the materials cover a broad range of faiths and only make references to religion when appropriate. Education Commissioner Mike Morath has said the materials are based on extensive cognitive science research and will help improve student outcomes. Of 10 people appointed to an advisory panel by the Texas Education Agency to ensure the materials are accurate, age-appropriate and free from bias, at least half of the members have a history of faith-based advocacy. The Texas Tribune recently reported how parents, historians and educators have criticized the ways the materials address America’s history of racism, slavery and civil rights. In public input submitted in response to the curriculum and in interviews with the Tribune, they have said the materials strip key historical figures of their complexities and flaws while omitting certain context they say would offer children a more accurate understanding of the country’s past and present. Bell-Metereau and other Texans referenced the Tribune’s reporting during public testimony on Monday. In response to those concerns, the Texas Education Agency has said the lessons will provide students with “a strong foundation” to understand more complex concepts as they reach later grades. State officials have also said those materials are written in an age-appropriate manner. Disclosure: Texas Public Policy Foundation has been a financial supporter of The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that is funded in part by donations from members, foundations and corporate sponsors. Financial supporters play no role in the Tribune's journalism. Find a complete list of them here.
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House arrest for breach of pub ban( MENAFN - EIN Presswire) WILMINGTON, NEW CASTLE, DE, UNITED STATES, December 24, 2024 /EINPresswire / -- According to a recent report published by Allied market Research, titled,“Veterinary Software Market by Product Type, Deployment, Type, Practice Type, and End User: Opportunity Analysis and industry Forecast, 2020-2027,” The global veterinary software market size was valued at $1.31 billion in 2019, and is projected to reach $2.08 billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 6.1% from 2020 to 2027. Get Research Report Sample Pages : Veterinary software is mainly used to manage and streamline the operations in veterinary and equine practices, clinics, hospitals, and laboratories. They provide functionalities such as automated billing, appointment scheduling, reminders, patient records management, inventory management, and more. Factors such as rise in companion animal ownership, increase in awareness regarding animal healthcare, rise in spending on animal welfare initiatives, growing adoption of advanced technologies in veterinary industry across the world are driving the demand of global veterinary software market. The exclusive small animal practices segment is anticipated to hold the majority of the veterinary software market share in 2027 due to large number of companion animal owners, increasing popularity of pet keeping, rise in awareness of pet health, and large number of small animal practice clinics/hospitals across the world. The veterinary practice management software accounted for the highest share among product type segment in veterinary software industry in 2019. This is attributed to the increasing need for streamlining the day-to-day operations in the veterinary clinic or hospitals. Further, requirement for automating appointment scheduling, online payment integration, invoicing, inventory management, imagery records management are also influencing the need for this software. As per region, the global veterinary software market size was dominated by North America in 2019 and is expected to maintain this trend during the forecast period. Factors such as presence of leading companies designing veterinary software in North America and majority of digitalization adoption in animal healthcare sector in this region are the major drivers for the veterinary software market growth in this region. In addition, rise in demand for veterinary practice management solutions is propelling the growth in this region. Procure Complete Research Report Now : /purchase-options Although lockdown has been enforced in majority of the countries around the world, the healthcare industry is expected to remain operational, as it is considered under essential services. With alarming increase in cases of coronavirus in 2020, many players have adopted various business and marketing strategies. For instance, in March 2020, IDEXX launched the series of webinars featuring practice managers and owners discussing strategies and real-world tactics to help veterinarians respond and deliver continued care during COVID-19 pandemic. Some of the key vendors in the veterinary software market are witnessing increased revenue due to spike in demand for veterinary practice management solutions. Key Findings Of The Study : By product type, the veterinary practice management segment accounted for highest share in 2019. On the basis of veterinary software deployment, the cloud segment is expected to witness highest CAGR during the forecast period. Depending on type, the integrated software segment accounted for the highest veterinary software market size in 2019. As per practice type, the exclusive small animal practices segment is anticipated to exhibit highest growth during the forecast period. In terms of end user segment, hospitals/clinics held the largest share in veterinary software market in 2019. Region wise, North America accounted for the highest revenue in 2019; however, Asia-Pacific is anticipated to exhibit highest growth during the veterinary software market forecast period. Inquire Before Buying : The global veterinary software market analysis includes some of the key market players such as Animal Intelligence Software, Inc., ClienTrax, Covetrus, Inc., Hippo Manager Software Inc., IDEXX Laboratories, Inc., MWI Animal Health, Patterson Companies Inc., Petabyte Technology, Three Plus Group, Timeless Veterinary Systems, Vetspire, Inc., Vetter Software, Inc., VetZ GmbH, and VIA Information Systems. 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Jarrod Bowen held Antonio’s number nine shirt aloft after scoring the winner in support of the Hammers striker, who is recovering after a horror car crash on Saturday. Boss Julen Lopetegui said: “He is not in his best moment but he kept his humour. It was a special moment for us. “I think we have a lot of reason to win matches but this was one reason more. He’s alive so we are happy.” MA9 ❤️ pic.twitter.com/fXwtdSQWYE — West Ham United (@WestHam) December 9, 2024 West Ham players wore ‘Antonio 9′ shirts while warming up and walking out before kick-off. The shirts will be signed by the players, including Antonio, and auctioned off with the proceeds going to the NHS and Air Ambulances UK. Tomas Soucek headed West Ham into the lead and held up nine fingers to a TV camera. The Czech midfielder told Sky Sports: “He’s been here since I came here. He is really my favourite. I said it would be tough for me to play without him. "He was here since I came and he's really my favourite" Tomáš Souček on dedicating his goal to Michail Antonio ❤️ pic.twitter.com/smNy26wmuX — Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) December 9, 2024 “I was so scared what was going to happen. It was a really tough week for him, his family and us.” Matt Doherty equalised for Wolves, and boss Gary O’Neil felt they should have had two penalties for fouls on Goncalo Guedes and Jean-Ricner Bellegarde, both of which were checked by VAR. But Bowen’s winner – O’Neil believed there was a foul in the build-up – condemned Wolves to a 10th defeat of the season and a third in a row. While under-pressure Lopetegui may have earned a stay of execution, O’Neil’s future as Wolves manager is now in serious doubt. “A lot of things went against us but ultimately we have not found a way to turn the game in our favour,” he said. “But the players showed they are still fighting for me, for the fans and the group. “Where does this leave me? In the same place I was. I’m aware of the noise. But if anyone expected this to be easy – I’m happy to be judged on results but it should be done in context. “Whenever this journey ends with Wolves I’ll be proud of it.” There was an acrimonious end to the match as captains Bowen and Mario Lemina scuffled after the final whistle, with the Wolves midfielder angrily shoving people including one of his own coaches, Shaun Derry. “I just went to shake his hand after the game,” Bowen said. “He didn’t want to shake my hand, two captains together just to say ‘well done’ after the game. “I know it’s difficult when you lose. I’ve been on the end of that situation.” O’Neil added: “Mario is calm now. He’s a passionate guy and something was said that upset him. “The instinct of the staff was to make sure he didn’t get into trouble, but he took some calming down.”There are few clearer signs of the destructive power that Hurricane Beryl unleashed on Barbados in July than the scene at the temporary boatyard in the capital, Bridgetown. Scores of mangled and cracked vessels sit on stacks, gaping holes in their hulls, their rudders snapped off and cabin windows broken. Yet these were the lucky ones. At least they can be repaired and put back out to sea. Many others sank, taking entire family incomes with them. When Beryl lashed Barbados, the island's fishing fleet was devastated in a matter of hours. About 75% of the active fleet was damaged, with 88 boats totally destroyed. Charles Carter, who owns a blue-and-black fishing vessel called Joyce, was among those affected. "It's been real bad, I can tell you. I had to change both sides of the hull, up to the waterline," he says, pointing at the now pristine boat in front of us. It has taken months of restoration and thousands of dollars to get it back to this point, during which time Charles has barely been able to fish. "That's my living, my livelihood, fishing is all I do," he says. "The fishing industry is mash up," echoes his friend, Captain Euride. "We're just trying to get back the pieces." Now, six months after the storm, there are signs of calmer waters. On a warm Saturday, several repaired vessels were put back into the ocean with the help of a crane, a trailer and some government support. Seeing Joyce back on the water is a welcome sight for all fishermen in Barbados. But Barbadians are acutely aware that climate change means more active and powerful Atlantic hurricane seasons - and it may be just another year or two before the fishing industry is struck again. Beryl, for example, was the earliest-forming Category 5 storm on record. Few understand the extent of the problem better than the island's Chief Fisheries Officer, Dr Shelly Ann Cox. "Our captains have been reporting that sea conditions have changed," she explains. "Higher swells, sea surface temperatures are much warmer and they're having difficulty getting flying fish now at the beginning of our pelagic season." The flying fish is a national symbol in Barbados and a key part of the island's cuisine. But climate change has been harming the stocks for years. At the Oistins Fish Market in Bridgetown, flying fish are still available, along with marlin, mahi-mahi and tuna, though only a handful of stalls are open. At one of them, Cornelius Carrington, from the Freedom Fish House. fillets a kingfish with the speed and dexterity of a man who has spent many years with a fish knife in his hands. "Beryl was like a surprise attack, like an ambush," says Cornelius, in a deep baritone voice, over the market's chatter, reggae and thwack of cleavers on chopping boards. Cornelius lost one of his two boats in Hurricane Beryl. "It's the first time a hurricane has come from the south like that, normally storms hit us from the north," he said. Although his second boat allowed him to stay afloat financially, Cornelius thinks the hand of climate change is increasingly present in the fishermen's fate. "Right now, everything has changed. The tides are changing, the weather is changing, the temperature of the sea, the whole pattern has changed." The effects are also being felt in the tourism industry, he says, with hotels and restaurants struggling to find enough fish to meet demand each month. For Dr Shelly Ann Cox, public education is key and, she says, the message is getting through. "Perhaps because we are an island and we're so connected to the water, people in Barbados can speak well on the impact on climate change and what that means for our country," she says. "I think if you speak to children as well, they're very knowledgeable about the topic." To see for myself, I visited a secondary school – Harrison College – as a member of a local NGO, the Caribbean Youth Environmental Network (CYEN), talked to members of the school's Environmental Club about climate change. The CYEN representative, Sheldon Marshall, is an energy expert who quizzed the pupils about greenhouse gases and the steps they could take at home to help reduce carbon emissions on the island. "How can you, as young people in Barbados, help make a difference on climate change?" he asked them. Following an engaging and lively debate, I asked the pupils how they felt about Barbados being on the front line of global climate change, despite having only a small carbon footprint itself. "Personally, I take a very pessimistic view," said 17-year-old Isabella Fredricks. "We are a very small country. No matter how hard we try to change, if the big countries – the main producers of pollution like America, India and China – don't make a change, everything we do is going to be pointless." Her classmate, Tenusha Ramsham, is slightly more optimistic. "I think that all great big leaps in history were made when people collaborated and innovated," she argues. "I don't think we should be completely disheartened because research, innovation, creating technology and education will ultimately lead to the future that we want." "I feel if we can communicate to the global superpowers the pain that we feel seeing this happen to our environment," adds 16-year-old Adrielle Baird, "then it would help them to understand and help us collaborate to find ways to fix the issues that we're seeing." For the island's young people, their very futures are at stake. Rising sea levels now pose an existential threat to the small islands of the Caribbean. It is a point on which the Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, has become a global advocate for change – urging greater action over an impending climate catastrophe in her speech at COP29 and calling for economic compensation from the world's industrialised nations. On its shores and in its seas, it feels like Barbados is under siege - dealing with issues from coral bleaching to coastal erosion. While the impetus for action comes from the island's youth, it is the older generations who have borne witness as the changes unfold. Steven Bourne has fished the waters around Barbados his whole life and lost two boats in Hurricane Beryl. As we look out at the coastline from a dilapidated beach-hut bar, he says the island's sands have shifted before his very eyes. "It's an attack from the elements. You see it taking the beaches away, but years ago you'd be sitting here, and you could see the water's edge coming upon the sand. Now you can't because the sand's built up so much." By coincidence, in the same bar where I chatted to Steven was Home Affairs Minister Wilfred Abrahams, who has responsibility for national disaster management. I put it to him that it must be a a difficult time for disaster management in the Caribbean. "The whole landscape has changed entirely," he replied. "Once upon a time, it was rare to get a Category Five hurricane in any year. Now we're getting them every year. So the intensity and the frequency are cause for concern." Even the duration of the hurricane season has changed, he says. "We used to have a rhyme that went: June, too soon; July, standby; October, all over," he tells me. Extreme weather events like Beryl have rendered such an idea obsolete. "What we can expect has changed, what we've prepared for our whole lives and what our culture is built around has changed," he adds. Fisherman Steven Bourne had hoped to retire before Beryl. Now, he says, he and the rest of the islanders have no choice but to keep going. "Being afraid or anything like that don't make no sense. Because there's nowhere for we to go. We love this rock. And we will always be on this rock."
On Thursday, Nov. 26, 1789, George Washington woke early. Assisted by his enslaved valets – William “Billy” Lee and the young Christopher Sheels – he powdered his hair, put on his favorite black velvet suit, tied his white neckwear and donned his yellow gloves. Finally ready, he set out to travel the short distance from the President’s House, at what used to be 3 Cherry St. , New York, and St. Paul’s Chapel, which still stands at 209 Broadway . He had an important aim that day: to celebrate Thanksgiving. Washington had thought carefully about this Thanksgiving, the first of his presidency. On Oct. 3, 1789, following the recommendation of a joint committee of the Senate and House of Representatives, Washington had issued a proclamation . He urged the people of the United States to celebrate “a day of public thanksgiving and prayer.” But Washington believed that particular Thanksgiving in 1789 was a crucial occasion. He would use it to call on the people he now led to hold their new country together in the face of forces that he knew could pull it apart. It was not the first Thanksgiving Americans celebrated. The first took place at Plymouth colony in the autumn of 1621 – Pilgrims held a feast to thank God for their first harvest and invited members of the neighboring Wampanoag tribe. It was not even the first national Thanksgiving – which was held on Dec. 18, 1777 , at then-General Washington’s behest. Nor was Thanksgiving yet a federal holiday to be observed every last Thursday of November – it became so with the 1863 proclamation of President Abraham Lincoln . Nov. 26, 1789, was a Thursday, and the weather was miserable. Few New Yorkers showed up at St. Paul’s Chapel to see the president: “ I went to St. Pauls Chapel ,” Washington wrote in his diary, “though it was most inclement and stormy.” There were “but few people at Church.” The president had prepared for the occasion. He also contributed a sizable sum of his own money to buy beer and food for prisoners confined for debt in the New York City jail. The donation was deemed to be a magnanimous and moving gesture, suitable to the spirit of the holiday. A week later, in an advertisement in the Dec. 3 issue of the New York Journal , those very prisoners returned their “grateful thanks” to their president “for his very acceptable donation on Thursday last.” Washington’s first Thanksgiving as a president may have not been tremendously successful, given the scarce attendance at the church service. Yet, as a scholar writing a biography about Washington , I believe it was an important step in his much larger political plan to bring the executive branch to the people’s doorstep. What Washington wanted was a virtuous kind of populism in the new country he led. Washington’s populism wasn’t about inciting an angry mob; it was about sharing in their rituals, worshiping their God, speaking their own language. And he did so in the sole interest of the American people. Thanksgiving 1789, for Washington, was at once religious and more than religious. Washington’s proclamation invoked devotional language, literally. The upcoming festivity, in his words , could “be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be.” But Washington’s main concern was political. The nation was recently formed, and he feared that it could easily collapse. Its many internal divisions and separate interests could be lethal. Consequently, the president wanted this holiday to be a civic celebration in which “we may then all unite.” As its first president, Washington recognized that the United States was born out of slavery, conquest and violence as much as of sacred principle. Civic unification required acknowledgment of these flaws. Thus, in the proclamation, Washington asked God “to pardon our national and other transgressions.” A tremendously self-aware man , Washington knew that he was a deeply flawed person himself. He was a slave owner, a relentless pursuer of African American fugitives and a destroyer of Native American villages. He was also a warrior who deployed brutality against enemies. He was a commander who resorted to corporal punishment with his own soldiers. Washington believed that he was not a saint to be mindlessly imitated. This made him humble in his duties. More importantly, Washington also grasped the power of his symbolic position as president. He sought to leverage that for the good of the nation. As president, Washington could not advertise his actions effectively via Twitter and social media. He had to show himself around constantly, no matter the weather. He had to painstakingly attend balls, plays, dinners, public receptions and of course the church. Every occasion, every Thanksgiving counted. Through his outings, Washington met with a diversity of people, including those who were second-class citizens or were not citizens at all. Women, for example, greeted Washington at nearly every stop of the extended presidential trips he took between 1789 and 1791 . Textile workers in New England, Jewish leaders in Newport, many enslaved persons in the South and churchgoers everywhere did the same. These women and men, in bondage or free, believers or skeptics, played a part in the invention of a new political theater. Maybe, it was just a theatrical illusion. But these individuals – just like the prisoners in the New York City jail – thanked President Washington because they felt they were voices in a larger political culture. Washington made sure his Thanksgiving message – not simply a message, but a “proclamation” – sounded clear and strong: May God “render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed.” This article is republished from The Conversation , a nonprofit, independent news organization bringing you facts and trustworthy analysis to help you make sense of our complex world. It was written by: Maurizio Valsania , Università di Torino Read more: Maurizio Valsania does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
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