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The headlines made it clear this year.
The past 12 months saw a rise in how often local residents heard about events that could be deemed hate crimes, hate speech or acts threatening to minorities or people of certain religious beliefs or ethnic backgrounds.
Some were difficult to forget: A group of men allegedly bringing weapons to a Black Lives Matter protest in Troy. KKK supporters meeting at a park in Fort Plain. A suspect fire-bombing a woman’s car in Schenectady after she broke up an altercation. A neighbor posting racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic signs on his lawn in Schoharie County.
On February 24, 2021, the New York State Assembly and Senate, along with the director of the Division of the Budget, held the 2021 Economic & Revenue Consensus Forecasting Conference Meeting to examine analyses of economic and revenue forecasts for New York State and the nation. The conference is convened annually as a public hearing for the purpose of assisting the Governor and the Legislature in reaching a revenue consensus forecast prior to budget negotiations. Presenters at the conference offer their analyses of the current state of both national and New York State economic conditions, and projections of how current conditions and future conditions may impact state revenues. Presenters at this year’s conference included Chris Varvares of IHS Markit; Hugh Johnson of Hugh Johnson Advisors LLC; Jason Bram of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Kajal Lahiri of the State University of New York at Albany; and Jared Walczak of the Tax Foundation.
My journalist-as-guinea-pig experiment is taking a disturbing turn.
A Swedish chemist is on the phone, talking about flame retardants, chemicals added for safety to just about any product that can burn. Found in mattresses, carpets, the plastic casing of televisions, electronic circuit boards, and automobiles, flame retardants save hundreds of lives a year in the United States alone. These, however, are where they should not be: inside my body.
Åke Bergman of Stockholm University tells me he has received the results of a chemical analysis of my blood, which measured levels of flame-retarding compounds called polybrominated diphenyl ethers. In mice and rats, high doses of PBDEs interfere with thyroid function, cause reproductive and neurological problems, and hamper neurological development. Little is known about their impact on human health.
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Drones to characterize aquatic habitats of malaria vectors in the Amazon, Malaysian Borneo and Burkina Faso Malaria control programmes rely on interventions targeting mosquito-breeding sites to reduce mosquito populations and malaria transmission. A precise knowledge of ecological characteristics of mosquito aquatic habitats is key for such interventions.
This webinar will have three presentations discussing how drones can help in the characterisation of aquatic habitats of malaria vectors in the Amazon, Malaysian Borneo and Burkina Faso. Presentations will be followed by an interactive discussion with the panellists and audience, addressing the use of drones to understand the ecological features of mosquito breeding sites.