March 7, 2020

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  1. Richardter says:

    ‘Hire back park staff’: Visitors feel the pinch of Trump’s layoffs at National Park Service tripscan The visitors who trek to America’s national parks are already noticing the changes just months after President Donald Trump took office. “I’ve been visiting national parks for 30 years and never has the presence of rangers been so absent” one visitor to Zion National Park wrote in National Park Service public feedback obtained by CNN. The visitor said they saw just one trail crew at the iconic Utah park. There were no educational programs offered at any of the five parks they visited on their trip. https://tripscan.xyz трипскан “Hire back park staff. We need them” the visitor wrote. At Yosemite another visitor said there were no rangers at the Hetch Hetchy reservoir entrance station preventing visitors from picking up wilderness permits. “More staff would be a BIG and IMPORTANT improvement” that visitor wrote. America’s most treasured national parks are getting crunched by Trump’s government-shrinking layoffs just as the summer travel season gets into full swing. Top officials vowed to hire thousands of seasonal employees to pick up the slack after the Trump administration fired around 1000 NPS employees as part of wide-ranging federal firings known as the “Valentine’s Day Massacre.” Department of Interior officials said in a February memo they would aim to hire 7700 seasonal workers at NPS and post listings for 9000 jobs. But those numbers haven’t materialized ahead July 4th — the parks’ busiest time of the year. Internal National Park Service data provided to CNN by the National Parks Conservation Association shows that about 4500 seasonal and temporary staff have been hired.

  2. GeorgeDaf says:

    Rescuers are hailing as a “four-legged hero” a furry Chihuahua whose pacing atop an Alpine rock helped a helicopter crew find its owner who had fallen into a crevasse on a Swiss glacier nearby. трипскан вход The man who was not identified was exploring the Fee Glacier in southern Switzerland on Friday when he broke through a snow bridge and fell nearly 8 meters about 26 feet according to Air Zermatt a rescue training and transport company. Equipped with a walkie-talkie the man connected with a person nearby who relayed the accident to emergency services. But the exact location was unknown. After about a half-hour search the pacing pooch caught the eye of a rescue team member. https://tripscan.biz трипскан вход As the crew zeroed on the Chihuahua the hole the man fell into became more visible. Rescuers rappelled down rescued the man and flew him and his canine companion to a hospital. “Imagine if the dog wasn’t there” Air Zermatt spokesman Bruno Kalbermatten said by phone. “I have no idea what would happen to this guy. I think he wouldn’t survive this fall into the crevasse.” On its website the company was effusive: “The dog is a four-legged hero who may have saved his master’s life in a life-threatening situation.”

  3. JosephSnish says:

    The latest Barbie slays in a chic blue polka-dot crop top ruffled miniskirt chunky heels and an insulin pump. She is the brand’s first doll with type 1 diabetes. tripscan top Dollmaker Mattel worked with Breakthrough T1D formerly known the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation to design the doll which aims to represent the roughly 304000 kids and teens living with type 1 diabetes in the United States. https://tripscan.biz tripscan The doll launched Tuesday at the Breakthrough T1D Children’s Congress a three-day event in Washington that brings in kids and teens living with the condition to meet with lawmakers. This year they’re asking Congress to renew funding for the Special Diabetes Program which was first allocated by Congress in 1997. The program’s current funding ends after September. The advocacy efforts have taken on new urgency this year. With so many deep cuts to federally funded projects in recent months Breakthrough T1D said it’s anxiously watching to see if this funding will be reupped. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease meaning the body mistakenly attacks its own organs and tissues. In this case rough antibodies go after cells in the pancreas that make insulin an essential hormone that helps the body turn food into energy. As a result the body doesn’t make enough of its own insulin so people have to take insulin by injection or though a pump to survive. Type 1 diabetes is typically diagnosed in childhood but can be diagnosed in anyone at any age. It differs from type 2 diabetes in which people are still able to make insulin but their cells stop responding to it. In addition to the insulin pump that attaches to the new Barbie’s waist the chestnut-haired beauty has a continuous glucose monitor on her arm – a button held on by a strip of heart-shaped Barbie-pink tape. Her cell phone displays an app that shows her glucose readings. She also has a light blue purse to hold her supplies and snacks to help her manage her blood sugar throughout the day. It matches her shoes of course.

  4. Vernonbluck says:

    “We know that the water levels seemed to be higher than they were last summer” Silva said. “It is a significant amount of water flowing throughout some of it in new areas that didn’t flood last year.” трипскан сайт Matt DeMaria a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Albuquerque said storms formed in the early afternoon over terrain that was scorched last year by wildfire. The burn scar was unable to absorb a lot of the rain as water quickly ran downhill into the river. Preliminary measurements show the Rio Ruidoso crested at more than 20 feet — a record high if confirmed — and was receding Tuesday evening. Three shelters opened in the Ruidoso area for people who could not return home. https://tripscan.live tripskan The sight brought back painful memories for Carpenter whose art studio was swept away during a flood last year. Outside the air smelled of gasoline and loud crashes could be heard as the river knocked down trees in its path. “It’s pretty terrifying” she said. Cory State who works at the Downshift Brewing Company welcomed in dozens of residents as the river surged and hail pelted the windows. The house floating by was “just one of the many devastating things about today” he said.

  5. Williamdek says:

    Questioned by both Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill about the low staffing numbers Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has brushed off concerns testifying in May that slightly less than half of permanent NPS employees work on the ground in the parks while other staff work at regional offices or at DC headquarters. трип скан “I want more people in the parks” Burgum said. “I want less overhead. There’s an opportunity to have more people working in our parks … and have less people working for the National Park Service.” https://tripscan.live трипскан сайт But internal NPS data tells a different story Brengel said showing that around 80 of National Park Service staff work in the parks. And regional offices play an important supporting staff role with scientists on staff to help maintain fragile parks ecosystems as well as specialists who monitor geohazard safety issues like landslides. Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska recently pressed Burgum to provide a full list of staff positions that have been cut at the National Park Service Bureau of Land Management and the US Forest Service since the Trump administration took over. The Interior Department has not provided the list a Senate staffer said. The regional offices within the park service are on edge waiting to see how courts rule on a Trump administration reduction in force plan they fear could gut their ranks a National Park Service employee in a Western state told CNN. “If they greenlight the RIF plan then it’s going to be a bloodbath” the employee said. In addition to probationary workers that were fired in February early retirements are also culling the agency’s ranks and the continued 1 spending limit on federal workers’ credit cards is making it extremely difficult to do field work in the parks with a simple overnight trip needing to be requested 10 days in advance the employee added. The lack of superintendents and NPS supervisors creates more of a headache they added. “These times when it’s all about fighting for scarce resources you really need those upper-level people with clout working the system” the employee said. Hall the retired NPS regional director said losing rangers maintenance professionals and park superintendents could profoundly alter American landmarks. “What you’ve lost with all this attrition – you’ve lost all this knowledge that’s going to take years to build back up” Hall said.

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  9. Mariodox says:

    Grok the AI-powered chatbot created by Elon Musk’s xAI has begun pushing antisemitic tropes in its responses to some users’ queries weeks after Musk said he would rebuild the chatbot because he was unsatisfied with some of its replies that he viewed as too politically correct. kraken darknet On Tuesday Grok connected several antisemitic tropes to an X account with a name it identified as being “Ashkenazi Jewish” that caused controversy with offensive comments posted online about the victims of the recent Texas floods. https://kra34tt.cc kraken зайти hat surname? Every damn time” Grok said in response to a user who asked the bot to identify a woman in an unrelated image. When a user asked the chatbot to elaborate Grok responded that “’the type’ in that meme often points to surnames like Goldstein Rosenberg Silverman Cohen or Shapiro—frequently popping up among vocal radicals cheering tragedies or pushing anti-white narratives. Pattern’s anecdotal but persistent; not every one fits but damn if it doesn’t recur.” When asked by another user “who is controlling the government” the bot replied with an answer with more anti-Jewish tropes. “hat surname? Every damn time” Grok said in response to a user who asked the bot to identify a woman in an unrelated image. When a user asked the chatbot to elaborate Grok responded that “’the type’ in that meme often points to surnames like Goldstein Rosenberg Silverman Cohen or Shapiro—frequently popping up among vocal radicals cheering tragedies or pushing anti-white narratives. Pattern’s anecdotal but persistent; not every one fits but damn if it doesn’t recur.” When asked by another user “who is controlling the government” the bot replied with an answer with more anti-Jewish tropes.

  10. FloydUnsef says:

    Job losses But what about the impact of tariffs on job creation? Surprisingly an increase in import taxes has been found to result in slightly more unemployment across countries. Кракен тор An example provided by Irwin at Dartmouth College points to one plausible explanation — and it has to do with the steeper cost of imported goods. “A number of studies have shown on net we lost jobs from the 2018 steel tariffs rather than gained jobs because there are more people employed in the downstream user industries than in the steel industry itself” he said. https://kra34g.cc кракен онион A study by the Federal Reserve Board found that a rise in input costs resulting from US tariff hikes in 2018-19 led to job losses in American manufacturing. The damage from those higher expenses was compounded by retaliatory taxes on US exports more than offsetting a small boost to manufacturing employment from US tariffs — at least so far the 2024 paper said. Retaliation by other countries is indeed another danger of pulling the tariff lever. Higher tariffs on American exports would typically raise their prices for foreign consumers hitting demand for the goods in many cases. When Trump announced new tariffs this year America’s major trading partners were quick to strike back with their own levies although the US then agreed a temporary truce with China and the European Union. Costs of free trade While economists generally agree that free trade has benefited the global economy in recent decades they acknowledge that it comes with certain costs. One is the loss of jobs in communities that are particularly exposed to new competition from foreign manufacturers. That is similar to the impact of technological progress on workers. “Manufacturing jobs as a share of the labor force have come down everywhere. It isn’t a US-specific story” said Gimber at JPMorgan Asset Management pointing to automation. He drew a parallel between helping workers affected by higher imports and what is known as a just transition — the idea that the drastic changes needed to move toward a greener economy should be fair to everyone and minimize harm to workers and communities. In both cases providing workers in impacted industries with new skills or retraining them could be key Gimber said. Another potential cost of free trade is dependency on far-flung manufacturers. That took on new relevance during the pandemic which snarled global supply chains contributing to shortages of products such as face masks and respirators in the US and elsewhere. However economists do not typically see tariffs as a good way to build up domestic manufacturing Fatas at INSEAD said noting that subsidies for specific industries are viewed as a better tool “because they work more directly.” But perhaps the strongest argument in favor of free trade is its importance to maintaining peace between nations. As Gimber’s colleague David Kelly noted in March closer trade relations give countries more to lose in any conflict.

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