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Former Montgomery Co. official cleared of hostile workplace allegations

Published Sun, 22 Dec 2024 23:02:52 GMT

The former chair of the Montgomery County, Maryland, planning board has been cleared of allegations that he created a hostile workplace.Casey Anderson was first reprimanded by the county council for having a liquor cabinet in his office at Montgomery County Planning’s headquarters in Wheaton. A short while later, a confidential email surfaced last fall, accusing Casey of inappropriate language and behavior.But Montgomery County Council President Evan Glass said that an investigation, by the commission, which included an outside counsel, has found that the allegations are unfounded.Glass shared a portion of the commission’s investigation findings:“There was no evidence of leadership creating a hostile, toxic or misogynistic work environment at Montgomery Parks, Montgomery Planning or the Montgomery County Planning Board.”Glass said the investigation also found that “leadership issues on the Montgomery Planning Board, at the time, impaired employees’...

Point scores 2, Lightning rout Maple Leafs in series opener

Published Sun, 22 Dec 2024 23:02:52 GMT

TORONTO (AP) — Brayden Point scored twice and the Tampa Bay Lightning routed the Toronto Maple Leafs 7-3 on Tuesday night in the opening game of the teams’ first-round playoff series.Nikita Kucherov and Corey Perry each had a goal and two assists, and Anthony Cirelli and Ross Colton finished with a goal and an assist for Tampa Bay. Pierre-Edouard Bellemare also scored for the Lightning, who scored four goals on the power play. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 28 saves in his 100th playoff start.Ryan O’Reilly, William Nylander and Calle Jarnkrok scored for Toronto. Mitch Marner had three assists and Auston Matthews added a pair. Ilya Samsonov allowed six goals on 29 shots before being replaced by Joseph Woll at the start the third period. The rookie netminder finished with four stops.Toronto winger Michael Bunting was whistled for a match penalty and game misconduct for an illegal check to the head of Tampa Bay’s Erik Cernak. The hit occurred with 4:20 remaining in the second peri...

Kremer sharp for Orioles in 1-0 win over Nationals

Published Sun, 22 Dec 2024 23:02:52 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dean Kremer gave the Baltimore Orioles an excellent start on a night when nothing less would suffice.Kremer pitched impressively into the seventh inning and Austin Hays singled home the game’s only run in the fourth to lift the Orioles to a 1-0 win over the Washington Nationals on Tuesday night. It was a quiet game for a Baltimore offense that has carried the team at times early this season, but Kremer and the bullpen picked up the slack.“Our offense has been doing an amazing job scoring runs,” manager Brandon Hyde said. “We haven’t played many 1-0 ballgames, and sometimes you have to win that way.”Kremer (1-0) worked out of a second-and-third, nobody-out jam in the third, and that was as close as the Nationals came to scoring on the right-hander. He allowed only four hits in 6 2/3 innings, striking out six without a walk.Danny Coulombe got the final out of the seventh, Yennier Cano breezed through the eighth and Félix Bautista pitched the ninth for his...

Un adolescente de 13 años murió tras participar en un “reto” de Benadryl en TikTok

Published Sun, 22 Dec 2024 23:02:52 GMT

(CNN)– Un adolescente de 13 años en Ohio perdió la vida luego de “tomar un montón de Benadryl”, cuando intentó un reto peligroso de TikTok que circula en línea, según una afiliada de CNN y una cuenta de GoFundMe de su familia.Jacob Stevens participaba en un reto de TikTok con unos amigos en su casa cuando ingirió el antihistamínico, afirma la cuenta de GoFundMe de la familia. Jacob estuvo conectado a un respirador artificial durante casi una semana antes de morir, según WSYX.CNN no ha confirmado de forma independiente la causa de su muerte.La sobredosis de Benadryl puede provocar “graves problemas cardíacos, convulsiones, coma o incluso la muerte”, dijo la Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos de EE.UU. (FDA, por sus siglas en inglés) en una advertencia de 2020 al público sobre el mortal “reto de Benadryl” en TikTok.La abuela de Jacob busca hacer todo lo que esté a su alcance “para asegurarse de que otro niño” no intente el ...

Un artista rechaza premio de fotografía al ganar con una imagen generada por inteligencia artificial

Published Sun, 22 Dec 2024 23:02:52 GMT

(CNN) –– Un artista alemán rechazó el premio de un prestigioso concurso internacional de fotografía tras revelar que la obra que presentó había sido generada por inteligencia artificial.Boris Eldagsen, quien está radicado en Berlín, ganó la categoría abierta creativa del Sony World Photography Award de este año con su obra “Pseudomnesia: The Electrician”.La inquietante imagen en blanco y negro muestra a dos mujeres de diferentes generaciones, donde la mayor parece aferrarse a la más joven.Los organizadores del concurso afirmaron que sabían que había algo de inteligencia artifical involucrada, pero señalaron que hubo un intento “deliberado” por engañarlos.Eldagsen dijo que esperaba que sus acciones abrieran la conversación en torno a este asunto y llevaran a “concursos separados para imágenes generadas por IA”.En su sitio web, Eldagsen admitió haber sido “travieso” al intentar comenzar un debate sobre las imágenes generadas por intelige...

The Queen’s-Weeneebayko Health Education Partnership: A Transformational Initiative to Expand the Indigenous Healthcare Workforce in Northern Ontario

Published Sun, 22 Dec 2024 23:02:52 GMT

The southern appendage of Hudson Bay, James Bay – Weeneebeg (Western Cree)/Wiiniibek (Eastern Cree) – spans about 160 kilometres between Northern Québec and Ontario, with the provincial border at the bottom of the bay. First Nations communities spanning the coast and its many branching rivers, long functioned as trade posts for the Hudson’s Bay Company, including Fort Rupert, Québec (Eastern Cree, Eeyou territory), and Moose Factory Island and Fort Albany, Ontario (Western Cree, Mushkegowuk territory). The largest and most urban settlement in this region is the town of Moosonee, Ontario, on the mainland about five kilometres across the Moose River from Moose Factory Island. While Moosonee is formally recognized as a municipality in the Province of Ontario rather than a First Nation, its population of approximately 3,500 residents is predominantly – about 70% – of Cree lineage. Moosonee is notably the northern terminus of the Ontario Northland Railway and a deep sea port for the tran...

The rollout of Colorado's new psychedelics law hit another milestone

Published Sun, 22 Dec 2024 23:02:52 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Colorado's "natural medicine" law, which decriminalizes certain psychedelics, is hitting another phase in its rollout.Senate President Steve Fenberg introduced a bill Tuesday that lays out the legal framework for implementing the voter-approved initiative. Federal judge halts Colorado ban on ‘abortion pill reversal’ Nearly 54% of voters last year decided to decriminalize psilocybin, DMT, ibogaine and mescaline, all of them defined under the umbrella phrase "natural medicine" in Proposition 122. Coloradans also gave the OK to "healing centers" for psilocybin, where users could ingest the drugs under licensed supervision, but legislators now have to regulate how exactly that will work. The law also opens the door for the other three drugs to be included in therapeutic settings in the future.Now, Senate Bill 290 looks to define what comes next. Psychedelic penalties, restrictions and moreAccording to the summary of the 87-page bill, it officially creates the Natural M...

Over 100 reptiles killed in fire at gator farm

Published Sun, 22 Dec 2024 23:02:52 GMT

MOSCA, Colo. (KDVR) — Multiple rescue reptiles were killed in a fire Tuesday morning at a farm in Alamosa County.The Colorado Gator Farm, located in the southern town of Mosca, posted about a fire that started at about 4:30 a.m. in its reptile barn. The farm is home to hundreds of rescued reptiles, including alligators, crocodiles, pythons, rattlesnakes, iguanas, and turtles. 8 iconic restaurants only found in Colorado While no humans were injured in the early morning blaze, general manager Jay Young said more than 100 animals died, including snakes, tortoises, lizards and birds."It's devastating," Young said. "They're like family to us. We've had some of them for decades."Young said roughly 20 animals were able to be rescued, including three dwarf caimans that reportedly held their breath inside a tank.The Colorado Gator Farm said that all the alligators and crocodiles that were outside the building are safe and that everything in its fish building was unharmed. The cause of the ...

Red Sox top Twins 5-4 in 10 on Verdugo’s unusual hit

Published Sun, 22 Dec 2024 23:02:52 GMT

BOSTON (AP) — Alex Verdugo singled home the winning run with two outs in the 10th inning on a fly ball that barely stayed fair at Fenway Park, giving the Boston Red Sox a 5-4 victory over the Minnesota Twins in a bizarre finish Tuesday night.Umpires needed a few minutes to review Verdugo’s drive, which bounced off the low wall in right field just short of Pesky’s Pole, before officially declaring it a hit and the game over. That sparked a second round of celebrating by the Red Sox, who got 11 strikeouts from starter Chris Sale but little offense until the end.Reese McGuire had just tied it with a two-run single as the Red Sox rallied after allowing two runs in the top of the 10th. McGuire entered as a pinch hitter in the eighth and reached on a key defensive error when Christian Vázquez was called for catcher’s interference. The play helped Boston score once in the eighth and eventually force the extra inning, which featured more offense than the previous nine comb...

Chris Sale strikes out 11, Alex Verdugo delivers walk-off as Red Sox win 5-4 in 10 innings

Published Sun, 22 Dec 2024 23:02:52 GMT

The reports of Chris Sale’s demise as an ace appear to have been greatly exaggerated.Though he received little run support from the Red Sox offense, the big lefty delivered his best outing since before undergoing Tommy John surgery. Sale struck out 11 Minnesota Twins batters, including six in the first two innings alone, and allowed only one run over six strong innings of work.The Red Sox went on to win 5-4 in the 10th inning, with Alex Verdugo capping off a wild sequence with a walk-off single off the wall below Pesky’s Pole, which barely stayed fair and left the players and crowd hanging before the call was upheld on review.Even though he didn’t wind up factoring into the decision, Sale’s performance was an encouraging development for the Red Sox.“There are no words,” Red Sox manager Alex Cora said of Sale’s performance. “It was great, that’s a good lineup and he was under control, fastball played tonight and after that he just...