On February 21, ICITAP completed the Basic Criminal Investigation Training Course for 29 members of the Belize Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Branch.

On February 27, in Antigua, Guatemala, OPDAT hosted an Operation Regional Shield meeting with prosecutors, investigators, and analysts from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico.

On February 28, ICITAP concluded the Advanced First Aid Course at the National Highway & Motorway Police (NHMP) Training Facility in Kot Ranjit.

OIP is pleased to announce that it has uploaded the Fiscal Year 2019 Annual FOIA Report data for all 118 agencies subject to the FOIA onto FOIA.gov.

Newly published FOIA Litigation and Compliance Report details a range of efforts by OIP to encourage government-wide compliance with the FOIA, including new policy guidance, robust government-wide training, and other open government initiatives.

OIP is now accepting registration for topic-specific FOIA training sessions to be offered online. 

The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that it will not challenge collaborative efforts of McKesson Corporation, Owens & Minor, Inc., Cardinal Health, Inc., Medline Industries, Inc., and Henry Schein, Inc. (together “Medical Supplies Distributors”) to expedite and increase manufacturing, sourcing, and distribution of personal-protective equipment (“PPE”) and coronavirus-treatment-related medication. These collaborative efforts are part of an emergency response developed and led by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to address supply needs arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Seventy-seven passengers and seven crew members were aboard when the train derailed and pulled 13 cars off the tracks.

When the Kentucky Horse Racing Committee holds its next scheduled meeting on June 16, it will have a new chairman and four new members. On April 28, an executive order from Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear appointed Alan J. Leavitt, Dr. Naveed Chowhan, Jonathan Rabinowitz and James Edwin “Ed” Worley to the commission. Charles Francis O'Connor […]

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Haras Phillipson's 3-year-old homebred Nao Da Mais (BRZ), a three-time Group 1 winner in Brazil, was sent to Argentina and made his biggest career score on Saturday, going wire to wire under jockey Carlos Lavor and holding off the favored Mirinaque (ARG), to win the 1 ½-mile Gran Premio International Carlos Pellegrini (G1) by three-quarters […]

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Even though Ray has a great outside touch, we're not talking about a one-on-one game of hoops. Instead, if you sign up today, you may have the opportunity to go head-to-head against Ray Paulick handicapping five of this weekend's top races in our free contest The American Handicapper presented by Brisnet.com. The contest is easy […]

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Stallion Spotlight offers stud farm representatives a chance to address breeders and answer questions as they finalize their mating decisions for the 2020 breeding season. In this edition, Claiborne Farm president Walker Hancock and stallion seasons and bloodstock manager Bernie Sams discuss First Samurai, the sire of Grade 1 winners Lea, Justin Phillip, and Executiveprivilege. First […]

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The Hancock family's Claiborne Farm has had a long and successful association with both the Phipps and Janney families. Countless champions and Grade 1 winners that have been bred by the Phippses and Janneys were born and raised at Claiborne. That friendship will be put to the test on Saturday when Departing, owned in partnership […]

The post Shanklin: ‘Why Seth Hancock is Going Against His Own Best Business Interests’ appeared first on Horse Racing News | Paulick Report.

Gulfstream Park's mandatory payout of its 20-cent Rainbow 6 is expected to have a final pool Saturday of more than $6 million. The sequence, which begins in the seventh race with a $55,000 allowance event at five furlongs on the turf, also includes the 4-year-old debut of Preakness (G1) winner War of Will in the […]

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The Vikings are one of a handful of teams that, at least on paper in May, got the short end of the NFL's schedule quirks.

Minnesota's stay-at-home order supersedes the league's slow return guidelines.

Which would you prefer? A manual workflow that requires you to deal with your photos every day, or the fully automated version that will automagically surface only your best photos to you? On this episode Chris looks at automated photo management compared to manual photo management, two very different approaches that both have their right … Continue reading "868 Never Touch a Photo Again"

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At worst, sending out ballots provides a workable Plan B in case Plan A proves too hazardous in November.

Top trainer Mike de Kock has warned of a “grim reality” featuring “loss of jobs and euthanasia” of significant parts of the horse population if the South African racing shutdown continues. On Tuesday, the South African government blocked plans for a resumption when it refused to allow the sport to take place under Lockdown Level […]

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As a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Prairie Meadows is facing unprecedented times and remains temporarily closed. This week, layoffs began for approximately 1,130 employees, and the live race meet, scheduled to begin May 1, has been delayed. “Our focus is to reopen as quickly and as safely as possible,” said Gary Palmer, President and […]

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Sackatoga Stable's Tiz the Law was made the 7-5 morning line favorite by veteran oddsmaker Mike Battaglia for Saturday's $300,000 Kentucky Jockey Club (Grade II) – the co-featured event on Saturday's penultimate day of racing at the 2019 Fall Meet. Trained by 2003 Kentucky Derby-winning conditioner Barclay Tagg, the undefeated Grade I winner has gotten […]

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It was a "Get Out the Vote" rally in Upper Marlboro on Sunday for Lt. Governor Anthony Brown.

It's a new twist on the old jackpot game. Maryland Lottery Director Stephen Martino explains the key concept.

The NTSB is now recommending that commercial drivers be banned from using hands-free devices when operating their vehicle.

Vice: The Ghanaian Pallbearers Lean Into Their Role as Pandemic Grim Reapers. “The Ghanaian pallbearers have become the most explicit cultural icons of this pandemic. They are cultural icons of death and dying. In a new video, they warn you to stay inside, lest you wish to dance with them in death.”

Wicklow People: New website aims to beat lockdown boredom. “A student from Wicklow town has built and programmed a website to help people cope with boredom during Covid-19 lockdown. The website… created by Jack Kennedy features music, youtube videos, movies, TV shows, documentaries, articles, and Wikipedia rabbit holes that are deemed interesting and entertaining. The … Continue reading Wicklow People: New website aims to beat lockdown boredom

Dallas News: A Dallas blogger’s images of parked planes show just how far the airline industry has fallen. “Andy Luten usually takes pictures of planes in the air, taking off or landing. But in the depths of the COVID-19 downturn, the 37-year-old financial software consultant in Dallas wanted to put his hobby to work showing … Continue reading Dallas News: A Dallas blogger’s images of parked planes show just how far the airline industry has fallen

Burlington Free Press: Fired after raising concerns about unsafe conditions, UPS whistleblower gets her job back. “Marge Harvey got her job back. Harvey, a 33-year veteran driver for UPS in St. Johnsbury, was fired on April 10 after pushing management on unsafe conditions at her workplace, including no personal protective equipment, no soap in the … Continue reading Burlington Free Press: Fired after raising concerns about unsafe conditions, UPS whistleblower gets her job back

Marny Xiong, 31, joined the board in 2018 and is a graduate of St. Paul Public Schools.

(WASHINGTON) -- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, from the tobacco state of Kentucky, on Monday unveiled federal legislation to raise the minimum age to purchase e-cigarettes and all other...

Citing urgent public health concerns, Metro Transit authorities are moving to contain the spread of a large and growing homeless encampment near the light-rail line in south Minneapolis.

omg thats about right Hamish. I never trust work times on claimers especially.

oh here we go... seriously get a life tired of the racial BS.

Theres a new female trainer at Remington park, has pretty much zero stats/starts. So far her horses have qualified/won several stakes. . Pretty talented for zero trainer whos history shows zero starts. Qualified one last night again to futurity. And then Judd Kearls shill trainer padgett who won everything in NM has not hardly lit the board. Tres Abagados Stupidos do you anything about this girl?

Multiple graded stakes winner Call Paul, formerly trained by Jason Servis, had to be euthanized on Wednesday morning at Belmont Park. The Daily Racing Form reports that the colt suffered catastrophic injuries to his left hind leg during a workout over the training track. The 4-year-old Pennsylvania-bred son of Friesan Fire was breezing for the fourth […]

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The Daily Racing Form reported Thursday that trainer Todd Pletcher is sending strings of horses north to Churchill Downs and Belmont Park next week. Pletcher had pulled many of his horses from Belmont and sent them to Florida in late March as shutdowns and fears surrounding the coronavirus pandemic ramped up. Pletcher told the Form […]

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According to Wikipedia, “An oil painting is painterly when there are visible brushstrokes, the result of applying paint in a less than completely controlled manner, generally without closely following carefully drawn lines.” It also describes the effects created by a […]

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I understand the above quote completely. Life would be so much simpler if my work was just reviewed by my personal friends and by people whose careers are tied to mine. Sure, they’d point out problems, but they’d do it in a nice way, quietly. They’d understand that any mistakes I made would never have […]

The OHDSI study-a-thon group has a pre-print An international characterisation of patients hospitalised with COVID-19 and a comparison with those previously hospitalised with influenza. What is encouraging with this one over yesterday’s study, is multiple data sources and almost too many co-authors to count (take that Nature’s editors). So an opportunity to see the variation […]

What’s new? The new and shiny reduce_sum facility released with Stan 2.23 is far more user-friendly and makes it easier to scale Stan programs with more CPU cores than it was before. While Stan is awesome for writing models, as the size of the data or complexity of the model increases it can become impractical […]

Part 1 Andrew Lilley, Gianluca Rinaldi, and Matthew Lilley write: You might be familiar with a recent paper by Correira, Luck, and Verner who argued that cities that enacted non-pharmaceutical interventions earlier / for longer during the Spanish Flu of 1918 had higher subsequent economic growth. The paper has had extensive media coverage – e.g. […]

Pandemic expected to magnify differences between healthy retailers and those with big financial troubles.

The Baltimore Orioles' Opening Day will be delayed by at least two weeks after Major League Baseball announced its response to the coronavirus outbreak Thursday.

Cain, James W Feb 12, 1949 - Apr 29, 2020 James W Cain, 71, of Bradenton, Florida, died on Apr 29, 2020. Funeral arrangements .....

The engineering librarians at the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library are pleased to announce that some engineering textbooks for the Fall 2019 semester are available to you in full text online through Library subscriptions.

The engineering librarians at the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library are pleased to announce that some engineering textbooks for the Winter 2020 semester are available to you in full text online through Library subscriptions.

Tim Jarrell, a 32 year veteran of the National Park Service, was recently named Chief of the Facilities Management Division at Grand Canyon National Park. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/3009-03-19-jarrell.htm

Starting in May the National Park Service (NPS) will begin the reconstruction of Grand Canyon National Park’s popular South Kaibab Trail. The project will significantly improve the condition of the trail for both hikers and mule users alike. The project is expected to take anywhere from two to four years and will include resurfacing of the trail; stabilization and preventative maintenance to existing retaining walls; replacing retaining walls that have been lost to floods, slides, or erosion; repairing and aligning existing water diversion features; etc. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/nps-to-begin-trail-reconstruction-project-on-south-kaibab-trail-within-grand-canyon-np.htm

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