Like Easter Sunday & Easter Sunday, NYConstvArt 1 Sec 3 and Holy Cuomo Hochul notwithstanding
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Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
Pope Francis Denounces ‘Cancel Culture’ and Antivaccine ‘Ideology’
Pontiff also warned of children’s social isolation from school closures during pandemic
Pope Francis has previously called on individuals to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.
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ROME—Pope Francis on Monday warned that antivaccine misinformation was undermining recovery from the pandemic and denounced a “cancel culture” intolerant of traditional values that he said was impeding cooperation among the world’s societies.
The pope’s remarks came in his annual speech to ambassadors accredited to the Holy See, in which he typically highlights urgent international issues. As in previous speeches, he urged greater diplomatic cooperation to address problems including the pandemic, climate change and migration crises in Europe and North America.
The Vatican has diplomatic relations with 183 sovereign states and the European Union. On Monday, ambassadors wearing formal dress and face masks listened to the pope in the Vatican’s Hall of Blessings.
Emphasizing the importance of vaccination efforts to reduce the spread and virulence of Covid-19, the pope repeated his earlier call on individuals to get the vaccine, not only for their own benefit but also out of “respect for the health of those around us,” adding, “healthcare is a moral obligation.”
Speakers at the WSJ CEO Council Summit weigh to what extent the government should be able to require Covid-19 vaccinations.THE WALL STREET JOURNAL INTERACTIVE EDITION
The pope lamented politicization of the debate over vaccines, saying that “frequently people let themselves be influenced by the ideology of the moment, often bolstered by baseless information or poorly documented facts.”
He said, “Vaccines are not a magical means of healing, yet surely they represent, in addition to other treatments that need to be developed, the most reasonable solution for the prevention of the disease.”
He also spoke about the effects of pandemic-related school closures on children, warning that many had taken “refuge in virtual realities that create strong psychological and emotional links but isolate them from others and the world around them.”
The pope reiterated his earlier calls for wider access to vaccines and drugs as part of a coordinated global response to the pandemic.
Stressing the importance of multilateral diplomacy, he said that many international organizations had lost the confidence of much of the world because of “a mind-set that rejects the natural foundations of humanity and the cultural roots that constitute the identity of many peoples.”
The pope said that effective multilateral diplomacy required the recognition of what he described as fundamental values: “the right to life, from conception to its natural end, and the right to religious freedom.”
Instead, he said, many international organizations practice “ideological colonization,” a term he has previously used to describe efforts by rich nations to promote contraception, same-sex marriage and progressive concepts of gender in developing nations.
Without offering specific examples, the pope related this practice to “the cancel culture invading many circles and public institutions.”
“Under the guise of defending diversity, [cancel culture] ends up canceling all sense of identity,” the pope said.
Write to Francis X. Rocca at francis.rocca@
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Tuberculosis vaccine - a new remedy for allergies and asthma in children? M Can a vaccine against tuberculosis help combat asthma and eczema in Danish children early in life? This will now be examined in a comprehensive Danish research study. From September 2012, thousands of Danish pregnant women will receive an invitation to allow their newborns to take part in a sensational trial. The tuberculosis vaccine was removed from the vaccine program in Denmark during the 1980s, however new research indicates that the vaccine can improve the health of children. Research carried out in developing countries shows that the health of infants who have been given the tuberculosis vaccine (BCG/Calmette) at birth is improved and the babies have a better survival rate than those who have not been given the vaccine. The vaccine also seems to have a preventive effect against asthma and atopic dermatitis. Results are so striking that they cannot be explained by the fact that the children did not catch tuberculosis. Therefore, researchers assess the vaccine to have a general positive effect on the immune system, which means that children are less sick, and have less atopic dermatitis, asthma and allergies. Whether this positive effect also can benefit Danish children will now be examined in a large Danish research project headed by Lone Graff Stensballe, Paediatrician from the Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine at Rigshospitalet. The research project will run for three years, starting in September 2012, where 4,300 infants and their parents will be followed through interviews, examinations, and, for 300 of the children, blood tests as well. The project will comprise five PhD courses and a research collaboration with obstetricians, paediatricians, midwives, nurses and laboratory technicians from the three hospitals taking part in the project. “We are very excited about this unique opportunity to improve the health of Danish children early in life,” says Lone Graff Stensballe. “Unfortunately, we have seen large increases in admissions, consumption of medicines, asthma, eczema and allergies among Danish children. We hope to curb these increases with the new research project.” The research project will be carried out at Rigshospitalet in collaboration with Hvidovre Hospital, Kolding Sygehus Lillebælt and the new Centre for Vitamins and Vaccines at SSI (Statens Serum Institut). For further information and interviews, please contact: Lone Graff Stensballe Head of Research Paediatrician, Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Rigshospitalet, Denmark Telephone: +45 6022 8092 E-mail: lone.graff.stensballe@rh.regionh.dk | |
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