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[toronto plans, technology, travel updates] Delta plane crash in Toronto: 3,000 people evacuated
A Delta Air Lines plane with 133 people aboard skidded the runway and into a field at Toronto’s airport on Friday, a spokesman said, with no serious injuries reported.
Delta Flight 1943, a Boeing 767, was flying from Salt Lake City to Detroit, Michigan, when it overshot the landing and ran into a field at the Canadian airport, Ian Gregor of Toron airport, the New York Times reported.
A total of 133 passengers and crew were evacuated safely, Gregor said on his Twitter page. The airline told reporters at a news conference on Friday that there were no injuries to any of the people on board or airport workers.
In a statement, Delta said the aircraft skidded off the end of the runway and came to rest in snow about 1,700 feet past the end of Runway 24R.
Canadian officials estimated that the adverse weather conditions impacted the approach of the airplane, according to The Associated Press. The AP reported that fire crews contained a minor fuel leak, but there was no fire.
All 143 passengers and crew have been moved inside, Gregor said on Twitter. Delta is working on rebooking them on there resulting connections, according to WXYZ Detroit.
“We will work with our customers to reach their intended destinations as soon as possible,” Delta said in a statement.
The Canadian Transportation Safety Board on Friday said it had sent an investigation team.

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As a result of the passing of urban planning pioneer and researcher Donald Shoup at the age of 87, there’s been an outpouring of tributes to his work in the field. Though his theory and research was somewhat disputed, Shoup aimed to offer practical research for urban policy from a non-partisan viewpoint that has widely been embraced in nearly 40 years of thought-leadership and scholarly publications. Shoup was most often associated with popularizing the “High-Capacity Transit” plan which aimed to reconsider the narrow focus of overblown plans for metro trains in urban planning at the size of Amsterdam and Tokyo while expanding on a municipal transportation system. Somewhat more recently, he also received credit for popularizing hub-and-spoke analysis, which tracks the efficiency of high-frequency bus services radiating out of city centers. Shoup attended Haverford College and later specialized in Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania, receiving a doctorate from the school in Mathematics and then studying urban policy at the University of California, Los Angeles. This interdisciplinary work blended to yield an extensive publication history from 1976-2020 and a career associated with research positions at UCLA to various other institutions and think-tanks. As a leader in urban policy analysis and some of the original innovators of the data-oriented movement in urban planning, his name may come up amidst the recent renaissance in fields like land-use allocations frameworks regionally and from top-tier universities. His entire body of work, consisting of several books and research publications, can be found in the affiliates section of his personal landing page.
Starting with a conversation on the shortcomings of public transit in Los Angeles prompted by observed ridership times and benefits versus flat fare systems, Shoup’s interest turned out to cover broad topics in land-use and transportation considerations. As an example, he once posited to cheap parking limits (and its inverse) Transportation and Land Use correlation. Shoup applied a focused research method limited only by the data rather than pre-conceived prejudices within the field. He took a particular interest in monetization and efficient resource allocation in these systems, applying necessity-based principles to yield actions like recommendation to eliminate or limit parking minimums in residential town planning, a policy adopted quite extensively by cities in recent years including Minneapolis. With 59 peer-reviewed publications on that subject alone, he approached this sort of topic systematically and with thorough, evidence-based considerations. Even as a consultant for the Federal Transit Administration, he maintained an independent viewpoint that provided guidance to numerous stops in various cities across the US with methodology extending from introduction in the 1970s all the way through recent books in 2016 and 2017. One particularly timely quote from this work asks a question – “At a time when Established Land Use Policies Are No Longer Sustaining US Cities, Why Do We Still Have No Guidance from Science?” This sentiment is strikingly common when applied to contemporary urban planning challenges and reflects some of Shoup’s disavowals of partisanship in favor of scientific principles applied to contemporary situations. He’s most often been associated with promoting practical, data-driven policy over discussions favoring politics or generous subsidies. In light of recent, highly politically style infrastructure investments like Seattle’s $810 million tunnel construction (a tunnel originally set to cost $175 million before many overruns) or Congress’s sudden overinvestment in Amtrak post-election, this approach could have been beneficial to avoid such edifice complexes and really appreciate urban policy guidance almost 50 years in the making against his contemporaries. His passing represents a loss for the field regardless.
Beyond providing these theoretical frameworks for ballasting policy, Shoup was equally instrumental in his approach to publishing his results and sharing them widely. He’s provided teaching materials to a host of universities, and given a considerable quantity of talks (over 50) on this subject at conferences ranging in scope from Stockholm to Rio de Janeiro. One of his most influential papers, “The High Cost of Free Parking,” published in the Journal of the American Planning Association in 1994 (among several others with that outlet) led to over 800 citations and dozens of follow-up investigations, making his “parking minimum” framework concept a cornerstone of contemporary urban policy discussions in every field from housing to transportation. He contributed as a consultant and author to the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission, Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, while maintaining research appointments at universities like UCLA, USC, and others.
In the immediate wake of his passing from brain cancer, reviewers have struggled to specify the lasting impact of his work on the field; though he’s published several books, elaborate research publications, and compiled a research bibliography of such extensive detail that it’s nearly 50 pages long, Shoup’s approach to arriving at these tangible solutions to practical urban problems nearly single-handedly became a defining cornerstone of modern US urban policy research discussions. Even in his absence, it’s likely that his approach to concise, careful analysis balanced against policy prescriptions will continue to influence urban planning discussions in the US going forward.
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Over the course of his almost 40-year career, Don Shoup helped to cement practical and data-driven policy over discussions favoring politics or generous subsidies, becoming an influential figure advocating for high-capacity transit, hub-and-spoke analysis, and parking minimums. He published hundreds of papers, textbooks and research publications, and heavily influenced urban policy discussions in every field from housing to transportation. His ideas have been adopted extensively, with implementation even spanning to residential town planning as cities dropped parking minimums in recent years associated with research positions at UCLA to various other institutions and think-tanks. As a leader in urban policy analysis and some of the original innovators of the data-oriented movement in urban planning, his name may come up amidst the recent renaissance in fields like land-use allocations frameworks regionally and from top-tier universities. His entire body of work, consisting of several books and research publications, can be found in the affiliates section of his personal landing page. In the wake of his passing from brain cancer at the age of 87, reviewers have struggled to specify the lasting impact of his work on the field. Though he’s published several books, elaborate research publications, and compiled a research bibliography of such extensive detail that it’s nearly 50 pages long, Shoup’s approach to arriving at these practical solutions to urban problems nearly single-handedly became a defining cornerstone of modern US urban policy research discussions. His influence on the field will certainly be missed long after his passing.

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title: Stephen Colbert Has a Date with Doge on “The Late Show”
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In a groundbreaking episode of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” the popular TV comedy host will be interviewing Doge, the internet meme and Shiba Inu Doge coin celebrity created during the crypto frenzy of 2013. This is not a drill, a typo or an April Fool’s joke: Doge’s creator, Billy Markus, confirmed via Twitter. The interview will take place on February 23 on CBS.

Doge, which features a photo of an adorable male Shiba Inu, became an instant hit on the internet in 2013 when Markus incorporated the Doge language to Reddit comments in his free time, which later became a meme and the basis for a dedicated currency. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, held a Twitter poll asking whether Doge or Bitcoin should be hypothetically accepted for payments. Interestingly, the meme coin outperformed Bitcoin with 74.3% of the Twitter poll vote in favor.

The popularity of Doge has led to numerous social media endorsements and articles from tech publications. Andrew Ross Sorkin, editor of New York Times’ DealBook, published an article titled “Dogecoin: One Man’s Joke Changes Crypto-Landscape,” hours before Musk tweeted about uploading a Doge-themed “Saturday Night Live” sketch.

This historic interview, where Colbert aims to uncover Doge’s true, elusive, and possibly subversive intentions on the world of finance, is not to be missed.

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With sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies after Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, President Vladimir V. Putin has been preaching self-sufficiency.
Last year, President Vladimir V. Putin’s Internet Research Agency was charged by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
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Keywords: sanctions, russia, president vladimir v. putin, united states, allies, special counsel robert s. mueller iii, internet research agency, president trump, interference.
Summary: With sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies after Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, President Vladimir V. Putin has been preaching self-sufficiency. Meanwhile, President Trump interfered with the case against the Internet Research Agency, which was last year charged by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.

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German Elections: AFD Rides a Moderate Surge
The far-right, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany, or AfD in short, is set to finish the third most powerful party, riding on the back of the moderate and pro-environment Green Party, for the first time at a national election on 24 September 2017; becoming the third such political force ranked by voters in Germany, surging on the back of the moderate and pro-environment Green party.
Never before have AfD candidates shaken the fragile foundations of German politics in quite such a way. Founded by populist right-wing academics in 2015 as a home for protests over Angela Merkel’s Middle Eastern migration policy, this contradicts the extremely regulated, formalized party system in Germany, and has of recently held critical significance and reverberation throughout the country’s political spectrum.
The AfD’s most militant campaigners have no background in traditional German politics — in other words, in the established crown-princed dukedoms overseen by the center-right Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Social Democrats (SPD), in addition to the Greens. AfD phenomenon en-route to smashing into the German political tradition is “far too big to ignore.”
Since the on set of the latest round of this between Merkel’s CDU and Martin Schulz’s center-left Social Democrats (SPD), the discussion over migrants and Germans’ relationship with the shipwrecked communities has dominated most of the hustings.
An unusual mix of conservatism, competition, authoritarianism and a relentless anti-immigration fervor makes for a futile vent, despite Germans’ obvious fondness for social and financial protection. For, in spite of a pledge made by the right-wing chancellor and her CDU party in its pre-election campaign for a moral obligation to take in 200,000 “most vulnerable refugees” during the course of 2017 on a rotational basis via refugees camps and other expert agencies, she has already fallen dramatically short of that target.
For Germans “there is now the wish for controlling migration.” United in the AfD umbrella, voters also openly classify the party as a “party of the citizens,” a “party for the citizens” and a “people’s party with everyday Germans as members.” Others liken the challenge to rising nationalist parties in the Netherlands, France, Austria and Switzerland via this drafts in the corrupt and tone-deaf political landscape.

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Title: Trump’s Putin Obsession Puts Global Values on the Line.
The article discusses the concerns of American political leaders regarding President Trump’s cozy relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the implications on the future of global democracy and human rights. It highlights how U.S. politicians’ willingness to work with Putin undermines the standing of the United States as a beacon of hope for vulnerable populations and values everywhere. The article argues that Trump’s call to turn a blind eye to Putin’s human rights violations contradicts American moral authority and principles. Moreover, it describes how Trump’s consistent fawning over Putin’s regime now discourages freedom-loving individuals around the world from appealing to the U.S. for assistance. As a result, Putin’s regime enjoys credibility validity that it never had before while using it to deny oppressed political dissidents from Russia access to international support. The article calls on American politicians to prioritize preserving the principles and legacy of past presidents and heroes who fought against a common enemy of nazism and communism over the years while defending global democracy and freedom. In conclusion, the article draws attention to the concerns of American political leaders regarding President Trump’s cozy relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the implications on the future of global democracy and human rights.

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A summary of the latest Marvel Studios film, “Captain America: New World Order (working title),” is Filmmaker Anthony and Joe Russo guiding the NYTimes article. In the film, the current Captain America, played by Chris Evans, will have passed on the superhero mantle to a new young character, played by actor Sebastian Stan, to whom the film’s tagline “Accepting new leadership” may refer. The plot follows the reality-hopping events of “Loki” series and likely picks up the aftermath of “Avengers: Endgame.” The movie is set to come out on May 3, 2024. It’s unclear if Anthony Mackie’s Falcon and/or his new superhero identity, the Falcon Hulk Bicephalum, will play a role in the film as well. While there were previous indications that the new Captain America could be Bucky Barnes or John Walker, Stan’s hint that the new leader doesn’t have the weight of the shield following the deaths of several heroes seems to suggest neither of those options. The film’s tagline is “Captain America is dead. Long live the Captain.” There are also conflicting reports on whether Steve Rogers is dead or not. However, it was confirmed that actor William Hurt will reprise his role as General Ross in the film. Emily VanCamp (Agent 13 aka Sharon Carter) and Daniel Brühl (Captain America villain Zemo,) are also expected to return. Preliminary box office numbers for “Captain America: New World Order” speculate it will have a worldwide projected revenue of $553 million. Last year’s “Captain America: New Era (Civil War)”, which introduced Sebastian Stan to the role, grossed $1.15 billion. Production is already underway, with Anthony and Joe Russo once again directing, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely writing and Kevin Feige producing.

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Leonard Peltier, a Native American leader and convicted murderer, who was sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison, returned to his ancestral land near the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe reservation in North Dakota on Feb. 18, 2021. The former member of the American Indian Movement was welcomed back with traditional singing and drumming. Peltier’s imprisonment spans over 45 years, making him one of the longest-serving inmates in the federal prison system. His case has been the center of a social-justice movement by supporters who maintain his innocence and are campaigning for his release. President Joe Biden’s recent pardons for other inmates have rekindled renewed hope that Peltier may be granted clemency, according to Native News. He was sentenced for the 1975 deaths of two FBI agents, Jack Coler and Ronald Williams, during a shootout on Oglala Sioux reservation land in South Dakota. While serving his sentence at the high-security prison in Clarence, Penn., Peltier, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, purchased a home and ranch on Standing Rock’s prairie lands of which portions have been returned to tribal ownership under the 2019 Trump administration executive order.
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Survey Shows Rampant Harassment and Other Challenges for L.G.B.T.Q. Americans
In a new nationwide survey, transgender people reported being harassed in many public places and nearly half said they had experienced employment or housing discrimination. Here’s what else we found.
Across a range of measures, the path to equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Americans is proving slow and halting.
A new nationwide survey of L.G.B.T.Q. adults, released on Tuesday by the public-opinion research center the Kaiser Family Foundation, provides new details about disparities in economic well-being and exposure to harassment and other types of mistreatment.
Compared with straight, cisgender — meaning not transgender — adults, those in the L.G.B.T.Q. community face significantly higher rates of harassment and other negative experiences in certain settings. But there are incentives, as well, for businesses to create more inclusive environments.
A large majority of the approximately 8,000 respondents to the Kaiser survey, over 85 percent, said they felt “extremely” or “very” proud to be L.G.B.T.Q. But roughly 3 in 10 said they had experienced such severe bullying that they were physically unable to attend school and more than a third had been electronically harassed last year.
The greatest harms are directed at transgender Americans, according to the survey, which is partly why a month-long effort this year by major tech companies to stamp out bullying and harassment specifically targeted trans users.
When considering transgender experiences overall, respondents were most likely to say they had been denied a place to live, followed by the banking and credit industries, the survey showed. On Dec. 3, the “equality” clause of New York State’s Human Rights Law was updated to prohibit housing and employment discrimination against transgender people, circumstances under which, according to the Center for American Progress, many trans people continue to face adversity.
Beyond the workplace, the poll found that transgender people in particular reported being harassed in many public places, including stores or restaurants, parking lots, other outdoor spaces like parks, schools, theaters, gyms, health care settings and on public transportation.
Forty-nine percent of people who are trans, meaning their gender identity differs from the one they were assigned at birth, said they had applied for a job in the last five years and experienced some form of employment discrimination. And 2 percent of the respondents weren’t able to obtain credit due to harassment based on their gender identity.
In some arenas, such as on public transportation, harassment occurs at exceedingly high rates. Fifteen percent of those who reported being harassed on a transit vehicle in the past year said they were physically assaulted.
Daniel Rodriguez, 51, who ran for a seat in New York City’s State Assembly last year, said he had been harassed many times while taking the subway. On one occasion, a woman took a photograph and sent it to his employer, where he was “let go within 30 days” as a result, he said.
Still, the trust is growing in the companies perceived as having the greatest ability to stanch anti-gay sentiment and harassment. For example, 92 percent of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans said that Amazon “somewhat” or “completely” listens to its L.G.B.T. employees and responds to their concerns.
While much of the survey involved broad questions about life experiences and well-being, one set of questions asked respondents about their employers. Some respondents reported difficulties.
Among the more vigorous efforts to offer positive experiences to L.G.B.T. workers comes from Google.
The company has delivered new results in its job search feature for candidates and screens interested employers against 10 gay rights issues.
The impetus for the offering, the company says, is to address a potential stigma around working for L.G.B.T.-friendly companies and to allow L.G.B.T. people to “be visible about our plight wherever possible,” according to the company’s blog.
“We’re making a statement by highlighting what’s important to us,” the blog post said.
The article is a new report by the Kaiser Family Foundation which sponsored a nationwide survey of L.G.B.T.Q. adults. The survey revealed that the economic well-being and exposure to harassment and mistreatment for members of the L.G.B.T.Q. community significantly differs from that of straight, cisgender individuals. The results showed that trans people, in particular, face ongoing harassment, and were denied places to live and experienced severe bullying. These trans people reflected that many of them couldn’t attend school. Furthermore, trans people face employment and housing discrimination, potentially resulting from the lack of laws protecting their rights. While the path towards equal rights for the L.G.B.T.Q. community is proving slow and halting, large tech companies such as Google are taking initiatives to provide more inclusive environments.

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China, the world’s second-largest economy, released economic data on Monday that fell short of many economists’ expectations, triggering a stock market sell-off and raising deepening concerns about the nation’s economic prospects.

In an attempt to boost flagging economic growth, the central bank for the first time in more than two years injected cash into the financial system on Monday through short-term loans to banks. But the opening of the Chinese stock markets on Tuesday to the global financial system after months of being cut off from foreign capital triggered a meltdown in share prices that wiped out more than $300 billion in market value.

The benchmark Shanghai Composite index plunged 7.7 percent in the first 15 minutes of trading, causing the exchange to temporarily halt trading. After a brief respite, shares resumed their freefall, diving 8.5 percent in midday trading amid swelling panic among investors.

Trading was halted for the rest of the day at the close of business, coming just a week after regulators allowed markets to reopen after a monthslong suspension amid fears of a systemic financial crisis.

Meanwhile, China’s statistics agency announced lower-than-expected industrial growth of 4.4 percent in January and February, andgrades of factories and capital spending slowed as well.

China’s central bank, which usually holds monetary policy meetings at the end of each quarter, this month lowered interest rates, cut reserve requirements for banks and eased curbs on borrowing by local governments to support the economy. The measures, despite being some of the most expansive in years, have so far failed to stem the economic slowdown.

In addition to raising questions about China’s economic prospects, the disappointing data also underlined widespread concerns around the world over the outlook for global volume growth, which has slipped this year after expanding briskly in 2014.

Hong Kong, a global financial hub whose economy is closely tied to China’s, has now officially slipped into a recession. On a year-on-year basis, the Hong Kong economy shrank 2.9 percent in the fourth quarter of 2015 and another 1.1 percent in the first quarter of 2016.

In Japan, where the economic outlook is also gloomier than expected, expectations are rising that the central bank will increase its already negative interest rate policy, a move that could have ripple effects on a range of other economies.

As China’s economic engine sputters and growth slows, experts say, the pressures mount for Beijing to immediately take more drastic action to counter rising unemployment, market instability and political dissent.

The question of how to build a more sustainable economic model that does not rely mainly on exporting goods and building infrastructure at breakneck speed has likely not gone unnoticed by Chinese policymakers, who are under mounting protests at home from disaffected residents fed up with air pollution and rising inequality.

China is likely to face more pressure to take further bold steps in the coming weeks. The International Monetary Fund, which will release its quarterly economic health report on Tuesday, is widely expected to downgrade its outlook for the country’s near-term economic prospects amid growing concerns about an impending economic slowdown.

The bond market has also been rattled by signs that China is slowing down, falling to three-month lows on Monday as investors fled to less-hazardous securities.

The rout spread to the stock market on Tuesday, with Japan’s Nikkei 225 benchmark index wiping out about 3.5 percent of its value in early-morning trading before recovering slightly.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/world/asia/china-officials-slacking-economy.html

This article discusses the economic woes concerning China’s outlook, which has led to market instability and questioning of its economic prospects. The recent release of economic data has fallen short of economists’ expectations, triggering a stock market sell-off and raising deepening concerns. In an attempt to boost flagging economic growth, the central bank injected cash into the financial system through short-term loans to banks. However, trading was halted for the rest of the day at the close of business, coming just a week after trading resumed after being suspended for months. The disappointing data has raised widespread concerns around the world over the outlook for global volume growth, which has slipped this year after expanding briskly in 2014. This article’s tags are: china-officials-slackening-economy.

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