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Oogie Boogie

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What? What conference? I'm unaware... aware me.

It's something that I just came across, I wasn't aware of a conference either.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ate-change-and-health/?utm_term=.8fceff74b573

So far they haven't even given an exact reason as to why it has been cancelled.


Looking a bit more into the article, this could be why

APHA’s executive director, Georges Benjamin — who was scheduled to be a keynote speaker at the CDC summit next month — said agency officials decided to preemptively call off the event, rather than risk running afoul of an incoming president who has repeatedly called climate change a “hoax” and has nominated climate change skeptics to his Cabinet.

“They ran it up the flagpole and realized that it was so close to the inauguration, the chances of it being canceled were pretty real with the administration that was coming in,” said Benjamin, whose organization was one of the summit’s promoters. “Some might argue they should have said, ‘We’re going to do this and make them tell us no.’ But that was the decision they made. We should think of this as a strategic retreat.”
 

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No matter how out of tennis I am, I always try to watch the Australian Open. Best event of the year.
 
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