FATHER JUMPS TO HELP SON AFTER FALL AT CROTON-HARMON STATION

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Father Jumps To Help Son After Fall At Croton-Harmon Station

Thanks to quick-thinking Metro-North officials and first responders, a person who fell on electrified tracks at a Northern Westchester train station and his father, who leaped in to help him, were rescued from the perilous situation. MORE AT Father Jumps To Help Son After Fall At Croton-Harmon Station | Cortlandt Daily Voice

BREAKING NEWS---ISRAEL SAYS IRAN LAUNCHED A NUMBER OF DRONES TOWARDS IT---ASSORTED ARTICLES

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says Iran has launched a number of drones toward Israel.

The army’s spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, said it would take several hours for the aircraft to arrive. He said Israel was prepared. He spoke Saturday evening. MORE AT Israel says Iran launched a number of drones towards it (pix11.com)

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Iran launches major drone attack against Israel - Washington Times

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REPORT: Iran Makes a Move Against Israel – PJ Media

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Iran Launches Attack on Israel | National Review

TRANS INSANITY--THE HUMAN RIGHTS CULT HAS REPLACED COMMON SENSE COMPASSION--JANET DALEY--THE TELEGRAPH

The most shocking thing about the Cass report is that it had to be commissioned at all. Why in God’s name did it require an official government study to establish that medical interference in the sexual development of healthy children was unacceptable?

The outrage over this absurdity has been thoroughly aired – not least by my colleagues on these pages – so let’s take that as read. Whatever benign inclinations there may once have been in this campaign, they were swamped by the most poisonous wave of personal and professional denigration that I have ever seen.

That itself should have been a significant clue: the hysterical vindictiveness with which the militant trans lobby pursued any attempt to question its assumptions should have thrown up an immediate warning. People whose response to any challenge is to extirpate their critics are not well-intentioned.

But it’s over. This whole bizarre phenomenon has imploded and nobody needs to be afraid to utter obvious truths any longer.  MORE AT The human rights cult has replaced common sense compassion (msn.com)

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AGENDA, PLANNING BOARD MEETING, BLUE PIG, SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE, CARMEL RIVERSIDE LLC

8 P.M., 4/16, Blue Pig, Sust. Comittee and Carmel Riverside LLC.

See the agenda and related documents at Planning Board Meeting (champds.com)

SPRING SPOTLIGHT WEEK STARTS APRIL 27TH

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Mark your calendars Tiger fans! Spotlight week starts April 27th.

Checkout the schedule and come cheer on your favorite CHHS teams.

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THE CASS REVIEWS SHOWS IT'S A DISASTER TO CONFUSE OPINION WITH EXPERTISE BY CHARLES MOORE, TELEGRAPH

The first words of Dr Hilary Cass in her review published this week are: “This review is not about defining what it means to be trans.” Her wise refusal to engage in that heated debate gives the report its power.

As disclosed in its title, the report is about “gender identity services for children and young people”. “It is,” Dr Cass says, “about what the healthcare approach should be.” It unearths what has gone dreadfully wrong in a very sensitive part of the National Health Service.

Dr Cass’s discoveries and recommendations are important in their own right. The trans debate – moral, medical, social, scientific, political – will now be based on much better information. Hundreds of articles could be written about her findings alone, and probably will be. But today I would like to use the Cass Review to make a wider point.

It is about the terrible things that happen when people cease to behave professionally.

Dr Cass’s conclusion is that the provision of puberty blockers – and other aspects of gender identity treatment – has been rushed forward on dangerously thin evidence. She speaks of “a failure to reliably collect even the most basic data and information”. She adds that “data have often not been shared or have been unavailable”.

That is a shocking thing. It corrupts the NHS system more widely. In a letter to a newspaper yesterday, a Cambridge GP, Dr Fiona Cornish, pointed out how the lack of evidence has compromised professionals like herself: “As GPs, we are asked to prescribe by gender clinics” and have really had no choice about doing so: “The only position to take is to follow NHS guidelines, which allow puberty-blocking hormones. To decline on personal grounds leaves one open to complaints or a claim of discrimination.” MORE AT The Cass Review shows it’s a disaster for professionals to confuse opinion with expertise (msn.com)

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BY SPECIAL REQUEST: PHOTOS FROM THE 2015 HISTORICAL SUNDAY @ ASBURY METHODIST'S BETHEL CHAPEL

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BY SPECIAL REQUEST: Asbury Methodist Church celebrated "Historical Sunday" 2015 (a.k.a. "Historic Sunday") at the Bethel Chapel. (SEE THE PHOTOS BELOW.)

For those who don't know, the Bethel Chapel is surrounded by the historic Bethel Cemetery. The Chapel was built in the early 1790's on land donated by Phillip Van Cortlandt. Over the years the chapel has numbered among its worshipers many of the men prominent in the early history of our nation, more particularly in the founding of the Town of Cortlandt and Westchester County.

The wooden clapboard structure has not changed very much over the years and contains an organ said to be one of the oldest in the United States. Bethel Chapel and cemetery are listed on the NYS Register of Historic Places and in the National Registry.

Here are a few photos from THE 2015 event; click on the images below, all rights reserved.  For more info about Asbury Methodist's current servics, contact them directly at FB https://www.facebook.com/AsburyCrotonUMC

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A LITTLE SNIPPET FROM 1968 AND THE CROTON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL'S PRODUCTION OF "KISS ME, KATE"

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A LITTLE SNIPPET FROM 1968 AND THE CROTON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL'S PRODUCTION OF "KISS ME, KATE"--click on the image.

You may also enjoy SEEING THE THE PROGRAM FROM THE 1966 CROTON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL PRODUCTION OF CYMBELINE; click here.

BY SPECIAL REQUEST AT THE MAILBOX--CROTON GRADUATION RATES 2023 & UK BLM NEWS

The blog gets many requests regarding the "schools"--every attempt will be made to answer them if possible:

--A reader asks for last year's CROTON GRADUATION RATES; Croton was at 91%; sorry but 2021 and 2020 is presently unavailable. (If we get it, it will be posted.)  See the entire 2023 list at THE NEW EVERYTHING CROTON: NY SCHOOL DISTRICTS RANKED BY 2023 GRADUATION RATES, CROTON GRADUATION AT 91%

--A reader is seeking certain UK BLM news; here is what is available at the blog; see more at THE NEW EVERYTHING CROTON: BLM ACTIVIST JAILED OVER FUNDRAISER FRAUD ORDERED TO REPAY JUST 1 POUND

ORWELL WATCH: NPR AND THE DEATH OF FAIRNESS---MATT TAIBBI---MORE FROM THE "BIAS" FILES

A story about facts and decency is quickly reduced to another partisan bias tale.

Earlier this week on The Free Press, Uri Berliner dropped a bomb on the public media world with “I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust.” As discussed on the new America This Week, the longtime senior editor described how NPR fumbled three stories: Covid, the Hunter Biden laptop affair, and the Trump-Russia scandal. Regarding the latter:

At NPR, we hitched our wagon to Trump’s most visible antagonist, Representative Adam Schiff… Schiff, who was the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, became NPR’s guiding hand, its ever-present muse. By my count, NPR hosts interviewed Schiff 25 times about Trump and Russia. During many of those conversations, Schiff alluded to purported evidence of collusion. The Schiff talking points became the drumbeat of NPR news reports.

But when the Mueller report found no credible evidence of collusion, NPR’s coverage was notably sparse. Russiagate quietly faded from our programming…more at Orwell Watch: NPR and the Death of Fairness (racket.news)