Day: November 11, 2020πŸ’Ύ

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Are presidents required by the Constitution to concede? | Fox News

Are presidents required by the Constitution to concede? | Fox News

One week after Election Day and days after Joe Biden was projected as the winner of the 2020 presidential election, President Trump has not conceded, challenging the results via recounts and legal action alleging foul play.

Legally, however, there is no requirement for a president to make such a concession. The post-election transition process begins once the General Services Administration (GSA) ascertains the winner of the election, and transition preparations already began well before the election.

New York faces a long road on electric vehicle commitments

New York faces a long road on electric vehicle commitments

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration is confident New York will have 10,000 publicly accessible charging stations for electric vehicles by the end of 2021. The number of places drivers will be able to find those plugs, however, will be far more limited.

Cuomo announced his current 10,000 stations goal in 2018 — his administration aiming to “make ownership of gasoline-powered vehicles obsolete.” But the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, which is overseeing efforts to bring the stations online, says that number refers to individual plugs for electric vehicles, not discrete stations throughout the state — an important distinction if the state hopes to alleviate “range anxiety” associated with the vehicles.

Video showing ballot collection does not show evidence of fraud

Video showing ballot collection does not show evidence of fraud

Mike Sanchez, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder County Clerk’s office, which oversees elections for the county, told The Associated Press that the two men were staff from his office carrying out a scheduled pickup.

“All vote by mail ballot drop boxes were closed and locked at 8 PM on Election Day. Ballots from all boxes throughout the County were picked up the following day,” Sanchez wrote in an email to the AP.

November 11, 2020 Afternoon

Good afternoon! Rainy Armistice Day. πŸͺ– One can be critical of Trump on many levels but at least he’s kept us out of war. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡² Maybe it was just dumb luck 🀞🏻. Rain and 63 degrees in Delmar, NY. β˜” There is a south-southeast breeze at 8 mph. πŸƒ. The dew point is 62 degrees. Temperatures will drop below freezing tomorrow around noontime. β˜ƒοΈ

Yesterday I went downtown for meetings and to do a bunch of training classes. 🏫 Kind of a boring day πŸ’€ but it was nice getting out and seeing the old office 🏒. Definitely a nice sunset. I went for my evening walk. 🚢🏻I also went over to John Wolcott house for a while πŸ” looking through old documents. πŸ“

This morning I didn’t wake up until late πŸ› but that was fine because it was a work holiday for Veterans Day. I spent a while looking through old papers at my own home looking for the checkbook πŸ’΅ and an envelope βœ‰ so I can get my direct deposit reestablished at work. Tomorrow morning I’ll walk to the post office πŸ“¬ and get a stamp on it so I can get that reestablished. Also did some cleaning in the kitchen and bathroom 🚽.

Veterans Day will have occasional showers. 🌦 High of 63 degrees at 2pm with the mercury continuing to drop as the front rolls through. 19 degrees amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became cloudy by afternoon. The high last year was 43 degrees. The record high of 70 was set in 2002. 3.0 inches of snow fell back in 1906.❄

Solar noon 🌞 was at 11:40 am with sun having an altitude of 29.8Β° from the due south horizon (-41Β° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 10.5 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour πŸ… starts at 3:56 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (239Β°). πŸ“Έ The sunset is in the west-southwest (247Β°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 4:38 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 10 seconds with dusk around 5:06 pm, which is one minute and 2 seconds earlier than yesterday. πŸŒ‡ The best time to look at the stars is after 5:41 pm. At sunset, look for rain 🌧 and temperatures around 63 degrees. The dew point will be 62 degrees. There will be a south-southeast breeze at 8 mph. Today will have 9 hours and 53 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 17 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be occasional showers, mainly before midnight. 🌧 Low of 46 degrees at 6am. 13 degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 29th. South wind 6 to 13 mph becoming northwest after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. In 2019, we had partly cloudy skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 19 degrees. The record low of 15 occurred back in 1976.

Weekend forecast is improving but seasonable cold. β˜€οΈSaturday, sunny, with a high near 48. Sunday, a chance of showers after 10am. Partly sunny, with a high near 53. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Typical average high for the weekend is 49 degrees.

Still think it will be a stay-at-home weekend. 🏑

Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until Earliest Sunset of the Year βŒ›οΈ when the sun will be setting at 4:21 pm with dusk at 4:53 pm. On that day in 2019, we had rain showers, cloudy and temperatures between 47 and 37 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 38 degrees. We hit a record high of 62 back in 1966.

Cedar Mountain Road Sign

Map: Mountain House Trail and North Mountain
Thematic Map: Albany Art

This man is running Russia’s newest propaganda effort in the U.S. β€” or at least he’s trying to

This man is running Russia’s newest propaganda effort in the U.S. β€” or at least he’s trying to

Alexander Malkevich stood outside the White House on Thursday, braving the 85-degree heat in a skintight long-sleeve shirt with Che Guevara’s face emblazoned on it. Thursday was flag day, as well as the birthdays of Malkevich, Che and President Donald Trump, and he was leading a very small political rally.

But this wasn’t one of the typical protests that crop up on Pennsylvania Avenue. Malkevich sits on Russia’s Civic Chamber commission on mass media, an official arm of President Vladimir Putin’s government. He was there to promote his new Russia-funded, English-language news site, USA Really. Wake Up Americans.

Like most of Russia’s efforts to manipulate U.S. politics, the website traffics in content on divisive issues such as promoting secessionist movements in the U.S. — the same kinds of activities that caused a furor when they were exposed as having influenced the 2016 presidential election.