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BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame inducted its Class of 2024 on Nov. 12. The group highlights a diverse cohort of local sports figures including an NFL insider at 2 On Your Side, a Stanley Cup champion, a Super Bowl winner, and a person with a connection to President George W. Bush. Those honored include: Kevin Cadle, Vic Carucci , Norm Foster, Warren Gelman, Rob Gronkowski, Rick Lancellotti, Dr. Bridget Niland, Richard Brooks Orpik, Cecelie Owens, Walt Stefani, Ed Van Tine, and Paul Wieland. They all shared personal stories and reflected on their careers in sports during the ceremony. Cecelie Owens is recognized for her performance as a basketball player at Buffalo State College. She holds 19 records for the Lady Bengals. After her playing days, she became Buffalo Public School’s first assistant superintendent of physical education, health, and athletics in 2020. Owens also founded the G.I.R.L.S. Sports Foundation which stands for Goals, Integrity, Respect, Leadership, and Sports. It provides local girls with mentors, summer camps, and clinics. Now, Owens is currently the principal at West Hertel Academy #94. “I am standing before you getting my reward for not giving up and moving around and through the obstacles,” Owens said. Richard Brooks Orpik was a NCAA hockey champion and two-time Stanley Cup winner. He played 16 years in the NHL and competed in three Olympics for Team USA. Orpik was nominated for the King Clancy Memorial Trophy for leadership and community service in 2018. He credits his upbringing in the Buffalo area as part of his success. “Growing up at Amherst, we were very lucky to have access to a ton of ice rinks and ice time, which is one of the biggest economic hurdles in growing our sport,” Brooks Orpik said. “I was born and spent my first few years in California, but Buffalo is where I'm from.” Walt Stefani was a 34-year standout coach for Orchard Park High School boys' volleyball. He won 18 Divisional Championships, 10 Section VI D-1 Championships, 3 Regional New York State Championships, and led his team to two undefeated seasons. He was named Western New York Volleyball Coach of the Year in 1982, one of eight times he won the award. He was New York State’s Volleyball Coach of the Year in 1994. He credits those around him for many of his accomplishments. “I was always surrounded by many great people in my life,” Stefani said. Warren Gelman is recognized for his work in hockey. After playing at Yale, Gelman became the President of the Shamrock Amateur Hockey Association, now known as the Bison Hockey Association. For 36 years that’s where he coached boys’ and girls’ hockey, winning several league and state championships. He founded the first girls’ hockey team in Western New York in 1986. Former President George W. Bush offered his support for Gelman during the Hall of Fame ceremony. “In my second year at Yale, after joining the DKE fraternity, I was assigned a Big Brother from Buffalo. At 5’6”, 140 pounds, Warren Gelman wasn't that big of a brother, but he was a giant in stature and one of Yale University's most illustrious college hockey captains,” he said. Vic Carucci has been an NFL writer and broadcaster for nearly 50 years. He has worked for the Buffalo News as an editor for NFL.com, a contributor on NFL Network, and a senior editor for the Cleveland Browns. He's written 11 books including New York Times Best-Sellers and collaborated with big names in the sports world like Bill Polian, Jon Gruden, and Jim Kelly. Now, Carucci is a co-host for SiriusXM NFL Radio and is a Bills and NFL analyst for 2 On Your Side. Carucci is a past president of the Pro Football Writers of America and a long-time member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame selection committee. During his speech, he joked about first meeting another Class of 2024 member, Rob Gronkowski. “For Gronk and I, this is a full circle moment. We first met at my house when he was in junior high school. He was in the same circle of friends as my younger daughter,” Carucci said. “I can't wait, buddy, to cast my first ballot for when you're going to get your gold jacket to go to Canton.” Rob Gronkowski needs no introduction. The Amherst Native was a four-time Super Bowl winner, five-time Pro Bowler, four-time First Team All-Pro, and featured on the NFL’s 100th Anniversary All-Time Team. He is likely to be voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in the coming years. Now, he works as an NFL TV analyst. Gronkowski founded the Gronk Nation Youth Foundation to give back to children through sports, education, and community involvement. As a kid, Gronkowski said he always thought he would be in the NFL. “I was always terrible at reading and writing, but I wrote a paper saying I'm making it to the NFL. To this day, I have talked to those teachers a few times and they are mind-blown. I did exactly what I said I was gonna do, even though the paper was poorly written,” Gronkowski said. Gronkowski also recalled his first meeting with Carucci. “I remember walking into his house hanging with his daughters and friends and I knew he was an NFL reporter and I told him straight to his face in eighth grade, ‘Hey, Vic, you're going to be writing about me one day.’ He thought I was trying to be cool and spit game to his daughter, but I was being serious. He said, ‘Sure, kid, keep it moving’ along those lines,” Gronkowski said. “So it's a full circle moment now and then here we are now, buddy. I love you, man.” Those were just a few of the many members of the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame. You can watch the full commUNITY episode 70 below.
Nokia Corporation: Repurchase of own shares on 23.12.2024Under fire from congressional Republicans about one of the darkest moments of Joe Biden’s presidency, Secretary of State Antony Blinken defended the administration’s handling of the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, saying Democrats struggled to make the best of a bad pullout deal struck by Donald Trump. Blinken testified Wednesday before the Republican-led House Foreign Affairs Committee, facing questions and angry criticism from lawmakers for the final time in office. The top U.S. diplomat was expected to leave for the Middle East in the afternoon, but the back-and-forth with members, specifically Republicans who admonished the chaotic withdrawal as his defining legacy, delayed his departure. RELATED STORY | House GOP report blames Biden-Harris for chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan Blinken said much of the blame for the sudden collapse of Afghanistan's U.S.-allied government and the chaotic August 2021 evacuation of Americans that followed rested with a withdrawal deal President Trump had reached with the Taliban in 2020 before leaving office. “To the extent President Biden faced a choice, it was between ending the war or escalating it,” Blinken told lawmakers. “Had he not followed through on his predecessor’s commitment, attacks on our forces and allies would have resumed and the Taliban’s assault on the country’s major cities would have commenced.” But McCaul and other Republican lawmakers portrayed Blinken and the Biden administration as ill-prepared and disengaged as the disaster grew, and intent on minimizing mounting evidence that the Taliban would complete a takeover of the country before the last U.S. troops departed. “This catastrophic event was the beginning of a failed foreign policy that lit the world on fire,” McCaul, a Texas Republican, said. He urged Blinken to take “accountability for the disastrous withdrawal.” It was clear “it was going to be a disaster,” said Florida Republican Rep. Brian Mast, who will take over as chairman of the committee in the next Congress. RELATED STORY | Where asylum seekers stand, 2 years after the war in Afghanistan The hearing came at the end of Blinken's diplomatic service under Biden, with six weeks left before Trump takes office, and at the end of McCaul's time leading the Foreign Affairs committee. It served as a capstone to nearly four years of animosity between the two over the end of America's longest war. “For my part, I’ve been determined to learn the lessons from this experience, not only to learn them, but to act on them,” Blinken said. He added, “We’ve made the State Department stronger and better able to respond to crises than it was when we found it, or it was during the Afghan evacuation.” There was little new ground broken on the U.S. withdrawal, after years of blame-trading between Republicans and Democrats. Blinken pointed Wednesday to the planned 2026 release of a government-appointed Afghanistan war commission's review as the best prospect of an independent full report on the disastrous events of the summer of 2021. The 20-year U.S. military occupation of Afghanistan succeeded in routing the al-Qaida militants responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, whom Afghanistan's fundamentalist Taliban militants had allowed a home. But as the U.S. began its pullout, as set by Trump's deal and carried out by Biden, Taliban fighters routed the U.S.-allied government and military, capturing control of the country within months. An extremist group's bombing at the Kabul airport killed 13 U.S. service members and nearly 200 Afghans as Americans, Afghan allies and others thronged the airport in hopes of seats on the last U.S. military-run flights out. Blinken testified Wednesday that all of the “hundreds” of Americans and dual citizens stranded by the sudden scramble from Afghanistan have now been able to leave, if they have chosen. RELATED STORY | Biden review of chaotic Afghan withdrawal blames Trump He opened his appearance before the committee by turning to families of U.S. forces killed in the withdrawal and expressing condolences. Protesters repeatedly interrupted his comments, crying out “scum” and “genocide,” before security cleared the room of them. Blinken denied Republican charges that he and others ignored warnings from lower-ranking administration officials that the U.S. withdrawal would go badly wrong, and that the U.S. had to move faster on getting out Americans and the Afghans who had worked for and allied with them. “We anticipated that Kabul would remain in the hands of the Afghan government” through the end of the year, Blinken said. “This unfolded more quickly than we anticipated including in the intelligence community.” “Waiting until the last minute is not executing a plan,” McCaul said. Blinken's testimony came months after House Republicans issued a scathing report on their investigation into the withdrawal, blaming the disastrous end on Biden’s administration. They played down Trump's role in the failures even though he had signed the withdrawal deal with the Taliban. Previous investigations and analyses by a government-appointed special investigator for Afghanistan and some private policy groups have pointed to a systemic failure spanning the last four presidential administrations and concluded that Biden and Trump share the heaviest blame.
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Ex-OpenAI engineer who raised legal concerns about the technology he helped build has died Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law, has died, according to his parents and San Francisco officials. He was 26. Kitchener Parts of southern Ontario under travel advisory Anyone planning to travel today is being urged to be prepared as 5 to 15 cm of snow could hit a large portion of southern Ontario. Beloved bookstore in Uptown Waterloo forced to close for months following fire A beloved bookstore in Uptown Waterloo is bearing the brunt of some holiday misfortune. Must-see moments of 2024: A superstar surprise, roundabout resident and CKCO studios come down From a WWE surprise for a Guelph superfan, to the recovery of a lost aviation artifact, to a reporter getting the story right from the goose's mouth, here are some of our can’t-miss moments from 2024. Barrie Several collisions reported along Highway 11 as driving conditions deteriorate Highway 11 was closed briefly in Oro-Medonte on Monday afternoon as driving conditions deteriorated, causing multiple collisions. Student charged, firearms seized after threats against school: police Police say officers found several firearms during a search at a teen’s home after he allegedly made violent threats against a secondary school. Single-vehicle crash in Springwater Twp. One woman was taken to the hospital following a single-vehicle crash in Springwater Township. 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