Here is who we've said goodbye to so far. Jess Potter and Pjay Finch. Richie, a 51-year-old sales advisor from Sheffield, set off alarm bells for Lara, 49, 6m foreign visitors so far this year. Tourists enjoy a meal at an entertainment venue on Khao San Road on Sept 23, 2022. (Photo: Pornprom Satrabhaya) More than 6 million internationals visited Atlanta total rainfall this year & so far this month On this page, you will find a real-time tally of rainfall so far this year, and also for the current month. Below those data, are the current 30-year averages ("normals") for Atlanta, Georgia. Atlanta Rainfall This Month and Year-to-Date Doctors explain how COVID-19 prevention efforts have diminished flu-related deaths this year. For nearly two years, the world has obsessively pored over news and statistics on COVID-19. While Reuters The country faced one of its most devastating wildfire seasons as the blazes continued from December 2019 into the new year and burned a record 47 million acres, displaced thousands of So far this year.. Nasdaq: down 29% S&P 500: down 21% My portfolio: down 4% I am below pace for my goal of beating the S&P 500 Index by 25%, so I will need a good last 3 months. Say the market goes down 10% but my account where I hold stocks and trade goes down 5%.. then I am happy because I gained 5% on the market. 1Qp5Lvb. This page lists all days in 2023 with day and week year 2023 has 365 days. Today day 163, Monday, June 12th is highlighted. 'Percent of year' shows the percentage the year is complete at midnight start of the day. 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2026 2027 2028 2029 2030 2031 2032 2033 2034 2035 2036 2037 2038 2039 2040Also see Week numbers for 2023 The year's already seen many resolute moments of activism filled with defiant protest and generational calls for action. Credit Ian Moore / Mashable 2023, you're flying by. Join Mashable as we look back at everything that's delighted, amazed, or just confused us in 2023. For nearly every incendiary piece of legislation, attempt to restrict access to resources, or rollback of digital protections and safe spaces proffered in 2023, a multiplied wave of activism has followed in its wake. Rounding out the first half of the year, 2023 continues to be a test of will between those in power and the communities they represent, a show of force that pits institutional might against the force of human compassion. Communities virtually linked arms in solidarity amid debates on the rights afforded to Americans, with an intertwining of mutual aid efforts to fund abortion networks, transgender healthcare, and Indigenous-led climate change solutions among the many calls to pool resources to generate action. Social movements had their wins, like the union efforts of creatives and performers nationwide, while many still continue the fight for basic on the ground, youth voices once again rang through, leading calls for action. As the last generation of youth activists age into adulthood, more have taken on the mantle. Credit Eva Marie Uzcategui / Bloomberg via Getty Images Gun reform activists take over Las Vegas. Students Demand Action continued addressing the gun lobby directly, visiting industry bigwigs at their annual trade show. Credit Everytown for Gun Safety In January, a group of activists from youth-led gun violence prevention organization Students Demand Action took on the gun lobby directly at a series of activations and protests in Las Vegas, demanding the industry leaders finally prioritize the safety of young people and communities nationwideopens in a new tab. The activists projected 50-foot signs, erected billboards, and passed out flyers to attendees of the Las Vegas National Shooting Sports Foundation NSSF's annual trade show, known as the SHOT Show. In the words of organizer Sari Kaufman, "It's amazing that young people from across the country are the ones leading this fight. I also think it sometimes creates a challenge, because older folks will look at it and think, 'Oh, they're young and naive.' That bothers me the most. Yeah, sure, we're young. But we are sophisticated in our thinking."Florida Walkout 2 Learn movement calls out bigotry and censorship. An educational movement arose in response to state efforts to censor public education. Credit Paul Hennessy / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Responding to the political efforts in education of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and legislative decisions of the state's conservative majority, Florida students organized a mass walkout of public schools in April, building on similar protest movements from 2022. The group, known as Walkout 2 Learn, decried the censorship of LGBTQ history and discriminatory policies in schools, the rejection of Black history curriculum content, and a variety of other recent bills that limit the freedoms of students and educators statewide. Activists were backed by youth-founded organization The Social Equity through Education Allianceopens in a new tab, actor Beanie Feldsteinopens in a new tab, Florida Democratic leadership, and numerous TikTok fan favorites who joined virtual and on-the-ground rallies. Walkout 2 Learn's events also modeled a unique tool for democratic protest a five-minute history course for all participants, in addition to access to a virtual, college-level African American studies walkout movement continued in other states as well, including among public school students in Louisianaopens in a new tab, Iowaopens in a new tab, and Utahopens in a new tab, in response to similar anti-LGBTQ policies. Young activists descend on Nashville in pro-democracy rally. Nashville became the center of the pro-gun reform, anti-fascism cries of 2023. Credit Seth Herald / Getty Images April also saw one of the largest pro-democracy demonstrations so far this year, as youth gun reform advocates joined Tennessee activists in demanding accountability from the state's leadership after the March 27 Nashville school shootingopens in a new tab and subsequent ousting of pro-protester grounds of Nashville's capitol building were the organizing site for thousands of young people, many from Students Demand Actionopens in a new tab and March For Our Livesopens in a new tab, who would later gather in the rotunda to put vocal pressure on legislators to retain Democratic members threatened with expulsion and to pass safety "anti-fascism" demonstration made headlines nationwide, and encapsulated the frustrations and perseverance of social justice rights activists see emergency contraception wins in Washington. Post-Roe reproductive justice organizing continued in 2023, with students and advocates working together to come up with unique ways of providing services and support to their communities. One of the many groups working within this grassroots movement has been Emergency Contraception for Every Campusopens in a new tab, a student-led advocacy campaign from the American Society for Emergency Contraception ASECopens in a new tab. While the movement for these student access machines has been around since at least 2017 the first machine was documented in 2012, the last year has seen a responsive push for even more locationsopens in a new tab. Emergency contraception vending machines have been installed at more than three dozenopens in a new tab college campuses since the group was founded in 2019, Axios reportedopens in a new tab. The group is joined by other youth-led sexual health campaigns like that from Advocates for Youthopens in a new tab, as well as student protestors rallying for reproductive justice around the country. Tweet may have been deleted opens in a new tab In April, Washington state became one of the first to approve funding $200,000 for such vending machines on additional college campuses in the state. And other states are following the path blazed by student leaders afar, like the machines proposed at Miami Universityopens in a new tab in Ohio and installed at George Washington Universityopens in a new tab in Washington, the climate crisis ages, its movement remains young. Climate action protests continued in 2023, with many fed-up young activists going straight to their slow-to-move leaders. Credit Ed Jones / AFP via Getty Images This year's Global Climate Strikeopens in a new tab took place on March 3, a tradition started by young activist Greta Thunberg in 2018 to unite young people around the world in calling for climate action. In the United States, young protesters took over state capitol buildingsopens in a new tab and paraded through downtownsopens in a new tab. But surrounding that event were continued global demands for political accountability and action. Youth climate activists with the Climate Defiance group protested outside of the May 1 White House Correspondents' Association dinner, in an attempt to block attendees and demand President Biden fulfill his campaign pledgeopens in a new tab to stop fossil fuel extraction on public lands. The activists were joined by Tennessee state Reps. Justin Pearson and Justin students across Europe occupied and later shut down schools and universitiesopens in a new tab in May to protest the lack of climate action from their prom takes over the nation's capital. The Trans Youth Prom was a vibrant protest against the erasure of LGBTQ history. Credit Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images Anticipating a particularly poignant Pride celebration this year as LGBTQ rights are erased nationwide, young LGBTQ community members staged their own defiant high school danceopens in a new tab on the steps of the Supreme Court on May 22. The Trans Youth Prom was both a celebration and a protest, put on by transgender kids for transgender kids as a glittering public testimony against a flurry of anti-transgender bills surging across states. They dressed to the nines and marched across Washington, National Mall, supported by activists like the ACLU's Chase Strangio, and held up signs proclaiming the year's leading message "Trans kids have always existed."Want more stories about youth advocacy in your inbox? Sign up for Mashable's Top Stories newsletters today. Chase joined Mashable's Social Good team in 2020, covering online stories about digital activism, climate justice, accessibility, and media representation. Her work also touches on how these conversations manifest in politics, popular culture, and fandom. Sometimes she's very funny. This newsletter may contain advertising, deals, or affiliate links. Subscribing to a newsletter indicates your consent to our Terms of Useopens in a new tab and Privacy Policyopens in a new tab. You may unsubscribe from the newsletters at any time. 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%December 26, 2021 SunDay 3605-533Week %December 27, 2021 MonDay 3614-532Week %December 28, 2021 TueDay 3623-531Week %December 29, 2021 WedDay 3632-530Week %December 30, 2021 ThuDay 3641-529Week %December 31, 2021 FriDay 3650-528Week % day numbers for 2020 day numbers for 2022 »Other years 1920-1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029 2030 2031 2032 2033 2034 2035 2036 2037 2038 2039 2040Also see Week numbers for 2021 Department of Natural Resources and Renewables firefighter Kalen MacMullin of Sydney, works on a fire in Shelburne in 2023, there have been 2,214 wildfires that have burned more than three million hectaresAs large swaths of the country burn during an unprecedentedly active spring wildfire season, Canadians are being warned there may be much worse on the fires continue to burn as they have, by the end of the season in August, the country could be looking at more scorched forest than has ever been recorded, officials from Natural Resources Canada said the result of a convergence of factors, including climate change delivering conditions conducive to more frequent and severe wildfires, and a couple of large-scale weather patterns literally fanning the now, there are significant fires burning in every single province and territory — barring Prince Edward Island and Nunavut — enough to make Natural Resources Canada’s fire map look like a multicoloured crime scene blood spatter this year, there have been 2,214 wildfires that have blackened more than million hectares of Canadian wildland — more than five million football fields’ worth. To put that into perspective, the 10-year average for this time of year is 1,624 fires and 254,429 hectares burned — about 13 times less than this in 2023 are equal to 71 per cent of the total burn for the 2014 season — the worst in the past 20 years — with three months still to go in the 2023 obviously a human cost as well. So far this year, fires have prompted some 120,000 people to evacuate in six provinces and territories. Of those, approximately 26,000 are still unable to return not just the burned hectarage that’s extraordinary, but its distribution, too, say experts. Typically, in the spring fire season, the majority of Canada’s fires are skewed toward the western provinces. Seeing fires coast-to-coast as we see this year, say officials, is simply small wonder that that word — “unprecedented” — pops up with near monotonous regularity when politicians and experts speak on the country’s fire season.“Over the last 20 years, we have never seen such a large area burned so early in the season,” said Yon Boulanger, a researcher for Natural Resources Canada. “This is partially because of climate change. We’re seeing trends toward increasing this burned area throughout Canada.”And there are indications that this early tinder box-like trend could continue through the for June project the warm and dry conditions that have made the spring so flammable will continue through the month — and through most of the summer — creating a higher-than-normal potential for wildfires through most of the fact, said Richard Carr, Natural Resources Canada’s fire danger forecasting expert, we’re looking at similar weather conditions to 1989, the worst year for wildfires in the past six decades, when million hectares burned.“We’ve actually been getting the worst of both a La Niña and an incoming El Nino, which is starting to develop over the summer,” he said. Notably, researchers earlier this month held Australia’s 2019-20 wildfires to blame for the strong La Niña weather patterns, the effects of which are just now beginning to abate.“We’ve had a bit more heat than we’ve had during a typical La Niña spring, but it does tend to favour very windy, dry conditions. Previously the most area burned was in 1989 and the El Nino did very much the same thing that year. So, I wouldn’t be surprised if weather conditions are very similar to what we had in 1989.”Though conditions will be ripe for a busy fire season, it’s important to note those forecasts predict risk levels for wildfires and not actually the fires themselves, said Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson.“With good fortune it is possible that the full extent of the risk does not materialize. But with preparation we must be ready for whatever happens this year and into the future. Every province and territory will need to be on high alert throughout this wildfire season,” he a Monday morning briefing, Wilkinson, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Public Safety Minister Bill Blair took turns touting measures the government — in addition to training and deploying some 500 Canadian Armed Forces troops to wildfire hot spots — is making to mitigate the upcoming and future fire among those is the WildFireSat, a dedicated wildfire observation satellite system — the first of its kind — expected to launch in 2029 at a cost of $170 also made note of a government investment of $284 million over five years for a Wildfire Resilient Futures Initiative designed to develop and promote wildfire prevention and mitigation protocols — such as FireSmart Canada — and research gaps in wildland fire $489 million is earmarked for the Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Fund, to help communities improve their resilience to wildfires.“Our modelling shows that this may be an especially severe wildfire season throughout the summer,” said Trudeau. “We’re going to get through this together and our government will keep being there with whatever it takes to keep people safe.”With 18 of the country’s wildfires directly affecting First Nations communities, Trudeau pointed to Ottawa’s efforts to train more community-based STORIESLast week, the federal government announced a Wildfire Training Fund, dedicated to the hiring and training of 300 Indigenous firefighters and 125 Indigenous fire also highlighted working with First Nations to train 130 wildland firefighters in Yukon and northern British Columbia, and working with Innu Nation in Newfoundland and Labrador to train community members also lauded the arrival of firefighters from other countries with whom Canada has reciprocal firefighting aid has sent 522 firefighters so far to help with wildfires here. South Africa, Australia and New Zealand have sent 215, 195 and 25, respectively. Those southern hemisphere countries have their fire seasons during Canada’s winter months. Ottawa is still in discussions on firefighting aid with Costa Rica — they could potentially send up to 60 — nearing the end of its own fire season — has no spare capacity to send firefighters at the moment, but those governments are in contact and Mexico may be able to send some firefighters in the coming weeks, said a Natural Resources Canada spokesperson. And French President Emmanuel Macron announced that country would be sending 100 firefighters to Quebec.“Wildland fires are inevitable in Canada, but climate change is making that challenge more serious,” said Canadian Forest Service director-general Michael Norton. “We must take proactive steps to prepare for wildfires and to reduce risks before they occur.”JOIN THE CONVERSATION Anyone can read Conversations, but to contribute, you should be a registered Torstar account holder. If you do not yet have a Torstar account, you can create one now it is freeSign InRegisterConversations are opinions of our readers and are subject to the Code of Conduct. The Star does not endorse these opinions.

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