A quick-thinking Newark kindergartner is being hailed as a hero for helping save his father, who suffered a stroke while driving Monday, Today.com reported.

Nathaniel Dancy Jr., a 5-year-old student at West Side Park Elementary School, was traveling on Rt. 22 with his dad, Nathaniel Dancy Sr., 33, when he suffered an aneurysm. Dancy Sr. was able to pull the car to the side of the road.

Precocious Five-Year-Old Helps Save Dad’s Life

A quick-thinking Newark kindergartner is being hailed as a hero for helping save his father, who suffered a stroke while driving Monday, Today.com reported.

Nathaniel Dancy Jr., a 5-year-old student at West Side Park Elementary School, was traveling on Rt. 22 with his dad, Nathaniel Dancy Sr., 33, when he suffered an aneurysm. Dancy Sr. was able to pull the car to the side of the road.

Newark, New Jersey, United States

Precocious Five-Year-Old Helps Save Dad’s Life

A quick-thinking Newark kindergartner is being hailed as a hero for helping save his father, who suffered a stroke while driving Monday, Today.com reported.

Nathaniel Dancy Jr., a 5-year-old student at West Side Park Elementary School, was traveling on Rt. 22 with his dad, Nathaniel Dancy Sr., 33, when he suffered an aneurysm. Dancy Sr. was able to pull the car to the side of the road.

Newark, New Jersey, United States

Precocious Five-Year-Old Helps Save Dad’s Life

A quick-thinking Newark kindergartner is being hailed as a hero for helping save his father, who suffered a stroke while driving Monday, Today.com reported.

Nathaniel Dancy Jr., a 5-year-old student at West Side Park Elementary School, was traveling on Rt. 22 with his dad, Nathaniel Dancy Sr., 33, when he suffered an aneurysm. Dancy Sr. was able to pull the car to the side of the road.

Newark, New Jersey, United States

Precocious Five-Year-Old Helps Save Dad’s Life

A quick-thinking Newark kindergartner is being hailed as a hero for helping save his father, who suffered a stroke while driving Monday, Today.com reported.

Nathaniel Dancy Jr., a 5-year-old student at West Side Park Elementary School, was traveling on Rt. 22 with his dad, Nathaniel Dancy Sr., 33, when he suffered an aneurysm. Dancy Sr. was able to pull the car to the side of the road.

Newark, New Jersey, United States

A quick-thinking Newark kindergartner is being hailed as a hero for helping save his father, who suffered a stroke while driving Monday, Today.com reported.

Nathaniel Dancy Jr., a 5-year-old student at West Side Park Elementary School, was traveling on Rt. 22 with his dad, Nathaniel Dancy Sr., 33, when he suffered an aneurysm. Dancy Sr. was able to pull the car to the side of the road.

Newark, New Jersey, United States

A quick-thinking Newark kindergartner is being hailed as a hero for helping save his father, who suffered a stroke while driving Monday, Today.com reported.

Nathaniel Dancy Jr., a 5-year-old student at West Side Park Elementary School, was traveling on Rt. 22 with his dad, Nathaniel Dancy Sr., 33, when he suffered an aneurysm. Dancy Sr. was able to pull the car to the side of the road.

Newark, New Jersey, United States

A quick-thinking Newark kindergartner is being hailed as a hero for helping save his father, who suffered a stroke while driving Monday, Today.com reported.

Nathaniel Dancy Jr., a 5-year-old student at West Side Park Elementary School, was traveling on Rt. 22 with his dad, Nathaniel Dancy Sr., 33, when he suffered an aneurysm. Dancy Sr. was able to pull the car to the side of the road.

Newark, New Jersey, United States

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Amazing and wonderful story in the New Yorker of a Las Vegas pickpocket act who develops his craft so well that he now advises the Department of Defense on “counterdeception” and coauthors papers in neuroscience journals. Success stories like this just warm my heart.

I love how clinical, even philosophical, he is about how his act works:

I said, “So if you were going to take the wallet that’s when you would have done it, on the turn?” Robbins brought his hand forward to show me that he was holding my wallet between his fingers. Even though he had explained each step along the way, I hadn’t felt a thing.

But physical technique, Robbins pointed out, is merely a tool. “It’s all about the choreography of people’s attention,” he said. “Attention is like water. It flows. It’s liquid. You create channels to divert it, and you hope that it flows the right way.”

Hat tip to journalist John Dickerson, who mentioned the piece on the Slate Political Gabfest.

The hotel manager, Nick Pappagallo, was kind enough to give me a tour of the facilites. I also had the pleasure of staying there for a night so I could get a first-hand perspective of the place, and I’ve gotta say I was pretty pleased throughout.

I love how Debbie Galant of the NJ News Commons put this:

The arrival of a Courtyard Marriott wouldn’t raise a journalist’s eyebrow anywhere else, but in Newark, it’s a story.

But when Speight was escorted by police to be sworn in, a group of residents, led by SEIU Local 617 President Rahaman Muhammad, stormed the dais and appeared to lunge toward Speight and her grade-school-age son.

Police restrained the group as they toppled a podium and residents were caught in the rush. When Muhammad would not give way, an officer doused him with pepper spray, along with residents, reporters and at least one other officer.

“This truly was an out-of-body experience,” said Sharif. “The mayor, who goes all around the country to talk about democracy … literally in the back of the room, hiding in the shadows.”