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March 1, 2021

Missouri Paramedic Killed in Plane Crash

first_imgA firefighter-paramedic from the West Peculiar Fire Department in Cass County (Mo.) was one of two persons killed in a Saturday afternoon plane crash in southern Missouri. Tony Rizzo, trizzo@kcstar.com Chief Doug Short of the West Peculiar Fire Department said today he was not releasing information about Collins’ employment with the department until speaking with her family. Federal aviation officials were expected to arrive at the site today to investigate the crash.center_img According to the company’s website, Collins was a senior rigger and the veteran of more than 200 skydives. Jennifer Collins, 32, also was on the staff of Freefall Express Skydiving based at the Mount Vernon, Mo., Airport where the crash occurred late Saturday afternoon.last_img read more

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February 27, 2021

Cute Little Leukemia Patient Proposes To Favorite Nurse (WATCH)

first_imgAddThis Sharing ButtonsShare to FacebookFacebookFacebookShare to TwitterTwitterTwitterShare to EmailEmailEmailShare to RedditRedditRedditShare to MoreAddThisMoreWhile Gideon Robinson was battling leukemia at the Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego, one of the IVs must have been Cupid’s arrow because on January 27th, the 5-year-old boy felt compelled to get down on one knee and propose to his favorite nurse.NEED A SMILE?….GET OUR NEW GOOD NEWS APP—>  Download FREE for Android and iOSWith hospital staff watching the exchange, the nurse, called “Tall Sarah”, graciously accepted the declaration of love and announced he could be her “hospital husband.”The video has been shared upwards of 2,300 times on Gideon’s leukemia support page.WATCH: Nurse Stunned by Parade of Grown Babies Whose Lives She Saved“It is amazing to us that this has been shared and liked so much around the world,” says the Robinson family on Gideon’s Go Fund Me page. “It was a fun and innocent act from our little warrior. We appreciate the kind words and encouragement we have received from everyone.”(WATCH the video below)SPREAD the Love…AddThis Sharing ButtonsShare to FacebookFacebookFacebookShare to TwitterTwitterTwitterShare to EmailEmailEmailShare to RedditRedditRedditShare to MoreAddThisMorelast_img read more

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February 8, 2021

Professor says fiscal plan needs work

first_imgThe contention over the United States fiscal policy has boiled down to a matter of rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, economics professor Eric Sims said. Members of the U.S. Congress reached a compromise on December’s fiscal cliff crisis, a decision that was catalyzed by the expiration of the Bush administration’s tax cuts that had been extended in 2010 to alleviate the recession. The deal, made on Jan. 2, did not increase taxes for the majority of the population, but it also did not address the issue of national spending cuts. If Congress had failed to act, taxes increases would have happened immediately along with government spending cuts known as sequestration effected across the board. The frustrating inaction and seemingly endless debate among members of Congress was the result of a tension between the short run and long run needs of the national economy, according to Sims. “To understand where this is coming from, the debt ceiling in the United States is congressionally mandated,” Sims said. “We have [more than] 11 trillion [dollars] in total debt outstanding now, and mandates say the debt can’t exceed X [amount of] dollars, though historically we’ve always increased that. “It’s natural that we would run large annual deficits during a time of recession, because taxes are lower and spending is higher,” Sims said. “In this case, it was exacerbated by the political showdown of 2010 and the recent economic sluggishness from the Great Recession.” In a time of recession, a typical fiscal policy increases spending and decreases taxes to foster economic recovery and growth. However, with the national debt approaching 100 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP), economists are worried about the long-term consequences of the gradual increase of the debt ceiling. “Tax increases and spending cuts aren’t good for the short-term economy, but now there is concern that our debt is so big that eventually, other countries and other investors won’t want to take our debt if they doubt the full faith and credit of the U.S. government,” Sims said. “The basic gist of the deal was that taxes won’t go up for most people, just the higher-income brackets, and the spending issue was just punted farther down the line.” In the economic long run, the increased taxes and decreased spending are exactly what the nation needs in order to remedy the national debt issues, according to Sims. The fiscal cliff compromise is intended only to address the short run situation, post-recession. “‘Going off the fiscal cliff’ would have meant no deal, taxes up for a lot of people, and sequestration, which means general spending cuts effective immediately,” Sims said. “In a sense, this is exactly what we needed to do, but the tension is in the fact that the higher taxing would have been bad for the short-term behavior of an economy finally in the beginning stages of recovery.” Economics professor Robert Flood said the issue of the spending cuts, or sequestration, must be addressed soon if any lasting progress is to be made. The threatened cuts, intended to force a compromise in Congress, would have serious immediate implications. “The sequester involves across-the-board cuts of eight to 10 percent in many domestic and military programs,” Flood said. “The yelling and screaming when this comes up will be deafening.” Flood said the current deficit situation has prompted the panic of this particular negotiation. “We are now at about 39 percent of GDP spent by the Feds, which taxes about 27 percent of the GDP-taxes are low by historical standards,” Flood said. “The difference is the deficit. “To get to fiscal balance, the U.S. needs to reduce spending by 35 percent and increase taxes by 35 percent. We need some big adjustments, and the fiscal cliff stuff negotiated at the year’s end solves about five percent of the problem.” Sims said the debt ceiling is projected to be reached in six weeks, which puts pressure on Congress to come up with a new, more comprehensive deal by then to avoid a repeat of this situation. This time, they will not be able to avoid the question of spending and the national debt. “They’ll have to address the spending cuts issue in six weeks, they’ll have to negotiate the higher debt ceiling and come up with cuts that will take place over the next several years,” Sims said. “We need lower taxes and higher expenditures in the long run, but it isn’t clear how we will do that.”last_img read more

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February 8, 2021

Philosophy professor provides students with advice on “not losing your soul” at Notre Dame

first_imgMeghan Sullivan, philosophy professor and director of the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study, elaborated on succeeding at Notre Dame “without losing your soul,” in a lecture Tuesday night. Sullivan directs the God and the Good Life program. Her lecture, titled “How to succeed at Notre Dame without losing your soul,” was the sixth annual lecture for the Sorin Scholars program and was hosted by the Flatley Center for Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement (CUSE). Cate Von Dohlen Philosophy professor Meghan Sullivan advised students struggling to take care of themselves to ask the right questions, seek philosophical answers and pursue the parts of life they truly desire.Sullivan spoke about her personal life, focusing on her relationship with her brother and his time as an undergraduate student. She highlighted a particular conversation they shared while on a trip to Yosemite National Park, as she was just starting to teach courses within God and the Good Life.Sullivan offered the students in the audience a question to ponder before providing four pieces of advice.“How do you care for your soul when you’re at an elite college like Brown or Notre Dame, or when you’re just 18, 19, 20, 21 years old and trying to do really hard work in getting launched in life,” she said.Her first lesson was “when in doubt, philosophy can help you out.”“If you don’t know the answer to something, I have only discovered that philosophy helps,” Sullivan said. “Philosophy, at least for the last 2,000 years of it, has been in the business of trying to help people figure out how to be happy. Sometimes the philosopher’s advice is really hard to understand, but it gives me comfort to realize that people have been dealing with a lot of these really big problems for a long time.”Sullivan’s second lesson spoke to the difficulty of life between the ages of 18 to 22. “There is lots of stuff that you need to figure out that other people have figured out already but you have not, and it’s risky,” she said.She encouraged students to ask themselves a series of questions when seeking life advice.“First, you should think about the kinds of problems you are really facing,” Sullivan said. “Second, you should ask yourself whether that advice is helping you with the concrete problem you’re dealing with now. Three, you should ask yourself if the person giving you advice has any capacity to understand your problem.”She said if the answer to these two questions is “no,” then Aristotle says we should “dump it,” as advice should help us in the problems we actually face. Third, Sullivan said, “you were built to want (the right) things.”“Aristotle has this really great line in the opening of the Nicomachean Ethics where he says, ‘Here is the big problem that we all face in our lives, and especially people that are starting off in life: what are we going to aim at,’” she said, paraphrasing the philosopher.Her fourth lesson concerned the intertwined nature of thinking and loving.“If you take the Greek philosophers seriously, and if you think really seriously about what it means to try to find the desires that aren’t going to fail you, you start to realize that thinking and loving are really closely interconnected,” Sullivan said. “That’s something you can use to your advantage when you’re in college.”People actually have a lot of time to think in college, Sullivan said.“Thinking isn’t an emotionless, boring activity,” she said. Sullivan then led students in two activities, asking them to think about a 15-second moment of happiness from their lives. She encouraged students to repeat this exercise to help them “not lose their souls” while at Notre Dame. She then invited students to turn to the person they were sitting next to, introduce themselves and tell their neighbors they were glad to meet them. She encouraged students to make a wishlist for their lives and then reorder the items.“Think about what you really want,” Sullivan said. Sullivan’s talk was followed by a short statement from three current Sorin Scholars who spoke to their own undergraduate experiences and achievements. Tags: Dr. Megan Sullivan, god and the good life, happiness, philosophy, Sorin Scholars, successlast_img read more

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December 20, 2020

SM East cross country looking for help identifying owner of dog who bit runner

first_imgAn SM East cross country runner was bit by a dog near the Panera at Corinth Square.The SM East cross country team is asking for assistance identifying the owner of a dog that bit an athlete during a training run Monday.An email from cross country coach Tricia Beaham said a student was running near Panera Bread Company at Corinth Square Monday morning when he approached a middle-aged man walking two dogs, one large and black, the other small and with white curly hair. When the runner passed the man, the small dog bit him on the calf. The man left the scene without asking if the runner was okay.The boy’s mother took him to Children’s Mercy to have the wound cleaned and examined. The wound did not require stitches.Beaham asked anyone who sees someone who meets the description of the man with the dogs to notify Prairie Village police.“We just want to find out if the dogs are vaccinated, and typically not blood thirsty hounds,” she wrote.last_img read more

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December 9, 2020

Wer zuerst kommt, mahlt zuerst (First come, first served)

first_imgORF Austria: Ob man bei einem Vorstellungsgespräch erfolgreich ist oder nicht, hängt nicht nur von der eigenen Leistung ab. Entscheidend ist, wie gut die Kandidaten sind, die sich davor vorgestellt haben. Wer als erster drankommt, hat statistisch bessere Chancen, zeigt eine neue Studie aus den USA. Menschen, die an einem Tag viele ähnliche Entscheidungen treffen müssen, verlieren leicht den Überblick. Sie treffen jede Entscheidung für sich und sind nicht in der Lage, die Konsequenzen der einzelnen Entscheidungen miteinander zu verknüpfen. Dieser Umstand wird in der Psychologie auch als “narrow bracketing” bezeichnet. Die Entscheidungsträger setzen Scheuklappen auf, weil sie den Wald vor lauter Bäumen nicht mehr sehen.Der Psychologe Uri Simonsohn von der University of Pennsylvania und die Betriebswirtin Francesca Gino von der Harvard Business School haben dieses Phänomen nun im Zusammenhang mit Vorstellungsgesprächen untersucht. Genauer, mit Bewerbungen für Master-Lehrgänge an amerikanischen Universitäten.Read the whole story: ORF Austria More of our Members in the Media >last_img read more

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November 18, 2020

Study: Flu vaccine protection starts to wane within weeks

first_imgThough the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends administration of the flu vaccine by the end of October, a new study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases suggests that vaccine effectiveness may begin dropping within weeks of administration, adding more evidence of waning protection over the course of a single flu season.Researchers from Kaiser Permanente Northern California showed that the risk of contracting the flu climbs about 16% for every 28 days after vaccination. That means many people could be less protected during the height of flu season if they get vaccinated at the beginning of September.The study took place over several flu seasons, from Sep 1, 2010, through Mar 31, 2017, and included participants who were vaccinated with the inactivated influenza vaccine (flu shot) and subsequently tested for influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), used as a negative control outcome, by a polymerase-chain reaction test.Instead of a more traditional, “case-positive, control-negative” model, this study was designed to determine if the risk of testing positive for influenza, compared to testing negative, increased with time since vaccination.Results show flu risk doubling as season progressesThe study used the electronic medical records of 44,959 patients who tested positive for influenza within the Kaiser Permanente Northern California health care system.When compared with participants vaccinated 14 to 41 days prior to being tested, persons vaccinated 42 to 69 days prior to being tested had 1.32 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.11 to 1.55) times the odds of testing positive for any influenza, according to the study authors. The odds ratio (OR) was 2.06 (95% CI: 1.69 to 2.51) for persons vaccinated 154 or more days prior to being tested.No evidence of waning was found for RSV.Most of the waning was associated with influenza A protection, the authors said, as that virus strain represented 80% of the confirmed cases included in this study.The authors also included a model that looks at moving flu vaccination to late November, but they wrote, “Although our results suggest that some number of influenza cases may be averted by delaying vaccination, any changes in recommendations regarding the timing of vaccination should be approached with caution.”Study highlights challenge of evaluating flu vaccineOther recent studies from the United States, Spain, and the United Kingdom have also shown waning interseasonal flu vaccine effectiveness, but experts warn that changing the timing recommendation is a complicated endeavor.”My informal sense of the literature [is] that the suggestion is strong enough that if people could reliably get vaccinated the week or two before the flu season starts, they’d be better protected,” Marc Lipsitch, PhD, a professor of epidemiology at Harvard University, told CIDRAP News. Lipsitch also penned a commentary on this study. “The more complicated thing is the trade-off between putting it off and not doing it at all,” he said.Lipsitch said the public health risk of people failing to get vaccinated in the course of the year may be too great. In his commentary, he said a multitude of variables including, antigenic drift, and circulating strains, make studying vaccine timing a particularly challenging prospect.”Better ways to evaluate flu vaccines are also urgently needed,” Lipsitch said in his commentary.See also:Sep 10 Clin Infect Dis studySep 10 Clin Infect Dis commentarylast_img read more

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October 18, 2020

Horizon Global Board Appoints Debra Oler As Director

first_imgJohn Kennedy, chair of Horizon Global’s board of directors, stated, “We are pleased to announce Deb’s appointment to the board. Deb is a proven leader with substantial commercial experience, including, notably, in the aftermarket and e-commerce sales channels. We look forward to Deb’s immediate contributions to the Board.” LSI President Brett Tennar says, “Steve’s success in developing operational strategies that improves the bottom line, builds teamwork, reduces waste and ensures quality product development and distribution checks many of the boxes of what we were looking for in a COO. This, coupled with his career in the Air Force working with highly technical systems and his in-depth understanding of Lean Six Sigma and Business Process Management sealed our offer. As our tagline states, our products are Powered by Science. This data driven approach is one reason why our company has grown exponentially as we employ the most advanced technology to product development. I am confident that Steve is the right person to drive operational strategy for our diverse and growing brands.” Advertisement Oler served as senior vice president/president, North American sales and service for W.W. Grainger, Inc., a leading global supplier of maintenance, repair and operating supplies for businesses and institutions, from 2014 until her retirement at the end of 2019. Oler joined Grainger in 2002 and held several roles with increasing responsibility from 2002 to 2014. Oler currently serves on the board of directors of Pool Corporation, a position she has held since October 30, 2018.,Lubrication Specialties Inc. (LSI), manufacturer of Hot Shot’s Secret brand of performance additives and oils, recently announced the expansion of senior leadership. Steve deMoulpied joins LSI as the company’s chief operating officer (COO). AdvertisementClick Here to Read MoreAdvertisement DeMoulpied comes to LSI from the Private Client Services practice of Ernst & Young where he managed strategy & operations improvement engagements for privately held client businesses. Some of his prior roles include VP of strategic development, director of strategic initiatives, and Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt at OptumHealth, UnitedHealth Group’s health services business, as well as Lean Six Sigma Black Belt at General Electric, where he applied operations improvement principles to customer service, supply chain and product development. A successful entrepreneur, deMoulpied is also the founder of PrestoFresh, a Cleveland-based e-commerce food/grocery business.  Horizon Global Corporation, a leading manufacturer of branded towing and trailering equipment, announced recently that the company’s board of directors increased the size of the board from eight to nine directors, and appointed Debra Oler as a director, effective immediately. Oler was also appointed to the board’s compensation committee and corporate governance and nominating committee.AdvertisementClick Here to Read MoreAdvertisement DeMoulpied has a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Management from the United States Air Force Academy and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Dayton in Marketing and International Business. He served six years with the USAF overseeing the development of technology used on fighter aircraft and the E-3 Surveillance aircraft, finishing his career honorably as Captain. With more than 20 years of experience across multiple industries and functional areas, deMoulpied has particular expertise in organizations with complex technical products. Combined, his prior positions have required a spectrum of skills in corporate strategy, operations improvement, product quality, and revenue cycle management. He has an impressive history of utilizing data driven problem solving (Lean Six Sigma) and project management (PMP and CSM) to achieve strategic goals surrounding customer satisfaction, operational efficiency and improved profit. last_img read more

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October 16, 2020

Sag Harbor Cinema Fund To Donate $250,000

first_imgIndependent/Gordon M. GrantTo help community members in need during the COVID-19 pandemic, The Sag Harbor Cinema Community Relief Fund will donate $250,000 over a six-month period to organizations that are dedicated to food security and emergency relief on the East End.“We have received so much love and support from the community that it is particularly wonderful to have the ability to help others now,” said cinema chair and artist April Gornik. “Not only are these donors helping sustain our community, they have also worked with us to determine greatest need with a deeply committed, hands-on involvement.”The first round of grants will be made in May and funds will go toward Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center, Children’s Museum of the East End, Eleanor Whitmore Center, Hamptons Art Camp, Meals on Wheels – East Hampton and Montauk, and Organización Latino-Americana. “This effort reflects Sag Harbor Cinema’s intention to focus on all aspects of the community it serves, and directly connects with the interests of the East End based couple who made the donation,” a press release stated.“The cinema’s mission is to provide entertainment and artistic excellence that enhances the quality of community life in the East End. Our mission also builds community by providing an anchor institution on Main Street,” said Sag Harbor Cinema board president John Alschuler. “These funds that will provide food, childcare, and other benefits, build upon that mission at this extraordinary time, and will further express our values and our mission.”Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center is dedicated to rebuilding, maintaining, and operating the historic Sag Harbor Cinema with programming and education for all ages.“The rebuilding of the historic Sag Harbor Cinema and its return to full operation will continue to be the priority of the organization, with its array of programs and educational opportunities designed to serve its diverse community,” the release read. “We look forward to serving our community as soon as it is safe for people to gather again.”jessica@indyeastend.com Sharelast_img read more

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October 7, 2020

Pentair expands portfolio with new LNG products

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