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It’s graduation day for the youngest person in Canada to finish a university degree

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:13:53 GMT

Anthaea-Grace Patricia Dennis is about to become the youngest person in Canadian history to graduate from university.The 12-year-old is expected to accept her University of Ottawa diploma for a bachelor’s degree in biomedical science this evening.Patricia Dennis started her university studies when she was nine years old. She completed a 40-page thesis about the relationship between the brain and the hand for right-handed versus left-handed people. Her mother Johanna Dennis  says she knew her daughter was special when she was about two-and-a-half years old. The not-yet-teenager is looking to attend postgraduate school next.She told The Canadian Press in an interview that she’s excited to get her own lab and work with others on her research about the cerebellum, the part of the brain responsible for co-ordinating balance and movement. “I can now call myself a researcher,” she said. “I feel like the master of the cerebellum.”This report by The Canadi...

Syria’s Kurds to try IS fighters after their home countries refused to repatriate them

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:13:53 GMT

QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — The Kurdish-led authority in northeast Syria announced Saturday that hundreds of fighters with the Islamic State group held in prisons around the region will be put on trial after their home countries refused to repatriate them.The statement by the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria said it still calls for the creation of an international tribunal to put those fighters on trial. It called on the United Nations, international rights groups and local organizations to help facilitate the trials.The U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF, is holding over 10,000 captured IS fighters in around two dozen detention facilities — including 2,000 foreigners whose home countries have refused to repatriate them. The statement said the fighters from about 60 nationalities had entered Syria years ago and were captured in battles against the extremists.“The terrorist organization carried out horrific crimes and mass massacres against peopl...

Working Strategies: Facing a mid-career disability; one man’s story

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:13:53 GMT

Amy LindgrenSecond Sunday Series — Editor’s Note: This is the 10th of 12 columns on work and disability appearing over 12 months — one on each second Sunday of the month, from September through August. Previous columns discussed whether to work with a disability, the subminimum wage, promotions for workers with disabilities, higher education decisions, self-advocating, career tips for family caretakers, testing limits as a worker with disabilities, the dilemma of revealing disabilities during job search, and overall concepts of disability in the workplace.Will you become disabled during your working years? If so, will you be able to work?Statistics are tricky but one commonly-used data point indicates 25% of today’s 20 year-olds will experience a disability during their working years. Some disabilities are short-term, with little impact on a worker’s career. Others are permanent but manageable in terms of work, while still others create a drastic change or even loss of w...

Chemotherapy shortages push cancer centers toward crisis

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:13:53 GMT

(The Hill) – Cancer centers are contending with shortages of key chemotherapy drugs, with potentially dire consequences once the scarcity starts hitting patients. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! A new survey released this week by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) found that 93% of cancer centers are reporting shortages of carboplatin and 70% are reporting shortages of cisplatin. These two drugs are commonly used together to treat a wide variety of cancers — including breast, lung, prostate and many types of leukemias — often with the aim of curing them.The survey conducted in May found that cancer centers were still able to treat patients with cisplatin without delays or claim denials, but only 64% of centers were able to keep patients on a regime of carboplatin. A fifth of cancer centers said they were able to continue prescribing carboplatin for some but not all of their patients.According to Mike Ganio, di...

A quick way to get a handle on the e-bike revolution — and have a little fun on the side

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:13:53 GMT

The are two ways to look at The Big Gear Show and e(revolution) e-bike show at the Colorado Convention Center this weekend.You can think of it as an exhibition of the latest electrical bikes, where you can seriously ponder whether it’s time to join the e-bike revolution, but stop by an outdoor gear show at the other end of the floor while you’re there.Or, you can head downtown to check out the latest in camping and hiking gear, but learn a little about e-bikes on the way out. Either one would make for a fine show by itself.Four dozen e-bike brands are represented with booths, and there is a 30,000-square-foot e-bike test track with five ramps where you can get a feel for how they roll. It probably will take a lap or two to get the hang of it because e-bikes are much heavier that road bicycles, but they’re not difficult to operate and they are fun to ride.Related ArticlesOutdoors | A new consumer-friendly outdoor trade show could be the start of something...

Opinion: Aurora police killed Jor’Dell over a pellet gun, but youth gun violence is to blame

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:13:53 GMT

The video of Jor’Dell Richardson’s dying moments is traumatic, and every person in Colorado should watch it immediately, shed tears at the tragedy, and pledge to do something to prevent even one more child from bleeding out in a back alley.The 14-year-old who had just returned home from a family vacation died over a pellet gun, a replica intentionally made to look real and threatening. He died for maybe a couple of hundred dollars of products from a smoke shop that he had robbed. He died for a summer thrill.Yes, he died at the hands of police, but the real culprits in his death are those who gave Jor’Dell the gun, told him to rob the store, and perhaps even dropped him off with a group of kids at the scene of the crime in a stolen Kia. They encouraged Jor’Dell to put his life in harm’s way … for nothing.Jor’Dell’s dying words should haunt us: “They made me do it. I don’t know who they are but they made me do it.”The Rev. Leon Kelly Jr.spoke at the press event where Aurora Chief of P...

Garage fire in Fairfax District destroys vehicles, forces evacuations; may be connected to series of other arsons in the area 

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:13:53 GMT

Multiple families were forced to evacuate their homes in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles after an intense fire ripped through a parking garage and destroyed two vehicles. No one was injured in Saturday morning’s fire, and firefighters were able to extinguish the flames before they spread to any apartment buildings. The blaze took place around 2 a.m. Saturday morning in the 400 block of North Curson Avenue and follows a series of other arsons in the Fairfax District that have left residents on edge. One man had his 1991 Ford F-150 torched on South Orange Drive on Wednesday, and the same arsonist may have also targeted another woman’s vehicle just one block away. Multiple families were forced to evacuate their homes after an intense fire ripped through a parking garage and destroyed two vehicles in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles, California on June 10, 2023. (LLN)Multiple families were forced to evacuate their homes after an intense fire ripped through a p...

Woman runs off road in Ventura County, car lands in Pacific Ocean

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:13:53 GMT

A woman was airlifted to a hospital after she ran off a road in Ventura County and into the Pacific Ocean on Friday. The woman was identified as an 18-year-old Ojai resident, according to the California Highway Patrol.CHP, Ventura County Fire Department, and U.S. Coast Guard units all responded to a single car crash involving a Mercedes that traveled off the road edge and into the ocean while driving northbound on Pacific Coast Highway north of Yerba Buena Road at approximately 1:11 p.m.She was able to extract herself from the vehicle and was airlifted to Los Robles Medical Center for treatment of major injuries.It's unclear what initially caused the woman to crash.Police say that due to unsafe conditions and the rising tide, the woman's Mercedes was unable to be recovered. The vehicle will be recovered at a later date when conditions are safer.Anyone who witnessed this crash is encouraged to call the CHP Ventura Area office to speak with an investigator at 805-662-2640. 

9 people shot in San Francisco's Mission District during 'targeted' incident, police say

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:13:53 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – Nine people were shot in San Francisco's historic Mission District on Friday night during what appeared to be a "targeted" incident, the San Francisco Police Department said. Officers responded to the site of the shooting just after 9 p.m. to find "multiple victims suffering from gunshot wounds," police said. Medical personnel were requested to transport the victims to local hospitals.The extent of the victims' injuries had not been disclosed as of Friday night, though all are expected to survive, police said."At this time, the incident appears to be targeted and isolated," the SFPD wrote on Twitter shortly before midnight. Victims killed in graduation mass shooting identified; suspect charged A representative for the SFPD was not immediately available to confirm whether officials had identified any suspects. The SFPD, however, said they believed there is no ongoing threat to the public.Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact the SFPD ...

Santa Clara County came up with recommendations for alternatives to incarceration. Some advocates say it doesn’t go far enough

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:13:53 GMT

Santa Clara County has released a slew of recommendations to help reduce the jail population — focusing heavily on mental health efforts — but some criminal justice reform advocates assert they don’t go far enough and won’t create any meaningful change.The recommendations — presented to the board this past week — ranged from reducing the time people spend in custody by adding more people to conduct mental health assessments and creating a less criminally focused mental health facility to increasing access to social support systems for individuals leaving jail.Supervisor Susan Ellenberg had asked that the county come up with some alternatives to incarceration last year when the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors was reviewing whether to move forward with a $390 million proposed jail. Since September, a group of advocates, members of law enforcement, county officials and other directly impacted individuals have met to develop a set of eight rec...