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Deaths are continuing to reach extraordinarily high numbers and have now soared to 26 percent higher than pre-pandemic levels, new data has revealed. A new study by U.K. researchers reveals that deaths have been soaring in England and Wales during January 2023. In the week ending January 13, there were 17,381 deaths in England and Wales alone. The figure is 2,837 or 19.5% above the five-year average. However, the five-year average is already higher than normal due to the early 2021 Covid wave. Compared to the pre-pandemic five-year average of 13,822, deaths are now 3,559 or 25.7% above average. There...

A comment on YT sums it up : " A beautiful musical statement of love...written for his ( John Lydon of Sex Pistols fame ) dear wife, Nora, as she spends her final moments with her husband. I have to believe that the sparse, gentle and relaxing backing track and, simple, poignant and highly personal/meaningful lyrics resonates deeply with Nora - even as she continues to decline with her health. This is a really special piece of music. "

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration proposed using what it calls "gender-inclusive, individual risk-based questions" to reduce the risk of HIV transmission from blood donors to recipients by asking about new sexual partners and anal sex in a move that will allow more gay and bisexual men to donate blood. Current FDA guidance requires "men who have sex with men" and women who have sex with men in this group to abstain from relations for three months before donating blood to reduce the risk of HIV transmission. The new donor history questionnaire proposed Friday would ask about new sexual partners...

Today's simple Sermon runs through the Gospel reading On the Beatitudes... Which we learn means... Happiness...13 min. YouTube link below. The Key To Happiness

For any young worker who needs to hear this, your power in the labour market won’t last and quietly quitting could be setting you up to get loudly fired, says for Bloomberg Opinion.NEW YORK: Every generation faces a sceptical reception in the labour force. Baby boomers were called self-centred, Gen X was lazy and millennials were considered entitled. For Gen Z, it’s the same - but different. When I was at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week, there was the normal buzz about economic conditions and climate change. But everyone I spoke with mainly wanted to...

SACRAMENTO — California bans guns for domestic violence offenders. It bans them for people deemed a danger to others or themselves. There is a ban on large-capacity magazines, and a ban on noise-muffling silencers. Semiautomatic guns of the sort colloquially known as “assault weapons” are, famously, banned. More than 100 gun laws — the most of any state — are on the books in California. They have saved lives, policymakers say: Californians have among the lowest rates of gun death in the United States. Yet this month, those laws failed to stop the massacres of at least 19 people in...

Bill Gates is more optimistic about the future than the present, and expressed confidence that globalization will thrive. What Happened: "It’d be much better to be born 20 years from now, 40 years from now, 60 years from now, than any time in the past," Gates said while taking audience questions following an in-person conversation with Lowy Institute Executive Director Dr. Michael Fullilove in Australia earlier this week. The amount of innovation and the improvement overall in the human condition is still going to be dramatic, the billionaire said. He was confident in finding cures for obesity and cancer and...

The Moab Valley Fire Department announced a volunteer firefighter has died from an off-duty cardiac event. They said Mathew Niesen passed away on Tuesday in Moab. He served with the Moab Valley Fire Department for 18 years as a volunteer firefighter. Throughout his service, he received promotions to the ranks of Lieutenant and Captain. Mathew was dedicated to the fire service and made a large impact on the community of Moab and his fellow firefighters," crew members with Moab Valley said in a social post. "Along with Mathew’s dedication to his community, he was an extremely dedicated husband to his...

RINO Rep. Nancy Mace is going to bat for Rep. Ilhan Omar. Rep. Omar may be being booted off of the House Foreign Affairs Committee over her alleged anti-Semitic statements, but claims that House Speaker Joe McCarthy is just being “racist.” "There’s a First Amendment in this country. We don’t have to agree with everything that members say,” Mace told Fox News. “I think we have to be very careful about what we are as a constitutional republic.” Mace claims she is standing against cancel culture by defending the far-left socialist — who surely wouldn’t do the same for a...

Each replay and image from Cincinnati’s Paycor Stadium, beginning with the tackle that caused Bills safety Damar Hamlin to suffer a cardiac arrest on the field Monday night, sent Hockey Hall of Fame defenseman Chris Pronger back to May 10, 1998. Pronger was 23 years old and competing with the St. Louis Blues in the Western Conference semifinals of the Stanley Cup Playoffs when he was struck on the left side of his chest by a slap shot from Detroit Red Wings defenseman Dmitri Mironov. Like Hamlin before his collapse on the field, Pronger managed to stand up following the...

HEARTFELT tributes have flooded in for an amateur footballer who died this week. Luke Abrahams passed away suddenly in the early hours of January 23. The 20-year-old, from Northampton, played for Blisworth FC and Hunsbury Hawks FC in the Northants Combination and the Nene Sunday League. He was also linked to AFC Spinney. Pals and teammates have remembered him as a "great player and even better friend". Hunsbury Hawks FC said: "It is with the greatest sadness that we had to say goodbye to Luke this week. "He was a great player but an even better friend to us all....

Following the mass shooting that killed 11 people in Monterey Park, a local hospital is hoping to save lives by teaching people how to help those with traumatic injuries. In a demonstration called, “Stop the Bleed,” lessons are taught on how to use a tourniquet to stop life-threatening blood loss. “Every time you hear something tragic like this on the news, it sparks you to say, ‘Well, what can I do?'” said Belen Mackenzie, trauma program director at Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center. “This came from the realization that people were not necessarily dying from the gunshot wound itself or...

Some refuse to be ranked by U.S. News, which weighs test scores and grades rather than diversity. To see how the diversity, equity and inclusion mania is colliding with meritocracy in American higher education, pay attention to the flap over graduate schools pulling out of the U.S. News rankings. Readers who aren’t applying to medical school may have missed the controversy. But anyone who plans on seeing a doctor or benefiting from research or treatment at an academic medical center has an interest in the outcome. So far, U.S. News has resisted demands from the graduate schools to base the...

(BBC) South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has said there are no plans to immediately abandon coal-fired power stations during a proposed transition to cleaner forms of energy. The country is one of the world’s most coal-dependent nations and is a significant polluter. It is currently experiencing lengthy power cuts blamed on ageing infrastructure and corruption. Since 2021 South Africa has secured several billion dollars in international loans and grants to support a switch to greener power. Addressing colleagues from the governing African National Congress (ANC) party, Mr Ramaphosa suggested it would be unwise to reduce the country’s capacity as it...

Video of hole cut in non-policed southern border wall. Makes me want to cry...and then...

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At least three people were killed and four injured in the second mass shooting to erupt in Los Angeles County in eight days -- the sixth in California this month, according to police. The latest shooting occurred Saturday in the upscale Beverly Crest neighborhood of Los Angeles, bordering Beverly Hills. The mass-casualty shooting unfolded around 2:30 a.m. when police received multiple 911 calls of a shooting in progress at a short-term rental luxury home in the neighborhood, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. A senior LAPD source told ABC News that the three people killed were found in a...

When Isla Bryson was found guilty of two counts of rape, the warrant issued by the High Court in Glasgow recommended that the defendant be sent to HMP Barlinnie, a notorious male-only jail. Instead, Bryson – who until 2020 was known as Adam Graham – was taken to an isolation unit at HMP Cornton Vale, the country’s only women’s jail, sparking a backlash that has engulfed Nicola Sturgeon. The decision was taken by the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), and the Scottish First Minister has insisted she played no role in it. However, sources with intimate knowledge of how the prison...

The first victim of Isla Bryson, and the mother of one of his children, say it is "impossible" not to say the transgender rapist is a man and should not have been allowed in a women's prison. Bryson was named Adam Graham when committing the crimes and only started to transition after appearing in court on rape charges. There was uproar last week when the rapist was sent to Cornton Vale women's prison after being convicted, with prison bosses overruling the courts service, which wanted to send Bryson to the all-male Barlinnie prison in Glasgow. Nicola Sturgeon was forced to...

Israel is poised to speed up gun applications in response to a shooting in East Jerusalem over the weekend that left seven people – including a 70-year-old woman – dead. The measure was among several that Israel’s Security Cabinet announced Saturday evening.