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Cristina M. estaba ayer en la cama 18 del área de Emergencia Pediátrica del hospital Verdi Cevallos. A sus 3 años y 8 meses, ayer ya sabía lo que eran sueros, gasas y esparadrapos.

Su madre buscaba medicinas que requerían los médicos para tratar de alivianar el dolor que le causó la mordedura de un perro que le dejó una gran secuela en el rostro, específicamente desde la boca hasta la oreja derecha.

Adriana Maridueña, madre de la menor, dijo que el incidente provocado por un can, supuestamente tramado con raza pitbull, se originó pasadas las 18:00 del martes último en la ciudadela María Asunción del cantón Pichincha, cuando su hija jugaba con otros quince niños en un área despejada ubicada al lado de una iglesia.

Según la mujer, el dueño del perro amarró al can a una cerca del espacio donde los niños jugaban con una pelota. Todo surgió cuando el esférico fue impulsado al área donde estaba el animal.

“La pelota se rodó y ahí la bebé fue a buscar el balón y el perro la mordió (en el rostro)”, señaló Maridueña.

Francisco Carreño, residente de cirugía del hospital Verdi Cevallos, señaló que la niña llegó con una herida deformante y muy grande en la cara. Por ello ayer se buscaba una intervención de cirugía plástica.(I)

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O presidente do Conselho Deliberativo da Chapecoense, Plínio David de Nes Filho, e o prefeito de Chapecó, Luciano Buligon, que quase embarcaram no voo que caiu na Colômbia, se emocionaram ao falar sobre a tragédia ao lado de Galvão Bueno e Rodrigo Bocardi no Bom Dia Brasil.

“Nós estávamos programados para estar neste voo. Eu, particularmente, voei com esse avião. Estivemos em Barranquilla e voamos com esse mesmo avião. O piloto entrou em contato comigo, às 9h, dizendo que a Anac não havia liberado para que ele pudesse pousar em Guarulhos, pedindo apoio, inclusive, porque a gente já se conhecia. Mas aí optamos em voar à tarde, em voo regular, fazendo uma ponta em Bogotá. Voltaríamos com esse voo, fazendo uma escala em Santa Cruz, e iríamos pousar, como já pousamos, no aeroporto internacional de Foz do Iguaçú”, detalhou o prefeito.

“Montamos um QG no próprio vestiário. Falei com a minha senhora. Ela está indo de encontro às senhoras dos jogadores e dos dirigentes. Existem amigos de uma vida toda que estavam no voo. (…) Esse grupo dentro da Chapecoense, entre atletas e direção, não era apenas um grupo de respeito mútuo, mas familiar. Grupo de amizade, todo mundo ria muito, mesmo nas derrotas. Nós viviamos em uma harmonia muito grande. Ontem de manhã, eu me despedindo, eles me diziam que iam em busca para tornar esse sonho uma realidade. Compartilhamos esse sonho, muito emocionados. E esse sonho acabou essa madrugada”, chorou Plínio.

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Joe Biden suffered a bitter political blow early on Wednesday when Democrats went down in a shock defeat in the election for governor of Virginia.

The Democratic candidate, Terry McAuliffe, had campaigned with Biden and Barack Obama but it was not enough to prevent the Republican Glenn Youngkin pulling off an upset.

The AP called the race for Youngkin in the early hours of Wednesday morning. The Republican took an early lead after polls closed that he maintained throughout the evening, while McAuliffe lagged in key counties that Biden swept in 2020.

Clenching his fists then clapping his hands, Youngkin addressed jubilant supporters in Chantilly just after 1am. “All righty, Virginia, we won this thing!” he exclaimed. “How much fun!”

The 54-year-old political neophyte described it as “a defining moment” for millions of Virginians “sharing dreams and hopes”. Youngkin promised: “Together, we will change the trajectory of this commonwealth and friends, we are going to start that transformation on day one. There is no time to waste.”

In a nod to what became his defining campaign issue, the Republican said: “We are going to restore excellence in our schools… We are going to introduce choice in our public school system… Friends, we’re going to embrace our parents, not ignore them. We’re gonna press forward with a curriculum that includes listening to parents’ input.”

As on the campaign trail, Youngkin did not utter the name “Trump”.

The battle in Virginia has been seen as a litmus test of Biden’s presidency one year after he won the White House, and it coincided with his agenda stalling in Congress and his approval rating sinking to 42%.

“The fight continues,” said McAuliffe in a speech on Tuesday night, thanking his campaign staff for a hard-fought race, but stopping short of a concession.

“We’ve got to make sure we protect women’s right to choose here in the commonwealth of Virginia. We’ve got to make sure everyone gets quality, affordable healthcare here in the commonwealth of Virginia. Everybody’s entitled to a world-class education here in the commonwealth of Virginia and we are going to continue that fight tonight, and every day going forward.”

McAuliffe’s all-out effort to portray Youngkin as an acolyte of Donald Trump proved less effective than the Republican’s laser-like focus on whipping up parents’ fear and anger about culture war issues in Virginia’s schools.

Youngkin made false claims that critical race theory – an analytic framework through which academics examine the ways that racial disparities are reproduced by the law – is rampant in the state’s education system (in fact it is not taught).

His campaign zeroed in on a perceived gaffe by McAuliffe at one of their debates: “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”

Importantly, Youngkin was also successful walking a political tightrope in which he accepted Trump’s endorsement but never mentioned him in stump speeches or invited him to campaign with him in person. He cultivated sufficient ambiguity to appeal to moderate Republicans without alienating the Trump base.

History was on Youngkin’s side in that the party that loses the White House tends to be energised and usually wins the Virginia’s governor’s race a year later. But McAuliffe himself had bucked that rule when he became governor in 2014 (he was limited to one term).

However, no Republican had won statewide office since 2009, and Biden beat Trump in Virginia by 10 percentage points, meaning that a Democratic loss here would reverberate across the nation.

Meanwhile, in New Jersey, a similar story was unfolding as the Democratic governor, Phil Murphy, fought to win re-election against his Republican challenger, Jack Ciattarelli. That race was too close to call, with Ciattarelli narrowly ahead. If Murphy holds his office, he would be the first Democrat re-elected as the state’s governor in 44 years, while a defeat would bode ill for national Democrats.

At McAuliffe’s election night event at a hotel in Tysons, Virginia, giant TVs that had been showing cable news coverage were switched off long before any result was finalized. Stunned supporters trailed out into the chilly night.

Terry McAuliffe is consoled by a supporter in the crowd during his election night party and rally in McLean, Virginia. Photograph: Tom Brenner/Reuters

Manisha Singh, 48, an analyst, said: “It’s extremely disappointing. I can’t imagine all the lies that were spread to influence voters. I was knocking on doors and people were saying take the porn out of public schools, which is a lie. They were just repeating what they had seen on Fox News.”

Singh added: “This might be a huge wake-up call to Democrats. We always play nice when the other party spreads lies. We need to be more aggressive. “

Argument quickly broke out among national Democrats over what had gone wrong. The Progressive Change Campaign Committee said in a statement: “Terry McAuliffe sadly can blame his loss on a few corporate-aligned obstructionist Democrats who blocked bold action in Congress, plus his own reliance on backward-looking Trump messaging.

It added: “Democrats won’t win simply by branding one opponent after another as a Trump clone, and then hoping to squeak out a razor-thin win. When Democrats fail to run on big ideas or fulfill bold campaign promises, we depress our base while allowing Republicans to use culture wars to hide their real agenda.”

McAuliffe, a career politician and establishment Democrat, is likely to point to Biden’s falling popularity and Washington gridlock as factors in his defeat. Youngkin, a former executive at the private-equity firm the Carlyle Group, sold himself as a political outsider challenging the liberal elite.

His strategy – a delicate balancing act of stoking culture wars in education and winking at Trump without fully embracing him – is seen as a potential blueprint for Republican candidates in next year’s congressional elections.

Trump said in a statement: “All McAuliffe did was talk Trump, Trump, Trump and he lost! What does that tell you, Fake News? I guess people running for office as Democrats won’t be doing that too much longer. I didn’t even have to go rally for Youngkin, because McAuliffe did it for me.”

Dan Conston, president of the Congressional Leadership Fund, a super political action committee dedicated to electing Republicans to the House of Representatives, said: “Tonight’s results put every Democrat in Congress on notice.

“Virginia was once ground zero for suburban decline but has now become the epicenter of a Republican comeback in 2022. If Republicans can win even in a state so blue that Joe Biden won by 10 points, then far more Democrats are in peril next year than they want to admit.”

The battles in Virginia and New Jersey came as voters in states across the US headed to the polls on Tuesday, an off-year election day, to cast their ballots for local governors, mayors and public measures.

In New York, the former police officer Eric Adams easily won his race to become the next mayor of New York City. In Boston, Michelle Wu made history when she defeated Annissa Essaibi-George to become the first woman of color and Asian American elected as the city’s mayor. History was also made in Durham, North Carolina, where Elaine O’Neal became the city’s first Black female mayor after campaigning on neighborhood safety, housing and economic relief in the aftermath of the pandemic, while Abdullah Hammoud won the mayoral race in Dearborn, Michigan, making him the city’s first Arab American leader.

In Minneapolis, voters rejected an initiative that would have replaced the police department with a new department of public safety, nearly a year and a half after the police killing of George Floyd inspired nationwide protests against police brutality.

Maanvi Singh and the Associated Press contributed reporting

Source Article from https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/02/glenn-youngkin-wins-virginia-governor-election-result

La Gran Época le presenta un resumen de las últimas noticias de México. En primer lugar, se registró una tremenda explosión en un mercado de pirotecnia en Tultepec, que ocasionó al menos 31 muertos y decenas de heridos en un conteo preliminar.

Por otro lado, el presidente estadounidense Donald Trump se reunió a cenar con el mexicano Carlos Slim en Florida para limar asperezas y mejorar la relación. Agustín Cartens planteó un escenario de incertidumbre para la economía mexicana luego de la oficialización de la presidencia de Trump. Dreamers mexicanos piden ayuda para evitar deportación y más noticias de actualidad en este compacto de noticias del país azteca.

Al menos 31 muertos y decenas heridos por explosión en mercado de pirotecnia en Tultepec

Una terrible explosión en el mercado de pirotecnia más grande de México -San Pablito- dejó un saldo de al menos 31 muertos y decenas de heridos, según confirmó el gobernador del Estado de México, Eruviel Ávila.

Según los medios de comunicación mexicanos, aproximadamente a las 14:50 hora local comenzaron a escucharse varias explosiones en el municipio de Tultepec, ubicado en la zona centro de México y las localidades cercanas. Minutos después, una nube de polvo generada por la explosión comenzó a desplazarse.

Hay consumidores y locatarios con heridas por quemaduras y por golpes producidos durante la estampida que siguió a la explosión.

El presidente Peña Nieto expresó sus condolencias vía Twitter.

La Procuraduría General (PGR) anunció en un comunicado el inicio de una investigación para determinar qué causó el incendio que se inició por “seis explosiones de pirotecnia”.

Trump se reunió con Slim en Florida para mejorar relaciones

Donald Trump y Carlos Slim se reunieron en Florida este fin de semana, en el club de Golf Mar-a-Lago según informó The Washington Post. Faltando pocos días para asumir la presidencia de Estados Unidos, Trump se reunió en privado con el empresario mexicano y expresó que había tenido una “cena encantadora con un hombre maravilloso”, cita el medio.

El encuentro se efectuó en “una cena muy cordial, con buen ánimo para México y los mexicanos” escribió en su cuenta Twitter el director de Alianzas Estratégicas de América Móvil, Arturo Elías Ayub. Uno de los encargados de su campaña electoral,  Coren Lewandowski viajó a México y realizó  varias negociaciones con Slim sobre asuntos comerciales y de negocios así, como para invitarlo a reunirse con Trump.

Trump genera suspenso para la economía del país: Carstens

De materializarse las amenazas de Trump, para México sería una película con desenlace incierto y podría ocasionar un choque del tipo de cambio, alertó Agustín Carstens, el aún gobernador del Banco de México (BANXICO). “Sólo hemos visto los cortos de una película; la película de suspenso empezó hace muchos meses… y no sabemos si es una película de terror o si va a tener buen fin” dijo Carstens en el Foro Perspectivas Económicas 2017 del Instituto Mexicano de Ejecutivos de Finanzas.

Por la frecuente mención de Trump a la relación con México durante su campaña, existe un ambiente de expectativa que ya ha ocasionado un choque real “natural” en la depreciación de la moneda y que en el escenario extremo, podría llevar a “una depreciación del tipo de cambio real”,  ante potenciales dificultades de acceso al mercado de exportaciones de ese país. Para anclar las expectativas, Banxico “ha subido las tasas y ha hecho más atractiva la inversión en México” detalló Carstens, según informa El Universal.

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Dreamers piden ayuda a gobierno mexicano ante amenazas de deportación de Trump

En la visita al país, los 73 Dreamers -la tercera delegación desde 2015- para reencontrarse con sus familias  dejadas cuando migraron del país hace más de 10 años, han visitado diferentes estados del país y sostenido reuniones con diversas autoridades responsables de migración y política internacional, explorando posibilidades de reinserción en caso de deportación si Trump cumple sus amenazas de campaña.

El joven de 27 años Isaac Montiel -originario de Puebla- expresó en su visita: “somos buenos ciudadanos, mexicanos profesionales educados en Estados Unidos y (…) necesitamos el apoyo del gobierno mexicano porque representamos una comunidad de muchachos binacionales”  informa El Universal en reportaje sobre los migrantes de visita, que forman parte de los 1.7 millones de jóvenes binacionales en Estados Unidos.

Rebeca Vargas, directora de la US México Foundation posteó en su cuenta de Twitter en la celebración del día del migrante: “Hoy celebré @UN #InternationalMigrantsDay junto con @usmexicofound #DreamersWithoutBorders. Orgullosos de nuestras contribuciones a los EUA”.  Declaró “Para Estados Unidos sería un desperdicio repatriarlos y no aprovechar la inversión educativa que hizo en ellos”, reporta El Universal. Para Eunice Rendón, exdirectora del Instituto Mexicano en el Exterior, el posible retorno y reinserción de los Dreamers debe resolverse conjuntamente entre gobierno, políticos y empresarios, refiere el medio.

Cuauhtémoc Blanco recibe suspensión de juicio político

La Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación (SCJN) suspendió el trámite de juicio político interpuesto por diputados del Congreso del Estado de Morelos para la destitución del presidente municipal de Cuernavaca, Cuauhtémoc Blanco. Después que el munícipe concluyó su huelga de hambre de dos días en el atrio de la catedral de Cuernavaca, para rechazar el trámite de juicio político, Blanco reinició ayer sus actividades al frente del municipio, en compañía de su gabinete de gobierno, con un recorrido por las calles del centro de la ciudad, después de que las oficinas del gobierno municipal “permanecieron tomadas por elementos del Mando Único durante el fin de semana”.

El 6 de diciembre , Blanco recibió la notificación de suspensión de la SCJN sobre el procedimiento de revocación del mandato en su contra como Alcalde de Cuernavaca y días después realizó un acto público en la Plaza de Armas de la ciudad en defensa de la autonomía municipal, expresado después en su cuenta de Twitter: “Seguimos creyendo en las instituciones y vamos a mantener nuestra lucha por la autonomía municipal de #Cuernavaca”.

 El invierno iniciará esta madrugada entre frío, lluvias y viento

El Frente Frío 15 llega con tormentas muy fuertes a intensas en el sureste del país, informa el Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (SMN), con rachas de viento superiores a 100 km/h en el Istmo y Golfo de Tehuantepec y más de 80 km/h en las costas de Veracruz. El ambiente frío continuará en la mañana y noche en el norte, noreste, oriente y centro del país. A las 4:45 de este miércoles iniciará el invierno.

Hoy pronostica el SMN tormentas intensas en Chiapas y Tabasco; muy fuertes en Veracruz y Oaxaca; fuertes en Baja California Sur, Puebla y Campeche; lluvias con chubascos en Sonora, Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, Hidalgo, Yucatán y Quintana Roo y lloviznas en Baja California, Guerrero, Chihuahua, Guanajuato, Querétaro, Tlaxcala, Estado de México y Ciudad de México.

Se prevé que continúe el evento de Norte con rachas de viento superiores a 100 km/h en el Istmo y Golfo de Tehuantepec, rachas de +80 km/h en costas de Veracruz y de hasta 60 km/h en litorales de Tamaulipas, Tabasco y la Península de Yucatán, como en la Península de Baja California y Mar de Cortés.

El ambiente frío seguirá en la mañana y noche en el norte, noreste, oriente y centro del país, con temperaturas menores a -5 grados Celsius en montañas de Chihuahua y Durango; -5 a 0 grados en sierras de Baja California, Sonora, Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas y Estado de México; de 0 a 5 grados en zonas altas de Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Aguascalientes, Jalisco, Michoacán, Guanajuato, Querétaro, Hidalgo, Veracruz, Puebla, Tlaxcala, Ciudad de México y Oaxaca.

La Gran Época le recomienda el siguiente artículo: Intentos por censurar a Miss Mundo Canadá hacen que su mensaje se difunda aún más

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The White House has come under widespread criticism amid near-daily developments regarding the alleged Russian bounty scheme. The New York Times on Friday described U.S. intelligence that found members of a Russian military intelligence unit had offered rewards to Taliban-linked militants in exchange for successful attacks on U.S. and other coalition forces in Afghanistan.

According to subsequent media reports, President Donald Trump was briefed on the bounties this spring and as early as February of last year in his presidential daily brief, but the White House had not authorized any response to the operation.

Trump and his aides have repeatedly denied that the president was ever briefed on the potential bounties, which are believed to have resulted in at least one U.S. combat death, and the White House has insisted that intelligence on the plot was inconclusive, though the intelligence was reportedly shared with British officials in recent weeks.

Biden on Tuesday rejected that explanation and suggested the president should have been briefed on the allegations regardless of whether the intelligence community had finished evaluating their veracity.

“The idea that somehow he didn’t know, or isn’t being briefed, it is a dereliction of duty, if that’s the case,” Biden said. “And if he was briefed and nothing was done about this, that’s a dereliction of duty.”

The former vice president pointed to his wife, Jill, who he said was “outraged” over the thought of his late son Beau, who was an Army officer, being stationed in Afghanistan with a Russian bounty on his head.

“It’s an absolute dereliction of duty if any of this is even remotely true,” he added.

Biden noted that he’s been in contact with his team of “dozens” of foreign policy and national security advisers as the Russian bounty story has evolved. But, “if it doesn’t get cleared up quickly, then I will seek and ask if I can be briefed.”

Ahead of the 2016 election, Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton received their first classified briefings of the campaign in August, according to The Washington Post.

Source Article from https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/30/biden-briefing-russian-bounties-345612

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(CNN)Rescuers are trying to reach a group of men trapped inside a cave in southwest Virginia who are battling exhaustion and threats of hypothermia.

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More than 30 states have medical marijuana programs — yet scientists are only allowed to use cannabis plants from one U.S. source for their research. That’s set to change, as the federal government begins to add more growers to the mix.

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More than 30 states have medical marijuana programs — yet scientists are only allowed to use cannabis plants from one U.S. source for their research. That’s set to change, as the federal government begins to add more growers to the mix.

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After more than 50 years, the federal government is lifting a roadblock to cannabis research that scientists and advocates say has hindered rigorous studies of the plant and possible drug development.

Since 1968, U.S. researchers have been allowed to use cannabis from only one domestic source: a facility based at the University of Mississippi, through a contract with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).

That changed earlier this month, when the Drug Enforcement Administration announced it’s in the process of registering several additional American companies to produce cannabis for medical and scientific purposes.

It’s a move that promises to accelerate understanding of the plant’s health effects and possible therapies for treating conditions — chronic pain, the side effects of chemotherapy, multiple sclerosis and mental illness, among many others — that are yet to be well studied.

“This is a momentous decision,” says Rick Doblin, executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), which has spearheaded research into other Schedule 1 drugs — the most restrictive class of controlled substance, which the federal government defines as “drugs with no currently accepted medical use.”

“This is the last political obstruction of research with Schedule 1 drugs,” he says.

About one-third of Americans currently live in a state where recreational marijuana is legal — and more than 30 states have medical marijuana programs. Yet scientists still aren’t allowed to simply use the cannabis sold at state-licensed dispensaries for their clinical research because cannabis remains illegal under federal law.

“It is a big disconnect,” says Dr. Igor Grant, a psychiatry professor and director of the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research at University of California, San Diego.

The new DEA decision doesn’t resolve the conflict between federal and state laws, but it does offer researchers a new, federally sanctioned pipeline for more products and strains of cannabis.

“We’ll see a decade or more of explosive cannabis research and potential new therapies,” says Dr. Steve Groff, founder and chairman of Groff North America, one of three companies that has publicly announced it has preliminary approval from the federal government to cultivate cannabis for research.

A long-running fight to overturn federal “monopoly”

Despite their efforts, scientists have encountered administrative and legal hurdles to growing pharmaceutical-grade cannabis for decades.

In 2001, Dr. Lyle Craker, a prominent plant biologist, first applied for a license to cultivate marijuana for research — only to encounter years of delay that kicked off a prolonged court battle with the DEA, which has to greenlight research into Schedule 1 drugs like cannabis.

“There’s thousands of different cannabis varieties that all have unique chemical profiles and produce unique clinical effects, but we didn’t have access to that normal diversity,” says Dr. Sue Sisley, a cannabis researcher and president of the Scottsdale Research Institute, which also received preliminary DEA approval to produce cannabis for research.

Only in 2016 did the federal government signal a change in policy that would open the door for new growers, but applications to do so languished for years. Craker and others ended up suing the federal government over the delay.

Sisley has long taken issue with the supply of cannabis coming from the NIDA facility in Mississippi — in particular, how it’s processed. She used cannabis produced there in her recently published clinical trial on treating PTSD in military veterans.

She describes the product as an “anemic” greenish powder.

“It’s very difficult to overcome the placebo effect when you have something that diluted,” she says.

The 76-person study, which took 10 years to complete, concluded that smoked cannabis was generally well tolerated and did not lead to deleterious effects in this group. But it also did not find any statistically significant difference in abating the symptoms of PTSD when compared to a placebo.

For Grant of UCSD, the problem with the long-standing supply of cannabis isn’t so much the quality, but the lack of different products like edibles and oils and of cannabis strains with varying concentrations of CBD and THC, the plant’s main psychoactive ingredient.

“We don’t have enough research on the kind of marijuana products that people in the real world are using,” he says.

Because of the limited domestic supply, some researchers have resorted to importing cannabis from outside the U.S. — a legal but wildly counterintuitive arrangement that is “arduous” and prone to hiccups, says Sisley.

The constraints on research cannabis also has impeded the pathway to drug development because the NIDA facility’s cannabis could only be used for academic research, not for prescription drug development. A drug studied in phase 3 clinical trials — what’s required before submitting for approval from the Food and Drug Administration — must be the same as what’s later marketed.

“The NIDA monopoly has primarily been why we have medical marijuana in the states, but we don’t have medical marijuana through the FDA,” says Doblin of MAPS. “It’s a fundamental change that we can now have drug development with domestic supplies.”

A few barriers still remain

The few companies that will soon land DEA spots to cultivate cannabis have an eager marketplace of researchers who are “clamoring” for the chance to study the scientific properties and medical potential of the plant, says Groff, whose company is up for DEA approval and who also has an FDA project to study the antimicrobial properties of cannabis for killing dangerous bacteria like MRSA.

By the end of next year, Groff anticipates his company will be producing up to 5,000 pounds of marijuana per year, offering researchers a “full menu of customizable options.”

Biopharmaceutical Research Company — a third company that will soon cultivate cannabis with a DEA license — already has dozens of agreements in place with U.S. researchers and is hearing from more academic institutions, drugmakers and biotech companies in the wake of the change in policy, says CEO George Hodgin.

“Now there’s a very clear, approved and legal path for them to legally enter the cannabis space in the United States,” says Hodgin.

Washington State University’s Center for Cannabis Policy, Research and Outreach is one of the places that expects to eventually procure cannabis from Hodgin’s business.

“It’s definitely a big step in the right direction because the industry is moving much faster than we are in research,” says Michael McDonell, an associate professor of medicine and director of the university’s cannabis center.

But he also points out that even with more growers coming online, it’s still by no means easy to study cannabis, because researchers need a special license when working with a Schedule 1 drug and grants to conduct these studies are hard to come by.

Despite the widespread use of marijuana in the U.S., research into the medical potential of other Schedule 1 drugs like MDMA (ecstasy) is much further along than cannabis.

UCSD’s Grant says the biggest leap forward for research would come from moving cannabis out of the Schedule 1 drug classification. “If that were to happen,” he says, “that would solve a lot of these problems that we’ve been talking about.”

Source Article from https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/05/30/1000867189/after-50-years-u-s-opens-the-door-to-more-cannabis-crops-for-scientists

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NOTICIAS  TELEMUNDO  PRESENTS:

“MURIENDO POR CRUZAR,” AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE INCREASING NUMBER OF IMMIGRANT DEATHS ALONG THE BORDER, THIS SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 AT 6 P.M./5 C

Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval present the Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production

Miami – July 31, 2014 – Telemundo presents “Muriendo por Cruzar”, a documentary that investigates why increasing numbers of immigrants are dying while trying to cross the US-Mexican border near the city of Falfurrias, Texas, this Sunday, August 3 at 6PM/5 C.  The Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production, presented by Noticias Telemundo journalists Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval, reveals the obstacles immigrants face once they cross into US territory, including extreme weather conditions, as they try to evade the border patrol.  “Muriendo por Cruzar” is part of Noticias Telemundo’s special coverage of the crisis on the border and immigration reform.

 

“‘Muriendo por Cruzar’” dares to ask questions that reveal the actual conditions undocumented immigrants face as they try to start a new life in the United States,” said Alina Falcón, Telemundo’s Executive Vice President for News and Alternative Programming.  “Our collaboration with The Weather Channel was very productive. They have a unique expertise in covering the impact of weather on people’s lives, as we do in covering immigration reform and the border crisis. The result is a compelling documentary that exposes a harrowing reality.”

“Muriendo por Cruzar” is the first co-production by Telemundo and The Weather Channel.  Both networks are part of NBCUniversal.

Source Article from http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/07/31/noticias-telemundo-presents-muriendo-por-cruzar-this-sunday-august-3-at-6pm/289119/

About 100 CIA officers and family members are among about 200 US officials and kin sickened by “Havana syndrome”, the CIA director, William Burns, said on Thursday, referring to the mysterious set of ailments that include migraines and dizziness.

Burns, tapped by Joe Biden as the first career diplomat to serve as CIA chief, said in a National Public Radio interview that he had bolstered his agency’s efforts to determine the cause of the syndrome and what is responsible.

He confirmed that among other steps, he had tapped a senior officer who once led the hunt for Osama bin Laden to head a taskforce investigating the syndrome, and said he had tripled the size of the medical team involved in the investigation.

The agency also had shortened from eight weeks to two weeks the time that CIA-affiliated people must wait for admission to Walter Reed national military medical center, he said.

“It’s a profound obligation, I think, of any leader to take care of your people and that is what I am determined to do,” Burns told NPR in his first interview since becoming CIA director in March.

Havana syndrome, with symptoms such as dizziness, nausea, migraines and memory lapses, is so named because it first was reported by US officials based in the US embassy in Cuba in 2016.

Burns noted that a US National Academy of Sciences panel in December found that a plausible theory was that “directed energy” beams caused the syndrome.

There was a “very strong possibility” that the syndrome was intentionally caused, and that Russia could be responsible, he said, adding that he was withholding definitive conclusions pending further investigation.

Moscow denies involvement.

Source Article from https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/22/havana-syndrome-cia-officers-family

It was included in a list of final changes to the House bill, which the Rules Committee released on Wednesday afternoon. The program would begin in 2024, includes all employed and self-employed workers and can be used for family caregiving or personal illness.

Ms. Pelosi’s decision came a day after five moderate and conservative Democrats reiterated to her in a letter that they did not want to vote for a package that lacked the guaranteed support of all 50 Senate Democrats or might run afoul of the strict budget rules that apply to the plan. The legislation is being considered under a process known as budget reconciliation, which shields it from a filibuster but tightly limits what can be included.

Still, for proponents of the paid leave program — predominately women in both chambers — the decision to include it was welcomed, even if it was unlikely to become law.

“This victory is personal for so many American workers and their families, and it is personal for me,” said Representative Rosa DeLauro, Democrat of Connecticut and a longtime champion of the proposal. She held an emotional meeting with staff members who had helped craft the provision and a tearful call with Christopher J. Dodd, who had fought for a similar federal program as a Democratic senator when she served as his chief of staff in the 1980s, according to an aide.

Representative Richard E. Neal, Democrat of Massachusetts and the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, vowed “to do whatever is necessary to get this provision signed into law by President Biden and give the American people the basic support they deserve.”

Top Democrats hoped it would buoy a lobbying campaign to change Mr. Manchin’s mind. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Patty Murray of Washington have cornered him repeatedly in recent days to plead for his support for including paid leave in the bill.

The campaign also gained an unlikely ally: Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex. The former actress from the United States, who married Prince Harry in 2018, has emailed Ms. Murray and called multiple senators in both parties to push for the provision, according to people familiar with her outreach.

Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/03/us/politics/pelosi-paid-leave.html

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Estados Unidos, China y Europa dominan las emisiones de dióxido de carbono.

Los niveles de dióxido de carbono en la atmósfera terrestre ya superan consistentemente la simbólica marca de 400 partes de CO2 por cada millón de moléculas (ppm).

Y todo indica que se mantendrán así “durante muchas generaciones”, advirtió la Organización Meteorológica internacional (OMI) en su último informe.

La simbólica marca -que muchos científicos creen es prueba irrefutable de la responsabilidad humana sobre el cambio climático- ya había sido superada por primera vez en la historia moderna el año pasado.

Pero, según la OMI, todo indica que 2016 va a ser el primer año completo en superarla, en buena medida por causa del reciente fenómeno de El Niño.

“Las condiciones de sequía en las regiones tropicales provocadas por El Niño redujeron la capacidad de la vegetación para absorber CO2″, explicó Matt McGrath, corresponsal para temas ambientales de la BBC.

“Y los fuegos provocados por las condiciones secas también produjeron emisiones adicionales”, agregó el experto.

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La estación en el observatorio de Mauna Loa en Hawái fue la primera en registrar la histórica marca.

La Organización Meteorológica internacional, sin embargo, advirtió que si bien el factor El Niño ya desapareció, no sucede lo mismo con el impacto humano en el cambio climático.

“Y si no se aborda el problema de las emisiones de CO2 no se puede combatir el cambio climático y mantener el aumento de temperatura en menos de dos grados centígrados con respecto a la era industrial”, dijo el secretario general de la organización, Petteri Taalas.

Según los expertos, la última vez que los niveles de CO2 estaban regularmente por encima de los 400 ppm fue hace cinco millones de años.

Y, antes de 1800, los niveles se mantenían en aproximadamente 280 ppm, según cifras de la oficina nacional de control atmosférico y oceánico de EE.UU., NOAA

Otros gases

El reporte de la OMI también destacó el crecimiento de otros gases de invernadero, incluyendo metano y óxido nitroso.

En 2015, los niveles de metano eran 2,5 veces superiores a los de la era pre-industrial mientras que el óxido nitroso estaba 1,2 veces por encima de los máximos históricos.

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la reducción de los niveles de CO2 es fundamental en el combate contra el cambio climático.

Y el estudio también destacó el impacto del mayor volumen de esos gases sobre el clima del planeta.

Según los datos de la OMI, entre 1990 y 2015 se produjo un aumento del 37% del forzamiento radiactivo, como se conoce al efecto de calentamiento causado por la acumulación de estas substancias derivadas de actividades industriales, agrícolas y domésticas.

En diciembre de 2015 unos 200 países suscribieron en país un acuerdo para combatir el cambio climático y una reunión para decidir los próximos pasos tendrá lugar en Marruecos en noviembre de este año.

Source Article from http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-37753915

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NOTICIAS  TELEMUNDO  PRESENTS:

“MURIENDO POR CRUZAR,” AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE INCREASING NUMBER OF IMMIGRANT DEATHS ALONG THE BORDER, THIS SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 AT 6 P.M./5 C

Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval present the Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production

Miami – July 31, 2014 – Telemundo presents “Muriendo por Cruzar”, a documentary that investigates why increasing numbers of immigrants are dying while trying to cross the US-Mexican border near the city of Falfurrias, Texas, this Sunday, August 3 at 6PM/5 C.  The Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production, presented by Noticias Telemundo journalists Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval, reveals the obstacles immigrants face once they cross into US territory, including extreme weather conditions, as they try to evade the border patrol.  “Muriendo por Cruzar” is part of Noticias Telemundo’s special coverage of the crisis on the border and immigration reform.

 

“‘Muriendo por Cruzar’” dares to ask questions that reveal the actual conditions undocumented immigrants face as they try to start a new life in the United States,” said Alina Falcón, Telemundo’s Executive Vice President for News and Alternative Programming.  “Our collaboration with The Weather Channel was very productive. They have a unique expertise in covering the impact of weather on people’s lives, as we do in covering immigration reform and the border crisis. The result is a compelling documentary that exposes a harrowing reality.”

“Muriendo por Cruzar” is the first co-production by Telemundo and The Weather Channel.  Both networks are part of NBCUniversal.

Source Article from http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/07/31/noticias-telemundo-presents-muriendo-por-cruzar-this-sunday-august-3-at-6pm/289119/

La lucha incesante por encontrar aquellos seres queridos que una vez los grupos armados se llevaron y no se volvió a saber nada de ellos, volvió a sentirse ayer en el país al conmemorar el Día internacional de la desaparición forzada.

Madres, hombres y niños salieron a reclamarles a esos actores que devuelvan vivos a los que un día se llevaron, o en su defecto, que digan dónde fueron sepultados sus cuerpos para terminar con la incertidumbre de no saber dónde y por qué se los llevaron.

En la Fiscalía y la Unidad Nacional para la Atención y Reparación Integral a las Víctimas (UAV) reposan denuncias sobre 45.630 personas de las cuales no hay noticia. Al llevarse a punto de comparación —y toda comparación es odiosa y más tratándose de las víctimas—, el número de desaparecidos equivale a llenar el estadio de fútbol de Medellín.

“Es duro uno tener que levantarse a diario y esperar a tener noticias de nuestros hijos. Uno guarda la esperanza de verlos vivo”, asegura Margarita Rondón, familiar de una víctima desparecida.

El tema de la desaparición debe ser un asunto primordial para el Estado, como lo aseveró al Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica el asesor de la oficina del Alto Comisionado para los Derechos Humanos de Naciones Unidas, Guillermo Fernández Maldonado: “no estamos hablando de algo que sucedió en el pasado, es algo que sigue sucediendo, y sobre lo que se debe estar pendiente en cuanto a prevención, investigación y sanción”.

ES NECESARIA LA REPARACIÓN

En datos suministrados por la UAV, el 2002 fue el año con mayor desapariciones. Desde entonces, se observa una disminución (se pasó de 14.094 víctimas entre directas e indirectas en 2002 a 127 registradas en 2014). Los departamentos más afectados son Antioquia (10.855 víctimas), Meta (3.122), Valle del Cauca (1.971), Cesar (1.865), Caquetá (1.812) y Putumayo (1.711).

“Desde el 2013, la Unidad para las Víctimas ha apoyado 45 acciones simbólicas de conmemoración dedicadas a las víctimas de desaparición forzada y sus familiares. El apoyo psicosocial es fundamental para el proceso de sanación y acompañamiento a los seres queridos”, explica Paula Gaviria, directora nacional de la Unidad para las Víctimas. 

Source Article from http://www.eluniversal.com.co/colombia/en-colombia-no-hay-noticias-sobre-45630-desaparecidos-204398







Declaran infundada solicitud de exclusión contra Keiko Fujimori by Jorge Luis Paucar Albino

Por otro lado, la tarde del último miércoles el congresista Heriberto Benítez presentó nuevas evidencias para respaldar la tacha interpuesta contra la lideresa del partido naranja. En un DVD, el parlamentario entregó una grabación dónde Pedro Espadaro, congresista por Fuerza Popular, reconoce Marco Pichilingüe como el “coordinador provincial de dicha organización en el Callao“.


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Artistas y diversos personajes reconocidos se pronunciaron en contra del citado fallo.










 

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