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Co się dzisiaj działo? #41 10.2.2022

NCAA: Dayton Flyers-Duquesne Dukes 75:54

Robert Morris Colonials-Detroit Mercy Titans 62:79

Florida State Seminoles-Pittsburgh Panthers 51:56

Turniej ITF w Canberze: Weronika Falkowska/Olivia Gadecki-Gabriela da Silva Fick/Alana Parnaby 6:1 7:5

Turniej WTA w Sankt Petersburgu: Alicja Rosolska/Erin Routliffe-Urlike Eikeri/Viktoria Kuzmova 6:4 6:1

Turniej ITF w Porto: Maja Chwalińska-Anastasia Kulikova 6:2 6:0

Energa Basket Liga: Czarni Słupsk-Asseco Gdynia 100:75

PGNIG Superliga: Wisła Płock-Wybrzeże Gdańsk 35:28

CEV Liga Mistrzów: Hebar-Jastrzębski Węgiel 1:3

Ras Al-Khaiman Classic, 1 runda: 67. Adrian Meronk

Tour de La Provence, 1 etap:

7. Maciej Bodnar

78. Łukasz Owsian

FIDE Grand Prix, 6 runda grupowa: Radosław Wojtaszek zremisował z Grigorijem Oparinem

Premier League Darts, 2 turniej:

ćwierćfinały

Peter Wright-Michael van Gerwen 1:6

Jonny Clayton-Michael Smith 6:3

James Wade-Joe Cullen 3:6

Gerwyn Price-Gary Anderson 6:3

pólfinały

Michael van Gerwen-Jonny Clayton 4:6

Joe Cullen-Gerwyn Price 6:5

finał

Jonny Clayton-Joe Cullen 6:4

Igrzyska Olimpijskie w Pekinie, Dzień 6

bieg na 10km stylem klasycznym kobiet:

1. Therese Johaug (NOR)

2. Kerttu Niskanen (FIN)

3. Krista Parmakoski (FIN)

29. Izabela Marcisz

49. Monika Skinder

64. Karolina Kukuczka

78. Magdalena Kobielusz

Łyżwiarstwo szybkie, 5000m kobiet:

1. Irene Schouten (NED)

2. Isabelle Weidemann (CAN)

3. Martina Sablikova (CZE)

12. Magdalena Czyszczoń

Saneczkarstwo, sztafeta:

1. Niemcy (Natalie Geisenberger, Johannes Ludwig, Tobias Wendl/Tobias Arlt)

2. Austria (Madeleine Egle, Wolfgang Kindl, Thomas Steu/Lorenz Koller)

3. Łotwa (Martins Bots, Roberts Plume, Eliza Tiruma, Kristers Aparjods)

8. Polska (Mateusz Sochowicz, Klaudia Domaradzka, Wojciech Chmielewski/Jakub Kowalewski)

Hokej na lodzie, turniej mężczyzn:

Szwecja-Łotwa 3:2

Finalndia-Słowacja 6:2

USA-Chiny 8:0

Kanada-Niemcy 5:1

Curling:

turniej kobiet:

Wielka Brytania-Szwajcaria 5:6

Dania-Chiny 7:6

Szwecja-Japonia 8:5

Rosja-USA 3:9

Kanada-Korea Południowa 12:7

Szwecja-Wielka Brytania 2:8

USA-Dania 7:5

Chiny-Szwajcaria 5:7

turniej mężczyzn:

USA-Szwecja 4:7

Norwegia-Kanada 5:6

Wielka Brytania-Włochy 7:5

Pozostałe konkurencje medalowe:

Narciarstwo alpejskie, kombinacja mężczyzn:

1. Johannes Strolz (AUT)

2. Aleksander Aamodt Kilde (NOR)

3. James Crawford (CAN)

Łyżwiarstwo figurowe, soliści:

1. Nathan Chen (USA)

2. Yuma Kagiyama (JPN)

3. Shoma Uno (JPN)

Narciarstwo dowolne, skoki akrobatyczne, mikst:

1. USA (Ashley Caldwell, Winter Vinecki, Christopher Lillis, Justin Schoenefeld, Eric Loughran)

2. Chiny (Xu Mengtao, Kong Fanyu, Zongyang Jia, Qi Guangpu, Xindi Wang)

3. Kanada (Marion Thenault, Fliavie Aumond, Miha Fontaine, Lewis Irving, Emile Nadeau)

Snowboard:

Halfpipe kobiet

1. Chloe Kim (USA)

2. Queralt Castellet (ESP)

3. Sena Tomita (JPN)

Snowcross mężczyzn

1. Alessandro Haemmerle (AUT)

2. Eliot Grondin (CAN)

3. Omar Visintin (ITA)

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dipulb3 · 3 years

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Warnock invokes Biblical story to describe GOP efforts to roll back voting rights in Georgia

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Warnock invokes Biblical story to describe GOP efforts to roll back voting rights in Georgia

“We can walk and chew gum at the same time. We’ve got to work on the infrastructure of our country — our roads and our bridges — and we’ve got to work on the infrastructure of our democracy,” the Georgia senator told Appradab’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union” when asked whether Biden should prioritize voting rights over infrastructure.

“I think the President is engaged on this issue,” he added, referring to voting rights. “And when I’ve talked to him, he’s agreed that voting rights are foundational — that this is the work we have to do.”

But as Republicans in statehouses push to restrict voting access, the White House is shifting its focus to Biden’s next key initiative after he signed the latest coronavirus stimulus package, with advisers prepping a two-part, $3 trillion proposal that would focus on jobs, infrastructure and clean energy, as well as what’s being termed the “care economy” that zeroes in on key domestic economic issues.

Asked by Bash what his message would be on Sunday, Warnock, the senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, invoked a Biblical story to describe the GOP efforts to roll back voting rights.

“It’s Palm Sunday and Jesus confronts the powers and we all have a decision to make. There was a governor that he confronts in that moment named Pilate. And the governor has a decision to make,” he said, tacitly referring to Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp’s recent signing of the election law. “I think that all of us has a decision to make: are we going to stand on the side of truth and righteousness and justice? Are we going to stand up on the right side of history? This is a defining moment in the American nation and all of us have a role to play.”

Republicans work to restrict voting access

The new law in Georgia, dubbed The Election Integrity Act of 2021, imposes voter identification requirements for absentee ballots, empowers state officials to take over local elections boards, limits the use of ballot drop boxes and makes it a crime to approach voters in line to give them food and water.

Republicans in the state cast it as necessary to boost confidence in elections after the 2020 election saw former President Donald Trump make repeated, unsubstantiated claims of fraud. But Democrats, including Warnock, have sharply criticized the measure as voter suppression.

The senator vowed Sunday “to do everything I can to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the For the People Act so that we can expand our democracy, rather than contract it,” telling Bash: “The governor is taking us back, we intend to go forward.”

Warnock also urged Georgians to vote during his Palm Sunday sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church later Sunday.

“Exercise your constitutional right to vote. ‘Why are you talking about that on a Sunday morning, preacher?’ Because your vote is your voice. Your voice is your human dignity. I believe that the right to vote, I believe that democracy, is the political enactment of a spiritual idea that all of us are children of the living God and more people than ever in Georgia stood up and said I want my vote,” he said.

The Georgia law is part of a larger effort by GOP-led legislatures across the country to pass restrictive voting measures in key states like Arizona, Michigan and Florida. As of February, state legislators in 43 states have introduced more than 250 bills with restrictive voting provisions, according to a tally from the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University.

Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York also blasted the new Georgia law on Sunday, telling Appradab’s Abby Phillip on “Inside Politics” that its provisions are “inhumane.”

“We need to make sure we give people better access to voting, not just in Georgia, but across the country and we can do that if we pass HR-1 and HR-4 in the Senate,” he added, referring to voting rights bills passed in the US House of Representatives.

White House prioritizes infrastructure

Though Biden has also denounced Republican efforts to restrict voting in many states as “un-American” and “sick,” comparing the efforts to Jim Crow laws that enforced racial segregation in the South, the White House is making plans to shift its focus to the nation’s infrastructure.

The $3 trillion plan aides are working on would mark a sweeping move toward enacting the key elements of the “jobs” agenda that Biden laid out in large part during his campaign for president, with a suite of potential tax increases on corporations and the wealthy as options to finance any longer-term spending in the final proposal.

The proposal would focus heavily on money for roads, bridges and rails, and would include hundreds of billions in spending for climate-related measures, as well as climate-related research and development. It also would include $100 billion for education infrastructure.

The domestic economy piece of the plan, meanwhile, would include key Biden campaign priorities such as universal pre-K, significant spending on child care, care-giving and proposals designed to try and address portions of the workforce hit hardest by the pandemic economy.

White House officials have stressed that no final decisions about the final path forward have been made at this point, and Biden still has to review the proposals and plans to consult heavily with Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about the scale and legislative sequencing of the issue.

This story has been updated with additional details Sunday.

Appradab’s Caroline Kelly, Nicky Robertson, Phil Mattingly, Kelly Mena, Fredreka Schouten, Dianne Gallagher and Pamela Kirkland contributed to this report.

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medicinethought-blog · 7 years

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PE is a blockage of an artery in the lungs by a substance that has traveled through the bloodstream (embolism). PE usually results from a blood clot in the leg that travels to the lung.The risk of blood clots is increased by cancer, prolonged bed rest, smoking, stroke, certain genetic conditions, pregnancy, obesity, and after some types of surgery. And can sometimes be due to the embolization of air, fat, or amniotic fluid.

Symptoms

Syspnea (shortness of breath)

Tachypnea (rapid breathing),

Chest pain

Cough

Hemoptysis (coughing up blood).

Cyanosis (blue discoloration, usually of the lips and fingers),

Collapse,

Circulatory instability because of decreased blood flow through the lungs and into the heart

Sudden death

A pleural friction rub

A pleural effusion

Strain on the right ventricle

A fever

Risk factors

Alterations in blood flow due to injury, pregnancy,obesity cancer

Factors in the vessel wall due to surgery, endothelial injury

Factors affecting the properties of the blood due to estrogen-containing hormonal contraception

Cancer

Diagnosis

CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA) is a pulmonary angiogram obtained using CT with radiocontrast. its non-invasive, its larger accessibility, and you can identify other lung disorders from the differential diagnosis in case there is no pulmonary embolism. Assessing the accuracy of CT pulmonary angiography is lowered by the rapid changes in the number of rows of detectors available in multidetector CT (MDCT). CTPA is not inferior to VQ scanning, and identifies more.

A VQ shows that some areas of the lung are being ventilated but not supplied with blood, this type of examination is as accurate as CT, but is less used. It is particularly useful in people who have an allergy to iodinated contrast, impaired renal function, or are pregnant. The test can be performed with two-dimensional imaging, or single photon emission tomography (SPECT) which enables three-dimensional imaging. Hybrid devices combining SPECT and CT (SPECT/CT) further enables identification of abnormalities.

Low chance of PE, a normal D-dimer level (blood test) is enough to portray presence of PE, D-dimer is highly sensitive (positive implies patient doesn’t have PE and visa versa). Full blood count is done, clotting status (PT, aPTT, TT), and some screening tests (erythrocyte sedimentation rate, renal function, liver enzymes, electrolytes).

Treatment

Anticoagulant Therapy

Anticoagulant therapy is the mainstay of treatment. Heparin or fondaparinux are given, while warfarin, acenocoumarol, or phenprocoumon therapy also starts within hospital. Low molecular weight heparin may reduce bleeding among people with pulmonary embolism. Warfarin therapy often requires an often adjustment and monitoring to dosage for up to 6 months. In cancer patients LMWH (low molecular weight heparin) is favored over warfarin and it is continued for six months and pregnant women are often placed on LMWH until at least six weeks after birth to avoid the teratogenic effects of warfarin. (Distort fetus)

Thrombolysis

PE causing hemodynamic instability (low blood pressure) is an indication for thrombolysis (the destruction of the clot with medication). Catheter-directed thrombolysis (CDT) is a new technique found to be relatively safe and effective for massive PEs. This involves accessing the venous system by placing a catheter into a vein in the groin and guiding it through the veins by using fluoroscopic imaging until it is located next to the PE in the plunomary circulation. Medication that breaks up blood clots is released through the catheter.

Inferior vena cava filter

An inferior vena cava filter is constructed if the person has undergone surgery (therefore, anticogulant therapy is contradicted), or a person has a pulmonary embolus after being anticoagulated. It may be implanted to prevent new or existing Deep vein thrombosis from entering the pulmonary artery and combining with an existing blockage. Inferior vena cava filters should be removed when starting anticoagulation.

(An ECG with someone with pulmonary embolism)

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footballmanageraddict · 12 days

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Wonderkid Factory | Part 4 | Hammering Real Madrid

#FM24 #WonderkidFactory Part 4: Hammering Real Madrid. The homegrown project at @AZAlkmaar continues to impress as they claim a huge scalp in the #ChampionsLeague. And their exciting youngsters push Ajax all the way in #Eredivisie. Read here:

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Wonderkid Factory | Part 3 | AZ Academy Stars Excel

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Wonderkid Factory | Part 2 | Generational Talent In First AZ Youth Intake

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Wonderkid Factory | Part 1 | Turning Milk Into Cheese

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Analysis: The anxieties looming over Black Americans on Election Day

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Analysis: The anxieties looming over Black Americans on Election Day

President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden’s radically different visions of America aren’t the only things on the ballot. Fundamental rights are subject to the vote, too, more than half a century after the struggle for Black freedom.

America is at a time of crisis: a nationwide reckoning on race, police brutality and what justice looks like, a crippling pandemic and an increasingly economically divided citizenry.

Despite the protests that jolted the country throughout the summer in the wake of the police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd and the current unrest in Philadelphia following the police shooting of a Black man, Walter Wallace Jr., Black Americans are among those showing up at the polls in record numbers.

In fact, it may well be because of those horrific incidents that so many Black Americans are turning out — even as fear stalks the once simple act of voting.

“Ordinary people with extraordinary vision can redeem the soul of America by getting in what I call good trouble, necessary trouble. Voting and participating in the democratic process are key,” the congressman and civil rights lion John Lewis wrote in a New York Times op-ed printed after his death in July. “The vote is the most powerful nonviolent change agent you have in a democratic society. You must use it because it is not guaranteed. You can lose it.”

And indeed, the vote is under siege in this election.

Voter suppression

Trump has spent months trying to delegitimize the electoral system and he has threatened lawsuits against states well before Election Day. Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, has urged voters to create an outcome so unassailable that Trump can’t steal a second term via litigation before a Republican-friendly Supreme Court.

Tuesday’s contest isn’t a mere duel between two parties. It’s a battle between two categorically different approaches to governance. The Democrats want to mobilize as many voters as possible; the Republicans — the political minority — want to go in the exact opposite direction.

Overwhelmingly, Black voters, the backbone of the Democratic Party, are on the receiving end of Republican chicanery: voter ID laws, shuttered polling stations, purged voter rolls, the disenfranchisement of incarcerated people, voter intimidation.

It isn’t a stretch to say that such underhanded maneuvering mirrors the political landscape of the 1960s, when activists such as Lewis fought against a system that had directed its full powers against Black Americans.

“Sometimes I wake up and I think we are paralleling the ’60s all over again,” Joanne Bland, who as an 11-year-old joined hundreds of activists in the 1965 “Bloody Sunday” voting rights march in Selma, Alabama, told Appradab’s Fredreka Schouten in September. “The laws that they passed to prevent African Americans from voting were insurmountable, and states could make up their own rules. That’s pretty much where this is going now.”

Sure enough, on Monday, a federal judge in Texas rejected a Republican attempt to invalidate some 127,000 drive-through ballots cast in the Democratic-leaning Houston area.

“When you balance the harms, you’ve got to weigh in favor of that — in counting the votes,” Judge Andrew Hanen ruled after a nearly three-hour hearing.

In a November op-ed for The Washington Post, the lawyer Benjamin L. Ginsberg, who for decades represented a variety of Republican campaigns, sharply condemned the autocratic jockeying of Trump and his yes-men.

“This is as un-American as it gets. It returns the Republican Party to the bad old days of ‘voter suppression’ that landed it under a court order to stop such tactics — an order lifted before this election. It puts the party on the wrong side of demographic changes in this country that threaten to make the GOP a permanent minority,” he wrote. “Absent being able to articulate a cogent plan for a second term or find an attack against Joe Biden that will stick, disenfranchising enough voters has become key to (Trump’s) reelection strategy.”

Police brutality

High-profile shooting deaths of Black Americans have occurred with seasonal regularity this year.

In particular, the police killings of Taylor and Floyd sparked sustained uprisings throughout the summer.

Some Black Americans have used the repeated devastation of police violence as a means of motivating others to vote out a President overflowing with anti-Black animus — who views a movement that simply affirms that Black lives matter as a “symbol of hate.”

“We need to get somebody in office that’s going to work on our behalf,” Bianca Austin, the aunt of Taylor, who in March was killed during a botched police raid in Louisville, Kentucky, told Appradab’s Harmeet Kaur in October, adding that “a lot of people are just sick and tired.”

Taylor’s family received a sizable settlement — $12 million — and the city agreed to reforms such as offering a housing program to incentivize officers to live in the areas where they serve and tightening the process of issuing search warrants.

Still, a grand jury decided not to indict any officers in connection with Taylor’s death. Some members of the panel later said that Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron hadn’t really given them any other option and that he’d made misleading public comments about the case.

In October, Taylor’s family launched a foundation both to keep the 26-year-old’s memory alive and to fuel political change. One of the foundation’s ambitions on the latter front: shuttling Louisville voters to polling sites, free of charge.

“Please, if you don’t have a candidate in mind, just vote because Breonna can’t vote,” Austin told Kaur.

To the vast majority of Black Americans, it seems impossible to survive another four years under Trump — under a President who can’t even explicitly acknowledge the systemic racism of an institution rooted in the slave patrols of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Covid-19’s uneven toll

Far from being the “great equalizer,” the novel coronavirus pandemic has only deepened persistent disparities — in employment, in housing, in access to high-quality doctors.

“The virus is layering over an infrastructure where people of color have been living with so many disparities that affect their ability to deal with an economic crisis and a public-health crisis,” Tricia Neuman, senior vice president of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and executive director of its program on Medicare policy, told Appradab in April.

And yet, as it’s become clear over the past eight months that Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, poses a disproportionate threat to people of color, the catastrophe has grown less urgent in some political leaders’ eyes.

“White Americans are also suffering,” The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer wrote in May, “but the perception that the coronavirus is largely a Black and brown problem licenses elites to dismiss its impact. In America, the racial contract has shaped the terms of class war for centuries; the Covid contract shapes it here.”

Black voters have noted this neglect in more recent weeks, too.

“We have a President who is totally tearing apart our whole democratic Constitution,” Wilburn Wilkins told Appradab in October. “Many people are dying because (Trump) is ignoring the Covid pandemic, ignoring the fact that people are unemployed, need financial resources. We need a change.”

Wilkins sees how the Trump White House’s decisions have uniquely harmed people of color — and will likely have consequences far into the future.

“The nomination of a conservative to the Supreme Court, stacking of lower courts in order to have cronies to carry out conservative ideas, most likely will affect Black and brown people,” Wilkins said. “They’ll affect things such as civil rights, Obamacare — all of these things have the potential to negatively impact minorities.”

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