According to the agenda report, milestone 3 studied revisions to the rail and trail alignment and alignment options that are in development, project funding opportunities, ridership modeling approaches, stations, bridge structures and noise impacts.Published 11:33 pm Sunday, December 29, 2024 By Data Skrive The Charlotte Hornets (7-24) will look to end a seven-game losing streak when they host the Chicago Bulls (14-18) on Monday, December 30, 2024 at Spectrum Center as 5.5-point underdogs. The matchup airs at 7:00 PM ET on CHSN and FDSSE. Want to gain an edge on Monday’s game? Discover the best bets available for this matchup (based on our computer predictions) right here. Watch the NBA, other live sports and more on Fubo. What is Fubo? Fubo is a streaming service that gives you access to your favorite live sports and shows on demand. Use our link to sign up. Sign up for NBA League Pass to get access to games, live and on-demand, and more for the entire season and offseason. Place your bets on any NBA matchup at BetMGM. Sign up today using our link. Bet on this game’s spread with BetMGM Over (227.5) Bet on this game’s total with BetMGM Bet on this game’s moneyline with BetMGM Not all offers available in all states, please visit BetMGM for the latest promotions for your area. Must be 21+ to gamble, please wager responsibly. If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, contact 1-800-GAMBLER .Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): An international game called Ultimate Frisbee or Ultimate has changed the lives of over 150 Pardhi and Gond children. It drew them to education and took them away from addiction and beggary. These children living in and around Bhopal were once ragpickers and addicts. Ultimate, which was invented by an American in 1960s, is different from other organised games and sports in more ways than one. It is played by boys and girls together with no referee or umpire. Players call their own fouls. It promotes gender equality and inculcates a sense of fair play. All that is needed to play is a metallic disc and an open ground. Points are scored by passing the disc to a teammate in opposing team’s zone. Their team is named Flying Teetars. The team’s captain Abhishek learned the game with help of YouTube videos after he was introduced to it by an activist associated with an NGO called Muskan. Then, he went to Delhi where he learned the nuances of the game for four months. On his return, he persuaded boys and girls of his basti to get together and form a team. FP Photo The team played a Sectional Tournament in 2019 where it was in competition with teams from all over the country. And it won appreciation for excelling without the help of a coach and no access to a proper ground. In last five years, the team played tournaments in different places even as its members continued to study and persuade others to learn the game and play it. Abhishek was approached by a team from Madras to play at an international tournament in Malaysia. But there was no money. Ultimately, crowd-funding helped him to fly to Malaysia in July this year. Of the 150 children who had quit beggary and rag picking after they began playing the games, 20 have cleared Class 12 and are studying at Azim Premji University. “I am happy that the children of our community who could not get out of the slums are playing and studying across the country,” Abhishek said.
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As part of a national “moonshot” to cure blindness, researchers at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus will receive as much as $46 million in federal funding over the next five years to pursue a first-of-its-kind full eye transplantation. “This is no easy undertaking, but I believe we can achieve this together,” said Dr. Kia Washington, the lead researcher for the University of Colorado-led team, during a press conference Monday. “And in fact I’ve never been more hopeful that a cure for blindness is within reach.” The CU team was one of four in the United States that received funding awards from the federal Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health , or ARPA-H. The CU-based group will focus on achieving the first-ever vision-restoring eye transplant by using “novel stem cell and bioelectronic technologies,” according to a news release announcing the funding. The work will be interdisciplinary, Washington and others said, and will link together researchers at institutions across the country. The four teams that received the funding will work alongside each other on distinct approaches, though officials said the teams would likely collaborate and eventually may merge depending on which research avenues show the most promise toward achieving the ultimate goal of transplanting an eye and curing blindness. Dr. Calvin Roberts, who will oversee the broader project for ARPA-H, said the agency wanted to take multiple “shots on goal” to ensure progress. “In the broader picture, achieving this would be probably the most monumental task in medicine within the last several decades,” said Dr. Daniel Pelaez of the University of Miami’s Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, which also received ARPA-H funding. Pelaez is the lead investigator for that team, which has pursued new procedures to successfully remove and preserve eyes from donors, amid other research. He told The Denver Post that only four organ systems have not been successfully transplanted: the inner ear, the brain, the spinal cord and the eye. All four are part of the central nervous system, which does not repair itself when damaged. If researchers can successfully transplant the human eye and restore vision to the patient, it might help unlock deeper discoveries about repairing damage to the brain and spine, Pelaez said, as well as addressing hearing loss. To succeed, researchers must successfully remove and preserve eyes from donors and then successfully connect and repair the optical nerve, which takes information from the eye and tells the brain what the eye sees. A team at New York University performed a full eye transplant on a human patient in November 2023, though the procedure — while a “remarkable achievement,” Pelaez said — did not restore the patient’s vision. It was also part of a partial face transplant; other approaches pursued via the ARPA-H funding will involve eye-specific transplants. Washington, the lead CU researcher, said she and her colleagues have already completed the eye transplant procedure — albeit without vision restoration — in rats. The CU team will next work on large animals to advance “optic nerve regenerative strategies,” the school said, as well as to study immunosuppression, which is critical to ensuring that patients’ immune systems don’t reject a donated organ. The goal is to eventually advance to human trials. Pelaez and his colleagues have completed their eye-removal procedure in cadavers, he said, and they’ve also studied regeneration in several animals that are capable of regenerating parts of their eyes, like salamanders or zebra fish. His team’s funding will focus in part on a life-support machine for the eye to keep it healthy and viable during the removal process. InGel Therapeutics, a Massachusetts-based Harvard spinoff and the lead of a third team, will pursue research on 3-D printed technology and “micro-tunneled scaffolds” that carry certain types of stem cells as part of a focus on optical nerve regeneration and repair, ARPA-H said. ARPH-A, created two years ago, will oversee the teams’ work. Researchers at 52 institutions nationwide will also contribute to the teams. The CU-led group will include researchers from the University of Southern California, the University of Wisconsin, Indiana University and Johns Hopkins University, as well as from the National Eye Institute . The teams will simultaneously compete and collaborate: Pelaez said his team has communicated with researchers at CU and at Stanford, another award recipient, about their eye-removal research. The total funding available for the teams is $125 million, ARPA-H officials said Monday, and it will be distributed in phases, in part dependent on teams’ success. U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, a Democrat who represents Denver in Congress, acknowledged the recent election results at the press conference Monday and pledged to continue fighting to preserve ARPA-H’s funding under President-elect Donald Trump’s administration. The effort to cure blindness, Washington joked, was “biblical” in its enormity — a reference to the Bible story in which Jesus cures a blind man. She and others also likened it to a moonshot, meaning the effort to successfully put Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon nearly 50 years ago. If curing blindness is similar to landing on the moon, then the space shuttle has already left the launchpad, Washington said. “We have launched,” she said, “and we are on our trajectory.”NoneEngineering researchers develop revolutionary diamond fabrication technology
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Analysis included 230 studies—a mix of randomized, prospective, and database research SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- (NASDAQ:ISRG) The peer-reviewed Annals of Surgery published a meta-analysis of 30-day surgical outcomes across seven oncological surgical procedures , comparing robotic, laparoscopic, and open surgical approaches. The study covered a 12-year timeframe and analyzed 230 studies from 22 countries: 34 randomized controlled trials, 74 prospective studies, and 122 database reviews. Each surgical approach represented more than a million procedures. The meta-analysis, conducted by scientists from Intuitive and Massachusetts General Hospital, demonstrated multiple benefits for robotic surgery using Intuitive’s da Vinci system as compared to laparoscopy and open surgery. “Robotic surgery with da Vinci showed fewer conversions, less blood loss, fewer blood transfusions, fewer readmissions and reoperations, and a shorter length of stay after 30 days,” said Intuitive Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer Myriam Curet, MD. “The editors at the Annals of Surgery thoroughly scrutinized and peer-reviewed this study prior to acceptance,” said Curet. “The quality of scientific data we are seeing after decades of robotic surgery underscores the value that the da Vinci robotic approach continues to have for improved surgical care.” Notable study results included: Da Vinci robotic cases were 56 percent less likely to convert to open surgery versus laparoscopy. Da Vinci robotic cases saw less blood loss versus open, comparable blood loss with laparoscopy. Da Vinci robotic cases were 21 percent less likely to require blood transfusions versus laparoscopy and 75 percent versus open. Da Vinci cases were 10 percent less likely to experience 30-day postop complications versus laparoscopy; 44 percent versus open. Da Vinci cases saw a half-day savings in hospital stay compared to laparoscopy and 1.9 days compared to open. Operative time for da Vinci cases was 17.7 minutes longer than laparoscopy and 40.9 minutes longer than open. “The data presented in our study describes the value of robotics in both the controlled clinical setting of randomized controlled trials and in the ‘real-clinical-world’ of population-based studies,” said Rocco Ricciardi, MD, MPH, lead study author and chief of colon and rectal surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital. “Ultimately, demonstrating population-based gains with robotics allows us to determine value of robotic procedures for the average person who might need surgery.” Traditional minimally invasive surgery offers many benefits but presents several technical limitations—notably lower quality vision and depth perception, camera instability, limited range of motion and dexterity due to the straight and rigid hand-held instruments, and it can take a severe physical toll on the surgeon. Intuitive technology introduced in the da Vinci surgical system has helped surgeons overcome many of those technological limitations via advanced 3DHD vision, wristed instrumentation, and greater precision, especially in deep, limited, or narrow areas of the body such as the chest, abdomen, and pelvis. There have been numerous studies comparing perioperative outcomes between robotic, laparoscopic, and open surgery but they have focused on individual procedures, which result in procedure-specific evaluations. Intuitive’s study in the Annals of Surgery looked at randomized controlled trials, prospective cohort, and database studies published within the last 12 years, and it shows multiple benefits for robotic surgery using the da Vinci system compared to laparoscopic and open surgery, which may be useful to decision makers who are considering the use of robotics in a multi-specialty setting. The study scope focused on 30-day outcomes specific to oncology procedures that often require deep and narrow surgical access. It did not review oncologic outcomes. About Intuitive Intuitive (NASDAQ:ISRG), headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, is a global leader in minimally invasive care and the pioneer of robotic surgery. Our technologies include the da Vinci surgical system and the Ion endoluminal system. By uniting advanced systems, progressive learning, and value-enhancing services, we help physicians and their teams optimize care delivery to support the best outcomes possible. At Intuitive, we envision a future of care that is less invasive and profoundly better, where disease is identified early and treated quickly, so that patients can get back to what matters most. About da Vinci Surgical Systems There are several models of the da Vinci Surgical System. The da Vinci surgical systems are designed to help surgeons perform minimally invasive surgery and offer surgeons high-definition 3D vision, a magnified view, and robotic and computer assistance. They use specialized instrumentation, including a miniaturized surgical camera and wristed instruments (i.e., scissors, scalpels, and forceps) that are designed to help with precise dissection and reconstruction deep inside the body. For more information, please visit the company’s website at www.intuitive.com . Important Safety Information Serious complications may occur in any surgery, including da Vinci surgery, up to and including death. Serious risks include, but are not limited to, injury to tissues and organs and conversion to other surgical techniques which could result in a longer operative time and/or increased complications. For summary of the risks associated with surgery refer to www.intuitive.com/safety. For product intended use and/or indications for use, risks, cautions, and warnings and full prescribing information, refer to the associated user manual(s) or visit https://manuals.intuitivesurgical.com/market. Individual outcomes may depend on a number of factors—including but not limited to—patient characteristics, disease characteristics, and/or surgeon experience. Contact Information Peper Long, Intuitive 202-997-7373 peper.long@intusurg.comOver 1,200 people have signed a petition on change.org to support a local high school athletic trainer who was, according to the petition, abruptly dismissed. Benjamin Palmer, the Windsor Locks High School senior class president who has been a runner and soccer player at the high school for four years, said he started the petition titled “Bring Back Ms. Patty” to provide a platform for his classmates to express their support for Patricia Taylor, who had been an athletic trainer at the school for seven years, according to the petition. “Gaining over 1,000 signatures in less than 24 hours, it’s turned into a tribute to a woman who gave so much without ever asking for recognition,” Palmer wrote in an email. “Always riding around in her white golf cart, Ms. Patty worked long hours to make sure we were safe, responsible and healthy athletes. “While we may not know the circumstances of her departure, we do know that her kindness, compassion, and service to others will be a long-lived legacy at Windsor Locks High School and all the schools she served.” The petition called Taylor “an unsung hero” and that her dismissal “has distressed many students, for whom she served as an influence, mentor and motivator. “By signing this petition, we request the school administration to reconsider their decision, reinstating her and recognizing her contribution to the development of our school’s athletic department.” Windsor Locks Superintendent of Schools Shawn Parkhurst said in an email that he could not comment on the situation because it was a “confidential personnel matter.” One supporter wrote on the petition: “The care, concern, and follow up Miss Patty showed for our son following a concussion was remarkable. She is the heart of our athletic program because her heart is always in the right spot. Please reconsider this unconscionable decision and reinstate Ms. Patty’s contract!” And another: “Ms. Patty has kept our Type 1 diabetic on the field during games and practices. I know other families are going to be suffering from this kind of loss as well.” And from an athlete: “Patty was almost like a second mom to most of us athletes at Windsor Locks High school. We could talk to her while she taped us and couldn’t have made it this far in athletics without her help!! We NEED her back!!!”
By Lisa Estrada We live in the charming Westcliff neighborhood of Fort Worth, nestled off Trail Lake Drive just a few blocks south of Texas Christian University. Having called this place home for over nine years, we cherish the vibrant sounds of TCU football games and the soothing chimes from St. Andrew’s bells. Westcliff is known for being friendly and welcoming. Neighbors often know each other, and there’s a strong sense of belonging. It is a picturesque and well-established neighborhood known for its warm communal vibe and beautiful, tree-lined streets. The area features a mix of midcentury homes and newer constructions offering a variety of architectural styles. Residents enjoy the convenience of nearby shopping centers, parks and excellent schools, making it a perfect place for families and individuals alike. The neighborhood is close to several parks and recreational areas, providing ample opportunities for outdoor activities. Whether you enjoy jogging, biking or simply taking a leisurely stroll, Westcliff offers plenty of green spaces to explore. The development of Westcliff began in the late 1940s, with most homes being built between the 1940s and 1960s. The neighborhood has grown and evolved over the years, maintaining its charm and appeal. Originally, much of the land was owned by Amon G. Carter, a prominent figure in Fort Worth’s history. The area has always been a hub of activity, with the Westcliff Shopping Center serving as a central point for the community. Westcliff is served by several highly regarded schools, making it an ideal location for families. Some of the notable schools in the area include: Get essential daily news for the Fort Worth area. Sign up for insightful, in-depth stories — completely free. Westcliff Elementary School: Known for its strong academic programs and community involvement. McLean 6th Grade Center: Provides a supportive environment for students transitioning from elementary to middle school. W.P. McLean Middle School: Offers a variety of educational and extracurricular activities. Paschal High School: A well-established high school with a rich history and a wide range of academic and extracurricular opportunities. Westcliff boasts a variety of local businesses that cater to the community’s needs. The shopping center, centrally located in the neighborhood, is anchored by Albertsons, Ace Hardware and Cowtown Marathon. It has evolved over the years, adapting to the changing needs of the neighborhood while maintaining its charm and appeal. Living in Westcliff means being part of a vibrant, historic and welcoming community. Whether you’re drawn by the excellent schools, the beautiful environment or the convenient location, there’s always something special about this neighborhood. Overall, Westcliff offered everything we were looking for in a neighborhood: a strong community, beautiful environment, excellent schools, convenient amenities and a rich history. It truly feels like home. Lisa Estrada is a dedicated mom and wife and an active board member for various nonprofit organizations. As a community leader, she enjoys volunteering. She works for Texas Health Resources and lives in Westcliff with her husband, Marcus, and their two cats. Total population: 3,405 Age 0-9 : 6% 10-19 : 14% 20-29 : 26% 30-39 : 14% 40-49 : 9% 50-59 : 10% 60-69 : 15% 70-79 : 4% 80 and older : 2% Education No degree: 2% High school : 8% Some college: 17% Bachelor’s degree : 43% Post-graduate: 30% Race : White: 80% | Hispanic: 14% | Other: 4% | Two or more: 2% Click on the link to view the schools’ Texas Education Agency ratings: McLean Middle School McLean 6th Grade Center Westcliff Elementary Alice D. Contreras Fort Worth Academy of Fine Arts Fort Worth Academy of Fine Arts Elementary Paschal High School Wedgwood 6th Grade School Rosemont Middle School Alice Carlson Applied Learning Center George Clarke Elementary Richard J. Wilson Elementary South Hills Elementary Tanglewood Elementary Overton Park Elementary Trinity Basin Preparatory Tarrant County JJAEP Harmony Science Academy-Fort Worth Your support makes TWICE the impact today. As November draws to a close , time is running out to double your impact. Thanks to the generosity of the Nicholas Martin Jr. Family Foundation, every dollar you give will be matched—up to $15,000. Will you give today to help trusted, local reporting thrive in Fort Worth and Tarrant County? Related Fort Worth Report is certified by the Journalism Trust Initiative for adhering to standards for ethical journalism . Republish This Story Republishing is free for noncommercial entities. Commercial entities are prohibited without a licensing agreement. 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If you share our stories on social media, please tag us in your posts using @FortWorthReport on Facebook and @FortWorthReport on Twitter. by The FWR Staff, Fort Worth Report November 23, 2024Intramotev, a Missouri-based technology company building battery-electric railcar retrofits, released footage on Thursday of their TugVolt technology operating at Carmeuse Americas’ calcium mine in Cedarville, Michigan. It is the world’s first independently driven battery-electric railcar in revenue service, the company said. Last year, the TugVolt self-propelled battery-electric railcar prototype underwent testing in Intramotev’s St. Louis headquarters in North City. Its 20,000-square-foot facility is part of the former campus of Swiss manufacturer ABB, which in 2017 stopped production at its St. Louis facility . The company’s aim is that initial applications of its technology will include captive routes between mines and processing facilities, as well as intra-plant and ports. With support from the Michigan Mobility Funding Program, Intramotev will deploy a total of three TugVolt battery electric railcars at the Cedarville site, it said, adding that the deployment is estimated to eliminate up to 55,000 gallons of diesel consumption and 617 tons of vehicle-level CO2 emissions. “We’re excited to share a glimpse of our technology in action,” Tim Luchini, Intramotev CEO said in a news release. “Collaborating with...Carmeuse Americas brings us closer to achieving our mission of decarbonizing mining and steel transportation.” Carmeuse Americas VP of operations Jeff Bittner said the partnership represents an opportunity to increase efficiency, decrease carbon footprint, and keep workers safe through adoption of emerging digital technologies. The Carmeuse deployment follows a $14 million Series A fundraise in August, a deployment at Iron Senergy’s Cumberland coal mine , and a switching agreement with freight carrier Eagle Drayage. 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