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Passengers who say they've been mistreated by #Canadian airlines had the national stage today as federal ministers, #airline executives and accessibility advocates gathered for the first-ever #CanadianAirAccessibilitySummit.
“We can’t treat a wheelchair like luggage. It simply isn’t luggage. That is why we are here today,” said #Transport Minister #PabloRodriguez in his opening remarks on Thursday morning.
Il n'existe aucun recensement exhaustif du nombre de morts au travail en France. Pour combler ce trou statistique et raconter l'histoire des victimes, @humanite_fr s'associe à Matthieu Lépine, auteur de « L'Hécatombe invisible ». ⚒
Depuis le début de l'année, ce dernier a listé 107 morts à partir des seuls articles de la presse locale. 1/
Le 2 mai, un homme de 29 ans a succombé à ses blessures après avoir été renversé par l'engin agricole duquel il venait de descendre, à Saint-Martin-des-Champs (29). Le même jour, le cogérant d'un camping âgé de 55 ans est décédé, écrasé par le godet d'un tracteur qu'il réparait, à Saint-Père-en-Retz (44).
Un formulaire est mis à la disposition des familles, syndicats et collègues pour alerter lors du décès d'un proche au travail.
Here, the ChatGPT C-LARA-Instance, Belinda Chiera, Cathy Chua, Chadi Raheb, Manny Rayner, Annika Simonsen, Zhengkang Xiang, and Rina Zviel-Girshin use the #OpenSource#CLARA platform to evaluate #GPT4's ability to perform #linguistics#NLP tasks such as #segmentation, #lemmatization and #glossing.
In 2010, #RFKJr was experiencing #memory loss & #mental fogginess so severe that a friend grew concerned he might have a #brain tumor. #Kennedy said he consulted several of the country’s top neurologists, many of whom had either treated or spoken to his uncle, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, before his death the previous yr of brain cancer.
Several drs noticed a dark spot on the younger Kennedy’s brain scans & concluded that he had a tumor, he said in a 2012 #deposition reviewed by NYT.
About the same time he learned of the parasite, #RFKJr said, he was also diagnosed w/ #MercuryPoisoning, most likely from ingesting too much fish containing the dangerous heavy metal, which can cause serious #neurological issues.
“I have #cognitive problems, clearly,” #Kennedy said in the 2012 #deposition. “I have short-term #memory loss, AND I have longer-term memory loss that affects me.”
Water, water everywhere, & not a [safe] drop to drink. More rain & flooding to come. Compound #catastrophes become very expensive.
"The city of 1.3 million inhabitants has been almost totally cut off by the #floods.
An estimated 80% of its population do not have access to running #water after five of the city's six water treatment plants ceased working.
Suzan, a resident of Porto Alegre, said that people in the city had "never experienced anything like it".
Meanwhile in the Lake District, more evidence that the sewage discharge(s) already identifies across the country as ruining the UK's beaches & seawaters, are having similar impact inland - Lake Windermere is going green as more semi-treated sewage flows into the lake & feed the algae that turn the water green.
Yet more proof that the only people who gained from water privatisation were the investors - for the rest of us it looks like daylight robbery!
@ChrisMayLA6 the water privatisations are a great example of a situation where a targeted windfall tax on dividend receivers and corporate directors pay would make great sense. Probably the banks who printed from the loans made too.
"#Antisemitism surging, report finds, prompting fear for future of ‘Jewish life’ in West
The US saw a 103% increase in incidents fueled by Gaza war, a global report for 2023 shows, while France stands out with near-quadrupling of cases"
Ten Years After the Flint #Water Crisis, Distrust and Anger Linger
A city is forever changed, and so is residents’ relationship with their water.
The betrayal of trust by the institutions meant to protect Flint’s residents has made some of them extra cautious as they look to keep themselves and their community safe.
"ACM... has announced the publication of the first issue of the ACM Journal on Responsible Computing (JRC). The new journal publishes high-quality original research at the intersection of computing, ethics, information, law, policy, responsible innovation, and social responsibility from a wide range of convergent, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and transdisciplinary perspectives."
"Asian Americans are the least likely group to feel strongly that they belong in the U.S. Asian Americans are also least likely to feel strongly that they are accepted in the U.S.
38% of Asian Americans completely agree that they belong, while only 18% completely agree that they are accepted in the U.S. for their racial identity."
"One of the assumptions built into these calls is that if the tech community would just nerd harder, a solution could be somehow magically found that preserved privacy and security while letting the ‘good guys’ have access. With all respect to the valuable work that law enforcement does to protect society, it’s equally as valid to as them to just police harder." https://www.mnot.net/blog/2024/04/29/power#futurology#art#technology#cyberpunk#innovation#change#futuretech#futurism
Having started in Europe, #eduroam - the secure, world-wide roaming access service developed for the international #research & #education community - is now available in 104 territories worldwide and emerging pilot locations!
I went hunting for #Aethelflaed yesterday. This is the only part of #Chester Walls that I think may include some of her refortification, near to the Northgate.
