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“London’s professors and peers will remember her as vibrant, hard-working and supportive student who poured her heart into her social work cohort,” Dixon said in a statement.
Mount Sinai employees say that Raizen’s firing is a particularly brazen example of the anti-Palestinian climate at the hospital. A day after the October 7th attacks — and amid Israel’s immediate bombardment of Gaza, which killed scores of Palestinians — Mount Sinai leadership sent a message to its employees declaring that they “stand with Israel.”
“The people of Illinois deserve quality healthcare from real, qualified professionals and not computer programs that pull information from all corners of the internet to generate responses that harm patients,” said Mario Treto Jr., secretary of the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR).
Last week saw the publication of a radical new vision of what social security for disabled people in Scotland could look like. An independent review of the country’s flagship disability payment, Adult Disability Payment (ADP), was published by an expert team led by Edel Harris OBE. Citizens Advice Scotland is proud to have played a key role in its development.
South Tyneside Council’s Cabinet are set to review two key reports, which outline both the achievements and the ongoing challenges in delivering adult social care across the borough.
Everyone knows in a basic way what violence is for. Even my mother, a housewife who grew up on a farm. Even me, a small seventy-year-old woman who makes her living with written words. Violence is for getting your way; for asserting your existence as an individual or a group; for venting torrential feeling; for sadistic pleasure. Sometimes, I think, it’s to assuage existential terror. Because if you’re doing the violence, at the moment anyway, it’s not being done to you.
The old sign for the Adobe Manor Motel on Central Avenue in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Karina Chavez bought the old motel to convert it into affordable housing units. Adobe Manor now has 16 renovated units, and it’s home to a collection of families and individual renters.