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Today, President Trump launched his American AI Initiative that directs Federal agencies to prioritize investments in research and development of AI.
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Protecting America’s advantage in AI by promoting an international environment that supports American AI research and industries while securing critical AI technology.
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DRIVING BREAKTHROUGHS: Developing America’s ability to leverage AI is critical to increasing prosperity, enhancing our national and economic security, and protecting our values.
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AI promises great benefits for American workers, with the potential to improve safety and increase productivity.
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Investment in AI is critical to creating the industries of the future like autonomous cars, industrial robots, algorithms for disease diagnosis, and more.
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Additionally, maintaining our Nation’s global leadership in AI will ensure that the technology is developed in a manner consistent with our Nation’s values, policies, and priorities.
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However, our Nation urgently needs workers and businesses skilled in AI and capable of leading our country’s development and application of AI into the future.
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AI must also be developed in a way that does not compromise our American values, civil liberties, or freedoms.
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Rapid technological innovation can lead to radical improvements in society and quality of life.
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VISIONARY LEADERSHIP: President Trump is committed to enacting policies that promote and protect American leadership in technological development and innovation.
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President Trump has directed his Administration to take action to promote technical education and apprenticeships for American workers.
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The President has taken numerous steps to promote high quality STEM and computer science education in our schools and universities, with a particular focus on women and girls.
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The President is also protecting our National Security Innovation Base against those who illicitly acquire America’s hard-earned intellectual property.
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Profesor Blair Smith believes rational prescribing should be widely adopted.
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Long-term use of opioids should be curbed with “rational prescribing” used to cut down consumption, according to the Scottish Government’s lead clinician on chronic pain.
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Professor Blair Smith, who lectures at the University of Dundee, believes rational prescribing should be widely adopted, with GPs and other prescribers agreeing with patients what the goals of taking the drugs are.
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Smith (inset) worked with colleagues in other universities on research published this year that explored the rates of opioid prescribing in Scotland.
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The team looked at every prescription for opioid medicine dispensed across the country between 2003 and 2012. They discovered that the number of prescriptions of “strong” opioids including fentanyl – which killed music legend Prince – morphine, oxycodone and others more than doubled from 474,385 to 1,036,446 a year. A total of 18 per cent of people in Scotland received at least one opioid prescription.
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Women were more likely to receive a “weak” opioid (such as codeine or tramadol) but there was no gender difference in the prescription of strong opioids. There were four times more prescriptions for strong opioids dispensed to people in the most deprived areas than to those in the most affluent areas.
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Smith said: “We’re looking to support prescribers in what we would call rational prescribing with the aim being that before you even consider an opioid prescription you first of all agree with the patient what the goals of prescription are.
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He added: “I suspect that often prescription continues because there isn’t time for an adequate review, but I wouldn’t like to blame individual GPs.
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Smith said that at the moment there is a lack of evidence to support non-pharmacological pain management, although it is “likely to be much safer and at least effective” and is calling for more investment into research around non-drug treatment.
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The Scottish Drugs Forum campaign group launched an initiative to highlight alternatives to opioid prescribing on Thursday as concerns grow that overuse is contributing to record drugs death figures. The number of drug-related deaths in Scotland rose to a record 934 in 2017, with opioids such as heroin and morphine linked to 87 per cent of the deaths.
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The Scottish Government is reviewing the guidelines for prescribing high-strength painkillers with a report due next year.
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Growing demand for its Scotch helped Diageo to higher profits and sales during the final six months of 2018.
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The international drinks giant, whose whisky portfolio is led by global market leader Johnnie Walker, also gained a boost from its tie-up with hit TV series Game of Thrones (GoT).
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Bosses said yesterday the launch of GoT-inspired blended whisky White Walker, under a partnership with US cable and satellite giant HBO, had been a huge success, helping to put Diageo at the “heart of popular culture”.
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Diageo played down the possible impact of Brexit, with global supply and procurement president David Cutter saying the company was taking Brexit “in its stride”.
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A rapacious appetite for Johnnie Walker – sales were up 10% globally – helped drive pre-tax profits to more than £2.6 billion during the six months to December 31, from £2.2bn a year ago.
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Net sales were up by nearly 6% at £6.9bn, fuelled by demand for the company’s flagship Scotch and strong performances from some of its other whiskies.
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Black & White and Buchanan’s both achieved double-digit percentage sales growth as organic net sales of Diageo’s Scotch brands, which make up 27% of the group’s total turnover, grew by 7%.
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Mr Cutter said growth in Asia Pacific, Latin America, the Caribbean and North America were partially offset by decline in Europe.
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In the UK, Scotch net sales were flat as growth in Johnnie Walker and Bell’s was offset by “an increasingly competitive environment” for malts.
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Among Diageo’s other major brands, Smirnoff vodka returned to growth in the UK – sales were up by 4%.
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Mr Cutter said the restoration of Brora Distillery as part of a £35 million investment that will also see the Port Ellen Distillery on Islay brought back into production was progressing well.
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So too were the company’s plans to “transform” visitor centres at distilleries including Cardhu on Speyside and Clynelish at Brora, and create a new visitor attraction in Edinburgh, in a major tourism drive based around its Johnnie Walker brand.
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UM, hello Jessica Chastain and hellooo James McAvoy.
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The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby is not exactly the average film. Possibly because it's actually three separate films, giving three separate perspectives (one from hers, one from his, and a unified one) on a single relationship between two people. According to Vulture, Chastain and McAvoy play "a married couple who has lost what they once had, and as things keep on getting worse, the film looks back at how they got to this point." The unified version (The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them) will be released on September 26, while the other versions will see more low-key releases later on in the fall.
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This looks like a very cool exploration of relationships, though watching like five to six hours of the same story line may become tiresome. Who knows though?
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Blood drive: Community Blood Center of the Carolinas is hosting a blood drive 3-7 p.m. June 18 at Regal Cinemas, 7825 Rea Road. Donors get a free movie ticket. No appointment necessary. Details: www.cbcc.us.
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Learn about magic: Magician Craig Stone will entertain rising first- to fifth-graders with his finest tricks 3 p.m. June 22 in the children's department of South County Regional Library, 5801 Rea Road. Registration is required and begins 10 a.m. June 20. Details: 704-416-6600.
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St. Mary Catholic Church in Lafayette took advantage of the canonizations of popes John XXIII and John Paul II to educate parishioners on the process of being named a saint.
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What better time for a church history lesson than the day when two popes are canonized?
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St. Mary Catholic Church made the most of the opportunity by making a weekend exhibit explaining canonization — the elevation to sainthood — and the history of American saints. It also told parishioners about those under consideration for sainthood in Louisiana.
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“It connects the kids to what’s happening in the Vatican,” said Tiffany Foreman, the church’s coordinator of family ministry.
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Cindy Guidry said that each year, the church makes an exhibit out of some major event related to Catholicism in an effort to provide interactive education for its members. The canonization of popes John XXIII and John Paul II Sunday created this opportunity.
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This exhibit included pillars explaining the three steps (cause, beatification and canonization) in sainthood, complete with what got both popes there. First, someone must take up the cause of proving what we commonly call a miracle (such as sudden recovery from disease) is actually a miracle (without scientific explanation). Once that is proven, the religious leader in question is beatified and considered blessed. Multiple miracles earn one the title of saint.
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One booth had statues of well-known saints and encouraged people to take selfies with them.
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Jennifer Sibille said she always looks forward to whatever the church puts together every year.
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Armand Doize said he and his family were interested in relearning the intricacies of the process and, having long-attended St. Mary, knew his church would deliver.
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Learn more about Sunday’s canonization of Popes John XXIII and Pope John Paul II on Page 1B.
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Residents in Sky King Meadows truly enjoy the premier Kalamazoo location.. Shopping and restaurants are only minutes away yet residents will enjoy a peaceful neighborhood setting. This growing neighborhood in the Kalamazoo Public School District is a great fit for families of all sizes.
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Enjoy oversized 1/3 acre wooded sites that are popular in Texas Township combined with the mature landscaping, beautiful curb appeal, and ideal location Applegate is known for - all at an affordable price!
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Spalding's Fifi Iluyomade and McDonogh's Cecily Pokigo fight for control of the ball during a game Oct. 17, 2018. The game ended in a draw, 2-2.
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The Baltimore-area’s top teams played 100 minutes, with the visiting Cavaliers getting the better of the play early and the Eagles rebounding late to finish in a 2-2 draw.
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Both teams are 10-0-2 overall with defending Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference champion McDonogh 6-0-1 in league play and the Cavaliers 5-0-1.
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McDonogh senior Julia Dorsey headed home the tying goal off a corner kick sent in by Lily McCarthy with 8:08 to play in regulation.
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Chances came for both sides in overtime, but both defenses stayed firm as Spalding senior goalie Jillian Savageau made a reaction save on Baylee DeSmit’s point-blank shot from 10 yards and Dorsey cleared Cortney Corcoran’s dangerous corner kick off the goal line.
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“Historically, they’ve always been our biggest rival way before I was here, and they were also the only undefeated team besides us, so we knew it was our toughest game of the season,” Dorsey said.
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Early on, it appeared the Cavaliers were poised to get the big road win.
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They mostly got to the ball first and showed more hunger in scoring the game’s first goal.
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Earning a free kick from 40 yards, central defender Abby Jeanneault sent a ball to the far post that forward Fifi Iluyomade headed off the crossbar, and it landed in front of midfielder Jenna Snead, who scored for a 1-0 lead in the game’s second minute.
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After Iluyomade made it 2-0 ten minutes into the second half, finishing a cross sent in by Lauren Korsnick, the Eagles responded with a significant push.
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The home team had a 10-2 advantage on corner kicks and were able to capitalize on two of their last three in the second half, with Olivia Ozbolt one-timing a shot from just inside the penalty area with 20:34 to play before Dorsey’s tying header.
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While Savageau finished with 11 saves for the Cavaliers, the Eagles got fine play in goal late from reserve Maddie Lowney. The freshman came into the game and made two saves after starter Abby Van Metre was injured when she collided with Ilyumade that resulted in the Cavaliers’s second goal.
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Over the past 10 seasons, McDonogh has won six league championships with Spalding capturing the other four. If Wednesday’s performances are any indication, the teams appear primed to meet to see who can claim this year’s championship.
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Portadown striker Darren Murray has withdrawn his transfer request on the eve of his side's big Irish Premiership clash against Cliftonville.
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The 23-year-old front man had asked for a move from Shamrock Park in June, with Cliftonville appearing to be his most likely destination.
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Murray returns to the Ports squad on Saturday having missed the midweek win over Warrenpoint because of suspension.
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Portadown, Cliftonville and Linfield have won their opening two fixtures.
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"Something has got to give and and it should be a really good game," said Cliftonville manager Tommy Breslin who had made no secret of his desire to sign front man Murray.
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Cliftonville have been looking for a striker to replace their record-breaking top scorer Joe Gormley who moved to Peterborough United during the close season.
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Linfield top the early standings on goal difference and the Blues host Dungannon Swifts on Saturday.
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Join presenter Joel Taggart for Saturday Sportsound with Portadown's clash with Cliftonville the feature game.
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Michael Hammond and Philip Mitchell will take you through the Shamrock Park action while Eric White and Tim McCann are on commentary for the derby between Ballymena United and Coleraine.
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The programme also includes updates from the other four Premiership game and the latest cross-channel news.
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Carrick Rangers defender Aaron Smyth is set to miss the Taylor's Avenue clash with Glentoran after sustaining a leg injury in Wednesday night's defeat by Linfield.
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Glens keeper Elliott Morris was dismissed four minutes into the 2-2 midweek draw with champions Crusaders and he is suspended.
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The Crues have made a stuttering start to their title defence, with just one point on the board from two games.
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But manager Stephen Baxter is in relaxed mood as he prepares for a Seaview encounter against Ballinamallard United.
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"It's a long league, we had a similar start last year, it's early season and we will not be over-assessing it," he said.
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"Maybe it's a hangover from playing in Europe but we've played two top teams and there's still 36 games to go.
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"We've another tough game against Ballinamallard, who have a wily manager in Whitey Anderson and they've brought in excellent players."
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Ballymena United will aim to bounce back from their 7-1 hammering by Glenavon when they host derby rivals Coleraine.
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The Sky Blues sit bottom and are seeking their first points along with Warrenpoint Town, who play the Lurgan Blues at Milltown.
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Laptops. Notebooks. Portables. Whatever you prefer to call them, they've done as much to change our digital lives as any other piece of hardware in the last quarter century.
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When the first laptops debuted in the early 1980s, they were a major breakthrough in convenience. For the first time you could use a computer that had a built-in keyboard, yet was so light you could pick it up and take it with you into the next room or on the train or plane into another time zone. But who could have predicted all the changes to come: Batteries that last all day, Mac and Windows operating systems coexisting peacefully on the same machine, the notebook as an entertainment unit?
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Twenty-six years after the first laptop appeared, we're commemorating the ten most important models to come down the pike. In chronological order, each of these notebooks represents a major turning point in technology, popularity, or both. Though we might snicker now at some of their laughably small screens or pitifully slow processors, they paved the way for today's powerful portables.
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Just as the Tin Lizzie was among automobiles, the Epson HX-20 was the first portable that was affordable to the masses, and it was simple. Although a handful of posers preceded it--including the 24.5-pound Osborne Computer--the HX-20 is widely considered to be the first true laptop. It weighed only 3.5 pounds and had a built-in nickel cadmium battery that lasted 50 hours on one charge.
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Of course, the "screen" was a tiny built-in monochrome LCD capable of displaying only four lines of text at a time. It also had a brown plastic case that closed over the keyboard, a built-in dot-matrix printer that spat out adding-machine paper, and a micro-cassette tape drive for storage.
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But its dual Hitachi 6301 processors running at 614 Hz, its 16K of RAM, and its serial and RS-232 ports blew the socks off its admirers--and thanks to their support, the HX-20 sold at least a quarter of a million units. For the deskbound accounting and "data collector" professionals at whom Epson pitched the HX-20, it was a portable dream come true.
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The 1980s were an exciting time to be a computer geek, and one big reason was the Tandy TRS-80 Model 100. Though the typical American family did not rush out to their corner RadioShack to buy a Micro Executive Workstation, it was the first laptop to become widely popular with early adopters.
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At 3.8 pounds and $800, it weighed and cost about the same as the HX-20, but it had a much bigger LCD (240 by 64 dots) that stretched all the way across the top. The TRS-80 Model 100 operated on four AA batteries for up to 18 hours. It had no internal storage (an external cassette recorder or a 5.25-inch floppy drive cost extra), but it offered a raft of built-in applications, including a text editor, an address book, a scheduler, and a telecom application for modem communications that was much beloved by newspaper reporters who finally had a way to dash off stories in the field.
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Legend has it that the firmware for the TRS-80 Model 100 was Bill Gates's last big coding project before he got sidetracked running an empire.
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Chance The Rapper remakes the theme song to the classic PBS animated series, Arthur, for a skit on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
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After covering the theme song during multiple live performances, Chance teams up with Ziggy Marley and Jon Batiste for a rendition that plays out like a dream sequence, as Colbert takes a daytime nap.
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The result is pretty epic!! Watch it above.
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Judy O'Connor and her son, Marty, were honored by Chapman University.
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A mother who attended every class with her quadriplegic son so he could pursue his Master of Business Administration (MBA) was surprised with her own honorary degree at her son’s graduation.
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Judy O’Connor, a retired elementary school teacher, relocated from Florida to California in 2013 to care for her son, Marty O’Connor, who was paralyzed a year earlier after falling down a flight of stairs.
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