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Heath Brown is associate professor of public policy at the City University of New York, John Jay College and the CUNY Grad Center. He's the author of Immigrants and Electoral Politics. |
Want to join us for the 2019 New Orleans Pride Parade? Our parade has steadily grown over the last several years and the 2018 version featured over 20 floats and 65 marching groups. The nearly 4,000 participants took to the streets of the French Quarter to the delight of the 82,000 spectators who lined the route. Regis... |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Transportation Security Administration says significant progress has been made on shortening screening lines since earlier this spring when airlines reported thousands of frustrated passengers were missing flights. |
Peter Neffenger told a Senate panel Tuesday that over the busy Memorial Day weekend, 99 percent of passengers at U.S. airports waited less than 30 minutes and more than 90 percent waited less than 15 minutes. |
The agency says it is reducing lines by adding more lanes and increasing staffing, especially at seven of the nation’s busiest airports: John F. Kennedy in New York, Newark in New Jersey, O’Hare in Chicago, Miami, Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth and Los Angeles. |
Neffenger said TSA also is exploring better screening technology that can speed up lines as much as 30 percent. |
It’s a typical midweek noon rush in the heart of Washington’s Chinatown, and the streets are packed. |
Locals, tourists and local office workers flock to the restaurants, shops and boutiques that dot the district. National brands — McDonald’s, Starbucks, Radio Shack, Subway — mix with smaller traditional Chinese shops and eateries, all benefiting from the economic boom sparked by the nearby Verizon Center. Many stores d... |
But the bustle masks a paradox that researchers say is being replicated in cities across the country: “Chinatown,” the neighborhood, is booming. Chinatown, the ethnic enclave that has preserved its identity and character in the heart of the city for eight decades, is not. If cultural, demographic and economic trends co... |
Although the District’s Chinatown hangs on, others in Baltimore and St. Louis have been all but eliminated to make way for grand building projects, such as casinos and sports stadiums. |
A study released this month by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund traces the extent of the threat, focusing on the shrinking fortunes of Chinatowns in Boston, Philadelphia and New York, the three largest Chinatown enclaves on the East Coast. Using 2010 census data and land-use records, the study found ... |
Each community faced unique challenges. Boston’s Chinatown neighborhood faced intense real estate competition from expanding hospitals and universities. In Philadelphia, it was the incursion from luxury developers, the lack of affordable housing and new hotel properties first spurred by the 2000 Republican National Con... |
Common challenges included the decline of small urban manufacturing, competition for mom-and-pop groceries and restaurants from national competitors, and a sharp influx of non-Asians into suddenly trendy neighborhoods. |
The report represents “a sound warning to all of us that Chinatowns are turning into a sanitized ethnic playground for the rich to satisfy their exotic appetite for a dim sum and fortune cookie fix,” said Andrew Leong, a co-author of the study and a professor at the University of Massachusetts-Boston’s College of Publi... |
Bethany Li, a lawyer with the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund and another co-author of the study, said many of the remaining residents of the D.C. Chinatown found that they had to travel beyond the neighborhood for basic goods. |
“The Chinese have to be bused out to the suburbs in order to buy groceries,” she said. |
Compared with other northeastern Chinatown districts, Washington’s Chinatown is much smaller and has a shorter history. In the 1930s, the district’s pioneers established an economic and cultural safe haven for Chinese immigrants. With the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, many of the racially based immigration p... |
But Chinatown suffered along with the District’s traditional downtown in the wake of the 1968 riots after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Ironically, the underdeveloped state of the District’s downtown protected Chinatown for decades from the economic pressures and rising rents that threaten it today. |
Although a revitalization of the city began to take hold in the 1980s, small pockets of Chinatown remained vacant. The pull of Chinatown for a new wave of Chinese immigrants and second-generation Chinese-Americans was on the wane. |
Since many of the jobs, housing and retail space were increasingly located in the suburbs, waves of native Chinese immigrants looked to suburban areas in Virginia and Maryland, especially Chantilly and Rockville. |
Mr. Brandes noted that this migration phenomenon differed from New York or San Francisco, where sizable Chinese populations continue to reside within the city proper rather than the suburbs. |
The construction of the Verizon Center in 1997 posed new opportunities and challenges for the District’s Chinatown. While the venue created a burgeoning night-life business opportunity, it also drove up rent prices to the point that only better-financed regional and national chains could afford them. |
The District’s Chinatown has been greatly affected by increased commercialization. From 1970 to 2008, the number of native Chinese in Chinatown has decreased from 3,000 to 300, according to a study by the Mayor’s Office on Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs. |
Some believe, however, that the heart of the issue is timing, not commercial pressures. |
Some say the evolution from a living, organic neighborhood to a hybrid commercial district/cultural artifact is inevitable for many of the nation’s embattled Chinatowns, including Washington’s. |
Christopher Klemek, an associate history professor at George Washington University, said change is the nature of the game for urban neighborhoods. |
“Any period when we might call this neighborhood ‘Chinatown’ looks more like an interregnum, or just one temporary phase in a cyclical socio-economic story,” he said. |
NEW YORK, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Hedge fund firm Appaloosa Management, run by David Tepper, has made about $7 billion of profit so far this year, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the situation. |
Through February and March, Tepper scooped up beaten-down bank shares as many investors were running for the exits, the paper said. He bought Bank of America (BAC.N) shares, then trading below $3, and Citigroup (C.N) preferred shares, when that stock was under $1, it said. |
Appaloosa specializes in the stocks and bonds of troubled companies and manages about $12 billion, the paper reported. |
STEVE CLARKE claims it is shameful that Reading's FA Cup semi-final with Arsenal has top-flight competition. |
Clarke's side kick off at Wembley on Saturday, just 10 minutes before his old club Chelsea take on Manchester United at Stamford Bridge in the Premier League's clash of the day. |
Both games are live on TV. |
But Reading boss Clarke believes it risks devaluing the competition as his side bid to cause a massive upset. |
Asked if he was disappointed with the timings, Clarke said: "Yeah. I thought it was a shame in the last round when we had to play on the Monday night after playing on the Saturday as well. |
"There are things that we should do to protect this great competition. It should be special. |
"There will be 31,000 Reading fans in the stadium and anyone that's a Reading fan that's not got a ticket will be watching on the TV. |
"The only game I'm interested in is Reading against Arsenal." |
Clarke also feels his side will be at a massive disadvantage in the final too, should they become the first Reading side ever to reach it. |
The struggling Championship outfit's season ends on May 2, leaving them with a long wait before a potential FA Cup Final appearance on May 30. |
"When we beat Arsenal we have to wait for four weeks to play the cup final," he said. "This is also not correct. |
Clarke is confident Reading can upset the odds and beat their Premier League rivals. |
Asked if he really meant "when" and not "if" his side beat the Gunners, he smiled and said: "Of course. There wasn't a slip of the tongue." |
Manila Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo and San Carlos Bishop Gerardo Alminaza both said that a peace covenant would help lessen the tension among rivals, especially in the local elections. |
MANILA, Philippines — Catholic bishops yesterday supported appeals to candidates in the May 13 polls to sign a covenant for the peaceful and orderly conduct of the midterm elections. |
“If peace covenants can help bring peaceful political situation in the local situations, then they are to be encouraged,” Pabillo said in an interview. |
“Whatever helps (should be pursued) even if some won’t honor it – at least for the record they signed the covenant as we have done here and we can make them accountable after,” Alminaza said. |
Earlier, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) called on candidates to forge peace covenants in their respective areas. |
The poll body also appealed to local bets to keep their supporters under control before the start of the campaign for local candidates last Friday. |
Re-electionist Sen. Sonny Angara said the Comelec should implement a law providing accessible polling places for voters with disability and senior citizens to ensure that they will be able to vote in the May 13 elections. |
Despite the enactment of Republic Act 10366 in 2013 and the regular issuances by the Comelec requiring polling precincts to be friendlier to persons with disabilities (PWD) and the elderly, Angara noted that recent elections were still marred by complaints on the lack of designated areas to make it easy for them to vot... |
“I hope that this coming election, the Comelec will be more proactive in ensuring that not a single PWD or senior citizen is disenfranchised only because our polling centers cannot accommodate their needs,” he said. |
RA 10366 mandates the Comelec to set up polling precincts exclusively for PWDs and senior citizens that are located at ground level—preferably near the entrance—and without physical barriers. |
This is to make sure that every registered voter has an equal chance of getting to the polling precinct, and filling out and submitting the ballots. |
For the first time, actor Coco Martin has endorsed the candidacy of re-electionist Sen. Grace Poe in the coming polls. |
Martin joined Poe’s eldest son Brian in a motorcade in Cebu City, Danao City, Dumanjug, Santander and Tuburan last Sunday. |
Martin stars in the TV adaptation of FPJ’s 1997 box office hit “Ang Probinsyano.” Martin, who plays the role Ricardo Dalisay in the top-rating TV series, is a co-star of Poe’s mother Susan Roces. |
Martin also endorsed returning senator Lito Lapid, who played the role Romulo Dumaguit or Pinuno in Ang Probinsyano. |
Brian, for his part, thanked Martin for supporting his mother while recognizing the actor as his “brother” and a close friend of the Poe family. |
Hall won the 100-meter dash at the Central Mass. Championships as a sophomore. This spring, she raced to victory in the 200 at the Central/Western Mass. Division 1 Championships, posting a time of 25.80 seconds. She also finished sixth in the long jump and received the Ev Ingalls Award as the meet�s outstanding female ... |
Why is medical tourism so popular? |
Medical tourism may offer a solution for patients weary of NHS waiting times. |
Analysis by the Royal College of Surgeons shows NHS waiting times are now the longest they’ve been for more than a decade. Over 500,000 people are now waiting more than the recommended 18 weeks for planned hospital treatment. |
Rather than suffering frustrating delays on the NHS in the hope that the situation improves, more patients are looking at medical tourism. Figures from the Office for National Statistics reveal that the number of overseas trips from the UK for medical reasons rose by 198 per cent between 2014 (48,190) and 2016 (143,996... |
The growing popularity of medical tourism in central and Eastern Europe has been encouraged by an EU directive that outlines patients’ rights to cross-border healthcare. Implemented in 2013, it establishes your entitlement to travel to another EU country to receive high-quality medical care, and have it refunded if it ... |
Asia is the fastest growing destination for medical tourism, with an outstanding reputation both in terms of expertise and drastically reduced waiting times for treatment. |
In Singapore and Thailand, government agencies have been set up to market their expertise globally and top hospitals across the continent have special international service departments to assist overseas patients with everything from appointments to accommodation. |
Other countries promote the breadth of services - China, for example, offers visitors everything from high-tech hospitals to traditional treatments. |
In a bid to attract more visitors, the Indian government has backed the medical tourism industry by removing many visa restrictions. |
A visa-on-arrival scheme has been introduced for medical tourists from selected countries; this allows foreign nationals to stay in India for 30 days for medical reasons and depending on the treatment, there is even an option to get a visa for a year. India has a world-class reputation for cardiovascular treatments, or... |
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As a citizen of the European Union, you have the right to live, work and travel in any member state, and you can also obtain medical treatment. You will have to pay for your care initially, even if you’re eligible for a refund later. |
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Doesn't Nate know that what the polls say today necessarily dictate the results in November? What is he thinking? |
Think how much different the conventional wisdom would be if Al Gore had won 300 more votes in Florida. Bush's strategy of rallying to the evangelical base would have been considered a failure, as would the Rovian politics of personal destruction. But instead, because of what was essentially a mathematical coin-flip --... |
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For the very first time, scientists have developed a light-activated drug for treating Parkinson's disease directly in a targeted part of the brain. |
A new light-activated drug could help to treat Parkinson's disease. |
The drug — which is activated by shining light down an optical fiber implanted in the brain — reduced Parkinson's symptoms and improved motor function in mice. |
In a paper about the work now published in the Journal of Controlled Release, the international team suggests that the "light-operated" drug could potentially treat other movement disorders. |
When activated by light, the drug — called MRS7145 — blocks a protein called the "adenosine A2A receptor." |
Previous studies have already suggested that the adenosine A2A receptor is a promising target for brain disorders such as Parkinson's disease. |
However, as the authors explain in their paper, adenosine receptors are located throughout the brain, making it difficult to use them for selecting and targeting only specific parts of the brain. |
By allowing "the spatiotemporal control of receptor function," the new light-activated drug overcomes "some of these limitations," note the authors. |
In excess of 10 million of the world's population has Parkinson's disease, including 1 million people in the United States alone. |
The disease is lifelong and gets worse with time. It mainly affects movement, producing tremors, stiffness, slowness, and problems with balance and coordination. Nonmovement symptoms can also arise, such as constipation, disturbed sleep, depression, anxiety, and fatigue. |
An already approved glucosylceramide synthase inhibitor reduced toxic protein clusters in brain cells derived from patients with Parkinson's disease. |
Parkinson's disease does not usually strike before the age of 50; only around 10 percent of cases are diagnosed at an earlier age. |
It arises due to death of nerve cells, or neurons, in a part of the brain called the substantia nigra. These neurons make a chemical messenger called dopamine, which, among other things, is important for controlling movement. |
The goal of many drugs intended to treat Parkinson's disease is to restore dopamine levels in the brain. The blocking of adenosine receptors has been suggested as a target for such treatments, because it can raise dopamine levels. |
Photopharmacology is a relatively new medical field that develops drugs whose power can only be switched on and off using light. |
The approach offers the possibility of controlling the precise location of drug release in the body, thereby limiting any off-target side effects. An example is the precise targeting of chemotherapy drugs to specific cancer cells. |
It also allows precise timing of the release of the drug. The release of type 2 diabetes drugs that individuals can switch on and off as and when required is an example of this. |
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