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In the coming weeks, Kohanski will head home for a little rest and relaxation before the start of the year. Then, she expects to travel to New York to ink a deal with Republic Records and begin work on a debut album.
"I think people have a clear idea of my style of music I want to do, which is rock," she says, "but it's not heavy rock. It's more rock that is feel good and makes you feel something, whether or not that's heartache and pain or it feels like a celebration. But the proof is gonna be in making that come out of my origina...
Meanwhile, production on season 14 of The Voice is already underway, with Kelly Clarkson and Alicia Keys joining Shelton and Adam Levine on the coaching panel. The show will return to NBC in spring of 2018.
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A cholera outbreak in Yemen that has infected more than 300,000 people and caused more than 1,700 deaths in the last few months is propelling the war-ravaged nation to the brink of catastrophe, health and humanitarian officials say.
Security concerns amid a severe shortage of safe drinking water are limiting what can be done to help fight the often-fatal bacterial disease, which causes severe vomiting, diarrhea and dehydration.
The World Health Organization said this week issues related to security and other challenges caused it to suspend plans to deliver doses of the oral cholera vaccine to Yemen. In addition, officials said that because so much of the country has been exposed to the disease, providing clean water may be a more effective pa...
The nation's Ministry of Health, in consultation with the WHO and other partners, decided to focus less on vaccines and instead on helping people access clean water.
"The situation has evolved so rapidly that vaccines are not the priority tool to use now," Fadela Chaib, a spokeswoman for the Geneva-based WHO said in an email Wednesday.
"The main challenge remains identifying and reaching the areas and the people where the cholera outbreak has not yet fully emerged," she said. "Vaccinating during an ongoing outbreak is not advised."
Chaib acknowledged that the "security, logistical and also political challenges are immense" but said that the destinations to which the vaccines might be rerouted were still under discussion.
The outbreak started last fall, accelerated in April, and in June, the WHO declared that Yemen was facing "the worst cholera outbreak in the world."
The estimated 313,538 suspected cholera cases in the country means that 1 in 86 Yemenis is suspected of having the disease, said Iolanda Jaquemet, a spokeswoman for the Near East and Middle East regions at International Committee of the Red Cross.
In a typical cholera outbreak, about 20% of the cases would be considered severe, meaning they would need an aggressive medical response, Jacquemet said. In Yemen, 40% of cases are severe.
Cholera is endemic in Yemen, where there was an outbreak during the last six months of 2016. About 26,000 cases were reported and 112 people died, Jaquemet said.
"This is no comparison to the current situation," she said.
The humanitarian situation in Yemen was catastrophic even before the cholera outbreak.
"It's basically a country that is devastated, that is being brought to its knees," Jaquemet said.
Two years of conflict between pro-government forces and the predominantly Shiite Muslim Houthi rebels have laid the groundwork for unhealthy conditions, aid workers said.
Before the war, Yemen was already the poorest country in the Arab world. It relied on imports of food, medicine, fuel and aid to survive. With the war, less than half the imports are flowing in, including less than one-third of all medicines.
According to Jacquemet, civil servants including doctors in public hospitals and clinics and municipal workers charged with tasks such as trash disposal have not been paid since at least late last summer. Heaps of garbage cover streets.
Many shopkeepers have had to close their stores because of lack of business and farmers can't till their field because of bombings. Only 45% of healthcare structures, such as pharmacies and hospitals, are still operational, aid workers said.
The International Committee of the Red Cross has documented at least 160 attacks against such structures. Electricity and fuel are scarce and, according to the United Nations, at least 16 million people do not have access to clean water.
"There has been basic collapse of infrastructure," said Simon Cowie, Yemen country director for the International Medical Corps, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit humanitarian organization. "The needs are astronomical. Add cholera to this, and it's dire."
Cowie, who spoke via Skype from Sana, the Yemeni capital, described a landscape strewn with damaged buildings and destroyed bridges, and where airstrikes shattered the silence at night.
Out of Yemen's population of 27 million people, up to 19 million are in need of some kind of humanitarian aid and up to 9 million depend on such assistance to survive, Jaquemet said, citing U.N. data.
"This is huge, this is massive," she said. "You have one-third of the country that depends on humanitarian aid. You have hundreds of thousands of kids who are severely acutely malnourished. The country is edging closer to famine by the day."
Chaib, the WHO official, said the organization would "continue to focus on good care for those who do fall ill."
The WHO was focusing on setting up treatment centers and oral rehydration therapy corners, distributing oral rehydration solution, providing training to health workers and working with communities to help them understand how to prevent and respond to cholera, she said.
The Red Cross has shipped in massive quantities of chlorine, about 300 tons of intravenous fluids, antibiotics and oral rehydration kits. Red Cross engineers have been working to refurbish water systems in several cities.
The International Medical Corps is helping to truck water, distributing water purification tablets and has deployed a network of community health volunteers to help educate Yemenis about cholera, among other efforts.
"It's because of the response of the international aid community inside Yemen that things are not worse than they already are, because the local health authorities are not in a position to face such a totally massive unprecedented outbreak," Jaquemet said.
The struggling community newspaper owes more than $1.25 million to its creditors.
The Current's most recent issue December 20. It's not due to resume publishing until January 10. Photograph by Benjamin Freed.
Current Newspapers, the publisher of five weekly community papers around Northwest DC, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Wednesday, according to court records. The company owes more than $1.25 million to nearly three dozen creditors, including lenders, printers, software vendors, and many contributors.
The bankruptcy filing, which was first reported by the Wall Street Journal, comes after a difficult stretch for the 50-year-old company, whose struggling finances have led it to withhold paychecks, let a health-insurance policy lapse, and delay paying its vendors for more than the past year. There’s also been a near-co...
Current Newspapers did not respond to requests for comment about its next steps. The paper has been on hiatus from publishing since December 20, and plans to resume next Thursday.
The filing includes the six-figure sums the Current is being sued over by two former printers—Gannett and Bartash Print Media—as well as $60,000 owed to a third printer, APG of Chesapeake, located in Easton, Maryland. Contributing writers and photographers, including former WRC reporter Tom Sherwood, who’s written a co...
On Thursday, judge in DC Superior Court ruled that the Current is in default to Gannett, to which it owes $180,000. A similar ruling in favor of Bartash, which is based in Philadelphia, was issued last August. Davis Kennedy, the Current’s owner since 1994, told Washingtonian earlier this week he believes the Gannett su...
Current Newspapers decided to file for bankruptcy last month, citing production expenses, according to court records. The company’s advertising revenue has been sliding since 2015, when the Washington Post‘s closure of the Gazette papers in suburban Maryland triggered the collapse of a regional advertising network made...
“Due to an interruption in cash flow resulting from outside printing costs, the Company needs to reorganize its business operations and finances in order to continue to serve its constituents with the same quality they have come to expect over the past number of years,” reads a company resolution signed by Kennedy Dece...
David Ferrara, Current Newspapers’ chief operating officer, told Washingtonian this week the company is in a transition, one that may include the company’s first sustained attempts at reader revenue, such as paid home delivery or a paywall on its young website. Ferrara says the longterm plan also includes him eventuall...
March 19 (UPI) -- The Saint Joseph's basketball program will have a different face next season as the school fired coach Phil Martelli on Tuesday, ending his 34-year tenure.
Martelli, 64, took the head coaching job at the Philadelphia school in 1995. He served as an assistant at the school for 10 seasons before assuming the top role.
He led the Hawks to a 444-328 record during his reign. Martelli also led the Hawks to the NCAA tournament seven times. Saint Joseph's won six regular season conference championships and three conference tournament titles. The Hawks reached the Elite Eight in 2004, capping off a historic season.
Saint Joseph's will begin its search for a new coach immediately.
"Coach Phil Martelli stands out among his peers in college basketball not only for his long tenure and the many accolades that he and his teams have achieved, but also for his engagement with the community and his service as an ambassador for SJU," the school said in a news release.
"The University recognizes and celebrates the history and heart that coach Martelli brought to the program and thanks him for his long service, dedication and stewardship."
The Hawks posted a 14-19 record this season.
A man shot dead in Sydney's inner-west was a casino high-roller with suspected crime syndicate links, police believe.
Peter Tan Hoang, aged 36, who also used the name Peter Minh Nguyen, was found suffering gunshot wounds on Dunmore Street in Croydon Park on Sunday morning. He died at the scene.
The victim was originally from Vietnam but had an Australian passport and had lived in the CBD.
Fairfax reported today that Hoang had wagered more than $90 million at Australian casinos.
At the time of his death, he had been committed to stand trial over possessing proceeds of crime - after being arrested at Melbourne's Crown Casino with $1.5 million in cash.
His barrister said he was a gambler and that's "how he survived".
Early on Sunday morning, he had driven his black Nissan Skyline to a McDonalds outlet in Croydon Park.
Police are seeking to to locate the owner of a small white or silver hatch with a spoiler on the rear window which was seen in the vicinity around the same time.
Troublesome Kandice Taylor arrives in Albert Square tonight, desperate for a favour from her sister Karen as EastEnders tonight.
Kandice was last seen rowing with her sister before the two made up towards the end of last year, but she’s now after more than just quality time with her family.
She turns up without warning, surprising Karen and admits that she’s trying to get out of a charity event that’s being organised by her gold club. Kandice is set to go to absurd lengths to avoid her commitments and ends up upsetting Karen, who disapproves and thinks that her sister has gone too far this time.
But Kandice did help Karen out last year when she needed her most and the Taylors come together. The clan enlist Tiffany Butcher’s assistance. Together they come up with a plan to get Kandice off the hook.
Karen thinks Kandice’s actions are ridiculous and even refuses to participate for a while. But eventually she’s forced to intervene as Kandice panics and her plans almost fall apart. The two clash yet again in a dramatic fight. Will Kandice’s antics drive the sisters apart for good?
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Third-level institution IT Carlow has invested €300,000 in the deployment of a private cloud virtualisation project to ensure its ICT facilities have the agility to respond to the current and future needs of its students and staff.
Trilogy Technologies implemented and configured a Flexpod converged private cloud infrastructure, which included Cisco Servers, VMware and NetApp Storage.
A key component in the design phase was for IT Carlow to leverage its existing investment in the Cisco Nexus switching environment previously installed.
The Flexpod Infrastructure hosts a high-performance desktop and application virtualisation solution, running VMware View and Application Jukebox, which is capable of expanding seamlessly to allow the agility to present IT Carlow’s ICT environment to staff and students, whenever, wherever and on whatever device is appro...
“We needed to make long-term strategic decisions about the nature of infrastructure required to support the needs of our staff, student research and stakeholder clients into the next 10-15 years,” said Fergal Flanagan, IT manager at IT Carlow.
“In tandem with the natural ageing of our current ICT infrastructure, and the recent expansion of facilities to incorporate a dedicated high-bandwidth media network to support academic programmes in TV, media and sports analysis, a whole new generation of users had to be facilitated – those growing up in a new era of 2...
State of the Union Speech -- Think Obama Has Any Regrets?
President Obama and his staff have had a day to reflect on his second State of the Union address. Which -- if any -- of the following references below do you think the president regrets making on Tuesday night?
Amid the havoc on the global stock exchanges Tuesday, triggered by concerns over a US-China trade war, signs of a global economic downturn and growing resistance by workers, the most powerful financial interests are demanding an acceleration of the war against the working class.
A week after General Motors announced the planned shutdown of five plants in the US and Canada and the elimination of nearly 15,000 hourly and salaried workers’ jobs, an analyst for Wall Street bank Morgan Stanley told investors that Ford would likely carry out even deeper cuts, eliminating 25,000 employees from its gl...
While Ford has yet to provide details of its $11 billion cost-cutting “Fitness Program,” Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas said in a note to investors, “We estimate a large portion of Ford’s restructuring actions will be focused on Ford Europe, a business we currently value at negative $7 billion. But we also expect a ...
The decision by GM to shut major assembly plants in Detroit, Lordstown, Ohio and Oshawa, Ontario, plus two transmission plants in Michigan and Maryland, led to a sharp spike in GM shares last week. The company, which is expected to make $10 billion in profits in 2018, is freeing up billions in cash to continue its stoc...
After selling off its European operations and closing all its plants in Australia and South Africa, GM is closing an assembly plant in Gunsan, Korea, and two other, still unspecified, international plants in the coming year.
Despite eight straight years of profits, Wall Street has been punishing Ford stock, which has fallen by 25 percent this year, to only $9.24 per share. Last August, Moody’s Investors Service downgraded Ford’s credit rating to Baa3, one notch from junk status, pointing to softening profit margins in North America, revers...
The brutal downsizing by the US-based automakers is part of a wave of international job cuts.
German-based drug manufacturer Bayer AG has just announced plans to cut 12,000 jobs out of its global workforce of 118,000 by the end of 2021. On Monday, more than 1,000 Bayer workers protested at the company’s site in Wuppertal, in western Germany. The company, which plans to carry out a “significant number of reducti...
French steel pipe maker Vallourec, which owns a steel mill in Youngstown, Ohio, near the threatened GM Lordstown plant, announced plans last week to cut 1,800 jobs—1,200 at three sites in France and 600 in Germany. The company, which supplies the oil and gas industry, has struggled to recover since oil prices crashed i...
Last month, Montreal-based train and aircraft manufacturer Bombardier announced the layoff of 5,000 workers by 2021 to reduce its long-term debt by $9 billion. The workers being terminated include 2,500 in Quebec, 500 in Ontario and another 2,000 in overseas operations, including 490 in Belfast, Ireland. The announceme...
Toronto-based Thomson Reuters Corporation said on Tuesday it will cut its workforce by 12 percent by 2020, axing 3,200 jobs. The media and information company said it will buy back $9 billion in stock from shareholders starting Tuesday, sending its stock up 4 percent.
US corporations are expected to spend a record $1 trillion on stock buybacks this year, according to Goldman Sachs, up 46 percent from 2017. Global mergers and acquisitions hit a record $3.3 trillion in the first nine months of the year, eclipsing the previous high on the eve of the global financial crash more than a d...
In its more recent report, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) concluded that the world economy would expand by only 3.5 percent next year, down from 3.7 percent this year. The 34 member states in Europe and North America would see an even sharper decline, with growth falling from 2.5 perce...
Over the last decade, the ruling class has relied on the trade unions and the ostensibly reformist and “left” parties to suppress opposition to an historic transfer of wealth to the super-rich, largely through the inflation of the stock markets. The unions have promoted economic nationalism as a means of covering for t...
However, after decades in which the class struggle has been suppressed, this year has seen a resurgence of strikes and mass protests, from the wildcat strikes of US teachers to recent mass strikes in Sri Lanka, Greece and now in the streets of Paris. If the Yellow Vest movement has gained momentum it is because it has ...
The escalation of the social counter-revolution by the ruling class, under conditions of renewed economic crisis, points to an explosive intensification of class conflict in 2019, which will come into ever more direct conflict with the trade unions, the entire political apparatus and the capitalist system as a whole.
CHICAGO -- A driver involved in a fatal hit and run accident in Bronzeville is in custody.
A 37-year-old man was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The accident involving a yellow Penske truck and a white pickup truck happened around 2 p.m. near 33rd and S. Indiana.
Eyewitnesses say the driver of the Penske truck fled the scene initially.
The disease itself may not discriminate on the basis of gender, but when it comes to healthcare for patients with diabetes, women in India find themselves at a disadvantage compared with men.
This is the conclusion of a study, Impact of Gender on Care of Type 2 Diabetes in Varkala, Kerala, which analysed gender roles, norms and values in a household and found women patients to be more vulnerable.
This vulnerability influences all phases of diabetic care, according to the paper by Dr Mini P Mani at the Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies (AMCHSS) in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of the southern state of Kerala.
Even when they suffer from diabetes, women cannot abandon the "caretaker role" in the family and have to continue to prioritise the health of other family members above their own, the study found. Inequitable access to resources prevents early diagnosis of the disease in women.
Women pay more attention to the health of the men and children in the family, leaving them with less time to devote to their own wellbeing, said Rosy Raphy, who teaches at a school in Munambam, near the central Kerala town of Kochi.
"As someone who has lived with diabetes for 26 years," Raphy told IPS, "I can say that I was not aware of the disease and did not take due care because I was preoccupied with matters of the family. As a result, my case got aggravated."
Of particular concern to women and gynaecologists in the country is gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), a form of the disease that affects pregnant women. The incidence of GDM has grown fourfold in the past 10 years, according to Dr B Rajkumar, a doctor of Indian systems of medicine at the Keezhariyoor government ayur...
"Earlier, pregnant women would engage in physical activity while doing housework. Today, the lifestyle of women has changed. Lack of exercise affects the body. And obesity, too, is a cause of gestational diabetes," he said.

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