The slacker the line the better because that means more flexibility for tricks and flips roza has become a master of this art but like with anything only practice makes perfect now some of his stunts have taken him years of fails and falls to perfect but all the hard work finally paid off when he established a world record. Its 9 in the morning in vasco a village in south eastern a stony on. One of the worlds best slack liners its the start of a normal training day. I feel freedom. Of the trains daily for up to 8 hours which. Is likely and gives this feeling of something impossible in the beginning but its quite easy to reach just by practicing because so we all didnt have a balance and some point we have all had to stand up and walk so it took a while the same with a bad scene when something tight when you challenge yourself you succeed you feel great about it. But success was a long while coming for instance it took him 6 years to master his famous double back. Its becoming a really
Journal is dr. Joseph kvedar, the president elect of the American Telemedicine Association. Dr. Kvedar, thank you for being with us. Tell us the mission of your association and the members you serve. Guest i am delighted to be on with you this morning for such an important topic at such an important time. The ata was formed almost i think 27 years ago, and really the mission is to both educate and advocate, really, for a new model of care delivery, which is enabled by communications technologies. Im sure we will talk about what that means. The members are from a variety of sectors. Folkse a robust group of who supply technologies and services to the industry. We have a number of quite a few Health Care Provider organizations like my own Partners Health care, mass general at womens in boston. Some of the health plans and folks at the payment industry as well. Thatis largely the groups encumber our membership. Kvedar, joining us this morning to talk about telemedicine, telehealth, use of
Photographs show the reach of the 1918 influenza epidemic to all parts of the nation. These records show us the human and societal cost of the pandemic. They allow us not only to look back at that time but also to look ahead as the information they contain may help guide present day inquiries and increase our understanding of the disease. Dr. Jeremy brown is an emergency physician and was the Research Director in the department of emergency medicine at the George Washington university here in d. C. Hes now director of the office of Emergency Care research at National Institutes of health. Dr. Brown is the author of more than 30 peerreviewed articles and three books including the oxford american hand book of emergency medicine and the handbook on cardiology emergencies. Hes recently received an nih directors award for his efforts supporting research in nonaddicting methods of pain relief. Jacob apple writing in the new york journal of books says brown is clearly a man who knows the flu.
To stop all family visitation and other visitation. Meanwhile in marin county three people tested positive in the nursing facility, and one passed away on saturday. At the laguna longterm Health Facility the number of infected increased to 16 over the weekend. Hospitals have been the priority and people are forgetting that Nursing Homes and assisted living facilities are far more vulnerable than hospitals. Shed like to see state officials that require all senior and assisted living facilities public disclose their covid19 cases in an effort to keep the public informed so loved ones could be removed. The only way we find out about these facilities that have it is when the news journalists pick it up. That is the thing, the state needs to be transparent and put new lists out every day. The latest cases across the bay area and country may just be beginning because there are about 15,000 of these assisted living facilities across the country. About 1 Million People living between them. So
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