These Sacramento doctors are raising money to help India through its deadly COVID spike
Sacramento Bee 5/11/2021 Ashley Wong, The Sacramento Bee
May 11 Sacramento-based doctors of Indian descent are raising money to send oxygen to that country as a sudden spike in COVID-19 rates has led to thousands of deaths daily and overwhelmed medical facilities there. You see the difference between the two health-care systems (of the U.S. and India) . Then you hear (about) people who are dying on the street because they can t even get into the hospital, said Dr. Manoj Mittal, an ICU physician at Sutter General Hospital. How do you even comprehend that?
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Inside a shopping center in the small town of Exton, Pennsylvania sits a shop that seems like it s from the other side of the world. Rich colors and fabrics hang on racks and walls throughout Maa Shakti Boutique. On those racks hang clothing for just about every holiday celebrated in just about every part of India. It s not easy because we do want to make sure we carry something for all the different holidays, all the different types of people of India, said Armi Patel, whose parents opened the shop in 2020 after sewing traditional Indian garments in their home for years.
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Search By Kelly O Sullivan 2020 was definitely a big year for takeaways!
With our favourite restaurants, cafés and bars closed for the majority of the year, many of us turned to our apps and were ordering takeaway more than ever.
One of the most go-to apps was
JustEat, who have revealed not only what the most popular order was last year, but also for each year in the past decade.
Analysis of our year s worth of takeaway orders have revealed that Limerick s most popular choice of takeaway was pizza, followed by
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JustEat s new Takeaway Race shows Limerick s ordering habits over the past decade, confirming that pizza has been the most popular choice over the past ten years, with Chinese, Asian Indian, fish and chips and burgers all taking second or third spot across the decade.
WUWM A replica of the Mahatma Gandhi statue outside the Indian Embassy in Washington D.C. is also outside of the Milwaukee County Courthouse. It was placed there in 2002.
As we kick off a new season of
Bubbler Talk, listener Chris Cantwell says he recently stumbled upon something outside the Milwaukee County Courthouse that took him by surprise.
“So, I had jury duty the first week of March, and during our lunch break, I decided to take a walk around the courthouse,” he explains. “As I rounded the corner, I saw the statue and fully expected it to be a statue of you know, Solomon Juneau or some figure from legal history, and was pretty taken aback when I got close enough to see that it was a statue of Gandhi.”