Updated: 7:11 PM EDT May 19, 2021 QUESTION: “Why would we give these to our children before the trials end, and will you be vaccinating your own children?” – Megan MitchellANSWER: “The trials are ongoing as long as people are getting the vaccine because we’re still collecting data. You know, the CDC and FDA don’t want to stop collecting data after the vaccine s safety is demonstrated, because we just want to get as much information as we can. However, the trial to conclude safety and effectiveness is complete. That recently finished in April, 2,200 children ages 12 to 15 with no cases of Anaphylaxis – only flu-like symptoms – and good efficacy for preventing COVID-19. So, will I vaccinate my own children? My children are one and three, and I will vaccinate them when it is safe to so do. I believe in this science, I really want the pandemic to end, I think any step we can take toward achieving that goal when it’s safe to do so. Which, the more I learn abou
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PARIS Despite fewer choosing to participate, 12 Oxford Hills Tech School students competed at Maine’s SkillsUSA 2021 Conference, held virtually this year. Three students won gold medals, five silver and four won bronze medals for their entries.
Oxford Hills Tech School’s state SkillsUSA 2021 medalists. From left: Madisyn McAlister, OHTS Director Paul Bickford, Mackenzie Denbow, Kelly Whittemore, SkillsUSA advisor Fred Steeves, Thomasina Lester, Lucy Tardiff, Kacie Record, Graphic Design Instructor Virginia Valdes, Alexia Fasano, Alden Timm, Advanced Communications Instructor Rob Benica, Payton Sherbinski. (Missing from photo: Adam Angevine, Megan Mitchell.
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“Normally we send more than 40 students and the competitions are held in Bangor,” said OHCHS’ SkillsUSA Advisor Fred Steeves.
NZ s biggest-ever tax fraudster John Bracken jailed
11 May, 2021 05:27 AM
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John Bracken was sentenced to eight years. Photo / Paul Rickard
Gisborne Herald
Matawai farmer John Bracken, who became New Zealand s biggest-ever tax fraudster when he fleeced the IRD for $17.3 million through bogus GST refund claims, has been jailed for eight years, six months.
Bracken, 55, was sentenced this morning by Justice Graham Lang in the High Court at Gisborne.
The sentence met with a loud objection from one of Bracken s stalwart supporters, his McKenzie friend at trial Peter Helmbright, who yelled it would be appealed, that the court had no jurisdiction to impose it and that it defied a previously agreed initiative for better relationships between Māori and Pākehā authorities.