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When white nationalists failed to turn out in threatening numbers Sunday at a Huntington Beach rally, many counter-protesters viewed it as a victory.
“We’ve won the day,” Los Angeles activist Najee Ali said several hours into the protest. “They’re not going to show up. They’re vastly outnumbered. The community of Huntington Beach won.”
Yet those who track extremist movements say that the truth is more complex and troubling.
Infighting, disorganization and other factors could have prevented neo-Nazis and other extremists from showing up in the kind of force seen during the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017.
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Published on: 03-15-2021
The collaborative work of scientists at La Sierra University and Walla Walla University in the United States has widened the scientific window into the potential effects of climate change and garnered international coverage of their findings.
At times using innovative equipment they engineered themselves, marine biologists Lloyd Trueblood, an associate biology professor at La Sierra University in Riverside, California, and Kirt Onthank, an associate biology professor at Walla Walla University (WWU) in Walla Walla, Washington, analyzed the East Pacific ruby octopus or
Octopus rubescens in one- and five-week studies at WWU’s collaborative Rosario Beach Marine Laboratory. It was the first analysis of octopus that compared short and long-term effects of seawater acidified through increased carbon dioxide levels. Previous short-term studies had focused on squid and cuttlefish.
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Published on: 02-09-2021
Public health officials have long touted widespread testing as one of the best ways to control the COVID-19 pandemic and save lives. In keeping with this guidance, La Sierra University in Riverside, California, United States, is bolstering its disease detection efforts with the rollout of new rapid-test equipment.
The university’s Student Wellness Services department, on January 13, 2021, deployed a rapid point-of-care PCR Cepheid GeneExpert Express molecular testing system. It will function in conjunction with a saliva-based screening process developed in the summer of 2020 by virologist Arturo Diaz. He studies positive-strand RNA viruses, of which the SARS-CoV-2 virus is a member. SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that causes the illness named COVID-19.