[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A Catholic California hospital has agreed to revisit training and education after the State sued the facility, alleging that its practitioners denied a woman an emergency abortion.
Anna Nusslock, 36, claimed doctors at the Catholic-affiliated Providence St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka sent her home, bloodied, as she miscarried, offering her nothing other than a bucket and towel.
The expecting mother alleged that doctors responsible for her care denied an emergency abortion after her water prematurely broke, leaving her vulnerable to infection and other complications.
Nusslock was just 15 weeks pregnant with twins when doctors told her the babies would no longer be viable and if her pregnancies were not terminated she could risk hemorrhaging, or developing an infection that could negatively impact her future fertility.
But, because doctors reportedly detected fetal heartbeats, the Catholic hospital turned to their own policy - which states that the hospital could not perform an abortion unless the patient's life was at risk.
Catholic hospitals restrict reproductive health care because of their following of the church’s 'Ethical and Religious Directives'.
Yet, according to the Cleveland Clinic, fetal tissue remaining in the uterus can cause 'infection, which can damage your reproductive organs or even cause dangerous complications like sepsis when left untreated.'
Denied care, Nusslock and her husband then drove to Mad River Community Hospital, 12 miles away. On the unimaginable, blood-riddled ride, the now-grieving mother expelled one of the fetuses.
She arrived at the Arcata hospital in distress before medical professionals had to perform an emergency procedure to remove the other unborn fetus.
On September 30 the State of California filed a lawsuit against the Eureka hospital, alleging that it violated state law mandating hospitals with emergency centers to provide care to prevent 'serious injury, illness and death.'
The suit alleges that 'instead of providing the emergency medical care she needed, Providence Hospital offered her a bucket and towels.'
If that wasn't enough, additional details were expunged in the September suit including that the Providence doctor advised Nusslock to be helicoptered to University of California, San Francisco Medical Center for treatment.
But when she brought up the unfathomable $40,000 cost, the suit states her doctor told her: 'If you try to drive, you will hemorrhage and die before you get to a place that can help you.'
The hospital has since responded to Nusslock's traumatic experience issuing a statement in a Facebook post, signed by its Chief Executive, Garry Olney.
'As you have likely heard, yesterday we learned that the California attorney general filed a lawsuit alleging that we denied emergency care to a pregnant patient in Humboldt County earlier this year,' the post reads.
'We are heartbroken over the experience this patient had while in our care and reached out to her today in an effort to express our profound apologies.'
The hospital Nusslock ultimately did receive potentially life-saving care at, Mad River, will soon close its labor and delivery department - leaving even fewer options for those who find themselves needing care.
Providence will then be the only hospital within an 85-mile radius to offer labor and delivery, according to a KFF Health News analysis.
This case brings about a larger issue plaguing women as it illustrates a profound loophole in California's state law that allows Catholic-affiliated hospitals to instead follow their religious directives.
In California, 56 hospitals have shuttered their maternity wards in the past 12 years, according to an investigation by CalMatters, The 19th News reported.
Meanwhile, nationwide, at least 267 hospitals closed labor and delivery units between 2011 and 2021, representing about 5 percent of the country’s hospitals, according to Chartis, a health analytics and consulting firm.
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Omigod, a Catholic institution descending to government standard? That's it. I'm voting for Harris. [DC-10 makes pink holy water pass over St. Joseph's]
"On a planet sans guilt, blame, or maybes
For Democrat trannies with rabies,
One man's Roe v. Wade's
About life... ["Girl, you slayed!"]
And her Second Amendment kills babies."
[FoxBusiness] United Airlines passenger pummels another flier in ‘vicious,’ bloody attack. Everett Nelson targeted sleeping passenger on United Flight 2247 from San Francisco to Washington, DC, according to reports
A United Airlines passenger let out "blood-curdling screams" during a "vicious" attack by another flier on a San Francisco to Washington, D.C. flight this week, a witness says.
The airline tells FOX Business that "Thanks to the quick action of our crew and customers, one passenger was restrained after becoming physically aggressive toward another customer" onboard United Flight 2247 on Monday.
"He was just very violently and very aggressively just pummeling the guy who was in the window seat who was in front of me and it was vicious. This wasn't like a bar room, I'm going to throw a couple of punches around, I mean this was vicious," Sandhya Gupta told KGO following the incident.
The FBI says the suspect, Everett Nelson, was walking back to his seat after using the plane’s bathroom when he targeted the sleeping victim, according to the station.
"The next thing I know, I just hear these blood-curdling screams," Gupta said.
The attack reportedly ended when another passenger intervened.
"Basically kind of like wrapped this guy in sort of like a hug and the assailant just, it was the weirdest thing, he just went limp," Gupta told KGO. "This doctor was just like trying to stop the bleeding, his face was just a mess. It was awful. There was blood spatter on the window... and all that kind of stuff."
A United Airlines spokesperson told FOX Business that "The flight landed safely and was met by paramedics and local law enforcement."
There were 82 passengers onboard the aircraft and six crew members. The motive for the alleged assault is unclear.
"United Airlines Flight 2247 safely landed at Dulles International Airport in Virginia after the crew reported a passenger disturbance on Monday, Oct. 28 at 1:40 p.m. local time. The Boeing 737-900 departed San Francisco International Airport. The FAA will investigate," the Federal Aviation Administration told FOX Business in a statement.
At least 158 people have died after torrential rainfall turned into a natural disaster in Valencia, Spain.
Local officials announced on Thursday that the continuous rain prompted one of the worst natural disasters that the country has faced in at least a decade.
Photographs have emerged from Valencia, Spain’s third most populous city, showing dozens of cars wedged atop one another after being carried by a wave of mud and debris into the narrow city streets.
“Unfortunately, there are dead people inside some vehicles,” said Transport Minister Óscar Puente.
Emergency services in the region of Valencia announced that the “provisional” death toll was now 158, and the “process of collecting and identifying victims continues.”
According to meteorologists, a year’s worth of rain fell in just eight hours in areas around the city. Emergency workers have begun searching for survivors that could be stranded in the area’s small towns and villages.
Additionally, over 1,000 soldiers have been deployed by the Spanish government in order to assist with the rescue operation.
According to reports, this is one of the worst natural disasters to hit Europe in years, rivaling deadly floods that killed 185 people in Germany back in 2021.
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Well, if you invest in "refugees" instead of infrastructure...
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Some other article on this I read this am used the expression "climate event" 4 times in the first couple of paragraphs. Needless to say, I didn't RTWT.
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I toured Valencia several years ago, seeing several large, fantastic, architectural wonders (museums, etc.) in a former riverbed. The guide explained the old river kept flooding, so they moved it outside of town and used the old bed for development. Great idea!
I wonder if nature flooded the new, man-made course or the original route. Or both.
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^ a year’s worth of rain fell in just eight hours
Yes, Bobby. If San Diego got 9+ inches in 8 hours, I would have beachfront property, with rubble riprap
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[Regnum] At least eight people have fallen victim to Hurricane Oscar in Cuba, and two more people are missing. This was reported by the country's civil protection service.
The disaster hit the island nation 10 days ago. The department's page on the social network X notes that two children, aged 6 and 12, were also injured.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, Hurricane Oscar formed in the Atlantic Ocean on October 19 and began moving west at a speed of 19 kilometers per hour. It was noted that the speed of wind gusts in the zone of this cyclone reaches about 36 meters per second.
That same day, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez announced that Cuba was preparing for the Oscars to strike. He noted that authorities had begun working hard to protect people and economic resources from the elements.
[Bloomberg via Yahoo] Boeing Co. and union leaders representing 33,000 striking workers reached a tentative agreement to end a lengthy labor dispute that’s crippling the company’s commercial airplane manufacturing.
The company’s latest proposal would boost wages by 38% over four years and give workers a $12,000 signing bonus if it’s approved, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers said in a statement.
IAM District 751 urged its members to accept the Boeing offer and end the strike, warning they risked losing gains they’ve made after weeks of collective bargaining. The union plans to hold a vote on the proposal on Nov. 4.
"In every negotiation and strike, there is a point where we have extracted everything that we can in bargaining and by withholding our labor," the union said late Thursday. "We are at that point now and risk a regressive or lesser offer in the future."
Boeing’s shares rose as much as 2.8% in after-hours trading. The stock had plunged 43% so far this year through the close of Thursday’s session.
The latest attempt to end the labor strife comes after 64% of members of IAM District 751 voted to reject Boeing’s third contract offer, which would’ve hiked wages by 35% over four years. Ratification would represent a critical win for new Chief Executive Officer Kelly Ortberg, clearing the way to move forward with plans to rebuild Boeing’s culture and improve the quality of work in its factories.
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... clearing the way to move forward with plans to rebuild Boeing’s culture and improve the quality of work in its factories.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but Boeing's problems are workers doing a crappy job and executives making crappy decisions. Gonna be hard to get different results with the same people doing the same thing. Maybe if everyone had a mandatory monthly flight on the latest Boeing plane, it would give them all a sense of skin in the game.
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Maybe they should try to establish the culture of a successful company instead.
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Then, if they can just sell off their space business (which they have SNAFU'ed) they might be on their way to recovery. They have been shopping it around.
Too few fingers in too many pies.
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The culture of a successful company is not possible. What we started with was patriotic blue collar Americans. What we got now, well they ain’t likely trump voters.
Seven tents have been erected in four of the most devastated counties in North Carolina: Buncombe, Burke, Haywood and Yancey. They'll be used on Election Day.
Early voting is underway in North Carolina, and the state is making it easier for people impacted by Hurricane Helene to cast their ballot.
After so many towns and roads were washed away by Helene's flooding and mudslides in Western North Carolina, state officials decided to erect tents to act as polling places for Tuesday's election.
Seven tents have been erected in four of the most devastated counties in North Carolina: Buncombe, Burke, Haywood and Yancey. Four tents are in place in Yancey County, while Buncombe, Burke and Haywood counties have one tent each.
The tents are meant to replace polling sites that were damaged or destroyed in Helene, according to Patrick Gannon of the North Carolina State Board of Elections.
Gannon said the tents are powered by generators, and are monitored 24/7 to ensure the voting equipment inside is secure. Inside the tent, voters will find walls and lighting, as well as portable bathrooms, handwashing stations, tables and chairs.
He said 25 Western North Carolina counties were given flexibility under North Carolina law to adjust early voting sites and Election Day polling places to serve their voters in the aftermath of Helene.
FOX News Multimedia Reporter Chelsea Torres visited the polling tent in Black Mountain, in Buncombe County. Torres said voters in the area are grateful another option has opened up for them to go vote.
Torres said voting equipment at the Black Mountain location will arrive on Monday, just in time for Tuesday's election.
[MAIL] Nate Silver went into a tirade about how pollsters are lying to people about their results just days before the election.
Silver, the founder of poll analytics site FiveThirtyEight, was speaking on his podcast when he was asked what his models tell him will happen next Tuesday.
While he says it's a 55% chance Donald Trump wins vs. 45% for Kamala Harris, what pollsters have been doing in the run-up to the election has left him unsettled.
He claims that many surveys, including Emerson College, are doing something called 'herding' - or using existence poll results to impact new polls - to keep producing close polls with one candidate or the other up by one point
'In fact, I kind of trust pollsters less, they all, every time a pollster [says] 'Oh, every state is is just +1, every single state's a tie,' No! You're f***ing herding! You're cheating! You're cheating!'
[LI] Joe Rogan’s interview with President Donald Trump certainly covered a wide-range of topics.
While my colleague Mike LaChance discussed the interview, as the podcast touched upon the subject of whale deaths associated with offshore wind farm construction, I thought I would chime in here.
I have noted the spate of whale deaths recorded along the East Coast. At one point, New Jersey Republicans demanded that construction on offshore wind farm projects be halted for up to 60 days to see if it reduced the number of whales washing up dead.
The moratorium did not go through. In fact, Federal authorities approved the construction of up to 195 wind turbines off New Jersey’s coast in July of this year.
With this in mind, let’s focus on "Donald Trump, Whale Psychiatrist".
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You rarely find that for which you are not looking.
"Admittedly. the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has officials saying they have found no evidence linking offshore wind turbines to whale deaths."
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[Regnum] On October 31, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) presented an image of a nebula dubbed the Dark Wolf Nebula because its silhouette resembles the figure of a predator. This was reported on the institution's portal.
The nebula was discovered in the constellation Scorpius and is located approximately 5,300 light years from Earth. It is noted that it is actually part of an even larger nebula called Gum 55. Its image was obtained using the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile. The picture was made up of images taken at different times, each of which was equipped with a filter that passed a different color. In total, about 500 million Milky Way objects were examined during the photometric study.
Nebulae are cold cosmic clouds that absorb visible light and allow only long-wavelength radiation to pass through. These objects are of interest to astronomers because they are often the birthplace of forming stars.
On July 13, Regnum News Agency reported that NASA's James Webb telescope captured two galaxies, NGC 2936 and NGC 2937, which together form a figure resembling a penguin with an egg. It is noted that the "egg" and "penguin" have been approaching each other for tens of millions of years and will eventually merge into one galaxy.
[ZeroHedge] Less than a day after Tesla CEO Elon Musk made bold claims at the Future Investment Initiative Conference in Saudi Arabia, touting big AI growth in the coming years, which is only suggestive of powerful tailwinds for his Optimus robot, Boston Dynamics—once the leader in viral humanoid robot videos—published a clip on YouTube on Wednesday morning showcasing its robot performing typical warehouse tasks usually carried out by workers in Amazon distribution centers.
Maybe a bit of jealousy is unfolding between Boston Dynamics and Musk's Optimus robot, which has received a lot of attention in October - from the "We, Robot" event on October 10 to Musk's comment at the event in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday:
"I think by 2040, probably there are more humanoid robots than there are people. Every country will have an AI or multiple AIs, and there will be a lot of robots, way more robots than people."
Back to the We, Robot event, where Musk said Optimus will cost less than $30,000 and forecasted that the humanoid robot will be the company's most popular product in the years ahead...
Maybe all this attention on Optimus provoked Boston Dynamics to release a video of its bipedal humanoid robot, Atlas.
Here's more from Boston Dynamics:
Atlas is autonomously moving engine covers between supplier containers and a mobile sequencing dolly. The robot receives as input a list of bin locations to move parts between.
Atlas uses a machine learning (ML) vision model to detect and localize the environment fixtures and individual bins [0:36]. The robot uses a specialized grasping policy and continuously estimates the state of manipulated objects to achieve the task.
There are no prescribed or teleoperated movements; all motions are generated autonomously online. The robot is able to detect and react to changes in the environment (e.g., moving fixtures) and action failures (e.g., failure to insert the cover, tripping, environment collisions [1:24]) using a combination of vision, force, and proprioceptive sensors.
Suppose robots and AI are forecasted to lead to millions of job losses in the years ahead. Then why did Democrats facilitate the greatest migrant invasion this nation has ever seen with low-skilled, unvetted illegal aliens when many of those jobs are likely to be automated away? Ah, yes, it's all about the votes.
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AI is the one existential threat that concerns me the most. We're fooling ourselves if we think we can control it when it reaches sentiency. Also called the Singularity - a term borrowed from astrophysics to describe the moment a black hole comes into being.
Apropos, I think.
Computers learn at about 1 million times faster than we do and getting faster every day.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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