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The Legend of Zelda es una de las franquicias más importantes de Nintendo y, después de 40 años, continúa generando historias, juegos y ahora una película. Pero ¿cuánto sabes realmente sobre su origen?

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Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free New York City newsletter here.Twenty-five years after the World Trade Center attacks in Lower Manhattan, the federal government wants to study the health effects on an overlooked demographic: children, teens, young adults, and those in utero on Sept. 11, 2001. Previous health studies have mainly focused on adults, in particular the emergency responders who rushed to Ground Zero in the hours and days after the Twin Towers crumbled on 9/11 and fell ill because of toxic exposure at the site. Hundreds of studies have looked at issues involving the lungs and upper respiratory tract, the stomach and esophagus, and various cancers — but not for younger New Yorkers. Overseen by the World Trade Center Health Program and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Youth Research Cohort is in its infancy. Those involved are trying to find eligible participants. The study, with projected funding of $50 million, comes five years after Congress directed the World Trade Center Health Program Administrator to establish the study of young people affected by 9/11. Advocates have noted the delay in bringing the effort to fruition. It is expected to kick off July 1, 2027, according to a government website announcing federal grants. The same site says research will begin once the number of people participating “grows large enough.”Forty-thousand youngsters lived in Lower Manhattan and western Brooklyn — what officials designated as the “disaster area” — during 9/11, said Dr. Matt Karwowski, chief of research at the WTC Health Program. Many schools and daycare centers, some mere steps from Ground Zero, also dot Lower Manhattan, including Stuyvesant High School and Children’s Discovery Center at the World Trade Center.Karwowski noted that children experience “environmental exposures differently than adults” and could fall ill in ways different from adults. “Children are exposed to more dust and other potential sources of exposure through just normal activities that they do, like crawling on the floor, exploring things with their mouths,” said Karwowski. CDC spokesperson Stephanie Stevens didn’t respond to questions seeking clarification on its plans to reach eligible people beyond pointing to a CDC website. Some of the 9/11 survivors may have left New York City.Others have stayed put, including Mariama James, a 9/11 health advocate who was eight months pregnant during the attacks and lived in an apartment on Gold Street in Lower Manhattan.Her daughter, who is now 24, and two other adult children suffer from respiratory issues, PTSD, and other mental health issues, James said. “She wasn’t even here, but the experience of growing up ill from an event that occurred before you were even born, and you don’t even know why you’re impacted.”In recent years, the attacks have taken on greater significance as a major public health concern as the death toll for people who died from illnesses such as cancer have surpassed the nearly 3,000 people who were killed on 9/11. Since that day, more than 96,000 people have been diagnosed with physical and mental health conditions as a result of exposure to the dust, smoke, debris, and traumatic events of 9/11, according to the WTC Health Program. The program says it has recorded more than 9,000 deaths since 9/11, but it’s not clear what role 9/11 played in those deaths.Mayor Zohran Mamdani underscored the 9/11-related public health dangers this week, as his administration released more than 170,000 pages of documents showing that the city’s air quality was much more toxic than officials said at the time. At a news conference at City Hall, Mamdani accused unnamed city and federal officials before him of lying about air quality safety. Records note that buildings less than a mile from the World Trade Center found evidence of asbestos.The World Trade Center Program was born 10 years after 9/11In 2011, Congress passed the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010, which created the WTC Health Program to provide healthcare to more than 140,000 responders and survivors nationwide who fell ill because of exposure to the 9/11 attack sites in Lower Manhattan, the Pentagon, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.In December 2022, Congress directed the WTC Health Program Administrator to establish the research cohort of young people willing to participate in studies on the health and educational impacts of 9/11 on children, teens, and young adults up to age 21, including those who were in utero during the attacks. The program will study people who were in those age groups and were physically present south of 14th street in Manhattan or in Brooklyn from Sept. 11, 2001 to July 31, 2002.Karwowski didn’t say how the program arrived at the geographical boundaries for the study. Efforts since the congressional order to get the Youth Research Cohort up ran into delays and more recently, cuts from the Department of Government Efficiency. The turbulence included the termination and rehiring of Dr. John Howard, head of National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, or NIOSH, and director of the World Trade Center Health Program. Howard has served as administrator since the program was established in 2011.The staffing shortages at the WTC Health Program drew the attention of a group of New York and New Jersey members of Congress, all of them Republican. In a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., they raised concerns at the WTC Health Program, citing “devastating medical consequences” that threatened 9/11 responders and survivors. Health advocate Lila Nordstrom said efforts to promote the Youth Research Cohort, including a talk by a physician at a recent panel on 9/11 at Manhattan’s Mount Sinai, bode well.“This newest call seems promising,” said Nordstrom, a youth advocate who was a student at Stuyvesant High School on 9/11 and parlayed that experience into a life of healthcare advocacy as the founder of an organization called StuyHealth. “I think everyone’s feeling really hopeful about it.” Trenton Daniel is a reporter covering public health in New York for Healthbeat. Contact Trenton at tdaniel@healthbeat.org or on the messaging app Signal at trentondaniel.88.

Thousands of South Dakota drivers who have habitat conservation license plates have not actually made a financial contribution to protect habitat for wildlife. That’s because unlike some other states, where drivers’ habitat contributions are collected during license-plate transactions, South Dakota dispenses the plates and then asks drivers to separately donate to habitat conservation later by […]

Pero un Estado social sólido no es el que más subsidios paga, sino el que consigue que menos ciudadanos los necesiten y cuando el subsidio compite con el salario, el sistema pierde coherencia. Las ayudas deben ser un puente hacia el empleo, no una alternativa estable al mismo.

Tom Cruise vuelve a sorprender con una transformación física para Digger, la nueva película dirigida por Alejandro González Iñárritu, que llegará a los cines el 2 de octubre de 2026.

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Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox.Twenty-five years ago, about 1 million New York City children were in school on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, when hijackers flew planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a Pennsylvania field. Today, some teachers as well as parents of children in the city’s public schools weren’t even born when the terrorist attacks occurred. But city and state officials are trying to ensure the day is remembered: The City Council recently announced $1 million for the 9/11 Memorial & Museum to provide free field trips to New York City students, with a focus on eighth graders. The museum also offers lessons for educators and also on-site and virtual visits for students in grades 3-12. The Education Department offers an instructional guide with links to books, lesson plans, archival materials, and more.With the anniversary this year falling on the second day of school, it might be trickier to talk about the attacks — which killed nearly 3,000 people in Lower Manhattan — as educators are still building their classroom communities. But many city schools still plan to commemorate 9/11 in some way, whether with a classroom discussion, or at minimum, a moment of silence, as required under state law.Nighttime view of rescue workers as they watch an excavator clear debris in the World Trade Center plaza at Ground Zero, in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks on Sept. 12, 2001.At least 40 states require students to learn about 9/11 in some form, but these lessons are much more personal in New York. Chalkbeat talked to three teachers about what they remember about that day 25 years ago and how they plan to teach about 9/11 to their students this year.These interviews have been lightly edited for length and clarity.Miriam Sicherman, fourth grade teacher at the Children’s Workshop School in Manhattan’s East VillageI still teach in the same classroom. It was my second year of teaching and I had a combined second/third grade class. I teach on East 12th Street — so, not very far from the World Trade Center. One student was picked up by his babysitter at about 9 a.m., which I thought was strange, and shortly afterwards, another teacher came to my daughter and whispered to me what had happened (simply that planes had crashed into the towers, nothing more). Soon more parents came for their kids, and all the kids began wondering what was going on. Fourth grade teacher Miriam Sicherman from the Children’s Workshop School in Manhattan.I ultimately told them that planes had crashed into the Twin Towers, and some families felt more comfortable having their kids with them, while others felt more comfortable having the kids at school. I had no source of information about what was going on, other than what parents would tell me when they came to my door (some of which turned out to be accurate and some didn’t). One parent came back and forth several times and eventually took her kid. As the numbers dwindled, I gave the kids choice time and they used blocks to build towers.The students I will have this year were born in 2017, and most of them are aware of 9/11 in a sort of vague way. Many of their parents were still kids in 2001. Nowadays, I do teach about 9/11, but not in a very in-depth way, as the kids are only about 9 years old and not ready for complex geopolitics. I often read “The Man Who Walked Between the Towers” about Philippe Petit’s tightrope walk. And we talk a little bit about what happened, and I answer their questions.I don’t get into the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, or the killing of Osama bin Laden, unless the kids specifically ask. I have never taught anywhere but here, so I don’t know what it’s like elsewhere, although I can imagine it may not be taught in elementary school at all since it’s scary and complicated.Nancy Re, fifth and sixth grade English teacher, St. Francis de Sales Catholic Academy, in Belle Harbor, QueensI remember the personal fear and horror because my brother-in-law was in the towers. He died. He was a partner at Cantor Fitzgerald. It was hard to maintain the class when my personal life and my cellphone were exploding. 9/11 can never be forgotten. It does not matter what subject you teach, every teacher must address it, because that gives a strong message of its importance and how we can never forget.We start the year studying 9/11. We read several books on the subject. Most importantly we read “ Message on a wing,” “The little Trinity Church,” “Satko, and the paper cranes,” and we study Mychel Judge (a Franciscan priest and chaplain for the New York City Fire Department, who was killed by falling debris and was designated as the first recorded casualty of the terrorist attacks). Then we read about the survivor tree and we go outside where a piece of the survivor tree is actually on our street. I teach in Rockaway Beach, and part of the survivor tree was given to our school after Hurricane Sandy. After doing all the readings, we discuss, share out, and start a poetry unit. I have a huge bulletin board set up with spaces for them to each add one poem. They are taught haiku, across it, and Free Verse. Many do more than one. On 9/11, our entire school has a prayer service in the prayer garden outside. Our neighborhood of Rockaway Beach was extremely affected. Many families of fallen firefighters attend our prayer service. Then, all the names of people from the Rockaway Peninsula are read aloud. Jen Chapin, 10th grade Global History 2 teacher at Brooklyn Prospect High School in Downtown BrooklynI was working as a singer-songwriter at the time and not yet a history teacher. I saw the second tower fall from my rooftop and lost my childhood friend Kristy Irvine Ryan that day.Jen Chapin lost her friend Kristy Irvine Ryan (pictured) on 9/11.I try to contextualize 9/11 in our first unit of the year (Industrial Revolution) and our course emphasis on critical thinking and historical context. Why did this event occur/what are the historical circumstances that led to 9/11? We analyze Osama bin Laden’s statement from several weeks after the attack to identify and analyze his references to historical events (fall of Ottoman Empire, atomic bombing of Japan) cited as rationale for the attacks, and discuss how 9/11 was motivated at least in part by a historical awareness and sense in the Arab/Muslim world of having been left behind and wronged by Western powers, which can be connected to the Ottoman Empire’s lag in industrialization compared to the West. Jen Chapin teaches global history at Brooklyn Prospect High School.It is notable that in the first 10-15 years after 9/11, so many New Yorkers seemed to be resistant to any evidence-based analysis of the event, given the heightened emotions and the jingoism of the time. Even when I started at my school nine years ago, my former co-teacher was resistant to us even mentioning it, given the lingering notion that to try to understand terrorist motives is to steer dangerously close to justifying it. Today we have the opportunity to bring more big-picture critical thinking and myriad topical connections to our teaching of this event. I think history teachers have a responsibility to teach the historical context of 9/11. If we can’t try to understand the why of 9/11 with our students, why are we even teaching history?Amy Zimmer is the bureau chief for Chalkbeat New York. Contact Amy at azimmer@chalkbeat.org.

La audiencia que buscaba retomar el proceso del caso Diario Militar fue suspendida luego de que la defensa informara sobre un amparo que ordena apartar a la Fiscalía de Derechos Humanos del expediente y designar una nueva fiscalía para continuar con la investigación. La jueza Abelina Cruz decidió aplazar la diligencia hasta conocer si la ... Read more The post Diario Militar: jueza consultará si el MP designará otra fiscalía para el proceso appeared first on Prensa Comunitaria.

HURRICANE, W.Va. – The state of West Virginia will allocate $2.4 million in federal Rural Health Transformation Program funds to expand the Ascend program to recruit healthcare workers throughout the state, Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced Wednesday.

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Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox.On Thursday, New York City’s public schools will begin the first full school year under Mayor Zohran Mamdani.His signature initiative will provide free childcare to about 2,000 2-year-olds — the initial phase of his ambitious promise to create a universal program. New York City is also implementing a year-long policy with strict limits on student-facing AI use and screen time for the city’s youngest students.But much of the mayor’s K-12 agenda still remains murky. Here are five questions we’ll be asking this school year. When will Mamdani’s education agenda come into focus?The city’s schools are grappling with immense challenges. Significant learning disparities continue to fall along race and class lines. Recent test score results raise fresh questions about whether student achievement, particularly in reading, is heading in the wrong direction. Chronic absenteeism, which spiked during the pandemic, remains elevated.More than eight months in, neither Mamdani nor schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels have laid out detailed plans to tackle those challenges nor have they sketched out clear goals for the nation’s largest school system. And on several key issues — ending mayoral control of the school system, reducing class sizes, and boosting pay for paraprofessionals — the mayor has backtracked from campaign promises. How will a new administration grapple with big enrollment declines?The influx of tens of thousands of migrant students starting in 2022 temporarily slowed the enrollment losses that have been hollowing out New York City schools for a decade. But that migration came crashing to a halt last year when President Donald Trump took office, and the enrollment losses resumed. The city’s K-12 public school enrollment fell to about 790,000 last year, a drop of nearly 150,000 students since the 2017-18 school year. That’s a loss of 16%. The latest enrollment projections predict the decline will continue over the next decade.There are now nearly 340 schools with fewer than 250 students. Such small schools have a hard time providing a robust education, and they’re more expensive for the city to operate. Samuels has said that consolidating underenrolled schools is a priority, but he has yet to lay out any citywide plans. And school mergers and closures are always contentious, provoking strong reactions and blowback. We’ll be watching to see how Samuels approaches the enrollment challenge and whether officials try to pick up the pace of school mergers and closures.Can Mamdani’s free childcare rollout overcome early payment snafus?While Mamdani hasn’t yet staked out a clear agenda on K-12 education, it’s a different story in the early childhood education arena.Just days into his administration, Mamdani sketched out plans to begin delivering on his promise to expand free childcare — starting with 2,000 free 2-K seats for 2-year-olds in select districts this fall. Officials got more than enough applicants to fill those seats. But long-running challenges in the childcare sector — from bureaucratic delays in approving contracts, to low rates of pay for many childcare providers, to thousands of unfilled seats in the city’s 3-K and prekindergarten programs — continue to hang over Mamdani’s efforts.With a new deputy chancellor for early childhood education taking the helm, we’ll keep an eye on how the city tries to chip away at those longstanding challenges, while also laying the groundwork to expand the 2-K program to reach 12,000 kids next year.How will big changes in school technology policies affect students and educators?Shortly before students returned to classrooms, Mamdani announced a ban on generative AI tools from preschool through eighth grade and restrictions on individual devices for the city’s youngest students. Those changes come on the heels of outcry from many families and educators and represent an early test of how reducing technology and screen time in schools affects student learning. In some cases, schools will be required to ditch student-facing tools they’ve been using to aid their teaching. Other major school systems will be watching closely, as AI-fueled technology tools continue to proliferate, and New York City’s technology policy is among the most aggressive in the country.Will Mamdani make good on his vow to improve special education?As city officials warn of potential yellow bus shortages this school year, Mamdani will face an early test of his pledge to prioritize students with disabilities, who represent about 43% of the 150,000 children who depend on school buses. Roughly 24% of the city’s public school students have a disability.Samuels has vowed to tackle the longstanding dysfunction in the school bus system “once and for all” in part by renegotiating contracts that are nearly a half century old. Doing so will be a complicated task that requires action from Albany. The mayor has also pledged to reduce the cost of private school services and tuition for students with disabilities, which now represents more than $1 out of every $40 the Education Department spends. So far, officials have announced plans to add capacity to the city’s own special education programs, though it remains to be seen whether it’s enough to make a dent. Alex Zimmerman is a senior reporter for Chalkbeat New York, covering NYC public schools. Contact Alex at azimmerman@chalkbeat.org.Michael Elsen-Rooney is a reporter for Chalkbeat New York, covering NYC public schools. Contact Michael at melsen-rooney@chalkbeat.org

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma law enforcement agencies’ partnerships with federal immigration forces have resulted in the arrests of over 1,800 people, the majority of whom have no criminal history, records show. Of the over 1,800 immigration-related arrests made in Oklahoma from January through July with these partnerships, fewer than 20% of arrestees had any criminal […]

Netflix presentó el primer avance de El círculo, una nueva serie mexicana protagonizada por Zuria Vega, Osvaldo Benavides y Michel Brown que llegará el 7 de octubre.

The township says the Christian group didn’t meet the zoning criteria, but Youth For Christ called it religious discrimination.

Cuando el lenguaje se manipula, se vacían de significado conceptos esenciales como libertad, justicia o democracia, se alimenta la polarización y se rompe el terreno común necesario para alcanzar acuerdos.

How a Food Program Fueled Venezuela’s Organized Crime Delcy Rodríguez’s silent dismantling of a subsidized food program shutters a scheme that epitomized the intersection of organized crime and the Venezuelan state. The apparent discontinuation of the food subsidy program marks the end of an era in which hunger was exploited and instrumentalized by both corruption networks within the state and allied and hybrid criminal groups that strengthened their power through the food boxes they obtained. The post How a Food Program Fueled Venezuela’s Organized Crime appeared first on InSight Crime.

¿El fin de las cajas CLAP? Una década de corrupción y crimen organizado en Venezuela El fin del programa CLAP, creado para garantizar el acceso a alimentos subsidiados, revela su instrumentalización como mecanismo de corrupción y fuente de financiamiento para redes de crimen organizado en Venezuela. The post ¿El fin de las cajas CLAP? Una década de corrupción y crimen organizado en Venezuela appeared first on InSight Crime.

El estreno del circuito madrileño llega en una F1 que ya no solo busca carreras: también persigue escenarios capaces de convertirse en acontecimientos globales.

کانون حقوق بشر ایران با انتشار گزارش‌هایی نسبت به وضعیت زندانیان زندان‌های اوین و ارومیه ابراز نگرانی کرد.