9 button gaming mouse Before a single play was called or block was landed in Saturday’s PIAA 3A state championship game, Northwestern Lehigh was pulsing with emotion. • Sign up for PennLive’s daily high school sports newsletter There was the weight of a championship game already. There was the weight of the team’s defeat a year ago in the same spot to Belle Vernon. But more than anything else, there was the weight of a lost friend and lost teammate Tucker Wessner, who died this past summer due to injuries sustained from falling from a moving truck. The team made sure to carry that weight across the finish line in a 36-33 overtime win over Avonworth to win the program’s first state title. “Heavy hearts in the locker room before the game,” Northwestern Lehigh head coach Josh Snyder said. “I was brought to tears in emotion just thinking about him. I had a strong belief that he was with us... my faith and faith in the team and everything like that.” “I told the kids things happen for a reason in life. I’m a believer in that. Why that happened to that kid, I don’t know the reason, but I know he’s been with us all season, and I know he was here today with us.” Wessner was a Class of 2026 defensive end and guard, recording a sack last year for the state runner-up Tigers. Wessner was also a boy scout, and was studying precision machining at Lehigh Career and Technical Institute. “We had a tragedy in the summer,” Northwestern Lehigh senior Eli Zimmerman, who scored the walk-off TD, said. “This season was definitely dedicated to him. He’s been with us all season. And you know, today, just to get that done for him and his family, it’s just incredible.” “We had to rally around this summer. The whole season has been on our shoulders, and he was looking down on us, especially in this game.” After the win, Snyder pointed out some more connections that added resonance to him. His brother, Brett Snyder, was a star at Northwestern Lehigh before passing away at 41 following a battle with ALS in 2019. His brother Brett wore No. 35. Wessner wore 53. “Some things just come together, and you don’t know why, but I know they’re up there looking down with huge smiles on their faces, cheering for the black and gold,” Snyder said. Thanks for visiting PennLive. Quality local journalism has never been more important. We need your support. Not a subscriber yet? Please consider supporting our work. ©2024 Advance Local Media LLC. Visit pennlive.com . Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.Beijing Today: Cold Morning and Evening, Maximum Temperature 6°C, Suitable for Outings at Noon and Ventilation by Opening Windows, Remember to Dress WarmlyMbappe, who is known for his speed, agility, and goal-scoring prowess, was undoubtedly taken aback by Messi's gesture. The young French forward has already achieved remarkable success in his career, including winning the FIFA World Cup in 2018. However, Messi's words served as a gentle reminder that there is more to the beautiful game than just individual accolades and victories.

In conclusion, the unfortunate case of the woman who spent $18,000 on a leg beauty procedure serves as a cautionary tale about the dangers of seeking treatments from unqualified clinics. The lasting consequences she faced should serve as a reminder to all individuals to prioritize safety, research, and verification when considering cosmetic procedures. Beauty may be skin deep, but the damage caused by unqualified practitioners can run much deeper.Old oil palms are not as productive as young ones, as the old stock tends to be of a taller variety, harder to reach for the fruit harvesters. — Bernama file photo I AM happy to know that there exists an Incorporated Society of Planters (ISP) in Sarawak. It has a branch headed by Mr Ling Chia Yi ( The Borneo Post – Dec 3, 2024). Hello! I am not sure if this is the same society formed by the rubber planters in Malaya during the colonial days. Whatever it is, this kind of organisation is good for the plantation managers in the state. Many oil palm plantations have been established here in the past 50 years. This society of planters serves as a club where members may meet and relax and talk about other problems connected with the plantation industry, as well as the current affairs. One difficult problem faced by the oil palm industry in Sarawak is the shortage of labour. There are plenty of fresh fruits growing on the palms, but harvesters are few. That has been a blight on the industry. Perhaps, the leaders of ISP Central branch may, if they have not done so, get together with the various organisations such as the Sarawak Oil Palm Plantation Owners Association (Soppoa). As a larger grouping, they can make strong representations to the federal government, urging it to help devise a scheme by which foreign labourers could be recruited for the industry on a regular basis. When you are talking about replanting, you still need enough workers to cut down the old trees and plant new ones. True-blue planters will tell you which trees ought to go. Old oil palms are not as productive as young ones. The old stock tends to be of a taller variety, harder to reach for the fruit harvesters. Things will improve once more mechanical harvesters, such as the ‘Lipan’, are available cheaply. Not next year, not the next harvesting season for most plantations in this part of the world, considering the type of terrain in this state. Yes, it is true that the edible oils market is good. More palm oil and its derivatives are required by many countries other than China and India. The BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are the founding members of this inter-governmental bloc) are potential buyers of our products as long as we keep producing the oil according to the international quality standards set by the Roundtable Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and our own Malaysian Sustainable Palm Oil (MSPO). Other edible oils will always be there to compete with our product, but buyers know what is better for them. My locus standi for this account of the plantation industry is minimal. I learned the basics of plantation management from the Federal Land Development Authority (Felda), Federal Land Consolidation and Rehabilitation Authority (Felcra) and BAL Estate in Tawau in the early 1970s. It was in Tawau that I learned that the land in Sabah and Sarawak would be suitable for the planting of the palms on a large scale. Come to think of it: what the managers at BAL were telling me made sense. Apparently, they were up to date in terms of the latest information on the trade in edible oils in the world: China and India, potential big buyers of our palm oil. “Money on these trees, Sidi,” said veteran planter Mr Walker, pointing to the young palms at the nursery ready for field planting. These gave me ideas: what to do with Native Customary Rights (NCR) land in Sarawak? Another story, 15 years in Lubok Antu; another article, God-willing. ‘Rubber, cocoa, rice’ It appears that there has been a revival of interest among the people in authority in terms of rehabilitating the rubber plantations in Malaysia. They are talking about doing something about rubber trees that have remained untapped for a long time. It is said that there are about 47,000 hectares of land planted with rubber trees that have not been tapped regularly, according to the Deputy Minister of Rural and Regional Development Datuk Rubiah Wang. And now, ‘RisSmart24’. What’s that? The Rubber Industry Smallholders Development Authority (Risda) has all sorts of ideas by which the rubber industry may be revived. One new initiative is called the ‘RisSMart24’. I would like to see how the scheme will work in Sarawak. Two areas in the state have been earmarked for this scheme – one in Betong, and the other in Samarahan. As of today, I have not been able to get details of the scheme. Who among the owners of the trees, which need to be rehabilitated, are eligible for assistance? Whether or not trees planted on NCR land are eligible for rehabilitation? I wish the authorities would organise a series of talks on the scheme as soon as possible for those interested in it. What about the rubber trees planted under the settlement schemes at Triboh, Melugu, Skrang, Meradong, Sebintek, Lambir and Lubai Tengah? Are they qualified for assistance under this scheme? I used to visit them when I was Secretary of the Sarawak Land Development Board in 1972. I do not know about the condition of the trees now; I hear that parts of the rubber land are now under palms. I won’t be surprised, given the attractive lure of the golden crop. Whatever crops – rubber, or cocoa, or rice, or oil palm – planted on a large scale in this country, aiming for the world market, will face difficulties if there are not enough workers. The rubber tappers are old; the village youngsters are away working in the cities. The rice planters are getting old; the young ones in the village or longhouses will not work in the sun. You need workers from outside, like it or not, and we require them badly. If the government has no new concrete plan for recruiting foreign workers, the planters in the country cannot do much on their own. Perhaps, this is where members of the local branch of ISP could assist in lobbying the federal government for the recruitment of foreign workers. And do not forget to consult the Sarawak government in respect of matters relating to workers entering and working in the state. Give them ideas that the state should have its own agency for the recruitment of foreign workers, and a proper system for registering and monitoring them. You can do all sorts of things with artificial intelligence (AI), but you cannot grow a crop on a computer. That needs human hands – lots of them! * The opinions expressed in this article are the columnist’s own and do not reflect the view of the newspaper.

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The team that President-elect Donald Trump has selected to lead federal health agencies in his second administration includes a retired congressman, a surgeon and a former talk-show host. All could play pivotal roles in fulfilling a political agenda that could change how the government goes about safeguarding Americans' health — from health care and medicines to food safety and science research. In line to lead the Department of Health and Human Services secretary is environmental lawyer and anti-vaccine organizer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Trump's choices don't have experience running large bureaucratic agencies, but they know how to talk about health on TV . Centers for Medicare and Medicaid pick Dr. Mehmet Oz hosted a talk show for 13 years and is a well-known wellness and lifestyle influencer. The pick for the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Marty Makary, and for surgeon general, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, are frequent Fox News contributors. Many on the list were critical of COVID-19 measures like masking and booster vaccinations for young people. Some of them have ties to Florida like many of Trump's other Cabinet nominees: Dave Weldon , the pick for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, represented the state in Congress for 14 years and is affiliated with a medical group on the state's Atlantic coast. Nesheiwat's brother-in-law is Rep. Mike Waltz , R-Fla., tapped by Trump as national security adviser. Here's a look at the nominees' potential role in carrying out what Kennedy says is the task to “reorganize” agencies, which have an overall $1.7 trillion budget, employ 80,000 scientists, researchers, doctors and other officials, and effect Americans' daily lives: The Atlanta-based CDC, with a $9.2 billion core budget, is charged with protecting Americans from disease outbreaks and other public health threats. Kennedy has long attacked vaccines and criticized the CDC, repeatedly alleging corruption at the agency. He said on a 2023 podcast that there is "no vaccine that is safe and effective,” and urged people to resist the CDC's guidelines about if and when kids should get vaccinated . The World Health Organization estimates that vaccines have saved more than 150 million lives over the past 50 years, and that 100 million of them were infants. Decades ago, Kennedy found common ground with Weldon , 71, who served in the Army and worked as an internal medicine doctor before he represented a central Florida congressional district from 1995 to 2009. Starting in the early 2000s, Weldon had a prominent part in a debate about whether there was a relationship between a vaccine preservative called thimerosal and autism. He was a founding member of the Congressional Autism Caucus and tried to ban thimerosal from all vaccines. Kennedy, then a senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, believed there was a tie between thimerosal and autism and also charged that the government hid documents showing the danger. Since 2001, all vaccines manufactured for the U.S. market and routinely recommended for children 6 years or younger have contained no thimerosal or only trace amounts, with the exception of inactivated influenza vaccine. Meanwhile, study after study after study found no evidence that thimerosal caused autism. Weldon's congressional voting record suggests he may go along with Republican efforts to downsize the CDC, including to eliminate the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, which works on topics like drownings, drug overdoses and shooting deaths. Weldon also voted to ban federal funding for needle-exchange programs as an approach to reduce overdoses, and the National Rifle Association gave him an “A” rating for his pro-gun rights voting record. Kennedy is extremely critical of the FDA, which has 18,000 employees and is responsible for the safety and effectiveness of prescription drugs, vaccines and other medical products, as well as overseeing cosmetics, electronic cigarettes and most foods. Makary, Trump’s pick to run the FDA, is closely aligned with Kennedy on several topics . The professor at Johns Hopkins University who is a trained surgeon and cancer specialist has decried the overprescribing of drugs, the use of pesticides on foods and the undue influence of pharmaceutical and insurance companies over doctors and government regulators. Kennedy has suggested he'll clear out “entire” FDA departments and also recently threatened to fire FDA employees for “aggressive suppression” of a host of unsubstantiated products and therapies, including stem cells, raw milk , psychedelics and discredited COVID-era treatments like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. Makary's contrarian views during the COVID-19 pandemic included questioning the need for masking and giving young kids COVID-19 vaccine boosters. But anything Makary and Kennedy might want to do when it comes to unwinding FDA regulations or revoking long-standing vaccine and drug approvals would be challenging. The agency has lengthy requirements for removing medicines from the market, which are based on federal laws passed by Congress. The agency provides health care coverage for more than 160 million people through Medicaid, Medicare and the Affordable Care Act, and also sets Medicare payment rates for hospitals, doctors and other providers. With a $1.1 trillion budget and more than 6,000 employees, Oz has a massive agency to run if confirmed — and an agency that Kennedy hasn't talked about much when it comes to his plans. While Trump tried to scrap the Affordable Care Act in his first term, Kennedy has not taken aim at it yet. But he has been critical of Medicaid and Medicare for covering expensive weight-loss drugs — though they're not widely covered by either . Trump said during his campaign that he would protect Medicare, which provides insurance for older Americans. Oz has endorsed expanding Medicare Advantage — a privately run version of Medicare that is popular but also a source of widespread fraud — in an AARP questionnaire during his failed 2022 bid for a U.S. Senate seat in Pennsylvania and in a 2020 Forbes op-ed with a former Kaiser Permanente CEO. Oz also said in a Washington Examiner op-ed with three co-writers that aging healthier and living longer could help fix the U.S. budget deficit because people would work longer and add more to the gross domestic product. Neither Trump nor Kennedy have said much about Medicaid, the insurance program for low-income Americans. Trump's first administration reshaped the program by allowing states to introduce work requirements for recipients. Kennedy doesn't appear to have said much publicly about what he'd like to see from surgeon general position, which is the nation's top doctor and oversees 6,000 U.S. Public Health Service Corps members. The surgeon general has little administrative power, but can be an influential government spokesperson on what counts as a public health danger and what to do about it — suggesting things like warning labels for products and issuing advisories. The current surgeon general, Vivek Murthy, declared gun violence as a public health crisis in June. Trump's pick, Nesheiwat, is employed as a New York City medical director with CityMD, a group of urgent care facilities in the New York and New Jersey area, and has been at City MD for 12 years. She also has appeared on Fox News and other TV shows, authored a book on the “transformative power of prayer” in her medical career and endorses a brand of vitamin supplements. She encouraged COVID-19 vaccines during the pandemic, calling them “a gift from God” in a February 2021 Fox News op-ed, as well as anti-viral pills like Paxlovid. In a 2019 Q&A with the Women in Medicine Legacy Foundation , Nesheiwat said she is a “firm believer in preventive medicine” and “can give a dissertation on hand-washing alone.” As of Saturday, Trump had not yet named his choice to lead the National Institutes of Health, which funds medical research through grants to researchers across the nation and conducts its own research. It has a $48 billion budget. Kennedy has said he'd pause drug development and infectious disease research to shift the focus to chronic diseases. He'd like to keep NIH funding from researchers with conflicts of interest, and criticized the agency in 2017 for what he said was not doing enough research into the role of vaccines in autism — an idea that has long been debunked . Associated Press writers Amanda Seitz and Matt Perrone and AP editor Erica Hunzinger contributed to this report. The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content. This story has been corrected to reflect that the health agencies have an overall budget of about $1.7 trillion, not $1.7 billion. Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. Sign up here to get the latest health & fitness updates in your inbox every week!One of the key policy signals that have resonated with market participants is the emphasis on promoting a healthy and stable real estate market. By addressing concerns such as excessive leverage, speculative investment, and rising property prices, the government has sought to create a more sustainable and balanced market environment. This commitment to prudent regulation and oversight has been well-received and has contributed to a sense of stability and confidence among investors and homebuyers alike.The YouTube Kids mobile app that both makes it look and behave more like the standard YouTube app and lets kids browse through videos in portrait mode for the first time. It’s rolling out over the next few weeks on iOS and Android, while the web and smart TV experiences stay the same. YouTube Kids launched , and its look hasn’t changed much since . As the company , this is a hefty visual and functional refresh that looks less toy-like, with elements from the r in the main YouTube app. At the top, you’ll notice a newly designed carousel for familiar content filters. They’re clearly labeled by topic, whether you’re looking for gaming, shows, music, or the educationally inclined “Explore” tab. Those buttons will occupy less horizontal space. Some of the other shortcuts that used to live at the top — such as Home, Search, and Profile — will be moved to a new navigation bar at the bottom. A new “Your Stuff” page will also live in that bar and serve as a dedicated portal to find content that you’ve downloaded, shared, or previously watched. Parental controls and other settings will remain in dedicated views, with shortcuts for those always accessible in the upper right corner, next to the Cast button.

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