Dorset Theatre Festival Receives Generous Grants in Support of New Play Development Program

Alex Liddiard, l, and Ron Korn, r, accept a CAL award on behalf of the North Idaho High School Aerospace Program’s ACES Aviation Workshop.

— Photo by LYNNE HALEY Alex Liddiard, l, and Ron Korn, r, accept a CAL award on behalf of the North Idaho High School Aerospace Program’s ACES Aviation Workshop.

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Fitbit Heart Monitors ‘Highly Inaccurate,’ Study Says
Five Cases of Zika-Linked Microcephaly in Colombia Since Start of Year
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A new Congressional report claims that National Football League officials tried to influence the outcome of a government study that examined the link between concussions and brain disease.

The NFL backed out of a $30 million donation for brain research after the NIH went ahead and awarded a $16 million grant for the study to that researcher, Robert Stern, the wire service reported.

The heart rates of 43 healthy adults were checked during rest and exercise using Fitbit’s PurePulse heart rate monitors. Their heart rates were then checked with a BioHarness device that produced an electrocardiogram (ECG), CNBC reported.

The results showed that the Fitbit monitors miscalculated heart rates by up to 20 beats a minutes during more intensive exercise, the researchers at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona found.

The study was commissioned by the law firm Lieff Cabraser, which is handling a class action suit targeting three Fitbit models that use the PurePulse heart monitor: Fitbit Blaze, Fitbit Charge HR and Fitbit Surge, CNBC reported.

Earlier this year, a separate study by Ball State University in Indiana and NBC-affiliated TV station WTHR found that the Fitbit Charge HR had an average heart rate error rate of 14 percent, CNBC reported.

“Calculating a heart rate that’s off by 20 or 30 beats per minute can be dangerous — especially for people at high risk of heart disease,” that study warned.

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“As a competitor, he is respectful and showed good sportsmanship every time we have played him.”

THE FUTURE: Judkins has signed a National Letter of Intent to play baseball on scholarship at the University of Iowa this fall.

Iowa distinct from the other 46 states sanctioning baseball begins its high school season in conjunction with Memorial Day, which results in the annual Gatorade honor being based upon candidates’ previous scholastic season and offseason club/showcase performance, if applicable.

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One of the largest grants ever administered by the Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi will be used to tackle a major health issue, the rate of low birth-weight babies in the Magnolia State.

The program “Right! Kellogg Foundation grant to the Hernando-based Community Foundation.

“It’s certainly the largest grant we’ve ever received, other than the $10 million Maddox Foundation grant,” said Community Foundation President and CEO Tom Pittman of a major challenge grant the nonprofit umbrella organization received several years ago.

“Our Community Foundation appreciates this support to improve the health of babies in our region,” Pittman said.

The initiative will work to increase the breast-feeding rates of extremely low birth-weight babies utilizing a multi-agency approach to ensure better outcomes and affect systemic change. This project will address breast-feeding initiation for the very low birth-weight babies admitted to the Level III neonatal care unit at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.

The target geographic areas for this project are five counties in the Delta having the highest number of extremely low and very low birth-weight babies, which are Bolivar, Coahoma, Leflore, Sunflower and Washington. Kellogg Foundation.

The Hernando-based Community Foundation serves an 11-county region in Northwest Mississippi, including the northern Delta counties of Tunica and DeSoto County, the western part of which is not immune to infant health issues.

However, healthier counties like DeSoto, continue to set an example of how healthier citizens contribute to a healthier region, economically as well as physically.

According to county health rankings compiled by the Mississippi Department of Health through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, DeSoto County registered an 8.4 percent low birth-weight rate, while Mississippi had an overall rate of 12.1 percent. DeSoto County led the state as being its healthiest county.

Sannie Snell, formerly with the Regional Medical Center in Memphis, will serve as program director.

“I appreciate the opportunity to work with the Community Foundation and to assist in leading a collaborative effort with various agencies and organizations throughout the state to make a difference in birth outcomes and improve the lives of vulnerable children throughout the Delta,” Snell said.

Community Foundation officials are hopeful the grant will make a difference in the lives of Mississippi mothers and their children.

“The Community Foundation is proud to accept this grant and provide much needed support for premature babies throughout the Delta,” said Scott Hollis, chairman of the Community Foundation.

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An organization opposed to the use of public money to pay for private education filed a motion Tuesday challenging the Douglas County School Districts’ revived school voucher program, arguing that a court injunction that halted the first version still applies.

The latest legal action from Taxpayers for Public Education, filed in Denver District Court, is the second court challenge to the south suburban school district’s School Choice Grant Program. Supreme Court to take the case.

“The permanent injunction halted the whole Choice Scholarship Program, not just the religious schools part,” Cindy Barnard, Taxpayers for Public Education’s president, said in a statement. The injunction against the Choice Scholarship Program very clearly covers the revived program as well.”

Earlier this spring, a conservative legal group representing three Douglas County families filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging the new-look voucher program on entirely different grounds.

The Arlington, Va.-based Institute for Justice, which was a district ally in supporting the original religion-friendly voucher program, argues the revamped program is unconstitutional because it excludes religious schools.

In March, a divided Douglas County school board approved the updated pilot voucher program that members of the board’s conservative majority say meets the criteria of the state high court decision against the original initiative.

For locals, the Kiwanis Danville parade kicks off the patriotic holiday each year with festive floats, bands and, of course, the mismatched lawn chairs lining the parade route, which are set out the evening before, marking the places families will sit, many with a miniature Old Glory in hand, as they wave to the passing parade.

While this proud and nostalgic event is a staple of the community, the San Ramon Valley Kiwanis Foundation is also known for its generous grants each year, which is made possible through sponsorships from the annual July Fourth parade.

“All monies allocated for our grants program come from our sale of sponsorships for the Kiwanis Fourth of July parade.