Three senior Boeing executives including its CEO are stepping down, the company said Monday, as the company continues to deal with an ongoing scandal surrounding the safety of its passenger jets. CEO Dave Calhoun confirmed he was leaving the company in a statement, along with Stan Deal, the CEO and president of Boeing Commercial Airplanes,… Continue reading Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun and slew of executives to step down amid safety crisis
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AWS Public Sector Summit: AI-enabled care homes and using big data to ease biodiversity crisis
A hospice in South Devon is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to create an artificial intelligence-enabled (AI) residential care home for people with dementia. Speaking at the AWS Public Sector Summit in London on Tuesday 19 March, Gill Horne, programme director for care services at Rowcroft Hospice, said the UK is in the midst… Continue reading AWS Public Sector Summit: AI-enabled care homes and using big data to ease biodiversity crisis
Generation Anxiety: smartphones have created a gen Z mental health crisis – but there are ways to fix it | Books
Suppose that when your first child turned nine, a visionary billionaire whom you’d never met chose her to join the first permanent human settlement on Mars. Unbeknown to you, she had signed herself up for the mission because she loves outer space, and, besides, all of her friends have signed up. She begs you to… Continue reading Generation Anxiety: smartphones have created a gen Z mental health crisis – but there are ways to fix it | Books
Number of children in mental health crisis at record high in England | Mental health
The number of children in mental health crisis has reached record levels in England, analysis of NHS data by the mental health charity YoungMinds shows. For the first time, urgent referrals of under-18s to mental health crisis teams reached more than 3,500 in May, three times higher than May 2019. And in the year to… Continue reading Number of children in mental health crisis at record high in England | Mental health
Healthy diet in UK at risk from Mediterranean droughts, experts say | Climate crisis
A healthy diet in the UK will be put at risk by climate breakdown as European droughts shrink fresh fruit and vegetable supplies, experts have said. Fresh produce from the Mediterranean, upon which the UK is reliant, will become more expensive and harder to obtain as extreme heat causes yields to reduce, putting a healthy… Continue reading Healthy diet in UK at risk from Mediterranean droughts, experts say | Climate crisis
From ‘crisis’ to ‘catastrophe,’ schools scramble once again to find teachers
Vance Varner is heading into another school year desperately searching for teachers and staff members: an English instructor, a special education teacher, a speech therapist. Varner, the superintendent of schools in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, a rural community 30 minutes from the Penn State campus, said 49 of his 403 teacher positions are still vacant less… Continue reading From ‘crisis’ to ‘catastrophe,’ schools scramble once again to find teachers
NHS crisis presents business opportunities, says boss of insurer Axa | Axa
The growing crisis facing the NHS presents “quite a few business opportunities” for AXA to expand its private healthcare business, the French insurance group’s chief executive has said. Speaking to the Financial Times, Thomas Buberl highlighted the mounting pressures on the health service, including record waiting lists, rising inflation pushing up costs such as the… Continue reading NHS crisis presents business opportunities, says boss of insurer Axa | Axa
DeSantis Hasn’t Said A Word About Florida’s Coral Crisis
Typically, when an environmental and economic disaster strikes a state, its leader takes the time to address the threat, look for solutions, maybe even show up in person. But as coral reefs throughout the Florida Keys have turned ghost white and perished in recent weeks amid a record-breaking, relentless marine heat wave, Florida Gov. Ron… Continue reading DeSantis Hasn’t Said A Word About Florida’s Coral Crisis
‘Ethical Crisis’: Democrats Urge Roberts To Address Alito Outcry
A coalition of Senate Democrats urged Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to take “appropriate steps” to make sure Associate Justice Samuel Alito recuses himself from cases involving regulation of the high court amid concerns about the ethics of the justices and Alito’s recent statements critical of attempts at oversight. The group of 10 lawmakers,… Continue reading ‘Ethical Crisis’: Democrats Urge Roberts To Address Alito Outcry
Families caring for dementia patients in UK reaching crisis point, says charity | Dementia
Soaring numbers of families struggling to care for someone with dementia have hit a “crisis point” with nowhere to turn for help when their loved one puts themselves or others at risk of harm, a charity has said. More than 700,000 people in the UK look after a relative with dementia. Many feel they can… Continue reading Families caring for dementia patients in UK reaching crisis point, says charity | Dementia