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‘Dinner table syndrome’ can ruin holiday meal; tips to help with hearing loss

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:02:00 GMT

The food may be delicious, and the decorations wonderous, but a bustling holiday feast with family and friends can leave a person who has hearing loss with a bad taste in their mouth.“Dinner table syndrome” occurs when a person with hearing loss feels isolated as table-mates share stories, questions, and answers across the holiday table.“It’s difficult for people with hearing loss to follow when there’s multiple conversations going on,” said audiologist Jared Marcotte, a licensed hearing instrument specialist at HearUSA in Fairfax, Virginia. “And you know conversations can organically shift from one area to another.”“If you have hearing loss and someone’s talking from your left, and then all of a sudden someone’s talking from your right, it can be hard to follow,” said Marcotte.In time, a person having difficulty following a conversation, even in a family atmosphere, can become socially isolated.“You would...

De Bruyne’s hamstring injury may rule him out of Man City’s Club World Cup bid

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:02:00 GMT

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — The Club World Cup may come too soon for Kevin De Bruyne to make his return from a hamstring injury, Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said on Friday. De Bruyne has been included in City’s squad for the tournament in Saudi Arabia, with their first game scheduled for Dec. 19. But Guardiola said the Belgium international had yet to return to full training as he continues his rehabilitation after surgery in August.“He has started to run on the pitch but hasn’t trained with us once,” Guardiola said. “The FIFA Club World Cup is in two or three weeks. Maybe it’s a bit early, but I don’t know.”De Bruyne hasn’t played since Aug. 11, City’s first English Premier League game against Burnley, and he was substituted after 23 minutes. Injury also forced him off after 36 minutes of the Champions League final in June against Inter Milan that City won to complete a treble of trophies last season. He later said his hamstring “snapped.”City has missed ...

Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson returns to full training after hamstring injury

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:02:00 GMT

LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker has returned to full training ahead of Saturday’s game at Crystal Palace.The Brazil international has missed the past three matches since injuring his hamstring at the end of Liverpool’s 1-1 draw with Manchester City two weeks ago.“Alisson looks good,” manager Jurgen Klopp said on Friday. “I don’t know if good enough now for tomorrow. I have to check that with the coaches and the medical department and with Ali of course.”Alisson resumed full training with the team on Thursday, Klopp said.Backup goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher has started in his place for a win in the Europa League over Austrian club LASK followed by Premier League victories over Fulham and Sheffield United.Klopp was less optimistic about the status of midfielder Alexis Mac Allister, who needed stitches on a cut to his knee sustained in Wednesday’s 2-0 win at Sheffield.“I don’t expect him to be ready for tomorrow,” the manager said.___AP so...

Copa América 2024: así quedaron los grupos tras el sorteo

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:02:00 GMT

MIAMI, Florida – La campeona Argentina quedó encuadrada el jueves en el grupo A de la Copa América de 2024 con Perú, Chile y el ganador entre Canadá y Trinidad y Tobago, mientras que Brasil, Colombia, Paraguay y el ganador entre Costa Rica y Honduras integran el grupo D, a priori el más duro, según el sorteo celebrado en el sur de Florida. El grupo más igualado es en el papel es el B, con México, Ecuador, Venezuela y Jamaica, mientras que Estados Unidos, país anfitrión, es cabeza de serie en el grupo C, con Uruguay, Panamá y Bolivia.La Copa América de 2024 echará a andar el 20 de junio de 2024 en Atlanta y concluirá el 14 de julio en Miami, con 16 selecciones en juego y la Argentina campeona del mundo, comandada por Leo Messi, defendiendo el título conquistado en 2021.Fue precisamente el seleccionador argentino, Lionel Scaloni, en llevar al escenario del James L. Knight Center de Miami el trofeo de la Copa América. Conoce las 14 sedes en Estados Unidos para la Co...

Vandal wanted for causing $16K worth of damage to Parker memorial park

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:02:00 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Parker police are searching for a suspect who allegedly caused more than $16,000 worth of damage to two parks, including a memorial park.Between Nov. 21 and Dec. 5, the Parker Police Department said a total of 11 trees at the Angel Memorial Garden at McCabe Meadows Park and the Salisbury Equestrian Park were cut down or damaged. Playground equipment at Salisbury Equestrian Park was also damaged, as well as two wooden posts.In total, the suspect allegedly caused $16,600 worth of damages. Colorado Parks and Wildlife spots rare 1 in 100,000 piebald cow elk According to Parker Police, this is the third time the Angel Memorial Garden has been vandalized.The Rowan Tree Foundation is a nonprofit that honors children who were lost at the Angel Memorial Garden. They spoke out after they found damage to the park on Nov. 21 and Nov. 24 after five memorial trees were “chopped down by someone, for no other reason than to destroy.”“We’ve seen some dark stuff so we...

2 organized crime groups arrested after theft of more than 40 marijuana dispensaries

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:02:00 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Members from two organized crime groups are facing charges after allegedly burglarizing more than 40 marijuana dispensaries resulting in the theft of approximately $780,000 in cash and property. Following multi-agency investigations conducted by city, state and nationwide agencies, 23 members of the two separate organized crime groups will be charged with stealing or carjacking vehicles and using them to burglarize marijuana dispensaries, federal firearms licensees and other businesses in the Denver metro area between September 2022 and November 2023.  Suspected DUI driver crashes into 2 police officers, 2 firefighters on I-76 The defendants will face other charges including aggravated robbery, carjacking, kidnapping, illegal possession of firearms (including a firearm linked to an open murder investigation) and violations of the Colorado Organized Crime Control Act, according to Denver District Attorney Beth McCann.“These arrests send an unmistakable message that ...

BCPS and BSO launch campaign warning teenagers of sextortion crimes

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:02:00 GMT

Broward County Public Schools and the Broward Sheriff’s Office are spreading awareness to a crime that targets teenagers. On Friday, Superintendent Peter Licata and Sheriff Gregory Tony discussed a new campaign aimed at combating sextortion. Sextortion is a form of blackmail where a suspect threatens to distribute a victim’s sexual content if their demands are not met.“Sextortion is more of a threat to our students and to our school population in general then what we’re dealing with in terms of violence,” Tony said.In the past, sextortion mostly target young women, but, according to officials, the crime has elevated to financial sextortion and the victims are now mostly young men. To combat these crimes, BCPS and BSO are teaming up to warn teenagers and parents to be vigilant. “The message out to everybody, make them aware so that our kids, when they are online, they think before they send, they think before twice if I’m talking to a girl or...

TSA advises do’s and don’ts for travelers who plan to travel with their gun

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:02:00 GMT

TSA wants travelers to be mindful about their carry-on items this holiday season, especially if you plan to travel with your firearm.TSA officials report that since it became legal to carry a gun without a permit in the state of Florida, almost 200 guns have been taken at security checkpoints across South Florida’s two largest airports, and 750 confiscations statewide in just six months. “There’s some confusion with everyone thinking they can bring their guns through the checkpoint.. it is still illegal,” said Sgt. Toni Hopkins from the Broward Sheriff’s Office. TSA officials said the uptick in gun confiscations at South Florida airports is due to people taking their guns everywhere with them “It becomes part of a daily routine. People are heading out the door now with firearm, keys, wallet and cell phone to go about their business,” said TSA’s Mark Howell. That’s why the TSA is reminding passengers of the do’s and don̵...

Two gene therapies for sickle cell disease approved in US

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:02:00 GMT

Regulators on Friday approved two new gene therapies for sickle cell disease that doctors hope can cure the painful, inherited blood disorder that afflicts mostly Black people in the U.S.The Food and Drug Administration said the one-time treatments can be used for patients 12 and older with severe forms of the disease. One, made by Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics, is the first approved therapy based on CRISPR, the gene editing tool that won its inventors the Nobel Prize in 2020. The other is made by Bluebird Bio and works differently.“Sickle cell disease is a rare, debilitating and life-threatening blood disorder with significant unmet need,” the FDA’s Dr. Nicole Verdun said in a statement announcing the approvals. “”We are excited to advance the field especially for individuals whose lives have been severely disrupted by the disease.”In the U.S., an estimated 100,000 people have the disease and about a fifth of them have the severe form. Sickl...

Finland: We ‘trust’ China will help probe Baltic Sea pipeline damage

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:02:00 GMT

Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen said she trusts Chinese authorities to assist Finland in its investigation into the Baltic Sea gas pipeline damage, which Helsinki suspects was carried out by Chinese boat Newnew Polar Bear.“Now that the vessel has indeed arrived in China, there will be joint action together with the Chinese authorities and the Finnish ones and probably also the Estonian ones to investigate,” Valtonen told POLITICO in an interview Friday. “On a diplomatic level, China has promised their assistance for the investigation and we trust them to help us out in this, that we have a thorough and transparent investigation,” she added.A Finnish probe has identified Chinese container ship Newnew Polar Bear as the primary suspect in the rupture of the Balticconnector, a 77-kilometer-long gas pipeline that connects the NATO members Estonia and Finland beneath the Baltic Sea. Authorities believe the vessel dragged its anchor across the Baltic Sea bed, cutting through t...