• Asthma & summer heat
During summer months, high heat, humidity, and pollution levels can cause asthma attacks, flare-ups, and emergency room visits for the millions of people who suffer from this chronic condition. Patricia Takach from the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine said the findings of the report emphasize the need for patients with asthma to work with primary care providers to develop a personalized approach. “The asthma action plan is a critical resource that allows patients to identify when their asthma symptoms are increasing, and what they need to do to treat it,” she said. (EDITORS: Additional information)
• Toxins from the tap
Chemicals known as PFAS, short for per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances, are gaining attention as they are increasingly being discovered in sources of drinking water. These compounds, used in everything from non-stick pans to clothing, are long-lived. In many areas, particularly near some military sites where PFAS-laden fire-fighting foam had been used in training exercises, water sources have been found to contain concerning levels of the chemical, which has been associated with harmful health effects. Howard Neukrug of the Water Center at the University of Pennsylvania, a former Philadelphia water commissioner, said these emerging toxins often leave regulatory agencies and consumers with more questions than answers. (EDITORS: Additional information)
• Nature Rx
Nature Rx, a new initiative at the University of Pennsylvania, aims to highlight relaxing and contemplative moments in nature as not just leisure but as therapy to help curb anxiety and depression among students. “The idea is that clinicians and health partners would write prescriptions for people to spend time in nature,” said Chloe Cerwinka, landscape planner at Penn. “It’s really simple. You can spend time in nature any way you want to. And there’s scientific research that shows spending as little as five minutes outside in nature can help improve your health.” (EDITORS: Additional information)
• Facebook & illness
New research from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and Stony Brook University found that the language used in Facebook posts can help identify conditions such as diabetes, anxiety, depression and psychosis. Researchers analyzed the entire Facebook post history of nearly 1,000 patients who had their medical record data linked to their profiles. The study found that all of the 21 medical conditions the researchers assessed were predictable from Facebook posts alone. “As social media posts are often about someone’s lifestyle choices and experiences or how they’re feeling, this information could provide additional information about disease management and exacerbation,” said physician Raina Merchant of Penn. (EDITORS: Additional information)
• Brands & social impact
Corporations are making social impact front and center in their business models as shoppers increasingly want meaning from their purchases. It’s a trend that is poised to continue, as consumers buy items that are consistent with and help expand upon their own values and beliefs. “I think brands are being pushed to have a social conscience,” said Patti Williams, a professor of marketing at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. “Brands are increasingly expected to have a social and moral perspective.” (EDITORS: Additional information)
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We are privileged to have two of Utah’s most respected leaders guiding our board.”
— David Flood, Intermountain Foundation president and SVP
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, USA, July 5, 2019 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Utah business and civic leaders A. Scott Anderson and Jim Laub have been selected by the board of trustees of the Intermountain Foundation to serve as the organization’s new board leaders.
Anderson was selected as the foundation’s new chair. He succeeds Utah businessman and philanthropist Kem Gardner, who stepped down from the board after seven years of service. Laub assumes Anderson’s previous role as vice-chair. He has been a member of the Intermountain Foundation board since 2012.
“We are privileged to have two of Utah’s most respected leaders guiding our board,” said David Flood, Intermountain Foundation president and system SVP/chief development officer. “Their deep knowledge and respect for our growing community, combined with a shared desire to broaden Intermountain Foundation’s presence and impact will further dignify and build upon the incredible work begun by our founding chair, Kem Gardner.”
The Intermountain Foundation’s Board of Trustees is comprised of individuals who volunteer their time and expertise to oversee important community fundraising programs, while providing stewardship of funds contributed within Intermountain Healthcare. The Intermountain Foundation’s board oversees 13 local charitable community foundation boards, helping to build wide-ranging partnerships and inspire charitable giving to the not-for-profit foundation.
Gifts to the Intermountain Foundation help fuel a range of funding for clinical programs, create new and improved spaces for patient care, fund cutting-edge technologies, facilitate research and innovation, train physicians and other caregivers, and enhance the patient experience -- enabling Intermountain Healthcare to help people live the healthiest lives possible, while striving to keep care affordable.
Anderson joined the Intermountain Foundation board in 2012. He is president and chief executive officer of Zions First National Bank. Active in community affairs, Anderson currently serves on the boards of several business and not-for-profit organizations, including Intermountain Healthcare, where he serves as chair emeritus.
Anderson has received numerous awards, including the Salt Lake Chamber’s “Giant in our City”, and Junior Achievement of Utah’s Business Hall of Fame Laureate. He has a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and economics from Columbia University in New York, and a master’s degree in economics and international studies from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
Laub is president and CEO of Cache Valley Electric, an international electrical contracting firm, based in in Logan. In addition to his work on the Intermountain Foundation board, Laub has served on the Intermountain Logan Regional Hospital board from 2009-2016. A graduate of Utah State University, Laub received an honorary doctorate degree in business and entrepreneurship from Utah State and was the recipient of the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame Contribution to Amateur Football Award.
Intermountain Foundation is a not-for-profit organization that supports Intermountain Healthcare’s not-for-profit system of hospitals and clinics. Helping people live the healthiest lives possible, Intermountain Healthcare is widely recognized as a leader in transforming healthcare through high quality and sustainable costs. For more information about Intermountain Foundation, visit intermountainfoundation.org.
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DROPS NEW SINGLE
"45 (A MATTER OF TIME)"
WATCH THE MUSIC VIDEO HERE
CURRENTLY NUMBER #17 ON ACTIVE ROCK RADIO CHARTS
WITH RECENT SINGLE "OUT FOR BLOOD" AND STILL CLIMBING
Order In Decline
Due Out July 19 via Hopeless Records
Available for Pre-Order Now
at http://smarturl.it/OrderInDecline
July 8, 2019 - Sum 41 has dropped a fervent rock anthem today with "45 (A Matter of Time)". An honest statement from front man Deryck Whibley, the song is his way of expressing how he feels about the current state of the world in the aftermath of the latest Presidential election. Fans can stream the visceral protest-filled music video at http://smarturl.it/45video.
"45 (A Matter Of Time)" joins previously released singles "Out For Blood", "Never There" and "A Death In The Family" from Order In Decline, which is due out July 19th via Hopeless Records. Looking back at the band's storied 23+ year career, this album is undoubtedly Sum 41's heaviest and most aggressive album to date, while also being their most dynamic and raw.
"Out For Blood"has landed the band in the Top 20 of a Billboard airplay chart for the first time since 2005. Currently holding the #17 spot on the Active Rock Radio Chart, the lead single has also hit #1 at Sirius XM Octane, and has been streamed over 4.54 Million times on Spotify while the music video has been viewed over 2.66 Million times. Combined with the other released singles, Order In Decline has already accumulated nearly 7 Million streams on Spotify.
Armed with the most honest and intimate songs of his career, Whibley poured everything he had into the upcoming album. Producing, engineering, and mixing the album in his home studio, he pain-stakingly crafted and fine-tuned each song, highlighted by fast and full riffs, guitar solos from lead guitarist/backing vocalist Dave Brownsound, harmonious chords from guitarist Tom Thacker and the heavy, heart-thumping rhythm section of bassist/backing vocalist Cone McCaslin and drummer Frank Zummo. Order In Decline is available for pre-order now at http://smarturl.it/OrderInDecline.
Sum 41 will be co-headlining the inaugural Rockstar Energy Drink DISRUPT Festival this Summer on select dates throughout the United States and Canada.
Upcoming Sum 41 North American Tour Dates
July 12 - Tinley Park, IL - Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre*
July 13 - Thornville, OH - Legend Valley*
July 14 - Noblesville, IN - Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center*
July 15 - Maryland Heights, MO - Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre*
July 17 - Denver, CO - Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre*
July 20 - Irvine, CA - Five Point Amphitheater presented by Mercury Insurance*
July 21 - Mountain View, CA - Vans Warped Tour
July 23 - Auburn, WA - White River Amphitheatre*
July 24 - Boise, ID - Idaho Center Amphitheatre*
July 26 - Chula Vista, CA - North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre*
July 27 - Phoenix, AZ - Ak-Chin Pavilion*
July 28 - Albuquerque, NM - Isleta Amphitheater*
August 6 - Saskatoon, SK - Saskatoon EX @ Prairieland Park
August 8 - Toronto, ON - Echo Beach
August 10 - Victoriaville, QC - Rock La Cauze Festival
September 29 - Louisville, KY - Louder Than Life Festival
* - Rockstar Energy Drink DISRUPT Co-Headline Festival Dates
After over 15 million records sold worldwide, a Grammy Award nomination, 2 Juno Awards (7 nominations), a Kerrang! Award in 2002, as well as multiple Alternative Press Music Awards, Sum 41 is quite simply a rock band - uncompromising and honest with no intention of slowing down.
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“Quickly moving to a fossil fuel-free world a misguided pipe dream”
By Dr. Jay Lehr and Tom Harris
Listening to climate change activists, one gets the impression that we could transition to a fossil fuel-free world in the near future. Besides the virtual impossibility of quickly moving away from coal, oil and natural gas, the source of 85% of global primary energy, we need to ask, do we really want to do this?
That the average person finds it difficult to do a sensible cost-benefit analysis is not surprising. Practically all we hear about fossil fuels from mainstream media, government and special interest groups is their supposed cost, but not their very real and important benefits.
Leading the list of alleged problems is that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from using these fuels will heat the atmosphere over the next century and create disastrous consequences. Most people recognize that the weather bureau cannot accurately predict our weather a week in advance. Yet, we are supposed to take seriously forecasts for the year 2100.
The reports of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) summarize thousands of studies from peer-reviewed scientific journals that demonstrate that emissions of CO2 from human activities are not known to cause dangerous climate change. Yet the public tend to base their opinions on the emotions generated by misleading stories about such things as dying polar bears, a species which has actually quintupled in population in the last half century.
Regardless, even experts find it challenging to conduct a proper a cost-benefit analysis on climate change and fossil fuels. In 2011, writing for the Dublin, Ireland Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI Working Paper No. 392), M. Ceronsky and associates concluded that:
“the complexity of climate science and economics makes conducting any of these cost-benefit analysis a difficult and perhaps even an impossible challenge.”
Martin Weitzman, Professor of Economics at Harvard University, went even further in a 2015 paper in Review of Environmental Economics and Policy when he said:
“the economics of climate change is a problem from hell…trying to do a benefit-cost analysis of climate change policies bends and stretches the capability or our standard economist’s toolkit, up to and perhaps beyond the breaking point.”
What we can do, however, is better appreciate the many hidden benefits of fossil fuels, advantages that few people ever consider. For example, in addition to the 19.4 gallons of gasoline distilled from each 42-gallon barrel of oil are 22.6 gallons of liquid from which we produce all the plastic that goes into our cars, computers and toys and, until recently, plastic straws now outlawed in various jurisdictions. The asphalt that creates our roadways are petroleum products, as is synthetic rubber, much of our fertilizers, pesticides, detergents, furniture, ball point pens, motorcycle helmets, skis, epoxy paints, electrical tape, fishing rods, soft contact lenses, fan belts, artificial limbs and even hearing aids. Do we really want so many important products eliminated from our lives for the sake of supposedly protecting the climate decades hence?
But wait, there is more.
Fossil fuels made it possible to replace horses as the primary means of transportation. This saved millions of acres of land previously dedicated to growing feed for horses, allowing a dramatic expansion of our nation’s forests. Increased atmospheric CO2 has further advanced forest growth and will soon make it possible to grow plants in regions currently too dry to do so.
Electricity is clearly one of the greatest inventions in human history. 80% of all electricity in the world is produced from burning fossil fuels. No alternative energy can be relied on for continuous power.
Fossil fuels revolutionized society by making transportation faster and less expensive, and safer for everyone. The increase in product mobility has been a boon for everyone. There are no areas of life not improved by it.
Speaking at the America First Energy Conference in Houston in November 2017, Dr. Roger H. Bezdek, of Management Information Services, Inc., summed up:
“What has fossil fuels done for us recently? They are the foundation of our current economy. They created (and sustained) the modern world. They permit the current high quality of life we all enjoy. Over the past two centuries life expectancy has more than doubled, populations increased eightfold, real incomes have increased worldwide more than eleven-fold.”
America without fossil fuels would be a nation with the standard of living of the 19th century. So, if you think life was great in 1860—a time without electricity, airline travel, widespread internal combustion engines, refrigeration, air conditioning, cell phones, Internet and computers—then, yes, stop using fossil fuels. But don’t impose your standards on the rest of us.
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Dr. Jay Lehr is Senior Policy Analyst with the Ottawa, Canada-based International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC). He will be receiving the Dauntless Purveyor of Climate Truth Award from The Heartland Institute at ICCC-13. Tom Harris is ICSC Executive Director and a policy advisor to The Heartland Institute.
