
2017-04-19 00319-tod-011210 Canada Goose
NIKON D7100 – ƒ/6.3 1/400 600mm ISO400 – Crex Meadows Wildlife Refuge, WI

2017-04-19 00319-tod-011210 Canada Goose
NIKON D7100 – ƒ/6.3 1/400 600mm ISO400 – Crex Meadows Wildlife Refuge, WI
Volkswagen workers at the carmaker’s Chattanooga plant in Tennessee have voted to unionize with the United Auto Workers, a historic victory for the union and the labor movement’s efforts to expand to the southern United States.
The vote was the first union election to be held as part of the UAW’s ambitious organizing drive aimed at unionizing 150,000 workers at non-union auto plants around the US.
The win makes the Chattanooga factory the first auto plant in the south to unionize via election since the 1940s.
The union made the call late Friday night after some 2,200 ballots were counted in favor of unionizing. The plant has about 4,300 eligible voters.
Source: UAW secures historic union election win at Tennessee Volkswagen plant | US unions | The Guardian

A crowdfunding campaign in Slovakia to buy artillery shells for Ukraine has exceeded its target of €1m (£850,000), less than 48 hours after it was launched.
The campaign is a response to the Slovak cabinet’s refusal to join an initiative by the Czech government to buy up hundreds of thousands of shells for the Ukrainian armed forces.
“We have to drive Putin out of Ukraine. We have to defeat him,” said Otto Simko, a Holocaust survivor and veteran of the 1944 Slovak National Uprising against the Nazis. Aged 99, he helped kickstart the campaign to challenge the government’s policy.
“I lived through the Second World War. I fought in it. I can tell you there was no point negotiating with Hitler and there is no point negotiating with Putin,” Simko told the BBC from Bratislava.
It was a random conversation the Slovak veteran had with a journalist and a philosopher that led to the idea of crowdfunding Slovak help for Kyiv.
Source: After their PM halts Ukraine aid, Slovaks dig deep to help


Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Minister of Indigenous Peoples Sonia Guajajara arrive Thursday at the closing ceremony of the 1st Ordinary Meeting of the National Council for Indigenous Policy in Brasilia.Eraldo Peres / AP
Source: Brazil’s Lula creates two new Indigenous territories, bringing total to 10
Source: Deforestation alerts in the Brazilian Amazon fall to a 5-year low

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lost the support of his own family this week when several members of the Kennedy family joined President Joe Biden to formally endorse his reelection. Now, an environmental group that Kennedy spent nearly three decades working for asked him to “honor our planet, drop out.”

Source: Environmental Group Asks RFK Jr to End Presidential Bid
The Biden administration has finalized new Title IX regulations that codify protections for transgender people, as well as enhance protections for victims of sexual assault or harassment and pregnant people.
“For more than 50 years, Title IX has promised an equal opportunity to learn and thrive in our nation’s schools free from sex discrimination,” said U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona in a statement on the revision. “These final regulations build on the legacy of Title IX by clarifying that all our nation’s students can access schools that are safe, welcoming, and respect their rights.”

The Dutch privacy watchdog AP on Friday said it was recommending that government organizations should stop using Facebook as long as it is unclear what happens with personal data of users of the government’s Facebook pages. “People that visit a government’s page need to be able to trust that their personal and sensitive data is in safe hands,” AP chairman Aleid Wolfsen said in a statement. Junior minister for digitalization Alexandra van Huffelen said Facebook parent company Meta had to make clear before the summer how it could take away the government’s concerns on the safety of data. “Otherwise we will be forced to stop using Facebook, in line with this advice,” she said.
Source: Dutch Privacy Watchdog Recommends Government Organizations Stop Using Facebook – Slashdot

A Spanish pharmaceutical, Immunotek S.L., company has developed an oral spray which can be effective in preventing urinary tract infections in both men and women. The product carries the name, MV140.
Among patients subject to recurrent infections ,
They show that in both men and women subject to recurrent UTIs, 54% of study participants remained UTI-free for nine years after the vaccine, with no notable side effects reported.(1)
“The results were dramatic,” Yang said. “We had women who were coming month after month with infection after infection, despite all treatment, often with last-line antibiotics. And [after using the vaccine] they came back and said what have you done to us? We are infection-free.”(5)
This is the first long term study of this product, and the results were reported this month at the European Association of Urology (EAU) Congress in Paris.
Roughly half of women and 20% of men are subject to these infections. With the rise of antibiotic-resistant strains, the spray represents a welcome alternative treatment.
The study reported this month was conducted by the Royal Berkshire NHS Trust Foundation in London and covered a 9-year span. Unlike other vaccine trials, that’s an ample time in which to determine whether a product works and has any unfortunate surprises. MV140 works with no notable risks.
By the way, the spray is pineapple flavored.
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