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Blue Origin scrubs New Glenn’s second flight due to bad weather

Blue Origin has postponed the second flight of its New Glenn rocket, which was slated to send a pair of NASA spacecraft on the first step of their journey to Mars on Sunday afternoon. The heavy-lift launch vehicle was scheduled to take off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 2:45PM ET., but multiple holds were issued during the under-two-hour launch window due to inclement weather. Blue Origin called off the launch attempt around 4:13PM.

The next launch opportunity is as yet unclear. Blue Origin was previously given a backup opportunity set for Monday afternoon, but the FAA has since issued an emergency order restricting commercial launches for the time being due to the government shutdown. As of November 10, commercial space launches can only take place between 10:00PM and 6:00AM. Blue Origin said on Sunday that its reviewing opportunities based on the weather, and did not mention the FAAs order.

New Glenn’s development has faced significant delays over the last decade since it was first announced, and finally took its maiden flight at the beginning of this year. Its first stage booster is intended to be reusable, and the company plans to recover the booster from the upcoming launch by landing it on an autonomous landing platform vessel dubbed Jacklyn, also known as the barge. Blue Origin attempted the same during its first flight, but failed.

The spacecraft on board New Glenn are twin satellites built by Rocket Lab and operated by UC Berkeley for NASA’s Escapade mission to study the effects of space weather. They’ll be following a new trajectory to the red planet, lingering in “a lazy, 12-month kidney bean-shaped orbit” around Earth until Mars is in alignment, according to UC Berkeley. Escapade should reach Mars in 2027.

December 7, 2025
Dubai: ‘Blue Café’ to support autism care for children, offer interactive space for families
Lifestyle

All proceeds from this first-of-its-kind cafe will directly fund research initiatives dedicated to improving autism care

By WAM
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Published: Tue 20 Aug 2024, 5:48 PM

Last updated: Tue 20 Aug 2024, 8:43 PM

Dubai Health has announced the launch of Blue Caf, an initiative to improve autism care for children.

Designed to be a ‘living lab’ within the community, the Blue Caf is an interactive space and supportive environment where parents and caregivers can connect, share experiences, and learn from each other.

In continuation of building on its “Patients First” promise, Dubai Health has launched a platform which offers learning resources and funds research initiatives dedicated to improving autism care.

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It is understood that a recent diagnosis can be overwhelming for families, often leaving them feeling uncertain and isolated.

Introduced initially as a clinical consultation programme at Al Jalila Children’s Hospital, the initiative aims to elevate autism care for children through active participation in the community and harnessing the inherent benefits of the integrated academic health system.

Learning experts within Dubai Health have developed concise, research-informed content on a wide range of autism care topics, delivered in a user-friendly microlearning format.

These bite-sized pieces of knowledge make it easy for families to fit learning into their busy schedules. The website will also host webinars, translating the latest research insights on autism into practical care strategies for families.

Beyond information, the platform also provides a safe and supportive online community forum a virtual space for families to connect, ask questions, and share valuable insights with one another.
In the coming months, a physical caf in Dubai will open its doors, offering a welcoming space for families and caregivers to gather. All proceeds from this cafe will directly fund research initiatives dedicated to improving autism care.

Speaking on the initiative, Professor Nabil Zary, Senior Director of the Institute of Learning (IOL) at Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine in Health Sciences (MBRU), said, “Blue Cafe was born from a desire to support the well-being of children with autism. We are proud to launch this first-of-its-kind living lab, combining the power of research with real-world experiences from the community. Thanks to generous donor support, we can establish a physical cafe, ensuring the project’s financial sustainability and continued impact.”

Chosen to align with the global recognition of World Autism Awareness Day, the colour blue is symbolic and associated internationally with autism awareness, signifying calmness, understanding, and stability.

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August 22, 2024
Is Your Doctor ‘Blue Zones’ Licensed?

Lifestyle

Blue Zones, an group that analysis areas around the globe the put of us are residing longer, happier lives, has partnered with The American College of Each day life Treatment (ACLM) to back put collectively and certify successfully being care professionals.

The “Blue Zones certification” for doctors and successfully being care workers will add one other layer to ACLM certification, which already confers daily life medication coaching around six pillars: complete-meals, plant-successfully to place diet; exercise, sleep; stress management; social connection; and avoiding substance misuse. The new designation would require prior certification from the ACLM, the American Board of Each day life Treatment (ABLM), or the World Board of Each day life Treatment (IBLM), per theCould well just 14 announcement.

“ACLM and Blue Zones fetch a shared imaginative and prescient of constructing more healthy, stronger, more resilient communities,” said ACLM Govt Director Susan Benigas of the partnership.

That’s most inviting that you just can imagine, said Benigas, “if the physicians and clinical professionals in those communities were trained in each proof-basically basically based daily life medication clinical intervention and truly belief the principles of blue zones.”

CEO of Blue Zones Ben Leedle said Blue Zones has been at the forefront of making meaningful, population-level successfully-being boost ensuing in more healthy, happier communities as well to millions in successfully being care savings, improved productiveness, and regional financial affect.

“Within the intervening time, ACLM has been riding the arena of daily life medication forward for the past 2 an extended time, working to rework successfully being care from within clinical institution and health center partitions,” Leedle said in an announcement. “This partnership represents a paradigm shift by combining the energy of daily life medication with community pushed successfully-being boost.”

Kerry Graff, MD, a daily life medication doctor and clinical director of the Rochester Each day life Treatment Institute in New York, says she modified into “overjoyed” to learn concerning the ACLM and Blue Zones partnership and that she plans to be among the principle community of doctors making expend of for the brand new certification.

“Here is a the truth is gigantic powerhouse combo,” Graff said. “I secure out about this as the truth is the next half of what desires to happen to switch [lifestyle medicine] forward.”

Doctors are basically handicapped by the incontrovertible truth that they know what makes patients more healthy, nevertheless they’re up in opposition to a community the put elements align to promote miserable habits in state of wholesome ones, Graff said.

“It completely makes loads more sense to look for at this on a broader level, community level, and no longer right an particular person patient level,” she said.

Analysis fetch long proven the certain impacts that daily life decisions can fetch on long-term successfully being and disease prevention. A recent evaluation, as an illustration, chanced on that while genetic possibility is tied to an increased loss of life possibility of 21%, an “unfriendly daily life” poses a 78% larger possibility of loss of life, just of genetic elements.

A “favorable daily life” per issues love sleep, diet, and bodily project can offset genetic predispositions by as mighty as 62%, thelook for chanced on.

The curriculum for the brand new certification is restful below constructing nevertheless is slated to be on hand in 2025, per Michelle Tollefson, MD, a daily life medication doctor in Colorado and lead college for the Blue Zones coaching.

“The curriculum will carry out upon what our ACLM, ABLM, IBLM physicians, and successfully being professionals already know and bring to their patients,” Tollefson said. “They’ve already bought that basis, nevertheless then we added an additional layer of the Blue Zones analysis and that deep community focal point, which is able to empower our daily life medication physicians and successfully being professionals to fetch more of a typical affect in their communities beyond the clinical environment.”

Moreover to the brand new certification quite plenty of, Blue Zones will now be an uncommon founding partner of ACLM’s Center for Each day life Treatment Innovation, a brand new hub ACLM is setting up for analysis, innovation, thought leadership, and knowledge sharing.

ACLM will provide practice advancement consulting to successfully being methods integrating daily life medication in Blue Zones communities, leveraging the college’s clinical practice instruments and successfully being methods resources. Since 2021, 108 successfully being methods fetch joined the ACLM’sSuccessfully being Blueprint Councila community of innovative successfully being organizations from 37 states devoted to providing excessive-price care through daily life medication, per the ACLM.

Doctors and successfully being professionals drawn to daily life medication certification can learn more on theACLM net residing. Since 2017, the college has certified about 6,700 clinicians, in conjunction with 5,000 doctors and 1,700 successfully being professionals.

ACLM Govt Director Susan Benigas talks concerning the Blue Zones partnership:

May 17, 2024

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