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Coastal Cloud and CDR Health Provide Over 50,000 Vaccine Shots Per Day in Florida, Powered by Salesforce Vaccine Cloud Today, Coastal Cloud, a Salesforce consulting partner, announces that it has helped power more than 1.3 million vaccinations in partnership with CDR Health, an affiliate of CDR Maguire, Inc. one of the state’s leading COVID-19 testing and vaccination logistics providers.
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A snow-sledding accident left James A. âJimâ Rothrock paralyzed when he was still a teen in Martinsville, but he went on to a long career in state government helping others with disabilities, not just through policy but with his relentless good cheer.
His work, though, was merely an extension of his life.
âJim was a constant fount of unrestrained enthusiasm and boundless optimism,â said his longtime friend Bernie Henderson. âEither he never realized he had some physical restrictions or he just didnât care. Anytime I was discouraged, angry, frustrated or depressed, I called to get a dose of Jim Rothrock, and that never failed.
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The Golden Globe-nominated Music drew heavy criticism for its portrayal of autism, while advocates point to Pixar s Loop as an example of authentic storytelling about a community that has long been misrepresented.
Sia’s once-obscure directorial debut,
Music, drew initial backlash from disability advocates after the film’s teaser debuted in November, but the movie s two Golden Globe nominations, announced in early February, have sparked a larger and sustained conversation about how the entertainment industry portrays autism.
Music centers on a free spirit (Kate Hudson) who moves back home to take care of her nonverbal autistic teenaged sister Music, played by Maddie Ziegler. Initially, people took to social media, upset by the casting of Ziegler, who has long starred in Sia’s music videos, instead of a performer on the autism spectrum. But with the Globe nominations and the film’s release (the movie received a one-night-only U.S. release Feb. 10 in s