An innovative pet therapy program launched last week at Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford with Magnolia Grace, a sweet three-year-old poodle nicknamed Maggie.
After completing a year-long training program to prepare her for community service, Maggie was welcomed to Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford at a blessing ceremony led by hospital chaplain Keith Travis. Maggie and her handler Nancy Wiggs had the opportunity to meet and bond with several patients. Nancy, a longtim .
Hamish Rutherford: Political pressure rising on a political Reserve Bank
28 Apr, 2021 05:27 AM
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Finance Minister Grant Robertson and Reserve Bank governor Adrian Orr in 2018. Photo / Mark Mitchell.
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Precisely who is in charge when the Reserve Bank decides to restrict lending in the name of maintaining financial stability has been hard to pin down for a long time. Back in 2013, the Reserve Bank began the process of developing loan to value ratio (LVR) restrictions, which would have a significant impact on many aspiring first-home buyers, a politically important group that even then was facing diminishing affordability.
But the central bank s then governor, Graeme Wheeler, a former top international official with little political experience, was nowhere to be seen, as a debate over the policy brewed.
An apparent 4th wave of COVID-19 is centered in the East. Will it hit California?
Luke Money, Maura Dolan and Rong-gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times
April 4, 2021
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People enjoy lunch hour in Union Square, Friday, March 26, 2021, in New York. A year after becoming a global epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, New York and New Jersey are back atop the list of U.S. states with the highest rates of infection.Mary Altaffer/AP
What appears to be a fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has struck Michigan, the New York region and New England, and experts are uncertain if it will remain contained.
Is the San Francisco Giants fan attendance COVID policy overly cautious? We asked some experts.
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Lou Seal, the San Francisco Giants mascot, waves to the fans outside the ballpark during their game against the San Diego Padres at Oracle Park on July 28, 2020 in San Francisco, California.Ezra Shaw / Getty Images
Beginning with the home opener on April 9, in order to attend a San Francisco Giants game at 22% stadium capacity, all fans ages 12 and older must present either proof of a COVID-19 vaccination or a negative test result from the past 72 hours.
Dr. Monica Gandhi, an infectious disease expert at UCSF, described the policy as major overkill.