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New electric vehicle charging stations at WRDSB Education Centre, six public schools

They’re available to the public over summer break from 7 am to 11 pm

The Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) is making it easier for staff and community members to charge their electric vehicles.

Seven new electric vehicle charging stations are now available, including at the WRDSB Education Center on Ardelt Avenue.

The six others are located at various public schools.

The board launched its first charging station at Chicopee Hills Public School in Kitchener in 2019. According to a WRDSB release, the station has helped avoid 8,241 kg of greenhouse gases. “This is like planting 211 trees and

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Why Shares of JD.Com, TAL Education Group, and Pinduoduo Are Surging This Week

What happened

Shares of several Chinese stocks that trade on US exchanges rose this week after the Chinese government implemented more favorable economic policies and some companies delivered upbeat earnings news.

For the week, shares of Chinese e-commerce giant JD.Com (JD 9.20%) were trading roughly 18.6% higher as of 3:16 pm ET Thursday, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence. Shares of online tutoring company TAL Education Group (TAL 9.09%) were up by nearly 21%, and shares of agricultural tech company Pinduoduo (PDD 12.44%) were up by close to 31%.

So what

Chinese tech stocks

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How Affected person Rooming Checklists Streamline the Affected person Care Journey

Affected person Rooming is the method the place nurses greet and familiarize sufferers with their scientific environment earlier than transitioning the duty of care to physicians or different well being professionals. It’s an integral a part of the care journey as sufferers can tackle any urgent issues earlier than their physician or specialist arrives. Regardless of this, many clinics fail to maximise the affected person expertise of the rooming course of. Lengthy wait instances, inefficient use of workers, and the dearth of centralized affected person data are the first points that clinics face when rooming sufferers. Sensible Rooming Checklists can

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8 Confirmed Ideas for a Good Evening Sleep that Truly Work

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Getting good high quality sleep at evening is pivotal for an individual’s psychological and bodily well being. Falling in need of that takes a severe toll on an individual’s vitality, productiveness, weight and emotional state. It invitations a complete host of diseases and points. Making small modifications to an individual’s total nighttime routine can do wonders in enhancing their high quality of sleep and will help in managing some sleep associated points. It may well additionally make them get up feeling properly rested, balanced and filled with vitality for the day forward.

There are a complete host

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Sam Asghari Defends Britney Spears After Kevin Federline Claims Sons Do not Need to See Her

Sam Asghari has Britney Spears‘ again.

The pop star’s husband has come to her protection following her ex Kevin Federline‘s bombshell claims in regards to the former couple’s sons, Sean Preston Federline16, and Jayden James Federline15. In a uncommon interview with ITV Information, shared prematurely with the Mail on Sunday newspaper, the pop star’s former husband mentioned their boys haven’t seen their mom for months and “determined they aren’t seeing her proper now.”

In accordance with the newspaper, Kevin Britney’s previous Instagram posts of her nude pics, that are censored, and on-line feedback about him and

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Oregon education guide encourages schools to hide students’ gender identity from parents

Oregon education officials released a guide Thursday on how schools should deal with gender ideology following “dehumanizing media coverage against gender-affirming education.”

The 48-page guide released by the Oregon Department of Education, titled “Supporting Gender Expansive Students, Guidance for Schools,” also encourages schools not to inform parents of their child’s gender identity.

“To the extent possible, schools should refrain from disclosing information about a student’s gender identity, even to parents,” the document reads.

RON DESANTIS SHAKES UP LIBERAL UNIVERSITY, APPOINTS SIX MEMBERS TO THE NEW COLLEGE OF FLORIDA

A school classroom with desks and chairs

Empty classroom in an elementary school. The Oregon Department of Education has

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LAWSUIT AGAINST USC EDUCATION SCHOOL ALLEGES FRAUD IN US NEWS & WORLD REPORT DATA Works Only Under These Conditions

LOS ANGELES, CA-MAY 17, 2018: Tommy Trojan, officially known as the Trojan Shrine, is a life-size bronze statue of a Trojan warrior located on the USC campus in Los Angeles on May 17, 2018. (Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times)
Former students filed a class action lawsuit alleging USC Rossier School of Education fraudulently advertised and inflated the graduate school’s online education programs. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

The University of Southern California’s education school was sued Tuesday by former students who claim that officials violated state law by falsely advertising the graduate program’s high online degree ranking, which was based in part on fraudulent data submitted to US News & World Report’s college rating list.

The class-action lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleges that USC and 2U Inc., a technology company hired by the university to

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HCA Healthcare-owned Galen College of Nursing debuts Asheville campus

Health care students flank a practice station at Galen College of Nursing's new campus in Asheville.

Health care students flank a practice station at Galen College of Nursing’s new campus in Asheville.

ASHEVILLE – After first announcing the move in the spring of 2022, Galen College of Nursing has opened an Asheville location and is positioning itself as a future source of health care worker talent in Western North Carolina.

Officials cut the ribbon on the 16,900-square-foot campus at 30 Town Square Blvd. in Biltmore Park Dec. 15. Asheville’s is now part of a network of campuses in seven other states, all with a total of about 9,000 students.

HCA Healthcare — which bought Mission Health

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