This week, the cadastral update has been the topic of conversation and controversy in Palmira.
The Palmira Interunion Civic Committee (CCIP), which brings together unions, businessmen and representatives of civil society from that city in Valle del Cauca, protested before the Mayor’s Office.
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The letter to the Mayor is signed by the Chamber of Commerce of Palmira, Asocaña, Procaña, Fenavi, Fenalco, Asodolores, Acopi, Andi, Pacific Free Zone, Lonja de Cali and the Inter-Guild Business Committee. The PICC asks for a comprehensive review for “the excessive increases in cadastral appraisals, which could represent disproportionate increases in the payment of property tax with values above up to more than 100% after the validity of 2022”.
In the letter signed by Jhon García, director of the CCIP, it is stated: “We understand that within the framework of national regulations the country is migrating to having a multipurpose cadastre, but the convenience of when to do it and how to do it, in a recovery situation economic, it is a responsibility of the municipal Administration”.
The mayor of Palmira, Óscar Escobar, explained that the cadastral update had not been carried out for eight years, but He said that all concerns and values that do not correspond in appraisals will be reviewed.
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The Committee says that the measures taken to mitigate the increase in tax payments are recognized, but they are transitory short-term measures that leave the business community exposed, and in general, to a disproportionate increase in the medium and long term.
“Taxpayers will not be able to resist such an increase in a fragile economic and social environment, with high unemployment rates, uncertainty in international trade, high costs of raw materials, high inflation rates, among others,” the letter says.
It also warns about “possible effects related to tax aspects due to increases in assets and wealth; properties that cannot be sold because their cadastral value is higher than the commercial value; Affected buying and selling processes, and loss of competitiveness of the territory to attract investment”.
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Americans are starkly divided by race on the importance of President Joe Biden’s promise to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court, with white Americans far less likely to be highly enthusiastic about the idea than Black Americans — and especially Black women.
That’s according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research that shows 48% of Americans say it’s not important to them personally that a Black woman becomes a Supreme Court Justice. Another 23% say that’s somewhat important, and 29% say it’s very or extremely important. Only two Black men have served on the nation’s highest court, and no Black women have ever been nominated.
A new AP-NORC poll finds that 7 in 10 Black women say it’s extremely or very important for a Black woman to become a Supreme Court justice. Black Americans are much more likely than white Americans to say so.
The poll shows Biden’s pledge is resonating with Black Americans, 63% of whom say it’s very or extremely important to them personally that a Black woman serves on the court, compared with just 21% of white Americans and 33% of Hispanics. The findings come as Biden finalizes his pick to fill the seat that is being vacated by Stephen Breyer, who announced his retirement last month.
“While I’ve been studying candidates’ backgrounds and writings, I’ve made no decisions except one: The person I will nominate will be someone with extraordinary qualifications, character, experience and integrity, and that person will be the first Black woman ever nominated to the United States Supreme Court,” Biden said in his remarks on Breyer’s impending retirement. “It’s long overdue, in my view.”
Black women are particularly moved by the idea, with 70% placing high importance on the nomination, compared to 54% of Black men.
Diana White, a 76-year-old Democrat from Hanley Hills, Missouri, said Biden wouldn’t choose someone if “she didn’t have the potential and the professionalism and the knowledge to do the job.”
White, who is Black, said making a groundbreaking nomination could be inspirational to younger people.
“That’s what I think about, things for other people to look forward to later in life,” she said.
Any enthusiasm that could be generated by Biden’s nomination could benefit his party in this year’s midterm elections, when Democrats risk losing control of Congress. So far Biden has struggled to deliver on other goals for the Black community, such as police reform legislation and voting rights protections.
Some 91% of Black voters backed Biden in the 2020 presidential election, according to AP VoteCast, an expansive survey of the electorate.
But recent polls suggest Biden’s approval rating has dipped substantially among Black Americans since the first half of 2021, when about 9 in 10 approved of how he was handling his job. The new poll shows that his approval among Black Americans stands at 67%.
Jarvis Goode, a 35-year-old Democrat from LaGrange, Georgia, agreed that it’s “overdue” to have a Black woman on the court.
Goode, who is Black, said he hopes the nomination would provide further proof that “women can do the same as men.”
Biden first promised to choose a Black women for the Supreme Court when he was running for president. According to a person familiar with the process, he’s interviewed at least three candidates for the position — judges Ketanji Brown Jackson, J. Michelle Childs and Leondra Kruger — and he’s expected to announce his decision next week.
The poll shows that most Democrats say a Black woman on the court is at least somewhat important, though only half think it’s very important. Among Republicans, about 8 in 10 say it’s not important.
John Novak, a 52-year-old Republican from Hudson, Wisconsin, said he disliked Biden’s pledge to choose a Black woman, saying there’s too much focus on “checking boxes” when it comes to nominating people.
“It should have been stated that we’re going to pick the best candidate who is going to follow the Constitution,” said Novak, who is white. “And then throw in that we’d like her to be a woman and woman of color.”
There’s been a mixed reaction from Republican elected officials.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, described Biden’s promise as “offensive” because it sends a message to most Americans that “I don’t give a damn about you, you are ineligible.”
However, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said it did not bother him, and he noted that President Donald Trump and President Ronald Reagan had promised to nominate women for the Supreme Court.
“I heard a couple of people say they thought it was inappropriate for the president to announce he was going to put an African American woman on the court. Honestly, I did not think that was inappropriate,” said McConnell said during a Tuesday event in his home state.
The poll found that Americans’ faith in the Supreme Court continues to wane. Only 21% said they have a great deal of confidence in the high court, while 24% said they have hardly any confidence. The latter number has risen somewhat from 17% in September 2020, the last time the question was asked.
The AP-NORC poll of 1,289 adults was conducted Feb. 18-21 using a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 3.7 percentage points.
The overflow of the Las Brisas creek that ended in a mudslide from a torrential downpour keeps you on high alert to the inhabitants of the municipality of San Pablo, in the north of Nariño.
The anguished residents from social networks show impressive videos, in which you can see how the streets and avenues of the town became real rivers.
Such is the force of the waters that run along the roads that, in their wake, they dragged vehicles, motorcycles and even defenseless stray dogs.
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The rains broke out during the afternoon hours of this Friday and lasted until night, for which its inhabitants were forced to lock themselves in their houses to evacuate the water that entered them through doors and windows.
Among The neighborhoods most affected by the winter emergency include Los Jardines, Villa Cristina, Balcones del Mayo and San Miguel.
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The waters entered the facilities of the San Carlos Hospital, where some patients had to be transferred to other safer rooms.
The relief agencies have been helpless when dealing with the avalanches, while the authorities of the Local Committee for Risk Management declared the highest alert, given the probability that the rains will continue and the situation will worsen even more.
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At least 50 affected families from the urban area were taken to the coliseum and the school.
San Pablo is a distant town about four hours from Pasto and relief agencies from nearby municipalities, such as La Unión, La Cruz and Belen have traveled to attend to the serious emergency.
The overflow of the Las Brisas creek that ended in a mudslide from a torrential downpour keeps you on high alert to the inhabitants of the municipality of San Pablo, in the north of Nariño.
The anguished residents from social networks show impressive videos, in which you can see how the streets and avenues of the town became real rivers.
Such is the force of the waters that run along the roads that, in their wake, they dragged vehicles, motorcycles and even defenseless stray dogs.
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The rains broke out during the afternoon hours of this Friday and lasted until night, for which its inhabitants were forced to lock themselves in their houses to evacuate the water that entered them through doors and windows.
Among The neighborhoods most affected by the winter emergency include Los Jardines, Villa Cristina, Balcones del Mayo and San Miguel.
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The waters entered the facilities of the San Carlos Hospital, where some patients had to be transferred to other safer rooms.
The relief agencies have been helpless when dealing with the avalanches, while the authorities of the Local Committee for Risk Management declared the highest alert, given the probability that the rains will continue and the situation will worsen even more.
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At least 50 affected families in the urban area have already been transferred to the coliseum and the school, where they will surely have to spend the night of this Friday.
San Pablo is a distant town about four hours from Pasto and relief agencies from nearby municipalities, such as La Unión, La Cruz and Belen have traveled to attend to the serious emergency.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris travels Thursday to Munich, where officials say she will focus on consulting with allies about the Russia-Ukraine crisis.
While in Germany, where Harris will lead the U.S. delegation at the Munich Security Conference, she is scheduled to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and the leaders of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.
Harris is also due to give an address Saturday that administration officials said would highlight the level of unity among Western countries and NATO members on diplomatic, military and economic fronts.
“The vice president will underscore how that unity is a source of strength that will allow us to respond swiftly and severely to any further Russian aggression,” a senior administration official told reporters in a briefing Wednesday. “Her speech will also focus on reassuring our allies and partners of our commitments and how we’re committed to bolstering NATO and reinforcing our allies in the face of Russian aggression. And she’ll talk about how a further invasion of Ukraine, we believe, will leave Russia weaker and not stronger.”
Officials said the overall objective of the trip is making sure Western allies are “fully aligned” and send a clear message to Russia about the path forward.
“Our preference is diplomacy and deterrence, but if Russia chooses aggression, we are ready,” an administration official said.
Russia has denied it has plans to invade Ukraine, and in recent days has announced several rounds of troop withdrawals from areas along its border with Ukraine.
The United States and NATO have said there is no evidence of any withdrawals, and a senior U.S. administration official told reporters Wednesday that Russia has instead been adding troops to the border area.
The municipal administration of Montería, through the Risk Management Unit, declared the public calamity in Montería and its rural zonesbefore the season summer strong.
The authorities made an assessment of the situation in the neighborhoods of the capital and its rural areas, knowing first-hand the lack of water.
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Low levels of the Sinú River
Several sectors affected by the dry season have already been attended to, in the company of the Montería fire department and staff from the Metropolitan Police…
“Due to the dry season that is taking place in the municipality of Montería and after the first Municipal Council for Disaster Risk Management was held, it was agreed together with the corresponding entities to decree the public calamity in order to attend to the dry season,” he said. Luis David Ordosgoitia Mora, advisor to the Municipal Risk Management program.
The authorities were able to verify the low levels of the Sinú River and the infrequency of the service to subnormal neighborhoods of the city.
The municipal Risk Management official said that among the actions to be developed is the supply of drinking water through tank cars, after requests made by the affected communities.
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In addition, they indicated that the work is done in this way due to the great demand for families to receive the service. “Several sectors affected by the dry season have already been attended to, in the company of the Montería fire department and personnel from the Metropolitan Police, entities that support the supply of drinking water,” said Ordosgoitia Mora.
Affected areas
It was established that the vast majority of neighborhoods in subnormal areas suffer from a lack of drinking water. In the same way, the corregimientos of San Anterito, Santa Clara, Santa Lucía, Morindó and Leticia are in need of the service.
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The Risk Management coordinator said that the communities will be able to directly request the supply of drinking water by directly submitting the request physically through an official letter on the first floor of the Mayor’s Office or by sending an email to the entity.
The authorities in Montería also prohibited the burning of garbage to prevent forest fires.
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With Russia poised to invade Ukraine, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is in Belgium for two days of talks with NATO leadership and allied defense ministers. Tens of thousands of Russian troops surrounded Ukraine from the north, south and east. VOA Pentagon correspondent Carla Babb has more from Brussels.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has arrived in Brussels for talks with NATO leadership and allied defense ministers, as tens of thousands of Russian troops have surrounded Ukraine from the north, south and east.
During the gathering on Wednesday and Thursday, Austin and his counterparts will discuss how to deter Russia from invading Ukraine while shoring up defenses on the alliance’s eastern flank.
“This really is a decisive moment for NATO, the likes of which we have not really seen potentially since NATO was established in 1949,” said Bradley Bowman, senior director of the Center on Military and Political Power at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. “This is where American leadership in NATO matters,” he told VOA.
The “underlying message” from NATO and the United States will be to protect the international rules-based order by calling out “egregious attempts to undermine the rule of law” and “upholding the sovereignty and territorial integrity of states,” according to a senior defense official.
“We cannot allow an adversary to try to redraw borders by force without facing significant consequences,” the official added.
Austin will then travel to NATO members Poland and Lithuania, Russian neighbors that have watched the developments surrounding Ukraine with increasing concern.
While in Poland on Friday, Austin will meet with President Andrzej Duda before visiting U.S. troops. The United States will soon have about 9,000 troops in Poland after President Joe Biden earlier this month ordered nearly 5,000 additional troops to deploy there, citing security concerns due to Russia’s recent moves.
U.S. troops of the 82nd Airborne Division recently deployed to Poland because of the Russia-Ukraine tensions are setting up camp at a military airport in Mielec, southeastern Poland, Feb. 12, 2022.
In Lithuania, Austin will meet with President Gitanas Nauseda and host a meeting with that country’s defense minister along with those from Estonia and Latvia.
President Joe Biden said Tuesday Russia has 150,000 troops surrounding Ukraine, including in Belarus to the north, the illegally annexed Crimea region to the south, and along the Russian border with Ukraine to the east. Russian ships are also exercising nearby in the Black Sea, which prompted a formal protest from Ukraine’s foreign ministry.
“I think of a boa constrictor that is squeezing Ukraine to force the government of President Volodymyr Zelensky to blink, to make some giant concession,” retired Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, who once commanded U.S. Army forces in Europe, told VOA.
Russia’s defense ministry announced Tuesday that some military units would pull back to their bases, a claim that Biden said the U.S. had not yet verified.
Russian tanks of the Western Military District units return to their permanent deployment sites, in an unknown location in Russia, in this still image taken from a handout video released Feb. 15, 2022.
Meanwhile, Russian legislators passed proposals Tuesday calling on President Vladimir Putin to formally recognize the separatist-controlled regions of eastern Ukraine as independent states, in a move that could justify an incursion in an area it no longer recognizes as Ukraine’s territory.
The United States has pushed for a diplomatic solution to the tensions and has said it will not fight Russian forces in Ukraine, which is not a member of NATO.
The U.S. has shipped planeloads of lethal military aid to Ukraine in recent weeks, including Javelin anti-tank weapons and ammunition. A small number of U.S. troops had also trained Ukrainian soldiers through a program that started following Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014, but those troops were ordered by Austin to leave Ukraine a few days ago, citing concerns that a potential Russian invasion could come at any moment.
Workers unload a shipment of military aid delivered as part of the United States of America’s security assistance to Ukraine, at the Boryspil airport, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Jan. 25, 2022.
NATO allies have made multiple attempts to get Putin to pull his troops away from Ukraine’s border and have threatened severe economic sanctions should Russian troops invade.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrived in Moscow on Tuesday for talks with Putin. Biden called Putin on Saturday. French President Emanuel Macron spoke face to face with Putin last week.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, on the other hand, expressed his support for Putin during the heightened tensions over Moscow’s forces surrounding Ukraine.
U.S. officials and former officials have warned that an invasion of Ukraine could embolden other adversaries.
“If the United States with all of our allies, all of our partners and the combined diplomatic and economic power, cannot deter the Kremlin from … another attack on Ukraine, then I think the Chinese Communist Party leadership is not going to be terribly impressed by anything that we say about Taiwan or the South China Sea,” Hodges said.
Cancer of the penis is a tumor that can carry a great risk for the male reproductive system. This affects 8 out of every 100,000 men in the world, with Spain being the country with the highest incidence in Europe.
Cancer of the penis is a tumor with a lower prevalence compared to other types of cancer of the male reproductive system such as prostate and testicular cancer.
East affects 8 out of every 100,000 men in the world, being diagnosed around 450 new cases a year in Spain.
The highest incidence in the world is found in Brazil. Interestingly, according to the European Urology guidelines, the highest incidence of penile cancer in Europe is found in our countrymore specifically in the province of Albacete.
The age at which penile cancer usually debuts is variable, but the peak incidence usually occurs around the sixth decade of life.
To learn more about penile cancer we have spoken with the Dr. Borja García, specialist in urology at the private clinic ROC Clinic.
How is it diagnosed?
“The diagnosis is eminently clinical,” says the doctor. There are no blood markers and it is not usual to use imaging tests, although there are cases in which it is used to rule out metastasis.
A specialist physically analyzes the patient, perceiving whether the lesion on the penis is cancer or not. You can also use a PET, a non-invasive diagnostic technique that allows you to take images of the patient’s body that show the activity and metabolism of the body’s organs.
“In some cases it will be necessary to confirm with a biopsy. In other cases, the treatment, which is exeresis, will give us the diagnosis»
reports the urologist.
There are different subtypes of penile cancer depending on the cells that produce it.
The most common is squamous cell carcinoma, which comprises around 50-60% of cases of penile cancer.
What are your symptoms and your risk?
The symptoms are usually quite obvious, according to the doctor.
“Any abnormality that appears on the penis, any red or cauliflower-like lesion should be evaluated by a specialist to rule out penile cancer”
advise.
The penis is made up of various types of tissue and the type of cancer depends on the type of cell where it develops.
90% of penile cancers usually develop through squamous cells that can appear anywhere on the penis, being more common areas such as the glans or the foreskin.
Precancerous lesion of the penis. Photo courtesy of ROC Clinic.
This type of cancer can be very dangerous if not detected early. An early diagnosis allows “treatment to be less aggressive and simpler, as well as more effective,” the expert tells us.
“Penis cancer partially responds to radiotherapy, but when the tumor is very extensive, chemo systems do not respond well. If it is diagnosed early, survival rates will be high, otherwise they will fall drastically”
points out the specialist.
How can it be prevented?
In cases of phimosis, which prevent full exposure of the glans, inflammations are formed that in the long term favor the appearance of penile cancerbeing “circumcision the best way to prevent it,” says the expert.
What is your treatment?
This tumor has a slow growth, reason why it is necessary to go to exploration before any symptom that allows diagnosing it to eliminate it in time.
“Treatment is usually its exeresis, the removal of it with margins. We must make sure that there is healthy adjacent tissue so that the tumor does not progress and is completely eliminated”
explains Borja Garcia.
Depending on the situation and the characteristics of the cancer of the penis that is suffered, and its size and its progress, there are different treatments.
“We have surgeries depending on where you are located. If it is on the foreskin, a circumcision may be enough and if it is on the glans, amputations of the glans may be necessary.”
points out the specialist in urology.
In the case of a more superficial tumor «conservative treatments are usually resorted to, such as CO2 laser or mucosal exeresis with which the mucosa is replaced with a skin graft to give the penis a much more normal appearance ».
What is reconstructive surgery?
Urination is also affected in this surgery. Depending on the case, different interventions can be made.
According to the specialist, in the event that it is not possible to preserve the urethra, or to perform a neourethra in the neophallus (new penis after amputation), “it is resorted to opening it below the testicles, forcing the patient to urinate sitting down since the hole is behind the testicles.”
“In other cases, a new urethra can be made in that graft, allowing the patient to urinate exactly as if he had the original penis”
indicates the doctor.
What happens to fertility and sexuality after penile cancer?
Before surgery, it is possible to preserve semen before the intervention or extract it later “accessing the testicles with a biopsy and extracting the semen from them”.
In the case of sexuality, this will depend on the degree of cancer and surgery that is performed.
Although penile cancer is a rare tumor, its symptoms must be known, since early diagnosis plays an important role. As well as the role played by prevention, since part of these tumors arise from the root of avoidable causes.
The meters above sea level om asl is the pattern with which the elevation of a given place in a given place in the world is measured with respect to the average sea level in that area.
The height above sea level of cities and towns changes the quality of life of the people who inhabit them, because the higher they are, the lower temperatures can be registered and there is also less oxygen in the air, ideal for those who want to train resistance , but problematic for those with heart problems.
Bogota, Cali and Medellinthree of the main capitals of the country and where most of the population is concentrated, have different climates due to their height with respect to sea level, which has been decisive in the lives of those who inhabit them, for example, in their way of dress, the foods that are grown in that region and therefore those that are more common to get, etc.
Cali
Panoramic view of the center and north of Santiago de Cali where the Torre de Cali can be seen.
Cali it is the lowest above sea level, with an average height of 1018 m asl Due to this altitude and its dry tropical climate, the historical average temperature of the capital of the Valley is 24 degrees.
Medellin
Panoramic view of Medellin.
Photo:
Esneyder Gutierrez
For its part, Medellin it is the second-highest among these large cities. The capital of Antioquia is on average 1,495 meters above sea level. This altitude and its subtropical Amazonian climate allow Medellin has a pleasant average temperature of 22 degreesfor which it has been called the ‘City of Eternal Spring’.
Bogota
Finally, Bogota it is the highest of all and one of the highest in the world. The capital of the country is on average at 2582 m asl, even having an area at 46502 m asl For this reason,
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The marquee event of the men’s Alpine Olympic program at the Beijing Winter Games was postponed Sunday after high winds forced two hours of delays before organizers canceled it for the day.
Organizers were due to meet later Sunday to discuss when to fit the race into the program, with Monday the most likely option.
“Due to the present weather situation with the wind gust and the updated forecast — the jury together with the organizer have decided in the best interest of safety and fairness for the racers to delay today’s men’s Olympic downhill to another day,” organizers said in a statement.
Monday’s scheduled event is the women’s giant slalom, which will be held on the technical course adjacent to ‘The Rock’ speed course.
Similar wind in the upper and middle areas of the course had led to the cancellation of Saturday’s third training session after just three skiers had completed their run.
While no fans were able to attend the race, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach had arrived at the course, which is made from artificial snow, to watch the event.
Norway’s Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, the favorite in the event, backed the decision but said skiers might have to cope with some degree of wind.
“We will see, we just have to be patient and make sure that we make the right decisions,” said the World Cup downhill leader.
“If we talk about our safety then we can’t do much about it. But if it is only just a little bit, so it is safe to ski, then we might just have to race with wind and take what we get.
“It is an outside sport, and we know about the wind and the things that can happen,” added Kilde, who hopes there will be less waiting around if a similar situation emerges.
“It is just a lot of lack of energy when you have to prepare for such a long day and then suddenly at 2 p.m. they have to make a decision. Let’s see if they can make a decision earlier in the future and hope for the best.”
French veteran Johan Clarey backed the decision. “I think the conditions were not safe for everyone, so security first,” said the 41-year-old.
Due to its innovative pedagogical model, the Institution Ceipa Business School received the Institutional Accreditation of High Quality by the Ministry of National Education, for a period of four years.
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It is within the select 24 percent of HEIs in the country that are accredited and recognized.
Ceipa is a pioneer in virtual education in Colombia, knowledge management leader in face-to-face settings.
“During these 50 years, Ceipa has worked to build an educational proposal centered on the student. For us, education begins with identifying the potential of young people,” said Rector Diego Mauricio Mazo Cuervo.
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The student scene in this institution
Ceipa has 5,800 students (70 percent virtual) located in 20 countries and 174 cities in the country.
In addition, they have more than 18,000 graduates, where undergraduate graduates stand out, as they have the second best salary average in Antioquia and the first in the Atlantic.
The occupancy rate of Ceipa graduates in the latter department is 92.1 percent, while that of specialists is 94.9 percent, which makes them competitive compared to the national average of HEIs, which is 79 percent.
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As he struggled to survive the 2020 Democratic primary, Joe Biden made a striking pledge before voting began in heavily African American, must-win South Carolina: His first Supreme Court appointment would be a Black woman.
On Thursday, with his poll numbers reaching new lows and his party panicking about the midterm elections, Biden turned again to the Democratic Party’s most steadfast voters and reiterated his vow to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer with the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court.
The striking promise is a reflection of Black women’s critical role in the Democratic Party and the growing influence of Black women in society. It’s also a recognition that Black women have been marginalized in American politics for centuries and the time has come to right the imbalance of a court made up entirely of white men for almost two centuries, a change Biden said Thursday is “long overdue.”
Black women are the most loyal Democrats — 93% of them voted for Biden in the 2020 presidential election, according to AP VoteCast, a national survey of the electorate.
And it’s Black women’s reliability as Democratic voters that makes it so important for the party to respond to their priorities and keep them in the fold, said Nadia Brown, a professor of government at Georgetown University. “Democrats know Black women are going to turn out for them so they have everything to lose if they don’t do this.”
Black women turned out to vote for Biden in greater numbers than for Hillary Clinton in 2016, and they were vital in Biden’s wins in states like Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Overall, they made up 12% of Biden’s voters and reached even higher percentages in heavily African American states like Georgia, where they represented 35% of his support. In that state, which Biden won by just over 12,000 votes, he earned the backing of 95% of Black women.
Biden, in particular, owes Black voters, and especially women, a debt from the primaries. His campaign was on life support before South Carolina’s primary in late February 2020, when he secured the endorsement of Rep. James Clyburn, the kingmaker of the state’s Democratic political orbit, by pledging to select a Black woman for the Supreme Court.
“His campaign was struggling,” Clyburn recalled on Thursday, citing Biden’s three straight losses in the early voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada. “This was quite frankly do or die for him, and I urged him to come out publicly for putting an African American woman on the Supreme Court.”
Biden already made a fundamentally important statement about the importance of Black women in his coalition by selecting Kamala Harris as his vice president. But putting a Black woman on the court is another historic step. Republican Ronald Reagan, in his 1980 presidential campaign, vowed to put the first woman on the Supreme Court and nominated Justice Sandra Day O’Connor once in office.
But Biden’s pledge also responds to issues Black women care about, said Glynda Carr, president of Higher Heights For America PAC, which advocates for Black women in politics. “Black women are very in tune with knowing the court is important to our daily lives,” said Carr, citing big cases on voting rights and abortion.
The decision isn’t just a win for Black women but for all voters concerned with ensuring that government reflects the actual population, said Tom Bonier, a Democratic data analyst. As such, he said, it should rally Democrats of all races.
“To the extent that Biden, at this point, is suffering from lower approval ratings, part of his challenge is just reassembling his coalition and reminding those voters who sent him to the White House why that vote mattered,” Bonier said.
President Joe Biden will choose a replacement for Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer. His choice could be among these women. (Click image to enlarge)
Biden’s early discussions about a successor to Breyer have focused on U.S. Circuit Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, U.S. District Judge J. Michelle Childs and California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss White House deliberations.
Childs is a favorite of Clyburn. The House majority whip said Thursday that she had “everything I think it takes to be a great justice.”
The robust roster of Black women for the Supreme Court is a testament to their growing professional progress over the past few decades, experts say. Black women — like women of all races — have been increasingly likely to earn college degrees over the past two decades. Although they still lag in other crucial categories such as pay, the court seat is another milestone.
“We could not have imagined the sheer number of overqualified women a few decades ago,” Brown said.
The nomination of a Black woman is also significant for Black men, said Adrianne Shropshire of BlackPAC, a political organization that tries to elect more Black Democrats. That’s in part because the current sole African American on the Supreme Court, Justice Clarence Thomas, is a conservative Republican whose decisions often go against the desires of the heavily Democratic Black community.
While Black men are not quite as Democratic as Black women, they still overwhelmingly back the party — 87% voted for Biden in 2020, according to AP VoteCast.
Still, Shropshire warned, a Supreme Court appointment is only one step in ensuring Black voters are motivated in 2022 and beyond.
“For Black folks in the country, the thing that looms largest is, are their daily lives changed?” Shropshire said. “For the president — and the vice president — it is going to be more than this appointment.”
“I don’t think it’s helpful for people to say, ‘Well, the one thing we got is a nomination on the Supreme Court,'” Shropshire added.
High protection masks (FFP2 and FFP3) as well as paracetamol have increased their sales in pharmacies during the sixth wave of covid, according to a report from the Cofares Trends Observatory
A woman walks in front of a graffiti in Barcelona protected by a mask due to the coronavirus epidemic. EFE/Enric Fontcuberta
Continuous adaptation. These are the two words with which the Cofares report summarizes the two years of the pandemic, a period in which health products to protect against the virus have been changing depending on the successive Covid waves and health recommendations.
Thus, duringthe months between November 2021 and January 2022 (until the 19th), there has been a notable increase in the demand for high protection masks, and an increase in the demand for paracetamol in Spanish pharmacies, coinciding with the sixth wave of covid.
Specifically, according to data from Cofares, the leading cooperative in pharmaceutical distribution in Spain, the demand for masks FFP2 and FFP3 increased by +642%, while, in tune with the winter season and the confluence of colds and viruses, paracetamol grew by +60% compared to the same period.
“The high rate of spread of the omicron variant -sixth wave- and the return of the mandatory nature of the mask outdoors in December are some of the factors that have been able to favor this significant upturn, together with the fact that the population is aware of the high transmission of omicron”, they point out from the organization’s Data area.
FFP2 and FFP3 have a effectiveness high filter -92%, in the first case, and 98%, in the second, although the specifications of each manufacturer must be observed-, protecting against environmental particles and aerosols and preventing us from inhaling harmful particles, including those that cause the spread of the coronavirus.
If the data is compared month by month with respect to the previous year, it can be seen that, in November 2021, the increase was +206%, going from +931% in December to +959% in January (ten days before the end of the month).
By autonomous communities, notable increases in demand higher protection masks, between November and January, well above the average in Navarra (+1,104%), Catalonia (+1,003%), the Canary Islands (+840%), La Rioja (+796%), Aragón (+746%) or the Community of Madrid (+674%).
In relation to the paracetamol demand in the analyzed period, Ceuta (+274%), Navarra (+114%), La Rioja (+91%), Andalucía (+84%), Aragón (+81%) and Murcia (+70%) are the communities self-employed that have presented the greatest increase, adds this report of Cofares.
