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BBC News
28-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
Defibrillator installed on Everest by Oxted man saves climber
A Surrey man who installed a defibrillator which saved the life of an Everest climber has said it made the mountain climb the "most amazing thing I've ever done".David Sullivan from Oxted runs the Creating Lifesavers charity, which raises awareness of CPR and aims to install more defibrillators across efforts most recently led the 62-year-old to the Himalayas, where he installed a defibrillator at an altitude of 20,000 ft (6096 metres) .After returning two weeks ago, David said there were "tears of joy" when he learned the device had saved the life of a French climber whose heart had stopped. He said: "At 4am my phone pinged. I thought it was one of my children. But it came from a sherpa 20,000 ft up Mount Everest."Yes, there are tears of joy. Our defibrillator was activated to save a young French lady's life."Pemba, the sherpa who contacted David, said a young man from the Netherlands saw the defibrillator and used it with the help of an Austrian swift response paid off, with climber Cecile now recovering well in a Kathmandu believes this incident demonstrates that more defibrillators are needed across the said: "This makes every step going up Everest the most amazing thing I've ever done. To know we saved this young lady's life is a crazy feeling." Whilst in Nepal, David also gave multiple CPR classes and equipment to communities with no previous access to the training. Now back in the UK, he hopes to expand Creating Lifesavers' work and aims to rollout a new school course to pupils in founded the Kent-based charity seven years ago after losing four close friends to heart problems, all under the age of 46.
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Cecile Elstein obituary
My mother, Cecile Elstein, who has died aged 87, had a passion for natural objects and making things with found materials. She was a sculptor, printmaker and environmental artist, whose work was about experience and the response to relationships and environments through feeling, thought and action. 'Creativity works to adapt, repair and celebrate,' she said. 'Material methods of artistic production begin with observation, investigation, research and design.' Born in Cape Town, South Africa, Cecile was the elder child of Michael Hoberman, who ran a thriving coal-delivery business, and his wife, Ruth (nee Rappaport). Her younger brother, Gerald, became a photographer and publisher. Cecile went to Cape of Good Hope seminary, a girls' school in Cape Town, and studied sculpture with Lippy Lipshitz at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, and then in the studio of Nell Kaye in the late 1950s. Cecile was working as a lab assistant in Groote Schuur hospital when she met Max Elstein, a doctor, whom she married in 1957, aged 19. To escape apartheid they moved in 1961 to the UK, at first to London, where in 1965 Cecile became a pupil of the surrealist artist Catherine Yarrow. In 1970, the family moved to Southampton, where Cecile set up a life-drawing group. She studied sculpture and printmaking at West Surrey College of Art and Design in Farnham (now part of UCA, the University for the Creative Arts). In 1977, we moved to Manchester when Max took up the chair of obstetrics, gynaecology and human reproductive health at the university. Cecile set up her studio-workshop there, teaching 'awareness through art'. In 2001, she set up Didsbury Drawing, a life-drawing group based on a philosophy of non-interference. Cecile was influenced by the work of the philosopher Martin Buber and Albert Camus's The Myth of Sisyphus. She pursued accessible environments, empathy in design, and developed experimental methodologies. Between 1980 and 2019 she worked with Kip Gresham, a pioneering printmaker, at his Manchester and Cambridge workshops. In 1983, Cecile was granted a North-West Bursary award for Mandarah, a pneumatic artwork; it toured to Singapore international arts festival, representing Britain. In 1986, she was a prize winner at the Ninth British International Print Biennale, Bradford; her public artworks include a site-specific sculpture, Tangents (1997), at the Wimpole Estate, Cambridgeshire. Cecile also made commissioned portraiture, large abstract screen prints and 'art in environment' works, which are held and exhibited in public and private collections, including the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, Manchester Cathedral, Manchester Academy of Fine Art, Salford University Gallery, and the Royal Northern College of Music. Cecile was an influential presence in Manchester's artistic and cultural life. Cecile and Max cared for my brother, Paul, who had multiple sclerosis, from the 1980s until his death in 1998. Cecile is survived by Max, me, six grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
‘They saved my life when I was a participant': How Treatment Court offers an alternative option for those with substance use disorder
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — Treatment Court is designed for people who have been assessed and deemed to have a substance use disorder that is the root cause of why they're committing or charged with crimes. 'It's another tool that we have to make sure we're not incarcerating those who don't necessarily need to be incarcerated simply because they have a substance use disorder,' James Cecile, the Presiding Judge of Syracuse Treatment Court, explained. The people who utilize Treatment Court are typically those who have committed non-violent felonies or misdemeanors. Once they consent to doing Treatment Court, the staff will come up with a plan of action in terms of the individual's treatment, and they will go through various phases. A lot of times, the treatment plan starts with the participant going directly to an inpatient facility. Once they finish at the inpatient facility — typically for a 28-day stay — they will need residential housing. Treatment Court will arrange for them to go to a residential facility, like a half-way house or some type of supported living facility, for four to six months while they do outpatient treatment. 'We not only work on what their substance use disorder is, but a lot of times we have to work on housing for them, we work on making sure they have a place to go for community service, and make sure they're getting transportation where they need to get to for treatment and we also make sure we give them job suggestions for job searches,' Judge Cecile explained. To be able to graduate Treatment Court, participants must have completed all their treatment, be in school full time or working full time, and complete 50 hours of community service. Once they graduate, a participant's charges could be dismissed or substantially reduced, and if they're on probation, they're discharged from probation. 'They need to know that there is an alternative to just incarceration or taking your case to trial or just doing the same thing over and over again and getting the same result,' Judge Cecile said. For participants with misdemeanors, their Treatment Court journey typically takes about one year. For the participants with felonies, it usually takes a year and a half. Judge Cecile said there are approximately 130 people in Treatment Court right now, the number has been lower ever since the pandemic. About six out of ten people who enter drug court will graduate. One of those people is Aaron Deluca, who graduated from Treatment Court five years ago. Now, it's a full circle moment where he works as a Peer Specialist for those going through the program. 'I think one of the biggest parts of me being part of this is them seeing somebody who was once a participant and made it out to the other side and became successful at recovery, and let them know that they can do it too,' Deluca shared. As a Peer Specialist, Deluca provides one-on-one support, sets up participants with community resources, and meets them at self-help meetings. For him, the best part is watching the people he has helped graduate. 'Treatment… we save lives, they saved my life when I was a participant,' Deluca said. 'I always say a lot of people they don't get arrested, they get rescued, they're getting rescued by coming to court because a lot of them probably wouldn't make it if there wasn't some kind of intervention.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Metro
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
You can now binge all 6 episodes of 'deeply unsettling' Netflix crime drama
Netflix viewers have a new show to add to their watchlists, after the streaming service dropped a Danish crime drama that has left subscribers 'reeling'. Never one to leave you for even a moment without a dark new show to watch, Secrets We Keep – Reservatet in Danish – is the latest addition to the roster and follows a murky missing persons case in Copenhagen. In this six-parter, something is definitely rotten in the state of Denmark. Set in an affluent suburb of Copenhagen, the Danish drama follows the disappearance of a young Filipino au pair called Ruby (Donna Levkovski), working for an incredibly rich family. The family's neighbour Cecile (Marie Bach Hansen) begins to suspect something is afoot. The case of a missing woman from abroad ranks low in the police's list of priorities, so Cecile and her Filipino au pair Angel (Excel Busano) begin to investigate the rumours of foul play among other au pairs in the neighbourhood. While the show isn't based on a true story, it does attempt to lift the lid on a fact of Denmark society, that Filipino women represent the majority of the country's au pairs, with 2,165 granted a residence permit in 2009 stats. Wake up to find news on your TV shows in your inbox every morning with Metro's TV Newsletter. Sign up to our newsletter and then select your show in the link we'll send you so we can get TV news tailored to you. Although the show only dropped on Netflix this week, many TV viewers have already torn through all six episodes and took to X to share their thoughts. Several were impressed with the show's handling of Cecile's own biases and reassessment of how she is raising her children. @RamasScreen described it as a 'deeply unsettling' watch, writing: 'Secrets We Keep started out like a regular missing person case but it gradually unravelled into a tangled web of social & sexual controversy that went right for the jugular. More Trending 'The show compelled you to question your own prejudice & biases as well.' @MittalVineet added: 'Watched new series Secrets We Keep. Builds tension from the first frame and keeps it going. Also brings forth how different worlds co-exist and inequalities. Also a key takeaway is parenting cannot be outsourced.' @EmpressTashe simply wrote: 'I am hooked #SecretsWeKeep,' while @archisengupta chimed: 'Today was a great day, first watched Secrets We Keep which left me absolutely reeling and on-edge.' View More » Secrets We Keep is available to stream on Netflix. Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: 'Masterful' thriller finally completely free to stream after 3 years MORE: I want to like Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning more than I do MORE: Netflix makes major Bridgerton announcement – but there's a catch that's 'devastating' fans
India Today
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- India Today
French filmmaker Amelie Bonnin's 'Leave One Day' scripts history at Cannes
The 78th Cannes International Film Festival witnessed history as French filmmaker Amelie Bonnin's romantic dramedy 'Leave One Day' received a five-minute-plus ovation from the audience, reported by Deadline. Bonnin became the first female director to open Cannes since 1987, according to the portal.'Leave One Day' is based on the filmmaker's 2023 Cesar-winning short film of the same name. The film narrates the story of Cecile, played by Juliette Armanet, who is about to fulfil a lifelong ambition of opening her own signature gourmet restaurant in Paris. She is later forced to put the project on hold when her father suffers a heart attack and is called back to her being cut off from her bustling life in Paris, Cecile reconnects with a teenage crush, Raphal, portrayed by Bastien Bouillon. The meeting leads to long-buried memories and makes Cecile question her past choices and the current phase of her life. Co-written by Dimitri Lucas, 'Leave One Day' is produced by Topshot Films and Les Films du Worso. Path and France 3 Cinma have co-produced the film. Path International and Path Films are handling the world sales and French rights respectively. While keeping with the Cannes protocol, Path Films released 'Leave One Day' in France at the same time as the world premiere at the Croisette premiere was followed by an opening ceremony that had Robert De Niro giving a speech on democracy and the arts amid US President Donald Trump's sweeping funding cuts and proposed film Reel
