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Irish Post
22-05-2025
- Irish Post
Shock in Co. Down after body found on beach
THERE is shock in a Northern Irish village after a body was found on a local beach. PSNI officers were called to reports of a body on Millisle Beach in Co. Down yesterday afternoon. The body was discovered on Millisle Beach in Co. Down Reports claim a local dog walker spotted the body and alerted the authorities. Local UUP Councillor Pete Wray, who represents Ards and North Down, confirmed the finding in a statement on social media. 'Sadly, I can confirm that a body has been found on Millisle Beach,' he said. 'Initial reports indicate the body has been brought in from the sea.' He added: 'PSNI remain at the scene, and I would ask everyone to give them the time and space to conduct their investigation. 'My thoughts and prayers are with the family who will be impacted by this and the individual who found the body.' DUP MLA Peter Martin has also paid tribute following the shocking discovery. 'A police investigation is underway in Millisle following the discovery of a body on the beach,' he said in a statement. 'My thoughts and prayers go out to the family of the individual at this difficult time.' He added: 'Emergency services are on the scene and a cordon is in place to allow a full investigation to take place. 'I would urge folks to avoid the Donaghadee Road area at present. 'We do not know further details at this time and speculation would not be helpful to potentially bereaved friends or family members.' In a statement, the PSNI confirmed an investigation is now underway. 'The body found on the beach in the Donaghadee Road area of Millisle on Wednesday, May 21 has been removed from the scene,' they said. "A postmortem examination and formal identification will be carried out. 'Will update in due course." See More: Body, Down, Millisle Beach, PSNI
The Guardian
21-05-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
Test summers are the sunshine-shaped bookmarks of our lives
The first Test of an English summer always has a certain frisson – who is shaping up and who might be shipping out? Will that debutant be able to make his mark? Will that old-timer still be able to cut it? Anticipation builds and the news cycle swirls in the run-up. Now here it is, the opening act. High summer lies ahead, ready to spill its stories like when they slice open the shark in Jaws. Look – is that a Ben Duckett double century next to that number plate? And over there, is that … it is – Farhan Ahmed poking out from behind that chewed rubber dinghy with a five-fer on Test debut. How has that happened? The first home Test summer I can vividly remember was the six-match visit from West Indies in 1995. Angus Fraser had been eschewed for the first game at Headingley and my seven-year-old self became weirdly invested in the performance of a blond and ruddy-faced Lancashire seamer picked to make his Test debut. When the images of Peter Martin pinning Richie Richardson lbw beamed out of my parents' cube-sized Grundig telly, I remember the surge of joy in that living room hitting me purer than any shiny football sticker swap or playground haul of Pogs ever had or would since. Of course, when you are a kid and cricket is on terrestrial television this stuff is so much easier. Finishing primary school in the early afternoon, you could be plonked on the rug with a sliced apple and a session and a half of play still to unfold. As the years pass and you grow older though, pesky old life gets in the way of hazy, lazy unadulterated stretches of Test viewing. Unless you're a student, obviously, or a new parent who has somehow aligned the scheduling stars and wound up with a newborn at the start of a winter tour. Or if you have somehow managed to wangle it to be your job. For the rest, though, those Thursday starts are a pain, eh? What with all that annoying 'work' getting in the way and a manager/team who inexplicably don't seem to be bothered about whether Sam Cook will jag the new Dukes and be quick enough on his Test debut or even whether Zak Crawley's Teflon coating might finally wear through? Where do these people get off organising meetings for 11am? No matter, you've got your methods, your strategies. You've been in good form during the first months of the County Championship, honing your skills for the first Test. You do what the teenagers do and surreptitiously use an ear bud so you can tune in to Test Match Special on the sly. Do not – repeat NOT – start tapping your tea mug with your teaspoon when Soul Limbo kicks in, have some self-control. Play the long game. It's Test cricket for God's sake, show some grit and determination! Wait, who are you calling old-fashioned? Open up your tabs on your desktop. Go on, fire up that trusty out-of-date spreadsheet ready to cover the over-by-over and live text alerts with the flick of a shortcut key should someone walk past. Concentrate. Use your process. 'Be where your mouse is.' This thing could be over in an instant. Get your head down. Take each ball at a time. Throwing air punches and pounding your hot-desk because Josh Tongue has been picked in the starting XI … what are you? An amateur? You'll give the game away before the coin has even been tossed. Ah I see, you're embracing the danger, running towards it even – propped up behind a lever-arch file and an empty coffee cup – is that SkyGo on your phone? You maniac – I love it. When you reach a certain age you start to measure your life in Test match summers; they serve as timestamps, sunshine-shaped bookmarks. Ten years after my Peter Martin infatuation, it is 2005 and every run that pings across the Lord's turf from Marcus Trescothick's blade in the first Test of the summer gives hope that something special might be on the cards. Sure, this was 'just' Bangladesh and a snarling Australia lie in wait but England look primed and ready. Maybe they could actually do it this time. A few weeks later, at Lord's once more, and Steve Harmison has Justin Langer hopping about like a toddler who needs a wee and Ricky Ponting is spilling claret all over the crease on the first morning of the Ashes. Maybe they could. In the days after the first Test of the 2023 Ashes I bumped into a former teacher of mine in the street, Mr S: 30 years apart in age, we were both giddily reminiscing about Zak Crawley's sonic-boom cover drive off Pat Cummins to get the series under way. He was comparing it to Michael Slater's rasping cut shot that served as a similar first-ball portent in the 1994 Ashes. England went on to lose the match but Mr S and I both agreed that the next few weeks would be unmissable. He was one of those teachers for whom you always wanted to work hard. To make proud. In the 20 years since I had left school we would often bump into each other like this and swap life updates on the pavement amid the sporting digressions and song recommendations. The other day I was at a social occasion surreptitiously following the cricket on my phone when it rang in my hand. My dad told me that Mr S had died suddenly. Far too young, far too cruel. Another English summer of Test cricket begins on Thursday. Another timestamp. Another sunshine-shaped bookmark that will, for me, glow a little duller than the rest. When the first ball is sent down at Trent Bridge, I'll think of him. Sikandar Raza's skills with bat and ball have put him in demand for a frankly eye-watering number of teams around the world. From Montreal Tigers to Tshwane Spartans, back to Matebeleland Tuskers and on to Trinbago Knight Riders by way of Chittagong Kings, Manchester Originals, Seattle Orcas and, well, Northamptonshire. An Indiana Jones-style red line follows Raza as he circumnavigates the globe with his Mr Benn kitbag. Like plenty of modern-day cricketers his carbon footprint comes with added bunions. Franchise commitments meant Raza missed out on Zimbabwe's recent Tests against Bangladesh and Ireland but he wasn't going to miss out on a chance to take on England for the first time in what he called on X last week a 'historic' Test match. 'National duty is the top priority for me and once picked I will honor and fulfil it,' he said. Raza has been around the block enough times to know that there will be plenty of eyeballs on this game and it'll be worth the air miles and the creak of jet lag to get a score against England in a Test. Raza's global hotfooting reminded me of a story Peter Lever told me about his Lancashire teammate Barry Wood's 'longest bloody duck in history' on England's tour of New Zealand in 1975. Wood was called up as a last-minute batting replacement and flew 'around the world about twice' to get from West Indies – where he was doing some coaching during the English winter – to Auckland in time for the first Test. Lever recalled, through waves of laughter, about how Wood basically landed in his whites after two days of solid travel and more or less headed straight out to the middle to bat. Inevitably, he was out to his very first ball. Richard Hadlee could smell the jet lag on him and made no mistake picking up a cheap Test scalp. A lot of air miles had culminated in a golden duck. 'All the other lads ran out of the changing room and left me on me own with Barry coming back in an almighty rage. I sat stock still as he entered and looked as if he was about to start trashing the place … ' Lever caught Wood's eye. 'There was a split-second and then we both just burst out laughing – we were on our knees in fits of giggles! During a Test match. It was ridiculous!' Now's the time where we shoot for the stars' – Brendon McCullum is clear on the direction of travel he wants his England Test side to take with India and Australia on the horizon. In an Ashes summer, England's one and only victory against Allan Border's 1993 vintage – the sixth Test at the Oval – shows the power of the desperate: right, we've nothing to lose, so it's time for Plan B. Four Tests down (Trent Bridge a draw) England drafted in Devon Malcolm, Angus Fraser and Steve Watkin, with Graeme Hick and Mark Ramprakash introduced to gee up the batting. And it worked, the newbie attack sharing all 20 wickets, with Fraser taking his eighth and last wicket just after the start of the final hour's play, when he had Shane Warne lbw. England won by 161 runs, ending a fallow run of nine losses and a draw in 10 Tests and a gaping void of more than six and a half years since their last victory over Australia. The 2005 Ashes was a hugely important time for cricket, both for the result and what followed, writes Taha Hashim. Andy Bull looks at Zimbabwe's return to England and the changes the country and cricket team have undergone. Zimbabwe's Sean Williams tells Simon Burnton: 'It's been a rollercoaster ride of ups and downs – mainly downs.' And Ali Martin has this exclusive about Virat Kohli possibly making his way to Middlesex. . … by writing to To subscribe to The Spin, just visit this page and follow the instructions.
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
International Surgical Sleep Society Endorses Hyoid Suspension for Sleep Apnea Treatment
AIRLIFT® Emerges as the most effective, FDA-Cleared Hyoid Suspension System for Managing Obstructive Sleep Apnea LOS GATOS, Calif., May 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Following a rigorous review of clinical research, the International Surgical Sleep Society (ISSS) recently published a position statement supporting hyoid suspension as a safe and effective approach in the medical and surgical management of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). From the position statement: "Hyoid myotomy/suspension (HS), whether performed separately or combined with other upper airway procedures, is considered effective and non-investigational as part of the comprehensive surgical management of symptomatic adult patients with mild obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and adult patients with moderate and severe OSA assessed as having tongue base or hypopharyngeal obstruction." The ISSS position notes four decades of clinical research demonstrating the viability of hyoid suspension as an effective treatment for OSA, including referencing a 2021, multi-center study from Van Tassel et al using AIRLIFT techniques for a series of thirty-nine patients undergoing hyoid myotomy and suspension combined with uvulopalatopharyngoplasty. 76.9% patients had surgical success with a mean AHI reduction of 69%, from 49.9 +/-25.6 to 15.4 +/-14.9 (p < .001)1. The clinical benefits of hyoid suspension are achieved more controllably, easily and quickly than ever through AIRLIFT®, which utilizes the Encore System from Siesta Medical to provide a less-invasive, well-controlled approach to HS. "AIRLIFT offers a unique alternative for patients who failed CPAP, have epiglottic collapse or do not qualify for hypoglossal nerve stimulation, or who simply are looking for an OSA treatment option whose treatment action doesn't require any additional patient action," said Peter Martin, CEO of Siesta Medical, which manufactures AIRLIFT and the Encore System. "Historically, hyoid suspension approaches for treating these patients have been viewed as difficult or dependent on appropriate patient anatomy for success. AIRLIFT hyoid suspension helps to correct both these issues, and the position statement from ISSS offers additional confidence in the effectiveness of the procedure." AIRLIFT hyoid suspension is minimally invasive and well-tolerated, and is significantly more cost-effective than alternative stimulation implants. The procedure involves advancing the hyoid bone and suspending it with two miniature implants and suture. Due to the muscle attachments on the hyoid bone, the procedure allows a narrow or blocked airway to open and become more stable during sleep. The procedure can prevent epiglottic collapse by tensioning the hyoepiglottic ligament, tensioning the lateral airway walls, and anteriorly displacing the tongue base. Patients who get the AIRLIFT Hyoid Suspension procedure as part of a multilevel treatment plan see a median 74% improvement in sleep apnea obstructions.1 Learn more about the benefits of AIRLIFT or access the full ISSS position statement here. About Siesta MedicalSiesta™ Medical is a privately held medical device company founded in 2009 that focuses on a simple, effective, and lasting treatment for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). To perform the AIRLIFT® procedure, Siesta Medical designed the Encore™ System and the Revolution™ Suture Passer, an integrated suite of instruments and implants designed to streamline hyoid and tongue suspension, enable efficient, simple implantation, decrease intraoperative time, and provide durable, positive outcomes. Source Van Tassel, Hyoid Suspension with UPPP for the Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Ear, Nose & Throat Journal. 2021 Mar; 1-8 MEDIA CONTACT:Callie Miller408-320-9424395330@ View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Airlift- Siesta Medical Sign in to access your portfolio
Bloomberg
12-03-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Live Q&A: Behind China and India's Decades-Long Battle For Control Over Indian Ocean
Peter Martin Kamlesh Bhuckory Sudhi Ranjan Sen Starting in 0:14 China and India have been locked in a battle for economic and military control over the Indian Ocean for more than a decade. Bloomberg's Peter Martin, Kamlesh Bhuckory, Sudhi Ranjan Sen and Nasreen Seria discuss the rise of China's power and how the country is dominating India in its own backyard in a Live Q&A on March 12 at 2pm IST/ 4:30pm HKT/ 11:30am Nairobi/ 4:30am ET/ 8:30am London. A recording of this conversation will be made available to listen and share. Bloomberg digital subscribers and Terminal clients have exclusive access to sign in and ask our team questions during the live broadcast.
