'Truly a miracle.' Arizona toddler returns home after week of treatment for rattlesnake bites

'Truly a miracle.' Arizona toddler returns home after week of treatment for rattlesnake bites

AnArizonatoddler has returned home after a more thanweek-long hospital visitin which she was treated with 30 antivenom vials for tworattlesnakebites. While playing in her yard on Friday, May 16, 15-month-old Cara Reed was bitten by a rattlesnake twice on her left foot, as reported byThe Arizona Republic, part of the USA TODAY Network. But the toddler is out of Phoenix Children's Hospital and back at home. "Cara is truly a miracle," her mother Jacquelyn Reed said in aFacebook poston Friday, May 23. "She is now alive and healing at home to try and recover some of her trauma that has temporarily changed her vibrant personality." Jacquelyn Reed did not immediately respond when contacted by USA TODAY on May 24. The Arizona Republic:Florence mom and nurse acted fast to save daughter bitten twice by rattlesnake While playing in the family carport in Florence, Arizona, which is just more than 60 miles southeast of Phoenix, Reed was bit twice by a rattlesnake that appeared from under a nearby propane tank,The Arizona Republicreported. Initially, Jacquelyn took Reed to a nearby emergency room, where she was treated with 30 vials of antivenom. As the antivenom began its work, Reed was airlifted to Phoenix Children's Hospital, where her medical team focused on correcting the toddler's plummeting oxygen levels due to the venom,The Arizona Republicreported. In a May 21Facebook post, Jacquelyn shared that Cara was still showing signs of weakness and because she was not able to pass a swallow test, she was given a feeding tube in her nose. Reed remained on a breathing tube until May 19, as reported byThe Arizona Republic, and a feeding tube until May 22, as shared by Jacquelyn onFacebook. In her latest Facebook update, Jacquelyn said she and Cara's medical team are working on a physical therapy plan ahead of upcoming reconstructive surgery on Cara's foot. "Sweet Cara still has yet to smile and has a thousand yard stare for right now," Jacquelyn shared in her May 23Facebook post."Matthew and I truly believe that her best chance of recovering while not much medical intervention is needed is at home with her family. She is so very loved and so very cared for." A GoFundMe fundraiser was created shortly after Reed's hospital admittance. As of May 24, thefundraiserhad raised more than $45,000. Rattlesnake bites are rarely fatal. According to theCenters for Disease Prevention and Control, between 7,000 to 8,000 people are bit by a venomous snake (including rattlesnakes, copperheads, cottonmouths and coral snakes) in the U.S. each year. Of those cases, about five are fatal. When it comes to how a snakebite affects a child in comparison to a full-grown adult, recent research says there aren't many differences. A2020 studypublished in Journal of Medical Toxicology found that adult and pediatric patients bitten by venomous snakes had similar rates of system toxicity, severity, length of stay and late hematologic toxicity − low blood count. Greta Cross is a national trending reporter at USA TODAY. Story idea? Email her atgcross@usatoday.com. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Arizona toddler returns home after intensive treatment for snake bites

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May 24, 2025

'Truly a miracle.' Arizona toddler returns home after week of treatment for rattlesnake bites

'Truly a miracle.' Arizona toddler returns home after week of treatment for rattlesnake bites AnArizonatoddler has returned home aft...

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NYC subway security guard caught holding emergency gate open for fare beaters canned

NYC subway security guard caught holding emergency gate open for fare beaters canned

A private security guard hired by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority andsnapped by The Post holding the emergency gate openfor farebeaters is out of a job. Romuald Zampou said he was let go by MTA-contracted Allied Universal Security Services Monday — a day after The Post outed him for lending scofflaws a hand. "They said they'd call me in the future if they had any work for me," said Zampou, 52, who insisted his hands were tied. "We can't stop them, we are not the police," he said. "There were too many problems at that gate. Every day, people would talk s–t to me." Zampou was spotted by The Post on two separate occasions inside the Herald Square station holding the emergency doors open for a stream of scofflaws. Private guards have been stationed throughout the subway systemas part of the MTA's contract with Allied, the world's largest private security service provider. Their chief responsibility is to serve as deterrents to would-be turnstile hoppers. A spokesperson for the MTA inspector general said their office was "aware of the New York Post article and are of course concerned by the allegations" in it. "Vendors who contract with the MTA are expected to fully comply with the terms of those agreements," the spokesperson added. The Post went back underground this week, where patrolling NYPD officers were spotted cracking down on suspected farebeaters, busting at least two on Wednesday at the Herald Square station. The MTA has struggled to collect billions in fares, and has authorized rescue programs — such as fare hikes andcongestion pricing— to balance its books. The guards have helped reduce fare evasion, said MTA spokesman Tim Minton. "Fare evasion has been reduced 30% overall and 36% when guards are present, as the MTA uses multiple enforcement and education tools to fight it," according to Minton. Allied, confirmed that Zampou has been removed from his post, pending its own investigation. "We are in constant pursuit of ways to best serve our clients and meet their unique needs," the company said.

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May 24, 2025

NYC subway security guard caught holding emergency gate open for fare beaters canned

NYC subway security guard caught holding emergency gate open for fare beaters canned A private security guard hired by the Metropolitan Tran...

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Teens attack 2 girls with bat, shave 16-year-old’s head in NYC park assault: ‘Vile and inhumane’

Teens attack 2 girls with bat, shave 16-year-old's head in NYC park assault: 'Vile and inhumane'

A group of teens brutally beat two girls in a Queens park with a baseball bat — and even shaved the head of one of the victims in a horrific caught on video attack that a relative said was like an attempted "execution," The Post has learned. The 13- and 16-year-old friends were playing basketball in Flushing's Kissena Park around 6 p.m. on May 2 when a group of older kids approached and began an argument. At least four 17-year-olds and a 16-year-old dragged the girls to a wooded trail and ruthlessly whacked them with the bat, according to police and video clips of the incident posted to social media. One of the tormenters allegedly shaved part of the 16-year-old's head with a portable hair clipper, and the mob fled with her cell phone and the younger girl's $558 limited edition Air Jordan 4 White Oreos, leaving the victims bruised and swollen, police said. A brute in a black and red hooded sweatshirt could be seen whaling on the 13-year-old with the bat as she lay on the ground curled into a ball,according to disturbing video postedlast week on Instagram by the advocacy group Asians With Attitudes (AWA). He then ripped off her sneakers and pummeled her again. The assailant then sat the victim up, and appeared to take a piece of clothing off of her, according to the footage. The girl appeared limp by the end of the attack, the video showed. "This was a planned, vicious and inhumane assault . This wasn't bullying, it was torture," one community advocate said in a response video. The victims knew their attackers, according to police, who did not reveal what the kids were beefing about. The victims were both Chinese and the attackers reportedly appeared to be Asian as well. The incident has not been deemed a hate crime, authorities said. One of the girls lost consciousness during the two-hour ordeal, World Journal, aQueens-based Chinese newspaper reported. The family shared photos of the older girl on a hospital gurney with her back covered with massive bruises and a patch of hair missing from right above her forehead, World Journal reported. "The whole process was like an execution," an unnamed relative told the outlet, adding that the victim struggled to even speak after the attack. Police are treating the incident as a robbery, since the group made off with the younger girl's sneakers and the other victim's phone — but the victims' families have called for further investigation. So far, the NYPD has arrested three 17-year-old males, a 17-year-old female and a 16-year-old boy on a slew of charges including felony robbery, assault, gang assault, strangulation, harassment, weapons possession and grand larceny. Four of the alleged attackers were arrested a week after the incident and a fifth was arrested on Monday. The Kissena Park beatdown comes less than a year afterthe terrifying rapeof a teen girl in the same green space. A 25-year-old migrant attacked that victim, 13, typing up her and a male friend at knifepoint in a wooded area of the park. Christian Inga was indicted in September for kidnapping, robbery, sexual assault and rape in the incident, according to officials.

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May 24, 2025

Teens attack 2 girls with bat, shave 16-year-old’s head in NYC park assault: ‘Vile and inhumane’

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Ceremony honors late photographer Sebastião Salgado

Ceremony honors late photographer Sebastião Salgado

REIMS, France (AP) — A mourning ceremony was held Saturday in Reims in eastern France to honor Sebastião Salgado, the celebratedBrazilianphotographer and environmentalist whodied Friday at 81. As his widow, Lélia Wanick Salgado, and their sons, Juliano and Rodrigo, attended the opening of an art exhibition featuring the work of Rodrigo, the gathering turned into a tribute to the late artist. "There are so many things I remember about Sebastiõ," said Salgado's widow. "He was a very lively person. He loved life." A moment of silence was observed in the packed hall, where friends, admirers and fellow artists gathered to pay tribute. Salgado, whose powerful black-and-white photographs captured both the suffering and dignity of people across the globe, had lived in Paris for more than five decades. He had been battling leukemia and was recently dealing with other health issues, according to his family. ___ Follow AP's coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean athttps://apnews.com/hub/latin-america

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Ceremony honors late photographer Sebastião Salgado

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Why God and the Bible were right about your work schedule all along

Why God and the Bible were right about your work schedule all along

Most units of time are based on nature. A day is one rotation of the Earth. A month is the moon's orbit. A year is the Earth's path around the sun. But a week? There's no natural explanation for it.(See the video at the top of this article.) That's why ancient cultures defined the week in vastly different ways: four days in West Africa, 10 in Egypt, 15 in China. The Secrets Of A Meaningful And Lifelong Grandparent-grandchild Bond In the 1930s, the Soviets tried to eliminate the seven-day week entirely — first replacing it with a four-day week, then a five, "to facilitate the struggle to eliminate religion." They were at least right about the source. The seven-day week comesstraight from the Bible. Read On The Fox News App In Exodus,God commands: "Six days you shall work, and on the seventh you shall rest." That short verse carries deep insight. First, it applies to everyone. Second, it treats work not as a necessity, but as a value. The Torah doesn't say "work must be done," but that you shall work. The work itself matters regardless of the outcome. This work doesn't need to be paid. Volunteering andchild-rearingcertainly count as long as the activity is demanding, consistent and productive. The second insight can be seen in the life of Joseph, the only person in the Bible called a "success" — twice. This happened once as a slave, and once as a prisoner – and all the timewith God by his side,whom he constantly cited (even as he, unlike his father Jacob and grandfather Abraham, never spoke with God). Still, work must stop. The seventh day, Shabbat, is not just a break. It's a weekly reset, a day to gather, reflect and reconnect. The Jewish tradition calls it "a taste of Heaven on Earth." Modern culture, though, swings between extremes. For most of the 20th century, work was considered an unfortunate financial necessity to be escaped. We see this in popular music, such as "Heigh Ho," "9 to 5" and "Taking Care of Business" — all songs about how work is meaningless drudgery. 7 Steps To Better Mentoring For Life And Career: Many 'Positive Benefits' Popular commercials in the 1980s and '90s portrayed the ideal life as one of leisure: playing polo,loading fancy dogs into a carand diving off a yacht into the ocean. Then, around the year 2000, everything flipped. Suddenly, busyness became the new badge of honor. A new locution entered the lexicon — thatpeople are "crazy busy." This strange expression became so commonplace that it became thequintessential humblebrag. It even took on a shortened version for those who were too busy to say the whole four syllables — that one's schedule is "crazy." Neither extreme works. The leisure advocates need to understand what modern studies show time and again: Happiness at work is key tohappiness in life. This is partially because we spend much of our time at work, and it is hard to enjoy life if we dislike how we spend most of our work hours. Contemporary research has shown that we can enjoy and find meaning in any job as long as we frame it correctly. This is called "job crafting." A Wharton study found thathospital custodianswho "job craft" and viewed their work as part of "healing patients" were more fulfilled and more successful than those who saw it as menial labor. The biblical Joseph would have been proud. But that's not the whole story. Numerous studies have found that there is a productivity ceiling. The first research on this topic was done by the British Ministry of Munitions, which established a committee in 1915 to assess the work that resulted in equipping thesoldiers in the Great War. They concluded that the British war effort required giving workers a Sabbath — so that the workers would producemore. The report, in part, said that "the evidence is conclusive that Sunday labor, by depriving the worker of his weekly rest, offers him no sufficient opportunity forrecovering from fatigue… Seven days' labor only produces six days' output and … reductions in Sunday work have not involved any appreciable loss of output." For more Lifestyle articles, visit foxnews.com/lifestyle A century later, John Pencavel, a professor at Stanford, analyzed the data using modern tools. He determined that production correlated with work hours for the first 49 hours a week. The rate of production slowed for the hours 50 to 55. However, there was no increase in output from hours 56 to 70. The Economist, in reviewing Pencavel's work, concluded, "That extra 14 hours was a waste of time." And so, we now have the number of what we have termed the "productivity ceiling": It's 55 hours a week. And here's the amazing and maybe divine math. A Sabbath observer can work 10 hours a day for five days a week. He can really only work half a day on the sixth, as he needs to prepare for Shabbat — leaving him with a 55-hour work week. So God was right. The good life isn't all leisure or all work. It's six days of meaningful work, followed by a seventh day of sacred rest. Mark Gerson's new book is"God Was Right: How Modern Social Science Proves the Torah Is True,"published by BenBella Books and distributed by Simon & Schuster (June 2025). This article is the second in a series featured exclusively by Fox News Digital. Original article source:Why God and the Bible were right about your work schedule all along

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May 24, 2025

Why God and the Bible were right about your work schedule all along

Why God and the Bible were right about your work schedule all along Most units of time are based on nature. A day is one rotation of the Ear...

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