Dr. Raj B. Gondalia Dr. Raj B. Gondalia The Radiology Business 40 Under 40 celebrates professionals driving advancements in radiology while contributing to their organizations and communities. The 2024 list highlights exceptional individuals who are transforming the industry through innovative practices, cutting-edge technologies, and patient-centered care. "On behalf of everyone at Wake Radiology, I am delighted to congratulate Dr. Raj B. Gondalia on this outstanding achievement,” said Dr. Brent Townsend, president and managing partner of Wake Radiology. "Dr. Gondalia's leadership, innovation, and commitment to exceptional patient care make him an invaluable asset to our team and the field of radiology. This honor is a well-deserved recognition of his contributions and vision for the future of our practice.” About Dr. Raj B. Gondalia Dr. Gondalia has been a driving force behind the growth and modernization of interventional radiology at Wake Radiology since joining the team in 2018. In addition to serving as Chair of Radiology at UNC Rex Hospital, he plays a pivotal role on the practice's Executive and Operations Committees, helping to shape its strategic vision while overseeing daily operations. A Duke University-trained physician with fellowships in Vascular and Interventional Radiology and Abdominal Imaging, Dr. Gondalia is known for his dedication to innovation and efficiency. His contributions include: Interventional Radiology at Wake Radiology Under Dr. Gondalia's leadership, Wake Radiology's interventional radiologists use cutting-edge imaging techniques and minimally invasive procedures to diagnose and treat a wide range of medical conditions. The highly specialized radiologists on Dr. Gondalia's team are skilled in using technologies such as fluoroscopy, ultrasound, CT and MRI to guide their procedures with pinpoint accuracy. The procedures they perform include angioplasty, embolization, stent placement and biopsy. These procedures often replace the need for open surgery, which can lead to shorter recovery times and reduced risks for patients. As a physician-owned and physician-led practice, Wake Radiology relies on its team of more than 60 board-certified, subspecialty-trained radiologists to provide excellent patient care and to create an environment where our staff of more than 400 employees can thrive. About Wake Radiology UNC Health Rex Founded in 1953, Wake Radiology UNC Health Rex is proud to be the oldest and largest outpatient imaging provider in the Triangle. As an independently, locally-owned and managed practice, Wake Radiology operates for the benefit of the community. With 14 locations, it offers comprehensive diagnostic imaging services, including MRI, CT, X-ray, Ultrasound, and 3D Mammography. By integrating cutting-edge technologies, Wake Radiology enhances access to specialized imaging services and reduces costs for patients in the region. To learn more, visit www.WakeRad.com. Attachment Dr. Raj B. Gondalia CONTACT: For media inquiries, contact Rivers Agency: [email protected] 919-932-9985Opening day set for Holiday Valley

OTTAWA — The federal government is adding hundreds more types of firearms to its list of banned guns and looking to send some of them to Ukraine. On Thursday, Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc announced the Liberals were adding 324 more “unique makes and models” of what he called “assault-style” firearms to its list of banned guns, taking effect immediately. All current and future variants of these guns would be prohibited. The total number of affected firearms sits around 14,500, according to Public Safety Canada. The announcement comes on the eve of the 35th anniversary of the École Polytechnique shooting in Montreal on Dec. 6, 1989, where a gunman targeting women killed 14 and injured 10 others. Honouring those killed in mass shootings means taking action on gun control, LeBlanc said. In May 2020, the Liberal government announced it was banning some 1,500 types of firearms, promising to compensate gun owners and businesses through a still yet-to-be-functioning buyback program, which the Parliamentary Budget Officer estimates could cost upwards of $750 million, depending on its design. An amnesty order protecting gun owners and businesses with prohibited inventory they acquired lawfully from prosecution is currently in place until October 2025. LeBlanc said on Thursday that the pilot phase of the program targeting businesses is underway, with four having participated. It would be open for all businesses “in the coming days.” “As part of that process, the Government of Canada has committed to the Ukrainian government to identify whether some of these guns could be donated to support the fight for democracy in Ukraine,” he said. Defence Minister Bill Blair said the Liberals reached out in October to see if Ukrainian troops could use some of the guns Canada has banned in their war against Russia . “They confirmed that indeed, some of the weapons that are part of the program, would be suitable,” said Blair. Companies that choose to work with the defence department on the initiative would be compensated, he said. LeBlanc said more gun control measures are coming, with the RCMP studying what to do about the SKS, a popular hunting rifle, which he committed would happen by next February, when the government will come out with its next list. He pointed to how many First Nations and Inuit hunters use this weapon, which makes potentially banning it complicated. National Post staylor@postmedia.com Get more deep-dive National Post political coverage and analysis in your inbox with the Political Hack newsletter, where Ottawa bureau chief Stuart Thomson and political analyst Tasha Kheiriddin get at what’s really going on behind the scenes on Parliament Hill every Wednesday and Friday, exclusively for subscribers. Sign up here . Our website is the place for the latest breaking news, exclusive scoops, longreads and provocative commentary. Please bookmark nationalpost.com and sign up for our politics newsletter, First Reading, here .AI has been a boon for marketing, but the dark side of using algorithms to sell products and brands is little studied

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JERUSALEM — A new round of Israeli airstrikes in Yemen on Thursday targeted the Houthi rebel-held capital and multiple ports, while the World Health Organization's director-general said the bombardment occurred nearby as he prepared to board a flight in Sanaa, with a crew member injured. "The air traffic control tower, the departure lounge — just a few meters from where we were — and the runway were damaged," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on social media. He added that he and U.N. colleagues were safe. "We will need to wait for the damage to the airport to be repaired before we can leave," he said, without mentioning the source of the bombardment. U.N. spokesperson Stephanie Tremblay later said the injured person was with the U.N. Humanitarian Air Service. Israel's army later told The Associated Press it wasn't aware that the WHO chief or delegation were at the location in Yemen. Smoke rises Thursday from the area around the International Airport after an airstrike in Sanaa, Yemen. The Israeli strikes followed several days of Houthi launches setting off sirens in Israel. The Israeli military said in a statement it attacked infrastructure used by the Iran-backed Houthis at the international airport in Sanaa and ports in Hodeida, Al-Salif and Ras Qantib, along with power stations, claiming they were used to smuggle in Iranian weapons and for the entry of senior Iranian officials. Israel's military added it had "capabilities to strike very far from Israel's territory — precisely, powerfully, and repetitively." The strikes, carried out more than 1,000 miles from Jerusalem, came a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said "the Houthis, too, will learn what Hamas and Hezbollah and Assad's regime and others learned" as his military has battled those more powerful proxies of Iran. The Houthi-controlled satellite channel al-Masirah reported multiple deaths and showed broken windows, collapsed ceilings and a bloodstained floor and vehicle. Iran's foreign ministry condemned the strikes. The U.S. military also targeted the Houthis in recent days. The U.N. says the targeted ports are important entryways for humanitarian aid for Yemen, the poorest Arab nation that plunged into a civil war in 2014. Over the weekend, 16 people were wounded when a Houthi missile hit a playground in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, while other missiles and drones were shot down. Last week, Israeli jets struck Sanaa and Hodeida, killing nine people, calling it a response to previous Houthi attacks. The Houthis also have been targeting shipping on the Red Sea corridor, calling it solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. The U.N. Security Council has an emergency meeting Monday in response to an Israeli request that it condemn the Houthi attacks and Iran for supplying them weapons. Relatives and friends mourn over the bodies of five Palestinian journalists Thursday who were killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City at the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah. Meanwhile, an Israeli strike killed five Palestinian journalists outside a hospital in Gaza overnight, the territory's Health Ministry said. The strike hit a car outside Al-Awda Hospital in the built-up Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. The journalists worked for local news outlet Al-Quds Today, a television channel affiliated with the Islamic Jihad militant group. Islamic Jihad is a smaller and more extreme ally of Hamas and took part in the Oct. 7, 2023, attack in southern Israel that ignited the war. Israel's military identified four of the men as combat propagandists and said that intelligence, including a list of Islamic Jihad operatives found by soldiers in Gaza, confirmed that all five were affiliated with the group. Associated Press footage showed the incinerated shell of a van, with press markings visible on the back doors. The Committee to Protect Journalists says more than 130 Palestinian reporters have been killed since the start of the war. Israel hasn't allowed foreign reporters to enter Gaza except on military embeds. Israel banned the pan-Arab Al Jazeera network and accuses six of its Gaza reporters of being militants. The Qatar-based broadcaster denies the allegations and accuses Israel of trying to silence its war coverage, which has focused heavily on civilian casualties from Israeli military operations. Mourners cry Thursday while they take the last look at the body of a relative, one of eight Palestinians killed, during their funeral in the West Bank city of Tulkarem. Separately, Israel's military said a 35-year-old reserve soldier was killed during fighting in central Gaza. A total of 389 soldiers have been killed in Gaza since the start of the ground operation. The war began when Hamas-led militants stormed across the border, killing around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting about 250. About 100 hostages are still inside Gaza, at least a third of whom are believed to be dead. Israel's air and ground offensive has killed more than 45,000 Palestinians, according to the Health Ministry. It says more than half the fatalities are women and children, but doesn't say how many of the dead were fighters. The offensive caused widespread destruction and hunger and drove around 90% of the population of 2.3 million from their homes. Hundreds of thousands are packed into squalid camps along the coast, with little protection from the cold, wet winter. Also Thursday, people mourned eight Palestinians killed by Israeli military operations in and around Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. 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DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware judge has reaffirmed her ruling that Tesla must revoke Elon Musk’s multibillion-dollar pay package Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick on Monday denied a request by attorneys for Musk and Tesla’s corporate directors to vacate her ruling earlier this year requiring the company to rescind the unprecedented pay package. McCormick also rejected an equally unprecedented and massive fee request by plaintiff attorneys , who argued that they were entitled to legal fees in the form of Tesla stock valued at more than $5 billion. The judge said the attorneys were entitled to a fee award of $345 million. The rulings came in a lawsuit filed by a Tesla stockholder who challenged Musk’s 2018 compensation package. McCormick concluded in January that Musk engineered the landmark pay package in sham negotiations with directors who were not independent. The compensation package initially carried a potential maximum value of about $56 billion, but that sum has fluctuated over the years based on Tesla’s stock price. Following the court ruling, Tesla shareholders met in June and ratified Musk’s 2018 pay package for a second time, again by an overwhelming margin. Defense attorneys then argued that the second vote makes clear that Tesla shareholders, with full knowledge of the flaws in the 2018 process that McCormick pointed out, were adamant that Musk is entitled to the pay package. They asked the judge to vacate her order directing Tesla to rescind the pay package. McCormick, who seemed skeptical of the defense arguments during an August hearing, said in Monday’s ruling that those arguments were fatally flawed. “The large and talented group of defense firms got creative with the ratification argument, but their unprecedented theories go against multiple strains of settled law,” McCormick wrote in a 103-page opinion. The judge noted, among other things, that a stockholder vote standing alone cannot ratify a conflicted-controller transaction. “Even if a stockholder vote could have a ratifying effect, it could not do so here due to multiple, material misstatements in the proxy statement,” she added. Meanwhile, McCormick found that the $5.6 billion fee request by the shareholder’s attorneys, which at one time approached $7 billion based on Tesla’s trading price, went too far. “In a case about excessive compensation, that was a bold ask,” McCormick wrote. Attorneys for the Tesla shareholder argue that their work resulted in the “massive” benefit of returning shares to Tesla that otherwise would have gone to Musk and diluted the stock held by other Tesla investors. They value that benefit at $51.4 billion, using the difference between the stock price at the time of McCormick’s January ruling and the strike price of some 304 million stock options granted to Musk. While finding that the methodology used to calculate the fee request was sound, the judge noted that the Delaware’s Supreme Court has noted that fee award guidelines “must yield to the greater policy concern of preventing windfalls to counsel.” “The fee award here must yield in this way, because $5.6 billion is a windfall no matter the methodology used to justify it,” McCormick wrote. A fee award of $345 million, she said, was “an appropriate sum to reward a total victory.” The fee award amounts to almost exactly half the current record $688 million in legal fees awarded in 2008 in litigation stemming from the collapse of Enron.Texas has nation's top recruiting class after landing elite defensive lineman from Georgia

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Union accused of woke 'language policing' after banning pharmacists from referring to patients who faint as suffering from 'blackouts' By JAMES TOZER Published: 18:05 EST, 26 December 2024 | Updated: 18:09 EST, 26 December 2024 e-mail View comments Pharmacists have been banned from referring to patients who faint as suffering from 'blackouts' – because it may be seen as racist. In what critics are calling woke 'language policing', a union has given staff a list of terms to avoid due to their 'racial undertones'. Other phrases frowned upon include describing a shunned colleague as a 'black sheep', or saying unregulated drugs were bought on the 'black market'. Additionally, pharmacists should avoid referring to the use of coercion or intimidation to obtain treatment as 'blackmail'. The list was compiled by Nav Bhogal, a member of the Pharmacists' Defence Association's BAME (Black, Asian, and minority ethnic) network. Entitled 'Addressing racial undertones in the language of pharmacy', he tells colleagues that the words have become 'embedded in our professional vocabulary'. Pharmacists have been banned from referring to patients who faint as suffering from 'blackouts' – because it may be seen as racist. (File image) But they also have 'associations with race, power dynamics, and negativity' which 'can be harmful'. The intervention on the website of the Pharmacists' Defence Association (PDA) – the trade union for pharmacists – comes amid anger at the spread of 'woke' language guides. Earlier this year the British Red Cross was accused of having been 'hijacked by political extremists' after issuing an 'inclusive' language guide clamping down on phrases such as 'ladies and gentlemen'. Meanwhile NHS trusts have told midwives to use the term 'chest milk' as an alternative to breast milk and 'birthing parents' rather than 'mothers'. Free Speech Union leader Toby Young (pictured) said it was just 'performative virtue signalling' Slamming Mr Bhogal's guide, Toby Young, founder of the Free Speech Union, said: 'Penalising old white men for using racially insensitive language doesn't improve the lives of poor black people one iota. It's just performative virtue signalling.' The guide lists terms which – according to Mr Bhogal – associate 'black' with 'something negative or forbidden', and 'white' with 'something positive or permissible'. NHS Share or comment on this article: Union accused of woke 'language policing' after banning pharmacists from referring to patients who faint as suffering from 'blackouts' e-mail Add comment

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