Archive for September 2021
If it’s Wednesday – it’s Sour Grapes! – Tim Jones
by Timothy Jones, cartoonist Tim Jones is the creator, artist and writer of the widely popular, self-syndicated comic strip, “Sour Grapes” – a comic about “Aesop”, a miserable flying dog and his odd friends, all living in a problematic and troubled world. Sour Grapes is currently published in multiple newspapers in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, California…
Read More“Ron & Jen’s Great Escape” 9-8-2021 – Ron St. Pierre & Jen Brien
by Ron St. Pierre & Jen Brien Elorza’s Controversial Appointment Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza’s taking lots of (justified) heat for appointing a civilian with ZERO law enforcement experience to the rank of Major within the Providence Police Department. Elorza named his city’s Parks and Recreation Director, Michael Stephens, as the department’s Community Relations and Diversion…
Read MoreJohn Tassoni’s RecoveryTV RI debuts in National Recovery Month – Richard Asinof
by Richard Asinof, ConvergenceRI Hosted by John Tassoni, Jr., the program seeks to create a broader audience for conversations around recovery in Rhode Island John Tassoni, Jr., with a distinctive voice schooled in the Rhode Island vernacular, is launching a new endeavor, serving as the host of RecoveryTV RI, with the first show slated to…
Read MoreDr. Peter Hollmann, Brown Medicine CMO, appointed President, American Geriatrics Society
Brown Medicine Chief Medical Officer appointed President, American Geriatrics Society Chief Medical Officer Peter Hollmann, MD, FACP, AGSF to lead 6,000 geriatrics healthcare professionals nationwide Brown Medicine, a primary care, specialty outpatient and sub-specialty medical group practice with over 200 physicians and multiple patient care locations across the state, announces that Peter Hollmann, MD, FACP,…
Read MoreRI State Long Term Care Ombudsman Program – be an advocate for quality care
An Ombudsman is someone who is concerned with protecting the civil and human rights of persons receiving long-term care services. Each state is required by federal law to have an Ombudsman program. Rhode Island has one that is centrally located in Warwick. Their services are always free of charge and all inquiries are held in…
Read MoreFirst Randomized Trial on Mask Wearing. They work. Surgical vs Cloth.
New study is the first randomized trial to show that wearing masks reduces COVID-19 in a real-world setting. Getting more people to wear masks, particularly surgical masks, is effective in reducing COVID-19, according to a new study led by researchers from Yale University, Stanford Medical School, University of California, Berkeley, and Innovations for Poverty Action…
Read MoreYour RI Weather Today, Sept. 7, 2021
by John Donnelly, meteorologist Tuesday 9/7/21: High pressure settles in and keeps us sitting pretty in seasonable and dry late summer air. Low 60’s greet early risers and we’ll warm to the upper 70’s under brilliant sunshine and a light and variable breeze, southwesterly if I’m forced to pick a direction. We will have to…
Read MoreOur Networking Pick of the Week – New England Medical Innovation Center
Refresh, Restart, and Renew at the NEMIC & RI Bio Rhode Island Lifescience, BioTech, and Med Tech Industry Networking Party on Wednesday, September 8th from 5 to 7pm at Askew Bistro & Entertainment Venue, 150 Chestnut St, in downtown Providence. This is the 1st Rhode Island Lifescience, BioTech, and Med Tech Industry Networking Party in…
Read MoreWaterFire back in Providence – David Brussat
by David Brussat, Architecture Here and There Providence has gone two years, since the fall of 2019, without WaterFire, the capital city’s signature work of art, a blessing to citizens of Rhode Island and visitors from much farther afield since 1994. It is the event’s usual crowds of people, maybe 40,000 or more, a dozen…
Read MoreMusings on Leadership Styles – Mary T. O’Sullivan
By Mary T. O’Sullivan, MSOL The management guru, Abraham Zelnick theorized that there was a good reason that managers managed, and leaders led. It all has to do with which one is willing to take a risk. “For those who become managers, a survival instinct dominates the need for risk, and with the instinct comes…
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