國際獅子會年會我國歌無聲 主辦方:真的是音響故障

國際獅子會年會我國歌無聲 主辦方:真的是音響故障

2017-11-18 19:39聯合報 記者楊濡嘉╱即時報導

「國際獅子會第56屆遠東暨東南亞獅子會年會」今天在高雄市巨蛋體育館開幕,大會按照既定流程進行,並播放來自印度的國際獅子會總會長納雷什.阿噶沃國家的國歌和這次年會主辦國的國歌,可是演唱中華民國國歌時,主舞台上的螢幕只播出影片,沒有聲音,司儀馬上帶頭引現場獅友高唱。此次年會執行長黃明聰表示,這是音響故障,包括年會主席周榮家致詞時,讀稿機也故障。

黃明聰說,這次年會,並沒有中國大陸人士參加,唱國歌時音響失靈,完全無關兩岸關係,真的是機器故障。

他表示,昨天彩排時都好好的,沒有想到今天出了一些狀況,正巧唱我國歌時音響出問題,經過了解,單純是音響問題,事實上,主席周榮家準備的英文致詞稿也臨時卡在讀稿機上。

總統蔡英文、高雄市長陳菊今天都到場參加開幕式並致詞,也表達對亞洲各國逾2萬位獅友到台灣的歡迎之意。

國際獅子會第56屆遠東暨東南亞獅子會年會今天在高雄市巨蛋體育館開幕,唱我國歌時,...
國際獅子會第56屆遠東暨東南亞獅子會年會今天在高雄市巨蛋體育館開幕,唱我國歌時,主舞台上的大螢幕只有畫面,沒有聲音。主辦方強調是音響故障。記者楊濡嘉/攝影
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刑事局大隊長驟逝 醫師提醒:心肌梗塞一半沒三高病史

刑事局大隊長驟逝 醫師提醒:心肌梗塞一半沒三高病史

2017-03-23 12:09聯合報 記者趙容萱╱即時報導

王宇澄說,壓力、過勞、年齡(男性55歲以上、女性55歲以上)、體重、抽菸、三高(血壓、血糖、膽固醇),家族遺傳(親人有年輕中風或心肌梗塞者)等,都是心肌梗塞高危險群。

台中市中山醫學大學附設醫院心臟內科主任詹貴川說,心肌梗塞以往心肌梗塞好發於40歲以上的成人,尤其是三高病患,但近年來,心肌梗塞有年輕化,約5成沒有三高病史,唯一共通點,都有抽菸。

王宇澄建議,預防心肌梗塞,除了避免危險因子外,養成運動習慣,三餐定時定量均衡,避免高油脂,定期接受檢查,注意保暖,避免溫差過大等,都很重要;保持標準體重,平時可以量血壓、腰圍,男生腰圍不要超過90公分、女性不要超過80公分,避免鮪魚肚。

刑事局中部打擊犯罪中心。圖/本報資料照片
刑事局中部打擊犯罪中心。圖/本報資料照片

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Rotary and the Gates Foundation host fifth annual World Polio Day to highlight progress in the fight to eradicate the disease

Rotary and the Gates Foundation host fifth annual World Polio Day to highlight progress in the fight to eradicate the disease

By Ryan Hyland Photos by Alyce Henson

After another year of dwindling polio cases, Rotary leaders, top health experts, and celebrities said on 24 October — World Polio Day — that the paralyzing disease has never been closer to being eradicated globally.

A special livestreamed presentation — End Polio Now: Countdown to History — featured the people who work tirelessly to end the disease and reviewed the progress that the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) has made.

Co-hosted by Rotary and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the 45-minute program took place before a live audience at the Gates Foundation headquarters in Seattle, Washington, USA, and was streamed online to viewers worldwide. Mark Wright, news host for the local NBC television station and president of the Rotary Club of Seattle, and CNN news host Fredricka Whitfield led the event.

Wright updated the audience on the latest figures of polio cases saying that the total number of cases caused by the wild poliovirus so far this year is 12, with seven cases in Afghanistan and five in Pakistan. This is a 70 percent reduction from 2016 and is the lowest count of polio cases in history.

“The scale of the effort is staggering,” he said. “Every year 2.2 billion vaccine doses are delivered to 430 million children, through a sophisticated vaccine supply and logistics network.”

Sue Desmond-Hellmann, the Gates Foundation’s chief executive officer, began the event by praising Rotary members and front-line health workers for their dedication to ending the disease.

Desmond-Hellman said, “Nothing would be possible without the efforts of thousands of volunteers across the world who, sometimes in perilous situations, deliver and adminster polio vaccines to protect children. That’s worth celebrating.”

She added, “Those unsung heroes are also in the company of Rotarians. Everywhere around the world, Rotarians show us, with their quiet but inspiring determination, how you can make it possible for 16 million children to be alive and walking.”

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Sue Desmond-Hellmann, the Gates Foundation’s chief executive officer, praised Rotary members for their dedication to eradicating polio.

At the Rotary Convention earlier this year, the Gates Foundation and Rotary renewed their long-standing support for ending polio: Rotary committed to raising $50 million per year over the next three years, with every dollar to be matched by two dollars from the Gates Foundation. The agreement will yield to up to $450 million for eradication efforts.

Rotary has spent more than $1.7 billion on polio eradication since 1985. Earlier this month, Rotary gave $49.5 million in grants to support immunizations and surveillance activities led by the GPEI.

Rotary Vice President Dean Rohrs took the stage to highlight some Rotary members who are raising funds for polio eradication in creative ways. One example was the Rotary Club of Viljoenskroon, South Africa, which is putting End Polio Now piggy banks in local businesses. Members of the Rotaract Club of Curitiba Oeste, Paraná, Brazil, put on a rock concert and donated all ticket sales to End Polio Now.

Rohrs said that Rotarians are holding more than 2,700 events like these worldwide for World Polio Day.

“History is a tricky thing, and for many reasons, we latch onto the same narratives, the same household names over and over again,” Rohrs said. “However, beneath the surface lies complexity, and the unsung heroes — and the heroes that I know best are my fellow Rotary members.”

She added that members “bridge different cultures to reach every community. We persuade parents that two drops of vaccine are critical to each child’s health. We participate in national immunization days on a huge scale, like in Pakistan where we have protected more than 40 million children under the age of 5. And we also spread awareness and raise funds for the cause.”

Dan Kopf, economics reporter for the news website Quartz, talked about the economic impact that eradicating polio could have. He noted that it’s much less expensive to prevent diseases than it is to treat them.

Immunizations are estimated to save low- and middle-income countries $20 billion each year, he said.

According to Kopf, the benefits of polio eradication spending will outweigh the costs by nearly $50 billion between 1985 and 2035. And in that time, 8 million lives will have been saved.

In a question-and-answer session, Jeffery Kluger, science editor at Time magazine, and Jay Wenger, an epidemiologist and director of the Gates Foundation’s polio eradication efforts, talked about the latest developments in the polio eradication fight. Wenger noted that strong surveillance and mass vaccination campaigns “have gotten us to a place where we’ve seen fewer areas of circulation of the virus than ever before.”

“The bottom line here is we have to reach every kid with the vaccine. That’s our target,” Wenger said.

Polio partners have agreed that they won’t say the world is polio-free until traces of the virus are no longer detected in the environment, even if cases of polio-related paralysis disappear before then.

The event included a showing of the trailer for “Breathe,” a feature film that tells the story of British polio survivor Robin Cavendish, who contracted the disease in Kenya in 1958. Paralyzed from the neck down, Cavendish and his wife, Diana, spent the rest of his life advocating for people with disabilities.

The film’s stars, Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy, and its director, Andy Serkis, encouraged the audience by video to keep up the fight to end the disease.

Other celebrities who participated in the event included WWE Superstar John Cena, Nigerian pop star Tiwa Savage, and Paralympian and polio survivor Ade Adepitan.

In his video address to the audience, Adepitan said the day the world is declared polio-free could be “the greatest day of the human race so far.”

Entertainment included a video that featured celebrity adventurer Bear Grylls, who explained the cold chain needed for polio vaccinations. The audience also watched a video that showed how surveillance is playing a crucial role in finding where poliovirus is circulating. The event closed with a video of Rotary members saying what polio eradication means to them.

Claudete Sulzbacher, a member of the Rotary Club of Santa Cruz do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, who has organized more than 1,600 fundraising events, said “We don’t have barriers, we don’t have borders, we can promote peace, and we can change the lives of so many people.”