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(VIDEO) Beloved Big Bear Bald Eagle Jackie’s Anemia Worsens as Blood Cell Levels Drop Again, Vets Now Reveal
BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. — Jackie, the internet-famous bald eagle whose nest has been watched live by millions of viewers for years, has suffered a setback in her recovery, with veterinarians reporting Monday that her anemia has worsened after weeks of treatment at a Southern California raptor center.
The Ojai Raptor Center, which has been treating Jackie since she was rescued more than two weeks ago, said new bloodwork showed her packed cell volume, a measurement of red blood cells in the bloodstream, had dropped to 13%, down from 17% reported in the center’s previous update. “Today’s bloodwork brought some difficult news,” the center wrote in a statement posted to Facebook.
A setback after signs of progress
The drop marks a reversal from earlier signs of improvement. Just days earlier, the center had reported Jackie’s packed cell volume climbing to 17%, a level veterinarians described as encouraging even though they were hoping to see it eventually rise above 30%. Instead, Monday’s bloodwork showed the opposite trend, prompting the veterinary team to escalate its response.
The center said additional advanced diagnostic testing was now underway, along with expedited laboratory work, as staff try to better understand what is driving the decline and determine next steps in Jackie’s treatment. “At this stage, we do not have further answers to share, but we promise to keep you informed as soon as we have meaningful new information,” the center said.
How Jackie ended up in intensive care
Jackie, who is one half of a bald eagle pair whose nest overlooking Big Bear Lake has been streamed around the clock for years, was found on the ground near the lake roughly two and a half weeks ago after a fight with two other eagles. Veterinarians determined at the time that she was already anemic with inflammation affecting her kidneys before the altercation, a condition they believe left her more vulnerable to the attack, though the underlying cause has not been determined.
Shortly after her rescue, Jackie received a life-saving blood transfusion from a fellow female eagle named Spirit, a resident of the CALM Zoo in Bakersfield. Her condition has fluctuated in the weeks since, with the raptor center at times describing her as stable but critical, and caregivers noting small positive signs along the way, including that she had been eating and displaying what staff described as a bit of her characteristic attitude.
A bird known to millions
Jackie and her mate, Shadow, have become two of the most closely watched wild animals in the country through the Big Bear Eagle Nest Cam, a livestream run by the nonprofit Friends of Big Bear Valley that offers a round-the-clock window into the pair’s nest in the San Bernardino Mountains. The organization’s live camera project was launched in 2015 with help from the late Sandy Steers, a wildlife advocate whose efforts helped turn the eagle pair into a global phenomenon.
The couple became parents again this year, welcoming two eaglets in early April that the organization later named Sandy and Luna, a nod to Steers’ legacy. As of Aug. 1, both chicks appeared to have fully fledged, according to updates from the nest cam, even as their mother remained hospitalized more than 80 miles away in Ojai.
This year’s nesting season was not without earlier setbacks of its own. Jackie and Shadow lost their first two eggs of the season in January after a raven attack destroyed them while the pair was away from the nest. The couple persevered, with Jackie laying a new egg in late February that ultimately hatched into Sandy and Luna in April.
A community rallies around the eagles’ habitat
Jackie’s illness comes amid a broader wave of public support for the Big Bear eagle population. Friends of Big Bear Valley recently completed a $10 million fundraising campaign to purchase nearly 63 acres of land near the lake, known as Moon Camp, in order to place it under permanent conservation protection and block a proposed development project. More than 25,000 individual donations helped push the campaign toward its goal ahead of a July 31 deadline, with a $5.5 million contribution from Anna and Greg Brockman, the OpenAI president, ultimately closing the gap.
What comes next
The Ojai Raptor Center, which has referred to Jackie internally by her patient number, 26-519, has asked the public and members of the media to respect the space needed by her veterinary and rehabilitation teams as they continue working through her case. Once Jackie has recovered enough to be released, wildlife officials have said she will be returned to her home range in Big Bear, near the nest she has shared with Shadow for years.
For now, her care team says the focus remains on stabilizing her condition and identifying the cause of her worsening anemia through the additional testing now underway. No timeline has been given for when results from that testing, including specialized screening for possible toxin exposure, are expected to be available, with center staff cautioning that some results could take several weeks to come back.
The uncertainty has left millions of followers of the Big Bear eagle cam anxiously awaiting further updates on a bird whose ups and downs, from lost eggs to a life-saving transfusion, have played out publicly for years. Friends of Big Bear Valley and the Ojai Raptor Center have both indicated they will continue posting updates on Jackie’s condition as new information becomes available in the days ahead.
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How amid the tents and the rubble Gaza is developing once again as an unlikely tech hub.
Even before the 7 October 2023 attack and the subsequent war between Israel and Hamas, NGOs, with the backing of Google, had sought to develop tech start-ups in the Gaza strip. The digital economy was one of the few areas in which young Gazans in particular could seek to earn money for their families.
During the two years of war they struggled for food and water. Forced to move from place to place, most of them lost their homes, their work, sometimes their laptops and plenty lost family members. Now 80% of Gazans are unemployed and have no income. Many of them live amid the rubble in tents. Stable electricity and internet are difficult to come by. And yet co-working hubs have begun to pop up, giving well educated graduates a chance to work remotely for foreign companies as coders, software engineers and app developers. With Israel controlling what comes in and out of Gaza, they still face significant obstacles, not least finding decent internet, electricity and spare parts for their laptops. And with near-daily bombings continuing, Gaza’s wider recovery remains uncertain. Yolande Knell reports on how its tech workers give a glimpse of a brighter, possible future, open to the world beyond Gaza’s borders.
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Total expenses rose 49% to Rs 537 crore from Rs 359 crore in the same quarter last year. Employee benefit expenses increased to Rs 87 crore from Rs 70 crore. Technology expense rose to Rs 61 crore from Rs 50 crore.
Clearing and settlement expenses increased to Rs 90 crore from Rs 55 crore. Regulatory contribution rose to Rs 193 crore from Rs 116 crore. Other expenses stood at Rs 63 crore, compared with Rs 41 crore a year earlier. Depreciation expense increased to Rs 43 crore from Rs 27 crore.
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Oil prices fell to a three-week low on Tuesday as senior US officials raised hopes of a deal with Iran to reopen the key Strait of Hormuz waterway.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent both announced talks had progressed to allow shipments to potentially resume as soon as this week.
The cost of a barrel of brent crude, the global benchmark for oil prices, fell by almost 5% to under $80 on the news of supply disruptions potentially being eased.
But the failure of previous negotiations in recent months to de-escalate the conflict between the US and Iran have led to a volatile oil market, with drivers ultimately being hit by higher fuel prices at the pumps.
On Tuesday, along with the drop in Brent crude, US West Texas Intermediate prices were down more than 5%, to $76 a barrel. Both contracts dropped to their lowest levels since 13 July.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said there had been progress made in discussions on getting more ships through the Strait with Iran and Oman.
“There’s been progress made in those talks, but not finality yet. We’re hoping that will happen very shortly,” he told reporters at the State Department.
Bessent said a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz could be agreed as soon as Tuesday or Wednesday.
There was a “chance we may have a deal today or tomorrow to open the strait and move towards a more normalized position in this conflict,” he told CNBC.
“It would be freedom of movement,” he added, when asked whether Iran would be allowed to charge for ships passing through.
While senior figures in the US government have announced talks have been progressing, no details of what a potential deal may look like have been released.
The Strait of Hormuz has been a central point in negotiations between the US and Iran. Before the conflict began in late February, the waterway handled about one-fifth of global daily oil and liquefied natural gas supplies.
National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day arrives Tuesday, giving fans of the classic baked treat a fresh excuse to indulge, with dozens of restaurant chains, bakeries and hotels offering free cookies and discounted deals to mark the occasion.
The holiday, celebrated annually on Aug. 4, honors one of America’s most beloved desserts. According to estimates from Mrs. Fields, Americans eat roughly 7 billion chocolate chip cookies every single year, cementing the treat’s status as a staple of the American dessert landscape.
Where the chocolate chip cookie came from
The most widely told origin story credits Ruth Wakefield, a chef who ran the Toll House Inn with her husband in Whitman, Massachusetts, with inventing the chocolate chip cookie in 1937. According to the popular account, Wakefield cut up a semi-sweet chocolate bar and added the bits to her Butter Drop Do cookie recipe, expecting the chocolate to melt smoothly into the dough. Instead, the chocolate held its shape, creating the now-iconic cookie studded with distinct chocolate chunks. Wakefield published her recipe in 1938, and Nestlé soon began promoting it on its chocolate packaging and in the company’s advertising, helping cement the cookie’s popularity nationwide.
But the full history may be more complicated than the popular Toll House legend suggests. Pastry chef and author Stella Parks, in her 2017 book “BraveTart: Iconic American Desserts,” uncovered evidence that chocolate chip cookies were advertised in supermarket circulars as early as the 1930s, and that recipes for similar treats called “Chocolate Jumbles,” made with grated chocolate, were published as far back as 1877, decades before Wakefield’s famous recipe.
Even so, Parks has credited Wakefield with playing a pivotal role in the cookie’s lasting popularity. Wakefield having “popularized and developed a recipe that is still in use 100 years later” is an impressive feat, Parks said during an April 2022 appearance on the Gastropod podcast, hosted by the food news site Eater.
Deals at cookie shops and bakeries
Several cookie-focused chains are offering direct deals tied to the holiday. Insomnia Cookies is running a buy-one-get-one-free promotion on its Chocolate Chunk cookies through Tuesday, covering flavors including Chocolate Chunk, Double Chocolate Chunk, Vegan Chocolate Chunk, Vegan Double Chocolate Chunk and Gluten-Free Chocolate Chunk. The deal is valid both in-store and online.
Crumbl, while not running a promotion specifically tied to National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day, is offering customers a free 12-ounce drink through its app when they order, valid August 3 through August 8, though the offer is limited to select locations and flavors.
4th Street Cookie Company is offering 12 free mini chocolate chip cookies to customers who spend $50, limited to one box per order, while Cookies & Dreams, a woman-owned bakery based in Iowa, is hosting a giveaway offering two winners a free dozen of its signature chocolate chip cookies, along with free mini cookies for the first 15 in-store purchases at its two Iowa locations.
Hotel chains and restaurants join in
DoubleTree by Hilton, long known for greeting hotel guests with a warm chocolate chip cookie at check-in, is extending that tradition to the general public for the day. The hotel chain is offering a free DoubleTree chocolate chip cookie to guests and non-guests alike, with no reservation required.
BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse is offering its signature “Pizookie” chocolate chip cookie dessert for $5, though the promotion is technically a standing weekly special that happens to coincide with this year’s holiday. Burger King is also joining the celebration, offering Royal Perks members two free cookies in exchange for 150 crowns redeemed through the chain’s app.
Delivery apps and grocery chains get involved
Delivery platform Gopuff is running two cookie-related promotions Tuesday, offering customers the chance to buy two packs of Basically Cookie Thins for $8, along with a 20% discount when purchasing two packs of Crave Shoppe Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough.
Nothing Bundt Cakes is offering Bundtastic Rewards members 100 bonus points when they purchase any size of the chain’s Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookie cake, while Tate’s Bake Shop is treating the first 1,000 customers at its Lexington Avenue and Madison Avenue locations in New York City to a frozen yogurt cup topped with one of the brand’s signature crisp chocolate chip cookies.
Where to find more deals
Beyond the major national chains, smaller local bakeries and regional coffee shops frequently run their own promotions tied to food holidays like this one, and shoppers are encouraged to check social media accounts of their favorite local spots to see whether they’re participating. National retailers with loyalty apps, including grocery chains like Publix and BJ’s Wholesale, have also historically featured limited-time offers tied to the holiday, making it worth checking individual retailer apps and websites for exclusions, participating locations and exact terms before heading out.
A holiday born from two others
National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day is technically a combination of two related but separate food holidays: National Chocolate Chip Day, observed each year on May 15, and National Cookie Day, observed on Dec. 4. The Aug. 4 date specifically celebrates the intersection of the two, chocolate and cookies together, giving fans of the classic treat a dedicated day each summer to seek out deals and freebies from their favorite bakeries and restaurant chains.
What to keep in mind
As with most retail promotions tied to unofficial food holidays, availability can vary significantly by location, and some deals require app downloads, loyalty program membership or minimum purchase amounts to redeem. Shoppers planning to take advantage of Tuesday’s offers are encouraged to double-check participating locations and any fine print before visiting, since not every chain location may honor national promotions uniformly, and several of Tuesday’s deals, including offers from Crumbl and BJ’s, are either ongoing weekly specials or promotions that extend beyond the holiday itself.
In a 29-page ruling, they said: “We conclude that each of the grounds of appeal raised by each appellant is unarguable.
“Neither appeal has a real prospect of success. We also consider that there are no other compelling reasons for either appeal to be heard.”
The two senior judges also said that the previous ruling was “detailed and thorough”.
Gatwick is the UK’s second busiest airport and one of the busiest single-runway airports in the world.
The expansion will allow the site to be used for the departures of narrow-bodied planes such as Airbus A320s and Boeing 737s.
Following the decision, Barclay said: “We are very disappointed with the Court’s decision. We took this challenge as far as we could because we believed that the decision to allow Gatwick to expand was fundamentally flawed.
“It was not supported by government policy, would only serve to line the pockets of the airport and airlines, and would do so at the expense of local residents and the climate.”
Cagne said: “Residents should be immensely proud of what they have achieved in holding Gatwick Airport’s shareholders to account.
“This proposed new runway will come at a significant cost to both the taxpayer and the planet.”
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