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• SEOUL, KOREA, Aug. 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- JLK, a healthcare AI titan in Korea, reveals its ambition to dominate US healthcare market with one of the world's largest number of AI-powered advanced imaging diagnosis solutions for stroke.
• JLK is the leading company with the world's largest pool of 11 stroke solutions, including both ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes.
• Rapid AI, founded in 2012 and headquartered in California, USA, is a company that develops stroke diagnosis and imaging software through artificial intelligence.
• Viz.AI is an Israeli company entered into partnerships with large hospitals in the United States to deploy stroke imaging solutions.

• HORSHAM, Pa., Aug. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MRA Group (MRA), a privately held real estate development and client services firm, has announced its acquisition of the former LMG Medical Building, a 40,000 square foot medical office complex situated on over 10 acres, at 1001 S. Broad Street in Lansdale, Pennsylvania.
• MRA has extensive renovation plans to modernize the building façade, deliver energy efficient improvements, and change the name to Lansdale Medical Building (LMB).
• LMB is a well-known medical facility strategically located at the intersection of Allentown Road and Broad Street.
• MRA President & Partner Mike Wojewodka stated, "We look forward to breathing life back into this destination community medical office facility.

• The Kens however, reflecting the popularity of the dolls in the real world, play a mainly decorative role.
• This is all to fix an error that is allowing the real world to seep into Barbie land, with symptoms such as Barbie having an existential crisis.
• This sees him take a journey that is clearly influenced by, and pokes fun at, many aspects of contemporary anti-feminist men’s rights culture.

Barbieland and the matriarchy

• It has been proposed that Barbieland is a matriarchy, but I would argue that their attitude to Kens is instead indifference.
• This is not dissimilar to the grievances of some real-life men under contemporary feminism.
• Having undertaken research on online antifeminist discourses, Ken’s journey from aggrievement to masculine “enlightenment” parallels themes we found in Men’s Rights Activist spaces.

The manosphere and MRAS

• This includes MRAs (Men’s Rights Activists) who claim reverse discrimination and that feminism has gone too far, and Redpillers who claim to have swallowed the “red pill” to see the truth about feminism’s dominance.
• Some of the most well known members of the manosphere are incels (involuntary celibates) a misogynistic community of self identified “beta-males” who want an end to women’s rights which prevent them from getting sex.

Ken’s grievances

• Ken was being “friend-zoned” by Barbie, who despite being “boyfriend and girlfriend” wouldn’t let him stay over at the Dream House, because “every night is girl’s night”.
• This is coupled with a feeling of not being special, as Ken is essentially interchangeable with any other Ken.
• He takes patriarchy back to Barbieland and transforms it to Kendom, where the men change it to a society oriented around men and their power (and horses…).

Redpilled ken

• This redpilled Ken is a hilarious parody of the “neomasculinity” of the pick up artist (PUA) movement, that seeks to restore a masculine-centred world.
• Neomasculinity is about a belief in biological difference, traditional masculinity and heteronormative gender roles.

Finding the real Ken

• But what of Just Beach Ken?
• And what can we learn from this for preventing or managing radicalisation of this feeling of aggrievement in real men or boys?
• Barbie encourages Ken to work out who he is outside of his relation to Barbie, and to learn being Just Ken is enough.

• WASHINGTON, July 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA), the largest non-profit funder of melanoma research, today announced that the RARE Registry for acral and mucosal melanoma has officially surpassed 100 patients, making it the largest registry of its kind in the world and marking an important milestone in advancing cutting-edge research for these rare and difficult-to-treat melanoma subtypes.
• The lack of awareness around rare melanomas compounded with misconceptions about the risks of melanoma makes the registry even more vital for these underrepresented populations.
• "We started the RARE Registry to bridge this divide and address the unmet needs of the rare melanoma community, from patients and caregivers to leading researchers and physicians.
• In addition to launching the RARE Registry, MRA has invested more than $18,575,000 through 45 research awards specifically focused on all rare melanoma subtypes to spur the field.