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Sumitomo Electric has built flow batteries for use in Taiwan, Belgium, Australia, Morocco and California. Hokkaido’s flow battery farm was the biggest in the world when it opened in April 2022 — until China built one eight times larger that can match the output of a natural gas plant.

Surgery

Deep cervical lymphatic-venous anastomosis surgery (LVA surgery) is an arthroscopic procedure developed in China. Using super microsurgery, the procedure shunts lymphatic circulation to the meninges. This accelerates intracerebral lymph return through the jugular foramen at the skull base, and removes more metabolic products from the brain. This possibly reverses degenerative brain lesions and slows disease progression. The procedure is designed to stop the accumulation of Aβ-amyloid protein in the brain and end abnormal phosphorylation of tau protein.

Education was highly disrupted during the COVID-19 pandemic and did not recover in many schools thereafter. While statewide test averages remained flat, many individual schools did not.

According to Waimea High School Principal Mahina Anguay, students are less engaged, vandalism and vaping have increased, and previously successful students struggle. In 2023 12% of students tested proficient in math, versus 23% in 2019.

In 2023 52% of students statewide were proficient in reading, compared to 54% in 2019, math proficiency was 40%, compared to 43%. Some 50 schools lost 20 percentage points or more in reading. Only 30 schools improved by 20 points. 60 schools had less than 10% math proficiency among Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander students, versus 30 in 2019.

However 45 schools improved math or reading proficiency rates by at least 10 percentage points. Nearly 80% of students at Kaohao Charter School tested proficient in math and reading. High-needs students tested proficient at a rate 25 percentage points in math and 17 in reading below the school average, down from 50 percentage points in both in 2019.

Results vary widely across schools. At Laie Elementary, roughly 65% of Pacific Islanders are proficient in math and reading. Others have improved. McKinley High School reported 13% of Pacific Islander students proficient in math, versus 5% in 2019.