Flat head syndrome usually happens when a baby sleeps in the same position most of the time or because of problems with the neck muscles. This causes a flat spot, either on one side or the back of the head.
Flat head syndrome is also called positional plagiocephaly (pu-ZI-shu-nul play-jee-oh-SEF-uh-lee).
The most common cause of a flattened head is a baby's sleep position. Infants are on their backs for so many hours every day, so the head sometimes flattens in one spot. This happens not only while they sleep, but also from being in infant car seats, carriers, strollers, swings, and bouncy seats.
Premature babies are more likely to have a flattened head. Their skulls are softer than those of full-term babies. They also spend a lot of time on their backs without being moved or picked up because of their medical needs, such as a stay in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
Flat head syndrome can even start before birth if there's pressure on the baby's skull from the mother's pelvis or a twin. In fact, many babies from multiple births are born with heads that have some flat spots.
Being cramped in the womb can also cause torticollis, which can lead to a flattened head. Babies with torticollis have a hard time turning their heads because of tight neck muscles on one side of the neck. Because it's hard to turn their head, they tend to keep their heads in the same position when lying down. This can cause flattening.
Likewise, many babies who started out with flat head syndrome develop torticollis. It takes a lot of energy for babies to turn their heads. So those with severe flattening on one side tend to stay on that side, and their necks become stiff from lack of use.
What Are the Signs & Symptoms of Flat Head Syndrome?
The back of the baby's head is flatter on one side.
The baby usually has less hair on that part of the head.
When looking down at the baby's head, the ear on the flattened side may look pushed forward.
In severe cases, the head might bulge on the side opposite from the flattening, and the forehead may be uneven. If torticollis is the cause, the neck, jaw, and face might be uneven as well.
How Is Flat Head Syndrome Diagnosed?
Doctors often can diagnose flat head syndrome by looking at the baby's head. To check for torticollis, the doctor may watch how a baby moves the head and neck. Medical tests usually are not needed.
How Is Flat Head Syndrome Treated?
Caregivers should always place babies on their back to sleep to help prevent sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), even with possibility of flat head syndrome.
Change the head position while your baby sleeps. Change the position of your baby's head (from left to right, right to left) when your baby is sleeping on the back. Even if your baby moves around during the night, place your child with the rounded side of the head touching the mattress and the flattened side facing up. Don't use wedge pillows or other devices to keep your baby in one position.
Vary positions in the crib. Consider how you lay your baby down in the crib. Most right-handed parents carry infants cradled in their left arms and lay them down with the heads to their left. In this position, the infant must turn to the right to look out into the room. Position your baby in the crib to encourage active turning of the head to the side that's not flattened.
Hold your baby more often. Limit the time your child spends lying on the back or with the head resting against a flat surface (such as in car seats, strollers, swings, bouncy seats, and play yards). For instance, if your baby has fallen asleep in a car seat, take your baby out of the seat when you get home rather than leaving your little one snoozing in the seat. Pick up and hold your baby often, which will take pressure off the head.
Most babies with flat head syndrome also have some degree of torticollis. So physical therapy and a home exercise program usually are part of treatment. A physical therapist can teach you exercises to do with your baby involving stretching. Most moves involve stretching the neck to the side opposite the tilt. In time, the neck muscles will get longer and the neck will straighten itself out. The exercises are simple, but must be done correctly.
If repositioning for 2–3 months doesn't help a child with severe flat head syndrome, doctors may prescribe a custom-molded helmet or headband. While helmets might not work for all children, they can help some kids with severe torticollis.
The helmets work best if used between the ages of 4–12 months, when a child grows the fastest and the bones are most moldable. They work by applying gentle but constant pressure on a baby's growing skull to redirect the growth.
Never use any devices like these without first having your child seen by a doctor. Only a very few babies wear helmets (for example, if the condition is so severe that a baby's face is becoming misshapen).
Flat head syndrome doesn't affect a baby's brain development or cause any lasting appearance problems. As babies grow, they begin to change position themselves during sleep, so their heads aren't in the same position.
When an infant can sit on his or her own, a flat spot usually won't get any worse. Then, over months and years, as the skull grows, the flattening will improve, even in severe cases.


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A pause in April 2006 saw the band back in the studio together for the very first time since those final strained sessions of April 1983, nearly 23 years to the day, to truly begin work on a new album. The recording sessions were once again tense and edgy with each member striving for dominance. Additionally, the idea to document the making of the album proved to be a contentious battle that lent to more disagreements among the four. In little over two weeks Bauhaus had an album ready. The original idea was to let it sit and revisit the songs and polish them once the remaining touring schedule was concluded in 2006 supporting Nine Inch Nails. Ultimately, this idea would not come to pass as tensions during the last stint of touring reached an all-time high, resulting in the end of Bauhaus once more following the tour's conclusion in mid-August. Go Away White, Bauhaus's fifth and officially final album, would be released in 2008, in its raw unfinished state from April 2006.
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Fearing Death, and Photographing the Rituals That Surround It
Lisa Caraway Oliver EdD, GC-C June 1, 2018 May 5, 2018 Culture, Death and Dying, Parental Loss, Uncategorized
Courtesy of the NewYorkTimes.com | By John Otis | Photos by Chanoho Park | 04.30.2019 | 06.02.2018
The question of what awaits after death has obsessed humanity for millennia.
The Korean photographer Chanho Park's fixation took root when he was 11 and his mother, who suffered from pancreatic cancer, was hospitalized. Much of his time was spent at her side, where he heard the anguished screams of the dying and their mourning families and saw the beds of gaunt patients become empty from one day to the next.
"I began to feel more afraid of the pain and screams that they were experiencing than the death itself," Mr. Park said.
After his mother died, he was adrift and bereft. Discord with his father led him to run away from home when he was 14. By his late 30s, he fell into depression, which he sought to ease by taking pictures. Without meaning to, he found himself drawn to burial plots, ritual sites, and places of prayer — synonymous with marking the end of life or remembering those who died. While sorting through his photos, he was struck by a commonality: the image of mothers praying.
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"To the tree, to the stone, to the sea, to the stone Buddha, and to the tombstone," said Mr. Park, explaining that however they prayed, the women had the same wish: that their children were happy. The revelation was so powerful, he said, that it unleashed decades of pent-up pain and yearning for his mother
Afterward, he felt completely healed. But a new burden took its place — the understanding that his own death would bring a similar pain to his wife and children.
"When we recover from the trauma from the deaths of our parents, we face the reality of our own deaths," Mr. Park said. "Perhaps we live a trauma of death for an entire life."
To overcome that fear, he needed to better understand it. He considered that the Korean word for "death" also connotes "rebirth." And he knew that a similar concept — reincarnation — was a tenet of Buddhism and that monks who practice asceticism to attain "buddhahood" have shed their fear of dying.
Mr. Park set out to capture the elements and rituals of traditional Korean funerals, as well as Confucian and Buddhist rites, in a series he calls "The Returned." It was important to put the "emotion" and the "enlightenment" of each experience into the frame.
"I hope to search for and think about the meaning of death through the acts on death, acts of remembering death, and the record of those acts," Mr. Park said.
Since most of what he sought to photograph involved rituals held on sacred ground and sometimes hidden from the outside world, it took time to find and gain access. As an outsider, Mr. Park needed to talk with the "gatekeepers," people who confided heartbreaking, personal life experiences.
"Their sad stories remained and accumulated in my heart," said Mr. Park. "Listening to them and photographing them all became too painful."
He became so overwhelmed at one point, that he was hospitalized and put down his camera for a bit. When Mr. Park resumed the work, he confronted a new question: "How can we exist forever?"
He believes the answer to that is simply: memory.
"We exist as a memory in others' mind," he explained. "'How are we going to be remembered?' It is the same question as: 'How should we live the rest of our lives?' Serious thoughts on death could turn the human life from greed and selfishness to respect and sincerity, from worshiping gold to pursuing reason."
Mr. Park has found solace from the small insights his work has revealed — and from the camera's therapeutic power.
"I believe that photography has some healing power," said Mr. Park. "Photography helps us to face the trauma. If one can face his own trauma through my works, I think it can help to heal and cure the trauma."
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The Patrick Mahomes train keeps rolling on Monday night as the Chiefs head to Denver to play the Broncos in a divisional matchup. The main storyline here is the quarterback battle between the proteges of Kliff Kingsbury. Both Patrick Mahomes and Case Keenum were system quarterbacks in college that had no shot in the NFL.
If you didn't know, Kliff was Case Keenum's quarterback coach at Houston with head coach Kevin Sumlin before the duo went to Texas A&M. Here's a flash back to Kliff in 2011:
Keenum is coming off a playoff run that ended in the NFC Championship and Patrick Mahomes is setting new records every week. This will be Mahomes and Keenum's first start against each other and the first time two former Kliffinites have gone toe to toe at the quarterback position.
The offensive styles are much different, but the success has been similar with the Chiefs off to a 3-0 start and the Broncos are undefeated at home. One of those records will be blemished tonight. Kingsbury was asked if he was going to make it to the game on the bye week, but he just hopes to stay awake long enough to watch the game. He did say that the game should be fun and called Keenum and Mahomes two awesome human beings.
As for the game tonight, the Broncos have an elite pass rusher in Von Miller that will try and slow down the Kansas City red-hot Chiefs offense that is averaging almost 40 points a game. The methodical approach to the Broncos offense sees them at 20 points per game on offense but the Chiefs defense has been porous.
Stop me if you've heard this before, Patrick Mahomes will have to utilize his myriad of weapons tonight and hope that his defense can hang on for the ride. The best news though is that you can hear all the action tonight on Sportsradio 1340 the Fan!
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benefits of living in a democracy.
being a follower of Jesus Christ. That is persecution.
expressing Christian beliefs, or been sacked for wearing the cross.
Christians believe they are experiencing something akin to 'persecution'?
continue to support people facing hardship because of their Christian beliefs.
always prided itself on its tolerance.
Bates suggests that I'm accusing the government of 'Herod-like persecution'.
correspondence between a government's words and actions?
especially when faced by human rights challenges in the courts.
speaks of a kneejerk secularism which deserves to be loudly questioned.
many fronts. Criticism of one aspect of his policy does not detract from that.
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In 1699 the keelmen of Newcastle decided to build the Keelmen's Hospital, a charitable foundation for sick and aged keelmen and their families. The keelmen agreed to contribute one penny a tide from the wages of each keel's crew and Newcastle Corporation made land available in Sandgate.
The hospital was completed in 1701 at a cost of £2,000. It consisted of fifty chambers giving onto a cloister enclosing a grass court. One matter of contention relating to the hospital was that the funds for its maintenance were kept in the control of the Hostmen, lest they be used as a strike fund by the keelmen.
The hospital building still remains in City Road, Newcastle, and was used for student accommodation until recently. The building is now on the Heritage at Risk register. It has stood vacant since the closure of the student accommodation, and was added to the register in 2009.
The building has now been empty for some time and it looks like it is falling into a state of disrepair which is a real shame as it is a fantastic building packed with history.
I lived in Keelman's 1979-1980. There was a beautiful cherry tree in the square in the centre of the building.
The last time I passed the place it was boarded up around the back and it did'nt look like anyone lived their anymore.
I think I will pay another visit some time soon.
This was a wonderful characterful place to live as an undergraduate. I had a great self-contained, large studio flat with a riverside view- unbelievable! It's a short walk into town or the University and was around the corner from the Riverside Club. It was comparatively cheap and I feel very privileged for the two years I spent there. I know the whole landscape has been redeveloped around this area. The council was a great landlord and I really hope they haven't let this building run into neglect.


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Remind your friends and family to vote as well! While we feel that it's important to vote in every election, this one takes the cake. It's your future! Make sure you have a say in it.
Finally, join us Tuesday evening for an election night celebration! Take a moment to appreciate everyone's hard work to support park funding and access throughout Los Angeles County, for all communities.
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Ana Maria Severino de Almeida e Paiva is a full professor at the University of Lisbon. Her work is around artificial intelligence and robotics. She is an elected fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence.

Education and career
Paiva earned her PhD from Lancaster University. In 2013 she became a full Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico within the University of Lisbon. She is also the coordinator of the human-robot interaction focused research group Group on Artificial Intelligence for People and Society (GAIPS).

From 2020 to 2021, Paiva was the Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.

Selected publications

Awards and honors
In 2018, Paiva received first place in the Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Paiva was named a fellow for the European Association for Artificial Intelligence in 2019.

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Living people
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I believe that every role within an organisation is important because quite frankly, if there's a person allocated to do the work, it has to be important otherwise the job wouldn't exist.
But which role do you think is the most important? In any business?
When someone asked a colleague of mine many years ago what she does for living, she replied with "I'm just a receptionist". 'Just' a receptionist!???
I stepped in immediately because I know full well that there is no such thing as 'just' a receptionist. What struck me most was that this person felt like she was a "nobody" in the organisation, that her job wasn't important and that ultimately her role was just to answer phones. And to be honest, this started showing in her attitude toward not only the title but to her work and her interactions with her colleagues and eventually to clients too.
Most people don't realise it however, your receptionist is perhaps the single most important role in your business. How they represent your company, your staff and yourself is critical to business success. But how do they know that their role is this important? The fact is that most of them don't know it and that's because it's never really been communicated that way.
Is your receptionist just a receptionist?
What do you expect of them?
What is the priority of their role?
Are they achieving those expectations?
If they don't understand, how can you convey it to them so that they are able to take more pride in their work and their interactions with their colleagues?
Lastly, I'd like you to consider changing the title "Receptionist" for those uniquely fantastic front of house people who live and breathe what it means to be in the most important role of any organisation – promote them to the title of "Director of First Impressions" and see how their attitude, their work and their ability to make the right impressions for your clients (both internal and external) improve beyond their already outstanding performance.


If you want some background on the author of the quote, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy which is by The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language and Information (CLSA) at Stanford University, has a primer at http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/ .
Many people recognize our topic as it has been addressed in modern popular culture (by music releases by Kelly Clarkson and Kanye West among others). The issue is what do you think?
Do you think that we should make choices even if they increase our potential for pain and distress because the pain only "makes us stronger?" Or, should we examine our lives and our behavior to assess what steps we can take today to place us in a safer and more comfortable position tomorrow?
If I pay my bills on time, set aside an emergency fund of cash and keep my credit card paid in full, does that place me in a safer economic position if I lose my job? Or, should I spend everything that I earn on clothes and use every single dollar on my credit card limit because I want to (and I can)?
Is it going to make me stronger to make decisions that are risky (economically, emotionally, professionally) just because I want to? Or, is it a myth that adding more and more stress and uncertainly in life is preferable (due to the purported strength it imparts if things fall apart)? Does additional stress and trauma result in a more joyful and healthy person or a more traumatized one?


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Turgott keen to continue development under Hendon at the O's
Winger Blair Turgott admits it's great that O's head coach Ian Hendon has the faith in him to deliver the goods at Orient.
Turgott signed a one-year deal with Orient, with an option of a further year, after ending last season with Coventry City.
But Turgott and Hendon go back a long way, with the O's head coach working with the youngster during their days at West Ham.
And the 21-year-old hopes being reunited with his old development team manager at West Ham will help bring out the best of him in League Two this season.