We enjoyed our first Cozumel nightfall yesterday! Being on the "West" side of the island, we were treated to a spectacular sunset over the water. The colors emerged slowly as the sun disappeared behind clouds. For a moment, we feared the clouds would obscure our view. Moments later, however, the sun peeked through the bottom of the clouds and the sky burst into colors…red, orange, purple, yellow.
It was brilliant and though I wasn't able to capture the full beauty of what we experienced, I just wanted to share this captivating moment with you. God's glory revealed!
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Did you ever consider that when we worry or stress, that it reflects poorly on God? It suggests that perhaps we don't really believe that there is a God up there who sees us and knows our needs. For non-believers*, it makes sense to choose money, possessions, and the world. Matthew 6:25 says that "the pagans run after all of these things and your Heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness and all of these things will be given to you as well." We are God's children. Yes, we are going to go through difficult times but He is not going to let us go. God has been demonstrating his sovereignty to His people for thousands of years. This sovereignty became very real to me this past spring when my husband and I experienced some difficult times. Instead of choosing old patterns of anxiety and depression though, I choose to take a chance, to believe in God's word and instead choose peace.
This passage in Matthew 6:25-34 where God tells His believers "do not worry" comes right after a passage where He calls His follower not to store up treasures in heaven. I don't think it is a coincidence that Jesus ordered things this way. As believers in Jesus Christ we are just like the rest of the world in that we need to work in order to make money, which we then use in order to provide for ourselves and our families. While this is not wrong (2 Thessalonians 3:10), it becomes a problem when we start to believe that it is really us who provides and not God. That it is up to us to create a safety net for ourselves and that by doing so we are ultimately in control. I think that we've all been guilty of this, I know that I certainly have been. However God has shown me that just like Matthew 6:24 says, that I cannot live in fear and that I am not in control. I have to choose. "No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money." Jesus makes it clear that in this life we can either put our trust in our possessions or in Him.
It makes sense for non-believers to choose their possessions (the world) because they don't believe in Him. Pastor Francis Chan explains that: "If you don't believe in God what else are you going to do with your life? Your going to try to get as much stuff as you can on this earth. Your going to try to have as much fun as you can on this earth. Your going to try to look as good as you can. Do all these things to your face, your body – to try to look young as long as you can, and live as long as you can because that's all you've got" (Chan). While non-believers aren't all bad – we are all sinners – and many do great things like volunteer and donate to charities; they don't know a Savior like we do, the ultimate source of peace. Jesus calls us as believers to live radically different lives. People should stop and ask us why we aren't worried about things like the rest of the world. They should be wondering about where our source of peace and contentment comes from.
We have the hope and the knowledge that our treasures are in Heaven and unlike our earthly money and possessions, they will not fade away (Matthew 6:19-21). When we really believe that we have a Heavenly Father watching over us, one who has a plan for our lives (Jeremiah 29:11), then we won't worry anymore. He promises that He'll provide (Matthew 6:25-27) and hasn't He? Hasn't this always been the case? If you look back through the Bible and even through your own life, hasn't God always come through? We are His children. While I don't have any of my own yet I can imagine that when I do someday that I am going to do everything within my power to protect them; I'm never going to stop loving them. Yes, there are going to be times when the fall down or when they struggle. Some of those times I'm going to let them. That doesn't mean that I'm a bad a parent because I'll be close by watching them and guiding them. These struggles that we encounter are often our greatest times of growth. They build us up and move us forward. The same goes with God and His children. This God that we believe in has demonstrated His sovereignty over His children for thousands of years.
The sovereignty of God has been something that I have read about and seen in my life but experienced in a very real way this past spring when my husband and I experienced some financial struggles. It was about late March when my previous boss announced to us at a staff meeting that we would be closing the business at the beginning of the summer. Two days later my husband received an email which stated that the university where he is getting his PhD from made a mistake and that the grad-students in his department would only be receiving half of what they were normally paid for the next few months. During this time, I also believed that there was a chance that I could be pregnant. It was quite a week. While in the past I would have totally flipped out and have had been ridden with anxiety and depression, I actually saw this string of events as an answered prayer.
You see the day before my boss had announced that we would be closing the store I been in deep discussion and prayer with the Lord. For months now, I had had this fire, this desire in my heart to do something new. To love and serve in a new way. Not that I wasn't doing this in my current job – the women I worked with were amazing women of God and our store was known as a haven – its just that I felt called to do something else. The problem was that I had no idea what that was! I knew that I wanted to serve and work with people but didn't know if that meant working at non-profit or volunteering. The thought that I could be carrying a child was thrilling to me and gave me visions of being a stay-at-home mom with a little side business and blog (this). I just had no idea but I knew that I had to do something soon or else I was going to go crazy, so I asked the Lord for a sign. If that week that I experienced was not a sign, I don't know what is.
And so instead of choosing to become doubtful in the Lord and to rely on myself to pull us through I did my best to trust in Him. I worked to put my worry at the door and to believe that He would come through. And He did. Over and over and over again. In the months to come the business where I had worked at did close, my husband, did receive a pay-cut, and we found out that we were not pregnant**. During that time I also started my own business, invested in Making Room for Peace, volunteer on a regular basis, and I have tithed more than I have ever tithed in my life. I have grown in leaps in bounds in my relationship with my husband and with God; and have developed new friendships that continue to blossom. I can't begin to list all of the ways in which God has showered me with blessings. This isn't to say that things were not and still aren't hard. It was really disappointing to learn that I was not pregnant and we have had to tighten our budget in order to make it stretch however this time has been an incredible time of provision. This is how God desires it to be for all of us. When we die to ourselves and make room for peace, we are creating space for God to come in and fill us up.
Chan, Francis. Stop Stressing About Money - Part 2. Crazy Love. 2009.
* A general term given to describe those who don't follow Christ.
** We did not experience a miscarriage.


Don Jazzy was nowhere to be found. Dbanj also rushed to the crowd to fetch his erstwhile friend, Don Jazzy, but he had disappeared.
Meanwhile one of the wishes of the birthday boy for the night was for the duo (Don Jazzy and D'banj) to perform together on one stage. He made D'banj to promise he would do, once more, an award winning duet with Don Jazzy, just to tell the world no more war. But Don Jazzy had left the bash. Lol.
At this point, D'banj said: " Uncle Ben, what you are asking me to do, I have done already. As I was coming up the stage, I saw him sitting over there and I told him I will call him on stage for a joint performance, but now he has run away. If you want us to do a duet, talk to Don Jazzy; It's in his hands because if he agrees tomorrow, we will do it next tomorrow. I am ready anytime".
Dear Don Jazzy, we hear you! We know you are smart..lol!
D'banj, Don Jazzy: Are we to expect collaboration from heavyweights?


Carole is the founding director of GrassrootsHealth, a 501c3 non-profit public health promotion organization. She is the leader of the D*action project, an international project who's mission is to solve the world's vitamin D deficiency epidemic. Currently there are approximately 10,000 participants from all over the world who are sponsoring the project by testing their vitamin D levels twice a year and answering a health questionnaire to document the outcomes of having vitamin D serum levels in the 40-60 ng/ml range. The project already has the largest group in the world of people with those levels. It is expected that within 5 years, reductions in the incidence of 70% or more will be seen in breast cancer, colon cancer, multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes and some infectious diseases. The organization has just launched the first Protect Our Children NOW! project in San Diego to reduce the incidence of pre-term births by approximately 50%. Carole lives in San Diego with her husband, Leo L Baggerly, a physicist who is also working on some research aspects of vitamin D, specifically with the kinetics, the movement of vitamin D through the body.


Requirement of one-page CV in Germany?
To my knowledge, its widely accepted to have a two-page CV in Germany. Do MBB and other consulting companies still require a one-page CV which would be quite packed or is the two-page alternative also accepted?
So which is the right answer? I personally follow a simple rule: 1 page for every 10 years of work experience. Even though squeezing your experience might seem difficult it will eventually pay off: a crisp and focused CV demonstrates your ability to synthesize, prioritize, and communicate the most important points about your profile. MBB appreciate that ability very much.
Entry-level candidates, especially those straight out of college, should keep their CV to 1 page. Experienced professional, will find it difficult to squeeze everything onto 1 page, but it is still very important to keep it concise.
Can you suggest certifications to strengthen profile for consulting?


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Expressing love can improve your health
3:13 February 8, 2013
It was an odd question, given that Floyd isn't a medical doctor; he holds a doctorate in communication. And the treatment the young man wanted a prescription for was no pill or potion – it was kissing!
Floyd is a professor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. He studies the relationship between affectionate communication and physical health. During his talk in Texas, Floyd discussed a study in which he found that kissing can lower cholesterol levels, decrease stress and increase relationship satisfaction.
"This young man was really intrigued by the kissing study. He was going to go home and tell his wife all about it. He said, 'Well, you're a doctor. Write a prescription and say that for my health it's very necessary that I get kissed a whole lot more,'" says Floyd. "I said, 'Well, I'm not that kind of doctor, but I'll write the prescription. See what it does.'"
Kissing isn't the only way to boost your health. Floyd and other researchers have found that communicating our positive feelings for others through words or actions offers a wide range of health benefits. These include lower stress hormones, lower cholesterol, lower blood pressure and a stronger immune system.
Floyd notes that these benefits happen when affection is expressed, not merely felt. And affection can be expressed in many ways, all of which are good for you. You can say "I love you," write a letter, send a text to say "I'm thinking about you," give a hug, kiss, hold hands, snuggle, or even do a favor that shows you care – such as finishing that chore your partner hates.
"One of the things I give as an example of the link between affection and health is the way you feel when you're having a really horrible day, and everything's going wrong. And in the midst of that stressful day, you see somebody that you care about and they put their arms around you and give you a hug," he says. "That hug may not change anything about what's going bad in your day, but it can change everything about the way you feel in that moment. It feels like all of your stress is just melting away."
These benefits of affection apply not just to the person receiving the affection but also to the person giving it. In fact, you can get a health boost from expressing affection even if the receiver doesn't reciprocate.
Much of Floyd's research focuses on the stress response – that "fight or flight" reaction that can save us in times of disaster, but on a chronic level can contribute to heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, depression, digestive disorders and more.
In his lab, Floyd can induce and measure the stress response in his subjects. In one study, he found that writing a letter expressing feelings of affection lowered people's stress levels back to normal faster than simply thinking about a loved one, journaling, meditating or doing nothing.
"That started to get us thinking about whether we would be able to find group differences between people who reported higher amounts of affection in their lives, as opposed to people who don't," says Floyd. "What does this mean for people who have a comparatively high level of affection in their close relationships? Do they also have differences in, say, their ability to react to stressors?"
To find out, Floyd surveyed people to measure the affection levels in their daily lives. [Take the survey for yourself.] Then he brought them into the lab to induce a stress response and measure its intensity.
He found that the highly affectionate people didn't have as strong of a stress response as their less affectionate peers. For example, they didn't produce as much cortisol, and their blood pressures didn't spike as high. Being affectionate seems to offer protection against the effects of stress.
The key may be the hormone oxytocin, often known as "the bonding hormone" because it is released during activities such as sex, childbirth and breastfeeding. It is also released during nonsexual affectionate touch.
"Oxytocin's effects on the body are primarily ones of calming, of warmth. It's very much a feel-good hormone," explains Floyd.
In one study, Floyd and his colleagues showed that people with more affection in their lives release more oxytocin during stress than people with very little affection. This may explain why affectionate people don't get as stressed out as others.
Now, Floyd is moving beyond asking how affection affects the body, and asking why. He is exploring the genetic underpinnings of human affection and asking why some people are naturally more affectionate than others.
"To me, I go back to the very first human relationship that any of us ever has, and that's with our mothers, the person who gives birth to us, who obviously has a vested interest in our survival," he says.
He lists behaviors that a mother uses to protect and nurture her infant: holding, covering, nursing, rocking. Floyd believes these fundamental behaviors morphed into the affectionate behaviors we see in adults, such as hugging.
"These behaviors, at least nonverbally, come out of our most fundamental survival needs," he says. In prehistoric times, before the advent of baby food, mothers even pre-chewed food to give their babies. Floyd says that as gross as that may seem today, it might be the precursor to kissing. Chew on that idea for a while!
"When I think about the ability of an affectionate act to soothe us and ameliorate our stress, I think about it as an example of a survival behavior. So that's my theoretic picture of why affection is something that we do in the first place, where it came from, why we value it, and why we feel like we suffer when we don't get enough," Floyd says.
If we evolved to be affectionate, and it offers so many health benefits, why are some of us less affectionate than others? Certainly, environment plays a role. Research shows that people who are raised in affectionate families are more likely to be affectionate. And there are regional differences in terms of how people choose to express affection. These differences occur over time, as well. Floyd notes how the portrayal of affection on television has evolved drastically over the last few decades.
"What you see men do on TV today – hugging each other, for instance – you never saw Ward Cleaver do that," he notes.
But Floyd wanted to know if there was more than environment involved. Because his earlier research showed a strong link between affection and oxytocin, he decided to look at oxytocin receptor genes. He will be presenting his results at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association in London this June.
He found that variations in one of these genes predicted variation in people's levels of affection. This effect was extremely pronounced in people who had low attachment security.
Attachment security is a person's level of security in personal relationships. People with high attachment security don't worry about abandonment or, conversely, fear that they will lose themselves in their relationships. People with low attachment security, however, feel these fears acutely.
People who have low attachment security and this particular genetic variation were generally less affectionate than people without the variation. They were also less affectionate than highly secure people with the variation.
"And so another way of saying it is that we found a gene-by-environment interaction. There was a genetic effect on the oxytocin receptor gene, but it was modified by people's attachment security, which is an environmental variable," Floyd explains. Although Floyd notes this is only one gene among many that may influence affectionate behavior, he and his team believe the finding helps illustrate the link between genetics and social behavior.
The gene in Floyd's study is also associated with other traits related to affection, such as empathy and altruism. The ASU scientist is currently working with people in careers where the ability to communicate affection and empathy are critical, such as nursing or counseling.
Over the past couple of years, he has worked with medical residents at St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix on developing empathy and empathy communication. The residents practice on a simulated patient – a dummy controlled by a nurse who can talk to the doctor and manipulate vital signs like heart rate. The dummy also wears a video camera on its head, so the doctors can see how they appear to their patients.
"So we sit in a room afterwards and watch the video, and I'll stop the tape at different points and say, 'Look at what you are all doing.' Invariably every one of them is standing at the foot of the patient's bed with their arms crossed and a scowl on their face," he says. "And I say, 'What does this look like from the patient's point of view? How easy would it be for you to not scowl, and stand there with your arms pleasantly folded in front of you?' It's just that they're not aware of their behavior."
The experience makes him wonder about who is most likely to be aware of their behavior naturally, and who is most inclined to learn those skills through training. He wants to find out if there are more effective ways to train doctors, and others, to improve their bedside manner.
Next spring, Floyd is taking a sabbatical at Stanford Medical School to continue his work. This time, he'll genotype medical students to find out what kind of receptor genes they possess. He will connect this information with their natural or learned ability to show empathy to patients and families.
"I'm hoping we'll be able, over time, to help educators better understand the behavioral side of empathy and affection and just showing a patient and their family that you care. Because I know that doctors do care. It just doesn't always dawn on them to display it," he says.
Floyd's work has received attention outside the clinical setting, as well. He was invited to be a consultant on the "Million Moments of Touch" advertising campaign for Nivea, the skin care company, in 2012. He supplied talking points and conducted additional research for the company, which extolled the many benefits of touching.
"Basically getting people to touch more and use their products to make them more touchable," Floyd says.
The company enlisted Dr. Drew, a medical doctor, as their celebrity spokesperson. Floyd recalls feeling amazed when he saw Dr. Drew on a talk show with Joan Rivers discussing the benefits of touch.
"It was this absolutely surreal moment because I realized I had scripted this entire interview. It's wild when you turn on the TV and you see Joan Rivers speaking your words!" he says. "Dr. Drew did a marvelous job. He made it understandable but not dumbed down. I never in a million years would have thought of that as a way to get the message out about the importance of affection, but it did. It was a lot of fun, too!"
How affectionate are you? Take the quiz and find out.
Major funding for Floyd's research has come from The National Institute of Mental Health. The Hugh Downs School of Human Communication is a unit of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Diane Boudreau, diane.boudreau@asu.edu
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Teaching Your Kids Multiple Languages
Young children have the ability to learn and retain multiple languages at the same time. What enables them to decipher between the different languages and not confuse them? And as a parent, what do you need to know about raising a multilingual child? What are some of the benefits as well as the challenges?
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SARAH CREEL: Children's ability to learn languages is astonishing and has led many parents to push their children toward being multilingual. But there is because it's part of their heritage or just because they want to give their kids a head start on an increasingly global market place. Many parents are dealing with the issues of teaching their kids multiple languages every day. I'm Sarah Creel, an associate professor at the University of California, San Diego, and this is Parent Savers Episode 79.
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JOHNER RIEHL: Welcome everybody to Parent Savers broadcasting from the Birth Education Center of San Diego. Parent Savers is your weekly online on-the-go support group for parents of newborns, infants and toddlers. I'm your host Johner Riehl, thanks again to all of you for being loyal listeners and for checking us out each week. We love hearing from you on our Facebook page and our twitter accounts whenever we interact with you especially on our taping Saturdays where you can be a virtual panelist so come join the conversation. Follow us on Facebook, follow us on twitter and we'll tweet out about great topics like we were having today. You can also join the Parent Savers club, our members could access to bonus content after each new show plus special giveaways. And as you know if you download the free Parents Savers app on the android and iTunes market place, you will get notified as soon as a new podcast is available usually on Wednesdays. So, thanks for joining us.
For today's topic we've got a pretty full studio of myself and producer Erin and some panelists as well so we'll go around the room so you guys know who the voices are that you are listening to and what our kid situation is. So we'll go around the room and introduce ourselves. My name is Johner, I'm your host, and I have three boys, a 6 year-old, a 4 year-old and a 2 year-old Quinner, Whitaker and Zyler, and we only speak one language.
ERIN ESTEVES: The language of love.
JOHNER RIEHL: But Christina, her mom speaks Spanish, everyone thinks she speaks multiple languages, but she doesn't. So anyway, Erin…
ERIN ESTEVES: My name is Erin Esteves and I am the producer, I am also known as OG Mama Sita. I have one boy who is just about to turn 2 and in our home, I speak to him in French, English and Spanish and we also sign, so, it's kind of chaotic at times.
JOHNER RIEHL: I guess that treff , forget about sign language so maybe we are, we could talk about that a little bit
SUNNY GAULT: I'm Sunny Gault and I am the owner of New Mommy Media, which produces Parent Savers, Preggie Pals, Boob Group and Twin Talks. And I've got two little boys at home, Sayer and Urban. Sayer is my oldest, he's 3, Urban's about 18 months and I'm pregnant with twin identical girls due in December and one language in our house but we're very upset about that because we live in San Diego, I feel like they should be bilingual at least in Spanish, I feel like a bad parent.
MARGARITA SALAZAR: Yes, Margarita Salazar, I'm an attorney by trade and a mommy full time. I have twin boys, are 3 and half years old and we mostly speak English. We were told that autistic children should be focused on one language and it's very difficult for them to pick up two. I disagree with that little theory because my kids actually know a little bit of Spanish. We speak fluent Spanish in our home with my parents who are mostly primary Spanish speaking, and my kids also do some signing, but it's not American sign language nor is it any other, I think, recognized sign language. I think it's a specific where they use just sort of terms for specific things that my children want to get. So, it's not a full language, it's more of a tool so they'll use, give more very specific symbols. But there a little bit of signing, not part to the extent at the Esteves house.
SARAH CREEL: Are these signs that they invented or are signs that they were taught?
MARGARITA SALAZAR: No they didn't invent, although they do other things that they've invented. They're actually from their program. They have an at home autism special aid program. And they picked up some language that they follow through at school
JOHNER RIEHL: We'll talk about that I think a little bit more. Beston joins us as well..
BESTON BARNETT: My name is Beston Barnett, I'm a furniture maker and a primary caregiver of a 9 year-old. He is named Django, he speaks both Spanish and English quite fluently. My wife Andrea, born in Mexico, speaks to him only in Spanish or at least that was originally our rule but rules have long since gone. I guess all of our hard work is done at this point where our 9 year-old sort of all worked. I'm here for the post mortem I guess.
JOHNER RIEHL: And then Sarah, our expert…
SARAH CREEL: Hi, I'm Sarah Creel, I just turned 36. I'm a professor at UC San Diego. I currently have zero children, although I do have one cat.
JOHNER RIEHL: Before we jumped into today's topic, were actually doing a news headline today and from time to time here on Parent Savers, we talk about an article that we see on the news or that maybe our listeners have seen and posted to our Facebook page and kind of give you our thoughts about it and usually they're sort of funny, sometimes they're shocking.
So today's headline, and I'll read it for everyone here in the studio. Is that Simon Cowell, and if you guys don't know him, he is a television personality who's on the American Idol and now on the X-Factor, big in the UK and the US. His girlfriend is pregnant. He's announced that when his baby is born, he doesn't want to watch. He doesn't want any part of it. He says he'll be as close by as he can but he's not interested on getting up close and personal with his girlfriend when she delivers the first child together. And here's what he said, "I know it sounds awful but it's a little like, you don't want to go in to the restaurant while they're making your dinner, you don't want to go back into the kitchen. I just think there certain things that you shouldn't see and this is one of them. I'll be very close by but, No, I've no interest on being out there".
SUNNY GAULT: So he's not going to be like in the delivery room is what he's saying?
JOHNER RIEHL: He doesn't want to see the act of the birth happening.
SUNNY GAULT: Right, okay. So, it's not that he's not going to be there for his child overall, it's that it's just the birthing process
JOHNER RIEHL: He's not saying like that but he doesn't want to see how the sausages made as it were
SUNNY GAULT: He contributed to the sausage
JOHNER RIEHL: Exactly!
SARAH CREEL: He provided the sausage
JOHNER RIEHL: It's one of those interesting things that, you know I hear dads sometimes too, that'll brag like "Oh, but we changed one diaper" as you were one sports athlete that said something like that and it's just surprising that we have evolved a little bit in this day and age that there's now this kind of expectation that this new point is shocking whereas, you know, maybe, when I was born, or I mean when Erin was born, it would've been odd for dads be in the delivery room and be part of it and now he comes out with this and it's a shocking and surprising standpoint
SUNNY GAULT: Are you really shocked that Simon Cowell said that doll?
ERIN ESTEVES: I don't think I'm shocked because it's Simon, one, but I think, anything that coming out of his mouth would be sort of as par for the course, you've heard him as a judge, I mean he's said some pretty harsh things to some of the contestants
JOHNER RIEHL: I think I'm just so surrounded or maybe there's two parents here or maybe with the community that I'm in that I'm surrounded by a lot of hands on dads that couldn't imagine not to be in that room to be there with their wife if they have a choice
ERIN ESTEVES: But also keep in mind that Simon Cowell is British, I'm not trying to generalize or sound pejorative in anyway but it's just that he comes from particular from his generation like you were talking about generational differences is he comes from a very kind of hands off culture. Actually, I kind of commend him for coming forward and saying that because it is controversial because here, like you said, there are so many hands on dad, but again I think it's culturally specific. I think it's American and particularly I think it's kind of like the crunchy dads are more hands on.
MARGARITA SALAZAR: I'll be very honest and if I get some e-mails I'd totally understand, but I didn't want to see my own, delivery of my children. Not so much the down south part. I had a C-section and I was cut open in a very vivid way that I guess vivid was sort of parents who have gone through that experience is not pretty. It isn't pretty. In fact throughout the entire procedure I was nauseous and something I share with very few people, when the doctor came to hand me my child, one of the first baby that came out, I could not touch him, I couldn't look at him because I felt like I was going to vomit. So I said "No, please don't bring me my baby because I'm going to throw up". They were bringing me the baby and I was physically sick. So, I totally get Mr. Cowell, I understand.
JOHNER RIEHL: So you totally think it's a good idea, right?
MARGARITA SALAZAR: No, if you know you're queasy, he knows atleast, I had no idea, I mean I was under the impression that I was going to be "Give me my baby!" …"Oh no please take him away". I was so concerned about throwing up on my chart.
ERIN ESTEVES: See, that's a really good point because she's saying that he's coming from stands of like he's going to get sick, he's afraid he's going to pass out or faint. So he's trying to say face in that way as opposed to "I'm a man and I shan't be bothered
SUNNY GAULT: I think you guys are giving Simon Cowell a lot of credit right now, I think he just didn't want to get his hands dirty and he wears white t-shirt and he could get dirty
JOHNER RIEHL: Nice. Alright thanks, well put a wake out on this one and on our site on the episode page
JOHNER RIEHL: Thanks everyone for sticking with us to the news headline. Today's topic is teaching your kids multiple languages. It is one that I know a lot of families face especially if they were raised speaking multiple languages. But there is even families that do not speak multiple languages that are introducing to their kids then as well.
So today were talking with Sarah Creel, an associate professor of Cognitive Science at the University of California San Diego, thanks for joining us Sarah
SARAH CREEL: Thank you for inviting me.
JOHNER RIEHL: Are babies equipped to handle multiple languages at once? How many? What's their capacity?
SARAH CREEL: Definitely! Probably trying to learn six languages at once would be a bit much because we know that there's only so much time of the day that you do need a certain amount of exposure to a language to be able to learn it. However, if you look across the world, more than half of the world's population speaks at least two languages on a regular basis and so thinking that bilingual was some sort of an unusual thing, that's really not the case. So definitely, in fact in reserve better than anyone else at learning multiple languages
JOHNER RIEHL: Right, I mean in a sense they speak none or they speak a lot of different languages. They come out because they not wired to speak anything specifically right? And so, they're making sense of the whole world and it's all kind of either one of the same or they're speaking a little bit of everything as they communicate
SARAH CREEL: Yes, so there's evidence that very early in life infants are able to distinguish any pair of speech sounds that you can find in any language across the world. And then gradually they would narrow down to just distinguishing the speech sounds on their own language. There are some exceptions to that, but by in large, it does seem like they're quite good in distinguishing speech sounds for any language so, they're pretty much equipped to learn any language or set of languages.
JOHNER RIEHL: I guess its evolutionary right? That they're going to need to be able to adapt like that? What is it about their brains; I guess its survival right?
SARAH CREEL: Well certainly its survival, do we have a lot of questions about how language evolved in the first place. Maybe the things that allow human beings to learn languages aren't specific to a particular language so you need to have some flexibility. Even as adults, people don't think about this a lot, but as adults, we learn tons and tons of new words e.g. iPhone twerk… But so, we do need to be flexible and to be able to incorporate new information in to our language knowledge and so for infants, they certainly wouldn't want to be too specialized to one particular language.
MARGARITA SALAZAR: Can I ask you a question Sarah, when we talked about languages, are you referring to the sounds or does that also include for instance, accents?
SARAH CREEL: That's a really good question. So you can have multiple different kinds of accents in the same language even within the same country. I actually grew up in South Carolina and has very different accent than you find in California and then you can have accents due to, if someone is a new speaker of Spanish and they're speaking English they're going to sound a little different than an American English speaker. If I speak Spanish, I'm definitely going to have a funny accent
MARGARITA SALAZAR: Just like Simon Cowell's accent versus our accent versus the Australians. It's all English but…
ERIN ESTEVES: The kids recognize like you're saying because my niece and nephew, their father is actually British. He said "You know mommy and daddy speak differently. Mommy says tomātō, and daddy says tomätō"
BESTON BARNETT: I think when I first realize our sort of experimentation with my son was working, and this was very early on, and when I realize that he said "no" differently to me and to Andy. It was like clear he was already getting it. He only knew one word, but he already knew it in two languages. They know the reasons why it's not exciting to hear NO for a one year old and in that regard it was good.
JOHNER RIEHL: Are there languages that it's easier for babies to learn or learn harder? Or since they're so adaptable is it all kind of the same?
SARAH CREEL: It really is all kind of the same. Any language is going to have harder parts and easier parts, but in terms of what, if you look across the worlds languages of how infants acquire those languages the basic patterns look pretty similar. It doesn't seem like there's really a language that's harder versus easier. If you want to talk about reading acquisitions, once you get to the age work that were trying to learn to map their speech on our presentations on to text, that's a different cuttlefish. English is let me just say, a messed up photography. Inconsistent spellings on correspondence rules, turns out that English is a bit harder to learn to read in another language, so maybe we should not be teaching our kids English.
MARGARITA SALAZAR: I have a question in regard to phonics, the phonetics of different languages. I had read that while in utero, the child which is exposed to his or her mother speaking in multiple languages will have a wider spectrum oh phonetic markers to cling to as they speak themselves. So, is that?
SARAH CREEL: I'm not familiar with this study that you're talking about in particular, but, certainly we do know that in the last trimester that there's some sound information that gets in. I generally tell my students that I haven't been there but my understanding is that it's what's called the low past filter. The uterine environment is low past filter so that kids can hear something that maybe sounds like Charlie Brown's teacher sound pattern. They do pick up on information about the rhythm of their language and I can imagine that the kids hearing languages of different rhythmic classes that that might aid them later on.
MARGARITA SALAZAR: You haven't too much credence to what I was reading, because I don't think it was a study.
SARAH CREEL: It might be.
JOHNER RIEHL: Half the kids in the world I think you said are multilingual?
SARAH CREEL: At least half the people in the world as far as individual children.
BESTON BARNETT: I know a joke about this one, it's real quick. If you speak 3 languages they call you trilingual, and you speak two they call you bilingual but if you speak one they call you American
SARAH CREEL: It's sad but true
JOHNER RIEHL: Is there some sort of brain advantage or a way that maybe those people who do speak multiple language, are they using more of their brain because they speak multiple languages?
SARAH CREEL: There is this myth that people only use 15% of their brains, that would be a big problem, it turns out that people that are missing large proportions of their brain, that does make life more difficult for them, it's quite a mess that people only use a small proportions of their brains. However, yes there is some evidence that bilingualism gives you certain cognitive advantages. One really obvious advantage is that you can talk to more people but at a more cognitive level it's thought to make you better at cognitive inhibitions. You're better at doing things like where you have a series of stoplights and one of them turns green so you go and then suddenly it turns red again and then you have to stop. Being able to stop yourself is a type of inhibition. The reasoning is that, the reason that we think that bilingual children, adults, even older adults are better is that because they have two languages they're constantly having to inhibit or sort of hold back one language when they're talking in the other and vice versa. They're used to inhibiting things all the time.
JOHNER RIEHL: So, I want to ask you guys, do you feel like you're doing that stopping?
ERIN ESTEVES: Well, see that's perfect! Because when I said at the intro that it was chaos, I fail at the inhibiting aspect because sometimes I open my mouth and I honestly do not know what language is going to come out. Particularly, if it's something that requires a sudden response
SARAH CREEL: Probably, some amount of language mixing goes on in any household there's a little bit of evidence that at least very early in language acquisition, language mixing is associated, and this is one paper, that the language mixing is associated with slightly slower vocabulary acquisition, but it's not clear that that continues throughout life and certainly there are numerous cases where it's fine to the child's advantage to hear both languages
ERIN ESTEVES: Okay, number one that's a relief and it kind of an explanation, because I have noticed that he does kind of seem slow on the uptake as far as picking up vocabulary. But I keep telling myself, if he's not speaking by 14, then I'll be concerned.
SUNNY GAULT: Can I say my experience is a little interesting, it's a little quite closer to maybe what your son is experiencing. My parents came to United States speaking only Spanish and I was raised obviously with my parents but I went to American school and I also watch Saturday morning cartoon which were in English. I learn English from my environment, but I also had Spanish from my home and what I had to do was translate from my parents which was a never ending frustrating experience for me. As a child, I'm six, five, whatever it is, and I go to the grocery store, to a restaurant, to just a business office, to the post office, back to my school, and my mother would say "tell him" or "ask them x" and then I have to sort of repeat . I think I learned the distinction between one language and another language very-very early not by any effort
MARGARITA SALAZAR: Well, I know that in my household, when I was growing up, my father was always adamant. You finish that sentence in the language you started it in. Period. We had two sets of dictionaries, one in English and one in Spanish. Don't throw a word in from the other language, go look it up. But now that he's much older, he's mixing and his language is I always tease him about it now but I still can't stop myself from mixing languages with the two year old
JOHNER RIEHL: Beston, what's your experience? What was your experiment?
BESTON BARNETT: I think we, because of the positions we found ourselves in, two parents, two languages, were kind of stuck with the conventional approach. There were periods in which you're certain his English is better than his Spanish. Though not markably so. But there were periods in which, he definitely favored English over Spanish. And one thing I found is that he had a natural sense if someone understood English even if he'd never heard them speak a word of English. He could kind of tell and he'd know he could get away with English. That would might have been just a sort of a shine of spirit more than anything to do with languages because now he is completely comfortable walking up to you and switching languages.
SUNNY GAULT: Your son's name is Django right? Was he also educated in, I'm assuming he went to American schools
BESTON BARNETT: No, he goes to a public school but is entirely bilinguals, half day English, half day Spanish. I could talk about that alike but not everybody in the country has the opportunity to go to place like that. My sense is that learning to understand languages there going to get them, if you speak that around them, someone is speaking them around them there's any reason for them to be paying attention to that person at all, they'll going to learn them. But learning to produce the language is really a separate challenge that can be pretty tricky and the only way you can guarantee that the kid will learn to produce the language is if there's some utility in it for them, like there some reason for them to do it. They really can't get around it, they got to speak in this language or that language.
JOHNER RIEHL: Alright, let's take a quick break of the conversation and then we'll do the second half of the show right after this
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JOHNER RIEHL: Welcome back everybody, today were talking about teaching your kids multiple languages with Sarah Creel. Beston was talking, before the break about the difference between processing language and producing it.
How is it? What have you found? Like with the kids brains and how do they used that?
SARAH CREEL: Well a lot of the research that I'm mentioning here is I can't take credits for it, a long tradition of people for decades who have been researching this area. One of the things that they found does concern this issue of producing the language versus understanding it, and one thing that seems pretty important in getting kids to produce both of the languages that they're hearing is having fairly equal amounts of input. We know even from monolingual kids that the amount of input is really important and if you get more language input you're going to have a bigger vocabulary and so for kids being raised bilingual, probably the same, you want to give them lots of input in both languages. And if one language gets way less of attention or input, sometimes kids will understand that language but not necessarily be willing to talk to you in that language even though they understand it. So, you might speak to them in Spanish and they might reply in English even though. So, they understood what you said but they refuse to reply back in the language you spoke to them in.
JOHNER RIEHL: And then maybe we reached a point where it's going to be even as they grow older it will be harder and harder for them to produce it?
SARAH CREEL: You know, that may be the case, if you can get them into a situation where there just getting lots of exposure that's probably the best way to combat that. But you know it's something that just interacts with trying to bring up your kids and keep them off drugs and off the stripper pole and all the other things that can go wrong and so I think with a lot of parents that just their priorities, you pick your battles. But, if that's something that you have some control over then it can't hurt.
JOHNER RIEHL: If I decided I want to learn Spanish or Chinese or something, like what would happen if I try to go through that with my kids? Is that a horrible idea because I'm going to hold them back or…
SARAH CREEL: Not necessarily, I would recommend, if you're proposing that you learn say Mandarin and you teach it to your kid, there's a little bit of evidence that children can take sort of noisy inputs so that they can take a language and put this not perfect and can sort of figure out the rules of the language even though their input is not perfect but, by in large, you want them to be learning from a fluent speaker and you also want to be learning from a fluent speaker. There does seem to be general tendency for kids up to say age 6 and maybe a little older to have a little bit of an advantage at learning the language to native like proficiency. We don't know how much that has to do with brain factors so their brains are more plastic, they're more moldable, they can still, as adults, were more sent in our ways in both terms of daily habits and in terms of our brains. But there's also the that fact that, if I move to France I'll probably going to have other English speakers around me who I can speak to whereas if I had a 5 year-old kid, they would just get stuck in school and would become completely immersed. Some of those factors may affect child-adult differences but there does seem to be general trend sort of leading up to puberty for kids abilities to natively acquire a language to decrease
MARGARITA SALAZAR: So, it's 0-13, maybe, 0-14, without sticking a pen in it.
SARAH CREEL: There's also a lot of variability in adults and that probably has to do with social identification and effort and amount of exposure, we really don't know yet.
JOHNER RIEHL: Alright, we've filled up this episode again and thanks everyone for listening and thanks for joining us in studio Margarita and Benston. This has been Parent Savers, for more information about teaching your kids multiple languages were going to put links up on the website on the episode page so check that out on www.parentsavers.com . We're going to continue the conversation from members from our Parent Savers Club after the show. Were actually going to talk a little more about television and I think it's something Margarita talked about a little to hear that anecdotally a ton of people learning languages in a new place from televisions. I've got a question about that so stick around members of the club for that. This is Parent Savers empowering new parents.
SUNNY GAULT: Hey Parent Savers! This is Sunny, I'm one of the producers on the show. I'm sitting here with Bianca Pratt, she's the owner and founder of Simple Nature which is a company that makes all natural organic baby care. So, Bianca, welcome to the show.
BIANCA PRATT: Hi
SUNNY GAULT: I should start out the interview by saying were recording this at the ABC kids expo and poor Bianca has been in indeed there was so many people interested in her product she's been talking about it all day long and her voice is starting to fade a little bit
BIANCA PRATT: Oh! It's more than fading
SUNNY GAULT: But you could still talk about your product and talk about how great it is and we definitely want to hear about that. Bianca, I know it's a new company, so, tell us a little bit of why you started the company.
BIANCA PRATT: Ok, well, I've always been in the beauty industry, it's been my passion. I oddly had a strange obsession with skin care from a very young age. My family always said, "Oh you're going to do something in the skin care industry", you know they were absolutely correct. I'm a medical aesthetician, I'm a licensed cosmetologist, I'm actually also a laser technician and laser safety officer. I have done a lot of training, I have worked on many, many people trying to help them with their skin ailments and really aid them and help them to feel better about themselves and educate, so it's really been my passion. It really wasn't until, a few years ago, when I started to realize that some of the woman products that I was using were actually really irritating my skin, and I have sensitive skin myself when I was pregnant, now that was the scary thing because you told so many things "don't use this, don't eat that". I was beyond terrified, first time parent, I just didn't want to do anything that was going to harm my child. I went way overboard.
SUNNY GAULT: What makes your company different? Would you say?
BIANCA PRATT: We are actually really stylish. Now I felt like, I don't know, some companies are kind of stuck in the 80's. There were changes that needed to be made as far as appeal. This isn't a company just for babies, it's a company for women who are pregnant, newborn through adult, especially people with skin sensitivities like myself.
SUNNY GAULT: So what are some of the products that you are really proud of?
BIANCA PRATT: Oh my goodness! I did create two product lines of fragrance varieties. I have my fragrance free, this is for the truly, truly sensitive skin types where you just cannot handle any kind of essential oils or certain types of natural extracts. We have a formulism fragrance free minus the essential oils. And then of course we have the extremely popular Orange smoothie, and I can't tell you enough how popular this stuff is. It's a very proprietary blend, there are other companies that have orange and tangerine kind of stuff but also very unique and I think you really have to try it and to see for yourself definitely the orange smoothie if you like mild fragrances, they're uplifting, and smell really fresh and yummy and make your bath time experience specially for you and your child. You're just going to love it. You are going to fall in love. And let me add, all lotions, they absorb very quickly. You don't have to spend forever massaging and trying to get the product to sink in and it lasts for hours. It literally lasts all day.
SUNNY GAULT: Well we do encourage all our listeners to go to www.simplenature.co because they're offering a special discount if you enter promo code ABC20 you'll get 20% off of your order and that's for a limited time only so be sure to head on over there and check out as soon as you can. So Bianca, it was so nice having you on our show and I appreciate you coming out even though I know you're losing your voice, you're such a trouper.
BIANCA PRATT: Thank you so much. I really appreciate that
JOHNER RIEHL: That wraps up our show for today we appreciate you guys listening to Parent Savers don't forget to check out our sister show Preggie Pals for Expecting Parents and our show The Boob Group for Moms who Breastfeed their Babies as well as our new show Twin Talks for Parents of Twins, there's a ton of stuff I know that Margarita will be interested in. And I think everything we do applies to you as well. Next week we'll be talking about libraries and what a great resource they are for new families and new parents. This is Parents Savers empowering new parents
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PhD alumna works with Burmantofts Senior Action to create a sculpture in Leeds
School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies news Tuesday 30 April 2019
Louise Atkinson, a practice-based PhD graduate from the University of Leeds, recently completed a community sculpture commission for the Yorkshire Sculpture Triangle.
The commission was part of a series of community engagement pilot projects for Yorkshire Sculpture International 2019, which will take place from Saturday 22 June to Sunday 29 September 2019 across Leeds and Wakefield.
The festival will feature work by international artists across the four venues, as well as major new outdoor sculpture commissions across public spaces in Leeds and Wakefield, inviting visitors to interact with art in unexpected places in the cities. Yorkshire Sculpture International will be free to attend, encouraging new audiences to engage with sculpture.
For the Making Matters commission, Louise worked with participants from Burmantofts Senior Action to co-design and make a sculpture using plywood and emulsion. Through a series of workshops, participants explored different sculptural techniques alongside visiting the collections at Yorkshire Sculpture Triangle venues.
The sculpture alludes to the histories and architecture of the local area, including Burtons Textile Factory, Burmantofts Pottery, St Agnes Church and Beckett St Cemetery. The work also references the 1960s high rise tower blocks which are a feature of the area, replacing the older terraced houses.
Louise Atkinson is a visual artist, curator and researcher, specialising in the relationship between art and ethnography. She uses a range of media and techniques, including artist books, postcards, drawing, textiles, sculpture, and curating, often tailoring her approach to meet the requirements of the project or artwork.
Louise was awarded a practice-based PhD from the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds, in 2016.
Throughout her practice-based research, she often collaborates with other artists and participants to create co-produced installations, engaging with notions of authorship and usership. Through producing work in conjunction with others, and exploring tactile methods of engagement, she has become more interested in socially engaged practice and co-creation.
Louise Atkinson said:
"Working with the community group on the project encouraged me to be more ambitious and create my first piece of public sculpture. I also often work across forms of social engagement, education and making, so this opportunity was a great way to bring those aspects together.
"Working with participants was integral to sharing the history of the area and enabled local people to contribute their own stories to the project. The group were supported and encouraged to make and discuss art which enabled them to be more confident and experiment with sculptural materials.
"This project was made possible with the support of Arts@Leeds. I am particularly grateful to Burmantofts Senior Action, David Sowerby for his technical skill and expertise in constructing the work, and East Street Arts for their generous donation of space at 34 Boar Lane to paint the sculpture."
Kath, one of the members of Burmantofts Senior Action who participated in the project, shared her experience of taking part:
"When I first started I didn't have a lot of confidence and struggled with arthritis, but by the end I felt really proud of what I'd achieved."
Sheila, Burmantofts Senior Action Volunteer Activities Coordinator, also felt that the project provided an inclusive environment where everyone was able to get involved.
Sheila said:
"The participants have been part of the whole experience, every member was made to feel important. They were able to share their stories and we found out things about them that nobody ever knew. It's been a privilege to be part of the project."
The sculpture is now situated at Burmantofts Senior Action for the community to enjoy.
See here for more news about Yorkshire Sculpture International and how the University of Leeds is backing this major new initiative that will celebrate Yorkshire's status as a leading destination for modern and contemporary sculpture.
Images: Yorkshire Sculpture International Making Matters project with Burmantofts Senior Action and Louise Atkinson. Photo by Tomasz Fraczek.
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July 2, 2018 August 8, 2018 tillers2214Leave a Comment on The Foreign Secretaries (18): Patrick Gordon Walker
The Foreign Secretaries (18): Patrick Gordon Walker
Patrick Gordon-Walker, 1964-65
Labour, under Wilson
If Patrick Gordon-Walker is remembered at all, it is primarily for losing his Smethwick seat in the 1964 general election. In the end, that defeat brought to a shuddering halt to what had been his seamless ride to the top hitherto.
He was the son of an Indian civil servant and spent most of his childhood in the Punjab, before being educated at Wellington College and Christchurch, Oxford. By the mid-'thirties he was a don, but one whose attentions were increasingly drawn to politics. He spent much of 1930, and some of 1933 in Germany; he became a passionate opponent of appeasement. His fluent German led him to broadcasting for both the BBC and the Americans. His response to entering Belsen is still powerful today. You can read about it here, and watch below.
In 1945, Gordon-Walker entered the Commons. His rise was rapid. By 1946, he was Herbert Morrison's PPS. The following year, he was a junior minister in the Commonwealth Office. By 1950, he was secretary of state for the Commonwealth and in the cabinet. He would become the party's leading specialist on the Commonwealth, an institution in which he placed a great deal of what would prove to be misplaced faith.
Like all of his generation of Labour, the 1951 defeat would mean he was in opposition for the next 13 years. He became a prominent supporter of Gaitskell, and a moderniser, looking to weaken links with the trade unions, ending the commitment to further nationalisation and opposing unilateral nuclear disarmament. When Bevan died in 1960, he was a natural choice for Gaitskell and so became shadow foreign secretary. He was talked of as a possible future leader, but when after Gaitskell's sudden death, he ran George Brown's campaign.
His defeat in Smethwick bucked the national trend. Whilst nationally there was a swing to Labour, Smethwick saw a 7% swing to the Conservatives. The West Midlands had seen large-scale 'new Commonwealth' immigration, and the Tories played the race card.
Gordon-Walker, with his strong Commonwealth links, had opposed the Commonwealth Immigrants Act, 1962. The same West Midlands that gave us Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech in 1968 gave us one of the more disgraceful political campaigns in modern history. Apart from the infamous slogan (right), Tory canvassers also spread rumours that Gordon-Walkers daughters had married black men (so-called mixed marriage was deeply controversial at the time), that he had sold his house to blacks and that there would be lepers hospitals opening in the area. Wilson called the result 'a disgrace to British democracy', but Labour now knew they would have to contend with white working-class racism. Gordon-Walker's career was the collateral damage. The story is well told by Tides of History.
For all that, Wilson still intended him for the Foreign Office. A safe seat was found in Leyton, East London. Immigration was not a big issue in the campaign, though the far right taunted him (see below): Denis Healey famously punched the fascist Colin Jordan and, certainly, the East End was hardly immune to the charms of racism. The Tory press enjoyed caricaturing him as the Hampstead liberal forced upon reluctant cockneys. The voters certainly proved resistant, and he lost, and lost the Foreign Office with it.
He won Leyton in 1966, and retuned to cabinet. It was, however, a brief diminuendo and he left office in 1968.
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Total Hip Arthroplasty 2019
PROSPECT Publications on Total Hip Arthroplasty
Pre-/Intra-operative Interventions
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Notes on PROSPECT recommendations
PROSPECT provides clinicians with supporting arguments for and against the use of various interventions in postoperative pain based on published evidence and expert opinion. Clinicians must make judgements based upon the clinical circumstances and local regulations. At all times, local prescribing information for the drugs referred to must be consulted.
Grades of recommendation and levels of evidence
Grades of recommendation are assigned according to the overall level of evidence on which the recommendations are based, which is determined by the quality and source of evidence: Relationship between quality and source of evidence, levels of evidence and grades of recommendation.
Pain after total hip arthroplasty and aims of the PROSPECT review
Total hip arthroplasty is a common surgical procedure and is associated with significant postoperative pain. Adequate analgesia with minimal side effects allows for early postoperative mobility, optimal functional recovery and decreased postoperative morbidity (Joshi 2019).
The PROSPECT group has previously published a review on postoperative pain management for total hip arthroplasty in 2005 (Fischer 2005), updated in 2010 (esraeurope.org: total-hip-arthroplasty-2010). The aim of this guideline is to provide clinicians with an updated evidence-based approach to pain management for elective total hip arthroplasty.
The systematic review and recommendations were updated using the recently modified PROSPECT methodology (Joshi 2019), focusing on postoperative pain outcomes while assessing the effects of analgesic interventions in reference to the use of basic analgesics (paracetamol and NSAIDs or COX-2 selective inhibitors) and balancing risks and benefits of analgesic strategies.
Recommended: Pre- and intra-operative interventions
'Pre-operative' refers to interventions applied before surgical incision and 'intra-operative' refers to interventions applied after incision and before wound closure
Analgesics should be administered at the appropriate time (pre- or intra-operatively) to provide sufficient analgesia in the early recovery period
Exercise and education Pre-operative exercise and education are recommended (Grade A) for positive effects on postoperative pain and function.
Paracetamol and NSAIDs/COX-2-selective inhibitors The basic analgesic regimen should include combination of paracetamol (Grade A) and an NSAID or a COX-2-selective inhibitor (Grade A) administered pre-operatively or intra-operatively and continued post-operatively.
Anaesthetic technique Spinal or general anaesthesia is recommended (Grade A).
Neuraxial anaesthesia has been recommended because it is associated with improved postoperative outcomes compared with general anaesthesia (Memtsoudis 2019). However, its benefits with regards to postoperative pain control remain inconclusive.
Dexamethasone A single intra-operative dose of dexamethasone 8–10 mg IV is recommended for its analgesic and anti-emetic effects (Grade A).
Local/regional analgesia A single shot fascia iliaca block or local infiltration analgesia is recommended (Grade D) due to analgesic effects.
In recent meta-analyses no more falls were reported with fascia iliaca block (Cai 2019; Gao 2019), which is recommended as preferred nerve block when a nerve block is indicated for total hip arthroplasty.
The PROSPECT group emphasises that with modern surgical techniques and the correct implementation of basic analgesia and multimodal analgesia (paracetamol, NSAIDs and dexamethasone) the added value of local infiltration analgesia techniques still warrants further validation with well-conducted studies.
If the patient has received spinal anaesthesia for the surgery, intrathecal morphine 0.1 mg could be considered (Grade D).
There was significant conflict amongst the PROSPECT members regarding the use of intrathecal morphine 0.1 mg, and a consensus could not be reached. If intrathecal morphine is used, the PROSPECT group reminds clinicians of the risks and benefits associated with its use.
In favour of intrathecal morphine is the documented analgesia it provides for at least 24 hours postoperatively and the limited adverse effects with small doses (≤0.1 mg morphine) (Bai 2020; Albrecht 2020).
However, pruritus and postoperative nausea and vomiting are associated with intrathecal morphine (Kuchálik 2013; Damevski 2011). It was thought that even if the incidence of these adverse events may be relatively lower with intrathecal morphine 0.1 mg, they may still delay ambulation and oral intake, and influence patient satisfaction (Kuchálik 2013; Damevski 2011).
Indeed, adequate multimodal analgesia with paracetamol, NSAIDs and dexamethasone, without intrathecal morphine, together with more recent surgical techniques, may be sufficient to provide patients with good pain relief (Andersen 2014; Coenders 2020; Fraser 2018).
COX, cyclooxygenase; IV, intravenous; NSAIDs, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.
Recommended: Postoperative interventions
'Postoperative' refers to interventions applied at or after wound closure
Paracetamol and NSAIDs/COX-2-specific inhibitors The basic analgesic regimen should include combination of paracetamol (Grade A) and an NSAID or a COX-2-selective inhibitor (Grade A) administered pre-operatively or intra-operatively and continued post-operatively.
Opioids Opioids should be reserved as rescue analgesics in the post-operative period (Grade D).
Interventions that are NOT recommended
Analgesic interventions that are not recommended * for pain management in patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty.
* It is possible that analgesic approaches not recommended in this review due to limited analgesic efficacy and/or concerns of adverse effects may be appropriate in situations where one or more of the primary recommendations are contra-indicated or otherwise not appropriate to use. Also, it may be appropriate to use additional analgesic interventions beyond the primary recommendations in patients with an anticipated higher than average risk of strong postoperative pain (e.g. chronic opioid use; chronic pain states; or significant psychiatric disorders).
COX, cyclooxygenase; LIA, local infiltration analgesia; TENS, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation.
Overall PROSPECT recommendations
Overall recommendations for peri-operative pain management in patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty
Pre-operative and intra-operative interventions
Pre-operative exercise and education (Grade A)
General or spinal anaesthesia (Grade A)
Paracetamol (Grade A)
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or cyclo-oxygenase-2-selective inhibitors (Grade A)
Dexamethasone 8–10 mg IV (Grade A)
Single shot fascia iliaca block or local infiltration analgesia (Grade D)
If the patient has received spinal anaesthesia for the surgery, intrathecal morphine 0.1 mg could be considered (Grade D)
Opioid for rescue (Grade D)
IV, intravenous.


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A historic house in Reading that has connections to a local church could be up for an extensive renovation if plans are approved.
Carlisle House in Oxford Road was built as a villa around 1845.
It is Grade II listed owing to its design, which is thought to have been the work of local architect John Billing.
The house was originally built as a grand house for the clergy serving Trinity Church in the Victorian era, but eventually became a private house for one of the eminent men of the town.
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A brief history of the building states: "One of the most significant occupants of 118 Oxford Road was building contractor McCarthy Edward Fitt who was resident from 1901 until he died in 1915, his wife continued to live there until 1925.
"Mr Fitt established his company's workshops and yard at the eastern end of the original large plot belonging to 118 Oxford Road.
"His contracting firm were specialist in monumental masonry and were credited for building significant local buildings including Henley Town Hall and the Reading Corporation Art Gallery."
When the family left, the house was then subdivided into four apartments in the 1930s.
Now, the current owners of the house, Turner Property Ltd has applied to increase the number of apartments there by two and conduct extensive additions and renovation work.
Carlisle House, 118 Oxford Road, Reading. The plan is to increase the number of apartments from 4 to 6. Credit: Weston Co Architects
Currently, there are two one-bedroom apartments in the house, with a basement apparently being unused.
The plan proposes adding two two-bedroom apartments, with one in the basement (lower ground floor) and one on the first floor.
It also involves extensive alteration works to the building, which includes substantially changing the entrance to the house for future occupants.
A new stepped access would be provided to the lower ground floor, original external steps would be reinstated to the ground floor flat, and the current southern entrance would be widened, with the addition of a new step and archway.
The proposed southern elevation for 118 Oxford Road, Reading. Credit: Weston Co Architects
Furthermore, Turner Properties has applied to build a terrace at the top floor, change windows, doors and the plant room, build a cycle store and conduct landscaping improvements.
Although it is addressed at 118 Oxford Road, the house can best be seen from Trinity Place.
The proposed east elevation of 118 Oxford Road, Reading, showing the new top floor terrace and entrances. Credit: Weston Co Architects
The application to add two apartments to the house and the extensive works was recently submitted to Reading Borough Council.
You can view it by typing reference 220487 into the council's planning portal.
The Holy Trinity Church it backs onto is also Grade II listed.
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F-Score for financial stocks: an update
In a previous post in August 2015, I presented my idea of a systematic score sheet for picking stocks in the financial sector. It is inspired by the Piotroski F-Score, a well-known checklist for quickly analyzing if a company's fundamentals are improving. Piotroski's F-Score does not apply to financial companies, like banks and insurance firms, so I made my own score sheet based on which pieces of information I thought were more important to selecting quality investments in those types of companies. The criteria for inspecting a company's fundamental data in my system are:
1) If Net income is positive, score 1, otherwise 0
2) If Return On Assets latest year is greater than ROA previous year, score 1, otherwise score 0
3) If Operating cash flow is greater than Net income, score 1, otherwise 0
4) If Ratio of long-term debt to total assets latest year is equal or less than Ratio of long-term debt to total assets previous year, score 1, otherwise 0
5) If Shares outstanding latest year is equal or less than Shares outstanding previous year, score 1, otherwise 0
6) (New, as in no existing equivalent, I introduced this test myself) Financial leverage (total assets divided by total equity) latest year is equal or less than Financial leverage previous year, score 1, otherwise 0
For every point that a company matches, it gets 1 point, for a maximum total of 6 points. With Portfolio123.com's backtesting tool, I screened for US-based companies in the financial sector, excluding real estate stocks from April 30, 1999 to October 31, 2017.
Investing in American financial stocks with a score of 5 or 6 would've produced an annualized return of 12.24%, whereas stocks with a score of 3 or 4 would've given 8.91% and score of 0 or 1 would've produced only 6.93%.
An important question would be if this methodology could work also for foreign companies. My assumption is that a logical-sounding technique or method should be able to apply in other situations or markets. With the same parameters, I tested for non-US based companies and for Canadian stocks only (Portfolio123 also has access to Canadian markets).
Investing in Canadian financial stocks with a score of 5 or 6 produced a return of 13.21%, versus 11.65% for companies with a score of 3 or 4 and 8.41% for those that score 2 or less. Foreign financial companies that trade on US stock exchanges, which are the only ones that can be looked up in Portfolio123, are few and far between, so results with them should be taken with a large grain of salt. But the results do suggest that using a system such as my own to select high quality stocks is possible and can be profitable.
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Most of my housekeeping habits come from my German mother. She is the queen of clean and the reason my home is mostly spick-and-span. (Although it will never be as tidy as hers, ever.) Still, I have to give credit where credit is due: My favorite trick for ridding rugs of dirt, dog hair, and whatever else ends up embedded in my treasured carpets comes from my dad (who is Irish and English, if that matters).
To say that my dad has a penchant for nice rugs is an understatement. And I have luckily been the recipient of a considerable number of hand-me-downs. This term, also, is something of a misrepresentation. These are really, really nice rugs that probably cost more than anything else in my apartment and they deserve to be properly tended to.
Regular maintenance is a given, especially if you are a pet parent. (If you are also a mostly lucky owner of a cat, dog, or other fuzz-bearing creature, then you know about the hair-everywhere phenomenon whereby there is always, always fur to be swept or vacuumed.) What I am talking about here, though, is more of a special-occasion cleaning. Say, part of your monthly or seasonal regimen.
Are you ready to find out what it is?
To avoid getting all that dirt back in and on your rug, you should fold up half of the rug so that it sits on the other half, vacuum the dirt from the floor and then repeat on the other side.
Now, you vacuum the front side again. And then you flip it over again. If you flip the rug up and there's dirt on the floor again, it means you've gotta keep going. And going. Until no dirt gets pushed out.
Admittedly, this is a rather painstaking process and if you, like me, have multiple rugs (I have six in one apartment!), this may be an afternoon activity. But it is worth it!
P.S.: When I told my mom I was writing this article about my dad's trick, she had to chime in that the way they cleaned rugs in Germany was to bring them outside and beat them. If you have the luxury of an outdoor space for doing so, this is another option.


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Strach się bać is an album released on 28 May 2007 by Polish rock band Lady Pank.

Track listing
 Strach się bać
 Wenus, Mars
 Jeśli coś tam kochasz
 Wspinaczka (czyli historia pewnej rewolucji)
 Leprechaun
 Naprawdę piękny dzień
 Pole minowe
 Dobra konstelacja
 Wielki supermarket
 Nie mam nic, prócz ciebie

Musicians

Lady Pank
 Jan Borysewicz – guitar, backing vocals
 Janusz Panasewicz – lead vocals
 Krzysztof Kieliszkiewicz – bass
 Kuba Jabłoński – drums

Others
 Wojtek Olszak - keyboards (some tracks)
 Michał Sitarski - rhythm guitar (some tracks)
 Mariusz Georgia Pieczara - backing vocals (some tracks)

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Live at Cannes: The Purchase Journey – MEC Unveils Momentum
"What does Momentum tell us about the purchase journey?" Yesterday the DGC team attended a MEC press conference at MEC's Cabana No. 5, for the global launch of Momentum — a proprietary global study that takes a new approach to understanding and measuring how consumers make purchase decisions today.
MEC's Global Head of Analytics and Insights, Stephan Bruneau; Stuart Sullivan-Martin, Global Strategy Officer, MEC UK; and Damian Thompson, Head of Consumer Insight, MEC; walked us through what Momentum means for marketers.
The study examined purchase decisions of over 100,000 consumers across 12 categories and 11 markets. Momentum quantifies consumer bias in categories such as, CPG, retail, durable goods and electronics. The research defines the following stages of the decision-making process: Passive, Trigger, Active and Purchase.
More than half of us have a clear idea of what we will buy before we enter the buying process. This is called Passive Stage bias. People with Passive Stage Bias consider fewer brands and are less concerned with price when making their choice. Flat-screen TVs, for example, have the lowest passive stage bias with 25%. This new approach to understanding the purchase journey can help to develop better brand strategies and grow your brand.
MEC built on its client work in understanding the purchase journey and combined it with theories that have emerged over the last five years. Here's how Stuart Sullivan-Martin, Global Strategy Officer, MEC UK, explains it:
The Momentum study closes gaps in understanding between what shoppers do during the purchase journey, how their perceptions of a brand influence their behavior, and how they use media and brand communication to make choices. Here's a look at what Charles Courtier, Global CEO MEC, had to say about Momentum and its impact for MEC's clients:
Charles Courtier, Global CEO, MEC, discusses MEC's groundbreaking study, "Momentum," at the press launch held at MEC's Cabana No. 5
Stephan Bruneau, Global Head of Analytics and Insights, MEC describes "Momentum" in MEC's Cabana No. 5
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Rising Star Report: How Eulogy! Uses Video
Welcome to London, where the traffic is on the left, the subway is called the "tube" and the outlets—and the outlets—are different. Referring to both the pubs and plugs, aside from a few glaring cultural differences (tea is preferred to coffee, and Starbucks is slightly frowned upon) life at Eulogy!, an independent PR agency in London, isn't too different from being at home at DGC. The office has a similar look and feel, and is filled with a bright team of Brits trying to get the best possible coverage for both B2B and consumer clients.
A few years ago, Eulogy! teamed up with Onlinefire to enhance their social media and digital offerings. One excellent feature of the partnership is the use of video, which Eulogy! employs frequently to tell their story and get messages across concisely and creatively. Check out Eulogy's Dave Macnamara, Senior Creative Account Executive, above with more on using video.
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Becoming a Triathlete After Retirement - Linda Brooks
In episode 33, Jill and Chris talk with Linda Brooks, a woman who became active after she retired from her work as a medical transcriptionist and who now competes in triathlons.
She started running in 2011 and has a group of friends that call themselves the 50+ Posse. She gets up early in the morning to workout.
Around 2015 she started bicycling. She was active in the Slow Roll bicycling group in Cleveland that meets every Monday at different locations to ride through the city for about ten miles. It is good for beginner bike riders because the group rides slowly. Other cities also have Slow Roll bicycle clubs. She also rides with the Black Girls Do Ride bicycle group.
Linda retired in December 2015 and started swim lessons in January. She progressed quickly and was swimming the length of pool by May. By winter, she had already logged in 100 swimming miles. Now she swims for two hours, once she's in the pool.
Although she has had lupus for 16 years, she doesn't "claim it." Linda changed her diet to avoid foods the doctors said would trigger joint pain, took the medications that they prescribed for her and became very active.
Her first triathlon experience was in January 2018 at the Twilight Tri in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. She enjoys indoor cycling at the Cycle Bar in Hudson.
Motto for the biking groups that she belongs to is "No One Left Behind."
Black Girls Do Bike https://www.blackgirlsdobike.com/
Slow Roll Cleveland http://slowrollcleveland.com
Black Girls Run https://blackgirlsrun.com/
Member of Cleveland Triathlon Club. She trains with them.
She uses the runkeeper phone app: https://runkeeper.com/
The Great Ride movie is about the Great Allegheny Passage (GAP) trail and the C & O bicycle trail that features members of the Black Girls Do Bike group.
Maps and info about Bike riding in NE Ohio, Cleveland and Akron : http://www.bikecleveland.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Bike-CLE-spreads_bleed-no-marks.pdf
NE Ohio Bike trails: https://www.ohiobikeways.net/neregionlist.htm Akron: https://www.ohiobikeways.net/akron.htm
Cleveland: https://www.ohiobikeways.net/cleveland.htm


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GameSpy has officially exploded, and games are still fleeing from ground zero while green smoke and shrapnel billows every which way. It's been a messy process, to say the least, with some games finding happy new homes while others collapsed on the street side, never to rise again. STALKER, thankfully, has made it out at the last second, with whatever remains of GSC releasing a patch for STALKER, STALKER: Clear Sky, and STALKER: Call of Pripyat to migrate online functionality onto their own servers.
The new patch also improves V-Sync in high-end graphics cards, so hurrah for that.
Does anyone still play STALKER multiplayer, though? Did anyone ever really play it much? Personally, I never touched it, and now Survarium seems like it intends to take STALKER's barebones approach and turn it into less of a sideshow. Don't get me wrong: I'm super glad GSC stepped up and kept its game from withering to dust in GameSpy's uranium-green wastes, but what kind of community does STALKER multiplayer have?
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