I just saw an interview on TV with Steve Gillan of the Prison Officers' Association which I am really struggling to comprehend.
The piece was primarily about the reported rise in attacks on staff by prisoners. Now I do want to make it clear that I don't support such attacks, but nor do I believe that they have risen as much as has been claimed by the POA. Even the journalist interviewing Gillan suggested that some of the rise could be put down to overstretched, under-supported, and extremely stressed prison officers antagonising similarly stressed prisoners. Of course, Gillan said that his members would never do such a thing, and that they behaved professionally at all times (which must be why so many of them get sacked and, in some cases, even locked up each year).
But I can tell you from personal experience, I have NEVER assaulted a member of staff. In fact I have myself been assaulted by five different prison officers over the years and yet I have even stepped in when certain members of staff were being attacked or otherwise abused on a number of occasions. And this is the first aspect of common sense that fails to apply in such situations. It was some years ago when a prisoner was shouting at and threatening a teacher in the prison education department that I defended her and, when the lad swung for me, ended up fighting to protect both her and myself. Consequently, I was put on report and faced an adjudication for fighting (which I was found guilty of and which remains on my report and is brought up whenever I apply for parole) but I was also given a ten pound pay bonus for defending the teacher from attack! Now I didn't do it for that, I did it because I thought the lad was out of order and owed her an apology. But where is the common sense in finding someone guilty of fighting and then giving him a pay bonus for doing so?!
But back to the interview with Gillan. I've said before that I like to listen to the little turns of phrase that give away a person's true agenda or even the flaws in their argument. Gillan's was a classic. He said that, if you wanted to see how bad it is in prison, you need only look at the prisoner on prisoner attacks which are now at around 15,000 in a year and that prison officers "are bearing the brunt of that with 3,400 attacks on them in the past year." Hmmm. My understanding of bearing the brunt is that it means getting the worst of or taking the most of. Well if there are 15,000 prisoner on prisoner attacks, and 3,400 prisoner on staff attacks, on what level are prison officers bearing the brunt?
Come on, Gillan. A little bit of common sense would say that it is prisoners who bear the brunt of violence in jail. The only reason the POA doesn't say so is because they seem to believe that, if you're in prison, you deserve it. It's the very same reason why they routinely report how many prisoner on prisoner and prisoner on staff attacks there are, but never make much noise about the number of staff on prisoner attacks.
But there is another reason for that too. Professional members of staff don't tend to attack prisoners. But unprofessional ones, the ones that do occasionally hit out unnecessarily, have no problem with lying about it. Invariably they say that the prisoner was being aggressive and threatening and that they acted to defend themselves. I have personally seen twelve officers, some of which were built like professional rugby players, hold a prisoner down and stamp all over him. In the days that followed, the CCTV went missing, the officers submitted statements which were very obviously a product of collusion, and the prisoner himself was placed on report for assault. The prisoner tried to report this to the police, but prison rules state that a crime committed within a prison is only a crime if the governor sees it as such. The governor at the time didn't. The prisoner was not allowed to even see the police.
So yes, I agree that sentences should be firm in order to deter prisoners from attacking members of staff. But I also think something needs to be done about the number of staff on prisoner attacks too.
Of course, prison guards assault prisoners,,,,,,,,,i helped convict 12 prison guards, for Conspiracy to commit assaults on prisoners…at a trial at York Crown Court in 1978…….they lied, all of them, ..but the jury found them guilty……..even two guards gave evidence against the guilty ones…..


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Whisky giant Diageo pays dividend but suspends share buybacks this year
Johnnie Walker owner won't return further cash to investors as Covid-19 forces it to withdraw revenue guidance
Hamish Burns
Diageo owns Johnnie Walker brand
Scotland's biggest distiller Diageo is to go ahead with its interim dividend payment but has put its share buyback programme on hold after business worldwide was hit by coronavirus.
The global drinks giant said its cash position was strong and will makes the agreed 27.41p per ordinary share payout to shareholders today.
Former Diageo exec to lead William Grant's German business
Scotch Whisky Association demands excise duty holiday to get through coronavirus
But having already returned £1.25 billion to inivestors through the buyback between July last year and the end of January, it said it did not plan to activate the next phase this year.
Diageo, whose Scotch brands include Johnnie Walker, Dalwhinnie and Carhdu, along with Smirnoff and Guinness, said there were signs of recovery in the licensed trade in mainland Chine, where bars and restaurants are reopening.
But as much of its European and North American markets remain in lockdown, the group has withdrawn its guidance on sales and profit for 2020. It has suffered from a 50% fall in sales across Europe.
Chief executive Ivan Menezes said: "I am confident in Diageo's long-term strategy and our ability to move quickly in this difficult environment.
"We will continue to execute with discipline and invest prudently to ensure we are strongly positioned for a recovery in consumer demand. I am proud of the resilience and commitment of our people as they work hard to support our partners, customers and communities."
William Ryder, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: "Governments all over the world have closed pubs and restaurants to combat the spread of Covid-19, and this has had a predictable impact on Diageo's sales.
"But we see no reason why sales shouldn't bounce back once the pubs reopen. The uptick in retail sales demonstrates the demand for Diageo's products, although we think this will moderate once people can enjoy a drink with friends in the pub again instead of over Zoom.
"Diageo is likely to have a rough quarter or two, but its brands are strong enough to carry the group to a robust recovery once the virus passes. Fortunately, Diageo has no problem accessing liquidity, making it unlikely the group will come under any serious financial strain in the immediate future. However, if the shutdowns go on long enough even the most well-fortified balance sheets could find themselves a little unsteady."

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Break of Hearts is a 1935 RKO film starring Katharine Hepburn and Charles Boyer.  The screenplay was written by the team of Sarah Y. Mason and Victor Heerman, with Anthony Veiller,  from a story by Lester Cohen, specifically for Hepburn.

Originally Break of Hearts was intended as a vehicle for Hepburn and John Barrymore. The film was promoted by RKO's advertising department with the catch phrase: "The star of a million moods together with the new idol of the screen." (Francis Lederer actually was first signed-up lead, but the producers replaced him with Charles Boyer.)

Plot summary

Franz Roberti (Charles Boyer) is a passionate and eminent musical conductor; Constance Dane (Katharine Hepburn) is an aspiring but unknown composer. She wants to see his concert, but it is all sold out. When she sneaks into his rehearsal he is smitten by her devotion and gets his orchestra to get it right as they play just for her. Constance marries Franz: he says she is "a most exciting creature" and she has been in love with him for a long time (i.e., "since late this afternoon").

Not long after they get married Constance finds Franz having dinner with a female friend. So Constance responds by going out with her own friend, Johnny Lawrence (John Beal). Johnny wants to marry Constance, but she cannot forget her husband. Franz has been hitting the bottle and pretty much throwing away his career, although exactly which of his many sins is driving him to drink is not really clear. Fortunately, Constance has been working on her concerto.

Cast
 Katharine Hepburn as Constance Dane Roberti
 Charles Boyer as Franz Roberti
 John Beal as Johnny Lawrence
 Jean Hersholt as Professor Thalma
 Sam Hardy as Marx
 Inez Courtney as Miss Wilson
 Helene Millard as Sylvia DeWitt
 Ferdinand Gottschalk as Enrico Pazzini
 Susan Fleming as Elise
 Lee Kohlmar as Schubert
 Jean Howard as Didi Smith-Lennox
 Anne Grey as Lady Phyllis Cameron

Reception
Writing for The Spectator, Graham Greene praised the acting of Boyer and Hepburn which he described as "talented enough to keep some of our interest even in a story of this kind". Concerning Hepburn in particular, Greene observed she "always makes her young women quite horrifyingly lifelike with their girlish intuitions, their intensity, their ideals which destroy the edge of human pleasure".

This film made a slim profit of $16,000.

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1935 films
American black-and-white films
RKO Pictures films
American romantic drama films
Films about composers
1935 romantic drama films
1930s American films

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Corporate Media Coverup Of Civilian Drone Murders Exposed
Two new sources of data independently implicate the US government and corporate media outlets covering up civilian drone murders.
New detailed data on the victims of AMERICA's overseas assassination drone strikes CONFIRMS that the United States government and corporate media sites have been covering up the NUMBER of innocent civilians murder by assassination drone strikes.
The new data collected from two different sources from local sources on the ground reveal that between 2008 and 2011 74 percent of people killed in drone strikes were innocent civilians and not military combatants are reported by the US government and echoed by the parrot media.
In response to a damning article from Truth-out revealing the New America Foundation, ran by CNN's terrorism expert Peter Bergen and often cited by the corporate media as the official source of drone casualties, has scrubbed their data which severely under REPORTS civilian casualties.
The article exposes the flaw in the corporate media's circular logic of citing the New America Foundation as an 'independent' and 'authoritative source' of civilian drone casualties:
1. Anonymous government sources say anonymous unnamed militants were killed by a drone strike (with Obama's definition of militant recently being revealed as any male of combat age (12 and up) killed in a strike zone (regardless if there is evidence of the person actually is a combatant).
2. The New America Foundation tallies up the number 'militant' deaths reported by the government and compares them to numbers of civilians reported killed in the local media reports – that is if there any reported at all because local reports are far and few between and often lack detail due to the tribal areas were the strikes occur).
3 . After deducting the number of civilian deaths reported by local media, again if reported at all, the New America Foundation logs this number.
4 . The corporate media then cites the NAF as an 'objective and independent source' since the government can't be quoted directly.
Clearly there is a problem with this methodology because it does quote the propagandized government reported numbers, just indirectly, and their is no 'independent' or 'objective' CONFIRMATION or validation of the government's press release.
One example shows how the NAF echoes a BBC report claiming that 83 people killed in one drone strike were all militants in a terrorist hideout only to show how a Pakistani paper published a list of names of people killed at the school – not a militant hideout- and on that list 26 of the 83 murdered people were children under the age of 15. The Pakistani President later admitted he up for the CIA in the first place to save face for the Americans.
Using such Bergen claimed that only 9 civilians were killed during the first four years despite highly credible evidence to the contrary and when Truth Out requested comment from Bergen on such egregious discrepancies they were not acknowledged. Instead the NAF's drone statistics were just scrubbed from the interned with no explanation and response to further inquiries to why the statistics were pulled.
The Porter Report discusses the actual data gathered and the media cover up in the video below.
The key parts of this video (full transcripts here):
PORTER: Well, the NUMBERS—there are a lot of numbers my piece, and in order to really boil this down to the simplest terms, what I've done is to combine all of these strikes[…]and the total casualties which was REPORTED by the New America Foundation as being 38 percent in these 24 strikes is in fact 70 percent.
That's a huge difference, an 84 percent increase in the proportion of civilians in those casualties reported in these 24 strikes. So it's really quite a major revelation. It's a major reversal, because previously civilian casualties were being reported as a fairly—certainly much less than 50 percent, and now they're much more than 50 percent of the casualties in this set of 24 strikes.
JAY: And in today's, Monday's Guardian, Glenn Greenwald writes that the U.S. is actually using what they call a sort of double tap—in other words, essentially, a second strike after the first drone strike, deliberately targeting rescuers, which one would think has to enhance or increase the possibilities of killing civilians.
PORTER: Right. And let me make it clear that the 13 strikes that I talked about having been researched by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism were all strikes which are precisely the ones that you were talking about. They're strikes that are TARGETED against either mourners at funerals of victims of previous drone strikes or striking at the rescuers of people who have been either killed or wounded in previous drone strikes. So, obviously, this is a very important category of drone strikes. And what we find is that the percentage of civilians (again, in the strikes that the Bureau of Investigative Journalism researched, based on local context, eyewitnesses and others) was much higher. It was roughly twice as high as it had been reported by the New America Foundation.
Truth Out exposes the cover up in the following article and actual investigation into civilians assassinated by the drones inverts the ratio of militant to civilian casualties.:
Cover-Up of Civilian Drone Deaths Revealed by New Evidence
Editors Note: "The New AMERICA Foundation (NAF) pages showing purported numbers for civilian drone casualties that are linked to and discussed in this article were previously public (see cached version). As of August 22, a few days after the publication of this article, these pages on the NAF website are no longer available. Gareth Porter has repeatedly contacted various NAF personnel and no explanation has been offered for the UNAVAILABILITY of previously public information. The timing, however, is suggestive."
Detailed information from the families of those killed in drone strikes in Pakistan and from local sources on strikes that have TARGETED mourners and rescue workers provides credible new evidence that the majority of the deaths in the drone war in Pakistan have been civilian noncombatants – not "militants," as the Obama administration has claimed.
The new evidence also shows that the statistical tally of casualties from drone attacks in Pakistan published on the web site of the New America Foundation (NAF) has been systematically understating the deaths of large numbers of civilians by using a methodology that methodically counts them as "militants."
The sharply revised picture of drone casualties conveyed by the two new primary sources is further bolstered by the recent revelation that the Obama administration adopted a new practice in 2009 of automatically considering any military-age male killed in a drone strike as a "militant" unless intelligence proves otherwise.
The detailed data from the two unrelated sources covering a total 24 drone strikes from 2008 through 2011 show that civilian casualties ACCOUNTED for 74 percent of the death toll, whereas the NAF tally for the same 24 strikes showed civilian casualties accounted for only 30 percent of the total.
The data on 11 drone strikes from 2008 through 2011 were collected in 2010 and 2011 from families of victims of the strikes by Pakistani lawyer Mirza Shahzad Akbar. Those 11 cases represent only a fraction of the total NUMBER on which Akbar has obtained data from victim's relatives.
Although relatives of drone strike victims could have a personal interest in declaring the innocence of their relatives, the details provided by relatives in legal affidavits, such as the age, employment and other characteristics of the victims, appear in almost every case to support their claims that those killed were not ACTIVELYinvolved with al-Qaeda or other military organizations.
The data on 13 drone strikes targeting rescuers and mourners from 2009 through 2011 were gathered by the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ) in a three-month investigation in late 2010 and early 2011 involving interviews with eyewitnesses and others with direct knowledge of the strikes.
The NAF DATABASE: Origins of the Discrepancies
The NAF "Year of the Drone" project, headed by terrorism expert Peter Bergen, has been TRACKING casualties from drone strikes in Pakistan and estimating casualties from the strikes since 2009 based on news media reports.
A major problem with the NAF statistics on drone victims is the extraordinarily wide spread between the low and high estimates for total number of deaths from drone strikes, as well for as the total number of "militants" killed. The range in the total number killed in strikes is estimated in the NAF database at a low of 1,879 and a high of 2,887. The NAF estimates the "militant" deaths from a low of 1,586 to a high of 2,416.
[…] But the real issue is whether a very large proportion of the dead referred to by those anonymous sources giving the totals to reporters in Pakistan as "militants" were, in fact, noncombatant civilians.
The data compiled by Akbar and the BIJ strongly suggest that conclusion.
Instead of representing only 30 percent of the total casualties in those 11 strikes, as portrayed in the NAF ACCOUNTING, civilian casualties actually ACCOUNTED for nearly three-quarters of the total, according to the relatives' testimony.
[…]Thus civilian casualties, which were less than a third of the "militant" casualties in the NAF accounting for the 24 drone strikes in question, are revealed to be 70 percent of the total.
The data from relatives of drone strike victims is not limited to the 11 cases cited in this article. Details on casualties may become AVAILABLE in the future on 39 more drone strikes.
When Akbar made the data on the first 11 cases available to Truthout in August of 2011, he offered to make the data on 15 more cases available when the PROCESS was complete. Akbar said that 25 relatives of victims had already been interviewed and signed affidavits, and that another 25 interviews were already in process. He said he believed an even larger set of interviews with victims' families would eventually be possible.
Akbar decided later to turn over all the data he had collected from victims' families to two academic institutions – New York University's Global Justice Clinic and Stanford University's Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic. Neither of those institutions was willing to share the data they have obtained from Akbar with Truthout prior to publishing their own analyses of drone-strike casualties.
The Obama administration has sought to discredit Akbar, a UK-trained lawyer who has been practicing before the bar in Pakistan since 2003, ever since a Pakistani whose uncle and son had been killed in a drone strike publicly named the CIA's station chief in Islamabad, Jonathan Banks, at a press conference with Akbar in December 2010. Banks was forced to quickly leave the country. Akbar and the Foundation for Fundamental Rights, which he runs in Islamabad, initiated a lawsuit seeking $500 million in damages from Banks, then-CIA Director Leon Panetta and then-Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on behalf the families of victims of drone strikes.
In August 2011, administration officials attacked Akbar in interviews with Scott Shane of The New York Times as seeking to discredit the drone campaign on behalf of Pakistan's intelligence agency, ISI. Shane wrote, however, that colleagues of Akbar in Pakistan "strongly deny" the accusation, quoting one lawyer who had worked with Akbar as saying the charge was "not credible at all."
Bergen's Flawed Methodology
The systematic underestimate of civilian casualties by the NAF statistical summaries is in part a result of Bergen's methodology for estimating the number of "militant" deaths and "other" deaths – a methodology which assumes that news media reports can always be relied on to estimate the number of "militants" killed in each strike, and which also reflects an underlying political bias in favor of the drone-strike PROGRAM. The consequence is the distortion of the real toll of drone strikes on civilians in the first four years of the program from 2004 through 2007.
During that period, the CIA carried out only 12 strikes, but one of them TARGETED a madrassa on October 30, 2006, killing as many 83. One of the press articles to which the NAF database links on that strike is a BBC story quoting the Pakistani Army spokesman as saying that the madrassa was destroyed by Pakistani air strike because of CONFIRMED intelligence reports" that militants were hiding in the school and that it was being used as a "terrorist training facility."
But the same article quoted an eyewitness as saying that the dead were local students, not terrorists. Subsequently, a Pakistani newspaper, The News, published a complete list of the names and ages of the students showing that 26 of the 83 were children under the age of 15, but the NAF database account of the strike does not link to the story, even though it links to an earlier story by the same newspaper reporting the official line that "militants" were killed in the strike.
Despite the clear evidence that the victims were students, the NAF CONTINUESto list those 83 victims as "militants killed" in its statistical summary of the incident, while also estimating "others killed" as 12 to 83. Those figures were both illogical – since uncertainty would have demanded that both categories be scored 0-83, and failed to reflect the Musharraf administration's admission to The Sunday Times a month later that the Pakistani military had lied about the strike at the time to cover for the CIA, thinking it would be "less damaging if we said we did it rather than the US" and that the "collateral damage" was such that they had requested that the Americans "not do it again."
Six years later, the NAF "Year of the Drone" web page is still telling readers that 92 "militants" were killed during the first four years of the drone war and that the number of "others" – meaning civilians – killed was just nine. Bergen's ACCOUNTING thus ignores the highly credible evidence of a mass slaughter of innocents and gives the CIA high marks for its discrimination.
In response to the data in this story, Bergen declined to comment on the discrepancy between the NAF figures on casualties in the 24 drone strikes and the data obtained from primary sources in Pakistan. Bergen wrote in an email: "The notion that we have some 'political' bias to either underplay or overplay the civilian causality rate of drones [sic] strikes is plain wrong. We simply track reliable press ACCOUNTS of the strikes and publish all of our data in a transparent way precisely so that anyone, including yourself, can critique our findings and where we make errors we update our site accordingly."
He did not acknowledge, however, that egregious errors had been committed in regard to the worst single drone strike on record and in the ACCOUNTING for casualties over the entire 2004-2007 period.
Bergen asserted last month that civilian deaths from drone strikes in Pakistan had been reduced for the first time to "at or close to zero" – a claim made more famously by White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan in August 2011, who told The New York Times that, for more than a year, the United States "has NOT FOUND credible evidence of collateral deaths resulting from U.S. counterterrorism operations outside of Afghanistan or Iraq."
Making Civilian Casualties Vanish
The history of the CIA's drone-strike program also undermines the credibility of the Obama administration's claims, as well as Bergen's methodology. It suggests that the CIA and White House have been forced to resort to a blatant deception in order to CONTINUE to claim that civilian casualties are few and far between.
From 2004 through 2007, tight restrictions had been placed on the CIA drone war in Pakistan, according to the ACCOUNT in David Sanger's book, The Inheritance. The CIA was required to target al-Qaeda figures only on the basis of specific intelligence about their role and their whereabouts, and to give assurances that there would be no civilian casualties in the strike. But those restrictions were clearly violated repeatedly by the CIA during those years, as the drone campaign CONTINUED to kill mostly civilians. Figures from press accounts of the first 12 strikes over the 2004-2007 period indicate that drone strikes killed a total of 143-151 civilians, including the 83 young students killed in the single strike on the madrassa, and about 40 "militants" at most.
The only way the CIA could escape from this embarrassing situation was to get President George Bush to rescind the restrictions that the agency had systematically violated. In 2008, CIA Director Michael Hayden received permission to carry out strikes against houses or cars merely on the basis of behavior that matched a "pattern of life" associated with al-Qaeda or other groups, according to Sanger's account. The strictures on civilian casualties were also removed.
Even the figures from the NAF web site show that the estimated 134 to 165 "militants" killed in drone strikes in 2008 represented less than half the estimated total of 274 to 314 deaths it counts for that year. Those statistics indicate that the majority of the victims were noncombatant civilians.
After the first strike during the Obama administration on January 23, 2009 (See Addendum below), Obama quickly learned from the CIA that, contrary to press reports, the strike had killed a number of innocent civilians, as The New York Times reported last May. As a result, the administration adopted the rule that Obama was to be informed if the agency did not have "near certainty" that a proposed strike would not cause any civilian deaths. Obama wanted to decide personally on any strike in which civilian casualties were a possibility, according to the Times.
But instead of curbing the NUMBER of strikes sharply as might have been expected, that decision resulted in the adoption by the White House of a policy of counting any military-age male killed in the strike as a combatant or "militant," in the absence of "posthumous" intelligence proving their innocence, as several administration officials told the Times.
That policy, apparently adopted after a lengthy debate within the administration, explains why the NAF tally of drone strike deaths in 2009 shows that "militants" represented an estimated 70 percent of the dead. In 2010, the NAF estimate of the percentage of "militants" or "suspected militants" in the total killed in drone strikes in the NAF tally jumped dramatically to 96 percent, evidently reflecting the APPLICATION of the new definition of "militant" for an entire year for the first time.
The NAF figures for 2011 were almost identical, with 93-96 percent of the casualties recorded as "militants." The new policy enabled Brennan to claim in June 2011 that there had not been a SINGLE collateral death" from drone strikes in Pakistan for more than a year, although he said two months later the government had not "found credible evidence of collateral deaths."
The data from victims' families and from LOCAL sources on attacks on rescuers and mourners show, however, that a large proportion of those "militants" were actually civilian noncombatants.
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An actual therapy assistant is really a licensed health care professional which has received special training. These health care assistants use physiotherapists for patients who've physical disabilities and injuries. Many treatments are made to relive discomfort and enhance the patient's mobility.
Within the U . s . States you will find over 200 physical therapy assistant programs that are offered today. That need considering for one of these simple programs, candidates require a high gpa, mainly within the primary sciences for example chemistry, biology, and statistics.
Each candidate will need to volunteer within the health care field, ideally like a aide, as well as show community participation by getting involved in some support. It's also vital that you have recommendations from physiotherapists since this is another prerequisite to be accepting right into a PTA program.
An actual therapy assistant works together with an actual counselor in treating patients who are suffering from injuries or physical disabilities. All work done by this kind of health care assistant is supervised by licensed physiotherapists. They offer numerous techniques when taking care of patients, including exercise treatment protocols, deep soft tissue massage, and general mobility training.
They also may help physiotherapists implement fitness and wellness programs therefore the patient can also enjoy a far more active lifestyle. Additionally, assistants within this profession need to know how you can properly use a variety physical therapy equipment. Physical therapy assistants might also need to answer phones, complete insurance documents, and order supplies.
These kinds of health care professionals use individuals of each and every age bracket. Hurt athletes, stroke victims, children which have cerebral palsy, and patients which have lately gone through surgery are a really small sample of patients that could need physical therapy services.
An individual who decides to become physical therapy assistant will need very communication skills, together with having the ability to demonstrate kindness and persistence.
Since most patients really see counselor right after surgical procedures or immediately after they've experienced an injuries, they're frequently struggling with high amounts of emotional stress and discomfort. It is crucial the physical counselor assistant includes a genuine desire to help individuals, as well as is able to help patients understand their treatment. It is necessary that the therapy assistant understands how to work included in a group, not just with physiotherapists, but additionally along with other health care employees.
This career needs a two-year affiliate degree from your accredited school. Many areas also need a license. The accredited school will need a course that's been authorized by the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education, often known as CAPTE accreditation. The accreditation assures the caliber of the courses, along with the instructors.
Students that's signed up for a course to become physical therapy assistant will need to study a variety of courses, for example algebra, anatomy, biology, chemistry, physiology and psychology. A student needs to become certified in CPR or cardiopulmonary resuscitation, as well as first-aid. Together with these needs, a student will need to get some good working experience within the physical therapy field.
When the program is finished, nearly all states require that potential therapy assistants effectively develop a test to get licensed within this specific health care profession. The license usually needs to be restored every few years.
Jobs for PTA vary and many offer possibilities for advancement. Physical therapy offices, home health health care providers, skill assisted living facilities, and nursing facilities all require the expertise of physical therapy assistants.


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Fox Sports Fans Pick Sean McDermott as Coach of the Year
It has been a fantastic season so far for the Buffalo Bills wrapping up the regular season 13-3 and now fans of Fox Sports have named Sean McDermott as NFL coach of the year.
Now, this is not an official award from the NFL but is nice to see fan from across the country recognize that McDermott is doing good things here in Western New York.
The official NFL award winners will be announced during Super Bowl week in February.
Buffalo Bills coaches with the most wins in franchise history.
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Dr. Surender K Yachha - Child Specialist in Bangalore | Pediatricians in Bangalore
Dr. Surender K Yachha
Director - Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Liver Transplantation
MD (Pediatrics), DM (Gastroenterology) Commonwealth Medical Fellowship in Pediatric Hepatology & Pediatric Liver Transplantation (King's College, London)
Department - Institute of Paediatrics
Dr.Surender K Yachha is one of the leading doctors in the field of paediatric gastroenterology. He holds 30 years of extensive experience in the field of gastro-intestinal disorders, liver disorders and pancreatic disorders in infants and children. He has wide experience in performing endoscopic procedures (diagnostic and therapeutic) in infants and children.
He has held different positions in the paediatric gastroenterology department through his career. He was the first to introduce a paediatric gastroenterology department in India with multidimensional growth in the field of patient referral, academics, research, training programs, he held high positions such as the Founder President of Indian Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ISPGHAN), Chairperson (National President) Pediatric Gastroenterology specialty of Indian Academy of Pediatrics etc.
He set up the first post-doctoral certificate course aimed at paediatric gastroenterology for paediatricians (post MD) in the year 2000. He has taken India to the world map on several disorders and research aspects that are highlighted through his international research publications and 30 book chapters. He is also the recipient of 94 prestigious awards for his relentless efforts and contribution to healthcare services.
His areas of expertise in paediatrics include- neonatal jaundice, celiac disease, constipation, abdominal pain , gastrointestinal bleeding, milk allergy, tuberculosis, extrahepatic portal venous obstruction, acute viral hepatitis and other esophageal disorders. He possesses expertise on liver disorders in infants and children and has experience in curing pancreatic disorders and portal hypertension.
Before joining Sakra World Hospital, Dr. Yachha was the Professor and Head- Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology at Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India.
Dr. Surender K Yachha completed his MBBS from the University of Kashmir, and pursued his MD in Paediatrics from the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research,
Chandigarh.
His love for academics never ceased to exist. He continued to finish his DM (Gastroenterology), Fellowship, Inclusive of training in Pediatric Gastroenterology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh. He also received the Commonwealth Medical Fellowship in Pediatric Hepatology and Pediatric liver transplantation (medical aspects) from the prestigious King's College, School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK.
During the course of his illustrious career spanning over 30 years, Dr. Surender K. Yachha has received over 90 awards, some of which are listed below:
Lifetime Achievement Award by Indian Academy of Pediatrics Uttar Pradesh awarded in 39th U.P. Pedicon (November,2018), Lucknow
Prof.S.R. Naik Award for Outstanding Research Investigator.23rd Convocation (01-Septembe, 2018), Presented by Shri Ram Naik, Honorable Governor of state of Uttar Pradesh; Visitor Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India.
Highest and Prestigious Oration Award entitled "PN Chuttani Oration" by Indian Society of Gastroenterology, Year 2017
ICMR:"M.N. SEN Oration Award 2016".Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi.
Times Icon Medical excellence award April, 2017 awarded by Honorable Minister of Health Govt. of UP Shri Siddarnath Nath Singh.
Professor PK Misra Oration award November, 2016. Foundation Day Celebration Department of Pediatrics. King George's Medical University, Lucknow, India.
"Mehta, Mittal, Sankaranarayanan Oration" award year 2016, Indian Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ISPGHAN)
Dr. J R Srivastava Memorial Oration, Indian Academy of Pediatrics, Kanpur, November, 2013
Oration "Wings of expansion of Pediatric Gastroenterology in India" 21st Annual Conference of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition November, 2011 Gurgaon, Haryana
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Broken Saints Vancouver Innovators Create Online CineLit
By Tony Walsh
Part comic book, part anime movie, and all online, Broken Saints (www.brokensaints.com) is cresting a brave new wave of small-screen entertainment. This Flash-based epic is a story in 24 parts that was launched in January 2001, and was born on Canadian soil.
Brooke Burgess, a 31-year-old former video game producer, is the series creator/director. The North Vancouver native teamed up with digital whiz kid Ian Kirby and young illustrator Andrew West to realise his vision. Armed only with talent, passion, and some big ideas, the trio had no idea how far Broken Saints would go. They've been able to keep corporate paws off their indie project, which has received numerous New Media awards, by hitting up their many fans for donations — proof that there is a niche for quality original content on the Web.
"Broken Saints is cinematic literature," Burgess explains. "It's the idea that you can have a reading experience, but at the same time a real sense of filmic or cinematic immersion." The experience is methodical, but mesmerising, requiring patience, but amply rewarding. "You've got beautiful transitions, intense effects, original artwork, hypnotic and powerful music," says Burgess. "The whole package together creates something that is unique. It's something where you can turn out your lights, unplug your phone, close the doors, make sure there are no distractions, and for 20 minutes to an hour just sit and be lost in this world."
Set on an Earth teetering on the edge of technological apocalypse, Broken Saints stars four troubled outcasts from the corners of the globe, who are united by a terrifying vision. "The obvious theme on the surface is the encroachment of technology on our lives. Instead of creating a global village like McCluhan envisioned, it separates and isolates us so we've become truly dependent on technology and we don't even truly communicate with anyone any more — reliance on this technology will eventually come back and bite us in the ass."
The human element is integral to the Broken Saints ethos. Burgess plays the idea of the West as a society of "haves" against the non-Western "have-nots," suggesting that most of us are "not taking the time or the energy to reflect on those other perspectives." Despite the ethnic, religious and political differences between the four main characters, they are united through their mystical vision. "It's all about seeing the world through different eyes and realising that basically we're all one deep down beneath our skin."
This cosmopolitan view is reflected in the demographic of Broken Saints' viewers. A majority of the fans are young Europeans and South Americans. "The really hardcore fans are younger," muses Burgess, "but then we have other spikes that happen, of people in their late 20s and early 30s. The newest users, particularly due to broadband, are seniors. We have quite a nice little cadre of senior viewers who have been following the series fanatically." Thanks to the enthusiasm of these fans, Broken Saints is a full-time job for Burgess and his team-mates West and Kirby. Donations have poured in to the tune of about $14,000 so far this year, facilitated online and through a series of local benefit concerts. Although the three-man creative squad is shacked up in the Kirby family basement and feeds on a meagre diet, production of each episode is labour of love.
Burgess approaches the project much like the video game industry he left two years ago, or the film industry he'd like to be a part of. "I'll do the writing and directing and shot list and pre-production and stuff, but then it's like a full sit-down for storyboarding with Andrew West. Then Ian comes over and sits with us during the storyboarding and we plan out what effects are possible." West, the art director of the series, enjoys the team's planning sessions. "We throw ideas back and forth at each other — track sequences, the way I want a character to look, or a way to make the scene more human." Ian Kirby, the series technical director, adds "Most of the influences come from seeing Andrew's artwork for the chapter. We play off each other a lot."
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There are a few hostels in San Gil. Most of them are right near the centre of town; the bus station is several kilometres away from town, so you will have to take a taxi or a buseta to your hostel. The Spanish word for "hostel" is "hostal," which is pronounced exactly the same as in English.
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The 2012 Australian Open and Junior Championships for cross country skiing finished up last weekend August 18-19 at Falls Creek. The races were also part of the FIS Australia – New Zealand Cup (ANC) and a high quality international field was in attendance, with athletes competing from Russia, Czech, Sweden and Venezuela. In the open men's events Russian athletes filled the podium on both days, lead by world #5 Alexander Legkov. In the women's open events local Mt Beauty skier Esther Bottomley won the Sprint on Saturday, then took third place in the 10km Freestyle on Sunday behind Maria Graefnings from Sweden and Marina Chernousova from Russia.Over half a metre of snow fell at Falls Creek in the week leading into the races, but then the weather eased up on the weekend to provide great racing conditions. The races were organised by the local Birkebeiner Nordic Ski Club, who also run the Kangaroo Hoppet international ski marathon on at Falls Creek next Saturday August 25.
The A-final of men's Classic Sprint on Saturday was an all international affair, with Legkov winning ahead of team-mates Ilia Chernousov and Ivan Alypov after a close battle with Dusan Kozicek from the Czech Republic. The Australian title was determined in the B-Final; Callum Watson from Sydney claiming the line honours ahead of Mark van der Ploeg from Canberra.
Two-time Winter Olympian Bottomley won the Sprint qualifying time trial convincingly, then held on in the A-final ahead of Graefnings and another Mt Beauty local Anna Trnka. As the highest ranked U20 junior in the open final Trnka was the Australian Junior Champion. The male Australian Junior Champion was Alasdair Tutt from Wangaratta.
In the 15km Freestyle on Sunday Legkov and Chernousov blew the men's field away, Legkov finishing 30 seconds ahead of his team-mate but over three minutes ahead of the first Australian Alex Almoukov from Berridale. Similarly Graefnings dominated the women's 10km Freestyle, nearly two minutes ahead of second placed Marina Chernousova of Russia and three minutes up on Bottomley. In the junior classes Damon Morton from Marlo was the first U20 junior in the 15km and Lucy Glanville from Sydney the first U20 junior in the 10km.
A small Russian team of five athletes and three support staff have been training at Falls Creek since the start of August, and stay through until the Kangaroo Hoppet. Their Swiss coach, former World Cup racer Reto Burgermeister, has been very happy with the training conditions which he says are very similar to those experienced at the cross country venue for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi in Russia.
The ANC finishes up with the Kangaroo Hoppet next weekend. In the overall cup standings Bottomley and Watson have a commanding lead and are unlikely to be overtaken.
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To Drain the Swamp, Start With Rudy Giuliani
MAGA nation should be outraged about President Trump's personal attorney.
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If the grassroots right wants to "drain the swamp" in Washington, D.C., it can't ignore the suspicious behavior of Rudy Giuliani. Here's one red flag: Wealthy, powerful people tend to pay their lawyers top dollar. But as Donald Trump's personal attorney, Giuliani works for free. In fact, an attorney representing Giuliani's wife in divorce proceedings told the New York Post that he's losing money. "Not only does he work for free, but all of his expenses every time he goes down to Washington, D.C., every time he travels for the president, it comes out of his own pocket," the divorce attorney explained, "and he won't say how much it's costing him."
Why has the former New York City mayor taken on a billionaire as a charity case? It's not clear, and neither is the nature of the work he's done relating to Ukraine, a subject of interest in the House impeachment inquiry. At times, Giuliani has described his Ukraine meddling as heroically public-spirited, declaring that "I'm not acting as a lawyer." He once told a Fox News host, "I wasn't operating on my own; I was operating at the request of the State Department." Yet on a different occasion he said, "This isn't foreign policy," but help for "my client."
None of those explanations is satisfying even apart from the contradictions. Attorneys don't normally work gratis for anyone with deep pockets. And as Trump recently told Bill O'Reilly, "Rudy has other clients, other than me. He's done a lot of work in Ukraine over the years." One cannot conclude unethical behavior from Giuliani's anomalous financial arrangement with Trump or his lucrative ties to foreign interests. But those red flags demand scrutiny of his business dealings, at least for anyone earnestly trying to drain the swamp of self-dealing elites, since he has access to the president and an incentive to monetize it.
Read: Why Trump (probably) won't ditch Rudy
A review of publicly available information is eye-opening. Giuliani has worked with multiple clients who could benefit bigly from influencing U.S. foreign policy and various presidential actions or inactions, as I discovered while delving into a decade's worth of news articles about his businesses, hoping to understand how they make money. Indeed, it looks as though even as Giuliani was attacking Hunter Biden for accepting a swampy position on the board of a Ukrainian energy company, appearing to monetize his ties to his then-vice-president father, Giuliani or his partners were in contact with clients and potential clients who could profit from Giuliani's ties to Trump.
That would explain the anomalous behavior: Perhaps Giuliani doesn't take money from Trump because Trump's not the client, but the product.
To understand Giuliani's businesses, first recall how beloved the New York mayor became after the 9/11 attacks. The issue of Time declaring him 2001's Person of the Year gives a sense of his stature:
When the day of infamy came, Giuliani seized it as if he had been waiting for it all his life, taking on half a dozen critical roles and performing each masterfully … He became America's homeland-security boss, giving calm, informative briefings about the attacks and the extraordinary response. He was the gutsy decision maker, balancing security against symbolism, overruling those who wanted to keep the city buttoned up tight, pushing key institutions—from the New York Stock Exchange to Major League Baseball—to reopen and prove that New Yorkers were getting on with life. He was the crisis manager, bringing together scores of major players from city, state and federal governments for marathon daily meetings that got everyone working together … Giuliani's performance ensures that he will be remembered as the greatest mayor in the city's history.
After leaving office, Giuliani found ways to monetize his reputation. "He founded a number of eponymous companies," Foreign Policy reported, "including the security and management consulting firm Giuliani Partners, as well as Giuliani Security & Safety."
The New York Times found evidence of clients residing in countries as varied as Qatar and Canada, and tied Giuliani to TriGlobal Strategic Ventures, a company that helps Westerners with business opportunities in the famously corrupt former Soviet Union, including Ukraine.
Read: What does Rudy Giuliani's son do?
The article gives specific examples of Giuliani's work in the region. In 2004, TriGlobal "arranged to have Mr. Giuliani come to Moscow to meet with the foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, as well as other prominent Russian politicians and business executives … In 2015, also at the company's behest, Mr. Giuliani agreed to advise the mayor of Kiev, Vitali Klitschko, who has called for more Western support of the Ukrainian government's efforts to combat Russian separatists."
House investigators have sought "documents and depositions from two of Giuliani's current clients, Florida-based business executives who have been pursuing opportunities in Ukraine for a new liquefied-natural-gas venture," The Washington Post reports, and "records about Giuliani's past clientele in Ukraine, including Pavel Fuks, a wealthy developer who financed consulting work Giuliani did in 2017 for the city of Kharkiv."
Fuks appears actively interested in buying access to the Trump administration: According to The New York Times, he paid $200,000 for what he thought was a VIP ticket to Trump's inauguration, then filed a lawsuit alleging that he was cheated in the deal. "He never received the tickets he said he was promised to an official inaugural ball, to a dinner with incoming cabinet members or to other exclusive events," the newspaper reported.
Journalists for the foreign publication Censor.net later pressed Giuliani about his consulting work circa 2017. "Many people in Ukraine are wondering about the nature of your connections with Mr. Kernes, the mayor of Kharkiv," they declared. "Because he does not have an exactly clean reputation in Ukraine. But you visited him in Kharkiv. And we'd like to know what's connecting you."
Giuliani replied that his company did a study for Kharkiv; that he visited the city in November 2017 to present recommendations, including the construction of an emergency-management center; and that he met with the mayor and his deputy.
What he said next is especially worth flagging:
Because to build it, as I can imagine, you have to get some money from the national government. And I explained to him why they needed emergency management center and how they work, how emergency management centers work. We've done this all over the world. I've done security assessments, I'm doing it now. Mostly in South America, Eastern Europe and Middle East. But also in countries all over the world. That's my business.
In other words, Giuliani described himself as lobbying the national government of Ukraine to direct money in a manner that would benefit his client. That would make influence or leverage over Ukrainian leaders a clear asset in his business. And Trump later pressured Ukraine's new president to talk with Giuliani.
There's more. The New York Times reported last week that as Giuliani was trying to unearth damaging information about the Bidens in Ukraine, he simultaneously pursued hundreds of thousands of dollars in business from Ukrainian government officials.
Even as Giuliani urged Yuriy Lutsenko, then Ukraine's top prosecutor, to investigate the Bidens, one draft proposal called for Lutsenko to pay $200,000 to Giuliani Partners to represent him. "I never received a penny," Giuliani told the newspaper, claiming he concluded that representing the prosecutor personally would be a conflict of interest. Yet Giuliani kept pursuing a different way to get paid through Lutsenko, the Times article continues:
Mr. Lutsenko also wanted to hire Mr. Giuliani to help recover Ukrainian assets. An updated proposal was circulated a few days later, along with instructions on how to wire money to Giuliani Partners. This version made no mention of Mr. Lutsenko, but instead sought $300,000 from the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice and the Republic of Ukraine. The proposal was signed by Mr. Giuliani, but not by the justice minister at the time, Pavlo Petrenko.
Giuliani told the Times that when he pursued that $300,000 deal, which never came to fruition, "it did not come out of my desire to make a lot of money," a difficult assertion to accept.
Giuliani's Ukraine dealings aren't alone in warranting scrutiny. For example, The Washington Post reports that when Giuliani traveled to Madrid in August to confer with an aide to the Ukrainian president, he also met with a previously unidentified client, staying at "a historic estate belonging to Venezuelan energy executive Alejandro Betancourt López, who had hired Trump's personal attorney to help him contend with an investigation by the Justice Department into alleged money laundering and bribery, according to people familiar with the situation."
A foreign energy executive hiring the president's personal attorney to fight a federal agency led by the president fits my personal definition of swampy behavior. Isn't that at least as ethically suspect as what Hunter Biden did?
There's no way of knowing every deal that Giuliani or his business associates have struck in Ukraine or elsewhere—but the tiny subset that I've highlighted shows huge conflicts of interest with respect to clients whose interests diverge from those of the American people.
And there's a matter of possible illegality that I haven't mentioned: A federal investigation into two associates of Giuliani, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, "is exploring a wide range of potential crimes—including wire fraud and failure to register as a foreign agent—as prosecutors dig into the pair's interactions with the president's personal lawyer and the main pro-Trump super PAC, according to people familiar with the investigation," The Washington Post reports. The Post previously reported that Giuliani's firm "was earning $500,000 from Parnas" for work conducted on behalf of a "Florida-based business called Fraud Guarantee," a lucrative arrangement that started "just as Giuliani began working closely with Parnas and a business partner, Fruman, to dig up dirt on Democrats in Ukraine."
David A. Graham: Why hasn't Trump thrown Rudy Giuliani under the bus?
The Wall Street Journal reports that a Florida investor helped underwrite the payment to Giuliani by investing in Fraud Guarantee "after Mr. Parnas told him his plan was to secure a $20 million federal grant," adding, "The Journal couldn't determine what the grant would fund." The article quotes Giuliani responding, "I had no knowledge of a grant, and it seemed to me they were at a premature position to be looking for a grant."
What exactly did that $500,000 buy?
At American Greatness, a Trump-aligned web publication, Ned Ryun, a former George W. Bush speechwriter, complained that "the mainstream propagandists gaslight us by shrieking that Trump is the corrupt one." I would not call Trump "the" corrupt one, as if he is alone in the category. I've written multiple times about Clintonian corruption. When Trump leaves office, there will be corruption left to write about. But in my estimation, there is no excuse left for failing to see that Trump is a corrupt one, surrounded by corrupt ones.
Even if Giuliani hasn't broken the law, it sure looks like he leverages his relationships with deep-pocketed donors and high-ranking government officials to sway policy and benefit elite clients––and that working for free for a billionaire president helps.
Trump's supporters enable this corruption when they credulously assume that Trump and his allies are fighting corruption and draining the swamp, rather than scrutinizing their most suspicious behavior to see if they are perpetuating the swamp.
Trump's previous personal attorney, Michael Cohen, wound up in prison, and his former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, agreed to work for Trump free of charge before winding up in prison as well. Now Trump has a new personal attorney who agrees to work for free and folks who say they want to drain the swamp aren't suspicious? That degree of tribal loyalty and incuriosity damages any republic that relies on government by the people.
Wake up, MAGA nation!
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Q: Prove that: $\sqrt{\frac{4x^2+y^2}{3x^2+yz}}+\sqrt{\frac{4y^2+z^2}{3y^2+xz}}+\sqrt{\frac{4z^2+x^2}{3z^2+xy}}\ge\frac{3\sqrt{5}}{2}$
Let $x$, $y$ and $z$ be positive numbers. Prove that:
$$\sqrt{\frac{4x^2+y^2}{3x^2+yz}}+\sqrt{\frac{4y^2+z^2}{3y^2+xz}}+\sqrt{\frac{4z^2+x^2}{3z^2+xy}}\ge\frac{3\sqrt{5}}{2}.$$

This problem is similar to very many contest problems, but I think it's hard enough.
I tried to use Holder, C-S, AM-GM and more, but without any success.
For example, by Holder $$\sum_{cyc}\sqrt{\frac{4x^2+y^2}{3x^2+yz}}=\sqrt{\frac{\left(\sum\limits_{cyc}\sqrt{\frac{4x^2+y^2}{3x^2+yz}}\right)^2\sum\limits_{cyc}(4x^2+y^2)^2(3x^2+yz)(kx+my+z)^3}{\sum\limits_{cyc}(4x^2+y^2)^2(3x^2+yz)(kx+my+z)^3}}\geq$$
$$\geq\sqrt{\frac{\left(\sum\limits_{cyc}(4x^2+y^2)(kx+my+z)\right)^3}{\sum\limits_{cyc}(4x^2+y^2)^2(3x^2+yz)(kx+my+z)^3}},$$ but I did not find non-negatives $k$ and $m$, for which the inequality $$4\left(\sum\limits_{cyc}(4x^2+y^2)(kx+my+z)\right)^3\geq45\sum\limits_{cyc}(4x^2+y^2)^2(3x^2+yz)(kx+my+z)^3$$ is true.
Thank you!

A: (WARNING: this proof is very bad)
First, define two sequences $a_i$ and $b_i$ where $a_1=4x^2+y^2,a_2=4y^2+z^2,a_3=4z^2+x^2$ and $b_1=\frac{1}{3x^2+yz},b_2=\frac{1}{3y^2+xz},b_3=\frac{1}{3z^2+xy}$.
Since we have two three term sequences, we may now use Holder's inequality:
$$\sqrt{4x^2+y^2+4y^2+z^2+4z^2+x^2}=\sqrt{5x^2+5y^2+5z^2}$$
and
$$\sqrt{\frac{1}{3x^2+yz}+\frac{1}{3y^2+xz}+\frac{1}{3z^2+xy}}$$
Thus, by Holder's inequality:
$$\left(\sqrt{5x^2+5y^2+5z^2}\right)\left(\sqrt{\frac{1}{3x^2+yz}+\frac{1}{3y^2+xz}+\frac{1}{3z^2+xy}}\right) \ge \frac{3\sqrt{5}}{2}$$
Since equality holds when the two sequences are proportional, we may set $x=y=z$ and get:
$$\sqrt{\frac{45}{4}}=\frac{3\sqrt{5}}{2}$$
which is the minimum value of this inequality, we may then say that since:
$$\left(\sqrt{5x^2+5y^2+5z^2}\right)\left(\sqrt{\frac{1}{3x^2+yz}+\frac{1}{3y^2+xz}+\frac{1}{3z^2+xy}}\right)=\sqrt{\frac{4x^2+y^2}{3x^2+yz}} + \sqrt{\frac{4y^2+z^2}{3y^2+xz}} + \sqrt{\frac{4z^2+x^2}{3z^2+xy}}$$
This holds to be true.

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MADRID — Spain is dealing with the highest ever number of coronavirus infections, with some regions considering further curbs on social life ahead of the end of the year.
Updating pandemic figures for the first time in four days, health authorities reported 214,619 new cases late on Monday, bringing the 14-day national caseload to a pandemic record level of 1,206 new infections per 100,000 residents. At the height of the January surge, which until now was the one that infected most people in Spain, the rate had surged to 900.
The explosive spike is largely blamed on the omicron variant, which scientists say spreads faster than previous strains although the number of infected patients who need hospital care is proportionally less than in previous surges. Official data shows that 7.5% of Spanish hospital beds and 18% of intensive care units are treating COVID-19 patients.
Authorities reported 120 new deaths since Dec. 23.
In response to the soaring caseload, some Spanish regions are now considering restrictions they resisted only a week ago, when authorities only imposed mandatory mask wearing outdoors.
The northern regions of Navarra, Aragón and Cantabria, among others, are now limiting nightlife, imposing curfews or considering caps on members of different households allowed to gather together.
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NEW DELHI — India has granted emergency use authorization for two vaccines and one COVID-19 pill, the health minister tweeted on Tuesday, as authorities warn about the spread of the omicron variant across the country.
The first is Covovax, the Serum Institute of India's version of the Novavax vaccine, a two-dose shot made with lab-grown copies of the spike protein that coats the coronavirus. The second is Corbevax, made by Indian firm Biological-E, which the health minister said is the country's first indigenously developed protein-based vaccine against COVID-19.
It also granted emergency use approval for Molnupiravir, an antiviral drug, that will be manufactured by 13 companies in India and will be used in emergency situations to treat COVID-19 patients at high risk.
Even though daily cases in India have remained low for months after the country saw a devastating surge earlier this year, concern over omicron has grown in recent weeks, sparking various states to enforce new restrictions. In the capital, New Delhi, a slew of new restrictions were announced Tuesday, including a night curfew, shutting down cinemas and gyms, and a ban on large public gatherings or events. India has so far confirmed over 650 omicron cases.
BEIJING — The Chinese city of Xi'an recorded 175 local coronavirus infections on Monday, as it grapples with a coronavirus outbreak that has pushed China's daily cases to record highs since early last year.
The 175 infections reported in Xi'a, in the northwestern Shaanxi province, were up from 162 on Sunday, and 158 the day before, according to a government notice issued Tuesday. Authorities blame the outbreak on the Delta variant.
Authorities have locked down 13 million residents in Xi'an amid the rise in infections as they attempt to curb the spread. China is one of the few remaining countries with a "zero Covid" policy, with authorities implementing mass-testing when infections are found in the community.
Xi'an has so far conducted four mandatory rounds of testing as authorities sought to detect new infections. The city has also launched a disinfection campaign, spraying down roads and buildings.
JERUSALEM — Israel's Health Ministry says it will allow people with two doses of the coronavirus vaccine to get a booster shot after three months, rather than the five-month waiting period it previously allowed.
The government said in a statement Monday that it shortened the timeframe to boost immunity as the swiftly-moving omicron variant spreads around the globe.
The new rule would apply to vaccines made by Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca.
There was still no decision on whether to roll out a second tranche of booster shots to its population as the country grappled with rising infections.
Israel began trials of a fourth dose of coronavirus vaccine on Monday in what is believed to be the first study of its kind.
PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia Public Health officials are urging people who suspect they might have mild cases of COVID-19 to stay out of the emergency room.
Department officials in a news release Monday said they've been hearing from emergency room doctors that they're being overwhelmed by people seeking COVID-19 tests, many because of mild symptoms or known exposures.
"The number of people testing positive for COVID is now far higher than at any point in the last two years, and emergency departments are packed with people with COVID symptoms," Health Commissioner Cheryl Bettigole said in a news release Monday.
She urged people who are experiencing symptoms and having trouble finding COVID testing, to act like they are positive and quarantine.
The health department has recorded a two-week average of almost 1,500 new cases per day and a two-week positivity rate of 15.9%. The department gave out 24,000 free rapid testing kits before the holiday — close to 50,000 rapid tests —and was seeing record-breaking numbers of tests being submitted to the department in the days before Christmas.
CHICAGO — Illinois is helping local health departments with staffing at local health department mass vaccination sites. The move comes as the state is seeing its highest surge in COVID-19 cases during the entire pandemic.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Monday that Illinois is adding at least 100 people to help at local health department mass vaccination sites to meet growing demand.
Starting next week, the state will also open its community-based testing sites six days a week.
The state is averaging 500 new hospital admissions daily for COVID-19, which is double from about a month ago.
Illinois Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike says the majority of those hospitalized are unvaccinated.
JACKSON, Miss. —The Mississippi State Department of Health is reporting more than 7,000 new COVID-19 cases over a five-day period.
The department posted new numbers Monday, covering cases confirmed from Wednesday through Sunday.
The state is seeing a significant increase in cases compared to just a few weeks ago. During the two weeks from Nov. 23 to Dec. 6, Mississippi confirmed 5,185 new cases of COVID-19.
In the Jackson area on Monday, parking lots were full at medical clinics that offer COVID-19 testing. A long line of cars waited at a north Jackson church with a mobile test site in the parking lot.
ATLANTA — COVID-19′s omicron wave is rapidly pushing up the number of patients infected with the virus in Georgia hospitals.
The biggest impacts in terms of infections and hospitalizations are being seen in the Atlanta area.
The number of patients hospitalized statewide with the virus has climbed by more than 50% in a week, nearing 1,900 on Monday. The state Department of Public Health says the seven-day average of COVID-19 cases in Georgia rose to nearly 8,700 a day on Monday. That's nearing the peaks that Georgia saw in infection numbers in early January and in late August and early September.
The crush is being seen in Atlanta-area emergency rooms. At midafternoon Monday, of Atlanta-area hospitals that care for all adults, 18 emergency rooms were turning away ambulances, while only 10 were accepting ambulances, according to state data.
Katherine Watson, spokesperson for the five-hospital Northside system, said that COVID-19 patients accounted for 25% of the system's total adult inpatient population as of Monday.
PARIS — France's Prime Minister Jean Castex announced new COVID-19 measures in efforts to curb the spread of the virus, yet stopped short of imposing strict restrictions ahead of New Year's Eve.
Starting from next week, big events will be limited to 2,000 people indoors and 5,000 people outdoors. People will be requested to sit down during concerts and customers won't be allowed to stand up in bars, Castex detailed.
Eating and drinking will be banned in cinemas, theatres, sport facilities and public transports, including on long-distance lines. Working from home will be mandatory at least three days per week for employees whose job makes it possible, he added.
Castex said that schools will open as scheduled on Jan. 3 and political rallies won't be concerned by the new rules for democratic reasons ahead of April's presidential election.
The measures come after France recorded more than 100,000 virus infections in a single day for the first time in the pandemic.
Castex stressed that hospitals' intensive care units are not saturated due to over 90% of France's adults being fully vaccinated — in sharp contrast with the situation last year.
LONDON — British Health Secretary Sajid Javid said Monday no further coronavirus restrictions will be introduced in England before the new year, but urged people to stay cautious and celebrate outside if possible.
COVID-19 data has been patchy over the Christmas holiday, but the latest official figures showed 98,515 new infections were recorded in England on Monday and 143 people died with the virus. The National Health Service in England reported that there were 1,281 coronavirus hospital admissions on Christmas Day, up more than 70% compared to the previous week.
The four parts of the U.K. have taken different approaches to coronavirus restrictions as the omicron variant spread rapidly in the country. While nightclubs were ordered closed and limits on gatherings were imposed in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, officials have resisted tightening restrictions in England.
Javid said about 90% of cases across England were the omicron variant.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Monday pledged the full support of the federal government to states facing surges in COVID-19 cases from the more-transmissible omicron variant and a run on at-home tests.
Joining a regular meeting between his coronavirus response team and the National Governors Association, Biden said, "My message is: if you need something, say something, and we are going to have your back any way we can."
Biden acknowledged long lines and chaotic scenes as Americans sought out testing amid the case surge and as they looked to safely gather with family and friends over the holiday.
He referenced his administration's plan to make 500 million rapid tests available to Americans beginning next month through an as-yet-to-be-developed website.
A White House official said the new tests would come from new manufacturing capacity and wouldn't interfere with existing supply chains.
WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, said Monday that the U.S. should "seriously" consider a vaccination mandate for domestic travel.
Speaking to MSNBC, Fauci, who serves as President Joe Biden's chief science adviser on the COVID-19 response, said "When you make vaccination a requirement, that's another incentive to get more people vaccinated."
The U.S. currently mandates that most foreign nationals traveling to the U.S. be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, but has not instituted one for domestic travel.
The administration has at times considered a domestic vaccination requirement, or one requiring either vaccination or proof of negative test, but two officials said Biden's science advisers have yet to formally make the recommendation to the president. The officials noted they have not been eager to mandate vaccination for domestic air travel because they expected it to immediately face legal challenges, mitigating its potential effectiveness as a tool to drive up vaccinations.
Biden's employer vaccination requirements have been mired in legal wrangling, with the Supreme Court set to hear arguments in early January in cases seeking to overturn them.
ATHENS — In Greece, authorities announced additional restrictions after the highest number of daily confirmed infections, at 9,284, was announced since the start of the pandemic.
Health Minister Thanos Plevris announced that starting Jan. 3: the mandatory use of high-protection or double masks will be imposed at supermarkets and on public transport, entertainment venues will close at midnight, capacity will be cut to 10% at soccer stadiums, remote work and schedule changes will be expanded at the public sector and nursing home visits will only be permitted for people carrying a negative PCR test result.
"The omicron variant is now apparent across the country, especially in greater Athens where there has been a considerable rise in cases," Plevris said.
He added that the new restrictions would take effect after the New Year due to concerns that if were imposed earlier, they would lead to an increase in private gatherings.
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