Most Canadian Immigrants Are Not Economic Immigrants, they are Family-Based Immigrants
President Trump recently released anotherplan to reform the immigration system. It was crafted with the help of his son-in-law and presidential advisor Jared Kushner. My colleague David Bier ablyexplains the details of the Kushner plan, but I want to focus on a common misconception that lays at the justification for merit-based immigration reform: In reality, there is not a single country in the OECD or European Union (EU) where economic immigrants are a majority of new permanent residents, even in merit-based systems like Canada ’s. Theone-pager for the Kushner plan says that 63 percent of Canadian permanent resid...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 23, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Puss Moth, Cerura vinula
Last night was a very different night of mothing. It had been up to 20 degrees Celsius during the day but got down as low as 7 degrees Celsius in the night, it was still and dry, with a waxing gibbous moon. The haul one gets to an actinic light moth trap can never be predicted, but numbers were the highest they had been since the warm patch in April 2019, it’s now mid-May 2019.
Puss Moth (Cerura vinula)
I was very pleased to see one of the larger British moths sitting on the outside of the trap this morning, the very furry Puss Moth, Cerura vinula. This specimen was an impressive 4.5 centimetres long from front leg...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - May 15, 2019 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
Every minute matters: the impact of delayed discharges from hospital on terminally ill people in Northern Ireland
This report focuses on the extent – and underlying causes – of delayed discharges across local hospitals in Northern Ireland, the impact these delays are having on terminally ill people and what can be done to address the issue. ReportPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - April 17, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Social care Source Type: blogs
How Writers Write About Heartbreaking Things and Care for Themselves in the Process
For more than 20 years, Mary Cregan wanted to write her recently published memoir The Scar: A Personal History of Depression and Recovery, but she felt that she couldn’t. It’s primarily because she wasn’t ready to face the exposure required to be so honest about such a devastating, difficult part of her life.
Because that’s the thing about writing: We let readers into our innermost thoughts and feelings, into our souls, and that can be scary.
We tackle topics we’d never bring up with a close friend, let alone a stranger, and yet that’s exactly what we do. We share our stories with thousands of strangers.
Wri...
Source: World of Psychology - April 14, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Books Creativity Disorders General Habits Inspiration & Hope Mental Health and Wellness Stigma Heartbreak Vulnerability writing Source Type: blogs
INNOVO Transcutaneous Electrical Stimulator for Urinary Incontinence Coming to U.S.
Atlantic Therapeutics, a company out of Galway, Ireland, will soon be releasing its INNOVO transcutaneous electrical stimulator to treat stress urinary incontinence in women. The device was FDA approved late last year as the first transcutaneous stimulator with such an indication. It delivers electric current through the body toward muscles that control the pelvic floor, which in turn can help maintain continence.
The technology provides women a non-invasive option that, in a clinical trial, demonstrated that 87% of women were dry or nearly so after a three month treatment. 80% of the women studied had results after only a...
Source: Medgadget - April 11, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Medicine Neurology Ob/Gyn Rehab Source Type: blogs
Mapping the Vikings using R
The commute to my workplace is 90 minutes each way. Podcasts are my friend. I’m a long-time listener of In Our Time and enjoyed the recent episode about The Danelaw.
Melvyn and I hail from the same part of the world, and I learned as a child that many of the local place names there were derived from Old Norse or Danish. Notably: places ending in -by denote a farmstead, settlement or village; those ending in -thwaite mean a clearing or meadow.
So how local are those names? Time for some quick and dirty maps using R.
First, we’ll need a dataset of British place names. There are quite a few of these online, but t...
Source: What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate - April 3, 2019 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: nsaunders Tags: R statistics ggplot2 history maps podcast rstats viking Source Type: blogs
Private Satellite Firm Aids Boeing 737 Investigation
Canada privatized its air traffic control (ATC) system in 1996. Today, Nav Canada is on the leading edge of ATC innovation worldwide. With Iridium, Nav Canada co-foundedAerion in 2012, which produces satellite-based tracking of global airliner movements. This is the future of air traffic control as it promises greater safety, fewer delays, savings of fuel, and more efficient use of airspace. The U.S. ATC system is not an investor in this revolutionary project.Our government-run ATC is falling behind the privatized systems in Canada and the United Kingdom. ATC is a high-tech business, yet we run our system as anold-fashione...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 18, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
Luck of the Irish
“Luck of the Irish” – the Australian program (RYDA) saving Irish lives on the road - Just one Life
The post Luck of the Irish appeared first on Life in the Fast Lane • LITFL • Medical Blog. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane)
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 13, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dr Mike Cadogan Tags: LITFL Just one life Rotary Youth Driver Awareness scheme RYDA Wexford General Hospital Will Pridmore Source Type: blogs
Are cosmetics safer in Europe than in the US? Episode 101
Conclusion
I think the conclusion I draw is that cosmetics you buy through regular distribution channels like shops, pharmacies and the big specialised online cosmetic websites are pretty much as safe as you can expect anything to be. The regulations are respected and followed by all the big suppliers and distributors. But the actual detail of what the regulations say is probably not as important as the motivations of the people who make the stuff.
iTunes reviews
I think it’s interesting to note that this question came to us in an iTunes review…those are really important to us. We took a blood oath to give a shout out ...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - March 5, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Randy Schueller Tags: Health & safety of cosmetics Myths Podcast Source Type: blogs
The stoat is weaselly distinguished from other predators
As regular readers will know, the dog and I are often to be seen tramping the footpaths around farmland, the local spinney, and the drainage ditches known as lodes. A year ago today I videoed said pooch running through the snow as Britain supposedly suffered the onslaught of some cold snowy weather in the form of the so-called Beast from the East (video here). It wasn’t at all beastly, just a bit cold and a bit snowy and it brought the winter thrushes (my video here), the Redwings and the Fieldfares, into our village gardens from the fields.
By contrast, today it’s an incredibly balmy 18.5 Celsius out there. C...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - February 27, 2019 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Biology Sciencebase Vertebrates Source Type: blogs
Stoats are weaselly distinguished
As regular readers will know, the dog and I are often to be seen tramping the footpaths around farmland, the local spinney, and the drainage ditches known as lodes. A year ago today I videoed said pooch running through the snow as Britain supposedly suffered the onslaught of some cold snowy weather in the form of the so-called Beast from the East (video here). It wasn’t at all beastly, just a bit cold and a bit snowy and it brought the winter thrushes (my video here), the Redwings and the Fieldfares, into our village gardens from the fields.
By contrast, today it’s an incredibly balmy 18.5 Celsius out there. C...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - February 27, 2019 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Biology Sciencebase Vertebrates Source Type: blogs
Family Sues Hospital for Keeping Dead Woman on Physiological Support
Four years ago, I blogged about a dead pregnant woman whose case reached the Irish High Court (PP v Health Service Executive). The woman was maintained on physiological support for 24 days until the court ruled that clinicians could stop.
The family subsequently filed private lawsuits for money damages. Those cases are now ready for trial.
Recap of the Case
December 3, 2014A woman in her mid 20s was declared dead in a Dublin hospital when she was 15 weeks pregnant.
Despite pleas from her husband and father, clinicians refused to stop physiological support.
Clinicians said they needed legal clarification on what ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - February 27, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Guidance on the review of PPU arrangements under the Private Healthcare Market Investigation Order 2014
Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) - This guidance sets out the CMA ’s approach to reviewing Private Patient Unit (PPU) arrangements. That is, arrangements for a private hospital operator to operate, manage, or otherwise provide privately-funded healthcare services at a private patient unit in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, or Scotland.GuidanceMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 20, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs
“The Self Is Not Entirely Lost In Dementia,” Argues New Review
By Christian Jarrett
In the past when scholars have reflected on the psychological impact of dementia they have frequently referred to the loss of the “self” in dramatic and devastating terms, using language such as the “unbecoming of the self” or the “disintegration” of the self. In a new review released as a preprint at PsyArXiv, an international team of psychologists led by Muireann Irish at the University of Sydney challenge this bleak picture which they attribute to the common, but mistaken, assumption “that without memory, there can be no self” (as encapsulated by the l...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - February 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Memory The self Source Type: blogs
