Saturday insanity roundup
A major difficulty with blogging nowadays is that there is just too much to write about. But I did come up with a theme that will let me put a few items together. I ' m not exactly sure what to call it, but it ' s broadly about that river in Egypt.First let ' s consider Brexit and Boris Johnson ' s latest. Leaving the EU was never going to be anything but bad for the UK economy but they did finally make a deal that would have spared the British people the worst. But now the governing Tories have reneged. Their motivation is not entirely clear, but it has to do with the intractable problem of the Ireland-Northern Ireland bo...
Source: Stayin' Alive - September 12, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
COVID and pregnancy
As a member of the departmental EDI group, I wrote this as an email to Library and Leicester Learning Institute staff, as part of a series on how COVID affected protected groups. Here is the email, minus anything specifically University of Leicester.All links were checked on 3rd July 2020.NHS,including information in British Sign Language.NHS Inform (from NHS Scotland): haslinks to health information in languages other than English, and the COVID information may include information about pregnancy. There is information in Arabic, Bengali, British Sign Language, Chinese, Hindi, Polish, Punjabi, Romanian...
Source: Browsing - September 10, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: blogs
This Is Really An Invaluable Effort In Understanding The Global Digital Health Response To COVID19
This appeared a little while ago. The COVID-19-crisis and the information polity: An overview of responses and discussions in twenty-one countries from six continents Article type: Review Article Authors: Meijer, Alberta| Webster, C. William R.b| Contributing Authors1 Affiliations: [a] Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands | [b] University of Stirling, Scotland, UK Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Albert Meijer, Utrecht University School of Governance, Bijlhouwerstraat 6, 3511 ZC, Utrecht, The Netherlands. E-mail: a.j.meijer@uu.nl. Note: [1] Contributing Authors: Frank Bannister, Colin J. Bennett, Kaiping C...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 26, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
The Rutland Water Ospreys
Rutland Water is a reservoir, an artificial lake in the English Midlands. Several years ago, they introduced Osprey chicks from Scotland in a conservation experiment to see whether this migratory raptor would breed in England again. The experiment was rather successful. You can read all the details on the Wildlife Trust’s site, save me repeating it here…
We’ve seen and photographed one of the Ospreys from the road that passes the reservoir having failed to see them from the northside reserve a couple of years ago. But on a visit in August 2020 we took to the hides on the southern shore…just as the ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - August 21, 2020 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
Gender recognition and the rights of transgender people
House of Commons Library - This briefing paper considers the current law relating to gender recognition; the medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria; the current protections from discrimination; consultations by the UK government and the Scottish government on reform of the Gender Recognition Act 2004; and the'self-identification' debate.BriefingMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 20, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Equality and diversity Source Type: blogs
A health librarian and music - Ina Boyle
I was driving back from the computer shop after buying a plug in keyboard to address the fact that my laptop was no longer (or loner) allowing me to type g and h.And this was on the radio. The car radio told me what it was called, but not who wrote it. I thought it sounded like Ralph Vaughan Williams, but it was not. It was in fact (as you may have known) by Ina Boyle. She lived in County Wicklow, Ireland, composed symphonies and concertos, settings of Irish and English language poems, including English translations of Scottish Gaelic. She was a student of Vaughan Williams. ...
Source: Browsing - July 17, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: music Source Type: blogs
When Reality Declines Your Offer
I made some offers to reality this year that it declined. My declined offers included planned trips to Portland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Milwaukee, Chicago, and Costa Rica. If the original plans held up, Rachelle and I would be embarking on about 30 days of travel starting later this month, including two wonderful multi-day events with different groups of friends, lots of touristy activities, probably an Irish excursion, and our first time at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Additionally I intended to do an all new public workshop in Las Vegas in October, perhaps even a Halloween-overlapping one like we did in 2010. And ...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - July 9, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Creating Reality Lifestyle Source Type: blogs
Has the Federal Government Preserved U.S. Shipbuilding Vitality? Or Sapped it?
Colin GrabowA recentNew York Timesfeature about the construction of containerships contains the following passage regarding the state of the U.S. shipbuilding industry:In the United States, large shipyards have been on the decline for decades, losing out on orders for massive commercial ships to cheaper foreign competition. Today, more than 90 percent of global shipbuilding takes place in just three countries: China, South Korea and Japan. What industry does remain in the United States is supported by the federal government, which orders American ‐made ships of all kinds, from Coast Guard cutters to naval aircraft car...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 25, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs
Antifa is coming to steal your potatoes!
I live in the small town of Scotland, CT. The neighboring town to the west is Windham, which like Scotland is mostly rural and nearly 100% white but incorporates the borough of Willimantic, an urbanized area with an ethnically diverse population. The Willimantic NAACP decided to hold its Juneteenth observance on the Scotland town green, I presume in part for the symbolic reason that Scotland was the site of a notorious Ku Klux Klan rally in 1980. But in fact they ' ve been holding rallies in various small towns in the area, trying to reach out beyond the urban base of the current movement and speak to, and recruit, a broad...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 20, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
NHS hospital car parking policies in the UK
House of Commons Library - This briefing sets out policies on NHS hospital parking charges in the UK. Hospitals may charge for car parking in all NHS hospitals in England and Northern Ireland. Most hospital car parking charges were abolished in Wales in 2008 and Scotland in 2009. BriefingMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - May 26, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS finances and productivity Source Type: blogs
Will Medical Workers Deal With PTSD After COVID-19?
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is commonly linked with war veterans. This mental health condition however can be triggered by suffering or witnessing any terrifying event like accidents, natural disasters, violent experience – or a disastrous pandemic. It comes as no surprise that medical health professionals and other people in the frontline of the fight against coronavirus are expected to have a surge in trauma-related illnesses, particularly PTSD. Beside protecting and helping personnel physically as well as mentally, there are also digital health solutions that can come to the rescue.
A Canadian resea...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 28, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers Telemedicine & Smartphones Virtual Reality digital health ptsd stress stress management medical professionals digital healthcare coronavirus covid covid19 Source Type: blogs
Stuck at Home? Read about the History of Liberty
David BoazLooking for intellectual stimulation while you ’re stuck at home? Why not take a short course in the history of liberty?The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism, published in 2008 in hard copy, is nowavailable free online at Lib ertarianism.org. TheEncyclopedia includes more than 300 succinct, original articles on libertarian ideas, institutions, and thinkers. Contributors include James Buchanan, Richard Epstein, Tyler Cowen, Randy Barnett, Ellen Frankel Paul, Deirdre McCloskey, and more than 100 other scholars. In an interesting discussion of social change and especiallythe best ways to spre...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 6, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
Noc migging- Night flight call recording
I mentioned noc migging at the end of last year as something I planned to do in the spring of 2020. “Nocmig” or Night flight call (NFC) recording as the Americans know it, is basically making an audio (or indeed video) recording of the sky above you at night with the aim of plucking from the audio the calls of birds flying overhead as they migrate.
We’re coming into the main migratory season in the UK with a few of our summer visitors already here, many more heading this way and crossing the Iberian Peninsula and other parts of the continent lying between their winter holiday homes further south and The B...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - April 3, 2020 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
Memory Care Searches for Tablet Donations to Help Residents Stay Connected
Dear Readers: The information below contains a note about a memory care facility that is looking for tablets for their residents to help them stay in touch with loved ones. Since this facility needs them, I imagine that others do as well, so if you have a tablet that you aren't using, try calling an assisted living, memory care, or nursing home in your location and ask if they need tablets for their residents. Thanks! Carol
Photo credit Timothy Muza
CALEDONIA SENIOR LIVING & MEMORY CARE SEARCHES FOR TABLET DONATIONS TO DIGITALLY CONNECT RESIDENTS TO LOVED ONES
WHAT: In an effort to assist residents, staff a...
Source: Minding Our Elders - March 30, 2020 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
How to Navigate Your Panic Attacks During These Turbulent Times
If you suffer from panic attacks or are prone to them, you might find that you are experiencing them more than usual. The uncertainty in these challenging times as we face a global pandemic — it’s the perfect storm for intense fear and a sense of dread that cripples those who suffer from panic attacks. It triggers physical symptoms like a pounding heart, sweating, shortness of breath, nausea, chest pain, or trembling. It can last 5 to 20 minutes but can feel like forever. Despite the scary situation you find yourself in, the “silver lining” is that once you learn to recognize when your attacks are coming on...
Source: World of Psychology - March 28, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Emily Waters Tags: Anxiety and Panic Stress Anxiety Attack coronavirus COVID-19 Panic Attack stress reduction Source Type: blogs
