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Given the prevalence of food allergy in children, it may be wise to have non-food items to give as Halloween treats. Use a teal pumpkin as the signifier of those items.
Twelve steps that can help a parent be able to help an angry child learn how to handle anger and emotion well. In some ways, I think this would work on adults as well, especially ones that may not have had much training in how to handle things as children.
Lacking monetary resources to engage in your life stresses your store of willpower, leaving the poor often without the willpower necessary to make improvements on getting out of poverty. The suggestion is to find ways to avoid spending the will - instead of resolutions, definite actions that prevent temptation from appearing (like removing the television instead of resolving to watch it less).
The National Health Service of the United Kingdom wants to lead by example regarding health - so they will try for healthy food in hospitals (good) and strongly encouraging staff to join gyms, exercise programs, and weight-loss ventures (bad).
If you think girls only play with their dolls in ways the advertisement shows...think again.
Equality of time spent doing unpaid housework does not mean equality of chores or of work performed, so articles claiming equality based on time are not making good claims.
The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize is shared between Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating girls' education, and Indian children's rights advocate Kailash Satyarthi. The committee acknowledged the synergy of selecting a Hindu Indian and a Muslim Pakistani for the prize, whose criteria is for the person (or persons) who best advance the cause of fraternity between nations.
The death of the first diagnosed Ebola patient in the United States has his family calling for an investigation on how he was treated, with allegations that the staff treated him differently because he was a black man without insurance instead of a white person with insurance, despite showing appropriate symptoms of the infection and mentioning he had been to a region that has the virus. The four days he spent not getting medical care could have been the difference between life and death.
After several significant failures of security and discretion by the Secret Service, the head of the agency resigned. Scandals involving the Secret Service involve armed people getting into elevators with the President, scandals involving prostitutes and agents, and a person who jumped the fence and entered the White House before being captured.
Since the elections of 2010 that made many states governed by Republicans, those Republicans have been busy passing new laws that restrict who is eligible to vote and that require unprecedented amounts of documentation to vote. Occasionally, the courts block such laws when they are too obviously designed to force Democratic-leaning voters to jump through new hoops, such as in Texas and Wisconsin. Sometimes the Republican government decides to act more directly, launching fraud investigations against groups tied to prominent Democrats, even though voter fraud is nearly nonexistent. The organization is now hounding the Secretary of State to process all of the 86,000 registrations turned in, instead of only the half they have done so far. The Secretary of State for Georgia claimed not to know where the missing registrations are, and seems uninclined to try and find them.
And then there are blatant lies. Like the Congresscritter that claimed fighters for the Islamic State crossed the Mexico-United States border and were arrested, prompting both the Department of Homeland Security and the Mexican Embassy to state that claim was baseless and false.
A North Dakota Congresscritter filmed a political ad in a veterans' cemetery, using the tombstones as his backdrop. The poor taste by itself should have been enough, but it may also have been in violation of election rules.
The data is in, and it suggests that the Affordable Care Act has achieved the things it wants to, and is managing to avoid the projected pitfalls its opponents were sure would happen. It's a success, and because of that, it's not being used as a punching bag for the elections.
In saying he wants to die at 75, a bioethicist says he doesn't want to decline into nothing through the process of old age and modern medicine, and unintentionally makes strong cases for why socialized medicine is an excellent idea - it relieves the burden of caring for long-lived parents and it also means being able to get care for the youngest, even when it would not be affordable. The article, though, even though the author denies it, advocates for the idea of old people and the disabled being left to die after they have reached an arbitrary age. The discussion from this idea focuses on the points not said explicitly. And with age often comes a new perspective on the matter of dying, as well as the process of dying.
A tourist went into a bookstore at five minutes to close, past employees, spent fifteen minutes on the Internet, then had to resort to social media to get out - even after tripping the alarms.
Outlander is a show following an increasing tradition of showing the female gaze and complex, competent female characters. This is a good trend and should continue.
Kate Harding is looking at the larger context of women changing their name at marriage and says feminism should focus on that, not on having to justify why their choice to change was feminist and right for them.
In attempting to insult him, trolls inspire Mr. Scalzi to explore the idea of his very own person gender, scalzine. The community reacts generally positively, and the trolls keep trying.
The politicians are not helping. A Colorado political candidate declared that an IUD causes an abortion, which is patently not true, as IUDs prevent fertilization and implantation. And the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals allowed a Texas law that requires abortion clinics to meet nearly-impossible standards to stand, forcing the closure of all but seven clinics in the state. Yet those politicians will still claim there's no burden or undue hardship being placed on women who want to access abortion services.
Attempting to find sex and gender differences in the brains of very young children and proclaim that men are and women are from these things is a fool's errand.
After a credible threat of mass violence, Anita Sarkeesian canceled a planned speaking engagement when the institution said it could not prevent persons with concealed weapons (and attendant permits) from attending due to state law.
A Florida city has ruled that data collected by cellular phone towers requires a warrant to access, and may also require warrants for the use of devices intended to mimic cellular phone towers. Using the data the towers collect as cellular phones establish network connections allows law enforcement to determine the locations of the phones, and by extension, their owners.
Ever thought about the personalities of the Canadian provinces of they were personified as high school students?
To promote a love of reading and writing in school, there must be more reading, writing, and discussion, rather than arbitrary distinctions of what is reading and assignments that don't involve reading.
At many of our lowest points, some of us do better being told what to do rather than having an offer of help.
To get people, especially children, to listen, there are six things that we think work, but don't. It's quite effective to do what's recommended in the post.
Snapchat, a service that claimed to work in one-time-viewable picture messages, had had an archive of transmissions dumped onto the World Wide Web after a service that archived Snapchat transmissions using a third-party application was hacked. Snapchat blames the problems on its users using third-party applications, which its TOS explicitly forbids, but those applications were only possible through a reverse-engineering of the Snapchat API, suggesting that Snapchat didn't do enough to secure itself in the first place.
An older version of web security is vulnerable to a client attack over open wireless access called POODLE. There are enough people using older brothers and operating systems that this is a possible problem, but the attack requires someone being connected to the same network and using old security protocols.
Last for tonight, The Purple Store, where all the items for sale are purple-colored, and various facts about the world, history, and other assorted miscellaneous et cetera.
And how erotic fanfic is better than mainstream pornographic video because fanfic creates characters, as opposed to porn that transforms people into body parts.
Okay, and A. A. Milne reading a chapter from Winnie-the-Pooh, but that's it.
Twelve steps that can help a parent be able to help an angry child learn how to handle anger and emotion well. In some ways, I think this would work on adults as well, especially ones that may not have had much training in how to handle things as children.
Lacking monetary resources to engage in your life stresses your store of willpower, leaving the poor often without the willpower necessary to make improvements on getting out of poverty. The suggestion is to find ways to avoid spending the will - instead of resolutions, definite actions that prevent temptation from appearing (like removing the television instead of resolving to watch it less).
The National Health Service of the United Kingdom wants to lead by example regarding health - so they will try for healthy food in hospitals (good) and strongly encouraging staff to join gyms, exercise programs, and weight-loss ventures (bad).
If you think girls only play with their dolls in ways the advertisement shows...think again.
Equality of time spent doing unpaid housework does not mean equality of chores or of work performed, so articles claiming equality based on time are not making good claims.
The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize is shared between Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating girls' education, and Indian children's rights advocate Kailash Satyarthi. The committee acknowledged the synergy of selecting a Hindu Indian and a Muslim Pakistani for the prize, whose criteria is for the person (or persons) who best advance the cause of fraternity between nations.
The death of the first diagnosed Ebola patient in the United States has his family calling for an investigation on how he was treated, with allegations that the staff treated him differently because he was a black man without insurance instead of a white person with insurance, despite showing appropriate symptoms of the infection and mentioning he had been to a region that has the virus. The four days he spent not getting medical care could have been the difference between life and death.
After several significant failures of security and discretion by the Secret Service, the head of the agency resigned. Scandals involving the Secret Service involve armed people getting into elevators with the President, scandals involving prostitutes and agents, and a person who jumped the fence and entered the White House before being captured.
Since the elections of 2010 that made many states governed by Republicans, those Republicans have been busy passing new laws that restrict who is eligible to vote and that require unprecedented amounts of documentation to vote. Occasionally, the courts block such laws when they are too obviously designed to force Democratic-leaning voters to jump through new hoops, such as in Texas and Wisconsin. Sometimes the Republican government decides to act more directly, launching fraud investigations against groups tied to prominent Democrats, even though voter fraud is nearly nonexistent. The organization is now hounding the Secretary of State to process all of the 86,000 registrations turned in, instead of only the half they have done so far. The Secretary of State for Georgia claimed not to know where the missing registrations are, and seems uninclined to try and find them.
And then there are blatant lies. Like the Congresscritter that claimed fighters for the Islamic State crossed the Mexico-United States border and were arrested, prompting both the Department of Homeland Security and the Mexican Embassy to state that claim was baseless and false.
A North Dakota Congresscritter filmed a political ad in a veterans' cemetery, using the tombstones as his backdrop. The poor taste by itself should have been enough, but it may also have been in violation of election rules.
The data is in, and it suggests that the Affordable Care Act has achieved the things it wants to, and is managing to avoid the projected pitfalls its opponents were sure would happen. It's a success, and because of that, it's not being used as a punching bag for the elections.
In saying he wants to die at 75, a bioethicist says he doesn't want to decline into nothing through the process of old age and modern medicine, and unintentionally makes strong cases for why socialized medicine is an excellent idea - it relieves the burden of caring for long-lived parents and it also means being able to get care for the youngest, even when it would not be affordable. The article, though, even though the author denies it, advocates for the idea of old people and the disabled being left to die after they have reached an arbitrary age. The discussion from this idea focuses on the points not said explicitly. And with age often comes a new perspective on the matter of dying, as well as the process of dying.
A tourist went into a bookstore at five minutes to close, past employees, spent fifteen minutes on the Internet, then had to resort to social media to get out - even after tripping the alarms.
Outlander is a show following an increasing tradition of showing the female gaze and complex, competent female characters. This is a good trend and should continue.
Kate Harding is looking at the larger context of women changing their name at marriage and says feminism should focus on that, not on having to justify why their choice to change was feminist and right for them.
In attempting to insult him, trolls inspire Mr. Scalzi to explore the idea of his very own person gender, scalzine. The community reacts generally positively, and the trolls keep trying.
The politicians are not helping. A Colorado political candidate declared that an IUD causes an abortion, which is patently not true, as IUDs prevent fertilization and implantation. And the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals allowed a Texas law that requires abortion clinics to meet nearly-impossible standards to stand, forcing the closure of all but seven clinics in the state. Yet those politicians will still claim there's no burden or undue hardship being placed on women who want to access abortion services.
Attempting to find sex and gender differences in the brains of very young children and proclaim that men are and women are from these things is a fool's errand.
After a credible threat of mass violence, Anita Sarkeesian canceled a planned speaking engagement when the institution said it could not prevent persons with concealed weapons (and attendant permits) from attending due to state law.
A Florida city has ruled that data collected by cellular phone towers requires a warrant to access, and may also require warrants for the use of devices intended to mimic cellular phone towers. Using the data the towers collect as cellular phones establish network connections allows law enforcement to determine the locations of the phones, and by extension, their owners.
Ever thought about the personalities of the Canadian provinces of they were personified as high school students?
To promote a love of reading and writing in school, there must be more reading, writing, and discussion, rather than arbitrary distinctions of what is reading and assignments that don't involve reading.
At many of our lowest points, some of us do better being told what to do rather than having an offer of help.
To get people, especially children, to listen, there are six things that we think work, but don't. It's quite effective to do what's recommended in the post.
Snapchat, a service that claimed to work in one-time-viewable picture messages, had had an archive of transmissions dumped onto the World Wide Web after a service that archived Snapchat transmissions using a third-party application was hacked. Snapchat blames the problems on its users using third-party applications, which its TOS explicitly forbids, but those applications were only possible through a reverse-engineering of the Snapchat API, suggesting that Snapchat didn't do enough to secure itself in the first place.
An older version of web security is vulnerable to a client attack over open wireless access called POODLE. There are enough people using older brothers and operating systems that this is a possible problem, but the attack requires someone being connected to the same network and using old security protocols.
Last for tonight, The Purple Store, where all the items for sale are purple-colored, and various facts about the world, history, and other assorted miscellaneous et cetera.
And how erotic fanfic is better than mainstream pornographic video because fanfic creates characters, as opposed to porn that transforms people into body parts.
Okay, and A. A. Milne reading a chapter from Winnie-the-Pooh, but that's it.
