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itwoodbeprefect · 17 days

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911 season 7 episode 3!!!

fjkdf i love when we get a little montage to introduce minor characters in the episode, and i love when that's fun, and i think this family is fun (corey!), but they really got me when the grandmother went "we need to get to the lifeboats. i want a good seat!"

the thing about 911 is. the thing about 911 is that at some point i WILL end up crying a little from the stress of the awful terrible horrible situations these fictional characters end up in

"dead men don't bleed." bobby throwing out a banger of a revenge western title

"what are you all doing! on the ceiling!!!" that's a VERY good question, norman.

i'm, let's say, a little skeptical of the real world feasability of this rope and climbing rescue plan bobby is executing, but i do love when 911 goes hey! what the fuck! enjoy some action movie shenanigans!

"wish buck could have seen you do that." "honestly, i would have much rather seen buck do that." <3

love the way maddie is trying to have a phone conversation with chim but buck and eddie keep half joining in, like kids in the back seat of the car only catching half the conversation between their parents.

"so who's missing, bobby and athena or hen?" "yes." one of those lines that's extremely obviously something the writers set up for themselves, but i can't fault them for it, because i will admit i do like a corny overused joke.

"how are you feeling?" "like my world's been turned upside-down." man, this is a guy who knows how to milk his situation for fitting witty comments. first the whole gambling thing, now this.

"hen, where are you?" oh, she's just doing illegal paperwork. <3

dear god. so far, counting the communications officer who died last episode, this is turning out to be a survivable emergency unless you're a black man.

OH. OKAY.

so this is where tommy shows up!!

"could be why i haven't been getting your christmas cards." fdjkfd.

i felt like i'd probably seen every scene with tommy in it giffed ten different ways by now, but i did NOT see much of this, or realize that this is how he came back into the picture. good for him. he's immediately making up for past bad behavior by randomly having hen's back.

oh, of course. not random!! it's family, doing ill-advised heroic things that should get them fired togetherrrr. <3

"oh, i think this is an open channel." "do you, buck? do you really?" fjkdfd.

awwww. the 118: WHO CARES. 💪

always a fun time when the guy behind the controls of the helicopter says you're probably all going to die anyway!

lola: "i've never been with another man." norman: "neither have i!" ?? evan buckley, SECOND bi character this season

mr. doctor stepping up!! love that for him!!

"well, unless you feel like swimming back, that's all we've got." i do love this personality they've given tommy!

also, i realize tommy's last name is kinard, which has entirely different origins, but i keep hearing canard, as in french for duck, which would be kind of funny for a man flying over water.

tommy being stupidly willing to go along with the 118's stupid let's-just-maybe-all-die-here-for-hen's-hunch plan! i adore that this is how we're introduced to him again, it's so good, hard not to immediately love him.

guy who's been very rightfully and realistically skeptical of their chances of survival from the start: "but there's nothing out there." [helicopter noises] < continuing the tradition of characters with a normal reasonable view of the world being smugly proven wrong on this show, fjdkfd.

the thank you for choosing oceanis blue last words, oh my god. very goofy.

"i'm not supposed to go with strangers." corey, i love you.

"what are we gonna do?" "we're gonna keep trying." damn if that isn't bobby coming up with a way better line than buck's off the top of his head. the 118: we're gonna keep trying.

fjdkfd sorry but if you're bobby trying to rescue a little kid and the door above you closes up and you can't get it open and the water keeps rising and you're about to drown (again), and then the door DOES suddenly pop open and buck and eddie in full gear are grinning down at you when there's supposed to be absolutely ZERO chance of them even being on this sinking ship in the middle of the ocean in a hurricane to begin with, i think that maybe, for at least a quick second there, you might think that this time you finally did die.

ohoho! see this, of course, i did see giffed.

hen thanking maddie is good. bobby calling hen captain is great. bobby and athena getting back home and taking their fast food into the bedroom is lovely. love when there's at least a little time to wind down from the episode. <3

#911 #*#onnnn to episode 4. ohoho

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ultraviolet-techno-ecology · 3 years

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Don't you think "tearing shit down" is more feasable when you're not trying to survive on the streets? Yeah, you have less time and energy, but you have more resources. It's easier to cool down when you have a roof over your head. Also yeah, all these situations you mentioned suck emensly, but how would, let's say, that teacher's life improve if she left her job and lived on the street with her kids. if her students had one less teacher?

Contextually speaking in the USA most teachers are not paid to educate - they are babysitters with student loans. This was essentially proven with the gusto behind sending kids back to school during the pandemic. Absolutely no concern was shown for the safety and wellbeing of the teachers.

Teachers are one of the most criminally underpaid and underappreciated professions out there - (alongside sanitation workers fwiw) - and a mass exodus of teachers from public schools would literally grind this country to a halt since the vast majority of parents cannot afford accommodations for their own children.

Few things would make the absurdity of our work-life dynamic more apparent than a complete shutdown of the public school system. It's not like the kids are missing out on much with the absence of the propaganda apparatus we call a school system.

Get the kids involved with pertinent tasks. Develop community programs, clean up the roadsides, plant some trees, encourage learning via literally any other method than sitting in a cramped prison room for an entire workday repeating "The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell."

Tearing shit down as a teacher means rejecting an education system which has been proven counterproductive to the health and wellbeing of those children. It means creating new scientifically informed alternatives without giving a fuck what the government thinks.

#ask for bread #and if they do not give it ask for work #and if they do not give you work #then steal the bread #We asked for bread and they gave us misery

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maditationservices · 4 years

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You Should Meditate If - The Latest Meditation Research

Over the last three decades, meditation has been proven to help with everything from high blood pressure to pain management to immune function and more. Meditation is now taught in hospitals, at company retreats, in churches, at school, and of course in yoga and martial arts studios everywhere.

Just in case you haven't yet been convinced to give it a try, the following is a list of the latest meditation research. All of the studies listed have been published within just the last year. You can find abstracts of these studies on PubMed, the National Institutes of Health database. In many of these abstracts, meditation is referred to as MBSR - Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. Although this term covers a variety of meditation techniques, the most common are deep breathing and the repetition of a soothing word or phrase spiritual meditation script.

So, without further ado, you should meditate, IF:

You Need Help Managing Your Stress - Meditation has repeatedly been proven to elicit the 'relaxation response' - the physiological opposite of the 'stress response'. In a recent research review conducted by John Hopkins Medical Center to develop a guide for Nurse Practitioners, meditation was found to be effective for reducing stress in virtually every patient population. Futhermore, another study by the University of New Mexico suggestes that meditation is better than other cognitive-based approaches to stress management on several counts.

You Suffer From Chronic Lower Back Pain - Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh conducted a study on older adults suffering from chronic lower back pain and found that meditation helped reduce their pain, improve their sleep, and increase their quality of life.

You'd Like Your Mind to Be More Controlled and Efficient - If you suffer from excessive 'spontaneous mentation' (medical-speak for 'a busy mind'), meditation is for you. Researchers at Emory University found that practitioners of Zen meditation were able to perform certain tasks with less neural activity, and better able to regulate their mental response to stimuli.

You'd Like to Improve Your Immune Function - Researchers at Loyola University taught meditation to women diagnosed with early stage breast cancer - obviously a source of great stress. They found that compared to a control group, the meditator's immune functions stabilized and rebounded much faster after surgery.

You Suffer From Headaches, Particularly Migraines - In a study conducted at the University of Massachusetts, researchers taught four different types of meditation to migraine sufferers. As has been demonstrated in prior studies, all four groups experienced a decrease in their headache frequency and severity. An interesting aspect of this study is that it was designed to compare spiritual vs. secular meditation, and the spiritual meditation was more effective - a finding I will probably cover in more detail in a future post.

You Are HIV Positive - A study conducted on HIV+ patients at UCLA suggests that meditation helps buffer the decline of the lymphocytes most associated with HIV progression.

You'd Like to Feel a Greater Sense of Well-Being - Separate studies at Santa Clara University and the University of Massachusetts found that meditation cultivates mindfulness, which in turn produces a greater overall self-reported sense of well-being.

You Suffer From Anxiety - A research review conducted at the Psychology Research Laboratory in Verbania, Italy looked at 10 years worth of research on the effectiveness of meditation for dealing with chronic anxiety, and found that it was statistically effective.

You Have Trouble Sleeping - A study at Stanford University combined meditation with cognitive approaches for the treatment of insomnia, and found the overall program effective.

You Are ADHD - A feasability study at UCLA on adults and adolescents with ADHD found that meditation increased their attention and cognitive abilities, and decreased feelings of anxiety and depression.

You Suffer From Bipolar Disorder - A preliminary study at the University of Oxford found that meditation helped reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms in bipolar patients.

You'd Like to Increase Your Compassion For Others - A study at the University of Wisconsin found that individuals engaged in regular 'compassion meditation' experienced long-term changes in their neural functions making them more responsive to others emotions, and more empathetic overall.

You Have High Blood Pressure - Many studies have linked meditation to reduced blood pressure. One of the latest at the University of Kentucky found that one type of meditation, Transcendental Meditation, helps reduce both systolic and diabolic pressure. Another study using other meditation and relaxation techniques produced similar results.

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always-change-a-winning-system · 5 years

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Carbon Offsetting //part 1

Alright, so I have been thinking about ways to lower my carbon footprint for a long time; some of the ideas that are a little unconventional and experimental will maybe come later, i think for now it would be good to make a new beginning: let’s start from scratch. Since the topic of emissions, protection of environment is around for quiet some time; let’s look at the ways to offset/ mitigate the Co2 impact hat already exist (and are preferably proven to be effective). #1 pre-sort trash : the infrastructure for separated waste-streams was founded exactly as a reaction to the claim of a more environment-conscious government in the later 20th century)

#2 switch off the light :obviously the thing we get tought as a kid

#3 ventilate properly: also something that is practiced in most schools in austria; especially important during winter to not loose too much heat - it’s better to have the window open ALL the way for 5 minutes than tilt-opened for 30 minutes

#4 eat organic, local and fresh: quiet money consuming- so more or less a privilege for wealthy people to mitigate bad consciousness; I tried doing eating seasonal, local, vegetarian and without plastic packaging for a while in vienna; in short: a hell of an effort.

#5 don’t throw away one-way-plastic: in other words - don’t buy one way plastic because -what else are you going to do?; again; the alternatives are either expensive or not even existing; meaning you have to renounce certain aspects of “western” lifestyle or - if you want to call it like that - culture I think I’m gonna dedicate plastic an extra post maybe?

there’s of course a lot more, many people thinking about ways to be more accountable to sustainability but I notice that almost every way at the moment is either using time or money to use an alternative that saves carbon-based products or are engaging in a less carbon-rich processes or behaviours.

For now it is a problem, exclusive for people who can afford it; for me as a student who has not that much money it means if I want to offset my carbon-debt I will have at the end of the year I have to invest time.

Either investing time in searching for the best alternative with a student-feasable version of a “regular” product to buy or investing time in recreating the product with your own time and skill.

#carbon offset #emission #organic #local #overpacked #fresh #electricity #wastesystem #alternatives

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jakehglover · 6 years

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NICE becomes latest champion for digital health

Richard Staines gives his weekly round-up of the latest developments in digital health.

NICE has become the latest organisation to champion digital health, recommending that the NHS should trial an online and mobile programme to treat depression.

Deprexis has been developed by Gaia Healthcare and is already used in Germany where it is marketed by Servier.

Around 200 people in England could be the first to benefit from free access to this digital therapy, which will be trialled for up to two years.

People can log in to the online programme at any time to complete modules of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), avoiding the need to attend therapist appointments in person. A therapist can see what part of the programme each person is using and they can exchange messages via a secure messaging system.

The recommendation follows a call from NICE to digital health companies to submit products to treat anxiety and depression last year.

It is part of NHS England’s Improving Access to Psychologic Therapies programme, which began in 2008 and provides access to these services for around 900,000 people each year.

Following an assessment, NICE has produced its first ever digital psychological therapy briefing, concluding that Deprexis could be an effective alternative therapy for adults with depression.

Although costs in the UK have yet to be agreed, a German health economic study showed that total health costs reduced by around £970 per head when people were treated with Deprexis.

Another study showed total healthcare costs decreased by 32% in patients treated with Deprexis, compared with 13% in a usual care group.

However, at a cost of £290 per person for Deprexis, compared with £110 per patient for a six-month course of antidepressants, the digital technology does not produce direct cost savings compared with conventional drug therapy.

But NICE said that Deprexis requires no training costs, and may be delivered using a lower grade of staff, freeing up more experienced staff to deal with patients with more serious conditions.

Deprexis is much cheaper than face-to-face individual CBT, which costs around £560.

A technical assessment said Deprexis needs to tweak the technology to bring it up to NHS standards – but a remediation plan produced by the manufacturer is acceptable.

NICE said Deprexis is well written and forms a good framework for CBT therapy to treat depression.

Gaia Healthcare is one of many digital health firms targeting depression – last year Takeda began a collaboration with UK-based Cognition Kit on an app to monitor depression.

Novartis and Apple scale up clinical trial collaboration

Novartis says it will scale up the use of Apple ResearchKit in clinical trials, as part of its efforts to bring about digital transformation across its business.

Jacob LaPorte, global head of Digital Development at Novartis, is leading this change in its R&D operations, where a huge range of technologies have the potential to revolutionise how drugs are discovered and developed.

Most big pharma companies are now investing in digital technology to open up clinical trials to more patients via remote monitoring technology, a shift which promises to make recruitment easier and to cut costs.

Novartis says it is the vanguard of this change, and LaPorte is now pushing to scale up digital tech in trials after successful pilot studies.

Talking to journalists at the company’s global headquarters in Basel, Switzerland, LaPorte spoke enthusiastically about the potential of technologies, including maturing fields such as big data and advanced analytics, as well as emerging platforms such as artificial intelligence and blockchain.

LaPorte said: “What we’re doing is changing our culture right now. Our aspiration is to become a medicines and data science company.

“We think a cultural change is going to be required to do that, and we are heavily focused on becoming more agile and better able to relate to our partners.”

One of these partners is Apple, which launched its ResearchKit in 2016, a software framework for apps which is helping to digitise clinical trial data collection and analysis.

Novartis has been one of the early adopters of ResearchKit in pharma (along with others such as GlaxoSmithKline), and LaPorte says the technology has already proven its value in making clinical trials more efficient and patient and investigator-friendly.

The broader adoption of the Apple ResearchKit (ARK) by Novartis would be a major boost for Apple’s ambitions in clinical trials, where it is competing with lots of other tech companies, many of them specialists in the clinical trial field.

ARK allows clinical trial participants to enter their own data remotely including via sensors that collect movement and symptom data, removing the need for patients to visit the clinic.

Novartis is using ARK in its ongoing ELEVATE MS study, and in a feasability trial in another disease area.

LaPorte said Novartis is now ready to scale up the technology’s use, but the partners need to develop the system further.

Sanofi looks to digital health for streamline trials

Sanofi also hopes to use digital health to make trials cheaper and more effective – and has found another partner to help it.

Global health data firm TriNetX said it is working with the pharma company, using patient electronic health records to optimise trial recruitment.

The records will also help make the trials more efficient and could give insight into improving their design.

Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, TriNetX said that it will draw on data including demographics, diagnoses, procedures, medications, labs, oncology and genomics.

Its technology is based around a cloud-accessible database, and aims to reduce the complexity of trial design.

The company can analyse billions of clinical facts about its patient population to support real-time modelling of proposed trial protocols.

Researchers can quickly visualise how these protocols would be expected to operate in a real trial, allowing them to make rapid modifications if needed.

The technology uses predictive analytics so researchers can forecast the expected size of the patient population that might meet the study criteria.

TriNetX says the technology can also help identify institutions that could be trial sites, and also find eligible patients who might otherwise be missed.

Since last March Sanofi has been working with Science 37, a Los Angeles-based company that oversees digital trials.

Then last July it partnered with Evidation, a firm that identifies and monitors ‘digital biomarkers’ in patients to better understand therapeutic outcomes and the different factors that may affect them.

EU moves towards electronic patient information

The European Medicines Agency late last year published an action plan to improve patient information leaflets, including a drive towards electronic information.

And representatives of generics and biosimilars companies at the Medicines for Europe conference in London this week said that electronic systems could be read by smartphones, encouraging patients to get up to speed on the benefits and side effects of drugs.

Having the electronic system would also allow continuous updates, such as new uses for medicines, updates on safety, or changes to manufacturing arrangements.

For those patients with no smartphones or computers, pharmacists could print out a conventional paper leaflet.

Katarina Nedog, senior manager for safety and regulatory affairs at Medicines for Europe, said that electronic patient information is still only a “long-term vision”.

Medicines for Europe is working with the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA), representing branded drug manufacturers, on proposals for the system.

Europe is already moving towards an electronic system to help reduce counterfeit medicines, and prevent tampering, under the Falsified Medicines Directive.

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