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Footballer's Migraine
What has come to be called "Footballer's Migraine" is really a syndrome of symptoms of fortification visual images, numbness and paresthesiae usually one on side of the body in the arm and face, and rare hemiparesis followed by throbbing headache, much like that of an attack of migraine with aura. These events occur minutes after mild, usually non-concussive head trauma such as may be sustained in soccer, boxing, or mild accidental head trauma. Many of the patients may have spontaneous typical migraine before or after the traumatic event and most of them have a history of migraine in their family. "Footballer" in this sense refers to a soccer player, not an American type football player. Footballer's Migraine is not mentioned in ICDH-II.
Most cases concern patients with migraine who develop symptoms of migraine with aura (visual, numbness, language trouble) after mild non-concussive head injury. However, Whitty's[i] case in 1967 had no headache. In Matthews'[ii] 1972 article all his patients had visual symptoms and migrainous paresthesiae followed by headache, but his case 3 also had "difficulty with speech." Haas and Sovner[iii] in 1969 writing about "Migraine attacks triggered by mild head trauma, and their relation to certain post-traumatic disorders of childhood" reported in children leg weakness or hemiparesis, slurred or garbled speech, migrainous paresthesiae, lethargy or sleepiness, and vomiting. Morris[iv] in a letter to the British Medical Journal in 1972 regarding his own experiences following blows to the face after tackles playing rugby, described:
light-headedness, followed after about 15 minutes by homonomous hemianopia with fortification spectra, and tingling of the hand, side of the face, and tongue. Tiredness and nausea followed about two hours later lasting several hours.
Morris did not describe headache. Haas, et al,[v] in 1975 writing in Archives of Neurology about "Juvenile head trauma syndromes and their relationship to migraine" described 4 clinical types: hemiparesis; somnolence, irritability, and vomiting; blindness; and brain stem signs.
Literature review
There are few references in the early neurologic literature. Graham[vi] writing in 1966 in the Handbook of Clinical Neurology referred to "youngsters with classical migraine who develop a characteristic attack when hit on the head in a football match." Whitty[vii] writing in 1967 in The Lancet on "Migraine without headache" mentioned a patient who had migraine which had been induced by boxing in his youth. Whitty's case 6 follows:
A man aged 55, for 12 months had had attacks of fortification spectra followed by numbness and paraesthesiae in the hand, arm, and face. Symptoms were on both right and left sides and lasted ½ to 1 hour. Speech not affected, but he could not write properly when the right hand was involved. No headaches, nausea, or vomiting. Apart from chronic bronchitis with productive winter cough he was otherwise well. Skull X-rays and an electroencephalogram normal. Family history of typical migraine with a visual aura in a first cousin and in a maternal aunt. 30 years previously, when an amateur boxer, he had had attacks of numbness and weakness of the left side lasting ½ to 1 hour and associated with throbbing headaches after fights in which he received punishment to the head. They ceased when he gave up boxing.
Matthews[viii] writing on the subject "Footballer's Migraine" in the British Medical Journal in 1972 stated that:
Migraine may be a formidable obstacle to the enjoyment of life but is less well known as an occupational hazard and a threat to professional advancement. I have encountered classical migraine, including incapacitating visual field defects, occurring only when playing football and precipitated by head trauma, in five young men--two whole-time professionals, one a part-time professional, and two amateurs. Two, including the part-time professional, had given up the game on this account.
Case 3 from Matthews' article follows:
A boy of 12 was playing somewhat inexpertly in goal when he was struck on the side of the head by the ball. Within a few minutes he complained of blurred vision and a little later developed numbness of the right hand and difficulty with speech. As this improved, it was followed by severe headache and he was taken to a hospital casualty department by an alarmed games master. The almost equal alarm aroused in the casualty officer was allayed by the boy's rapid recovery and when I saw him a few days later he was quite well. He had no previous history of migraine and his subsequent progress is unknown.
Matthews pointed out that a diagnosis of migraine was certain in his patients and that the circumstance of focal and concerning neurologic symptoms of visual change and paresthesiae along with severe headache occurring after a blow to the head caused great concern in the mind of attendant officials and medical personnel who naturally feared some much worse neurologic condition such as aneurismal rupture or subdural hematoma had occurred.
Matthews continued:
Migraine-induced in this way is not common among footballers and is not mentioned in standard texts on sporting injuries…The ball weighs from 14 to 16 ounces (400 to 450g) at the beginning of the game, and although the modern waterproof ball does not increase in weight by the 20% common with the leather ball on a wet pitch, the impact, even when traveling at the quite ordinary speed of 30 miles an hour, is not inconsiderable. The footballer is trained to meet the ball, from whatever direction it comes and whatever its intended destination, in a restricted area in the midline in the frontal region. The neck muscles are contracted and the force of the contact may be increased by a sharp movement of the head.
Haas and Sovner[ix] pointed out that early reports about patients "beginning their 'career' in migraine after suffering head trauma"[x];[xi],[xii],[xiii] do not include patients having individual migraine attacks minutes or hours after a blow to the head. They reported 5 cases of migraine attacks triggered by mild head trauma with a variety of neurological manifestations as part of the attacks. Three of the cases occurred without headache. Case 4 from their paper follows:
R.G., a 19 year-old man, has had four migraine attacks. The first was at age 12. On Saturday afternoon he had been briefly stunned by a blow to the head while playing football. On Sunday morning he awoke with a mild headache. One hour later he got paraesthesiae in his left hand, forearm and arm. All symptoms faded shortly.
The second attack was in June 1967 at age 17. He recalls being hit on the head and believes that the trauma was related to the attack, but the temporal relationship between the two has slipped his mind.
The third attack was in March 1968 at age 18. At about 1.15 a.m. he was hit forcefully on the lip in a fistfight and was momentarily stunned. At about 3 a.m., while sitting in a car, he noted numbness in the tips of his left fingers. This sensation quickly ascended to involve the entire left upper limb and the left side of his lips, tongue, and nose. At the same time, he developed a severe right supraorbital headache with nausea. The numbness faded in an hour and he slept off the headache.
The fourth attack was on 20 April 1969 at age 19. At 11 a.m. he carelessly struck his head against the arm of a couch and was momentarily stunned. At 12 noon a right supraorbital headache began and soon was severe. Later nausea and vomiting occurred. At 1 p.m. numbness began in his left finger tips and soon spread to involve his entire left upper limb and the left side of his lips, tongue, and nose. His left hand became clumsy and he had trouble in writing (he is left-handed). He lost left-sided vision. The numbness and hemianopia faded away in several hours, but the headache lasted some 12 hours. Neurological examination just after the end of the headache showed slight clumsiness of fine movements of the left hand and slight rotary-horizontal nystagmus on lateral gaze. The next day the examination by one of us (D.C.H.) was normal.
In 1975 Haas, et al,[xiv] wrote on "Juvenile Head Trauma Syndromes and Their Relationship to Migraine" in the Archives of Neurology. They reported 25 patients who had 50 attacks of "temporary neurological phenomena triggered by head trauma." The age of their patients ranged from 2 to 38 and the head blows that started the attacks were strong enough to "daze the patient momentarily." Two blows produced brief loss of consciousness. In almost all attacks, a history of a latent period between the head trauma and the onset of neurological symptoms occurred.
One of Haas, et al, cases with hemiparesis, follows:
One June 1, 1972, a 14 year-old boy was struck forcefully on the right side of his head by a large rubber ball. Moments later, he noticed difficulty seeing in the right visual field. Severe left posterior cerebral headache began in 30 minutes; one hour later, he experienced fluctuating numbness in the right side of the face, right arm and leg, vomiting and difficulty in speaking. Several hours after the trauma, examination in the hospital revealed mild dysphasia, right homonymous hemianopsia, and mild right hemiparesis. A few hours later, the visual field defect and the hemiparesis disappeared, and the next day the dysphasia and headache faded away. Four similar previous episodes had followed mild head trauma, the first at age 11.
Ashworth[xv] writing in 1985 in the Scottish Medical Journal on "Migraine, head trauma and sport" described 7 patients who developed an attack of migraine by heading a football or a blow on the face in a rugby tackle. Ashworth stated:
The attack is sometimes alarming and clearly cannot be explained on a basis of trauma alone. Some people only have attacks in this particular circumstance but the majority have spontaneous episodes at other times.
McCrory, et al,[xvi] wrote on "Prevalence of headache in Australian footballers" in 2004 in British Journal of Sports Medicine in which they surveyed the prevalence and risk factors for headache in a population of elite professional Australian footballers. A total of 160 headache questionnaires utilizing ICDH-II criteria were studied and headaches were found in 80% of players with 49% reporting headaches during match play and 60% during training. In the footballers, 22% of headaches conformed to ICDH-II definition of migraine, but when the less strict definition of "footballer's migraine" was used 34% of headaches met these criteria. The authors concluded that headaches are common in Australian footballers and the syndrome may not be properly identified using only a strict ICDH-II definition of migraine.
Most of the articles on this subject date about thirty years ago when the prominent and sole cause of migrainous neurologic events was thought to relate to arterial spasm (the aura) and arterial vasodilatation (the headache). Haas and Sovner[xvii] stated in 1969:
We believe that our patients are inordinately sensitive to traumatic cerebral arterial spasm and perhaps to its sequelae as well, in part due to their genetic predisposition for migraine.
All the reviewed authors considered the attacks of neurological sequelae to be "Migraine" and the word migraine is included in several of the titles of the articles and mentioned in the bulk of the texts. Two of six of the patients of Haas and Sovner in 1969[xviii] with trauma-triggered attacks also had spontaneous migraines similar to their traumatic induced ones. Haas and Sovner began their discussion of the article with the following statement: "We firmly believe that the post-traumatic attacks in our cases 1 through 5 were typically migrainous except for their having been triggered by a blow to the head." Matthews in 1972[xix] said, "In these patients the diagnosis of migraine is indisputable…" Morris'[xx] account is interesting because he had both spontaneous and traumatic induced attacks and he called them "typical migraine." Haas, et al,[xxi] stated in 1975:
Further support for the existence of a migrainous mechanism in the trauma-triggered attacks comes from their clinical similarity to accepted descriptions of classical migraine attacks, especially to those that occur in juveniles.
Solomon in 1998[xxii] stated that:
Although trauma may be one of many triggers of migraine, trauma is sometimes the sole or predominant precipitating factor; e.g., footballer's migraine… Trauma may trigger the first attack of migraine in a susceptible individual. Biochemical and epidemiologic studies suggest that trauma may be the main etiologic factor of migraine in some cases.
Haas, et al., in 1969[xxiii] discussed their patients as:
having had immediate cerebral arterial spasm, severe enough to produce marked focal ischemia with its resultant hypoxia and disturbance of cerebral function…Platelet aggregation occurs when blood flow decreases and the platelets then release 5-hydroxy-tryptamine (serotonin). 5- hydroxyl-tryptamine, itself a dilator of the micro-circulation, induces the release of vasoactive polypeptides, (kinins) from plasma.
The current view based on the trigeminal/vascular theory and a brainstem trigeminal neuronal generator would be the current pathophysiologic explanation of these attacks, but whether the events come from arterial spasm or neuronal induced neurochemical changes is not known.
McCrory, et al,[xxiv] writing in 2005 in the British Journal of Sports Medicine on "Open label study of intranasal sumatriptan (Imigran) for footballer's headache" found that intranasal sumatriptan provided "valuable, effective, and convenient treatment of headache in professional sport." They performed an open label drug trial in elite Australian footballers using intranasal sumatriptan (20 mg) as treatment for acute headache and found that at two hours 86% of attacks of migraine with aura and all of the attacks of migraine without aura responded. They also found that recurrence rates were low.
Probably all of the acute onset triptans and usual migraine preventive drugs could be tried for footballer's migraine yet there is little published data on the subject.
[i] Whitty CWM. Migraine Without Headache. The Lancet. 1967;2:283-285.
[ii] Matthews WB. Footballer's Migraine. British Medical Journal. 1972;ii:326-327.
[iii] Haas DC, Sovner RD. Migraine attacks triggered by mild head trauma, and their relation to certain post-traumatic disorders of childhood. J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiat. 1969;32:548-554.
[iv] Morris AM. Footballer's migraine. British Medical Journal. 1972;ii:769-770.
[v] Haas DC, Pineda GS, Lourie H. Juvenile head trauma syndromes and their relationship to migraine. Arch Neurol. 1975;32:727-730.
[vi] Graham JR. Handbook of Clinical Neurology. 1966. vol. 5:50.
[vii] Whitty CWM. Migraine Without Headache. The Lancet. 1967;2:283-285.
[viii] Matthews WB. Footballer's Migraine. British Medical Journal. 1972;ii:326-327.
[ix] Haas DC, Sovner RD. Migraine attacks triggered by mild head trauma, and their relation to certain post-traumatic disorders of childhood. J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiat. 1969;32:548-554.
[x] Michael MI, Williams JM. Migraine in children. J. Pediat. 1952;41:18-24.
[xi] Muller E. Gibt es eine sogenannte traumatische Migraine? Mschr. Unfallheilk. 1955;58;143-148.
[xii] Burke EC, Peters GA. Migraine in childhood. Amer. J. Dis. Child. 1956;92:330-336.
[xiii] Barolin GS. Migrane und andere paroxysmale Hirndurch-blutungsstorungen nach Kopftraumen. Wien med. Wschn. 1966;116:462-468.
[xiv] Haas DC, Pineda GS, Lourie H. Juvenile head trauma syndromes and their relationship to migraine. Arch Neurol. 1975;32:727-730.
[xv] Ashworth B. Migraine, head trauma and sport. Scott Med J. 1985;30(4):240-242.
[xvi] McCrory PM, Heywood J, Coffey C. Prevalence of headache in Australian footballers. Br J Sports Med. 2005;39:e10.
[xvii] Haas DC, Sovner RD. Migraine attacks triggered by mild head trauma, and their relation to certain post-tramatic disorders of childhood. J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiat. 1969;32:548-554.
[xviii] Ibid.
[xix] Matthews WB, Footballer's Migraine. British Medical Journal. 1972;ii:326-327.
[xx]Morris AM. Footballer's migraine. British Medical Journal. 1972;ii:769-770.
[xxi] Haas DC, Pineda GS, Lourie H. Juvenile head trauma syndromes and their relationship to migraine. Arch Neurol. 1975;32:727-730.
[xxii] Solomon S. John Graham Senior Clinicians Award Lecture. Posttraumatic migraine. Headache. 1998; 38 (10): 772-778.
[xxiii] Haas DC, Sovner RD. Migraine attacks triggered by mild head trauma, and their relation to certain post-tramatic disorders of childhood. J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiat. 1969;32:548-554.
[xxiv] McCrory P, Heywood J, Ugoni A. Open label study of intranasal sumatriptan (Imigran) for footballer's headache. Br J Sports Med. 2005;39(8):552-554.


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The Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Moving Companies
Moving to another place is the biggest step in most people's life. There are many things that need to be taken into account before you make that important decision. In times of financial difficulties it is not advisable to make changes which require spending more money, like moving, for instance. However, sometimes this step is just inevitable, and no matter how much you are trying to delay it, sooner or later, you are faced with the approaching moving day.
Most people have a hard time deciding whether to use moving services or to do the job by themselves. The truth is that both options have their pros and cons, and you need to think about what you will gain and what you will lose using any of the alternatives.
In this article you will understand what are the advantages and disadvantages of using professional services when moving; this will help you make a decision.
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We all know that moving takes a lot of time. There is too much work involved in the process to expect to complete it for a couple of days. The truth is that using professional services will save you a lot of time, which you can use to finish other important tasks. In addition, they save you the bother from packing and loading all your belongings and the stress of driving them to the new place. The professionals may provide you with all kind of moving services, such as packing, loading, unloading and unpacking your possessions, which helps you save a lot of time and energy.
2. Stress-free moving
For most people the biggest problem when moving arises from the fact that it is too stressful. In addition to coping with the changes that will occur when moving to the new place, you have to deal with packing all your belongings and trying to find the best way to transport them. You don't have to go through all these frustrations and difficult moments when you can hire professional services and ensure a stress-free moving.
3. Your stuff will be professionally packed
If you decide to use the services of moving companies, you can be sure that your stuff will be professionally packed and transported to the new place. The truth is that no one knows better than professional movers how to pack safely your belongings in order to avoid damage.
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One of the main disadvantages is that using moving companies can be costly. When comparing the prices you have to pay with the option of moving by yourself, many people are reluctant to pay for the moving services. Although it can be helpful and time-saving, many people cannot afford paying for these services.
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Another factor, which is considered a disadvantage, is that you have to schedule your time according to the schedule of the professional movers. This could be a drawback when you have to go to work.
Faced with the need to move, many people find themselves in a difficult situation. Among the other many important decisions that have to be made stays the question of whether to hire a moving company or to complete the task by yourself. When deciding this, make sure to weigh the costs and benefits of both alternatives and decide which ones best fit your needs and preferences. The guide of advantages and disadvantages given in this article can help you make an even better decision on whether or not to hire a moving company.


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Business Q & A
5 questions with Commerce Trust Co.'s Glen Malan
A native of Springfield, Mo., Glen Malan moved to Wichita from Detroit in 2014 to take a position with Commerce Bank.
Malan, 50, was promoted last month to executive vice president of the Commerce Trust Co., a division of the bank, for its Wichita region. Malan had worked in the bank's wealth management position since moving to town.
Eagle business reporter Bryan Horwath spoke with Malan to get his thoughts on his new role and the city he has called home for the past two years.
Q: What are your responsibilities in your new role?
A: I work in a co-regional manager role with my colleague Gaylyn McGregor, who manages the private banking and sales component. I manage the fiduciary and investment management piece of the Commerce Trust Company. My job is, quite simply, to give our clients the best experience they can have, whether that's investment management or the administration of a trust or estate administration. The majority of my role is helping people with estate plans and business succession planning.
Q: With regard to estate planning and business succession planning, those are important happenings in people's lives. There can be a lot going on family-wise in those situations and a lot of emotion. How do you handle that?
A: Estate planning and business succession planning go hand-in-hand. The approach that we've taken is a holistic approach. As we develop relationships with clients over several years – or even a few decades – we become very knowledgeable of the family dynamics. We learn a lot about the hopes and wishes of the family. Our role is to help clients identify their goals. We memorialize those goals in writing and help develop what I consider to be a template.
We help put a plan in place and then help them communicate that plan with their legal counsel. In many cases, we're kind of an extension of the family.
Q: You're fairly new to Wichita. What's your opinion of the city?
A: I've found Wichita to be a wonderful big small town. After coming from a large metropolitan area, I've found the quality of life to be fantastic here. There's so much to do in Wichita.
People often think that smaller communities mean less access or less activities, but I've not found that at all. Being back in the Midwest, you appreciate how warm and inviting people are. In a larger metro area, because of long commutes and the hustle-bustle, people become inward focused. In a smaller community, you get the feel that you're more invited. I felt invited into the community very quickly here.
Q: What are your thoughts on the overall state of the banking industry?
A: There are two camps: Some say the banking industry is over-regulated, while some say it's not regulated enough. I think the industry has definitely been scrutinized, and I think that it's a healthy banking environment. That includes retail banking and the trust operations and investments.
The banking industry is changing a lot as generations change, as the baby boomers continue to age. Millennials certainly have a different idea of what banking is, less concerned with brick and mortar, more concerned about mobile and online banking. We've seen that in our own bank. Nontraditional used to be telephone banking, now it's taking a picture of a check and depositing it through your phone.
I think the changes are good, though. It's about understanding a new generation.
Q: In the Wichita market, there are a lot of banks, credit unions and financial institutions. I've heard some call Wichita an overbanked area. Is it?
A: I don't think this is an overbanked market. I think there's a place for every player in the market. With trust companies, clients gravitate toward trust companies or investment management firms based on product offering and reputation.
At the end of the day, it's also about the human experience. I don't think the human experience, as it relates to wealth management, will ever go away. People want to feel valued, and they want to know that they're getting the best value.
At the end of the day, I think there's a place for every bank in Wichita.
Bryan Horwath: 316-269-6708, @bryan_horwath
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Marketing services provider Mporium Group said it had substantially boosted its revenue following the signing of an agreement with consumer regulation group Allay.
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Learning English with Vyara is fun
Първо ниво-Level 1
Topic №1 - School
- nouns - table, chair, carpet, door, window, pen, pencil, scissors, book, schoolbag, rubber, ruler, pencil case, whiteboard, classroom, school
- - shut, open
- –in, on, under
Come in, please!
Come here, please!
Get ready for …!
Sit down!
Stand up!
Open the door!
Shut the door!
Close the book!
Open the book!
What's this?
This is a …
- Pointing to flashcards on walls, putting flashcards into hoops.
- Swapping places.
- Running game: Children sit in a circle, each with a card. When the teacher says their word, they run around, outside the circle until they get back to their place.
- Red, red, blue: Children sit in a circle. One walks around outside, saying a colour or name of an object as he passes each child, touching them on the head. At one point, he says a different colour or object and the child he touches as he says the new word has to run around the circle and try to catch the first child.
- Guessing game – What's this?
- What's missing? – Put a number of flashcards on the floor, face up. Children close their eyes and the teacher removes one card. "Open your eyes. What's missing?"
Colour my world
Clour it red and blue
Clour it yellow too
Colour my world for me.
I'm blue like the blue, blue sky
I'm green like the green, green grass.
What's in your schoolbag?
Exercise: What's in my schoolbag? à I have got a book, a rubber, a ruler, a pen, a pencil
Topic №2 – Hello
Vocabulary and Activities:
I am … hello!
This is … Hi!
Name … see you!
My name is ...
My friend …
Have a nice day!
Good morning!
Q: How are you --> A: Fine, thank you!
Games: Throw a ball to different children asking them what their name is.
Topic №3 – The family
Vocabulary: mother, father, brother, sister, baby, family, grandma, grandpa, pets (dog, cat, bird)
- Posters "My family""- to introduce the members of the family
- Rony'family: Q: Who'this? à A: This is Rony's mum/ dad/ brother/ sister
Games: Guessing game: 1) Where's mum/ dad …etc.
2) Who's missing?
- This is my mother
Nice to meet you …
- My family is cool
Второ ниво - Level 2
Topic №1 – The house
nouns: house, room, bedroom, living room, bathroom, kitchen, cooker, fridge, sofa, television/ TV, bed, toilet, bath, shower, stairs, upstairs, downstairs, roof, garden, inside, outside, tree, flower
questions: Q: Where's …? à In the … (room);
Q: Is it in the … (room); Is he/ she in the … (room)?
A: Yes/ No, …
- This is a wall. It's yellow.
- This is a window. It's blue.
- It's a floor. It's brown.
- it's a door. It's green.
- It's a roof. It's red.
- Poster: "The house""- This is a house. This is my bedroom. This is my mum and dad's room. This is a living room/ bathroom / kitchen/ basement/ garden
- This is a house
- Where's Alvin? ... Where … over there?
- Facial expression (mimic game): Where am I?
- Swaping places
- Runing game
What's missing
Трето ниво – Level 3
Topic №1 – My body
Vocabulary: head, shoulders, knees, toes, eyes, ears, mouth, nose, arm, leg, hand, fingers, feet, thumb, tong
Shake your head!
Bend your knees!
Clap your hands!
Stamp your feet!
Wiggle your fingers!
Shrug your shoulders!
Touch your nose!
Touch your eyes!
Touch your ears!
Touch your hair!
Wash your hands!
Wash your face!
- What's the matter?
- My head /leg, arm, eyes, ears/ hurt(s)hurts.
- O, dear, let me see.
- My head /leg, arm, eyes, ears/ hurt(s) right here
- If you happy and you know it clap your hands …
- Brush your teeth!
- Brush your hair!
- Ex. 1 - She/ He has got a small/ a big nose.
She/ He has got small/ big eyes/ ears.
- Ex.2 - There is a leg on the foot.
There is a body on the leg.
There is a head on the body.
There is a nose on the head.
Heads down, thumbs up
Using flashcards: Terry's game – It's a (head) or (arm)? – If the child guesses right, he can keep the card.
Guessing game – What is it? Whoever gets it right gets to be the teacher.
Swapping places – children sit in a circle, each child has a picture card. when the teacher says their word, they stand up and swap places with other child who has the same word.
Touch your …
Head and shoulders, knees ant toes …
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Topic - Christmas
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Mary Tyler Moore Has Passed Away and Hollywood's Reaction Is Beautifully Heartfelt
We haven't even made it a full month into the new year, and already, we have the type of devastating news out of Hollywood that seemed to plague much of 2016, with an iconic celebrity death. Mary Tyler Moore, a well-loved actress and women's rights activist, has died at the age of 80. Her show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, was the very first to depict a single woman in the workforce, and it propelled the careers of not just Mary, but many of the most beloved actors of all time, including Betty White, who just celebrated her 95th birthday.
Though women still aren't exactly "equal" (we're struggling with potentially huge wage gaps depending on which state we live in, for instance), we still owe a lot to Mary Tyler Moore and her strong depiction of working women. We aren't the only ones who will miss MTM and be grateful for all she's done for women, either. Hollywood is mourning the loss of this wonderful women's rights icon, and their tributes are beautiful.
Some simply stated their love and support for the icon…
…While others focused on her achievements as a groundbreaking woman both on and off screen.
(Could you imagine? No pants on TV?)
Others offered pictorial tributes via Instagram…
Including one Miss Britney Spears, who wrote, "So strong, so courageous and so beautiful. Rest in peace, Mary Tyler Moore."
Diane Guerrero of Orange Is the New Black shared a sweet personal story, saying, "When I was a little girl, I would watch re-runs of Mary Tyler Moore and this image has been forever ingrained my memory. I thought, 'hmm, maybe I too can throw my hat up in the air like that one day.' She then included lyrics to the theme song, writing, 'Love is all around no need to waste it. You can never tell, why do't you take it, you're gonna make it after all…"
Many news anchors recalled that it was this show, and Mary in particular, that gave them the dream to go into broadcasting (representation DOES matters).
Even Oprah thought of her as a hero!
We're eternally grateful to Mary Tyler Moore for giving us the drive to be whatever we want to be.
RIP, Mary — you'll be missed!
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Under the hood, all is present and correct, however. There's high speed data, with support for up to 3.6Mbit/sec HSDPA, quad-band GSM ensures the phone will be happy pretty much anywhere you can get a signal, and there's GPRS and EDGE connectivity for when an HSDPA signal isn't available. The Zinc II also has Wi-Fi for hotspot use, Bluetooth 2.0 and a SiRFstar III GPS receiver for use with Google Maps, or the navigation application of your choosing. A bundled GPS viewer application is a handy inclusion here, allowing you to check on the status of a GPS fix.
As the phone is a pre-production model, I wasn't able to test battery life properly but the fact that it's a 1,530mAh lithium polymer suggests that it should be longer than the usual two days or so you usually get out of lithium ion-based devices, which would be another bonus above competing Windows smartphones. Text messaging also wasn't working, so it's impossible to tell right now whether or not the Professional version of Windows Mobile 6.1 supports the threaded text messaging that the Standard version has.
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Aw, isn't she so cute? I had the pleasure of photographing Kristin with her first child, and I'm super happy she asked me to do it again. Another boy! She and Brandon are IN FOR IT! Haha, just kidding (sort of). Boys are definitely special. Can't wait to meet this little one and take his newborn pictures in August. She has to brave the rest of this summer, but it will be so worth it in the end!
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Abandoning Newborns Do Baby Hatches Really Save Lives?
Part 2: 'No Questions, No Witnesses, No Police'
Counselors who take this point of view have to deal with the sometimes shrill advocacy of the baby hatch lobby. The Sternipark organization in Hamburg, for example, promotes its counseling services and baby hatches under the motto, "No questions, no witnesses, no police."
Germany's tabloids also do their bit. Bild, for example, runs baby pictures and headlines such as "Sweet little Ida found lying in the baby hatch," about children reportedly left at Sternipark's facilities. The organization, one article reads, is "looking for loving adoptive parents" if the birth mothers don't get in touch. The article is followed by a toll-free number.
Even baby hatch proponents such as Gisela Buhl in Fulda are uncomfortable with such aggressive marketing. "We wouldn't do that," she says.
Still, Sternipark has become something of a market leader within the German baby hatch scene. Sternipark opened the country's first baby hatch in April 2000, on Goethestrasse in Hamburg, and now operates three of them. Representatives of the organization talk of 41 "rescued" children. "Baby hatches have saved the lives of a considerable number of newborns," Sternipark quotes actress Gesine Cukrowski, 43, as saying. Dana Schweiger, well known in Germany as the wife of actor Til Schweiger, has been active on behalf of Sternipark for years.
Little Evidence
The central argument put forth by those who run baby hatches is that the facilities can save lives, yet there's little evidence to back up that claim. Criminologists say the number of babies killed or abandoned by their mothers or fathers shortly after birth has not decreased since the introduction of baby hatches.
In fact, another DJI study conducted together with the Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony concludes that the baby hatch service doesn't even reach those women who kill their newborns.
Researchers examined 199 cases, between 1997 and 2006, of infanticide shortly after birth. They concluded that a woman who wishes to make use of a baby hatch must first know the location of the hatch and figure out how to get there. To do that, they must already have accepted the fact that they are pregnant. But "almost none of the women who committed infanticide" were capable of such planned-out action, the study concluded. Nearly all of them had repressed the knowledge of their pregnancies, and were taken by surprise when they went into labor. They panicked, and in the heat of the moment killed their children or simply abandoned them.
Who, then, makes use of the baby hatches? According to the DJI, 278 children were found in such hatches in Germany between 2000 and May 2010. However, not all the organizations that operate baby hatches responded to the DJI's inquiries, and many government-run child welfare agencies chose not to release their data. As a result, no one in Germany knows precisely how many children have been placed in baby hatches in the past 12 years, or what became of them afterward.
Creating a Demand
A number of child welfare agencies surveyed by the DJI expressed a suspicion that the aggressive degree of media coverage and advertising for baby hatches actually "creates a demand that wouldn't exist if the service were not offered." In other words, are the operators of baby hatches actually responsible for giving parents the idea of giving up their babies anonymously?
That's the position held by one of the harshest critics of baby hatches, Hanover-based criminologist and adoption expert Christine Swientek. "It is impossible to supervise baby hatches," she says. "And I don't just mean in terms of the users, I mean in terms of the operators as well." Swientek fears, for example, that fathers or other family members might leave difficult children in a baby hatch without the knowledge or agreement of the mother.
A DJI study titled "Anonymous Birth and Baby Hatches in Germany" also criticizes the practices of certain baby hatch operators. Some organizations "lacked sufficiently trained staff," for example. And in several cases, baby hatches were used for other than the intended purpose, for example for disabled or older children, or babies that had already died.
Haunting Story
One case that has given even the most avid supporters pause occurred in the city of Lübeck in early November 2011. Friederike Garbe, 67, a former dentist's assistant, has operated a baby hatch here out of a private home in the city's old town for 12 years. Shortly after noon one Sunday, the hatch, which measures approximately 80 by 60 centimeters (30 by 25 inches), was opened and someone placed not one but two children inside, a boy already 15 months old, and his four-month-old brother.
Garbe was just coming home from a church service at the city's cathedral and had started to open the front door when she heard the babies crying. The older boy could already stand and say "Mama." Garbe called the police and the child welfare agency.
A house key found in a baby carriage left outside the hatch set investigators on the trail of the mother, a 23-year-old woman from the state of Brandenburg who had lived with her children at an assisted living facility about 340 kilometers (210 miles) away from Lübeck. The boys have since been placed with foster parents, but their mother still hasn't been found.
"It's such a mysterious story, and it still haunts me," Garbe says. Nonetheless, she still considers baby hatches to be indispensable. Not because she believes mothers would kill their children otherwise, she says, but because she fears they might leave them somewhere else more dangerous.
On the Fence
Yet experts contest this argument as well. The German Ethics Council issued its own criticism back in 2009, saying that pregnant women have many options for receiving anonymous counseling and assistance, but the real problem is that these services aren't well enough known. The council maintains that baby hatches deprive children of their right to know their parents' identity, and recommends that baby hatches be "given up."
Caren Marks, a member of the Bundestag for the opposition center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the party's spokesperson on family policy issues, makes a similar argument. "I believe it is wrong to tolerate baby hatches and remain in this legal gray area," Marks says. "Instead, we must expand existing assistance and counseling services."
"We shouldn't establish any more baby hatches, but we should allow those that already exist to remain," argues Miriam Gruss, a family policy expert with the business-friendly Free Democratic Party (FDP). Her counterparts Dorothee Bär of the CSU and Katja Dörner of the Green Party agree, but call for stricter controls.
The word from the Family Ministry is that the future of baby hatches will only be decided after the planned law on anonymous birth has been put to the test -- in other words, in a few years' time.
Translated from the German by Ella Ornstein
- Part 1: Do Baby Hatches Really Save Lives?
- Part 2: 'No Questions, No Witnesses, No Police'


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Relationships key to success of Manifest award recipients
The recipients of Manifest's most prestigious award this year have used their acceptance speeches to show how relational networks build and benefit from digital discipleship.
Pr Daron Pratt and Melissa Otto receive the Gabe Reynaud Award for demonstrating excellence in faithful creativity—Pratt for using Facebook for advocacy and Otto for making a living from music.
Pratt is the first denominational employee—he is Director of Family and Children's Ministries for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in northern New South Wales—and Otto the first solo singer/songwriter named as recipients.
They received their awards during the Adventist Church in Greater Sydney's Digital Discipleship Conference on July 15.
In his introduction, Manifest Co-Convenor Nathan Brown described Pratt and Otto as "disciples with strong digital presences but who are also relationally focussed and connected in real life in and through their faithful creativity."
The digital disciple
Pratt demonstrated this during his speech. The third of six children, and born left-handed with a hearing impairment, Pratt wondered what God could do with him. "I felt a bit lost in the middle." However, as a seven-year-old, Pratt said to God, "Here I am, use me." "I didn't know he was going to turn me into a pastor, a children's pastor, a balloon-twisting children's pastor, but He did."
His mother—"the best disciple"—instilled in him a love of reading. Pratt completes a chapter of a book and his devotional reading each day before work. Much of his content on Facebook comes from this avid reading.
Pratt discovered Facebook in 2008, the year the social media and social networking service opened its Sydney office, and "another obsession was born." Facebook is a "personal pulpit" Pratt uses to speak for those—children, in particular—whose voices are muted. A weekly post Pratt calls "Pr Daron's Soapbox" is his favourite.
"Being an advocate isn't easy at times—I've copped flak—but . . . often I get told by people, 'I can't like or comment on what you say on Facebook but you spoke into my sphere of influence, you spoke to me, you spoke to my church.'" He quoted former President and Chief Executive Officer of Compassion International Wess Stafford, author of Too Small to Ignore: Why Children Are the Next Big Thing: "'I spend half my time comforting the afflicted and the other half afflicting the comfortable.'"
The Bible verse Micah 6:8—"And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God" (NIV)—inspires Pratt. "That's why I do what I do, that's why I am who I am. To be honest, to be authentic, to be real, to lie down straight in bed at night and know I've done all I can to make a difference."
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Otto always knew she wanted to write and sing to help people connect with God and to bring healing and peace but anxiety consumed her. "It crippled me. For about five years after high school, I medicated myself with food. I just ate and ate to calm my fears. But God helped me understand a few things that helped me push through these fears."
In a personal and revealing speech, Otto identified three of these fears and testified to the blessings that came from overcoming them. On the fear of making wrong decisions: "So many songs came from my biggest mistakes." On the fear of the unknown, on how to become a music minister: "God showed me to just take the one step in front of me." On the fear of being unworthy to sing about God. "God helped me realise we aren't our sins and our struggles—these are things God frees us from. It's not who we are. We are actually His children, so loved by Him."
Authenticity and vulnerability are key to connecting with people, said Otto. "That's what they relate to. When you marry these with truth, that's when truth becomes powerful."
Otto ended with this promise for those who feel, despite their inadequacies, called to faithful creativity. "God helped me to see I'm not alone. He raises up people around you. All of heaven is on our side."


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As a show runner and being in the industry—just as a woman. Once your labeled difficult your career is kind of over with and no one wants to work with you. I have a great group of women I talk to, People I admire like Shonda Rhimes, Ava Duvernay, Debbie Allen, Mara Brock…"
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December 15th. 11:27 PM. Picture yourself chilled to the bone in the middle of winter. Not because of the plummeting temperature, but because you have just inhaled a baby-sized portion of ice cream (baby-sized, of course, being the size of a whole baby). You feel okay enough because you are still a voting citizen and you still take your vitamins. You vaguely [clearly] remember telling a few [lot] of people that you are going to run a half marathon in March. "Cinnamon and gravy!" you say between gorge rallies, "For it is only 33 minutes until the early bird registration closes!" It is imperative that you save $20 as you pay to do what you most loathe.
This is when you are locked in. You thought that 5k Turkey Trot was God's way of punishing you for not liking peas.You have been blessed and cursed with the frugality of your father and probity of your mother. You will not waste your (half) MARATHON fee. And you will certainly not flake out after telling your peers that you are, "so in this." You know you have to run.
When you start training you will do everything humanly possible to make the race less hell-ish. You will buy wheat grass and scoff at those who do not understand that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. You will kind of try to get more sleep. You will not miss a workout on the schedule (at first). You will [hope to] say at swanky bar, "Oh yeah, once you're past mile six, it's so fun. Just plain fun. Gee whiz I wish I was running now. Don't those marathons in Antarctica sound neat?" Your utmost desire is that running just not be terrible. Perhaps even comparable to the minor inconvenience of washing your car.
It won't take long until you eventually really like running. This will be evidence of God's grace. You will feel superhuman when you complete eight miles before work. Your feet will become calloused. Your socks will wonder why you're putting sandpaper in them. You will smile and kindly tell them that it's your strong feet and they mustn't worry. Your socks will tell you that they are only strong in the first-world kind of way. You will have to agree. You will also actually get more sleep. You will find three miles to be child's play. It will be wonderful. You will be proud. A half marathon is not impressive to five out of ten people, but you are part of the five who is impressed. Before you started training, you thought running was only used for ice cream trucks and indigenous survival. You did everything you could to catch a break in seventh grade track. All of the sudden, you no longer fear the running
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You will laugh as you tell your legs and heart that the joke is on them this time. You have successfully tricked those suckers into thinking they are having fun while they are really just working to keep you healthy. They deserve it though. And so do you.
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