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Do behavioral measures of ecological lifestyles reflect actual environmental impact? Three convenience samples of German adults (N = 881) completed such a measure, the General Ecological Behavior (GEB) scale. Their household electricity consumption was self-reported (Study 1), assessed by a smart-meter (Study 2), or reported by the power company (Study 3). The latter two studies controlled for income, which can boost consumption just as it opens possibilities for behaving ecologically. Within and across studies, analyses revealed a negative association between self-reported ecological behavior and electricity consumption (-.18 rs -.22), even with adjustment for income. Furthermore, customers in a green electricity program reported more ecological engagement and consumed one third less electricity than did regular customers. These results indicate the criterion validity of the GEB scale for a highly practically relevant criterion and encourage the use of generic behavior measures in efforts to understand and foster more ecological lifestyles.
Background Epidemiological studies on green space and health have relied almost exclusively on cross-sectional designs, restricting understanding on how this relationship could vary across the lifecourse. Methods We used multilevel linear regression to analyse variation in minor psychiatric morbidity over nine annual waves of the British Household Panel Survey (1996-2004). The sample was restricted to residents of urban areas who remained within their neighbourhoods for at least 12 months. The 12-item General Health Questionnaire and confounders were reported for 29 626 male and 35 781 female observations (person-years). This individual-level dataset was linked to a measure of green space availability within each ward of residence. Regression models included age, gender, employment status, household tenure, marital status, education, smoking status and household income. Results When not considering age, green space was associated with better mental health among men, but not women. Interaction terms fitted between age and green space revealed variation in the association between green space and mental health across the lifecourse and by gender. For men, the benefit of more green space emerged in early to mid-adulthood. Among older women, a curvilinear association materialised wherein those with a moderate availability of green space had better mental health. Conclusions These findings illustrate how the relationship between urban green space and health can vary across the lifecourse, and they highlight the need for longitudinal studies to answer why green space may be better for health at some points in the lifecourse than others.
BACKGROUND: The quality of the places where workers take their breaks may affect the completeness of recovery in the time available. Little is known about how characteristics of a company canteen buffer the relationship between job demands and fatigue. OBJECTIVE: We addressed the possibility that the company canteen buffers the relationship between job demands and fatigue to the extent that workers perceive it to hold restorative quality. Further, we considered how the restorative quality of the canteen signals the provision of organizational support, another job resource thought to buffer the demands-fatigue relationship. METHODS: A questionnaire was completed by 141 male blue collars workers during their lunch break in the factory canteen of an Italian industrial organization. RESULTS: Canteen restorative quality correlated positively with organizational support. In multivariate regression analyses, the demands-fatigue association was weaker among workers who saw greater restorative quality in the canteen. This buffering effect was accounted for by a buffering effect of organizational support. CONCLUSIONS: When settings for rest in the workplace have higher restorative quality, they may better function as job resources in two respects: serving the immediate needs of workers for recovery from job demands, and signaling the interest of the organization in their well-being.
The effects of ecological restoration field work and in-class instruction on students' ecological behavior, environmental attitudes, and perceptions of restorative qualities in a natural environment were studied in 3 classes of university undergraduates (
A growing body of empirical evidence is revealing the value of nature experience for mental health. With rapid urbanization and declines in human contact with nature globally, crucial decisions must be made about how to preserve and enhance opportunities for nature experience. Here, we first provide points of consensus across the natural, social, and health sciences on the impacts of nature experience on cognitive functioning, emotional well-being, and other dimensions of mental health. We then show how ecosystem service assessments can be expanded to include mental health, and provide a heuristic, conceptual model for doing so.
People have been bringing plants into residential and other indoor settings for centuries, but little is known about their psychological effects. In the present article, we critically review the experimental literature on the psychological benefits of indoor plants. We focus on benefits gained through passive interactions with indoor plants rather than on the effects of guided interactions with plants in horticultural therapy or the indirect effect of indoor plants as air purifiers or humidifiers. The reviewed experiments addressed a variety of outcomes, including emotional states, pain perception, creativity, task-performance, and indices of autonomic arousal. Some findings recur, such as enhanced pain management with plants present, but in general the results appear to be quite mixed. Sources of this heterogeneity include diversity in experimental manipulations, settings, samples, exposure durations, and measures. After addressing some overarching theoretical issues, we close with recommendations for further research with regard to experimental design, measurement, analysis, and reporting.
If office workers lack a view to natural features outdoors, do they compensate by bringing plants and pictures of nature indoors? The authors used cross-sectional survey data from 385 Norwegian office workers to investigate whether such compensation occurs. The authors found that workers without windows had roughly five times greater odds of having brought plants into their workspaces than workers with windows, independent of age, gender, type of office, job demands, control over work, and personalization. Windowless workers also had three times greater odds of having brought pictures of nature into their workspaces. The authors consider implications of the findings for environmental design that offers contact with nature to people who spend much of their time indoors.
Laboratory experiments and quasi-experimental field studies have documented beneficial effects of indoor plants on outcomes such as psychophysiological stress, task performance, and symptoms of ill health. Such studies have taken an interest in the value of indoor plants in work settings, but they typically have not considered how the effects of plants might compare with effects of other workplace characteristics. The present study makes an initial attempt to situate the potential benefits of indoor plants in a broader workplace context. With cross-sectional survey data from 385 Norwegian office workers, we used hierarchical regression analyses to estimate the associations that plants and several often-studied workplace factors have with perceived stress, sick leave, and productivity. Other variables included in our models were gender, age, physical workplace factors (e.g., noise, temperature, lighting, air quality), and psychosocial workplace factors (demands, control, social support). After controlling for these variables, the number of indoor plants proximal to a worker's desk had small but statistically reliable associations with sick leave and productivity. Although small, such associations can have substantial practical significance given aggregation over the large number of office workers over time.
Depression and anxiety are commonly seen in patients with chronic pain which affects the patient´s daily life functioning. Although considerable attention has been devoted to explain why depression and anxiety are frequent comorbid with chronic pain, little empirical work has been conducted on interventions that target depression and anxiety and chronic pain. The present study was designed to test an individualized cognitive-behavioral treatment delivered through the internet for persons with chronic pain and emotional distress. A total of 52 patients with chronic pain and depression were included and randomized to either treatment for 8 weeks or to a control group that participated in a moderated online discussion forum. Intent-to-treat analyses showed significant decreases regarding depressive symptoms and pain disability in the treatment group. Results on the primary outcomes of depression and anxiety were in favour of the treatment group. Reductions were also found on pain catastrophizing. One year follow-up showed maintenance of improvements. We conclude that an individualized guided internet-delivered treatment based on cognitive behaviour therapy can be effective for persons with chronic pain comorbid emotional distress.
Environmental attitude and ecological behavior were investigated in relation to the use of nature for psychological restoration. Specifically, with survey data from 468 German university students, the role of environmental attitude was investigated as a mediator of the restoration-behavior relationship. Assuming that positive experiences in nature can have a broad influence on environmental attitudes, the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) scale, an attitudinal measure with broad scope, was adopted. Hierarchical regression analyses indicated partial mediation by environmental concern. The study helps to consolidate the restoration theme in the growing literature on positive motivations for ecological behavior.
Much medical literature attributes persistently high rates of very low birthweight (VLBW) to "dysregulated" gestation. We offer the alternative view that natural selection conserved well-regulated, though nonconscious, decisional biology that protects the reproductive fitness of women by spontaneously aborting gestations that would otherwise yield frail infants, particularly small males. Modern obstetric practice, however, converts some fraction of these erstwhile spontaneous abortions into live births of very small infants. We further propose that the nonconscious decisional biology of gestation exhibits preferences also seen in consciously made decisions. We hypothesize that the incidence of VLBW among male infants should vary with the population's self-reported intentions to assume financial risk. We apply time-series modeling to monthly birth counts by sex and weight from the Swedish Medical Birth Registry between January 1993 and December 2010. We gauge risk aversion with monthly data from the Micro Index of the Swedish Consumer Tendency Survey (MISCT). Consistent with our argument that nonconscious decisional biology shares risk aversion with conscious decisions, we find that the incidence of VLBW among male infants in Sweden varies with the population's self-reported intentions to assume financial risk. We find increases above expected odds of a very low weight infant among males born 1 month after increases above expected levels of self-reported risk aversion in the Swedish population. We offer this finding as support for the argument that persistently high rates of VLBW arise, at least in part, from a combination of medical interventions and mechanisms conserved by natural selection to protect reproductive fitness. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Aims. To test the relationship between greenery in gardens at residential facilities for older people and the self-perceived health of residents, mediated by experiences of being away and fascination when in the garden and the frequency of visitation there. To examine how these indirect effects vary with the number of physical barriers to visiting the garden. Background. Many older people in residential facilities suffer from complex health problems. Access to a green outdoor environment may enable psychological distance, engage effortless attention, encourage more frequent visitation and promote resident health. Design. A multi-level, cross-sectional, correlational design. Methods. Questionnaires were administered June–August, 2011 to convenience samples of residents at 72 facilities for older people with complex healthcare needs. One to 10 eligible residents were sampled during self-motivated garden visits at each facility (n = 290). They reported on their garden experiences and health. Facility staff reported on objective garden characteristics and barriers to access. A serial mediation model was tested with multiple linear regression analysis. Results. The total indirect effect of greenery on self-perceived health was positive and significant. Garden greenery appears to affect health by enhancing a sense of being away, affording possibilities to experience the outdoor environment as interesting and encouraging visitation. Among residents in homes with multiple barriers, only fascination mediated the relationship between greenery and selfperceived health. Conclusion. Ample greenery in outdoor space at residential facilities for older people appears to promote experiences of being away and fascination, more frequent visitation and better health.
Background: Urban greenspace can benefit mental health through multiple mechanisms. They may work together, but previous studies have treated them as independent.
Objectives: We aimed to compare single and parallel mediation models, which estimate the independent contributions of different paths, to several models that posit serial mediation components in the pathway from greenspace to mental health.
Methods: We collected cross-sectional survey data from 399 participants (15-25 years of age) in the city of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Objective "exposure" to urban residential greenspace was defined by the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index, tree cover density within the 500-m buffer, and Euclidean distance to the nearest urban greenspace. Self-reported measures of availability, access, quality, and usage of greenspace were also used. Mental health was measured with the General Health Questionnaire. The following potential mediators were considered in single and parallel mediation models: restorative quality of the neighborhood, neighborhood social cohesion, commuting and leisure time physical activity, road traffic noise annoyance, and perceived air pollution. Four models were tested with the following serial mediation components: (1) restorative quality -> social cohesion; (2) restorative quality -> physical activity; (3) perceived traffic pollution -> restorative quality; (4) and noise annoyance -> physical activity.
Results: There was no direct association between objectively-measured greenspace and mental health. For the 500-m buffer, the tests of the single mediator models suggested that restorative quality mediated the relationship between NDVI and mental health. Tests of parallel mediation models did not find any significant indirect effects. In line with theory, tests of the serial mediation models showed that higher restorative quality was associated with more physical activity and more social cohesion, and in turn with better mental health. As for self-reported greenspace measures, single mediation through restorative quality was significant only for time in greenspace, and there was no mediation though restorative quality in the parallel mediation models; however, serial mediation through restorative quality and social cohesion/physical activity was indicated for all self-reported measures except for greenspace quality.
Conclusions: Statistical models should adequately address the theoretically indicated interdependencies between mechanisms underlying association between greenspace and mental health. If such causal relationships hold, testing mediators alone or in parallel may lead to incorrect inferences about the relative contribution of specific paths, and thus to inappropriate intervention strategies.
Background: Experiences afforded by natural settings promote health by helping people to build new adaptive capacities and to restore existing capacities. The aim of this study was to examine relations among restorative experience, mindfulness, rumination and psychological resilience in pathways linking residential greenspace to anxiety and depression symptoms.
Methods: We sampled 529 university students residing in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Residential greenspace was measured in terms of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and tree cover density for different buffer sizes. Symptoms of anxiety and depression were measured with the Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale (7-item) and Patient Health Questionnaire (9-item), respectively. The following mediators were assessed by self-report: perceived greenspace, restorative quality of the neighborhood, dispositional mindfulness, rumination, and psychological resilience. Structural equation modelling techniques were used to test the theoretically-indicated relations among the variables.
Results: Across different buffer sizes, higher greenspace was consistently associated with reduced scores on the anxiety and depression scales. This effect was partially mediated via several pathways. Specifically, higher NDVI500-m was associated with higher perceived greenspace, and in turn, with higher restorative quality, and then with higher mindfulness, lower rumination, and greater resilience to stress, and consequently, with better mental health.
Conclusions: Our findings affirm the potential of greenspace for building psychological resilience and promoting health by offsetting dysfunctional rumination and facilitating mindfulness as components of intertwined capacity-building and capacity-restoring pathways.
Background: A growing body of scientific literature indicates that urban green- and bluespace support mental health; however, little research has attempted to address the complexities in likely interrelations among the pathways through which benefits plausibly are realized. Objectives: The present study examines how different plausible pathways between green/bluespace and mental health can work together. Both objective and perceived measures of green- and bluespace are used in these models. Methods: We sampled 720 students from the city of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Residential greenspace was measured in terms of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), tree cover density, percentage of green areas, and Euclidean distance to the nearest green space. Bluespace was measured in terms of its presence in the neighborhood and the Euclidean distance to the nearest bluespace. Mental health was measured with the 12-item form of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12). The following mediators were considered: perceived neighborhood green/bluespace, restorative quality of the neighborhood, social cohesion, physical activity, noise and air pollution, and environmental annoyance. Structural equation modelling techniques were used to analyze the data. Results: Higher NDVI within a 300 m buffer around the residence was associated with better mental health through higher perceived greenspace; through higher perceived greenspace, leading to increased restorative quality, and subsequently to increased physical activity (i.e., serial mediation); through lower noise exposure, which in turn was associated with lower annoyance; and through higher perceived greenspace, which was associated with lower annoyance. Presence of bluespace within a 300 m buffer did not have a straightforward association with mental health owing to competitive indirect paths: one supporting mental health through higher perceived bluespace, restorative quality, and physical activity; and another engendering mental ill-health through higher noise exposure and annoyance. Conclusions: We found evidence that having more greenspace near the residence supported mental health through several indirect pathways with serial components. Conversely, bluespace was not clearly associated with mental health.
People who perform paid work may benefit from psychological restoration afforded by a leisure home and its natural surroundings. This may hinder the development of some forms of life-threatening illness. Using longitudinal register data for 108,114 employed Swedes, we assessed the prospective association between leisure home ownership and death before age 65. Among men, but not among women, leisure home owners had lower odds of early death, after adjustment for sociodemographic and residential characteristics (OR=0.875, 95% CI=0.702-0.980). The results bear on natural environments as health resources, inform debate on urban densification, and broaden the discussion of residence and health.
Background Researchers often invoke a mortality displacement or 'harvesting' mechanism to explain mortality patterns, such that those with underlying health vulnerabilities die sooner than expected in response to environmental phenomena, such as heat waves, cold spells and air pollution. It is unclear if this displacement mechanism might also explain observed increases in suicide following economic contraction, or if suicides are induced in persons otherwise unlikely to engage in self-destructive behaviour. Here, we test two competing hypotheses explaining an observed increase in suicides following unemployment-induction or displacement. Methods We apply time series methods to monthly suicide and unemployment data from Sweden for the years 2000-2011. Tests are conducted separately for working age (20-64 years old) men and women as well as older (aged 65 years and older) men and women. Results Displacement appeared among older men and women; an unexpected rise in unemployment predicted an increase in suicides 6 months later, followed by a significant decrease 8 months later. Induction appeared among working age men, but not among working age women; an unexpected rise in unemployment predicted an increase in suicides 4-6 months later. Conclusions Displacement and induction both appear to have operated following unexpected labour market contractions in Sweden, though with different population segments.
This study aimed to assess changes in psychological distress and social participation in adults diagnosed with clinical depression during and after participating in a therapeutic horticulture programme, and to investigate if the changes covaried with levels of group cohesiveness during the intervention. An intervention with a single-group design was repeated with different samples in successive years (pooled n = 46). In each year, five groups of 3-7 participants went through the intervention. Data were collected before, twice during, and immediately after a 12-week therapeutic horticulture programme, as well as at 3-months' follow up. Mental health assessments included the Beck Depression Inventory, the State Subscale of Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, the Positive Affect Scale from the Positive and Negative Affect Scale, the Perceived Stress Scale, and the Therapeutic Factors Inventory Cohesiveness Scale. The analysis of the pooled data confirmed significant beneficial change in all mental health variables during the intervention. Change from baseline in depression severity persisted at 3-months' follow up. Increased social activity after the intervention was reported for 38% of the participants. The groups quickly established strong cohesiveness, and this continued to increase during the intervention. The average level of group cohesiveness correlated positively, but not significantly, with change in all mental health outcome variables.
Aim. This paper is a report of a study conducted to assess change in depression severity, perceived attentional capacity and rumination (brooding) in individuals with clinical depression during a therapeutic horticulture programme and to investigate if the changes were mediated by experiences of being away and fascination. Background. Individuals with clinical depression suffer from distortion of attention and rumination. Interventions can help to disrupt maladaptive rumination and promote restoration of depleted attentional capacity. Method. A single-group study was conducted with a convenience sample of 28 people with clinical depression in 2009. Data were collected before, twice during, and immediately after a 12-week therapeutic horticulture programme, and at 3-month follow-up. Assessment instruments were the Beck Depression Inventory, Attentional Function Index, Brooding Scale, and Being Away and Fascination subscales from the Perceived Restorativeness Scale. Findings. Mean Beck Depression Inventory scores declined by 4 center dot 5 points during the intervention (F = 5 center dot 49, P = 0 center dot 002). The decline was clinically relevant for 50% of participants. Attentional Function Index scores increased (F = 4 center dot 14, P = 0 center dot 009), while Brooding scores decreased (F = 4 center dot 51, P = 0 center dot 015). The changes in Beck Depression Inventory and Attentional Function Index scores were mediated by increases in Being Away and Fascination, and decline in Beck Depression Inventory scores was also mediated by decline in Brooding. Participants maintained their improvements in Beck Depression Inventory scores at 3-month follow-up. Conclusion. Being away and fascination appear to work as active components in a therapeutic horticulture intervention for clinical depression.
We propose a conceptual model of how time pressure affects emotional well-being associated with mundane routine activities. A selective review of research in several areas affirms the plausibility of the conceptual model, which posits negative effects on emotional well-being of insufficient time allocated to restorative and other activities instrumental for attaining desirable work, family life, and leisure goals. Previous research also affirms that practicing time management can have indirect positive effects by decreasing time pressure, whereas material wealth can have both negative indirect effects and positive indirect effects by increasing and decreasing time pressure, respectively. Several issues remain to be studied empirically. The conceptual model is a ground for additional, preferably cross-cultural, research.
A growing body of scientific literature indicates that urban green- and bluespace support mental health; however, little research has attempted to address the complexities in likely interrelations among the pathways through which benefits plausibly are realized.
The present study examines how different plausible pathways between green/bluespace and mental health can work together. Both objective and perceived measures of green- and bluespace are used in these models.
We sampled 720 students from the city of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Residential greenspace was measured in terms of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), tree cover density, percentage of green areas, and Euclidean distance to the nearest green space. Bluespace was measured in terms of its presence in the neighborhood and the Euclidean distance to the nearest bluespace. Mental health was measured with the 12-item form of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12). The following mediators were considered: perceived neighborhood green/bluespace, restorative quality of the neighborhood, social cohesion, physical activity, noise and air pollution, and environmental annoyance. Structural equation modelling techniques were used to analyze the data.
Higher NDVI within a 300 m buffer around the residence was associated with better mental health through higher perceived greenspace; through higher perceived greenspace, leading to increased restorative quality, and subsequently to increased physical activity (i.e., serial mediation); through lower noise exposure, which in turn was associated with lower annoyance; and through higher perceived greenspace, which was associated with lower annoyance. Presence of bluespace within a 300 m buffer did not have a straightforward association with mental health owing to competitive indirect paths: one supporting mental health through higher perceived bluespace, restorative quality, and physical activity; and another engendering mental ill-health through higher noise exposure and annoyance.
We found evidence that having more greenspace near the residence supported mental health through several indirect pathways with serial components. Conversely, bluespace was not clearly associated with mental health.
People inevitably deplete adaptive resources in everyday life. Persistent failure to restore resources that have become depleted will ultimately harm mental and physical health. Restoration proceeds more effectively in some environments than in others, due not only to a relative absence of demands on already depleted resources, but also to environmental characteristics that promote restoration of the depleted resources. Knowledge of the restoration-promoting characteristics of environments can serve people working in diverse fields, from architecture to nature conservation to transportation and urban planning.


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Town of Lexington
Lexington was first settled circa 1642 as part of Cambridge, Massachusetts. What is now Lexington was then incorporated as a parish, called Cambridge Farms, in 1691. This allowed them to have a separate church and minister, but were still under jurisdiction of the Town of Cambridge. Lexington was incorporated as a separate town in 1713. It was then that it got the name Lexington. How it received its name is the subject of some controversy. Some people believe that it was named in honor of Lord Lexington, an English peer. Some, on the other hand, believe that it was named after Lexington (which was pronounced and is today spelled Laxton) in Nottinghamshire, England.
In the early colonial days, Vine Brook, which runs through Lexington, Burlington, and Bedford, and then empties into the Shawsheen River, was a focal point of the farming and industry of the town. It provided for many types of mills, and in the 20th Century, for farm irrigation.
For decades, Lexington grew modestly while remaining largely a farming community, providing Boston with much of its produce. It always had a bustling downtown area, which remains to this day. Lexington began to prosper, helped by its proximity to Boston, and having a rail line (originally the Lexington and West Cambridge Railroad, later the Boston and Maine Railroad) service its citizens and businesses, beginning in 1846 (As of 2015, the Minuteman Bikeway occupies the site of the former rail line). For many years, East Lexington was considered a separate village from the rest of the town, though it still had the same officers and Town Hall. Most of the farms of Lexington became housing developments by the end of the 1960s.
Lexington is located at 42°26?39?N 71°13?36?W (42.444345, -71.226928).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 16.5 square miles (42.8 km²), of which 16.4 square miles (42.5 km²) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.4 km²), or 0.85%, is water.
Lexington borders the following towns: Burlington, Woburn, Winchester, Arlington, Belmont, Waltham, Lincoln, and Bedford. It has more area than all other municipalities that it borders.

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Borrusia Dortmund star Jadon Sancho has hailed Liverpool youngster Rhian Brewster, after the youngster's recent exploits in their preseason tour.
The 19-year-old has impressed for the Champions League winners in their two opening matches, and Sancho, who's a close friend of the Reds star, feels he will have an impressive season with the senior team.
The pair know each other well having lifted the Under-17 World Cup with England in 2017 before Sancho left for Borussia Dortmund.
"I feel like he can do it. I have played with him. I know how good he is. He causes defenders nightmares," said Sancho.
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If you haven't been to Brasstown Bald, let me tell you a few things. First, this is the highest point in the State of Georgia. Second, you get great views of the Blue Ridge Mountains from here. Third, the climb up to the summit from the parking lot is pretty steep!
Once you get to the top though, it is worth the effort. Joyce and I made the trip to do some night-time photography with the North Georgia Photography Club here. We were hoping for beautiful clear skies away from the city lights. It wasn't looking like we would get the clear skies when sunset rolled around. This made for a stunning sunset with all the color and light reflected off the clouds but made me think the stars would be hard to see.
There were a good number of photographers out on the observation platform to watch this gorgeous event. We all marveled as the sky was painted in vibrant hues and even the Blue Ridge mountains were tinted in red, orange, and yellow. It was an amazing sight.
Sunset from the Summit
Brasstown Bald Mountain
Towns and Union Counties, Georgia, USA
Nikon D7100
Tamron SP 10-24mm F/3.5-4.5 Di II
10mm at f/20 – 1/30 sec – ISO 400
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Whether you're suffering from chronic wanderlust, or you're just looking for different weather, moving to a new state can be a refreshing change of pace. But while moving your belongings is a fairly simple process, if you want to take your PT job with you, you'll need more than bubble wrap and tape. In fact, there's actually a whole list of compliance requirements to consider before you can treat patients in another state—and despite what you may have heard, not every state allows for physical therapy license reciprocity.
Of course, moving is stressful enough, so we decided to help you out and make a PT moving checklist to help you get up and running in your new state.
1. Get a state license.
Not all PT licenses are created equal, and you must get the legal go-ahead from your new state before you whip out your gait belts and treatment tables. According to The Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy (FSBPT), there are three steps you should follow to get new state license:
1. Contact the state's licensing authority.
The licensing authority will walk you through the most up-to-date state licensing requirements. Every state is a little bit different—some require fingerprints and credential evaluations, while others require a jurisprudence exam. Contact the licensing authority to make sure you have all the necessary documentation you need to get your license.
2. Apply for a state license.
Go to your new state's PT licensing website and find the license application. Once you fill out the form and collect all the necessary paperwork, you'll submit the application either online or by mail—and pay the associated fee. If you need help finding the state's application portal, use this handy list—courtesy of Core Medical Group—that links to every state's licensing website.
3. Transfer your NPTE score.
Finally, you must transfer your National Physical Therapy Examination (NPTE) score to the new state. (The FSBPT offers a score transfer service that runs with an $80 fee.) You may request this transfer electronically or print and mail in this paper form.
Compact Licensure
As much fun as it is to fill out state license applications—oodles of fun, I know—PTs and PTAs can skip the whole paper-logged process if their state (and the state they're moving to) is part of the PT Compact.
So, what is the PT Compact? Well, it's an agreement—a compact, you could say—among participating states that allows PTs in those states to practice across state lines without applying for additional licenses. The APTA, FSBPT, and Council of State Governments (CSG) lobbied for years to enact this program, and in 2018, PT compact licenses were finally born—in some states, that is. Only six states are actively issuing and accepting compact licenses at this time:
- Oregon,
- Utah,
- North Dakota,
- Missouri,
- Tennessee, and
- Mississippi.
Fifteen other states have adopted compact legislation, but they're still picking through the weeds and have yet to issue or accept any compact licenses.
But before you bust into the nearest PT Compact state Kool-Aid man style, you have to actually get a compact license. To do so, you must satisfy some prerequisites (you have to be an active PT or PTA, for example), and pay a fee—the amount of which varies from state to state.
Keep your fingers crossed for a compact endgame that includes all 50 states, because full interstate licensure could have some sweet benefits for PTs nationwide.
2. Update your NPI information.
There are a few reasons to get a brand-new National Provider Identifier (NPI), but luckily, swappin' states isn't one of them. That's right: your NPI will follow you to your new state of residence. That said, you do need to update the provider details associated with your NPI. There are three ways you can do this:
- Submit the information online;
- Print, fill out, and mail in this form (the address appears on page five); or
- Call the NPI Enumerator at 1-800-465-3203, request a form, and mail it in.
3. Update your TIN information.
Your tax identification number (TIN)—much like your NPI—needs an info refresh come moving time. (The IRS gets a little grumpy when it doesn't have the right tax information.) Luckily, there are a handful of ways to notify the IRS of your move so you stay on its good side:
- Use your new address the next time you file taxes;
- Download, fill out, and mail in form 8822;
- Mail in a written statement that includes your full name, old address, new address, and social security number, ITIN, or EIN; or
- Call the IRS (or show up to the state's IRS department) and provide verbal notification.
Updating the address attached to your TIN is the only TIN-related thing you need to complete after your move. You won't need a new TIN unless you completely closed down your business and are starting fresh with a new one.
4. Get credentialed with payers.
Saddle up and get ready to reconquer the credentialing process, because insurance credentialing doesn't always cross state borders.
You should decide which commercial payers you would like to contract with—and then identify which ones you actually can contract with—and start the credentialing process ASAP. Credentialing is only supposed to take around 90 days, but it's a good idea to build 150 days of waiting time into your calendar.
Now, some commercial payer credentials do cross state borders, but those are few and far between. It's always a good idea to call your payers and verify their moving policies.
And remember: it's not just commercial payers you need to consider; Medicare rules might be national, but your enrollment records don't transfer from state to state. Get in contact with your new local MAC in order to enroll with Medicare in your new state.
Additionally, each state has its own Medicaid program (with its own website) that, in turn, has its own rules and enrollment process. So, if you need help finding any Medicaid enrollment documents, check out our Medicaid enrollment link resource. It'll get you right where you need to go.
CAQH ProView™
For the last 15 years, the Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH) has centered its mission on reducing credentialing woes—a.k.a mounds of paperwork. To do this, the council created a national credentialing database for providers and payers alike.
How does it work? Well, providers sign up to participate in the database and—after receiving CAQH approval—upload their credentialing information. Participating payers can then access that information and use it during the credentialing process.
Signing up with CAQH could save you a lot of credentialing headaches. After all, more than 50 commercial payers actively use this database—including big fish like Humana, Aetna, and Cigna. But "big fish" doesn't necessarily mean "most relevant fish," so it's important to research your market and pinpoint which insurances are worth contracting with in your new area.
No buts about it: Credentialing is a taxing and arduous process. If you're worried about potential pitfalls—or you just want tips about what to expect during the credentialing process—check out this blog post.
5. Check the state's malpractice insurance requirements.
We here at WebPT are not legal experts, and we can't provide legal advice on whether or not malpractice insurance is right for you. However, we can tell you that malpractice insurance requirements vary by state—and you should absolutely take a look at this list (in addition to doing your own research) to determine what will be required of you and your practice after your move.
If your new state does require malpractice insurance—and you aren't working under an insured employer—sign up for coverage as soon as possible.
6. Learn the state's direct access laws—and comply with them.
All 50 states—the US Virgin Islands and DC, too—technically allow patients to have direct access to a PT. However, the only across-the-board direct access provision is an initial evaluation, which means that in some states, therapists must satisfy additional requirements to see patients beyond the IE.
So, while you can immediately begin treating patients in, say, Arizona without any restriction or prerequisite, the same doesn't hold true for Texas, Virginia, or any one of the 32 states that have limits to their direct access laws. In many states, treating patients without a referral could get you into some serious trouble.
To read up on your local (or soon-to-be local) direct access laws, check out the PT's Guide to Direct Access Law in all 50 States.
7. Research the state's continuing education requirements—and make a plan to stay on target.
At this point, you can probably guess what I'm going to say about continuing education units (CEUs). Yep—the requirements vary from state to state (for better or for worse). For example, some states require 40 contact hours, while others have no CEU requirements at all.
If you're looking for an easy-to-digest overview of each state's CEU requirements, take a gander at this blog post. It covers the specifics of each state's requirements, from contact hours to renewal deadlines.
Phew! I don't know about you, but I'd say our travel checklist was pretty exhaustive. But if you follow it to the "T," you should be totally prepared to practice after your move. Comment below with any tips or tricks you've picked up over the years about getting ready to practice in a new state.


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I received this book for my birthday as I might have a bit of a Norwegian obsession….ok ok I do, a big one. I can't tell you why but I can tell you it is something that I have to do.
I'm not great at languages; I did French for 5 years and barely scraped through. I can tell you the basics like hello, the bedroom, some foods and occasionally other French words. I can sing you a song and swear in Polish! Not useful words I know, especially as I will never use them, but I am determined to be fluent in at least one other language! More so because of my life list (bucket list) so!
This is where Mystery of the Nils book comes into play. To learn the language, I was using Duolingo, a great tool, however, I wanted something a bit more. I didn't have a clue about the structure of the Norwegian language and grammar. I really do want to be fluent in Norwegian at some stage.
The mystery of Nils is based on a very basic story, which is designed to help you read in Norwegian.
As the story goes on it begins to get more intriguing. The authors of this book are Norwegian teachers, so you can rest assured that what you learn is true.
Erna, gives her 8-year granddaughter a special gift for her birthday, a doll that is inspired by the mythical creature Nisse. Nils was very happy with his few families, settling well in Oslo until an unforeseen accident happens and Nils sees just how much Erna cares about him.
The novel starts with the first page in Norwegian, on the right there are some words to help us uncover the story by ourselves. However, this book is not just a story, it's a workbook too! Learning Grammar can be a bit of a headache, well no more with this book! There are many different exercises that will assist you in learning adjectives, verbs and much more.
During your journey with this novel, you will find relevant vocabulary, a great story and more help online. You will also find revision tips and ways to ensure that you will remember your Norwegian!
The Mystery of Nils is perfect for those beginners who are learning or would like to learn Norwegian. The book is very engaging, full of things to do and pictures and although is 192 pages, there is a lot to do. I am only halfway through it myself!


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Memories of Thanksgivings Past and Present
Every other Thanksgiving, my Mom, her two sisters and all the offspring of these three amazing women (last year this number was upwards of 70, ranging in age from 1 – 90!) start the cooking and packing process for a 4 day Thanksgiving weekend in the bustling town – mostly populated by cows – of Calera, Alabama. We come from all over the place – Colorado, Arkansas, Kentucky, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama and beyond – to gather under one roof and celebrate this wonderful holiday together.
We sleep, dormitory style, the women and children in one wing and the men and older boys in another. Some have started bringing tents and sleeping bags as we are just now beginning to outgrow the church camp. We are charged with bringing all our own bedding, personal bath and clothing items, games galore – cards, board games and outdoor games – and FOOD!!!!!! We bring everything in for breakfasts, lunches, Thanksgiving Dinner, an outdoor hamburger cookout and DESSERTS!!!! There are two 8 – foot tables laden with every kind of dessert imaginable from caramel, jam, carrot and red velvet cakes to pecan, chess, fudge, pumpkin and apple pies to brownies and cookies. And each time something is eaten and the pan removed from the table – another offering replaces it!
We eat Thanksgiving dinner around one HUGE table, made up of all the eight foot tables in the camp placed end to end and then in a large square. Some are in charge of heating up and getting the bounteous offerings of turkey, dressing, gravy, salads, sides, breads, etc – ready for the table while others are setting up the room and decorating. Before dinner, we gather round, hold hands and have a prayer of Thanksgiving. This is an amazing tradition which we started in 1987.
And we do not leave out our football fans – there is a room with a big TV and all the SEC games are well attended! The weekend ends with an epic softball game and one by one, each family clears out all that they brought and we take our leave with our fond memories and anticipating the next time we will all gather again.
As I was remembering last year with fondness, and planning with in town family for this Thanksgiving, I remembered a Thanksgiving from long ago. I must have been about 6 or 7. For whatever reason – most likely a financial consideration, Mom was cooking chickens instead of a turkey. And again, for whatever reason, she put the chickens in the oven and we left home to go to church – I guess we went to church on Thanksgiving morning back in the day. Mom was a great cook, but advanced planning was not her strong suit (please, those who know her do not tell her I said this as she will deny it to her grave and I will be severely reprimanded!) and after church she decided we needed to go and visit a great aunt. Well you can just imagine the condition of those tiny chickens when we returned home – burned to a crisp – and the house full of smoke (so let me say here, that this was not the first and would not be the last time our house was filled with smoke on a holiday – but those stories are for a later blog). So off we went, with $11 in our pocket, in search of a restaurant open for Thanksgiving. Now this was the early 60's – there were not the bounty of restaurants that we have now and nothing was open, that is until we got close to downtown and found a Western Sizzling – open and serving turkey and all the fixin's. Feeding a family of 5 on $11 was possible but if memory serves me we got one dessert and split it.
Where to Eat in Nashville on Thanksgiving Day
So if you find yourself with a house full of smoke and a burned turkey this Thanksgiving there will be options for you! There are many restaurants open for business and serving turkey and dressing! Two websites – www.visitmusiccity.com/events/featuredevents/Thanksgiving and www.nowplayingnashville.com both have lists of restaurants open for you dining pleasure. You can also find out about shopping specials and entertainment for you and your out of town guests at these sights.
If you do not want to cook and/or take the chance of burning down your house, you can plan in advance for someone to do the cooking for you. Loveless has a great Thanksgiving to go menu as does Whole Foods. Visit their websites to order on line – www.lovelesscafe.com/Thanksgiving-To-Go or www.wholefoodsmarket.com. You can also take advantage of several seatings for Thanksgiving dinner at either Sperry's location – Belle Meade or Cool Springs. They will serve all your favorites between 11 and 8 on Thanksgiving Day. Be sure to tip your servers well as they will be missing dinner with their families!


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Monday, 4 May 2015
House-Mouse 'Beary Nice Birthday' JSHM054
I have a House-Mouse card to share with you today:
I used:
House-Mouse Gruffies 'Beary Nice Birthday' stamp (which I was lucky enough to win!!)
ProMarkers and 1 Copic!
First Edition Black Canvas papers
Spellbinders Marvellous Squares
Liquid Pearls
Ribbon from stash
I hope that you have had a lovely bank holiday weekend and thanks for visiting me today.
Eve x
House-Mouse challenge 'dotty' 5 days left.
Simon Says Wednesday challenge 'anything goes' 1 day left.
The Ribbon Girls challenge 'mother/female card' 5 days left.
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A gorgeous creation in a lovely soft colour scheme! Thanks for playing at Creative Inspirations! xxxReplyDelete
Wonderfully done Eve...that cake looks yummy...your image is coloured beautifully!! Thanks for playing along with us at House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge...good luck!ReplyDelete
Take care,
A fabulous card Eve, such a wonderful image and pretty pastel colours.ReplyDelete
That is one big beautiful cake, love the flame you created! Lovely coloring and design too. Thanks for joining us for the House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge.ReplyDelete
Aww, i love gruffies, great card. Thanks for joining in with the Cute Critters challenge over at Creative Inspirations!ReplyDelete
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Gorgeous card Eve :-) Gruffie is adorable and I love the die cut squares, I will have to get me a set of those, I love the wobbly lines and piercing. I LOVE this !! :-)ReplyDelete
thanks for joining us on the House Mouse and Friends Challenge :-)
Lols x x x
oops, I meant to addReplyDelete
thanks for joining us on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge too :-)
Lols x x x
Such a sweet card, lovely!ReplyDelete
hugs Jacee
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A fabulous card Eve, a lovely CAS design and pretty spotty papers..........Gruffie is just adorable and beautifully coloured!!ReplyDelete
Heather xx
Thanks so much for joining us in both House Mouse & Friends Challenge and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge
super cute card Eve...luv the fun image! so glad you played along with Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge!ReplyDelete
sparkle & shine *~*
Beautiful card! Love the soft colors and the detail on the flame is just perfect. Thanks for joining us at House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge.ReplyDelete
Snoopy :D
Lovin all those cake dots. Perfect for the challenge theme! Love the sparkle. Great Gruffies design. Thanks so much for playing along with us at House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge. Good Luck and hope you'll play again next week too. :)ReplyDelete
What a lovely card Eve, wish my birthday cake was as big as this one !! The liquid perals really finish it off !! Thanks for joining us at HMAFMC and good luck sweetie !!ReplyDelete
hugs Diane xx
Wow thats one BIG B/day cake..love how you decorated it with pearls, super Dotty desugn paper..nice take on the dotty chall theme.ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing with us at House Mouse & Friends Mon. chall this time.
smiles Christine x
Hi there,
thanks for stoppin' by.
I'd love to receive a comment to prove that I'm not talking to myself!
Eve x


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July 2018
New Beginnings
The winter is here and with it the rain at long last! Hopefully this winter will fill our dams and the water restrictions will be lifted. At The Attic we are making a few big changes. After almost 20 years in Lion's Sqaure we have decided to vacate that space and we are moving to 10 Dirkie Uys str, opposite the butcher. It is a lovely old building and we have given the interior a face lift.
As of Wednesday, 4 July, we will be operating from there. Our trusted staff Victor, Andile Meisie and Gilmore will still be doing the beautiful work they are known for, and Hazel and Kirsten will serve the public from the front in a brand new "look". We are looking forward to seeing you there so be on the lookout for our winter bargains which will be advertised here and on the other social media pages.


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I decided a week or two ago that I am going to help Dale learn some Christmas carols this season.
I am sure this idea was partly influenced by our interest in the Charlotte Mason method of schooling; studying hymns was a regular part of Charlotte Mason's schools. It is suggested that a child learn several hymns throughout the year, including the story behind them when possible.
Christmas hymns seemed like as good a place as any to start.
This is our second week on Away in a Manger. I'm planning on teaching all 3 verses. Dale is solid on the first stanza and pretty much has the second under his belt also. If we can get to the third one this week and work on the melody some, he'll have Away in a Manger.
I figure that leaves us time for multiple verses of one more song or the first verse only of two more before Christmas. I'm thinking we'll start Silent Night next and go from there.
Of course, we're singing lots of the traditional Christmas hymns, but only working on memorizing one at a time.
One way we've done this is to type up the lyrics in a large font, print them, and cut them into phrases. Then Dale can arrange them in the correct order. Or we deal them out to each other and play the next phrase out of our hand. Or scramble them up for each other and let the other person put it back in order.
He loves these games! First we did each of the first 2 verses separately, and then today we mixed them together. It amazes me how much Dale loves playing with those. And it works!
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Learning Christmas Songs
Labels: Homeschool
3 comments:
- Michelle said...
You have the neatest ideas! And I have used the cut into phrases thing before, and you are so right. They love it, and it works!
- December 3, 2008 at 1:49 PM
- Nigel's Mom said...
You are doing a super job with Dale's homeschooling. I think I might enjoy those games myself! I am so very happy to hear the 'altered' shoe idea worked! Those shoes just looked too good to give up on. I am glad he can get some use out of them now. :)
- December 3, 2008 at 2:37 PM
- momtofivekids said...
What a great idea! We are having fun with the advent calendar.
- December 3, 2008 at 6:56 PM
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"I have good news and bad news — which do you want first?" Has anyone ever asked you that question? I think most people would want the bad news first (to get it out of the way) and then hear the good news last (to end on a positive note). That is the order Jesus chose in this chapter.
First the bad news (v.1-4): Jesus assured His disciples that they would face persecution and even martyrdom. And they did: James the son of Zebedee was beheaded by Herod Agrippa; Matthew was executed with a battle-ax; James the Less was beaten to death with a fuller's club at the age of 94; Thomas was thrust through with a spear in India; Peter, Philip, Andrew, Bartholomew, Thaddaeus, and Simon the Zealot were all crucified; and John was exiled on the Isle of Patmos. What Jesus told them in this chapter, they would remember when the persecution came, and it would strengthen them.
Now the good news: Jesus assured His disciples that He would send the Holy Spirit to them (v.7-15). Jesus called Him "The Helper," literally "one who is called alongside to give aid." And what a help He would be! The Helper would take the gospel witness of the disciples and empower their words to bring about conviction of sin and to convince people of the truth. Additionally, the Helper would guide the disciples into truth, giving them moment-by-moment understanding and application of the teachings of Jesus for every situation.
Jesus kept saying that He was "going away" and that the disciples could not immediately go with Him. Because we have the advantage of a completed Scripture, you and I know that Jesus was going to the cross, to the grave, and (after the resurrection) up to glory. But the disciples did not the advantage we have. They were still confused about what Jesus was about to do, why He had to do it, and why they would not see Him "for a little while" (v.16-18).
Reading their thoughts, Jesus gave them two strong words of victory. First, Jesus was going to overcome death (v.20-24). They would see Him arrested, beaten, and executed — and that would produce sorrow. But that sorrow would turn to joy when He overcame death in the resurrection! Like a woman in labor whose pain is soon forgotten, erased by the joy of new life, the disciples would find lasting joy when Jesus came back to life.
Second, Jesus had overcome the world. The summary verse of the this chapter, verse 33, was not only a promise for Jesus' original followers; it is a promise that is still in force for present-day disciples! The promise of verse 33 includes the trouble we will have ("in the world we will have tribulation"), the peace we can have ("in Me you might have peace"), and the victory we do have in Jesus ("I have overcome the world").
Whatever you may face today, remember that you have a Savior who has already overcome your greatest enemy: death. And He already has victory over anything life can throw at you today!


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9 years ago I was settling in to a newly bought home with my partner and my 2 year old girl Ella. I had also just passed my driving test which I was super chuffed about!
It was then that I first started noticing a raised and unpainful lump in my next on the right side... I had left it as it was quite small but as a few months went on I noticed it was getting slightly larger then also felt a few pea size lumps inside my collar bone. I was then told by my partner to book in at the docs.
At that time cancer never crossed my mind. I was 22. So off I went to my regular nurse practitioner, Annie, and she did the appropriate examinations and blood tests. Still cancer was never mentioned or had even remotely crossed my mind.
On the next visit to the docs she then got a GP to look at me and then referred me up to the hospital. Still cancer wasn't mentioned. After numerous appointments and tests which resulted in a camera up my nose, X-rays, ultrasound scans and CT scans I was then told the news. I had Hodgkin lymphoma.
At the time it did not scare me. I had been so wonderfully treated at every stage and at the appointment. I felt very safe.
Biopsy and initial treatment
A biopsy under General anesthetic was then done to determine how far it had spread with a Bone Marrow Biopsy taken also (ouch!). I was then informed that I had Grade 2a Hodgkins lymphoma and that I would start ABVD chemotherapy straight away.
Even at this time I felt safe I was told that this form of cancer was very curable and with that I did not slip into poor me I have cancer. I looked at it like this is what needs to be done for it to go away. It was then my fight started.
6 months of Chemotherapy takes it out of you. My side effects included sickness and body pain BUT thankfull a very small amount of hair loss. I was quite surprised by this as this was the one thing I was more worried about not for me personally but for my 2 year old.
Treatment worked reall well - everything my Haematologist did for me was truly amazing. Doc Ob I called him! He is a genius in his field.
I then went onto have 3 weeks of precautionary radiotherapy. I found this slightly harder and more scary to deal with and up until this point I have very little memory of it all.
Before my treatment had started we knew the risks of not been able to have children but this didn't matter to me as I already had a gorgeous girl.
Remission and life after treatment
In May of 2007 I was told I was cancer free! I then said I would not look back at that time in my life and look forward to planning things with my partner and girl.
Then in September of 2008 I wasn't well before I went to see my Haematologist who said there was nothing to worry about on the lymphoma front. So I took a simple pregnancy test just in case. The test was positive! I was pregnant! I couldn't believe it.
I played safe and didn't get too attached to the pregnancy to begin with. Afterall, this was within a year after my treatment had ended! It wasn't until 4 and a half months I told everyone. I told my best friend on the day of her wedding 21st December (trying to contain a bump in a bridesmaid dress was very hard work!!). I then gave birth to the most beautiful baby boy 25th June 2009!!!
I was given such a blessing and he is so healthy.
Me and my partner Craig then got married on October 31st 2009 with Ella as a flowergirl and Louie was christened on the same day. Everything was complete.
Fast forward a few years and, yes, I've had a couple of scares. I've also battled with a little depression and anxiety but I'm working so hard to get through this. Is this part of the ordeal that it cancer? Or is this just general life? I've not yet been able to answer that but I do know that cancer does not rule me or define me as a person and that would be my one piece of advice to anyone reading this affected by blood cancer.
I hope I've helped just one person by sharing my experiences.
Gillo x
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Gillian, thank you so much for sharing your experience with us. Blogs such as this can give people going through a similar thing, so much hope. I am so glad that you are doing so well now - I wish you all the very best for the future. Alice
Thanks for sharing Gillian, I'm still undergoing treatment for leukaemia (only 1 year in). It's great to hear positive stories, but it's also comforting to hear that someone with an outlook like yours can still have those moments of anxiety. I've approached my diagnosis with the same attitude and you can sometimes feel like a fraud when it all gets too much, so it's good to know I'm not alone.
Wishing you and your family all the best for the future x
Great news Gillian !
I'm almost 2 years on from stage 4 HL. The anxiety isn't there all the time but strikes with every ailment. Good to hear you've come so far.
Thanks for sharing


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Samsung Galaxy A7 Specs Leaked in Chinese Certification
Samsung's already unveiled the Galaxy A3 and A5, the company's first unibody metal smartphones, but we're still waiting for confirmation that the rumored Galaxy A7 is also on the way. Now, it looks like the device is a step closer to launch after passing through China's Telecommunication Equipment Certification Center (TENAA) this week.
The new certification also reveals a long list of specs for the Galaxy A7, which should be an upgrade over the smaller A3 and A5. It looks like the upcoming metal smartphone will offer a 5.5-inch 1080p display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 processor, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage, a 13-megapixel rear camera and a 5-megapixel front-facing shooter. The Galaxy A7 should also feature the same slick metal design introduced by its smaller siblings, though the upcoming phone may also be the thinnest of the pack. According to this TENAA filing, it comes in at just 6.3mm thick, compared 6.7mm A5 and 6.9mm A3.
Overall the Galaxy A7 looks like a pretty impressive device, though it still doesn't boast the flagship specs poured into a handset like the Galaxy Note 4 or Galaxy S5. Still, we're excited to see this one hit the market, and after today's news it might not be too long before Samsung makes an official announcement.
Source: TENAA
Via: Digital Trends


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From Rochelle (Laura's twin sister):
She's only gone and done it again! Laura has pulled through her 6th neurosurgery but her first in the UK! Selfishly, it's amazing that she's so close to home and fortunately the standard of care has been amazing thus far in consideration of her EDS (apart from the NHS bed shortage scare this morning which meant her surgery almost didn't happen today 🤦🏼♀). Most importantly, the surgery all went to plan and she is expected to be discharged tomorrow ☀ She's been in good spirits both pre- and post-op👇🏻


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PORTSMOUTH, R.I. — A local senior living community is leading an effort to make sure students All Saints Academy have the tools they need for the coming school year.
Residents and employees from Atria Aquidneck Place will host a school supply drive from Aug. 4 through Sept. 8. Donations may be dropped off to the collection basket in the Atria Aquidneck Place lobby at any time between 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. The first day of school for All Saints Academy students is Aug. 30.
All Saints Academy assists students whose families may be enduring economic or financial hardships. Requested supplies include, but are not limited to: notebooks, pens, pencils, index cards, highlighters, binders, folders, erasers, markers, hand sanitizer, paper towels, and tissues.
Atria Aquidneck Place is one of nearly 200 senior living communities throughout the U.S. and Canada operated by Atria Senior Living. Atria communities across the map are organizing their own school supply drives to help provide a local solution to widespread challenges.
The drive is part of a yearlong event series inspired by The Wisdom of Curiosity, a planner that provides a 52-week journey of learning and new experiences. The planner, created by Atria and given as a holiday gift to residents of all its communities, presents questions, exercises and tools to facilitate new experiences.
"Our residents are deeply invested in their local community, and it's important to them to contribute to future generations," said Ivan Colon, executive director at Atria Aquidneck Place. "Volunteerism allows us to partner with local schools and others to make the strongest impact in the community. We want our local students to have what they need to do well this school year, and we hope others will join us in this effort."
For more information on how to participate in the school supply drive, call 401-683-3072. For more information about Atria Aquidneck Place, visit online at www.atriaseniorliving.com/atriaaquidneckplace.


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Sorrento Residents welcome the arrival of their clay project
September 27, 2018
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Sorrento residents welcomed the arrival of their clay project installation this week.
A permanent display of their hand made ceramic roses, a black and white photo display and book capturing the past 3 months of creative collaboration. Clay artist Marian Bosch joined the residents to celebrate their work and explained their new project is a bowl series.


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Is there a "Blue Wall" of Democratic states that stands between Republicans and the presidency? How much has gerrymandering contributed to the disappearance of white Protestant southern Democrats from Congress? And is there anything practical that can be done to wean Washington away from its gridlock addiction?
Martin Frost, a former moderate Democratic congressman from Texas and co-author (with former moderate Republican congressman Tom Davis) of a book about the breakdown of bipartisanship in Congress, spoke at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey school Tuesday and touched on the three matters above. The first two were hardly his main points, but I found them intriguing. The gridlock/reform stuff is a major interest of mine and I'll summarize his prescriptions at the bottom.
In passing, Frost mentioned that there are hardly any white Democrats representing the South in the U.S. House anymore. Basically, he said, "the only kind of seats you have in the South are seats that are safe for black Democrats and seats that are safe for Republicans."
Although I'm aware of the issue, his statement seemed a little strong to me, so I did some counting on a map, and his slight overstatement is more true than false.
Frost also said that the Republican plan to use their power over the district maps to create safe seats for black Democrats was assisted — in some, not all, southern states — by the black politicians themselves.
First the numbers: If you look at the 12 states that made up the Confederacy, from Virginia down to Florida and west to Texas, they are currently represented by 138 members of the U.S. House (that's 32 percent of the total House, by the way). Among those states (all of which were, for about a century after the Civil War, almost entirely dominated by Democrats), there are now 101 Republicans versus 37 Democrats.
Of the 101 Republican members of Congress from those states, 96 are white, four are Latino (all of those from Texas and Florida) and one is black (also Texans). Texas and Florida are the biggest states in the South, but also the least typical of the region demographically, with more whites and Latinos and fewer blacks. So, if for the sake of Frost's main point, you remove them from the analysis, all of the Republican House members from the more typical southern states are white.
Of the 37 Democratic congressmen and women from the South, 18 are black, 15 are white and four are Latino (all Texans). There is at least one black Democrat in the House delegation of 10 of the 12 states (and one of those states, Arkansas, has no Democrats at all).
Frost mentioned that even among those few southern white Democrats, five are Jewish (four from Florida), which further differentiates the current makeup of southern House members from the old days when almost all were white, male, Protestant Democrats.
This giant partisan and demographic change from the old days reflects first the transfer of the whole region from Democratic to Republican domination, and the great increase in political possibilities for African-Americans and Latinos — and women and Jews, too — from the first two centuries of U.S. history when few members of any of those groups served in Congress.
But it also reflects, Frost said, a conscious plan by southern Republicans as they took over control of the legislatures in those states and thereby took over the control of the decennial drawing of the district maps.
Without question, Republicans were anxious to use that control to increase their share of overall seats in Congress. But I was struck by Frost's statement that black politicians collaborated in the process, and I followed up with him to inquire about how that happened.
Big change
Frost said that the big change happened before Republican control of the southern legislatures was complete. As they came closer to majorities, Republicans approached their black Democratic colleagues and suggested that if they worked together and drew a few supermajority black districts, the new map would produce far more Republicans on net but also far more black members of Congress.
Although black representation in the legislatures was growing, white legislators who had previously controlled the maps had gone out of their way to avoid drawing majority-black congressional districts precisely to keep blacks from being elected from states that had long been dominated by white Democrats. Some black legislators resented that mightily and were open to cooperating with the idea of gerrymandering some districts to increase the number of black members of Congress.
Frost, who explained all this to me during our follow-up phone interview, said that this collaboration was controversial within the black community. John Lewis, the great civil rights leader who had worked closely with Dr. Martin Luther King, urged southern blacks not to make this bargain. But it nonetheless was made, and it ended up leading to Lewis himself being elected to Congress from an overwhelmingly black Georgia district in 1986, a district from which he has been reelected 14 times, surpassing 70 percent of the total vote in all but one of those campaigns. Now 76, Lewis is still in Congress and ranks 13th from the top of the House in seniority.
By the way, to tie all that into Frost's theme of gridlock and its causes, the successful gerrymandering has contributed to a House map that is so favorable to Republicans that, in 2014, Republicans got 52 percent of all the votes cast in House races, but ended up with a strong 57 percent of House seats.
In 2012, Democrats actually got more total votes in House races than Republicans did but Republicans nonetheless won a substantial 54 percent majority of seats. If this seems like an outrage against a properly functioning democracy, and it probably is, bear in mind that the difference in total votes cast to House seats won is not all about gerrymandering. But it is surely a factor.
The 'Blue Wall'
On an almost completely unrelated matter, Frost brought up the "Blue Wall" as a factor in presidential elections. I've heard of it before, but haven't made up my mind how much I subscribe to it.
Over the last six presidential races from 1992 to 2012, Frost said, there are 18 states — including such giants as California and New York — that have gone blue all six times. Those states have a current combined total of 242 electoral votes. The Republican Party, by contrast, has won just 13 states in each of the last six election cycles, totaling 102 electoral votes.
It takes 270 votes to win the presidency, so if you assume that the Dem ticket starts out with 242, the Repubs practically have to run the table of remaining states to win.
The math is correct, but before you take it too seriously, consider at least these two things:
Thing One: Notwithstanding the Blue Wall, Republicans won two of those six elections (2000 and 2004), and they won in 2000 despite losing the popular vote. (Yes, I recall, the U.S. Supreme Court cast the final votes.) But it nonetheless suggests that the power of the Blue Wall is something less than a guaranteed lease on the Oval Office.
Thing Two: The blue side carried those 18 states six straight times, and sometimes by margins so wide that you would have to assume the Dems start out with a big advantage going forward. But some of those state races were squeakers. When Party A barely wins a state, Party B spends the next four years targeting it with a very real chance that they might take it the next time. The bad news on Thing Two for the Repubs is that the biggest two components of the Blue Wall — California and New York — have not been squeakers for a long time.
And the biggest reason to be skeptical of the Blue Wall, for political junkies like me and maybe you, too, is that Nate Silver — the guru of gurus on political math over recent cycles — doesn't believe in it and wrote a piece headlined "There Is No 'Blue Wall.'"
Silver notes that in the six elections ending in 1988 (in other words, just before the election that started the run of the Blue Wall), there were 21 states — including California — that had gone Republican six times in a row, and the Repubs had won five of those six elections. Then, starting in 1992, oops.
Congress in crisis
Third and final topic, which former Rep. Frost would probably have put first because it is the theme of his book and the cause for which crusades: Congress is broken. His book is titled "The Partisan Divide: Congress in Crisis."
According to this analysis, with which I agree, our system is breaking down because the two parties have lost the ability to compromise. How did that happen? Frost and Davis start their analysis with the lack of competitive seats in the U.S. House. From the book:
Fully 80 percent of House districts are safe. We know which party is going to win in November. That means members worry about their primary election. That's their concern. November is just a constitutional formality. They devote all of their attention, their votes, their rhetoric, to their primary voters who are narrow, thin ideological slice of the electorate and they act accordingly when they get to Congress.
To close, if all the big theories in this piece are correct, we have a system that is all but rigged to create a Republican-dominated House of Representatives that will be unsympathetic to the policies of a Blue-Wall-elected Democratic president. Some of those House members might be inclined to seek common ground in the middle, or to seek trades of things they favor for things the Democratic president favors. But if they want to keep their red-district seats, they don't really have to worry about running against a Democrat who will accuse them of accomplishing nothing and shutting down the government. They have to worry about a Tea Party challenger in the primary who will accuse them of caving in to the socialist in the White House.
After listening to Frost's lecture and interviewing him over the phone, our last exchange was by email. I asked him for the most concrete suggestions of things that can be done, shy of a constitutional amendment, to improve this situation. His reply:
"Legislation passed by Congress requiring all states to use non-partisan commissions when drawing Congressional districts and legislation by Congress requiring all organizations like 501(c)(4)s to report all donors by name and amount to the FEC when these organizations purchase any ads mentioning a federal candidate by name, a rule adopted by the FEC better defining what constitutes coordination between a candidate and a candidate specific SuperPAC."
By the way, Frost's own career in Congress ended in 2004 as the result of an aggressive redrawing of his district by Texas Republicans.