http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/85067123/dealing-with-childhood-sexual-abuse-as-a-pensioner “Talking about it gets power over those who abuse and spreads more knowledge,” Williams said. Williams has counselled people with sensitive issues for 17 years and said many people 65 or older did not know how to access help, so the ACC figures were unlikely to represent the reality.Continue Reading
A political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument.Continue Reading
The world’s 10 most gender-equal countries https://t.co/nRCkb0L2tq #gendergap16 pic.twitter.com/wiUeqFTLzd — World Economic Forum (@wef) October 27, 2016Continue Reading
http://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/health/mri-emerges-as-promising-tool-for-identifying-ptsd-in-kids-3104557/ The children had experienced the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, a massive disaster in south central China that killed almost 70,000 people and injured more than 370,000. Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), an MRI technique that measures th integrity of the brain’s white matter, was used to look at the brain’ connectome,Continue Reading
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/316663/euthanasia-checkpoint-%27our-officers-acted-in-good-faith%27 They said yesterday that the checkpoint was set up earlier this month specifically to identify people leaving an Exit International pro-euthanasia meeting in Lower Hutt. The police have since referred themselves to their own watchdog, the Independent Police Conduct Authority. The authority has received three other complaints – includingContinue Reading
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ales-zivkovic/linking-social-media-and-_b_12637042.html Identification seems to be at the root of depression associated with social media. As humans we are social creatures and need human interaction and recognition as part of our basic needs. The rise of technology and internet started messing with this. But it was only with the rise ofContinue Reading
http://khn.org/news/states-see-peer-recovery-coaches-as-a-way-to-break-the-addiction-epidemic/ PAWTUCKET, R.I. — Dustin French, 29, had four drug overdoses in the span of a year. “I was dead on arrival to the hospital,” he said of his last heroin overdose, which happened in April. “I woke up … and I didn’t feel like myself. I could tell thisContinue Reading
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mather-election-triggering-20161014-snap-story.html Donald Trump’s actions on stage at the second debate — looming behind Hillary Clinton, bullying and threatening her — coming after the revelation that he boasted about his unfettered ability to grope women, triggered the 50-year-old trauma of my molestation as a prepubescent child. When I wrote as muchContinue Reading
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37761872 The use of camera drones has been made illegal in Sweden unless they are granted a special surveillance permit. Under new rules set down by the Supreme Administrative Court of Sweden, camera drones qualify as surveillance cameras and require a license. Permits can be expensive and paying to applyContinue Reading
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&objectid=11735150 Known child abuse and neglect has more than doubled in Whangarei in the past two years it has been revealed, as the Government announces sweeping legislative changes in an attempt to stem “horrific” rates of family violence. Child, Youth and Family figures showed 941 confirmed cases of child abuseContinue Reading
