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Emotional support duck

Emotional support duck

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2016/10/20/daniel-the-emotional-support-duck-takes-his-first-plane-ride-soars-in-popularity/ The duck’s human introduced him to their fellow, now-amused passengers: This was Daniel Turducken Stinkerbutt, or Daniel for short. He is a 4 1/2-year-old Indian Runner duck and is her emotional support animal, she explained. “I heard a few maybe semi-critical mutterings, like, ‘Now I’ve seen everything,’ ” Essig told The Washington Post. “But…

Ex-principal Michael Hogan on child sex charges

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Ex-principal Michael Hogan on child sex charges http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/81084715/exprincipal-michael-hogan-on-child-sex-charges A former Canterbury principal has acknowledged indecent sexual offending in his early teaching career. After name suppression was lifted in the Christchurch District Court on Wednesday, the man can be named as Michael William Hogan, 54. Hogan was the principal at Prebbleton School until the end of…

Ending Domestic Violence: Sexual assault affects everyone

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http://www.conwaydailysun.com/community/health/125555-raetha-stoddard-ending-domestic-violence-sexual-assault-affects-everyone Every 107 seconds in America, a person is raped. According to the “White House Council on Women and Girls, January 2014,” women and girls are statistically the vast majority of victims: nearly 1 in 5 women — or nearly 22 million — have been raped in their lifetimes. Men and boys, however, are also…

Trauma may have an enduring effect on brain function

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http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-08-trauma-brain-ptsd.html The team separated studies by type of control group: trauma-exposed (those who had experienced trauma but did not have a diagnosis of PTSD) and trauma-naïve (those who had not experienced trauma), and compared the individuals with PTSD to both groups. This yielded an insight into how the abnormalities in functional brain activity in PTSD…

Populist authoritarianism becomes more …popular worldwide

Populist authoritarianism becomes more …popular worldwide

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/03/11/its-not-just-trump-authoritarian-populism-is-rising-across-the-west-heres-why/?utm_term=.2008d1efbdfc Here’s why. Populist authoritarianism can best be explained as a cultural backlash in Western societies against long-term, ongoing social change. Over recent decades, the World Values Survey shows that Western societies have been getting gradually more liberal on many social issues, especially among the younger generation and well-educated middle class. That includes egalitarian attitudes…