#women&039;s health week

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Jamshedpur Club Hosts Breastfeeding Awareness Program

Inner Wheel Club educates women and girls on benefits of breastfeeding at Beldih gram basti Inner Wheel Club of Jamshedpur organized an awareness program on breastfeeding benefits for women and young girls at Beldih gram basti. JAMSHEDPUR – At Beldih gram basti, the Inner Wheel Club of Jamshedpur held a lactation Week awareness event to inform women and girls about the significance of…

[tahyirasavanna]

WORD OF THE WEEK, MENTAL HEALTH MONTH EDITION, TODAY WE RETHINK MARGINAL COMMUNITIES

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Black, Breastfeeding, And Feeling Alone? I’ve Been There, Sis. ❤️

Black, Breastfeeding, And Feeling Alone? I’ve Been There, Sis. ❤️

Breastfeeding as a Black woman from a Mississippi Delta community filled with formula-feeding mamas has been quite the lonely road. When I think about what the journey to and through #BlackBreastfeeding for me has been since I first started in 2015, I think lonely is the best word to best describes the phase. (more…)

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John Ryan - "Most comedy is about the self-indulgent egos of the performers."

John Ryan – “Most comedy is about the self-indulgent egos of the performers.”

Comedian John Ryan appeared in this blog a couple of times in 2014. The first time, he talked about scripting Teletubbies and getting awarded a Royal Society for Public Health Special Commendation for contributions to the field of Arts and Health Equalities. In the second, he said: “People ask me why I’m not as big as Michael McIntyre and I say I’m just too normal.” Recently, he contacted me…

[fumpkins]

Art gets 'caldera-like' acne, too. This tool could help clear it up.

Georgia O’Keeffe is famous for her flowers—erotic red canna lilies, hypnotic Jimson weed, blooming calla lilies. But a more sacred subject may have been the Pedernal mesa, an iconic peak in the flat New Mexico landscape.

“It’s my private mountain. It belongs to me,” O’Keeffe said of the Pedernal, which she painted from her studio on the red earthed Ghost Ranch. “God told me if I painted it enough, I could have it.”

Unfortunately, God (or, in this case, metal soaps) also taketh away.

O’Keeffe’s “Pedernal, 1941”—a sweeping vista of pinks, greens, and yellows creeping up the canvas to the mountain’s darkened summit—is experiencing a peculiar kind of decay. The artist noticed it herself, remarking on granulations, discoloration, and small spots where the paint disappeared altogether in letters to conservator Caroline Keck in 1947. Known as surface protrusions, or “art acne”, this pimpling afflicts oil paintings from every time and place. But the reasons for O’Keeffe’s deformations, which only grew worse over the decades, remained a mystery.

In a feat of artistic sleuthing researchers at Northwestern University finally identified the origin of these “caldera-like” deformations in O’Keeffe’s paintings. Their results will be published in the forthcoming academic text Metal Soaps in Art. In the process, the researchers also devised a new handheld tool for curators to investigate pimples in their own collections. The technology was demonstrated at the 2019 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) conference in Washington, D.C. on Saturday.

It began with a plea to Marc Walton, a material scientist and co-director of the Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts. A collaboration between Northwestern University and the Art Institute of Chicago, the center’s mission is to help small-scale museums with big-time artifacts preserve their collections. “This is how our lab often works,” Walton says. “We’ll get some strange request from a cultural heritage institution—it’s often an object that has a problem—and we’ll respond to it.” In this case, Dale Kronkright of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe reached out about protrusions on many of the artist’s canvases between 1920 and 1950, including the 1941 rendering of Pedernal.

At first, it seemed like a straightforward chemistry project. Simply analyze the materials in the paint, the condition of the canvas, and the environment in which the works are stored for clues, and report back on what might be making these pigments pop. But, Walton said, it quickly became an opportunity for a new kind of technological experiment, with Pedernal as the first subject.

“We had a lot of tools in our toolkit to answer that question [of protrusion formation], but they were bulky, they were difficult to transport and set up, so we rethought the problem and decided we could do better,” he says. Working with Ollie Cossairt, an expert in computational imaging at Northwestern’s Comp Photo Lab, they built a 3-D imaging technique that requires only a smartphone or tablet to analyze diverse surfaces.

It works like this: Curators can open a predetermined pattern on their LCD display, beam it at the painting, and take a picture with the front-facing camera. They then upload that information to the cloud, where it’s fed through an image-processing algorithm, which returns highly-detailed, localized images of the artwork’s surface. “By analyzing the way those patterns are distorted, you can actually determine the shape that’s reflecting,” Cossairt says. Right now, curators must identify individual protrusions manually, but Cossairt says the next phase of research will seek to automate that process as well.

When they turned their clever new gadget on O’Keeffe’s painting of Pedernal, the researchers found the protrusions clustered on light-colored paints and were almost entirely absent from darker areas. It didn’t have anything to do with the base pigment itself—the light green and dark green were both derived from cadmium, in this case a benign element. Rather, the problem arose when O’Keeffe added lead white to lighten each shade, triggering the inflammation.

As Kassia St. Clair writes in her book, The Secret Lives of Color, lead white has been manufactured since at least 2300 B.C.E. and its production has changed very little since Pliny the Elder shared his methods in the first century C.E. Lead was first extracted from rocks, then placed into one side of a two-holed clay pot. In the other vestibule went vinegar. And the receptacles were surrounded by poop. “Fumes from the vinegar reacted with the lead to form lead acetate; as the dung fermented it let off CO2, which, in turn, reacted with the acetate, turning it into carbonate,” St. Clair writes. “After a month some poor soul was sent into the stench to fetch the pieces of lead, by now covered in a puff-pastry-like layer of white lead carbonate, which was ready to be powdered, formed into patties, and sold.” The process was dangerous, as was the pigment itself if ingested. But artists liked lead white’s durability and price point, so it remained on artist’s palettes well into the 20th century.

Art acne first received wide recognition at the turn of the millennium, after conservator Petria Noble identified pimpling on Rembrandt’s “Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp” in 1996. An investigation concluded that the 16th century Dutch master’s oil painting was plagued by lead soap. Since then, chemist Joen Hermans told *Chemical & Engineering News”, anxious conservators around the world have been “literally watching paint dry.”

With the new tools described in Walton and Cossairt’s research, this vigil will be even more precise. According to Walton, the demo at AAAS will prove “it’s possible on a mobile device… to get these millimeter-level measurement.” But, he adds, “we’re 5 or 6 years away from something as good as a standard interferometer,” the expensive, intensive, and oversized tool currently in use.

For now, the team is testing their technology on some other iconic works. In addition to paintings in the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s collection, Walton and Cossairt have a forthcoming study on the same mobile imaging device and its success with stained glass artwork, like the Art Nouveau windows Louis Comfort Tiffany manufactured with Kokomo Opalescent Glass. If all goes well, Cossairt says, one day every curator, auctioneer, and art enthusiast will have a Star Trek-style tool for instantaneous artwork evaluation at their fingertips.

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New post published on: https://www.livescience.tech/2019/02/20/art-gets-caldera-like-acne-too-this-tool-could-help-clear-it-up/

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VA’s Commitment to Women Veterans

VA’s Commitment to Women Veterans

It is vital for America to know that even though the left continues to try AND destroy this Administration at the expense of American citizens, President #DonaldJTrump and his White House continues to work hard every day to fulfill their promises to America.  President Trump’s White House is committed to MAKING things happen FOR AMERICA to Make America Great Again for “EVERYONE, all-inclusive.”

[pjstafford]

Last Saturday night I was at a David Duchovny concert in Vancouver.  The concert venue was at the Imperial - a great venue- but in a neighborhood that the Urban Dictionary says is the worst neighborhood in all of Canada and some homeless advocacy groups argue  is the poorest neighborhood in all of North America.  Many of us at the concert had traveled to Vancouver from across the globe and there was some fear and trepidation which I over heard from other concert goers about this neighborhood. I had worked as a homeless advocate and have been on the board of a homeless shelter in the 90′s in Albuquerque.  I want to share my viewpoints of my experience in the worst neighborhood in Canada from an X-File frame of view because what brought me to Vancouver on October 14 was, of course, to see David Duchovny in Vancouver where the X-files was and is being filmed during a week-end which included 1013 Friday.  How does homelessness and the X-file find a theme together?  That is outlined in the link to the video above.  

I guess one way to set the mood is to say that my friend and I were only spending a week-end in Vancouver, but many other David Duchovny fans had been in Vancouver a week and had been to many famous filming sites.  My friend and I were staying at a Ramada fairly near the venue.  We drove through the area at first looking for parking before deciding that the valet parking at the Ramada was the best choice.  As we drove by I said- looking at the homeless and the city streets and remembering the video above- “oh, my God, this is the neighborhood they shot “Home Again” in.”  I realize, of course, the complete insensitivity to the plight of homelessness to see it in such focused X-file terms, but it was my frame of mind at the time.  My friend and I did in fact look for the filming sites of “Home Again” as we walked around the neighborhood, but because it is from the last season which we have not yet seen hundreds of times (only dozens) we were unable to locate exact locations.  We did watch the episode again back in Seattle the night before I flew home.  

On Saturday morning we decided to walk to the Ovaltine Restaurant (the filming location of a scene in Jose Chung) and to go by the venue.  We found ourselves walking down what I now realize is the area considered the worst two blocks in at least Canada and possibly North America.  The poverty was clear- people living in tents on the street a few blocks away from some fine, upscale and beautiful neighborhoods.  We then went to the Ovaltine Restaurant, the venue, back to the hotel for an hour of two, back to the venue to stand in line (starting at noon), walked back through the neighborhood to gastown for a bite to eat and back to the venue to stand in line again, before taking a cab back to the hotel after the concert.  

I want to state fairly clearly that there was not one time I felt scared or fearful (although I would not walk back to the hotel in the evening because I am not foolish) and the only time I was asked for money was after leaving the venue after the concert.  As we walked down the blocks at 9 a.m on a Saturday morning, we were greeted with “Good morning Ladies” and comments that our coffee cups were pink.  When our way was blocked and I said “excuse me” people moved out of the way politely.  There was nothing unpleasant about that walk except for being confronted with the fact that poverty exists and people (human beings) live in horrific conditions day in and day out.  

As we stood in line for 6 hours to see a concert, there was an need on an occasion to use a restroom.  The coffee shop sometimes let you and sometimes said that it was just for customers so my friend and I started using the community center on the corner which was truly more of a homeless center.  Again, I was greeted, offered water and shown the restroom.  My friend found blood in one of the restrooms so we climbed the stairs to use one on the other floor.  There were food being served, there were disposable containers for needles, there were signs telling people where to go if they were overdosing.  People were being afforded respect and dignity.  I was impressed.  

Here are some statistics from “Addressing Homelessness in Metro Vancouver” a white paper published in February 2017.  

An estimated 80% of homeless people suffer a chronic health issue (45% suffer two or more health conditions concurrently)15 b. 44% of sheltered and 55% of unsheltered homeless have an addiction (2014)16 c. 33% of sheltered and 36% of unsheltered homeless suffer mental illness (2014)10 d. 30% of sheltered and 27% of unsheltered homeless have a physical disability (2014)1

As we stood in line several neighborhood people talked to us.  We actually had sandwiches we did not want to eat, but couldn’t find any person that wanted the sandwiches.  Again most neighborhood people were polite, courteous and curious about why so many of us were waiting in line in front of a concert venue 6 hours before the doors opened.  I laughed on and off for hours at a woman who said “what are you protesting?”  I told my friend that we were the laziest protesters ever - no signs, no marching, no chanting- worst protest ever.  At one point a women who appeared to be suffering from withdrawal of some time fell.  Other people in line offered her assistance but she could not focus on them enough to accept their help.  She was in her own world.  After a few minutes when I witnessed her getting her shaking under control and her checking her legs to see if she was hurt, i went up to her.  From her perspective I was a big brown blob walking up to her and I startled her.  I told her that when she was ready I was willing to help and she desperately reached for my hands.  I helped her up and she grasped a tree until she was ready to stand and walk on her own.  I offered her food.  She did not want it.  She never asked for money.  Never threatened me.  

The next morning I woke up thinking of that episode “Home again” and the point of the episode.  I wondered how many of us X-Files fans might have thought back to that episode that night having experienced these and other moments.  The point - people are not trash.  They are not disposable.  They are not to be discarded.  I can walk away from that neighborhood and I can avoid the similar downtown areas in Albuquerque, but the people and the problem still exist.  From my experience in Albuquerque I know the underlying issues of homelessness - mental health issues, substance abuse, traumatic brain injuries, lack of literacy, lack of job skills, disenfranchisement from society, family and friends having giving up on them.  I know that veterans make up a large percentage of our homeless population in America, I know that senior citizen homeless numbers rose drastically in 2008 and subsequent years when retirement savings were loss and, like Vancouver, native people are a higher percentage in the homeless population than in the general population.  We can look to our educational systems, our prisons systems, our health care services (especially for the mentally ill), our foster care systems and juvenile care systems and to our economy.  The reality is a whole lot of us who go through our lives as hard working, normal citizens are closer to homelessness than we would like to admit.  In the past year I had to borrow money from friends and move into a friends home because of unemployment and I actually consider myself a fairly successful human.  We are all just humans doing the best we can in our life with what we have.  Nothing could remind us more of that than having spent so much time in that area around people who despite their issues were polite and courteous to us. 

I know our fan groups are a socially conscious and caring group of people who donate to all kinds of causes - let David Duchovny issue a post asking people to donate to charities on his birthday and beautiful things happen.  The proceeds from this concert went to hurricane victim.  This is a fan group which organizes volunteer and donation events for charities in honor of Gillian Anderson’s and Scully’s birthday.  The holiday season is ahead of us .  I am especially asking something of every one who attended that concert and interacted that night with a person who lives on the street in the worst neighborhood of North America.  If you fall into this category, than this holiday season in honor of “Home Again” and the X-files they do something in your communities to alleviate the effects of homelessness, reduce the possibility of someone becoming homeless or end some of the underlying causes of homelessness - take blankets or socks to a shelter, donate to a literacy program, call your legislators and demand better services for addiction treatment.   Buy subways cards and pass them out whenever you see someone with a sign saying hungry.  

At the very least, the next time you are in a situation where you are going to interact with homeless individuals (perhaps because of a David Duchovny concert), please treat people with respect and kindness.  People are not trash.  They are not disposable.  I was reminded of this last Saturday.  

[tahyirasavanna]

WORD OF THE WEEK, MENTAL HEALTH MONTH EDITION, TODAY WE RETHINK MOOD DISORDERS

[tekinn32]

1 Week Keto Diet Plan For Beginners

1 Week Keto Diet Plan For Beginners

Our 7 day keto diet meal plan will help you choose the right keto foods, keto snacks, and give you keto recipes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

The ketogenic diet is proving to be one of the most effective weight loss methods today, so give it a try!

Would you love to indulge in all the steak, cheese and butter you can eat while having your energy levels soar…

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9 Months Pregnant | Pregnancy Update Week 36 | Mommy and Me

9 Months Pregnant! It's almost time, but we've still got our Pregnancy Update Week 36! #FitMom #FitPregnancy #Pregnant

It’s time for this pregnancy update week 36! This means welcome to the ninth month. Remember that pregnancy is longer than nine months for most people, but that’s okay. The ninth month is the home stretch!

Welcome to the ninth month of this pregnancy. That’s right you’re 9 months pregnant! It’s the home stretch and that’s what our pregnancy update week 36 is all about. If you have your baby…

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9 Months Pregnant | Pregnancy Update Week 36 | Mommy and Me

9 Months Pregnant! It's almost time, but we've still got our Pregnancy Update Week 36! #FitMom #FitPregnancy #Pregnant

It’s time for this pregnancy update week 36! This means welcome to the ninth month. Remember that pregnancy is longer than nine months for most people, but that’s okay. The ninth month is the home stretch!

Welcome to the ninth month of this pregnancy. That’s right you’re 9 months pregnant! It’s the home stretch and that’s what our pregnancy update week 36 is all about. If you have your baby…

[trishulvadi]

How To Enjoy A Healthy Pregnancy

How To Enjoy A #Healthy #Pregnancy

If you are pregnant, know someone who is pregnant, or trying to become pregnant this is for you.

I see a lot of patients who are either pregnant or have happened to become pregnant whilst under our care.

The adult human body changes the most, in the shortest period of time during a pregnancy than at any time. The spine of an expectant mother really goes through a huge transformation. A lot…

[thenextrush]

Why sitting in front of a naked flame for just 15 minutes promotes relaxation

Why sitting in front of a naked flame for just 15 minutes promotes relaxation #gonaturalgas #naturalgas #natonalwomenshealthweek #relaxation #stress #mentalhealth

In support of Women’s Health Week  last week, Natural Gas ran with a new campaign to raise awareness of the health and wellness benefits associated with spending time near a natural flame, which has been proven to help lower blood pressure, reduce stress and anxiety.

Scientific research shows that sitting near a fire for just 15 minutes can induce feelings of calmness and relaxation, which grow…

[helenjgaston]

After 40 Weeks of Pregnancy, Risk of Stillbirth Rises

After 40 Weeks of Pregnancy, Risk of Stillbirth Rises

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/11/well/family/after-40-weeks-of-pregnancy-risk-of-stillbirth-rises.html?emc=rss&partner=rss

When pregnancies last for 40 weeks or longer, there is an increase in the risk of stillbirth and neonatal death.

[womenshealthcom]

National Women's Health Week, May 13–19, 2018

National Women’s Health Week, May 13–19, 2018

Save the dates! National Women’s Health Week is May 13–19, 2018. Make your health a priority. It’s never too early or late to work toward being your healthiest you! This National Women’s Health Week, we want to help you take control of your health. Take the first step! Join the National Women’s Health Week celebration and learn what you can do to lead a healthier life at any age. About National…

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WORD OF THE WEEK, MENTAL HEALTH MONTH EDITION, TODAY WE RETHINK PERSONALITY DISORDERS