Protecting Children in Substance-Abusing Families
Characteristics of Parents at Risk
CASE VIGNETTE: Lisa had not seen her father since she was around 8 years of
age. Her mother was an unemployed recovering alcoholic who lived with her
boyfriend. Before her pregnancy Lisa had been a model for 3 years and
reported that she was introduced to illicit drugs by friends at work who in
the evenings. Through these friends, Lisa met Johnnie, the father of her
child. Johnnie was a photographer who used dru... 阅读全帖
Text of Barack Obama Nobel Prize acceptance lecture http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/12/barack-obama
Barack Obama Nobel Prize Acceptance Text, as prepared for delivery and
provided by the White House
"A Just and Lasting Peace"
Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Distinguished Members of the
Norwegian Nobel Committee, citizens of America, and citizens of the world:
I receive this honor with deep gratitude and great humility. It is an award
that speaks to our highest aspirations ... 阅读全帖
Totally wrong. In US, never try to contact the other party directly as that
will make you the intruder. Chinese always like to address problems
interpersonally which tends to blur the lines. Always use the official
channel to resolve issues. Talk to the teacher directly.
Important Hedge Fund Trends For 2016 And Beyond
1. Reduction of expected returns for a diversified Hedge Fund portfolio.
Hedge fund performance is driven by a combination of alpha (manager skill)
and beta (market driven return). From 2009 to the beginning of last year, as
both the fixed income and equity markets experienced strong bull markets,
beta had been a tail wind for hedge fund performance that rewarded managers
with net long market exposure. Over this time period, investors’ return
exp... 阅读全帖
Pope Francis' deal with China is a disaster
The Vatican and China have reached a deal that would be a major step towards
normalizing relations between the Catholic Church and the world's largest
formally atheist regime, The Wall Street Journal reports. All that's needed
for the deal to go through is the final nod from Pope Francis and President
Xi Jinping. To call this a bombshell would be an understatement.
In this deal, the Catholic Church would recognize eight bishops who have
been ordained b... 阅读全帖
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-china-blog-39893359
China Blog
Chinese lawyer 'wore torture device for a month'
By John Sudworth
BBC, Beijing
13 May 2017
WANG QIAOLING
Image caption
A picture of Mr Li from 2012 and one taken after his release
It's a form of restraint that would be more in keeping with the practices of
a medieval dungeon than a modern, civilised state.
But the device - leg and hand shackles linked by a short chain - is a well-
documented part of the toolkit that the Chinese polic... 阅读全帖
BY TINA AMIRTHA8 MINUTE READ
This story contains interviews with Christian Kästner, assistant
professor at Carnegie Mellon University; Amy Hirotaka, state policy and
advocacy manager at Code.org; and Janet Siegmund, researcher at the
University of Passau.
In order to expose more students to computer science, 17 states have passed
legislation to create basic math and science requirements in the curriculum,
rather than count them as electives. But lawmakers in Texas have made
computer program... 阅读全帖
Here is my response with a simple example to show when we have additional
knowledge about the objects in the images we can actually recover the detail
of the image even it seems mathematically impossible.
The key is we have "additional knowledge" other than the image. For most
digital photos, we surely knew they are familiar objects existing in this
world. Thus there are lots of additionally restrictions we can apply
according to real life experience. The attachment demonstrates a conceptual
exa... 阅读全帖
It's difficult to convey how oppressive Delhi's air pollution is.
Morning visibility is a couple of hundred metres. Through the eerie filtered
light, figures emerge from and disappear into the gloom.
Some wear masks or handkerchiefs, most blithely dismiss the apocalyptic
atmosphere, shrugging it off as "just fog".
Except it isn't.
Last Wednesday, central New Delhi's count of harmful PM2.5 particles
exceeded a staggering 1,000 on the US EPA's air quality index.
To put that in perspective, the hig... 阅读全帖
现在好多这种做视频的人叫YouTuber的，很多人每周甚至每天发视频，比如时事评论，
生活感想，专业知识，还有的人凭长得好看点每天胡言乱语搞怪之类也有很多点击。请
问这些人YouTube都给他们钱吗？这个钱是怎么给的？看视频本身质量时长还是点击次
数。有的人每次几万，几十万甚至上百万的点击。这个钱怎么给的？
看下面这个6岁小孩靠review玩具赚了1000万美元
When most people think back on the child celebrities of their time, they&#
160;may think of child movie actors, the well-trained stars of showbiz.
For some, these were stars such as Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, or
;Macaulay Culkin of “Home Alone” fame. For others, they were Judy Garland&
#160;or Shirle... 阅读全帖
疮破政府开动暴力机器欺负老实干活养家的移民，连当年支持疮破的红脖都看不下去了。 http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2018/08/05/ice-raid-tennessee-southeastern-provision-immigration-sweep/784702002/
MORRISTOWN, Tenn. — He cleaned coagulated blood and fat from the
slaughterhouse conveyor, making $11 an hour. That type of work was enough to
buy a 55-inch television and a white Ford Focus, two of his proudest
possessions.
But on April 5 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents swept up
Gonzalo Chavez in a slaughterhouse raid in ru... 阅读全帖
HONG KONG -- At 28, Dai Wenyuan quit his job developing artificial
intelligence software for Chinese internet giant Baidu to launch his own
company. It was a smart move: his AI start-up quickly attracted an initial $
4 million investment from Sequoia Capital China in 2015.
Three years later, Dai's company is capturing attention for developing a
medical tool that uses AI to predict whether patients are at risk of
developing diabetes. His company, 4Paradigm, said its accuracy rate was 88%.
Key to ... 阅读全帖
meritocracy并非普遍真理，这个道理受过好教育的都知道的。
以下来自美国大学基础课优秀高中生学的社会学课
Meritocracy
The concept of meritocracy refers to social stratification based on personal
merit. Because industrial societies need to develop a broad range of
abilities beyond farming, stratification is based not just on the accident
of birth but also on merit (from a Latin word meaning “earned”), which
includes a person’s knowledge, abilities, and effort. A rough measure of
merit is the importance of a person’s job and how well it is done.... 阅读全帖
http://cn.nytimes.com/china/20181204/china-films-movies-hengdian/dual/
Epic Battles, Palaces and Concubines: A Chinese Studio’s Vast World of
Fantasy
STEVEN LEE MYERS
2018年12月4日
横店影视城是世界上最大的户外影视制作基地。
横店影视城是世界上最大的户外影视制作基地。 Lam Yik Fei for The New York
Times
HENGDIAN, China — If you are going to make a movie in China today about
ancient warriors defending a mythical kingdom or a partisan resisting the
Japanese occupation in the 1930s, or involving any variation of that staple
of China’s entertainm... 阅读全帖
咖啡过时了。
Many addicts are introduced to drugs through marijuana or alcohol. However,
with the booming prescription drug trade, many kids are being introduced to
the drug scene with amphetamines generally prescribed for ADHD – like
Adderall or Ritalin.
There are even street names for these prescription medications. Prescribed
amphetamines are often called “Skippy”, “Vitamin R”, “Rits”, “R ball
” and more.
One may wonder, if these drugs can only be obtained through prescription,
how do kids get ... 阅读全帖
“A solid 0/10 (if only I could rate it 0/10). I wonder if this could be
called a "film" does that blur the boundary of what is an artistic
production of ideas and what is pure reproduction of propaganda.”
【The following file was given by me to some physicians, including Dr.
Robert S. April on my Nov. 08, 2019 visit. A very similar file was given to
a treating physician, Dr. Mehrdad Golzad. An earlier version was provided to
NYS Workers' Compensation Board and the WC insurance adjuster Ms. Lisa
White in June 2019. Almost nobody cares. Medical readers can understand why
the deniers want to wipe Neck off the established list of established injury
sites, because the Neck was seriously injured during ... 阅读全帖
【The following file was given by me to some physicians, including Dr.
Robert S. April on my Nov. 08, 2019 visit. A very similar file was given to
a treating physician, Dr. Mehrdad Golzad. An earlier version was provided to
NYS Workers' Compensation Board and the WC insurance adjuster Ms. Lisa
White in June 2019. Almost nobody cares. Medical readers can understand why
the deniers want to wipe Neck off the established list of established injury
sites, because the Neck was seriously injured during ... 阅读全帖
The occurrence of concentrated pneumonia cases in Wuhan city, Hubei province
of China was first reported on December 30, 2019 by the Wuhan Municipal
Health Commission (WHO, 2020). The pneumonia cases were found to be linked
to a large seafood and animal market in Wuhan, and measures for sanitation
and disinfection were taken swiftly by the local government agency. The
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Chinese health
authorities later determined and announced that a novel coro... 阅读全帖
CNN 采访了他 https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/this-chinese-doctor-tried-to-save-lives-but-
was-silenced-now-he-has-coronavirus-1.4797913
On December 30, Li Wenliang dropped a bombshell in his medical school alumni
group on the popular Chinese messaging app WeChat: seven patients from a
local seafood market had been diagnosed with a SARS-like illness and
quarantined in his hospital.
Li explained that, according to a test he had seen, the illness was a
coronavirus -- a large family of viruses that includ... 阅读全帖
我就大概翻译给老将。
Li, a 34-year-old doctor working in Wuhan, the central Chinese city at the
epicenter of the deadly coronavirus outbreak, told his friends to warn their
loved ones privately. But within hours screenshots of his messages had gone
viral -- without his name being blurred. "When I saw them circulating
online, I realized that it was out of my control and I would probably be
punished," Li said.
He was right.
李文亮在群里告诉同学要保密。但几个小时内截屏就传遍天下。他意识到他将会被惩罚
。他是对的。
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/this-chinese-doctor-tried-to-save-lives-but-
was-silenced-now-he-has-coronavirus-1.4797913
On December 30, Li Wenliang dropped a bombshell in his medical school alumni
group on the popular Chinese messaging app WeChat: seven patients from a
local seafood market had been diagnosed with a SARS-like illness and
quarantined in his hospital.
Li explained that, according to a test he had seen, the illness was a
coronavirus -- a large family of viruses that includes severe... 阅读全帖
我就大概翻译给老将。
Li, a 34-year-old doctor working in Wuhan, the central Chinese city at the
epicenter of the deadly coronavirus outbreak, told his friends to warn their
loved ones privately. But within hours screenshots of his messages had gone
viral -- without his name being blurred. "When I saw them circulating
online, I realized that it was out of my control and I would probably be
punished," Li said.
He was right.
李文亮在群里告诉同学要保密。但几个小时内截屏就传遍天下。他认识到他将会被惩罚
。他是对的。
Hydroxychloroquine side effects:
Blistering, peeling, loosening of the skin
blurred vision or other vision changes
chest discomfort, pain, or tightness
cough or hoarseness
dark urine
decreased urination
defective color vision
diarrhea
difficulty breathing
difficulty seeing at night
dizziness or fainting
fast, pounding, uneven heartbeat
feeling that others are watching you or controlling your behavior
feeling that others can hear your thoughts
feeling, seeing, or hearing things that are not there... 阅读全帖
Hydroxychloroquine side effects:
Blistering, peeling, loosening of the skin
blurred vision or other vision changes
chest discomfort, pain, or tightness
cough or hoarseness
dark urine
decreased urination
defective color vision
diarrhea
difficulty breathing
difficulty seeing at night
dizziness or fainting
fast, pounding, uneven heartbeat
feeling that others are watching you or controlling your behavior
feeling that others can hear your thoughts
feeling, seeing, or hearing things that are not there... 阅读全帖
http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3078417/how-chinas-fake-news-machine-rewriting-history
The blame game: the origins of Covid-19 and the anatomy of a fake news story
Coronavirus outbreak: All stories
The Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson’s recent retweet of an article
blaming the US for infecting Wuhan with coronavirus provides one clear
example of how governments and their agencies can manipulate facts and blur
reality to disrupt and control the public narrative... 阅读全帖
摘了一段
“
Surely some pics of an airplane don't prove anything one way or other - or
am I missing something here?
We know for sure that Chinese (despite all their noteworthy accomplishments
in recent years) have been
struggling to come up with a successful engine for a much more basic plane (
a core - and one of the most
challenging along with avionics - requirement to be truly considered an
indigenous airplane
manufacturer), they are struggling to convince even an isolated country -
and their clos... 阅读全帖
Usually,we worship of those who have the ability and skill, when we a child,
no one had dreamed that he could, as the Monkey King, have 72 ways changes
himself, but increases with age, we know that it is fairy tale, knowledge
enable the people return to reality. Li Hongzhi is one of the cheater, when
those peoples blurred illusions, he rely on superficial understanding of
Buddhism with a few lines from "jargon" , indeed, put a lot of people fooled.
Reputedly,Falun Gong type of vows is said to e... 阅读全帖
Taking away the guns is how to enslave the people
by Raquel Okyay
01/21/2012
Gun control advocates have it all wrong. They believe the Constitution is a
document and agreement meant to be twisted and turned. They believe it
grants rights to politicians and lawmakers, when it does just the opposite.
They believe scare tactics will convince us that placing burdens on gun
owners will prevent violent crimes, when all the evidence suggests otherwise
.
You see the Constitution governs the government.... 阅读全帖
