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To be a human being is to be riddled with thousands of imperfections.
Full of flaws; scrapes, spots, and scars cover broken and bruised skin.
But robots need not fear and fret about fixable, trivial defections.
Humans perpetually throw themselves at cold, apathetic, greedy clinicians
Only to be given terrible news and told there is no cure for a horrid death.
Meanwhile, robots bask in the glow of love from a passionate technician.
Humans can never agree when it comes to the dealings of the heart.
Always one-sided, they take turns ruthlessly destroying each other.
Robots, oblivious to the issues of any and all feeling, live freely.
Naive humans will work tirelessly, only to see nothing but certain failure,
But life has never once benefited those of us who are currently living.
So, humans crafted robots, to always succeed where they could not.
"Absinthe" minded
A distilled, highly alcoholic, anise-flavored liquor originally made from grande wormwood, anise, and other herbs.
Green, incredibly alcoholic and some say mind-altering - these are the qualities that led to absinthe being banned in France almost 100 years ago.
An absent-minded person is very forgetful or does not pay attention to what they are doing.
When suffering from absent-mindedness, people tend to show signs of memory lapse and weak recollection of recently occurring events. This can usually be a result of a variety of other conditions often diagnosed by clinicians such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and depression.
Cigar Cutter (oops ..)(always forgetting it..)
Straight cutters, also called a guillotines, are the most common. Most are constructed with a pair of stainless steel blades housed in a sturdy chassis. For most straight cutters, the blades open to reveal an aperture where the head of your cigar is placed.
Tom having Mirage take a bow. Tom Moates known as the horse whisperer , an equestrian author and clinician lets me pester him with my camera from time to time and is part of one of my projects , along with his wife Carol who live not too far from me.
Mirage was well behaved and a bit hyper that day, hence the expression.. which I love . Tom prefers a more upright posture with the horse , which I missed, but this I thought was a great photographic moment ...
Nikon Nikkor-S, 50mm F1.4.
No photoshop or AI foolery.
© Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved
Selfie captured on the streets of Glasgow, Scotland.
Today, 9th March 2025, there are events all across the United Kingdom marking a national Covid Day of Reflection.
At the London Covid Memorial Wall I just heard, on the news, a nurse say, "...just because Covid-19 isn't with us anymore..." and I have to speak up. Covid-19 never went away - the pandemic is not, and has never been, declared over. Covid-19 is still with us.
The 232,000 or so deaths recorded officially as attributed to Covid-19 in the UK is a grotesque undercount. It completely ignores deaths due to post-Covid sequelae.
SARS-nCOV-2 is an infection spread by respiratory aerosols (airborne) that hang in the air like smoke in a poorly ventilated space. It is not, however, primarily a respiratory disease. Covid-19 is a cardiovascular and neurogenic disease that also damages the immune system in a similar way as HIV.
Each single infection and re-infection (as it mutates so rapidly that we never gain lasting immunity) causes permanent internal damage that may not be immediately apparent to us.
I am certain that you or someone you know has lasting effects of Covid-19. Brain not quite as sharp as it once was? Short term memory problems you never used to have? Changes in personality? Angry outbursts? Problems concentrating? Can't find the words? Easily breathless? New onset of diabetes? Sudden tinnitus? Deterioration of eyesight? Erectile disfunction that they never used to have? The long-lasting and permanent damage caused by SARS2 is a very, very long list. This is just a snippet.
Most people don't realise they have 'Long Covid'. It's easier and less worrisome to explain it away. Normalcy bias is a human trait after all.
There are over 440,000 peer reviewed studies by the leading virologists, scientists and clinicians around the world all concerning the devastating effects that SARS2 has upon the human body.
You can see the effects in graphs of heart attacks in working age adults, long-term sickness rates, disability benefit claims and much more all ramping up from 2020 onwards. This is a mass disabling event that major financial markets and insurance actuaries are taking notice of already. A complete failure of public health.
You can protect yourself to a degree with FFP2/3 respirator masking, HEPA filtration of indoor air and adequate ventilation. We have the tools to reduce the burden of disease massively but governments and businesses opted to put the onus on you - by telling you to wash your hands - instead of cleaning the air in their buildings.
I have symptoms of Long Covid following one single infection in the last 5 years. I can't afford to get ill again with the chance of compounding what I already have to live with on a daily basis. So I mask indoors and in crowded spaces.
All of the great smiles in my shots I have captured while masking like this. Because a smile can be seen from behind a mask.
I am not anxious. I am not afraid of Covid-19. I am not afraid of death.
I am afraid of becoming even more disabled and I am aware and educated about Covid-19.
When you know; you know.
Take care my Flickr friends.
Teachers have the best signs and the best dancers, it's a fact! This was taken at yesterday's rally in which we fought against a billionaire, Sterling Bay, who doesn't need tax dollars and yet is getting several billion dollars to build his mini city within an already affluence part of Chicago...that doesn't need a mini city.
Also, yesterday, the city decided not to go after another nearly $90 Million dollars in fines.....so, our priorities are really obviously not where they should be. How many art and music teachers and librarians, nurses, social workers, and other clinicians could we have in schools if we just invested in children instead?
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We have a governor who wants to "blow up" the Chicago public schools and a mayor who doesn't seem to care about public school children and teachers too much more than that. It's a travesty that in a "world class city" filled with wealth we can't support all of our citizens with a quality and sustainable public education.
The powers that be would rather have a new 1.3 billion dollar airport runway that most residents don't want and a TIF slush fund than allow for kids with disabilities to have appropriate clinician supports and for public students to have access to libraries, art, and music. The SHAME!
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A revisit to this abandoned house somewhere in Germany. Better light and less waiting around for sunrise helped the morning, mostly shot this time with the 50mm and covered a few other bits.
Previous set here:
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The Chocolate Milk Germany UE Tour. All win no fail and some epic locations with host, sunny weather, many miles travelled and much chocolate milk consumed.
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Started in 2003, the Thornapple Arts Council Jazz Festival has grown to be the largest jazz festival of its kind, matching more student groups and performers to professional jazz musicians through its clinician program than any other festival in the state. This non-competitive festival puts education and jazz promotion and appreciation at its core. The festival draws over 10,000 people each year and provides a weekend of free jazz performances to the public, as well as the chance for student groups from Michigan and the surrounding states to work with professional musicians.
.https://thornapplearts.org/jazzfest/
This years Festival was not advertised undue to possible exposure to the Covid 19 virus for the participants but felt it necessary for the children to experience this event and have access to some of the finest musician in the State as there director for a day. I feel privileged to be able to be in attendence. jr
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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Previously unpublished shot from March 2017. Captured well before Covid19 came into our lives, yet at this time even influenza could cause debilitating long term disease although this was much rarer and little understood.
Today, 17th March, is the 2nd International Long Covid Awareness Day with the theme this year being "Confront Long Covid".
Today, of all days, the global mainstream media is choosing to push a non-peer reviewed opinion piece by a single Australian public health doctor calling for the term 'Long Covid' to be abolished because it invites fear of Covid. This is like asking to abolish the term AIDS because it creates fear of HIV. Removing fear does not remove the disease.
The same mainstream media hardly ever publishes any of the thousands of peer reviewed papers on SARS-CoV-2, Covid-19 and Long Covid. The evidence out there published by leading scientists and clinicians around the world is mounting daily. Covid-19 is and has never been 'just a cold or flu'. Remember, even HIV infection has so-called 'mild' initial flu-like symptoms.
SARS-Cov-2 is a serious infection. Spread by airborne aerosols that hang in the air for hours, it is a multi-systemic infection that damages the immune system, in a similar way to HIV infection, and causes damage to blood vessels, the brain and bodily organs. It increases your risk of clotting that leads to heart attacks, strokes and pulmonary emboli. Many of these deaths in the weeks and months after infection are not being correctly attributed to Covid but the rate of increase with these directly correlates with the timeline of Covid-19 infection variant waves.
Long Covid is the result of permanent damage caused by SARS-CoV-2. Bearing in mind that even 'mild' infection has been proven to cause permanent damage to internal organs, blood vessels and the brain. So called 'mild' Covid-19 results in permanent brain damage, particularly to the pre-frontal cortex, which is responsible for short-term memory and impulse control. It has been shown to age the brain by 7-10 years per infection.
Long Covid is multi-systemic as a direct result of this and lasting symptoms can range from lightly annoying to completely debilitating.
Youth and fitness is no protection. Some of those most severely debilitated by Long Covid, unable to get out of bed, brush their hair or even chew solid food, are young, fit and healthy people with no pre-existing conditions.
Vaccination offers very limited protection. Our vaccines are several variants out of date by the time we receive them. SARS-CoV-2 is evolving so rapidly that it is evading immunity. Prior infection is even more useless in providing protection. The next infection you receive will be a different variant to which you have no immunity.
Long Covid is real. Long Covid is destroying lives. Take a look at the figures around the world for the increase in long term sickness and the 'economically inactive'. Financial institutions are sitting up and taking notice. Insurance companies will refuse health insurance if you have one of many of the Long Covid symptoms following a Covid infection. You are banned from giving blood if you have Long Covid. The corporate capitalist world has a vested interest in covering up Covid and Long Covid to keep the short-term profits rolling in. These systems have the lobbying power over politics. Follow the money.
Each Covid-19 infection causes cumulative damage and increases your risk of developing Long Covid.
Preventing infection is your only way to avoid Covid and Long Covid. The only way to prevent infection is to clean the air. Washing your hands is almost entirely pointless for an airborne disease.
FFP2/3 (N95/99) standard respirators will offer personal protection. Surgical masks, as pictured, are pointless and only protect from direct large droplets.
Ventilation and HEPA filtration of indoor air is essential. The world powers and global elite know this and practice this already.
Millions of people have Long Covid already. Millions more have it without realising because they never adequately tested for Covid or don't realise that their mild 'brain fog' is actually brain damage.
Covid is over though, right?
No. We are still in the middle of the pandemic.
The evidence is out there. I keep up to date with the scientific peer reviewed papers from Harvard, The Lancet, the BMJ etc. and I know two people personally with Long Covid right now. Their lives are significantly ruined by the disease. One with a quality of life worse than that of someone with stage 4 cancer.
A lot of text here I know and I am obviously passionate about the subject. I care. I don't wish to see anyone suffer, least of all with a permanent debilitating disease that destroys quality, and quantity, of life.
I am also angered by disinformation and injustice, of which there is a great deal surrounding Covid-19 and Long Covid. This is why I am sharing this long post on Long Covid Awareness Day.
Please educate yourselves from proper, reliable and peer reviewed sources. Please keep yourselves safe and minimise your risk of exposure.
We used to get actual influenza maybe once in a decade. People are now getting Covid infections 2-6 times a year. This is unsustainable and the walls of false security will crumble. Of course the media will point the finger at other causes, the vaccine, lockdowns and such, but just an ounce of critical thought and scientific research will dispel these.
Be aware. Be safe. Confront Long Covid.
Thank you so much for your time and I am profoundly grateful if you read this huge wall of text. Take care.
Anterior Eye Disease A–Z is a comprehensive and accessible guide to anterior eye conditions and their management using ocular therapeutics.
Arranged in a convenient A–Z format the text has been thoroughly revised to cover the most commonly encountered diseases of the anterior eye including 7 new conditions.
This quick reference guide will appeal to both the primary and specialist eye-care clinician who requires a succinct description of anterior eye conditions with the extra information needed to confirm diagnosis, consider additional differential diagnoses and/or alternatives for therapy.
FEATURES:
•A–Z format
•comprehensive appendix – medication and procedures – Fully updated!
•165 conditions including 7 new conditions – New!
•2 easy to use condition classification indexes to assist with differential diagnoses –New!
•Full colour clinical photographs of each condition
Click here to find out more or to purchase this book.
Chicago Teachers are on Strike, which is what 94% of the teachers and support staff voted for district wide. I happen to be lucky enough to have worked in this Chicago Public Schools District since 2001 when I became an Occupational Therapist for children with different ability levels. I love my students and I would rather be in school instead of marching outside on the streets. What a lot of people may or may or not know is that according to Illinois State Law, teachers can only strike over pay. So, our new Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot offered a 4% raise per year (16% over 4 years) in hopes that this would be enough.
But, this is not enough. Why? Because us teachers and clinicians are rebels. We don't do this for the money. We do this for the kids. We dare to dream of a world where we don't have to ask for a nurse, a library, and a social worker for all of our schools because in the suburbs, these are all given and more. Why should Chicago students have less? Why should Chicago students suffer with dirty classrooms? Are these good learning conditions? A few years back they tested the water fountains at school for lead and found at least 30% of those tested had lead and so they just stopped testing. And nothing was done about it. Are these good learning conditions? Chicago is plagued by classism and racism that forces many children into unsafe living environments but Lori Lightfoot would rather open up police stations than provide money for schools. Are these good learning conditions when our students come to school with toxic stress syndrome and no social worker is present to help them?
The answer in our hearts is no. And there isn't a law in existence that is going to keep Chicago teachers from fighting. I will fight. I will lose my pay. I will march in the cold. But, I will stand up for these children and it is an honor. They need to see this. They need to see their teachers love them and will fight for them to exist in a better world. To breathe. To be loved. To have a high quality of life. That is what the Chicago Teacher's Union Strike is really all about.
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A revisit to this abandoned house somewhere in Germany. Better light and less waiting around for sunrise helped the morning, mostly shot this time with the 50mm and covered a few other bits.
Previous set here:
www.flickr.com/photos/timster1973/sets/72157636473568413/
The Chocolate Milk Germany UE Tour. All win no fail and some epic locations with host, sunny weather, many miles travelled and much chocolate milk consumed.
My blog:
timster1973.wordpress.com
Also on Facebook
www.Facebook.com/TimKniftonPhotography
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One of the key challenges in effective development of the integrative Biomedical Informatics concept is to integrate the computational methods and technologies that are used in life-sciences research with the computer sciences and applications supporting health care and clinical research.
This one-day workshop will bring together neuroscientists and clinicians to discuss the synergic integration between the computational methods and technologies used in neuroscience, in order to organise, manage and access the neuroscientific knowledge.
The talks will focus on providing an overview of the state-of-the-art of the different application of biological informatics in neurosciences, such as neuroimaging, neuroingeneering and modeling approaches, and their application in research and clinical settings.
The round table will focus on discussing the better organisation, management and access of the knowledge in the field of neurosciences. Short and long term needs and recommendations will be highlighted.
Chicago Teachers are on Strike, which is what 94% of the teachers and support staff voted for district wide. I happen to be lucky enough to have worked in this Chicago Public Schools District since 2001 when I became an Occupational Therapist for children with different ability levels. I love my students and I would rather be in school instead of marching outside on the streets. What a lot of people may or may or not know is that according to Illinois State Law, teachers can only strike over pay. So, our new Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot offered a 4% raise per year (16% over 4 years) in hopes that this would be enough.
But, this is not enough. Why? Because us teachers and clinicians are rebels. We don't do this for the money. We do this for the kids. We dare to dream of a world where we don't have to ask for a nurse, a library, and a social worker for all of our schools because in the suburbs, these are all given and more. Why should Chicago students have less? Why should Chicago students suffer with dirty classrooms? Are these good learning conditions? A few years back they tested the water fountains at school for lead and found at least 30% of those tested had lead and so they just stopped testing. And nothing was done about it. Are these good learning conditions? Chicago is plagued by classism and racism that forces many children into unsafe living environments but Lori Lightfoot would rather open up police stations than provide money for schools. Are these good learning conditions when our students come to school with toxic stress syndrome and no social worker is present to help them?
The answer in our hearts is no. And there isn't a law in existence that is going to keep Chicago teachers from fighting. I will fight. I will lose my pay. I will march in the cold. But, I will stand up for these children and it is an honor. They need to see this. They need to see their teachers love them and will fight for them to exist in a better world. To breathe. To be loved. To have a high quality of life. That is what the Chicago Teacher's Union Strike is really all about.
***All photos are copyrighted. But please, if you or a loved one are in this photo, write to me at kirstiecat@gmail.com with a link to the photo in question and I will send you the high res version for free.**
Der 1926 eingerichtete Sektionssaal enthielt ursprünglich zehn Sektionstische. Als der Saal vom Hamburger Oberbaudirektor Fritz Schumacher am Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts entworfen wurde, konnte sehr helles Licht - das die Farben nicht verzerrte - mit elektrischer Beleuchtung nicht erreicht werden. So schuf der Architekt einen Saal, der durch seine "gläserne" Architektur die natürlichen Lichtverhältnisse optimal ausnutzte.
Acht Sektionstische sind heute noch im Original erhalten. An den Sektionstischen wurden jährlich zwischen 1500 und 2000 pathologische Leichenöffnungen, sogenannte Sektionen durchgeführt. Darunter versteht man solche Leichenöffnungen, die durch die Klinikärzte mit Einverständnis der Angehörigen angefordert werden, um die genaue Todesursache zu ermitteln und die Abläufe der Erkrankungen im Körper besser zu verstehen.
Die Zahl der Sektionen ging in den letzten Jahrzehnten sehr zurück. Ursächlich hierfür ist, dass die heutigen bildgebenden Verfahren das Körperinnere des Menschen bereits zu seinen Lebzeiten so genau anzeigen, dass eine Eröffnung der Leiche nicht mehr unbedingt nötig ist.
An den Sektionstischen arbeiten Ärzte gemeinsam mit Präparatoren. Letztere assistieren, indem sie zum Beispiel Organe aus dem Körper freipräparieren.
The 1926 established autopsy room originally contained ten sectional tables. When the hall was designed by Hamburg senior building director Fritz Schumacher at the beginning of the 20th century, very bright light - which did not distort the colors - could not be achieved with electric lighting. Thus, the architect created a hall that optimally exploited the natural light conditions through its "glass" architecture.Eight sectional tables are still in their original condition. Every year, between 1,500 and 2,000 pathological funnels, so-called sections, were carried out on the sectional tables. These are corpse openings that are requested by the clinicians with the consent of relatives to determine the exact cause of death and to better understand the processes of the diseases in the body. The number of sections has declined significantly in recent decades. The reason for this is that today's imaging techniques show the human body's interior so accurately during his lifetime that opening the body is no longer absolutely necessary.At the sectional tables doctors work together with taxidermists. The latter assist, for example, by dissecting organs out of the body.
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3/31/2012
The Legendary Roy Wilkins Auditorium
St. Paul, MN
MAYO CLINICIANS vs. STATE FAIR FOODIES
MNRG ALL STARS vs. Brewcity Bruisers
Chicago Teachers are on Strike, which is what 94% of the teachers and support staff voted for district wide. I happen to be lucky enough to have worked in this Chicago Public Schools District since 2001 when I became an Occupational Therapist for children with different ability levels. I love my students and I would rather be in school instead of marching outside on the streets. What a lot of people may or may or not know is that according to Illinois State Law, teachers can only strike over pay. So, our new Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot offered a 4% raise per year (16% over 4 years) in hopes that this would be enough.
But, this is not enough. Why? Because us teachers and clinicians are rebels. We don't do this for the money. We do this for the kids. We dare to dream of a world where we don't have to ask for a nurse, a library, and a social worker for all of our schools because in the suburbs, these are all given and more. Why should Chicago students have less? Why should Chicago students suffer with dirty classrooms? Are these good learning conditions? A few years back they tested the water fountains at school for lead and found at least 30% of those tested had lead and so they just stopped testing. And nothing was done about it. Are these good learning conditions? Chicago is plagued by classism and racism that forces many children into unsafe living environments but Lori Lightfoot would rather open up police stations than provide money for schools. Are these good learning conditions when our students come to school with toxic stress syndrome and no social worker is present to help them?
The answer in our hearts is no. And there isn't a law in existence that is going to keep Chicago teachers from fighting. I will fight. I will lose my pay. I will march in the cold. But, I will stand up for these children and it is an honor. They need to see this. They need to see their teachers love them and will fight for them to exist in a better world. To breathe. To be loved. To have a high quality of life. That is what the Chicago Teacher's Union Strike is really all about.
***All photos are copyrighted. But please, if you or a loved one are in this photo, write to me at kirstiecat@gmail.com with a link to the photo in question and I will send you the high res version for free.**
Thanks in advance for your comments. I've managed to read a few. Too unwell to reply.
FYI. I'm not religious. As much as you maybe, I'm equally neutral.
Refrain from any religious words or emoticons.
Respect my views.
• Update: 20 Jan 2022
All is fine. COVID free. Been exercising to build up my strength and stamina. Recently had the Booster Jab. Was unwell for a couple of days. Just as was explained to me and on the information leaflet.
I'll continue to wear a mask and follow guidelines. Take care out there.
Thank you to everyone for your support.
• Update: 01 Jan 2022
Making good progress. Most symptoms have ceased. I'm lethargic due to being inactive. Muscles are weak. Will make a start by taking short walks, plenty of fluids, I was advised by a clinician to avoid coffee, that dehydrates you and the taste leaves you wanting more. So tea, light fruit juice, water etc.
A huge thank you to everyone visiting this page, the words of support continue be part of my recovery. :)
Kids benefit from human interaction and in person learning for full days. There is no caring educator who would debate that. This pandemic has only exposed further inequities that exist in terms of internet access and access to technology.
However, at this point in time, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) has failed to commit to providing any funds or plans for cleaning, masks, temperature checks or staffing because we would rather spend our money on the police than have a nurse in every school apparently. It didn't make sense before the pandemic and it doesn't make sense right now.
What CPS has proposed is a "pod" system of 15 kids that rotate 2 days on and 2 days off with kids that have learning needs being offered a full 5 days. This sounds like a reasonable compromise if the buildings were cleaned and safety procedures were followed. However, CPS has failed to even answer some of the logistical questions for clinicians like myself.
Let me break it down real talk so that people can understand what the situation is. The vast majority of clinicians are "itinerant" which means we travel between schools and are in and out of classrooms all day. There are many schools that have just a handful of students who need services so it wouldn't work to be just at one school for the vast majority of us. When I had the most schools, I had 8. Because my workload (number of students I need to see) increased the last two years at 2 of my schools, I have just these two now and another clinician covers the other 6 schools.
So, let me break this down farther. I go to two schools and roughly 10 classrooms which means, in this current system, each day I would be exposed to 75 students (ages 3-14 at the moment) and 10 teachers plus teacher's aides and other staff members (clerks, food service, other clinicians). At my one school, the Physical Therapist is at 14 schools. The Speech Therapist is at 3 schools. The nurse is at 6 schools. The Psychologist is at 4 schools. The social worker is at 2 schools. I believe there is one school that both the psychologist and nurse are at so we will eliminate that as a unique school. That's still 28 novel schools that just the clinician team are traveling in and out of every day and then we have to get together as a team to see students and meet on their behalf.
Ok, are you following along? It's complicated. So, we're at 28 schools so far just from my one school. But, remember, these are unique schools. So, for the Physical Therapist who is going to schools no one else on the same clinician team goes to, every single clinician team at her other schools has other clinicians they work with who go into other schools. So, one Physical Therapist would likely be exposed to a huge chunk and vast majority of schools throughout the district in one week of services. What I am saying is that, under the current model, all it takes is for one itinerant clinician to become positive and not realize it and spread it throughout the schools in the district.
Let me also talk about art, music, gym, and library if the kids in that school are lucky enough to have those things instead of cops or their new fun name "School Resource Officers" (even though the only 'resource' they seem to be providing is increasing trauma and racial inequities). In a typical day, these teachers would enter 7 classrooms which would mean exposure to 75 kids under the current model and they would be going from class to class every day.
Let's get back to cleaning. You know how I said kids would be in their classrooms or "pod" all day? You remember that kids have to go to the bathroom, though, right? Boys, especially have to go to the bathroom ten times a day and they have to play in the bathroom because they are boys. (That is no joke). Well, in a situation where the bathrooms aren't cleaned several times throughout the day, you still have the possibility of hundreds of children depending on the size of the school sharing bathroom facilities. You may have the same problem with playground equipment if you allow recess. And, let's not forget that while we were so adamant about mask wearing, a bunch of white entitled parents were protesting without masks at the capital of Illinois in Springfield because they didn't think their child should have to wear one at school (because nothing says entitlement like "I don't care if my child inadvertently passes along a virus that kills his/her/their teachers and classmates")
I think I am done with this ramble but I wanted people to understand what we're facing as teachers in a school district that has been starved for resources and now we're expecting that same school district to exercise planning and safety measures it never has come close to.
I'll tell you another anecdote that's pretty fun. I was not allowed in either school building during the shelter at home in Chicago from mid March to mid June. When I went back to one of my schools to pick up items in June, there was only one thing that was stolen...it was the cleaning supplies I'd purchased out of my own money.
Signs representing students on the back of student chairs visible here and other signs not included in this frame but present as part of yesterday's City Hall protest read:
"Has Asthma"
"Facing Eviction"
"Got COVID Last Spring"
"No Health Insurance"
"Anxious About Getting COVID"
"Took CTA *our transportation system* this morning and was exposed to COVID"
"Student in Temporary Living Situation" (otherwise known as homeless)
"Lost a Family Member to Covid"
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Excerpt from Wikipedia:
Bridgepoint Active Healthcare is a complex care and rehabilitation hospital in Toronto. It is a member of the Sinai Health System and affiliated with the University of Toronto.
The hospital is located next to the Don River in the Riverdale neighbourhood of the city and includes the historic Don Jail which is now the administration building for the new hospital. The exact address is 14 St. Matthews Road, Toronto, Ontario at the corner of Broadview Avenue and Gerrard Street. The new building towers over the east side of the Don Valley Parkway.
The "House of Refuge" was built on the site in 1860 as a home for "vagrants, the dissolute, and for idiots". The facility became the "Riverdale Isolation Hospital" in 1875 during a smallpox epidemic. It became a specialized facility located on the edge of the city to house patients with communicable diseases, such as tuberculosis. As times changed, in 1957, the hospital's name and mandate were changed; its focus was shifted to helping those with chronic ailments and/or needing rehabilitation, as the Riverdale Hospital. The architecturally distinctive brown brick "half-round" Riverdale Hospital - which become Bridgepoint Health in 2002 - was completed in 1963; was amalgamated structurally into the new Bridgepoint Active Healthcare campus.
In 2003, a $200 million expansion project was announced, that modernized and expanded the facility. The final result is the purpose-built, 10-storey, 404-bed Bridgepoint Hospital building, which is connected by a glass walkway to the old Don Jail.
The new, state-of-the-art facility serves as a "living lab" to foster the next generation of clinicians, researchers and educators who will work together to advance understanding and treatment of complex chronic disease. It serves as a research base for the Bridgepoint Collaboratory for Research and Innovation, which is one of the only research enterprises in the world to focus exclusively on complex chronic disease.
Bridgepoint Active Healthcare and Infrastructure Ontario have partnered with Plenary Health to design, build, finance and maintain the new facility for 30 years after completion.
Construction started in the fall of 2009, and has been fully operational since April 2013.
Patient services moved to the new hospital building on April 14, 2013. The 10-storey hospital incorporates with the former Don Jail (c. 1858), which serves as the administrative wing of the hospital. The new building officially opened on June 25, 2013.
Chicago Teachers are on Strike, which is what 94% of the teachers and support staff voted for district wide. I happen to be lucky enough to have worked in this Chicago Public Schools District since 2001 when I became an Occupational Therapist for children with different ability levels. I love my students and I would rather be in school instead of marching outside on the streets. What a lot of people may or may or not know is that according to Illinois State Law, teachers can only strike over pay. So, our new Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot offered a 4% raise per year (16% over 4 years) in hopes that this would be enough.
But, this is not enough. Why? Because us teachers and clinicians are rebels. We don't do this for the money. We do this for the kids. We dare to dream of a world where we don't have to ask for a nurse, a library, and a social worker for all of our schools because in the suburbs, these are all given and more. Why should Chicago students have less? Why should Chicago students suffer with dirty classrooms? Are these good learning conditions? A few years back they tested the water fountains at school for lead and found at least 30% of those tested had lead and so they just stopped testing. And nothing was done about it. Are these good learning conditions? Chicago is plagued by classism and racism that forces many children into unsafe living environments but Lori Lightfoot would rather open up police stations than provide money for schools. Are these good learning conditions when our students come to school with toxic stress syndrome and no social worker is present to help them?
The answer in our hearts is no. And there isn't a law in existence that is going to keep Chicago teachers from fighting. I will fight. I will lose my pay. I will march in the cold. But, I will stand up for these children and it is an honor. They need to see this. They need to see their teachers love them and will fight for them to exist in a better world. To breathe. To be loved. To have a high quality of life. That is what the Chicago Teacher's Union Strike is really all about.
***All photos are copyrighted. But please, if you or a loved one are in this photo, write to me at kirstiecat@gmail.com with a link to the photo in question and I will send you the high res version for free.**
The "trapped nerve" series continues.
A little less agonising today - must be shifting from red to green.
It is a myth that the matador’s red cape -- the muleta -- incites rage in the bull and causes him to charge. The truth is, all cattle are colour-blind. The bull does not charge because of the colour, but because of the movements of the matador and his cape.
It is not a myth, however, that colour can affect the moods of humans. Researchers have studied how colours affect psychological states, such as anxiety, in people. We now know that colour also affects how people perceive pain.
A 2007 study reported more intense pain when a painful stimulation was preceded by a red colour than a blue one.
Investigators have found that the colour red produced the most intense pain, followed by green and blue. Other colours were associated with less pain.
Colours affect us psychologically and physically. As the authors of the Pain Medicine study concluded, colours can also influence our perception of pain. Thus, it may be important for researchers and clinicians to recognize that a patient's reported pain could be affected by the colours of the exam room or even the ambiance of a clinic.
It may be time to for people in pain to consider how their choices of clothes, furnishings, and even paint and wallpaper may factor into their levels of comfort.
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both. —James Michener
Took this at a horseshoeing clinic a couple of weeks ago. The clinician was demonstrating how to forge weld a bar shoe. Of course I had to be front and center with a camera to catch the action. I think I might have even learned something too...
Coburg, Victoria
Dr Ines Rio has held Board and committee positions for over 12 years in Federal, State and Local Governments and in the community non-profit sector.
Dr Rio works as a GP in a community health centre and as a GP obstetrician at the Royal Women's Hospital, where she is also head of the General Practice Liaison Unit.
Dr Rio is currently Chair of the North Western Melbourne Primary Health Network, a member of the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services Human Research Ethics, Emergency Clinical Network and Ministerial Advisory Council for the New Victorian Services and Infrastructure Plan and Chair of AMA Vic GP Division.
Dr Rio also works with the City of Melbourne where she is Medical Officer for Health and a member of the Family and Children's Advisory and Emergency Planning Committees.
Dr Rio has extensive experience in the health care sector as a clinician in a range of diverse settings and roles, an educator, a service developer and manager, and a public health advisor. In addition she is lead author of Growing Together. A Kit For Parents.
If you want to look at a medical paper with pictures, then this is your lucky day! Any doctors want to comment on this study?
“All of the abnormal blood samples of injected persons, the 948 cases, showed tubular/fibrous formations and frequently also crystalline and lamellar formations with extremely complex but consistently similar morphologies across all of the patients with abnormal blood samples. Our results are so similar to those of Lee et al. (2022) that it could be claimed that, except for our innovative application of dark-field microscopy to mark the foreign metal-like objects in the blood of mRNA injections from Pfizer or Moderna, we have replicated the blood work of the Korean doctors with a much larger sample. Our findings, however, are bolstered by their parallel analysis of the fluids in vials of the mRNA concoctions alongside centrifuged plasma samples from the cases they studied intensively. What seems plain enough is that metallic particles resembling graphene oxide and possibly other metallic compounds, like those discovered by Gatti and Montanari (Montanari & Gatti, 2016; Gatti & Montanari, 2012, 2017, 2018), have been included in the cocktail of whatever the manufacturers have seen fit to put in the so-called mRNA “vaccines”. In our experience as clinicians, these mRNA injections are very unlike traditional “vaccines” and their manufacturers need, in our opinions, to come clean about what is in the injections and why it is there.”
ijvtpr.com/index.php/IJVTPR/article/view/47/95
Ezekiel 6:12 “The one who lives far away will die by pestilence and the one who is near will die violently. The survivors and their surveillance details will die by famine as I exhaust My rage against them.”
Now here’s a bonus! Isn’t it interesting to watch as the stage is being set to fulfill End Time Bible Prophecy? Don’t forget your biometric digital ID, don’t leave home without it tattooed to your face!
Gates Foundation: $200 million to expand global Digital Public Infrastructure:
“This funding will help expand infrastructure that low- and middle-income countries can use to become more resilient to crises such as food shortages, public health threats, and climate change, as well as to aid in pandemic and economic recovery. This infrastructure encompasses tools such as interoperable payment systems, digital ID, data-sharing systems, and civil registry databases.”
www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/media-center/press-releases...
Bill Gates: “The world today has 6.8 billion people—that’s headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtkfWaCzsas
2 Timothy 3:13 “Evil people and impostors will become worse, deceiving and being deceived.”
Repent, for the end is near!
Took this at a horseshoeing clinic this fall. This is the clinician Grant Moon from England, forge welding a bar shoe. Grant was a great clinician and a really good guy. I enjoyed getting to know him and watching him work.
Somewhereville's leading psychiatrist, is the leading clinician for treating Phantom Vibration Perception Disorder (PVPD): where Individuals believe their phones are vibrating when they're not, leading to frequent pocket checks and concerned glances by people who wonder what they're fiddling with in their pockets.
Dr. Fell is also the foremost authority on Pseudoscientific Factual Rambling Syndrome (PFRS): A condition causing patients to narrate detailed yet entirely fictional stories with an air of absolute certainty, often involving time-traveling cats or political conspiracy theories concerning garden gnomes.
When the weight on your shoulders feels heavier than a hippo in high heels, reach out to Dr. Fell.
Image imagined in MidJourney AI and finished with Topaz Studio 2.0 and Lightroom Classic.
A revisit to this abandoned house somewhere in Germany. Better light and less waiting around for sunrise helped the morning, mostly shot this time with the 50mm and covered a few other bits.
Previous set here:
www.flickr.com/photos/timster1973/sets/72157636473568413/
The Chocolate Milk Germany UE Tour. All win no fail and some epic locations with host, sunny weather, many miles travelled and much chocolate milk consumed.
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A revisit to this abandoned house somewhere in Germany. Better light and less waiting around for sunrise helped the morning, mostly shot this time with the 50mm and covered a few other bits.
Previous set here:
www.flickr.com/photos/timster1973/sets/72157636473568413/
The Chocolate Milk Germany UE Tour. All win no fail and some epic locations with host, sunny weather, many miles travelled and much chocolate milk consumed.
My blog:
timster1973.wordpress.com
Also on Facebook
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online store: www.artfinder.com/tim-knifton
I don't often photograph people, but this scene of a Horseman & 3 young girls on a fine Autumn afternoon caught my eye. It was irresistable.
Nava Dekel: Fruit of Discovery
Prof. Dekel’s fertility research made lives whole
Weizmann Compass
May 31, 2015
Prof Nava Dekel 1
Some research changes lives; some research makes lives. Such is the case for the Kaman family of Toronto, who had an emotional meeting with the scientist and clinician whose fertility research led to a much-desired pregnancy - and the birth of their daughter Hannah in 2008.
In the late 1990s, Prof. Nava Dekel of the Department of Biological Regulation and clinicians at Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot made a serendipitous discovery that inflicting a slight injury to the lining of the uterus before women undergo in vitro fertilization (IVF) dramatically increases the chances of a successful pregnancy. Since then, Prof. Dekel’s studies at the Weizmann Institute unveiled the mechanism of this beneficiary intervention and hundreds of fertility clinics worldwide have changed their IVF protocol accordingly. The result has been higher pregnancy success rates - and lots of babies who might otherwise not have been born.
Roslyn and Howard Kaman of Toronto credit the procedure with their first successful pregnancy after nine years of trying and four years of endless fertility treatments. In April, the family of three came to the Weizmann Institute to meet Prof. Dekel in person for the first time, as well as Dr. Irit Granot of Kaplan who was Prof. Dekel’s main partner in the discovery.
It was an emotional meeting for all. “Nava and Irit, and their research, totally changed our lives - they brought us Hannah,” says Roslyn Kaman. Even Hannah, age 6 and in first grade, articulately described how she was born. “It was because of the scratch,” she explains, using the now-colloquial reference used by practitioners and patients alike for the uterine biopsy.
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Hannah
Prof. Dekel says seeing Hannah and her parents was “very special” and she recalls being deeply moved after receiving an e-mail from the Kamans with Hannah’s picture days after her birth. “Seeing Hannah’s picture was more meaningful to me than having a paper published in the best journal,” she says.
Before her pregnancy with Hannah, Roslyn Kaman had experienced the gamut of fertility failures: miscarriages, ectopic pregnancies, 11 artificial inseminations and three IVF treatments. The couple had all but given up and were considering adoption when Howard read about a lecture by Prof. Dekel hosted by Weizmann Canada. She described her research study that had enabled numerous Israeli women with fertility problems to conceive and carry viable pregnancies.
Nava Dekel Fruit Of Discovery
l to r: Dr. Irit Granot, Roslyn, Hannah, and Howard Kaman, Prof. Nava Dekel
Prof. Dekel’s original discovery arose when she began studying a protein that plays a role in implanting embryos in the uterus. In collaboration with physicians at Kaplan, she performed an endometrial biopsy (a procedure in which a small sample is taken from the lining of the uterus) on 12 women who had failed to conceive after numerous IVF treatments. To the surprise of the team of researchers, 11 of the women conceived during their next IVF treatment. The team repeated the results in a larger-scale study, and published their groundbreaking results in 2003. The results: those women who had undergone a uterine biopsy before IVF had almost twice the success rate of pregnancies and births compared to a control group.
“We have been looking forward to this day - coming to the Weizmann Institute and meeting the scientist and clinician who helped give us Hannah - for a long time,” says Howard Kaman.
Prof. Nava Dekel is supported by the Richard F. Goodman Yale/Weizmann Exchange Program, the Rising Tide Foundation, the Maurice and Vivienne Wohl Biology Endowment, Andrew Adelson of Canada, and the estate of John Hunter.
TAGS: Children, Fertility, Women
Chicago Teachers are on Strike, which is what 94% of the teachers and support staff voted for district wide. I happen to be lucky enough to have worked in this Chicago Public Schools District since 2001 when I became an Occupational Therapist for children with different ability levels. I love my students and I would rather be in school instead of marching outside on the streets. What a lot of people may or may or not know is that according to Illinois State Law, teachers can only strike over pay. So, our new Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot offered a 4% raise per year (16% over 4 years) in hopes that this would be enough.
But, this is not enough. Why? Because us teachers and clinicians are rebels. We don't do this for the money. We do this for the kids. We dare to dream of a world where we don't have to ask for a nurse, a library, and a social worker for all of our schools because in the suburbs, these are all given and more. Why should Chicago students have less? Why should Chicago students suffer with dirty classrooms? Are these good learning conditions? A few years back they tested the water fountains at school for lead and found at least 30% of those tested had lead and so they just stopped testing. And nothing was done about it. Are these good learning conditions? Chicago is plagued by classism and racism that forces many children into unsafe living environments but Lori Lightfoot would rather open up police stations than provide money for schools. Are these good learning conditions when our students come to school with toxic stress syndrome and no social worker is present to help them?
The answer in our hearts is no. And there isn't a law in existence that is going to keep Chicago teachers from fighting. I will fight. I will lose my pay. I will march in the cold. But, I will stand up for these children and it is an honor. They need to see this. They need to see their teachers love them and will fight for them to exist in a better world. To breathe. To be loved. To have a high quality of life. That is what the Chicago Teacher's Union Strike is really all about.
***All photos are copyrighted. But please, if you or a loved one are in this photo, write to me at kirstiecat@gmail.com with a link to the photo in question and I will send you the high res version for free.**
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A revisit to this abandoned house somewhere in Germany. Better light and less waiting around for sunrise helped the morning, mostly shot this time with the 50mm and covered a few other bits.
Previous set here:
www.flickr.com/photos/timster1973/sets/72157636473568413/
The Chocolate Milk Germany UE Tour. All win no fail and some epic locations with host, sunny weather, many miles travelled and much chocolate milk consumed.
My blog:
timster1973.wordpress.com
Also on Facebook
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online store: www.artfinder.com/tim-knifton
August 5th, 2021
So the real issue yesterday was with Stop & Shop, which has my bank in it. Long story short I have to wait for a refund from Stop & Shop and had to go back there again to fill out a form for it.
My coworker was NOT back today. But one of the clinicians called out for tomorrow so that was a fun project. Very stressful but it’s fine. Everything is sorted, just was annoying as FUCK. Also annoying that we had our weekly huddle during lunch, so I only got a half hour. I get paid overtime for the other half but especially today I really could have used the time to decompress.
I just noticed these daisies in my backyard the other day! Flowers make me so happy.
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A revisit to this abandoned house somewhere in Germany. Better light and less waiting around for sunrise helped the morning, mostly shot this time with the 50mm and covered a few other bits.
Previous set here:
www.flickr.com/photos/timster1973/sets/72157636473568413/
The Chocolate Milk Germany UE Tour. All win no fail and some epic locations with host, sunny weather, many miles travelled and much chocolate milk consumed.
My blog:
timster1973.wordpress.com
Also on Facebook
www.Facebook.com/TimKniftonPhotography
online store: www.artfinder.com/tim-knifton
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A revisit to this abandoned house somewhere in Germany. Better light and less waiting around for sunrise helped the morning, mostly shot this time with the 50mm and covered a few other bits.
Previous set here:
www.flickr.com/photos/timster1973/sets/72157636473568413/
The Chocolate Milk Germany UE Tour. All win no fail and some epic locations with host, sunny weather, many miles travelled and much chocolate milk consumed.
My blog:
timster1973.wordpress.com
Also on Facebook
www.Facebook.com/TimKniftonPhotography
online store: www.artfinder.com/tim-knifton
brrrrr. in the midst of yet another round of winter weather her in cleveland ohio.
polaroid fade to black film in sx-70
"spring" semester has started up for me... i'm officially a student clinician with clients to see and assessments to give and reports to write. i miss my camera(s).
Chicago Teachers are on Strike, which is what 94% of the teachers and support staff voted for district wide. I happen to be lucky enough to have worked in this Chicago Public Schools District since 2001 when I became an Occupational Therapist for children with different ability levels. I love my students and I would rather be in school instead of marching outside on the streets. What a lot of people may or may or not know is that according to Illinois State Law, teachers can only strike over pay. So, our new Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot offered a 4% raise per year (16% over 4 years) in hopes that this would be enough.
But, this is not enough. Why? Because us teachers and clinicians are rebels. We don't do this for the money. We do this for the kids. We dare to dream of a world where we don't have to ask for a nurse, a library, and a social worker for all of our schools because in the suburbs, these are all given and more. Why should Chicago students have less? Why should Chicago students suffer with dirty classrooms? Are these good learning conditions? A few years back they tested the water fountains at school for lead and found at least 30% of those tested had lead and so they just stopped testing. And nothing was done about it. Are these good learning conditions? Chicago is plagued by classism and racism that forces many children into unsafe living environments but Lori Lightfoot would rather open up police stations than provide money for schools. Are these good learning conditions when our students come to school with toxic stress syndrome and no social worker is present to help them?
The answer in our hearts is no. And there isn't a law in existence that is going to keep Chicago teachers from fighting. I will fight. I will lose my pay. I will march in the cold. But, I will stand up for these children and it is an honor. They need to see this. They need to see their teachers love them and will fight for them to exist in a better world. To breathe. To be loved. To have a high quality of life. That is what the Chicago Teacher's Union Strike is really all about.
***All photos are copyrighted. But please, if you or a loved one are in this photo, write to me at kirstiecat@gmail.com with a link to the photo in question and I will send you the high res version for free.**
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A revisit to this abandoned house somewhere in Germany. Better light and less waiting around for sunrise helped the morning, mostly shot this time with the 50mm and covered a few other bits.
Previous set here:
www.flickr.com/photos/timster1973/sets/72157636473568413/
The Chocolate Milk Germany UE Tour. All win no fail and some epic locations with host, sunny weather, many miles travelled and much chocolate milk consumed.
My blog:
timster1973.wordpress.com
Also on Facebook
www.Facebook.com/TimKniftonPhotography
online store: www.artfinder.com/tim-knifton
A revisit to this abandoned house somewhere in Germany. Better light and less waiting around for sunrise helped the morning, mostly shot this time with the 50mm and covered a few other bits.
Previous set here:
www.flickr.com/photos/timster1973/sets/72157636473568413/
The Chocolate Milk Germany UE Tour. All win no fail and some epic locations with host, sunny weather, many miles travelled and much chocolate milk consumed.
My blog:
timster1973.wordpress.com
Also on Facebook
www.Facebook.com/TimKniftonPhotography
online store: www.artfinder.com/tim-knifton
Chicago Teachers are on Strike, which is what 94% of the teachers and support staff voted for district wide. I happen to be lucky enough to have worked in this Chicago Public Schools District since 2001 when I became an Occupational Therapist for children with different ability levels. I love my students and I would rather be in school instead of marching outside on the streets. What a lot of people may or may or not know is that according to Illinois State Law, teachers can only strike over pay. So, our new Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot offered a 4% raise per year (16% over 4 years) in hopes that this would be enough.
But, this is not enough. Why? Because us teachers and clinicians are rebels. We don't do this for the money. We do this for the kids. We dare to dream of a world where we don't have to ask for a nurse, a library, and a social worker for all of our schools because in the suburbs, these are all given and more. Why should Chicago students have less? Why should Chicago students suffer with dirty classrooms? Are these good learning conditions? A few years back they tested the water fountains at school for lead and found at least 30% of those tested had lead and so they just stopped testing. And nothing was done about it. Are these good learning conditions? Chicago is plagued by classism and racism that forces many children into unsafe living environments but Lori Lightfoot would rather open up police stations than provide money for schools. Are these good learning conditions when our students come to school with toxic stress syndrome and no social worker is present to help them?
The answer in our hearts is no. And there isn't a law in existence that is going to keep Chicago teachers from fighting. I will fight. I will lose my pay. I will march in the cold. But, I will stand up for these children and it is an honor. They need to see this. They need to see their teachers love them and will fight for them to exist in a better world. To breathe. To be loved. To have a high quality of life. That is what the Chicago Teacher's Union Strike is really all about.
***All photos are copyrighted. But please, if you or a loved one are in this photo, write to me at kirstiecat@gmail.com with a link to the photo in question and I will send you the high res version for free.**
Chicago Teachers are on Strike, which is what 94% of the teachers and support staff voted for district wide. I happen to be lucky enough to have worked in this Chicago Public Schools District since 2001 when I became an Occupational Therapist for children with different ability levels. I love my students and I would rather be in school instead of marching outside on the streets. What a lot of people may or may or not know is that according to Illinois State Law, teachers can only strike over pay. So, our new Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot offered a 4% raise per year (16% over 4 years) in hopes that this would be enough.
But, this is not enough. Why? Because us teachers and clinicians are rebels. We don't do this for the money. We do this for the kids. We dare to dream of a world where we don't have to ask for a nurse, a library, and a social worker for all of our schools because in the suburbs, these are all given and more. Why should Chicago students have less? Why should Chicago students suffer with dirty classrooms? Are these good learning conditions? A few years back they tested the water fountains at school for lead and found at least 30% of those tested had lead and so they just stopped testing. And nothing was done about it. Are these good learning conditions? Chicago is plagued by classism and racism that forces many children into unsafe living environments but Lori Lightfoot would rather open up police stations than provide money for schools. Are these good learning conditions when our students come to school with toxic stress syndrome and no social worker is present to help them?
The answer in our hearts is no. And there isn't a law in existence that is going to keep Chicago teachers from fighting. I will fight. I will lose my pay. I will march in the cold. But, I will stand up for these children and it is an honor. They need to see this. They need to see their teachers love them and will fight for them to exist in a better world. To breathe. To be loved. To have a high quality of life. That is what the Chicago Teacher's Union Strike is really all about.
***All photos are copyrighted. But please, if you or a loved one are in this photo, write to me at kirstiecat@gmail.com with a link to the photo in question and I will send you the high res version for free.**
A Doctor of Acupuncture & Traditional Chinese Medicine takes the pulse of a patient.
The look of trust on the old man's face and the attentive nature of the physician made a nice image for me. Note the ubiquitous jar of green tea on the desk.
(Olympus OM1 35mm film camera, Jian Ye TCM Hospital, Mochou Road, Nanjing, PRC 1991)
Chicago Teachers are on Strike, which is what 94% of the teachers and support staff voted for district wide. I happen to be lucky enough to have worked in this Chicago Public Schools District since 2001 when I became an Occupational Therapist for children with different ability levels. I love my students and I would rather be in school instead of marching outside on the streets. What a lot of people may or may or not know is that according to Illinois State Law, teachers can only strike over pay. So, our new Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot offered a 4% raise per year (16% over 4 years) in hopes that this would be enough.
But, this is not enough. Why? Because us teachers and clinicians are rebels. We don't do this for the money. We do this for the kids. We dare to dream of a world where we don't have to ask for a nurse, a library, and a social worker for all of our schools because in the suburbs, these are all given and more. Why should Chicago students have less? Why should Chicago students suffer with dirty classrooms? Are these good learning conditions? A few years back they tested the water fountains at school for lead and found at least 30% of those tested had lead and so they just stopped testing. And nothing was done about it. Are these good learning conditions? Chicago is plagued by classism and racism that forces many children into unsafe living environments but Lori Lightfoot would rather open up police stations than provide money for schools. Are these good learning conditions when our students come to school with toxic stress syndrome and no social worker is present to help them?
The answer in our hearts is no. And there isn't a law in existence that is going to keep Chicago teachers from fighting. I will fight. I will lose my pay. I will march in the cold. But, I will stand up for these children and it is an honor. They need to see this. They need to see their teachers love them and will fight for them to exist in a better world. To breathe. To be loved. To have a high quality of life. That is what the Chicago Teacher's Union Strike is really all about.
***All photos are copyrighted. But please, if you or a loved one are in this photo, write to me at kirstiecat@gmail.com with a link to the photo in question and I will send you the high res version for free.**
A revisit to this abandoned house somewhere in Germany. Better light and less waiting around for sunrise helped the morning, mostly shot this time with the 50mm and covered a few other bits.
Previous set here:
www.flickr.com/photos/timster1973/sets/72157636473568413/
The Chocolate Milk Germany UE Tour. All win no fail and some epic locations with host, sunny weather, many miles travelled and much chocolate milk consumed.
My blog:
timster1973.wordpress.com
Also on Facebook
www.Facebook.com/TimKniftonPhotography
online store: www.artfinder.com/tim-knifton
48x48 stud modular building. Pictured at bottom, from left to right: Clinician, Post-doc research fellow, Board of regents chairman Mr. VIP, Grad students 1 & 2, Dr P. Investigator.
At top, from left to right: University police, Animal rights activist.
Chicago Teachers are on Strike, which is what 94% of the teachers and support staff voted for district wide. I happen to be lucky enough to have worked in this Chicago Public Schools District since 2001 when I became an Occupational Therapist for children with different ability levels. I love my students and I would rather be in school instead of marching outside on the streets. What a lot of people may or may or not know is that according to Illinois State Law, teachers can only strike over pay. So, our new Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot offered a 4% raise per year (16% over 4 years) in hopes that this would be enough.
But, this is not enough. Why? Because us teachers and clinicians are rebels. We don't do this for the money. We do this for the kids. We dare to dream of a world where we don't have to ask for a nurse, a library, and a social worker for all of our schools because in the suburbs, these are all given and more. Why should Chicago students have less? Why should Chicago students suffer with dirty classrooms? Are these good learning conditions? A few years back they tested the water fountains at school for lead and found at least 30% of those tested had lead and so they just stopped testing. And nothing was done about it. Are these good learning conditions? Chicago is plagued by classism and racism that forces many children into unsafe living environments but Lori Lightfoot would rather open up police stations than provide money for schools. Are these good learning conditions when our students come to school with toxic stress syndrome and no social worker is present to help them?
The answer in our hearts is no. And there isn't a law in existence that is going to keep Chicago teachers from fighting. I will fight. I will lose my pay. I will march in the cold. But, I will stand up for these children and it is an honor. They need to see this. They need to see their teachers love them and will fight for them to exist in a better world. To breathe. To be loved. To have a high quality of life. That is what the Chicago Teacher's Union Strike is really all about.
***All photos are copyrighted. But please, if you or a loved one are in this photo, write to me at kirstiecat@gmail.com with a link to the photo in question and I will send you the high res version for free.**
Chicago Teachers are on Strike, which is what 94% of the teachers and support staff voted for district wide. I happen to be lucky enough to have worked in this Chicago Public Schools District since 2001 when I became an Occupational Therapist for children with different ability levels. I love my students and I would rather be in school instead of marching outside on the streets. What a lot of people may or may or not know is that according to Illinois State Law, teachers can only strike over pay. So, our new Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot offered a 4% raise per year (16% over 4 years) in hopes that this would be enough.
But, this is not enough. Why? Because us teachers and clinicians are rebels. We don't do this for the money. We do this for the kids. We dare to dream of a world where we don't have to ask for a nurse, a library, and a social worker for all of our schools because in the suburbs, these are all given and more. Why should Chicago students have less? Why should Chicago students suffer with dirty classrooms? Are these good learning conditions? A few years back they tested the water fountains at school for lead and found at least 30% of those tested had lead and so they just stopped testing. And nothing was done about it. Are these good learning conditions? Chicago is plagued by classism and racism that forces many children into unsafe living environments but Lori Lightfoot would rather open up police stations than provide money for schools. Are these good learning conditions when our students come to school with toxic stress syndrome and no social worker is present to help them?
The answer in our hearts is no. And there isn't a law in existence that is going to keep Chicago teachers from fighting. I will fight. I will lose my pay. I will march in the cold. But, I will stand up for these children and it is an honor. They need to see this. They need to see their teachers love them and will fight for them to exist in a better world. To breathe. To be loved. To have a high quality of life. That is what the Chicago Teacher's Union Strike is really all about.
***All photos are copyrighted. But please, if you or a loved one are in this photo, write to me at kirstiecat@gmail.com with a link to the photo in question and I will send you the high res version for free.**
Chicago Teachers are on Strike, which is what 94% of the teachers and support staff voted for district wide. I happen to be lucky enough to have worked in this Chicago Public Schools District since 2001 when I became an Occupational Therapist for children with different ability levels. I love my students and I would rather be in school instead of marching outside on the streets. What a lot of people may or may or not know is that according to Illinois State Law, teachers can only strike over pay. So, our new Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot offered a 4% raise per year (16% over 4 years) in hopes that this would be enough.
But, this is not enough. Why? Because us teachers and clinicians are rebels. We don't do this for the money. We do this for the kids. We dare to dream of a world where we don't have to ask for a nurse, a library, and a social worker for all of our schools because in the suburbs, these are all given and more. Why should Chicago students have less? Why should Chicago students suffer with dirty classrooms? Are these good learning conditions? A few years back they tested the water fountains at school for lead and found at least 30% of those tested had lead and so they just stopped testing. And nothing was done about it. Are these good learning conditions? Chicago is plagued by classism and racism that forces many children into unsafe living environments but Lori Lightfoot would rather open up police stations than provide money for schools. Are these good learning conditions when our students come to school with toxic stress syndrome and no social worker is present to help them?
The answer in our hearts is no. And there isn't a law in existence that is going to keep Chicago teachers from fighting. I will fight. I will lose my pay. I will march in the cold. But, I will stand up for these children and it is an honor. They need to see this. They need to see their teachers love them and will fight for them to exist in a better world. To breathe. To be loved. To have a high quality of life. That is what the Chicago Teacher's Union Strike is really all about.
***All photos are copyrighted. But please, if you or a loved one are in this photo, write to me at kirstiecat@gmail.com with a link to the photo in question and I will send you the high res version for free.**