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Comprehensive Hospital, Post Operative, &Amp; In Home Care
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byChantel Ledbetter
Have you recently had surgery and need assistance working through recovery, or are you looking for a qualified caregiver to make your daily life easier? If so, a reliable caregiving agency can meet and exceed your needs by providing knowledgeable care and a wide range of services, from cooking to medication management to post-operative care. For many individuals, simply knowing that a skilled nurse or nurse’s assistant is on hand whenever needed creates a sense of comfort and security. In home care comes in many forms, and offers client-focused services intended to cater to well-being of the patient.
Addresses Your NeedsPart-time and full-time in home care services through a reputable agency are available to seniors who require varying levels of care. If you need assistance for a few hours each day with managing daily tasks in your home, or extensive care after an operation, a trusted and experienced caregiver will work to ensure your needs are met. Usually, caregiving agencies offer a wide range of services to clients, such as help with cooking, keeping house, managing medication, dressing, grooming, running errands and shopping, attending appointments, walking and transferring and more.
Support During Hospital VisitsIn many instances, caregivers extend their services to include accompaniment during hospital stays. Hospital visits can be an unnerving experience for anyone, particularly for seniors and their family and friends. For this reason, your caregiver will make it a point to ensure your well-being, act as your advocate, work with hospital staff, clarify your condition and options, and keep your family informed. You won’t have to deal with trying to decipher medical terminology or feeling alone during your stay, as your caregiver will be available to deliver the support you need.
Surgery AftercareIn addition to hospital visit accompaniment, in-home post-operative care is among the many services caregiving agencies offer to clients. After you’ve had surgery, your main concern is likely getting back on your feet as soon as possible. Through a professional caregiver, you’ll receive the post-operative services you need to ensure a speedy recovery. Medication management, transferring and ambulation, dressing and wound care, and general companionship are some examples of the care you expect to receive from a compassionate, dedicated caregiver.
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New stadium in Auckland for 2011 rugby world cup preferred by NZ government
Friday, November 10, 2006
The New Zealand government has said that it prefers building a new stadium at Auckland’s waterfront to host the grand final of the 2011 rugby world cup, instead of upgrading Auckland’s current stadium, Eden Park.
The preference was made public by the Honourable Trevor Mallard who is the minister for the rugby world cup that will be hosted in New Zealand in 2011.
The new stadium hasn’t yet been confirmed and is awaiting November 24, which is the date when the Auckland council will give the government their views on the two options available to them; waterfront or upgrade.
According to Mr Mallard the waterfront will cost altogether around NZ$497 million compared to the cost of an upgrade of Eden Park of $385 million. However that pricing is only based on concept drawings at this point in time. The government will provide half of the funding for the waterfront stadium but they will only provide funding for the Eden Park upgrade if it was considered to be for regional purposes and not a national stadium.
Mr Mallard said: “The government has decided that a waterfront location is the option that can most meaningfully contribute to the Government’s vision for Auckland as a truly world-class, international city. This has been a finely balanced call with little difference between the two options in terms of cost and construction timelines. Advice from the experts shows that both can be delivered on time.”
The greatest concern facing the government is if they will be able to build the new stadium in time but construction will being in December 2007 to be finished by 2010, and also investigators said that it would be possible. “We have had advice from Australasia’s leading stadium designers, engineers, architects and construction experts. There is a unanimous view that the waterfront stadium is a challenge, but eminently achievable,” Mr Mallard said.
“In making its decision, the government believes that a sports stadium has the ability to contribute to the identity of Auckland and New Zealand. A national stadium will be as much a focal point of Auckland’s landscape as Rangitoto or the Sky Tower. We also believe the construction of an iconic facility such as this will help drive Auckland’s aspirations for the development of the waterfront and CBD.”
Referring to the upgrade of Eden Park, Mr Mallard said: “One of the greatest concerns is that its application for consents has unacceptable uncertainty as to the timing and outcome of the consents within the construction time available. There is also risk around the lack of flexibility in a residential area around construction times, should delays or problems with construction arise.”
The government will also need to pass a special bill that will enable them to build the required options because of consent issues.
The government had also considered these following options: Eden Park (various options), CBD waterfront (various options), North Harbour Stadium, Manukau Harbour (adjoining Westfield station), The former Carlaw Park, Mt Smart Stadium, Avondale Racecourse, The Auckland Domain and Jade Stadium.
Canada’s Don Valley East (Ward 33) city council candidates speak
Saturday, November 4, 2006
On November 13, Torontonians will be heading to the polls to vote for their ward’s councillor and for mayor. Among Toronto’s ridings is Don Valley East (Ward 33). One candidates responded to Wikinews’ requests for an interview. This ward’s candidates include Zane Caplan, Shelley Carroll (incumbent), Jim Conlon, Sarah Tsang-Fahey, and Anderson Tung.
For more information on the election, read Toronto municipal election, 2006.
Fifteen flu sufferers die in Wales in one week
Friday, January 14, 2011
Over the course of the last week, fifteen people who have suffered from influenza have died in Wales, as reported to the Welsh Assembly Government. The total amount of flu-related deaths in Wales since October 2010 has now increased to 27.
| Despite the slight increase in the clinical consultation rate for influenza this week compared to the previous week, the rate of consultations for flu-like illness in Wales still remains within the levels of normal seasonal flu activity. | ||
On Tuesday, 49 people were being treated in critical care beds in hospitals around Wales, according to health officials. With twelve reported admissions, Aneurin Bevan Local Health Board had the highest amount of critical care patients in Wales. Betsi Cadwaladr University Local Health Board has the second highest total number of patients experiencing this critical care in the country, with eleven being cared for. Cardiff and Vale University Health Board and Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board have nine important care admissions each. Cwm Taf NHS Trust contains five of such patients, while Hywel Dda NHS Trust has three.
The age group of 25–34 years old had the largest amount of meetings with general practitioners; the rate of consultation was 147 people for every 100,000. For all age groups, 93 people out of every one hundred thousand have been consulting with a GP; on January 5, the total figure stood at 85 meetings per 100,000.
“Despite the slight increase in the clinical consultation rate for influenza this week compared to the previous week, the rate of consultations for flu-like illness in Wales still remains within the levels of normal seasonal flu activity,” said Dr. Tony Jowell, the Chief Medical Officer of Wales. “Most healthy people will recover from flu-like illnesses within five to seven days with plenty of rest and drinking non-alcoholic fluids. On the issue of vaccination against seasonal flu, whilst we have been working to make stocks of the vaccine that was developed against swine flu available to be used where supplies of seasonal flu vaccine have run low, we are now well into the flu season.”
According to Media Wales, 13 patients experiencing flu-related symptoms were getting treatment at Withybush General Hospital in Haverfordwest on Tuesday. Meanwhile, five were receiving hospital treatment at Bronglais General Hospital in Aberystwyth. Also, Carmarthenshire NHS Trust in Llanelli and West Wales General Hospital in Carmarthen both had a solitary patient.
Jowell also commented: “People in at-risk groups are at a higher risk of complications from seasonal flu, and the best protection is early vaccination. A press and publicity campaign has been running since October and has included television, radio and bus adverts to let people know if they are in an at-risk group, and that the vaccine is available free of charge to those groups from GPs. We have also encouraged health boards and GPs to ensure that their patients and front line NHS staff are vaccinated against seasonal flu.”
Throughout the United Kingdom, 62 individuals reportedly died in the last week, as the result of suffering from influenza. The majority of these victims were suffering from swine flu. In most of these cases, the sufferers were aged between 15 and 64. However, nine of the fatalities were of children aged below fourteen.
The Health Benefits Gained From Roller Skating
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By James Brown
While roller skating is an activity that is a lot of fun to do for many reasons, it is also an activity that provides many therapeutic benefits too. When people become active and spend several times a week doing so, they are also using muscles that have become strengthened by the rigorous movements required to roller skate. Roller skating has the capability to return strength to muscles that have been weakened by many diseases.
Roller skating is a very strenuous form of exercise to those that unaccustomed to exercise. Some people decide to forego walks for this because it is an activity that the entire family can participate in, and those who are obese and in need of weight loss prefer to be surrounded by people they know to get the exercise they need. It is more enticing to participate in racing events while wearing roller skates than to participate in exercises such as running.
People that suffer from heart problems find great health benefits from roller skating. It is an activity that has the ability to increase the circulation of blood throughout the body and help build and strengthen the heart which is one of the largest independently operated muscles in the body. Most roller skaters with heart problems will participate in this sport under the advisement of their cardiologist.
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There are other health benefits that will become quite evident in people that suffer from depression and social disorders. Roller skating is a sport that draws people out of their shell and gets them to integrate with members of society. People that roller skate on a weekly basis have something to look forward to each week and for people who are depressed, the health benefits will be evident because these patients will participate with more energy and their pleasure will show by the smile that shows on the face.
Various parts of the body benefit from the exercise that roller skating offers. The skating action will rebuild the abdomen muscle structure and help new mothers regain the figure that they had before childbirth, and allow them to keep their child near them while they are exercising. Couples can maintain a fulfilling relationship when they go roller skating together and have a social life again that is as social as they want it to be.
Roller skating can be done at any time of the day, and many couples arrange their schedules so that they can spend an evening out without worrying about it hurting the family budget. A person can gain many health benefits from the calories that they burn up while roller skating and many couples enjoy integrating it into their exercise routines for this particular reason. Many people have compared the physical exertion derived from skating to that found during an aerobics workout, but prefer it more because it does not cause damage to the joints in the body.
Some people might realize that they have problems with their health while roller skating. They will feel twinges of pain in their knees or elbows and seek out a physician to explain the problems that they are having. Some people might find out that they suffer from arthritis or various forms of rheumatism and are astounded that the discovery was made possible by the simple fact that they chose to go roller skating once or twice a week.
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Former Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian released on bail
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Taiwan’s former President, Chen Shui-bian (???), has been conditionally released on bail, some ten hours after he was indicted for corruption. Speaking to media at the Taipei District Court, he said: “I want to thank my lawyers, members of the Democratic Progressive Party and my supporters who have given me huge encouragement. I am grateful to those who cared for, supported and looked after me so I could get through the hardest and loneliest 32 days of my life in prison.” He earns the historical distinction of being the first ex-president of the Republic of China to be indicted for criminal offenses and could suffer life imprisonment if convicted.
Along with 13 other family members and close associates, including his wheelchair-bound wife, son Chen Chih-Chung, and daughter-in-law Huang Jui-ching, Chen was indicted Friday on charges of embezzling government funds and laundering money or ill-gotten bribes. The panel of three judges ruled he should appear at future court hearings and must not leave the country nor change his address.
Prosecutor Lin Che-hui accused Chen of having “embezzled 104 million New Taiwan dollars ($3.12 million) from a special presidential fund, and received bribes of $11.73 million in connection with a government land procurement deal and a separate construction project; the damning piece of evidence was the presence of NT$740 million ($22.2 million) in cash stashed in a Taipei bank safety vault held by the Chens.” Yuanta Securities director Tu Li-ping said, “she hand delivered NT$200 million ($6 million) in cash to Wu at the presidential residence in 2006 on behalf of executives of an affiliated bank; the money was an incentive for Wu not to interfere with a merger the bank was pursuing.”
Chen insists on his innocence. Contradicting the 100-page indictment, he said that “the $21 million his wife wired to their son’s Swiss bank accounts came from leftover campaign donations. Taiwanese law permits such donations to be kept by political candidates.”
In 1975, Chen married Wu Shu-chen (???), the daughter of a physician. The couple has a daughter, Chen Hsing-yu (???), who is a dentist; and a son, Chen Chih-Chung (???), who, having received a law degree in Taiwan, studied at and graduated with a M.A. degree from the University of California in 2005.
In November 2006, Chen’s wife Wu Shu-chen and three other high ranking officials of the Presidential Office were indicted for corruption, charged with misappropriating NT$14.8 million (USD$450,000) of government funds using falsified documents. Due to the protection from the Constitution against prosecution of the sitting president, Chen could not be prosecuted until he left office, and he was not indicted, but was alleged to be an accomplice on his wife’s indictment.
Chen’s term as President of the Republic of China ended in May 2008. Immediately thereafter, prosecutors began investigating him regarding allegations that he misused his discretionary “state affairs fund”, as well as his connection to the first family’s money-laundering activities. He resigned from the Democratic Progressive Party on August 15, 2008, one day after admitting to falsifying past campaign expenses and wiring campaign contributions to overseas accounts.
In November 2008, Chen was escorted by a security staff, into the Taipei prosecutor’s office for questioning. After 6 hours, he left the Supreme Court prosecutor`s office in handcuffs, was arrested and detained. The charges each carry a minimum penalty of 5 years imprisonment. Following a 6 day hunger strike while in detention, Chen collapsed and was rushed to Taipei’s Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, where he was later transferred to Panchiao Hospital for force-feeding. Despite Chen’s lack of interest in appealing, his lawyer Cheng Wen-long completed a motion seeking his release from detention and filed a notice of appeal of the court’s decision, along with a petition for constitutional interpretation to restrain actions violative of the Constitution.
Prosecutor General, Chen Tsung-ming said that after Chen’s case had been removed to the Taipei Local Court, he would re-file a petition for Chen’s detention. Chen and the main opposition DPP have accused President Ma Ying-jeou‘s administration of “using the scandals to plan a political plot against the former leader.”
Meanwhile, The Straits Times reported that “prosecutors are to investigate former President of the Republic of China and Chairman of the Kuomintang from 1988 to 2000, Lee Teng-hui on suspicion of money laundering, based on allegations made by Chen during his own questioning recently that his predecessor transferred large funds abroad through dummy accounts.” Mr. Lee angrily denied the accusations concerning “a suspected transfer of 50 million Taiwan dollars (US$2.26 million) to Mr Lee from a local stock investor via overseas dummy accounts.” Charges also included transactions made at the end of Lee’s tenure and at the beginning of Chen’s term, including “one billion Taiwan dollars that had been wired to various countries including Singapore.”
The China Post calls for calm and urges fair trial for Chen. “All the people should wait patiently for the outcome of the trial … They shouldn’t do anything to influence the judges in any way, because the rule of law in Taiwan is at stake. We should show the world that Taiwan is a democracy where anybody who commits a crime, be he a man on the street or a former president, is duly punished.” it said.
Former Pennsylvania Governor George Leader dies aged 95
Friday, May 10, 2013
George M. Leader, former Governor of the U.S. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, died in Hershey, Pennsylvania yesterday at the age of 95.
Leader’s death, at a retirement community he and his wife founded in 1985, comes after the former governor suffered a short illness. The community’s spokeswoman, Kelly S. Kuntz, announced Leader’s death.
Leader was born in York County, Pennsylvania in 1918. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1939, he joined his father’s poultry business. Shortly thereafter, in World War II, Leader served as an ensign in the U.S. Navy.
After serving in the State Senate for four years, Leader, a Democrat, was elected Governor of Pennsylvania in the 1954 election. Sworn-in in 1955, he served as Governor until 1959.
Upon taking office at the age of 37, Leader became the second-youngest Governor of Pennsylvania behind Robert E. Pattison, who was 32 years old at his 1883 inauguration.
Current Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett mandated state flags be flown at half staff until the evening of Leader’s burial. Corbett also praised Leader, describing him as someone who “defied political labels and conventional thinking in his tireless work for Pennsylvania and its people.”
Former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell also commented on Leader’s death, saying he would be remembered as “a man who cared very deeply about what happened around him.”
Looking For New Career Help?
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By James Copper
Unfortunately, our faltering economy has caused more than a few people to have to reconsider their careers. People who have spent their entire working career doing the same job are seeing those jobs disappearing, or the hours are being chopped considerably. As a result, more people are going back to college or training to become something completely different. If you have recently lost your job, or you have seen your hours dwindling, you should know that there are a lot of resources to help you along the path to a better career. Also, these resources are still available to you if your career change was voluntary. Its true that there are lots of people out there who simply get burned out in their chosen career, and decide that they need a change.
For one, the internet has become a great place to help you find the best career for you. It should come as no surprise, because the internet has become a large part of every aspect in our lives. So of course it can be a place where you can find your perfect career, everything about that career, and you may even be able to get training for that career online. Otherwise, the internet can direct you to schools and training programs where you can learn about the new career, and be well on your way to starting a new phase in your life.
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For example, you may have spent the last 20 years working at a plant that manufactures automobiles. Everything is great until the economy heads into a downturn. Pretty soon, the company is losing money, and people are beginning to lose their jobs or at least be laid off. If you have lost your job and you do not have other training, then you should know how difficult it is to get a good job when you do not have the required training.
One new career helpful tip is simply to sit down and really think about what you would like to do. If you are starting a new career, there could not be a better time to go after the job you really want. If you have trouble choosing, just make a list of the pros and cons of each possible career. If you do not have a clear idea of what you would like to do, then you could either just make a list of your strongest points, and try to find a job that will match them, or you could fill out an online survey that will match you with a new career that you will love. If the new job requires technical training or expensive college courses, then you can look into financial aid in order to take some of the financial burden off of choosing a new career.
So if you feel like you are in new career limbo, then rest assured that you are not alone, and that there is lots of new career help to make sure you find the best job and that you find a job that you can keep.
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New Doctor Who quits series, BBC searches for replacement actor
Thursday, March 31, 2005
Success may be too much of a good thing for the future of storied BBC series Doctor Who. After the unexpected popularity of last Saturday’s return of the series to BBC airwaves, the star of the show is calling it quits from fears of typecasting.
According to a report from the BBC, actor Christopher Eccleston, who injected a edgier and sexier image onto the title character plans to leave the series once his 13-episode commitment is over later this year. Eccleston told reporters that his last appearance as The Doctor will be for a December Christmas special.
The show, which debuted March 26 after a 16-year hiatus, was the highest-rated television show in the UK that night. With an estimated viewership of about 10.5 million at its peak, more than 44 percent of all television households in the country tuned in to see the new Doctor. “The audience’s response for the new Doctor Who has been incredible and I am really proud to be part of it and I hope viewers continue to enjoy the series,” Eccleston said in a BBC release.
But that popularity was a double-edged sword for Eccleston. With roughly half the population seeing him as Doctor Who, he feared that once typecast as a science fiction Time Lord, audiences may not accept him in other roles. At one year, Eccleston will be the shortest-lived Doctor after Paul McGann who starred in the 1996 telemovie.
But the television network airing the show wants more of the crowd pleaser. The BBC has committed to producing a second 13-episode run of the reinvigorated series and says it is in talks with actor David Tennant to take on the role. Tennant is a star of the BBC period drama, Casanova.
In the announcement of the renewal of Doctor Who, the BBC did say it re-signed series co-star Billie Piper, who agreed to reprise the role of the Doctor’s sidekick for series two.