Government funding for alcohol harm reduction has also dried up. In 2009, the Justice Department budget for grants to states to enforce underage drinking laws was $25 million. By 2015, it was zero. At the request of the Obama White House, Congress also eliminated an Education Department program that combated underage drinking, among other initiatives.
And I’ll tell you another bummer: working the night shift definitely increases the risk of contracting cancer. It was established quite some time ago for female nurses (I am not sure of which cancers were of increased prevalence among them, it *might* be breast cancer). [I will look it up.] Several years *after* my colorectal cancer diagnosis enough data had been collected on male nurses to evaluate it in their case. Upshot: clearly increased risk of [you guessed it] colorectal cancer, with as little as a year working the graveyard shift. I worked the graveyard shift for more than twenty years. Health care workers very commonly suffer from the “Florence Nightingale Complex,” inconveniencing themselves (the more the better) for the ill and injured. I did. I will of course never know what caused my cancer, either. And wider society will not give up its expectation that people (other than themselves) have some sort of obligation to work when they sleep; they don’t know how awful it is. Oh, and in general night shift workers have a decreased life expectancy—from all sorts of things including cancer (and naturally enough, auto accidents driving to and from work while seriously sleep deprived).
I noticed when in Japan that there quite a few jobs (notably janitorial services) that are commonly done on the night shift are done there on the day shift. Of course that saves money for the employers, who don't have to pay shift differentials; but it also speaks to our society's assumption that the labor of such obviously undeserving people should be hidden. Please pardon the rant. In no way do I wish to underestimate the toll of breast cancer in women.
I've never worked graveyard shift, but I worked second shirt for a few years when I was much younger. And I've been self-employed for the past 20 years and setting my own hours. I found myself quickly drifting into what amounts to a second shift schedule. No sleep deprivation in either case. And, but good fortune, no cancer.
One group that tends to be overlooked in these studies is mothers of young children. with five little ones, I was continuously nursing somebody for ten years. That's a lot of broken sleep. Yet I suspect that being around young children also increases your joy enough to increase your lifespan a bit, so maybe it's a wash.
Whoo hoo!! 😃👍 I just spoke with the folks who are repairing my Mini. They did not encounter any surprises when they took off the damaged back panels...! YAY!!! They are ahead of where they thought they’d be. Will have an update Friday, but ‘Checkers’ MIGHT be home by Tuesday!! *wOOt!!!* I’m trying not to get my hopes too high, but that’s difficult. Today I attempted to drive the rental car from my house at #42 to my hairdresser’s at #8 same road. 😳 I should have taped my left foot to the floor! Sheesh!! I miss my standard transmission! Tuesday can’t come too soon. It’s a good thing Wil has offered to be my Uber driver, meanwhile.
I was pleasantly surprised once about 25 years ago when I rented a U-Haul truck and it had a standard transmission. I hadn't driven with a standard transmission for probably fifteen years, but it came back instantly--even knowing how to double-clutch. I expect it would be about the same today--it's like riding a bicycle or basic mathematical operations on a slide rule; once learned, never forgotten.
That symbol Tom Steyer is drawing on his hand has a lot of meaning to me, and I think drawing it on his hand is a little disrespectful. He says it reminds him to speak the truth. Okay. We also are told in the article that white supremacists have made use of it as well. A pox on them! It is the Jerusalem Cross and it is a key symbol in the Episcopal faith. How key? It is the mosaic on the floor at the central apex in Washington National Cathedral! I googled to try to find a photo of it in the cathedral to no avail. However, as some of you may recall, it was the very spot on which West Wing's President Bartlet stamped out a cigarette when he was duly angry with God after his secretary and friend, Mrs. Landingham. died in a car accident. The scene is incredibly moving and quite a profession of faith, in the traditional sense, because to be angry with God is to still acknowledge the existence of God. Anyway, it's a powerful scene and worth a look even if you've never watched West Wing. It takes place just at the end of her funeral service in the Cathedral and the scene was shot on location, so you'll see the Jerusalem Cross in the scene, just before the 3 minute mark.
Regarding the Jerusalem Cross mosaic in the Cathedral:
Installed in 1958 as a memorial to "Friends who have completed outstanding service to the Church," this intricate design contains green marble from Maryland, pink and brown marble from Tennessee, burgundy marble from Vermont and golden-toned marble from Italy.
Designed by Philip Hubert Frohman and fabricated in Italy using over two thousand pieces of marble, the work was shipped to the Cathedral in nine sections which took only five days to install.
Washington National Cathedral, known formally as the Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, was built as a "House of Prayer for all People." It is a truly national church in which people of all faiths can come together to celebrate and mourn the events that shape a nation. Chartered by Congress in 1893, the Gothic-style Cathedral was completed in 1990.
Surging Ten Points, Sanders Takes Lead Over Biden, Warren in California Tracking Poll [Click] It appears that he got nearly all Kamala Harris’ supporters. They don’t make mention of his lead among Hispanic voters, though.
ReplyDeleteThe only effective recruiter for a union is the employer. IMO [Click]
That is fine news about Bernie!!
DeleteThe article was published yesterday, before the debate. Wish I knew how they're all faring today.
Of course, Iowans aren't generally swayed by debates and local campaigning. They vote how they're going to vote.
We'll see!
Derecka Purnell: Why Cory Booker failed to inspire young voters of color [Click]
ReplyDeleteJust when I think der trunip is responsible for every evil is the world, we have:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/04/did-drinking-give-me-breast-cancer
Here is the link made clickable. I was conned too. I was struck by the following item:
ReplyDeleteGovernment funding for alcohol harm reduction has also dried up. In 2009, the Justice Department budget for grants to states to enforce underage drinking laws was $25 million. By 2015, it was zero. At the request of the Obama White House, Congress also eliminated an Education Department program that combated underage drinking, among other initiatives.
And I’ll tell you another bummer: working the night shift definitely increases the risk of contracting cancer. It was established quite some time ago for female nurses (I am not sure of which cancers were of increased prevalence among them, it *might* be breast cancer). [I will look it up.] Several years *after* my colorectal cancer diagnosis enough data had been collected on male nurses to evaluate it in their case. Upshot: clearly increased risk of [you guessed it] colorectal cancer, with as little as a year working the graveyard shift. I worked the graveyard shift for more than twenty years. Health care workers very commonly suffer from the “Florence Nightingale Complex,” inconveniencing themselves (the more the better) for the ill and injured. I did. I will of course never know what caused my cancer, either. And wider society will not give up its expectation that people (other than themselves) have some sort of obligation to work when they sleep; they don’t know how awful it is. Oh, and in general night shift workers have a decreased life expectancy—from all sorts of things including cancer (and naturally enough, auto accidents driving to and from work while seriously sleep deprived).
I noticed when in Japan that there quite a few jobs (notably janitorial services) that are commonly done on the night shift are done there on the day shift. Of course that saves money for the employers, who don't have to pay shift differentials; but it also speaks to our society's assumption that the labor of such obviously undeserving people should be hidden. Please pardon the rant. In no way do I wish to underestimate the toll of breast cancer in women.
DeleteHere are two recent articles, by no means the first:
DeleteHere’s recent confirmation for women’s increased cancer risk on the night shift. [Click] Several types of cancer.
Risk among men. [Click]
I've never worked graveyard shift, but I worked second shirt for a few years when I was much younger. And I've been self-employed for the past 20 years and setting my own hours. I found myself quickly drifting into what amounts to a second shift schedule. No sleep deprivation in either case. And, but good fortune, no cancer.
DeleteOne group that tends to be overlooked in these studies is mothers of young children. with five little ones, I was continuously nursing somebody for ten years. That's a lot of broken sleep. Yet I suspect that being around young children also increases your joy enough to increase your lifespan a bit, so maybe it's a wash.
DeleteOr I could respond: Shift? What shift? People only have to work one shift a day? Ha! Those people are not mothers!
DeleteSwing shift isn't bad at all; four tens on swing shift is pretty good, in fact.
DeleteTrump Portrayed as ‘Erratic’ and ‘Dangerously Uninformed’ [Click] in new book by Washington Post reporters. [Click] Ya think?
ReplyDeleteRight?
DeleteTo quote Kipling:
"You need not stop work to inform us;
We knew it ten seasons before."
Bolton’s Book Nearly Complete [Click] Should be a best seller, I think.
ReplyDeleteBehavioral restrictions on senators during impeachment trial [Click]
Judge blocks Trump’s refugee policy [Click] State and local officials cannot block refugee resettlement.
House impeachment managers announced for Trump Senate trial [Click]
Trump Rants About Dishwashers [Click]
Second Choices Will Decide Iowa [Click]
Trump: “I have this beautiful head of hair, I need a lot of [shower] water.”
DeleteLOL!
The fact that he thinks that cat-pee colored cotton candy on his head is a "beautiful head of hair" shows just how faulty and skewed his judgment is.
DeleteShocking about the Senate Behavior rules!
DeleteYou mean they'll actually have to ... listen?!
Oh--and we had a SECOND morning of light frost today!
ReplyDeleteHigh Five!! 🖐
DeleteWe are expecting 6-10” of snow between 11pm tonight and 7pm tomorrow!
Whoo hoo!! Not ice! Snow!!
I'll be leaving on tonight's train for Boston (Arisia science fiction convention). Back next Wednesday morning. Have fun while I'm gone, everyone!
ReplyDeleteTraveling Mercies, Bill! 🚂
Delete(Pack an umbrella and an extra layer.)
ReplyDeleteWhoo hoo!! 😃👍 I just spoke with the folks who are repairing my Mini. They did not encounter any surprises when they took off the damaged back panels...! YAY!!! They are ahead of where they thought they’d be. Will have an update Friday, but ‘Checkers’ MIGHT be home by Tuesday!! *wOOt!!!* I’m trying not to get my hopes too high, but that’s difficult. Today I attempted to drive the rental car from my house at #42 to my hairdresser’s at #8 same road. 😳 I should have taped my left foot to the floor! Sheesh!! I miss my standard transmission! Tuesday can’t come too soon. It’s a good thing Wil has offered to be my Uber driver, meanwhile.
I was pleasantly surprised once about 25 years ago when I rented a U-Haul truck and it had a standard transmission. I hadn't driven with a standard transmission for probably fifteen years, but it came back instantly--even knowing how to double-clutch. I expect it would be about the same today--it's like riding a bicycle or basic mathematical operations on a slide rule; once learned, never forgotten.
DeleteBreakthrough gives insight into early complex life on Earth [Click] Wow! they cultured archaea.
ReplyDeleteNeanderthals dived for shells to make tools, research suggests [Click] Some of them had “surfer’s ear,” which conjures up quite a vision…
'Giant, shape-shifting stars' spotted near Milky Way's black hole [Click] “Objects raise hopes of scientists managing to track ‘blobs’ being swallowed by black hole.”
Title [Click]
Cookies crumbling as Google phases them out [Click]
The accidental Singer sewing machine revolution [Click]
Liang Jun: China's first female tractor driver, and national icon, dies. [Click]
Tom Steyer: What is the symbol he draws on his hand? [Click]
That symbol Tom Steyer is drawing on his hand has a lot of meaning to me, and I think drawing it on his hand is a little disrespectful. He says it reminds him to speak the truth. Okay. We also are told in the article that white supremacists have made use of it as well. A pox on them! It is the Jerusalem Cross and it is a key symbol in the Episcopal faith. How key? It is the mosaic on the floor at the central apex in Washington National Cathedral! I googled to try to find a photo of it in the cathedral to no avail. However, as some of you may recall, it was the very spot on which West Wing's President Bartlet stamped out a cigarette when he was duly angry with God after his secretary and friend, Mrs. Landingham. died in a car accident. The scene is incredibly moving and quite a profession of faith, in the traditional sense, because to be angry with God is to still acknowledge the existence of God. Anyway, it's a powerful scene and worth a look even if you've never watched West Wing. It takes place just at the end of her funeral service in the Cathedral and the scene was shot on location, so you'll see the Jerusalem Cross in the scene, just before the 3 minute mark.
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYcMk3AJKLk
Regarding the Jerusalem Cross mosaic in the Cathedral:
Installed in 1958 as a memorial to "Friends who have completed outstanding service to the Church," this intricate design contains green marble from Maryland, pink and brown marble from Tennessee, burgundy marble from Vermont and golden-toned marble from Italy.
Designed by Philip Hubert Frohman and fabricated in Italy using over two thousand pieces of marble, the work was shipped to the Cathedral in nine sections which took only five days to install.
Washington National Cathedral, known formally as the Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, was built as a "House of Prayer for all People." It is a truly national church in which people of all faiths can come together to celebrate and mourn the events that shape a nation. Chartered by Congress in 1893, the Gothic-style Cathedral was completed in 1990.
Vatican appoints first woman to senior role in church
ReplyDeletehttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51124478
McCONNELL DOESN'T HAVE THE VOTES! He doesn't have the votes to dismiss the impeachment trial out of hand, and he doesn't have the votes to not have witnesses!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/mcconnell-lacks-the-votes-trumps-preferred-impeachment-plan
That's fun, if true! Thanks for the heads-up, listener.
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