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04/22/2025
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Spring Into Action! The sun is shining, the flowers are blooming and you can't wait 'til it's cute dresses and sandals all the time. But as much as you wanna slip on your flips and frolic, the truth is, you've got just enough energy left each day to crash on the couch the sec you get home. (No surprise considering you've been going nonstop since September.) Ready to put some spring in your step? Explore six healthy ways to beat feeling beat.
Spring Forward Spring is an excellent time to clean house and clear the mind. Winter months can be dreary, especially if the weather is bad, and the freshness of spring allows people to refresh their attitudes toward life and family. Spring also allows people to engage in outdoor activities.
Try one or all of these strategies to tap into the season's vibrant energy. "Wake up early and take a few minutes to listen to your breath and watch the darkness fade," suggests herbalist Mike Neller. Once the sun rises, try this energizing, yoga-inspired move from psychiatrist Dorothea Hover-Kramer, eat a sour food like a pickle garnish with your favorite sandwich, or scrub away winter skin by making a salt scrub.
Don't give up on those New Year's resolutions just yet! You have plenty of year left. If you want to make a change or a breakthrough, here are some prompts to get you headed where you want to go.
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It's World Autism Day! Did you know that about 1 in 100 children are diagnosed with autism? Care for people with autism needs to be accompanied by actions at community and societal levels for greater accessibility, inclusivity and support.
ISBN: 9780399185618
This New York Times-bestselling book upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently. What is autism? A lifelong disability, or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is all of these things and more--and the future of our society depends on our understanding it. Wired reporter Steve Silberman unearths the secret history of autism, long suppressed by the same clinicians who became famous for discovering it, and finds surprising answers to the crucial question of why the number of diagnoses has soared in recent years. Going back to the earliest days of autism research, Silberman offers a gripping narrative of Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger, the research pioneers who defined the scope of autism in profoundly different ways; he then goes on to explore the game-changing concept of neurodiversity. NeuroTribes considers the idea that neurological differences such as autism, dyslexia, and ADHD are not errors of nature or products of the toxic modern world, but the result of natural variations in the human genome. This groundbreaking book will reshape our understanding of the history, meaning, function, and implications of neurodiversity in our world.
Uniquely Human: Updated and Expanded by
ISBN: 9781982193898
Autism therapy typically focuses on ridding individuals of "autistic" symptoms such as difficulties interacting socially, communication problems, sensory challenges, and repetitive behavior patterns. Now, this updated and expanded edition of Dr. Barry M. Prizant's Uniquely Human tackles new language such as shifting from "person-first language" to "identity-first language," diversity of identity in the autism sphere, and the future of autistic advocacy by amplifying the voices of autistic and neurodivergent individuals. "A must-read for anyone touched by autism...Dr. Prizant's Uniquely Human is a crucial step in promoting better understanding and a more humane approach" (Associated Press). Instead of classifying "autistic" behaviors as signs of pathology, Dr. Prizant sees them as part of a range of strategies to cope with a world that feels chaotic and overwhelming. Rather than curb these behaviors, it's better to enhance abilities, build on strengths, and offer supports that will lead to more desirable behavior and a better quality of life.
ISBN: 9781452167916
In Classroom Six, second left down the hall, Henry has been on the lookout for a friend. A friend who shares. A friend who listens. Maybe even a friend who likes things to stay the same and all in order, as Henry does. But on a day full of too full, too close, too loud, when nothing seems to go right, will Henry ever find a friend--or will a friend find him? With insight and warmth, this heartfelt story from the perspective of a boy on the autism spectrum celebrates the everyday magic of friendship.
On this day in 1918, daylight savings time went into effect for the first time.
Daylight Saving Time (DST) is a government policy regulating the timing of daylight during the summer months. While DST's existence is taken for granted in modern American life, the adoption and expansion of the policy was heavily debated, with strong opposition that persists to the present day—a full century after its inception as a World War I energy‐efficiency program. After reviewing the history of DST, we analyze the political economy of congressional vote choice on DST policy.
Clocks will move ahead an hour on the second Sunday in March and back on the first Sunday in November, adding three weeks in the spring and a week in the fall to daylight time. By increasing daylight at the end of the day, U.S. citizens hope to conserve energy and reduce the need for artificial light.
Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia reset their clocks move forward from standard time, starting daylight saving time and giving us more late-evening sunlight. From a health standpoint, most sleep and circadian experts say we should stay in in standard time instead, as that early-morning sunlight is key to maintaining our circadian rhythms, sleep-wake cycles and overall health.
This article looks at the most significant public debate over time in Montreal's history: the beginnings of daylight saving time (1907-1928) in Montreal, Canada. Seeing daylight saving time as an example of the disembedding of time from place, the article demonstrates the importance of local social dynamics in the creation of meanings of modernity. Daylight saving time began as an idea to save money and improve people's lives, though it was ridiculed until the First World War, when it was put in place in Montreal and much of North America and Europe. Yet after the war, it was rejected as a national measure, and subsequently much of North America and eventually even the Island of Montreal turned into a patchwork of time zones.
Randolph Caldecott was born on this day in 1846. While working as a bank clerk, he began drawing for periodicals such as London Society, and, after he moved to London, Punch and Graphic. He developed a gently satirical style and achieved success with illustrations for Washington Irving’s books The Sketch Book (1875) and Bracebridge Hall (1876). A publisher saw his works with Irving and offered Caldecott the chance to illustrate a series of picture books. Hailed as his best work, these colored illustrations for 16 children's tales include The House That Jack Built, Hey Diddle Diddle, and The Grand Panjandrum Himself. The drawings made him famous, and two of these illustrated books were issued approximately every Christmas from 1878 until the year of his death in 1886.
Since 1920, the American Library Association has issued a medal to honor children's book illustrators. The Caldecott Medal for excellence in children's-book illustration by an American citizen or resident is named for him.
Here are some recent Caldecott winners:
ISBN: 9780316353229
The first picture book written and illustrated by award-winning creator Vashti Harrison traces a child's journey to self-love and shows the power of words to both hurt and heal. With spare text and exquisite illustrations, this emotional exploration of being big in a world that prizes small is a tender portrayal of how you can stand out and feel invisible at the same time.
ISBN: 9780593308431
This hot dog has had enough of summer in the city! Enough of sizzling sidewalks, enough of wailing sirens, enough of people's feet right in his face. When he plops down in the middle of a crosswalk, his owner endeavors to get him the breath of fresh air he needs. She hails a taxi, hops a train, and ferries out to the beach. Here, a pup can run! With fluid art and lyrical text that have the soothing effect of waves on sand, award-winning author Doug Salati shows us how to find calm and carry it back with us so we can appreciate the small joys in a day.
ISBN: 9780823446247
A story about the power of sharing memories-including the painful ones-and the way our heritage stays with and shapes us, even when we don't see it. New England Book Award Winner A New York Times Best Children's Book of the Year A Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book While driving through Ohio in an old Pontiac, a young girl's Chinese immigrant parents spot watercress growing wild in a ditch by the side of the road. They stop the car, grabbing rusty scissors and an old paper bag, and the whole family wades into the mud to gather as much as they can. At first, she's embarrassed. Why can't her family just get food from the grocery store, like everyone else? But when her mother shares a bittersweet story of her family history in China, the girl learns to appreciate the fresh food they foraged-and the memories left behind in pursuit of a new life. Together, they make a new memory of watercress.
ISBN: 9781250203557
Water is the first medicine.It affects and connects us all.Water is sacred. My people talk of a black snake that will destroy the land, Spoil the water, wreck everything in its path.They foretold that it wouldn't come for many, many years.Now the black snake is here.Told from the perspective of a Native American child, this bold and lyrical picture book written by Ojibwe/Métis author Carole Lindstrom and illustrated by Tlingit artist Michaela Goade is a powerful call to action to defend Earth's natural resources--inspired by the Dakota Access Pipeline protests and similar movements led by Indigenous tribes all across North America.
ISBN: 9780316324908
Harry Colebourn's real-life great-granddaughter tells the true story of a remarkable friendship and an even more remarkable journey--from the fields of Canada to a convoy across the ocean to an army base in England... And finally to the London Zoo, where Winnie made another new friend: a real boy named Christopher Robin. Before Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie. And she was a girl!
National Freedom of Information Day is an annual event on or near March 16, the birthday of James Madison, who is widely regarded as the Father of the Constitution and the foremost advocate for openness in government.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
—Madison to William Taylor Barry, August 4, 1822
Frank Heindel launched a citizen’s investigation on electronic voting machines in South Carolina. Using publicly available Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, he asked for a copy of the paper trail and received a CD in 2016.
ISBN: 9781250184429
In October 2016, when Donald Trump's lawyer demanded that The New York Times retract an article focused on two women that accused Trump of touching them inappropriately, David McCraw's scathing letter of refusal went viral and he became a hero of press freedom everywhere. But as you'll see in Truth in Our Times, for the top newsroom lawyer at the paper of record, it was just another day at the office.McCraw has worked at the Times since 2002, leading the paper's fight for freedom of information, defending it against libel suits, and providing legal counsel to the reporters breaking the biggest stories of the year. In short: if you've read a controversial story in the paper since the Bush administration, it went across his desk first. From Chelsea Manning's leaks to Trump's tax returns, McCraw is at the center of the paper's decisions about what news is fit to print.In Truth in Our Times, McCraw recounts the hard legal decisions behind the most impactful stories of the last decade with candor and style. The book is simultaneously a rare peek behind the curtain of the celebrated organization, a love letter to freedom of the press, and a decisive rebuttal of Trump's fake news slur through a series of hard cases. It is an absolute must-have for any dedicated reader of The New York Times.
ISBN: 9781620970515
"A timely and provocative book exploring the origins of the national security state and the urgent challenge of reining it in" (The Washington Post). From Dick Cheney's man-sized safe to the National Security Agency's massive intelligence gathering, secrecy has too often captured the American government's modus operandi better than the ideals of the Constitution. In this important book, Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr., who was chief counsel to the US Church Committee on Intelligence--which uncovered the FBI's effort to push Martin Luther King Jr. to commit suicide; the CIA's enlistment of the Mafia to try to kill Fidel Castro; and the NSA's thirty-year program to get copies of all telegrams leaving the United States--uses examples ranging from the dropping of the first atomic bomb and the Cuban Missile Crisis to Iran-Contra and 9/11 to illuminate this central question: How much secrecy does good governance require? Schwarz argues that while some control of information is necessary, governments tend to fall prey to a culture of secrecy that is ultimately not just hazardous to democracy but antithetical to it. This history provides the essential context to recent cases from Chelsea Manning to Edward Snowden. Democracy in the Dark is a natural companion to Schwarz's Unchecked and Unbalanced, cowritten with Aziz Huq, which plumbed the power of the executive branch--a power that often depends on and derives from the use of secrecy. "[An] important new book . . . Carefully researched, engagingly written stories of government secrecy gone amiss." --The American Prospect
ISBN: 9781594206665
Publication Date: 2017-07-11
In its earliest days, the Internet seemed to all of us to be an unqualified good- It was a way to share information, increase productivity, and experience new freedoms and diversions. Alexander Klimburg was a member of the idealistic generation that came of age with the Internet. Two decades later, he-and all of us-have been forced to confront the reality that an invention that was once a utopian symbol of connection has evolved into an unprecedented weapon and means of domination. a Klimburg is a leading voice in the international dialogue on the implications of this dangerous shift, and in The Darkening Web, he presents the urgent reality that we are vastly underestimating the consequences of states' aspirations to project power in cyberspace. Cyberspace, Klimburg contends, is facilitating the emergence of a new dimension of political conflict. This world is marked by the rise of not only cyber warfare and hacking in its many forms, but also information warfare-propaganda and covert influencing. At risk is not only our personal data or electrical grid, but the Internet as we know it today-and with it the very existence of democratic societies. With a skillful blend of anecdote and argument, Klimburg brings us face-to-face with the range of threats the struggle for cyberspace presents, from an apocalyptic scenario of debilitated civilian infrastructure to a 1984-like erosion of privacy and freedom of expression. Focusing on different approaches to cyber-conflict in the US, Russia and China, Klimburg reveals the extent to which the battle for control in this new conflict is as complex and perilous as the one surrounding nuclear weapons during the Cold War-and quite possibly as dangerous for humanity as a whole. Authoritative, thought-provoking, and compellingly argued, The Darkening Webmakes clear that the debate about our different aspirations for cyberspace is nothing short of a war over our global values.
ISBN: 9781350322936
Liberalism is in trouble. As a set of ideas, it has lost much of its historical authority in guiding public policy and personal behaviour. In this post-liberal climate, Russell Blackford asks whether liberalism is truly over. How We Became Post-Liberal examines how Western liberal democracies became nations where traditional liberal principles of toleration (religious and otherwise), individual liberty and freedom of speech are frequently dismissed as outdated or twisted to support conservative policies. Blackford traces the lineage of liberalism from problems of toleration that emerged when Christianity triumphed in the late centuries of classical antiquity, with comparison to non-Western civilizations. The political and philosophical story culminates in the recent development - over the past 30 to 50 years - of post-liberal ideologies in the West. At each stage, Blackford discusses arguments for and against liberal principles, identifying why no argument to date has been totally successful in convincing opponents, while maintaining that liberalism's ideas and language are still worth saving. From campus wars over academic freedom to the Charlie Hebdo attack and the murder of Samuel Paty, this is an indispensable guide for anyone wanting to understand the why, what and how of the post-liberal world.
People everywhere rely on wildlife and biodiversity-based resources to meet our needs - from food, to fuel, medicines, housing, and clothing. For us to enjoy the benefits and the beauty that nature brings us and our planet, people have been working together to make sure ecosystems are able to thrive and plant and animal species are able to exist for future generations. So, let’s celebrate wildlife and the important conservation work being done around the world! - It's World Wildlife Day!!
These films highlight the incredible adaptability of wildlife, from the depths of the ocean to the tallest trees in rainforests around the world.
It's Dental Health Month! Here at Big Sandy, we have a great technical program for Dental Hygienists and Dental Assisting. These professionals create beautiful smiles for a living as a dental assistant or hygienist. Students gain the technical and interpersonal skills essential for work in a dentist’s office. Students regularly advertise free student-led dental cleaning sessions in Paintsville.
Here are more great resources for excellent dental health:
The Berenstain Bears Visit the Dentist by
ISBN: 0394848365
Complete with a visit from the Tooth Fairy, this classic Berenstain Bears story is the perfect way to calm children's nerves about going to the dentist! Come for a visit in Bear Country with this classic First Time Book from Stan and Jan Berenstain. Join Mama, Papa, Brother, and Sister for a trip to the dentist where they'll get checked for cavities, have their teeth cleaned, and learn all about the tools a dentist uses to help keep teeth healthy. Includes over 50 bonus stickers!
ISBN: 9781401953171
Lin shares the food-based health principles he has developed over the course of his dental career. He lays out a dietary program that not only prevents both dental fillings and cholesterol medications but gives readers the resources to raise kids who develop naturally straight teeth. Lin provides the science behind his program, shares real-world applications, and arms the reader with a 40-day meal plan to implement the techniques into your everyday life.
The Dental Hygienist's Guide to Nutritional Care by
Call Number: RK60.7 .S74 2019
ISBN: 9780323497275
Publication Date: 2018-02-16
Learn how to apply nutritional principles to promote optimal patient care! The Dental Hygienist's Guide to Nutritional Care, 5th Edition explains how teaching proper nutrition can improve your clients' oral and systemic health. Case studies and clear, full-color photos and illustrations provide a basis for assessing, diagnosing, planning, implementing, and evaluating the care of patients. In addition, a solid foundation in nutrition prepares you for the subject's increased emphasis on the NBDHE examination.
The Journal of Dental Hygiene is the premier, peer-reviewed scientific research publication. In each issue, ADHA members will find articles help them make evidence-based treatment decisions and more.
The official journal of the American Dental Association, JADA contains valuable information for all thing dental.
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