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I have chosen this news because when I read it, I found it interesting. Besides, to know how they live in darkness during several weeks, it´s different to our way of life.
Word to learn: TO SNUGGLE UP:
1.- To lie or press closely, as for comfort or from affection; nestle; cuddle.
2.- To draw or press closely against, as form comfort or from affection.
Example in this news: To snuggle up with winter activities.

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For those who live just above the Arctic Circle, there is at least one day a year when the sun never pushes above the horizon. But there are many people who live even farther north who, after the winter solstice, don't see the sun for weeks.

We asked readers who know arctic winters well to share their stories and photos of life in the polar darkness. Nearly 700 readers responded from areas all around the Arctic Circle.

Some moved to the region for fresh starts after rocky divorces or job losses. Others were born into families who had lived in the Arctic for generations. A few came to the Arctic for research, fell in love with the lifestyle - or with a reindeer herder - and never left.

These are their photos and stories, edited and condensed for clarity.

The Landscape of 'Dayless Days'

Nina Einem lives in Tromso, Norway:

I was born and raised in the arctic areas of Norway, and live at 69 degrees north. Except for two years studying abroad, I have lived here for all my 46 years.

You might think we stumble around in plain darkness for two months, but indirect light from under the horizon colors the sky.

Gunda Hackbarth lives in Helnessund, Norway:

The mountains are blue, the ocean is blue, the snow glows blue in the distance. Sometimes the sky is orange and yellow, and at night you can see stripes of green above you.

Vegard Eggen lives in Trondheim, Norway:

I had one of my first encounters with the northern lights during my studies up north in Bodo. The green lights rolled over the mountains and almost seemed like they were going to hit me in the head.

Johanna Erkkila is a hotel entrepreneur in Sirkka, Finland:

It's difficult to describe the landscape during Kaamos ("dayless days"). On a clear night, the number of stars is beyond understanding. Sometimes when you stop in the forest, it is so quiet you think that there is something wrong with your hearing.

Sanni Orasmaa lives in Inari, Finland:

The sounds of the frost biting the corners of the house, ice singing, footsteps on the snow - these are all part of the experience.

Riitta Raekallio-Wunderink lives in Sirkka, Finland:

Snow on the ground and in the trees reflects even the smallest glimmers of light; the full moon creates the most curious movie-set-like feel.

Stephanie Hinz lives in Fort Yukon, Alaska:

You are reminded of the magnificence of our universe: a full moon, bright enough to read by; satellites slowly making their way across the sky.

Feeling the Darkness

Yury Kiselov lived for 24 years in the northern Russian city of Arkhangelsk - just below the Arctic Circle - and nine years in Tromso, Norway, which is well above it:

In Arkhangelsk, the two to three hours of dim light was bad enough, but I had to move to Tromso to see what complete darkness is - and what that darkness can do to one's mental state.

Brian McCarthy was born and raised in Fairbanks, Alaska:

Our home was located on the north side of a hill, so we received no direct sunlight for nearly 12 weeks each year. The sparkling lights of Christmas never seemed to burn so bright as in an Alaskan winter.

But in January, after the decorations are gone, the realization would set in that you were only halfway through. My mood would dive.

I highly recommend staging a Hawaiian luau in late January.

'Kos' and Perseverance

Svein Hovland is from Eikefjord, Norway:

To battle the dark and cold, we indulge in coziness. The term "kos" is a Scandinavian universal. It means to enjoy the company of family and friends and to snuggle up with winter activities.

Gustav Haggstrom, 27, grew up in Lulea, Sweden:

When I was a kid, we used to close the streetlights in the village just to get it darker and enjoy the stars and the night sky. A fire is more cozy when the darkness is complete and the wind is howling.

Mona Eskelinen lives in Rovaniemi, Finland:

When you get back from work or school, it is amazing to take all your formal clothes off, heat the sauna and sweat. Then, put on some comfortable clothes, brew your favorite hot drink and get cozy on your sofa under a blankie.

Knut Gaasvik lives in Harstad, Norway:

There are many children born between August and November :)

Vesa Miettunen lives in Rovaniemi, Finland:

The polar night is the perfect excuse to be a bit lazy. I call it my personal Arctic siesta. There is no need to stress about cleaning, no one will see the dust lying on your floor.

Gunda Hackbarth lives in Helnessund, Norway:

I live in a small village by the ocean with 300 inhabitants, mostly fishermen and old people. There are also three moose and two eagles who have joined us. I see lots of fish, birds and wildlife just outside my window. It's a good substitute for the darkness, which does affect your mood.

I like to build a snow cave, fill it with candlelight and drink a bottle of red wine with my friends. We go outside and smell the snow.

Jakob Ollander lives in Umea, Sweden, but was born and raised in Kiruna, Sweden:

We spend our lives trying to be productive and constantly trying to be better than we used to be, but when I come home to Kiruna, everything just stops. You can take it easy and slow down.

Life Doesn't Stop

Koppany Tuba lives in Enontekio, Finland:

We work, eat, sleep, have fun - even host barbecue parties in minus 40 Celsius. Life doesn't stop.

Berit Sjovik was born in Tromso, Norway:

It is a great adventure to grow up in the North. Where else in the world are children allowed to run around playing outside in the dark? No one calls their kids in at sunset because there is none.

Siri Kverneland lives in Longyearbyen, Norway:

We have to watch out for polar bears in the schoolyard, so one teacher must carry a weapon to protect the children.

Frank Stelges lives 25 miles north of Fairbanks, Alaska:

You still do a lot of things in the dark and my forehead carries the permanent imprint of my headlamp. I spend nearly the whole day outside chopping firewood for our house (we live off the grid), maintaining trails, plowing, going on walks with our dogs, snowshoeing, skiing, winter biking. It's just great.

Espen Andre Henriksen lives in Storslett, Norway:

It's tough, but our community doesn't hibernate. We still have town events and the traffic never stops. We have a saying here in Norway: "There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing."

Mark Sabbatini lives in Longyearbyen, Norway:

The world's northernmost jazz festival occurs here during the 24-hour nights in early February. Community events ensure there is almost always something of interest happening every day.

When the Sun Comes Back

Tiril Auby lives in Stamsund, Norway:

Looking forward to the 15 minutes of actual sunlight in mid-January is better than looking forward to any birthday ever. It puts everything in perspective. And we must get our rest now because there are no nights in the summer.

Madrigal Brown lives in Utqiagvik, Alaska:

When the sun comes back, I know. I know at the exact moment. Everything stops and I marvel at the way it changes the whole world.

Lillian Selvik lives in Leines, Norway:

In February we can stand in the first rays of direct sun. After all those months, it's like a firework. Your soul explodes in a rush of happiness and a longing for more, more, more. You win the Oscar for having survived.

Kevin Norman Aaland is a student in Tromso, Norway:

My advice is simple: Do not spend too much time thinking about the polar nights.

Nancy Wartik contributed reporting.

The Reader Center is one way we in the newsroom are trying to connect with you, by highlighting your perspectives and experiences and offering insight into how we work.
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Seville orange heist: Stolen fruit spills from cars

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Seville orange heist: Stolen fruit spills from cars

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I chose this piece of news because I am surprised that a simple robbery is published in international newspapers.
My word to learn: heist

Fco Javier del Rio

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Police in Spain have recovered four tonnes of stolen oranges after pulling over two cars packed with the fruit.

The oranges were found when police in Seville became suspicious and searched the vehicles following a short chase.

Five people were arrested when they could not explain where the oranges had come from. One suspect said they had picked them up from the ground.

It was later discovered that the fruit had been stolen from a warehouse in the nearby town of Carmona.

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After pulling over the two cars, police searched the surrounding area and found a van that was also loaded with oranges.
The suspects told police they had been collecting them as they travelled from a long way away, according to Europa Press.
They added that they were carrying them for their own consumption.

But police said the suspects did not have the required paperwork to be transporting such a large quantity of fruit.

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Maldives state of emergency declared by government amid political crisis

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Maldives state of emergency declared by government amid political crisis

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The state of emergency gives security officials extra powers to arrest suspects, reports say.

The government has already suspended parliament and ordered the army to resist any moves by the Supreme Court to impeach President Abdulla Yameen.

A few hours after the emergency was declared, security forces entered the Supreme Court, a court spokesman said.

There were judges inside the court but the spokesman said he was unable to contact them.

The court had ordered the reinstatement of 12 MPs, which would see the opposition majority restored.

In a landmark decision, it also ruled the trial of former President Mohamed Nasheed unconstitutional.

Following the Supreme Court's decision on Friday, the government sacked the police commissioner who had pledged to enforce the court ruling.[...]

In my opinion I think is good to know what happen in the world.
I learn the word: LANDMARCK

Sara Gil Vallejo

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Such as I said last day, I have choosen an article by the british Labour Party written by the journalist Owen Jones. I hope you learn something about politics in the United Kingdom.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/28/labour-review-candidates-not-purge-democracy-momentum

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Youngertakers: The teenagers working in the funeral trade.

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Youngertakers: The teenagers working in the funeral trade.

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I found this news that surprised me. Is it possible that young boys, of school age and dating friends, want to be carrying the bodies of deceased people or painting their nails to a woman who has just died? I honestly do not see it appropriate for this age.
The word I learned is undertaker:
a person whose profession is the preparation of the dead for burial or cremation and de managements of  funerals.
Yoli Cortés.

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In an industry that demands sensitivity and sympathy, young undertakers reveal what it's like working with the dead.

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Plastic pollution: Scientist' plea on threat  to ocean giants.

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Plastic pollution: Scientist' plea on threat  to ocean giants.

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Hello everyone,
I have chosen this piece of news, first of all because my job is closely linked to the sea, and also because in my opinion everybody should be worried about the enviroment.
The word I would like to share is FLAGSHIP, and its meaning: the best or most important one in a group or system.
Javier Clavijo.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-42920383#share-tools

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The lie that saved Holocaust survivor's life

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The lie that saved Holocaust survivor's life

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Hi people! I choose this piece of news because the past January 27th it was the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and because of this, this piece of news has been known.
It seems curious to me.

The word that I learn is a phrasal verb: Hang on to (sth), she said hang on to life, it means that she doesn't want to die, she strongly hold her life.

https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2018/01/27/the-lie-that-saved-this-holocaust-survivors-life-sg-orig.cnn/video/playlists/holocaust-remembered/

Laura Ortega.

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Hi everyone:
I have chosen this article because from my point of view it is something very common nowadays.
Are you sure you are not one of them?
My word to learn: " likelihood"
The chance that something will happen.
Jessica Salazar.

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As part of our #LikeMinded series on social media and its impact on mental health, we decided to investigate the growing hype and concern around social media addiction. It's not yet considered a recognised mental health disorder, but there's a growing body of research that's pointing towards the likelihood of certain people being more vulnerable to problematic social media use than others.
(You can read more about the research in this feature)
When we say something is 'addictive', we don't just mean 'compelling' or 'attractive'. We mean somebody that's reliant on social media psychologically and to the detriment of their relationships and work/life balance. Technological addictions have the same components that we would associate with chemical addictions, such as smoking or alcoholism.

The statements in the video are adapted from the Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale, which was used last year in its first nationally representative application to measure levels of addiction in young people in Hungary. When the scale was first designed, it was supposed to just measure excessive use of Facebook; it's since been adapted to apply to any social media use, accounting for the fact that many people have accounts on different platforms and may use many of them problematically.

This survey found that 4.5% of Hungarian youth are defined as an 'at-risk' group, reporting low self-esteem, high level of depression symptoms and elevated social media use. The researchers behind the paper recommend that these at-risk adolescents should be targeted by school-based prevention and intervention programs.

This early research may point towards a conclusion where, while many of us might be heavy users of social media, only a minority actually have a problematic relationship with it. But do you know exactly where you - and your parents, your peers, your children - actually fit in?

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The beer that's made from leftover bread

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The beer that's made from leftover bread

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Hi everyone!
Let me ask you some questions:
Do you like beer?
Have you ever heard of beer made from bread? Are you aware of how damaging food waste is for the environment?

Whatever your answers are... please, watch this interesting video.

Cheers!

Word: Eco-friendly, not harmful to the environment.

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I chose this news because it talk about a meeting in La Línea (where I live) honouring to people who left trace in our city and some schools too,so I think that it is a beautiful moment reward and remind people who were worthy of.
The word I learnt was former mayor.

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I chose this news  because I think it is increible and very unfortunate that something like this could happen.
I there no one considerated   in the emergecy room at Antequera Hospital?.
My word is. Whereabout. It means unknow place where someone could be.

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Amazon wants to disrupt Health Care in America.

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Amazon wants to disrupt Health Care in America.

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Sometime, all of us have waited for months an appointment with the doctor. Even six month if the doctor requests any test after the first checking. Sometime, we feel desesperated.
The above could be solved soon thanks to technology and there will be the possibility to have an appointment on-line.
This improvement, it will help not only to doctors, who will be more efficient, but also to people who are suffering from any disease.
Word to learn: BURNOUT, which means how we feel due to many reasons as stress, family & fiancial problems, unemployment...

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Alibaba and Tencent, which already dominate China's e-commerce and mobile payments sectors, are at the forefront. Among their goals: building diagnostic tools that will make doctors more efficient.

Amazon and its partners, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway, see technology as a way to provide simplified, affordable medical services. Although the alliance is still in the early stages, it could create online services for medical advice or use its overall heft to negotiate for lower drug prices.

"It's fair to say that across the board, the Chinese tech companies have all embraced being involved in and being active in the health care space, unlike the U.S., where some of them have and some have not," said Laura Nelson Carney, an Asia-Pacific health care analyst at Bernstein Research.

"Few of them have made moves as big as in China," Ms. Carney said, referring to Alibaba and Tencent's American rivals.

Those big moves have had varying degrees of success.

In 2014, Alibaba announced a "future hospital" plan intended to make treatment more efficient by allowing patients to consult with doctors online and order drugs via the internet. But two years later, Chinese regulators stopped the sale of over-the-counter drugs on Tmall, Alibaba's e-commerce website. They also suspended a drug-monitoring system that the company had created. And last year, the search engine company Baidu scrapped its internet health care service, which allowed patients to book doctors appointments through an app, in a bid to focus solely on A.I.

But some of the more recent initiatives have made inroads. Last year, Alibaba's health unit introduced A.I. software that can help interpret CT scans and an A.I. medical lab to help doctors make diagnoses. About a month later, Tencent unveiled Miying, a medical imaging program that helps doctors detect early signs of cancer, in the southwestern region of Guangxi. It is now used in nearly 100 hospitals across China.

Tencent has also invested in WeDoctor Group, which has opened its own take on Alibaba's "future hospital" in northwestern China. The service allows patients to video chat with doctors and fill their prescriptions online.

Advances in artificial intelligence have already been transformative for China's overworked doctors.

Dr. Yu Weihong, an ophthalmologist at Peking Union Medical College Hospital, said she used to take up to two days to analyze a patient's eyes by scrutinizing grainy images before discussing her findings with colleagues and writing up a report. Artificial intelligence software currently being tested by the hospital helps her do all that dramatically faster.

"Now, you don't even need a minute," she said.

The software has been developed by VoxelCloud, a start-up has raised about $28.5 million from companies including Tencent and the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Sequoia Capital. It specializes in automated medical image analysis, helping eye doctors like Dr. Yu screen patients for diabetic retinopathy, the leading cause of blindness among China's working-age population.

There are just 20 eye doctors for every million people here, a third of the proportion in the United States. In April, Beijing announced an ambitious plan for the country's 110 million diabetics to undergo eye tests.

"It's impossible for one person to read that many images," said Dr. Yu.

Ding Xiaowei, whose grandparents were doctors, founded VoxelCloud in 2016, three months after completing his doctorate in computer science at U.C.L.A. The company, which has offices in Los Angeles and the Chinese cities of Shanghai and Suzhou, is awaiting the green light from China's version of the F.D.A. for five diagnostic tools for CT scans and retina disease.

The sheer size of China's population - nearly 1.4 billion people who could provide a vast number of images to feed into their systems - provides a potential advantage for the development of artificial intelligence. Also helping: China has fewer concerns about privacy, allowing for easier collection of data that could result in smarter and more efficient A.I. systems. Regulation here isn't as strict as in the United States, either.

In all, more than 130 companies are applying A.I. in ways that could increase the efficiency of China's health care system, according to Yiou Intelligence, an industry consultancy based in Beijing. They range from behemoths like Alibaba and Tencent to domestic champions iFlyTek, which invented a robot that passed a Chinese medical licensing exam, and an array of smaller start-ups.

Money is flowing in. As of last August, venture capitalists such as Sequoia and Matrix Partners had invested at least $2.7 billion in such businesses, according to Yiou. Analysts at Bernstein estimated that spending in China's health tech industry will reach $150 billion by 2020.

Behind this push is a realization that the country's health care system is in crisis. With no functioning primary care system, patients flock to hospitals in major cities, sometimes camping out overnight just to get treatment for a fever. Doctors are overworked, and reports of stabbings and assaults by frustrated patients and their relatives are not uncommon.

Yunfeng, the personal investment fund of the Alibaba founder Jack Ma, has invested in one company, Yitu, that hopes to address the shortfall of resources. Yitu is working with Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital, the best medical facility in eastern Zhejiang province, to develop software that automates the identification of early stages of lung cancer.

While it initially focused on facial recognition, Yitu has branched out into more complex image-recognition challenges, like cancer scans. Lin Chenxi, who left Alibaba to establish the company in 2012, said he hoped to use the technology to ensure equal access to medical treatment across China.

"In China, medical resources are very scarce and unequally distributed so that the top resources are concentrated in provincial capitals," he said. "With this system, if it can be used at hospitals in rural cities, then it will make the medical experience much better."

Trying to identify cancer nodes - shifting black-and-white splotches that look something like a Rorschach test - is grueling work, and China's doctors have far less time and resources than their counterparts in the United States and elsewhere. Gong Xiangyang, the head of the hospital's radiology department, likened the process to a factory, where burnout and mistakes from overwork can happen.

"We have to deal with a vast amount of medical images everyday," he said. "So we welcome technology if it can relieve the pressure while boosting efficiency and accuracy."

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Amazon Wants to Disrupt Health Care in America. In China, Tech Giants Already Have.

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Alibaba and Tencent, which already dominate China's e-commerce and mobile payments sectors, are at the forefront. Among their goals: building diagnostic tools that will make doctors more efficient. Amazon and its partners, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway, see technology as a way to provide simplified, affordable medical services.

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I see interesant this news because, sometimes we forget that the medicals (and in other professions) are professional, they have been studying for a long time for be in her jobs and have a lot of experience. So I think that we can have more trust in them.

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Trust, in each other and in American institutions, is vital for our social and economic well-being: It allows us to work, buy, sell and vote with some reasonable expectation that our behavior will be met with fairness and good will.

But trust has been declining for decades, and the most tangible and immediate damage may be to public health and safety. Mistrust in the medical profession - particularly during emergencies like epidemics - can have deadly consequences.

In 1966, more than three-fourths of Americans had great confidence in medical leaders; today, only 34 percent do. Compared with people in other developed countries, Americans are considerably less likely to trust doctors, and only a quarter express confidence in the health system.

During some recent disease outbreaks, less than one-third of Americans said they trusted public health officials to share complete and accurate information. Only 14 percent trust the federal government to do what's right most of the time.

Less Likely to Engage in Healthful Behaviors

Trust is the cornerstone of the doctor-patient relationship, and patients who trust their doctors are more likely to follow treatment plans. One study found that nearly two-thirds of patients with high levels of trust always take their medications, but only 14 percent of those with low levels of trust do.

Another study found that trust is one of the best predictors of whether patients follow a doctor's advice about things like exercise, smoking cessation and condom use. Mistrust can lead people to skip the flu shot or forgo the measles vaccine for their children -with potentially serious consequences for individual patients and the broader population.

Trust is also critical for patient satisfaction, and makes it more likely that patients keep seeing the same doctor - which can have other positive effects, like fewer emergency department visits.

There are large disparities in trust along socioeconomic and racial lines (often for good reason), and building trust among vulnerable and marginalized patients may be particularly important.

For patients with H.I.V., for instance, trust in medical providers is associated with a higher likelihood of taking antiretroviral drugs, better reported mental and physical health, more clinic visits, and fewer emergency department visits. States with higher levels of social trust tend to have lower rates of late H.I.V. diagnoses - after the disease has progressed - partly because people feel more comfortable seeking care and getting tested.

Stifling Innovation

Low levels of trust can hurt innovation. We think of medical innovation as being driven by doctors, scientists and entrepreneurs, but patients play an important role, too. They must be willing to try new treatments and technologies for them to spread, but are unlikely to do so if they don't trust in the therapy's effectiveness or the prescriber's motives.

One study found that for cancer patients considering experimental chemotherapy, trust in their physician was one of the most important reasons they enrolled in a clinical trial - on par with the belief that the treatment would be effective.

Today, in the era of wearable devices and electronic health records, trust that personal data will be kept secure and private - and that such technologies are useful - remains a barrier to greater acceptance and use. Despite millions of dollars being poured into telemedicine, Americans are still much less likely to trust diagnoses made remotely than those made in person.

Responding to Epidemics

Perhaps most concerning is evidence that low levels of trust can weaken the ability of governments and public health agencies to respond to epidemics. A recent study suggests that Ebola spread more widely and persisted longer than it otherwise would have if there were higher levels of institutional trust.

Researchers surveyed people in Liberia about their knowledge of Ebola, about how much they trusted the government, and how likely they were to take recommended precautions against Ebola. These precautions included adopting safe burial practices; abiding by restrictions on travel, social gatherings and curfews; keeping a bucket of chlorinated water at home; and avoiding physical contact with those displaying symptoms.

People who didn't trust the government were much less likely to take recommended precautions. They weren't less well informed about Ebola, nor did they hold more erroneous beliefs. They just trusted less.

Can Trust Be Rebuilt?

Trust, of course, requires trustworthiness. Waning trust in the health system is partly a result of the sometimes well-founded public perceptionthat its key players pursue profits at the expense of patients. (The United States is the only wealthy advanced nation that has not committed to universal health care.)

But there are steps medical leaders and public health officials can take to show they deserve to be trusted. People's trust depends fundamentally on three questions: Do you know what you're doing? Will you tell me what you're doing? Are you doing it to help me or help yourself?

Clear, transparent communication and a history of fulfilled trust are important, and health care providers can also build trust by disclosing conflicts of interest; creating expectations for long-term relationships; and promoting shared interests and smaller power differences with patients. Giving patients easier access to their medical notes, for instance, may help them feel more in control of their care and increase trust in their providers - especially for vulnerable populations.

Many patients have also traditionally been wary of the motives and methods of medical research. Partnering with patients and communities to give them greater say in the goals, design and dissemination of research can help ease a sense that research is being conducted "on them" instead of "with them."

More engagement between individual patients and physicians through collaborative endeavors may have the added benefit of capitalizing on a paradox of Americans' trust: We're highly trusting of our own doctors and generally satisfied with our own care, but we distrust medical leaders and the health system as a whole.

Governments should also consider using trusted spokesmen and spokeswomen during crises. In a disease outbreak caused by bioterrorism, for example, Americans are more likely to trust information coming from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention than the Department of Health and Human Services or the F.B.I. Demonstrably false statements from high-level government officials can have lasting consequences for Americans' trust in institutions.

All institutions are imperfect, and some are plainly corrupt. A degree of skepticism is inevitable and important. But when doubt becomes pervasive, it can erode the glue that binds society together, and the medicine that keeps us healthy.

Dhruv Khullar, M.D., M.P.P., is a physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and a researcher at the Weill Cornell Department of Healthcare Policy and Research. Follow him on Twitter at @DhruvKhullar.

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Soto Grande will be venue for film shooting in February.

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Soto Grande will be venue for film shooting in February.

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Hello everyone , I chose this a pice of news , because , maybe trere are someone whose  like working in this movie , such as an actor , director , or doble the some actor .
Even thougt , if you like this area , you will see the luxury houses and might be you can meet some important actor or you will be able to know a Santy Amadeo who is the director film .

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The American Dream is Over. This is the Age of the European Dream.Or, How Europe Built a Working Social Contract, But America Didn’t

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The American Dream is Over. This is the Age of the European Dream.Or, How Europe Built a Working Social Contract, But America Didn’t

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Hi partners! I'm Raúl and I've chosen this article because it's a comparison between American's society and European's society but relating to the type of economy we have nowadays: the neoliberalism, and  how European's governments have found a way to include in that extreme capitalism the basic necessities for a healthy society like public education, healthcare, pensions etc.
Although I don't agree with all the author said in the article, I think it's a good read to think about these basic necessities and how there are some people who want to destroy them.
Word: Buttress, to give support or encouragement to

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Or, How Europe Built a Working Social Contract, But America Didn't

One of my recent essays said something like "European democracy is more robust than American democracy" - and soon enough, I received a number of angry tweets (from people who hadn't read it, natch). What about Poland and Austria! Le Pen?!! My god!! The gall!!

So. Let us think about it. Do you see a tiny number of Nazis running Europe - like they do America? Just today I read about a professor who was jailed for giving immigrants food. That, friends, is fascism - a Gestapo being born before our unbelieving eyes. Do you see racial supremacists occupying the highest posts in the land - reshaping all its laws and norms? Of course not.

The hardest is thing is often to see what is right before our blind eyes. So let us try, just for a moment, to imbibe the lesson that modernity is trying to teach us in this troubled age.
The American Dream is over. This is the age of the European Dream.
What do I mean? First let me discuss it, then I will give you all the qualifications that you need, for no doubt, many of you already object. Europe is the sick man of the world! It is a place full of unemployment and idle, lazy people, cry the American economists. Is it?

In most of Europe - Scandinavia, core Europe, whether Germany, France, or Holland, even in countries that have been historical laggards, like Spain, people now enjoy the highest living standards in human history, ever, period. Even Italians - maligned as the caricatures of misgovernance - live half a decade longer than Americans. Europeans live longer, better, richer, saner, healthier, fuller lives - than Americans, than the rest of the world, compared to what might have been expected just a few short decades ago, when those very countries lay in ruins, and most importantly. In the eyes of history, Europe is something like human society's most improbable but greatest success.

How did they do it? Well, that is also the story of why America didn't do it. America chose a social contract based on extreme capitalism. It came to be called neoliberalism. The central belief was that markets are the one single solution for every kind of social issue, challenge, or problem. Now, if that strikes you today as, well, silly, fair enough - just transport yourself back a few decades to Cold War paranoia, and then post Cold War utopianism.

If these mighty weapons called markets were so strong that they had defeated that evil empire, the Soviet Union - then how could they not be Holy Grails that would fix everything? And so as soon as the Berlin Wall fell, markets were set free across that poor, benighted land called America. Healthcare? Markets! Media? Markets? Finance, education, transport? Markets! Energy and water? Markets, markets, markets!

Now the effects of all this were as ruinous as any thinking person might have suggested - and many did. Markets corrode trust and norms and values. In the absence of rules to keep them competitive, they cannot do much but become monopolies and maximize profits - and that cut-throat predatory behaviour soon comes to be lionized as desirable and noble. Yet in many cases, markets simply cannot work at all - for example, when people's lives are at stake, or when they don't have information, or when there's no reason for capitalists to seek a profit to begin with. But the fact is that most of the things our lives depend most on - healthcare, media, finance, energy, water - meet one, if not all three, of these criteria.

So here America is. Still trying to use what it imagines are Holy Grails, markets, to solve everything - which means that public investment can never happen, because it is the opposite of markets. But markets are not Holy Grails. They are just another kind of tool, and one that is not suited to all a society's tasks. And so people's lives are simply falling apart - and as they do, so is their democracy, as people turn to strongmen to fix their problems and soothe their wounds. Soon, they will live a decade shorter than Europeans - and those short lives will be full of endless work, misinformation, junk food and media and education, no savings, no retirement, little happiness: Americans will never realize themselves to nearly the same degree that Europeans do.

What did Europe do differently? Well, the striking thing is this. Though European countries are very different culturally and even socially, they converged on something like very much the same social contract.

Great public institutions - think of the BBC, the NHS, or France's pension system - would provide the basics of life. Healthcare, media, retirement, finance, transport, and so on. These public goods allowed Europeans not to have spend through the nose for decent lives - and so they built savings. Having saved, they could then go on investing in these institutions - further elevating and expanding their qualities of life. Whether Germany, Spain, France, Holland, Scandinavia - the details differ, but the features of the social contract are more or less the same.

And so was the other side of the social contract - the role of capitalism. Unlike in the US, capitalism wasn't fetishized. It was viewed more realistically. It was there to provide the luxuries of life - not the necessities. So it was put to work to make things like fine champagne and high end industrial goods, cars etcetera, and fashion, which are all things at which Europe now excels. But even there, it was carefully integrated with non-profit-maximizing, but what we might say are restraining mechanisms: to make fine food in Europe, you are generally certified by coops or nonprofits or governmental bodies. The idea was not to let quality descend to the lowest common denominator - and that, too, worked, because Europe provides many, many more high-end goods than America does.

So Europe's social contract is more successful in all ways, not just one. It's socialism works better, giving people the basics of life, at vastly higher qualities. But it's capitalism works better, too. How can that be?

Think healthcare. Having a baby costs $30K in the US - but in Europe, it's free. And, strikingly, its capitalism works better, too. The US might have made Amazons and Googles and Facebooks and Walmarts - but the price is dead-end low-wage labour for an entire nation. So by focusing instead on quality instead of quantity, on keeping capitalism working where it works best - at luxuries, not necessities - European capitalism, too, works better. It's fairer, it's cleaner, and most importantly, it yields actual benefits to people's lives. Think of a BMW or an Hermes - they employ skilled people in real careers, not neoserfs slaving away in Amazon warehouses serving a tiny number of ultra-rich Facebook investors.

European capitalism and socialism developed into complements, each buttressing the other. They are often in tension, of course - just like a building's arch is. Still, together, these once-opposed systems lift lives higher than either did alone - and that is the great lesson of the last century.

The European social contract works because socialism and capitalism do not compete much - each is focused where it works best. But in America, the social contract never developed this way - socialism and capitalism are thought to be substitutes, not complements, thing which compete with one another, so they are never allowed to support one another. And because capitalism maximizes profits, which should rain down on the huddled masses, what need is there for any social institutions, investment, ideas? And that is how America fell while Europe rose.

Now. Those qualifications I promised you. Even Europe is making basic mistakes of management - foolish forcing austerity on the periphery, which threatens the future of the very dream I have discussed, by driving its fascist movements - when investment is free, because interest rates are negative.

So none of this means Europe is perfect or destined for glory or beyond criticism. It doesn't mean Europe doesn't and won't have extremism, bigotry, sexism, racism, greed, fear, and delusion. Of course not. So nor does it mean every European country - there will always be dark spots in any society, and they will usually be in the periphery. Therefore none of the above means Europe is above the iron laws of socioeconomics. Here's another example: even in Germany, the depressed East has sent Neo-Nazis to the Bundestag. Big mistake, right?

So no society is above history or human folly. The question we must ask is only this. Who has gotten a dream right - a vision worth aspiring to? Remembering that even though it will always be full of mistakes, riddles with holes, tattered at the edges, we are not seeking perfection, only the least imperfection. Then we are a little wise - and that wisdom gives us courage and grace. Otherwise, seeking perfection, we end up just like America: unable to think clearly at all, seeking Holy Grails to worship, instead of slowly doing the difficult work of improving human societies.

Umair
January 2018

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The American Dream is Over. This is the Age of the European Dream.

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Or, How Europe Built a Working Social Contract, But America Didn't One of my recent essays said something like "European democracy is more robust than American democracy" - and soon enough, I received a number of angry tweets (from people who hadn't read it, natch). What about Poland and Austria! Le Pen?!!

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If Your Cat Swats with Its Left Paw, It's Probably Male

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If Your Cat Swats with Its Left Paw, It's Probably Male

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The main reason I don't follow the news is that it causes me to feel anxious or depressed. I chose this article because it's truly positive and interesting.
My word to learn: underlying. It means fundamental or basic in the context of the article. For instance, an underlying reason or problem is the real reason or problem, although it is not obvious.

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When your cat knocks your favorite coffee mug off the counter, does it use its left paw or its right?

There's no need to sacrifice any drink-ware for the answer; your cat's gender should tell you enough. According to a small feline-behavior study published in the journal Animal Behaviour, female cats are significantly more likely to be right-paw-dominant, while male cats typically favor their left paws. And while this bit of purr-snickety trivia might seem insignificant, your cat's dominant paw may be an indicator of the animal's well-being, said study author Deborah Wells, a reader at Queen's University Belfast's School of Psychology.

For starters: Yes, cats can (and often do) have a dominant paw preference. When animals favor one side of their body over another, it's known as laterality, Wells and her colleagues wrote. Laterality also exists in amphibians, rodents, primates, marsupials and even whales. [ 10 Weird Cat Behaviors Explained]

In this study, Wells and her colleagues studied paw-preference data from 44 cats (24 male and 20 female) of varying breeds, gathered over three months by the cats' owners. Unlike in previous feline paw-dominance studies conducted in lab settings, participating cats were monitored throughout the course of their daily home lives to see which paw they naturally led with during several routine behaviors.

Researchers were most interested in which paw each cat led with when walking down stairs and stepping over the raised edges of their litter boxes, and whether the cat favored one side over the other when lying down to sleep. In addition to this "spontaneous" data, researchers supervised each cat retrieving treats from a food maze - a spherical tower with three layers of holes leading to a snack - during several lab trials.

In the end, 73 percent of cats showed a clear paw preference when reaching for food, 70 percent showed a preference when stepping down stairs, and 66 percent showed a preference when stepping over the lips of their litter boxes.

Both male and female cats showed a dominant paw preference. Males strongly favored their front left paws, and females strongly favored their front right paws. (Neither male nor female cats appeared to have preferred sleeping sides.)

"The findings point more and more strongly to underlying differences in the neural architecture of male and female animals," Wells said in a statement. And while the explanation for this gender-biased behavior could be as simple as the presence of different hormones in male and female cats, Wells said a cat's preferred paw might be a strong indicator of the animal's personality.

"Ambilateral animals with no preference for one side or the other, and those that are more inclined to left-limb dominance, for example, seem more flighty and susceptible to poor welfare than those who lean more heavily towards right-limb use," Wells said. "We have just discovered that left-limbed dogs, for example, are more pessimistic in their outlook than right-limbed dogs. From a pet owner's perspective, it might be useful to know if an animal is left- or right-limb dominant, as it may help them gauge how vulnerable that individual is to stressful situations."

The new study did not account for the participating cats' stress levels or emotional welfare, but all of them were judged to be healthy.

Originally published on Live Science.

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If Your Cat Swats with Its Left Paw, It's Probably Male

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When your cat knocks your favorite coffee mug off the counter, does it use its left paw or its right? There's no need to sacrifice any drink-ware for the answer; your cat's gender should tell you enough.

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MOBILE STROKE UNIT BRINGS HOSPITAL TO PATIENTS - AND COULD SAVE LIVES

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MOBILE STROKE UNIT BRINGS HOSPITAL TO PATIENTS - AND COULD SAVE LIVES

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Hello partners! This news has caught my attention from the beginning. Despite its high cost, it would mean saving many lives, being especially helpful in rural and heavy traffic urban areas, Word to learn: a stroke victim. This happens when a person suffers a paralisis in a part of his body, unable to speak or to walk.

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A specialized ambulance could one day save your life from a stroke in the driveway of your home or a public parking lot. Everything needed to diagnose and treat the stroke fits inside, bringing the hospital to the patient.

That's a reality in a select group of cities around the country. Right now, University of California, Los Angeles and the Los Angeles County Fire Department are collaborating to operate a Mobile Stroke Unit (MSU). The unit is being used in a national study to test the cost effectiveness and long-term patient outcomes of faster treatment.

"It's been like night and day," said Kenny Harrell, a firefighter and paramedic with the LA county fire department. As part of his job, Harrell operates both a standard ambulance, and drives the Mobile Stroke Unit.

Every minute a stroke victim is untreated, they lose two million brain cells. Time spent driving back to the hospital could lead to lifelong, debilitating side effects.

"One may become paralyzed on one side of their body, unable to speak or understand, or unable to walk," said Dr. May Nour, medical director of the UCLA Mobile Stroke Program.

The stroke unit on wheels is staffed with a neurologist, nurse, CT technician and a paramedic. Doctors can video conference in and look at the patient using a high-resolution, 270-degree camera.

Paramedics put the patient inside the unit the same way they'd load a patient into an ambulance. The nurse and technicians take over from there to determine what type of stroke the patient is having and administer treatment.

"One stop shop. We can do labs, we can do CT scan, physician evaluation and we can give the medications," said Nour. "We don't wait for transport time. We don't wait for the patient to get to the hospital. We get to them and treat them in the most expedient way possible."

Doctors say the MSU may be especially helpful in very rural and heavy traffic urban areas. In small towns, some stroke patients could live a half hour away from the nearest hospital, while in big cities like Los Angeles, traffic can triple the time of a ride that's just a few miles away.

Eliminating the time it takes to drive back to the hospital could save tens of millions of brain cells, which could be the difference between surviving, walking, talking or even death.

"If I have a stroke that affected my right hand, which is my dominate hand, I can't do my job anymore. Which is something, it's part of my identity. Being a physician is not just what I do, it's who I am," Dr. Clayton Kazan, Medical Director of the Los Angeles County Fire Department.

If a patient becomes disabled as a result of the stroke, the costs could be lifelong.

"What are the direct and indirect medical costs as a result of somebody who's unable to care for themselves, unable to participate in the work field, the health insurance costs for the rest of that person's life," Nour said.

Estimates for other stroke units across the country put the cost between $500,000 and $1,000,000. There are also staffing costs for the nurses, technicians and paramedics. Currently, those costs are mostly funded by private donations, with taxpayers sharing some of the staffing costs. But if use of these units continued, they'd be paid for by taxpayer dollars, and insurance providers, prompting more research about whether those costs would be sustainable.

Doctors believe even if the cost is high, Mobile Stroke Units are justified. There's still a long way to go, however, before Mobile Stroke Units become standard across the country, if they ever do.

"If this unit does prove to be successful and patient outcomes are improved by its response," Kazan said. "We have a lot of questions still to answer about how we would actually scale it up into a system as big as ours that actually has about 10 million people."
Ray Bogan is a Fox News multimedia reporter based in El Paso, Texas. Follow him on twitter: @RayBogan

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Mobile stroke unit brings hospital to patients - and could save lives

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A specialized ambulance could one day save your life from a stroke in the driveway of your home or a public parking lot. Everything needed to diagnose and treat the stroke fits inside, bringing the hospital to the patient. That's a reality in a select group of cities around the country.

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Here's an article I read this morning. Totally outrageous so that's precisely the reason why I chose it. I know, some are stereotypes but... Is it everything ok when you're writing for "The Times"? (you need to register to reed to full article but it's easy and quick).

Word to learn: get a tan, to get a darker colour of skin after being exposed to the sun.

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Learning the language is only the first step to becoming Spanish. Getting a tan and knowing your tapas from your pintxos are steps two and three, but there's still a long way to go before you can pass yourself off as anything other than a guiri. There are some shortcuts, though.

First, forget Anglo-Saxon notions of politeness, discretion and decorum. Being Spanish involves walking into a bar, kissing and hugging complete strangers, shouting " oiga " at the waiter and chucking anything you can't eat or drink on the floor. Except glasses. That's too much. But you can drop the please and thank yous. They're so unnecessary.

If you're a lady, carry a fan. Over here, it's a tool, not a souvenir, and regardless of gender, do...

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Learning the language is only the first step to becoming Spanish. Getting a tan and knowing your tapas from your pintxos are steps two and three, but there's still a long way to go before you can pass yourself off as anything other than a guiri. There are some shortcuts, though.