Rule 509-3-.02 Basic Training Curriculum for Security Officers Effective January 1, 2022 a minimum of 24 hours of classroom instruction is required for all private security agency licensees and private security employees consisting of instruction in the following topics:
(1) Role of Private Security (a) Crime Awareness and Prevention (b) Private Security and the Criminal Justice System (c) Ethics and Professionalism (2) Legal Aspects (a) Principal Misdemeanors and Felonies (b) Overview of Title 43-38 as it relates to the Security Profession (c) Overview of Board Rules 509 et al (d) Arrest and Proper Use of Force (e) Liability (f) Courtroom testimony (3) Patrol and Observation (a) Patrol techniques (including but not limited to Koper Curve and directed patrol) (b) Information gathering (c) Crimes in progress (d) Officer Safety (e) Note taking and Report Writing (4) Incident Response (a) Responding to Emergencies (b) Crowd control and evacuation (c) Fire control and Prevention (d) Hazardous Materials (e) Bomb Threats and Terrorism (f) Response to an Active Assailant (g) Mental Health Awareness (5) Security Resources (a) CCTV Operation and Video Documentation (b) Alarm systems (c) Access Control (d) Electronic Article Surveillance (e) Working with Law Enforcement (6) Customer Service Issues (a) Public relations (b) Interpersonal Communications (7) First Aid Overview

Hi. This is quite a long post so please bear with me. I could really use some help. I’m gonna put as many details as I can in here.
Background details on me: I, (24 F) live in the UK. I’m generally healthy but slightly on the overweight side (my weight has fluctuated for as long as I can remember but the switch from on your feet retail work to office work has affected my weight) Ive never had any serious health issues apart from a blood clot on my lung when I was seventeen. Despite only being 24 - I am a recovered alcoholic. Over a year. My most recent liver function test was fine. I’ve given up cigarettes for almost two years and occasionally vape as a replacement (I know it’s terrible - I am trying to stop). I do not take drugs and am over 3 years drug clean.
My family history: on my mums side three generations have had cervical cancer. On my dad’s side stomach cancer and pancreatic cancer runs rife. My dad himself has a stomach issue called colitis.
The issue: Around eight months ago I started having these ‘pain episodes’. Always at night, never a specific food triggered it. About once every two weeks. This pain was on my left side underneath my ribs and lasted around five hours a time. It was too much to sleep but I could concentrate on a TV show if I wanted too. I originally passed it off as acid reflux but as it persisted I decided to go to the doctors. They felt my tummy. Asked me some questions about my diet and further said it was acid reflux. I was reccomended a common antacid and sent on my way.
Afew more weeks pass by and this pain persists. I now notice with every time it’s getting worse. I think to myself ‘surely acid reflux does not get THIS bad’. The pain episodes start lasting for around 7 hours. Does not matter whether I’m sitting, standing, laying down. Anything. I also noticed alongside this I felt I had a lot of trapped wind or like I needed to use the toilet without the ability too.
I went back to the doctor. They were annoyed I was back again with this issue but they listened. They now decided it could be a bout of gastritis caused by H.pylori and ordered me to submit a stool sample and IF it came back positive I’d be given antibiotics but they told me to eat bland food. Not spicy and not fried in the meantime. Which I did. This test came back negative and I was not contacted about any next steps.
More time goes by. I stick to the bland foods. The pain gets worse. I begin to get a lot of swelling in my upper abdomen when it comes. These episodes begin happening every other day. The only thing that makes me feel better? Forcing myself to vomit. And trust me, I’m not proud of it. But I tried hot water bottles, cold compresses, every position possible, antacids, encorperating more movement in my everyday. What else could I do? Once I realised the vomiting made the pain go away - that’s what I would do as soon as I felt it. I needed to be able to sleep because I had work early. I couldn’t be up all night in pain.
One night. I have a specifically terrible episode and end up in A&E. this time the vomiting didn’t help and actually made it worse. I now notice a little hard lump on my upper left abdomen that is there constantly. A&E take my blood and the results come back that my liver function is ever so slightly elevated. They feel my tummy. Tell me it’s gastritis. Send me home. By that point the pain subsided and I was exhausted. I wasn’t going to fight it.
I wake up the next day and the first thing I do is get a doctors appointment. I ask for the same doctor as last time. I give her all my symptoms. She notes the fact that I’ve noticeably lost weight since the last appointment. She feels my tummy and decides to refer me for an abdominal ultrasound to check my pancreas, liver, gallbladder and stomach. She also ordered blood tests to check me for celiac disease (again negative) and my liver again (it had returned to normal)
I waited for two months to get a refferal letter. As I write this - the scan date is just shy of a month away.
During this time. The pain has increased to daily. I vomit almost daily because it makes the pain atleast bareable verses unable to talk, or breathe, horrific pain. I went to A&E twice over it, nothing was done. I went to urgent care. They prescribed me lanzoprazole 30mg (one a day before food) hyoscine butylbromide 10mg (2 tablets 4 times a day). It helps, occasionally. I also still can’t go to the toilet and when I can (maybe once a week) it’s a real struggle. The movements are light in color.
I am always pale. I am always tired. My blood pressure is lower than normal for me but still in normal ranges
Basically. Any ideas of what this is? Anyone with similar stories. Are my doctors doing enough? I’m not convinced it’s gastritis or acid reflux. I’m doing everything I can. But this is getting pretty hard to live with.
Thankyou everyone.

We've all heard it, whether you were an adult or a kid being forced to dental cleaning and tooth filling by your parents, the dentist or dental assistant would chew you out with an anti-sugar rant and blamed your cavity on not brushing everyday or even brushing once a day instead of two times a day and your glass of orange juice or canned soda from last week. This is something I've heard from the time I was a kid to my early 20's, it was always my fault because I wasn't brushing enough and because I liked sweet beverages but contrary to their advice I was brushing everyday and I didn't drink very much soda considering my parents started to restrict it from me for a period of time but nevertheless the filling appointments kept coming, while I was mostly cavity free during my teen years things got really bad day once I started smoking cigarettes, first I developed a very bad cavity on abscess in one of my wisdom teeth and this led to me getting gaslighted into pulling all my wisdom teeth, a couple years later while attending a jobcorps where I was never allowed to leave the campus without being kicked out the program and my liquid intake was mostly from sugar free fizzy vitamin drinks, juice and coffee I started developing multiple cavities at a time which resulted in me getting multiple fillings but yet still not all the ones I needed despite that I was brushing twice a day most days, the following year being short on money and dropped off my parents dental plan while the money I did have was going elsewhere I withheld getting a couple cavities in my back molars filled for a few months, I tried compensating for this by pouring a tone of salt in a warm glass of water and swishing that water in my mouth before bed, low and behold not only did this not work but in just a few months of doing this one my molars decayed to the point of being halfway gone and the other developing a large cavity at the gum line, so I wound up getting two root canals in these molars early 2020 along with another filling on my incisor while I first started to make changes to my habits. You'd think I have more since then but after what's been roughly 5 years I've haven't developed another cavity since and I'll go through what I truly believe the reasoning for this being despite that I don't brush my teeth anymore than I used two and that I still consume sugar.

1. I started actually drinking water, I came up with this idea while at work to start buying gallons of water because they were cheap, they helped make me feel energetic, and they helped my chronic tendonitis, they say sugar is bad for your teeth because the remains that stick to your teeth attract bacteria that produce an acidic byproduct or because it's acid but the problem is this wouldn't be any different from anything else you eat that leaves residue or gets caught in between your teeth, if a piece of steak gets caught between your teeth the microbes are going to go after that, and sugar by itself actually has a neutral PH. What not only helps wash away debris in your mouth but also regulates the PH level in your mouth di drinking regular water because that's one of the actual reasons why I believe tooth decay is so prominent in our species, we consume lots of acidic cooked or carbonated beverages that can damage the enamel of your teeth, just by drinking a significant amount of water you compensate for this by buffering out the acids leftover plus you simulate your saliva production which has antibody/PH modifying effects of it's own. This principal can be used I you choose to smoke cigarettes as well, smoking whatever it may be is another large contributor to societal tooth decay because the combust is very acidic and it sticks to your teeth, if you wash your mouth it after smoking like I started doing especially with warm water you can counteract this effect, but Ideally smoking should be stopped. Today I still drink my sugary monsters but I'll drink water aside them, I don't find drinking only water is necessary but the important thing to do is to not neglect it. If you reading get my drift here, IT'S NOT THE SUGAR THAT'S ROTTING YOUR TEETH, IT'S DEHYDRATION! WHICH MEANS ACIDS IN YOUR MOUTH GO UNCHECKED!
   
2. I started eating a more nutritious diet, in early 2020 after months after finally getting away from being trapped and graduating from the local jobcorps, this lead to me being able to prepare my own food I developed a more enhanced interest in nutrition after I watched the What in the health documentary, this lead to conduct a mostly whole food plant based diet experiment on myself for several months, while the strict plant based part didn't last what did was my consumption of things that actually have minerals including CALCIUM such as vegetables, beans, whole grains and I bought an instant pot so I could easily prepare my own veggies and beans. Today consume more whole wheat and leafy greens as well as sardines, salmon and fermented dairy products and beverages with fortified minerals.
   

Before for years too much of my diet was made up of refined grains and meat, when grains are refined they lose much of or even all of their nutritional value, white rice literally has no vitamins or minerals in it. This is why nutritionists and physicians tell people to consume whole grains over refined, meats are also not a significant source of calcium, vitamin K oe magnesium which are also other important nutrients for your bones as well as your teeth, this is also where spring water comes in hand, it's naturally high in ph and has natural sources of minerals that helps protects the teeth of animals in the wild.

1. I started only brushing my teeth once a day and that time particularly being just before I go to bed, whenever before I brushed my teeth in the morning I could tell they became more sensitive and would lose their exterior natural protection from the acids and I would feel it if I had breakfast after, I also fail to see the benefit of brushing after waking up when I already brushed the night before. I usually just brush once a day now and sometimes I forget and skip a day, the reason why I don't skip brushing altogether is because I don't want plaque building up in my mouth and I want to brush away any possible remaining trails of food debris.

Hey everyone, i wanted to talk and ask about some things i've been going through, and possibly answer a few questions me and others might have too. Im 26M, from europe
Ok so i wanted to share what happened to me. Basically, i never had any anxiety whatsoever, i didnt even knew it existed, never heard anyone around me about it either.
Smoked weed from 15 till 19, no problems, just made me paranoid and i quit without problems because i felt like a total junkie that everyone was staring at
Smoked cigarettes from 15 until 26,quit 2 months ago for about 1 month and started again for around 2 weeks with the same amou nt as always (3 quarter pack a day), then decided to quit again because it made me very uncomfortable and i actually felt like i was just killing myself with it for the first time, it feels disgusting to do knowing that im just fucking my body with it. During the last 2 weeks i somedays smoked 1-4 cigarettes or none, kinda back and forth, but i used at least 3-5 nicotine gums (4mg) each day regardless from the first time of quitting I can easily quit smoking i noticed because of the gums, but im afraid of the initial nicotine withdrawal should i stop the gums and i noticed that hanging with friends who smoke is my downfall, because if i dont have ciggarettes in my vicinity i dont smoke, like its that easy, im also not gonna buy them, and to top it off the prices have risen insanely the last years so to me the timing is perfect to quit, which would leave me only with nicotine withdrawal/addiction for now.
Drank heavily since around 20, going to parties every weekend friday and saturday, downing ungodly amounts of liqour and beers, because my tolerance was so high, people were almost passing out and i was still making drinks for myself haha, but this led to daytime and weekday drinking too, almost every day i would drink until around 6 months ago, i completely quit because my health deteriorated very much and it felt just so bad, aside from getting mentally and physically fucked by it.
Now comes the fun part
So i was still drinking at 25,working in an office, still smoking how i used to, also i started drinking coffee during this period which i never did before, and i drank pretty strong coffee Never had stress ever, i was always 'way' too relaxed in my own words. I had abused diazepam benzo recreationally without knowing jack shit about the harmful effects, taking up to 50mg a day for no reason for a period of around 2 months leading up to this
I remember quitting the benzos 'because i didnt have anymore' and i didnt need it, and i thought to myself why the fuck do i even take these, so about 5 days or slightly more quitting cold turkey, i was working and went outside to drink coffee and also smoke, not having drank alcohol for the past 3 days too, went into an online meeting and got a full blown panic attack. Since then it happened multiple times in a short period, so i decided to quit booze cold turkey shortly after while i was still in the benzo withdrawal, great success like borat would say right? Well, i went through a living hell, its been around 8 months ago this happened.
So then shortly after quitting the booze which caused me even more anxiety and panic i did around a month of temazepam which was lower in mg, around 20mg per day i would say because i just couldnt handle it anymore, eventually after that month i asked my doctor for a taper dose for 6 weeks, and eventually got off it.
So this was just to show the background, what is happening now is that ive been off booze and benzos for around 7 months. I occasionally drank during that time until now, lets say 5 times, and i noticed peaks in anxiety the next 4 or 5 days. Now im trying to quit smoking after that failed month.
However, im dealing with insane amounts of stress some days, ever since that shit happened i have had general anxiety and ever since i quit smoking im really paranoid about my heartbeat and constantly paying attention to it which stresses me more in any given situation, which in turns worsens the anxiety. I havent smoked in around 5 days and today i just wanted to see what would happen if i just smoked 1. I was already a bit stressed in general the whole day and then when i smoked i felt my heartbeat shoot up and i felt very anxious and uncomfortable and started sweating, this is what usually happens to me and if i pay more attention to it it can go into a panic attack too, and just from 1 fucking cigarette.. And before those 5 days i felt generally good and didnt have anything except for constantly paranoid with my heart rate and letting the stress almost consume me.
Apologies for the long post but i feel like these things should be explained carefully
I started going to the gym 5 weeks ago and people are already telling me my body and face look way better, i sleep at least 7 hours a day which before would be maximum of 5 for all these years. And i feel way better in general.
My questions. -Is the stress and anxiety that im experiencing a possible aftershock from doing all this crap i said above? And would i be able to return to my normal mental state? Looking at that its already taking many months..
-What advice can i get for the smoking, i already set my mind to quitting and i know i can do it, but i want to quit those nicotine gums because nicotine itself also causes this stress on your body and keeps the addiction alive, but im afraid of the withdrawal.
-is there anyone else with a similar situation that has advice for me?
-What can i do about constantly stressing over my own heartbeat, even with the slightest pounding or irregularity?
-is it normal that i felt like this after having that 1 cigarette? I never had any problems with it before, is it the tolerance?
-Any more general advice?
My advice -Dont do fucking benzos, never, this shit ruined it for me, really guys its poison, i wish i knew sooner, i advice everyone to stay far away from this and if youre hooked, taper down asap. Its almost a death wish
-Quit smoking, it made me feel alot better in terms of health, my lungs, my wallet, the smell, teeth and mouth not stinking all day, clothes too, it removed the aches that i had in my heart and chest too, and also skin quality. and if you try to quit, put 100% of your mind to it because that slip-up is very easy.
-Cut down on drinking, i quit because i had to but didnt want to, it became very bad for my body and mental state, but drinking every weekend like most people is just making yourself stuck in a circle and keeping you unhealthy with a bad immunesystem, its a silent killer in my opinion.
-Try the gym, it helped me alot with feeling better, if you cant, try to move, run or walk atleast if you can every day
-Stop eating junkfood and stop drinking sugar, , this also fucked me and especially my stomach and skin, i eat healthier now and the difference is huge.
-what helped me especially with panic attacks is breathing hard in and out and focussing on the breathing, this prevents it from happening to me, and if it does happen, same strategy, it depletes oxygen to your brain so breathing is best to do
-i come to the realization that many people appareantly in my enviroment also have had these anxiety problems, and many said that its like an annoying kid that keeps poking, the more you give it attention the more it will come back, try to let it go over you like a wave from the ocean while youre at the beach, after some times the feeling should die down very much.
Thanks for reading and i wish everyone the best of luck with this bullshit that we have sometimes, i hope i could give some insight also :)

In a few hours I'm going into surgery to have my tonsils removed. Doctor told me that this would be a good opportunity to quit smoking and thats what I plan to do. I've smoked 1-3 packs a day for the past 6 years and the health issues are really starting to show. As of posting this, I just smoked the last cigarettes that I had left and threw away my lighters. And I even emptied my bank account buying groceries so I wont even have money for a new pack for the next week. Any advice is welcome and wish me luck

I’m bored asf so I’m gonna put together my last 2 brain cells and try and make a better recruit rework than Ubisoft, the small indie company, did
So recruit is a recruit, and he is trying to learn how to be the best and gain satisfaction from the other ops, so clearly he’s gonna learn things from them. Basically his gadget is copying one op on his side (that there team picked, so can’t copy brava if no one on his team picked brava) and he’s gonna gain that ability (however considerably weaker bc it’s not his, he’s js trying to do his best) now some of these ideas could be op, and some might be weak, but it depends on your standing. ALSO I AM NOT THE BEST AT THE GAME, SO IF ANY OF THESE CHANGES DONT MAKE SENSE THATS WHY. Anyway hope yall enjoy
Attack:
Recruit - can pick to be 1 speed/3 health, 2 speed/2 health, or 3 speed/1 health (I’ve heard that’s what he could do when the game first came out, but idk bc I didn’t play back then) he can pick what he has now (lmg, L85A2, marksman rifle) and what he will have (M4 and the other one) AND a shield. All are fully customizable. secondary’s are whatever he has now + what he will have, again all customizable. For the secondary gadget he can pick any secondary gadget on attack but only that gadget, so no impact/breach or frag/stun
Sledge - he copies his sledge hammer into a hammer, so it only has 5 uses (bc realistically sledge isn’t using 25 sledgehammers in a round) and it has a smaller AOE
Thatcher - so either it’s a impact emp with the range of thatch or it’s thatchers emp with the range of an impact
Ash - 1 ash charge, but it’s more of a sticky grenade that takes a bit longer to blow up and needs to be thrown
Thermite - 1 exothermic charge that takes longer to blow up and has a smaller explosive range
Twitch - 1 regular drone turns into a shock drone, and has 3 shots and can’t jump. After that it’s a regular drone
Monty - NEEDS SHIELD, and if recruit has a shield he can’t run (bc Monty’s shield is heavy) BUT can extend like Monty’s, only a bit weaker (so quicker to shield stun? him) and only protects the front and not the sides
Glaz - recruit gets a thermal lens, which can be applied to a drone OR to the phone. If it’s a drone, it’s like glaz, where the more you move, the weaker the thermal gets. If it’s the phone, you can walk around with your phone in your face and can get VERY faint thermal readings. Basically it means your pulse but weaker, and you need to use your eyes to distinguish if it’s natural or an enemy
Fuze - 1 Fuze charge that can’t drill through a reinforced wall hatch, but it does a reinforced penetration (it takes longer to blow) and has three (or 2) explosive hockey pucks
Blitz - NEEDS SHIELD, and after he picks a shield he can run but a bit slower, and can use 2 flashes, but a bit weaker (shorter stun time and shorter range)
IQ - turns phone into iq scanner (can switch between iq and drone) has to stand still and has a max timer of 20 seconds. After that, phone goes back to normal
Blackbeard - tbh, idk for this one, bc BB Is already hella weak, AND he’s getting a “remaster” this year, so yea. Besides, BB is RARELY picked so if anything, recruit gets body armor, so +10 health or sum
Buck - adds an under barrel shotgun to whichever gun is equipped, and only has 6 shots, which after jams and breaks
Capito - makes makeshift crossy, which needs to be shot standing still and pulling the bow back. Can chose one smoke arrow or one fire arrow
Hibanna - gets 6 hibannas and has to throw each one individually (like womai)
Jackal - scans 1 pair of feet, but doesn’t know if they’re old or new, and last for 1 ping (so like 5 sec or something)
Ying - 1 candela, which can be thrown with no timer, stun last shorter and recruit is affected by candela stun
Zofia - same with capito but maybe a little ball that stuns or explodes idk
Dokabi - 1 hack, either call or hack cams. If call, short call time and short hang up time. If cams, only default cams can be used for a minute (or something) and can’t see other cams (so needs to hack echos phone to see yokais or if doc put a bp down, hack doc’s phone, etc) tbh that cam part might be a good dok nerf
Lion - short ping if moved, and longer time to stop moving, only 1
Finka - 1 boost and can’t heal status effects, and can’t help downed teammates, but can still heal for 20(?)
Maverick - 1 charge of a flamethrower, burns fuel fast, and longer time to blowtorch a hole into a reinforced wall or sum
Nomad - smaller AOE, and only 1 of them, and has to throw them
Gridlock - 1 can of smaller track stinger, so more movement through them and less damage, and less of them
Nook - can be used for 10 sec, and can be glitchy even when not running
Amaru - 1 grapple, shorter range, so can only be used on hatches or balconies (like in Oregon) or it could be used for a faster repel time
Kali - gets an under barrel lance that has 2, and needs to be within 15(?) meters for it to work, or else it falls bc it’s heavy. Also takes a bit to reload
Iana - drone becomes clone of recruit. Moves drone around, and defenders HAVE to shoot the drone to destroy clone, and that drone is gone. It’ll be pretty obvious that it’s a clone too btw
Ace - same thing with thermite, but it needs to be manually started
Zero - drone becomes 1 cam, can’t penetrate reinforced walls or hatches, but can pierce soft walls etc. and 3 shots and then a regular camera
Flores - 1 drone becomes rcxd, can’t jump and has a 4 second countdown. Also isn’t bullet proof after countdown ends
Osa - 1 see-through shield, once placed can’t be picked up, and takes a mag to destroy (like Azami kinda)
Sens - 1 sens roll thing that has a short travel distance and last for 10 seconds
Grim - 1 canister of bees, always bounces and gets 2 pings
Brava - same thing, no jumping, 1 drone gets turned into said gadget, but can only hack 1 electronic gadget, and can’t be controlled (but brava CAN control it bc she lent him her code or sum)
Ram - so either 2 drones get turned into her gadget and only last 5 seconds, or he gets one (courtesy of ram) and keeps his drones, but it’s not bullet proof, gets broken by arunis and last 5 sec (has to be placed either way and can’t be thrown)
Deimos - 1 op can be tracked, recruit switches to his secondary, and either it’s like Deimos but last shorter, and if u go into a mute jammer or vigil it stops tracking even if you popped it when they weren’t, OR both the op being tracked AND recruit are live pinged, or both ops are delayed pinged
Hope yall like my ideas, and lmk if yall wanna see my defending ideas, bc I have more balanced(?) ideas for him over there

I would like help getting as many of these mods working as possible on vortex or mo2 I'm nor sure wich as I'm new to pc and modding in general
Lockpick bar
Have a beer
Desert inspired food drinks and stuff
Immersive alcoholic drinks
Farming resources
Dine and dash
True cannibal overhaul
Settlement menu manager
PreWar binoculars
Modern replacer chems and medicine
Fall evil zombie mega pack
Gibs of glory
Better living through chems
Wasteland imports
OCDecorator
Tactical distraction system
No more duplicate chems
Animated chems redone
Raider gangs extended
Hookers of the commonwealth
South of the sea
Fungal forest
Cannabis commonwealth
Mcm
UFO4P
Armorsmith extended
Full dialog interface
True storms
STS
Cheat terminal
SKE
mercenary pack
Human cooking
Better locational damage
Libe dismemberment
Ptsd mental health
Taxidermy expanded
Wanderlust
Butchermeat rack
Wasteland cannabis visuals
The weed mod
Alchohol and tobacco overhaul
Intoxicants of the commonwealth
Smokeable cigars cigarettes
Mutant menagire lfaw
Forced evolution
High fps physics fix
Long loading times fix
FGEP
Zombie Walkers
Replaceable armor plates
Right handed hunting rifle
Some assembly required
Mosin
Backpacks of the commonwealth
Hunting shotgun
Automatically lowered weapons
Survival options
Point lookout
Load accelerator
Scrap everything
Simple fallout 4 downgrader
Immersive mouth and teeth
M1 garand
Boston fps fix
Campsite
Grasslands
Better f4se console
Everyone's best friend
Northland diggers
Better booze
Hunter of the commonwealth
All Americans 2.0
Gun for hire
Harvest able cannabis
Commonwealth fishing
Fake killcam
Wildlife overhaul
Sofa surfer
Canteens of the commonwealth
Give me that bottle
Animated radaway
Immersive settlers
Bootable cars
Realistic bullets velocity and gravity
Realistic headshots
Classic radiation poisoning
BCR
CHW
Survivalist bus
Fo4 wheel menu
Def ui
Maim
Advanced needs 76
Crime and punishment
Journey
Npcs travel
The train
Damn apocalypse
Stem mk ii
ACF
ppsh 41
German mp40
M1 carbine
Model 1897
Grease gun smg
Springfield m1903
Tactical reload
Bren gun
Lee Enfield
Mauser pistol
Luger
Mg42 and mg34
Volkssturmgewher
Stg44
Fg42
Kar 98k
Holotime
Get out of my face
Better Stine statues
Earring of the commonwealth
A better world cabin
Porshet5
The expired entrance
Extended dialog interface
True grass
Diamond city radio extended
Munitions ballistics
Tracers light em up
Visable bullets
Weapons of fate
Spitfire
A cannibal in concord
The fens sheriff dept
The bleachers
Sheikh framework
SIP
another pine forest mod
Nice bush
Inside jobs
Recoil shake and low ammo sounds
Sprint reload
Bullet casing redone
Gun smoke
Running breathing
QMW
fallsouls unpaused
Locky bastard
Uneducated shooter
Fallout 2287
Lighthouse papyrus extender
Sim settlements 2 all
A forest
MCAM
Scopes framework
K9 harness
Clothing of the commonwealth
PMC
Pmc operators pack
CBBE
Pip boy flashlight
Hallcat power armor
Raider overhaul
Russian stimpack
Stimpack helps you breathe
Remington new army
Ghille mod redux
McMillan cs5
TAC
SKK FAST START
SKK FAST START LOCATION
SKK survival utilities
SKK corpse looting
Blusher saber
Sandbag fortification
Longer powerlines
CHEF
PWR
distillery
Chems and alchohol visuals
IAF
iAF ALCHOHOL
Alchohol effects
Cigarette card
Cigarette in mouth
Visual reload
Immersion wastelanders
Looks menu
Looks menu cc
Commonwealth cuts
Hunter of the commo wealth
F4SE
More feral ghouls
West tek tactical gloves
Awkcr
M1a
Munitions
Remote Explosives
Anarchists cook book 1 and 2
Weapon debris fix
Unique raider Gans and patrols
Thubajumbas raider pa
VIS
Eyes of beauty
Better settlers
Any help would be very appreciated I'm sorry for the long modlist

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Professor Nick Titov’s professional goal is to make himself redundant. he wants to empower more people with mild to moderate anxiety and depression to understand what they can do each day to care for their mental health. As part of this mission, Professor Titov and his team developed The Big 5, an evidence-based program encouraging five broad types of activities that are strongly linked with good mental health when performed regularly. Everyone’s
5-27-2024

COVID-19 FORECASTING TOOL ALLOWED HOSPITAL TO MANAGE PATIENT CAPACITY, RESOURCES AMID PANDEMIC’S THIRD WAVE

During the peak of the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, the health-care system’s capacity was stretched and hospitals across Canada relied on each other to share resources and provide care. Experts from
5-27-2024

RESEARCHERS IDENTIFY IMMUNE DYSFUNCTION AS A POSSIBLE ASPECT OF POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME PATHOLOGY

The peripubertal DHT-induced mouse model is a non-obese but insulin-resistant model of PCOS. a) Experimental design. b) Fat mass. c) Insulin levels at baseline and 15 min following glucose administration. d) Blood glucose levels during oGTT. e) HOMA-IR, calculated from fasted glucose and insulin levels. f) Glycosylated hemoglobin levels (HbA1c). A new study shows that hyperandrogenism—a key characteristic of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)—affects immune cell populations in reproductive, metabolic and immunological tissues in a PCOS-like mouse model. These findings are of great importance as
5-27-2024

RESEARCH IDENTIFIES BRAIN NETWORK LINK TO STUTTERING

Common acquired neurogenic stuttering network. Common areas that were sensitive and specific across both neurogenic stuttering cohorts. Amy = amygdala; ASt = amygdalostriatal transition area; Cl = claustrum; Pall = Pallidum; Put = putamen. A new study published in the journal Brain has identified a specific brain network hub that plays a key role in stuttering. The research, by Te Whare W?nanga o Waitaha University of Canterbury (UC) Associate Professor Catherine Theys, examines two different types of stuttering—developmental and acquired—to show a clear neural
5-27-2024

THYROID DISEASE ISN’T THE END FOR YOUR CAREER PROSPECTS, REPORT FINDS

How employers behave toward workers experiencing thyroid dysfunction could play a critical part in addressing the UK’s labor market challenges. With long-term sickness on the rise in the UK, researchers at the University of Aberdeen Business School have marked World Thyroid Day (May 25) by releasing new findings which, for the first time, explore the relationship between employer sympathy and the labor market prospects of people with thyroid conditions. One in 20 people in the UK have a thyroid problem, with a significant majority of sufferers being women. Posing serious
5-27-2024

STUDY FINDS HIGH-INCOME EARNERS AT LOWER RISK OF DYING FROM STROKE

High-income earners have a 32% lower risk of dying after a stroke compared to low-income earners. The equivalent for high education is 26% lower risk. The differences in stroke survival linked to socioeconomics are striking, according to a study at the University of Gothenburg.
5-27-2024

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COULD ALLEVIATE LONELINESS, SAYS EXPERT

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology could offer companionship to lonely people amid an international epidemic of loneliness, says a robotics expert. Tony Prescott, a professor of cognitive robotics at the University of Sheffield, argues in his new book “The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence” that “relationships with AIs could support people” with forms of social interaction. Loneliness has been found to seriously impair human health, and Professor Prescott makes a case that advances in AI technology could offer a partial solution. He argues that people can spiral into loneliness, becoming
5-27-2024

ALZHEIMER’S REPORT HIGHLIGHTS IMMENSE CAREGIVER BURDEN—AND POTENTIAL WAYS FORWARD

Some 7 million Americans live with Alzheimer’s, and about 11 million provide unpaid care for them. Dementia caregiving can present unique challenges, including financial burdens and time constraints, as well as health complications. A report this year from the Alzheimer’s Association demonstrates the true cost of caregiving for those with the disease and calls to establish dementia care navigation throughout the U.S. to lift this burden. Not only is the estimated value of unpaid care near $14 billion in Pennsylvania alone, the report also revealed emotional and physical tolls. Nearly
5-27-2024

US FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION APPROVES ARTIFICIAL PANCREAS SYSTEM

An artificial pancreas developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge has been granted approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use by individuals with type 1 diabetes aged 2 and older, including during pregnancy. This means that even more people living with the disease will be able to use this life-changing app. For the first time, the FDA authorized the use of the artificial pancreas system in pregnancy. CamAPS FX, produced by Cambridge spinout company CamDiab, is an Android app that can
5-27-2024

RESEARCH SAYS POMEGRANATES COULD OFFER A SOLUTION TO FATTY LIVER DISEASE

Researchers at Edith Cowan University (ECU) are investigating the effects ellagic acid, an antioxidant found in some fruits and vegetables, could have on halting and potentially reversing the damage caused by fatty liver disease. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the physiological manifestation of obesity in the liver. The prevalence of NAFLD has increased from 25.24% in 2015 to 29.38% in 2021, and this condition now accounts for 45.8% of all cases of chronic-liver-disease-related deaths worldwide. There currently exists no treatment for the long-term management of NAFLD; however, dietary interventions
5-27-2024

MAGIC MUSHROOMS MAY ONE DAY TREAT ANOREXIA, BUT NOT JUST YET

Anorexia nervosa is a severe mental health disorder where people fear weight gain. Those with the disorder have distorted body image and hold rigid beliefs their body is too big. They typically manage this through restricted eating, leading to the serious medical consequences of malnutrition. Anorexia has one of the highest death rates of any mental illness. Yet there are currently no effective drug treatments and the outcomes of psychotherapy (talk therapy) are poor. So we’re desperately in need of new and improved treatments. Psilocybin, commonly known as magic mushrooms,
5-27-2024

STUDY FINDS FEEDING INFANTS PEANUT PRODUCTS PROTECTS AGAINST ALLERGY INTO ADOLESCENCE

Feeding children peanuts regularly from infancy to age five reduced the rate of peanut allergy in adolescence by 71%, even after many years when the children ate or avoided peanut as desired. The new findings provide conclusive evidence that introducing peanuts into babies’ diets early will achieve long-term prevention of peanut allergy. Lead investigator Professor Gideon Lack from King’s College London said, “Decades of advice to avoid peanuts has made parents fearful of introducing peanuts at an early age. The evidence is clear that early introduction of peanut in infancy
5-27-2024

EATING MORE FRUITS AND VEGETABLES MAY LEAD TO OPTIMAL SLEEP DURATION

Good health depends on a healthy diet and sufficient exercise and sleep. There are clear associations among these components; for example, good nutrition provides energy for exercise, and many people report that getting enough exercise is important to their ability to get enough sleep. So how might nutrition affect sleep? A new study looks at the connection between fruit and vegetable intake and sleep duration.
5-27-2024

MONITORING THE H5N1 AVIAN INFLUENZA, BIRD FLU, OUTBREAK

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to actively monitor the ongoing outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza, also known as bird flu, and says that the public health risk remains low. Dr. Matthew Binnicker, director of the Clinical Virology Laboratory at Mayo Clinic, says scientists and public health officials have known about avian influenza for decades. “What’s different today is that since 2020, we’re seeing the largest outbreak of avian influenza among wild birds, poultry and backyard bird flocks,” he says. “The virus has also been found in certain
5-27-2024

INTERNATIONAL STUDY REVEALS SURPRISING TWIST IN HOW DIABETES DRUGS HELP THE HEART

A randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial has revealed surprising new insights into how SGLT2 inhibitor drugs, originally developed for diabetes, benefit patients with heart failure. Contrary to common assumptions, these drugs may improve cardiac outcomes and heart health without acting as diuretics. Heart failure is a condition where the heart cannot pump enough blood to meet the body’s demands, often leading to fluid
5-27-2024

FIRST SEIZURE CLINICS REDUCE THE NEED FOR FUTURE HEALTH CARE, RESEARCHERS FIND

Clinics specializing in first seizures reduce the need for patients to present at emergency departments or be admitted to hospital later, Monash University-led research has found. Timely attendance, particularly within 14 days of the seizure, was associated with reduced subsequent all-cause emergency presentations and all-cause hospital admission. Later hospital admissions were reduced by about 25%. First author Dr. Yingtong Li, an adjunct
5-27-2024

CELL-TARGETING TECHNOLOGY CAN ISOLATE NEURONAL SUBPOPULATIONS AND LINK THEM TO BEHAVIORAL STATES

As gene sequencing technologies become more powerful, our understanding of cellular diversity has grown in parallel. This led scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to
5-27-2024

WATCH OUT FOR THESE HIGH HEAT DANGER SIGNS

Climate change is pushing daytime summer temperatures higher for longer periods of time, and that can spell real danger for folks who work outside, like gardeners and landscapers. Protecting yourself in the heat and knowing the warning signs of heat-related illness is crucial, said Chris Enroth, horticulture educator at University of Illinois Extension. He should know: It happened to him. “When I was working as a landscaper, we had to sod a large backyard during a day when the temperature was over 100 degrees Fahrenheit,” Enroth said. “We were hustling
5-27-2024

STAY SAFE FROM THE SUN AND THAT BACKYARD GRILL THIS MEMORIAL DAY

Memorial Day means firing up that backyard grill for the season, hopefully under warm, sunny skies. You can be sure to enjoy the day without hazards by taking a few simple precautions, said Dr. Mike Ren, an associate professor of family and community medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Watch out for rising heat and humidity If Memorial day is a scorcher, hydration is key, Ren said. “A good rule of thumb is to drink water regularly throughout the day, aiming for 12 or more cups; when in
5-27-2024

HAD A JOINT REPLACED? STUDY SUGGESTS INFECTION RISK MAY RISE AFTER CHEMOTHERAPY

If you’re one of the millions of Americans walking around with a new knee or hip, your odds for an infection in that joint rise if you ever have to undergo cancer chemotherapy, researchers report. “Given the number of people of receiving total joint replacements each year, as well as the cost both physically, emotionally and financially for those who develop an infection and may need subsequent treatment, we need to understand what factors may increase the risk for postoperative infections,” said study author Dr. Janet Conway. She’s an orthopedic
5-27-2024

ANTIHYPERTENSIVES LINKED TO ECZEMATOUS DERMATITIS IN SENIORS, STUDY FINDS

Antihypertensive drugs are associated with an increased risk for eczematous dermatitis in older adults, and the effect sizes are largest for diuretics and calcium channel blockers, whether antihypertensive drug use is associated with eczematous dermatitis in a longitudinal cohort study of individuals aged 60 years and older without eczematous dermatitis at baseline. The researchers found that the overall prevalence of eczematous dermatitis was 6.7% among 1,561,358
5-27-2024

RESEARCH INDICATES KIDNEYS FROM DECEASED DONORS WHO WERE ON DIALYSIS ARE SUBOPTIMAL

Receipt of a kidney from a deceased donor who underwent dialysis is associated with an increased incidence of delayed graft function, compared outcomes of transplant recipients who received kidneys from deceased donors who underwent dialysis prior to kidney donation versus recipients of kidneys from deceased donors who did not undergo dialysis in a retrospective cohort study using data from 58 U.S. organ procurement organizations. Among the donors with
5-27-2024

NEW THERAPY PROVEN EFFECTIVE AGAINST REJECTION IN KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION

Antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) is one of the most common causes of kidney transplant failure. To date, however, no treatment has proven effective in combating this complication in the long term. As part of an international and multidisciplinary clinical study led by Georg Böhmig and Katharina Mayer, Clinical Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, Department of Medicine III at MedUni Vienna and University Hospital Vienna, a new therapeutic principle in transplant medicine has been found to be both safe and highly effective. The results were recently published in the New England Journal
5-27-2024

SHARJAH UNIVERSITY PATENTS APPLICATION FOR DISTANCE COVID-19 DIAGNOSIS

Smart Identification of Health Status based on QR Code and User Health Data. Credit: author’s own creation The University of Sharjah has been granted a patent for inventing a smart gadget with the ability to filter user information that will allow doctors to diagnose COVID-19 and other ailments from a distance. The patent, granted by United States Patent and Trademark Office on 1 August 2023, comprises “a display unit, a color code detection unit, an image filter, an optical character recognition unit, a code detection unit and an elimination unit,”
5-27-2024

STUDY REVEALS WHERE DELAYS ARE WORST

When it comes to responding to a stroke, speed is a crucial factor; the longer it takes for someone experiencing a stroke to get to a hospital, the worse the outcome will be. Yet across the United States, delays to treatment can be significant. A Yale study uncovers new insights into factors associated with treatment delays and where in the United States patients are more likely to experience slower responses. The findings, which were published May 24 in the journal Stroke, highlight where interventions should

NEW STUDY SHOWS HEAT WAVES INCREASE RISK OF PRETERM, EARLY-TERM BIRTH

The increased frequency and intensity of heat waves due to climate change puts women at a higher risk of experiencing preterm and early-term labor—jeopardizing the health and well-being of their babies. An analysis of 53 million births that occurred in the 50 most populous U.S. metropolitan areas during the 25-year period 1993–2017, showed
5-27-2024

NOISE-CANCELLING HEADPHONES, EARPLUGS AND EARMUFFS—DO THEY REALLY HELP NEURODIVERGENT PEOPLE?

Noise can make it hard to concentrate, especially for people who are extra sensitive to it. Neurodivergent people (such as those who are autistic or have attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder—ADHD) can experience different sensory sensitivities. Their nervous system may process information differently when they are exposed to sensory experiences such as bright lights, loud noise, strong smells or busy environments. Decreased sound tolerance is estimated to affect up to 70% of autistic people and is described in three ways: hyperacusis (perceiving everyday sounds as loud or painful), misophonia (an aversion to
5-27-2024

MASSACHUSETTS SHELLS OUT NEARLY $400,000 FOR VACCINE RECORD CHECKS IN STATE-RUN SHELTERS

State officials have pumped nearly $400,000 into a program to review the vaccine records of families entering the emergency shelter system, including migrants from other countries who may have foreign documentation, according to the Healey administration. Officials at Boston-based John Snow, Inc., which has long worked with the state, have been contracted to review immunization documents. Since January, more than 1,200 children in state-run shelters have had their records checked, according to the Executive Office of Health and Human Services, or HHS. Vaccine record checks have occurred since September 2023
5-27-2024

LAWSUIT ACCUSES FLORIDA’S PALM BEACH COUNTY HOSPITAL NETWORK OF SHARING PATIENTS’ PRIVATE DATA

The Palm Beach Health Network has become the latest health provider accused of illegally sharing identities and private health information of its patients with the social media company Meta, owner of Facebook. A lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in West Palm Beach says the health network’s websites share code with Meta that enables patients to be targeted with advertising on Facebook based on “highly sensitive personal information” they share. It names as defendants the Palm Beach Health Network Physicians Group, doing business as Palm Beach Health Network, and
5-27-2024

CAN THE PLACEMENT OF DENTAL IMPLANTS IN HEAD AND NECK CANCER PATIENTS BE DONE BEFORE RADIATION THERAPY?

Globally, head and neck cancer accounts for 5% of all cancer types, with a mortality rate of 50%. However, in the Nordic countries, head and neck cancer accounts for only 2.6% of all cancers, with a mortality rate of just 30%. But more survivors mean that many must live with extensive damage and side effects
5-27-2024

STUDY FINDS CLIMATE CHANGE INCREASES RISK OF CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS OUTBREAKS IN NEW ZEALAND

More cryptosporidiosis outbreaks could be on the cards for Aotearoa New Zealand as extreme rainfall events become more frequent, causing higher levels of the diarrhea-causing parasite to be washed into waterways, public health researchers warn. The researchers studied clusters of cryptosporidium outbreaks around the country between 1997 and 2015 and found 13 coincided with severe weather events. Their research is published in the journal Epidemiology & Infection. It is the first study to compare clusters of outbreaks of cryptosporidiosis to severe weather events in Aotearoa.
5-27-2024

RESEARCHERS EVALUATE IMPACT OF NEW FILM’S MESSAGE ON CHILDREN’S AND ADULTS’ BODY IMAGE, SELF-COMPASSION

Unrealistic expectations about what our bodies should look like—whether from the media, friends or family—make adults and children of all ages more vulnerable to body dissatisfaction, eating disorders and other mental health challenges. In a new study published in Body Image, Flinders University experts assessing the program’s usefulness in classrooms highlight the potential for the film “Embrace Kids,” directed by 2023 Australian of the Year Taryn Brumfitt, to achieve large-scale improvements in body image
5-27-2024

STUDY FINDS INCREASED SUICIDAL THOUGHTS, SUICIDE ATTEMPTS AMONG ADOLESCENTS EXPOSED TO EARLY PHASE OF WAR IN UKRAINE

Data Collection in the War-Affected Donetsk Region and Non-War Kirovograd Region. A new study carried out by a multinational research group showed high levels of suicidal thoughts and attempts in adolescents, which were strongly associated with wartime traumatic experiences, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety. Dr. Sanju Silwal from the Research Center for Child Psychiatry in the University of Turku, Finland, one of the lead authors, says that the study was conducted in two regions that
5-27-2024

STUDY FINDS SIGNIFICANT DISPARITIES IN THE DELIVERY OF CANCER-RELATED CARE

It’s important to ensure that care provided at US hospitals that predominantly serve Black and Hispanic populations is as high-quality as the care provided at other US hospitals. New research reveals significant disparities in the delivery of cancer-related care at minority serving hospitals (MSHs) compared with non-MSHs, however. The findings are published in Cancer. For the study, investigators analyzed information from the National Cancer Database (which accrues approximately 70% of US cancer diagnoses) to identify patients eligible for definitive treatment for breast, prostate, non-small cell lung, and colon cancers between
5-27-2024

WHO SEEKS $7 BN WITH FUND-RAISING REVAMP

The World Health Organization launched Sunday a new financing mechanism that aims to raise $7 billion of funds that can be deployed more quickly and flexibly. The UN agency has traditionally relied on commitments from its 194 member states, but often these are apportioned to specific projects with several conditions attached, including deadlines that can prove too short. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said commitment increases would contribute $4 billion to the agency’s budget of $11.1 billion over the four years through 2028. “The Investment Round aims to mobilize the
5-27-2024

SECOND PERSON DIES OF CHOLERA ON FRENCH ISLAND OF MAYOTTE

Scanning electron microscope image of Vibrio cholerae. Credit: Wikipedia A 62-year-old woman has died of cholera in Mayotte, bringing to two the death toll from the epidemic on the French island in the Indian Ocean, health authorities said on Sunday. The woman died on Saturday at her home in Mamoudzou, the capital, the ARS health authority said in a statement. “Response teams went to the scene to disinfect the home and take care of the deceased’s family and friends”, the statement added. In May, the disease claimed its first life
5-27-2024

ALTERING CELLULAR INTERACTIONS AROUND AMYLOID PLAQUES MAY OFFER NOVEL ALZHEIMER’S TREATMENT STRATEGIES

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have made a significant breakthrough in Alzheimer’s disease research by identifying a novel way to potentially slow down or even halt disease progression. The study, which focuses on the role of reactive astrocytes and the plexin-B1 protein in Alzheimer’s pathophysiology, provides crucial insights into brain
5-27-2024

BRAIN DAMAGE STUDY REVEALS PART OF THE BRAIN NECESSARY FOR HELPING OTHERS

Our willingness to help others is governed by a specific brain region pinpointed by researchers in a study of patients with brain damage to that region. Learning about where in the brain “helping” decisions are made is important for understanding how people might be motivated to tackle large global challenges, such as climate change, infectious disease and international conflict. It is also essential for finding new approaches to treating disorders of social interactions. The study, published in Nature Human Behaviour, was carried out by researchers at the University of Birmingham
5-27-2024

IMPROVING AI LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS HELPS THEM BETTER ALIGN WITH HUMAN BRAIN ACTIVITY

NSP as a computational account of discourse comprehension. (A) Humans integrate words and sentences to achieve a full understanding of discourse. In LLMs, the NSP task proposed by BERT can serve as a computational account of human discourse comprehension. (B) Illustration of the MLM task. (C) Illustration of the NSP task and its relevance to the Mason and Just model. (D) Illustration of Mason and Just’s neurocognitive model of discourse processing. Credit: Science Advances (2024). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adn7744 With generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) transforming the social interaction landscape in recent years,
5-27-2024

STUDY EXAMINES METABOLIC REPROGRAMMING OF BREAST CANCER TUMORS DURING NEOADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY

In a study published in Nature Communications, scientists have made significant strides in understanding the complex interplay between the immune system and cancer metabolism in breast cancer treatment. The research
5-27-2024

RESEARCHERS EXAMINE EVIDENCE FOR A NOVEL NEURONAL MECHANISM DRIVING ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE

An international team of clinicians and neuroscientists have published a new perspective on the process of neurodegeneration. Their findings review evidence for a mechanism upstream of amyloid including the key neurochemical driving this process. The paper, published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia, focuses on a selective group of neurons (“the isodendritic core”). These cells have a different provenance from neurons in the rest of the brain and have previously been identified as primarily
The research, by a team from Finland’s University of Helsinki, National Institute for Health and Welfare, and Turku University of Applied Sciences, is published in
5-27-2024

WHO CHIEF URGES COUNTRIES TO QUICKLY SEAL PANDEMIC DEAL

WHO countries have spent two years seeking an agreement on tackling pandemics. The World Health Organization chief on Monday urged countries to nail down a landmark global agreement on handling of future pandemics after they missed a hard deadline. Scarred by COVID-19—which killed millions, shredded economies and crippled health systems—nations have spent two years trying to forge binding commitments on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. Negotiators failed to clinch a deal ahead of this week’s World Health Assembly—the annual gathering of WHO’s 194 member states—the deadline for concluding the talks.
5-27-2024

STUDY DEMONSTRATES HOW GUT MICROBES PROCESS STEROIDS—USING FLATULENCE

It turns out flatulence can serve a purpose beyond being uncomfortable or funny: Gas released by some gut bacteria stimulates other gut bacteria to produce a hormone involved in pregnancy and in an FDA-approved treatment for postpartum depression, according to new research led by Harvard Medical School scientists. The work shows how gut bacteria can produce new hormones from steroids in bile and, in doing so, act like an endocrine organ. This research adds to the growing list of ways gut microbiota may influence human
5-27-2024

PHYSICAL FRAILTY MAY PUT PEOPLE AT GREATER RISK OF DEPRESSION, STUDY FINDS

Individuals who meet at least one of the criteria for physical frailty are at higher risk of also developing depression, a new Yale study finds. The findings—which also include insights into the specific inflammatory molecules and changes in brain structure that could underlie this association between frailty and depression—point to a need for routine assessment of physical frailty in clinical practice, researchers said. The study was published May 23 in Nature Communications. In clinical settings, physical
5-27-2024

RESEARCH TEAM RESOLVES STRUCTURE OF CRUCIAL ENZYME FOR THE FIRST TIME

For the first time, a team co-led by CHU Sainte-Justine researcher and professor in the Faculty of Medicine at Université de Montréal, Alexey Pshezhetsky has succeeded in resolving the unique structure of the HGSNAT enzyme, a deficiency of which causes Sanfilippo syndrome, a rare pediatric disease affecting the central nervous system. Through collaboration with a team from Shanghai University, the structure of this enzyme and the mechanism of its function were revealed using high-performance

I am an independent insurance agent trying to sell health insurance plans. So, from my understanding I am not a Covered entity, but I am a business associate.
I have been able to identify companies that are HIPAA compliant, but what I’m struggling with is finding providers that will provide the integration between the two companies’ software that are HIPAA compliant or if it is even required.
Below is what I am trying to do:
I plan on running leads from Facebook and only collecting names, phone number, email, and a rapport question such as their favorite hobby. From my understanding these Data points do not constitute PHI.
But later, I would need to collect their medication, Doctors they use, and some identification numbers to get them into the correct plans. I plan on using MailHippo to collect this information which is HIPAA compliant.
I want to be able to store phone conversations, voicemails, emails, etc. which inevitably will have PHI in them.
I know that text messaging is not HIPAA compliant (Unless it’s End-to-end encrypted which is impractical with my business) so I plan on only using it for communicating appointment times or reminders for certain things that will not contain PHI.
Visual example: CRM (HIPAA compliant) <-Integration provider (???HIPAA compliant???)<-Internet phone service (HIPAA compliant)
Here is where I am stuck:
The HHS says “Other Situations in Which a Business Associate Contract Is NOT Required… With a person or organization that acts merely as a conduit for protected health information, for example, the US Postal Service, certain private couriers, and their electronic equivalents.”
https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/guidance/business-associates/index.html
From what I have read online, internet service providers would fall under the “other situation in which BAA is not required” but I’m not sure if integration services fall under that same category or not. It’s a form of data transmission… so I’m just not expert enough to know if they function in a similar manner as an ISP or if they don’t.
Plus, there are different types of integrations – native, webhooks and I’m sure there’s others I just don’t know about…
I spoke to an integration provider that said that they don’t store the data that is sent through them, and that HIPAA would not be an issue, but the HHS website also states:
When a covered entity engages the services of a CSP to create, receive, maintain, or transmit ePHI (such as to process and/or store ePHI), on its behalf, the CSP is a business associate under HIPAA. Further, when a business associate subcontracts with a CSP to create, receive, maintain, or transmit ePHI on its behalf, the CSP subcontractor itself is a business associate. This is true even if the CSP processes or stores only encrypted ePHI and lacks an encryption key for the data. Lacking an encryption key does not exempt a CSP from business associate status and obligations under the HIPAA Rules*.* As a result, the covered entity (or business associate) and the CSP must enter into a HIPAA-compliant business associate agreement (BAA), and the CSP is both contractually liable for meeting the terms of the BAA and directly liable for compliance with the applicable requirements of the HIPAA Rules. https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/special-topics/health-information-technology/cloud-computing/index.html#_ftn10
I want to do things by the book, and it seems like most people in my industry don’t really care.
Does anybody know of services that provide HIPAA compliant integrations?
Does anybody know of any legal resources that may be able to resolve this issue for me so I can get a definitive answer to this question?
Please help!

Sl. No.	IIT Name	Related News
1	IIT Bombay	Jointly launched the ‘Digital Health Enterprise Planning Course’ with UNICEF India and International Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR) Delhi.
2	IIT Kanpur	Startup Incubation and Innovation Centre (SIIC) at IIT-Kanpur signed a CSR agreement with Gliders India Limited, Kanpur to lead innovation in the healthcare sector.
3	IIT Patna	Signed an MoU with SJVN Limited to use advanced geological models in SJVN’s tunnelling projects.
4	IIT Bombay	Collaborated in developing the country’s first indigenously developed gene therapy “CAR-T cell therapy” for cancer.
5	IIT Madras	Launched one of the “Experimental Licence module for 100 5G Labs.”
6	IIT Bombay	Partnered with Canara Bank and Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE) to empower startups across India.
7	IIT Jodhpur	Developed a nano-sensor for the quick detection of Cytokines.
8	IIT Madras	Collaborated with Vellon Space to demonstrate a miniature space laboratory called ‘AsteriX Lab.’
9	IIT Mandi	Signed an MoU with Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) for cooperation in research and technology and product development for semiconductors, quantum technologies, and drones.
10	IIT Kanpur	Signed an MoU with Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS) to undertake research and develop new technologies to address health problems faced by soldiers in difficult terrains.
11	IIT Madras	Launched India’s 1st medical devices calibration facility on wheels.
12	IIT Kanpur	Blockchain Partnered with For Impact (BFI) Foundation to nurture innovations and drive advancements in healthcare in India.
13	IIT Delhi	Signed an MoU with Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS) to develop novel medical devices and focus on solving health issues specific to serving soldiers in varied terrains.
14	IIT Jodhpur	Signed an agreement with Centre For Development Of Telematics (C-DOT) for “Automated Service Management in 5G and Beyond Networks Using AI.”
15	IIT Guwahati	Developed an innovative 3D printed dummy ballot unit to enhance voter awareness and participation.
16	IIT Madras	Achieved the top spot with 435 patents in Financial Year 2023-24 (FY24).
17	IIT Guwahati	Signed an MoU with the Alliance of Digital India Foundation (ADIF) to promote entrepreneurship and provide support to technology startups.

Session 0: https://www.reddit.com/DeltaGreenRPG/comments/1d0l92x/impossible_landscapes_session_0/
(Okay, these will be long. Five players, lmao. Hadn't quite accounted for that)
Operation ALICE, New York, 1995
The Roster (Player/Character)
Lea (she/her): Jules Gradkowska - Agent MIRANDA. Journalist - research and human intelligence.
Iain (he/him): Ralph Bevis - Agent MILHOUSE. Academic - history and occult specialist.
Quinn (he/him): Richard Delapore - Agent MAVERICK. FBI Special Agent - criminal and forensic expert and the official 'face' of the investigation.
Phil (he/him): Jean Duvall - Agent MAIN. US Navy Master Chief Petty Officer - operational security specialist.
Duncan (he/him): Jake Little - Agent MALATESTA. Civilian contractor - computer and electronic specialist with a side line in hacking.
Rob_sothoth (he/him) - Handler. The arbiter of the world: the good, the bad and that which cannot and should not be named.
Background: The Agents of M-Cell are tasked with investigating the apartment of Abigail Wright. Missing since June, Delta Green has reason to suspect para-natural involvement. Their orders are simple: catalogue the apartment and remove anything deemed suspect for destruction.
Despite heavy changes made, full spoiler warning for Impossible Landscapes.

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Session 1 "The Apartment" (May 24th, 2024)
New York: Tuesday, August 8th, 1995
1:45pm - 3:32pm, EST
Entering the lobby of the Macallistar building in Kips Bay, NYC, the Agents first make a sweep of Abigail's mailbox. Agent MARCUS (M-Cell Case Officer) provided them with a complete set of keys, not to be copied. The mailbox is stuffed full with bills, junk mail, catalogues and offers; mail still being delivered by people who have no idea Abigail is missing. MAVERICK gathers it in a bag and they make their way to Abigail's apartment (Ground floor).
The Macallistar echoes an earlier age. Faded purple carpeting and design from the turn of the century. Opposite Abigail's front door is an old-fashioned telephone nook, complete with bench and curtain for comfort and privacy when phone-lines in individual apartment was an expense few could afford.
M-Cell enters the apartment, finding it somewhere between a hoarder's dream and crime-scene technician's nightmare. The small hallway leads to a living-room (the apartment's largest space), an adjoining bedroom and a kitchen and bathroom opposite each other. Aside from the hallway, on first inspection the only other uncluttered space is the kitchen, which doesn't really look as if it's been used much. MAVERICK ear-marks that as something he wants to check himself as the team begin taking stock.
The NYPD has left a box with copies of their files, including a list of tenants they interviewed, many, many evidence collection bags and a box of latex gloves.
The apartment is filled with various items, with almost no floor visible beneath the collection. CDs and CD cases are stuck or glued to the wall, along with mannequin parts, sketches and assorted pieces that might be ceramic or plastic arranged in odd patterns without reason or rhyme. Stacks of phone books, stretches of dyed fabrics stitched together, an antique claw-footed lamp. Bags, bundles of pictures (drawings and photographs) of seeming nonsense. No furniture is immediately visible in the chaotic mess.
MAIN finds the same result in the bedroom as the first Search rolls are called for. Something catches his eye in the anarchy of the bedroom.
MALATESTA begins sorting through the pile of mail. MILHOUSE at first begins helping, but seeing the scale of the cataloguing, volunteers to make a coffee and food run. MIRANDA begins photographing, while MAVERICK gloves up and asks for things to be passed to him such as brushes, anything with a handle really or something more likely to have fingerprints on it. He wants to see if he can grab a set of Abigail's prints, if that's possible.
It doesn't take MALATESTA long to work out Abigail stopped paying her rent and bills in or around March before disappearing in June. Money was coming in up to a certain point, apparently from a showing Abigail had at the Mercury Gallery in Greenwich Village in November the previous year. There's even a letter from the gallery owner asking about another possible showing; from the way it's written, it might not have been the first time he spoke to Abigail before she vanished. Then, the only money coming in appears to be from her father, though she doesn't appear to have used it to cover the rent. He also gets the building management company, Art Life and their address.
As the Agents work, with MAIN carefully picking his way through the bedroom towards whatever caught his eye and MAVERICK uncovers a battery-powered hi-fi under all the trash, MILHOUSE returns from his coffee run and bumps into someone else entering the Macallistar at the same time he is. After an awkward hesitation on the threshold, MILHOUSE spends a little chatting to Lewis Post, one of Abigail's neighbours. MILHOUSE passes a HUMINT roll and I ruled that having spent most of his time in academics and his fellow PhDs, he can spot signs of some kind of social anxiety. I felt that was a fair get for a good success.
Lewis is hesitant but forthcoming as MILHOUSE works that high charisma score, knowing what to say to diffuse any potential tension. As far as Lewis knows, he is FBI of some kind after all.
MILHOUSE: "Did she ever mention a boyfriend? Girlfriend?"
Lewis: "Our relationship wasn't really like that. We had coffee sometimes. Talked about art. The process." He thinks. "She might have mentioned someone, but not a name, only what they did. A salesman, but I couldn't tell you what they sold."
MILHOUSE: "Talk about anything else?"
Lewis begins heading upstairs "She mentioned moving, but not before she was ready."
Back in the apartment, MAIN voices what others were thinking. "Where was she staying?" No bed, no signs of habitation except for the assorted hoard of crap. MAIN finds a hand grenade nestled in some papers and art supplies near the bedroom's walk-in closet.
In the living room, MAVERICK finds a single cassette tape in the uncovered hi-fi and flips it on, finding the batteries still live. Everyone hears MAVERICK's conversation with his significant other, Natalie from the previous evening. MAVERICK realises it's cut up and out of order, rewinds it and then flips it over. He thinks the entire conversation has been split between A & B sides of the tape.
MALATESTA and MAVERICK both consider phone-tapping, but MAIN, grenade temporarily forgotten, asks how it ended up here?
SAN check for MAVERICK. Pocketing the cassette tape, MAVERICK closes down a bit and prepares to go over the kitchen with a fine tooth comb; perhaps this is how he copes?
Before MAIN can mention the grenade he's worried about, MIRANDA, MALATESTA, MILHOUSE & MAVERICK notice something on the wall behind where the hi-fi was previously buried under junk. Fixed to the wall, maybe with some kind of glue is a piece of brown packing-paper with some kind of symbol drawn on it. Everyone focuses on it.

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3:41pm to 5:22pm, EST
MALATESTA: "That certainly looks like what we're supposed to be worried about."
MIRANDA snaps a polaroid. MILHOUSE tries to examine it, but his Occult check can only give him the vague thought it's connected to demonology, but little else beyond that. MAVERICK is cautious, but more concerned about getting to work on the unusually spotless kitchen.
Carefully, MIRANDA removes it and a blaring sounds like something between a horn blast and explosion almost deafens the Agents. It seems to come from everywhere and nowhere, from right next to them and outside at the same time.
Everyone passes a CONx5 check and the subsequent SAN check. Through the living room's window, MIRANDA, MILHOUSE and MAIN see a yellow-cab in the street outside. The cabbie appears to have leaned on the horn as someone crosses the street. They appear heavily dressed for summer, possibly homeless.
Is that a snake draped across their shoulders?
MIRANDA takes a polaroid while MILHOUSE and MAIN head outside to investigate. The picture reveals in sharp clarity, the cabbie staring down the barrel as she snapped the shot directly at her. MAVERICK gets to work in the kitchen and MALATESTA picks over things in the living room and bedroom respectively.
Search rolls for those in the apartment.
Outside, the cab has turned the corner and the pedestrian has carried on, though MAIN and MILHOUSE are able to work out where they went. MILHOUSE heads to cut off the other side of the alley, while MAIN approaches from behind, getting the pedestrian's attention. It's the height of summer in NYC, the air reeks of gasoline, rotting garbage and baking, soiled concrete and asphalt.
MAIN finds a nondescript, seemingly homeless man by the state of his clothes, but with a python draped over his shoulders. MAIN strikes up conversation, lighting a Gitane cigarette and pointing to the snake. From the other end of the alley, MILHOUSE makes his way towards the pair.
MAIN fails an alertness check.
Is this guy sweating? It's hot and he's bundled up like it's winter. Is he sweating? Why isn't he sweating?
Back in the apartment, MAVERICK tests the kitchen for blood and body fluids, breaking out the spray bottle and UV light. There's no cutlery, glassware or dishware anywhere in the room, but as he's lifting what could be a print, finds a mechanical diagram drawn on a napkin taped above the inside of an otherwise empty drawer. MALATESTA & MIRANDA continue their search of the living and bedroom, with MALATESTA finding a card printed with the following:
"For a good time Call D - 999-202-9989"
On the reverse are a series of what appear to be street corner addresses in Brooklyn. Could be a sex-line, could be a way to see Red Band underground film screenings, could be something online related. MALATESTA drifts between a few circles and he pockets it out of curiosity. When MIRANDA locates the grenade in the bedroom, she is careful to give it a wide berth and locates what MAIN missed: a backpack radio in the bedroom's walk-in closet. She calls MALATESTA over.
Back in the alleyway, MILHOUSE rolls under 10% and passes his disguise check. Dressed casually and a college athlete to boot, he fits the general chad look in his New York Knicks shirt despite his academic leanings. Being loud and obnoxious like he's drunk, he barrels into the homeless guy with the snake who stonewalled MAIN.
Instead he hits MAIN as the man with the snake is there and gone in the space between blinks. One moment MAIN is looking at him and then MILHOUSE knocks him flat on his ass. Like a film edit. Just gone. MAIN crit fails his SAN check and takes 4 SAN loss without projecting. Instead, as he scrambles up begins kicking over trash cans and searching the alley while MILHOUSE tries to calm him down and get a handle on things.
As MILHOUSE is talking MAIN out of tearing the alley apart, MIRANDA and MALATESTA check out the radio. As it comes to life, they listen and hear the following:
"Exeter. India. One. Thirteen. Sierra. Twenty. Twenty. Forty-nine."
MAVERICK meanwhile, finding the kitchen bare oddly finds the refrigerator stocked. There isn't much inside, some milk unopened and a pack of cheese and deli meat. Expiration is months ago, but through the plastic and glass of the bottle it looks fresh. Curious, he opens the milk and finds it smells as fresh as the day it was bought. Months ago.
Passes his SAN check. Given what he heard on the tape, it's not the strangest thing today.
MAIN and MILHOUSE detour to grab some more coffees, more to calm MAIN down and give him a (successful CHAx5 check) to flirt with the coffeeshop waitress. On their return, MAIN heads into the bedroom, pulls the pin on the grenade and activates the firing lever.
Nothing happens. His "hunch" was correct. Despite failing to properly identify it, something about the shape of it didn't match modern ordnance. Like the radio, it's vintage and either deactivated or else rendered inert by time and age.
I gave MAIN a SAN point back, because why not?
As things begin winding down, MILHOUSE and MAVERICK puzzle over the weird fridge, with MILHOUSE sacrificing his green tea and MAVERICK a donut to see how "fresh" they are come morning between the fridge and not.

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After 6pm, EST
Between them, M-Cell take the rest of the evening to take care of home-scenes or any unfinished business they can get done with their resources at hand. They also divide the Operational evidence from the Case evidence, with MIRANDA taking the symbol, MALATESTA the backpack radio & phone number, MAVERICK the cassette tape (for obvious reasons) and MAIN the mechanical sketch on the napkin.
MIRANDA and MILHOUSE, using the former's academic credentials both stay on the case, with MIRANDA leaving her photos from the park to develop in her bathroom. While she fails her roll, she does help MILHOUSE identify the demon the symbol refers to and book-related lead. She hits up a criminal contact named Hugo to put out feelers for weird items she may be interested in. He agrees for a fee, which she negotiates in her favour.
Returning to her apartment, MIRANDA finds her photos of the dancing clown and watching crowd have developed. In every photograph, the clown is turned away from her, but the faces in the crowd are looking at her. That's not how she remembers it. Fails a SAN check. Projects on to her editor, knowing she's going to be taking a "personal day" tomorrow, and this after she agreed to go to the grill.
This will have consequences.
MAIN, unnerved by the day's events, not the least of which was being knocked on his ass by a fitter, younger man, heads out. He returns to the coffeeshop he and MILHOUSE visited and takes the waitress he hit on out on a date. After a romantic interlude, MAIN has a new bond. Her name's Marsha, she's 27 and very nice.
Breaking Operational Security, MAVERICK asks MALATESTA to come back to his apartment and check for possible surveillance. Despite suffering comparatively little SAN loss overall, MAVERICK is letting the day's events impact his behaviour.
It's trivially easy for MALATESTA to confirm there are no bugs in place, which really does narrow the options for how the conversation could have been recorded. Thankful, he asks MALATESTA to keep this to himself for now, to which the grunge-kid agrees. MAVERICK drops MALATESTA near his home and leaves, putting the tape in the player of his car as he pulls away.
MALATESTA lives near the Village and diverts to check out the Mercury Gallery. Though closed, it seems legit and he makes a note of it for later. Back at home, he breaks open the backpack radio and examines it. The battery is not connected to the radio itself, the wires having been stripped out, yet he and MIRANDA both heard a voice on the end of its phone-mic. He passes his SAN check and finds in place of one of the transistors a small, black stone which does not feel like stone at all and feels like it's body temperature. MALATESTA leaves it on his desk, covered in a cloth.
Alone in his apartment, MAVERICK watches his phone. The time comes and he does not call Natalie. A moment later, his phone rings.
Alone in the apartment, MAVERICK does not answer.

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Post-Mortem
We ended up playing for a touch longer than I intended, but I knew that would happen by the time the cab sounded its horn. Despite some tiredness and some drinking, we ended up with a really strong session in retrospect, which has set the overall tone of the campaign for me as GM going forward. Between the five players, two have been through one Delta Green campaign, one has experience with Pulp Cthulhu and two have varying levels of exposure. They all roleplayed the f##k out of their characters and while I was worried about just how weird I wanted things to get out the gate, it feels like the balance is correct and I've given enough avenues for further investigation they may want to pursue.
I got a far better sense, as did the players, as to what drives and motivates their characters and how they cope or don't cope with Delta Green work.
MILHOUSE is definitely setting himself up as the curious academic, Iain playing his interest as forever drawn towards what's there "to discover," he said in character. Perhaps a fool and his sanity are easily parted?
MAVERICK is the "all-American", Agent Cooper adjacent FBI Agent who butts up against the para-natural and is seemingly rocked by it, revealing a complicated and perhaps conflicted depth. In his previous operation with MIRANDA, MAVERICK killed one person, but something about this has gotten under his skin. I wonder what Natalie thinks about their missed call?
A hacker by trade, MALATESTA likes a puzzle as much as he does not like the "weird shit." He talks a good talk when it's about something he knows, but is much too shy to chat up his co-worker. He and MAVERICK had some friction in Session 0 when MAVERICK wanted to call him Mal, to which the younger man pushed back against. Yet, he now knows where MAVERICK lives. Maybe he can learn more? What will he do with that? Does he even want to?
As much as MILHOUSE, MIRANDA is likewise driven by curiosity and a need to know, but first and foremost to keep herself safe. She and him are not the same. There's a scar above her hip from a knife, and it still twinges from time to time. She's also the first to directly or indirectly involve a Bond in the investigation. I wonder what Hugo will or won't find? I wonder what those photos mean. MIRANDA wondered aloud whether the crowd or the clown was the "entity." What does that mean?
Despite being built like Jack Reacher (albeit in a sailor suit), MAIN projects a tough air but is clearly a man at the crossroads. He turns 40 before 1995 ends; middle age. When hit with a problem or something he can't otherwise work out, his behaviour swings from one extreme to the other. To date, he's coped with the case by: lashing out at trash cans in an alley. Chatting up a waitress and forming a romantic bond with her. Pulling the pin on a grenade he "thought" could be fake. It's day one. I'm here for it.
Our next session is scheduled for June 7th, 2024.
Until then, be seeing you.

I live with a roommate and his elderly mother. He's diagnosed with BPD and is an alcoholic, and his mom has early dementia. They moved in with me thinking it would be temporary until they found their own place, but finding suitable housing has been tougher than we thought. So, it looks like they’ll be staying with me much longer than expected. They pay rent, but it doesn’t leave much for food, so I make larger meals and share my groceries with them. I don’t criticize him for spending on cigarettes and alcohol because he seems to need them to simply function.
I knew about his BPD and alcoholism before he moved in, having worked in the addictions field and attended AA because of my ex, who also had BPD. This experience has helped me maintain boundaries which has been good for our relationship.
When he moved in, I told him he could drink as much as he wanted but had to stay in his room because I don’t want to be around when he drinks. He feels ashamed about it but can't stop. He doesn’t lash out, which is good, but he tends to get overly friendly and follows me around the house chatting non-stop, which I find suffocating.
Since moving in, his mental health hasn’t improved much. He’s depressed about not being able to afford his own place. He makes sure his mom eats but doesn’t really push her to bathe or take her meds. I’m hesitant to get too involved because I’ve learned from past experiences that it can lead to me taking over their responsibilities.
His moods and energy levels are all over the place, so he doesn’t help much around the house. I doubt he could handle a job right now. Despite talking to him, giving him specific chores, and reminding him, tasks often go undone, and I constantly have to prompt him.
I’ve accepted that this might be the best he can do. When he moved in, he had two small dogs he said were house-trained, but they weren’t. They’d pee and poop in hidden spots all over the house. He started keeping them in his room with puppy pads, which he’d leave dirty for ages, creating a terrible smell that wafted downstairs. He’d take them out to the yard during smoke breaks but wouldn’t walk them or clean up the yard unless I nagged him. When I did approach him about it he'd say that the smell was from him having night sweats...
I managed to find temporary foster homes for the dogs for six months, but they’re due to return soon. He promised to find a job during this time but hasn’t been looking, and I doubt he’s ready to work. He agrees to do things but then doesn't do them because he's overwhelmed or tired. He's always respectful and quiet, but he just never follows through on anything.
So, I told him the dogs can’t come back when the foster period ends. While I’m okay with him and his mom staying during tough times, I don’t think he can handle the dogs along with everything else.
Talking about this makes him very depressed. He internalizes his emotions and gets anxious when we discuss it, insisting his mental health has improved, which I haven’t seen. He says the dogs help his and his mom’s mental health. He insists that they are fine locked up in his room all day because all they do is snuggle with him all day and that's what they like, according to him.
Given everything else I’m responsible for and the things I've helped him with, like helping him get ID, find a doctor, drive him to appointments, and feed him, adding the dogs feels overwhelming. I feel like if he needs something he ultimately looks to me to help him, which I am trying to discourage. Bringing up the dogs makes him and his mom very anxious. She doesn’t understand why I don’t want the dogs here and gets angry, blaming him for the whole situation, which makes him more anxious and ashamed.
Do you think the boundary I’ve set is fair? I’m bringing it up now to give him enough time to find a solution in six months, but I’m worried he won’t make any progress, and I’ll end up stuck with the dogs again.

Warning: This can trigger people with gaming addiction!....

Real life problems and struggles are so hard for me.
I just can't withstand the sweet happy feelings when playing games. It makes me immerge to a completely other reality and let me distract and forget everything from reality.
But when I stop, everything comes back and it feels awful. I hate it and I can't endure it.
Something inside me wants me to change and to abandon gaming, the other part drags me into this virtual world of happiness. I neglect almost everything in real life... Social life, jobsearching, food, cleanliness, health, appointments, responsibilities. I just want to play all the time and I don't want to stop. I keep fighting my fatigue when I didn't sleep and played the whole night because I want to keep playing.
Real life scares me and is so stressful. I think nothing is more enjoyable and distracting than gaming.
I imagine myself living a low-wage job with minimal effort so I can keep playing and enjoy this lifestyle.
It feels like a drug and I believe it's a drug, but it's so effective. Life sucks, many people of the world are taking drugs (e.x. cigarettes, alcohol, grass,....), my drug is gaming and less dangerous than the others.
Something inside me is telling me my lifestyle is wrong and I should stop immediately, but I hate to study, I hate to work, I hate going outside, I hate to talk with people face-to-face, I hate the need to be socially accepted. I hate the future when I stop gaming, but I also hate my current lifestyle, although I praised it a lot above.
I just want to have the feelings of happiness forever. I don't want to think about real life, but this lifestyle is not possible.
I don't know what to do. Both lifestyles have bad consequences for me.
Sorry I sound so depressing. 😔
Just my thoughts and I wanted to let it out. You don't need to comment. The answer is inside me and I need to find it.......

The nerdy sides of my interests range from gaming, programming, computer hardware and science to DIY things like electronics and 3D printing. I know PC gaming is technically superior, but there's also a certain coziness factor with couch gaming that consoles enable :D.
I also enjoy walking, biking and running. Running I started with mainly for all the health benefits, both the mental aspects (trying to battle some anxiety), but also because I like to keep in physical shape. I just wish I had some more nature trails where I live. Cooking is another thing I enjoy.
As a person I'd describe myself as stable, analytical, very independent, quite introverted and a bit of a loner by choice. Hanging out with people I don't have much in common with or that I'm not close to can drain a lot of my energy. I'm a pretty big homebody and don’t mind spending time alone. I do miss having someone closer in my life though, as some things just are much better if you’re two.
I'm generally drawn to people similar to myself, both in terms of interests and personality. We seem to be quite a rare breed on traditional dating platforms, hence my post here ^^. To start out I like to just hang out and spend time on shared interests. Gender doesn't matter as I'm bi/pan. The ability to regularly meet IRL is important though, I’m not really looking for penpals from far away.
I'm also available in Swedish.

I am currently working as an Electronic Health Recored Support Tech and am looking to transfer into a cloud support/admin role. I have previous IT technical experience and just need some encouragement and guidance that I'm going down the right path. I currently have one year left on my Computer Information Systems degree with an emphasis in cyber security, and I am planning on taking the AZ-900 this summer for my first cloud certification. I would really appreciate any kind of road map or guidance to maximize what I can learn. Any guidance on certifications/ projects to do would be greatly apperciated

On Paradis island, during the run of the main manga, we have never seen the habit of smoking tobacco/herbs or whatever substance. The first time we see a character smoking if I'm not wrong is Zeke after the eastern war at the beginning of the Marley arc. This led me to believe that smoking inside Paradis simply didn't exist because they didn't know it/have the resources to sustain it; I assumed that in the AOT world they had tobacco outside of Paradis, but Karl Fritz decided not to import it, I guess to not harm his people's health(?). I also found another old post on the matter that explained that it's very unlikely for Paradisians to waste space and resources for something not fundamental and as harmful as tobacco as they have to prioritize food plantations, especially after the fall.
Anyway, the reason I'm bringing back this old topic is because in the latest special chapter "bad boy" we saw the first depiction of smoking inside the walls. One of the guys that were beating Levi, the mind of the group, is seen smoking during the beating. This is even more weird because it's not even in Wall Sina or some place where you could assume rich nobles would be able to get whatever they want, this is some thug from the underground.
Anyway, we can make a stretch and an assumption that those thugs were probably tied with actual noble people involved in shady criminal activities, so they were probably some kind of underground mafia, which means it wouldn't be out of the world that they would be able to get expensive goods for them to consume, like cigarettes. We should also consider that Bad Boy takes place long before the fall of the Wall Maria, which means tobacco probably wasn't as rare and luxurious back then since most plantations would obviously be in Maria's territory. What I find surprising is that we had never seen cigarettes or similars in the wall society up until this special chapter.
I wouldn't consider Lost Girls because even if he approved it Isayama didn't write it, so we don't know if he would have written an Annie spin off that way if he were to. But yeah I would also mention that in Lost Girls Elliot Stratmann, a rich Wall Sina citizen, is seen smoking tobacco (and his daughter Carly as well). With this information we can simply assume that rich people do have access to tobacco, and we just never got to see it during the main manga, but it was never denied to exist either. If plantations for luxury goods such as high quality tea exist (source: a short story written by Isayama), then the same can be true for tobacco plantations.
Conclusion: tobacco or other smoking herbs exist in the Paradis island, but they aren't common consumer's products, they are expensive and rare.

Ive been secretly drinking a pint of vodka almost everyday or every other day. I’ve had a few day stretches where I won’t drink but it’s been over two years with this nasty habit.
Everyday I say this is the day I stop and become the man I need to be for my family, but again I chug that pint of vodka for that buzz rush. I immediately go to the liquor store after work and get that pint. I lie to my wife and say I’d had beer tastings at work if I seem a little drunk. I honestly don’t know how she doesn’t know… which makes me even more scared. Also started smoking cigarettes again after 5 years.
I also had a severe opioid problem in my early twenties, which contributes to my chronic addiction patterns. I’ve been clean from them since 2013 but have using alcohol as a crutch since then. Nothing as bad as the last two years but always using alcohol as a way to numb my emotions.
I just need to stop. I need help. I want to live, not just exist. I feel so unbalanced. Tired of being sick and tired as the old gang used to say. Today I’m writing down my goals for the next six months and I’m Gonna slowly try and start a new chapter in my life.
Thank you to whoever reads this. I wish everyone peace in their own health journeys.

Hi everyone,
I’m a nurse currently taking Google’s Data Analytics Certificate program on Coursera. As part of the course, I’ve been learning SQL and practicing queries on BigQuery. My goal is to transition into a data analytics role within the healthcare field.
Recently, I spoke with my nurse manager about how analysis is performed at our medical center. She answered with a blank stare. All this documentation on health assessments, labs and vital signs for nothing?! We use Epic as our electronic medical record (EMR) system, but I’m not sure where all the data is actually stored and how to query it. Also which career is querying it? I dont see any job listings at my health system. for Rn data analyst?
Here are a few questions I have:
Where is data from Epic typically stored? Is it stored in a particular type of database or data warehouse? What language or tools are commonly used to perform queries on data from Epic? Since it’s not on BigQuery, I’m unsure if SQL is still applicable or if I need to learn a different language or tool. Are there any specific resources or courses you’d recommend for learning how to work with data in Epic? I appreciate any insights or guidance you can provide. Thanks in advance!

Hi everyone,
I’m a nurse currently taking Google’s Data Analytics Certificate program on Coursera. As part of the course, I’ve been learning SQL and practicing queries on BigQuery. My goal is to transition into a data analytics role within the healthcare field.
Recently, I spoke with my nurse manager about how analysis is performed at our medical center. She answered with a blank stare. All this documentation on health assessments, labs and vital signs for nothing?! We use Epic as our electronic medical record (EMR) system, but I’m not sure where all the data is actually stored and how to query it. Also which career is querying it? I dont see any job listings at my health system. for Rn data analyst?
Here are a few questions I have:
Where is data from Epic typically stored? Is it stored in a particular type of database or data warehouse? What language or tools are commonly used to perform queries on data from Epic? Since it’s not on BigQuery, I’m unsure if SQL is still applicable or if I need to learn a different language or tool. Are there any specific resources or courses you’d recommend for learning how to work with data in Epic? I appreciate any insights or guidance you can provide. Thanks in advance!